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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 24, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky peace on Earth each year we sing a a peace on but there is no peace. This we have become accustomed to As we have become accustomed to so much that is evil in the world. We labor and much of the Richness of our labor goes into the Cost of preparing not to fight or preparing to fight whichever it May turn out to be. Still we Hope for peace but what we really seek Are Little compromises peaces that men can make around tables Little peaces Little contracts a detail Here or there something that can be agreed upon. Is there not something that All nations can agree upon and that they might write on Stone to last forever apparently not apparently we Are not yet sufficiently civilized. We say that we have attained such marvels As Man never heard of before. We have sailed beneath the North pole in peace and safety. Who have tracked the vastness of the South pole. We Are shooting missiles at the Moon and. Who knows before Long someone will be in one of those missiles to report on the Moon. We know so much that our Heads Are filled with wonders and it is no longer easy just to get an education in the simple cultures of Man. We have moved beyond the cultures of Man to the excesses of Man s mental capacity Winch is apparently limitless. Record number of vote contests to. 80, no. 302 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday Kening december 21, 1958 by Carrier 30# per week by mail $7.50 per year do you recall that Back in 1917, the United states a simple nation of comparatively Happy people went to War to make the world Safe for democracy it was the Kaiser that we objected to. A quiet sort of fellow who liked to dress up like a character in a a the merry widow a we made quite a fuss about him and his sons remnants of medievalist who were much the same As the rest of us. But our bands played Quot Over there and their bands played deutschland uber Allesn and we slaughtered each other. Out of that War Rose two great new forces both emerged from the lower Depths of humanity Des Moines up a demo Erat Don Wilson West Des Moines j tuesday tiled an official contest of j the apparent re election of Gen Norman Erbe Boone Republican in the nov. 4 general election. Wilson cited nine reasons in his statement of contest filed with Secretary of state Melvin syn Horst. The official canvass of votes showed that Erbe received 401. J 213 votes and Wilson 399,181, a1 difference of 2,032. In addition there will be five i i legislative contests and one for a District court judgeship. Two of the contests were filed shortly before the deadline by j rep. T. J. Freyr Neola and George Good new Hall Democrat. Secretary of state Melvin syn Horst said the live contests prob j ably were Quot some kind of Quot no one around Here re Mem j Bers As Many a he said. Synhorst said the sealed contest records would be forwarded to old filers of the 1959 legislature which will Convene next month. Four of the contests were for House seats and one was tor a Senate seat. Frey was contesting his nov. 4 elect in to Jack a. Rooney and Gilbert e. Klefstad both Council Bluffs democrats in Ottaw Ottamie county which elects two House members. Rooney beat Frey by Only 11 votes 8.656 to 8.645 got 8.798 votes 153 More than Frey. Richard c. Turner a Council j i Bluffs Republican trailed the four j i Man ticket in Ottaw Ottamie coun a to and did not contest his loss. 1 Good contested his 69-vote loss j to rep. Jack Milroy a Vinton. 3,253 votes to 3,184 he also has Bright but not White Brilliant in Shuiho and tempera it a the 40 a in the it pleasant area wed Day were expected i it continue Over into thursday. Possible increasing cloudiness thursday afternoon was predicted. While the prospects for trying out new sleds and skates were not Good in the South astern Iowa area the Opportunity Foi a it of new wagons and bicycles was excellent. I became evident in it pleasant wednesday that not All of the christinas shopping had been completed before the last shopping Day. J hundreds of persons were visiting a local stores making those last i minute purchases. Snow was predicted Only for the 1 extreme North Edge of the Northern j tier of. Fates and in the Rock i Mountain area from Montana into l Colorado. Two buildings destroyed Clinton fire damage an estimated two million British i mane rash kills 9 Arctic radar watches for space sled the weak the sordid the depraved saw one of these Asl cell Fie Pok county District i personally emerge bolshevism in Russia a monstrous concept of Man in its court to Rule out the election because. He charged tie voting a origins even More terrifying than Chines in Benton could it a were set what it has become the other was of it improperly. Nazism Hitler. With its Prophet Adolf St. Hubert. Que. Up the air Force said in an official release today it had a Ierta d it Arctic radar site to watch for a space sled. Quot orders issued to Dew line. Mid Canada line and pin tree radar Sites state the space vehicle will approach from thu Region of the pole a the release Aid. A Mast Lith time has been set for sightings at Midnight Dee. 24.�?� the air defense command admitted previous attempt to detect a mysterious Noi theia at this time of Yeai had How often in my youth did i meet Lens and Trotzky and hitlers and Goebbel ses All the worn and abused personalities of the Early 20th Century who could not live in the world because they had to live alone out of it it seemed a period tor such people. I recall being m Stockholm in Sweden m 1917 and it would seem that All those who found life unbearable were in that City in that Messer National tree stands As u. S. In contests filed earlier former rep Blythe Conn Burlington Republican. Contested his loss to Carl Hoschek. Burlington Democrat. By 42 votes Cecil v. Lutz j Osceola Republican contested his j w Ltd Murray Quot and a a a Villa of Kol Imph c ence i Lohff. Holstein Democrat,1 protested his 92-vote defeat by rep. Ben Fairchild a Ida Grove. Des Moines up Frank f an Iowa City attorney Washington up the National cd a Somas tree stood today As a Symbol of Amercia s determination to work for peace. President Eisenhower expert Ved year and among them was com beaten by 114 votes in ins race this sentiment when he pressed a Rade Howe a delightful human for an Iowa supreme court seat Button that lighted a giant 75-too-being from St. Louis who inherited today contested the election of Christmas tree in the Quot pc Side t s failed. But it added Quot with newer and longer Range radar they hop cd to tack the expected visitor and be Able to scramble interceptor for a close the an f orc emphasized it did m t intend to shoot Down the space sled but merely wanted positive identification. Once that was accomplished the northerly visitor would be escorted if possible. A a the visitor is to resorted in formation to ensure the Mission which is believed to be highly secret is carried out in All areas of Canada successfully Quot the order said. Turkey dinner at health Institute p. Tents of the it. Pleasant mental health Institute will enjoy i Turk. Dinner christinas Day with All the trimmings. Gifts will be opened in the morning. The dinner menu includes roast Turkey Sage dressing whipped potatoes Giblet Gravy buttered peas Cranberry sauce hot roll.-, mince pie Coffee milk Candy and nuts. Americans on move for top Holiday Park Quot lust behind the South portico of the White House. The ceremony tuesday in no Early dusk of a Washington Winter night opened the capitals fifth annual p Vigeant for peace. Tiie president in a Bri t Christmas message to the american people. Said the United states has a pied id a s National Honor to marriage License issued a marriage License has beep Brrning sued in the clerks Ohio at 5-foot court House to Carl Hilton so Pray Revere mo., and or. Veim ii it. Pleasant both of it work for in pressing the Button on the 7.000 lights on the a Bridge and a million dollars but two Republican justices decided that that was evil so he Messer charged that a Smiscon wore yellow shoes no socks the duct fraud corruption and error striped trousers of a Prince Albert by election judges and vote turncoat and a kind of Flat Straw hat. V Assers Cost him the election called a Floater he lived on hand nov. 4 outs and his idea was that As a Messer became the eighth debug he would live As Jesus lived rated candidate to contest the although he did not know How election of a state official Jesus lived or Why. A a anyhow it was such a period business will and i cite one loveable example of a world which was tending to its be suspended affairs and paying no attention to j the queer ones who were moving the courthouse Post office and Spruce the president said among the people. And the queer Banks and most of the business that the darkness which at nines Doan ones took Over. They were hungry places and offices will be closed in has encompassed the world May. And courageous and had nothing to it. Pleasant thursday in of re be illuminated by thu he Hill us lose and so they took Over in what a Nee of Christmas. Dei Standis a and cooperation of All Ever country they could and soon the it. Pleasant news will not j the nations that farm s in seek the queer ones were great ones publish. J peace in the year 1 and the queer ones took and they a. Tried to smash our world. Curiously what resisted were not so much armies and air forces but a Power beyond Man himself a Faith in something called a a Judaic Christian culture that had for about 5,000 years built a Way of lift in the world that while not perfect is based on Good. Tins Power set up a resistance that the queer ones do not know How to meet. They threaten but they do not destroy. Copyright 1958. King features Syndicate inc. Hospital menu includes Turkey on Christmas Day the at memorial Hospital i Turkey and All the to mini Minu will be Cream of o Turkey and dressing Mash toes and Gravy spar at Jelio salad and ice or it am. Pati y Sou 1 Poti pm St Michael s to have Christmas eve service St Michael a Church will begin its Celebration of the Christ Mas season with a Midnight mass. Services will begin with Organ music at 11 p a. Followed by carols Sung by the choir and congregation at 11 15. The Midnight mass will begin at 11 30 p. M. 1 pm Christmas eve f jul americans on the move heal for family j get tethers to be Ebrat the most joyous a a and most dangerous holi Day of the year. Colder air push a a a a the mid a West and East bought seasonable temperatures and a possibility of j a White Christmas to much of the 1 j nation s Northeast Quarter. Weath-1 Ermen predicted Low flurries to Day for the Grei Lukes Region and new England. Tempera the Lolai y Celebration was a warning by the nation Al safety it u. Lud is Many As 620 persons \ 11 la killed in tray tic during the 102-1 Mur period from 6 . Local until tonight to mid night sunday if the Council St Liiste is borne out. It Means pm is Mas week end trafic will claim 140 More lives Han the Normal cd o deaths for a fim Ilar non Holiday period at tins tiny of year. The ail Imu a 1-Holiday traffic. Mark was established Dur my the Lour Day a Black Christ mass week end of 1956 when unit a d press 1 a must Reil counted 712 Highway deaths d Ureng last years one Day Christ a s Holiday up tallied 222 Tiftic fatalities. In cities across s the country Bright Christmas displays lighted the Way of to iday travellers. Merchants filled Las minute gift a dvrs and it a it. The book.-, on what May have been a record Christmas Skoppe g Pree strikes against two major am lines. American end Eastern forced thousands of persons to switch Holiday in Ivel plans and seek alternate n Aid transport Ion. Railroad id bus stations were jammed Highway travel Uso hit its Peak a it Day. Pol e in r Miny states or dried crackdowns on Drunken and reckless Holiday i tort to keen the t a lie death toll to a minimum Bournemouth. England i up a four engined Bristol Britannia carrying 12 persons on a i out me lest flight crashed to a fog bound Field near Here today and disintegrated As it. Hit the ground. Nine bodies were taken to a i i. Church Hospital near the crash s one police said. There were three survivors. All the dead and injured were British overseas airways per Minel Boac announced. The prop Jet Britannia had been on a 00-minute flight from London Airport 100 Miles North of Here and apparently was coming m for a Landing at ii urn Airport out Side Bournemouth. It had give n no indication of trouble in a routine radio Mes age a few minutes before the crash. Witnesses said there was a fog. The Britannia roared near the ground crashed through Telephone wires narrowly missed a cyclist bounced in a Field and disintegrated in a Small Woods. Special service at Faith lutheran the special children a Christmas service of Faith lutheran will be hot id this evening Christmas eve. T 7 . I he service and program verse and song will be presented by the children of the sunday school. Or j. Divine sunday school superintendent will be m charge of the program. There will be a Christmas Day service at 9.30 . Thursday morning with the pastor s theme Christ the Light of the world a the Public is cordially invited to attend these special Christmas services. Pageant of Light at presbyterian Church Clinton Iowa up fire roared through two downtown buildings Here Early today destroying both structures and causing damage estimated at around two million dollars unofficial estimates placed the damage at two to two and a half million dollars the loss of expensive machines. Valued at around one million dollars hiked the Cost. The Tiro was discovered in the modernistic building Here about 4 . And then spread into the scottish rite building next door. Only one fireman was injured in the fire. The wind which spread the fire to the scottish rite building proved to be a Blessing in disguise for hard pressed firemen who were still fighting the Blaze near the noon hour. The wind kept the fire away from other buildings in the downtown District. Firemen were unable to control the fire until it. Had All but destroyed both buildings. No official investigation of the cause of the fire had been made vet. However firemen pointed out a dance had been held tuesday night m the modernistic building and the fire could have been started by a stray match or cigarette. The damage in the fire was extremely High because expensive ism machinery in the Nielsen Coupon Clearing service offices in the modernistic building were destroyed. The firm that owned the business machines said their costs would not exceed one million Dollar s. The modernistic building was a two Story Structure while the scottish rite building was a three Story Structure. The fire caused the roof and a portion of the Wall of the scottish rite building to collapse. Officials of the masonic order said a Large amount of expensive furniture and masonic Robes and decorations were in the building. However members were Able to save $2,000 in Cash which was in the scottish rite building. They also said records of the masonic Lodge should be Safe in the fireproof vault in the building. One fireman was slightly injured in the fire but his injury was the Only one reported. Both buildings were vacant at the time the fire was discovered. The Neilsen Coupon Clearing service employed about 130 people and clipped the coupons housewives used to get merchandise the service was part of the Nielsen rating service famous tor its television ratings. The modernistic building also called the coliseum was built in 1913 As an armory but was later converted into a dance Pavilion and office building. Goldfine May face More trouble Washington updo Bernard Goldfine already in trouble with Federal authorities on several fronts and facing a three month Tail sentence May be in for still another Battle. Officials said today the securities a Exchange commission has turned Over to the Justice department records showing that a Goldfine firm repeatedly filed required financial reports late. The securities Exchange act of 1934 makes wilful failure to file such reports on time a felony punishable by $10,000 Fine and two years imprisonment. A Justice department spokesman refused to comment but it was understood government attorneys were studying the Case for possible presentation to a grand jury. Goldfine gift giving Friend of former presidential aide Sherman Adams was convicted by a Boston Federal court last monday of both civil and criminal contempt. In addition he has been arranged on 18 counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions by House investigators. Man killed in Keokuk crash Keokuk. Iowa up a one Man was killed and five other persons injured Here tuesday night in the collision of to o cars on a residential Street. Francis Reich 29. Cantril Iowa was killed in the crash on a curve a girl Riding with him Darlene Stott 26, Keokuk w As injured As were four Young men Riding in the other car. Injured were Russell Ruyman 19. The Driver of the car Jack Lee Taylor 17 Gary Kennedy. 20, and Jerry Chambers 19, All of Keokuk. A of the injured were in a local Hospital today. O o o new Hampton Iowa up a one Man was killed and two others injured tuesday night when two cars collided on Iowa 24 three Miles East of Here. Dead was John Forrest Baxter 34, fort Atkyson. He was killed instantly while his wife Maxine 33, was in fair condition today in a local Hospital. Joe lensing 22, Lawler the Driver of the other car suffered minor injuries. Greetings from the governor \ it met Edghr service conducted the youth of the Church will reenact thu Christmas Story at the presbyterian Church this Christmas eve starting at 11 o clock. The and Leight program Quot Page Eai of Light will include the Christmas Story and songs. A cordial invitation is extended to All to attend. One prisoner in county jail hell eat Chicken Only one prisoner will be m the county jail Over Christmas unless authorities should happen to have some business tonight. Mrs. Russell Van Tuyl wife of the county sheriff said that the one prisoner will have roast thicken for his Christmas dinner. Des Moines up a gov. Herschel c. Loveless today wished every iowan a merry Christmas and a Quot Happy healthy new the governor also said he wanted to thank a fall the citizens of Iowa for their support a of unselfish and humanitarian causes m the past year. He outlined seven a a causes which made Iowa a better place to live included were the efforts to reduce the Highway death toll help victims of the floods in Southwest Iowa last summer increasing the care and training of retarded children and helping with Community work in prevention of youth delinquency. Sets Rabbit trap he is bitten m news not to be published thursday thigh office closed Christmas party a an manual Christ a it Paity is on a a the seasonal at of president and mrs j Raymond Chadwick Christmas entertainment is i divided and tribute. Guests include children of faculty and staff members and of trustees of this Vicinity i. Or Chadwick Are standing at the Buck the Light office at the City Hall will be closed on Friday and saturday of this week As Well on1 present programs a fourth fifth and sixth grades of St. Alphonsus parochial school Are a h it n one of the numbers of thir choral musical arrangement that they presented for their parents friends on sunday the 21st. And for the count Home on monday the 22nd. Of the 31 participating Iasi who can be seen or Are partially in View Are from left Susie Voit Martha Panther. Teresa Meade Vickie Walgren Dawn Whipple. Suzanne Mccabe Carolyn Hiffernan Donna Steffensmeier Judy Housh Karen Craig. Sally Comick Michael Jennett Michael o Brian. Michael o Connor John Roe demur Morris Meade. Jim Becker. Donald Kerr and Steve i Over

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