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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 19, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 8.1, no. 1 2 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening april la1961 so Ste-1 it warmer if War should break now what s our missile strength this is the first of a series of three articles on the nations missile program by up correspondent Jack v Fox. He just completed a 6,000 mile trip visiting air research and development headquarter. In Washington Sac at Omaha missile Sites in Wyoming and the ballistic missile head Quad j tors at Inglewood Calif Cheyenne. up on a Windy Mesa North of Here Range country desolate As great parts of the world will be if the a Birds Quot Ever Start flying sprawls one of America s operational mis silo Sites. Inside thick Concrete huts the gleaming stainless steel Atlas missiles rest on their sides tile nuclear warheads screwed in place. If your Security clearance is sufficient a and if you have the desire a you can reach up and Pat the warhead. It is far More i Kite at than the bomb which killed 78.000 at Hiroshima a couple Hundred Yards away in another Concrete Bunker. Air Force Captain and a lieutenant pistol strapped to their waists sit behind panels whore tile pressing claim rebel infiltration that is Why the arc so critical. Next few years one startling fact is that none of these Miff silts will Ever be fired in test. Tile one and Only tim.1 they will go into flight will to the Day world War Iii begins. The Only exceptions Are the test Facili-1 tics at Vandenberg and Cape canaveral. The commanding fac officer it Warren no. I is col. Julius pick j off a big Ruddy faced texan with a soft voice and Ever present Cigar. A it s such an impersonal by. I Noss a a says Pickoff Quot it introduces a morale there is constant testing and maintenance and training. And regularly a Crew is picked at ram Dom to go with its Atlas to Vandenberg for an actual firing. But boredom is there just the same. There Are 12 men in a launch screw All have undergone the sc-1 Crest Security scrutiny into their loyalty and background. They rotate on assignments spending 12 n hours at the missile site and 24 Back at tile air Force base. Too if hostilities Bogin. The word to of a Gre it Start Button can Send j fire will come from Washington to those monsters on a half hour. Sac Headquarters in Omaha and 6,000-Mi Loti in into enemy territory i thence by duplicated Communia at this they Are ready Day a tons to this base. Included will and night to Start shooting from to a coded message in numbers six pads j in Hajj 0f a room contain a mechanical brain is a Black Box with perhaps 30 dials each methodist men to hear arson in Miami Antl Castro recruiting is thriving. Here a Volunteer right gives information while another rear is measured for a uniform for the invasion of liberation. Of War with soviet Russia Ever comes and that Button is pressed the handful of soldiers at Warren air Force missile Squadron no. I will not know what targets they shot at. And that y probably would never find out if they . For this Loach outpost would to a prime target of communist rockets. It is a fearsome duty. Tile missile men have As their sole pro leu signal reason for being a Job they ii Ope to god they never have to do. Tile deadly seriousness of a a missile Gap Quot strikes Home after a visit to this base a year ago it was still in construction. Tile Only intercontinental ballistic missiles in operational readiness were three Atlas rocket vulnerable exposure along the Pacific at air Force base in standing in in gantries Vandenberg California. Resembling the Channel tuning Knob of a to set. When those a turned to tile proper numbers ent from Sac. The target is set in the Atlas. But no one on the Bas will know whether the target is Moscow or Vladivostok. In the launch room the Grey a a Start a Button is protected by a plastic Cap secured by a wire with Lead Seal. That Seal must by broken and the Cap lifted before j the Button can to pushed it give. The last few seconds of do Libra a tion. Even so the missile can be de i methodist met n will hear or. John w Carson thursday night in i pleasant. He Izak at 7 30 at the first methodist Church subject being a tile United stats to ii Ion in i Ai in America or car. On is Well acquainted i w Ith la in America through re. I Deuce and travel. Before joining the j Iowa a it i Yah faculty la i 0rp-i tem Ber a. Head of the department of i. Tory and political sclera. Ive i taught at tile University of puerto j Hico with background As a historian. He Peak As a trained observer on the Caribbean situation. Jills knowledge of French and Spanish helped in talking with Cit Irons of countries to tile oath. After receiving b a and m a degrees from the Utu Vei of . Pledged to Block intervention communists demonstrate Washington it up it tile United stairs a firmly pledged Jef Day to Block any soviet armed intr Vest Rin in Cuba up Ilief i pm Navy warned soviet. Prema r Nikita Khrushchev to it Day night lits country would act immediately to hurl Back any Mil iary intervention by outside i torte Quot the presidents sternly worded note also cautioned Russia against using the cuban situation As a pretext to inflame other areas of to c world Kennedy said this would to Quot dangerous to world american note handed to Amba ador Mikhail mini at the state department. Reply to a from j Arkansas to took a pin i at th0 the j University of Nubra a. He also soviet done work at Northwestern uni Sikov i verify j was a is addition to a a aching Ai Tyler Khrushchev asking Kennedy Quot to Junior College. Michigan state put an end to the aggression i University. The University of against the Republic of j Nebraska and the University of Khrushchev charged the United puerto Rico. Or Carson sex states aided in or. Ion Illy Iti communist led demons Tralins protesting alleged u. S. My to the anti Castro invaders of Cuba spread around the world today in a wave of pm cur Metal Ling the red organized anti belgian riots set Oft by tile death of Congo sex Premier Patrice Lumumba there were growing indications anti communist resistance to the mobs in latin am fica Cene of lie worst outbreaks of violence in Moscow u. S. Charge d affaires Edward greens was expected today to protest tuesdays attack on the embassy by mobs of russians. Small groups of hard Core comm in Isis and other chronic am rir.a-1 inters turned out in Western linked with guerrillas in mountains by up a the c Ulvin revolutionary Council Aid today its invading forces Jiava completed the planned first Pha e of their military operation in the South of Cuba Quot and linked up guerrilla groups in the Escum Bray mountains. Tile operate a was ported in be under continuous attack a by soviet Mig heavy tanks and a revolutionary Council communique said a numerous elements of the forces from the Cochinos Bay area have completed a movement. North of Cienfuegos from which they will be Able to Rem Europe. But officials and the press Force the patriots already fighting West of Iron curtain seemed generally sympathetic to the in Vadis in some latin american countries rioters inflamed by anti in the Cienfuegos is about 50 Miles to the East of the original beachhead in the Bahia do Cochinos area. A it can Aho be revealed that Pencile As historian i. Rush said in. A would a extend and to the Quot National memorial through cuban people and its government spent As a staff All the necessary Aid to repel the in new York pro castrites raise a big ruckus near Tho United nations. Police but up barricade to Avert rioting. Neo concludes holding action St roved in flight up to the Point Corning Iowa up a 12-Wherc the rocket Booster separates state livestock holding Ai tion by the National Farmers no ended today toward its target. Once that Point with the opening of the Mark from the nuclear warhead which members of goes into regular ballistic trajectory organization Dogpatch Day crowds and funny outfits commission Dogpatch Day in my pleasant More j four i member of the National Parks j armed attack on Cuba a a service. J the president replied thai also a musician or car. On i thru ii Choy was Labouring Quot util a reeled Opra and symphony in a serious misapprehension in re latin America he a been pres Gard to events in he said Der of the Chica o concert Ana there been growing resistance opera Guild. J in Cuba to the Castro regime and in the air Force lie attained some 100,000 cuban refugees Nat j rally hoped a to assist their fellow cubans in their struggle for free a o a Kennedy denied the United j states engaged in military i intervention in Cuba. And he made a it Clear Ain soviet armed intervention would be met by u. S i action. J in no event of any military intervention by outside Force we will immediately Honor our Obliga american speeches turned their additional guerrilla units have in urn rank of lieutenant colonel. Would create anti item fury on roman cat hop churches. Local anti communist newspapers and other targets. Montrose Man Dies after 218 collision filtrate Matanzas province a th3 communique said a the heroic actin of a Small holding Force which resisted soviet tanks artillery Aid aircraft during the last 20 hours made this result a a a the communique added that according to the revolutionary commands latest information a this Force continues its valiant fight again t tyranny Quot the revolutionary communique Keokuk. Iowa up a an al was issued shortly after Premier Derly Montrose Iowa Man was a Fidel Castro s government claimed Tolly injured in a two car collision it shot Down four planes on bomb on u. S. 218 seven Miles North of ing no. Dons Over Cuba this mom Here today. , including one piloted by an u e. Tweedy 70, died at a bos american. Pita i Here several hours alter car he was driving collided with an ii Castro regime Aiso boasted Auto driven by mrs. Paulette an that the invasion Force in South Des Moines up is reached there is no turning Back. But leaders of the organization Saki brought Forth some of the oddest Resolution to Enate an anti com done under the inter american next a build More but another one. They already Are mapping plans for its not so easy As that. Stum s ranging from heavy Gunny i Monist commission was introduced a a Stem to protect this hemisphere sacks and funny hats to no hats at in the Iowa Senate tuesday. Khrushchev passed them Lee. Than a Quarter mile Distant in hi., train trip up the West coast in 1959. Or May have been amused because ii is soviet Union far More. What Russia did not have was the enormous nuclear bomber Force of the strategic air command. And not having such a Force. Russia pushed with tremendous emphasis on missiles until the peril to America be earn evident to even the most dense. Since that time just a year ago . Missile Sites have begun to sprout across the entire Western half of the continent. Besides the six pads at this base there Are nine at Warren ii now Ojo rational. Nine More were turned Over to Sac less than three weeks ago around Omaha 1 Ben Are at least three new Atlas pads at Vandenberg. So today the United states a. At least 3 it operational missile launching pads where a year ago it Throe. But this is Only the tiniest beginning tile air Force is building a missile network so staggering in size and cast that it dwarfs any previous military crash program j in history. Confirms 4 for positions Dos Moines up a appointments of three slate senators and it wet prices upward no a Quot or a former state senator to positions on major boards and commissions were confirmed by Iowa Senate today. Quot we feel this t St holding action a <�?~6 Aud brie outfits that a it re not been very successful because it in he warmest tor a Chilly Day. Gives As a springboard to increase the Day too brought Forth honour organizational no i died of shoppers who took Adan of resident orca Lee St Alc v. Rya. To. The of the bargains offered by a said at no headquarter How of and joined in the Tun. Tile holding action began april the annual Dogpatch Day is a 3. The no a ked its members and i fun Day for employees and manage other Farmers not to sell thir cat mein As Well As customers. Many tie Lings and sheep in an Effort to i mores participate. The Resolution Calls for a special five member commission to a mate i a Survey into communist act Vitic j within the state Quot and to establish1 programs to provide iowan., with j material on How communism or ates. Against external aggression Nady said. Hen Derson 64, Minneapolis. J Central Cuba would be totally mrs. Anderson was treated Lor wiped out i a matter of cuts on the and released. Her during the night Castro loosed a grandson. Jim Moo was not Hurt wave to Ltd error throughout Cuba in in the Accident though both cars an Effort 10 keep the Invar icon from were demolished. Setting off an internal uprising. According to authorities mrs. Castro firing squads executed Anderson said the Tweedy car was two am Rio is Angus Mcnair of the pre. Aleut also addressed i himself to Khrushchev a statement j that the cuban situation if allowed to proceed might provoke a i Chain reaction Quot a1 Over the world. I Kennedy said the commission wine ii would have taken careful note of include one state senator one state it our statement that tile events in coming onto the Highway from a Road when the collision of i cum d. J Tweedy was alone in the car attic tune. Coral Gables fla., and Howard Anderson of Yakima Wash. In addition there were mass arrests. Of cubans . Citizens and other i foreign National. Limes As tile a Pix a chamber suspended its rules to confirm the nominations which been submitted 1 tuesday by gov. Norman a. Senate rules provide for a one i charged week waiting period Between the shuffled receipt and confirmation of appointments. Mum Levels w h were necessary for Quot this a t Ion was sex in Strong As the previous Staley said during he Boldin a agr cult ult a cup it ment near Normal receipts and 12 Midwest markets. Nio leaders that Market operator. Livestock from stockyards to stockyards in an Effort to make receipts appear Norma the. Parade was led by g German re pre. In tat Ive and three citizens a Cuba might affect peace in All the no i hoi from the High school perched appointed by the governor would part. Of the world. I Trust that in i a Lon. The reported prices at confirmed under the special order today were sen. Lawrence Putney a Ola Book to the Tate Board of social welfare sen. Carroll Price. A Knoxville. To the Ixia re of control sen. X. T Prentis a mount Ayr. To the tax commission and former sen. J. C. At one time groups of farm t appeared at so a i Lina West markets to demonstrate support a tin holding action and to see for themselves whith r receipts were Normal Staley said or received word thai a congressional commit it would investigate the present marketing in a i Ibex a tii re. Horse drawn also provide material Quot to a scour Lus docs not mean that the soviet there followed antique ears. A and awaken a raw sense of gov i Ament Ming tile situation in action i Meiai or cars and groups i rom Pride in patriotism c it j in a. A pretext i planning to Tai of the store in a wide Va-1inflame a her areas of tile world i i i tic three member. Appointed by i a i Umu i do a n.,t rut of dog a a ii of til a t you the governor hound Irive a Quot know winners in the Parade were i. 1 a mint ha., too great a interest in battling communism 0f res Pom bit a. A Nyll. S. Protests executions 2. Stiv Harrison it. $5 Cannibal. In Baschnagel of Rexall $3 with1 Shotgun and driving team 3. Spurgeon a $2, led by manager Duane quo no in an outlandish the Resolution stud until it 4. To by Leo Brail of faces die create t or i. To a and shall have been Given clearance from the standpoint of morale and Enterprise general peace a a to so embark upon dangerous to the nation in history bran Princess my pleasant news of the communist j c. Penney and la users is each. J and in order to a pre. Is a front in tile Battle Many Senate debates utilities Bill threat i unit d j of tiie. Lould nature Junior bands in festival Colburn. Harlan Republican to the1 syst in and method used for i liquor control commission. The upper chamber also confirmed Erbe s re appointment of j Fred Cherry. 44, Row Ley for a six i year term on tile soil conservation i of mini t tee. A but one of the 14 Atlas complexes will be West of the Mississippi. They will be in California Wyoming. Nebraska Washington. Kansas Oklahoma. Texas new Mexico and new York i hey must be widely dispersed. One single Complex nearing completion embraces an area bigger than Connecticut. At the same time another Gigantic program is underway on Titan the second liquid fuel missile capable of hitting Rasia. Porting livestock receipts. Kennedy s m al nil draw s support Tate a uninformed Quot Cit Izai. Ilie made War it of the a True i of a of minium Rny the Junior bands of Washington the re Olu Ion provides no a mid Prairie Kalona Wellman prop Ria i Ion. And said the committee1 West Chester and my pleasant would work until july i 1963 climaxed their afternoon of to i is Moines it up t ii Vej it a submitted by four Repi Ibl in Ansa i with an excellent perform i Iowa St n do Tod a i launched wha ran senator. Joseph Matt of win Anet for the Public tuesday eve i Ai d to in a lengthy debate on tenet., j. Kendall lying of Plain Ding at the Cottrell gym. A a a mini it Sion to held Frank Hoxie of Shenandoah each band played two selections a mid morning communique broadcast Over the Castro government s emergency radio network said a third american was killed i when a military planet was shot Down Over Cuba. Tile Span ii speaking announcer gave name As b o Francis Burney or Tho Burley of Boston mass. The it added that documents were seized on body showing hts flight License As 8223 then the an Washington Ufi a United state today branded cuban government s execution of two americans a a violation of the them notary standards of Justice bouncer repeated the number practice by the civilized nations changing it to 08223-1m, with an expiration Date of dec. 24, 1962. The state department said it1 was asking Switzerland which rep of the social Security number was listed As c14-07-6921. It added he was 5 feet 6 inches tall. There was confusion Over the name and numbers because they ii and to be recorded phonetically in the heavily accented announce ment a tape recording of the announcement was transcribed As reporting arrests of americans in Burley or Burney. But at United nations head or trs in new York cuban foreign diplomatic Means to protect u. S. I interests in resents u. S. Int rests in Cuba to protest the executions of Howard f Anderson of Yakima. Wash., and Angus Mcnair jr., of Miami. Statesman Lincoln White said the United states was a also making inquiries of the Swiss about the to do he added Quot we will continue everything possible through Faith lutheran to hold 2 services getting underway is program of All a the i amp Chiwol from 8 45 . To 9.30 ., j Bridges chairman of tile scan c and just the biggest Shea Jar smaller Olid full minute Man icbms each of its pads requires less than an ground but it will be sprinkled Over the nation Down in Silas. It is estimated that by 1965 the United state. May have 1.300 missile Sites. By then the missile Gap if it exists a May have disappeared by will Russia wait for that due to increased Church attendance that a filling the Church to its full capacity Faith lutheran of the City voted at its last business meeting to introduce a second service. The schedule of services beginning with its services next sunday will be Tho following a sunday service at 3 ain., with sunday Clements in this renin washing i on i id by Dent Kennedy s warm a r. A to keep hands off cd.1 i do Strong support today in in key Republican senators. Kennedy s pledge tor d t Block any soviet armed intervention in Cuba was praised i a Oil publican sen style l id so In Jacob k in y and John s Cooper r k javits said Kennedy is a a apis cd to the support of All political Rill to establish a con regulate rates and services Public Utility. I lie Bdl would have the Tate Commerce commission set up a division to regulate use Rales and services of Gas electric water and Telephone utilities. , no uni Telephone companies municipally owned utilities and cooperatives such As the Rural elect re Leat Ion a d mini s ration re a i it mites w lid be exempted from to regulation.-. White defined to inst Cruh n minister Raul lots name As Roa gave the i he als gave social Security number of and Clifford Nystrom of Boone education standards debated followed by tin mass bund presentation of six numbers with directors Alan Bergstrom of washing Ion. Tom Eddy of mid Prairie and Milo Borden of i. Pleasant each i directing two of the Cor bin d band i numbers. A total of 240 students participated in the band festival. Comment from those who heard the concert was very favourable. Bond sales 30% of year s quota teachers sign school contracts with the second service to begin at gop to by committee. D 9 30 . Formerly tile sunday acre of i school was held after the 9 30 . Sunday service with the present arrangement the children May attend Des Moinius it up a a i lie to Quot i House today spent the morning debating minimum standards of education for High schools but recessed for lunch without reaching any conclusive decisions. The two important sections of Dill al out minimum stand urls which High schools would have to meet in order to Issue Community District graduation certificates and to be coming year the j eligible for state Aid. Int blood should Tho lower chamber adopted an among those amendment to the Bill striking Iii tile listing of those who have sign cd contracts to teach Iii the Mill Lasant services. The congregation is also activate i approve of the position our government taken on Cuba. I school for the approve of the president s reply or my of Mary to Khrushchev s intimidating ales to it been included signed. She teaches Atiz it a Section which would require i reapportionment snarl untangled Des Moines Ufi a or App ornament snarl wa.1 untangled by the Iowa Senate s redistricting committee today and a plan for realigning the states 50 senatorial districts headed toward an Early Debaie. Sen. Clifford m. Vance. A mount pleasant committee cd a i r in a a. Said the measure unanimously a the sunday school Between the two Gage a i who have Kennedy will discuss the Over All Salem. I state Board of Public world situation in a speech thurs j Elm. Be Isaacson Art instructor in on to allocate state Aid to any ing its development committee to Day before a lunch meeting of the the schools signed and will re High school which met the mini proved by the committee tuesday consider future plans for expansion american society of newspaper turn to the it pleasant school mum standards set out in the was revised to eliminate an Over of it. Church Plant. Bolton. I system. Measure. Lap of terms in three districts. Or was ask to us to or United 014-07-2921. Which differed from states contemplated Quot doing beyond that m he Brm it cast commune. Diplomatic Means if necessary. F of the United states Federal aviation Agency in Oklahoma City said that the flight License number riven by the Castro government As j identification of the . Pilot allegedly shot Down was a an impose be Henry county with three month Robert e. Forbes director of. Ii of United states savings Bon records for the Faa said the amounting to $367,147 for 30 p r a i i Quot portion a is not part of our cent of its 1961 quota led the a numbering he said the Lineal average of 28 per cent tor other pm of the number belongs the first Quarter. To another Man whose name e. A. Hayes Volunteer chairman address and classification Quot Are totem tin. Livings Bonds program said tally Quot March sales in county were Roa charged that a an american $91,681. J plane manned by an american Iowa tot til Lor 8 Ria e and h p lot. Coming from an american Bonds during March was $15,394,220, a e was shot Down Over Matan almost a million dollars higher a. Province than Lur the same month a year a ago. I a tin is our of four enemy air the chairman reported that Craft shot Down this morning the Iowa s first Quarter sales of $50. Broaden.-1 said. Adding that tin. 165,174 were the highest among the Quot proud United states Partl Cipa eight midwestern states both in tion in the invasion of rebel Dollar volume and per cent of quota fore s who hold a be amp Chi and in attained. South Central Cuba

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