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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 9, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy a Famh vol. 80, no. 81 it. In Kas ant. Iowa. Wednesday evening. April 0. 1058 by Tarrier 30 per week by mall >7.50 per year mexican Idyl a Long before violent death stepped into the picture screen actress Lana Turner and Johnny Stompanato with cigarette who was stabbed to death m her Beverly Hills Home were a Happy duo on a mexican vacation they Are shown above at a Bull tight in Acapulco. International sound photo these Days by George e. Sokolsky Grac Imi. Living in his complaining world it is so Good to hear something cheerful something dignified so i want to give you Hie words of Lotte Lehmann 70, the metropolitan opera Singer who sings no More. They Are Rich words and Rich thoughts a i belong to those very blessed people who arc Able to live in the evening of their lives exactly As they wish. I live in great Beauty of nature and in inner Harmony and i have found a Way to try to give to our Young generation of singers what i have Learned in a a Singer and per Overl lowing with singers. To live i them to sing with since my own has Long reel As former. A America is talented Yourn vicariously in their voices completely disappeared to live with them through their worries their Joys and their triumphs that is now my life and it makes me vet Quot Happy a besides my main work i have found Many ways of expressing myself in new and for me exciting creative activities. Life is very 111 for me the Days have not enough hours. The Only thing which is missing is time. Time runs away in a frightening Tempo. How Beautiful to approach autumn in the spirit of Spring to find a renewal of life a activities even in those later years when mime Only know of aches and com i lairds and egocentric Riisa Atis fact ions. Our population growing older her a up we live longer but Many older people do not know what to do with their last years they have rot filled then lives v the activities and ideas Ani satisfactions which sustain them in the years of lesser Phi Seal and mental strength. The deepest Hurt of old age and the most usual is disappointment in children each Parent expects so much f his own he sees in their fact Luminous Beauty Winch no one else sees he imagines a brilliance which no one else recon Nires he anticipates a love and respect in old age which is too much for anyone to give. Often oldsters forget that they themselves messed up the lives of their children by interference and annoyance and false doctrines and lipid prejudices. Sometimes the Parent is shrieked that a particular buy loves a particular girl who is never Rood enough. And then for these older people there is no satisfaction that kindness was found precisely where it was unexpected. Mph Centerville student councils in joint meeting the student Council of my pleasant High school acted As hosts to the student Council of Tho Centerville High school tuesday at a joint meeting Samuel i Bowen is student Council president of the Centerville High school and Arnold Sperfslage is mph i student Council president. Advisors of the Host school Are principal George Stanley and miss Helen Hallowell or Joe Nelson i formerly Elf pleasant and mrs. I Lillian b Howry Are the Center Tsitir advisors j i lie schedule of events for the j Day b Gan with luncheon served at la to m lie school cafeteria to a group of approximately thirty i Canter org ans and seventeen it j pleasant High school students including Elsa p Irv amen an honorary member of tin4 Council a Buzz session at 113s a in was followed by entertainment in the auditorium at 12 45 . At i pm. Supt Cottrell took the group on a tour of the new gymnasium addition to the High school at 1 30 . Reports were Given of the Buzz sessions and were concluded with a summary of the Days activities adjournment was at 2 30 . Been allowing payment of taxes by instalments Sioux City. Ins a Woodbury county sheriff e. L. Lunde of Sioux moment in every persons i City said today that he had been when the ambition of youth j allowing county residents to pay Back state income taxes on the Quot instalment plan for 20 years Quot a report that the tax commission had installed such a plan Drew a storm of denials tuesday. The state director of income taxes George j Eischeid said it was not True be i cause there was no provision in the Law for such a payment plan. However Lunde told International news service that he had been accepting time payments Quot on his own Quot since he took office in 1938. He said the tax commission a crush wave of revolt Ike sees no present need for emergency tax Cut Washington ins president Eisenhower said today he sees no present need for an emergency tax Cut to tight the recession Tho president told his news conference that ii question of reducing taxis ii a Means of fighting the business slump remains under continuing study by the administration. But lie added that lie see real ground for Hope thai one it get these Days and he said he would not try and predict just when there will be an upgrade in tin4 Economy clarify penalties gangs because it believes that it is not loved it tin4 family is Rich the situation can indeed become a horror tor not Only the child but bottlers and nurses and governesses become involved in family politics and in All tile messiness of lies and tricks and betrayals. Old age should be Sublime and tor an Liged Parent there can be no better Reward than respect and love and the peace of mind that can Only come from the knowledge that one is still wanted. There comes a moment in every life Hie excitement of achievement the Competition for place have run their course to some this moment comes Early in tragic disappointment to others it comes in the glory of Success that Man is Wisest who counts his blessings As Lotte Lehmann does hers and who gives Way to the facts of life that Man is in i deed foolish who never recognizes i that for the Grey Beard it is Best to watch the youngsters learn by making their own mistakes in j their own Way. Some age Grace-1 fully some find their last years a self designed imprisonment of the spirit copyright. 1158. King features Syndicate inc or. Eisenhower was asked whether he thought a tax Cut should be ruled out lit lug lit of yesterdays employment unemployment statistics which he said indicated i a m Mihir no Vinu St itt Uit feh omm Insione runs 1 b own to d n clarified the penalties Whit a might i a a ult undo the in w Quot Point Stem for a ruin 4 tickets Richan Anda 01 faults equipment j tickets violations of tin4 Law Call foe penalties of two Points Low ird i a maximum ten Point total Bel Ore a Driver s License is us Pended by it a n said t Iii two p ants i a i faulty equipment in warning to i St i u i where t he violation is hour Lons ordeal for Havana Mil is mini Soi ois i s w ill sing w Ith hit i Aika College a Cappella tin Roll in at tin4 Iowa Wesleyan choir who ate on then Spring conc in a 4bvterian Church member Whit Quot stowing Down Quot of the business decline. The chief executive replied that he had seen no figures that would bring the Tux rut Issue to a critical Point and require a decision at the moment. A asked How the american people could Best help combat tin4 recession lie president tersely replied in one word buy. When he was asked what they should buy. He again used one word anything. But when laughter died Down he was reminded that Treasury Secretary Robert b Anderson had advocated that the american people be Thrifty and invest their Money in savings Bonds or Eisenhower said he did not mean the Public should be careless in buying. The Lief executive said he personally thinks the american people have been just a bit disenchanted about some things chucked Down their throats by some manufacturers. Into the Sun Ned flagrant would be taken pm Rwy de Salton in determining length of Lime a License will by Pended under the new system he Aid a numb of Sis h ticket., would not in i it wait a a for a opt a Union even to Lough enough Point. Might be acc Annu lated to reach the maximum however Brown of that it a drivel got the ten Point total on other Cha be and had some of the two Point de-1 mein. That fact would be taken i info consideration in determining tin length of the us pension he pointed out that some mime mechanical and equipment troubles such to binned oui headlights i Nugh occur fairly frequently t it the same Driver but that they would net alone result in suspension of ids License. Indicates . Might All Dit further Tesla washing to Esse n Bowel ser Toush con i ins. Said today adet tiding i Calden he w ill u s no he declared that if these companies a and he said he did not want to mention any names would Wake up and give the Public what patiently had approved of it be up want business would improve cause we got the Money Quot and com j or Eisenhower was in a cheerful Mission agents know of the plan. Mood through most however the Woodbury county news conference denounce delay in Case i tests when Lon lists Tell him i they have perfected the weapon i necessary Fot America s defense. I the chief executive told his news conference that the u 8 would take such Adion unilaterally irrespective of russians announcement ii a nuclear test suspension i he atm of the upcoming i1 s tests in the Pacific is to perfect so called Quot clean Quot the in o n u c 11 a r bombs Small technical atomic weapon for military defense and u nucleic defense against russians intercontinental missile threat the president did not indicate when As a matter of timing the n la might Cousin Sci calling off further tests of hts Loveless is concerned about delinquents Oskaloosa ans Iowa gov. Herschel c. Loveles thinks the state t Quot failing in the Job r f rehabilitating Young Loveless said ill a speech at Oskaloosa that recent checks showed Tbs out of the lad Loo offenders committed to the b Yso training school at Eldora. 31 were returnees. He said National probation authorities consider a returnee rate a a Zeilous slated that the 31 percent reported at Eldora was a four percent increase Over figures he received Only official said that if the tax depart Mut made demands for immediate full payment the order had to be obeyed by the taxpayer. He claimed that he was Quot not doing so much of the part payment Strong now and admitted that there a Are j a very few Quot who pay Tho state Ini come tax on an instalment basis i now in the county. Or pointed out that All bookkeeping on the regular payments was done by his staff. J he said tin action was Only aimed at Quot making payment easier for the reports yesterday said some 120 Woodbury county tax payers were making the time payments i Eischeid and tax commission chairman Leon Miller said they 15 percent Clatl no quarrel with sheriff Lunde and then on he a Der of collection pay ments but wanted to make it Clear that it was not the policy of the commission to encourage Quot instalment they said they had no Prear Des Moines. Ins the Iowa supreme court handed Down 12 decisions today one of them a scathing denunciation of a seven year delay in settlement of a Chic Ken sexing suit Justice King Thompson <1 Cedat in As Many weeks j wrote the de tsum which called the suit a Quot veritable him Van Winkle which slumbered so Lour Iii some neglected file or forgotten Pigeon Hole that any rights the Appellant May have had have been lost. By Hie passing veal the courts opinion said the High tribunal could do nothing in the Case because of the delay the ease was origin a i in tiled on Dee 27, 1950 by 8. John nit la of Lansdale Dolivo Bushio ,. Iii american Chick sexing Assoria but he bristled at questions about congressional opposition to his Pentagon reorganization plan. The president appearing incensed said he did not care How or How numerous these opponents Are. He said lie will get on radio and television As often As the networks will allow him until the american people understand that the Pentagon shakeup involves their pocketbooks and their safety. Death takes Eva i. Anderson lion kudu against or my i Jack Quot two or three months Loveless said the main problem in the correctional Field is Reha Bill j ranged agreement with Tho sheriff rating As Many As possible con Thal such collections could be made evicted delinquents into useful and a that Aliner and pointed out Law abiding citizens he said that that the Law requires full payment was the Job of parole and Proba 0,1 demand lion agents and ultimately of the entire Community. Loveless said one cause of the increase in second timers could be the need for More parole and probation personnel a situation which was partly remedied when the Board of control recently added two juvenile parole agents to the three already on the staff. Arrested on . Charge Louis Nelson Berthiaune 43, Clinton was arrested by City police and the Highway patrol in tin4 North part of it. Pleasant at 6 30 . Tuesday and charged with operating a motor vehicle while he was intoxicated. I Berthiaune waived preliminary course at kiwanis Hcan Quot a Justice Rudoph Eck a demonstrate in fair society of multiple marriages old age can be trying indeed when an older Man finds himself surrounded by children of f Vera mothers. This situation is difficult enough in polygamous ? a a defies where the various wives play household politics to Advance their children. We do not hive harems nor even a substitute for them but we permit lives to be disturbed and distorted by multiple marriages in which the children really become the masters of the parents who often allow themselves to become t subject to juvenile blackmail be a of Peoria 111., Claude Bowen and Lieving that the love of a child can Pat Kelly of Iowa City. About 55 i be bought by things not recognize were in attendance ing that the child can thus be j guests at the meeting corrupted by the Parent. If such a family is poor life can become very hard on All parties for the child a demands cannot be three representatives of the Dale Carnegie Public relations school gave a demonstration of the course at the regular meeting of kiwanis monday night. Conducting the demonstration were Bob Hankins court and was bound Over to the i grand jury under $355 Bond. He is in the Bounty jail in lieu of the Bond mrs Eva i Anderson died at her i Home at 402 North Van Buren St i at 7 pm. Tuesday. She was born july 25, 13 57 in it. Pleasant the j daughter of Howard and Eleanor Lyon it Carter. On january 4, 1888 she was married to Alfred n. Anderson Iii i pleasant who died july 7, 194 5. They were the parents of Lorn sons and one daughter Claude l Anderson of Stockport Floyd m Anderson of Woodland Calif. I Keith i Anderson of Tucson Aux and mis. Hazel a Coltrane i of Stockport. One son John is predeceased also surviving Are eight grandchildren thirteen great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Five Sisters and three Brothers and her parents preceded her in death. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge. Die w r Cand the first methodist Church. Services will be held at the Weir cookes funeral Home at 2 pan Friday april la. Or. E. A Mathews. Associate pastor of first methodist Church will officiate in ferment w ill be in Forest Home i cemetery. Dag completes his first term Bonds forfeited guests at the meeting were Harold Van soc guest of Marvin Van soc Kent Hills student at the University of Iowa and or Sigmund Milke of the mental health met and the child then goes to the Institute. United nations n. A ins a Dag Hammarskjold completed his first term today As u. N Secretary general having guided the world organization through five turbulent years highlighted by the twin Middle East and hungarian crises of 1956. The Bonds posted by two motorists Given summons for violating the night time Speed limit last month have been forfeited in Justice George Means court. Mark e Lintz Riverside forfeited a $21 Bond and Gary Dean Roberts Burlington a $13 Bond. Quot press woman Quot quotes mrs. Cochran excerpts from a native writing article that Pearl Cochran gave before the my pleasant scribble club in february a a in th4 March april 1958 "till4 press woman. Publication of the National federation of press women of which i Cochran r a member under the heading Quot quoting Pearl Cochrane appear these passages i taken from the article one need not sit on a Bandi in a Union station to realize How j silly funny people Are or can i be. A Leporter knows mex 1 As a a tingly it an Tauke iou. How i amazingly witty and How utterly silly some people can Meta. Generally peaking Ai much More courteous than women when answering the Telephone Quot Lucky is the girl who a i j year or two of office work before Mariac. She is much More Likely to be understanding and far i Likely to be i Haven t alway been to. Era Utas newspaper work Ive mad me. Feature Width g has unearthed a mrow of sympathy i n j people of other countries tha i did i not know i a sometimes i have Felt that i a might be losing my identity to ,. Column. More people know a string j of pearls and like it than kilo quote Quot. Suffrage in Iowa the suffrage movement began in Iowa in 1854-5, when Frances Dana Gage of Ohio and Amelia bloom4 of Council Bluffs lectured on the abject. Commits suicide after to show i Ondon 1 ins a thud English woman has Akin Hei own life of Tea a lung i controversial by cd television medical series which shows actual us gleam operation be my pc rat tim cd in London Hospital May mein 43, and a Bride to be. Watched a serious heart operation on the program entitled your life i in their hands Quot thro weeks by fore i was to in i tor a Hospital t it Linden tilt4 a to i Oprial Ion she a Lei committed suicide by inhaling Gas at an inquest yesterday Hei it Ici testified that ii 4 had tried to of Iliade lid not i Quot look a Ile p i Glim tie Vorom Aid Quot it is rid it til i 4 Quot it the pig am led toll Quot death Quot last week. Walker Billows said ii an inquest that lie thought i wifi irent 30, a Sari lieu Oil be Ca use the medical program had preyed on her mind Here Friday. Ainu slut 7 30 pm choir and the women s Choli of a Liege Chapel members of Hie it tout will la4 guests of first Iii the c it film Star divorces husband i Hollywood ins shaped Ulm states the i Willi me. Has divorced mid husband of 13 veal a Busher i Man Ben it it age after testifying they lived on sides of the i clock Idle 34 Yeai old tonne swim fining Champion told Superior judge Orlando la Rhodes yesterday that she became increasingly ill Quot be cause Gage 42, Quot liked to stay up most of the night Quot but that site had to la up i Ary to care for the children and their needs Quot me. Williams aul she likes to get Home it a reasonable hour and i response to a question said lie considered Midnight "nuu, on Tho Othet hand she said. Gage liked to stay out until 4 or it am a throughout our Man tilt4 allies was granted custody of the couples three children. Yale freshman a Little red faced new unveil Conn. Ins a Yale freshman is still a Little re faced today when he thinks of the Cir Culus a Liers under which he met tonner president Harry s Truman the indent a fast asleep Over ills Book sit the bleat i when he fell himself being gently rocked awake when lie looked up to see who had disturbed his slurp Beirna i 11 unum face to face thai the Way f like to see them study Truman quipped that 73-veal old sex president was touring Yale at the Start of his Lime Day visit a a Chubb fellow Havana. Ins Fidel Castro s hovering revolution erupted briefly in Havana today with the crackle it gunfire and Small tires and the Tumble of Ini Noi bombings. An undetermined number of persons were reported killed and wounded one wild Rumor placed the num bet of dead at 50, but there was no official confirmation. A Large number of cubans were arrested by president Fulge Neto Batista s police. Alter about ail hour the gunfire died Down civilians kept off thestreet., a i he rebels called tor a general strike and Many frightened cubans left Early tot lunch and remained it Home. The police armed we ii Tommy guns moved in quickly to crush tile i tier of revolt that swept into h a \ a u a from rebel menaced on Tutti province hundreds of Miles to the East i for mole than an hour Havana i the once Gay Caribbean gambling i playground had a Nightmare i Small bombs exploded in various i parts of the City the rebels planted them in manholes knocking out j Power lines. Bonfires were started at key intersections apparently to signal the fart of the outbreaks designed to Force Bat Isla to quit # j apparently the rebel plan was to stage a series of hit run attacks i ti4 worst of the violence seemed to he entered on the water front area and at a sporting goods shop at in cadere.1, Street in downtown Havana. J rebels attacked the shop seizing i ammunition Pollee apparently alerted tor such an outbreak i rushed into the downtown area and i info approaches leading to the pics Dentai Palace the police announced that the rebels who attacked the sporting goods is lop were other reports said three persons i were killed in this skirmish. E Iglus persons were report ted 1 killed in another clash on the water front shortly before noon. Fined $12 for nigh speeding 563 fail Drivers test three week earlier i Btu bldg git Edie watching it Ca tired program Doenni Aid mrs by Bider did Hay cancer Blini la Cain by i inf Juba Bern fined $12 Aud cwt.-, in Justice Rudolph re keys court Quot ii a charge til violating the nighttime Speed limit lit Wacl Al i of 72 by the state peed analyser operated by the Highway patrol East of town m tidily night. I Cain wms is Iso a Quot used with in a Edna i paints. After a a a a to give concert not at inc Chapel present Grant s g Andron Gold medal washing1 in ins nearly 95 vein ago Ulysses s Grant received the surrender i Vicksburg from Confederate Gen. John c Pemberton last night the grandson of Grant received a Gold medal from the grandson of Pemberton in a spirit of harmonious Amity on the eve of Appomattox John c Pemberton Iii presented to ulysies s Grant Iii the District of Columbia civil War round table Gold medal award Quot for his achievements in strengthening the ties of our Union a a Pemberton a name a of the Only Confederate general to come in in the North is a new York attorney Grants grandson is presently serving As chairman of a special government commission making plans for a civil War Centennial observant school Al the first Book on Iowa the fir t rink about Iowa was written Bill Albert m. Do and printed by Henry s Tanner in Philadelphia in 1836. Til National income increased about 6 from 1955 to 1956 Rhemi pleasant High j band will give a concert weekly a Seine la at Tho Iowa Westley i Phiip it it a thursday at to 15 a tin pubic is invited Low is i Kim i to l. In ii Ding Iowa Sti St in Story building the second is very House in Des m us. Was built in 1887 the first distance Telephone Call was mad in 1884 Between Telephone Branch managers in new York and Boston memorial bios Rita notes admitted tuesday Chester Jamison a j Viii Hood admitted wednesday v f Oyd Norton Roger Rose. Dismiss of tuesday mrs William Winkler dismissed wednesday mrs Merle Massey. Rick Johnson. Mrs Mae Chewer mrs i Ecru Ben Ber of Rome Perry Mendenhall mrs. Burt Lamm and baby girl. Richard Sutter be. Mrs Harry Conner. Roderick White. Births mgt and mrs Glen link of new London Are the parents of a baby boy born at 2 44 a in wednesday. Dot mollies ins a the state safety department said today that 1,500 iowans have taken the now written Drivers License test with 38 percent falling the new test was introduced april i and 563 applicant have Quot flunked since then. There was a 21 percent average rate of failure with the old written in t previously used by the safety i department according to Clifford i Swanson director of research. He said that an experimental test used by the department several i months ago had a 70 percent Date a of failure. The new test was developed Over period of several months by a a Pei i 1 committee appointed by acting state safety commissioner Brown the test contains 80 statements on Iowa traffic Laws 60 of them Correct. An applicant must Check at least 17 of the 20 incorrect statements in order to pass. Brown said the test results will be sent to i a state teachers College at Cedar Falls for analysis. Til test was written by or. H. M. Silvey. Director of research and testing services at College. Celebrates seventh birthday Tommy Sadler son of or. And mrs Robert Sadler celebrated his seventh birthday by giving a party i Friday afternoon april 4th. Guests were from his first Grade class at or. High. After Tommy opened his gifts. J games were played indoors and later everyone enjoyed playing Ball j outside. Refreshments were served by j Jane and sue Sadler to the following boys Bill Bowers. Marty Bol Ier Scott Mckenzie Curt Moxley j Tommy Traut Brian Wilson Billy and Timmy Sadler

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