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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 9, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant vol. 83, no. 186 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening al gust ii 1961 these Days try George e. Sokolsky Mongolia Cut out of China or Siberia or i turkestan whichever you choose is Mongolia. The mongols have j played a curious role in history j suddenly emerging to significance in the 12th Century and conquering much of Europe and Asia and then receding to a Small insignificant collection of tribes. Genghis Khan who brought the mongols to Power was born in the Region of Lake Baikal. He married the daughter of the chief of Karakorum where he established his capital. Then he subdued the whole of Mongolia. At . Iowa Coop s annual meeting Wickard praises . Assails commercial Power Berun fuse is sputtering Claude r. Wickard former Secor agriculture and former Way or pay rotary them is different.�?�, under the cooperative system he Rea administrator tuesday told Usu no said the individual pays taxes along the nearly 4.000 people at the 2.1rd to annual Southeast Iowa Rural elec Trie cooperative meeting Here they had proven a sound equitable fair a something you have a right to Quot commercial Power companies a conquer he said ,.npvpr acj0pted a True area in 1211, he began North China and in due course pr0bram for the farm took the entire country. He also today we Arp told that 98 ppr cent moved Westward and conquered it of the farms in that country have he attributed the per turkestan and the great cities of Khiva Samarkand and Bokhara. Thus Genghis Khan not Only possessed military Power but he accumulated great wealth. He then cent age largely to the Rea program he accused companies of with his Power Bill rather than that paying the Power company to pay Rural electricity them. La the Campaign also includes talk about unfairly subsidizing Rea. He continued. Yet a everyone in the United states has some kind of yet subsidy of one kind or he said. A tariffs ships airlines magazines a All have subsidies. In my opinion some of the people who have cried loudest about subsidies have been people who Are themselves tile most guilty of accepting new Hijack in j her i How Borth i divided. The. Sort. feel a con Quot no a economic Pinch while the Ether Rone Are pro Perm. Contracts awarded by school Board lands safely in Havana commercial haying Quot the Power profit moved into Persia the caucasus i �5> the single determining Factor a what has been Given to Hea is and Russia and into India. In contrast he said Rea co opera not a subsidy in my mind. He Adri having conquered so much of Tives serve All farms regardless of de. A Long term loan at two per the world he returned to Kara expense. And. He added a your cent interest is their subsidy Korum in 1224 and set himself up meeting Here today is a Demon this he said. Was necessary to pro \ As a great ruler but he did not station of the fact that you can vide everyone in a District with live Long. Have this Type of program and electricity. Modem Mongolia is a Large you re successful from a financial a a done to take for granted tie Eon country of 1,367.000 Square Miles standpoint or any other eluded that lint its population is Small 2,500. However he warned Quot lets too. And it is Likely to remain \ take too much for granted Quot Small because much of Mongolia told the Rea members there was a consists of the Gobi desert a. A propaganda Quot program aimed at land which is useful for cattle weakening Rea. And that they must and horse grazing but for Little a keep up the fight to control their else Power company you re not going to not run into stronger opposition than he you be Ever run into he told them to Battle for Rea. Be. Cause it is Quot one of the Best examples in the world of a free Enterprise. It is an excellent example of when China became a Republic. Mongolia was divided into two Wickard said commercial Power three directors were the meeting re elected Charles Hartley new Vork Ipi a a huge pan american bus Jet Airliner with i persons aboard was hijacked in the Kies Over Mexico today and forced to Fly to Havana Cuba where it landed safely tile airline reported. A o a the dc�?~8 originated inflight at to a m Eidt in Houston. It made contract for the gasoline Supply for Tim it. Pleasant Community a school District bus Fleet was let to top. In Houston. Texans Mexico City and was in the air in route to Guatemala City when the Pilot ent a code message. The big commercial jct was in flight when it was diverted by persons who were not immediately identified tile airline., said. Sinclair the Low bidder by the school Board tuesday evening. Sinclair a bid was based on the posted tank Wagon Price less 5 21 cents for either Ethyl or regular other bidders and their bids were do Sun rav less 4 75 cents for Ethyl or r Gular Standard Oil. Less 4.65 Continental Martin less 4.63, and Yetter Oil Burlington less 4 2 on regular and less 4 7 on Ethyl. Companies had unfairly accused co during Mongolia was Alvias in. Of not a a to a a s but Cowen Secretary n k her. �?�8, rim Quot hmm do pay he mid. Quot Only the to surer and Miles Melton. Local girl named new a miss rea3 Pari to China attracted Man. Chinese methods of agriculture Urga was the capital of Mongolia and i have been on the Kalgan Urga Road in my Day. It is a land without any excitement it is to be noted til at although the chinese Are often referred to As a mongoloid people they Are not mongols nor Are the japanese in fact the mongols Are closer to he turkish tribe called the Zigurs who ultimately showed up in Hungary and Fenland. Since the russian Conquest of the amur Region by Muraviev Mursky il858 Russia has sought to conquer the whole of Mongolia vv5 i san a an elevated train station in a it it Berlin. The to. Berlin Era get on in their none. Ride to their Jot in a i Quot a Quot Quot Sones and then done to go Bael. By the tens of thousand. Pan american announced in Mexico City that the Captain of the plane was Carl Ballard other the contract for Coal was let to Crew members were first officer the Scarff produce Andes Uel on a Samuel Penfield or of Are corded of $12.05 a ton for it Picas win j. Dodge. Plight Engineer int $13.05 for pleasant Lawm and William Carpenter. Pur or Andris $13.55 for Trenton. The firm was do the Only bidder. New London Man taken by death new London a Clifford Johnson. 66. New London died at i pm August 8. At the Blanck nursing Home where he had lived for the i past five years. The son of Caroline Swanson and 0jd Dauth tar 0f mrs Elizabeth Mcandrew Johnson he was born aug Culley it peasant route 4 tues-24. 1895. At new London where heyday afternoon was named the new spent his entire life. J pm is Rea Quot at the annual Southeast he is survived by one brother. Walter c Johnson. New London. Janet Elaine Mccuiler 18-year i to Yos j a i a i i Vous sort la j Secil Mac jul and turkestan one of the earliest live Brothers and two Sisters prewar fought by China against i 0p Cpd Bim in death. Russia was Over the Iii Region services will be held thursday of turkestan. The amur which aug at 10 30 a in at the Elliott became the dividing line Between j Chapel with Rev. John c. Woluns Siberia and China also establishes pastor of the presbyterian Church. I he historic fact that the maritime officiating. Provinces of Siberia Are More interment will be in Burge cent chinese than russian territory. Tory. Friends May Call at the there is no natural Boundary borne wednesday evening. Lint Between Mongolia and Siberia j or Mongolia and turkestan. Therefore. The same Peoples Are to be found in All these areas. Some of these people Are still shamanistic in religion most of them Are moslem tile mongols up to the Conquest by soviet Russia were Lamal Stic Buddhist that is they took their religion from Tibet rather than from China. And As in Tibet an unusually Large number of men and women were monks and nuns and therefore celibate thus keeping the population Small averaging about two per Square mile. Undoubtedly this has changed somewhat under the communists who do not believe in religious the familiar but ominous sign says it in four languages. Huge Moscow Welcome Given spaceman Titov tile contract for the new pump i and for repairing the Wal at pleas jut Lawn was let to Haun urn Brothers on a bid of $352. The Only remaining teaching position still open was filled by tile i employment of Glenda la ,1 user of it pleasant has had teaching experience and will be assigned to a position in the third Grade. Four additional bus Drivers were approved by the Board to fill the remaining vacancies. The four Are i Dale Watts. Jack Shull Richard Dioz and Keith Castle. Leon and stewardesses Dionne cum Foi. Eleanor Weis Kay Rigby and Rita Layne. Pan american said p Bel. A it i this was the first time a com Mercial Jet of this size had Ever attempted a Landing at the Havana Airport. Tile plane earned 72 passengers and nine crewmen. The airline spokesman Aid that keeps Senate in session tin Havana Airport has a runway which measures 10,660 feet. He Aid Ute plane we Orth be a wee 11 $5 _ and $6 minion was flight no 501. In Wahington president Kennel asked to be kept fully informed of the reported hijacking of the Jet Airliner. As soc. A i Quot press Secretary Andrew t. Hatcher said Kennedy issued orders that he wanted a fall available information As soon As we can get in Mexico City pan american officials announced that one of the passengers was the colombian foreign minister Julio Cesar tur Bay also aboard was Roger Wolin pan american Public relations director for latin America. Too pan american Aid tile radio me a .1 or urn Ballard was received at Browns Vil Tex. On the mexican Border lae la jacking followed by Only six Days the a Eizora of a Continental airlines Boeing 707 Jet on the ground at Elpaso Tex., by sex Leon Bearden and his on Cody Border patrol and Fri men overpowered the gunmen after they had held the Crew and four hostages for More than nine Houri Moscow up it a soviet pre Khrushchev. Between a Dalliance for programs Quot into action and reshaping the economic face of the Western hemisphere informed sources said the j agreement came in a Surprise be i Crit meeting held after a boastful restraints. Increased rotation tirade by cubits Emette Che however can Only produce famine Guevara touched off shouting and As the land is not suited for the fist fight8 tuesday in the inter american economic and social Iowa Rural electric cooperative meeting in Mcmillan Park Black haired miss Mccuiler won Over 19 other entries from South East Iowa in the annual contest. Her measurements Are 35-24-35. A Grad-1 uate of it. Pleasant High school this Spring enjoys sewing skating. Swimming and music has participated in girl scouting con Mier Nikita funeral j Cert band choral groups school Bear hugs and kisses showered on plays and methodist youth fellow-1 maj. Gherman Titov at a inc Quot ship. She was a twirler for the Moscow Welcome for the space marching band and a member of Man said today the time is to the High school trampoline off when we will have Mati u plans to attend american in flights to the Moon and oth r Sti tut of business in Des Moines planet.-. Thus fall. And such Are comm in ism. Achievements he told tens of Mil Smith. Far told High school to Hollands of Chi a eng Mascot senior was first runner up in Tush we a a tilt sooner a Quot to Del to St unto to Contr a a a a Rock a a a a mater the whole world Ani foil to to Del Este. Uruguay Coue Olmut Home dancing communism it up 1�?the United states read Ted j owling a cd skating As our h a a a a. A agreement with Argentina and Ber Bobbie it Titov who spoke before Kim Brazil today on a master plan fori Chew said his Multi Orbital transforming president Kennedy s the next three places went to around the world in space and. Koral Lea Schroder new London return to an exact pre arrange agree on Progress Alliance various of my of the ruling presidium. Many of the kisses were Mouth to Mouth a not nuptial greeting among men in a he s r be fog Quot the red Square Celebration Titov had driven wit ii Khrushchev 12 Mil from Vnuk ovo Airport through streets jammed with hundreds of thousands of person.-. Material to be included in the brochure relative to til Quot school building program was completed. Centers where Public meetings Wil be held prior to the vote on the question of erecting new buildings in it pleasant and Salem Are being arranged sept i. Washington up a sen William Proxmire do is., kept the Senate in session throughout the night before ending a 26-hour a Sta Kathon against the appointment of a Texas oilman to the Federal Power commission. Proxmire finally ended his tal Kathon at 11 05 a in. Cd and j opened the Way for a vote on oilman Lawrence j. O Connors con the election will be urination. Tile Senate had been in continuous session for 26 hours and 5 minutes at that Point. Soviet to Siton says Khrushchev father and son missing in Iowa flood Washta. Iowa up a Marcia Nav tedrow. Selma and Dolores Ragine Adkisson Donnellson. Landing spot nauts now can a land spaceship satellites at any place or. Earth Khrushchev however Stream that a your powerful rockets wha w. U. Leuenberger Are not matched anywhere in Moscow was ablaze a re Sun and eked it with Flag Bai nor. Balloons and pictures of Titov Hel floods triggered by an copters flew eve Rhad dropping cloudburst swept a flight Small flags bearing Titova a picture Way near in in. Address in red Square.1 entry carried a father and son to Titov expressed his Pride in hav their deaths proved that Cosmo no been Cho n for i. 25-hour, three More die on Iowa roads Moscow up ii a soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said tonight that the soviet Union will sign a peace treaty with Germany but that he does not think Uch a treaty will Lead to War. Speaking to a Kremlin reception for spaceman maj. Gherman Titov Khrushchev said that no threat would intimidate the soviet Union. Khrushchev said that Only a mad men can respond by War to a peace the official soviet tass news Agency reported. Elas 11 11-Inch car off a High Here today and appear tass said that Khrushchev told Rue reception guests that a the so i people want peace a stable peace for All production of food and there is Little or no Mineral wealth. Some a conference Oil has been found in chinese territory adjacent to Mongolia 20 billion Dollar Alliance for but it us not economically _ Progress plan to match what he found dead Guevara literally challenged the if cant. Mongolia is now a state a satellite of soviet Russia functioning As an Independent communist country under the soviet system. It has produced nothing in recent years to encourage one to believe that it is very different from what it was 30 or 40 years ago when it startled tile world As being a source of Dinosaur eggs. Owen Lattimore an american who lived in tientsin and very influential in the state department is one of the very few americans who knows Mongolia. He is in that country now although How he got a passport to said Cuba could do in the next 20 years under its communist supported and orientated revolution. World Are used for peaceful p a a the data obtained by it in Ltd to naut.-, he said a will Bec in a car in w hich a Washta Black-18-minute Orbital Hight in space Smith and his son were Riding was he said the achievement proved found after a wave of water pushes soviet l in Ltd i preparedness edit off the Roadway and sent it for any by tumbling about a Quarter mile. No Trace was found of the men. Wil Budi Zarr. 43. And his son. If tar u s s r is monies in asked a new War Titov said. Icon strength Archie 20, and they were feared he said drowned. The Flash flood roared in e so if Quot Mush the a is ready in had the Igor or All and any William u. Leuenberger. 79. Was the common property of ail dead at the rear of his Home j fists of All countries and no on Hospital Avenue at 5 tues-1 kind attributed to a socialism. Khrushchev to it n crowd was a the launching pad the soviet Titov. Flight Leuenberger was found by Henry j fleeced the might of Sovi a in a meeting lasting past mid Schwartz and Andy Mcsorley who. Dui it try Anco science and the s it in demands in Titov s Dav was th1 Day. Death was heart attack. Night that Challenge was accepted according to the sources heavy damage in collision extensive damage resulted in a two car Accident which occurred in the 800 Block of North Broadway at 3 25 . Tuesday. A car driven by Inez j. Frank. Danville route two travelling South go there or what he is doing there Broadway confided with the rear except that to. Al a not known a Latt 1 More a presence in Mongolia synchronizes with the state department s activity in favor of getting Mongolia into tire United nations. Neither red nor National-1 is China supports the idea of a j separate Mongolia which historically is a part of China. The admission of Mongolia into the United nations is a state department trick to divert attention from the admission of red China. It is not attracting favourable support Iii Asia although soviet Riu it a is of a car owned by Frederick huh. Route five the car was parked in front of 804 Broadway headed South. The Hult 1958 Oldsmobile was damaged an estimated $500 and the Frank 1960 Ford about $229. A charge of failure to have her car under control was filed against the Frank woman by City police. She pleaded guilty and was fined $5 and costs by mayor Wade mob eth. Pleased with the idea. Copyright. 1961. King features Syndicate inc went to him. He had been dead desire Jor peace and fund p for about 15 minutes when found in the backyard. A Vostok ii did Apt Cany at Deputy Van Crawford City police i bombs he said by and Deputy county medical instruments Quot examiner George Sutton went to j the scene to make a routine invest Titov and Khrushchev t. Ligation Sutton ruled death was by several times first at v of natural causes. Airport where the 38-year-old it William Ulrich Leuenberger. Son Monhaut arrived and again a1 of Jacob and Margaret Strieck both had spoken at red Squi it Leuenberger was born dec. 9, 1881, j at the Airport Khrushchev at Solon Iowa. Titov a hug and a que it / has parents preceded him in then kissed him firmly tin a Tim death As did three so ters and three ton the check.-, after Compo Brothers. His red Square address the p. Surviving Are three Sisters mrs. Mier emotionally kissed i. A Emma Munn Tipton la., mrs. The Mouth for about four seem Mary Washburn Seattle Wash. I then kissed his Cheeks Aga. And mrs. A a. Bertha be Van. Embraced him As Thund Portland Ore. Cheers arose he was a member of the lutheran Church in Solon. Graveside services will be held at Forest Home cemetery at 3 p. In. Thursday Augustio with the Rev. Fred Richard officiating. The ail port ceremony w As Ful but lasted Only to mini there was a riot of kissing. A addition to his kisses from Khrushchev Titov kissed or was kissed i Ama a by most of the soviet Union s Hig d1 asks Quot his not far throughout Man into space maj. Yuri Garin. Much More the ext Rove 1 Sian the Stock rather Titov Gagarin out did ins fellow cosmonaut in Waves and smiles to the crowds Khrushchev til com 11 id ship of Titov and gaga in ref Rcd to them As celestial Broth a a in it demonstration of punted marching across red Square govt the plat pm watch ers a View of packed humanity a at seemed n go on in endless w aves Titov arrived a Tim Airport in a. It Ecial Airliner that had been escorted by four jct fighters on it j 2 hour flight to the capital. The spar Man alighted about from the plane and walked at stiff attention Down a lops carpet to in official stand win re he saluted Khrushchev tears of emotion ii Gan to flow from the yes of red officials t1 Tov and member. Of Hus family. Out of i several Small creeks which Fred Elbow into the Little Sioux River in first Northwest Iowa. Washing away a Highway and railway Bridges As if they were toys. One Bridge was ube bled carried three Miles downstream before coming to rest officials said. Numerous Homes were flooded leaving families temporarily marooned for several hours. In Washta Stratton Creek normally narrow enough to jump across welled to a Width of More than 1,000 feet during the height of the storm. Young Zarr. A dance band drummer fell victim to the angry torrent when they set out to re Day Ipi Iowa Straffi death toll already running Well ahead of last year s Pace was boosted sharply again in the last 24 hours three More name. Were added to the toll raising it to 366, 44 More than through this Date a year ago. The latest fatality was Allan Fehr �?T22, a Rural West Bend youth who died today in a fort Dodge Hospital. Fehr s car went out of control on a curve on Iowa 44 about four Miles South of West Bend and crashed tuesday night. Killed Iii traffic accidents tues a tile program Call. For the Widen Day night were Fred e. Jacobsen a my in parts or All of 16 blocks Bor-46. Rural Shelby and Louis s. Dos Der my the business District. The Tai. 29. Rural Lawler. J too Block of North Adams the too and 200 blocks of South Adams Art cult a cd and work is progressing. May resume negotiations t Bren removed in Tho Street widening project started the Street widening program recently approved by the City Council has been started by the bar. Join. Construction co. Of new ton Low Didder for the project. On disarmament sept. 5 Washington a up the i Loo Block of North Adams and in tile 200 Block of South Adams on uhe East Side and widening has United states and Ruma Are ex-1 petted to resume preliminary j armament negotiations sgt pm 5. Probably in new York official said today. The Kennedy administration also was reported giving a serious consideration to sending negotiator Arthur h. Dean Back to beet. Started. Ronald Swartzendruber is fatally injured Wayland a Ronald Swartzen a Truber 19. Son of or. And mrs. Omer Swartzendruber of Troy Geneva in a few weeks tor another ohm. Died monday evening in a try at origin test ban talks the new York the stalled nuclear Trieve the younger Many a stalled Between White car which contained his set of Drums. Before they could reach the spot however their car was swept off Iowa Highway 31 into the swirling water about two Miles South of Here talks would be House disarmament adviser John j Mccloy and Russia s Valerian a. Forir. Who met in Washington in june and in Moscow in july turn an ear to Jet aircraft noise be spit 1 at Van Wert Ohio of injun. Suffered in a traffic Accident h it happened. Friday. Survivors include a sister mrs. Leonard Leihhty of Noble. His parents. Another sister and four Brothers also survive. Tile Swartzendruber Are former residents of the Wayland Vicinity. Services will be held thursday afternoon at West Liberty Ohio. Sister Dies it. Madison mrs. W in cookes funeral Home is in est ranking official.-, include i a Barf t. I president Leonid Brezhnev from Khrushchev. Titov turned to Plant a warm kiss on his wife. Ewing 84, died sunday at the Home 4 Mother own in earlier this week from Washington up a congressional investigation of Jet Lavina i aircraft noise was authorized t. Nay the House rules committee a Neuse m i proved an inquiry by the Houst Commerce committee into the a i their Home in Siberia n it the re were kiss of her daughter mrs. My father Custer 7294 Avenue e survivors include a brother noise problems which aft Resi Robert Aiken it. Pleasant. Dents near airports handling jets fined in mayor s court Gary Hart it. Pleas it it has been fined $5 and costs in mayor Wade my by h s court on a charge of ignoring a Stop sign. The ticket was issued by City police

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