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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 22, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a a mme in mme a. A _ a a these Days by George e. Sokolsky music through the night radio now has three principal functions news comment and music As for news radio can be As Good or As bad As television both being rewrites of a. P. And u. P. I. Bulletins although the Large networks have established reportorial staffs which report on great events. On the whole their staffs do not compare with those of the news-1 papers or the news agencies be-1 cause news gathering is secondary to entertainment in this particular j business. Besides gathering news is Only one phase of the finished product the news must be edited collated it Given proper emphasis by headlines and by placement. This neither radio nor television can do As i effectively As the printed news paper their advantage is Speed namely that if there is a Flash they can break into any program and make the announcement. Too often that is done by a baritone1 who does not know what he is Reading. It is Clear however that both radio and television have a news function and All that it is waiting for is mature handling. Vol. 80, no. 198 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening August 22, 1958 by Carrier 3<w per week by Mai $7.50 per year ready to end nuclear tests a up mph s t a Smus it i a do Vij. F. It it a Denmark bans scheduled visit of . A sub every Legal Angle a Arkansas gov. Orval Faubus left and Little Rock schools superintendent Virgil Blossom Are shown in Little Kook after a closed meeting of school officials state legislators and the governor on the integration situation. Blossom said the meeting was a very Friendly and amicable and a we agreed to explore every Legal angles to keep negroes out of once integrated Central High school. Iii the Field of comment both radio and television on the whole Are still somewhat fearful of editorial controversy although the american broadcasting company has always encouraged controversy. Some of the networks and stations slant controversy either to please themselves or to what they believe1 is the trend in their communities assuming no editorial leadership this is also happening to news papers no such giants As Horace Washington. It up it a the Greeley. Charles Dana Joseph a House hurdles today another Road pulitzer. William Randolph Hearst j Block to adjournment by passing or William Allen White and Many a my billion Iollar appropriation of their kind being on hand to fight the Good fight for its own j the measure carrying funds to House votes fund Bill horse show at Winfield Copenhagen Den. Up a Denmark has banned the scheduled aug. 28 visit of the atomic submarine skate for fear an Accident might expose danish residents to the effects of nuclear radiation. The ban announced thursday night by Premier and foreign minister h c. Hansen was the first such move by a nato nation in the atomic age. U. S. Nuclear submarines previously have visited Britain Fiance and Holland. Hansen said he called off the plans because the danish atomic Energy commission had warned against the potential risk if an Accident happened. A even though an Accident of any kind is not Likely to happen i found it Best to follow the advice of the atomic scientists a Hansen said. Governor crowns Queen Honor goes to miss Unkrich at Winfield Sake. They lived however in another Era when men fought hard run 17 government agencies replaces one the president vetoed Over governmental problems when earlier this month because it con the Constitution was sacred and when neither balance sheets nor Cash registers dominated newspapermen a minds. Incidentally they generally earned More Money than those to whom they left their properties Are Able to. Tamed a 589-Milhon-Dollar item he Felt was unnecessary. The House appropriation committee bowed to his judgment and deleted the funds from the lieu Bill. Moments later the House concurred passed the Bill by voice vote and sent it along to the Senate. Pressures mounted for sine do both radio and the newspapers will need to free themselves from an attitude which came in with adjournment saturday night. Tem the Roosevelt administration,1 pm a is were beginning to Hay As the namely that newspapers radio and mss on flagged on. Television feared that anything i they might do to expose govern-1 ment operations w Ould imperil the j National defense. This was clearly a government trick designed to i curb press criticism in tire interest of the people. Were it not for a Law intrepid columnists and the publishers there would today be a tacit White House censorship of the news of War and postwar psychology of which presidential press i Winfield a horse show in i liner pm w Ith the Winfield fall i festival will be held Friday bight i at 7 30 p. In. Ai the Atli in tic Field in i Winfield ten classes will be shown j with trophies ribbons and Cash As i prizes. De Dillavou of it. Madison will be the judge and g. R Arthaud of infield the ring master. Mrs. Robert Wilson of it pleasant will j be la announcer. Miss Geraldine Unkrich. Queen of the fall festival w ill award the ribbons. Mrs Dorthy Swan of Salem will provide music with her electric i Organ. A kiddies Parade will be held at i p. In saturday followed by tractor pull at 2 p. In. On main meet Hie Tennessee rangers of Nashville to in. Will furnish 45 Maul s of free entertainment saturday evening. Shells stray off target at Camp Mccoy Camp Mccoy wis. Up a five 105 millimetre howitzer shells fired Here strayed off target. Narrowly missing a group of children at play and a number of farm buildings. Boards of inquiry began immediate investigations into the incident. Which happened thursday night. One piece of Metal from a Shell i chants Allol the candidates were j a handed 28 inches from where six i presented wrist corsages before the. Winfield miss Geraldine Unkrich. 17 year old daughter of or and mrs George Unkrich of i neat Olds was crowned Queen of i the Nilk old fall festival thurs i Day bight Queen Geraldine Beauti-1 Fieri the float sponsored by Young s cleaners entitled a a Japan in keeping with the theme of the Parade a world Sandra Ros. Riding the Phillips 86 entry sponsored by Herbert Houston and Mary to Paisley on Tho float by Jones hatchery were selected As attendants to the Queen miss Ross. 16. Is the daughter of i and mrs. Floyd Ross of Winfield Rural route and miss Paisley. 17. Is the daughter of or. And mrs Paul Paisley of Winfield. Too following the judging of the floats the 27 Queen candidates gowned in formals were presented to the Large crowd at a platform constructed near the main intersection on main Street at the an noun ment of the Queen. Gov. Herschel c. Loveless crowned Geraldine Queen of the fall festival and presented her with a Gold Loving cup. Mrs Carter Zerbo. Of Augusta Kau and last year s Queen presented Queen Geraldine with a Largo bouquet of Rose Quot mrs Zerbe also gave bouquets to the two attendants miss Unkrich was also awarded several gifts from the local so this is american mrs. Anna Butenko the Only woman among the 14 a Ordinary Quot tourists visiting the u. S. From Russia reads a travel folder in new York. Mrs. Butenko is an architect in Kharkov. All 14 Are professional people. S. S. Payments total near million in county old age survivors and disability insurance benefits Are being paid in hot try county at the rate of i $985,000 a year according to or. Treat manager of the Burlington the former Lolita Buffington j social Security District office. Hail passage of peace Resolution United nations. N. Y up a most Western diplomats today hailed unanimous United nations this has been a product passage of an All Arab pea let Resolution for the Middle East but the advisers United states apparently still had no negroes it school Parade and received a gift from their sponsor the Parade formed at the athletic Field at 8 p. In and advanced Rock Ark. Up students appeared High school today have taken full advantage. Too now the question comes music what is music for to some doubts. Secretary of state John some Dulles insisted the future listeners music is the continuing i Middle East still would performance of those works which by deeds and not by have come Down the centuries As of the Resolution putting the arabs themselves to peace. Foster of the be settled the words the flowering of civilization in other words the classics. There Are radio stations which give the listener a very Lull program of such music and they do very Well financially. The most famous of such stations is worx in new York which has St t a Standard for the entire world. The National broadcasting com Des Moines up Pany for Many years produced a 50, 00 persons were program a music through the throng to the stat state fair underway which was handled by an Here today As tip announcer. Fleetwood who happens state fair opened i 16 years of guests today at the outside to know and understand music. A stand this particular program was a is under great Comfort to music lovers who age were special could snatch something just before with free admission falling asleep or if sleep proved. Gates and free admission to to Cliff Lent. Fleetwood approached pro j grandstand performances this of Gia tuning with cultured Intelli gence selecting from great stores of records Many items which were unusual and which one listened to As one might to an instructive lecture. Altogether it was a great contribution. I lurid no Negri Central some 900 White students started resist ring for the fall term. Virgil t. Blossom superintend a fir of Little Rock schools warned negroes thursday that Central will not allow them to Register for it up to j the fall term keep the j the pressure has been removed i at Lea t temporarily from Little i re k and halted to Washington in Fie the National association in tin advancement of coloured people prepaid a last ditch apis Al to the supreme court that i would permit negro children to re enter the Arkansas school. Thur goo i Marshall n a a c p chief counsel was expected to tile motions seeking to override the Btl . Circuit court of a i peals stay of its previous order requiring the school to integrate. Children were playing on the Roger Jones farm. One Shell landed within 500 feet of the Jones farm buildings and another hit about 1,000 feet from buildings North to the business Section Melon the Archie Abbott farm. A tree was hit and knocked Over on the Jones property. The farms Are just outside the Camp Mccoy military reservation. A spokesman said the shells were fired by a Battery of the 928th Field Artiller battalion of the 103rd infantry Reserve division from Minnesota and Iowa. A this is an increase of about 67�?T Over last or. Treat said a your studies have shown that Many of these aged people widow., and orphans have Little or no other resources a he pointed out. A for something like 9�?T-�?T. Social Security benefits received As an earned right Are the Only Cash Dies of injuries after mishap in Washington co. U. S. Offers to negotiate agreement Washington Ufi a Presidio Eisenhower said today the United states is ready to suspend nuclear weapons tests for one year Starling oct. 31 if Russia does no to resume its tests and agrees to negotiate on a world test ban. The president said that As a result of tile recent East West technical talks at Geneva this country a is prepared to proceed promptly to negotiate an agreement a for permanent suspension of tests and establishment of a control system recommended by the experts. Too the president said a if this is accepted in principle by the other nations which have tested nuclear weapons then in order to facilitate the detailed negotiations the United states is prepared unless testing is resumed by the soviet Union to withhold further testing on its part of atomic and Hydrogen weapons for a period of one year from the beginning of the the United states will be ready to open such negotiations oct. 31, the president said in a special statement. 0 9 9 Eisenhower also said this country we Ould be prepared to extend its suspension on a year by year basis upon two conditions. They were that an agreed inspection Iowa City Iowa up George p Anderson 59. Esperes j system was installed and working ing it twice. A Community dance followed the crowning of the Queen which was held at 9 p. In. The methodist youth Fellowship was awarded the Best organizational prize depicting the Little Brown Church. The prize for the Beautiful entry was presented to Mathews drug store entitled >1r. Treat also stressed that while the benefits Are intended primarily a basis lot individual economic senility the payment of Security benefits at the rate of$82,000 a month in Henry county i helps business generally because most of the Money is spent immediately on food clothing and other necessities. A this is especially important in a time of economic he said a social Security benefits Are Here s Chance to paint an engine Johnson Chevrolet was Bing Pai i nationally at a rate of mo., a suburb of St Louis died effectively in University hospitals Here thursday from injuries he received earlier in the Day in a one car crash 14 Miles South of Here Charles Snyder Washington county sheriff said Anderson apparently thought a truck was go social111 enter tie Highway in his path from a Side Road. His vehicle swerved struck a Cement Drain and then rolled and skid ded for about 400 feet. Snyder said Anderson was thrown from hts car and died about four hours later. The truck Driver had not entered the High Way from the Side Road Snyder said. Awarded the prize novel for the most than 8 billion dollars annually payments to a retired worker the floats were on display Fri j average $65 per month or. Treat some expected to Fairgrounds 100th Iowa for a 10-Dav chuckles in the news Vernoon. If you w ant to find out How easy it is to paint a steam engine just Contact William Sater and he will give full details and direct you to the engine which is standing near his shop on East Monroe. This is the engine obtained by Pete Bucher from the Lake of the ozarks Region As recently described in the news. It has been put in i condition for the old threshers j reunion but does need painting 1 anyone who can help out by t on j to buting his labor is urged to do i so. Brushes and paint will by furnished. Day in front of their respective business houses judges for the Parade and tile selection of the Queen were Howard Hills and or. R. W Lofgren both of it. Pleasant and e e Wessel of new London Bob Linden of Winfield presented the trophies to the winners. Iowans aboard yacht missing off red China boy suffers foot injury Hon Kong up the tora with an iowan and other americans aboard has been missing off the coast of communist China for nearly seven weeks yacht three j group said the average for a widow with two Yourn children is $145. The maximum for a family is $200. A there were several reasons for the increase in benefits Over year a or treat said. One was the payment of benefits to people who were brought under the Law for the firs time in recent years Selt i Sployd Farmers for example. Other reasons for the increase Wen the redo bion in the retirement age to 62 for women and the starting of disability insurance benefits to disabled people 50 or Over. The table below number and amount o of Benefit being paid county per month w. W. Noel 89, taken by death William w. Noel. 89, died at Jas t rest Haven Home thursday evening about la of clock after an extended illness. He was born september 19. 1868. At Wayland the son of William and and that satisfactory Progress was being made in reaching agreement on and carrying out substantial arms control measures such As the United states has Long sought. In London the British government joined in offering to suspend tests oct. 31-after the forthcoming Christmas Island series is concluded. The United states also plans a series of test explosions including several underground in Nevada Early this fall according to congressional sources. Russia and Britian Are the Only other countries which have held nuclear weapons tests. Probe shifts from Baker Washington up a the Senate rackets committee today prepared to shift its aim from Barney Baker to the Burly unionist s Margaret Lute. Noel. He had been i Patron teamsters vice president Randy Doty six year old son of j it was reported today. Senate votes benefits boost it has now been abandoned after Many years and in its place come an has Senate Washington it up Oday overwhelmingly the a Ordinary Mish Mash of proved a Bill boosting Railroad re Good and vulgar music in but meaningless Range a wide tir ement benefits to to per cent and hiking Railroad unemployment work advances on new Church it must be granted that what is pay maximums from $8 50 to $10.20 called popular music is popular but a Day. The attendance this summer at Tanglewood exceeding All previous records cannot be ignored even by the most rigid balance Sheet studier. For Tanglewood except on one night when Arthur Fiedler puts on a wonderful show makes no Compromise with vulgar music and Fiedler can make jazz sound classical. Tanglewood May occasionally be responsible for some stupid exhibitionism o f which modern composer Are sometimes Quilty. But it does not lower its standards to sell tickets. Work is advancing on the basement portion of the new Baptist Church on South main Street. The general excavation had been done by Power and hand work is Wrell along for the completion of the laying of the foundation base ferns Varallo Sesta Italy up Marco Marsiglio 35. Missed by a j Tail in trying to devour the Evi-1 Deuce when approached by a fish1 w Alden. Warden Anselmo Bertoli grabbed j the Tail of a 12-Inch 1-Pound Trout i Marsiglio was trying to Swallow j land charged him with fishing out i of season. Jersey City n. J. Up a Union City housewife is asking i $10,000 for a stolen kiss. Mrs Margaret Cosgrove in her j 30s, charged in a damage suit thursday that Johannes pries the landlord in the building where she formerly lived grabbed her in a hallway and kissed her against her will. Jonesboro Tenn up police figured they had ample Evi j or. And mrs. Howard Doty 417 Lincoln Street suffered a foot injury when he caught his foot in the merry go round at the Junium High school playground thursday evening. The boys Heel was Cut to tic j Bone and 30 stitches were require he is a patient at memorial Hospital Randy who walked to his Ham after the Accident suffered in injury to the same foot a few i weeks ago when it was Cut by fish Horn litter pen wins fourth at Cedar rapids Michael Karl Byram retained from the All state fair at Cedar rapids with the hogs he had exhibited there. His litter pen took fourth place there was no Way of verifying immediately the obvious speculation that the americans have been kidnapped a the reds a spokesman at the consulate said nothing has been heard from the tora since july 7 when it left Formosa on the Way to this British China coast Colony the consulate was not even aware that the boat was in this part of the world until mrs Elizabeth Van Doeren. Of Elkhart. Ind., wrote to ask for information about her son John John Van Doeren whose Home is also at Elkhart is one of the americans missing aboard the tora. The others Are d c Buzz Bohn my of Belmond Iowa Allen t Farmer of Chattanooga and d. L Martin of Seattle. Retire wife it widow motile child a Aker wind lower Childe ii shows the each Type in Henry no. Pay ments 998 $60,302 362 $12,410 70 $ 3,466 14 $ 650 116 $ 4.212 a resident of it. Pleasant the last 37 years residing at 207 South White he was a Carpenter by Trade until his retirement. He is survived by a son Harry of it pleasant and a grandson Verle Noel of Moline 111. His wife and t to sons predeceased him. Services will be held at 3 30 saturday afternoon at the Crane funeral Home with the Rev. Gilbert Stout pastor of first methodist Church officiating. Info rent will be at the Wayland cemetery. J tidying team places Lith will Start resurfacing soon hem the Pany w Lith of the Lari High u with 240 Hie a Ronald John Wolfe present state f county Junior live i a team participated at Awa fair saturday morn Henry county team was i Mio 37 teams entered ays on the team were it. Who was the second livid Al in the contest. Hints out of the 250 Possi win lit Cecil me Dow 11, i Days Riley. Larry Smith and it four of these boy Henry county at r on August 30th. Iowa Road building com of Fairmont. Mum., which was the successful bidder on the resurfacing of the Brick pavement part of route 218 through or pleasant will Start the project about september 2, mayor Wade Mcbeth has been informed Hans Jorgensen will be the superintendent of the project. He will be in Washington the next few will the state fair team selected Harold j. Gibbons. Committee counsel Robert f. Kennedy said a week Long inquiry into the St. Louis operations of Gibbons one of teamsters president James r. Hoffa Stop lieutenants will begin next tuesday Kennedy said an election that elevated Gibbons to president of the St. Louis teamsters joint Council last january and the circumstances of a violent 1953 taxicab strike will come under the committees scrutiny. He made it dear the hulking figure of Baker although gone from the witness chair would be evident again in the St. Louis picture developed by the committee. Kennedy in a radio interview thursday night said he did no to think there would be a clean up of gangster elements in the teamsters. Kennedy said the gangsters a put him hosta in the position he now holds. He cannot now turn around and say you have served your purpose and Are out of your the counsel said he doubted Hoffa would be called As a witness next week. Baker accused of repeated a a wilful perjury during hts two Days of testimony by committee chairman John l. Mcclellan it. Told the investigators he owed hts present Job a roving organizer to i Gibbons. Deuce to go on when they arrested i among 52 pens the individual t 1 judgment asked thus asm was enormous. How and Gibbs 76, for shoplifting when apprehended he was carrying 2 Cartons of radio cigarettes 4 watchbands 2 pipes took seventh and eighth place out they said of 78 individual hogs being shown Michael s Amateur paintings made a Nice showing among other waiter Schumann Dies of heart ailment so Tanglewood had More Young might think that one Over even 4 pairs of e veg lasses. 25 assorted paintings which were allowed to people than Ever and it costs a bit from a Cash Register mint of m w Drill bits a pocket knife a ring be Hung there were 365 painting to get there and to get into the copyright. 1958, King features it safety razor and a marriage i entered but Only 200 were allow i grounds and this year the en-1 Syndicate inc j License i to he shown for the Eliuh Quot a petition has been filed it the clerks office in the courthouse by the Standard Oil co against Therma Clevenger and a. I. Clevenger asking judgment for s2 206 07 for merchandise from the plaintiff biased Minneapolis Schumann noted Lictor and Leader group. A the vol Schumann a died heart ailment. Up waiter composer con of the choral Ces of Walter thursday of a the state fair livestock judging team was announced today by Duane p Johnson. Summer youth assistant. The boys who will rep i sent Henry county at the state fair in the Junior livestock judging contest will be Mcdowell Ronald Riley and Wolf. Improving Road along City s Edge the East West Road at the South City limits is being graded preliminary to Rock surfacing the seepage Larry Wright. Cecil j til rough a Section of old Road East John from 218 had made it almost impassable at times recently

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