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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 29, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by Len rep e Sokulsky lost Mim Tes it is difficult for Tho human mind to think politically and historically 1 in terms of minutes and seconds. We arc accustomed to think in term of decades and centuries. When the present War started in 1914, nobody could have believed that it would last until 1961, but it has done just that and All the world is chanced perhaps Vee Are j off rain a is in another Hundred years War and somehow we must adjust our minds to that and go about our vol. 83, no. 203 win Blue ribbon at state fair it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening Alf. 20, i of i terror on Aerial railway Jerry White and Jim Mccormick i Henry county s representatives in the state fair 4-h Hoys , won a Blue ribbon in monday Competition at Des Moines. White and Mccormick of the business expecting Short intervals Champion clippers club were one of shooting death. Of five in a Competition group of ten to win a Blue their Denion but no Vaday r is necessary to stration of matter of life or1 think in a second and minutes for death a portrayed methods of Art ii stance a Sac Alert might take fora ration i two minutes in minutes would be the. Boys won the right to go to regard d As very dangerous and the 8 Apfl fu1 in demonstration i there Are no minutes i lose be-1 held locally earlier in the cause tip where radar watches Tonth enemy plans and missiles Are to be 1 seen and who knows what orders id the 4-h baby beef Competition at a he state fair. Jerry White placed 14th in a class of 29 with Call me a War Monger. Hut i tin. Light heavyweight Angus. Know what i have seen our air Blaine Rodgers of Olds also placed Force a any rate is prepared it 14th in a class of 30 with his medic reach and Alert but Are we cum weight Hereford. Sam Beau a cad and Alerta Champ also exhibited two Angus every Day i receive letters Call baby Beeves at tile fair. Ing me a War Mon Are because i a insist upon warning our people of a danger which so hangs Over our Heads that american planes Fly in the air in 24 hours duty. They would not be up there guarding us it it were not essential. It does not matter what politicians and diplomats say airmen and aircraft Are in with no minutes to lose or to spare. For Brazil peace or civil War recognition to plane lits longtime business Able 9 die people al Salem the enemy planes have by up to i Bra ii hovered bet w Orn j civil War and a peaceful lot Power today in th1 a i niggle Madera it urged Calm but Cuba s Fidel Castro railed Fin th1 brazilian people m a Day night a it take up Ann land fight the a the situation the brazilian Congreve a j Par a ready to accept vue Idem Joao Moulart a. Tile con to tut ional successor to resigned hat j in a la Lorn cum i nod Vanir n who have been in business 25 years or no ii w in Hou ii cd by the pm Ink planned 5 �.<><�?�, Mon in handover Day cult Niue at the old crier pro a silent a1 sir it tit and Given cad sir is Tho. E w to were Honor d Wen Arthur Thompson 50 years Jay l Ong 50 years mrs i w Foss i9 year mrs Myrtle Schwarz Moyle 40 \ a s farm t Van Trump 45 years Vicini Morrow Tiva irs a j tat h years w e com id 32 v ai3 Chamonix. France a it pts French a Force Jet fighter plat Sill cd through the support Cable an Aerial railway on the slopes i of Blanc today sending at to nine persons plummeting to the death and stranding about 80 to Impf tided in terror by cars Over v ii be Many others were in Jure the plane that Cut through the Able in the leak Accident was an for to thunders Roak p offend Only superficial damage and be u Whir r my we lags my wmmw1f& it a Allan ring manager of Cargill Here in Mcmillan of Progress by an organization that reveres the building will House antique cars for their annual reunion beginnings a a a a r pie Ted before that Date s on of the Many this modern Concrete and Metal building in Mcmillan j re the old settlers and threshers association and will be sign a Tho com Allan ring formerly with Cargill Here has returned to of pleas a is a Rainy a and he airmen ant As manager of the local Cargill in around As thru must do All the Plant he fills the vacancy left by out the death of Floyd f. Miller a few a it property tax Aried an 1 a a i colourful music appraisal work started for local pageant building May double for emergencies presi Iuit Janio Quadro. A but la e ministers of the armed forces have said they w ill j not by Moulart return to Brazil for Security reasons Quot i sources close to Moulart now enable men Ion Foi pans after a far East trip. Said to the Community he will return to take Over the j i president. When he receives thi go ahead from his own politics part y Howa miss main i ii 30 Veals Vav Vav Sim Kin 29 or a l Brill Over 24 years several others were git in Honor ears of service re Pittman aged to reach it Bate near let East German refugee shot George Abris of new London Dies the nod and cohere building time tile Klaxon blows and they come in seconds and the big planes Are ready to go up into the or immediately is this peace or fear Quot is a his readiness or drills toe politicians will not say and they have tile last word but no one engaged in this preparedness a any doubt As to what his jog is any minute he might be the word even. Dav t get letters telling nip that. A it is better to be a red i than dead Quot is life so worthwhile that one could soil himself into slav in jus to be alive ? Poi ii i for some life is very valuable and they would rather be red than d and what a wonderful slogan the communists have devised what an Appeal such a slogan has to the Anima Listic in mind of self preservation but has not in Ibiza iou Brough us to a higher level do w it a not ask what is Worth while and what a n 5 5 Ideal perhaps it is so a till to be dead that one would rather of a Rcd but those who ride tin b-32 s want to live too Only the y wan to live in Freedom. Weeks ago. Or ring want to Pontiac 111., to manage Cargill s new Plant there about a year and a half ago. Tin rings Are seeking in m pleasant by have not found one As yet. Their son Bob is a Sophomore in High school and daughter Susan is in Grade school. Another son i not of school age. Age. for the civil War Centennial pageant to be presented the county assessor and assistant wednesday evening sept. 6th. On have begun work on a program of the opening Day of the Midwest in valuations of real old settlers and threshers run t al i a in a Quot of and a. Ion will to Van of and colourful Tho. L a. Reunion May Alo double Tho Bod Khz gency atomic Sheller it funeral Home at a a i in 1 Don Berlin Bud i police said an East Jit Fuff f was hot and j it Mimun As he irk More equitable property in the county. Thus is to be accomplished George abn./., 66, new London. The unidentified Man a dad a memorial Hospital at 5 55 a cond killed by Vijh pm a in tuesday. August 29 he had bet inc the bord r patient since August 19 aug 13 i Lim by West Ber in g f r in a n killed by of Opl it is Pill ice today o swim to the a j the it w As closed Lay a Young hot is ii tried tfx Cro More tongs were produced Dur measuring and grading All new and my this co fact than at any time a an a Mug was Learned tuesday Iota Ion exes infer buildings. The buildings be j american history therefore Only 1 action met tuesday morning with a civil defense Field Man from Dea thy Man a Sandbar in the Humboldt in it Olun a West Berlin Border Queen candidates win first with float at Salem ing appraised first Are those built a portion of these Many songs can or completed this year for assess be ment in 1962. The new buildings to tile too voice chorus directed by be added prior to 1965 will be Marabelle Magnuson will present a placed on the books at As nearly spacial arraignment of the Battle is possible the same ratio to total hymn of the Republic Quot in addition value As buildings already valued Quot tenting tonight Quot. Quot take your when appraisal of these is complot gun and cd John Quot Quot seeing helped the work will proceed w Ith Meas i Jie Home Quot As Well As assisting with Cement and grading of All other background music. Buildings in readiness for the next Charles Ferris directing the m regular real estate in Clemant his a a Choo band 1 open the pageant with a medic these methods of valuation Are of was Gong and we fur. Not new As most counties and. Much of the background my a cities in the state have either com for the pageant including candidates won first prize on their 1>lf Lyrl or Jie in the pro 688 of re special drum effects and Quot tap. Valuations according to a uniform Salem tin Salem Queen Vei who inspected the building site for emergency uses he was quoted tying the building would be suitable for such use with the addition of a roof set in Kier system various Concrete and steel reinforcements. Us a ventilator system. It was i it err no tuesday that the additions would be made but directors seemed to think tilt plan a possibility. The building is pictured in a Semi completed form. Statewide schedule. Many counties and cities have to in the old settlers Parade saturday morning. Second prize was won by the willing workers class of the friends Church with a horse drawn covered Wagon. Lr.,.,. Finals believe that the work can of i in the in decorated car Divi done As Well and somewhat More 1 first place was won by the i their numbers will include 5 a i Kee Doodle Quot. Dixie. I nip. I employed professional appraisal firms for his work but local of tramp. Tramp Quot. Well rally round the Flag Quot Quot dreaming Home Quot and Quot when this cruel a is Over Quot. Mrs. Opium. 68, taken by death Sion ii Isi place was won Oyun 1 crud al i air wll a i. Economically by tile county assessor t special in it Pital in i Airfield she Salem american legion auxiliary., ,. Colas Quot there will be a vac f by the Salem and local assistance. Rahlf and second place there i saw them Maud in he youth pm. Ire asked to cooperate with appraise advertising float was entered Era when they come to inspect the Bam and let by the r of v food store with a property this will be done with a j Elmer Wells Complete farm scene minimum of inconvenience to the i corps will be featured in ii amp. Among tin floats was a miniature resident but the appraiser must i tramp. Tramp Alton of Ogeni big chit h entered by the methodist pass through the Home for a Brief or playing a Harmor a w youth Fellowship and a Garden inspection of the Interior and con-1 Bish background music or Siene with a Rainbow with a group St auction this cooperation will be a just before the Battle met it of Hildren Reading hmm tile Bible appreciated by the assessor and a j scene and the new loud in l j enter it gtd by the woman s society of praises and will contribute to the Ber shop Quartetti will sing la rain in front of their aircraft Loving their ship As men love a Home tilling me How they worked together Over the years in War Aud in what is euphemistically called peace their hours Are 24 a Day and seven Days a week and even w Hen they go to bed they my. Be ready momentarily to answer the Call of the Klaxon and among them there Are really no generals and no privates for up in the air men Are in teams and each Man must make the team an unbreakable unit for one weak line it in bring them All Down and forever. Residents and property owners us air. Mrs by on a kingdom coming Quot Frank Law i a people do Quot. Tile trite and drum the congregational Church. 2-part program Given at kiwanis savings in the Cost of doing tile girl i left behind me work. Many of the civil War songs Are county assessor Willard Jensen of the Ballad Type and were a Points out that tile inspection and j ten from bitter experiences. Dare appraisal work is not done primal -1 will be a vacant chair. Cousin ily to raise valuations or taxes but ered a Quot Currier and Ives print Iii to assure the More equitable value music Quot was based on a a Rue of property and distribution i Dent of an 18 year old boy John i in not caving where i a two part Piram was pre of the taxes which must be raised Grout who a killed at Ball s s meeting Mon for the Public services afforded by Bluff just prior to an unexpected the local governmental units. Thanksgiving furlough and one of property owners Are asked not j the guests at the dinner where Rolf Lun rih t0 detain the appraisers in their Lions but or. Jensen stresses the song. A when Johnny fact that anyone is Welcome in the Home Quot a. Or what i saw i Only say that i seated at the kiwanis came away with a sense of greater Day evening Security bemused the real safety in Jack Jillson reviewed the visit to this War is communications and of. Pleasant of or. In that Field we Excel we can from Sweden As the first represent a 1 k with me consuming ques touch a Button and All the world native to of. Pleasant under the sex becomes alive in Reid la. And As on Experiment in International living. Sees and hears he wonders at Jillson said that benefits included j of Hee with their inquire regarding America Soldier those who still believe that the de promotion of Good will. Establish j any a sport Fease of Berlin is unnecessary and ment of better understanding of the pram that we can ignore the imminence j u s. Free Enterprise system and an War i Exchange of knowledge. He expressed Hope that the i what we have they probably wan is club will sponsor both income have and what we know they1 ing and outgoing Quot ambassadors probably know to it will be a next year and recommended that matter of time of no seconds to a permanent committee be set up lose of no minutes to throw away. For this program the watchman at the Gate May be j went from it. Pleasant tins year an electric device but. It is also a to Austria but was not sponsored min a Man with a mind and soul by the kiwanis club. J a Man who could Bud Remuner-1 the second part of tile program i his chair was vacant wrote tile comes marching mrs Winnafred Agnus asian. 68, died Moi Day August 28. At 6 30 pin. A the Jefferson county hos had been ill about four weeks in in j Muan 29. 1893. M George and Man m Kuril curl in Osborne. Kau. Six had Taen a resident of Glasgow for Nepa ? 40 years. She was married to Pete Apiary surviving Are one daughter. Mrs. Virgil Wagner Salem one on Frank asian. Of pleasant two Sisters mrs be me by an a. Of Madison and Mary i Mati Burlington. Five Brothers Arthur Cun. Montrose George curl. It m Adison. Otto curl Worth. Ill Leo curl. Denver. Colo and Granville curl. Springville also six grandchildren. She a preen did in Dea h by her parents three Sisters and one granddaughter funeral services will be wedge Day at 2 at the Salem congregational Church or ii Rev. Robert Penrod Oft sating burial will be in Salem East cemetery j tile body is if the Waterman funeral Home in Salem helicopters from a nearby base promptly few to tile scene which a in the French Alps about 450 Miles from Paris Iii an Effort to try to Pluck the stranded tourists from the Powes less cars swaying High above the glaciers and jagged locks of the Gorgi below. The Accident recurred on one of the lower stretches of the Cable railway system which takes summer skiers up the 12,186-foot Aiguille do Midi. One of the Needle like peaks flanking 15,770-foot it Bla Europe s highest Mountain. Hie stretch of Cable that w is Creed spanned a Glacier in a Gorge known As the Quot White it carried a series of Small Cabin car each capable of holding four prisons. When a us Cable parted some of a the ears crashed into the Rock will and the Glacier slope. But most remained suspended in the air above the Valley. Tiv severed end of tile Cable apparently anchored itself around one i of the pylons keeping most of the j cars Pended above the Gull by i Low. A spokesman for Rescue teams on j the scene said there were no Mechanic to Means of bringing the tiny Cabin cars Back to safety. The helicopter base at nearby Bourges do la immediately snit helicopters to Tho scene but it ap-1 pea reel unlikely that they could resume tiny tourists in the suspended j Ca i w 1 the Section of the Cable that was Cut crossed the Valley almost Hor-1 i on tally. Had it been a step stretch probably All the cars would have crashed to the ground immediately. On county Road projects i pleasant student from i norring the ister Quot Janice Daniele of follies right a tarts the school it High sch a l a an american meld service Exchange tour along France. Sponsored a hic rot or it club. High v Bool building with Lier is Ber american Patterson. Rig cars supermarkets and drive ins impress Mph Exchange student by Billa Mill. It plea a Titbit cars supermarkets. And drive in restaurants impress an Auburn Liqued Hazel Mon european react in a s mechanization tee ii a gel can dry a France Young prop in to Amel Quot and the Manywh n in Ira pc not so eyed French girl Daniele Argel lies. asked which idea been the song of Many but was written of tile appraisal pro a by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore w Hile j in general Butler s command in j pm Jay n cd Doud services set for thursday Douds. f up funeral 1863 the Irish lilt of the tune has made it popular for nearly a Century. The tune of Quot the Gill i left behind me Quot also found its j _ origin in an Irish Folk tune i Washin Exon Urpi it the George Frederick Root composed class of crime services will be held Here to mrs j two of he More popular Noi iirnri1 1 a a j create Iowa state legislator. Sometimes called Quot tile prisoner of u i fed. A offence Pun Ai s Exchange student at my pleasant High school this year. Miss Arnielles is living with the a. M Patterson during her vie it to it pleasant Quot i have seen a lot of big cars. He said. Quot in France we have Little cars but yours Are big1&Quot she f Iso a turn for a a Ere an supermarket she favored she answered Quot i much prefer miss Arnellies who now Speaks English with a slight accent and some hesitation also Speaks Spanish in addition to her native Tongue. She is inking speech american literature american a feminine fascia his Orv and american government at the Loc,11 hich school. Doud died of a heart ailment at Iii Iowa City Hospital monday. Services will be held at 2 . Or. Hope and Freedom Quot kingdom comm Hie Quot Battle cry of a de year Fis Hable in Dot of. The Bill. Promp of i a outbreak of comm Ciai Airymei a a mein a p a j. Raymond Chadwick president of f t,,0. Has 1uth. Bani. Alive outlets for his talents but was a tape recording of High Points of jut it Llu has a Quot hijackings was a in a a i a to who w ill v Olit l6, will Clivel. I Unn e n excl to Quot a a it i t i f i t. _ a i who chooses to serve in this clan in the kiwanis intermit Ontl con i serous occupation that his people vent Ion. I May be alive and free Iowa Wesleyan College will assist was written Early in the War in the service. While Quot take your gun and go voice to e Morada it by the House. 373-5, in iou Home town Toni Coin. With 70.000 population there is Only one so expressed Happ Mei in Etc Tupi Market. She d Uke to Quot spend ing with her new a family it s a whole Day at the supermarket a very Ioven a family Beaure we just feel she said. Quot tile sense she has also a Ujj de kit 1,1 Freedom Quot is very Good. Amor food Alto Haiti t thud so a a la a a i Quot 1 was passed be torn Wen Corn. Hamburger to each of i to Tatterton last week and a French Fries. Quot French i tile Board of supervisors tues i Day accepted the bids of four con a sri us to on companies for five county i i Quot Ltd construction projects. The Burion a twist co., Waterloo a submitted the Lowr but $7.994 42 i for erecting a new Bridge near Tho j Quarry Southwest of town the old Bridge Over big Creek at tile to Loc a-1 Hon collapsed Early last Spring j Matt Fox and sons Muscatine a submitted Low bid of $4,048.08 for it Extension of Culvert. On Road h cast from the Salem stub no contract was awarded tor a tie a project of 1 grading and incidental work on 2 509 Miles in the same location. Schmidt const. Co., Winfield w is awarded the contract for Culvert extensions on Road q in. Tile plea. Ant Lawn Vicinity with a bid of $8,295.04, Bouge and Walker new London submitted a Low bid of $57,505.66 for grading and incidental wee k on 8 920 nubs in the same location. A recur by the club gave recognition to three top golfers of the it pleasant Golf and country club who have won Many honors and have Given much time to the club namely de Devinger de Devinger or. And James Higgins. They were guests acid in Standley reports raising a As were also John Harris new Man hybrid Muskmelon that weighs Sev j Ager of Blue Bird bus body Cornea pounds. Several others weighed j puny Here and Allan ring. New four and four and one half pounds manager of Cargill her i copyright. 1961. King features a Syndicate inc 1 grows big Melon car scoop Mobile collision John Quot was written later during he had d a amhara Are eaten in France she said by conflict. Huge Cucumber a a Cir driven by Joe Schlatter and a scoop Mobile being operated by George Ridgeway on the Streeta Bill earlier but sell Cit d be he us the in version to a to the White hate a different name House us a it s the term Irive in the measure would five a jury a Little confusing a first. There Siendo mrs. Raymond Bonser brought or a judge the discretion of whet ii is the Dave in where you eat and Cucumber to the news office or to impose the Dot Ith penalty on there us the drive in where a. Widening project chilled at the monday afternoon which measured Perron convicted of forcible Sci re. Movie intersection of Warren and Jet Fer la Quot in length. It is 6inches lire or attempted Leisure of al. Circumference and 2 indies air plane. It provided an alternate penalty of 20 years to life in prison. Son streets at 4 45 tip Polk. According in across. Car Rolls Over on local Street a 1953 Oziri Mobili driven by Jerry Baleen Burlington went put i of control on tile gravel just Sou n of the Brick on South Jefferson Street at 3 55 pm. Monday an t in Vous Connail rez t a us rolled Over in a ditch Bien it Erie Vous Huez Mes Saldeen was t Hurt i he was badly damaged. Translation Quot thank you very county officials investigate much i Hope that soon i shall a charge of failure to have a you have machines for every know you very Well and that you car under contort was filed again thing Quot a a Aid. Expressing a com Wilt be my friends served differently and in sex Fries change her a sister Quot and classmate Janice presented her with a Giu her thoughts about it. Pleasant a Merci Beaucoup j Espire que a i his Saldeen he is to appear later

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