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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 19, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol 80, no. 298 on the line editors note there will be no a these Days column by Geo. So Kolsky during his illness by Bob Considine new York a there a a Story going the rounds in new paperless new York that the head of the news and special events department of a big network learning there had been a murder on Park Avenue rang for his most famous news commentator and barked Quot you re assigned to this Story. Get cracking Call the the great commentator looked Down at the Rug. �?�1 Don t know their number Quot he said. A Well known to newsman with an extensive newspaper and wire service Back ground put it the Way Quot the Good lord certainly has i looked fondly on our Media sine1 i the papers went on strike. We re just not a to get out on the Street and cover a Story big j fire or flood or some other catastrophe or a Story that demands a lot of leg work and the presidents new budget is expected to hit tile $78 billion Mark that s another Way of saying that during the coming fiscal year Well spend 5200 times As much As we spent on the Louisiana Purchase out of which we carved 14 of the richest states in tile Union. Or to put it another Way Well Over 10,000 times As much As we paid for Alaska out of which we have taken nearly a billion in Gold alone. Well a Pend As much this year As we would have spent if the United states had been founded at 4 time of the birth of Christ and had a Iii ii Cost some $40,000,000 annually to i operate through All those Ages. It. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening december 19, 1958 by Carrier of Par week by mall. Film per year mightiest Moon now in orbit �2 _ v a j i it v dissension Over a communes of China s peasants drawing Boundary for school area How embarrassing can things get a it took next to no time at All for the Forestville va., fire department to answer tins Call right in its own House. No one injured a physically that is. Tokyo. Up piping radio indicated today that the Beehive like a a communes Quot which have swallowed up most of China s half billion peasants Are a soum spread dissension in the Hist conquered country. A piping broadcast said 99 per. Cent of China s farm population is i now living in communes while a some experiments have begun in the. it added however that Hogale development of City communes is Likely Only Quot when the j sentiment of residents of fringe septic s and doubters have been i areas is now being determined in older to know what areas to in Quot in the cities intellectuals still elude in the proposal. If it is Learned Haw misgivings about the Stab that a District along the Border of Lisbon it of communes Quot the the proposed area is opposed to broadcast said. A the urgent task j joining in the reorganization the at present is to quickly achieve District can be omitted Unity of views. Among All Mem Boundary lines for the proposed of. Pleasant school reorganization of wide Are now being drawn. Comm. I i lie executive committee of the steering committee met thursday evening along with supt. C. A. Cottrell and supt. Francis Dunn to Start the work of outlining the areas to be included in the pro it Ord District. Giant stride in Conquest of space Washington up a americans mightiest satellite an 8.roo Pound Atlas intercontinental missile majestically circled the Earth today and was believed ready to broadcast a recorded message by president Eisenhower. Ooh the defense department announced at 11 20 am. Cost. That the satellite is Quot moving satisfactorily on course Quot and Quot meeting its predicted it said that the giant satellite should be visible in three passes Over the Southern United states this afternoon. At the time of the announcement the Leyan associates on Jan. 12. The j vehicle was making its tenth orbit Craig Shea Der associate speaker Craig r Sheaffer chairman of the Board of w. A. Sheaffer pen co., will be the speaker at the meeting of Wes Loveless featured peace is expensive. A single segment of peace guarding the b-52g, for example. It flies 650 Miles per hour and higher than 50,000 feet. Its eight Jet engines produce the Power of 30 diesel locomotives. Its Gas tanks hold More fuel than three Railroad tank cars. It can Fly 6.000 Miles without refuelling or nonstop Halfway around the world on a single air refuelling. It can hold in its bomb Ray More destruction than was visited on All lands by All adversaries in world War ii and in addition is now armed with two cps h. D hound dog guided missiles supersonic jobs nuclear tipped which can be Flung against a target while the b-52 is still hundreds of Miles away. The b-52 is 156 feet Long has a Wing Span longer than the Wrights first flight. Its Tail stands nearly As tall As a 5-Story building. And with All Tho a luxuries a it casts about $10,000,000. Peanuts of course compared to the $78 billion or slavery. But dear at that too the Christmas cards arc coming in like a blizzard and we re Happy to note that Christ is making gains the a f holy family is staging a bit of a comeback. So is the Manger the Star of Bethlehem and the Wise men Are getting Back in the wondrous act of the nativity. This is going to be rough in time on Scotty dogs and pictures or lecherous Santa clauses chasing nude models across the Snow and ice of the North pole and Kittens who have unwound a Ball of yarn which spells out a greeting. But there it is. And we like it. Des Moines up a gov. Herschel c. Loveless said thursday night the chances for cooperation Between republicans and democrats in the 1959 session of the Iowa legislature were Quot sort of Bleak now Quot decline in local mailing mailings through the it pleasant Post office for a nine Day period have fallen Short of a year ago for a similar period. The number of pieces of mail put through tile cancelling machine have shown a decrease of about 15 per cent figures supplied by Goldfine found guilty in Curt ase however he said the decision by postmaster Wendell t. Smith Dis the republicans to appoint Senate committees through a committee on committees rather than let it. Governor elect Edward j Mcmanus chose them was All right. Loveless told a crowd of about 1.000 democrats Here that the republicans now will have Quot sole responsibility Quot for the mistakes of the next legislative session. Fatally shot struggling for gun Waterloo. Iowa up a a customer who insisted on being served after closing time was fatally shot Early today while struggling for a gun with a cafe Oigt Era or authorities said the republicans decided to appoint a committee on committees to select the makeup of the 39 Senate committees rather than let Democrat Mcmanus appoint committee members. Usually tax lieutenant governor appoints committees but the republicans who hold a Strong majority in the Senate done to want to give that Job to a Democrat. Loveless said he hoped the democratic legislative delegation still could Quot bring into being a Strong legislative the governor was the featured speaker at tile a Victory Quot dinner for democrats Here. The dinner followed an afternoon of party caucuses. In other action at the caucus., democratic representatives select-1 cd rep. Scot Swisher a Iowa i City As minority floor Leader in the House of representatives. He won the Post on the first ballot Over rep Howard Reppert id Des Moines i. Live participants in nativity scene in front of Church Washington up a Bernard j Goldfine gift giving Friend of for Mer presidential assistant Slier a Man Adams was found guilty of i contempt in one court Case today As he pleaded innocent in another j Federal judge Charles e. By i Zanski. Jr., ruled in Boston that the close. The number last year was textile tycoon was in contempt of 144,271. The number this year o1 court when he refused to submit the nine Days is 123.800. J Complete documents ordered in an the Peak Day a year ago had a income tax investigation. I total of 21.900, this year the top moments before Goldfine a number has been 21,800. Tile dates geared Here before Federal judge tor which the summaries Are Avail John j Sirica and entered a plea Able Are dec. To through the 18th. 0f innocent to contempt of Congress whether there will be a spurt of j charges stemming from his refusal mailing Over the coming week end t0 give House influence i Vestiga that might make up the difference tors details on his financial Deairs a matter for conjecture. Stamp ngg sales do not indicate any great in ordered by Sirica to stand trial crease. Postmaster Smith said. Starting March 16. Goldfine posted Many stores report a decline in j Bond of $1,000 and was escorted to Christmas card sales. Increased j the Cellblock downstairs where he postal rates and a trend to re was booked and fingerprinted. He hers of the party and among Hie this appeared to mean that communists As Well As non communists oppose the creation of the new institutions which Are in effect Little More than forced labor Camps. This weeks time Magazine reports that inmates of a commune out de the portuguese China coast Colony of Macao Rise at 5 a in., go through three hours of calisthenic and military Drill and then work straight through to Midnight with three 15-minute Breaks for meals. This is the customary procedure in such reorganizations partly Boca use of tile vote requirement. In order for a reorganization to carry it must have a favourable vote in 75 per cent of the districts included. Meeting will be held in die student Union at Iowa Wesleyan. Or Sheaffer an honorary trustee of Iowa Wesleyan us a former president of die Iowa manufacturers association and a past Vic president of the National associate is obvious that if too Many lion of manufacturers. He is Bulgarin makes full confession director of the National association of manufacturers. He is a director of Northwestern Bell Telephone and usually reorganization proposals Keokuk electro metals and is a doubtful areas Are included they might defeat the proposal. Meet the other vote requirement. This requirement is that the Issue must carry by a majority of the total vote cast. Supt. Cottrell reported Friday that favourable reports Are being received from the Border districts in the it. Pleasant trustee of the Midwest research Institute and the state University of now a s school of religion. Served in 1953 As assistant u. S. Secretary of Commerce for Domestic affairs. When in became president of around the Earth travelling near the Equator at altitudes ranging from 114 to 928 Miles. The new satellite nearly twice As Long As a Cross country bus was shot into orbit thursday night by the air Force. The feat was hailed not Only As a major american propaganda Victory but even More As a giant stride toward Many a ultimate Conquest of outer space. Or. T. Keith Glennan dead of the newly created civilian National h e j aeronautic and space administration said the accomplishment was a one More step a a very Large one a by the United states along the Way to achieving real capability in Duce the Christmas card mailing lists by individuals Are Given As possible reasons. Appear Moscow it up a Nikolai Bulgarin appeared today to have taken much of Tho heat out of Tho Quot anti party charges against him by making a full confession and contributing to the Case against his fellow miscreants. No such pleas were reported to have been entered by other former leaders accused of trying to subvert Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev a plans to reorganize heavy Industry increase farm production and take other Steps to improve the welfare of the soviet people. Four fined for nighttime speeding four motorists have been fined in Justice George Means court for violating t ii e nighttime Speed limit. Tile tickets were issued by the Highway patrol. Terry j. Hartman Burlington was fined $22 and costs Jerry Downey of pleasant $10 and casts Rudy Starr it. Pleasant $8 and costs and John j. Hill it. Pleasant $7 and costs. Downey was also fined $10 and costs for speeding in a restricted zone. Avery Calhoun new London a fined $17.53 and casts on a truck overweight charge filed by Highway commission. Emerged ten minutes later ing tired but smiling. The millionaire industrialists private Secretary. Miss Mildred Paperman was convicted w us him in j the Boston tax Case. Their three Day trial ended Only thursday. Wyzanski ordered both to appear in his court on monday for sentencing. Penalties for criminal contempt Are not established by Law Washington up am Eland Are left to the judge s desire can officials said today soviet sentiment of the Border areas As Well As the Central Pordon of the districts is influenced by three important factors 1. Residents of the proposed area Are becoming aware that the proposed District will have a comparatively Low millage Levy. 2. They recognize that it. Pleasant has excellent school buildings to Start off the new District and that it will not be necessary to enter into an extensive building program. 3. They Are aware that it. Pleasant a Long record of economical operation of its schools while maintaining High standards is an established pattern that undoubtedly will be continued. Area proposal. Sheaffer pen co., in 1938, Sheaffer. Space Mikoyan s visit May signal break in Berlin crisis two youths Are indicted judges Don. Ii convicted on the contempt of Congress charges Here Goldfine faces a maximum sentence of an $18,000 Fine and 18 years in prison. Slightly injured in Accident t ii e people will be interested Iii a live nativity scene in front of the first i methodist Church this sunday evening As they come to die Church program from 6 30 until 7 05 . A lighted tableau with live characters and animals will depict the nativity scene. Members of the me Marco sunday school class Are Charles Edward Pearson 3 3. I planning this special feature of the firemen called to 705 e. Henry Deputy Premier Anastas i Mikoyan a visit to Washington next month May signal a break in the Berlin crisis and other cold War issues. They said there was evidence to suggest that Mikoyan May been rusted with the Mission of trying o arrange a face to face meeting Between Premier Nikita Khrushchev and president Eisenhower to talk Over major East West disputes. C. J. Fulton Dies was charged with manslaughter and held in lieu of $10,000 Bond in tile death of John e. Harris. 36. Waterloo. Harris was dead on arrival at mercy Hospital Here. Pearson told police Harris a accidentally shot As the two men struggled with a gun in tile Dixie Barbecue which Pearson operated. Pearson said Harris came into the cafe just at closing time about 1 30 a. In. And insisted on being served even after Pearson told him the place was closed. Tile Caf operator said he tried to put Harris out bodily when he refused to leave and that a struggle began. Pearson then got a .33 evening. The program which will be in the Sanctuary at 7 ., will Tell the Christmas message in song and Story. All of the choirs will sing and children will help with other parts of the service. The Christmas offering envelopes which will be firemen wore called to the h. E. Smith residence at 705 East Henry Street at 12 10 p. In. Friday and extinguished a fire in the basement which apparently started when a Young boy spilled some kerosene As he attempted to fix the furnance. Some wiring and a partition were burned. There was also smoke damage. Law Chrysler corp. In agreement Homer Snyder Rome suffered slight injuries when a car driven by his wife skidded on ice went Down an embankment and struck a tree in Rome thursday it 9 30 . I Snyder was treated at memorial i Hospital and released. Mrs. Snyder friends Here have received word was shaken up some and underwent of die de Atli on nov. 15 of c. J bul s a Check up at the Hospital. Ton at Steamboat Springs Colo. I j the left Side of the 1957 Buick Fulton husband of Betty Goan an was badly damaged. The car was Iowa Wesleyan student in the 20 s towed to a local garage. Tort Dodge Iowa up a murder and manslaughter indictments were brought against two fort Dodge youths thursday by the Webster county grand jury. Walter Hicks Naylor. 20, was named in an open murder indictment in connection with the fatal shooting of mrs. Hattie Mae wage 34, at their Home nov. 22. The grand jury also indicted Danny Jones 17, on a manslaughter charge in the death of Bruce Ludwig 15. Ludwig s body was found along a Road near fort Dodge nov. 16. Police said their investigation disclosed that a group of youths were trying to arrange a drag race when Jones car ran Down the Ludwig boy. Pen sales were a Little Over five million dollars. Last year the sales Here Are the fact and figures exceeded 24 million it. Pleasant has had a close connection with the sheaffers and Sheaffer products for Many years. Or. Sheaffers Early interest in it. Pleasant was through the College of which lie Lias been a Loyal Friend. Also it. Pleasant was selected As the site for the Fine line division of the Sheaffer pen co., which is an important part of the company and a very important Factor in the Economy of the Community. Also Walter a. Sheaffer ii president of the Sheaffer company is a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan. Starkweather to die March 27 car narrowly misses derailing freight train who will be remembered by several in it. Pleasant had visited Here. Writes for the iowan change in hours at selective service Lincoln neb up a the Nebraska supreme court today upheld the first degree murder conviction of mass killer Charles Starkweather 20, and set March 27 As the Date of execution. The supreme court said the re haired Slayer must be put to death in the Nebraska state Penitentiary a electric chair Between the hours of 6 and 6 pm. On that Date. Starkweather former garbage collector who shocked the nation last january w Ith a Savage Mur j per Imants come Der spree which Cost to persons their lives had originally been scheduled to die dec. 17. He was convicted May 23 and the jury specified the death penalty. However the execution Date was postponed pending outcome of his Appeal to the states High court. The Appeal is mandatory in Nebraska in cases in which a defendant is sentenced to death. On the largest u. S. Satellite it is 85 feet Long to feet in diameter and weighs nearly tons. It is circling the Globe once every too minutes and has a life expectancy of 20 Days. When it orbited it was travelling about 17,000 Miles an hour on a path that carried it As High As 928 land Miles out and As near As 114.5 Miles from Earth. It will be visible to the naked Eye in Many sectors of the world. Even More astonishing than its size however is the fact that the missile shaped satellite carries a communications system designed to record messages from Earth stations and play them Back on Cue. 0 9 9 the defense department hinted strongly that the message from the president in his own voice would be the first one relayed. White House press Secretary James c. Hagerty at a morning news conference would not confirm or deny that Eisenhower might be the first human to Ever Send a message to the world from the outer reaches of space. Asked if the president had recorded a message Hagerty replied Quot in a not saying he did not and in a not saying he did. The defense department has said they will try to test the communications today and Well just have to see How the sex Detroit up Auto workers Union the United and Chrysler revolver which accidentally discharged As the struggle continued. Hour this sunday night he said. I police said tile Bullet entered j through Harris open Mouth and left no external wound. Hung on the Quot Mission Trees will corp., today announced agreement be dedicated during the service. On issues in an 18-Day strike which a Fellowship hour is being has idled 42,o0o Chrysler employees planned in the dining room with throughout the country the Fellowship class in charge. The Home builders class have helped with tile Mission Trees and the Golden Rule class had charge of mailing the Christmas letter. Everyone is United to be present at the program and the Fellowship bulletin w Ashington i put America s mightiest satellite today relayed from space a dramatic Christmas message by president Eisenhower calling for peace on Earth and Good m ill to men. No Gray horse Ever won the Kentucky Derby until determine the 1954 Champion broke the Jinx in the hoi ii running of the classic it. Pleasant stores will be open every night this week Fairbank. Iowa up a car slammed into a Chicago and great Western freight train not a Here late thursday and narrow missed derailing it Only two hours after the track was re opened following a similar Accident wednesday that derailed 20 ars and took one life. A car driven by Richard f not i 20. Fairbank crashed into the l5rh Boxcar of the train and knocked one set of the Boxcar wheels off tile track Highway patrolmen Slid. However Marks mad by the wheels indicated they went Back onto the rails As they passed Over the a tossing where the Accident occurred the patrol said. Fuller whose car was demolished was reported today in satisfactory condition at an Oelwein Hospital with a broken jaw bruises cuts and possible head injuries and several Teeth knocked out. An article in the current Issue of the iowan was written by Henry Bradshaw formerly of it pleasant the title is the last Art of Beav j or trapping a a judgment entered beginning dec. 29 the local so Lect ivc service office will have Ai change in hours that the office will be open. The new office hours will be i Alday tuesday wednesday and Friday 8 . To 12 noon. Thursday and saturday 8 . To 12 noon i to 5 . The local Board office has not j been open on saturdays in previous _ years As it is not customary for a judgment for $69.23 a Beer. Government offices to remain open entered in District court against or on that Day. However in order to j and mrs. Delbert Mcguire in favor accommodate the clerk who is As of the Standard Oil co an account sum ing a part time Job and regain solved rants who Imd it impossible to. Come in any other time this is be j special broadcasts a or Dom _ special broadcasts featuring the Mooseheart children s choir will include Friday. Dec. 19 at 8 05 pm. And sunday. Dec. 28 at 6 35 pm Over radio station won. 720 and thursday dec. 25. Christmas Day 11.35 a rn., Over was. 890 the Navy plans to build the worlds biggest radio Telescope in the Hills of West Virginia. Rest Haven resident Dies Dorothea Hewett resident of the rest Haven nursing Home in it. Van Allen lauds new achievement Iowa City Iowa up or. James Allen head of the physics department at tin University of Iowa lauded the air Force launching of the Atlas missile thursday As Quot a splendid Allen who directed the departments creation of the internal instrumentation for americas explorer satellite said Quot in a a Little sceptical of the four ton weight announced but i really done to he said he has some familiarity with the Atlas project but no close relationship because it is a military project. Van Allen told United press International Quot it has been suggested that the Atlas would be a Good vehicle for launching satellites pleasant died suddenly at memorial i but i did no to realize they were this Hospital Friday at 3 45 a in. A far along with the her Home was previously in it Allen said his connection Madison where her body was taken the missile program Quot is to the Barr funeral Home. Strictly in. S. Military men As Well As scientists joined in the jubilation Over the successful launching at Cape canaveral fla., thursday at 5 02 . . The shot dramatically demonstrated the capabilities of the Atlas which is the nation s first intercontinental ballistics missile Able to carry a Hydrogen warhead thousands of Nules. For the air Force it was a Bull s Eye on its first attempt to shoot a j satellite. An automatic steering sys pm used for the first time on a space shoot performed perfectly and the Atlas was guided rather than thrown into the precise orbit planned for it. Defense department scientists explained that the Atlas is tumbling around the Earth much As a football which has been drop kicked. A 9 o Eisenhower himself proudly proclaimed tile Success of the firing at a formal White House dinner for the diplomatic corps thursday night his staff kept in minute by minute Contact with the firing trom the time the count Down began until the Long sleek rocket orbited successfully. Just before leading his guests i to dinner the president stepped to the Center of the room and said Quot ladies and gentlemen. I have just heard some news that May by of some interest to you a then he told of the newest and greatest american satellite achievement and applause broke out

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