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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 14, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 80, no. 88 it. Pleasant. Iowa monday Tkv Kunc april ii. 1058 by Carrier 3d per week by mail. $7.50 per year end comes for sputnik ii making plans judge Newell for annual 10 speak 1 a Dogpatch Day i methodist men judge is q new to of the two shattered by rebel blast a Bishop pore Zerante of the Catholic Cathedral of Al Cobre Cuba holds broken bits of a religious statue which was shattered when rebels set off a 3 a ton dynamite blast. Reports reach in g Havana said that Fidel Castro a men burned the Cit it Hall of Al Cobre. Regular army reinforcements were rushed to the town and the rebels scattered to the Hills of Sierra Mue Sua. International these Days by George e. Sokolsky foreign cars the american automobile Industry has cener Auy taken the posh 1011 that ii required no Tariff because it had no Competition com foreign cars. It so completely dominated the american Market which is the world s prime Market for automobiles that it required Little More than advertising to be successful. Nevertheless there have been Over 100 automobile manufacturing companies in the United states of which Only four or five remain i look at a list of the officers of the association of licensed automobile manufacturers in 1911 and they represent the Pierce Arrow the Loc Mobile the Pope not one of which remains in the business today the Packard which was a fancy car sold for As High As $5,7.50. There were plenty of cheap cars to meet every pocket Book. The cheapest and Best looking car was the Ford however the american car is giving the appearance in 1958 of having out priced itself even in the american Market. A commodity is out priced not when accountants statisticians and economists say that it is or it is not but when the consumer decides to look for something else. All sorts of european cars Are being brought into this country. Built in Europe by european taxes but some of them a employing american capital and to a degree. American management let us read the facts about the advertisement of a the unique opel it says that this is a from German skills and German ingenuity Quot this is a a general to j tors ear designed and built in Ger Many Quot and is a sold and serviced in i u. S. Only by authorized Buick Rural teachers attend in service training program Henry county Rural teachers assembled in the office of Joseph s Davis. Henry county Suizu morn Dent of schools at 9 am Friday april 11, Lor an in service training program on the language Art for elementary schools or. Hampton. Language arts specialist Iowa state teachers College told the assembled teachers that children learn most of their language errors from their parents by repetition teachers should try to impress upon students the right use of language so that it will be used instinctively the ability to read write and communicate found turned All other subjects. It. Pleasant merchants Are making plans tor the annual i Dogpatch j Day wednesday april 16th the event has become one i a Rah an j Tiei rated by merchants and us i Turners alike Cash prizes Are Olfred for the Best costume and special prizes Are offered Foi the customers who take advantage of the Many saving opportunities. Mayor Wade Mcbeth is giving the Day a boost with his annual special Dogpatch Day proclamation As t >1-lows proclaim Tion judicial speaker is the time of will Start run heart w Ith those present were Myrtl Schwab Crane Carls Erma Scott j Mildred Neil. Marjorie , Dorothy Bagby. Davida Nicholson Florence Collins Walter Gray Zaida Stanley. Alice Prehm Charlotte Grupe Clara Dunlavy Beryl Rich Genevieve Messer Ethel Mae Schaefer Imogene Hinkle Maryett French Marcia Cammack Rozena Wyse. Rachel Leichty. Laura Hin-1 Kle Helen Rodgers Grant j Hazel Lawrence and Etta Owen. In the afternoon Joseph Davis i a stated that he hoped teachers i would conscientiously prepare their students for Henry county s first my in festival to be held on april 18, 7 30 . In the it. Pleasant Auch Torwirt admission free. To i further explained that teachers l should Brig their students at . For a practice session to last until 5 30 . And that arrangements would be made for caring for these students in the gym. Teachers were further advised to closely supervise their students while at the music festival. Whereas this year when the sap Ning whereas lil Abner will soon be throbbing thoughts of Daisy Mae whereas a yokum will be kicking Sparks out of rocks instead of ice cakes whereas it pleasant Mer 1 chants feel the urge to have a Lun Day that they and their customers can enjoy to get the Spring season j under Way whereas it s time now that All dogs were put on leashes or in j their kennels i hereby proclaim wednesday april 16. 1958 As Dogpatch Day in i it pleasant and Hope that All May enjoy a Day of fun and Fellowship. I Hereunto set my hand. Wade l. Mcbeth. Mayor District will he the at the method us men s meeting t in s Thill Day night j u d g e Newell will speak on t he topic a due processes of Law dolls is an anal of the trial of Christ from a Legal Uund Newell Point and it Lon to current titles and Laws a upon at a will precede the program sea m tickets May to used or single admission tickets May a purchased at the door tor $1 25 die methodist men s organization invites any men who Are interested in hearing this Fine program thursday night. In order to help m planning Toi the meal reservations should be phoned to the methodist Church by tuesday. A it Counselor of pm Basso of Haiti slain Washington it in8> \ newly married haitian Diplomat infuriated Borders recalling him to port Alt Pill be today hot and killed Samuel Devi Rox 52, minister coun Slot of the \ of Haiti a official embassy statement named Andre i 39, lust seer Tat Tel the haitian Diplo Tutt 1c Mission tis the Slayer i after questioning a Withington i Polit e Tou Saint was held ill Ells j Tody of Luc fan in i pending instructions from the Hai j Tian government to whether he Wall be it Unet ulried to u ties lot prosecution. Luthor i id h 10 Sirk Iii Vail not a 11 Utu an Ilerd and i former special t o. The it tint it by Truman will give Curren i Omi Titre Early this week a the Advance pit Liman sent a i1 or Roe Pii silent Harry 6 advisor Charles Murphy pie l fore the House banking and Republican spoke men bonded my ahead to set the stage Lor under International i u Tom. A Diplomat involved in a crime has immunity Srorn arrest unless ins government waives the privilege i the flow of anti administration i Ipa Ganda to follow in the week ahead International sound photo it bands will hive joint concert three die on Iowa roads Speed detectors Points reduce traffic deaths Dos Moines Ink acting state safety commissioner Russ Brown told the executive Council today that a combination of Speed detectors and installation of the a a Point system for erring Drivers has resulted in a Large reduction of traffic deaths. As a result of his testimony i won approval to Purchase nine new radar Speed detectors for the state Highway patrol at a Cost of $1,000 each. There is nothing objectionable or wrong about any of this except that the automobile Industry is1 one that has been hardest hit by it the current depression. Neither i Walter Reuther who runs the in j Dusti y from the labor unions nor american automobile management seems to care anything about the danger of to foreign car invasion which is growing by leaps and Bounds. Reuther is so Busy being a statesman that he is missing the fact that what his workers need j is work not running the democratic party management is set in its ways and undoubtedly is in nerd of a managerial revolution. The Large american automobile companies faced by the necessity of using blocked currencies abroad naturally invested their Money in their own Industry. They took Over european automobile companies. When labor costs and taxes out priced the american automobile in world markets it proved to be very. Good business to manufacture in 1 lower wag and lower tax coun Heap to buy and cheap to run tries for Export purposes. The when it first appeared in America British Ford opel and other a was said that it would never european cars made considerable bet anywhere because it is too Progress in world markets. Now Small for the american figure and russian cars Are coming in priced personality. However it is doing according to local Market Condi surprisingly Well in this Market. Lions and now the tools Royce Queen to the principal Cost in Manu i of cars traditionally Only for Mil factoring an automobile is the la Hon Aires and also traditionally Hor Cost cheaper wages can always l0�King like an ancient dowager defeat higher wives. Particularly if gazing upon plebeians through her the Quality and the styling Are just j Lornette is being made up in form As Good or better Walter Reuther j and shape to look like an american recently came up with a gimmick a Carol program not very profound to by ins three iowans lost their lives in separate traffic accidents Over the weekend raising the 1958 toll to 160 compared with 154 through april 14 last year victims were three year old John Henry Pyle of Cedar rapids 22-year-old Dean William Dempster of Delhi and 19-year-old Dale Lee Buffington of Glenwood. The Pyle boy was killed saturday when he toppled from his grandparents car on Highway 30 near Jefferson while in route to a circus at Sioux City. Dempster was killed yesterday when the motorcycle he planned to sell today crashed head on into a car on a Gravelled Road about two Miles East of Delhi. Buffington met death shortly alter saturday Midnight when his car left Highway 34 East of Glenwood. Overturned several times and landed on top of him Ross e. Koble taken by death Ross e. Koble. 67, veterans Hospital in died at the Iowa City the patrol now has five radar i saturday evening april 12, after machines in use and a a tape machines to Speed of violators. Five so called measure the the beginners and Junior band of the it pleasant schools will present a joint concert monday april 14 at 8 pm in the High school auditorium under the directorship of e 1 Melby there will be no admission charge and the Public is cordially invited to attend. The following program will be Given i lie my pleasant Junior Rand program i beginners band Tunner Ville trolley March Weber Medley arranged Southern roses i Strauss Weber featuring a mys Jerry soloist. Sky rocket March Weber Gold and Stiver Waltz j Lehar. Ii Junior band music Cam i pers March. Akers Redwood overture Cofield psalm 18, Murzell Whitney american Bailor selection Case Peter pan overture j Arr Powers March of the skaters. Polhamus. Members it get the two bands Are beginners band clarinets Ronny Davis Ruth Anne Delucia Susan Gibson Donna Goddard Patricia Mcmurtrey. Mary Lou Marr Carolyn Padrey Richard Price Linda Roth to Ellen sessions. Judy so skirt Donna Van Tuyl Sandra White Barbara Means cornets Nancy Deal Rosalie Miller i be Moore John Moureau Mardell Smith Randy Van Brussel Linda Willis Warren Woepking. Tom Wehr Alto sax Wanda Bachman i Eon Foster Joyce comte Tenor sax Carol Davis William Wikel flutes Cynthia Bowers Jan is Devol trombones Judith Megorden Clark Reed Judith Klopfenstein. Robert ring oboe Del Magnet on Mer phones Grace Galer Robert Seager Carol Traul baritone Sara Hunting percussion Marilyn Burroughs Barbara Hays Susan sheets Judy Shuey Darrel Turner Billy Wilson basses tim the slaying occurred in the presence of several horrified witnesses including Marie Ange Diman. He. An embassy typist and Roget , 52, second Secretary \ third witness Rafael Duluc embassy Doorman a old police that just before the lethal burst of gunfire he heard Toussaint accuse j Debrux of Quot writing bad things i about i an embassy statement said a Samuel Devieux. 52, minister Counselor at the haitian embassy i Foi the past six months was shot and killed this morning by Andie Toussaint 39, first Secretary of the embassy a Toussaint fired three shots from a 38 Caliper Colt detective special revolver which entered the neck and Chest of Devieux who was pronounced dead in the Washington Hospital Center. Quot the shooting took place in de i Cux office at the haitian embassy allegedly As a result of resent mint by Toussaint against Devieux a Ltd sri a Spany Over i recall for embassy i vice j or and mrs blow Iii acres for Angus Moore Al tend Atai neighbor., slowed 40 j acre Ltd ground Foi Angus Moore i afternoon it was a won i Dei Lul feeling and sight to see 19 j tractors with their plows m one Field at one time one never know j How Many friends you have until sickness strike and then they Are always there with a helping hand i Anu and i Nevei can repay them for till kind deed All we it All Sav i i is a thanks and god bless each and eve Yone Quot who e who helped with the plow tug were b b Buffington. Don Carper. J w Andrei on a b lit toil Arthur wallers Gene Robert Oil Roland la tier modes Mallams John Mathew. Jim , Wallet Miller. Robert White Itobi t Burden Marvin Malta is Rex Manning h g Robb Perry Mathews v i jeckle and Marvin Plummer Leslie bar with. International har will form five director districts Leslie Smith who soviet a Moon Dies Over t he Atlantic m. W ins it America s three artificial Earth satellites now have outer spare All to themselves. 1 he soviet Union admitted today that a s dog can Yang sputnik if wide has been streaking around the Earth for More Titan five months finally disintegrated this morning the official news Agency pass indicated the satellite died Over the Atlantic of the coast of Bra in we Tern scientists hours earlier received reports Itiat sputnik ii disintegrated in a Shower of firework Over the Caribbean Russia s first sputnik weighing 181 pounds. Was launched out i 1957 it lasted three months. Sput a k ii which weighed 1.120 pounds. Was rocketed into space nov 3 the u s launched successfully three satellites All of which still Are in orbit. Explorer i weighing 315 pounds went into orbit Jan 31 Vanguard i was launched March 17. It weighs three and in Quarter pounds explorer ii was launched March 5 but fulled to orbit on March 26, explorer Iii a 31-Pounder, was put into orbit i Laika the first canine space traveler died a week or so after sputnik ii was launched the dog was fed mechanically aboard the satellite tags announced that sputnik ii entered the denser atmosphere and began breaking part along its orbit route Early monday the spatial debris was scattered along the route said Tass in a southeasterly direction Over the let or Antilles Brasil and the Atlantic Truman Calls for tax Cut an illness of several months. He was the son of Henry and Cli Mcbeth Wendell brate Mena Boston Koble and was born j Junior band reduce the Cost of the american car but he said nothing about reducing wages or abolishing some of the costly Union restrictions upon automation which Are characteristic of this Industry. The results Are beginning to show look at the cars Roll by. Notice that one that looks different from any car you Are accustomed to it s a Volkswagen a German car. Becoming increasingly popular throughout the world because it is car tit for the pretty girl who is dressed accordingly. Yes. They Are All coming in and the foreign cars have their showrooms on Park Avenue in new York ready for american customers. To compete with american wages and american taxes. And j some of these cars even have j 2 a d 12, 1891 at Liberty Center Iowa. He lived at Osceola Iowa most of his life coming to it. Pleasant m 1942 on february 26, 1919 he was married to Elsie nine at Chariton Iowa. They were the parents of five children. Or. Koble was a Veteran of world War i having served in time u s Navy. He was a member of american legion Post no. 58 of it pleasant and of tiie Bethel Chapel Christian Union Church of Wood bum Iowa surviving Are his wife and four sons and one daughter Merle and i Dale of it. Pleasant Ralph of Zion. 111., Eugene of Dewitt and mrs Paul Wehage of Chariton 11 grandchildren also two Sisters. Mabel Seveins of Perry and Capi Tola Coyle of Osceola. Funeral services will be held at . Tuesday april 15, at the american subsidies foreign Aid programs Well Barnum said it and there can be no doubt that he knew what he was talking about. Copyright 1958, King features Syndicate. Inc i Side services. Through Crane funeral Home tin Rev. E a. Mathews associate pastor of the first methodist Church will officiate interment will be in Forest Home cemetery. The american Le-1 Becea Gion past no. 58 will conduct grave Mary clarinets Jean Register. Jean Olson Frances Hummel Janet me Gorden Cornelia Van Brussel Betty Smith Janice Gisser ret a Cash Paulette Thayer Marilyn Marcus Martha Frary Susan Rockwell Joann Hunting Maycle Jennings. Kaye Raines Sharon Lee oboe Nancy Zickefoose mellophone Rich a r d Mccabe Docie Nesbitt Tenor saxophone Dick Devin Alio saxophones Pat Youngman Carol King Jane Sadler Cheryl Nan Carol Alice Richard Kyle Duane Roth Joyce Don Nolly Mary Jackson baritones Ernest Galer Richard Philpott Jim Vor plough Judy Almond Tommy Bell. Basses Raymond Wilson Kaye Young. Paul Galer cornets Steven Melby Barry Wilson. Nancy Hankins Linda Riepe Michael Knedler Nancee Mcmurtrey Martha Townsend Susie Donald. John Hannah Richard Kye flubs Barbara Taylor. Mar it ret Megorden Susan Scarfi Mary Jensen Elaine Proctor trombones re Rommel Janice Patterson. Rockwell. Nancy Hannum to reception to follow concert a reception in the John Wesley Holland student Union will follow the concert tuesday by Mildred Dilling harpist the musical event is the last of the Fine arts Sera a for 1957-58 honoured guest tuesday will be i the new member who hav joined i the association for tin first Lime these people whose member hip Are Foi the 1958 9 season will at tend and then meet the general i member ship at the reception the j concert is in the Chapel building at 8 15 p in. In the receiving Lin it will be the harpist. Miss Dilong with i David Price president of the Fine arts a relation mrs j Raymond Chadwick wife of the president of Iowa Wesleyan College or Henry Traut View i is Orient of the association. And or Traut miss Helen Hallow i is chairman of the refreshments the table will be decorated by or. Belly Loisteen who teaches Harp at Iowa Wesleyan. Association Board members and Iowa Wesleyan music majors will assist m the to pliable to launch two More u. S. Satellites Washington ins the launch my of two More u s Earth satellites in the next two weeks May give America along Lead Over rus Sia in the number of Man mad a Moons created sofa disclosure that the first full scale Vanguard satellite will be shot skyward about april 24 has followed the unveiling of army plans to another explorer launching also expected late this month. If successful i lie two firings would bring americans total of Earth satellites to five All of them still aloft compared to Only two soviet sputnik unless another russian blast offis conducted soon live in the House on the Plant where the land is were kind enough to it open Lin n Home to help me serve Coffee sandwiches and Rolls to the men when they finished blowing Here is a poem which we think fits in Jusi the Way in Hal about friends i i Iii Dilip smiled and nobody ii nobody i cheered and nobody helped us along h every minute looked after itself and Good things All went to the i Strong if nobody cared just a Little for you Ann nobody thought about me and we All stood alone in the Bat a lie of life wind a dreary old world it would i a Quot. Life is Sweet because of the it tends we be made j and the things Lmh in common we share i we Waid to live on not because of it midges j Blit because of the Jie Ople who care its giving and doing tor someone j else f on that All life s splendor depends and the Joy of the world when it. All added up is found in the making of friends Angus and Eva moot a Washington <in8> sex prod Dent Harry s. Truman today called for a live billion Dollar tax Cut and a Long Range High spending pro i Gram to bring the nation out of a j a very serious recession j the former president told the House banking committee that what the Public lacks is not Confidence but income after taxes. He coupled his Call for lower taxes with a proposal to close a glaring tax loopholes which he said Benefit Quot special privilege taxpayers. To face charge in Lee county 16, new i Melon hot old by authorities int Buck to Keokuk of breaking and in connection with the a tavern in Pilot Grove William of who was being he a has been to lace charge tearing in break in of recently. The Csc was transferred from juvenile court to District court. It. Madison Man Dies Here the stewing committee of the proposed it pleasant area reorganization met wednesday night april 9 with chairman Marvin Hunting presiding reports of committees appointed to report studies of various angles of school reorganization in the it pleasant area were made and acted upon by the steering committee a committee appointed several weeks ago to study possible methods of selecting directors for the propose District made a report of their findings and r e commend a turns the committee composed of Dale Teberg. Chairman Stanley tio Okei Glen scuff and Dennis Klopfenstein recommended one of the four methods prescribed by Law for the elections of directors in Community schools voted after july 4, 1957 u is mandatory one of four methods be chosen and included in any petition for the purpose of calling for a vote on school reorganization the method by the committee would provide Lor the election of live directors. The whole District shall in do i Vird into five director districts. A director shall be elected from each of the five districts by a vote of the electors of the whole District ii was imposed that the territory made up of the my pleasant and Salem service areas be divided in the following manner for the purpose of electing directors the area inside the corporals limits of it pleasant shall con j St Tulc a director area the Rural area shall be divided into four parts by highways 34 and 218 thus making four director Dis trl chs outside of it pleasant in summary the live areas ate As follows area no 1 All area inside the mount pleasant City limits area no 2 area North of Highway 34 and West of Highway 218 Northwest Areu area no 3 area East of 2 8 and North of Highway no 34 Northeast area area no. 4 area South of Highway 34 and East of no 218 Southeast area. Area no. 5 area West of no. 218 and South of Highway 34 Southwest area one director is to be elected from each of the above areas by the voters of All live areas. The above recommendation was unanimously approved by steering commit tee members present after some discussion the steering committee voted that the new a District shall be known As the my Washington ins1 a the White pleasant it immunity school ills House announced today that Presl trip. I Dent Eisenhower will deliver a a chairman Hunting recommended Jor speech on the nations Economy inspecting City mail routes the City mail routes will be inspected monday through Friday of this week according to postmaster Wendell Smith. All the mail thut comes in will be counted. Due to the inspection the carriers Aie Likely to tie late As they were saturday when preparations for the inspection were started. Clifford Cantwell of the local Post office is handling the inspections. The parcel Post department was inspected last week. Hopes talks will Start this week Washington ins it a Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today he a Hope a but docs not know whether preparatory talks for a East West Summit meeting will get under Way this week. Ike to deliver speech May 20 Miriam Smith Linda Hennessee Albert Heidbreder 83, it. Madison. Died at 1 . Saturday at a my pleasant Hospital. He had been ill tor four years. I Heidbreder. A lifelong a Resi Luis Hennessee Karen Wilson Dent of fort Madison was born percussion Charles Miller. Fred Here july 26, 1874 he was a for Allender Darla. Ford Donna Guin Mer employee of the Santa by David Barry. William Koch Brian Railroad and the w. A. Sheaffer Hansen and Martha Anderson. J pen co. That All committee work should be completed so that it would be possible to vote on the reorganization in the Early fall of 1958 Horace Baker chairman of the area and school populations committees reported an amendment to flu previous report to include the Salem service area. The report recommended that three permanent Leif Centary attendance centers outside of it pleasant be maintained at pleasant Lawn Trenton and Salem. He pointed out that this does not preclude the use of other centers on a May 20 at the economic mobilization conference in new y Ork City. Farmer killed Osage fans authorities reported today that a 40-year-old i Farmer was killed while operating u Cornstalk Cutter near Osage. Title victim presumably became entangled in the machinery in the Accident which occurred yesterday. Temporary basis. Or bakery a report was approved of the steering committee

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