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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 13, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 87 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening april in. Ugh showers these Days by George e. Sokolsky silo Ini t Sou i ions one of the current anger of our people is the income tax which unquestionably takes too much of each individual earnings. Only the very Rich and the Well serviced by lawyers and accountants can afford to engage in what Are called a avoid dances. However everybody tries to chisel which has Hie moral effect of making us a nation of thieves. What precisely 1 to it to Dole about it we Pend $46,000,000,000 on War alone we spend about $5,000,000,000 a yet a on veterans pen. Ions hospitalization and other welfare costs we have an interest charge of about $9,000,000,000 a year. Then there Arr All the other costs of government. It has been suggested that we drop the income tax and try some other form of taxation. But who is in favor of dropping the costs of government that he wants supported for instance the department of defense is abolishing obsolete air Fields done to abolish anything in my District no matter How useless death to match . Funds first Dos Moines up Assurance that adequate Money will be i available to match Federal funds lot the interstate Highway system was built into lit Hoad use fund he i al allocation formula by the leva Senate today. The upper chamber by a vote of silting from left Don Kiln. Korea mrs. Ilsy Hail Maili 41. Adopted a Rute distribution standing a a a a it to son left Anil Hill Koh both from Korea. Fukuhara Japan Anil Hung a Lee Korea. Foreign students Honor mrs. Hall formula which gives 48 Poi cent to tin primary Highway system 40 per i be j just like Bein m it in own Quot 111 to counties for secondary and death takes it. Union woman Home whenever we an Vuth a if licit u dinner of Chine e farm of Mark t roads and 12 per cult to counties for secondary and a group of friends and the korean and japanese students at a b Dutiful to in and japanese foods a. Hirm to Market roads Ana 12 per i i pared and served by the Sui in to cities and towns. Dents tiny also presented her with however before any of the Money Corsage and a framed is distributed. Christ nude in Kona. Taken off to enough would be top Quot to match fed in mass Feii Grain pm Ltd i Only program a state a so officials Ami county officials conferred Herr preceding a county wide meeting at tile Iowa Wesleyan Chapel on the emergency farm program tor this year. Shown Are from left county chairman Glenn Campbell state chairman Fred la. . County manager Helen Moore and state administrator James Croghan. Hall on mrs. Hall Hooch cd. Many Oiler gifts or i funds t0t hip interstate Sysun. At it dinner pictures j his was estimated to be Between tending Iowa Wesleyan College met Justun of now along coma Thow who Calid la h a a a a of my our monetary astern a a awln�e.-8atwd>y apr a a a help Sci. A. Incl Cal is or ins a col Rex it no Lent. 111 brat. Her birthday. Don Gulf Kim i were taken. A f a a 1 a St a has this 0j Korea and m be Adams of Bur those who Enjo cd the Day g Iling ton. Who in Side with hts Hall addition to mrs Ila and the hosts i interstate highways and the Federal. I am having a hard urn we a h05l�?z i were drat. Saw of my Hap lit clan. >2 and $3 million. Tile state puts up. Only ten per cent of the Cost of Rev. Stout named director of methodist stewardship and finance trying to convince our intellectual ignoramuses How dangerous they Are to our free institutions which it be elate she is a kind i Mary Everts of it plea ant. Wil they so vociferously pretend to be t for. Tire communists do not have . A Thorn a arc ask int n it of the Rev Oil Cit u and loves us As her to do very much to undermine any nation s Economy which is based upon the swindling nature of its Money system. Quot too Iii the fir to place tile Public an i private debt Are different. Much of tile private debt in this country has to do with instalment buying which is a it thud of paying for a commodity while using it. For instance a Man buys a car on time. He uses that car while he is paying for it. If he had to postpone buying the car until he had the Cash in his . He might not have the of that car for 18 months or two years in a word far away from our own country. All from Korea Fukuhara of Japan. And m i c h i governor it pays to i it or cent. According to Doug in Kim. Quot Wejs Lance a d a in s of Burlington. Be allocation to cities and towns Stout Pat tor of tin first or Tho cell mrs. Hall our american grand Cathie Ihmann of ii re 111. Lar Madr 011 a strict population its Church in i pleasant to a set a staff position with a National Board own Ham Koh John son Chung a Lee efforts 10 distribute tile counties 0f tile met Hod i t churn a an share on a strict area basis were de j noun al Widm Day night treated and the allocation was left taif. 4i- ,. A old minister will heat the present basis of go per cent Tom Ltd. Motor of thl. Department need and 40 per cent arca. Of St. Ward hip Ai i finance of the i by Tore the final vote which sent Church general Board of Lay the measure to the House tile sen activities with offices at 704 Rush i ate beat Down three amendments Street. Chimo aimed at changing the allocation announcement of his appoint system for secondary roads. M,.nl we madly luf up Scopal Leader. By in p f Corald Ensley of Des Moines head of the Church s j Iowa Ara. And o Robert. May Field of Chicago general Secretary of tire braid Rev Stout made his official announcement to the quarterly conference of tin local Church wednesday evening. Ile will fill a vacancy left when or Edwin a Briggs a. Promoted prop., daughter of Daniel and Litcy my Quot a Quot Quot it to a Cui Ive arc retard of the Board s new created Section on stewardship and finance. Senate begins floor fight on Kennedy wage proposals Washington up Tim Senate began a showdown floor fight today Over president in Nedy s minimum wage pre pos Ais. South in and Republican conservatives joined forces in an Effort to trim the legislation. S i. Barry Coldwater it an launched the first Goh attack on the Bill he the increased minimum and expanded coverage v commended by the Isira i mrs. Alice Messer taken by death Hie administration Calls for boosting tie tion would a do harm to the in mrs. Alice May Messer 83, of employed viola11 rights and Rome died wednesday evening 111 a a 5 111 c j Hurt in killed. Negro and Young april 12, at memorial Hospital minimum workers she w As born april 2, 187b, the instalment buying is an ingenious i wage from $1 an hour toll 45 Xii Kennedy a eked device which makes it possible to j Airn admin us were offered As soon u by sen. Pet Mcnamara Man Collins. She was married in Ive on a higher Standard of life is the perhaps on annual income while Bate. Being paid weekly. It also creates sen. Richard b. Russell. A a. More work stimulate Man fac Leader of the Southern bloc. Of Turing sales. Homes purchased feted a substitute which would million new workers Russell want children who survive on mortgages Are economically Block Extension of the fed Ralto eliminate. So a. Lottie of under Titan paying rent. The wage mortgage is of course a debt but 4 1 million translate it rent and the end proposed under tile administration by tile House recently result is that the Home is owned Bill. I tidally limited form. Whereas after paying rent one still or mini Quot i be in an tall \ it Union died wed i be div morning april it. At the Shelton nursing Rome in new Lon j Don where she had been a patient for Lour month. Re War born june a 1875 it Zanesville Ohio she was married in Monmouth 111, to William outlier St it i,-., who died eel 28, 1234 i she was a member of the it. Union methodist Church surviving Are a daughter mrs. Ethel Hank of Wapello and a oui Sims Leroy Archt and Raymond Stotts of it Union Ana Cia retie 3 i Stotts of Alameda. Calif. Twenty grandchildren and nine great grandchildren also survive a brother Joseph Anjal predeceased her. Fun Rad services for mrs Stotts will be hell saturday of 10 30 . A the Elliott Chapel in new London. I he Rev. Roy Hoover will officiate. State Calls i i for Gallows for Brown re. Gilbert Stout Bolas called up tor do d-ltfich., would provide gradual it. Pleasant on july 4, 18% to increases to 25 for 22 3 million Josy Messer who died in 1347. Worker.-, already covered by the her Parent and a daughter also Law and bring under it the 4.1 predeceased her. Arc mrs Sammons of it. I minimum to approximately i Kennedy forces suffered a Harp pleasant mrs. Frank Dorothy additional work i it a it Back when the Bill was passed Polser 0f Farmington. Mrs. Homer in a dras a nothing of his own. These kinds of debts Are very different from the Public debt Public debt involves the ale of bond., by the government to pay expenses which cannot be met by taxes our enormous current debt of about $286,000,000,000 is a product of five specific episodes world War i. The depression of 1320 to 1338. World storm hits in fast Spring by i ill Dona buffeted the War ii. The korean War and the Bis from the Southern Papaia cold War la is to Sihler to argue that All the. Ltd events were historical errors. I he wars. However did occur and Cost lives and Money. Tile expended lives Are buried and we shed a tear Over them. The cast of the Money continues on it is possible to induce the Deb by an automatic device that is to devalue the Dollar to make it Worth Avlo cents. By that mean. We make Tho Bonds wort ii one tenth of the values we paid for them this has been done by governments in history. We used to have a currency that was a not Worth a i wonder if our Friend in Washington would like the Chian to new England today with heavy Snow lashing Rains and heavy tides. The wide ranging storm dumped 6 to to inches of. Now across the mountains of we. Virginia and Pennsylvania and pounded the new York metropolitan orca to ii75-Muc-an-hour wind gusts and a flooding downpour. Inland and Northern new England residents braced Lur at least g inches of now. A Hie heavy Snow Ruby Adams of Olds Basil pcs scr of Fairfield Max a scr of Farmington Allen Messer of Cairo mo., Noel mess or of Lockridge and Ralph Messer of Rome. She is also survived by 27 grandchildren. 32 great grandchildren five great great grandchildren and five Brothers and Sisters. They Are Harry col old Greenwich Conn. 1 us of Oregon Milo Collins of families were driven Douds mrs. Lonnie Wymer of Ottumwa. Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson of Burlington and Helen Collins of Nebraska. Funeral services for mrs. Messer will be held saturday at 2 . At lie Wen cookes funeral Home special significance attaches to the Field of St Wardship because of Hie prominent it is receiving in the current emphases in the de nomination wid program. The Board s Steward hip program a been rapidly expanding in recon years. Tile Highway commission s 5 to i decision to route 218 through East i. Pleasant a announced some weeks ago has met with various reactions most of them Adverse apparently. Residents in the area who protested tile routing Are vocal about. Tile failure to heed their objections tot to the student body of Iowa Many others arc sympathetic to of. College i their viewpoint. H a Vilt a president of Simp on on the Oiler hand some persons College at Indianola Iowa from j Are expressing their views that 13 2 to 1354, directing its program once the Highway is built on the of finance and Public relation. I routing it will not be As bad As was minister of the first Metho anticipated. D f Church Jefferson from 1954 to the plan of the Highway com-196�?�. Mission As announced earlier is to a bring the new Highway from near Council ruffs Iowa up the prosecution today demanded Dath on the Gallows for Charles nor Brown railing the Blick ii a cd on / of gunman a a Wanton cold blooded vicious m ureter pro Iti tor Peter j. Peters closed tar. Tat c s Case with a vigorous i it of the defense a plea to spare the life of the 28-year-old defendant. The Case was to go to the jury at 2 p. Rn., after instructions by District judge Bennett cull . Peters pacing before the jury waived the 38-caliber pistol taken from Brown following the murder f b 22 ii Alvin e Koch sen 64, Walnut Iowa. Quot this defendant and his companion intended to kill Alvin Koehr sen the minute they forced interment a ill he in Kirkwood i 10 1 was car d. Quot and How did they kill him a a he pressed the pistol to his Sidt As he related testimony of a chemist who All eight bullets which struck Koehrsen were fired from gun barrels pressed against his head and Side. A every time this gun jerked in his hand he pulled the trigger again Quot the prosecutor . Too he put on Koehrsen s Felt hat and indicated Quot Ith the gun How a Bullet was fired through the hat by in into Koehrsen supper Cheek. The defendant at no time he Quot tells you he is not guilty of this crime. He admits that he is guilty by his refusal to deny referring to the defense a readings from various authors decrying the death penalty Peters Quot sociologists have always this. They would to you judge the Law but we can to judge the Law. We Don t make the Law duty is to the citizens of this country Quot Peters . Quot one of our very Fine citizens is dead. It could have been you. Cemetery Kirkwood 111. Friends May Call at the Elliot Cha j i inn a afternoon and evening. Reactions to 218 decision warnings wore posted less than i 24 hours after gov Wesley Powell j and new Hampshire s executive i Council contracted f or 21.000 tons i o Rock Salt a for next Winter. Police a i u Here 25 i from then Homes by rampaging seas called the storm Quot worse than Hurricane j Quot by virtue of the heinous Ness of or has or rvs a on the Comini Ion the intersection with 125 to High i this crime i to you that soon to i id service Nix finance of Way 34 under the present program. I Cie to demands imposition of the a native of Kau sa., Rev. Burnt j the South Iowa annual conference the remainder of hic new routing j Pesi amp Ltd of a. Graduated from the i diversity j Lor the a t eight year and has North to rejoin present 218 is not Brown s Mother mrs. Pauline Brown Bedford ind., wept quietly As Peters ended his statement. Of Wichita in that stall with a been a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan in Hie five year program at pres i Bachelor of arts degree in 1930. He College for four years. Recently he ent. Majored in sociology and business Basl it on an advisor on methodist Twe have been some threats of j administration. He rec Iyad a Bach Church financial affairs nationally seeking an injunction in an Effort defense attorney Philip j. Will i clot of divinity do Etc it from Garrett and in. Made Fri que it t a to to prevent the following of the told the jury they must decide biblical instil it. Evanston 111, in conf Rem and comm it tics it Sions. Routing As approved. Whether 11943. He Imus Boon National Ort 1 he a been Active in the Leader Ali cats will be carried through hip Community clan drives has not been made definite. E has Boon National pc i i Dent of Tho Garrett alumni a. Sofia t Ion during Tho past year. And in civic Gale like winds drove the Ocean Waters 3 to 4 feet above Normal affairs i h la Bren pastor of the j v t to it a i re i methodist Church in it pleasant he with or Stout and Nice 1957. In addition to serving time , will have Tho Community the Church in Evan ton in. Hie Cit in rebuild damaged a e. Church with the Rev. James Troxel pastor High tide a1 or much it the Wert of first Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in White Oak Era Connecticut Shoreline. Amphibious ducks carried threatened families to safety at Fairfield and evacuations also were reported at Cedar Beach and Point Beach in Milford. / in Tery. Eichmann beginning to fret county teachers hear address by or. Evil meth at dinner meeting no a a Token Rea Lien Niento Sheldon school District paid $71,436.90 a the Jungim it of exc i Ltd Nee j United states to print so much was tile topic for an add. It in or. Lev is introduced by Riel lard paper Money that our Dollar is j. Richard whim., form by of it la pm Cipal of Junior Rig Henry county at a dinner to Ting of the Henry Cornu Jerusalem up a Adolf a Ehmann is beginning to fret. Two solid Days of Legal oratory words which lie probably does no to i comprehend but which might mean life or death to him have made him n Rivous and fidgety. They did no to operate this Way in i t Moines 1 upi1 att a in. Evan i bul lira n ruled that. A e reap pc i Lonnen i of the Iowa snap to Comet Alii inequalities of Ion my t be enacted by the Hurunt of the legislature a Mere a it i a Etui Lent of i districts or min in al a us to it a Holcli did a t Corr it 1 volunteers and others have i joined in rebuilding the St Johns k. Churell on West Henry at i Jackson which was badly dam aged by fire a few months ago. The roof pitch of Tho historic Dee Moines up a the Shel i budding was lowered in the recon Community school District has budding. The work on tile project been paid $71,426.90 from the state advanced i Quot wow him i i a. He him la a a sinking fund for Public deposits to it of r its lots resulting from tile 22 million embezzlement that ruined the Sheldon National Bank state treasurer m. L. Abl a a in son today til i ii a Lis net a$81,442.40 r t. De to it win n u it Bank was forced min Lif i motion Las january after whether a Legal killing will prevent other illegal a punishment is a difficult mat of i Quot will on Quot you have been a. Bed to judge someone you done to know. One of life failures. A there is no Law in Iowa which orders the death penalty Quot Willson . Quot tile state does not take this responsibility. The responsibility is directly upon the assistant cashier. Mrs. Burnie any existing inequalities map it wort i to cents or nothing. W could pay off our debt overnight by j this Means. In it. Pleasant and vice president sup j. I of the association teachers Asj Donald Young Adolf Hitler Quot is corps you is in order and sol sonic action. Porn on in would not Corutin i compliance with the institution of i Geiger admitted the Mammoth involved verdicts handed Down in Law courts Long m cond option in a swi it a its on at St. Michael s ago and far away the s4 bit onal reapportionment is All this is necessary Fop the prop al Ltd 1 a of a i i it ave viability of or administration of Justice but 14 alignment. It s Tough going for a Layman in i schooled in the intricacies of Law Jujj \ sch la cd _ embezzlement. Here the voices drone on about such prior nil a1 liar. A a Lum m blactatonc�?T5 local Olin a Hultman i dirt div 0 0 0 soc Atkin at the masonic rooms inn in i. Pat. Ant and i sdent, Nie Starics and 1____��?- the attorney Gen Tai in ii. to Ncv us t or there is a simpler Way con wed Day evening. I sided and introduce d Gene can pass an act repudiating or. Wilmeth of the department Isaacs n. It pleasant schools Art the debt. We owe nothing to any of Aetiology and anthropology at instructor who play to two classical let by in any farm of currency the state University of Iowa Tole numbers on the piano who bought the Bonds can go the teachers Quot the thing we need a the busied s is. Ion. V. Ii Cliar themselves. Foreigners and to work for constantly is to up Boekelman. Principal at Wayland. Foreign Bank that hold United Grade the general level of the was elect d president for tin a w i and Eichmann is a Legal Layman states securities could then go into education of the population Quot year Floyd of Ming. Principal of bankruptcy and our Friend in the this docs not main Headlam win id. View a preside tit Florence new London to go i state of Washington could shout nor us the lit an award of a by Williams of the old. S. Bool scape i Quot to rec cheers Quot Loving cup for winning he com tary Roger Maxwell of Wayland i no no economic Short cuts Are rented it s the everyday Pec school treasurer supt possible. We have assumed these tabular that get. The thing done Forman kit. Pleasant. I obligations for our own National that needs to by done. Delegat and supt Francis Council wednesday night april 5,1 fill a vacancy the position former Cou 1 a purposes and the people elected the teat Lier sometime. Finds in Schuelke. Old.-, alternate the vote was in favor of going Only held by Robert Gib. Or., count j member of Congress who in a classes very talented i Ople along i special guests included student. Daylight savings time. Engineer vote License Republican system of government certain lines working with Thorn. From Iowa Wesleyan from it clocks will be turned ahead one other member of la on commission on St april 30 razing of the rectory at St. Misti acid a episcopal Church East we. In. Ton and Adams was tarted tins week that tune which dates Back some do or irs will be replaced who a new re tory. Hic new Rector of tile Church the Rev. Arthur p. Becker and family will reside at 604 East Dies after beating at Fairfield will Steak i of i s a Rev Paul k. Nils or. A congregational chri.-. To a n educational missionary in the near East for almost half a Fairfield Iowa Cpd a Harry my int ire 71, died at the Jefferson county Hospital Early today after being found badly beaten at his Home Here Early wednesday. Authorities two men who were arraigned yesterday in the alleged beating and attempted robbery would be re arraigned later today in connection with the death of Mcintire. The two men being held in the county jail Here Are Donald and Erson 13. Albia and Thomas b. Lewis 27. A transient who had been working at the county Home outside of Fairfield. Lloyd Peterson of North of it Robert new London journal at peasant has been named a member i former chains Gat Century will Peak monday april a meeting of the new London town j of the county zoning commission to or a loan 1111 1 let r Cults 17 at 7 45 pin. At the old congregational Church. For Many years dining teaching career in i Turkey he made egg por boats visits to isolated villages a voted in favor of the various Steps is the fun part of teaching he pleasant Wayland it Union and hour at 2 ., april 30 and will be i Simi arc Max Kauffman Drel j to show movies and minister to i taken. How would our correspond More important is getting the a n w London High schools who sex j turned Back the sunday before Calloway Edgar Hartley c. F Des Moines up it the Iowa both the physical and spiritual it repeal world War i and world general lev i in a Little. This does pet to become teachers. They were school starts on August 27. J Hayes and charts Canby. J House today voted to replace prop needs of the people. His Quot movies War ii How would he repeal the not give the spectacular results Given special recognition As they consequences and casts of the great that Are obtained in a few cases were introduced by their depression just How does one do he had discussed in the early1 advisors police received a Call about 12 30 a in wednesday from neighbors saying they believed that All was not right at the Mcintire Home police answered the Call and found the injured Man unconscious on Bis Hie fit or of is Home an ambulance was called and he a taken to the Hospital. The investigation began at once and within a Short time the two suspects were taken in custody. There is some opposition to hav h. V. Bat r and supervisors l Euy taxes on boats with a one per with-purpos.c&Quot program included Lewis was taken in custody at the these things part of his address different ways copyright 1961. King features a arriving a the judgment of sex Syndicate inc j Ltd he new faculty ing Daylight saving time but it a it. Harlan and Elmer Buncke went edit of list Price License fee which films on agriculture Hygiene travel i thought that since other towns of to Mason City thursday to a i proponents would provide More and the lives of great men. On Walter Gray gave the invocation a the area Are going to be on it a it1 present preceding the excellent meal served would be Best if new London went meeting by the Eastern St v Long with the plan. I Friday. Jefferson county Home wire in was employed and Anderson was for an All Day tri state j y for the county general fund. J these travels or. Lilaoti was some halted by a Road Block at the j uncool zoning at Mason City j the minimum License fee would times accompanied by a doctor or Lions of highways 3u3 and 34 weal be $3. I a nurse. Of Fairfield

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