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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 4, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy a by 11 food Xic Cerf Quot Quot Quot a a. Quot in. i ti., i. A Ifni in. Vol. 80, no. 80 it Elk As a it Iowa. I Hiday evening april i. I a los a in War by c Arrier Ioc per week by mall <7.50 per year More abandon Homes narcotics agent praises it. Pleasant in report so lits eyed individuals with sordid Outlook on ufos that a person encounters in vice Ridden areas they Wear sensible clothing and the boys have Ordinary hair cuts i saw Only one boy with a cuke eater hair nit and he seemed about As popular with Iii lest. As a Rase of mumps would in on tile 41 ii of july a a the taverns Are Well managed and As fir an As this Type it place can be tile Pool Hall is Dean and s to is to by quiet no Toad ism is tolerated a this town is As clean a town As ii have Ever investigated there is no sign of narcotic or goof Ball use among teenagers or adults and no organized Vick exists Here a no doubt the dose cooperation Between the police dept. Sheriff s office and Highway patrol and i the natural intelligence of Hie general Public is responsible Lur this. I it pleasant is a clean town despite rumours to the contrary Quot youth kills girl Friend the crucifixion now there stood by the Cross of Jesus his Mother and his mothers sister Mary the wife of Cleophas and Mary Magdalene a John 19.25. These Days by George e. Sokolsky Tito on democracy one cannot help wondering in f compulsion drive this country to i subsidize its nemic a rim Lui a Tito who has received a it r is too. 000,000 of tile american taxpaying Money. Take Tito selection spec Chin i Belgrade delivered Mardi 16. 1953. Asun example Tito is running As a Delegate to the Federal Council. He is surprised that the people of thus particular District of belar a a Choise him. Quot i wonder Why then chose me since i was not so Active in their District Quot tins w my.-1 ment must have been exclusively Tito s As he chose himself and the. Was no opposition candidate a 9 a so lie makes a Imparl am i tween East and we. A ii Sayr a a. ,. Many newspapers and various storytellers ii toe West speak about the Indemora manner of our elections i do no know thro they consider democratic. Quot comrades in various count in there arc. Foi instance several parties our system is different it is a socialist system. I will be Mot exact. They have a capitalist Tern a multiparty system and elections Are marked by Hee cd. Struggle class str Ca exists there i will not say that he Cless my is being waged Amene bom cot parties. They have Bourn is parties several of them but this is a tactical matter to enlist in it a cot ers for their Side and for a various programs which Are is similar one egg to another there Are als some workers parti a but t e pee pie and these parties hardly anywhere Cahier full expression yet. Their election struggle is waged under the sign of a class stun in they fight for Hie St Eug thenis of their so called democratic system the capitalist is tem we v. Have a socialist system Quot now you have seen it Ami in you know. No Anteri a will ret it Nie Tito s description of an Ani a lean election. Tile plans to hold direct elections. A said a a. Our electoral system still i has an element of the old classic electoral system based on Hie principals of Western democracy. I i is directing casting of votes which is a bit out of Date it Dors not j matter perhaps today or tomorrow it will be abandoned and we shall j perhaps adequately modify our electoral system according to out Quot entire social development the Vel of our development and oui pres a state narcotics agent working under the state pharmacy Board spent some Days in of. Pleasant recently conducting an investigation. He came up with a report that i is complimentary to it pleasant and is self explanatory. The lol 1 a it win a Cole of ins report As i furnished to the news a thief Tho mrs had heard rumours of narcotic violations in tins j area but nothing had happened in j his police work to convince him that the rumours were True so lie asked for help to either prove or disprove them. I a i spent several Days in it pleasant and was around among teenagers in the various spots j where they congregate and observed their activities from All i angles. The teenagers in of pleas a ant Are a very courteous group. I they Are Clear eyed and Happy i people with spontaneous laughter that is Nice to hear. Not the surly number of break ins Arp solve Al i a anus it a in san in % oui Xii v wifi t j no 1 a j j confessed to police to _ i Day that he strangled ins 15-Yeur a number of break ins in Henry old girl Friend with her own and Washington counties have been sweater Quot because rile wanted me solved with the arrest of three new to take her out More often Quot London youths Here and of two men within minutes after the youth at Washington j telephoned police saying he had Daniel Calhoun 19, new London i killed Phyllis melt or officers disband iwo new London juveniles. 14 j covered the girls nude body in an and 16 years old came to the Conn a abandoned car in studio City to sheriffs office Here Friday j in Hollywood Gary John to morning after being notified that Hannesson waited for officers to Sherif Russell Van Tuyl wanted to come to pick him up Rural pupils prepare for music yen i Cut system. A w o Bhat lie plans to substitute for a red elect ions is not fully Clear. Pet haps he plans to have the delegates appointed and who a Sriri More properly appoint the delegates than Tho himself then the elect Jii would be i sleet. Out of Tito s principal objections t. The voting system in his own country is that Hie people would like to elect As delegates somebody whom they know. Per 11 ape a neighbor. Tit says that this is an unhealthy a localism which should not exist in our social life Quot it sure shows a bad spirit in the part of the people to want to vote for someone to Ley know and like it is much the same As Mort in risk mde a famous line a come the revolution you la eat i a who. Pics Mil awed Cleam and like ii. I the r on tins subject. Tito said a tile whole capitalist world is shouting that this is a one party it to Iii this world does not want because i do not believe thai it does not my to recognize that this is the most democratic system because u is based on our communal system on the masses and t it on some kind of party centers i Doe. Not want to recognize this my it is constantly throwing tilts in our of Coin a he dues not know that we Are beginning to Ufer from the be party system even in the capitalistic United slates. We do not want it to be a one party affair. Hut somehow the politicians make a that when they Are most corrupt Aud the people Are most concerned with thei own affairs. It is during such a period that the politicians aet away with anything. What they like is for All of them to sip from h c same she then they know that everybody is getting the same syrup. A o but with us when we Slop making Man gods out of politicians and. Tier Public servants and when we kick them about for the corruptions and indecent is. They Stop for a while to eat our b cad and to drink our won out of House and Home As the expression goes. It is then that we choose different Polit Fiat. Not because we believe that they will by any better than those whom we dispossessed but because experience has shown that when a gang is in office too Long it gets used to believing its own publicity. Nothing worse can happen to a Public Man. Copyright 1958, King features Syndicate inc.1 talk with them. The Trio admitted breaking into Carroll Walzy store at Lowell last i sunday night and taking some Money. The two juveniles also admitted tote break in of Freeman a tavern in Rome recently. Calhoun apparently was t involved in that. The juveniles will be turned Over to juvenile authorities. Calhoun officers said the girls sweater was still wrapped around her neck when the body was found on the floor of Job Hannesson s car in n dramatic aftermath to the Chester j killing Hie boys Kotlier mrs. Alma Johannesson 53, was confronted by the victims father Ait Meltzer and Meltzer cried Quot your son killed my daughter a mrs Johannesson collapsed from was to be charged with breaking hysteria and was taken to North and entering at a Justice of the Ridge Hospital for treatment peace hearing Friday afternoon j Young Johannesson told officer Phillip l. Coffin 21. Ottumwa he and the Gill attended a drive and Paul e. Smith 37. Bloomfield. In movie last night and later they in custody at Washington have bought almost a full Case of Beer admitted the break in of the Olds and drove to a spot on Beverly school tuesday night. They also adj Glen blvd., popular As a teenage miffed breaking into schools at lovers Lane. Crawfordsville and Ainsworth the Johannesson said he parroted the attractive Young girl Al Lei an argument. He told officers a she told me she wanted me to take Lier out More often. She liked me but i did t like Hei that much. I take out other girls and same night and two schools in Van Buren county last week. Washington police spotted their car travelling at a High rate of Speed in Washington tuesday night Sand gave Chase. The Chase did no tend until the men were stopped by t i done to go steady Quot i it. Pleasant police at a Road Block North of town. The men Werc taken Back to Washington and trait in charges were filed against them. Smith was sentenced in Justice of the peace court to 30 Days in the Washington county jail for reckless driving arid speeding at night. Coffrin was sentenced to 14 Day for allowing an-1 i other person to drive his car illegally. Washington county authorities questioned the men after they had been sentenced on the traffic charges and they confessed to the break ins. Probe passing of bad checks Ike acts under housing Bill county authorities Are invest i i gating the passing of two bad checks at local firm recently i a Man entered Hie Roche Fried i store last Friday and ordered some specially ground feed he gave a $50 Heck to l. J Roche signed Quot Ralph Myers superintendent. Iowa state Highway department Roche could not Cash the Check but endorsed it when the Man said he would get it cashed. The Man went to the Spahn a Rose lumber co., and said that or. Roche wanted to Purchase some paint the Man cashed the Cheek to pay for it and never returned to the feed store the Man entered burners hard washing ton. It ins a president Eisenhower acted under the emergency $1,850,000,000 housing Bill and on his own today to Speed Home Ware store the same Day and had building and buying As a Job Mak a a state requisition authorizing the ing anti recession move. Purchase of two shovels and sonic the chief executive on his own paint he had a $60 Check already authority directed removal of the made out to the store signed like two per cent Down payment re the one he gave Roche the Pur qui rement on i Home Loans of Chase came to $33 Emery Burke festive immediately. He also took gave the Man the change and he six other Steps five of which were left without taking the shovels called for in the housing measure and paint explaining he would he signed into Law this week. I pick them up the next Day he j i Idns to return. Posts $15 Bond Roche said the Man weighed a i around 230 and was about 35 he John Sanders new London has described him As boing a Good posted a $15 Bond in mayor j looking Quot. Wade Mcbeth s court on a charge j sheriff Russell Van Tuyl said of making excessive noise with a that the checks have been sent to Muffler filed by City police. Hear the state Bureau of investigation my has been set for saturday at j for possible identification of the to a Passer. Henry county in a1 student Arr Fin their first music Ion ural which is to by Beld on a to 18th, at 8 of pm in hic audion turn Quot i in i Pica Ani High it hoi inc Mush festival is new to a it count although this activity is i c in Lilly held in Ninny counties in the stale of Iowa this activity is sponsored to Hie of i ice of count i superintend Iii of schools and m Charles Rupert. Count super i Trade in it be count is i. Heat sing i students la Pas t Nipa on it it a tuesday april 1st the sin dents of the Lowed Bethany and Jackson townships so. Its t Cai a i bled at Cir avow nod where ill the morning they Chesil Ltd the various must. A1 numbers which will go t it make Lei the program it i tuesday i afternoon student Pom rout. White Oak pleasant pout in. Ant Hill o Iklin i Mil. And re h a Wood a milled at Rome a i Uisu i Rhea i a is on thursday in the morning indent of cup Punk Flower Elm Ria Trenton Independent and Douglas rehearsed Al the Trenton Independent school in tile Aliet noon students of the plea in Lawn Oak Grove Aud schools continued the rehearsal at pleasant Lawn music festivals give Rural students Ait Opportunity to a Emble i for Community singing Aud to p c i rut the musical materials mint Thev Lune Learned during the Yea j mete will be no charge Foi a presentation of the Mush festival at the i pleasant High school on april 18th and All. Bool Pairott and parents Are in vile a held in attacks on Small Birls Waterloo ins a 31 veal old i Marine stationed at Waterloo Foi j two veal a held today under a i total of $25,000 Bond Afun allegedly i admitting he was responsible Foi j attacks on three Little Waterloo it Gills since january police duet hairy Klieg a Keiiti d him As Glenn Roy Farnsworth and said the Marine admitted being Hie a a Sadhu who severely beat an eight year old Waterloo girl thin Day. Plus attacks on two other children Farnsworth was charged with As i Sault w Ith intent to commit a Lei i Jolly lascivious aet with a child and sodomy. Kleg said Farnsworth w i arrested last night at his Home Ali a virtual ear Bocai sea Icli of Auto parked in Waterloo St reel Klieg said Farnsworth Admi tied taking the eight year old girl out into the country yesterday Abou eight Miles rom Wales us forcing her to disrobe and then to perform in unnatural act with him he also according to the police chief admitted he tied her hands behind her Back and beat her with a wooden Brush handle farm program changes unlikely Washington Gas Washington farm observers As Congress. Prepares to head Home for easter recess have just about written off i any Chance of Basic changes in farm legislation this year. I the Outlook now is for a one year Patchwork program that May giant some boasts in acreage allotments but no Cut in support prices beyond those made by agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. New flood threat for California sword of Hopf mis Mamie Eisenhower officially launches the in fish to net i crusade of the american cancer in society by accepting a giant sword of Hope Iii Wash ing toil. Presenting it a the five youngest members of .�?T cure i Camel Congress from left they Are Mark Beamons to Logan Sandra Reynolds rear la Perry git. Cheryl Lynn Orlak a heaver a Cynthia Cabin front it Pun Ltd once it. I John Lubinger 12, Essex Junction it. A of Francisco in is Addi i hundreds of californians to an a cd their Homes today to escape dorm bred floods As an on ii. He g new tempest threatened to intensity lie Stales weather crisis Laud were being evacuated from dwellings in Many widespread arc. Of nor to Lent and Central Canto it m the Wake of a massive midweek ram. Hail Snow and wind Iii Urb Nice that took some 12 lives Ai d Mill. Ted millions in property damage in other a ca.-., the dreary work it in Pelt in ii j and renovation had already begun but these efforts wire shadowed by the Prospect of yet another in the series of storms t lid. Have Given California it lots win i of the 20th Century la fresh storm approaching tile i de const from the Aleutian i was i peeled to strike tomorrow 1 mile its present course change Ria ural Hei by Caus prediction was Quot rain Likely saturday Quot and this s could mean beget floods ii ii melts tile snows already deeply packed i Titi i Othilla of California Moun i lain i angry. Lins Ateka a storm disaster a i Al Fen i an on plan a dead a High inn inti Eisenhower a plan i or lion of the Pentagon pm aleut i a organza was i it i in Eisenhower at Gettysburg for easter Gettysburg a. Tins president Eisenhower settled Down today for a restful easter vacation at his farm on the Edge of the Gettysburg Battlefield. The president motored from the White House yesterday to join mrs Eisenhower who had preceded him by one Day to the Arm White House aides said they May attend Good Friday services at the Gettysburg presbyterian Church where Abraham Lincoln worshipped when he delivered his famous address nov. 19, 1863. But aside from this they had no plans. Of today a a dead in Hie in in it was submitted but key lawmakers held open the dour to Compromise. Republicans and democrats alike walked at the sweeping control the plan would give defense be rotary Nill or Kyrm or err Iii or huge military budget now running in excess of 40 billion Dollar. Annually sen. Styles Bridges top Republican on the semite appropriations Aud armed advices commute a mild la the answers Fey or Elroy to questions yesterday indicate the latitude they Are asking i dont think Congress will eve it i Grant it. J Congress has certain const no i carnal obligations which Congress i intends to live up to. I Hope there will be efficient Civ and take so we ran reach a common ground Aud work out a sensible to Fen it poll v i Elroy tabling before the Senate jul Opal. In Sebrom Maftei said he would Havi Power under the plan to take Money co gees j might vote tor 200 b-52 bombers and use ii for other weapons. I Bridges Saki tins looked ilk a pretty much of a sure Lidei by j Congress of the Quot Power of the i pure Quot i Elroy replied that he and Mel in i Tower knew this was a a sen Ilive Point Quot with Congress he added to nit he thought the presi i Dent would agree to a that would still give him Power to it shill Money from on program to another. Bids on Boud projects liven Ila amount of the hid of Hie be Els constr Mon go. Far the bituminous surtax me of the m1 Union Prairie Clem Road a $156,-12156 and Hgt a th1 .sal1 in Taklani milk Road. $86,671 67 Nom was the successful bidder a on cacti of the projects As Well a the asphaltic Concrete pavement project from Wayland to washing a ton. Parsons president to speak Here or Millard g. Rob sets president of Parsons College will speak at the rotary meeting monday evening employees or associates in business will be guests at the meeting. Or. Roberts served churches in Olean and new York City. N y., i before coming to Parsons and is widely known As a speaker before civic and churl groups. Making plans to in to Guinea As missionaries Rev. I yet w mover will go to Chicago butt tiny to a cure Visalia in i a Mil v Rev Ina Moyi i Ami it Hildien David Roger Aud Russell. 11 t Heil r e s r Vail o n a come the High according to plans the my family will leave i pleas ant monday fur new York City and from then will Fly by pan american airways to Gem town British Guinea Anim there about 3 p m wedge Day both Rev i Yit Vav and Rev Ina Moyer be ordained ministers and will serve a missionaries for the Bible missionary Church in Guinea for a period of five years bet Ore they ii a furlough. Two die in Auto accidents by in a four year old boy my a 20-Yeai old Man woe i St Chi today As Iowa s la test fatalities resulting from Haiti accidents i deaths raised the 19 >8 traffic toll to 147 12 More than had been recorded through Pili 4 last year the victim of separate accidents Day Wen four yeat old dentil Alan Hun of de Witt and 2<i-year-old Justin l Batt of Wycoff. I Iii i. Ila Huff boy was killed when a ear ii i ii by to Mother 24-year-old i Wiathe Huff kidded Oft ruin Slippery Highway 30 just East of Dewitt my St Luck a tree i Hun c duped serious injury but was hospitalized for treatment of Hock Bat a kilted and and year old Emil Kami of Castalia was serious i j in Hurt when Batt s car was in collision with a Semi trader truck at i the Junction of highways 18 Aud 52 i about one half mile West of Post j Ville two hit cd i Hirn passengers in i the car walked away from the wreckage anti we not identified j the truck Driver. Byron Cassity i of Ogden Utah uttered minor in j june ready a wrought direct damage is Lima ted by governor Goodwin Knight at $12,000,000 or More. This Ltd. Not include untold Milli it Worth o crops wiped out under the pelting of Braw Rains and hell with consequent deluding of Agri-1 Euli Iii a1 lands in Central California coastal arid i Valley areas More hundreds of i men. Women Ami children fled or 1 were moved out of their Homes today us overflowing rivets and High Ocean tides inundated wider portions of stricken communities an i countrysides Between the Seaside Cit v of Santa Cruz and Watsonville at least 90 families were taken in trucks and boats from water logged or flood threatened houses Ani i Aliet dwellings four Miles from Santa Cruz giant Ocean Waves hammered the beaches around Capitola forcing people to leave Hun Homes tile state water resources division issued a warning saying that flooding has started a a All along the main Stem a of the sail Joaquin liver from its san Francisco Bay Delta to los Banos More than Ico mile to the South. Large additional Farmland Are. Were expected to be deluged with More evacuations due from towns and fauns on or Lur the Banks o on of California s major Rivers. Mere families were leaving their Homes in the Stockton Section of the ban Joaquin Valley As Well As the environs of Lodi and air so at the Southern of san Fra Ticic it i Bay others were being evacuate from dwellings in the counties of i t i Monterey and stanislaus. Rising water seeped into the City streets of Stockton and Modesto Ai Modesto one oficial surveyed flu1 situation and opined that it Quot ii going to get Wose before it i March is dry month March was tile driest month of Many decades. Approximately one titty of an Inch was measured in i. Pleasant. On one Day .19 of an Inch was recorded and on three other occasions there were dates in the form of a Light drizzle or Snow. Twenty degree temperature occur cd three nights in the month and tile High was 62 on Hie 31st. On two Days the High for the Day was so degrees. Nehru says he May resign i j new Delhi Ains Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru said j j today to is seriously considering j i resigning. Nehru told newsmen he recently Felt a Flat stale and tired. In a j j giving serious consideration Quot to re j j signing As prime minister. Quot real service Quot with classified r. E Gorham Winfield route i. Who placed classified in the news recently offering farm equipment for sate had Good results. He writes As follows a you received this advertisement. Through the mail in the evening printed it tile net Day arid i sold it the following a m., real

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