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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 13, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 8. L no. 292 two sections it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday Een ing dec. I 19 51 these Days by George Sokolsky a people what president Kennedy said to the football dinner was not merely that we watched rather than played games but that we had become a passive people. We spend hours each Day ii terrine to radio or a Tel lint television Btij we no longer gather about a piano singing songs or doing a duet or Quartetti we watch commentators discuss every a beet under the Sun but us do not sit around a pot Bel of cd move or a Era Etc a barrel arguing pro and con. It i or i to i i inc i Tim president Kennedy raises this Issue recall in i. Literate in history and knows that the ancient countries devoted themselves to sports not Only to provide exercise for youth must keen contacts on Berlin Eichmann says he a disappointed Jerusalem it Upit Israel asked tile death penalty for Adolf Eichmann today. But Eichmann told the court he was a disappointed Quot at the decision and said he but to unify the nation will Dor did not recognize guilt act Iii Wirtis of ancient Greece israeli attorney makes the Point a religion failed to unify Greece but athletics periodically succeeded. I ii w it to of nip a. Delphi Corinth and Nannea not so much to Honor the gods for these could be honoured anywhere As to witness the heroic contests of chosen athletes and the ecumenical assemblage of varied greeks Quot i Millier lie a Chi i a ii Der tin i a Iii a of it i we find the real religion of the greek. Lie worship of health Beau it. And strength. To be in health said Simonides is the Best thing Lur Man tile next Best to be of form and nature Beautiful the third. To enjoy wealth gotten a about fraud and the fourth to be in youth s Bloom among friends. There is no greater glory for a Man As Long As he lives said the Odyssey than that which in wins by own hands and i or entire nation pay Ici Patch in sports and those who were not admitted into the ports were either aliens or slaves or persons w Hose bodies were damaged by flaw Durant makes Point a tin Xii ten try saw Ripe a of the splendor and popularity of athletics in Greece in 582 the Lamphi cryonic league established the pythian games in Honor of Apollo at Delphi in the same year the Isthmian Glt lines were in Itu Ted at Corii h in Honor of Poseidon six years biter the Nemea ii Ana Weie inaugurated London died to i brate tile Mcmean zeus and Ber 12. At i find. Of a i is of ame pan hell Cui festivals together with the olympic games they formed a period of. Or Cycle and the great a ruin a Ai i i or cd a Ila it a i to win the Crown at All of them when tin games fell into the i sin it a t i a 11. And the populace sat and watched the specialists that physical superiority of the greek disappeared. But this physical superiority was closely associated i i null i it Dorily athletic War a in ated Wii music Tim dance whip Art As Long As there was a uniform concept of the wholesome body Aud the whole Onie mind the entire nation was Abun Bud Iii in development of personality. General Gideon Hausner demanded death for Eichmann for part in the murder of six million jews by the nazis during and before world War la he said Eichmann had sacrificed any Hope for mercy because of the a a enormity of misdeeds which had caused to Cross the Barrier Between Man and beast. But Eichmann. In a Amma tic eleventh hour piece to save life told the court that a i do not recognize the guilt. My expectation for Justice was Reading a prepared is atoning g from Bullet proof Glass Cage m the courtroom. Eichmann claimed he was Only following orders and that Quot those who gave the orders justly deserve punishment a the mass murder was solely the guilt of the political leadership a a he said. A tile evidence Given in this court shocked me considerably but the misdeeds were committed against my will presiding judge Landau who we ii two other German born judges tuesday Cornute on All 15 counts against he. Announced that sentence would be pronounced to 9 am ii am Asti Friday. Charged al Ler shooting episode Davenp jut Low i it up Richard Orphel 30. To nation today was charged with a a Anil with intent to commit murder in tile Hoot of Iii Lmh be in Taw allegedly in an argument Over a Mot Ort vile Zoephel was at in cd of wounding i. Brother in Law Grant cod Wal Laden. 39, a if Arby by a Moore tuesday night cud Wallaw was hospitalized in serious condition with a Bullet wound in the head. Zophel w is ordered held on $25,000 Bond pending a preliminary hearing dec. To amateurs transmitter in orbit says Quot Iii dramatic Rescue in Hospital fire with Doc physician a nurse a cd two hop tal employees. Tor attending no co and firemen carry a patient four died trying to save or Ope i in in. S. There from Tho ninth floor of Tho Hartford Connecticut were 793 persons in t a Aimo some Hospital As flames brought death to 15 persons. 125. Many in serious con it Ion were Evaum de. The a urns included six patients five visitors a a cigarette tossed in rash Chute was blamed. Ten below Here record breaking cold for Date in Many Iowa cities hearing Lur youths Sci for saturday Forest Mccleary taken by death when tin greeks and at about watching what Ethel. Old. Their entire social life was altered in time the nation be earn weak pie Idem a needy makes in interesting Point when he emphasise s the need lot activity rather than observation for participation Rattler than passive notice. To watch ii football game and shout under tile spell of a cheerleader is not i participation in sport. It is sitting on oui so at and growing fat it is filling ones Gizzard with Popcorn and frankfurters. One might As Well go to a motion picture theater and watch. Does one ride a horse or merely look at a horse does one think for himself of Only remember what some commentator ins to say on a subject does one build a Strong life or merely pass from one tiling to another an a int s exciting moments in the lives of Small boys or arc they merely spectacles controlled by business men and calculated in terms of Money receipts Forest Merlin Mccleary. 39. New at Home dec pm j 30 p in. Following a heart attack. Or. Mccleary was born August 29, 1922, at Mitchellville the son of Hazel Ann Rook or and Forest Marion Mccleary. He came to new London at the age of i year w Ith parents and has resided there since. He v. As married june 19. 1917, to Verna Ruth Glover. He was a member of the methodist Church world War ii Veteran Lodge no. 28 of a am member of town Cut unit a. A lid of the boy scouts committee and of the machinist Union he had been employed by lie Gila. Mason Hanger co. Of iop surviving Are ins wife. Two children. Robert Laverne and Betty Anne Mccleary both at Home pc supports Mother mrs Hazel Mccleary of new London four sifters mrs. Leslie Bernice loonies of Waseca Minn. Mrs Grover Doris Higdon of Peoria. Ill mrs Richard Marjorie Stanlake of Dixon la. Mrs c s. Betty i Conklin of Iowa of Low tem a rat lire tic Day night an lev in degrees below Zero on the Federal weather Bureau thermometer kept by a. M Parte n tin Low a. Recorded about Dawn wednesday to a. By i i the inert a y dropped like a runaway elevator Iii Iowa Early today As record breaking tempera i Tores were recorded in several parts of the state. Waterloo and Ottumwa a it la records for this Date while Des i Moines and Cedar rapid., quailed Marks set As Loi g go As 60 Yea Waterloo officially the state s lowest Mark 24 or Greet below Zero. Surpassing tile minus 16 recorded there in it was to below or than the min this Date in 1942 tile Runoff i ail cold1 re iding was a minus 28 measured at the farm of eur Bergloff who lives at 1958 at Ottumwa two degrees cold us 8 reported on Moin Gona soul Livre it of Boone and near lie Der. Mom River Boone reported an official 19 degree below Zero. La Mal had ii Runoff Elal 23 Low. While at Mason City it was an oilman minus 21. The chilling cold moved into the Are Iii the Wake of the sea sol first major snowstorm but the weather Bureau promised Relief porn the cold. Temperatures were rising ii to the mid teens and Low 20. And Low amp Early thursday be near Zero. Cedar rapids official tied the record set on to 1901, while demo it co Alied the Low set on t 1917, other official Reading Emmetsburg 23 below sum and Spencer 17 below Tibia by Low. Conn .1 bit a in n Lamoni 12 below Davenport Low and Burlington minus o. Today ii Ald 13 Cia e in but Low a uti a j ii it a \ out red ii t pc in id la j Whit id Iii a f rid a in wha ii of Vout i. Idi a it of i r \ a in ill i1 f Milf d i t \ Inci a ii t 11 in v mall w lr1 her m. I wad is rift in col it a a Sata a i a ii i is i d pail 11 i Lime i n an Aff r. A Aii i a v i Roge j Sci Ana Larry a n. Ixo the of it pm i. Al it and w Ilia n Bat h i a no t h of Oldani id 17 yen a by irl Motoi i j incl lie c t v Poi Eccl Wen r sin the incl i mate d t he c Ai yes a be Elai. I p a to 11 a Hearth a Harg a a u. Til juvenile w i to i Opp i Lime he a i i to Tun Clove r i Jurf n. N i or it is tilth so id. I i to e ii Ginal r a Quot a o in in la id it it wart to l4�?~ i to kit live o old it u h. Had a u up of lie re t. 11 a t on a cockerel Ler denies report Walker critical new York my a Rock in the 1964 re i nomination Vin up a gov. Neill a a cont Weir for Iliean presidential of Rousis denied tues Day night a publish d report that he probably would not be a candidate in re election and May even resign because of personal problems. Llu rep la i till governor May abandon plans for re election con Dallas. Tex. It up Walker who gave up general s stars and re tin speak mind said by ii men t. Heel Arn a a adored a necessity in plans to boost City one brother Max Mccleary us int tj1guj it presidential nomination. Was published in today of Farmington. Mina services Are pending at the Elliott Chapel in new London. No valid Legal grounds for demand Washington up state department officials said today Russia lia., no valid Legal grounds in demanding extradition of German. Gen Adolf Heus mgr from tis United states. The department already has cd noun cd is a crude and Sudri cons Quot the soviet Effort to extradite i to face russian charges of Quot War crimes a n d crimes against Kennedy to make several appearances the president has raised an in to easting Issue and perhaps he owes the thought to father who encouraged the Kennedy children to argue Over every subject until a sunday Brunch sounded like an Irish debating society and then they ail played games together. We laughed at the Kenned. T melt football Bat the re. A. Quot a. Suit i a family closely joined not excitement and admiration and merely in sports but Iii affection ideals and sport. It is something to hear a Kennedy speak of an the team become., the editions of the new York daily. New. I paper said the governor Felt the announced breakup of ins 31-Ycar marriage to Mary Todhunter Clark and their pending divorce would make it mix Issize for Hun to defeat pre Idem Kennedy in 1964. The news said Rockefeller had advised mate gof leaders of views. But Robert Mcmanus tilt governors press Secretary issued an immediate denial. A this is c of plea in untrue said my maims. A i have just spoken to the governor and he authorized me to say that. The governor has announce hot a will in a candidate tor re election next year he us going to to a candidate he will run and then Are no changes in plans to Washington up president Kennedy will make at least eight speeches and a number of Public appearances during hi., i trip to puerto Rico and South America next weekend. Five overcome by Carbon monoxide to night our youth has filtrate by the enemy oui eminent follows one wrong Ca it on with allo thid. I Media mislead us it was first Public add since he resigned As a major Gen Oral in october. He said preside 1 Tim i a Shower and Ken adv Rich succession of de visions which a a have Cost us our sovereignty and our he said military officers swear an oath of Ala Mance to a Sovereign United states but find the v nun a. J u. N. a you should recognize that a youth of this country is exp a i and infiltrated. The same y a that enters your army Aud is in it today Quot he said. Walker. 52, was relieved a c minder of the 24th division in Germany because of a a pro a. E political indoctrination he sponsored among troops. He v reprimanded and in october resigned after 30 years service runner than accept a staff assignment in the Pard in. This con no right to retirement pay. Ottumwa Hospital and doctor. Later reported them. All in fair condition. They were in we Iii Light Aud Charm according jut Cher of j Thor youth. Our othe and when tit. I t Mui you tips pull Cir car Buu i a 1 al police to tug to ii Cevious in Changet Barge i pc Kun. Sll ilk i o drop Hitcher suffer Friday other i Lunn yva1 to edit a pm a in Pound Trail Nutter hand built by a group of Amateur 1 it Dio ennui lasts pm fitted Aith today broadcasting a coded a Chi Quot around the world the Box like Tram Mitten known c it i Ai orbit my it Eletr i v ing Amateur radio Rode piggyback into orbit tuesday on discoverer Xxxvi a i Ellit Vande Nimg an foie it bae Ald o ears message to the world t till Clit Illow d by t w o Dot it la -1 ii m i e cod 1. Can no d the we k Quot i a Small group of Ham radio Opet nor who a them Civ s the in Oje i j al a. Opiat am a a. Sedation Chan Man in a an c Downs. Or. A rocket Engineer from Saratoga. Caid., witnessed the launching at Vandenberg in of the satellite was designed and built by san Francisco Bay area radio amateurs most of them associated with electronic firms Quot the idea was conceived a Little More than a Vear towns said. Getting government approval proved to of pretty simple a Volunteer Effort was be dec to absorb the Cost of the transmitter estimated at about $18,000 pieces of Equi Jimenz were donated by Amateur radio of Ratois of oui throughout the country. Expect to i so present i building at Olds for . Den f at i pc plan tot the newly authorized wac Bool District Cal Lur a High j Bool a to a data Reid i at old. And the operating of Grade re tool a and it a w lords i la. Clisol officials pointed out wednesday. By Umi j inc h of the i v Cut old building for ii. Pibool. Hie new Cit net will keep costs it a lower level in a pointed out. Supt Byron Din a of Olds an i others had been explaining this to t a v Iii i s of the Ai Ca recent in to dispel the Contention cd t a in that a in a building would a erected lot the High school Thomas. Aid. Provide Bond for St ii in i tile 111 1 Lowed i o m v out la diam 1 the a id a r pred local property Sells for 57,000 and got out of the a e Mont go if at 606 e Washington was old in it it a i District court wednesday no in did no tray any Jug to builders i for $7, cd youth. It was the size of the lot is 128 by 160�?T. Pol c or cloth t. Iou ova w As cords were a youth old Wert Aid that i. My Hun s holding Bat k and do Montis Ltd la tin Iowa is i prenup court today approved a to i i i backed it a a Mhz Bond for con of slaver Ronald m stump and released from tiie county jail pending or Appeal to tile High court supt f me co it clerk 11 leu i Man to urn the i m stump i it Lea e i rom jail minute in i ter the High court approved the Appeal by and slumps attorney Aidie would go immediately to the jail to facilitate stump release d he supreme court Unamuno a in accepted the la Ting of $229,000 wort Tiol a al e Tate that 21 Keokuk residents put up to provide. It Unity for the Bond. Following the court s action chief a i Dice d Leodore it Gar fiend said a a presumably tin sheriff will release stump As soon As tile Bond papers ii Procor cd. Polk county sheriff Wilbur Fidel ii said a Kim As i get the paper St Imp is ii re he said inn a of i s a Taic i a a cd is a office in is Only a matter of Minim ii no of clot lies and a v e St ump attorney. J Riley Mcmanus and Lin 22-year-old Keokuk youths father Maurice went a i the supreme court this. Morning tfx or p a county District court clerk Michael Doyle turned Dove i tin re. I a it. Hite list my uni is he had an al to of Unity to personally examine tile persons holding the property Rusk tells necessity for i robing talks Paris i Fol Secretary of St do Dean Rusk told the nato Council today the West must be read to make and keep up con last a i tit Sov if on Berlin. In k Aid that in the nuclear a e every must to exhausted to find a peaceful solution i a 11, of America s european Alia that United states intend to continue diplomatic a i bit _ talk on Berlin with in r is tans. A n umbel of a to nations Rald. Addy to the support of Rusk Ich a but France Contin i. I a it Rej it any form of Nego a do even simple diplomatic probing talk Iii Secretary of state j a Tim opening session of a thre Day meeting of the 15-nation no a at ird a i Caty organize in oui Oil la a Quot i in. Ion lasted 2 a Hovirs and a i and with the Berlin crisis Aud whether the West should tin russian on negotiation. Tile Berlin debate was continue d when Tim Council met again in the a1 i ooh Ute if build up forces in Mala Hrh Elizabethville up a . fore of remaster transport i today flew troops and supplies to Katanga indicating a major u. N it May be imminent. Katanga appealed to undersecretary Ralph Bunche to investigate a inhuman actions of n. Force transports brought in 700 pm Pian troop. 22 u torts Ammu a in and supplies and in j a other 105 ethiopians arri., d from kind. And informed outre said 250 swedish troops were brought in tuesday night to double Tim size of the swedish contingent the Katanga government asked that Bunche the american in. Ltd it to come to Elisa or in a m from . Where s a i is g Katanga so with u n. And Congo in. E a scr uni to. U of 14 u i off ii More airline mergers May come too professors condemn . Fallout shelter flan new Yurk i up i i he l i irk i i v i. D. A Coj Ca school Lions fallout shelter program was. I at a a a conference Vesterdal condemned yesterday by mole that. Washington up w financial a Poi i it Jai a Latsiou Lush Ryai Otid no to t my Ger fat t the airline Industry Day about fur ii r Quot mar Continental and Natan lines Surprise i the Ana Tau tuesday by announcing p merge subject to a up stockholder. And cud Mill tics Board cab a few ii my fab was Charlo Ltd president i Pion of the a. To an. Clat Ion Ata pre a lines would wind up 1961 losses if Sjo million age St red Ink Bath on i there was no Coni tween the two an noun added up to for i a Munier to Sec year left Jav cilia Ting Mage ona1 ail on world plans to a1 by Aero c Nerg r Situ Art o port a the air with net tilt big a Ord. It Ion . But i Specula 700 professors who said it could Lead to a nuclear War a which would be permanently fatal to our democratic the professors All of whom teach ii the metropolitan a t. a shelter prom in might by Able to Sava a Small ii it on a it of to xxi pulsation in a Nuesi a War but they added. Tin p in Iai gain is More Titan offs to by the a thai. It a activity p pan s tin people tor Ace of thermonuclear War us an a ment of National policy of the originators of the letter to in g Salvador Columbia in a Rusty professor of structural in in a rum. Tilled Tho Siut r pro am not Only non a but blood in. I id Bunche could Quot bring to the world proof of the cruel in-1 in in actions of the u. N. Armed fore a on free Katanga soil. It offend Hun an armed escort and guaranteed a free movement a a governing a communique said 7 ii ii. Have been killed Aid a i woo fed in the u. N. Mortar bombardment of the City tuesday night and today it said Mere than 20o shells were fired and 80 per cent of them a non military cars damaged in collisions Rii a Jit signer. I d l e Cru a i Ujj rom co i lie rat it h s g by a i a Motif mein i a t and author o said a other of a 2 populate a i a i 2 nine Ile a. A t Milton that More carriers May the merger route As a Way ,. Wan. So k jut of other Kennedy. There is no envy. Copyright 1961. King no jealousy no apathy. There is t Syndicate inc Ottumwa. Iowa up ii a five persons including three Small Chil bet the children the sense of Victory for the team Idren were overcome by Carbon i -. A1 do Boa. It and in the theory of operations. Monoxide from a faulty Gas Spac a Ujj s sistt., a nation. 1 Heater tuesday. Husband was at withdraws u n mrs. Leoda Rusk. 22. Request for bombs Dren Ronda 3. Shelly United nations act features they found u were a Coix Lous wire \ mrs. Rupe s a neighbor and rushed to at he time up my Secretary general Thant today withdrew the United nations rework quest for British bombs for use in Congo. La. I lie 7 31 educators co Niibu it each to pay for an open letter to arca president Kennedy and new York with oui Nelson a hoc Kelt hot win ii which p pm in Tai out Shin Wall appear in next tuesday s cd would 1 Ither la Asphy jilted Ltd Lions of the new York turn a cm-1 a by massing loge tiler for a unified zoot Ign of a of f ran t protest the new York group Foi Ryan no d Filar a fallout to Lowed an example set in Boston by Huger for Vars and years at some 183 Prole sets who took Ward similar action last nov to Man tile stepped no Campaign Lur s mat fallout sin item has triggered u it Volu Cham a action it protests. In one Blas Quot form or another across the nation inn a majority of them have come from plea Editha or Inteia it to no at among the signers of the letter is not Are Jacques Barzun Well known Gram largely because of the wide author and Provost of Columbia it spread Lack of uni University and three Nobel jul t a a catastrophic War t Cia winners. Profs. Sew to Ochoa Fritz would to we Call upon you. I Man and Edward Tatum All to make this Plain and to Lead the members of the faculty of he new Rev Mon Forward towards Pace by Russell m. Ferrei a pm i milks route 4. Were d when they collided at the lion of Washington and sir to at 9 05 a m. Tues Ollk 1958 Che to let w a.-, Ai Csc an aed $100. I 05 p. In. Wednesday ears by a. F. Tune Man and i Elmore were damaged they collided at the inter a. Warn la and Whit act in a were reported to to al Cio command Breaks deadlock a no a wart. Ort o con Side r. Urn a it it Miami Beach Cpd a t ii a r al i to High t i in land broke via a deadlock Early today and is unanimously adopted a to us a ter Union feud through a a system ural Dot pc ads on binding Albi station elated a in pm any president i of the led ration announced the it it vision to it women it 4 a. In. Est following a Marathon eight hour session of the al Cio executive Council

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