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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 4, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa A the it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 79 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening april i huh these Days Ivy George e. Sokolsky Ukatish Guiana i forgot All about British Guiana in the welter of nations and revolutions that plague us these Days then came a letter from a Reader and i was reminded of the Effort made some years ago by or. Cheddie Jagan and his wife Janet to establish a communist state in that country. Janet Jagan was born in Chicago and settled in British Guiana with her husband for a time they had quite a run and then they Dis in ,1 test i 2 t. Kit a Cloudy court rules on nearby school Issue near cease fire for Dos Moines up. A Washington county District court decision that rejection of a school consolidation proposal by joint county boards of education docs not constitute dismissal of the petition was upheld today by tile appeared from the news. I thought Eva supreme Corn the Brighton Independent school District and seven other in Washington Jefferson and Keokuk counties had appealed the lower courts decision. In 1959. The three county beards of education had received petitions to form the Lake Darling Community school District. Tile county boards met and by a 9-5 vote turned Down the proposal. They repeated the action by the same that they were dead but not so. They arc very effectively taking Over British Guiana. It seems that in August of this year British Guiana will become self governing except As to its foreign policy. The country lies on the Northern Edge of South America and does not amount to shucks but it can be very troublesome if it becomes a satellite of soviet Russia. The people s progressive party is led by or. Cheddie of Ltd a few Days Toter Jagan and his wife Janet and it is. Beyond doubt a communist party. So in August there will be elections and the people s progressive party led by an East Indian dentist and a Gal from Chicago is Likely to take Over. I am told that chinese hungarian British and american communists Are presently in British Guiana prepared for the Day. Nobody in particular is preparing against the proponents of the consolidation took the matter to the state department of Public instruction which ruled that the county boards rejection of the plan Conal tut of dismissal of the petitions. Tile state department Abo ordered dismissal of the petition. The supreme court ruled however. That tile state department of Public instruction had no right to enter the Case because the joint Jensen elected for 6-year term weather will delay return of dying american must precede 14-nation conference Willard Jensen who had in in filling a vacancy of an unexpired u i m i Cornu a w or. Wha eur Eta flt r a s x ear Tran at a called my Ting of the county conference bos re monday evening. Hong Kong a up a bad _ a lather will delay until thursday Washington up. A Authori-0 f,�?Tda.\ 0. A return Horn re of tiv diploma in sources said today 11 that Britain and Russia Are close in to agreement on a cease fire in red arc. It Laos and that the joint Call for a China of r Brit e doing american Bomi Tho comm Iii to the raid today. Mccann Mea cd truce May come within the next 48 a a ,.had Ben hoped that Mccann hours a Tom. V,�?o3�ir is a a worm sch Quot Quot is a a a a a in talk Kinn Viv i Pawl the Quot on Quot Lam my car. Shulch ambassador sir Frank ,1, wednesday bul the red Cro Suerte in Moscow has agreed tents . F it a r said plane in which lie was Toj Lively that an inspected and Veri me in be re of the county Confer have. R. A Hown from piping to can tied cease fire must precede the 14 or Raymond term expires Jan line Board Are the mayors of the you can t Tell the secret service from people anyone wanting to try any funny stuff at the Kennedy Home in Palm Beach fla., better not try it at this Street Entrance. On Giard Are three secret service men a state policeman left and a Palm Beach patrolman. Notice How sport blurted secret service men look about like anybody Els Quot. Board of supervisors. The chairman of the boart of supervisors presides at the confort Nee Board and each organisation has one vote ton had been grounded by we the nation political conference on Laos which the Kremlin is so a to have these sources said. Tune when the British withdraw. Did not constitute a Dis c o a Missal. During the past four years the f up. Has paved the Way for a the High court did term me. In its opinion not de what the Burns received by local woman prove fatal communist revolution. There has j i1exf step in the controversy should been a cuban loan of $8,000,000 go. And some technicians for the exp pm citation of the Timber resources of British Guiana. Communists Are being appointed by Jagan to official positions. Jagan has thus far not been Able to gain control of the courts but if he wins the elections in August the courts will be his to be used for political and to strengthen his win. L. Chrisinger taken by death mrs. Alice Harris Blackmore nearly 79, died tuesday morning at memorial Hospital As a result of Burns received when her clothing caught fire while she was burning papers in her Yard monday. Several thefts i admitted by i four juveniles town of a Bounty a county dc.,-rn his .rriy.1 it least 24 which Ute Renmin to nolo Board of education and the county i hours. If the Mccanns decided to travel All the Way from piping by train. The optimistic reports of a pos the earliest they could reach sible peaceful settlement of the this British Clima a coast capital Laos rom while British would be Friday. It appeared unlikely however i that the american who is dying i of lung cancer would attempt the Long train journey. Or. And mrs. Roland Harris she was married in England to William Blackmore. Who preceded her in death. She is survived by a daughter. The fire flashed near her cloth mrs. Everett ing and evidently ignited her apron j of Winfield Mililani Lloyd Chrisinger 83, of soon the flames wore around Winfield died april 3 after an exp Chest and Rock. Mrs. C. H. Rich nieces and nephews. And mrs. Stewart Jackson neigh j funeral services will be thursday h. 13,7 in Bors. And two girls collecting for afternoon at 2 Washington county the son of Ezra the heart fund gave assistance and Michaels have and Sarah Lons Chrisinger. Mrs. Blakemore was taken to me-1 which she was a member it. Madison a hic arrest of four juveniles last week in the connection with a break in at Daniel Schwartz tavern. Pilot Grove has Gertrude Holtcamp a paid us a number of unsolved two granddaughters a i tic to a a Lee. Henry and Van her i brother Throe Sisters and several Dunn counties f Ilii Deputy sheriff Don Arnold said Here monday. Tended illness. He was bom july purposes Power. Jar is slogan is a we friends with rockets guns and in it it 21 1899 in Winfield he j mortal Hospital a Short time after by this he Means that a is Mal lied to Ada May Mullin the Accident soviet Russia will support Jagana a v bodice in 1950 program. He was a member of the roof Lodge and the methodist Church and had spent his entire life in or near Winfield. Surviving Are three sons Lloyd Chrisinger and w. F. Chrisinger of Winfield and Perl Chrisinger of of. Pleasant Rural. _ one son. Raymond was killed in Homer Evans 74 formerly of the u. S. Navy air corps in 1938. Burlington died Tim Aday morning funeral services will be held at memorial Hospital. He a. The wednesday afternoon at 2 of clock father of mrs. Robert Mal love of at the Barton Mckasson funeral Northwest of new London where the to mfg in Winfield. The Rev. Chester e Chandler d. D., will officiate. Int rent will be in Winfield Scott township cemetery. Bill would end county school boards emes Moines up. Iowa Senate in a narrow vote today passed a Bill would eliminate county argue cause of drop in a a receipt tie which school superintendents As of boards and july 4. 1963. The Battle or the Bill is not yet Fin lied. Sen. Andrew g. From melt a Dubuque changed his vote of a no to Quot Aye moments before the crucial ballot was announced and said he would file a motion to much can be written on this subject suffice it that a revolution is boiling in British Guiana and nobody seems to care. Tile same is True in Venezuela and Panama. In a word with Cuba As a Center much Progress is Bein made in various parts of latin America by communist forces and nothing startling or significant is being done about it anywhere. Taking for granted that it does not matter too much United states makes its stand against soviet imperialism so Long As a stand is made it nevertheless is surprising that so Little has been done about Cuba British Guiana or any other part of latin America. The violent movement leftward in Brazil is especially frightening As there has been a Long history of Friendship Between the United states and i cemetery. She was born in Derby. England the Weir cookes funeral Horn on april 8, 1882. The daughter of i in charge of arrangements. Homer Evans taken by death the four juveniles ranging in of clock at St age rom to i have been re episcopal Church of leased t0 the custody of their j parents pending a hearing in the i reconsider the Senate s action. Interment will be in Forest Home i jul venue court Here. Arnold said. Before their release from jail. Arnold said the juveniles All boys adm. Tied stealing two gasoline engines from a farm Home in North Lee county and of stripping by up livestock receipts were Down 1 again today at major Corn Bill markets but observers disagreed on whether the slump was caused by the National Farmers Organiza i tion no holding animals from the markets or season factors. Tile no asked w it hold livestock Primo minister Harold Macmillan was al veg Here for critical talks with president Kennedy on the Asia trouble and other cold War conflicts. Macmillan was to arrive in Washngton this evening and hold his first conference with Kennedy at the in Iii in House wednesday morning. The British and americans it a Learned Are hopeful that tile i cease fire Call will be made within the next 24 to 48 hours. In any event it was said they expect it before the end of the week j Secretary of state Dean Rusk and British foreign Secretary lord Home were m eting Here today to prepare for the Kennedy Macmil-1 Lan talks. They were authoritatively report members to led to favor calling the 14-nation from the funeral services for or Evans will be thursday afternoon at 2 o clock at the Elliott Lunning Chapel in Burlington. Five u. S. Soldiers involved in incident permit big air merger Bonn Germany up a the j u. S. Army said today that five american soldiers were involved in a sunday night incident in which Brazil and there was no foreboding Tho soviet military Mission chief that Brazil would turn anti i Frankfurt allegedly was beaten american which that country sup. Today. Headquarters of the u. S. Army i 0 a it in Europe at Heidelberg said the1 How much of our National soviets claimed the officer Identie Aith we have poured into Brazil find As it. Col Vladimir n. Chet both from government funds and Verniko a was injured by the sol i private resources it is difficult to calculate but the amount is Norm none of the soldiers arc from is the present president of Bra Iowa ii is a Ca troite a believer in that the army said it was investigate Type of revolution which is based ing the affair. It said the american on anti americanism and which soldiers involved had been released orders mobilization of Katanga i Elisabeth Ville rata n to a. Tile Congo up a mob of 10,- 000 natives armed with machetes Iron bars and muzzle loading muskets won temporary control of Ole Elizabethville Airport from swedish United nations troops today. I later the Katanga government land the u. N. Agreed to continue joint control of the Airport. Casing j a situation w Lii ii had threatened to turn uglier. Improve. Today political conference on Laos anytime after april 20 if the cease fire has been verified by then. The agriculture depart soviet Deputy foreign minister the Bill a declaration of policy 1a, Ortw to markets indefinitely until prices which cames the full effect of Law. Provides that effective july 4. 1962j whenever any county has All its at a included in a High school i a i markets were Down about Vassily Kuznetsov at his meeting systems11 000 had in hog. Compared Ullh in Moscow with the British one week ago. Cattle arrivals were ambassador gave Russia s Tenta o lowing year Down 7.600 and sheep and lambs Tive agreement to Call for a Veri a postal also provides that new off 2,500 head. Ford crease fire As a prelude to the Community Independent and con 14-nation meeting. Communist breaking into the Salem school j solid at d a school districts shall Bel but Early sales showed Little China would be represented at the Arnold said. A autonomous subject to the lawful Price change from yesterday. The i 14-nation meeting. Arnold said the boys have con i policies adopted by the state Board i agriculture department said gains the russians and British Are said to act. The county school a 1951 Ford at Ano Thoi farm Home Shau 1 0 eliminated As of july 4 the of its steering wheel clock and other accessories a one of the boys also admitted fessed participating in an attempt of Public instruction. A grocery store at stealing tour live farm Pond in Ler cd breaking of Hillsboro and ducks from a county. A the boy ii in Quot also told or they took quantities of gasoline from a number of farm Homes in tins area a Arnold said. Would assess on mailed forms Washington up. The i Elisabeth Villi. Katanga civil aeronautics Board cab province. Tile Congo up. Prox today officially gave United air j id it Moise tse Horn be ordered lines permission to acquire capital1 mobilization of the entire Populis airlines climaxing the Bim to a on a Katanga province today merger transaction in u a com al swedish United nations Mercial aviation history troops arrested a army United plans to begin Consoli j unit and barred Katan Gese traffic dated operations Over capitals gom Luana air Field routes by june i. The cab s decision will make United biggest air Carrier Dos Moines up. Eight Bills including on. To k quire county assessors to mail supplemental return to property owners for assessment purposes passed the House monday during a one hour afternoon session the court \ debate on the measure la Ted More than two hours. During that time two Roll Calls and four voice ranged from 25 to 50 cents per to be in agreement that calling of too pounds from a week ago. He Crase Are should be Accomma i he no heartened by tile drop hied by a declaration reconvening in receipts at markets said its votes were taken before die final members would keep cattle hogs balloting. And sheep off the Market a in san. Robert r. Rigler Hampton led the fight for the Bill j saying that county school districts Are a obsolete and Rigler raid county superintend no were opposed to the Bill a Boca u. R their jobs Are at if we Don t eliminate these districts now Quot Rifle Aid. A then by 1963 the county superintendents Vin Haw added to Many now Lune Lions it will be the International control commission which after the Geneva con Ference on Indochina of 1954, super Vised the Independence of Laos in i til 1958. Faces charge of assault with deadly weapon ii utilizes anti americanism As a weapon to stir the people to Anta Only to this country and to the property of american citizens thus making this particular Type of revolution palatable. It is an old trick to fool the people by feeding them the opiate of an external hate it gives the ruler an Opportunity to oppress and abuse his own people in the name of that hate. If the president Quadros is successful in Brazil and or. Jagan is successful in British Guiana this attitude of hate will spread further in latin Amel Ica some time next september or october criticism of american officialdom will be regarded As Hindsight and the critics will be a used of always finding flaws after the event Well Here is a bit of foresight As Clear As Day and what is anyone doing about it just think in 1961. Soviet Russia has pushed further into Asia by Means of imperialism in Laos has pushed into Africa by Means of to their units pending its completion the army said the incident took place sunday night in Frankfurt where the soviet Union maintains a military Mission accredited to the u. S. Army. I Lions in our lie nation s i r supp tenting j Riim a american airlines in terms of route tin the i i or actions of the United a country constitute a War Quot tschomber de Miles aircraft personnel and potential passenger traffic. Will admitted to probate Iowa City youth killed sure approved 89-11, would require each property owner to Mak a Complete listing of his real and i Sonal property and return the form to the assessor. The assessor would still be obligated to make it valuation of prop a is Ted 25 Well armed Jerry values in accordance with a Katan Gese led by a belgian wifi Standard Manila i provided by the j i or who invaded the Airport under state tax Comini if n cover of darkness monday nigh under tin Bill la prop Quot to own the Katan Gese pushed several it r would till have to. Right of Rucks onto the runway and were Appeal to the Board of review. Swedish held a of Dicks guard int attend District student meeting drop red paratroops i. Peasant i Vientiane Loas up bewitch assault it Lamport places have dropped communist paratroops near the government Supply base of Yang Vieng 65 Miles North of Vientiane preliminary in a Jim a offem Iive Hal threatened Tho. E from it. Pleasant attending the District student Council meeting at nation Walnut. Ill. Phillip . Up 18, of Iowa i try in. 1 Low or i the u. N. To break into the control1 another the will of Minnie b. Trueblood City Iowa a its met monday when has been admitted to probate at has car crashed with the courthouse. Another Auto on 111. 92 near Wain us according to the terms property1 in in Section 34 of Tippecanoe town ship was left to a brother Walter Bogue and $100 to each of her grandchildren the rest of the estate was left to her children lots Hallowell and Verl Trueblood. Who were named executors of the will drawn up aug. 8, 1956. Authorities it Aid that Jinni Malj niger 17, was at the we cd of i Herschberger s ear and tried to paid it another car of fore he struck an on -1 coming Auto driven by Erin St Day or 26, Wheeling 111 Bill to Clear the lower j chamber would require that a put up no resistance to the criminal indictment be brought Force against a person within 60 Days if the swedish soldiers sealed off the defendant is being held in Jai All entrances to the Field after the on a criminal charge incident and barred Katan Gese military and civil air traffic. A after flood Karon m front of a cafe at the North part rooms dropped by the soviet were Carol Alice Stanley Kerr. Mike Riepe Polly Edge of town at to . Monday Garland. Jim Mccormick Ernest while hts wife was inside grip i Jan . Steve Melby child Home and mrs. James Wand Luig Rural was charged with a deadly weapon by his wife following an incident which occurred monday night. Wandling waived hearing in Justice a f. Timmy 10 Cut off the Royal to Tho Many a court and was bound Over to North the laotian government refile grand jury under $100 Bond pm or l today which was posted. J la Fen. E minister Gen. Thoumi Aid the operation was Friday when be. Avail j according to authorities Wand monday Ling took the couples child from Ais in a to one last he to a Wandling planes forced government forces to i treat Horn tha Thorn another key a. E just South of the Plain Jerry White Mike Bari and sue charge that when she went to get of jars and 85 Miles Northeast of Cornice. Mary o Connor. Dennis the child her husband threatened Vientiane. Fit Patrk and Janice Patter on. 1 her with a Riepe and Karin Reiner Wandling was could not attend. Local arrested at tile Wandling farm Home six Miles candidates for offices. Steve Southeast of town by Deputy Rish Melby for vice president Ernest a re Gray at 2 a in tuesday Gahr for state Cabinet and Jean mrs. Wandling filed the of on for Secretary failed to win election. My chaperones were Helen Hallowell in org is Krondl and mrs Albert Riepe. After charge. Astronauts to take a refresher or. David Wesley Soper injured in Accident strategy mapped boys discover 175-million years old Fossil As car upsets Carver it. w a s Hin g ton up a the three Mercury astronauts training for America s first Man in space veil Urr have b in ordered to take a refresher course in a Centrifuge to familiarize them again with the stresses of rocket flight. I he National aeronautics and s Pace administration said today guardian asked a petition has been filed at the clerks office in the courthouse by Wynona Cox asking that a guardian be appoint d for Orcelia Geary revolution in the Congo has push n Gnu on atm de into latin America by Consol or. David Wesley Soper 50, Well Des Moines up ii pre known religious writer and pint s-1 tentative of to Federal agencies Sor of philosophy at Beloit College met with Iowa officials today in j in Wisconsin was injured critical an Effort to map out a after flood in when his Auto and one driven by strategy in stricken Iowa com Frank a Berardino. 25, of Union. Muni ties on the Cedar River. Town. Penn., collided on route 40 the Federal agencies became in about four Miles East of Uniontown voiced in the projects when presi de s Moines a up a state or. Soper was taken to Uniontown j Dent Kennedy designated Eastern liquor permit fees would be doubled i Hospital with h and injuries. Ber-1 Iowa As a disaster area last Friday. Would double liquor permit fees a -1111 a a a by a Bill which the Iowa aiding escaped injury. However the extent of the Par dating its position in Cuba open advances and when must we wait House today 90-13. I or. Soper is the father of mrs. Tic Patlon of each Agency will not ing a new Field in Brazil and pre until there is no place to Stop the measure which proc id it for Robert Davis formerly of it. Be known until the state and a mrs. Ronald i ant suffered a broken nose and bruises when the 1953 Stur Lebaker a. She was driving Slid on lease gravel 1 10 Johnsville West new York. N. J. Up. And overturned on the Airport Road flu next week 01 s0 for three Lair e teen aged boys who Dis Southeast of town at 4 10 . Mon a s a intensive additional train covered a 175-million-year-old Fossil Day. Ira a 111 the Navy a huge Centrifuge said today they would lend it to mrs. Carver was treated by a the american museum of natural local doctor. Her two year old eos imn mat a i Iii to history Quot for a while a but we want daughter who was with her Wasny to not guilty it backs. Hurt. In mayor s court museum officials announced Mon the car was badly damaged. _ Day in new York the boys had in a mrs. Carver was driving South Carl e Gannoe was found not earthed the remains of a gliding j and after passing a car lost control guilty in mayor Wade Mcbeth reptile believed to be the oldest in the Loose gravel. The car Over paring for a take Over in British them Guiana in Augu. T copyright 1961. Where Are we going to Stop these synodical. Lie it an increase from $1 to $2 in the King features soft of individual quo a Book now goes to the Senate know n to science. Pleasant and Lias visited Here. Or. Federal have signed the Fossil went on display today to provide for a led in museum s Roosevelt memorial i Wing. Court tuesday morning of a charge turned on its top in a ditch on the of failure to yield the right of Way Hermit Davis formerly was on the music a contract faculty of Iowa Wesleyan College Jeral loan. West Side of the Road. Deputy Richard Gray investigated. Clue to insufficient evidence. The charge was filed feb. 26 by Melvin f. Nichols

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