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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 14, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky a new Prophet Frank s. Hogan District attorney of the new York county wants to be a United states senator. There is no crime in wanting High office but a United states be ire tor is supposed to be something of a statesman. At least most senators think they Are such. Our principal business these Days has to do with foreign relations because no matter How one slices it. We Are at War. The evidence for that lies in our huge expenditures for our National defense including support for our allies and other nations. Frank Hogan therefore being a candidate for United states senator Felt called upon to do the statesmanlike act while answering questions asked of him by Young democrats. The replies Are Given in the third person singular an unusual form for interviews somewhat stodgy and stilted but we shall let that pass. What is significant is that Frank Hogan come out for recognition of red China having had no experience in International relations at All he certainly is courageous in selecting that hot potato As his first shot in the dark. Both the democratic Truman administration and the Republican Eisenhower administration have rejected the recognition of red China the latter not later than last sunday but Frank Hogan is for it. Frank Hogan said in the third person singular vol. 80, no. 191 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening aug. 11. 1958 Lloyd gives support to Ike a plan bus by Carrier 30 per week Airliner plunges into sea United nations up a British foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd gave full support to president Eisenhower s Middle East peace plan today and blasted so i Viet foreign minister Andrei Gro a Myko for uttering a just Plain nonsense a Lloyd called for private talks at the United nations to arrange details of Eisenhower s six Point Mideast plan. He said Gromyko a charges of aggression by the United states and Britain were unfounded. Tile sonet official he in id a has got the record in fact. Lloyd said it is the russians who have been shipping arms to the Middle East and attempting a to whip fears of War. And to create a kind of International Eisenhower wednesday pro. Posed a do it yourself economic program for the Arab world. Hgt suggested establishment of a u. N standby peace Force and emphasized the need for action in the world organization to safeguard Lebanon and Jordan. Quot it is or. Hogan s opinion that we cannot be so unrealistic As to refuse under any circumstances to have diplomatic or Trade relations with communist China. He noted that the communist chinese government was the de Facto ruler of hundreds of millions of people an greater it. Pleasant week that the actions of the government what is a were significant in International Hamber of Commerce chamber of Commerce is i Many things to have Amateur Home Talent show at old settlers the ladies auxiliary of the j Midwest old settlers and thresh-1 i erg association of it pleasant Are 1 having in Amateur Home Talent j show on saturday september 6, in the women stent following the Parade in the amphitheatre. 3 pm one group will be for children 8 years or younger one from 9 13 j fears of age and the other group a from 14 on. There will be Cash 1 prizes for each age group. Anyone interested in being in the Amateur Talent show is asked to write to mrs . Burroughs. J 402 e Monroe. It pleasant Iowa stating your name age and what your net will be new farm Bill clears the House what is unrealistic about object ing to shake hand w Ith the Mur-1 Deicer. Of americans what is unrealistic about rejecting those who keep americans in prison As hostages for political purposes unrelated to the prisoners what is unrealistic about refusing to Deal with a nation that spreads vile and untruthful reports about the United states As engaging in biological warfare in Korea when there was not a word of truth in it All these questions Are answered in the statement of the state department. But Hogan goes further. He knows How to handle the problem. Curiously no one in the presidents office or in the state department or in Seato or nato quite basically. To is the business Community at work As the Central Agency for Community j development for business Industry i the professions and All civic inter i ests a doing jobs that no individual can do alone a rendering Many services that Benefit All Cit to Zens. The chamber of Commerce As a wholly voluntary institution in the United states is eight years older than the declaration of Independence. The new York state Cham Ber first in America was organized in 1768, and five years later the first Loral chamber was formed in a a fun Rlee ton s. C. Passim the Bick a the local Jaycees art1 Quot passing the Buck. Sheep Quot that is it s All part of a membership drive that it. Pleasant Jaycees have been conducting the past two weeks. A sheep is passed from number to member. The Jaycee who has a new member signed up May pass Tho sheep on Down the line. Ii he Hasni to a new member he must keep the it litter 24 hours. Local president Chuck Mccuen left is shown receiving the sheep from Hick Wilson. I cd Elefson Center is witnessing the transaction. Hear new evidence of arson today there Are More than 4.000 Chambers of Commerce in the United states. In these nearly 200 knows How to handle agreements years Chambers of Commerce have that soviet Russia chooses to steadily developed to a High Point break but Hogan does. He says of efficiency and have proved via to break the stalemate of a cold tally important in business and War a it is necessary that our gov a civic development throughout the eminent be in a position to enter1 nation. Into negotiations which May Lead j How is it organized to agreements with that govern j the members according to the ment As Well As with the soviet j by Law provisions elect a Board of Union and its other satellites such i directors whose members serve agreements so far As possible to without pay. They determine poli Senate there was teamster organizing be backed up by ironclad precisely what a ironclad Guaran cies and the general course and operation of the chamber. Necessary committees Are set up from the tees Quot does Hogan expert from general membership under super Russia what guarantees have we vision of the Board. In its highest Ever been Able to get from that form the chamber has a High per country since 1933 when we recon cent age of its total membership sized soviet Russia what agree a serving on various merits and treaties that we made for specific jobs already officially with soviet Russia have not been1 a part of the work program and broken directly or inferentially others to study needs and submit since 1945 when the european War recommendations to the Board As was supposed to be Over and the1 to what should be done and How affairs of the world settled by the tin Board employs a manager who with such staff As is needed for the work. Are the Only paid employees. Every business and professional person in any town has a stake in the chamber of Commerce join your chamber today. Pete Progress speaking for your local chamber of Commerce Dies of injuries Marengo Iowa up a John Steinmetz 50, Lincoln township gored by a Bull on aug. 2. Died of the injuries in a Hospital Here wednesday. San Francisco treaty and the pot darn agreement too the account of Hogan s peregrinations in the realm of International affairs includes the a unification of Korea Quot and for red China to abandon a aggression and territorial it also Calls for a two chivas representation in the United nations an ancient concept. Long rejected by both peking and Formosa and the United states. Why is it that so Many America Public men feel that it is necessary for them to talk about China when As a matter of fact so few of them know anything about the subject the China situation is As complicated As that of the Middle East which is very complicated indeed. The errors concerning China were made by those who believed that rules of International relations that applied to Europe also applied to Asia forgetting that four thousand years of divergent developments affected the traditions the modes Operand the history of the nations of Asia their relations to european countries particularly Russia and great Britain this Complex involves a life time of study and important american experts. Such As or. Stanley k. Hornbeck. Formerly head of the far Eastern division of the state department. Are available to provide c Oil v up guidance to those who today have to Deal with this a a very Pratti Washington up investigators said today a a pattern Quot of arson in backed strikes and drives which might explain the recent Quot human Torch Quot death of a Union official in Michigan. The charge came As the committee heard new evidence of arson dynamite no attempts and other violence in a 1955-56 hotel workers strike in Indianapolis which had teamsters support. Earlier of a is t e r president James r. Hoi a said his Detroit local gave a destitute trucker local in Indianapolis $125,000 in credit never used to strengthen the Union in dealings with employers Hoffa also told of an $8,000 loan from his own resources to the operator of a taxi company who vanished under what the committee has called a mysterious circumstances a Hie counsel Robert f. It a Nedy said the arson testimony was of interest because of the recent death of teamsters business agent Frank Kierdorf of Flint mich., who stumbled into a Hospital with fatal Burns. Kierdorf died of the Burns and police Theon cd he suffered them while trying to put the Torch to a Pontiac. Mich., dry cleaning Plant. Today a evidence was offered by an Indianapolis hotel owner and his wife and a produce deliveryman who said they were victims of arson attempts the deliveryman said he was burned out of his business for defying advice to Stop deliveries to the strike bound hotel. Russia s press assails Ike . East program Moscow up a Russia s press and radio sailed president Eisenhower a Middle East program today As an attempt to justify i s intervention in Lebanon. The pattern of soviet reaction was set by foreign minister Androl Gromyko a u. N. Speech insistence that the withdrawal of u. N. And British troops must take precedence Over everything else m the Middle East. Loveless will be in Winfield for festival Winfield governor Herschel Loveless of Iowa will be in Winfield on thursday evening. August 21, tile first Day of the annual Harvest Day Parade and fall festival which is sponsored jointly this year by the Winfield chamber of Commerce and the Winfield Lions club. I will View the 8 of . Parade of Beautiful floats which is drawing larger crowds each year by their Beauty and originality and on which the Harvest Queen candidates will ride. At 9 00 pm. He will assist last years Queen mrs. Carter Zerbe of Augusta Kansas in crowning the girl chosen Queen this year the governor also will give a Short speech As part of the program that evening. Washington up a an administration barked Bill to provide lower Price supports for Farmers cleared Hie House today with the support of both democratic and Republican leaders. It was passed by voice vote Over the protests of some farm Bolt congressmen of both parties. They denounced it As a a Complete sell out Quot of the Midwest Grain Farmer and an a unconditional surrender Quot to agriculture Secretary Ezra t Benson. The measure would permit supports to drop As Low As 65 per Cut of parity for Corn next year and for Rice and Cotton in 1962 the minimum Price floor now is 75 per cent of parity. But the Bill also would stave off Sharp planting reductions scheduled next year for Rice and Cotton growers. Biff increase in Revenue Vicki Lawrence awarded $500 scholarship Vicki Lawrence daughter of or and mrs. Don Lawrence of route 3. It pleasant has been awarded the $500 Alcoa scholarship for study at the University of Iowa miss Lawrence who previously re dutch plane Falls 99 persons aboard 46 americans Des Moines up Iowa took in a record $476,284,291 in state revenues and Federal Aid during Tho i of the class of fiscal year ending june 30, 1958, tin state comptroller s office said today. The total Revenue during fiscal 1958 was nearly 30 million dollars Vicki Lawrenc e revived one of the National Merit scholarships at the University was chosen on the basis of the record that she made in taking the Merit tests and unless several other girls were selected to receive the Alcoa scholarship with her she is the first girl to be granted one As no girls have been awarded them in previous years. Miss Lawrence was valedictorian 1958 which had a membership of too students. She had a 3 968 or a minus average. Jack Tonkinson son of or. And mrs. Elmer Tonkinson of 602 Lincoln st., also is an Alcoa scholar More than the $446,634,965 taken ship and Merit scholarship Winner j in during the previous year which j ended june 30. 1957. H. D. Wicker the assistant comptroller said the Sharp in a crease in state Revenue was due largely to a stepped up program of i Federal Highway construction Aid. At the University of Iowa where he will be a Junior this fall. Ike considers study a ridiculous Prem w Ashington it u i Dent Eisenhower considers it �?ori-1 reduce i Culous that the Pentagon is years studying under what conditions adjournment logjam broken Washington up Congress broke the adjournment logjam today. The House cleared one of the biggest obstacle to adjournment next week by passing a farm Bill agreeable to the administration. The measure still must be compromised with the Senate but no difficulties were foreseen it would support prices in future this country might surrender in in atomic War the White House said today. He has demanded an explanation from officials. A defense department spokesman acknowledged that such a study has been made. White House press Sci n Ary James c. Hagerty told newsmen the president considered the study Hagerty said the study was brought to Eisenhower a attention by Republican congressmen at a White House conference tuesday. The president immediately asked the Pentagon what it Quot Wes til Quot we certainly would t agree to anything like this Quot Hagerty declared. Hagerty said Eisenhowe u a More curious than angry about the matter. The defense department spokesman said the1 study was completed some tune ago. Soon afterwards the House gave its final approval to a Bill providing some tax Relief for sports fans the afer goers whiskey Mak ers parochial schools and dues paying members of Community swimming pools. Early House and Senate approval also appeared certain for another Bill overhauling income tax Laws. This would not affect the taxes paid by the average person. Shot during quarrel Dies new Hampton Iowa up a a Chickasaw Iowa father shot by his step son wednesday night during a family quarrel died Early today in a local Hospital of the 12-Guage Shotgun wounds. Zane Wilbur Cagley 37, Chickasaw was hit in the lower Back with a Shotgun blast soon after he and his wife returned Home. Chickasaw county sheriff Gay Len Folkers said the boy Wilbur Duane White. 16, said his Stepfather threatened his Mother and other members of the family after they returned Home. The boy went into the bedroom loaded the Shotgun and fatally wounded his father As he made a move toward his wife Folkers said. Young White went to the neighbors to get help following the shooting. 800 attend swim meet a crowd estimated at 800 persons attended the annual swimming meet and band concert at the it. Pleasant municipal Pool wednesday night which was another Success. Most of the spectators sat on the sloping area on the North Side of the Pool and enjoyed the band music the Many races and diving. Of special interest was a diving exhibition Given by Helen Rowe and Walter Wellington. Garry Devinger was the top performer in the boys events winning three individual races and swimming on a winning relay team. In the girls division Linda Riepe and Bonnie Becker both won three events. Ribbons for the first three places in each event were presented by mayor Wade Mcbeth. Fred Ekstrand served As starter Gay Dahn timer Kenny Butzier announcer and the Pool lifeguards judges. In the events for the older swimmers the distance swam was the Senate passes education Bill the boy was arrested wednes Day night on a charge of assault j length of the Pool with intent to do great bodily j results of the harm. However the charge was follow changed to an open one after the father died at 6 40 . Swimming meet Washington up Senate Early today passed a the 1, i truckload of turkeys i sets a truckload of turkeys overturn 300,000,000 Fud to science education eco on curve three Miles North of Bill after agreeing to a senators Trenton at 5 46 . Thursday. The Tho average american family spent $31.91 for Coffee in 1957, compared with $32.71 in 1956 and $34.90 in 1954 two wills Are admitted to probate West Europe welcomes plan Tern Cal problem involving War or peace. Copyright. 1958, King features Syndicate. Inc it. Pleasant stores will be open Friday night for your shopping London up we i Europe today welcomed president j Eisenhower a peace plan c re two wills have been admitted to Aba tic approach toward Alvine probate at the courthouse. The chronic economic and Polit according to the terms of the Cal problems in tile turbulent will and testament of Myrtle die East. Miller her children Kenneth Mil j a a a let and Mary Frances Miller Are Jerusalem up observe Given a third each of the Miller s Here said today president by unique request that his state be left out of the program the Senate Bill a final version railed for 23,000 Federal scholarships Worth $250 a year each for Bright College students and Loans up to $750 depending on need. This was a reduction from Hie original measure which carried scholarships Worth at least $500 a year and up to $1,000, depending on need. Cars collide on curve Driver of tile truck Emery William Kropf Kinross escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Tile truck a 1957 Chevrolet had damages to the cab and bed and the steel Turkey coops used in transporting the Birds were a total loss. Only one Turkey was killed. The truck which is owned by Wilbur Swartzentruber. Wellman was making a turn and its wheels hit the shoulder of the Road flipping it into the ditch i i wind Breaks tree estate Rind or Miller s two grandchildren the children of a deceased son Are to Divide a third. Tile will was drawn up december 7, 1949. Kenneth Miller was named executor. Sen Howery a failure to ment a u cars driven by James Smith it Rad in his u. N speech repro-1 pleasant route two and William sen ted a fundamental weakness in Zuhn of. Pleasant route five Colins Middle East program lived in a curve five Miles North i East of town on a gravel Road at hubcaps stolen i 7 50 pm wednesday _ i Smiths 1939 Desoto and Zuhn s reported 1934 Ford were meeting on a curve dam cars. The cars were considered a total according to the terms of the j _ last will and testament of j. P \ Wendell Prottsman a Hemming All property is left to j to Pollee the theft of two hubcaps when the Accident occurred his wife. Elizabeth hamming who from his 1954 Oldsmobile while it aging the front end of the a als Nan claw Cut six. The will i was parked in Shoals Era the cars were considered was drawn up january of 1957 lot. Wednesday night i loss the windstorm which caused tree damage tuesday night in it. Pleasant and Vicinity broke a Large and sturdy soft Maple tree in two parts Tilting it sideways and breaking it into Many smaller pieces at the Charles Dyall acreage South of j town. The tree was located Between the barn and the end of the Dyall property and had it been just a Little further eastward As it fell. It would have struck the barn. However it did Trike and break the Fence. Girl Back stroke up to 12 1 Bonnie Becker. Time 41 9. 2 Linda Rukgaber 3. Mardelia Smith girls Back stroke 13-15 1. Linda Riepe. Time 35 7. 2 Kaye Young boys Back stroke i p to 12 i Fred Allender. Time 32.7. 2. Tom Hayward 3. Tom Mason boys Back stroke 13-15 1 Garry Devinger. Time 31.5. 2 Jerry napkins boys Back stroke 16 a in i Bob Clyde. Tune 24 4. 2. Bob Potter girls breast stroke up to 12 1 Bonnie Becker time 48.8 2. Brenda Parrott girls breast stroke 13-15 Linda Riepe. Time 37 6 2 Pat Youngman 3. Kaye Young boys breast stroke 13-15 1 Garry Devinger time 31 9. 2. Jerry napkins 3 Fred Allender girls free style i p to 12 1,Martelle Smith time 34 4 2. Carolyn Hafferman 3 Pat Wymore girls free style 13-15 1. Linda Reipe. Time 27.5. 2. Kaye Young 2 Pat Youngman boys free style in a to 12 i Stanley Kerr time 25 1. 2. Tom Mason Contin Ved on Page 4 Shannon Ireland. Up a a Kim Royal dutch airlines super Constellation with 99 persons aboard including at least 46 americans plunged into the Stormy North Atlantic today on a flight from Amsterdam to new York. Survival conditions were Good but the re was no solid report that any of the airliners passengers had survived the crash the British air ministry said the French trawler general Leclerc sent a message tonight saying a can see lifeboats with men on but after a close up look the air ministry said the trawler messaged again there a no sign of life visible. Darkness was closing in swiftly on the disaster area and each passing minute dimmed Hope that any of those aboard had survived. Too the first message from the trawler had brought Hope after hours of despair in the first crack up of an Economy class Airliner in the four month old Cut rate trans Atlantic service. Two Shackleton patrol planes of the British Royal air Force were Over the area when the general Leclercq a message was picked up. The planes reported they saw another unidentified trawler steaming for the spot from about eight Miles away. Previously two Irish search pilots returning to Shannon said the Raf Schackleton Crews believed they saw a some life in rafts dotting the sea around the crash area. A vicious rain and wind Squall was battering the area 160 Miles off Shannon on Ireland a East coast when the ill fated plane last was heard from at 10 40 . C . Wednesday. Just four years ago next month another Kim super Constellation crashed at the same time of Day prime targets for any enemy atom cum stances. It plunged into the Shannon Estuary Flats. There were 54 persons aboard and 27 died. Too a Kim passenger list issued at the Hague Holland carried the names of 46 persons the company said were americans. A spokesman for the airline said earlier that Quot at least ten nationalities Quot were included in those aboard. The Crew of eight was All dutch. A spokesman for Kim in new York said the plane was equipped with radar. Kim officials said the plane was at 16.000 feet when it sent out its last radio message. An air ministry official said the plane May have been struck by lightning. A trans world airlines Pilot reported on arrival in Shannon on a flight from new York that he had hit a very bad Squall about the same time the Kim aircraft apparently crashed. The Shackleton that spotted the wreckage was directing surface ships to the scene. Kim officials said there were 91 passengers a including 83 adults. Five children and three babies a and a Crew of eight on the super Constellation which disappeared Between Shannon Ireland and Gander Newfoundland on an am Sterria to new York flight. The planets Pilot made his last routine radio Contact with Shannon at to 40 c of wednesday 35 minute after he had taken off from the Irish Airport following i a routine Stopover. After that there was nothing but silence. Air officials said the Kim aircraft probably hit a violent wind and ram Squall shortly after leaving Shannon. Mph students to Register it. Pleasant High school student Are requested to Register for the school year monday through thursday of next week according to superintendent c. A. Cottrell a notice appears in today a news explaining the registration

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