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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 20, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news taking Steps to install parallel natural Gas line Steps Are being taken to increase the capacity of the Michigan Wisconsin natural Gas pipeline in Henry county and adjoining areas. At the present time right of Way i. Being purchased for a parallel line Aith the present line from the Birmingham compressor station in Jefferson county northeastward to Yarmouth. The second line will to 18 feet from the present pipeline according to information Here. Information also states that a similar parallel line will be installed in a Section in Illinois. The Assumption is that eventually the parallel line will be extended the full distance Between the Texas source and the Michigan outlet. Surveys arc expected to follow the acquiring of the right of Way new London thus will by and the installation work is sex accept it. Vol. 80, no. 209 it. Pleasant Iowa Stu pow evening dec Emken 20, 1958 by Carrier so per week by mall $7j0 per year Pec cd to Start in the Spring As soon As the Frost is out of the ground. Residents will recall the interest in the pipeline project when the present line was Laid. The welding of the pipe the wrapping of it and the digging of the Trench and Back filling attracted Many spectators. The possibility that More Gas will be available in the Henry county area As the result of the new installation across the county was foreseen locally. It. Pleasant s permits have been limited after the first major installation of units. A new London group organized recently and was voted a franchise to Supply new London with Aas if More Gas is allocated to tile area ready to a Hope to Falk to satellite. 1 a a a Quot a i fuss commissioner Kus service Cecil Malone kills self pilots strike grounds planes of american airlines Chicago up a a coast to coast pre Holiday walkout of 1.500 american airlines pilots grounded the nations largest Fleet of airliners at one minute to Midnight local time Friday night. The strike at american coupled with twin strikes by the flight engineers and machinists unions at Eastern airlines left Only two of the nations a big four air carriers to handle the Christmas travel Rush on what is normally the busiest week end of the year. Marathon talks Between company representatives and negotiators for the air lines pilots Assn. Were Quot suspended indefinitely Quot at 2 08 a in. following almost steady negotiations for 17 hours. New London Man faces Omvik change in agronomists Dwayne Rohweder. Area Extension agronomist residing Here since june 1955, has accepted a position on the stall of Iowa state College As an Extension agronomist. He will also work towards his doctorate degree. A successor has been named to fill the vacancy left by Rohweder resignation. The new agronomist will be Ivan Wikner county Extension director in Butler county who has completed work on his masters degree. He will come Here Jan. I the whalers who have two children. Will move Here at a later Date. Or. And mrs Rohweder and son will move tuesday to Ames where they have purchased a new Home. They sold their Home heir in Sheaffer addition to Delbert buttery a new member of the Iowa Public relations St Alf bring Brush fire under control launch Iowa Observance a it Lincoln sesquicentennial Confer net Holland student Union this was the head table. Left to right Are rep j. Peter in of Iowa Cit Yor. Raymond Chadwick or. William e. I director of the Lincoln sesquicentennial commission and or. William j. I state historical society. A at the John Schwengel mrs a or. National a ii threat letter on inc bombings is discounted Here Bonus Bucks winners v no newspapers new York business feeling the Pinch a threat of bombings in the Iowa a it Slovan buildings As made Iii a letter to or. John Kapp registrar at the College was discounted by j authorities Here. The letter mailed in the Ideal Post office tuesday was turned Over to the Fri which in turn notified local officers. They received the word Friday evening j the letter said that eight bombs were to be placed in each of the College buildings and they would go Oil wednesday dec. It. Instructions were to be telephoned it stated the winners in the Quot Bonus Bucks Quot drawing Friday evening were 1st. Prize mrs. Mable Taylor 200 n Adams St. 2nd prize mrs. Charles Sowers. Ooi e. Madison St. J 3rd prize mrs. Amy Hutchinson Joi so. Jackson St. 1 mrs. Taylor would have reef ived $100. In Quot Bonus Bucks Quot had she been inside one of the participating stores. A Consolation prize of $10 in Bonus Bucks will be awarded mrs. Taylor. I mrs. Sowers would Nave received $25. In Bonus Bucks Quot had she been in one of the participating stores. I n i cd. Trik pens if City a Serif out. I by Whilt j w Ere j Merci i not u sea Sci i a it w York Asne aint h i i t n i n upi1 the paper Drlik is forced the a Joe new is stalemated prefers a sits i York to Atlantic Iowa up Iowa Highway commissioner Cecil to -. Lone 47, who had been in ill health recently shot himself to death in the garage of his Home Here f riday. Cuss county Coroner finer m. Juel said Malone shot himself once in the head with a .22 Caliper i file. The body was discovered by his wife. Dorothy when she returned Home from a shopping trip in downtown Atlantic. A family spokesman said malone1 had been in bad health for a Quot couple of he had been in and out of an Omaha neb. Hospital since before thanksgiving will be resumed this sunday bus service will resume Here sunday with the westbound bus leaving the Harlan Lintel at 1 15 p in. And the eastbound bus leaving at 9 25 p. In. That will lie tile times for sundays and holidays. On weekdays the westbound bus will leave at 7 45 a. In and the eastbound bus at 9 25 p. In Des Moines up officials of the strike bound american bus lines co. Said bus service will be j resumed sunday Between burling ton and Des Moines sales manager Merton Ephraim communal cations it new a Moon has wide significance Washington it upi1 a space scientists will attempt today to establish two Way communications with the giant new aus satellite spinning around the Earth. If All goes Well they plan to Send lie shiny american Moon a new year s Mesag from president Eisenhower for rebroadcast to the world. Tile Pullman sized satellite which ushered in a new Era in already has the Loveless who to the commission cd the in pert Llda ire Iii tin retail department owned with Shoppe its admitted to the ancient a Quick d walk it Pinch. Stores is some sales were ted Holiday a. A Trade further police were not to be receive $5 in Quot Bonus Harold f. Locke. New London was arrested by City police on West Monroe Street at 1 30 a m. Saturday and charged with operating a motor vehicle while he was intoxicated. Locke is in the City jail hearing was set for saturday afternoon. Schroeder named committee head Des Moines up stale sen. Jack Schroeder a Davenport has been named chairman of the six Man Republican committee directed to produce a legislative program for Hie next session of the legislature Schroeder named gop floor Leader last saturday Republican caucus was elected Al an organizational meeting of the j special committee Here Friday. Schroeder said the group just j talked Quot in generalities about what legislative policies it would present to a joint party caucus Jan. To he said the committee would hold a More specific sessions at a later j Date. San Juan Capistrano Calif up firefighters Friday night brought under control californians worst Brush fire of the year after an intensive six Day Battle. Richard Johnson u. S. Forest service fire prevention office called the Blaze which blackened More than too Square Miles of Brush Quot one of the grand daddies of All official control was announced at 8 . Friday night after a Crew of 2,700 men halted the Advance of several major hot spots along the Northern perimeter. Notified and there was a statement about a student being held As a hostage. The signature was Quot the mad the letter appeared to be the work of a prankster. Further investigation was let up to tile local officers. Iowa a Eye Bank brings happiness to Blind citizens Publ ii Quot i Dies of injuries Des Moines up i mis Senate Annie r. Brain 59, Des Moines. At the1 died m a Hospital Here Friday of injuries suffered in a one car Auto Accident Dee. I. Miss brains car skidded on an icy Patch on u. S. 64-65 near Bondurant and overturned. Slit a hurled 150 feet Horn the vehicle authorities Aid. Marriage License issued Wheaton mayor acquitted on charge Chicago up a Edwin r. Farrar 41, returned to his duties Las mayor of suburban Wheaton i today acquitted on charges he contributed to the delinquency of la pretty 14-year-old girl Justice of tile peace Irving Eiserman Friday acquitted Farrar and said a there just Wasny to enough corroboration of the testimony against three marriage licenses have been issued at the clerks office in the courthouse. They went to Vernell Jacob Gookin. 21, it. Union and Sharon Rae Washburn 21, new London Dwayne Caryl Mathews 26, Danville my Georgia Ann Cash 18. It. Pleasant and Robert Max Anderson 39. And Wanda Jean Jones. 28 both of it. Pleasant. River also claims children s second father Dublin. Ireland it up it a the River Liffey claimed Vicky and Peter Smythes second father Friday a just As it took their parents two years ago. 5 the children aged la and 8, were orphaned just before Christmas in 1956 when their father and Mother. Jark and Eileen Smyth were drowned when their car ran off the Road and plunged into the River the children were adopted by the John shannons neighbors fonday Shannon left Home to drive to work at the Eire state electricity Board Plant. His car. The same Type As Smyth a plunged into the same River at the same spot and he was drowned. Iowa City Iowa it up a an Iowa Highway patrolman rushes to a nearby town where a person has just died picks up a Small kit containing a human Eye. And rushes it to waiting physicians at University hospitals Here. Meanwhile a Blind iowan some i where in tie state is rushed to those same waiting doctors hopeful that their skilled hands and tin kindness of the deceased person can restore his sight. Such is the Way the Lions Eye Bank at University hospitals operates. Too established at. The University of Iowa in 1955 by the Lions club of Iowa the Eye Bank has played a part in 85 successful corneal transplants helping make better and Mere useful citizens of those j i who might otherwise have found red in darkness As Burden to the state or to relatives. But officials of the Bank have issued a plea to iowans for More donations to the program to re i Lenish the Stock of eyes that has been steady dwindling in recent months. Any person May donate his eyes to the Bank for use in transplant i or Eye research after the donors death. Or. A. E. Braley professor and head of ophthalmology at the University. Said the dwindling Stock of eyes in the Bank has hindered Eye research at the school. Quot donors have the satisfaction of knowing that on of their final gestures will be that of willing their sight to some person who otherwise might not see a Braley said. The Bank of wrates in this manner the Bank is notified immediately when a donor Dies. The eyes Are removed As quickly As possible and placed in refrigerated kits provided by the Lions clubs and located at c e n t r a i Points throughout the state. Miss Ruth Fisher the Bank Secretary who has received two trans she will Bucks. Mrs. Hutchinson was inside j gun t a forts at the time the winners Washic Barnes were announced and she was inc awarded $25. J some be sure to sign the Quot Bonus suffer Bucks Quot ticket each time you Are a Chan Iii one of the Quot Bonne Bucks Quot stores. Next Friday december 26th. There will be a total of $175. In Bonus Bucks Quot. First prize Wall be $125. Second and third prizes will be s25 each. Be on hand next Friday evening at 8 00 . To claim the full prize in Case your name is drawn. Bonus Bucks Quot Are redeemable at any of the 42 pal tact putting a Tores in it. Pleasant. Woman legislator for new session is making plans Hen s Wear daily. Of Ion reported Ady to Wear Sale is have co suffer under the eclipse of n and promotional Advertis it was being admitted in retail circles that sales were ing More than most mers would admit publicly a i la pub heat n add d thai so far As could be Deb ruined department stores Quot were residing for a loss week in sales volume and for Many it won i be. Considerable drop in sales compared with a year got Hersehll n.,hied Malone in june of 1957, said he was Quot exp men walked off ii in in shocked Quot by the news and disclosed that Malone had i visited his office late monday and a a asked to be relieved of his duties i w ii h the Highway commission be cause his health had failed a Loveless said he suggested Quot we wait until the first of the veal to announce his retirement from that Quot talked Back by broadcasting president Eisenhower s Christmas wish of Quot peace on Earth and Good will toward men too but the defense department said that the first Effort to Send information to the satellite for rebroadcast to Earth would be made today. The governor said Malone Quot told me they Han t Bren Able to de Termini the nature of his Malone was Active in democratic party circles and was named to the commission in 1957. Canaan ettes meet 4-ii Appl club me and Nancv veered with i repro fab eve Des Moines left a tame elect Katherine an Albia Democrat and the Only woman in the 1959 session of the Iowa legislature wants to be a treated just like All the other mis. Falvey. Who will succeed her former in. Band in the Iowa legislature said thursday she Felt Quot very Humble at being the univ feminine legislator but Quot i m not exactly new a the business because in be been interested during tie last three Casious while my husband the late rep. Lawrence Falvey she said. Mrs. Falvey said she was interested especially in welfare education and Public safety programs Quot As a former teacher in a interested in the 20 year program for capital appropriations proposed by the Iowa Board of Regent. She said. She also said she improved a a generally of the Safet program instituted by actin 1 Public safety commis Lone in sell Brown. Mrs. Falvey said she will have the same clerk this sos Ion Tim served her husband in the 1957 legislature mis. Gayle be on de Mollie. Plants herself Alert the Low. Highway patrol and a w Lim patient. A patrol officer picks up the kit and Heads for the Aly. Sometimes a relay system i Vul my several patrolmen is used to get the Eye to the Hospital. In the meantime the patient. Told to leave his Home at a for Iowa City. The transplant then performed As soon As po.-, ism after the patient arrives and tin eyes Are examined to Deli Maine whether they Are usable. Pack Coe c. 18th. I by a 1 get gift. The Cana net Dee. 13 with a Leach. Roll Call v a tips on gift w standing commit 1 a were appointed for Mesic and recreation social and Phot Raphy. These committees Are to help with special events during the year plans were made to and go Caroli g on Dot a report was give committee appoint d to it the out going leaders cd to invite the Lea in. Meeting and present their gifts. Judy Geary and Al gave a rat Ion Ping can turn. Gilt Suzanne Hoffman j oust rat Ion on making aprons Quot Ai ter t he in Clin a a was ii eld. Judy Lam r. Music lion chairman it d the c Bors in singing refreshments were serv hostesses and their Moth the a run on Ive a Chr Ikle s gift s for end next it i the f Rick Emma that i after issuing an order revoking the firms franchise to operate in the state said it would not lift the permit with the addition of the new line. The commission said the Public would be a better served Quot if the franchise was not taken away. One other line from Des Moines to Shenandoah was being operated by supervisory personnel. His appointment however was they will also drive the buses on not approved by the Senate and new in lie had served on in interim basis. Loveless in a statement after learning of Malone a drat ii said Malone a had rendered Good service As a Highway commissioner his loss will be a loss to the state. My sympathies Are with mrs. Malone and her children in her hour of in addition to his wife who is a member of Tho democratic state Central committee. Malone was survived by two children Janet 17, and Michael 14. Friends of Malone recalled that he had appeared in ill health in recent w weeks. Democratic state chairman Donald Norberg said he saw Malone a few Days ago for the lust time in several weeks and was Quot shocked by Malone a appearance. Despite his ailments Malone attended the commission meetings tuesday Ai d wednesday. At time Malone said lie had been plagued with a cold and the flu All Hill he said he Felt better but complained of difficulty in getting Back his strength. Said Friday that the first bus will leave Burlington at 12 30 . Sunday and arrive Here at 5 . He said stops will be made at it. Pleasant Fairfield Ottumwa Al Bia and Knoxville. Bus sender to More than too Iowa communities was glided july i when Drivers and maintenance their jobs to seek j a a a big Lier wages. Since that time the j the presidents Christmas Mes company Union and the Iowa i Sage was recorded and placed Commerce commission have been aboard the satellite an Atlas in attempting to work out bus Sci ter Continental ballistic missile a vice for the area. Before it was blasted off by the air the Commerce commission j Force from Cape canaveral fla., thursday. The 8.500 to 8.700-Puund Stateline was circling the Earth every too minutes in another dramatic demonstration of America s ability to regain the space Lead from Russia. The sees soul launching also gave the United states four satellites flashing through space compared to the Lone soviet missile mechanical brain guarding u. S. Kingston by. Up a a giant mechanical brain is now guarding parts of the United states Day and night against enemy Aerial attack. The air Force Friday took the wraps off this astounding electronic machine and let newsmen watch it order a rocket off the ground 1.500 Miles away. The rocket passed up a Decoy and intercepted a mock a a enemy plane heading for americans East coast. It was a True Pushbutton warfare the Mark of How machines Are replacing humans. Register new motor vehicles still in orbit. Two other russian and one american satellite already have burned up. Aside from the great weight the 85-foot Long Atlas represented an even bigger u. S. Stride in the communications Field and the problem of putting Man into space. Too Ila ability to receive and transmit messages had wide military significance. The signal corps at fort Monmouth J., said it is the forerunner of a Quot courier satellite that could deliver orders quickly to military commanders at various Points on the Earth. In addition the Pentagon said Quot communications with manned space vehicles of the future Are assured by the Success already achieved in this future satellites the statement said can a provide Many circuits for Telegraph and Telephone communications and even television signals so that intercontinental services can be greatly lit and Mccrea a mom carols i by the memorial Hospital notes admitted saturday Barbara Means dismissed saturday Steven Wilson mrs James in Ottsman and baby boy mrs Nom of Connor Rubin Vance births Friday the following persons and Jinns have registered new motor vehicles in the treasurer s office at the courthouse. Where no town is listed persons or firm is from it. Pleasant. Cars Leroy h Kruse Salem rambler Richard m. Chaney Chevrolet Ralph e Morrison. New London Buick John be Shumaker opel Arnold w. Hunger it. Girl to or a i id mrs. Lloyd Down Union Chrysler Herbert v. Baker Winfield Dodge Keith r. Mcallister it Union Buick Maxme n Shafer Buick William h. Bainter Chevrolet Lewis i. Nobel Wayland Chevrolet Kennedy a Dairy inc. Volkswagen and Harold m Meyer Wayland Chevrolet. Charles r. Atwell Cadillac Frank e Van soc new London. Ford Donald angst Rad. New London. Ford Keith t. Hallowell route four. Rambler and Vincent Lambert est in Ford. Truck Guy a Messer Chevrolet. To name Degaulle to 7-year term Ava ing at native no to Gardner takes Ann with snowball. Entered in to r e sights in Raleigh is the Phot who asked her to up v. The snowball. She said yet a it could throw it at a til i the Normal child does 75 per cent of his learning through vision. Jetts an 80-Pound great Dane is All dressed up and ready to be propelled into a Nice new Home As she Waits and Hopes for adoption at the Dallas Tex a pc animal shelter. It. Pleasant stores will be open tonight and monday and tuesday nights coeds help prepare news bulletins Paris up a French electors will name Premier Charles de Gaulle to a seven year term As president sunday making him the most powerful French chief of state Ainee Napoleon Iii. The College of 81.508 a grand electors Quot will cast ballots in town Halls throughout France its territories and the new French Community of nations. Tile include All the a ional Assembly deputies All senators mayors and municipal councils in towns with a population of More than 30,000 persons. The outcome is a foregone conclusion a Ixo Gaulle by a landslide. He. Two opponents Are communist George Larrane 71, mayor of the pans a red belts suburb of Ivry and Albert Chatelet 75, a sorbonne science professor put up by the anti communist left. Neither was Given a Chance. Ike s Christmas dinner a Little does this poor Bird know he s scheduled to be president Eisenhower s Christmas dinner. A handler Quot in Washington is Homer Gnu other Ike aide. Iowa City. Iowa a having 12 state University of Iowa coeds help prepare news publications at the veterans Hospital. Iowa City makes j it possible to bring More Hospital news to both patients and Volun a Teer workers according to Elbert e. Beaver chief of recreation of the v. A Hospital i the coeds Are members of the National professional women a advertising fraternity Gamma Alpha Chi Gay and their time is contributed As a service project. Among the group is Ruth a. Sponberg it. Pleasant and Janice a Mever. It. Union Eastern Iowa democrats will Honor Mcmanus Davenport a an All Eastern Low a Send off party honouring it. Governor elect Edward j. Mcmanus of Keokuk will to held saturday. Jan tenth at Davenport s coliseum ballroom. The evening event is scheduled to begin at 9 00 Atid will be highlighted by dancing and an intermission program. Music will be provided by the Billy Williams band. Area democratic legislators and elected officials will be special guests. The event is sponsored by the s Ort county Young democrats

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