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Newspaper
Atlantic News Telegraph
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1949
Page
4
South Bend, Ind. Irene Dunne, film actress, received Notre Dame University’s lecture medal for outstanding Catholic layman. Rev. John J. Cavanaugh praised her ideal Christian home and called her an apostle of sanity in hysteria days.
The Atlantic City Band directed by Aaron W. Young performs tonight at 8 at City Park. Soloist Don Becker presents Cruising Down the River with a program including Coast Guards March Princess of India Overture and Wings of the Army among other pieces.
The Chicago Board of Trade saw late selling wipe out early gains with wheat leading declines as rains affected spring wheat and rye. July prices fell across grains while soybeans steadied and lard moved lower. cash grain in Chicago showed mixed Yankee values and regional bids. In Meriden a 12 year old boy, John Henry Borink, was struck and killed by a car on a county road last night, per highway patrol.
Hog prices ease from steady to 25c lower with 6 000 salable hogs. Cattle for sale 4 000 with steadier beef prices and slower feedlot demand. Sheep at Omaha show light slaughter lambs steady to 25c higher with good native lambs around 25 26 dollars. Chicago reports heavier hogs and cattle uneven trading across the day.
Des Moines reports USDA estimated receipts today of 28 000 cattle and hogs with 24 500 last week and 29 000 year ago. Unloads at 2 Minnesota packing plants and about 30 Iowa concentration yards, plus some out of state. prices steady to weak with 25 cent declines in spots. Hog classes show varied values from 160 to 330 pounds and up to 550 pounds with a range of 13 50 to 20 50 per hundredweight depending on weight and grade.
Edna township donors to the Cass county agricultural education center are listed in The NT. The internal revenue office moves from the Firestone building to Capnade apartments on the ground floor after July 1. Mrs. Muriel Morgan Biggs and son Russell visit from Washington and depart Saturday. Nazarene vacation Bible school opens Tuesday at 1005 Elm Street for children four to 14. Joan Carlson becomes The News- Telegraph proofreader after schooling in Griswold and San Jose. W R Remsen is reappointed to a second four year term on the state banking board, joining Fred Gruenwald of Davenport.
Ho tee Houston of Columbus Junction and Harry Lekwa of Ackley are newly named appointees. Rev. R. E. Dittevson leaves Monday for Storm Lake to guard and instruct at a Baptist youth camp. Also attending: Frank Sturdevant Jr and others. Mrs. Harold A. Smith returns from Oklahoma City after helping care for her new grandson and visiting sons Tru man and Evan Smith. Ruby Jean Pearce seeks divorce from Earl W. Pearce for cruelty, with custody and support claims. A mass of cool air promises relief from heat across western Iowa tonight and tomorrow, with scattered showers and a high around 90 in the noon hour.
Hugh L. Mc Elvogue of Des Moines, driver of a semi-trailer, was fined 20 dollars and costs in justice court today for improper passing after a collision west of Atlantic on June 13. His attempt to pass another truck forced an oncoming car driven by C L Elliott of Waynesburg Pennsylvania off the highway and caused extensive damage. Lyle A.
Sharpe of Valley Nebraska was fined 14.60 dollars and costs on an axle over load charge. Roger Gross of Atlantic paid 10 dollars and costs on a charge of not having a driver’s license. The item notes a safety admonition to walk against traffic to see what is coming.
Edward J. Beckwith 27 appeared for presentation of a county information charging murder in the paring-knife slaying of Irma Jean Stahlhut 22. Judge Ralph W. Hasne ordered him held to the grand jury without bail with arraignment set for July 21 at 10 a.m. The Morison resident was employed in Waterloo and the victim was found June 28 in the walk-in refrigerator of the couple’s tavern in Morrison.
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