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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 16, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a Jofe. Vol. 83, not a 102 it. Pleasant hmm a wednesday evening Alc. 16, 1061 these Days by a forge l. Soko Taky Frank Buchman the death of Frank Buchman removed from the world a prophetic figure who adopted the idea that men can change their personalities by free will. A Clergyman. Frank Buchman recognized that Young people were not accepting orthodox forms of religion. 20 county 4-h youths to state fair explorer Xii launched religious groups. He sought a method of solving personal problems by voluntarily changing ones personality by personally accepting gods guidance in response to silence and prayer. Twenty Henry county boys and girls will be among the nearly 2,0001 4-h�?Ters from Over the state panic-1 of they belonged to Quot formal j i Quot Quot a it Hei division of or Iowa state fair Des Moines. Aug. I 25 to sept 3, says county Extension director Richard l. Thuma. State fair is the Climax of a year s hard project work. It s also a Busy time for 4-h participants tile club members a girls in trim his movement started very Small Blue Green uniforms and boys in and t can recall when some of Green crested to shirts a will to his followers came to my House in seen in activities All Over the fair Sandisfield. Sat on the grass under grounds. exhibit projects ancient Maples to talk of life and ranging from Angel food cake to impersonality. Frank As he chose sect collections with dcmon.4cato be called then holding his tons. Livestock shows dress revues House parties in Stockbridge a and judging in Between suitable Village for such a purpose j according to Thuma the county for it. In Stockbridge and the 4-h livestock judging team will b neighbouring villages that the competing in the state Coli test on thought and Art of America found August 34 members of Hie team its strongest expression during the Are Jerry Mazetis Dean Rodgis nineteenth Century Blaine Rodgis and Steve so big. More than 20 years ago i Henry county will be represented undressed by the sincerity and in the 4-h agricultural project de profundity of Buchman s followers apartment by Jerry White Cham what they represented in the current history of ancient religious movements the enthusiasm of the of scenes of whom John the a path twas of a. Who of lived one could change from wickedness to virtue by baptism by washing away the sins. So Buch Ryan answered Man s Wilfulness by Pion clippers Blaine Rodgers Wayne soil savers and Sam Beauchamp. Scott Sod bust its. All three boys will be exhibiting baby Beeves. Judging of the baby Beeves is scheduled for saturday. August 26 Jim Mccormick and Jerry White winners of the county 4-h demonstration contest will participate in Brandt Calls on Kennedy satellite for action instead of words performing Mission Well Berlin i uti i we. Berlin mayor Willy Brandt called on 1938-Berlin 1961 a in the atone vein a group of to president Kennedy today for action Oerman Bonn University Pudei s the Curran i ave 1 int i Dent Kennedy an As a pretest inaction in the again get p. Rim instead of words on crisis. Umbrella add of my a rail of 209,000 Western West Ber i in it is demonstrating Ituau on again t communist German an urn by i Tim. Ymeri of closing of the East West Berlin Tim late Brit 1 ii prime min bord a. Brandt. My a paper pro sir Nevils Chamberlan dipl test. Alone air not enough Mary a note accompanying to he said he had sent Kennedy a umbrella lab led Kennedy As Quot to letter today saying Berlin does currently most or Ervig bearer not expect word Berlin expect of this Symbol of a fatal pacy poll Leal action Quot he termed the i letter Quot very the crowd packed in front of dished reinforcements of the i West berlins City Hall heard As Brandt Pike the communist major Brand plead for West Berliner to remain Calm but at the Ime time referring to the Allied protest notes he said Quot paper protest. Alone Are not enough Quot willing change not Only vice the state contest monday. August ret laced by virtue but futility 28 by usefulness. The Young men and women who serve in moral re armament do thirteen girls will represent Henry county in the fairs Home economies department says Linda Long county Extension assistant Quot in in Vav i of do it this a a that could be what ii Ltd Norman Chiel design Engineer. Ministry of Vav irks in new zealand could be telling Barbara Taylor i. Pleasant Iowa and Diane Robertson. Both Are Mutt Valley High school girls and Hup two girls to attend new zealand a 1961 Dobson lectures. Almost 300 boys and Imi men representing the engineering profession and education authorities were present. Here Workings of the Benmore spillway part of a big Power project in new change student to new zealand expects to return to the . Peoples army and communist police to the East we. T City Border in or Fiat appeared tonary measures \ Iolene from West. Berliners Hie communists put armoured cars and Mobile water Canon Back in posit Ion near the Brand the crowd made no attempt to Denburg Gate and at to damns conceal it. Dissatisfaction with Plata arca from which they had what it considered slow and eau been withdrawn earlier i Nous action to the Western pow earlier Tori a it the so vie it. In Jers in the Berlin crisis a Pone told the we.,Tern allies to top recalling the prewar appeasement meddling in tile affairs of Quot of of Adolf Hitler read Munich Ereign Quot East Germany. Or. Nor Man explains the . Barbara i s a admit August a a. Admits her Story of abduction a hoax not sit about and Pray or sing they Are Patty Schertz. New Lon hymns they go out into the world Don town ettes Carolee Stocker 4-to Battle against social and poll Jyh wizards Linda Hunting Snappy meal wrongs whereas the Salva Sal Mettes Mary Riepe Center to Ion army has battled Ginat per ettes Sara Hunting Snappy Salem son a1 viciousness such As drunk ettes Judy Lauer is enness and poverty moral re Arm Kate Schellenger new London Las Ament moved toward the band sirs Sandra Madden Champion Cades Wiere it fought communism j ettes Janice Peterson. Waynette As he evil of our Day Sharon Lee. New London lassies Buchman possessed no Quality and Christine Evans of bigotry for him. There were these Cir Many reads to god and each Man Hibit had to choose his own. His move death takes Harry Ibbotson Waynette will each have an sex in the Home furnishings division these exhibits Are on Distant had no priests or leaders. Play All during the fair under the members United into groups of grandstand usefulness and spread themselves Over the Earth wherever they were most needed. They financed them Christine Evans Ann Donna Bergstrom Waynette. Will represent Henry county with their Demotis o eyes is Best they could and no ton off the old bring on great Treasury developed but i the new a on tuesday aug 29. At those who wanted to help did and 2 15 pm those who wanted to give. Gave Henry county reorient Are in and the teams went Forth to pour aged to support the 4-h clubs preach the doctrine of peace and j by their attendance at these annual human brotherhood i knew flank Buchman Well and admired him for his writer selflessness what he had to give to humanity were his belied in the essential goodness and usefulness of Man and those who joined Birn were not abject followers. But comrades in arms fighting for the better life. Buchman is 83 when he died in a West German Village. His movement assembled each year in Switzerland to discuss problems events. Attempting to organize guards at it. Madison Harry Ibbotson. 74. Did at the Henry county memorial Hospital wed Nodal at 5 30 ii in where he had been a patient for two weeks. He had been in failing health for two years Harry Louis Ibbotson son of John and Man Talbot Ibbotson bom february 15, 1887, in Des Moines county he had lived on a farm Ca at of Winfield for 34 years., and prior to Ahe lived urea of t0 Active Dut it a men la x Iii. He a. A member of the presbyter in Church at Winfield and the Loof Lodge he wa., married to May Coon Columbus City january to 1912 beside his wife he is survived by thief ens William Floyd and Howard and of Winfield two bight Jack. Let Cromwell and a of be of Mediapolis and two Sisters 113 units alerted by the army up i a the to discuss school building program at Public meetings Houston Tex. Up a mrs. Clara Bell Roderick 23. Who Adon cd her Story of being held capt Ive by a rape t for 19 Days a hoax Htu been charged by the Fri with furnishing Fale information. Toi tool building program of tile plea auf Community school District will be discussed a a Eric of Public me it in of dates and places for these in will be a. Follow. Monday August 21. 8 p in Washington army announced today it has Alert cd 113 army National guard and Raiem a int is army Reserve units for possible Call to. U a i a a to g u she said she and her son Bud do. 4. Left their Home in Mateo. Calif because of a Bill the collector. Originally she told auth meet crities she and the boy were a i ducted and taken pm a terror ride that spanned 19 Day., and four Western states. Cape canaveral up a a new explorer satellite hurtled tin ouch i it Ai Quot today on an Orbital path that will give scientist vital new data on radiation. Although it not yet officially announced that explorer Xii launched Here tuesday night had achieved 1 a deep elliptical orbit planned for it it became obvious by mid morning that it perform a i Mission Well by 8 a Ina spokesman for the nation by aeronautics and space administration said tile satellite had Cut Back 31 tracking messages to be prevail and 656 min of telemetry data. To meet any Cape canaveral. Fla. Up a americans explorer Xii satellite i ailed through space today but on Earth were kept waiting to see if the Little Moonlit followed its planned course. The satellite is designed to Send to Earth vital data on radiation and the mysteries of the Sun. The 82-Pound, Octagon shaped Ball launched tuesday night with seeming perfection aboard a three stage Thor Delta rocket. Cautious scientists attached to the Goddard space flight Center which conducted the test for the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa said the nature of the planned trajectory _ i would make it impossible for about two Day s to determine sex a new a nil service examination poorer Xii a actual path t enter is being established on the j Iowa Wesleyan Campus to meet in missile men declined to say flatly that the planned orbit had by n achieved but their comments indicated thus wa.? the Case. Other establishing civil service exam enter Here debt the army said the units which consist of combat combat support and port operational organizations will total More than 23,626 officer and men at full strength tile army did not set a Fiat for calling the units Back to serve if said that the Tim of calling the pleasant Lawn school hot a unit will Quot depend on the develop ing Engineer known t 24. 8 p in. St Jack. On township Greenwood of minium Hall Friday a must 25. 8 p in. St Mph a f i if Quot in i auditorium to rid a a a 28, 8 p in Cost. Trenton so into i House Tuc. Day. Amu. 29. 8 pm. Cost. Des Moines up tilt International guards Union of America is attempting to organize guards at tile Iowa state Penitentiary at fort Madison Benjamin Baer. State i Ireci it a pre shy u ruin Saturn in a i Rev a i id will be at first Church Winfield. 3 p in St with f Barker methodist at in and then went to Mackinac in of penal institution said tues Michigan for other sessions. The Day Warden John Bennett received great and the Small came and a letter Lac week from a St Louis Many found in these assemblages j lawyer saying he represented the the Opportunity to open their Union and had hearts and expose their souls. Too to a Ruc Manite confession is not merely an admission of sin it is a social acknowledgement that the support of most of the fort Madison guards tire letter requested Union representatives be permitted to talk with Bennett on the matter and Bear said he had Given the Warden virtue is possible and can be fruit i authority to hold such discussions fill if one is willing to serve usefully and with sincerity. No one in moral re Ann Ament Ever told what to do. No one Given orders or instructions. No one required to obey anyone else. No one bound himself tile letter written by j Leonard Schermer of the St. Louis Law firm of Shifrin Treiman. Agate Tein and Schermer. Baer said. Schermer said the Union had cards a that signify the majority the breakdown mss i a a so ticker e a of Cai. J showed that no Low a units were m did or. Haiba a morn. In i , can Clef i in the latest Alert. Six and it uni ii and to 2�?� at alerted were army National. A Quot n a v guard units from 22 states al a p a Quot do a Lur Bio Liers Arkansas Colorado Florida. Or i i a. Georgia Kansas Kentucky Lou. R a 1 pc it. 8lf it f1 a a i Iana. Maine. My sour. Nebraska new Mexico. North Carolina new York. Mississippi. Ohio Sou la Dakota. Texas Utah. Virginia. Washington and Wyoming. The alerting of the 113 units throughout the United states part of an Overall army program announced by army Secretary Elvis j Stahr i. To meet the Berlin crisis the army said these units will receive trained reinforcements from the ready Reserve mobilization Pool to bring them to full strength it said these units will receive additional weekend dirt training at their Home stations beginning very soon. Here killed tile Fri had entered the Case because of her Story of a &Quot.can, lanky kidnapper with a crooked nose Quot h o. Hawkins special agent in charge of the Houston Fri , Oaid mrs Roderick might be returned to Denver for violating probation on a conviction of forging a government Check Apt. Weldon Waycott head of a he Houston police department s san creased demands for College graduates in government work according to Ivan Parker. U. S. Civil service Board operation supervisor out of St. Leu i Balker is Here to work us the new program with Wesleyan and Post Oft ice employees Raymond Griest and Robert Coghlan. Who reports received Here added to the belief the shot a Success la take 31 hours for the Ball to make one Orbital pass and at least two of these will be needed to give a Good picture of How it is travelling one scientist said. Tracking stations at Trinidad will administer Tho tests. Coghlan ascension Island and Johannes will be examiner in charge. I Burg. South Africa confirmed to their unofficial satisfaction however its Job. The satellite crammed with to program. Parker Aid. The Trees will .rjm011 ii sent Ulto a a lot be Given monthly to College juniors of my hat wow carry and seniors interested in the program. Beginning salaries Range sixty different career positions Eye. Thal explorer Xii doing Are available to qualified College graduates under the College trainee from $4500 to $5600 for Job. In such it As far As 50.000 Miles from the Earth and As close As 170 Miles. Business administration Winfield mint or of Fie interment will be at Scott township cemetery. Tin body is at tile funeral Home in Winfield. Uphold conviction of Brightman Madrid Ernest e n to Engineer tuesday we r a gravel truck Tensed Ion a to East of Here Nelson i after big Tak Pital the ii Ward ditto injured Iowa on 67, a a a i <1 r up Boone Conn Ernest 1 a ii Jure i v0rker. Because she wit in action when he Learned management economics it i county Road into rec Miles North a Abrin two hours a a n to a Boone hos a of lie truck Ed-62. Boone not homicide divison said mrs. Rod a Crick made a statement saying i she decided to leave her husband. An unemployed postal i feared his re Parker Aid installation of Tho she had j new test Point is part of an Over i areas As 1 personnel a almost a and veterans administration it appeared to be functioning perfectly and sending Back data from the tune it Bine lied. Purebred a typewriter on and could not pay for it. By oath to serve a master. It us 0f the guards in the Iowa state a voluntary organization in Winch j Pron desire to be represented in discussions with the state on the question of wages hours and working tile St. Louis lawyer requested an Opportunity for Union officials to talk with Bennett on the matter. Baer said tin meeting prob ate serves by the ii Pira tion of prayer. Is moral re armament anarchic the surprising characteristic of this movement is its orderliness. No one has Ever been elected to be a president or a vice president. Des Moines up the Iowa supreme court tuesday upheld the convict no of t inner Des Moines policeman Martin Bright Man or. On a larceny charge. Bright Man had been sentenced to in years in the menus reformatory on two larceny charges in a. Action which touched off a wave of charges among local policemen 1 and had led to a Tnp to too Tom shakeup of the department. Set up equipment for Black Topping net on a a o in Igi Neer about 18 Mon Erly been a Denison Nelsons wife is to Mil Brown of Mph a sister of Harold plea. Ii a Cornu in j is. Dad formic former . Who is Brown of my rules state employees can join labor unions credit Aii increase in examination cover Page for smaller colleges Quot to meet i the increase in government Posi i tons Quot he said a we need More col-11 be people we can Tram Quot besides alerting Tho re Sene my guard units the army announced the following directives enlisted men whose term would expire on or after october i but before june 30 of next Yea will be extended Foi a period not to a it d four Mont Lis. Officers current. M x months Active duty will have a it ii tour of did extended for a a r. A i boy kill cd when run Over by grader Des Moines up a state employees can join labor unions. Atty. Gen Evan l. Hultman ruled today but the government does not have lie Power to enter into collective bargaining with tile unions. Robert Gray chief of Goddard s Field products Branch Here said engine of Hie first two stages of the launching rocket were a bit More powerful than expected. Tins probably meant the satellite would go even farther into space i anyone wanting i Lonna to possibly around 1,000 Miles than i about the program can Contact anticipated. Either Coghlan or driest it the Post a u t0 the Good so far office Here of said. Do. Jie programmed test Coa a corned Gray said. The Long Ellipse planned to study within one trip the Struc a ii and behaviour of protons and electrons near the Earth where it dense and far out in Are scattered. Accused of shooting Man after argument la port k Vernon it a Tuest i. W let a Road grader Joyee of i ii in. To up led i Csc of fat to a a a Weaver construction co the by a of hem a Zeien. A cd by flu Grad r i. Prog re. U tin men lure or cd but somehow when a Job had i ably would be yield aug. 23 no Iowa fax. Liar. Set up equipment needed to be done men and women j fell into place and the team functioned with extraordinary efficiency will it continue in this spirit and manner now that Frank Buchman is gone too the Only comparable movement j i have Ever encountered is the j hasidim among the jews. They Are followers of the Baal schem Tov and believe that god s Law is cheerful and comes from the heart and that the essence of Faith is love. They recognize the leadership of the rabbi who possesses special gifts but they do not organize tightly and rarely stray from the designated path i or them the happiness of Man is mention made of any other penal institutions in Iowa Baer said. Bulletin Washington up a House leaders and administration forces started drafting a Compromise proposal today to save president Kennedy a Long Range foreign Aid plan from possibly crippling restrictions. In preparation for Black Topping Thoj Highland Road West of Here from new Highway 34 to Trenton. Grad i ipg of tie mud a. Been com-1 plated for some time and Rock is hiking crushed now for the Asphalt i i surface Adenauer receives soviet ambassador i next offset do copyright. 1961. King Syndicate inc not More than one year beyond ii six months Quot officers commissioned through the program and no j a on Active duty will be ordered to Active duty for 24 months a overseas Tours for army p a sonnet will lie extended after oct it Ber i. Tours will tax ended six months in such places As Japan and Germany and three months in Korea. A tile draft will Call 25,009 men in september and an estimated 20, 000 in october. J a the ready Reserve obligation 1 and enlistment of personnel in Reserve units and the ready Reserve in i mobilization Pool which nov amid signs of grow ing West otherwise expire Between Ort. I with the and next june 30 will be extended medical spec sets will if there Are not by by an pm a on strik tion and mrs or it a i w Ork a mfr clop Hultman. In calling the decision one of the a most important a he had made also ruled out the possibility i of state employees striking or engage my in walkouts in anew tort to Force the government to bargain with the Union.-. Des Moin Eis up Osar wheels 64. Des Moines scheduled to be arraigned in municipal court Here today on an open charge of murder detectives wheels wa., accused of shooting Lee Sherman Phipps. 62, i auday following an argument space w Here they during its spa of voyage Tho new explorer t reversed the two doughnut shaped Van Allen Rachel in belts deadly trapping station tor radiation from the Sun. Instruments were transmitting new data on the belts to Earth. Detective Paul beaten said the two apparently had argued during the Day and that later wheel restrict cd sept. I u re it or year tom.1 Volunteer for additional a but if volunteers do not qui rement. These office extend d up Folt a Cai rom to j. A Job my r n my Nira cd to Active duty meet re will be but Hultman said. In region.-? to four questions raised by state liquor control commissioner j c. Colburn. Harlan the Union could beckoned Tupp Over to the tem still do Benet in my to employ e. Be that separates their wards Dick and were at least two shots fired nes sen said. And Phipps wheeled a from the Fence and collapsed. He died a Chort time later at president and Rusk Confer cause of insurance programs other fringe Bend tits Hultman Aid his ruling the fast in Iowa history to recognize rim right of state employees to Joina Union Colburn asked for the decision after it Learned liquor commission employees w Ere organizing to Broad a ii Hospital mrs pm a Pps. Calf nod to a wheel chair said there had been trouble Between wheels and husband neighbors tor 23 years Washington up a president Kennedy and Secretary of state Dean Rusk held a breakfast table strategy conference today on the Berlin or is. Their Nipp my came As the Western allies sought to shape up a unified response to the commune j inst Border closings her officer join an International Union. Bonn up Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today received soviet ambassador Andrei sir an emanation of the happiness of god and that to enjoy such Hap Ness one must place himself in the path of gods acknowledgement i German dissatisfaction features Western Allied treatment of the j by one year she said wheels asked her to Call the fire department tuesday however within recent week. Smoke from the stove both some employees of the state mental him. Sue said her husband health institutions said they Ere went Over to wheels Home while the firemen were there and then came Back Home. Birkeland new local Kugi manager a a select d individual ant resent in us not Row in units will be recalled to Active duty for no More to. Ii 12 months uni there Are enough volume to fill ult plan mrs t0 organize and late tues need. May it revealed that guards at my other the state prison at it. Madison were a doctors dentists be inducted strongly in favor of joining the in efficient Volun guards Union of Amel Berlin crisis. Six months enlistment s will be i leers Lea. Detectives said wheels told them he thought Phipps had taken $2c while at the House. Roe d b Akela and is the new manager of he Kugi studio in i pleasant he actively took Over the management monday. Birk Elarid comes Here from i Brookfield. To. His wife. Shirley my son Ricky will move Here As Loon As living quarters can be Loca Ted

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