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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 5, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 8.1, no. 18. It. Pleasant Iowa sat Row evening aug. 5, 1901 these Days by George e. Sokolsky peking rejects the Brilliant planners in the state department led by under j Secretary of state Chester Bowles j who believe in a two chivas policy j children of the area do not inform the american people that their ideas Are rejected not Only by Taiwan but by peking not Only by Chiang Kai Shek but by Mao Tze Tung. To a broadcast from peking aimed at Asia on july 10. Peking tells the world big Day for children in it. Pleasant wednesday secret a around talks a under the new scheme As revealed by the u. S press the people s Republic of China and the Kuomintang clique in Taiwan which has been repudiated by the chinese people will be viewed a As successors to the China that entered the United nations at its founding the Kuomintang clique will be allowed to retain the seats which it has so far usurped in the Security Council and the general Assembly while the people s Republic of China is a to apply to the credentials committee of the general Assembly for approval Cupy an Assembly a big Day is coming up for the in it. Pleasant next wednesday aug. 9. This will be kids Day it will Mark the opening of the Back to school shopping season starting at 10 ., there will be offered the following in Park free Pony rides. Free cokes Courtesy Burlington coca cola company. Free potato chips Courtesy by Vee. Free ice Cream Courtesy Kennedy s Dairy. Children from it pleasant and Central surrounding territory Are invited to come to it pleasant for this special treat Day. Big Hail stones fall in storm tourist Hus lifted from Lake lives up i bodies apparently this plan of chivas was disclosed to minister Ikeda of Japan his visit to the United states. The red chinese commentator said Quot since 1950 the United states has tried to Block the discussion by the general Assembly of China s representation through a so called moratorium this moratorium has been successful in postponing this Issue for about 10 years. In the i t. T three or four years however a tin re has been an increasing feeling in the United nations. That this moratorium formula will no longer suffice to Deal with the question that there will be More and More delegations who will think that at the question ought to be debated on its merits and not be simply postponed Dean Rusk declared severe Hail and wind hit parts of it. Pleasant about 11 30 Friday night As a result of thunderstorms moving from Northwest to South. East. Hail lasted Only about three to of minutes but did some damage West of Here. Rainfall Here amounted to .6 of fw0 an Inch. B prime j wafer shaped hailstones up to 21 a during inches in diameter peppered the Chester Mills farm ten Miles Southwest of Here about Midnight the Herg Ikwild Switzerland Lupi a a bus that carried 16 american tourists to their deaths earlier this week was brought to the surface of Lake Lucerne today by a Power Winch mounted on a Barge. Seven bodies still were inside the i bus. Officials said the current deep in the Lake had carried off the eight other bodies which were still somewhere in the murky Waters of the Lake. One body was recovered i shortly after the bus plunged off j a narrow Mountain Road into the farm ten Mil s picturesque Lake wednesday received Hail. The Elmer Bencke Northwest also Renu Veu me j sex f the even bodies brought extent of the damage had no yet up a y1bus today w Cre women been determined sat Dav morning a he bus earned 38 persons a 35 the Bra Elton hot 1 report of a americans most of them elderly italian guides plans mapped in Paris to meet threat i americans broken window Glass As a result of j women school teachers an either the wind or Pellet sized Hail bus div a and two Swiss class of 1911 holds reunion�?1the class of 1941 of it. Pleasant lowing members in attendance front Row from Leftin Irene Dodds pm Oal Lon line Pitzer Crane. Phyllis Campbell Hendricks Marjorie Tilford Guinn Betty Kein Hart Buter Doris Garretson Gill and to lie in igbo under on. Middle Row Warren Hayes Leo bran Richard lid non. Lames Myers Robert Mcclure Earl Shafer Wayne Moore and Robert Sampson. Back Row Dale Pickard. Evelvn set Arff Graffr. Marjorie Watts Graber Macel Abrisz Anderson Dorothy Pickard , Messer Stiefel Betty Christiensen Hobbs Jeanne Wright i Enton and Betty Beck White. Louise which fell Here. A Large Branch was blown across Power lines in front of mayor Wade Mcc the a House on Broadway. City Light Plant workers took the limb a Way about 1 Twenty two pers rites managed to scramble to safety in the three minutes before the bus Sank. Tornado hits Austin Minn. Attend kiwanis divisional event dramatic moment for Norman m Ull in Austria inquiry for an iowan according to the i King Broadens. The United states has Laboured vigorously to sell this plan to the world the red chinese say that James Harland Cleveland assistant Secretary of state for International organization affairs. And Adlai Stevenson have been sounding out countries on the plan j there is not the slightest indication that red China favors the two chivas plan. In fact the Broadens clearly indicates that it j is in acceptable the plan was first advocated by Nehru of India and has found no general acceptance among chinese but has been held aloft for All to look at. It is one of those compromises which Means nothing in the end. Creates increasing difficulties but which give the impression of a desire to meet the other fellow at least half Way Why meet him at All what is the political or economic necessity of meeting him the position is that Formosa assert. That it is the lawful gov Nunen of China recognized by usety and a permanent member of the United nations possessing the right of veto. Red China does not claim to be a successor to the Kuomintang regime rather it tithe the posit on that it is the lawful government of China by right of revolution. Neither Side recognizes the other As Coeval or for that matter recognizes the other Sie at All. To a chinese there can in no two chivas. Red China has been ably represented in the United nations by soviet Russia which has made every possible Token Effort to protect red China s interest. At no time has soviet Russia failed to propose the admission of red China into the United nations. At no time has soviet Russia recognized the existence of nationalist China As lawful. But at no time Tini. E from it pleasant kiwanis Lub attending a kiwanis divisional sports and dinner at Burlington wednesday afternoon and evening wore Harold Hawkins Roger Oiler. Leo Bragg. Pern Cornell it by up ii a Tornado four blocks wid it smashed into Austin. Minn., Friday night and violent thunderstorms dumped torrential Rains on Detroit Chicago and Milwaukee George Means John Carter Alan at least five persons were struck s n Elgar and or f v Coles by lightning in the Detroit area Char rfcs Reeder of Abingdon. 111. J two persons were injured by was nominated for lieutenant gov the Austin Tornado a to stepped it for the division for the com on a fallen Power line and a Man was tossed onto a Jing year Lawn across the. Trying to close his Street while garage doors t h e Midwest struck with downpours Gustv winds and Hail Norman Wulf Iowa Wesleyan student in Austria for a few weeks writes of his experiences St. Veit Ander Gian Carinthia Austria july 31, 1961 dear friends i i have just returned from a 14-Day trip through Austria our group 11 americans and 10 , travelled by chartered bus. We made a Complete Circle around the country covering a total distance of eleven thousand Miles. Now i would like to relate a Little a of what i Learned Iowa into Nebraska and Kansas. The Southeastern Minnesota tor t hic it storms j Nado Tore away garage roofs rip Strong Ped off trim boards and shingles., it approximately the size of Maine the from Himes and downed Trees Mon Austria the 36 nations of euro ranks As number 19 rom great lakes through Illinois and Power lines for nearly a mile. Austria is made up of nine Federal lands similar to our states. Each has its own individual costumes. And folklore and also a very Trong of a a of u w. National award of ilog sawing vow and auxiliary j at threshers is confirmed banners of the have Opportunity a Rea to will again have logs sawed into lumber at the Midwest official communications were re old settlers and threshers reunion. Cei Ved in it. Pleasant Friday by j Henry county v. F w Post com-1 Paris it up ii a the Western foreign ministers nipped top secret plans rial by to meet the soviet unions threat to Berlin. Secretary of state Dean Rusk met for 24 hours at the Quai do orsay the Fynch foreign office v the brith foreign Secretary lord Home and French foreign minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Then they adjourned for a lunch also attended by West Germany s of Rueien minister Heinrich von Brentano contrary to expectation the minister rang Down a curtain of total secrecy on their talks this morning. At s spokesman said merely Quot the ministers had a general review of the situation a Rusk came preparer to persuade americans european allies to take the soviet threat to Berlin As seriously As the United states does. The Corse genre storting today could Lead ultimately to a new Summit meeting with Russia a or even a nuclear War. The foreign ministers will do the major preliminary work. Any final critical decisions Are expected to be left up to a Western Summit meeting which probably would precede any meeting with it Premier nik.1 a s. Khrushchev. Or. Sears whose Sawmill has been a major attraction Here each j Mander Edwin Traut and auxiliary year of the reumot1 we Bung it i president Mary Lou Liechty con again from Abingdon 111 i firming an earlier announcement that Post 2561 and its ladies Aux a Lous a Quot biliary had won fifth National brln8 the pounds or if a award in the 1960-61 Community Timber of Ier Lars and it Annot service contest. 8ct them in Contact president Wil Iliam Sater and arrangements will the letter from Mark Kinsey i be made for the logging and haul Rector National americanism de Fng them in. The sawing is done at the West cab a three were to be joined by West German foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano at lunch and at the conference table this afternoon. Norman Wulf government in the thin Finger that extends to the West the austrian Are student Point d austrian a related to Ting met re from Iowa tin to me with the As translator he a very sad store located. The highest Peak of in. A Auchu Chain is the Gro. Solo cheer. 12.461 j four n v u r feet this area is a famous tourist a had Yarrito an my i car d gone attraction and tour Quot. From a Quot. A Ith him to an Over Europe travel to behold the a farm m Iowa Beauty of these mountains tour had four n s x a i a a it apartment. Community service state sin part Quot the three members of our 1961 National Board of Community service judges agreed unanimously on this award after studying your record Book evidence thoroughly. The members of your Post and j auxiliary can be w Ell proud of this recognition considering that there i were 177 entries in National com petition National citations will be sent soon for your presentation a one 1 to the pos and a very reasonable rate. Ism has become one of industries of Austria the chief Austria has a year round tourist season. In the Winter tourists an attracted to the skiing resorts and jail a a. A. A. Tim it a a. A a a a a a Machiko Fukal Iara Iowa Wesleyan student from Tokyo. Japan shows fellow students in a systematic botany class the collection of mounted Flowers she received from her parents in Tokyo. Left to right Are Louphena Hensel fort Madison muss Fukuhara Lola Bradley. Argyle and Eva Wolf it pleasant. Dandelions irow in Japan. Too also to Vienna s famous opera and old Man will or bad a outstanding concerts. The summer Ever Lur it. Offers water sports at the Many. He in asked mgt lakes More than 100�, Mountain and sort of let a him. Climbing and motoring in the quiet Lovely scenery the number it f tourists exceeds 30 million thus making tourism Austria a third largest Industry. Moving from the Alps fur Tia East we began to enter areas More known to american tourists Burg and naturally Vienna. Salzburg the Home of Mozart summer music festivals tire City a population almost the other to the Rica they lived on 1 auxiliary a with the commander ind Over the year m chief s compliments and his Praise of your Many outstanding Community betterment projects you i f Cord Book evidence will a Quot on display in the Fontainebleau hotel Miami Beach saturday August 19 through thursday August 24, during or 62nd National Conven Ilion. That will make it possible for All the delegates to see what your visit it i Post and auxiliary accomplished my p son i and honors they be i told him that i would try to. At his Point our by. Arrived As i climbed on Large tears began to Roll Down his old weather d face the husband was i Yri m an automobile Accident tin Dauchy i the moved to of it a. And now employed ther Quot a. W t. \ neither of that t w a it enough Money to Ever \ a it a h a a the charged w Ith manslaughter Dubuque Low i up ii Mary Madigan the Dubuque baby who Lias admitted she was sitting with three Young children when they died today was charged with manslaughter. Khrushchev announces a speech Moscow up a soviet Premier Nikita s Khrushchev will address the nation by radio television monday night it announced today. Ana was urges raising of living standards Del Esie. Uruguay die by fore he the Man. Ltd gtd by the by Quot and waved w drove off he Aid. Good health to you. Iowa my to Salz i All America to it tills Small i Quot of kind Ivy obviously meant a Deal to that the period of activities covered included april 1. 1960. To March 31. 1 1961, during which time James i Green was Post commander and i Marge Walton was auxiliary ident. The lengthy scrapbook of evidence of the organizations activity i ios included newspaper clippings i letters certified statements of a Punta i Uri Edu Rdo Victor Haedo. 1 president of the uruguayan a i Tiona Council of government today i urged the inter american econom. In conference Quot to raise the living i standards of the latin american people As a bulwark against total i Haedo Addre my the Opl impression of the conference. Warned the 300 delegates that it will be a j tragedy for latin America it they fail to achieve Concrete results. J Tivi ties. And the like and was prepared by Neil Wikel Joy Hayward Marge Walston and Billie Turley. Man Possich undersea Iimori rom dandelions grow in Japan Tex Iowa Wesleyan botany students mall private girls College staffed Learned. Machiko Fukuhara student from Tokyo received inc Sam live the red chinese been willing pie of mounted Quot wild Flowers sen to accept any status of Equality by her family in Japan with nationalist China. According to or r. W. Poult a. Chairman of the natural science. We thus have a situation in the division other common wild flow making which will Lead to further ers found both Here and in Japan insults to the United states. What include ground Ivy. Bind Weed. Chester bowies and his associates j Shepherd s purse. Chick advocate is not a program that Isidor mail Fern Buttercup. O a great degree by graduates of Bryn mawr. Through suggestions of the faculty and other friends who had visited Iowa Wesleyan she enrolled Here for a course leading to a second degree one from an american College. Miss Fukuhara said Quot i am an with the influx of tourists. I at Onia Yew could m tended an Organ recital there my without sult h a u was greatly thrilled by the Rich Quot Ruba and Laos or of the music and full tone that tin.-1 auf w Large pipe Organ produced 1 Norman near Salzburg is the Shahein a Salt mine that Date Quot Back to Ron c times. In the mine Are Many. Lakes and the mine even extends into Germany. To go from one layer to the next you must Slid Quot rior kindness and everyone and it so p at night has As Berlin air minds Dershen Wulf or. Lundh Here from Sweden enjoys activities hut not the climate no mention of the subject was made but it Wao believed the Khrushchev address would con statute a reply a either directly or by implication a to pre Dent Ken j Nedys recent grave talk to the american people on the Berlin . The importance Given to this a a a per was underlined by the fact a if was announced m Advance. has Beer done Only once before a when Jiru Sychev returned from the i Piura Summit meeting with Kennedy in june. First reaction Here to the announcement a. Khrushchev i probably would talk a lot tougher in addressing his fellow soviet citizens than the Kremlin in 1 its formal notes this week to the l if Quot a states. In town f i i West Germany. I Western observers considered the notes relative mild in tone compared with previous commune a . But they showed no sign of change in Khrushchev s determination t Imp pc a one sided out Ion on the Berlin problem if necessary. Only child and my people were in Hong sloping slides w Ith a guide in Weed easy to see me go to a far country j front and the rest piled on hewed and were Happy to have me go to had. Thl it mine should be a must trying to raise Bond for men beneficial to the United states or sorrel and plantain among Many to peking or Formosa. It is an the scientific names Are in latin Indian program part of Nehru a making it quite simple to Identie Effort to assert an untenable lists. Leadership in Asia. It is a scheme 1 miss Fukuhara is enrolled in i that denies legitimacy but supports systematic botany course this sum opportunism. Mer under or Poulter. The course a College where i d be among re on ones itinerary if they plan to Gigious people. I wanted to become visit Austria. After stopping and familiar with the american Lan seeing the most baroque str Cut a Guage and customs in a Small col in Austria the monastery at i k. we continued on to the Capitol of she said further a i listened to All the talk on education at the there can be no reason Why includes the mounting and naming meetings of the league of women the american people should a of wild Flowers. When the collect voters in Japan and determined Cerf a plan of this sort and the tion of Flowers from Japan picked that i would become trained likelihood is that they will not. And mounted by Mach Kos parents go Back to my country with new should this administration at-1 was received an International on guidance and education tempt to push it far along it May flavor was added to the class. She plans to continue in graduate become a very burdensome political i the japanese student came from studies so Quot he will be trained to Issue for the president to carry j her Homeland to Wesleyan last be a counsellor at an education. Perhaps that is Why an Effort was september to Complete work for a institution in her country made to get Chester Bowles to degree in psychology. She had al graduation from Wesleyan resign which of course he did ready not do. J a Iii Austria Beautiful Vienna. Local on the Danube it austrian custom says that the Danube is Blue Only to people in Lovei Vienna is prob the loveliest cities in Anc ably one of the world. Will while in Vienna i had a most dramatic encounter with an austrian. Our group was standing in the main Quot quare when a very old Man approached our group. He he Louisvill r 111 up the Norn left behind prayed and fasted today and turd to use Bond for the men. Seized when a Federal state invasion torn overran their armed Camp a we Are not erased Quot a housekeeper Foi cult it Trier John r Harrell said. Quot this binds us closer together than Ever Ectore Quot All the women re Srill fasting and praying a she said Quot we will fast and Pray until the lord tells us to Stop Quot said mrs Patricia Gillard wife of one of the 18 men arrested in the pre Dawn raid Friday mrs. Natalia Ham 11. The Quot Mother of the militant anti communist cult Leader was trying to secure deeds to her land to offer As recur Rolf Lundh 30-year-old doctor from Sweden al iting in it pleasant under the Experiment m International living and sponsored by kiwanis. Lias been enjoying activities since coming Here july 31 but not the climate Quot it s hot a i think it. The humidity Quot he said summarizing the opinion of most natives a bout the recent heat humidity wave. Lundh has of i adapting to the change in climate from Cool Stockholm to Iowa. It now sports a Quot Crew cd Quot Long hair is hot and it gets in your Way it and Light weight clothes. Lundh who will be Here until received a degree from be this month on August 19, an1 recognized us As americans. Coil. In t. Ivo. It is i important Day for miss Fukuhara. A ked one of the austrian students in tin my s m a it. Lundh has been particularly in-1 Tere Ted in his visits to the mental j health Institute As a gum of d j Fol of who is a member of the staff. Lundh considers the hos j Pital and equipment Quot very mod j the athletic swede quite a Snow a skier at Home has taken up the water version of the sport her i under the instruction of Roc it Galer. Or Lundh had Little Troubb with the new sport Quot because it s so much like Snow skiing Quot he al"0 enjoy d bicycling and swim mining m it. Pleasant. He commented on the availability of culture to americans. H particularly enjoyed a recent visit to the Art museum in Chicago where he spent a lot of time with Hus favourites impressionists like Van Gogh and Renoir. Besides visiting he has been absorbing some education while Here. August 20, is presently living with he been taking a ten hour a the or. James Folsom family. Hav week economics course at Iowa Uig studied psychiatry m Sweden Wesleyan summer school. Town marshal Accident victim far Lille Iowa up ii a the town marshal of this Northeast Iowa town has become the first traffic fatality in Deleware county this year. Lester Gibbs 55. Was killed about 11 . Friday night when his in crashed off a county Road about one half mile Southeast of Here Gibb Quot who was on duty at tiie time was killed outright. Investigating officers said he apparently lost control of the Auto in Loose gravel and it smashed into the Side of a steel Bridge. Lundh seven head of cattle killed Salem a seven head of cattle belonging to Charlie Pidgeon were killed by lightening during the electrical storm last week. They were found lying under a tree

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