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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 15, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky the passport question again we come to the question of definition what is a passport is it a card of introduction or identification is it a statement of National affiliation is it an assertion of Protection the passport has never been a card of identification until the United states supreme court withheld from the government of the United states the authority to decide to whom such a document would be granted. It. Was then that president Eisenhower called upon Congress to pass an act giving the Secretary of state a Clear statutory authority to prevent americans from using passports for travel to j areas where there is no Means of j protecting them or where their presence would conflict with our foreign policy objectives or be in j Miral to the Security of the United i having lived in Asia Many years j the passport to me has come to mean a document of Protection in i fact without it one could not live anywhere except in a few treaty j ports in China and even there i it was dangerous to be without j such a document too i the supreme courts concern with the passport arises out of 5.he communist cases. The state department had been withholding passports from certain americans on the ground that it was against the interest of the government that they should travel abroad some of them were suspected of being spies. Espionage is difficult to prove according to the rules of evidence tile Fri May have an enormous mass of material on a Man or a woman but Little of it would stand up in a court of Law because the witnesses would have to be spies or former spies and their testimony in a court would imperil them. Some of the information comes from other governments and cannot be used. Some of it comes from sources which Are perhaps themselves illegal. Such As intercepting Telephone Calls or surveillance of the work of unfriendly governments. Tile data has been screened and checked but if the matter has to be considered in the open court much of it must be withheld. As Robert John of the passport office said even if the state department knew that an american communist planned to go to Moscow and to take with him important american defense secrets for delivery to communist espionage officials a passport could not be denied him under current supreme court decisions. The supreme court in the Case of Rockwell Kent and Walter Briehl held that communism is a matter of belief and association. Tile court said a a they Are being denied their Freedom of movement solely because of their refusal to lie subjected to inquiry into their beliefs and associations they do not seek to escape the Law nor to violate this is after the Hiss Case and the Rosenberg Case the Fuchs espionage the cold War. And everything else that is current history the court held that the state department could Only withhold passports in cases involving allegiance and in involving criminal activity unless a spy has been caught tried and convicted he is not legally a spy no matter what information the state department the Fri and the Cia May have and he is entitled to a passport. This applies to communists who May be members of the propaganda divisions of the communist party and who May be going abroad to do harm to the United states. The state department is precluded from going into motives and personal histories and is limited to court decisions. Too that is now the Law of the land and will remain the Law unless Congress passes another act to give the state department authority Over passport control or until j another court comes into existence. Tine minority of the present court j said a a in a wholly realistic sense there is no peace today and there was no peace in 1952. At both. Times the state of National emergency declared by the president in 1950. Wherein he stated that the world Conquest by communist imperialism is the goal of the forces of aggression that have been loosed upon the world and that the increasing menace of the forces of communist aggression requires that the National defense of the United states be strengthened As speedily As possible a was in full of course the supreme court May choose to ignore a presidential proclamation but the court is bound by a constitutional act of. Vol. 8ft, no. 192 it. Pleasant Iowa Frid Vav evening aug. 15. 1958 by Carrier 30 per week by mail 87.50 per year approve tax Bill a a a a a .1. J1. 1 is at dinner with Romme to Mem a Aguila Rowan. For Ign Exchange student from Zut p in in the Netherlands is shown a second from lefts enjoying an Amel Iran dinner with the Arthur Rommel family Here. She is staying with the Pommel while attending Alt. Pleasant High school this coming school year. Pictured from the left clockwise Are or. Rommel. Aguila Arlene Rommel mrs Rommel Evelyn Aicher Van Rebecca and Joe Rommel. Bulletins tax Relief for Small business Agnita Rowan thinks ifs wonderful to be Here chamber of Commerce what does it do state of i in it. Pei St a enjoying free watering on at the Farmers Union fun Day held in Mcmillan Park were left to right Harold King kid 2, it pleasant former local president tit ter Mills i d 4. Of. Plea ant. Present local president cd Rog an. Iowa St de f it Secretary and k. E. Schuman Field rep ii tentative Lor the National f u in Denver. By Killa Mills a Zik Vind bet Heel Ink in it. Pleasant Fenijn Enik Vind famine Rommel erg Tardig. I think it wonderful to be in it. Pleasant and i think the Rommel family these were the words Aguila 1 Wikete Rowan. 17-year-old Exchange student from the Netherlands used in describing it. Pleasant. Small Friendly quiet Blond Blue eyed fair complexioned and having a wonderful sense of humor that pretty Well describes Wikete she thinks the United states a seems so big and so Nice. Everyone has a ear and it xxx it ooh. Such a big car. In the net her land Only the Rich people have hesitating a minute after this i Porter asked Wikete the main difference Between America and the Netherlands she said slowly in her quite voice Quot Holland is so Small and America is there arc 500 people to the Square mile i the United states in comparison with 1000 in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is roughly the size of the Southeast one fourth of iowan too m iss Rowan explained that the Standard of living in America is much higher than in the Netherlands due to the Lark of resources in her Home country and the High population. Wikete was astonished to find a washing machine in the Home of her american parents or and mrs. Arthur Rommel in tile Netherlands Only the very Rich own them. However her dutch family does have a Small refrigerator. While Iii the Rommel Home for the school year. Nitecke will share a room with Rebecca and Arlene she says that the Rowan and Rommel Homes Are similar in one important Factor a they both have happiness. Nitecke it is hot in m pleasant. She explains that in the Netherlands there Are never hot Days Only warm. She and Arlene cooled off monday though with a dip in the municipal Pool. This Wasny to new to her. For they also have swimming pools in her Home country. Nitecke definitely likes american foods and so far has found no food Here that she does t like. The rom tales a broke her in by feeling her hot dogs the first Day aft t her arrival and hamburgers tiie Noel miss Rowan says that in her country it is difficult to get such a variety of a a tinned canned 1 foods. They Only have vegetables and fruit in season. Too Nitecke will to a senior at mph this september and her tentative schedule includes american literature. History economics and government when asked if she would take physical education she pan to mined a hand to shoulder exercise and looking at her american sister Arlene said a that this. In t it a to which Arlene Assn i her it was and miss Rowan said she definitely would take the course. Miss Rowan believes that our present american school system should not be changed. She s that our schools Are letter because they teach the student the practical things he will need in life instead of the abstract subjects. She says it is also True of the dutch teachers. They must have at least eight years of advanced training in their subjects but Congress. Copyright. 1958, King features Syndicate inc study no is Phycology to know anything about their students. Agnita attends the remo Strant Church in Holland which is similar to tile lutheran but will co to the presbyterian Church while with the Rommel. Miss Row Aanos opinion of Rock and Roll a for a Little time ifs very Nice tint i Don t think the music is she says that people in her Home country a i dirt la believe that America is a land of hoodlums and bad teenagers a the people who Don t know much about America and read Only the new papers read about the bad teenage. They never hear about the Good however she says it is the same Way with teenagers in her country the Small percent of delinquents Are the Only ones publicized. Nib Al has never had a Date. Iii her country the Only time boys and girls get together is at. Parties. There Are seve n or eight of these parties in the Winter and fewer in the summer by the time a dutch boy has summoned up enough courage to ask a girl to a movie he is a in love with it seems that styles Are the same nearly everywhere. The sack dresses Lave invaded Holland much the same a Quot they have our country Nitecke personally does not ii Al i them however. Too there Are misconceptions Abou both our country and hers Nitek Quot ays that in Holland people often think of tile United states As the country of the gangsters cowboys. Leg cars and millionaires she also warns that contrary to the belief of some people in this country All hollanders Don t live in nulls and Wear wooden shoes. Only Farmers Wear the old Type shoe. Nitecke plans to attend College at i rom Ingen which is about Jim Miles North of her Home town of Sutphen six will study a language i there and eventually Hopes to be a me a i. A school teacher. Prior to world War in the j Rowan family lived in Leiden a town of about 50,000. Ten or Twenty j Miles North of the Hague. During the liberation Nitecke saw Winston j Churchill and Princess Juliana. Now tile Queen of the Netherland 1 Nitecke brought As a present to j the Rommel family some Candy in spot heal v jars. It consisted of Licorie and gumdrops. To the american palate the Licorie has a j bitter taste and the gumdrops are1 different from our american kind. However they Are considered ex-1 cadent delicacies in Holland. There seems to be a consistent confusion about two Points concerning the Netherlands. Nitecke explained the answers. 1. Amsterdam is the official Capitol of the Netherlands and has tile Royal Palace although the Hague has All of the governmental buildings. 2. The name a Holland a often applied to the entire country of the Quot Netherlands is actually Only a see Ion there Are two provinces in the Netherlands North and South hoi land which contain the three Prin to pal cities of that country Amsterdam Rotterdam and tin Hague. Hence people from this area Are called hollanders. The name was soon generalized when it was discovered that it was much easier to say Quot Hollands and a hollanders Titan a the Netherlands and the Nitecke even uses the name. Holland when referring to her country. Nitecke says that the attitude of the dutch people is definitely pro Western. Her country is Only one Pei Cen communist and she qaid the chamber of Connie Sci works to improve business and a better Community it makes available to All members of the Busine s Community a firms and i individual.1 alike the necessary vehicle t brought which to Combine forces for executing the continuous year after year program of work it Ceary for Community development. An effective program includes j Industrial development Trade pro motions civic activities Public j relations for the Community and lither projects or programs Peculiar to the specific Community a needs. Through their own organized Effort. All members of the chamber business and professional people alike obtain Many benefits both direct and indirect through increased Community payrolls and total buying Power attraction ii More customers from the Trade area helping solve City zoning parking and License problems taking action on local county state and National taxation and other legislation solving of traffic and t Ransport at Ion problems and working to prevent discriminatory freight rate structures. The chamber works to build Public sentiment on Many civic problems in the Community s interest and work closely with other organizations and Public officials. Tim of. Pleasant chamber is j affiliated with the National Cham-1�?o r and the Iowa state chamber a a and. As such takes an Active part and has a voice in the development of National and state policies. Join today. Pete Progress speaking for your local chamber of Commerce Salem Man drinks acid leaves funeral instructions county judging team competes Iowa City. Low.1. Up a Earl r Hevern 62, Salem. Iowa funeral director took his own life thursday morning in front of a funeral Home Here and left instructions for the Home to take care of his funeral. Hevern carbolic acid shortly after driving his Hearse up to the front of the Hohenschuh funeral Home. Found inside the Hearse wow a completed death certificate casket. I a fresh suit of clothes and two notes. One note gave the instructions about his funeral. Hevern was born in Iowa City and had been funeral director at Oxford before going to Salem two years ago. He had remodeler a building on the West Sidi of the Square in Salem for a funeral Home surviving or Hevern Are three daughters. Mrs Lucille Smoot Salem mrs. Lone faustian and mrs Eileen Horton both of Davenport. A brother Claude Hevern Iowa City a sister. Mrs Mabel Hoy Iowa City nine grandchildren and three nieces. Funeral services will be held at 2 . Saturday at the Hohenschuh funeral Home in Iowa City with burial at Oxford where masonic and Odd fellow rites will be conducted. Call off sea search for bodies Washington up a the Senate refused today to accept the House farm Bill and voted instead to Send that measure and its own farm Bill to conference to Iron out differences Between the two measures. Washington up a the Senate today approved r8-2. A proposal which forbids use of Federal funds for studying the possibility of u. S. Surrender in event of nuclear War. Washington. Up a the Senate passed and sent to the White House today two big Catchall tax revision Bills. One would adjust excise levies. The other would Grant special Relief to Small business and some other taxpayers. Gettysburg a. Up a president Eisenhower flew Here by helicopter today to spend a quiet weekend at his farm. Probe cause of plane rash Shannon Ireland up a the March for bodies or possible survivors of thursday s crash of a Kem dutch Airliner with 99 Perrin aboard was called off today. A Kem spokesman said that All hips which Hod searched the an i where the plane plunged into tin White rapped Atlantic 130 mile Northwest of Shannon were told to proceed to their Destina to ions part of the wreckage and bodies of some of the victims were on their Way to Irish ports aboard surface vessels that had raced to the scene in a vain attempt at Rescue operations. Col. J Maher manager of Shannon Airport said the cause of the disaster May not be known i it re Davs or Washington up a the House by voice vote stamped its final approval today on a 260-Milllon-Dollar program for tax Relief for Small business. The program was included in a Compromise Bill providing for a vast technical overhaul of income tax Law. To addition to a six Point program of a fringe benefits tax Relief provided for Small business the measure would close tax loopholes for some taxpayers and provide new benefits for others. The measure a Compromise Between differing Senate and House versions now goes to the Senate for final congressional action. The measure was assured of president Eisenhower a signature. I the Bill would provide tougher tax treatment for men who keep mistresses or bribe foreign governments. It would abolish the $5 Watlington Upit a u s 1 a a it tax deduction which police aviation experts gave investigators officials for subsistence pay Only a 50-50 Chance today of determining definitely Why a Kim i would close a loophole under Royal dutch airlines super con-1 which wealthy americans now can striation crashed in the Atlantic. Avoid Ift or estate taxes mov few air accidents Bear the inst to puerto Rico or Guam rain totals .69 of Inch the Henry county Dairy judging team represented Henry county at the All Iowa fair at Cedar rapids thursday. The county team judged j classes of Ayrshire. Brown Swiss. Guernsey Holstein. Jersey and milking shorthorn. The team placed 14th out of the 30 teams competing the High in-1 Divi duals were Larry Wright Sun of or. And mrs. Vern Wright and Walter Wright son of or and mrs. Everett Wright with a score of 264 out of 300 possible. Other members of the team were Cecil Mcdowell and Ronald Riley. The livestock judging team will by at the All Iowa fair saturday. J ask for draft of 11,000 men during october Washington up the defense department asked selective service today to draft 11,000 men for the army during october the same quota was established previously for september do my june july and August India Quot ins have totalled 10,000 a month the number of men Drain d $ Nee Start of the korean War now lands at 2.374.420. My these Are the Small or have been the victims of sub conscious class system now dissatisfied Agnita Rowan feels american Field service to contribute to world its student Exchange pie. Ramshe feels that it will not work 0 the fullest extent until a they Send More american students to Europe Quot tilt j Ping with i but another of the sub tropical rain that have kept the Southeastern Iowa area Well soaked through the summer came to it. Pleasant Vicinity Early Friday morning. The thundershowers brought .69 of an Inch in it pleasant Cooling Breeze Quot had preceded tin storm and red cd the temperature which had climbed to 92 in the afternoon and ire held at High Levels through the evening. Washington Man killed in mishap Washington up Jerry e Heck 23. Washington was killed when a tractor he was driving overturned into a ditch and he was thrown backward into a stalk Cutter the machine was pulling thursday. Heck was prepare. A Field on the Bob Stern farm e zit my a a a half Miles North 1 t o Here w is h will be used for tin jct c Umu ration Field Dev plow ii Milt a brother i urn Heck s Man. Body after he failed to return to the farm House. Returning from Germany the Bernard Baileys i ave received word that their son and i daughter in Law or. And i Ronald Bailey and san John will leave Breme re oven Germany to a coming sundae August 17 their ship is expected to arrive in new York August 21 and they a come Here a Bop August 26 a Bailey who has been serving with the u. S. Army in Germany i a teaching position in the w a Liams Burg High school. A Tau in the wheat Ridge. Colo. Id farm Home Burns Down near Riverside Riverside Iowa up a or. My mrs la Mont Duwa lost their Large farm Home in a raging fire Early Friday morning but they Don t know about it and there is some doubt when they will find out about the Blaze. Ii Large two Story farm bundle burned completely Early to Day. However the do was were on vacation in the badlands of tile Northwest and relatives Here said they did no to have any idea where a in v Are or How Long before they i will be bark William o Connor and his wife i nip u Nis who Are looking aft of a due is six children said the grim Label of a crashed for reasons but the vast majority of those listed As unsolved have involved water crashes where it was impossible to recover much wreckage. Available evidence pointed to violent thunderstorm turbulence As a possible reason for the tragedy. Kem officials said the plane apparently ran into a severe storm just before crashing. But two factors led american air safety experts to hesitate before pin pointing thunderstorm turbulence As a probable cause 1 tile Kem plane was equipped with airborne radar regarded by Veteran airline pilots As the greatest air safety development in the past 20 years. Radar enables a Pilot to determine the areas of severe thunderstorm turbulence As far As 150 Miles ahead no Airliner equipped with this electronic warning device has fallen prey to a thunderstorm since it was introduced two years ago. 2 the super Constellation itself is an exceptionally Strong and stable aircraft even in the worst weather constellations have been involved in fatal crashes but never has one of the triple Tail a Connie so been the victim of weather turbulence. On the other hand the legislation would increase the maximum medical deduction permitted disabled taxpayers Over 65. It would give a tax break to newspapers and Magazine firms by permitting them to spread subscription income for tax purposes Over the period for subscription runs. Paving plan hits Snag at a special meeting of the City Council Friday noon the Council indicated that the City would not help pay for the paving of one half pie a just left on the vacation i Block Between White Street and the leaving no Way to get in touch was Entrance of the Hospital with them. A passerby Jesse Havel of near River de. Discovered the Blaze at 4 to i m and called the local Fin department however the firemen could Only save the out officers ordered to Lay Low after shooting Boyd Tex. Ufi a Boyds police officers were under orders to a stay out of sight today while Highway patrolmen and a Deputy sheriff investigated Why police chief Lee Cockrell was shot in the Back wednesday night. A stay out of sight until things quiet Down a mayor w. C Horn warned Cockrell a two patrolmen. Horn told United press International he figured the mob of 200 that gathered after Cockrell was shot lauded the police chiefs alleged As Saulters because a they thought he was too rough on Cockrell rested in St. Josephus Hospital fort Worth today while Highway patrolmen took Over the Job of Law enforcement in the i Small Seething North Texas town. Joseph Earl Henderson 21, one of the men said to be involved in the main Street gun Battle was being treated at an Azle Tex., clinic. Henderson and two companions. Warren Saulter. 23, and Orville Lee Peel. 22, were charged with assault to murder Peel and Saulter were free on $5,000 Bond each. Buildings recently a request was made to the City by Hospital officials for financial help in paving the half Block property owners involved agreed to dedicate the land to the City. The purpose of paving talk half Block is to Cut Down on the Flatiron 15 once again the Natiw is inflation again no. I threat Washington. Up in to ab1n entered near Oakland dust Hazard and provide a better East approach to the Hospital the Council was told one objection by the Council was no i economic threat As seen by the seven Man Federal Reserve Board. The Board made that Clear that the paving would be Only four thur Quot Day Niht it authorized w ill Ace Russell Cabin East inches thick and the City would not Federal Reserve Bank of san in at Oakland Mills was i accept such a project a thicker Francisco to increase its charge on Loans to member Banks from of the s nto thursday night a depth would cast More and the pro any n sheriff Russell Yan tuyf1 Jet would probably Cost the City a v is called to investigate j bearly $2,000. Entrant was gained by cutting a 1 there was some discussion about door screen nothing was taken the closing of a North South Alley the Money easing policy h t the i Ide of the Cabin was at the West end of the half Block i he Board adopted la of november to ii maced Ane no action was taken j present at the meeting were Richard Manuel Hospital admin Strator a f. Timmerman and Fred Stuerke Juergen who own proper parked vehicle i to involved. Granted scholarship Buffington daughter of us per cent to 2 per cent effective today. This boast in the a discount rate Check the business recession. Checking on clip or and mrs. B b Buffington ism 47 iowans granted Merit e a i lid m Boa ship at the state j selected for a ass i a a Uty of Iowa the $100 scholarships Are granted to students to have completed one year or More of class work at Sui with a b average or higher. School before entering sen a a a a. The Baileys have been unable to sent to the Lebanon area about secure transportation by airlines 2.ooo people Are stranded in herons so Many planes in a he big Germany Sharon Swan daughter of or j and mrs. Stanley Swan i pleasant. And Ann Wolf daughter of or and mrs. Herman Wolf Winfield Are among 132 students selected As members of the 1958-59 freshman nursing class at the state University of Iowa. Local police and the High was patrol Are checking on a 1978 Chevrolet stat on Wagon which has been parked in the too Block on North Jefferson Street since tuesday. A Young Man was seen getting out of the machine Locking it and walking up the Street. The ablation Wagon does t have any License plates on it

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