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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 17, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news i to vol. 83, no. 193mt. Pleasant Iowa Iii its Dav evening Ai g. 17, Lofils these Days by George e. Sokolsky piracy Astro or his associates Are undoubtedly having a Ball Over the kidnapping of american air planes. Tit Ted in simple terms tins City Council receives report on dutch Elm disease twin military moves a dutch Elm tree disease committee reported to the City Council amounts to piracy in the air to wednesday night that Quot com Muir the kidnapping of american Citi-1 which will put on an effective zen. Urns tar no one has been grading and sanitation program murdered in a pirated plane but com save to Fifer Elm Trees and that that does not lesson the crime. I it ust for cheaper to try to control no one would engage in such a the disease than it is to clean up pet Ilu i it activity unless the rewards the dead Trees afterwards Quot Wert sufficiently Large to justify j committee discussed a two i the risk and someone must be Day trip to it Mach son and in uh-1 pacing those rewards and offering nos to examine the extent of the tin in conspicuously. Nevertheless there reporting some Conine Public announcement has been in unites had allowed the to made of a rewind uttered or re spread a because of failure to Yeti cried organized and to learn about the i disease. A it. Plea tin v Adria f a should immediate r n i v out a Spray program on both Public and private Trees. They urged spraying tile attitude of the Kennedy admin tuition and of tile democratic Leader hip in Congress has not been Satus factory to the Amel Iran Penth and the sense of Cadi age is swelling. Granted that it i policy in to originate world Wai Iii Over Cuba it Nevert Dele f is impossible tor our people to accept the indignity and ridicule the ii is from these acts of Pilate the general sentiment seems o be thai the administration private Trees at no charge to net thorough coverage at Tup same time they Issue d a warning Tai All citizens to watch for and report t diseased Tref so it inn by removed. A one diseased tree on private they reported. A pc ill provide a Breeding place Foi ought to Haw ways of curbing this hundreds of beetles to spread to other Trees so it is very necessary to roil looking As a Western Kansas town. At one time the University Campus had Over 2300 Elm Trees which completely arched Over All of the1 streets on the Campus. The uni varsity lacked funds to combat the ded and by fore measures could be taken to reinstate a controlled program ded had taken All but too Elm Trees on the Campus Ltd. Cedre Cartel and or Dan Neely of la University emphasized the need for a goad control program consisting of a praying and sanitation. It was their opinion that any Community which did put on an a i Ess Ive control program could keep thu loss cd Elm Trees to less than i. They Felt that if communities could hold the line with their Elm Trees that in a few years the system of injection could be perfected. Who h would then simplify the control of the Lagrange a Lagrange is one of the Best examples of a Eom i Trinity backing a control program. Lagi auge has Over 8000 Elm Trees no its streets Lagrange has been spraying for five years and for the last two wears has shifted graduation exercises at i a saturday forces in Germany to estered graduation a 10 30 sat Idaj mors i a Tov t gu./. A Momii g we a in completed the i be a s r 23 College unum. To i w ill will r Chad Ink will go or Burton Ajile or to Evan Coppy it organist the pub c is invited Man shot and killed at c Edar rapids a rpt it Britain Ai d Tim a in e r a Bol Taring their Mil in Berlin Aud get sanm time the let or dosed that 2..boo it of the communist youth a ii would in Mobil d of As speedily As piracy of slopping the piracy forcing the return of and if necessary of Cuba not Only to get the planes Tler committee also bid to get the pirates. I replacement of removed tier. L a True that the result of such warned Ilia chinese elms arc Rene to it fill Spray program to the planes remove diseased to going into Pebble Quot the Cost Nitter it Vold the difficulty with Robins in count. Extension director the Pun they feel that the fall i Spray program has b in effective encouraged me name at the winning senior Box i -11 dem i a it s \ matter of life Okgi \ i la ration give recently by Jerry , holding the poster and Jim met or Mick holding a is Check presented tile team by Arthur Pommel Light. I. Pleasant Bank and i rust Richard Binna. Igi. Supervised Hie demons iat ions White and Mccormick of Hie Champion lip on to the state fair Competition. But not Khrushchev has publicly commonly thought they reported that he protect cub seeing Many infected chinese Elm. From Amene it intervention and j on ? 1p1r trip the word intervention can be Taidi. Interpreted but can it be1 the committee made la ailed re in1 i Piet cd to mean that the unit i posts on the disease in 13 communed a can do nothing not even i it in. A few of their comments i it Madison j by failed to Start a program soon enough so Are losing All of their Trees on private property Are cared tor by their owners any Trees removed Are replaced with Hackberry or Little heated Linden Trees Cost of spraying he about she per tree they have found tha Dot us the most satisfactory Type of i Sandwich a Quot streets were lined prix club will take the demonstration on artificial respiration. Last concert big three protests to Russia Friday night or nation ii an a ii we have fallen so Bisundei a Anding Low. What is the purpose of All our 1 Cli dropped All Adiv if. ? Vav might just As Well London i upi1 the by apparently the com nun Western Powers pro cd the l be or the with dead Trees bought a sprayer to defend id Elf against piracy it. Madison not even protect life and prop started with a control program but Seid in american or inter a because of Lack of information Anc Iju c. In the City Conn Ity had tailed to get adequate in soviet Union today against Mer con vol no formation about ded so the town illegal communist with no control in two or three j was divided As to what give up without a Battle and sub years it Madison will lace a Gid 1,f Khrushchev a dictate ski pm gentle cleanup problem As the Cit i Princeton a a a 1 has Many Elm in asm a nut to this i Hen becomes the a Suc Macomb a a the Cit of Macomb rather than piracy. Sui viral in presented a Good example of what three years self respect and dignity and i happens to a Community when it void an Admi inst rat Ion must recognize i control measures Are taken morale of a nation a count it that is ashamed of Forward tile will for achievement can be vitiated by the incapacity bad been considerate More tests o a people to be proud of the Fondue of its government Natisin al Pride is essential to National be it respect without we Iii a people cannot survive of i. True that Castro has a go a Edvan age because of the in a Lilii Igne a it of most americans to go to War and because of the adm is i at Ion s unwillingness to inapt Cuba the sine but hts advantage cannot Long prevail without damaging the morale of i american people. Castro and Hias. Sclater thumb their noses at us and ridicule us. And other could i particularly Canada Tak adv m age of our softness to Estah h that our bigness is mean in a is it us not bigness that is important to us it is dignity am in hould be Berlin and warned the rus Ai s of tile grave dangers that can re Princeton has be suit from such action tween 7000 and 8000 Elm Trees and the United slams Britain and has last about 300 during the last France then proteus Ini Princeton budgets identical diplomatic not hand ii $12,000 for a up. A program and re to the Kremlin in to Row earlier the Moval. Foreman was satisfied today Recs that Princeton was getting the Dis tile notes announced Here by foreign office also accused. A up to Tho Mavor thought there do Anvil Ling had Las most of their Emny pledged card of the gov a Trees Quot j ment of the b r in the the Council took no immediate agreement on zonal occupation action in the recommendations of1 rights in Berlin the committee but planned to take. The notes charged thai1 a i Down Trees on them into consideration of the East West Berlin a Quot a a in the basis of $2 of per Inch two feet1 members of the tree committee the East German comm in w it above the ground in 1081 the Are Harold Mcleran or. William a Quot Flag ant and per Ticulka 1 City Council budgeted $20,000 for Boulter. William Hoaglin Richard our violation of rile padre a try a removal. J i Hutch and Aib pit a in the or. Poulter showed the Council coloured slides taken on the trip. I a will sea a git y m i t it. B. K i v it g t Pati r b n i g 18 i h1 a mum i Rel 8 of p n in. Firemen a salaries Are raised Berl n France follow Lead Ted v Iii to / log i. Many at tin derm a ii., member orca nip Voluntad ily a tin twin military moves a it neither vide of the Caird East a t Berlin bord came As the we. Fern allir., delivered stinging Prole notes to the soviet Union i a r the Yoni run i to illegal a tons in thus crisis torn City. Tho note Ward a he in stuns tilt Sun la actions an have grave Eon que tic earlier the West Berlin police reported the defect iou of to uniformed members of the Corn my nut. East German people., police and two members of the red Corker militia during Thea t two nights. Cedar rapids. Iowa did a carnival worker was shot and killed outside a restaurant Here tort a and two other carnival worker. W Ere a n ested on charges of sus Pinion Quot of murder. Police said Woodrow Wil on it Oyes 20, Mobile Ala. Was Slot moments after he left the Rostau a rant with his Bride of two months Cind four other carnival work res one of Liis companion Clarence , Hnilo ref the Rhine put a full 1 of id . Atlanta ga., fled Iii ready strength of 5b, i in British am owed in Don that they will bring i Oil tin i a v us n am i i i in k. I x11 cd in re. To Quot Pas to i Ahai shut a Ohi Brazil. Moor i Auk n Bennett s m i i w he r. To / v r in in Quot f Lim r a Van Auk offend i ii Arr Ith More a a Velut it i Council Iglus ran my i Rem in the a la i v pad at of or Day cited Ltd after fhe shooting but w finally halted by police seven no i is. E. O Here after a too Mph Chase men thu. Mount an addition of 4.000 to 0,000 men in Par. President diaries de Gaul hrs minced that France tin be qua in is As essential to the j mayor did not know How Many j had be a tested but we observed i Ca. E under control and Sta d that the itself cannot go i diseased Trees number Sun to towns around Princeton that did t Russia of Quot a violation f the of 893 made than that. Old and new houses were completely surrounded by dead Trees the City has a contract cutting Down Trees on Winfield w ill i Lone fit from Isi substation f chief al a Iio Vav is i led to in $100 a Quarter to $125 asst chief William safer from $90 to $115 and the other firemen from $80 to $10o tile rakes Are effective get i the Council instruct a the fire a fat cup to have a 500 me of the City fire i has developed a the fit her Man. Join Edwards strengthen its air and 13. Sari ant u to Tex remained it the restaurant another carnival couple also was in the group both were charged with intoxication and suspicion of murder and were being questioned ground fore in Germany and at. Hmm or t of the Bell in or. Five of the people s police a or Dopa Quot defected in a group carrying their pistols Kiel i sub machine gun w Ith them we t w a Champaign i Ghana a University Campus is about As bar Garrels main speaker at Henry county n f o. Meeting Henry count. No held nor regular meeting. Aug i a the it it a building wan co chairman respect and we shall demand. I Jim Cou Iilo priding and Wilber Carrel As Mam speaker there a. \ Lew More plane Pira cies and the pm id it will be forced to act by Outt sized Public opinion editorials and articles May be written a Large in thus Tendance. Ast in group in at hijacked plane returned to . of Berlin they termed the in a the East German a ii in a said Hie West. Is holding t Viet Union responsible for the Wei pm in / 1 the soviet government end to these ii Ega i Mea ii i no hav $160,000 Clef or v a Verv �?~�?�tiu., a Lulater a1 it Quot i in r the Quad Partite s Atu f b1 Miami a up a a hijacked Lin can Only a Rea sex Eastern air lines prop Jet Electra Sions and danger was brought Back to the United said state wednesday by the same die Wester p a Crew which took it to Havana at today was the so my a a gunpoint july 24 hem v. I lilies the is i Quot a sol 92 i c Silumbu w la Fie id a the. T it n Leo in a up i Cut 11 True Ting to ration f i Tai towns in a Hins ton tat i is being built for Nom utilities co at the i Iowa 218 and old Low i ii Impi to to vice to june Quot Ion. Columbu cite Crawfordsville and Ains Chat to take. Gallon tank it Ltd trucks repaired 11 a i the Council Den cd he a or a widening project now in Progre. And the or facing of Hie two new a Cir a parking loth c Una Poi Ted out a hat it k not the group. In o it to place parking meters on the to. A cig i�?T1 o a m i w i. A int d to Aring Dair s Sinclair service s 10,000 damage in ii filed prisoners hold hostages or barrel. Asked Tim the Pilot. Cap William pm Buchanan. Aid on his return Here eve i the cuban government appeared to Aci Vise the people to ignore Hie member become better acquainted to by shame of non resistance but they the the by Laws of tile organ/1-do not serve a headline bearing non and he also stressed that the. My the Saga. Quot another plane Nalt will to get putting As much pm in asks lacked Quot is All that need appear on bargaining As Well us organic clip rest is commentary the ing. Every member was asked to shame has been established. And write to their congressman and to i it am american do not enjoy being Secretary of agriculture Freeman ashamed. Aud request the enforcing of the one wonders whether Castro packers and stockyards a purpose is to tease irs into a War it was reported that the 1st Dis so that soviet Russia or red China strict Ink in. Were audited on july i n make War upon Hie United Lith at the Horn of n of director states in could even be that his jell Liot Mckinstry of Washington. Such Low a the member a1 enjoyed do quite concerned Over re it it attempts to steal american passenger planes by Hijacker. Buchanan quoted Cuba s minister of aviation who signed the refer the $3 2 million Airliner. Las aying Quot anyone who would i do this thing is crazy Quot an 11-Man team of Mechanic and crewmen was sent to Havana to retrieve the big plane and re i wired it was in excellent condition. Sinc e t he common f a Ltd mans clamped Down their a h Tiki in Berlin Early s i followed a protest by a v. A commandants to the soviet com mandant in Berlin tuesday Loveless May run again i inn kid my up d i in chinese advisors have put an id a into his Licad. He has nothing much to lose even in de i cussing the recent Quot meeting for1 action Quot in i gets Moines Bey r a1 j feat whereas we lose prestige every Day. Henry county that meeting Farmers attended freely admits Shotgun slaying the danger is that these plane incidents will precipitate military action and no matter what else happens Cuba and the cuban peo Pii w i pay the full Bill Cuba is too Small to engage in More than a few minutes of modern warfare if indicate Man died of heart attack Dos Moini. Ii i i i democratic Low i gov la go Loveless said today it a. Abo a 50 >0 Chance Quot the a he v run for Public off in Iowa a Loveless now a member o Federal renegotiation Board Washington Adma Ted. J that if he d All in to probably would be a re a of Iowa tile former governor. Spend about a week in Low a a Cherokee. Iowa up a a this saturday sad i i recent Wisconsin College graduate december before he Wand in surrendered to local authorities up his in my whether to i Ltd _ wednesday night and admitted the office again he said lie Vav. D Des Moines up pre shot gun slaying of a Man at Chip Bat k in Iowa in about u Quot 11 that is what can come of this and Laminar medical information Inch j Pew a fall. Wuk., sheriff Carl attend the wedding 1 Hada whether the United states rates a Moines Man who died Schleef said today. Tor. Saudi. The soviet Russia wins such an in Arter a fight at a key club Carh i Schleef said Bruce Backet 21, i ate september , there will be no Cuba j Biu nity died of a heart attack. Polk Chippewa Falls a freely admitted been set. And there will he no Castro re a county authorities Quot Aid wednesday i shooting Rob it Mcphee in his late tile be whiskered ones Are county atty is a i Villi / Repp of prisoners Tols zip guns and n Reber of guards do and held then Quot e Penitentiary one of the hosta by identity led. A i Quot owners because i ii spokesman Sui the disturbance a inst what the i la k of recreation Frank Binder a Parent spokesman Foi of one of Hie rebellion Raymond Farra who was involved i 25-hour riot at the prison in m ire. I960 Kennedy appeals to House to reconsider i orders to in a he it immedi Quot fat a by the ill a Pri in pro a Quot a i s Call d t a. Sonar and the group. Group Vav As a 549,090 dams a Quot if gtd in d. 11&Quot Brough. Fai of in id Henry Rice Fra Calhoun Are name according a i /1 t plaint if f go Ltd v d juries from a ill Ici if of f ire was Alu sir a a a which act Liiva id v and mail la of on j d in la Call loud v hit in of Iii d by h no an 1 it rom g the Una f g4 damages and $i0. For a a id defend put up 11? i a i police said that Momento Aires a Druli to it Liee Laid a ii group left the old Hickory a. Others apparently defected restaurant Floyes 21-year quigly but no detail were issued old wife ran Back in de or w Are they or i there s a Man with a gun out toe Bor a id by other developments on the just then three shots rang out rerun situation Flo yes. Shot once in the Chest Ane a Alice in the upper thigh was do a armed err nun St police Aion arrival at a lie pita a Ped Quot Liber of a Britt h in til Iowa Highway patrolman James tan pair in a Haras ing achoo ohm., who was in Hie re Tau rant a1 us a a la St-we., t Berlin Border it Tim time ran outside just a the morning hi1 limn were re i Rev As pulling away Gilroy and a a Uilia nned after quest to i Cert rapids policeman Cha. E a Aid not Long afterwards at speeds up to too big Gill a it id Fin t Brit us Amba ador by Christopher ally topped his or seven mile feel drove in o Berlin in i West of ii Ere and Austin surrendered j three car Convoy and toured the without re stance Border for 25 minutes without n j a witness at the Restani stud Ltd a in a Liow the Flag Demori a one a a Motel next door also were stration the Union Jack flew rom his it try last Lert Nan workers began tearing up the rails of two of the six elevated train lines the communists closed sunday when they began to pal the Border. Ill t a Quot a by defendants Rig i. Erg i in a car till a Light Poi i i Ila Quot 6 i 9 it i diver of the Quot Francis Calif the i Fon a a a Quot $30,000 in Joo in exemplary questioned the carnival worker j were on i played by individual Concepcion him open tors at the All Iowa f or now i y Vera in Progress her Quot William i launch a poor Many space probe Cape canaveral ii the us air Force launched a a poor Man Quot a up today Pace \ c>mpal1 if i Quot in Quot. I Royal rifles to 2nd Green Jack a guarded a soviet War turn tin a i brr so Wor Shiou ghost tie Cia. To prevent Ai v possible demonstrations by angry wet berliners probe the h May become tile key to High Altitude nuclear Bla t detection but tile flight apparently was nullified by a Comuni cation blackout exact Day w edding of by i t i in Ashington i i la a \ it Binet officer in a the chairman of the House commit be predicted today that a go cd portion of i or. Ident Ken Cdv it embattled education program would he revived i i pics this v Par. By Iff is w a it Hin it in a Pic the Navy announced today in a new phase of he i. S. Military buildup that it will increase its oper a lips urns by 4�?~ ships. Including two big aircraft carriers. I be expansion will raise the Navy a operating Quot Treuth to 861 ships a a War ships and i<8 supporting types. A Best by rim new. Part. A Jeared with big Black headlines Over stories of Many cases reflecting West Berlin mayor Willy shortly after the Brand demand at a Mam to rocket Blaed off the Cap the air Jug wednesday for Quot not Merci. Force announced that radio con word by Polit Leal action Quot Dom tact wats oct during fourth stage 1p allies in the current burning a no further information or Quot will be available until data re from the flight have Bern a information Bureau we.,i the air Force said i vat we a German As the hours foil Vin Gene-., reported that gut a urn 9 20 am launching without tor fled from East Berlin Moi re a Contact with the Dav anti tuesday Liere in i probe it a indicated that the shortage of doctors in eau c.er-?c would have to ta3 put Down Many and East Berlin on the failure Side Gimp. Harry Perkin or ,4q�?Ts, during an argument tuesday playing Only for the destruction of said the Man. Boyd Smith. 47. W i night. Backes said he shot Mcphee their country. Soviet Russia uses known to have had a bad heart in self defense when the older Man Cuba to tease the United states three men were arrested and began making a improper advances a and it takes a great Deal of self questioned in connection with the the sheriff said restraint to resist the temptation incident at the rangers club but Backes walked into the sheriffs to act quickly under such Circum Perkins said he would wait for a office Here late wednesday night stances How much More can the final written report from county j and said he shot Mcphee. He sur american people take from Castro a medical examiner or Leo d Luka rendered shortly spa and his Russo chinese associates before deciding whether i doubt it we can take much . Would filed. Workers needed by old threshers sign charter old a n y the stolen car he had abandoned Inch Rokee Stan Mathew has it workers Are needed to help i pare Mcmillan Park for threshers and Settle i / it ski the Railroad and Hoys paint brushes Are needed suit is Una washing n up pre sift it a a a need appealed the House today to reconsider the near fat d blow it delivered to the heart of his forum Aid Progn Jin Kennedy iat relied an All out Gilt. To Rescue the Long term borrowing authority a provision he considers essential the House tentatively Defeated tile controversial proposal wednesday on a 197-185 vie. Kennedy person Telephone Campaign members of Congress morning Pun a with in an Effort to get them to change launches president their vote on what he considers the year heart of his Forg i Aid program the rocket itself apparently v. Soaring As planned on a voyage that would Cam us spice package 140.000 statute Miles into up re he Deepe. T Pace probe to Date using a solid fuel project Lle but withholding Radi oing Back i the vital information its Mission was to study Proton uni Neutron distribution above the Vin Allen radiation belts the 27-Pound package of a. Plot red for a 140,000-Miie voyage him Paris president Charles. Gaulle interrupted his summer Valt at Ion to return to the capital for a Cabinet meeting. Afterwards. A communique said France is increasing army and air fore strength in Germany and at Home because of the Berlin situation Punta Dei Este Uruguay up All he american r pub temper were High Ainoi i two million citizens of the a Era Section of Berlin t of demonstrators who gathered to protest the sealing of the East German Border by the communists to prevent a fug from escaping carried placard. Quot betrayed both West a tid mrs. Hugh massing Ham an Ltd demand action a English couple expected Here today undertook a person to with lies except Cuba today signed the i Del Esto charter which London. England were to arrive in Kennedy Sio i. Pleasant at 5 55 p in. Thursday English writers plan to observe life a Alliance for Progress pro by bus from Lincoln and Omaha Here in a Small midwestern town be. Aln in my the couple both Well known fore leaving saturday for Chicago

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