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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 21, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days vo180 197 by George e. Sokolsky politics race and religion it used to be when americans really cared that each citizen voted individually not under racial. Religious or color pressures. The introduction of the term minority and its widespread use for political advantages by Franklin d. Roosevelt and his political cohorts has come to Roost in All its ugliness in the enormous vote which Adam Clayton Powell jr., received in the democratic primaries in Harlem whatever May be Powell s Virtues he ran strictly As a negro racialist against dominant White political control and on that Issue Harlem responded to his Call of Quot hey Rube a the fragmentation of our people along racial religious previous nationality and color lines serves Only politicians who prefer the Rule of Divide and get elected. Too in the democratic Effort to find p candidate for the United states Senate in new York state four per sons of serious aspects have presented themselves. Thomas k. Fin letter a Liberal formerly Secretary of the air Force is supported by the and a., mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and former senator Herbert Lehman it is not expected that Fin letter will be nominated although governor Averell Harriman has been reported As intimating that he is his first Choice. This came in one of those interviews which Are without quotation Marks. Now arises the spectre of race and religion. There is a Strong feel it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening August 21, 1958 it iwo by Carrier 30 per week by mail $7.50 per year capture Iowa Bank bandits Clear Way for new pavement Trade program kill signed Sioux City. Iowa it up it a two escaped convicts we Ere captured Early today after holding a Bank president and his wife hostage and robbing the Bank at nearby Correctionville of $2,820. The two men described a s a in ice appearing were captured at regional Camp a l Cal girls testing their skill in cer Kirg Are shown preparing tile r noon meal while attending the Chi regional Roundup for girl scouts held at Camp Crowder Trenton to. A of the girls excepting Diane Jones who was a member of the Wyoming patrol were members of the Chiea qua patrol of the shining Trail it Ounzil from left to right Are Linda Biggs Patricia Bryant Mary of Connor Diane Jones Jean Looker Ann Cowen patrol Leader Sharon Wolfe Barbara Murphy and Karen Collora. Grants stay of order on integration Cost of living declines in july Huron s. Dit up a the office of chief Justice Archibald ing among the democrats that it j Gardner of the 8th i1. S. Court of ought to be the turn of an Irish appeals said today Catholic the last democratic senator from new York having been a jew. Herbert Lehman. And therefore when James a. Farley presented himself for this office feeling that he was fit for and worthy of the Job the politicians scurried about to find another fit and worthy Irish Catholic to avoid nominating Farley against whom there Are three political arguments 1 he would probably get More votes than governor Harriman which would be unfortunate for Harriman. 2 he left Roosevelt on account of the third term Issue which the leaders say he should not have done a Democrat standing by the leadership of his party come what May 3 Farley is today a citizen of the world and overshadows the local democratic leaders. Too so they concentrated on two other Irish catholics both men of High Quality of tested probity of Broad Good will. Thomas e Murray. Formerly a member of the atomic Energy commission and flank s. Hogan currently District attorney of new York county. Harriman prefers Thomas Murray As a a new York times Quot Story says. To satisfy the Irish catholics but As a second Choice Carmine de a pm the tammany Leader prefers Frank Hogan As a first Choice. All of this hardly interest Mast of the voters who will have two names placed before them and the court has a court order of the Little granted a stay of backing integration Rock ark., schools Gardner said the court also turned Down the request of lawyers for the National association for the advancement of coloured people asking an immediate mandate of its monday decision and lifting the lower court s ban against integration. The request for a stay came from the attorney for the Little Rock school Board. It asked the appeals court to stay its judg ment on its monday decision setting aside a lower court order new York up a the Cost of i living declined in july for the i first time in More than two Yea the National Industrial conference i Board reported today. The dec line a slight .1 of i per cent Marks tile first break Iii the j inflationary spiral that began in i 1956 after almost three years of i Price stability. Former local Man killed at Aurora let c contract for local resurfacing Ames Iowa up a the Iowa Highway commission wednesday awarded two contracts totalling $32,354 to the Iowa Road building co. Fairmont Mirafor Asphalt which would have Lxi Stonert racial Concrete resurfacing Woik. Integration in the Little Rock schools until 1961 Gardner at 90. Tho oldest Active judge on the Federal court Bench said. A the next step is up to the the apparent result of the stay meant that negro children eligible to enter Little rocks Central High school will have to wait until action by the u. S. Supreme court before they know whether they can attend. Last concert of season the last concert of for the it. Pleasant the season municipal band will bi1 August 22 at 7 30 pm they will have the Choice of voting in the City Park. For one or the other. What does the program Hall of Fame. In Henry county. One of the contrails for $27,021. Calls for resurfacing of 89 Miles of u s 218 in mount pleasant from Orange Street southward. The other contract for $5,333. Calls for resurfacing of .19 Miles on u. S. 218, also in mount pleasant. From Green Street northward. Dale e Greer former i. Pleasant resident was accidentally t sect routed wednesday at Aurora 111. Details of the Accident were not Learned. He was 46 years old. He was the son of Ethiel and Jessie Sanders Greer and was bom August 2. 1912. In it. Pleas an open question ant he attended the Public schools the fact is that Russia has be lace. He was never married. I come one of the world s leading surviving Are his Kotlier who Gold producers and that she holds resides in Aurora four Sisters and quantities of Gold second Only to two Brothers. Mrs Russell Ewart the United states. This gives Lier Oakland calif., mrs. Roy Martin la special position Aurora 111 mrs. Sam Diliberto a Aurora mrs. Harlan Molander and Harold Greer. It pleasant and Edwin Greer Aurora. The body will be brought to the Crane funeral Home Here Friday afternoon. Services will be held at two o clock saturday afternoon at the Crane funeral Home. Or. E. A. Mathews associate pastor of the methodist Church will officiate interment will be at Forest Home cemetery. R the City Council by indicating that an Alley from the North line of tile a. F Timmerman property South to Webster Street would be vacated by Resolution gave Timmerman. Fred Stuecker Jurgen and the memorial Hospital the go ahead for the paving of an area near the Hospital. The area is Between White Street and the East Entrance of the has Pital and is a private drive and not a Street Timmerman Stuecker Jur Gen and the Hospital will pay for London up soviet rus the paving project Sia has thrown out inspired hints he Hospital is having Hie North that she would favor a higher South drive in front of the Hospital Price for Gold. Paved and will leave openings for soviet propaganda has rarely i p10prty owners on the private lost time in exploiting any ele drive for driveways. Men of Cornea in the Western there has been much discussion world. Just How my Cli she will belts a project and last week the exploiting the Gold Issue remains i Ounzil decided that the City would not help pay for the project. Washington up president Eisenhower wednesday signed info Law a Bill extending to june 30. 1962, the so called after the or fumbling attempts to reciprocal Trade program. Open the Bank vault aroused sus the Law Grants the president a is Long a night marshal Power to negotiate Tariff cutting a they were identified As Darwin agreements without further action Russia May favor higher Price for Gold by Congress. His authority to do this lapsed june 30. Under the legislation the president for four years can order reductions of up to 20 per cent in u s tariffs to promote world Trade. Agree on 1-year Road planning Ames Iowa up the Iowa Highway commission decided unanimously wednesday to Start planning construction on the state s primary highways four years instead of two years in and Vance. The change was proposed by commissioner Robert Beck Cen would police for nuclear control Raker denies threat to kill lawyer City manager g. Vav. Wright told the Council that the new submersible pump which was installed in the deep Well at Saunders Park about a month ago is working satisfactorily having increased the pumping capacity of the Well from 350 Gallons per minute to 600 mph. Mention was made by Wright that a new Peak Load of Over 2.800 kilowatts has been established at tin City Light Plant. He said later the Only difficulty encountered was a Lack of condenser Cooling capacity. The Cooling Tower situation will be corrected after bids on a Cooling Tower addition Are opened and one accepted sept. 3, Wright stated. Too a representative of the h. C Booth co of Harlan talked to the Council about the possibility of the George Mills. 25, who escaped earlier this month from the Nevada state prison at Carson City by feigning sickness. Mills was arrested Here Early today after a High Speed Chase ended in a wreck. Coon escaped from the wrecked getaway car but was captured several hours later at Onawa. Too the convicts were charged with four counts of Bank robbery and one count of interstate transportation of a stolen car. Asst. U. S. Atty. Philip c. Lov rein said the four counts of Bank robbery specified robbery of the Bank entering the Bank with in air Force said wednesday night tent commit a felony stealing a safety mechanism somehow i and carrying away the Money failed and an fi02 Jet fighter j and committing the first three zeroed in with missiles booming j crimes by placing the life of the at a target plane shooting it Down.1 Bank president in danger. Jet fighter shoots Down target plane Clinton to. Up the two men in the t33 Jet Trainer target Craft parachuted 41,000 they were commissioner taken before u. S. Wilford j. Forker feet to safety about three Miles j shortly before noon for prelim g in Eva Switzerland up Eastern and Western nuclear scientists today recommended a global policing system under in Wabbington up teamster strongman Barney Baker denied today that he Ever threatened to kill a Florida lawyer who failed to get a new manslaughter trial for Baker s Miami girl Friend. The Union organizer went before the Senate rackets committee for firm preparing new City plat maps a second Day of questioning about for the City and supplying 12 Large his professional and personal af-1 map and 200 Small maps for $535. Fairs. These included an Hunsuc j the Council plans to Check the pos Cess Ful Effort to reverse the 15 Nihi Lity of local firms and organi Vear slaying sentence of mrs. Ruth Broullier a 44-year-old blonde inmate of Hie Florida women s prison. From Here wednesday escaping with minor injuries. An investigate continued today. Three air to air Falcon missiles accidentally fired by the Jet fighter blew the Stabilizer off the Trainer plane and it plummeted to Earth. An air Force spokesman said live ammunition always is used in a simulated raid a never time we go up we be got hot stuff a he said. A when we be nary hearing. Lowrein recommended $25,000 each. Bond of police said the a two men who used aliases of Al Maxwell and George Blake staged a two Day crime spree starting at Omaha neb. And then swinging to Sioux City and Correctionville. The spree reached its Climax when the two men entered the Baker testifying in the same actions going in with the City on the maps and report to the Salesman later. Robert Steinman agent for the Washington National insurance co., ter National control to detect no wounded tones that characterized talked to the Council about group Clear explosions. His testimony wednesday said a i j insurance for City employees. The i Louis and Carrie Fox Charbon to the Safe and vault and had the scientists from eight a never made that remark a when i Council said they would go Over the beaux was born september 20, made four trips Back and Forth to. Home of Stoltz Hart. 47, president got unidentified aircraft reported of the Corn beat state Bank at we must toe ready to go. We Don to Correctionville wednesday night play games and we proved it to and seized Hart Atler he return. De Home from a fishing trip. J Hart said the two men were sitting with his wife when he entered his Home about 9 30 p in. As he entered he said one of the men took out a revolver and the other pulled a switchblade knife. Hart said the bandits who had called on him earlier in the Day on the pretext of renting a House. . Charbonneaux taken by death Ralph e. Charbonneaux of Washington died in Washington county Hospital i so p. In. August 20 said they wanted the Money in the Bank and forced him to give them the combination to the vault. But the bandits had trouble with following a heart attack he had been in ill health for two years. Ralph Charbonneaux son of. Oie Aden concert March impressions of a soot Tich air Ployhar air vane. Harlow trombone Solo by Sonia Bulbar High Barbary. Jackson my fair lady. Lerner Loewe with a Little bit of Luck on the Street where you live it be loverly get me to the Church on time in be grown accustomed to your face i could have danced All nigh on Parade. Goldman Lassus trombone. Fillmore guardian asked interest a great Many americans is the ugliness of the fragmentation of american life to help the politicians in their private business. They the politicians no longer think As americans. It is impractical. They think of the fragments. They think about How they can manipulate the negro vote or the Irish Catholic vote or the jewish vote or the puerto rican vote or the italian vote. Too this used to be a new York habit but it is now spreading Over the country. Politicians even scheme with communists for the so called Liberal vote which the begin the beguine. Porter communists know How to Manipur Joshua. Yoder late. I Novelty for band this is not Good for the united1 Semper Fidelis. Sousa states. It is. In fact a great evil.1 a a a it is a symptom of the degeneration of the representative process. For the theory of our nation has been that this is a classless sooty a fall men Are created equal Quot a but we have since 1933 accelerated the development of classes based on race prior nationality relationships color and religion. The menace is that we Are not thinking As americans but As affiliates of some group. The vote in Harlem for Adam Clayton Powell. Jr., who will now run on both the Republican and democratic tickets was not a vote for Powell it was a vote for negro supremacy in Harlem. The Republican leaders of Harlem when questioned As to Why they insisted upon the Republican nomination of Powell who is a Democrat said Quot the indictment of one negro is the indictment of All does that mean that because some italian mafia members met at Apalachin and they Are indicted. Lei Vine Reed the u. It was hailed by w. E Ames division Engineer of 8 Bureau of Public roads As a a very significant Forward step Quot i a Highway affairs. The commission will draft a list of a Sun native projects for the 1 years 1960-63. Planning already has is Tun for 1959, j Beck said he spent a a great Deal i of time Quot on the plan. I a i would consider this one of j i the most significant Steps taken j i since in be been a member of the j i commission he said. Dons agreed after nearly eight of he Ever a threatened to plan weeks of closed door discussions Kin attorney George Everett mrs. That it us possible within limits Brougher s lawyer to detect violations of a proposed Baker did recall talking to Mike worldwide no Cedar test ban. Capola whom Kennedy identified the problem on the charge made for tapping onto the City water lines was discussed again and referred the scientists announced their recommendations in a final con Ference not communique issued no Brougher Long after reports from Washington said the United states had As Quot trigger Mike a one of Miami a Quot most notorious gangsters a about financial help for mrs. Baker wednesday estimated his expenditures on mrs. Brougher at decided temporarily to halt its �7 000 u is nod nut tee for study own nuclear testing program. \ a i he work of the nuclear experts the witness who said he gets to the Utility committee for further study. I the review of wages and working j conditions of the City employees comes up again in september and was turned Over to the Utility com 1892 near Oakville. On May 24, 1916 he married Mildred Mcelwee in it. Pleasant. He retired three years ago from farming my Carpenter work. He was a member of the round Prairie Baptist Church. Surviving is his wife Mildred and the Bank before they got $2,820 in Silver. It was first thought they also took $600 in Bills but this later was proved incorrect. The Fri said it recovered about $2,795. They made Good their escape chide u. 8. Supreme our a petition has been filed at the clerk s office at the courthouse by Alanson k. Elgar asking that a suitable person by appointed guardian for mrs. Carolyn c Pendray. All italians Are indicted this is of course nonsense very dangerous nonsense. Copyright 1958, King features Syndicate inc los Angeles up chief justices of nine states chided the United states supreme court today for engaging in a policy making decisions which have rapidly extended Federal Power in the a 25 years. The criticism of the High court was contained in a 31-Page rep of to the 10th annual conference of Chirt justices meeting in1 Pasadena mrs. Jessie o Neill was believed to have spurred he paid $175 a a Rek plus spouses reported american decision. Injured in Freak Accident while on trip word was received Here Tina a. That Perry Mathews Arni Lyl it Linch were involved in a Freak truck Accident monday no in Ashcroft British Columbia. Two truck. Collided a lying wheel or in a bodies of drowning of the trucks hit the Side to. Victims recovered Arnolds Park Iowa up raze landmark As an organizer i r James r. Hof doctor s office fans Central conference of team sters testified that he borrowed a local landmark a the office of Money to pay mrs Brougher a or. Mcclure on East Monroe Street Bills. He said he got $4 boo from near the Mcclure residence prop one of the officials of the colonial a Erv now owned by Iowa Wesleyan inn at Hollywood Fla. And other has been razed. Funds from a St. Louis area Bank j the Small Frame building used for Baker was asked Why he went Many years by the Well known Hen to All Tho trouble and expense for u county physician who died Many mrs. Brougher he said Quot i wanted years ago had deteriorated and had to help her and i liked Lier. Worn the following children mrs. Donald after tying up the Harts but their Pauline Jennings of it pleasant frequent trips to the Bank building Fred of i it Elta mrs. Fred Ruth had aroused the suspicions of Jurkas of Oglesby 111., Ralph l. Of j night marshal a m. Meade who Washington Thomasey a stationed 1 sounded the alarm with the Navy in Japan Ben of j state county and local author Logan James of Cantril. Roger of j ties spread a dragnet Over the Oskaloosa and Linda Jean at Home area and nabbed the two men also surviving Are the following within a few hours. Brothers and Sisters mrs. Ben j Parker o f Sacramento. Calif., i Floyd Charbonneaux of Britt mrs. Ben Ashe of Mason City mrs. J so pcs x Lull George Keller of Fairfield Rural t 1 route mrs. John Dugan of Wedron ol�ouril0y j Del 111., mrs. Robert Fuller and Homer Charbonneaux of Ottawa 111., mrs. Oscar Decker and George and. Become a Hazard for children who Robert Charbonneaux All of Utica in do funny things to people and might be playing near it she did funny things to 111. College authorities had failed in Twenty one efforts Over several months to get survive he was Mathews vehicle. Or. Mathews is Hospital lean Ashcroft Hospital with a i of a shoulder broken ribs and a 1� injury or. Finch was uni Riu a estimated damage to Tho Mathews truck was a thousand dollars. They any organization or individual to take the building As a gift and restore it. Sigourney. Iowa up a Keokuk county officials today were searching for a prisoner who grandchildren also slugged a trustee at the county jail Here and escaped late wed predeceased by his m Day Tho body of one of two persons sex president pension who drowned Hen wednesday acc cd urn ice when a Small pleasure boat Cap j a pa55e5 House sized in a heavy wind was recon it. Pleasant stores will be open Friday night for your shopping convenience Dies in Chicago friends Here received word Ieese Aly of the death of mrs Jessie of Neill at the Home of her daughter mrs m l. Graham 5105 University Avenue. Chicago or july 30. Sire resided for Many years at 510 North Adams but in recent years had been residing with her daughter. She had no relatives in a it a Flea. Vicinity friends i red today Washington up tile thursday. Were returning Home from a tear rpm cues my i the b by of Home gave final congressional i a Harold Mayr. 40 Harlan Early a it a Phi Oval today to a Bill granting Day also drowned was Cheri Mark exp Sld it its a $25,000 annual appiov0 Ham 12. Harlan whose body was Pelion. Recovered wednesday leaders of both parties nedp00 Forth Lar Neel Hill state candidate visits Here parents and one son Dale. William Francis vice 34, pal is. Services will be held 2 to in Fri i a broke out of the jail when Day at the round Prairie Baptist i the door to the cel1 Block was Church burial will be at Lambert a Pentad to let the trustees Back cemetery 1 in after returned from a friends May Call at the Jones work detail. Funeral Home in Washington at 8 vice hit one of the trustees on his wrist with a Metal Corner Brace As the two trustees tried to keep the Man from escaping he was being held pending grand jury action on a forgery charge. He had been in jail since july to. Neel Hill democratic candidate car ignites tor Iowa Secretary of agriculture was a it. Pleasant visitor Thun a car driven by a Crawfordsville in a rare bipartisan Appeal for its passage. Passage was by voice vote. I i the Bill would make office to observe their United nations up a the governments of to Arab countries 59th anniversary Day. Hill. Whose Home is at web woman caught on fire in the Park a up ice it and help available to exp approved a Middle East peace St or City where he is a Farmer is ing lot at the swimming Pool about president in addition to the formula today and diplomats pre or and mrs. R. P Hobbs will making a circuit of the state fill 5 30 . Wednesday firemen were $25.ooo pensions widows of for my speaking engagements. I v called and quickly extinguished la. Met presidents would get $10,000 Era i gathering Small Blaze damage u sin a la it annual pensions dieted virtually unanimous a observe their 59th wedding Anni Proval for it in the general As Ersary on Friday no special of Sembly. I servant is planned

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