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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 21, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. , no. 196 it. Pleasant. I of monday evening al g. 21, 1961 these Days by George e. Kokolsky what is an american a Reader writes to me a Bach in november 1942. As i being inducted into the United states army a woman typist filling our my service record when tie inquired As to my nationality i stated american a she shocked she said that the Only americans were american indians i and i did t appear to be Indian. I recall we had quite a Dis it cur Ion before i relented and i stated i of German i still insisted my nationality american she inserted a German j in the space allowed for nationality. A we As a nation Are attempting to Alio ii racial segregation Here in the a Mfd state we stress Freedom of religion. The phrase n it re of a of race Creed or color is used in thousands of speeches sermons and the like. Then Why. Of Why do we in. Ret on specifying a person s nationality by using his parents grandparents or pie a Aii patents nationality a _ the question is an excellent one it uncovers an astonishing defect Washington in our attitude toward citizenship. President Tendon i a. Simulated an Assumption of minora attitude. When As a matter of fact this nation Recog-11i/i nil minorities the Constitution Only deals with individuals. When the president appoints a judge to any Federal court it la reported the person is a jew of i Catholic or a negro when As a matter of fact these designations Are incidental to the Persia timing an american tile con it it Ion does not provide that a a a a or a Catholic or a protestant or a negro or an Anglo Saxon be appointed to a Dicini office it does require that such a person be a citizen of the United states that is an american. Sie Beir Eien Oas Ozemok Raische Berun troops al Border focal maid i nit receiving rest experience in amp this year Lim rip i j a i on it area na1 Ion 11 i a Row in tin in cond and k of Ani Mil i a id to Angel t in Quot i he i a f exp it a Varet i a cel it i i he opinion f let i a a bit of puzzlement this East German Peoples policeman with fixed Bayonet on his Rifle seems a bit unsure of the situation As lie stands guard beside a Border sign. A sign reads. A you Are entering democratic the Only thing is you cant in in or u Idi West Der liners reassured Rusk six iowans lose lives director of county social welfare named i ii up ii vice b Johnson s Berlin and tin arrival of Anet Lur 1,500 u s troop of i i cd Wist berliners that America will defend them according to Secretary of staff Dean in k Rusk said a the events of tic la t two dais have i the x op11 of we Berlin or Mayer at the of tumulus dosing a of the ens Berlin Border Rusk appearing on a television interview sunday rejected suggestions that the United states slow in replying to tin com i mull t action. An j ions reaction would not is the bist course in tin Berlin situation Hotard rink. A relining to sat at wha pour the United s ,a., Mig it re sort to Force in Berlin Aid the u s aim a. To pro the West. Al my nest there by peaceful Means j a we will not be pushed out of West Berlin Quot he. Aid i i the a St a vital into a. = Berlin and. Wire Aho it a a Dom and Security of we a of liners we Tern a Ltd a is. To hot Cit land continued presence of Western troop in the City he or dieted a has in Sia and by up to int i irs by la a Vir now ina11-an r a i Nim Aik for in tile Reid but. Ruby Aid. A we made it a a to keep a clean j As Posable we constructed Field showers and bathed out of helmets to to. Peak. When Nic eary we re a a it a a Deal a to -1 he continued Quot became if Vav it stay r i in we re not like to get sick we keep hot water going a la cd i v Long Ruby and have been 1 Ini of. Modr i that to it it i a Mph in h men id lined by minor Fly from exre Miv s complicated Che f in a director of social welfare elect 1 1 v the social welfare the i would eventual Down at the conference talk Settle tin Berlin situation sit to a hip woman who in i f>4 j shocked that a Man should say that he is an american ill informed for an american is what the Constitution says is an americ in. Not what this typist thinks is one and what the Constitution a v a is a fall persons born or naturalized in the United states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof Are citizens of the United states and of he state wherein they i the woman at the moment j an official of the american gov \ f i Nynier. Yet or falsified a serv j r e record by describing him As a German although he born in the United states i often sex j penance this sort of nonsense recall v of my name Wren i am a al d if i to a russian i hasten j to Den. I unpalatable allegation j t to i born in Utica new York. And fir i fat re am As american As mrs Alta Quot Kerh former i Chabot of a Jodge land re ident died saturday j noon at Hei Home in Mission Tex i Jai pc never recognised the need i where they had resided the past to apologize for my origin in Lien years. Ti1 i find great Comfort and the body will arrive Monde v in being an american by at to pm at Burlington Aid be ii zen ship a jew by religion j brought to the Zehr funeral Home what better heritage can a Man at Wayland six persons tort their lives accidents in Iowa during the week it in and two iowan were killed in oui of state accidents. In addition one person died of ii juries received in an Accident earlier this week the six fatalities in Iowa in lured four in traffic mishaps one by drowning and another in a tractor Accident. Tile two out of Tate included one in traffic and another in a fall from a silo. The traffic in Iowa raged the states 1961 Highway death toll to 388. Which a. 53 enter Neil Taij service More than through aug 20 of last year. Carroll Boden or. 14 arc ton. Died sunday night in a Cre ton Hospital after a car in which he Riding went off the Road and slowed into an embankment 5 Miles Northeast of Creston the la try col off a i county Board according to i Harlan chairman mrs Rug ii. I ton. Director of Chick welfare for 15 years a new duties of twixt i Lamm has been acting several months. The Board also announced resignation of Earl How la has been working with the welfare office. How la re Hamp Siw count. I Assi Iii to r mrs. It i. I director for w i Loc i in Ion 1950 tie Ruby w As i then Kwh it d grasp o i reman w ii i in id i in a 113lh Aiea a Quot Iron of 34th infantry in the 9. Man Low Andrj head colds Bra. K a in it 1 Are a expected to bred it i r shark on tire lure soon Quot in. a nip f ret Aid men have done a real Gorel Job and they deserve of bit int the v re troop b i equipped with Light tank Quot armoured personnel earner. 2ton and three Quarter ton trucks and jeeps. Tile tank and pc were loaned by the i Anc Ota National guard tor tactical i piquant a a non. Hie thou and of Towa it a Cit a u Soldier to cd la i Sims of the Perlin tit Hough int b news of 11 ire world filtered through to Fri local family in car Accident a it plea. Int family suffered injuries Iii Thieo ear Trident near Kewanee. 111., sunday. Or and or. Lyle Swan Dennis aul Deanna were All hospitalized in fair condition m a Kewanee Hospital they Ware on the ii hone loin ctn Ugo when the Accident occurred i he Swan Cai demolished. I Heil Home i. A t of the of pleasant Golf and country club. Help needed on new building i British face fast German police Force i Berlin i rushed troop i Motif to t he i Tad it today Genoa n i a Fife lib. Utile British and tank reinforcers West re t when amp of armed East yep a poll appeared on the opposite rid0 it a the mired 11ooi>. Turn in ans first time wee toi a had taken up a i part of tire Bordalen he al in Arf i a k and i the midst g Mig from pm a in Aion a i i. We of Ever re tire and ire guar Tref n t ire a id a a till William Dater i urgent que Ting help on fire Trew building at Mcmillan Park of a old sri tiers and Volunteer Are needed Robert Nelson named vice president of it or. J Metal j r the re i v r in Arf More a r if re j part year. Turere u a them except and training re lib to of Maui know e there Drew tire it along v be Bra pm Here i j crisis i it Side hem i pm a up ii i Mut former. Or of i at put a p. An. Field All anxious to required. Their in no v of kill ing at 111 re a ire if not duty it pre sift fit to or i Avni i v Fin i r a f in. To. It of ii zoology no of on i i a ago on wire cd a if i i Robert a do lev an. I mo., Seago i i a a v f la. It a. Bre to set vie a i the and Tiu n g i it o Ait rat in Kama univer. It cite to k Inee tire late t Berlin Gall eight Davs age. A i of ii sir roman Ixia , the Britt h commander Ai Berlin ordered a company of the wet. H regiment to tire Boudar Artia with Normal infantry weapon i d Bat ked by four Centurion tank and anti tank gun thu people s police or Vox were armed with. Machine guns land sub machine guns and a i reared opposite tire British sector 1he i Cronnan youths Ortre i erect ing a new barbed wire bar tree in tire area tire move care after most of i tire a it i Berlin Jav it lick Force wa., i taken off a Quot state of alarm Quot a i Tei iou eared ill he City we. I berliners took heart from l v n d o n Johnson s Padff a of support and the appt Alane of it i reinforced american army Carroon in their . In Mai ii will discuss school flans a lift a til a a i he said i in Lime Haven t mail so troop b w 1 ret i in to it plea Jant tin vre a rid tire men will i ii go Back to civilian life Belier pre a pared Foi combat situations that i j might arise if tire cold bursts i into flame Dan bred of the officer killed one wounded Iii Battle with a a gunmen a i Burlington Hawk Eye \ 15-Yrar-old so a Dakov a Yuth killed saturday when he tractor ire w is driving went into a ditch and overturned on a tire fir. T of the i re of infer mat Ive meeting on my pre posed bunding program in time a it ant Community school District will to Dolci a Load in Miles South of Salem to mrs. Alfred Keith Dies in Texas eight o clock tile second meeting w re hour Day evening a i it Jackson township Cree a Ltd it Munith Hall tire Public is in it f re the election to be a Ai tion will be Ikpi i Bov suffers want ? i the gossip columns in recent years seem to have specialized in the foibles and in proprieties of foreigners w to advertise Thom Ives As significant because they inherited a title and had an an Castor who accomplished something some of the. E personalities Are truly without nationality. For the v have been deprived of i thew own by revolution and have to a gained any other by legitimate Means those whose names appear with uric tie appellations Are of course not americans. For we have no Duke. In counts or other exhibitionist in terminology to define our services will be held wednesday. Aug. 23 at 2 p in. At the Finley Chip i. With Rev. J. J Pritchard and Rev Fred Martin officiating burial will be at Finley cemetery the daughter it it James Orti and Lydia Hammock Orn. She born in Henry county. Iowa. Feb. 22. 1887. Her parents and a Velma preceded her in death she is survived by her husband and live children. Therein Keith of Mission Tex. Mrs George Dorothea Brooks it Wayland mrs. Lucille Mast of Wayland Marvin Keith of new i Moon and mrs Dwight Mary Frances gather of Crawfordsville 17 grandchildren one sister mrs. Parke Cornu k of it pleasant and one county al is ton authorities said Ivan Brown Woods s d. Who had been crippled in one leg from polio apparently lost control of the machine he the son of or and mrs Lawrence Brown and Lead been visiting his grandparents. Or and or Ivan Creve no near elision drek to a to Marshalltown a killed when a car driven by la. Mother m s Viola Grant mashed broadside while turning into a trailer court at Marshall-1 Tun wound town saturday night a passenger in the Otic r ear. Edna Dunean. 21. Marshalltown. Was hospitalized with hip and leg injuries the Driver of the other car diaries , 25. Marshall town. And his wife were not serious injured mrs giant did not require xxx pita ligation. Marv Greig 44. O Tost n. W As the gymnasium monday a eve the rep to rented after car hits t Rench at Golden Valley Wie Uri a Chicago open fair fir Odist it or j in a m a m he of i Cia i i who c Erat al fire r we urn the w done entirely on my own and the Church is in no to blame Quot a Quot a d a ire brow Redd he had offered to nuke a Road near j Fuli Raj Ftp Lon for damages and tilted in injuries to1 Jefferson county full restitution Juric d Are Sci i i v f of Mph Brown j Trench a a a lib Boob to Aret a t Erich a tor at j d a caretaker at i \ youth c Imp i the Iowa met to enter crucial phase it contract negotiations admitted the u n d killed and five others suffered minor injuries in a two car. Headon collision on Iowa 20 near Winthrop saturday night or and mrs Richard Linden Mayer Marengo and their the ten Troat d at a to. Pit a i a 13-Vear-old a to it memorial ire p Atter being Aff Iden a it with a .22 Caliper i. To a a a to Home of his Gran it non it it j Logan it pie Arrn a i Logan. But in it it i air wound while climbing Over a of i with the gun h estered around i Waist. Sheriff rur. Van i Reb 1 investigated said to. In to a Semi automatic gun Wei off a the gun evident in discharged w in a jarred by the youth v Tuyl said the Buller filtered 1 Back of the to res leg and pm a. Near the knee. Rich. 3 owne i n v be Aret or re digging however. E ditch s re a a aug of a of Bury g Galb rec ret sons had seen h Aitches saturday eve he read no intent Quot body. Brown the Herb Smit la Burg family of Lockridge in jut a d saturday night Wien thru the United i Detroit a up i Auto workers unum today entered the crucial Pilate of n digging the ring in red to Hurt a ire people we go As far As calling one a doctor or a general or some i brother Ralph Orn of Moline 111 thing functional like that. Among1 us nobody is really important except by his own achievements and perhaps a Man s Best achievement is to have been born an american. Teilh is a very fitting time to say just that we might write it to Khrushchev on a Post card. A science Hall Day october 27 daughter cd Idren were and released officials said both cals w Cre a total lots and the Accident occurred near the spot where another collision claimed to he lives of seven on labor Day two years Aga Tammy Malin la Woden killed in a two car collision on Minnesota Highway 4 at Green a id saturday. Lire grandparents. Or and or Earl maim she Ifield. Were hospitalized at Melrose Minn along with his three younger Brothers j value taken from the the Driver of the other car. Of a t0 Tok Joseph Oeh. 18. Belgrade Minn escaped serious injury. Car suddenly int trenches dug Aero. Lea tin Ough i i 1 proper y. Tile dispute be Wei and Smithburg began ago when Smith burs Aion red that a the pulp new contract negotiations with i and that the1 hic Auto Industry confident the j big Oliree companies were nearly ready to make major economic offers j general motors. Lord and Chrysler were known to be pre paring such promo. Los. They were expected to be presented this week with pm or ing the Lead Hie Haw contracts with Ani Ford expire aug 31. Tire Law Chrysler pact a Pic then it a 10-Day notice n Given today. One of the a path t lure Chui How lied equipment taken at sheets garage five tires and a reels fit a a a pick ups and a Jack were taken from the sheets Ford garage Sam time sunday evening or m my to morning according to local police i the equipment to Alin $212 40 parking garage Cabin site a1 Alxxia five i Ridge. The on Over the the Camp land earlier the. Yer charges again taker of the in Tup a letting the air out car tires the c w John on t lint a i Burg with ass of both i t up a me Camp five years bought a the Skunk River a Northeast of lok. A i is to the Cabin Atli through Lake , three gunmen in to cd fire on police in thi. We con. In dells resort Tow n to Clay killing a d put and v funding Lake delt Nallice Duel. One of the gunmen identified As if ii it Ltd Nickel broke his legs and captured when the getaway car crashed the other two fled into wooded farmlands near the Little town of Lyndon station. More Titan Loo Law enforcement officers bloodied and helicopter and a Volunteer to e converged a on tire Village a hot ,.e-to-Houtc search launched and band. Of j men combed the Woods and Gul alies. The searcher thought they Hadj the gunmen cornered at Leas i twice but when they the it i net. The men were goal i the gunmen w Ere believed to j i be the ame who were caught in j la $25,000 fur robbery it Illinois j Mchenry court wait i and i later jumped Bond. Tire gunmen had Bern Regis f tired finer thursday at tire Dell j View hotel and spent sunday \ i get a to Quot a i Mala r toi a on j Early Mirror Lake. Tile owner Tak resort telephoned tire j flee that the men were of suspicion and i pending a int it Money Quot will sex Deputy sheriff fames Janu. 26, Baraboo i. And Lake Delton police chief Robert Kohl 46. Fol Lowed the three from the resort to tire Center of Lake Delton i they stopped the gunmen car in front of Hie town Hall. I the firing begun a tire Deputy land police chief were walking toward tire car. Jap kid t and Kohl wa.,hot in the rest traffic officer Fred Bay r drove up just As the gunmen s car a Ped off tire gunmen fir i at Bayer and Are cd. He jumped underneath his car and fired four i times ire fugitive dodged Roadblock a i surrounding i aka Delton until then car cradled off uti 16. Believe Russia secretly testing nuclear weapons lord Washington it i a Oliree democratic members of Congress believe Ruiru is secretly tenting nuclear weapons in violation of a 34-month test moratorium. The three influential be Gula ot3 Aid sunday the unread state of tire i therefore should seriously con she Riff a of f1er resuming atomic tests. I rep. Chet Holifield d-cahf., actin in. Ii g 11 re Quot i tax a Caie i Cusit g him of of Smithburg re hiker. Frank charged Smithland Battery to Quot charges too Mil by of us have receded into a sick fishing apologetic pasit Lon. I once at a dinner when an engl Man who is no or at shake at Cane being duly dined and we All got into a heated argument about something or other when one among us began to apologize for what the rest were saying he could not permit an englishman to belive that an american can differ from him subsequently the englishman told me that he thought the apologize silly and that he enjoyed a Frank and Hoiu St conversation even if he did stub his toes now and then. The englishman apologized for nothing. Let us make it Clear and Plain. We arc americans without Ajoc october 27 will be a Date of special significance tor Iowa Wesleyan College and for of. Pleasant As previously in Rouix a tire official opening will take place on that Date although the building will be in use at the Start of the College year. Trustees of the College will have their meeting in the morning a special science Hall luncheon will be held at noon or. James a Van Allen of the University of Iowa will speak at the science Hall official opening and the fall meeting of the George Carroll 47. In it Moines drowned in tax Mississippi River while boating near Lansing saturday. Carroll and in brother in Law. Thl Lisk Keenan Wert in the Boa when it capsized Carroll who could not swim Sank despite the efforts of Keenan to save him Donald Weaver 50. Saratoga killed sunday in a tractor Accident during a Volunteer work so. Ion at a recreation area at Lake Hendricks. Weaver a member of tire Howard county maintenance staff kill d when the tractor he shoplifting spree netted Man $12,000 Waterloo. In i h i a 29-year-old Waterloo Man scheduled to be arraigned foday in municipal court hero on charges involving a four year shoplift i spree which alleged net Quot him Over $12,000. Black Hawk county officers a that Raymond j Riley admitted taking Money and goods from North a t. Iowa business houses including $9,000 from two visits w the a stolen door key to a Waterloo thug i store. ,. ,. A driving overturned on him he a pot lad Wesleyan associates and trustees u ,. ,. Viva in. Spent several weekends helping to in us . Will be held in the evening. 1 o Complete the recreation project. I Charles of teen 31, at to 1. Of Otis Parker 31. Des Moines i ind. Tiv a or americans. Copyright 1061 Syndicate inc hyphens. Just Plain two men were work or last . Smithb r a i. Wife and there Daugn or. Kan no 15. Were returning from the Cabin after dark. The car suddenly stopped and by Ihburg hit the steering w he Quot to it enough to j break it. He treated a a m Presa-1 ant doctor s of rec for Chest injuries. His wife suffered Back in Jues a and k. Ret a Iii Jui a Clep aes investigated and called the trenches a Quot de liberate placed Booby trap Quot lire a said the trenches which spanned the Road were 16 inches deep and about 20 inches wide. Brown Aid the trenches could i have caused the three Smith burgs to be killed if the car had been going faster he said charges might be filed i against the Rench diggers who chairman of tire Lei cite Home Atonia Energy Cut Rem Quot a ret president Kennedy feels tire Matiie . By. Holifield said Kennedy l. A willing to walk the la t indie to obtain an agreement Quot at Geneva on a nuclear test ban Ben Stuart Symington i to expressed a Unolar feeling dam my ton. In a to interview r a Rei Quot of course Rue. La has been con ducting. Caret tests during the gent a in t a n a a iks. Tai j declined to give the source of ins sen John it Mand i the United states should resume nuclear tests now because it is Clear Russia never w ill agree to j a test ban pact former local resident Dies the stir tui included a am Parks. Ire Cus King features the killed Friday night when he fell near the top of when the scaffold gave when a to Dian of t it Anre steel Cable slipped i la it Tench said 150 feet after a scaffold broke on a Alo construction project at logans thing Johnson meets Adenauer on crisis vice president Lyndon Johnson in West Germany on a special i residential mis Sion begins talks in Bonn w Ith Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Johnson assured the West German people that a America docs not intend to Retreat in Berlin. Even As the \ ice president landed 1,500 solders were rolling across West Germany in a Convoy to reinforce the 5,009-Man United slates i an Itom. Word received Here la of a nig tit by or. And mrs. Arval Quot it Rison that Timeir Nephew Ralph j Mills a former it. Pleasant res dont died very unexpected s a a Day mat eng August 20 funeral arrangements ii ave Tret i yet been received. Exchange student to arrive late tuesday let a i if in arge Lues Exchange Biden to it. Peasant High Rev i from Tourcoing France Iii Ani e Here late tuesday Accord ii g to i word received from the american Field service. The a m pre or. Will meet her in Davenport

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