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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 15, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days ivol80�?Tno-291mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening december 15, 1958 by George e. Sokolsky tue democratic party historically the democratic party consisted of three general elements 1. The solid South 2. The never immigrants cat different times Irish German italian. I jewish 3. The poorer Farmers particularly those who favored populism in its demand for cheap Money. Franklin d Roosevelt brought into the democratic party the most Radical elements in the country including labor Union leaders and the socialistic intellectuals. The democratic Victory of 1958 cannot be defined As a product of any one of these elements but that it occurred sufficient for pol j Itic ians and democratic national1 committee chairman Paul butter. Is taking advantage of the situation to attempt to assert a leadership of his party which has not heretofore been the role of a a j tonal committee chairman the test of strength among Paul Butler and speaker Sam Rayburn and i Senate majority Leader Lyndon Johnson will come w Lien Congress opens butlers effectiveness can Only be proved in Congress and if the chairman of the democratic i National committee has to attack the democratic leadership in Congress it is not altogether impossible that a third party May result. The Northern democrats have of course seized upon the name of governor Orval Paubus of Arkansas. As the Devil whom they must fight just As in an earlier period the modern republicans used the name of senator Joe Mccarthy As a rallying cry for the reorganization of the Republican party. The mistake made by the modern republicans was that not Only did they eliminate Mccarthy but they split the Republican party so that it cannot easily be put together again. As any observer knows Fautua does not Lead the White population of the South such democratic leaders As san Rayburn Lyndon Johnson. Harry Byrd. Richard Russell and other committee chairmen in both the Senate and House Are not dominated by Faubus. On the other hand the Assumption of the Radical Northern democrats that they can afford to read the South out of the democratic party is without statistical foundation. When 1960 comes along the question will be whether the democratic party can produce a candidate for president who will defeat the Republican candidate. Personalities will play a great role in this picture. For instance if the Radical democrats were to nominate Adlai Stevenson let us say against Nixon or Rockefeller the likelihood is that Stevenson the cynical world traveller would be Defeated by the dynamism of such men on the other hand suppose the inflation has become so wickedly spiral As to drive the Economy into the madness which inflation produce what effect will that have upon the election the country will seek a sober studious Man to Rescue it born its own greed and stupidity. By Carrier 30e per week by mail $7.50 per year train hits stalled school bus Iowa a Lincoln Seq Iii positive plan heavy mail five students launch Dat local dinner stressed by hits p. 0. Are injured Pope creates 23 cardinals a a Gordon lost at sea a miniature Monkey named Gordo set i off on a 1700-mile flight inside that nose t one of a Jupiter intermediate Range missile launched from Cape canaveral Fla the one Pound j South american Squirrel inon Kev similar to tile Monkey shown Here survived a meteor like ascent to about 300 Miles above the Earth but disappeared in the Ocean when a technical mishap prevented recovery of the nose Cone of t in missile. Seven die in testify in plane crash Woonsocket r i. Up a disabled private plane crashed today Iii a snowstorm five Miles Southwest of Here. State police said All seven persons aboard were killed. An army helicopter Pilot who spotted the wreckage said the plane was demolished. The plane carried a Pilot Copilot and five business executives headed for new jobs in Gloucester mass. Rhode Island state pole said there was no activity near Tho wrecked two engine plane it in the Washington Highway area of North Smithfield a few Miles from the Massachusetts Border. V ote contest a throughout 1 959 interested iowans will have continuing celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln a birth a a or. William j. Petersen state historical society superintendent said Here saturday night. He made the statement after the National head of the Lincoln sesquicentennial commission spoke at a dinner meeting on the Iowa Wesleyan Campus where Lincoln enthusiasts gathered to discuss Iowa s plans. Or. William e. Baringer who came out from Washington. D. C. To cell of National plans and the Progress of other states for commemorative events was making his first appearance at any state meeting. He was introduced by rep. Fred Schwengel whose Hobby is the study of Lincoln. Or. Petersen Steamboat Bill a. Who presided at the dinner said. Quot it is particularly fitting that the first meeting of the Iowa Lincoln sesquicentennial conference is in it. Pleasant which has some of the richest association in Iowa with he referred to the fact that it. Pleasant a Mary Harlan. Daughter of sen. James Harlan married Lincoln a Only son to live to manhood and their children in turn spent part of the year in it. Pleasant for Over 35 years. Stating that he would speak Quot College professor style Quot or. Barnier who is on leave from the faculty of the University of Florida while serving As head of the sesquicentennial. Related what Community after Community Over the nation plans in the Way of school i information on the new Corn and civic programs and outlined the j known As amyl Maize. Was re scholarly works being prepared for j leased by the american Maize-1 Vatican City up Pope John Xxiii formally created 23 new roman Catholic cardinals today and in a speech called for world War prayers for the persecute i lurch in communist Chilla. I among the new cardinals were archbishops Richard Cushing of Boston and John of Hara of Philadelphia in a secret consistory with ins old cardinals in the Vatican pal act the Pope asked tor and received tilt in formal approval of his nomination of 13 italian and to foreign he ire men As new princes of the Church the Pope said he expanded the i strength of the College of cardinals beyond the traditional membership of 7 i so that he could lighten the work Load particularly on the cardinals who Are advanced in age. Republicans Des Moines up Iowa republicans indicate they will search for a Way to improve the party at the Quot grassroots level in View of the Strong showing Sci amp a crafts made in tile nov. 4 elections the cop state Central committee has Given state chairman l. L. Jurgemeyer Clinton authority to name a special committee to study ways to improve party organization and procedures the Central committee met Here saturday in conjunction with the party s legislative caucus. One result of the caucus was that Republican lawmakers said they would present the 1959 legislature with a Quot positive program hammered out by Senate and House members. New uses for Corn Chicago up a two manufacturers today disclosed development of a new Type of Corn which they said could have Quot extraordinary possibilities in the production of Industry applicable starches. Des Moines up two persons testified today they unknowingly Quot voted Quot for a Blank Row on a voting machine in the contested re election of rep. Jack Milroy a Vinton nov. 4. They testified before District judge dung Needham in connection with a petition to enjoin the state executive Council from certifying the election of Milroy. Needham took the Case and a motion to dismiss the Case under advisement. The official canvass showed Milroy Defeated George Goode 40. By Only 69 votes. Harry Lyon taken by death mrs. Everett Jones Dies in Richland what gives Butler such blatant i courage is the fact that the Republican party seems to be dead it has had a hard time since 1932 largely because the businessmen imposed their candidates upon the party. Such candidates As Landen and Winkle could never have been elected. Tom Dewey might have been Robert a Taft might have been. At any rate when Eisenhower became president he turned to political Mavericks with the result that in his first term he weakened his party in his second term he had not i the time to Correct his error. However even if the Republican party were to disappear the millions of men and women who do not hold moderate socialistic View Are bound sooner or later to coalesce into a political Force if there were Only too such persons in this country an organization would appear. Actually All Over the country committees and organizations Are coming into existence to revitalize the Republican party. Thus far not one has been sufficiently i effective to capture the imagination of the older republicans Many of whom even stay away from the polls abstaining from exercising their constitutional rights too butlers error in ignoring the Southern bulwark of his party is a hat he bases too much on the 1958 election which was for senators representatives and governors but not for a president. Local issues j prevailed. Fogt instance no one can Leach any conclusion about the Republican or democratic party in new York state the same is True of the defeat of William know and in California. Butler seems to be in a hurry to jump to conclusions. Meanwhile he May be smashing his own party Harry Lyon 63, died at the Veteran s Hospital in Iowa City Mon a Day Moi Mug. The son of Eugene and Phoebe Lyon he was Lorn oct. 25, 1895. He i attended the Trenton Public schools j and Howes Academy in it. Pleas ant. He served in world War i j with the Navy and a member cd the american legion Post 58, in i i. Pleasant. On oct. La 1923, he was married to Kihei a. Hutchison who survives him. Also surviving Are one son. Dale Loren Lyon one daughter Donna Dell both of i. Pleasant two Sisters. Mrs arbs Ross of i. Pleasant and Anna Geiger of Burlington and a number of nieces nephews and friends. He wa1 preceded in death by six j brothels and two Sisters. Funeral sen ices will be held ii the r k. Cd Ane funeral Home on wednesday at 2 p. In. With Rev. James Troxel pastor of the first Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Green Mound cemetery. Mrs Everett Jones died suddenly at her Home in Richland about 11 30 saturday night from a heart attack. She was a sister in Law of r. L. Jones and mrs. O. T. Wilson of it. Pleasant. Services will be held tuesday at 2 . At Richland. Judgment entered a judgment for too has been entered in District court against cd a. Shaw m favor of do Sunray Oil co. An account is involved. Use in the study of Lincoln and his time. He pointed out that Iowa with its Harlan Lincoln Home on the Iowa Wesleyan Campus its noted Bollinger collection in Iowa City Tama county land which one belonged to the emancipator plus which Lincoln visited has a much closer tie than Guam and several Central american countries which have elaborate plans for commemorating Lincoln s anniversary. O a o Peterson outlined a five Point program which he Hopes iowans will support in addition to local observances. He named the following 1 a joint session of the legislature 2 a meeting in Iowa City entered around the Bollinger collection 3� the completion of Iowa Wesleyan plans for restoration of the Harlan Lincoln Home <4 a special Issue by the state historical society of the a a palimpsest Quot <5> the formation of Lincoln and civil War study groups with the aim of permanent organizations which will continue. He also recounted the Washington up senat unusually Large number of civil Republican leaders were told to War journals which the state his Day that president Eisenhower is topical society has published in past shooting for a balanced budget years. In the next fiscal year but that.,ill May run a Little higher than or j. Raymond Chadwick pros.-, this m3mmm Dent of the Host College welcomed gun products co., Roby ind., and the j National starch products. Inc., new York. The u. S department of agriculture a Northern research Laboratory at Peoria 111., also took part in the development the project was handled by the Bear hybrid Corn co., Decatur 111, executives said new avenues of research now being explored May be regarded As a Quot scientific breakthrough of economic importance to Corn growers industries. And the ultimate Corn requirements and sales volumes Quot of Corn using industries. Possible uses for the new Type of Corn include water soluble transparent film wrapping material packing material for water Dispersible products and non-water-Solu-1 ble coating and surface treatment for paper. Shooting for balanced budget Verne Lisle Clarinda was a suit de speaker of the Iowa House sat j urday by the 59 Republican repre-1 sedatives who w ill serve in the 1959 session of the legislature the republicans named Lisle to succeed rep. William Mooty Grundy Center the Defeated gop candidate for lieutenant governor. The cop representatives named rep. Henry Lucken Akron As speaker pro tem of the House and rep. Clark Mcneal. Belmond chairman of the special legislative investigating committee was chosen floor Leader. Rep. Al Mensing Lowden was elected assistant floor Leader and rep William Kendrick Des Moines was re named chief clerk Over Defeated Republican rep Dewey Goode Bloomfield in a closed session Senate republicans elected sen. Jack Lynes of Plainfield As president pro tem Schroeder succeeds sen. D. C. Nolan Iowa City. The first really big mailing Day of the current Christmas season hit the it. Pleasant Post office monday. Local mailings were heavy both of Christmas greeting card. And packages. Quot it appears everyone stayed Horn sunday and stamped greeting cards Quot one postal employee said. Whether the Day would come up to numbers of a similar a Mother years would not be known until the Days business was totalled. While tile mailings have been picking up the few Days they had not been unusually heavy tin Wick end falling at the Middle of tile my nth to Days before the Holiday was the selected time apparently by thousands of persons to a drop their cards in the the Post office will be open each evening until six p. In. Until Christmas this includes saturday dec. 20. Death takes William Johnson temperature dip to to the Henry county area had Zero or subzero temperatures sunday night to make it seven out of eight nights of the Low readings. The deep freeze set in sunday night of last week with an even Zero Reading. Since then the nightly readings have been As follows monday 13 tuesday 5 wednesday la thursday�?4 Friday to saturday 2 sunday a to. The temperature climb was to 21 degrees by i p in. Monday. Boy killed in tractor mishap those attending the conference and related the Lincoln Harlan tradition at inc. The Chapel players Wesley a. Styles Bridges in h chairman of the gop policy committee announced during a weak for lunch in the Day Long Whit House legislative conference t h a t travelling drama group presented no a Overall figure is vet Avail. Quot the lonesome train Quot a dramatic la on the new Budge but he said Eisenhower is Quot airing toward As close to a balance budget As his personal opinion Bridges said is that to president a will submit a arrested Jack Thompson above41, business agent for the Flint Mich., local of the teamsters Union is shown after his arrest on charges of taking part in the bungled arson Job that Cost Frank Kier Dorf his life. Thompson was held for about 5 Days Early in the Kierdorf a human Torch Case but he was released because of insufficient evidence. Account of Lincoln s funeral train the Rev. Russell Jay president of the it. Pleasant ministerial a. Socia Tion gave the invocation townspeople arranged rare Antiques As Centrepieces for the do Lier tables. A display of Lincolnia a owned by the College and local Cia Small explosion Zens was \ Lowed in the lounge the John Wesley Holland student causes damage Union. Preceding the dinner guest visited the Harlan Lincoln Horn earlier in the Day members of tie conference met for Coffee at to Harlan hotel sen. Harlan a Hon at the time Lincoln appointed by to the Cabinet Hinton Iowa i up a Charles Ross 14. Rural Hinton was killed saturday when a tractor being driven by his older brother overturn d on him on the family a pasture near Here. The tractor Driver was Gary fe.-. 16. It and Charles were the or of or and mrs. Walter Ross. Authorities said Gary apparently made too Sharp a turn As he dry the tractor on the level pasture and it overturned on top of his Brothe he regained consciousness and summoned help. William Alfred Johnson 82, died Early sunday morning at the memorial Hospital m it pleasant. Or. Johnson the son of Lewis w. And Hanna Beotta Johnson was born March 21, 1876 on the Johnson farm West of Winfield when he re idea his entire Lite he was married oct. 18, 1921. To Mac Sandeen. Or Johnson was confirmed into the Swedesburg lutheran Church in 1894, attended the Winona school. Howe a Academy in it. Pleasant and the . 111,. Business College. Besides his wife he leaves three children mrs. George c. Craig of Bradenton Fla Robert and Dean Johnson of Winfield one sister Della Johnson of Winfield and two grandsons. Three Brothers three Sisters and two granddaughters preceded him in death. Short services for the family friends w ill be held tuesday at 1 30 . At the Barton Mclgasson funeral Home in Winfield and other services will be held tuesday at 2 . In the Swedesburg lutheran Church with Rev. E. Isi. Lorimor pastor of the Church officiating. In mishap Bridgeport Mich. Up a students were injured today w Arn a Chesapeake amp rail Viv freight Tram struck a smiled school bus Ala Grade crossing Here. One of the students. Edward Adams 6, was taken to St. Luke s Hospital in Saginaw with a possible Skull fracture. The bus. Owned by Bridgeport Public schools had just made its final pickup and was Quot full w Hen it stalled at the Williamson Road crossing. Too Joe Bonk who operates a service station near the crossing said he heard the bus Driver frantically trying to Start the stalled vehicle and then heard the whistle of the approaching train. He said he grabbed a red Rug and ran Down the tracks toward the train. He said the train was about a Quarter of a mile from the intersection and a curve in Tim tracks prevented the Engineer from seeing the stalled bus. But the Engineer acknowledged the warning signal and started to slow Down immediately. Too Bonk said the bus door was facing the approaching train and children poured out the exit until the Tram was within a few feet of the bus. The Impact lifted the front of the bus about two feet in the air and spun the bus around. A second bus was stopped behind the stalled bus but did no to dare to give the stranded vehicle a push since it might have been trapped in the path of the train. Unveil fast Jet Airliner receive new playbook Supply the news has received a new Supply of Henry county playbooks and has them for Sale. These Are the same As the 1956 edition. One printing of these books was sold several months ago by the news for the firm which had planted them. Since that time there has been heavy demand for additional. Copies and As a result a new printing has been made. Persons who have made inquiry and others who wish to Purchase these playbooks May now obtain them at the news for $2 each. Ban Diego. Calif. Up a the con Vair division of general dynamics corp. Today unveiled what it called the worlds fastest jct Airliner the con Vair 880. It said the plane could Cross the nation in 4 a hours. The sleek Gold striped swept winged four engine Craft was wheeled out of its production line hangar before a group of several Hundred airline officials from throughout the world and san Diego a civic and business leaders. J v. Naish president of con Vair. Said the medium Range transport. Which will cruise at 615 Miles per hour will have a first line service life of More than 20 years. Cotton Rice and tobacco growers vote Washington up a thousands of banners across the nation vote today on whether they want the government to continue High Price support programs for the Cotton extra Long Staple cot ten Rice and flue cured tobacco crops. Agriculture department officials predicted Farmers would vote by a wide margin for continuing the programs. A vote in favor of continuing the programs also us a vote for accepting continued Federal controls on How much of each crop May be planted. It. Pleasant stores will be open every night this week including tonight monday big tree moved into courthouse a Small explosion caused dams in the bathroom of the Orvilie Denney residence a 800 Oak Street Here monday at 9 to a. In firemen extinguished the fire caused by the blast. The Gas regulator of a hoi watch Heater was dripping and a spar Heater operating next to it evidently set off the explosion. Tile House was filled with smoke a 30 foot Evergreen Christmas tree was installed inside the Corn House Rotunda monday morning and will be decorated with ugh and other trimmings. Offers Reward Des Moines. Up the Board of directors of the associated general contractors of Iowa ropes of Evergreen with lights has offered a $10,000 Reward for in decorate the front of the court a formation which would Lead to the House and add greatly to the Beauty conviction of persons responsible of the it. Pleasant Christmas dec for dynamite no Jensen construction orations co property Here and in Nebraska hotel fire kills six a flames from a burning Gas main right Rise High into the air As steam and smoke comes from the rums of the Mounta Nulle hotel in Allentown. Pa., which was demolished by an explosion six have died and 12 others Are in Allentown hospitals thousands of police fire and Rescue workers were at. The scene for hours

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