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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 7, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky vol. 80, no. 185 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening. August 7, 1958 Caw by Tarrier Sim per week by mall to per or nationalism nationalism is the expression of the will of a people to be unified in their political life. In Mast instances nationalism is strongest among the smaller and weaker Peoples or thase who have had the experiences of being a Colony or new states that have recently come into exis Stence either by revolution it a partitions. Nationalism is weakest in such countries As the United states and great Britain which seek a comity of Peoples. Nation ism is Normal in history whether one thinks of the City states of Greece the revolt of bar Koch a against Rome the emergence of the National states of Europe after the French revolution or the establishment of Israel after almost 2.000 years of Diaspora or the emergence of Arab nationalism in the Crescent of Fertility Mav attend . Session a president Eisenhower Breaks into which surrounds the desert after a or arts laugh deft during his first press conference since july 2. Being held captive in the ottoman Presl cent told newsmen he will attend the United nations special Empire j Assembly meeting on the Middle East if he finds it necessary or de such Peoples As the armenians sizable that he should participate. In a More serious vein the Prosper the kurd or the jews who have Dent Points a Finger right Asne stresses the Point that he believes Long been without lands of their j the United nations special Assembly meeting on the Middle East own have maintained the strongest i should not be confined to Little Lebanon but should Range Over a nationalistic concepts often Asso wider Section of the Middle East listed with religious sectarianism. They remain not Only unconquered but resistant to absorption because of this nationalistic motivation i which sub,.r�?~ neither to Analy Moll official Sis nor logical explanation because i it is one of the facts of history of which one says that it exists i pc Clos la ctr because it exists. 0 9 0 if a Farmer believes his labor Nasser a egyptian ism at first should be Worth one Hundred cents gave the appearance of a revival of on the Dollar he should be in 15 die As ships collide National Farmers egyptian nationalism and won sympathy for its cause because Farmers Union Quot said k. E. Schu Man Field representative for the whereas among the great Powers National Farmers Union in a particularly the Western ones in-1 Short speech wednesday night at Van Allen named to space Board Iowa City Iowa up a or. James Van Allen the University of Iowa physicist who had a big state 4-h Camp drive in county is underway the Kickoff for the state 4-h Camp drive in Henry county was held at. The Brazelton hotel wednesday evening. A Large group of workers and interested people were in attendance. Discussion of the Camp and movie of the Camp was the feature of the meeting. To top off the Kickoff meeting the Henry county Supply Henry county farm Bureau. Tippecanoe Hawks 4-h club and j. C. Jets 4-h club presented their contributions toward the Camp. Earlier the new London lassies working Waynette Center ettes new London town ettes Waynette and 4-h wizards contributed to the Camp. Later business firms contributing will be listed. The Camp is located near Boone Iowa it consists of 615 acres and has a capacity of about 450 campers at a time the Camp is for the use of All groups 4-h, Church and Rural Young pople the Camp is so constructed it can handle groups the year round Henry county has made some use of the Camp with their delegates to City adopts resolutions for Black Topping 218 the night City Council adopted two ing of die 21 would Cost the wednesday Church $3,400 and the City $500 for resolutions the other three feet if a 24 Width which Call for the Black Topping by the state Highway commission of the Brick portion of Highway 218 through it pleasant from Orange Street to Green Street. The contracts for the project will be let by the state aug. 19. One Resolution Calls for a three i Inch Black bituminous surface from Orange to the Southwest Corner of the Square and the other from Clay Street to Green Street. The surfacing will be tapered off at 24 to cover All of the Brick. In the Loo Block of North Jeffer-1 son the travelled portion of tile hand in the u. S space satellite leadership conservation and program has been named to a health Camps. Also some of the Ternate maoism usually prevails j a meeting of the local Farmers j new space science Board Stab \ leaders and members attended listed by the National Academy of i pre convention workshops and there being a deep sympathy for i Union in the Rea building the so called underdog nations that Schuman hero from National Art fighting for nationalism thus fun Headquarters in Denver to Aid Nasser evoked sympathy and i the local chapter in an Organiza Friendship j Tion drive discussed the tall of j farm prices since 1954. Due to the but he soon emerged As an im-1 .mlnatl0n of. Panty for Peria list of Hiti Presque character Farmers 1st is his Book. A a philosophy of the mimics a mein he stated that shortly after and hts desire to build an Arab world War ii the fun advocated state from the Atlantic to pakis a 9 to panty was brought into of Tan is mindful of the nordic Post feet. In 1948. The farm Bureau at lats of Hitler. Rosenberg and the tempted to pass the Akin Bill. Dreamer nazis. J which would have lowered the Par rot a single Arab state was it it to Only 6<>while the Farmers liberated by Nasser or by a revolutionary movement the twelve of them All freed from the ottoman Union was behind the Hope Bill which called for a permanent 90 parity for the six so called Basic Empire were products of Western i commodities rom Rice wheat Grants of Independence and soviet Cotton Tobeaco and peanuts. How eighty. True the motives of the Ever both Bills were United info West were not eleemosynary but a fart is a fart whatever the motive. Nasser s United Arab Republic is the Hope Akin Bill and the 90 parity was Given an Extension. He said that in 1954, another Nasser there is no state there is Extension of the 90 a parity failed to carry and As a result prices on All Strable commodities dropped. The Hill which failed to pass in the House wednesday and which asked for a Price of 90 of the average Only a single individual master. Too the danger that Israel faces is that sooner or later it could be absorbed by Nasser into the United Arab Republic. This has been made Price of Corn for the three Pregrod possible by the american attitude i ing years padded by a higher Price during the Suez crisis an attitude for the first year would have lie which is now generally admitted to said effected 80c-a-Bushel Corn by have been an error. The resistance 1061. To Nasser in Lebanon the willing seen yes. Van Allen has been named vice chairman of the boards committee on physics of Fields and Par Tirles in space. Announcement of the appointment was made wednesday by or. Detlev w. Bronk president of the research Council of the Nas the new space science Board will be the focal Point for All Academy activities connected with space science research and will coordinate its work with civilian and government agencies. The boards spec Ial assignment will be Quot to Survey the scientific problems opportunities and implications of mans Advance into the scientists appointed to the Board Are specialists in their respective areas of space exploration problems connected with it. Under the terms of a congressional charter signed in 1863 by president Abraham Lincoln the Academy a research Council is obliged to advise the government upon request on any matters of scientific or technical interests. Camp workshop. It is also possible some of the members of 4-h will be Able to attend in the coming years As a county group or in a special group. At the Camp is located a Large swimming Pool where swimming is taught and also is used for recreation for the campers. All types of recreation is available. Also available Arr hikes nature studies and crafts led by Camp personnel. Leadership and citizenship As Well As spiritual Matins services Are participated in by the campers. The Camp is growing for the use of our 4-h members of today and tomorrow anyone interested in the Camp or who have questions on the ramp feel free to Contact the Extension office. Is required the matter was turned Over to the plan commission for the group s re emendation on the Width of the Street o 0 o an ordinance was adopted by the Council vacating an Alley at the South end of Jay Street. The regular fee of $75 for a quit claim deed was charged property owners who requested the vacation of the Alley Are Gilbert Pugh o. M. Morrison and Werner a. Smith. Too the Council authorized City manager g. W. Wright to have Adams from Webster to Green and Street is Only 20�?T wide and the i Webster from Highway 218 to and state requires 24 Width. The City ams surveyed. Those streets Border plans to change the Angle of tile the new Baptist Church site. Tile parking on the West Side of the City is to put the streets to Grade Bla k from 45 degrees to 30 de and tile Church will take care of Glees but this will still not pro putting on surfacing Coats in the vide the Width required so Tho fall and Spring City plans to establish parallel goo parking on the East Side of the Phillip Zink appeared before the Block on a trial basis. I Council and asked that a Street and1 j Alley behind his residence on North Broadway be deeded to him by the City. Zink said that the Street and Alley had been vacated Long ago but the it Council was t sure that it had been. The request was turned Over to the plan commission for study. Ness of the new government of Iraq to recognize its obligations to the West the unwillingness of Libya Sudan and Tunis to join him Are signboards of the Eastern opposition to Nasser. Alto j or. Van Allen is chairman of a committee responsible for internal instrumentation on u. S. Earth sat Schuman further stated that it a Hites during the International is tills Lark of parity that causes geophysical year. The radiation the Small annual earnings of the j detecting equipment used in a Farmer he said that in 1956 the pincers i. To and in was developed j the mirth up East the session would the at the University of Iowa physics . Broadens its proposal for session there was some discussion Over the vacating of an Alley North of Green Street to Warren Street in connection with the Hospital paving project. Most of the property owners involved want the Alley closed. Virgil Morris objected on grounds that the Alley is used by persons living in his apartments the Council turned the matter Over to the City plan commission for tie groups recommendation. In connection with the Hospital paving project in which the Block of Green Street leading to the parking lot will be opened and paved it was brought up that opening the Street will decrease the Square foot area of the lots below the minimum requirements this was also turned Over to the commission. J o a Joe Panther representing St Alphonsin Catholic Church told the Council that Church officials want the Webster Street Block North of the Church paved. The Church will pay for the paving of at the suggestion of councilman John Elgar the Council plans to hold informal meetings with the Heads of the police departments to go Over the costs of the departments and their needs. The Council pains to Analyse All the City departments. Too the City budget for the 1959 fiscal year was adopted As advertised with no objections. Wright told the Council the question has Arisen numerous times As to the charge for the renewing water lines from the main to the corporation line. The matter was referred to the Utility committee. O a a a Transfer of $7,500 was made United nations up the United states today broadened its proposal for an emergency session of the u. N. General Assembly to permit a wide swinging debate on emerging Middle average earnings per capita of me. M. Iut him formally Friday non farm workers was $2,023 in department under Van alien s Di-1 a All Israel. Turkey and Iran Are not opposition with the $903 per capita Section. Arab states of Alp Manv of the i funnels. Ibis or said. Gives j Arab states at All Many of the african states such As Algeria Ino reasonable finances to the youth Morocco and Tunis have Western Quot shirting Quot Pou the Faim he orientations and will not submit to it blamed this partly on be dietary it Nasser s dictation. Agriculture Ezra raft Benson. Go j saying that Quot everything Benson it is impossible for Israel to j has done since he s been in office organize a coalition with any Arab has been to lower farm prices states because of the accelerated Schuman expressed his concern Public opinion in Arab countries by Over the failure of the government radio and newspapers out of Cairo to subsidize Farmers although it and Damascus. It would for in-1 has lost a great Deal of Money stance be to the interest of such making subsidy payments to cer a country As Jordan to form an. Tain National magazines Alliance with Israel but that would he closed by saying that it is 1 fat of four More killed on Iowa roads Plainfield. Iowa up leis m earn in 17, Plainfield was killed today when her car went out troops from the Middle East pin-1 the u. S. Resolution was to u. S. Proposal submitted pre i piously to the u. N. Security coun re railed for an Assembly session j to discuss Only the plight of Leb i anon. Today s revision suggested the Assembly consider the situation in both Lebanon and Jordan. The Security Council met. At the request of Russia in the Headquarters to discuss the . Resolution. Also on the Agenda was a soviet proposal calling for an emergency convocation of the 81-member Assembly to discuss the withdrawal of u. S and British the Block at a 21�?T Width but from the Utility Light fund to other if a 24�?T Width is required asks fam is with $2,000 going to the that the City pay for the other Street fund $5,000 to Public safety and $500 to sanitation. Liquor profits totalling $3,491 77 were transferred to the recreation fund. Beer and cigarette permits were granted to Max r. Stith of the s amp s cafe. Miss Rea. Nav Watson pretty Dorothy Stockport is tankers crash in thick fog Newport r. I up a two t Ais one loaded with a million i,.lions of gasoline crashed in ii in. In thick fog today killing to 1. St 15 men and injuring 36. At noon live hours after the co Ion nine bodies were found entombed below decks in the larger of the two ships. Six other men lied when they leaped into the fiery sea after the Coli icon off it. Adams. Of the injured 31 were held in to. Pita la for treatment and Fiva were released. Several of the hospitalized were reported in critical condition from Burns. I he ships the 10,000-ton is. Gulf Oil out of Philadelphia and he coastal Tanker s. S. Graham. It Hided in a half mile Channel at tin Entrance to Narragansett Bay. The collision occurred within sight of the still beached wreckage of the norwegian freighter Belleville which ran aground last september during president Eisenhower s vacation Here. The Gulf Oil skipper capt. M. Shown Atter being named miss i n n of port Arthur tex., perish Stiral electrification Quot at the Anim Ltd with his ship which later went a1 Southeast Iowa cooperative aground off it. Adams. Flames electric association meeting Hen and smoke screwed from both ves tuesday. Miss Watson is now eligible compete in the state contest Des Moines. Dollar Days successful is five hours after tile collision p in a ted by a rocking explosion. A a a the Graham burned fiercely at the Southern tip of Rose Island in Newport Harbor. At one time the heat was so intense that fireboat could not get near the vessel and it had to be towed off the Shore. The Graham carried a Crew of 12. Navy chief Petty officer Thomas Wright of the Newport naval base Public information office reported that a Crew from the Navy Oiler Salamone found the nine bodies below decks. He said the three foot and do the grading. To was stated that if the area South of the Block is paved for a parking lot there is a possibility that the Street have to be 24�?T wide. It was estimated that the Pav learn to swim program draws 4,697 students it. Pleasant merchants report that Dollar Days tuesday and wednesday were successful. Thousands of coupons dropped from the air. Turned up in the j vessel still was burning at noon stores to be redeemed for their value. These coupons were Good Only on Dollar Days. The r . Picnic tuesday Drew a Large crowd from All Over Southeast Iowa. The farm Gadget show wednesday was attended by a Large group of farm inventors from this area. Many practice were on display. Program for band concert control and overturned. Be i and that Quot we the miss Mehmen Daugher of or. Members can build the kind of and mrs. J. R. Mehmen was in organization that we need to have route to work at Nashua when peace strength and abundance for the Accident occurred o o Montour Iowa up a Darwin r Hilman 37, state Center was killed today when his milk truck rammed into a flatbed trailer truck of a country Road intersection about 3 Milos South of Here. I was the second fatality in Tama county in 12 hours a the first fatalities of the year. Hilman died at the scene of the Accident. Approved by the 11-member Security Council there can be no veto in the voting. Worker killed the control surface of one ii s. Guided missile is about the size of an of fire desk top but is Strong enough to support six heavy cars. The main markets for fresh apples exported by the United states in 1957 were Canada Cuba and England it. Pleasant stores will be open Friday night Davenport. Iowa up Roy underholt 51, to Claire was crushed to death today Between a Crane and a Coal car while unloading Coal at an Iowa Illinois Jackson Gas and electric co. Power Plant i North of Here now not be possible. Nevertheless necessary for members to act in j Ning i1pr underneath the wreckage taken up first and appeared Ceras Nasser goes too far in Accuu mediately with their organization t on a county Road 6 Miles Northwest Tam to be lading Arab states. Jordan will soon drive of the Only Quot Farmers farm j 0f Here. Be forced to build Protee Tives against possible destruction. After a ii. Israel does have an effective military Force and wide spread diplomatic and political capacity. The United states has Guaran-1 teed the Independence of Israel of i the Baghdad pact countries and j great Britain is in the Baghdad i pact and is pledged to Jordan. \ therefore it is not possible for the United states or great Britain j to refrain from impeding Nasser a imperialism. Whereas they Are j pledged to support emerging nationalism of All the countries in this area. Including the non arabic countries Israel Turkey and Iran this is a real stir View of the j Middle Eastern situation one that will face both Eisenhower and Khrushchev at Geneva when they j meet out of it can come War out of it May also come a discourage ment for the further development of nth a Xii Quinn Rinir of Nasser imperialism which is i out Iki Piil beneficial neither for the United \ states nor soviet Russia in the Long no. The 1958 learn to swim program sponsored by the Henry count v red Cross and Given at the municipal Pool Here had a total individual attendance of 4,697. The largest in its five years of operation this at i Tendance was broken up into 15 1 classes with an average of 52 per i class. Out of the 4. 597 attending. 248 students received promotion in the beginners class there were 143, in tile intermediates. 54, Anet in the swimmers . 51 the course consisted of six one i hour classes for each student spec j cd Over a six weeks a it period in j Struc tors for the six weeks period 1 i were Clea Reinsch Donna Garrett i Gypsy Gayety the it pleasant City band concert will be held Friday at 730 p in. In City Park Kierdorf i lies of Burns Pontiac Midi. Up a human farm gadgets Torch Frank Kierdorf died today at St. Jaseph mercy Hospital Only first prize w inner in the Junior hours after police produced a wit division v us Clark Hays it in who saw a Flint arson Job on pleasant with his pickup truck it Tock rack for first prize Winner lot the division was Jim which he was of a burned. Believed to hav the following Gadth shown. Six in one farm steel Post Pusher tractor Weed Cutter 2 drawbar pit tor Gas gauge safety i Brooder Lawn edger groan or Woven wire Winder can Unwin Der. Stock rack tor truck Harrow transport trailer tractor Furrow in unloading Wagon floor lain from Combine Auger members of the Sou thou antique car club had the lug on display in Centra Ralph and Lyle shellac org love is a Many Splendore thing Buick in . Melle or under Paris skies okie a v8 Tom a Dot Vav tis. Gannon Dejac Giraud Pard spurt Coupe cd k it sous Leciel de Paris \ Overland the program Semper Fidelis. Sousa Ranis Angelicas. Franck triumphal March. Rozsa from them pm picture quo Vodise a carnival of Melody. Hawkins Bine Moon singing in the rain Moonlight serenade i Lui Hilo i Loc tors said Kierdorf a heart apparently stopped beating at pleasant with his Harrow cans n �?�>3 pm . But he Wasny to i Orf pronounced dead until 11 30 . Or Norman Gehringer who said earlier today the chances j that Kierdorf would live 24 More j hour were a one in made the 5 death pronouncement. The 56-year-old sex convict who s. Trat us Pic Levo or and pickup boat a self it made t Iowa Park. R iou 1, 1916 11 1928 was business agent for a Flint teamsters Union local had staged into the Hospital Early monday with Burns Over 85 per cent of his body. He Aid he had been turned into human Torch by two unidentified men who Quot took me for a rid but police have been break ii g Dow i his Story piece by piece. Bennett Hurley i it a 0 Tourin son my Una it Fiete Helen Rowe and a Gypsy rhapsody Williams 1917 do Crane Carls. Managers Kenneth i Elca pen. Parera let f to inure Butzier and Gay Dahr. Also helped whip and Keefe 19 i j we it a the classes Junior life savers the yellow Rose of m i a a a doing Volunteer work As a is is Tan George 1 he it instructors were Patricia Bryant. Voodoo. Walters 01 to a a a Jean Looker. Sally Wilson Robert Mother Goose jumps chair eau store a Al Al Clyde Mary of Connor and sue Emblem of Unity Richards f a it re _1 that it is a lot students came from a pleasant 191. H. D s be bout All old c hard state atty. Gen. Paul Adams Early this morning confirmed that police had in protective custody a witness to the explosive burning of a dry cleaning establishment at Anc Flint. La cd he also disclosed that Kier i Orff a missing Uncle. Herman \ a rho of was a a definite suss a pert Quot in the arson Job. Kirdorf s wife. Jessie and his h a Frank or. Of re at the hos say .lita1, but were not in the room Dong when he died with a lot of fun. And Vicinity As Well As busloads underholt an employee of the own 1hd wavlan0p Arm for 13 years was it a i new London. I Union. Salem Ana adjust a coupling on the Coal car Hillsboro when the Accident happened. Dulles Heads Home from Brazil Sibley. Iowa up David Rhodes 18, Toledo. Iowa was j opinion is Brief p killed wednesday night when the and to the Point Roetzel 18. Ashton w As killed to ear in which she was Riding missed i Day when Sud motor cycles col a curve and crashed into a ditch1 tided at the Edge of Ashton As a Quarter i ? East of Here. The other cyclist slowed Down to Billy Prasha 25. Tama the drive retrieve his wind blown Cap. J or of the car. And another youth Marvin p Bruns in. Sibley were both taken to a Hospital convenience Roetz cts companion was hospitalized with minor injuries. Garwin. Leva hot authorities said the car travelled about 60 feet in the air after leaving the Highway before crashing Nav into toe ditch Des Moines Upit gov Herschel c Loveless received a Brief to the Point opinion of Iowa a Highway system. The letter was signed by m Anderson of Madison. Wis the letter said Washington up Secretary of state John faster Dulles headed Home today from a two a v visit to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia the half finished City which one Day w ill be the capital i show of Brazil Dulles plane took off from Brasilia wednesday night after he Pony show at Crawfordsville Crawford Tsvili k fourth annual i u us will be held school Ball Field her aug. 9, at 7 30 p in tinally scheduled for attended a Farewell banquet Given was postponed dui to for him by president jus Celito contestants will it a you have the worst damned Kubitschek the Secretary was ex-1 classes there w ii by >400 in highways to toe tried 8 a re a i petted he a car today i trophic and ribbons a a a a it the e i the High saturday it was or aug. I but rain. I 12 fire Bomarc missile in test care canaveral Fla up the air Force fired a Bornean interceptor missile by rear control today in a test of both the weapon and the nations i a a a automatic detection and firing system a technician in Kingston n y pressed the Button that sent the Needle nosed Bornean streaking off the launching pad Here at Cape canaveral toward an unmanned plane a Tea

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