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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 5, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky Khrushchev warned us As far Back As july 12, Nikita Khrushchev warned us in a speech in Moscow that any Summit conference that he would attend would have to be limited to the subjects which he wished to discuss. He said a the United states and its partners have put Forward their questions for inclusion on the Agenda of a Summit conference. Let us see comrades Wopat questions these Are they propose for example to examine the so called question of the situation in the Peoples democracies of Europe. Every person even one not versed in politics understands that to put Forward such questions at a meeting of Heads of government Means to Lead matters to a disruption of the conference. You must remember gentlemen whom you Are going to in other words he will refuse to j discuss the pogroms in Hungary the servitude of Poland the inter j mention by soviet Russia in arabian i affairs the danger to Turkey and j Iran the russian spread into Afghanistan he would Only discuss what might be disadvantageous to Quot the United states and its then he said Quot How can it be suggested that we. Communists will agree to take part in a discussion with representatives of capitalist states on the question of How to liquidate the socialist system in one state or Anotia whom do you take us for and what Are you thinking about if you raise the question in such a Way Quot too however there is nothing wrong from his Point of View about discussing the death of capitalism or even the death of the United states. This is what he said on july 12 Quot we do not need War. The socialist states Are growing rapidly developing states. Theirs is a Young healthy organism and it is to the Young and growing that the future invariably belongs. We need peace to build a new society. Our countries have everything they need for this purpose. Vol. 80, no. 183 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening August 5, 1958 by Carrier 36 per week by mail us per year terms rejected by Khrushchev budget balances at inc again visits Niagara Falls Princess Margaret of great Britain is shown top left after she had a close View of the Falls in background on the Canadian Side. At Bottom the Princess signs the old Bible during her tour of Niagara Falls. It was Given to the Mohawk indians by Queen Ann in 1712. Later the Princess top right attended a performance of a a Winter s tales at the shake snare festival in Stratford. Ontario. Arnita Rowan Exchange student to arrive sunday Quot very much to the Point was what our chinese friends say Quot socialism is the morning Sun rising in the East and capitalism is the evening Sun setting in the of course As the soviet propaganda machine works hard to achieve Khrushchev Send which is next sunday will lha a very important Day Lur Hie Arthur Rommel family and one of outstanding significance to it. Pleasant Iago i school students tile local rotary. And in lad most of Henry county As Well it w ill be the Day when j Aguila Rowan second american i Field service Exchange student from the Netherlands sponsored to Force president Eisenhower and i by the local rotary club prime minister Macmillan to act As background puppets for his strutting across the stage of world affairs. Many say Quot Well Why not if it will solve the 1 answer is in this very Long speech delivered on july 12 of this year on the occasion of the head of the czech communist party Antonin Novotny a visit to Moscow. That speech is loaded with leads to Khrushchev a thinking and it is the mph student Council local merchants subscriptions and tin Field service arrives in Iowa City when1 the hummels will meet Lier and bring her Here. Since Agnita whose family pet name is Nitecke was notified that she had received a scholarship Lor study in the United states Many Friendly letters have criss crossed the Ocean in an Exchange Between Agnita Hei lather Nicolaas Rowan. Undoubtedly been studied by every City clerk of Sutphen her Mother government that is imperilled by Henny Rowan tooth with Law Dot Home. A she is composing a letter to you and in a few Days i also will write you More detailed. Today i willingly Tell you How very glad we Are that you will take care of her for a full year and How very much we appreciate you revived till Messa and i had to write in Media Tely. With kindest regards Nico Sutphen May 5, 1958 a i Iowa Wesleyan College closed its fiscal year again with a balanced budget. This is the sixth consecutive year or. J. Raymond Chadwick president has made such a report. Gifts Ai excess of $120,000 totalled the most Money Ever received in any one year for current operating expenses. Alumni contributed Over $28,000 to the living endowment fund Matching a $10,000 Challenge fund Given by six Anonymous donors who offered to match alumni gifts which were increased Over the previous year or were new. Henry county citizens achieved their goal of $12,000. Quot support by the county is an important part of balancing the budget a according to president Chadwick. Up substantially Over previous years were the contributions of the methodist churches of the South Iowa conference this is in line with the quadrennial emphasis on higher education. Additional support came from the Iowa College foundation the parents foundation trustees of Iowa Wesleyan and friends of the College throughout the nation. Or. George Morrell Ottumwa chairman of the Board of trustees of Iowa Wesleyan after reviewing the financial statement during a visit to the Campus monday stated a there is every intention of operating Iowa Wesleyan in a business like manner. A balanced budget is essential. We Are highly pleased that All Ute groups and individuals who support the College responded As they ndoness. We re this morning a few words Glees and or. And mrs. Arthur Rommel and their daughters Arlene and Rebecca. The very existence of soviet Russia after All governments have for thousands of years communicated with each other even on the important questions without direct vis a vis meetings of the Heads of a Lea it gone to Sutphen in Hie a wee bit of it. Pleasant a. States. Until Woodrow Wilson went i nether binds As to Paris no american president had Ever left this country to negotiate a treaty. Franklin d Roosevelt followed Wilson a precedent Harry Truman did it once to Potsdam and then or thought better of it. Eisenhower has been a mover a outer but not As much As his Secretary of state. John Foster Dulles whose peripatetic habits arc second Only to those of mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Goodwill Quot dear hummels Quot you can to imagine How Happy we were when Nitecke and we got those Long and Friendly letters from you All a real profusion when we received the news that our daughter was awarded a scholarship for America we were awfully glad but still it was More or less a theoretical gladness. Though we looked in an old american pocket Atlas for mount pleasant Iowa and found it As a Small town near the Skunk River and the Quot pleasant Valley it All sounded very Token Nice but it did not Tell us much building permits issued in july the following building permits were issued during the month of july. Standard Oil co., remodelling Jim Green service station Russell Rich extend garage 407 s. Harrison Sheridan Messer moving House to Rome it. Pleasant Farmers Coop construct steel building at North Lincoln Cliff Ledbetter construct garage. 1105 e Monroe divine studio remodelling House for studio 206 n main w j Fenton construct garage 303 s Jackson. Foreign ministers and ambassadors exist for such negotiations As from the Rommel to the rowmans j about the environments where our who chose As their Gilt something child would live for a whole year of personal significance from their own front Aid in the form of two anxiousness Iris rhizomes and of civic importance As Well since it. Pleasant is known As the Iris City of Iowa a third rhizome secured from mrs. J. E. Leeper was sent to the rowmans. Before sending the rhizomes the Rommel contacted the . Department of agriculture for information regarding dutch import requirements. The roots inspected and our gladness was mixed with As you May Well imagine. But after receiving your letters All anxiousness is gone. Quot you should have been Here to hear and see Nitecke when Reading and looking at the photo thanks to your writing she is feeling a member of your family already and though she is As a Rule rather timid when meeting new situations anti Dulles meets brazils leaders by the Netherlands customs rhizomes which will Flower Tulip land come next Spring Are Tiffanie a Brown Bloom Sable. A deep purple from the Rommelse front Yard and Ruth a yellow Are necessary and a meeting of the and treated by mrs. Leeper a state Heads of states can Only be of value after thorough preparations. Besides these Summit conferences nowadays Are bound to be like an aquarium with the big fish swimming about in the sight of a thousand newspapermen and cameramen How can any negotiations or bargaining take place under such conditions the conversation must be More restricted at such open meetings because there is More responsibility. An american president or a British plume minister is not As free an agent As Khrushchev is. They Are restricted by constitutional prerogatives and limitations and their press at Home would blast them for such conduct As Khrushchev permitted himself at the last such meeting in Geneva. It would be Well Worth Khrushchev s time to read Herbert Hoover s study of new people she feels there will be no need for any shyness Here and and festooned it with a Dulles she is fully enjoying the Prospect j Home a signs but there was approved inspector w Ere then pro-1 living with you and meeting. Vj0ience Perly labelled subject to inspection i people and going to school in it. Rio de Janeiro up a Secretary of state John faster Dulles met brazilian leaders today to begin talks designed to strengthen inter american ties and define latin americans role in the cold War. Dulles scheduled conferences with president Juscelino Kubit Schek and foreign minister Francisco Negrao de Lima. The Secretary flew in from Washington monday. Leftist Stu dents draped a building along his i route from the Airport in Black go signs but there was no i pleasant. And it is the same with in us parents. Quot it is not an easy thing to Send your seven teen year old youngest away to a foreign country for a whole year much As you May Trust Flower from mrs. Leeper a Garden i her and the organization which is in which the Rommel have a fam-1 sending her out we dutch people ily interest because Ruth is the name of their Littlest daughter. On his arrival Dulles said he had come to Rio to take part in informal discussions of the world situation and inter american relations. With Especial reference to economic problems. Stockport girl named miss Rea miss Dorothy Nav Watson daughter of or. And mrs. Kenneth Watson. Stockport was selected As a miss Rural electrification Quot at the annual meeting of the Southeast Iowa c cooperative electric association tuesday afternoon. A Large crowd jammed into Mcmillan Park tuesday for the annual meeting of the Southeast. Iowa cooperative electric association. The fourteen contestants wire presented in bathing suits at the morning session and had lunch with the judges at the Harlan at noon they were presented again during the afternoon wearing Street dresses. A free lunch was served to the association members and their families at noon. Dave Livingston of Washington Iowa known As the a funniest Farmer in american was the main speaker. Pres. Flank j. Walz and manager Warner Russell gave their annual reports. Dorothy Swan at the electric Organ furnished music throughout the Day. The Sobaski twins Faye and Kaye of Brighton entertained with accordion and guitar numbers Many attendance prizes were Given to Lucky registrants. Solh threatens to resign unless troops withdraw Beirut Lebanon up Premier Sami Solh has threatened to resign unless american troops Are withdrawn immediately from Lebanon informed sources said today. Meanwhile two More u. S. Ships arrived with another 1,000 men and More than 200 vehicles bringing the total american strength in Lebanon to 14,300. An army spokesman said the troops which included Hospital ordinance signal and Graves registration personnel were the last in the scheduled buildup Here though he added that some additional Small units May follow. He said All the units were from Germany and sailed from Bremer liven. Solh made his evacuation demand at mondays Cabinet session the sources said without discussing it first with president Camille Chamoun Israel denies action result of soviet note Uncle disappears interview burned Union official again Pontiac Mien. Up a teamsters Union official Frank Kier Dorf burned beyond recognition in ii Savage fire assault by two unkown men monday was interviewed for the third time today but his vengeance seeking Uncle Herman Kierdorf had disappeared. Frank a 56-year-old sex convict business agent for teamsters local 332 in Flint Mich., still Clung to life in St Joseph mercy Hospital but doctors said his death was Only a matter of time. He repeated to interviewing officers that he did not know the two men who doused him with an inflammable fluid and set him afire and gave no hint where he thought Herman might be hiding. Herman disappeared monday night from under the noses of polyp guards at the Hospital but police admitted Only today that they did t know where he was. They had obtained a warrant charging him with Possession of a Silencer. The Silencer was found in the Home of a next door neighbor in Madison Heights. Judy Tyler a 15-year-old girl residing at the Home said Herman gave her a Brief Case that contained a p-38 lager automatic and the homemade Silencer three weeks ago. Herman told police he had no idea who attacked Frank but he i was a going to find a lieutenant told him to let police take care of the attack but Herman replied a not if i get there wants troops out demands immediate . Session human Torch Jerome Barry top loft assistant prosecuting attorney of Oakland county Mich., i questions fire victim Frank Kier Dorf at St. Joseph mercy hospital1 in Pontiac Mich. Kierdorf 56, a j teamster Union official who a i geared before the Senate Racket committee in november Botto where he was accused of participating in a labor a Shakedown Quot Racket had been sprinkled with gasoline set aflame and dumped on the Hospital Lawn. He staggered into the Hospital with Burns Over 85 per cent of his body. Moscow. Up a soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev tonight rejected Western terms for a Summit conference and instead demanded an immediate u. N. General Assembly session to order Western troops out of the Middle East. In Washington the White House said it will have no comment on Khrushchev s note until a full translation has been received. Too in a dramatic and sudden switch of tactics Khrushchev told the Western big three that a general Assembly meeting is necessary since a the governments of the United states and Britain have declined to Call a conference of Heads of government of the five he said the u. N. Security Council a has shown it is not capable of ensuring a solution Quot in the Middle East. Khrushchev said Russia s Delegate to the United nations had been ordered to request an immediate general Assembly session. Washington up a the israeli government denied today reports that a stiff soviet note forced it to withdraw permission for a .-British Airlift across Israel to Jordan. The denial was issued through the embassy Here. A spokesman acknowledged that the russians had protested but said this was not the reason permission was withdrawn. He said no reply had been sent to Moscow reports from Jordan had said . And British authorities there believed Israel acted on the basis of the soviet protest. Receive word of death of relative confront Hoffa with testimony Washington up tile Senate rackets committee today confronted teamster president James r. Hoffa with testimony by a former Detroit laundry owner about a big payoff which the witness a took it for granted Quot went to Hoffa the testimony was Given by j William h Miller who said de troit laundry owners made the payoff to a High teamster official in 1949 to Settle a dispute. Miller said in his sworn testimony a i took it for granted Hoffa was the official who received the payoff. Swedes Burf fair thursday committee counsel Robert f. Kennedy told reporters afterwards that the payoff could add up to More than $5,000. Hoffa. Making a Long heralded return appearance before the committee had testified a few minutes earlier that he Quot injected himself Quot into the 1949 Detroit negotiator but said he could not recall the details. The committee did not question Hoffa immediately about the a human Torch attack on a teamster official in Pontiac Mich monday he declined to comment on it to reporters. Recorders office open for veterans Friday night Winfield Beacon a schedule of activities for the All Day a swedes Burg fair Quot to be held thursday August 7. Has been announced. In 1951 the Quot family night Quot organization of the Swedesburg Church decided to have a fair in August instead of its usual program. Since then it has become an annual event attracting crowds from nearby communities. This year the fair program will be very similar to past years. Khrushchev revealed the new line in letters to president Eisenhower British prime minister Harold Macmillan and French Premier Charles de Gaulle. As for an eventual Summit conference Khrushchev said Only that he hoped the general Assembly session might Quot prepare the ground Quot for a a expediting such a meeting. And he made it Plain that the soviet Union intends for the general Assembly to demand immediate u. S. And British withdrawal l rom Lebanon and Jordan. Too United nations. Up a diplomats said today soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev s latest Man Euver appeared to have killed chances for a showdown discussion on the Middle East until fall. The russian request for a special session of the general Assembly to order u. S. And British troops out of the Middle East seemed Likely in the opinion of qualified observers to result in another eventual deadlock. Early in the morning any new or different machinery the Farmers j might have is brought in and j placed on exhibit people usually j Start coining around ten o clock. The main feature of the morning is the kiddies Parade at eleven. All children Are invited to take part prizes will be Given. Charge proposed space program lacks boldness Washington up a House space committee members charged today the administration a proposed new space program is a Quot pre sputnik Model that lacks Quot boldness imagination and Republican and democratic members led by House democratic Leader John w. Mccormack committee chairman said the nation s survival is involved if the Chance to see themselves As they to ,. United states fails to overtake All Are invited to bring a Basket dinner at noon. The afternoon has a full and varied program. People will have a Are not so open and enthusiastic for new experiences As you Are Stock Market margins increased the two we always like charming was the cat is facts about Agnita her family and i before we cry letters families exchanged by reveal Many to wait which new York up a the 49 going to jump per cent ruse in Stock Market Hurrah. And margins effective today May bring relatives Here have reef ived word of the death of Max Flohrer of Salem ore., which occurred saturday August 2. He was a former j resident of Denmark and burling a ton. Mrs. Flohrer. The former Ruth Whitmarsh is a sister of Glen i Whitmarsh especially my husband. Home in Holland that will Portra her background quite vividly to the80 lighthearted As his new friends with whom she will live some of his children during the months to come. Iowa Corn crop progressing Well Sutphen 30.4.58 a dear or and mrs. Rommel Quot by american Field service who is not nothing More than a bit of psycho wife and logical Selling followed by a new has had attempt to scale the record highs j Many sleepless hours about the of 1956. Wall Street experts said j Des Moines up the Agri whole affair. But even he is in a today. J culture department us today glorious mood now because you1 but the action by the Federal i Iowa scorn crop progressed a the Henry county recorder s office will be open Friday night August 8th from 7 00 to to of for veterans who have not been Able to pick up certified copies of their i -214 separation papers a certified copy of the dd-214 needs to be included with the application to the korean veterans Bonus Board. All veterans serving from june i 27. 1950 to july 27th, 1953 Are eligible for the Bonus. Looked at the 75th and 90th anniversaries of the Church. An auction of baked goods is always one feature of the afternoon. This year the band concert will be held along with a Home Talent review program. Anyone interested in Irving part in thus program is urged and invited to do so. A Coffee hour Fellows the program. Throughout the Day children Are Busy going on various rides including Pony rides playing miniature god. Taking part in guessing contests or Vistim the concessions stand. Russia in space. Walter c. Anderson Dies in California to present sacred music from Bob Jones presented in a drowns in Pond Woodrow Wilson to realize what Headquarters we wore notified thai an american president is up Jour daughter Agnita is awarded a against who tries to do something scholarship at mount pleasant High that does not conform to Public school and that you will be so kind opinion at the moment. I to receive our daughter in your seem quite Ordinary people like we Reserve Board Drew criticism and no Quot Rich stinkers Quot As the Chi from the presidents of the nation s Dren please to Call them and be two biggest Stock exchanges cause of your heart warming several leading congressmen and friendliness and because of the Many economists however hailed fart the rotary club is sponsoring the move As a step against Infin Tum to Page 8 please Mon during the past week in Normal weather conditions the department said about 85 per cent of the Corn had Tasse led and 70 per cent was showing silk by monday night about Ive Mei for this Dale a to ii ensemble University will by sacred music program at 8 . On August 9 at the presbyterian Church at Salina hear Fairfield an inspiring program by this group from the Quot worlds m St unusual in Greenville. S. A Walter c Anderson. 65, former resident of Olds and Swedesburg died at the Wadsworth veterans Hospital in West los Angeles Calif., monday aug. 4. Funeral services will be held thursday afternoon at Douglas and Zook mortuary Monrovia Calif. Surviving besides his wife Are a son Dean Anderson and a daughter. Jane Rier. Who both live in California three Sisters. Mrs. George Spangler or. Winfield mrs. Herman Anderson Swedesburg. And mrs. Elsie Anderson of California. Or. And mrs. Spangler left tuesday to attend the funeral. Taken Back to state prison Elkhart Iowa up a Howard Frye. 16, Rural Elkhart drowned today in a farm Pond will include Well known hymns and about 2 Miles Southeast of Bere. J varied sacred selection Many of Polk county authorities who were which Havi been arranged Especial sent to the scene said the first by for them As Well is a Brief gos Des Moines up a Harold Plude 42. Ordered Back to prison for parole violation because he aided an escaped convict was taken Back to the fort Madison Cid on the drowning Alhout Mem today. Came in Pel message brought by i Britt a minor from be a Charles Penitentiary . Role agents. Monday by two a

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