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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 6, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 81mt. Pleasant Iowa thi Jas i a evening april 6, Imi these Days by George e. Sokolsky no More Korea the i real Cost to the United 1 states in the korean debacle was not that we lost a War but that j every nation had to reassess its relationship to the United states and an increasing number became Neutral. Everybody likes a Winner. If we lose in lit of or for that matter if we suffer any further loss anywhere our International situation will degenerate with finality. A nation cannot assert leadership and not Lead it cannot assume superiority without military superiority. And if there is military superiority it must be proved by military might which is War. These Are axioms and a nation that tries other methods Only too soon discovers that some other country has taken its place let us note the position of president de Gaulle of prance Laos was a part of French Indochina French indo China was a most important political and economic sector of France the City of Saigon being for France what Hong Kong was for great Britain tile Ann mites and other Peoples of French indo China rebelled supported by the chinese communists and won a great Victory Over France which resulted in France being eliminated from Southeast Asia. Had France been supported by its allies the United states and great Britain it might not have lost French indo China. The United states was tied Down to a doctrine of anti colonialism which has fragmented Asia and is now fragmenting Africa. French Indochina was broken into North Vietnam South Vietnam Laos and Cambodia and because of this Thailand which used to be called Siam i is in peril of falling to the might of red China. The populate of red China is variously estimated up to 600,060, it too persons. No census has Ever been taken. When i lived there we used to speak of the population of 450,000,000. Whether it has. In j creased so much in 30 years no i body can truthfully say because no one has counted the people. However whatever the figure May be it is too Large for the food Supply which is traditionally i inadequate. During the past two years at least. Red China has suf i feed several famines which is not too unusual particularly for the Southern part of that country where the density of population is perhaps the greatest and worst in the world density of population is let est solved by the population moving where food is More plentiful. This is a Rice eating people and China has for centuries imported Rice from French indo China and j from Siam Thailand. What is happening in Laos is that a chinese population is pouring into that country. Tile report that j chinese Are about to move into Laos is piffle they have already moved these chinese Are part of com Monist China which can Well afford to lose 200.000,000 people and 111 isl a Daylight savings time voted prevent those fires Why not extend Spring House cleaning to your basement and attic in your business place or. Merchant ? there is fire danger in the accumulations sometimes found after the Winter months. Your a House cleaning a might prevent a fire. Also at this season everyone should use great care in burning leaves and tra. H on a Windy Day. Tile be t practice is not to Start an outside fire while the wind a blowing. Also take special notice of dry grass that May surround your burning area. The fire May follow a narrow path of dry grass into larger areas or embers May be carried distances into dry patches. Please use care. I pleasant fire department rites saturday for three victims of Accident Council sets starting Date As april 29 it. Pleasant will go on Daylight i savings time at Midnight. Saturday april 29 until Midnight saturday August 26, two Days before the Start of the 1961- 62 school orm the City Council voted wednesday night. Coli Mai s i n i Ion Peninsula a Columbus Junction mostly on a Hillside is not often thought or As a town to Penin Sula. But the water backed around it on one Side and parts of two other sides this week. Cedar River which had been Oil a rampage at Cedar Falls and Waterloo joins the Iowa River near Columbus Junction and tile water had backed into the lowlands East of the City. Paved Highway 92 with a car on to leads to the River Bridge which is outside the picture to the right. Vote $600 i a increase funeral services for Florence and Helen Campbell Sisters who lost their lives in an Auto gasoline transport crash near Pratt Kau. Tuesday afternoon will by held saturday afternoon at 2 of clock at the Elliott Chapel in new London. The Rev. John o. Well in pastor of new London presbyterian Church will officiate councilman or. J. Stewart Jack interment will be in pleasant run made the motion after a Dis Hill cemetery Southeast of it. Cussion and John Carter seconded pleasant. J it. All the Council voted yes sex funeral services for mrs. Grace opt Everett Wilcox who voted Van Dyke who was killed in the against a a fast time same Accident will be held sat Wilcox expressed the opinion urday morning at to of clock at the that the people of it. Pleasant r. K. Crane funeral Home. The should have the Opportunity to Rev. Thomas Hotle and the Rev. Vote on the Daylight savings time Fred Richard pastors of lie methodist circuit churches will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Home cemetery. Feed Grain meeting monday Des Moines a up a a $600 a year across the Board pay increase for elected county officials was approved by the Iowa House today. The lower chamber approved the j Mea. Ure by a vote of 92-12 and sent i the Bill to the Senate j before final passage the house1 i approved an amendment to the original Bill which made an sex cup lion to the $600 pay increase for i Linn county supervisors giving those three officers a $1,400 pay 1 a a Quot 1f j a boo. I to $7,000 a year equal to that Quot l Loyial Vin be in be of the county auditor Goti Ohie certificates that Mav be say livestock receipts higher by i i livestock receipts climbed above to Lair Levels of a week ago at the Midwest s 12 major markets today despite an Effort by the National Farmers organization no to withhold animals from Market and thus push up prices. The no appealed to its members to hold Back livestock from Market redeemed in Grain or in the Cash equivalent. Glenn Campbell. The Bill As originally introduced would have provided $400 a Eros j chairman of the Henry county ask j Tate Board pay increase but the committee said today of the pro Hon. E adopted 85-19, an Amend Ducor wishes lie May receive half intent by the committee on com pen of the estimated total payment formation of Public officers which his farm at Hie tune he signs up boosted the figure to $600, to participate in the program. I the measure applies to county chairman urges All Farmers of j supervisors auditors attorney the county to attend the Public 1 treasurers recorders sheriffs and meeting at which details of the j clerks of District court. Program will be explained. This j in addition to the Linn county meeting w ill lie held at the Iowa j Board of Only other Wesleyan ollege Hapel Mon exception to the $900 a year in a it april to at x . J crease Are the supervisors in coun As explained by. Courting conservation officer resigns Des Moines Iowa up a a or Campbell tics with Lei than 60.000 Popula Courtin Emser Patlon a Maer who the legislation authorizing Hie new1 Ford Grain program was enacted to Basic and arc granted an increase 11ion. They Are paid on a per diem i a a i basis and were granted an in i prevent a further buildup of feed a from �?z2 50 l0 for Oach Daj Krum surpluses and to to cum i they m the or off Ctol Capaci. Farm income. It should Alo help t tics assure Consumers of fair and stable a tile salary Scales for the county Hoise on an Island a Only dry plate at this farm Home upstream from Wapello this week was around the House. Two farm tractors and a farm Wagon had been driven alongside the House on the Small plot of dry ground. The barn Sheds and Chicken House had several feet of water in them. The Channel evidently was far in the background. Lighter arca in the foreground was a Field not yet covered. It. Pleasant news photos from plane piloted by t. Ii. Harney Benefit thereby. It is cheaper to Send people to War or As volunteers in revolutions to live off some other country than to attempt to feed them. Red Clima sought to solve Many to reconsider my Telephone co liquidated free submits five appointees prices for meat poultry and Dairy products and reduce feed Grain program Casus to taxpayers. Under the program cooperators w ill divert at least 20 percent of their 1959-60 base Ai rage of Corn and Grain sorghum to soil conserve my uses. They Mav also divert additional acreages within certain limits. Official vary according to p nutation of the county. Question. It. Pleasant joins other Southeast Iowa cities which have voted a fast Quot time. They Are Burlington it. Madison and Keokuk. Fairfield will decide on april 18. Several Small towns in the area May adopt St later. Too in o her action the Council decided to buy the option of the l j. Roach property on West Madison Street from the Federal band Bank for a total of $550. The City is paying $250 As a Down payment on the property which is earmarked for of Street parking and $300 for the expense of the meetings held by the land Bank beginning last monday unto pc s t0 secure the options Rose. Hog receipts dropped Early this j Keith Wymore Bob Coghlan week from the previous week but and Max beavers representing the observers disagreed on whether it boys baseball league were pres was a seasonal past easter slump. It and informed the Council that or result of no s action. Don Taft has been hired As ath today the u. A agriculture de Letic supervisor for the league. The payment said receipts were up City agreed to pay $250 towards from the previous week for cattle Taft wages. Hogs and sheep. Xvi in beavers and Derrell Kinney cattle receipts at the 12 major inquired about the installation of Midwest markets totalled 18,500, a sewer line to the tract they Are compared with 14,700 a week earlier developing on South Locust Street. Hog arrivals reached 56,400, com the matter will be referred to pared with 56.000 a week ago. And Henry Koch of Ottumwa who is sheep receipts were 10,200 a up too. Engineering several sewer projects Here. Tile Council agreed to the request of William Alvine fire chief for i the Purchase of two Scott air Paks oxygen equipment for the firemen. Mayor Wade Mcbeth appointed Leonard Young to the fire department effective feb. I. J the Council okayed the payment i of $1,476 to the starch co. Of was using a state owned Auto to woo a widow has resigned under pressure state conservation director Glen Powers said wednesday. Confirms seven Des Moines up Des Moines up. The Iowa Senate today refused to reconsider of its economic problems by Ortho it its approx Bill Urh would eliminate most county school boards Dox marxism by establishing communes. And failed. The communes did not produce an increase of food. As a matter of tact. Famine pursued the communes. Red China is pouring population into All the countries of East Asia. And superintend lits within the next two years. The upper chamber rejected 29-19, a motion by sen. Andrew g. Frommelt a Dubuque to reconsider tin measure which won a narrow 27-22 Victory tuesday. The Bill which now goes to the a. W Sanders cd ecu Ivy president and general Mana the Iowa Illinois Telephone company announced today that the i pleasant to it phone company a Board of regents corporation has been liquidated As in return for the Brodders cooperation he will receive a pay gov inure on the diverted acres and he i appointments made by gov. Nor Low a Senate today confirmed even Indonesia has set up Orcsi Tancos to the increase of red chinese in that country but Laos is not. Geographically or militarily situated suitably for resistance to red of a Star p a Mith a of ruin to a Consoli dated District be placed in pi.,. A t nip by by the South of Clinia lie j ,. I t cd tor a term of Forir House provides that the county Illinois Telephone company school systems be eliminated and since announcement of the Pur the Community Independent and Chase of the i. Pleasant Tok i Dos Moines up. I Norman a Elbe today submitted j beat tics eligible for Prier support1 Man a Eric that of a the Senate tiv appointed to. On the. No my product Ion of his Howard b hot Char 56. Cedar a ate Effie. Iia hiding Ora it Ach a a ioi51 Cora and Grain sorghum Aero i a i if democrats to the Highway Tho Highway commission and the j age. He also will by of milk it for subcommission. 11k>rt on his 1961 crop of Barley Oats Everett Shockey who will be 45 and rec of Agni i. And the physical a it apr m. Ltd a cd Bluefo Democrat. A producer of Corn 01. Grain sold to the Iowa i Sinois til pm one has nominated for a tour Yartu hum wlm it d0m ,10l Coop rate the company a of Tim Date. In on the commission of Arain program will not be booming i. Eligible for Price support on any Shockey Trust offic r for the i of his feed grains this year and he Council Blu Lis savings Bank would will receive no payment under the replace Harold j. Teachout she n-1 special feed Grain program Andali Democrat in the $5,250-a China. In the four heavily populated provinces Kua tune. Kuangsie Keichow and Yunnan. Kuan Tung which is often referred to As Canton because of tile name of the City Lins produced most of the chinese who live outside of China. In live Many races of aborigines who have never engaged in any other business than War since the authority q0 p Burc of peking weakened Over them during the Taiping rebellion g850-cn position 1865. Yunnan lies in mountainous of in country close to Burma and French. Indo China and has Beer. Under and nil u rid Reb encounter an state Board of Public instruction. Elliott Roosevelt has moved report states Sheldon. Iowa Uri Elliott Cit. Fore. Ray with tin ii w bankrupt Northern biochemical Las reportedly moved to Minneapolis where he has Tak with a publishing Bapton Church building part of tin property owed a been razed surveys have been made by Ltd i g int ens for future improvements explosion near i. S. Consulate the Board of regents j state sen. Wilbur c j Grinnell Republican j would begin july i. He would replace one of two j republicans whose terms expire i this year. The regents Are paid on i f. Per do in basis. Also Elbe nominated three a str sons to the soil conservation cop in i me. A Liny Are i Jena id Johnson 42, fair i in id wend la c and Fred in or the influence of the former French other to in i City of Saigon for More than a this has ways been soviet tac Century. Tics talk soft and licht Contin it is out of these four provinces Sously Lule t i going on. P m that a communist chinese Popula the Warsaw contort Ive has g it Hon heavily armed is pouring into to diver attention to on in re Laos. Every Day that is lost in this Loo is a soviet tact. Ii re stopping them from marching spot at out time and let to West southward gives them More tend take its Choice As no when it will tory. Perhaps when the time comes accept defeat for a 14 nation conference. Laos copyright 191, King features Street will a populated by chinese reds Syndicate ii Helscher 56, becomes tire firs Cedar rapids resident Ever to serve on the Highway commission. He replaced Artiller Democrat Robert Brice Waterloo in tilt $5,250 a year Job. The term begins july i. I a real r. Tate Man. Hel Cher i. 1 president and treasurer of Hodges associate in Cedar rapids and a 1927 graduate of Coe rapids. Ile is a native of Krota. Alo confirmed a. The re appoint it of or. Edmund Zimmer Ltd a. State comm a incr of Public health. Minneapolis Minn up other confirmed were John c More than 650 Democrat from la Oberhausen Dubuque Republican states were expected tomorrow for to the Board of regents Dale do the opening session of the Midwest Koster. Waterloo banker to the democratic conf hic advisory Board of the Iowa Public highlighting tha Ltd but were the employee retirement system and Capo Arante of Uch party Powers a Alton Sanders charts City. Or v i i re or Man Secretary of George l. Bowne do Moines and agriculture Arthur Goldberg Sec Stephen g. Darling Iowa City to rotary of labor and sen. Hubert the Iowa real estate commission. Midwest demos to Convene w. E. Ayers. 49, Belmond was Des Moines for the City Hall in Given a hearing last month on pavements. Charges that he was driving the request of Iowa for car up to 500 Miles a month to visit1 the changing of certain parking mrs. Marie Kuester who lives 22 regulations at the College was read t Miles away from Ayers at Sheffield an it referred to the streets and a in Franklin county. J ai1 is committee for study. Ayers who has been separated ordinance was adopted a from his wife for nearly a year Cating a portion of an Alley in said he and mrs. Kuester planned weirs subdivision in Northeast to get married. Mrs. Ayers has it. Pleasant. Started divorce proceedings. Powers said Ayers violated con Udac Serrations commission rules by fals would give mortifying ear reports and driving the suspension Powers car outside of his territory. He had been assigned to duty in Wright Des Montes upi1 a the Iowa and Han cot k counties. House today voted to give the state safety department addition a1 suspension Powers Over Drivers j _ a kill that the department May suspend i licenses of persons who fail to spa by Pear for at the j request of safety officials. The v j suspensions would remain in effect App or j until the permit Holder appeared i or examination Clarge in court to Force a Mot or 0 a 1 a real a Tate Mort Gateson property of less than to acres. The present redemption period is 1 12 months. Both Bills now go to the Senate. Or. K. V. Moses i tee which receives i Sompi ii. Anon. Grass fire judge Graven to retire aug. 31 Humphrey of my Reota my Paul Dought of Illino i the m a do c Alic con will admitted Ference includes party officials and _ office holders from Minnesota. The will of Nellie m. Williams has month to speak at new London a v Moses headmaster of a methodist boys High school or Hyderabad a p., India will visit found not guilty new London methodist Church on la 7.jo . Tills will but a Henry county meeting for methodist ministers and laymen. \ Moses now on a four Aud a Hal visit to Iowa is known in . Court i fort Dodge in a up firemen were Calid to the Ernie u. S. District judge Henry Smith residence on South w in it i Graver will aug. 31 after theme North Dakota. South Dakota Iowa j been admitted to probate at the Nebraska Wisconsin Illinois m s-1 courthouse and according to the Souri Indiana Ohio Michigan. Reruns her property was left to sons Kansas. Oklahoma and West Vir Edward Roy Williams and Wayne n. I . Lor the years conference 2 05 p in. Thursday to More than 17 years on the Federal i of the Midwest stake in goals h. Williams who was named executor. Duane Lundren. Burlington has been found not guilty by Justice Grorge Means of aiding and abetting in an assault and Battery Cas. The charge w As i lied by a c. Simon billowing an incident which occurred feb. 27. Across the state because of a visit eight years ago. Iowa methodist clinches have i goal of $25,000 during the in it four years to build a new dormitory at the Hyderabad school he the armadillo gets its name the will was drawn up nov. 27, Only Christian boys High school Tai ire in. The Spanish word meaning put out a gras. Fire Bench it a announced today. For America Quot its Section of India. A Clad in

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