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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 23, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news showers Quot Mew these Days of George e. Sokolsky Freedom of decision Secretary of Tho Treasury Robert b Anderson said in an address recently tri our free Enterprise system Ute source of our economic rower lies in the Freedom of both producers and Consumers to make their own decisions decisions on markets decisions on new products decisions on purchases decisions on spending versus saving decisions on what the course of the Economy May be in the future it is these decisions a the millions of Thorn which Are made every Day Winch determine whether the wheels of our Economy will turn at a faster or slower rate a this is a very Well written statement of the rights of the individual in tile capitalist system but it is not True in the United states or anywhere else in the year 1958 in the i inst place the income tax not Only the enormous share that St takes of each persons earnings i it the brutal method of collection reduces the individuals right of decision to a greater or lesser degree depending upon his earnings and the nature of his business furthermore the governments manipulation of the value of Money and of prices by subsidies and supports and other gimmicks further reduces the individuals authority Over his own earnings. Money is an Exchange for services and goods and is a measure which when constant permits for planning. When the value of Money becomes inconstant and prices fluctuate upward a share of each individual s earnings disappears into nothingness too the Secretary of the Treasury ought to explain what he Means to do about that when he describes the rights of decision on the part of tree men men Are Only fully free when no one is manipulating their earnings by destroying values. The head of a family is avoiding Post potable expenditures at this moment because he feels that the Market is outpaced and that prices must come Down to a reasonable level. What is a reasonable level it is a figure which the consumer can afford to pay without suspecting that he is being robbed. Economics Are not hard to understand the professional econ vol. 80, no. Of a wish it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening Phil 2,1. 1958 Kitchen tour is set for april 30 plans for a Kuchen tour were an bounced today by Phil Baird Hon a county Extension director Rouse wives and husbands of Tenty county will have an Opportunity to visit kitchens and View labor saving ideas on a Kitchen toil scheduled for wednesday. April 30 everyone Welcome. The tour which is sponsored by the family Laving committee of the county Extension service will include ten stops throughout the county and will begin As follows 9 30-11 30 am. Mrs Ray Scarf of s Walnut St it. Pleasant new Home features family room to etly Oft of Kitchen 9 30-11 30 a in. Mrs. Robe Laturen. 702 Sheaffer drive it. Pleasant. New be. Kitchen 9 30-11 30 am mrs Harold Mccabe. I mile East of or. Pleasant remodeler farm Kitchen 9 30-11 30 mrs Floyd Helphrey. 4. Miles East of i. Pleasant. Remodeler farm Kitchen featuring a Large window opening on screened in porch also turn style shelves i 1 30-3 30 pm mrs then. Fye three Miles South of of. Union and first House West to remodeler Kitchen a Roomy Kitchen made by converting pantry into work Center i 1 30-3 30 pm. Mrs Karl Queen. Three Miles South of Winfield and approximately one half mile West remodeler Kitchen in older Home featuring Island with sink and work coun ter it 1 30-3 30 . Mrs. W j Grimmer in a mile East and n mile South of Winfield diving room Kitchen with fireplace 1 30-3 30 mrs. Homer Hill Yard in Winfield Kitchen in new Home it a wow by Carrier 30# per week a by mail. $7.56 per year i m1 a a a i a a a a presidents t Emper flares a a a a a _ i in ii i ski department store Chiang one ended Aud another started in local retail store ids tory with tim closing of the department store under the Llo Alln name after Many decades under that name and the reopening under the name it John Green. Women an i children gathered in no mix ii awaiting the opening of tile new Stile part of the crowd is shown lie e and still others assembled after this picture was taken before the doors were thrown open tor the first time under the new John Green name. More crimes c committed in �?T57, Hoover reports 1 30-3 30 . Mrs Stocker one mile West from North Edge of Winfield split level farm Home with two Kitchen 1 30-3 30 pin. Mrs. C. M. Laura one mile South of Swedesburg and first House East or nine mile North of it. Pleasant. Entirely new Kitchen in older Home featuring Wall refrigerator and oven those who plan to attend the entire tour May wish to bring sack Washington Gas More crime were committed in the United states last yeat than Ever before and juveniles were responsible for nearly half of them. Fri director j. Edgar Hoover also reported today that the crime rate in Rural areas jumped con Wayne alterable More than in cities. Mists and professors who Are usual lunch and meet at the basement by Small earners have developed a j meeting room of the r e a build a rate in the last eight years Hoover revealing the Fri s annual uniform clime report compiled from statistics of Luw officials across the nation said a total of 2,796,400 major crimes were committed in 1957 one for every 61 persons. This is a jump of 9 1 percent Over 1956. Listens to report from Moscow on inc girls visit Robert Manlove. Who lives cast of i pleasant tuned in Moscow Russia on his Short wave radio set i Between 8 30 arid 9 p in tuesday i and listened to a program about i the basketball games coming up Between the United states a a u. I men and women s teams and Rua i Sian teams. Discuss i is n a names in St tries about juveniles the report also disclosed that the crime rate has increased four times As much As the population the russian commentator in in w York in whet in the names of juvenile delinquents should be published was one of the questions up for consideration to a Day at the 72d annual invention of the american newspaper Puhi ii Lei it ass Ion. I juvenile delinquency is eau Lur increasing concern not Only to Law enforcement agents but to the pub-1 lie according to a report prepared by the and a s Quot committee for submission to the convention a Quot there has been much Dis hasten As to whether or not the names of these Youthful offenders should be Orval Nesbitt returns from scout meeting or Val Nesbitt Baul scout i. Has resumed from Hutchinson. Kall when he and six men from tile South ast Iowa Council attended Ila annual meeting of Region 8 of the Bov scouts it America i but i North English was in the group and gave a report of hts meet stir president Etse Howei in Washington i c during scout Wick in february of year this ceremony known As the report to i the nation is conducted by twelve outs and ii g explorer scouts from All Over the United states. I he meeting a. Addressed by i James Mccain president of k in As state and i get f a a pirog Allen famous athletic coach form-1 a re of the University of kaftans,1 who expressed the thought. Quot let place our Money in our boys head and heat is and not 111 then hand Quot it it a the program also was Jack l Rhea Dirc Toi of camping at Phil in int Seoul Hunch i Rhea is Well known by local Scouters and explorers or Rhea stated that i Over fourteen thousand boys will attend Philmont this summer included in this number will be a i cup Titan the Southeast Tow a Council of which warned a russell1 is president approximately forty Ian and Leader will Pend More than two weeks enjoying this Iii ii adventure in scouting in late August inn of Iii in i second tag ii. Dau Galilei Elmr v ear Iii lot Hie succession. Jane and i i s. Ronald Metzger of Olds won a division i rating 111 piano in he state Nusie Content. A. M. Stanley to speak sunday to inc advisors Mie Hutchinson a their regional chairman or s 6tong of Keosauqua Iowa i stung Lowell it Johnson industrialist of Kansas City to who has served the past three years i Stolg is an ardent Scouter Alai will devote his efforts to make tire National program a Onward tor god Arni my country Quot a Success in its fourth year of operation. Produced Kellem Johnson president made Public As a possible deter of the aau., and a woman whose rent Quot the report stated. A there Are name Manlove dido get. She was differences of opinion on the ques the nation s under-18 youth con jargon and systems which sound ing in it. Pleasant during the terrific but the peddle of oranges noon hour at this time the slide i turned to be the Law s chief head knows that if he can sell an Orange film on the Beltsville Energy Sav ache. They accounted for 47 j per for More than it costs him plus his my Kitchen will be shown to the j cent group. Coffee will be furnished by the family living committee. The family living committee includes mrs. Karl Kneen chairman of the tour committee mrs. Loren John time and overhead he earns a living if he has to sell for less he goes broke. This is the essence of the problem such a fellow also understands that if the customers Are not working they cannot buy the Way they do when they Are of arrests in major crimes such As murder manslaughter rape robbery aggravated assault burglary and larceny. Juveniles committed 67.6 per cent of All Auto thefts and 53 i per cent son. Member of the tour commit 0f thefts of any kind. Sixteen per tee mrs. Frank Shaffner Secretary working. He also understands that of committee mrs. Ralph Wenger people believe that they can get along without oranges but not without bread and that when in and mrs. Byron Cory chairman of the family living committee. The Tours will leave the Exton the United states they sell their Sion office in the Post office late Model cars for older Model building at approximately 9 30 . Cars they Are close to broke nobody needs to go to school to learn that much. A Joo therefore when the president says a buy a but that he will not rut taxes he is speaking against a vast knowledge and experience. People do not buy because a president tells them to they buy because tile Money jingles in their pockets and the prospects Are Clear. President Eisenhower has an advantage president Hoover did not have there Are enough americans hereabouts who remember 1929 and who recall that optimistic prognostications Are not very helpful. Nothing helps but Money in the pocket and the easiest Way to get More of it there quickly is to Cut the waste out of government and thereby to Cut taxes and to get prices Down by removing All artificial barriers to their coming Down when they should come Down. Too Many great men do not like to use the word Money they think it is sordid common cheap. But it is the medium of Exchange without which goods do not move and the sooner we get this single fact into the Heads of our political leaders the sooner we shall get out of our troubles. A banker recently told me that he did not believe this was a serious depression. I asked him when a depression is not serious for the Man who is broke or who is afraid to spend because he hears his Plant is closing Down. Life is made up of a series of simple facts and Money is a very important fact. And 10 30 . People interested in a particular Kitchen need not take the entire tour but could visit thai Kitchen or kitchens during Hie time they will be open for viewing. Crash injuries prove fatal to Keokuk woman cent More youths were arrested in towns under 25,000 population and 8.1 per cent More in larger cities. Too the Flat dry statistics in the report detailed these other appalling highlights to the nation s crime i business last year every la 3 seconds a major crime was committed. I a every 3 9 minutes someone was i murdered raped or was the victim of manslaughter or assault to kill each Day. 35 persons were murdered and there were 274 felonious assaults 58 rapes 4,716 Larcenie 794 car thefts 168 robberies and 1,616 burglaries. Crimes in cities increased by 8,9 per cent and Rural crimes m probably an official of the women s a a u. Manlove said that the school represented on the teams were mentioned and distinctly heard Iowa Wesleyan mentioned As having two members on the girls team Barbara Sipes and Sandy Fiete it was stated on the program that another broadcast will be made Friday night presumably at the same time. Manlove said it can be pc ked up at 11.8 Mega cycles. Itie first game involving the american teams will be played in the Lenin spoils Palace at Moscow thursday and Friday nights. Slice Ike said request Hon of such publicity. A however nine newspapers Are beginning to believe that Publica living Cost at new High Washington. Ins non of name. Can be an effective department announced today that Means of fighting tim increasing trend toward juvenile delinquency a the report pointed out that Fri the Cost of living again Rose to n new All time High in March despite the recession the seven tenths of director j Edgar Hoover recently j one per cent Rise which w As the wrote tie Edilio of the Battle Creek Mich enquirer a new that Quot Over Protection of juvenile Delhi quests will not teach these Young terrorists to abide by the i in or respect the rights of others and that j a Quot the role of the Christian Layman in world affairs Quot will be tile topic of an address sunday by c m Stanley Muscatine it Iowa Wesleyan College he vm1 speak before the Wes i Loyal advisors a group composed j of representatives it All the my the j Odist churches in Southeast Iowa rile Spring meeting of the advisors. W ill begin with a noon meal Hun m be Ting elected Day in the John Wesley Holland j0 student Union on the Campus or Stanley senior partner of the hts tile v engineering company is serving a chairman it the rail of science program at Iowa Wesleyan Aud Heads a group to raise $1,250,000 of to construct furnish and equip the building especially cognizant of world affairs. Or Stanley Lias been president of the United world federalists As a businessman he has opened offices Iii Liberia for his firm which has a wide practice throughout the tilted states in the Fields of municipal Power Highway and Industrial engineering in addition to the Stanley engineering company or Stanley has Atli i business interests he is president of two manufacturing concerns tile Homo of Naze co and the prime mover co the labor Keokuk ins a a 25-year-old Keokuk woman mrs. Freida Calkin Rankin died tuesday night in a i Cludine Keokuk Hospital of injuries suffered in an Auto crash saturday Hight. The crash on Highway 61 about eight Miles North of Keokuk also i murder and claimed the lives of mrs. Rankings manslaughter were Washington ins the Hon it foreign affairs committee sliced 160 million dollars today from Havivi president Eisenhower requests for foreign military Aid. Tile committee voted 15 to 12 to highest in 20 months was due to higher food prices the department said the Cost of living Index climbed in March to 123 3 per rent of the 1947-49 Sver age this Means that it would take a Little More than $1 23 to buy what a Dollar would to years ago. The Rise from february to March was due largely to severe weather in the Eastern part of the country that killed fruit vegetable and Citrus crops far into Florida High meat prices were also a major cause. It was the third straight month til at the Cost of living had advanced to new High in Defiance of rising unemployment and declining sales. The March Rise was the the report said it i Ini Ere. Til g to Shin jest since july 1956, juveniles who commit heinous of lenses and those guilty of repeated j crimes do not desert to be called j Mere delinquent or to be shown the special privileges that they i have come to expect the report added a the said the Public is entitled to know their identities and expressed the belief that publicity might in-1 Duce some of these criminals to adopt More acceptable code of be chorus takes Dart in colourful event lashes out at critics of proposals Washington i ins president Eisenhower s temper hared repeatedly today at a news conference in which he lashed out at critic.-, of his military overhaul proposal. And branded the democratic unemployment pay plan a rile chief executive sharply rebuking a woman reporter declared contention., that his Pentagon reorganization formula could enable a one Man to have a personalized mild by Force Quot were As far fetched ins saving that a Congress is suddenly going nuts i Eisenhower also was angered when he was asked to reply to the a firtion of sen Mike Mansfield i Mont. Tiv at though the administration claims to have brought peace to the far East Only a Quot tenuous Tiller Quot exists in Korea Foi to i and Vietnam he refused comment with an explosive Quot no Quot tile president was irritated again when lie was reminded that he had urged the american people to end the recession by buying and a asked to Tell what purchases you have made he i a piled coldly Quot do you want to go see my person aide who buy my things i Don to know Quot As for the recession tile president said there is evidence that it is Quot flattening but he added that Quot there is still a lot of ago n i my reappraisal every Day Quot or Eisenhower reiterated his belie that a tax Cut does not Quot in itself restore said he would resist anything smacking of Quot hysteria Quot arum declared his administration has made a Quot very impressive record Quot in fighting the slump. Though lie declined to say whether he would veto the demo i a tic sponsored unemployment relict Bill approved by the House ways and Mea As committee he said it had a grave tile chief executive s Exchange with mrs Sinai Mcclendon of tile san Antonio Light on tile Pentagon reorganization Issue was one of the sharpest in the history of Eisenhower news conferences mrs Mcclendon said rep. Paul Dot tex., of the House armed services committee had Quot wrung an admission Quot from defense Secretary Neil h. Me Elroy that Hie reorganization plan contained a potential of dictatorial Power for Quot one i pleasant a mixed chorus wearing Maroon and Gold gowns participated in a colourful and spectacular musical event at Washington tuesday evening each of the seven schools Laking part in Hie first Southeast six music event with one guest school Keokuk gave two selections under their directors and then joined along one Side of tile gymnasium in a huge mass chorus. There they _ plan in no Way weakens Hie sent or Eisenhower snapped Quot Well i be got Ltd be question to ask you have you read the Law Quot mrs. Mcclendon replied Quot be the president entered a no you Haven to i done to think now look lets get this Hie reporter attempted to get in a rejoinder but the chief executive rut her off declared that his non incorporated towns authorize spending $1,640,000,000 with less than 2.500 population and suburban areas jumped by 111 i per cent. Copyright. 1958, Syndicate. Inc King features sister mrs. Martha Ward and Harold schulthies of Burlington. Both Sisters were Riding with 26-year-old John Fox of Alexandria mo., when his car struck a parked car at the scene of another Accident. It was at this crash that schulthies was fatally injured. Fox was reported in critical condition. Special Council meeting tonight non negligent the Only chief crimes to drop during the year and they dipped Only by 0.7 per cent new York Lead cities with 314 Horn i icicles Chicago had 296. Houston tex., 136, and los Angeles and Detroit 119 each. North Dakota was the Only state free of murders last year. . Population has grown 13 per cent since 1950, but crime has increased by 56.2 Lier cent. For military hardware including missiles for . Allies abroad. The p r e s i d e n t had r e it u e s e d $1,800,000,000. The action came after member of the committee rejected attempt to Cut even greater amounts from tile item in the measure. More reductions were expected to be made by the committee in the Bill which would authorize a total of $3,297,900,000 in new foreign Aid to he spent in coming fiscal years action will come later in the session on the administrations request for the Money itself totalling $3,942.-000,000. Note that new paperboy Are not listed among the juvenile delinquents roaming the streets without occupation and therefore a natural target for trouble of a1 kinds Quot a special meeting of Hie City on panel discussion since 1952, the 10-17 year age group has increased 22 per cent but arrests in the same group have catapulted by 55 per cent tile juvenile arrest rate was two and a Council will be held at the City Hall half times their population increase drove to Iowa tonight wednesday at 7 30 rate. Of this age group 39 per cent mrs Anderson o clock. J arrested were under 15 years of age the Survey showed that 95 per on the Agenda of business Are the City Light Plant Cooling Tower j cent of the crimes were committed which has been under discussion j for profit. Burglaries Larcenie and for some time and the possibility Auto thefts comprised 93 per cent of securing outside Power the two of the total a 9.4 per cent increase hour parking enforcement which robbery losses totalled 479 million the chamber of Commerce request j dollars but 58 per cent of the de at a regular meeting last week goods were received including 93.1 or. And mrs o. W Anderson City today where will appear on a panel discussion with other first District county Republican women a presidents Quick Sale of boat reported advertising and truth in advertising pay the Everett bar Rys advertise Quot a Leaky boat Quot for Sale. And said it was repairable. By 5 30 pm of tot the paper was out hic boat was sold and five More Calls were received later in the evening policeman is fined for . Turn Down j Money request Des Moines. Ins the leg Isla i live budget and financial control a interim committee today turned presented a Grout of selections under the leadership of the guest director for the evening Clayton Krehbiel of Kansas University Lawrence Kau. The groups had practice with Hun luring the Day and also had received his suggestions at a clinic for the mass chorus numbers the popular the agile and rhythmic Krehbiel put the whole of him into a Fine demonstration of directing ices of their respective chiefs Ani added Quot now look miss Mcclendon it might be just As Well sensible for you to say that the Congress is suddenly going nuts and completely abolishing the defense department so Why done to we do that instead of just giving a big personal army Quot Down the Board of resents re Illust the near-500 voice to bring out the ill rejects meeting of Only la. S. And Russia sections in a thrilling Way. The mixing of the various colors of gowns according to vocal sections made a a s of color which was unusual to see other schools participate Fig were Centerville Washington Fairfield Bloomfield and it. Madison several from my pleasant attended. Corydon it ins a 25-Yearou Charlton policeman. James Ryun has been fined $300 in Corydon at they will speak before ter pleading guilty to t charge of in Tosh left arrested in Corydon Fen nearly $400, to finance in j ii urinary work on construction project at state colleges and suggested the governor has a right to Call a i special session of the state legislator to dial with the problem the Board of regents had asked for $391,959 from the committee. Gov Herschel Loveless had Sug rested the Money could be allocated by the interim committee despite the fact that he had vetoed a $10,000,000 capital improvements officers meeting Bill during the last session. I the committee decided today that it would be usurping legislative j Powers if it made the Money a Vail a Abl Quot specifically enjoined from making a the 1 the comm rite said state Law re attend peace sheriff Russell Van Tuyl and justices of the peace George Means and Rudolph Rekey attended a and said the committee was peace officers meeting at the Jefferson county courthouse in Fairfield tuesday. The state Bureau of i Livest Iga and the swimming Pool set up. Per cent of stolen autos. The first District convention the driving whih state candidates on the state Cara Ryun was Van will be guests of the District on april 15, meeting. Snapped Oil a Utility pole on the Money for projects which should Gat Ion the attorney general s de mrs. Anderson is vice president of Corydon Square the first District Council of re the Fine was assessed yesterday j publican women. By District judge Charles j Lewis. Ai tor his car had quire the committee to allocate no lion the Federal Bureau of invest Money for projects which should gallon tile attorney general s de have been presented to the i cd Isla apartment the sheriffs association Tore or which were turned Down Brand Justice of the peace Assoc a tor general Assembly. Tion took part in the program. Washington ins president. Eisenhower today flatly rejected a Quot Summit Quot conference in which the u a would be the sole Western nation meeting with Russia. The chief executive told his news conference that top . Does not speak authoritatively for All the free world thus he said he could not undertake the role of being a sole representative confronting Russia across a conference table. The president was told that the Kremlin apparently is seeking to confine a Summit meeting to talks Between or Eisenhower and Prenter Nikita Khrushchev. He branded such a Man Euver As being an Effort to Divide and weaken the Western Alliance. I i

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