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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 12, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a a these Days by George e. Sokolsky the free press tile first essential of a free press is the ability for publications to earn expenses without depending upon subsidies. The moment a newspaper is forced to accept a subsidy from a political party or a government or a group of Rich men for continued existence then it ceases to be free. Except in those countries where the press depends upon advertising can it be politically and socially free not because advertisers Are idealists but because they cannot afford to mix their business with their product. Just As Many democrats use soap As republicans and just As Many republicans use automobiles As democrats. In fact even socialists Wash their faces. Thus the logic of the situation rather than the virtue either of the advertiser or the newspaper publisher has kept our pros singularly free of outside control. The great editors of the 19th and Early 20th centuries before the press faced radio and to Competition. William Randolph Hearst Joseph pulitzer William Allen White Henry Watterson and i could list dozens of others would just As soon Tell a heavy advertiser to jump into a Lake As to take his Check they were men of singular Independence and ran their newspapers As they chose without regard Lor official approval or social relationships. Vol. 80, no. 292 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening dec. 12, 1958 by Carrier. 30e per week by mall $7.5� per year committee assails own state May move personally against Hoffa Tongue lashing by Iowa s a hundreds Washington up court appointed monitors of tile team state included a hard look at the Iowa social scene. It did t particularly like what it saw. A except in tile larger cities the format of modern Day Community life in much of Iowa has a jus happened it said. and Countryside have adopted it. In Ion sixth graders these sixth or. De pupils urn it. In. Visited the news Plant recently w Ith their teacher while mating a it pleasant a a tour they a rout Row from left. Raymond Stott bus Driver Barbara Crock a Diane Taylor Kunia h Mcallister Sal cd Gaylord sue Fricke Dick Wilkerson and mrs. Helen Rodgers teacher Back j Den. Ander.1 Damn Johnson Marvin Timmerman Ned hunger Ronnie Anderson Richard two were i Anne Aid David Brooker. My circumstances with relative Little organized planning. A the result is a living Environ death lakes Hervey Hazen in demands some vets Russia end Al l Hervey Hazen 94. Retired Farmer died thursday evening around 7 at the Home of his daughter mrs Ruby St he. Hervey Hazen son of James b. And Emily Severn Hazen was also they were members of a born in Pittsburg a. Dec. I 1864 proud calling important in the of on february 14. 1889. He w As fairs of the country and surplus married to Huldah Mccabe who singly unafraid. Their principal task preceded him on june. 7. 1955. Was that of being a constant surviving Are two sons and one repression have plenty daughter Arthur Hazen of Humeston la. Harry Hazen and mrs. Ruby site both of it. Pleasant critic of the government. It was the newspapers which performed Many of the tasks which congressional committees do today. In u a p1 a lid r in Sci i in and Fie gloat afraid their reporters were out to kind children. Catch the thieves in Public office Hazen was a member of the and it was newspaper editors and i methodist Church serving As newspaper cartoonists who exposed i me Keis of the official Board for the sanctimonious stuffed shirts i 24 a a folks at 111,1 Ime Llis death who posed As saints and robbed he was an Horary member of the Board of stewards. He was also a member of the Mystic Lodge of roof and of several livestock and farm organizations. Funeral services will be held saturday at la a in. At the r Crane funeral Home with Rev. Spoke their minds and saved human beings and the country. That was a wholesome function of the press and still is but Toj maintain this Strong position the press must be financially ind Epen ,., cranes funeral Home tonight Trident it must be Able to say to Ana a oni Day from 7 30 to 9. Advertiser that it he does not care for the Way the paper is managed. He can take his wares elsewhere. It must be possible for newspaper editors and publishers to avoid entangling friendships. It Means that each newspaper group is a fraternity of men who respect each the poor. Tom Nast and f b Opper to mention two great names served America As any Soldier in the Field. Lincoln Steffens Charles Edward Russell. Upton Sinclair and dozens of other daring men freely United nations. N. V la Pic the United nations general Assembly today approved by a 54-10 vote a Resolution again demanding that Russia end its hungarian repression. It appointed fir Leslie Munro of new zealand As the United nations a watchdog Quot on the situation. Yugoslavia joined tin nine nation soviet bloc in opposing the measure Finland and Greece and 13 members of the afro asian group abstained. The Resolution empowers Munro president of last year s Gen Oral Assembly to report direct the United St it Tes to member countries or to the Assembly itself on development. In Hungary where the soviet army crushed the Freedom revolt by bloody intervention in 1956. Des Moines up the Iowa committee of one Hundred gave Hie state a sound Tongue lashing today. Our government at both the state and local Levels is weak and ineffective Quot it said. A what we stirs Union May bring corruption need in the immediate future is charges soon against teamsters. A special push to get us off dead a haphazardly to Chang but it. James r. Loffa. It w a s Center Learned today. A a a rhe Monitor majority appeared a the committee made these Obion in to move against Hoffa per j a creations in a 26 Page report a Quot orally in the Wake of thursday s 011 year Long study of Iowa Emit order giving them sweep economic and social trends ins clean up Powers a governmental institutions and Federal judge f Dickinson procedures in Iowa Are clearly Letts who issued the order made out _ dated and Are grossly lie Jolt he could remove adequate for the tasks that lie rom office or punish him ahead the costs it of antiquated for Cosine met of court if he walked government Are tremendous. The r Al the inform proposals. I situation is bad. A wholesale Over i climes agriculture water Prebilla Miami Beach fla., h o f i a j Jiahui is cd ally indicated a hems and transportation. Aid the informal report of the o o a j la numerous cases it studied i teamster named Bender commis-1 the committee is headed by How some of the under the surface i Ion indicated the corruption Ard r. Bowen president of Grin j problems facing Iowa and ignored a Sui-1 charges levelled at the teamsters Are j null College ifs Secretary is Loren currently fashionable issues such l. Nicker son executive director As liquor by the drink and tile integration tops years news stories new York <up1 the con St Hoffa the committee studied Ai varying Levels of depth Iowa s economic and political development taxation education Community development churches medical a exaggerated. Washington. Up Aby the it use veterans committee indicated today that thousand a of veterans drawing non Sirn i connected pensions on the basis it need actually enjoy with their wives either fair incomes or substantial holdings of stocks Bonds and Cash. One such Quot needy Quot Veteran had. With his Wile. A net Worth of $62. Suddenly in bes Moines thursday 096. Including $53,296 in liquid As ,iniu2 St is and an income of $3,348. He mrs. M. Sedgwick taken by death mrs. Maye Sedgwick 71. Died id a her had Down pension checks totalling about $5,400 and on the basis of mortality tables could expect to draw another $9,450, his military cd the University of Iowa alumni a is n. Hie group is made up of Many of the Able minds on the Iowa scene including leaders in Industry. Agriculture education and Church affairs. While its report was harsh in part it noted that a Iowa is an j attractive place to live and to rear a and it said Iowa has a promising future. State s so called Quot right to Law. Work Quot at the Home of daughter. Mrs w. T. Wherle. The daughter of Levi and Mary Washburn Willey she was born feb. 16 1887. Silo lived in it. Pleasant for Many years working j Muttee recommended a number of service totalled four months All in iat surgeons department store far. Reaching changes in Iowa 1 and. During the War at the iop. Government the Survey showed on the other a had but ten live no 1,1 Shawnee to reach that future the com i Gilbert Stout pastor of the first i methodist Church officiating. I interment will be in Forest Home j cemetery. Tile family will receive friends at Khrushchev to receive Rose bowl edition of paper hand that Many thousands of less fortunate veterans Are supporting themselves eagerly in their old age with no income but their veterans pensions of either $66.15 or $78.75 per month. Veterans committee chairman Olin e. Teague a Tex proposed to Correct both conditions at least partially. He said legislation is Belove a City Iowa up a Kus eng drafted to pare from the pen asian Premier Nikita Khrushchev si0n Rolls some of those who done to along with president Eisenhower need Helmand to increase payments Snow Falls along Eastern Seaboard by Ipi a hit and run Snow storm other s integrity and work for churned northward along the something More than their Money Eastern Seaboard today unloading tails of up to 15 inches in sections of the Carolinas and Vir pay. And Ohio state football coach Woody Hayes have been put on the mailing list for the daily Lowan s special Rose bowl edition dec. 17. The daily iowan students news paper at the University of Lowlor those who need it badly. Couple awarded nearly $16,000 Keokuk. Iowa Dpi James okla., and was visiting her daughter m Des Moines at the time of her death. Mrs. Sedgwick was a member of St. Paul s methodist Church in Shawnee. Surviving Are one son and two daughters Richard Sedgwick of Sidney neb., mrs. E e. Marjorie broker of Shawnee okla. Who is in the process of moving to Burlington and mrs. W. T. Dorothy Wherle of Des Moines three grandchildren and the following Brothers and Sisters mrs. Susie Dougherty of Fairfield Holland Willey of Corydon mrs. Helen Erickson mrs Rase Rainforth and mrs. Goldie Philen of Tacoma Wash and John Willer of great Falls chief among these changes were recommendations that Only the sound for Iowa to encourage and governor and lieutenant governor j facilitate out migration u n 111 in the executive Branch of the state j such time As population increase offered to Send copies of the 28 Robb Hamilton 111., was award Page special edition anywhere in de $4,000 in damages and his wife the world for 50 cents. Edna. $11,900 in damages Here some Campus Jokester sub thursday night in let county Dis scribed for the russian Leader the strict court. President and the Ohio state defendants in the Case were Coalt k Jackson Cannon. Quincy. 111., and Hollis Kinsley Wapello. Iowa. The suit involved an Accident in Cle August 1956. On a Road construe borne Harold Hitt 36, was fined lion project on i 3. 61 North of $21 tor disorderly conduct re burs fort a Dis ii Iowa. The Robbs Day Kiel officers testified he used were injured when their car i the barrel of a pistol to stir his struck a truck owned by Cannon Coffee in a restaurant. And i n in by Kinsley. Secretary Dulles leaves Hospital if american newspapers do not Ginia. Seem to be As courageous As they the Atlantic storm dropped used to be there Are reasons and temperatures below freezing As the reasons Are not far to seek far South As Northern Florida and 1. The Cost of operations of a lumped a Snow cover across parts j Doe set spoons newspaper has gone up beyond of Alabama and Georgia. Memphis Tenn up reason principally because of labor a costs and the Cost of paper. Labor passenger train costs Rise As the press is increasing a a a Crual disc in prot Elarizeh by labor unions dub which now dominate the working staff in All departments including Essex out up a crack the editorial. Also it has become passenger train from new York increasingly difficult to fire pm crashed into a parochial school Plo Yoes which Means that dead a a made crossing three Heads can continue to hold pow Miles East of Here today killing tons not because of Abiley but be two Young boys and injuring the cause of Union Protection. One of Driver and three other pupils the most severe difficulties of cur Teh victims were identified by rent newspaper management is the father m i of Neill of holy name inability of management to Tell a Catholic school Essex As Paul reporter to go to some other news posse and David Purvis both about paper where his wares would be 9 years old. More Welcome. Perhaps that is Why there Are no newspaper writers of the brilliance of Edgar Allen Poe and o Henry who did find editorial Refuge in the old a new _ York today such men would take their Union pay work 40 Washington up a Secre hours a week on a newspaper and Tarj of state John Foster Dulles spend the rest of the Day being a left the Hospital Quot feeling Fine to-1 press agent for some restaurant or Day and prepared to meet with receives commission a com i in Jackson is a gradual. A presumptive Star. J president Eisenhower before Fly i missioner a Navy Ensign nov. 21 a. Iowa w Slovan College. 2. Another difficulty is govern my to pans for conferences on the naval an station in Pensacola. The former aviation cd ment censorship of news. Were the Berlin crisis. J fla., Jerry h. Jackson son of or candidate received his comm there no columnists daring not the president and Dulles were it and mrs. Homer e. Jackson it upon completion of 16 week afraid to be called liars govern to put the finishing touches on a route 2, it. Pleasant. Iowa. 1 pre flight training and is mein officials would find ways of j u. plan of Allied strategy to congratulated by Cap ii s. Jack undergoing primary of Hunt so manipulating the news As to keep West Berlin out of Commu-1 son commanding officer of tie at the Saufley Field Nava a make All publications newspapers inst hands j naval pre flight school. T Ary an station in Penna magazines radio and to creatures a. Of government press agents. The columnists still break through this very tight band which the government has set about the truth. This difficulty arises out of the per manent War during which government officials take advantage of Public nervousness to protect their own errors and their own lies. As Long As this is possible the danger is that the press loses its social value As the protector of the people. Copyright 1958, King features Syndicate inc s government and the county attorney in the county governments be elected. The governor and lieutenant governor would serve four year terms. The committee would have the Secretary of state auditor treasurer attorney general Secretary of agriculture and Commerce commissioners in the state government and the auditor District court clerk Coroner county recorder sheriff and treasurer in the county government appointed instead of elected. Too the committee also wants to re Mont. And one Niece mrs. Miles j apportion the Iowa legislature Rukgaber of it. Pleasant. Services will be held monday at 2 . At the r. K. Crane funeral Home. Interment will be in Forest Home cemetery. The body was to arrive at the Crane funeral Home today. State impounds spoiled Oleo ment which notwithstanding very to Many struggle Over the racial bring degrees of praiseworthy Charm i ration of schools was chosen leaves much to b t he pal ors 01 muted p�5 inter o National today As the biggest news Story of 1958. They noted that the Battle was waged All the Way from the supreme court of the United states to Remote hamlets in the South. Integration confronted the american people with one of the most acute sociological problems since the Days of reconstruction. The other one t of stories picked by the editors 2. American and russian probes into outer space bringing within the Range of possibility interplanetary travel by human beings. 3. The democratic Victory a t the november polls giving the party t h e biggest congressional majority since the High tide of the new Deal. 4 Anglo american intervention in Lebanon and Jordan. 5. The resignation of Sherman Adams and the indictment of Bernard Goldfine on charges of contempt of Congress. 6. The death of Pope Pius Xii and the election of John Xxiii. 7. The economic upturn in the United states. 8. The red government s consolidation of its Rule Over the chinese Mainland and the bombardment of Quemoy. It was a year in w hich piping appeared to have won equal status with Moscow in directing the strategy of world communism. 9. The Chicago school fire. To. The stabbing of Johnny Stom Panato by Lana Turners daughter. Other stories that won prominent mention the Berlin crisis the cruise of the Nautilus under the North pole Degaulle s Rise to Power the Railroad disaster at Newark Bay a j. Pasternak rejects the Nobel prize Alaska the committee also punctured an idea or two currently popular with the politicians. It said the state should Quot encourage and facilitate Quot the migration of Young residents out of the state and not try to hold them As Many political leaders have argued. A in the foreseeable future Iowa is unlikely to achieve Industrial development sufficient to absorb the whole natural increase of population Quot it said. A a persistent population surplus in the state benefits no one. It is therefore hold legislative sessions every year cps of Power and it has few of every two years and j vantages in climate elect representatives As Well As 0 0 senators for four years instead Oft however it can offer these in j portent advantages to Industry. The committee said its a most i the committee said important recommendation a i a favourable climate for de for establishing of a office of a elopement of agriculture related state planning to assist the gov industries. It nor in running the state. J 2 fresh air open space Lack Quot i his office responsible direct of Urban congestion All a priceless by to the governor would forum resources Quot for Industrial growth Dos Moines up the state late and coordinate Long Lange a missing in Many Cong sled area. I agriculture dept a impounded programs tor slate advancement i of air pollution Lack of space for 1 2.700 pounds cd spoiled Oleo mar a a Fields including the rear housing and Plant sues and travel 1 Garine found in storage in a Des Sanction of state and local gov problems. Moines warehouse ii Aas Dis-1 eminent economic and Industrial 3 a Quot Rich source of High Quality closed today i development and the general in a Labory made up of Well educated l b Ladd Chiel of the depart plan Vemont of local iowans possessing ingenuity and ment s Dairy and food division and economic development Are brought into balance. Too the committee examined closely arguments that now a has particular advantages in attracting new Industry to the state in developing its Economy. It said the state offers a few unique advantages for manufacturing industries except for thae related to it said the state has Quot obvious limitations in attracting certain types of Industry it has a few important natural raw materials other than farm products it has few special advantages in water Supply or sour wins statehood the Springhill n. S. Mine disaster plane collision Over Nevada kills 49 death said the Oleo was Quot unfit for human consumption Quot he ordered it melted Down for animal teed Liddy said he had no reason to believe there was any More of the spoiled Oleo in the state by his 19 inspectors will be ordered monday to Check Oleo from the same company in their areas. Air Force cancels missile program and their service. Said. Hie office in effect would con the committee mechanical skills. 4. Nearness to the highly industrialized highly urbanized great lakes Industrial area where taxes and transportation problems i encourage decentralization. Bowen told Loveless in a sum Washington up the a Mary let in it was Quot remarkable Force today cancelled its pro that Tho members of Many to Gram to develop the Goose its cations and Dave is backgrounds Tipu the work of the committee High wages site costs and local which is know n officially As the j govern i s commission on economic Ami social trends in Iowa gov. Tischel c. Loveless named the committee also made these i the committee Early this year to major recommendations in i examine Iowa from every Angle local government a Extension land make recommendations to in it Home Rule creation of a spec a prove its future. Ial state Agency to provide Community development Aid. Education adoption of thi he. A id the unanimity a suggests it. Pleasant stores will be open Friday and saturday nights this week and every night next week. Long Range ground to an Decoy approved tire report unanimously missile. The air Force said development and testing of tin Goose had a progressed but that the program was being dropped because of Quot changes in operational Winfield building sold Iowa Board of regents 68 million Dollar building program Mort school reorganization. Transportation authority for the Iowa Highway commission to that la Quot time is Ripe in Iowa for a More ump from lot it to a. Winfield Frank Bharat of action. Quot the mood of the commission a i interpret it is one of we feel that the economic and social development of Iowa has lagged our state has lacked in dynamism. A we believe that our major weaknesses Are Lack of effective roads to main highways creation of a state transportation Agency to a Ake Over some duties of tile Iowa Commerce commission and eliminate a confusion and discrimination in transportation. Governmental reorganization a consolidation of state agencies into logical organization by functions civil service for state employees judicial Reform As proposed by the Iowa bar Assn. Of Mike crash. Todd in an air plane a and p votes Stock change new Vork up a Block Hole ers of the great Atlantic amp Pattie Tea co today overwhelm ugly approved the company a twitch from private to general Public ownership. Their action gives investors their first Chance to have a voice in the management of the almost Century old food Chain. A amp a is the worlds biggest food Chain. At a quiet meeting attended by proximately 200 persons Stock bidders approved a plan to convert All tax company a out staring common and preferred Stock nto i single Issue of common took with voting rights. Galesburg 111., has sold his business machinery for Long Range plan building and fixtures located on Ning and Lack of effective Organ main Street to or. And mrs. Oar Iza Tion for the exercise of state Rell Oregon. The who have wide leadership operated a clothing and or goods our government at both the a dismissed Al Ore i Here three years plan to state and local Levels is weak and move their merchandise to the new ineffective it is not equipped to the Case of Joan Newbold is j location during january they plan Deal with the Complex economic i. Pleasant Bank and tru co to continue their present lines of and social problems of today and has been dismissed in District merchandise and anticipate the of the next 50 years. We Are pre court at the plaintiff s costs. The addition of More lines including pared Only to Drift Case involved the detention of Iron s clothing la committees Survey of the furniture valued a 330 challenges election John f. Weils above Little Rock ark., weekly newspaper publisher challenged the election of or. Dale Alford segregationist w rite in candidate. The latter Defeated rep. Brooks Hay s dark on november 4. Wells charged a irregularities and violations of Law and conspiracy with gov. Faubus

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