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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 1, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a these Days i 80-no-77mt. Pleasant Iowa. To la essay Eyen i no Papiol i. I or its by George e. Sokolsky retort to the a flip the Story of How businesses operate How they meet their problems. Is often u dramatic As tin whodunit that i look at late at night therefore i have sometimes wondered How it happens that companies that spend millions of dollars on television do not use their commercials to Tell something about themselves particularly the capital and durable goods manufacturers Wlk do not soil to the consumer directly. The United states steel hour has recently been using its commercial time to explain what it is and How it does business and if we Are to have Good plays interrupted in tin manner i prefer something reall. Informative to watching a three quarters naked female lie in the Rand and sing about Beer or cigarettes or bras. O o o the subject matter of i 8 steels Quot report to the Public Quot i very instructive. We pay 7. Cents a ground on the average for Carbon and Alloy steel so that mounts up to about $4,000,000,000 a year and looks very big. Of each Dollar 42-�?T rents goes to wages and salaries of the remaining 57-1 cents. 30 cents went to 50,000 suppliers of products and services. That left 27- cents of which fat cents went to depreciation which really should a called which is what i happens to machines As Well As j men Only the government recon a nixes the facts of life about a j Chines but not about human b Ings. So we Are now Down to 21- cents but Federal state and local taxes took 12 cents of that leaving Only 9��?Ti cents to Gross profits out of every Dollar earned. By f Arrier 30 per week by mall $7.56 per year to stay on course 883 years old thirteen children of the late or. And mrs. J. A. Des Mon a shown gathered in grand Valley. Ont., claim a family longevity record. They add up to 8k3 years. They have 17 children and 23 grandchildren. Most of them still live in Ontario. International plan commission Council Confer on City affairs cents on the Dollar of profit hich goes to 300,000 share Owtis of whom not one owns More Hail 2 per cent of the Stock. A a a it is a very valuable kind of retort and would do More Good Broad than much of the stuff that Oes Over to Europe Asia and of Ica these Days. City Council and the City plan commission meeting together at the City Hall monday night discussed numerous City problems. The City plan commission studies various problems in connection with the improvement of the City and makes recommendations to the Council. The Council then goes Over the recommendations and decides now. If the company could keep what action should be taken. Int 9-1 cents As a real profit it1 at monday nights meeting the Ould to doing a very big business. Council suggested to the commission it what actually happens is that j that they work on Only two or three sets aside 2 cents additional fori projects at a time and give the a placements and 3-g cents for i 1 Cornu ii a Complete analysis of the a Arch and improvements and such projects. The commission members activities and comes out in the end were of the opinion that the Council should inform them which projects it would like them to study. The two groups seemed to be in Accord with this. Mrs a. M. Wettach chairman of the City plan commission presided at the meeting and went Over the projects which the commission has studied Rice it was formed eight years ago. Some of the projects i have been done while others Are still in the discussion stage. The projects in order they came up in the last eight years Are a delegation appeared before the commission to discuss the need for a new youth Center to be used for Bowling skating darn ing and other forms of recreation. This is still in the discussion stage. A study of a site for a new school Harlan in the North part of town. Site was picked by the school Board with Aid of the plan commission. A building permit ordinance was passed. Sidewalk and Street grades have been established and a curb and Gutter program has been commenced. Minimum requirements have been drawn up to govern thinking for subdivision permits. Establishment of an advisory Park Board. Lechner engineering co. Was hired to do the zoning of the City. A zoning ordinance and zoning map were prepared. A Board of adjustment was a another of these commercials cals with the problem of inflation. La costs including labor costs. Cut up an average of 8- per Cut per year since 1940 but prices Lily went up 5 i per cent. The Cost of the commercial explains How company manipulates to avoid Euing out priced in the Market. Tut the commercial i liked Hen i heard it was the one on obsolescence. Here is a machine one machine int cast $10,000,000. That is Why line Industrial operations cannot e done on a Small scale. If a Ste i Imp any owns five open Hearth frnaces they might have Cost 50.000.000, 25 years ago. The government permits the company to Ike off part of Cost each year so Tat when the machine wears Oil. Can be replaced. But at today a prices that a Bine costs $45,000,000 so where Oes a company get the Money to Lake up the difference Between the 10.000.000 it was permitted by the collector to set aside for re Cement and tile $35,000,000 that pointed has to find Well some of it is at 2 cents additional set aside out each earned Dollar. But much it comes from borrowing from inks. Insurance companies and e Public. Extension of City limits. Tile plan commission has always been in favor of this. It is still in the discussion stage. Suggested Street widening especially North Jefferson from Monroe to Madison. The present Council foil May have noticed when you recently decided to change the k at Railroad trains or Loco no Angle of parking on the West sides that there Are signs showing of the Block. It the particular car or Locombo modernizing of Street lights in a is not owned by the Railroad downtown arca. This has been part by a Bank which acts As a by done. Sloe. We do not yet see such need for a City Engineer. Plan of on machinery in factories but j commission has been in favor of thing can happen when so Large this. A modified plan was adopted share of earned income goes to need for sidewalks in Lincoln is and the taxes Are wastefully school area. Been partly taken can i profligate by spent. J of. A he reason that the admin Stra discussion As to Tennis courts. X which knows As Well As you j nothing has been done. I that taxes must be Cut Post a recommended committees be spies that Day is that they know j pointed on City limit expansion it Short of War the politicians City sewer mapping Street commit not be Able to put the taxes tee. Municipal auditorium Sanita feels it is dwindling. Park in North part of City. Very Little has been done. Advocated w Ater service to within City limits. The commission feels that this will not Only conserve water but help induce people to come in the City limits make More parking spate Ava liable much discussion has been done on this provide water line to Supply fire. Hydrant on Lee Street. This has been done. I dedicate Shoalmier Circle to the City for Park purposes. This has been done county shops be moved to the ledge of it. Pleasant this has been discussed. I there was some discussion about i the parking problem by the two groups. Some were of the opinion that if to o hour parking is enforced the problem will be solved. Councilman Pliny Walter talked about business men parking in front of their firms. He said la1 can t see Why persons working on the Square can to walk to work. Tile possibility of meters was brought up during Tho discussion on parking. A statement was made that in other towns parking limits Are either enforced or they have meters. It was brought out that one of the City s most important problems i is the Extension of City limits and provisions for sub divisions. It was mentioned that there is divided opinion about bringing the i state mental health Institute in the j City limits. It was suggested that i the plan commission make a study of the situation. Council Walter suggested that j Tho plan commission work on a program which would include the town s needs to to 15 years in the future. It was pointed out that work is j boing done by the commission on buildings and plumbing codes. The commission mentioned that the building code is weak. There was Brief discussion of the zoning set up. Walter and City i manager o. W. Wright Are tie tem a Horary administrators. Attending the meeting were Council members Mathias Fitzpatrick Everett Wilcox John Elgin and Walter mayor Wade Mcbeth City manager George w. Wright City attorney Tom Bell and the following members of the City plan commission mrs. Wettach. James Mccabe. Melvin Talbott and Ray Kinney. Mrs. Roberta Mccoid a member of the Board of adjustment also was present. Rescue 1,200 persons prom burning ship Bombay India ins a British liner radioed today it had rescued More than 1.200 persons from the burning norwegian ship Skau-1 Bryn in the Indian Ocean initial radio rep i from the Rescue ship Ciu of Sydney said i i Only one Lite was believed lost in i the fire. A message from the City of Sydney picked up Iii Bombay said. Quot still standing a till Daylight for a final search tor i visors who i May be on rafts Quot tile re Cue prevented what could i have been one of the most tragic i disasters in maritime history. Another message Lorn the City of Sydney monitored in Holland indicated the liner May already Hove j headed for Aden a British port on i the arabian Peninsula w Ith the survivors the City of Sydney was 1 Enro Ute from Ceylon to Britain when it responded to distress signals. Holy week displays in windows la has become a tradition i if the United Connell of churl women to Toeu it attention on holy week by decorating windows in the business Ana in it pleasant Bix churches Hoe participated ill tin year s Dis a plan. First Baptist Church has decorated a window in Hoe girls department stoic the second Baptist Church has ail effective religious display at the Henry county Bai inn Bank. First presbyterian Church Lins a window display at the it up Asili Batik and Trust company the St Michael. Episcopal i Church committee decorated deck it furniture window. First meth Odist Church was Iti charge of the. D play at the Essex and Feller j a ted Church s display May be seen a 1 Tane jew dry store officers of the United Council of Church women mrs John Devin Lori aleut mrs flank Button vice Jpn aleut and mrs Mary dyad Secretary and treasurer were Assi ted Iii setting no the display by committees from each of the six different churches easter lilies an assortment of bibles deform Cross and even a it Luna Bible opened to the lords prayer belonging to mrs e a Mathews have been used to portray the meaningful easter season the next meeting of the United Council of Church women will be May Fellowship Day May 2. To be held at second Baptist Church in it pleasant cite cancels contract with garbage Hauler strike leaves 500 without electricity arrested on Omvik charge k once they Are taken off. Gov Ament will have to Cut its cloth fit its pocket Book All sorts of and Duplica Tive activities lion and garbage Public restrooms in downtown arca and population trends. Nothing has been done get information on proposed bribed in the Hoover reports changes of highways 34 and 218 in i testified to before committees will have to go. Thing w Ould be better for the entry. The City. There has been some headway made on this. Survey of the City ice Plant and Cost of operation. This has been James Mcdowell 17, is pleasant was arrested in new London by the Highway patrol monday night and charged with operating a motor vehicle while he was intoxicated. Mcdowell was arraigned in Justice Rudolph Eckey s court and bound Over to the grand jury under $375 Bond. He is in the county jail in lieu of the Bond. Declares dividend Des Moines Tab tile number of customers who Are without electricity in the Iowa Power and Light. Co. Strike was reported today at some 500. A company official charged that the Linn a customers Are be inc meekly inconvenienced by the refusal of the Union to restore he stated so called emergency Crews have failed to do their work the spokesman said Between -50 and of Homes in the Oskaloosa Are were without Power today and that several urns were out near Adel. Earlier Clive Grimes Desoto and Earlham reported Power failures. A pile spokesman operations manager Harry r Pearson said rain of bad weather could Compline the situation. Meanwhile another company official charged earlier that some 850 Union employees have violated contract provisions by remaining off their lobs to attend what has been called a a a continuous Union meeting. Ipa Leo vice president and goner. I manage j p Mclaughlin asserted thai Quot Over 800 of the approximately 1,000 Union employees Quot of the util try firm Quot continue to stay Awa from their jobs notwithstanding a clause in their contract which classes their services As essential to the welfare of the Public and prohibits strikes or work aunty Road improvements Are discussed members of the Henry county Board of supervisors Edward Brea Zeal Paul Rice and John Metcalf my county engines Robert Gib Ion were guests at the monday night meeting it the rotary club held at the Braselton hotel or Gibson gave a Short talk on what the county is trying to do on the improvement and maintenance of its secondary Road system he Ald that the problem is More difficult. For Iowa counties because we Are Only average it population for the country hut Are 7th in the nation in total Road mileage Henry county has 725 Miles of secondary roads Hoo of which Are Siu faced according to or Gibson the program Foi the next to years will include a larger amount of higher Type surfacing with about 8 Miles to be done this year. Following or Gibsons talk. A question and answer period was conducted by the speaker and the members present guests at the meeting were Warren re use her formerly of it pleasant now living in California Don Guthrie visiting a Lurlan from Iowa City Carol Trout daughter of or. Henry i t aut and Gerald the. Next week a meeting will be employer employee night and will be held at the Brazelton hotel hand Batista unlimited Powers i hic to the tact that the contract garbage Lnu Ilei lot the City did not secure sufficient signers who wanted then garbage and i his pit ked up to enable him to make it a paying proposition the contract has been cancelled City officials reported tuesday in he City will therefore continue to pick up the Gal huge Only Oil a temporary basis until Otsui Ai i Ai Genu lib can he made the residents ate asked to place their garbage in ugly fitting Call with lids to insure More unitary a i a Ling on of about maj i the City will pick up tin Abs and Tibel ref ii a As t done annually the plan to have pay Canada May toughen Trade policies Ottawa in att overwhelming conservative party election vie tory foreshadowed today a roughening of Canadian to Ade policies toward the u 8, the conservatives who won 210 of the 265 seats in the House of commons in yesterdays National election promised during the Campaign to divert some $800,000,000 a veal of Canadian imports from the u s to the Sterling Arcata re i increases against american fruit veg Eta ides and textiles Are Likely to be proposed to the first aes Ion of the 24th parliament which is expected to open in mid May i he election which left the once dominant libel a1 party without parliamentary representation in a of Canadas ten provinces is expected to Lead to closer cooperation with Britain in defense matter Lory leaders Are expected to demand that the u s Otter something in return for the Freedom she has been Given to Pill defense installations on Canadian territory one of the principal targets in the victorious Campaign led by prime minister John Diefenbaker was tile recent imposition of import quotas on Canadian Oil into Hie us. It a strictly local issues die on bakery major proposal was a $1,-000,000.000 Public works program to ease unemployment tile size of the conservative election Victory biggest in Canadian history Carne As a Complete Surprise no information on proposed it in Iowa guard an individual contract Fri the of Gabat to had la co me a highly controversial Issue in the Ell arguments were Behny pre hinted for and against Al it Lim meeting in stoves and so on where i we m inure persons Gat i us in addition the opposition to such i plan As exp eased by the Media a1 society and nurses association Kin died further object Ion to the proposal the became confused flu n the Repin in at Ive it the in minium firm of Keokuk made Calls at residences to arrange for picking up the garbage Aud quoted lit left eld i ices to various kind of m v la e set fee for use of lights at rate track i la i tem \ count v fair Board dreaded at a meeting monday nigh to charge Himm night to Ute lied tile fair Board lights at the Mcmillan Park Hall mile track if admission is it barged at the Gate groups using the Huck must also Pas for the replacement of Butland broken equipment in the past organizations using the track were Given ump of tile lights free rile Upkeep with lights makes it necessary for the nominal Lee. The fail Board feels Ralph Rieke local electric i who fait in the lights ten Yea ago told tin Board ii would of is about $5,000 to replace the Light a Winch originally Cost $3,500 using 20 year depreciation und figuring Hie fair Board uses the lights six times a Yea i Aud other groups even nights the Cost per night on the $5,000 figure would be $19 23 and on the $3,500 figure $13 40 thu the Board arrived at the $1 it fee per flight the Jaycees and Hie vow. Plan to use the Tiack for a total of seven Jalopy races next a Millet the Board expressed an opinion that it would like to let the Jaycees and the vow use the lights free of charge since the proceed of the races go to Good causes but due to the Cost of Upkeep decided to set the Ila fee. The City i charging the i hips ski a night pm use of the Park for the races i he Tau Board indicated that it would like to Ltd give the lights to an organization providing the lights Ute kept up and the fair Board could use them free of charge film to interview with or. Van Allen u. S. Regards nuclear tests As vital Washington i in president Elisci in met said today the i s. I not going to be Side tracked Quot i rom Cornea Ting nuclear weapons tests lips Spring by Russia \ prop a Gouda announcement of a test suspension simultaneously Secretary of St ate John Fox to i Dulles disclosed that or Eisenhower rejected suggestions that us u 8. Quot steal a mat Cli a a on the soviets by announcing halting of american to ahead of the Kremlin action. Hie chief executive Torii Republican congressional Leader i a White House meeting that the u s. Regards the tests beginning at. Eniwetok utter us month As being vital toll. 8 and free world be dim y Senate Gap Leader William i in now and quoted him As saying. It is important for the Security of the world to maintain our de tenses we arc not going to be sidetracked rom this very vital Lac we must continue Ltd Mao sure that we Are keeping oui powder die Quot Dulles said at ii news con Cran e that the president gave an emphatic Quot no Quot at a meeting with in top advisers last week to Hie h i Gest Ion that Hie u. 8. Might get tile jump on the soviets by in pouncing a test ban. Little Hope of overriding freeze veto workers strike at Keokuk Plant Havana it ins it cubans Congress handed president Fulgenzo Batista unlimited Powers in a late night session to combat the Quot total War rebels threatened to launch today. Goal line to meet wednesday copyright 1958. King feature done. Licate inc Een agers took 600 million coasts with their own cameras in 5, 25wr of the total. Possibility of buying land North of Mcmillan Park to add to the Park. This has been done. Sanitary land til. The commission j has recommended this project but Minneapolis the Board of directors of investors Mutual inc., largest Mutual fund affiliate of investors diversified services. Inc. Has declared a quarterly dividend of 9 cents per share payable april to. Keokuk Insi Between 150 and i 200 employees of the Keokuk steel casting Plant went on strike today company officials stated they i knew of no reason for the walkout i and reported they would meet with officials of local 3311 in an Effort j to Settle the strike. The walkout allegedly stemmed j from the allotment of overtime pay and seniority by the company. The firm normally employs approximately 300 employees but it has not been operating at Lull i capacity lately. The goal line club will meet Al the Sheaffer quonset wednesday it 7 30 . An election of officers will Law held. Occupy Eastern Sumatra de Moville in Iowa a adjutant. General maj Gen Fred c Randy said today he has no information on where a proposed 25 per cent Cut in tin strength of the National guard will Al Lect Iowa units Tandy said he knows gov. Her a a Schul Loveless has received a let-1 to i from army Secretary Wilbur m. By Licker asking support for tire Plant it i eliminate Tea divisions and i one fourth of All smaller units from till guard dining the next 30 months the Secretary a letter urged reorganization of guard and Reserve unit. On a so called Quot pen Tomie Quot basis capable of handling atomic weapons and missiles. Gen. Randy said Iowa s guard is a a willing and ready Quot to re shuffle components into pen Tomie units i but want.-, to do it without loss of j manpower. The adjutant Gene a1 said Iowa s guard excluding the air guard now jibs a strength of about 7,000 men. Tandy of he doubts that the governors to whom snicker issued in Appeal for backing will Quot hold still for the proposed reduction. He also pointed out that gov. Her Jakai Talt inst the undone san t Schel Loveless who is out of town Irmy claimed today it had occur Bas led the fight against any pro pied All of Eastern Sumatra and posed reduction in strength was advancing on the rebel Strong j the Iowa National guard is at holds on the West coast alter Vir Only about 60 per cent of its aurally sealing them off. Jih oried strength. Iowa City Iowa a six Nuit camera Crew today tuesday will Complete a filmed interview Between or James a Van Allen head of the state University of Iowa physics department and Walter Cronkite. Columbia broadcasting system news commentator the interview will be used of a special hour Long program a ceilings unlimited which will be televised by cab april 20 on ils 20th Century program series or Van Allen is one of several nationally prominent scientists win will be featured during the program which la concerned with satellites and Tipper atmosphere research continue hunger strikes new York Gas sympathizers of cuban rebel Leader Fidel Castro continued hunger strikes Quot to the death Quot in scattered american Headquarters today despite their gradually weakening conditions change time of service the Sunrise service scheduled by Iowa Wesleyan students for wednesday morning has been changed to a Sunset service at 7 pm at Crane s Pond. The Public is invited. Iowa Highway traffic death toll to Date april i it 143 last year to Date 132 latest reported victim 47-year-old mrs. Grace Welch of Wadena who was killed monday in a two car collision at a gravel Road intersection about la Miles Northeast of Oelwein. Washington in Republican congressional leaders told president Eisenhower today that. His veto of the one year farm Price support freeze will not be overridden by Congress. Be Nab Republican Leader William f. Howland said after the Gap leadership s weekly White House meeting with the president that he mid Quot some others Quot gave i Eisenhower this estimate Knowland said that this was the Only phase of the economic Situa tic n which they went into at the j meeting which was mainly devoted to space and defense reorganization j problems House speaker Bam Rayburn Ltd it Lex. Served notice that farm bloc congressmen will attempt to Ovici i ride the veto Atter the easter re i Cess ends Pili 14. But then was Little real Hope they would succeed agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Bensons order reducing Dairy props i to the minimum 75 percent of parity automatically went into effect t i today As a result of or. Eisenhower veto yesterday. Meanwhile the milk panty wet t up. Instead of receiving $3.03 a hundredweight for g milk the 75-per cent of pan a a announced to Days ago dairymen will receive three cents More Corn Farmers Felt the effect today when agriculture secret y Benson announced that lie was slating the support rate at 77 percent of parity a the same As last year. But a drop in the parity Price meant a drop from $ 1.40 to $1.36 in the Dollar and cents Price Lapel players present program the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel play ers presented the program at the Al wan is meeting monday evening giving selections in keeping with holy week. The Power in the narrations with several players giving the thoughts in rapid successes Ion was noteworthy and was much appreciated by tile Kiwan ians. Mrs. Jean Gat cd. Head of the speech and drama department at Iowa Wesleyan. Presented the players. Or f v. Coles announced that local Kiwan ians will have the privilege of hearing the kiwanis International president at Carthage 111., on May 8. Or. And mrs. Jim Marshall and Pat Kelly of Burlington met with the group after the regular club i session to discuss the formation of i a Dale Carnegie club locally

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