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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 20, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky real and present danger i hold a circular issued by Jimmy Hoffa a International brotherhood of teamsters chauffeurs warehousemen and helpers of a Merica. The particular circular comes from police department chapter local 237, and is an authorization for deduction of dues. In a word the police department of the largest City in the United states is to be subject to the checkoff and becomes a collector of dues for a Union whose corruption has Bren so great that it has required months of Public hearings by a committee of the United states Senate. It is amazing that Hoffa a organization brazenly continues to expand under these circumstances. Although the circular is signed by Henry Feinstein As president what have such people As Johnny Dio and other hoods to do with this Effort to establish gangster control of the new York police Force the teamsters Union has that reputation although individual officers and members May be splendid people. And in How Many cities is this organizational drive being conducted vol. 80, no. Too it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening Algi St 20, 1958 Quot Ewt by Carrier 3�# per week by mail $7.5� per year denials by Baker graduation for28 at inc tuesday Iowa Wesleyan College will conf v lit Lor of arts degrees upon Council discusses safety department at informal meeting an informal meeting of the City Council was held at tile City Hall tuesday nit lit for Hie purpose of discussing the City s Public safety department fire and police. Fire chief Axel Bergdahl and 25 candidates tuesday and present police chief Don thornes were present at tile meeting As was the assistant fire chief Bill Alvine. They were told that the Council is interested in cutting expenditures in the Public safety department. The police Force of any City is a Semi military organization that must be governed rigidly. Its members must be subject to fines suspensions and dismissals in order j that discipline May be maintained responsibility is Plain what this teamsters Union in j a a a a a a a a a a a a a Vasion of the police Force can mean i is that an outside gangster control j of the police could come into ex-1 Stence Impe Rilling the lives and the property of citizens and order in the Community. For instance does one want the same control. Over the police that exists Over j trucking in the garment Industry i what happens if the Union offi Eta is a a fraternally Quot choose to pro j text certain hoods who May have infiltrated a related Union does that mean that the police Are to take orders from their Superior officers or from the Union fire fighting lesson a firemen from several counties assembled at this old Brick Home on the farm owned for Many years by the late. Vav. Swan North of new London to observe techniques in fire fighting. Room by room the acid building unsafe for further occupancy was ignited and the flames were put out then started again in the experiments. If spectators who gathered had expected to see a spectacular Blaze they were disappointed. President stands firm on position two convicts granted writs in a circular issued by Hie aforesaid Henry Feinstein he explains that the police need the teamsters to help them get what they cannot get through their own organizations which Are not part of the Latair movement. Feinstein says Washington. It up Dent Eisenhower said today can be a no equivocation As to the responsibility of the Federal government Quot to see that court rulings on school integration Are carried out. He also said that each state has the responsibility to see that the court mandates Are not opposed by violence. The president said his position was exactly that of a year ago. I he then quoted from a statement that the object or his drive among i than m which he said. Quot the very basis of our i divid i it. Madison writs of Hareas i Corpus have been granted Here by i District judge j. R. Leary to Don a Ald g. M hidden. 28, Granger mo., j and Donald Horn 23. Lowell Iowa. I who Are serving 25 year terms j in the Iowa state prison on presi-1 charges of robbery with Aggra there i Vutison. Must pay state tax on 18 million three certificates to students in two rear courses tile ceremony will begin at 10 00 a in in the College Chapel and is open to tile Public. Or. J. Raymond Chadwick president of the College will a the speaker for the occasion j cd Cun oilman John Elgar read lot students who Are completing a from other towns near the size work for a degree at the end of of it pleasant comparing the the summer school Are Jack costs of the tire and police depart Young. Carpentersville. 111. Don a pints with those Here. Some had Ald Dobersch 4104 w. Newport higher costs than it. Pleasant and Chicago ill Donald Gibbs to Somp it wer. Line i. Carol Jean White mrs. Elgar said he Felt the Cost of John t. White. Argyle William i running the police radio can be m. Hedgepeth. Jr., Mary v. Lynn j reduced and suggested a possible mrs. I v. Lyn Barbara t up with the county whereby Vandiver Burlington Betty Isley both the county and the City would Carlisle Robert c. Ledman Dan Uso the same a Bdl effecting a Ville Doris Beggs mrs. E. to both the county has Beggs. Keokuk Willa Magorian i but Man approached about this plan a mrs. Eugene Magorian Kosau a and in reportedly is being left up qua Anna Gillis Carnahan mrs. A disc it Ion of sheriff Russell h w Carnahan Howard Nugen an Elgar indicated that Tho Lvon Richard Dietrich Linnie Lyon j so Riff would be contacted about Parker mrs. Carl c Parker to i the set up when he turns from a Bort Patterson it. Pleasant Don j Vaca Ion trip Underwood new London Nancy judge Leary set to . Aug. 22 As the Date for hearing the petitions filed on aug. 14 by the two convicts. Madden and Horn were charged with the Jan. 3 armed robbery of Merschmann a furniture store int St. Paul the pair was captured u1 county he said he Des Moines up Woodbury county residents will be forced to pay the state monies and credits tax on at least $18,000,000 in previously unreported personal Assi tis. The Iowa tax commission said today. Tax commission chairman Leon Miller said a Field auditor for the commission had ordered additional assessments of the 6 Mill tax against 60 persons in Wood the police is to a restore the policeman to first class pre Ual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the president and the executive Branch of gov wisely what that Means is very difficult to say except that his concept is to remove the police Ern ment we support and in ure from being a disciplined body. In tale carrying out of the decisions of this extremely profound circular. The Federal come. A it Feinstein informs the police that _ _ a the custom of the country is Thea a Law of the a Rule that holds j hails agreement in China where local custom pre-1 a. Vails but not in the United states is encouraging where Laws passed by Legislatures _ and departmental regulations gov Washington up pres Ern. His Point is that it is customary Eisenhower today hailed As to have unions does Hoffa wish to organize the army As teamsters who is Henry Feinstein who is organizing policemen into teamsters is he a policeman has he very encouraging the East West scientific agreement on Means of policing a nuclear test ban. The Pri Biden expressed Hope at i his news conference that the by a group of Farmers As they i emerged from the store. Both Young men pleaded guilty the next Day to robbery with aggravation charges contained in inform a finn filed by county at Orney r. N. Johnson and the court imposed the mandatory 25 year prison terms. In their petitions for a writ of Hareas Corpus Madden and Horn charge that the county attorney and the clerk of court failed to comply with statutory requirements relating to criminal appeals. The pair also alleged that they were charged with robbery with aggravation and were tried and sentenced without adequate counsel. Orde cd the special investigation of Woodbury county following a study of reported monies and credits tax Revenue from the various counties. A we found that Woodbury county residents paid monies and credits taxes on Only $12,000,000,-000, Miller said. A at the same time Linn county with almost the same population reported $68,000, too in taxable assets a he said. Burggraaf new Sharon june hawn mrs. Charles h. Haw Joann Peterson Brown mrs Richard m Browns Oakville mrs. Blanche Hoffman Perry Maynard m Whitney Solon Bora Foss Holm mrs Harley e Holm. Stockport Dorothy hoist Cen Klodnycky mrs. Roman Klodnycky West Point Mary Jane Schenk Winfield. The Throe students who Are to receive certificates at the end of the two year teacher education course Are Norma Kay Martin Columbus Junction Phyllis a. Lowe Crawfordsville and Nancy b. Moen Mason City. Councilman Pliny Walter also i gave information about Public j safety departments in other towns mayor Mcbeth stated at the meeting that if the City can Cut i Down on any of the departments j without rutting the efficiency he is i in favor of it otherwise to is not Elgar reported on some of his observations of the police Force and on information that has been relayed to him. At times the discussion Between him and the mayor became quite forceful. The possibility of having the radio men at the City Hall also serve As firemen was discussed As an Economy measure too at the present there Are three radio men or desk sergeants on the police Force Frank Farr. Harold Dovenspike and Glen Garrett Atid six police officers chief thornes Stan Hill. Werner Smith. Eugene Barnes Roger Anderson and Rex Norton. The fire department set up seems to be satisfactory with the Council. Chief Bergdahl told the Council that the department is Well equipped and outside of a few Small items the department has no needs at this time. A regular meting of the Council will be held at the City Hall tonight. May pay Bonus in september Des Moines up a Iowa korean War veterans can look readers set record House votes works Bill p. 0. T o open at 8 a. In. If you borrowed and read books Forward to receiving their state j from it. Pleasant Public Library during the past month you had a part in establishing a new All time record for Library use in this Community. The july circulation figure of the Sale of the states 3938 was a gain 0f 303 Over 1957 the morning opening hour at the local past office will be moved one half hour earlier from 8 30 to 8 of clock. Postmaster Wendell t. Smith has announced. Bonus payments earlier than sex pet ted. Possibly As much As a month earlier officials said today. Ray Kauffman Secretary of the korean Bonus Board said at the time of Bonus Bonds that he expected to make the first payments in october. However latest indications were the initial payments might be made As Early As sept. 15. State treasurer m. L. Abraham son had invested the 26 million dollars in Bonus funds in Short term government Bonds to help pay tile 24 per cent interest the state must pay on its Bonds which were sold earlier this year. The 90-Day government Bonds memorial gifts go to heart association Ever served in the police Force he 1 agreement would turn out to be a has never been a policeman in any of cup toward a world disarmament City. Agreement. # too one comes across such a situation As this in his own City but injured in Faim in How Many other cities have the tractor Accident teamsters issued Charters to organize police unions to whom Walter Glove 68, was injured were such Charters issued and when he was struck by 1 tractor what kind of men Are in control on dogs farm 4 Miles West of it. Of the Union it is not at 1045 wednesday i in the teamsters Union As the my a Glover and his son. Glen were Clellan committee has Well Stab spreading gravel on a Lane leading listed. For the membership to have tj1farmyard. Or. Glover was anything to say about the manage j doing the spreading work in front ment of the Union. It is a private j 0f he tractor when apparently his Enterprise owned by the officers sons foot slipped Oft the clutch of Washington up House today approved a Mise $1,118,128,835 Public the change is made possible in were to mature oct. 2. However. Der the increased services program i Kauffman has conferred with Abrahamson about getting a a sizable Quot amount of the Bonus Money before the maturity Date. A t h e 1 of postal service resulting from Compro recent increase in Revenue to be works received through higher postal memorial gifts donated in the v one of the late l. W Hopson of it pleasant have been received i conference agreement ease unemployment. By voice vote the House Ai opted and sent to the Senate a reached by appropriation Bill designed to help rates. The 8 30 opening hour had been established several months ago in order to Lessen the hours of daily operation and thus reduce Juncos t. Tho change which becomes effective next saturday will be welcomed by Many business firms which had occasion to want postal the total amount received this i appropriated for construction window service earlier than 8 30. In 1956 the circulation figure was 2535, and in 1955 it was 1926 juvenile visitors to the Library jumped from 647 in 1955 to 2395 in 1958, during the month of july. These figures indicate How Many it. Pleasant residents Are Reading books even though the City is so generously dotted with television antennas. Your Library borrowers card is free if you Are living in town. Charles f. Robertson Dies at Iowa City by a lie Iowa heart association a j a members of the House and Senate Crim to mrs Charles Strothmann a in a we weeks of closed meetings. Of be. . Heart chairman of i under Tho conference agreement. Henry counts approximately $813,887,500 will be Adlai repeats that he will not be a candidate yen to be used search is 583.45 toward heart re local happenings maintenance and planning for the j corps of engineers $287,391,375 for i the reclamation Bureau and $16 i 850.000 for the Twa. Mystery car was stolen in Montana designation pleases and organizers and they operate it in their own interest and. As has been shown in Many instances such As Dave Beck his son and others for their own profit. The tractor causing it to lurch Forward knocking or. Glover Down a bar on the spreading device pierced or. Glover a right hand but no Bones were broken. He also suf therefore it is Wise for citizens feed possible rib injuries. Nil Over the country to look at the younger Glover brought his their own police forces to see father in to memorial Hospital by whether the teamsters Union has j car. Got control of them and what they j Are doing with Thorn. Some Illinois Sailor Cipal politicians and social workers take the position that As these Days municipalities engage in All sorts of activities which formerly were private some municipal departments Are proprietary and therefore Are really like private Enterprise. So. These a or. And or. Arts rile Arni family returned Home saturday _ i rom a weeks vacation in the j Washington up Dakotas. Highlight Ftp their trip expressed pleasure today were the International peace gardens in North Dakota and Manitoba Canada tile very fascinating Theodore Roosevelt National memorial Park the Black Hills and badlands of South Dakota. A mrs. M. Mackin of Des Moines is visiting Iii the Home of Congress at pres ident Eisenhower a designation of rear . Hyman g Rickover to be his personal representative at the nuclear submarine Nautilus Homecoming and at the Nav Secretary a pledge that the will get his third Star. Or. Mrs. And mrs. M. L f. B i Ane. Dickson and Dies after fight late bulletins sputnik watchers scan the skies word has been received by police and the Highway patrol Here that the 1958 Chevrolet station Wagon which was left in the too Block on North Jefferson Street Here a week ago was stolen at Chester. Mont. Tile sheriff there sent word that the machine is owned by Donald v. Spoonheim of Admiral that City. A description of the station Wagon was sent out by authorities Here. The vehicle was towed to a local garage tuesday. Marn Florence Italy up a Adlai Stevenson said today he hoped to participate Quot for a Long time in America s political pealed that he would a not be a future democratic candidate for Charles f. Robertson of Iowa Cit died at the mercy Hospital the former democratic Presl tuesday at 3 am. Where he had i dentist candidate arrived Here he terms t testimony a vengeance Washington up a a teamsters official bellowed denials today from the Senate rackets committee witness stand that he Ever knew what happened to the missing Greenlease Kidnap Money or that he was a very close Quot to new York gov. Averell Harriman. Barney Baker his 300 pounds shaking declared that two of his women who accused him of these things were prompted by in a 9 asked if he told his sex wife that Joseph costello of St. Louis got the missing $300,000 in Greenlease Money Baker boomed a i certainly did not absolutely a it is shocking to involve a Man in that kind of blood Money Quot said the unionist who had been described by the committee As a roving a Strong army agent for the teamsters. The Money has been a major mystery Ever since the Kidnap slaying of Young Bobby Greenlease in 1955. A a o As to claims that he was a close associate of Harriman Baker protested that it was a false Story designed to a destroy Quot the governor politically. A a in a not close close close As they said it was Quot he told the committee and an overflow audience in the big Senate caucus room. Baker who said a Little White lies done to mean no think when you Are not under oath a swore that he not Only did not Tell anyone costello got the Ransom but had no idea himself of its whereabouts. A the Fri followed me around for two years and never asked me a question a he said. A they sus pinioned the testimony about the Ransom and Harriman came from his former wife and from a former girl Friend now serving 15 years in prison for manslaughter. Forming new investment clubs been a patient for a Day. He was the Uncle of miss Myrtle Robertson and mrs. Pearl Cochran of this City. Services will be held thursday at two o clock at Mcgivern a funeral Home in Iowa City. In graduating class at Burlington Donna Taft and Carol Kirk Are members of the nurses training graduating class of Burlington Hospital. The class will be graduated in ceremonies at. The presbyterian Church at Burlington sunday of tuesday on a Short vacation visit after a tour of Russia and Eastern Europe. Stevenson said he was sure his experiences behind the Iron curtain a will help me to work for the Benefit of my prospective members of the three investment clubs of it. Pleasant met at the City Hall at 8 . Tuesday evening for an informative meeting concerning investments. Everett Anderson a representative of the Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner and Smith brokerage of life but re Davenport gave a lecture concerning the purpose for such clubs the language used with stocks How to buy and the benefits received from such a club. Following the lecture the meeting was opened for questions. The three new investment clubs two for women and one for men Are beginning organizational procedures which will be completed in september. This will bring the total number of investment clubs in it. Pleasant to four. Another club a i found the men in Russia Learned and i am convinced that for men was organized a few years the people of that country want peace Quot he said a at the present moment Khrushchev is an undisputed dictator chuckles in the news watchdogs too Good Decatur 111. Up. A Young ter noon at 2 30. A reception will Richard Gehrke tried today to follow at Moir Hall. Miss Taft and Sharon Washburn Washington mystery vehicle. Tho owner or his insurance agent j sputnik watchers have been out will Contact authorities Here about a cd presi j the past few evenings to watch for the station Wagon according to the i Quot h it Shower today signed into the orbiting Case which has be sheriff at Chester. Law a Bill extending the reciprocal easily visible in its two passages should have the. Tuesday following a pitched Battle Lead it it program for four years. Over during the Early evening . Istanbul. Turkey. Up american Sailor Larry m. Davis 21, of Wheaton 111., died from internal bleeding at a Hospital Hee per 1 sons had become interested in the of Danville also a member of the class Villi be employed at the mental health Institute Here they will have an apartment together. Same kind of transactions with Between Blu jackets and a unions As any other business would have dozen whatever can be said for this argument and much can be said against it. It cannot be applied to the police who represent the Sov couples have arranged sputnik Istanbul taxi Drivers. Chicago up a Federal watch parties to observe it turkish authorities were holding judge Joseph Sam Perry today the first passage Over d into four of the Drivers for i Vestiga a std a restraining order against the Early Twilight monday night 1 boy 2. Killed by automobile granted Transfer in mail service Cedar Falls. Iowa up Glen Hayward City mail Carrier. Has been granted a Transfer to the postal transportation service in make his pet understand there Are times when its Best not to be to Good a watchdog. After Richard tumbled into a River tuesday the dog stood guard so Well that a policeman had to fight him off to Rescue the boy. Too warts cause stagger Windsor. Ont. Up a magistrate tuesday dismissed a Drunken driving charge against Max ago. Each club is limited to a maximum of 20 members. The women a groups will meet once a month one being on the second thursday morning of the month and the other on the fourth thursday morning of the month j the new menus group will meet on i the third monday evening of the j month the same As the other group. The need for the a omens group was realized by mrs. E. A. Hayes who began the organizational procedures. Imports too much Gas in truck fined lie Teleg Raphers Upton barring it that it is More difficult Tion of the incident. A preliminary hearing was told from going on strike against the that Davis and five buddies on a Chicago and North Western rail late Liberty at Istanbul night spots Way the strike had been sched to Loc ate Joseph Ingles 2. Was killed today Chicago. He will be assigned to an the baht reflection from Tho tumbling projectile Case or even to see ii at All. Driver Over the fart and that about a dozen other Drivers in the Rion Ereign Power of the state to main got into an argument with a taxi a d to Start at 7 a in. Thursday. Fain Law and order to regulate traffic to protect school children to arrest thieves murderers and town Istanbul area joined in. Other criminals Etc it is impose a a sible to have dual control in police j it seems that during hrs 53 matters. Years in the business he a never copyright 1958, King features Learned to play a note on cite. Syndicate inc Organ or piano no criticism intended Johnston r. L a up a typographical error in the official a radiation program for Johnston Junior High school resulted in 52 teachers being identified Quot faulty Ushers Quot deed to couple in the list of deeds in tuesday s deeds Henry county savings Bank deeded property in Poplar Street to e. J. Lamb ar.1 wife and r a Quot a a n f to t a rih when he was hit by a car As he dashed across a Blacktop Road in front of his Home on the South outskirts of Here the Driver Albert Stein 38. Rural Waterloo said the boy ran out of some weeds along the Road and into the path of his car. Patrolmen said the Impact threw _ r t Long West Plain mo., has been fined $35 and costs by Justice Rudolph a Oke on a charge of having More than the Legal amount Bvrd. Who told the court that j of Gas in the truck he was driving warts on the soles of his feet not while entering the state. Ail mail Center and later May re whiskey made him stagger when the charge was filed by Iowa Eeler a Railroad mail service Posi he got out of his ear. J Treasury department officers. Lion. Ojo Long was stopped at the North tin Hayward expect to continue too hot a Pace j Edge of it. Pleasant and spent to reside in it. Pleasant. The Miami up a mrs. Dixie the night in the county jail tile Transfer is effective at the end of Massier had a hot typewriter truck is owned by h t. Deshazor this week. Tuesday. West Point. To. A a mrs Mossier Secretary of the the rattling of a Rattlesnake county school superintendent was the boys body 177 feet he was the May be heard up to too feet away. J working extra fast to catch up on son of or. And mrs. Howard Ingles i there Are 20 Active volcanoes in office correspondence w Hen her i of Rural Cedar fail i Alaska j electric typewriter caught fire. 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