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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 26, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 83, no. 302 it. Pleasant Iowa. Tilsi a evening dec. 2 i 1961these Days by George Sokolsky i Joe Kennedy i in these Days it is so unusual i for it i father to live to set an entire i family grow up who All achieve notable position. Such a Blessing came to Joe Kenndy although his son died before the lather the. Second son Jack Boca i president of tile United states Bobby became attorney general Ted will probably but 11 me governor of Massachusetts. The daughters have not married for wealth or position but have it stable lied socially purposeful live.1 this is indicative of a disciplined and Well bred family that found within family life a completion and i Joy hat is not Timal in t his Era to know a Kennedy i. To know a clan headed by Joe and Rose the Devotion of one for the Oiler i. Beautiful Bobby. Jacks Campaign manager has Bei n devoted to his brother giving his time and ins ability Aid in. Brothe to succeed the i to i. A d the Brothers in Law joined the Campaign and went before the Public to serve their brother. Eva n a it e the Mother now 72, campaigned along with the Ken i de Gill. This was a family in ret Ion Joe has had i at a lion of coing i boy and girl. Grow into positions of prime significance i Reno melt years ago seeing the proud lather walk Down Edith Avenue on easter sunday with his boy s and ga., Lix i a Young pair Utch of mowing clan and la brought to them the Ideal of Pat lot ism and . Fealty few men could say that they had so comp. Teiry n needed in building a family that based its relationship on mutuality and live to have Ach lev .1 t i. It nought for any Man a we my met blight on Holida Kennedy a Kran he conferee is changes people in the Middle of the Pool by. Hip an a Fly term led to stay in Ilia nearly empty win. Pool in aul. A i Alif., a., county ploys Huff Ami puff on his Halter. Blackie got a Little to close Down he went Ami his owner could t manage the rest be Job state building to be sold twice in one Day t ivc knew car. And in the a h of count i Quot. A i j Kennedy Many is time i Kin w Man love of lid to me the night into it j suffered a stroke i do a it a that the Kennedy boys Wall it v r disgrace this country Joe 11�?Tilk them if they did a d. Hones act Quot that Man was Bernard Baruch who is a Good judge of fit ii of Hea ver worked . With j Kennedy in Oga mixing the x Estivo Branch of Over nine to and always spoke in e highest terms of respect and Alfet to a. Of the father of this Elan which were framed to Public service and who knew no Olla r life. In n Joe Kennedy a. 1 am i a an an it s Cair to the comr of s. Juan s la was sometimes by raid As pro German or anti British to. Was Neitha r. He was oame i la object d to any country taking advantage of the United Sun la always thought in term of what beneficial to the Tutt i s be. And if he and Frankie. Roo.,eve quarrelled. It was of i a n liar. Judgment As to what a inn i. T for the United stat tin. A hem s of purpose Joe a. I d on to Las children. Ii a Iii a them Lor Public life ii. Establish cd them in economic Nee so Itiat each could a Rve this country without Suc climbing to temptations or compromising to earn provender. Under his nth la m. They grew no solely for Public Vic la has had no cause t it by ashamed of them. One year i mini Deli Mcd a lecture in a an by Ach and As is the custom some came up to speak kindly to me and to shake my hand and along came a modest Little lady who said a i m Rose Nncy. The Mother in the 1 tar of there a Pride in her voice and i realized for the first time that this. Not a Congeris of individuals but a family bound by love and proud of ouch others accomplishment these Young people were not competing against Tach other but wan United in tile Strong personally of Joe who bred them to be effective and virtuous. It i of important that one be came president of the United Utah this is one of Tho accidents of life a. To Idem that might have Lune my Way or the other. What matters is that they have All grown up with he .ee of manners with a Strong sense of moral responsibility. With a consciousness of civic it it to my it stems that Joe Kennedy had More to be proud of that i. Real cd such children than that to achieved wealth and porn lion and that his son is president. For what ready matters is that men and women Are Good not that they Are successful. And Joe s progeny is Good. Copyright 1961. King features Syndicate inc t new York i up i a the Empire state building the world s tallest Structure will be sold twice wednesday in a $65 million Chal with head spinning comp a tics. Nearly Hoo separate i s will be involved in the Sale of Tho 102-Story building at Prudential insurance company offices in Newark. N j almost too lawyers account an brokers and other experts have been rehearsing for Days the transaction which is expected to take five hours the contract runs to 400 Pac s three principal parties Are involved col Henry Crown. , financier and it owner i Ouis r . Pet Idem of Prudential and Lawrence Wien new York lawyer and real estate operator who conceived the trans tic i Ion Weill pay. Clown $65 million for the building then git the tul it directly to Prudential for $29 million Wien will retain leasing right valued at $36 million Turkey Heads list of Good things on dinner table the Pru Riei dial s total invest. Meta actually $49 75 the maximum allo a Aid mid Ern w 5 Ork Law win limit a the pet it Quot Mage of As if Vest in one j Amil a it ump my can in addition a in be it Quot of $29 million instil Anc e Coin puny paid $17 my loin in 1951 for the land und it r 11 in Midi g dermal also h ii g rec clips of of tax Eon Rue a. Let i put i up $3 75 Milden toward capital i n. Prov e menu ii. The i xxx few y i a i the 30 Yea Lea. W. Group i. Rne a by a for 8 4 it ars. Making a Iota. Of 114 y the 5 Early rent w de $3,220 Odo for tile first 30 years i 840. Of on i 19922013 2014 i 2076. $1 610.000 from tile lease i vex a we u group and right n t he Rev Enne g owed by the or Utu it i t 350 i if the a it from tenants it be nation r oof and to telecast my Tov in. The cum it Revenue amour a year to $12 6 million Christmas buying sets local records Light Snow Falls in area the dinner table was Load d with an abundance of Good things to in m the Henry county and adjoining areas this Christmas season. As a thanksgiving. Irk y u at the head of the on tile menu with Turkey prices a a Money losing Low figure of the producer tin surplus was again further reduced. Turkeys could be bought for As Low As 15 cents a Pound not dressed at some of the Turkey farms in this area Ham was another favorite on the menu this year. Although the Price was not quite As favourable for the consumer Chicken Duck and occasionally wild game were on the menu Sample reports from residents of the area stated in general tile Christmas deleting was Well filled. Santa had done quite Well in Quantity and in Dollar value also reports would indicate Christmas eve services at local churches and the masses at St Alphonsus Catholic Church on Christmas were Well persons die in fire new snowfall Cairn to the Henry county area tuesday afternoon just As highways Wen Normal again and j Snow shovelling had ended to Wen f.,j Only Snow lyrics the task a a i to it Moon Snow could be tin fore Utah i of it w a a inn a it tem that was e expected to it Mon into tile area tuesday nigh Aud wednesday Folia thawing o urn i tie Day a the temp a lure moved up to 30 degrees remaining ice and in it Walt k along tin cog of ave in it Wama Bing Wita a. .en.cl. A cd a or nearly so Mam Gravelled de roads Wert i Slippy re Snow pack and a had forint cd voc tre gravel to teak driving a a Moue the Quot Wanner temperatures of tuesday were expected to be replaced by colder air tuesday nigh the drop would be from about 30 to 20 degrees in tin Southeast and Down to about to degrees in the North w t St popularity y of m Pousa Utas a shopping Center a evident again in the Christmas season. Through the Early part of the month the stores were serving hundreds of residents of tile Southeastern Iowa area in brisk shopping. In the concluding Uotko just before Christmas in Climax came with stores filled with Cager customers every Day. The tot a1 volume of business of Many it. Pleasant stores set records for the week merchants reported. Department stores and mens and women a stores evidently had the Best sales about the Only sour line appeared to by appliances which failed above As rapidly As these merchants had hoped. Grocery and meat sales piled up a tremendous Volun the last three Days of the week when purchases were made not Only for the Holiday but for the Long week enc on tuesday customers were jamming the local stores which had Marie announcements ii. The news of special clearance event Elbow room was difficult to find in some of the Haberman taken by death Palm Beach. Fri i up up Idem Kennedy today arranged Foi a Cia of pre Congo is Conli with Iii. Key adv Sal Kerf cunning late this afternoon an i Muir Enri medical Ohto Kup on a chief eve it lbs Back. Pm c of tile business session will be to work on Kennedy s sum of the Union message and i bunt 11 a 1963 budget to final re jew tax Whit House today reported a unchanged the condition of the up ult it. Father Fin Ira r Amba. Sador a it Keo a by t ii Che i Ltd in younger Giotto r Edward after an Early morning visit to St marys Hospital said a. Father was about that tin idiot ill a Bim Blaze and Whit trouser also visited the Hospital shortly before noon ii drove up in a top Down Whit convertible accompanied Only by Sci scr in Lead lit Holiday w weekend traffic death toll in Iowa Only two mrs. Will by a 11 win second name drawn gets $500 in scrip the s1 cond name drawn that of i will dial my i Anam we the $500 in scrip Given away by members of Hie of pleasant chamber of Commerce saturday afternoon the first name drawn was that of Sam r Spray of Hillsboro he a. Not prot out. However and according to rules announced in Advance it was it Ero Aly to be present in order to receive the prize what n a he a i lid name w As drawn mrs i Vall a. Present to claim 11 in award which was Good for $500 Worth of no Echandi o at participating store.1 in vib pleasant the drawing for win ii Regis tuition had been taking place the last several week. In local tons attract d much interest Ami a Large crowd was up vent in Central Park for the cd tit Susan v. Kimmitt taken by death Burnsville n c up five persons burned to death today in a fire Winch destroy d a Home in a Rural Mountain Section near Here. The victims included a net her and two Small children from Newport news a. Who w re on a Holiday visit to the mothers parents when the fire broke out in 10-degree weather. Others killed were the owner it it i the Home. Curtis Honeycutt. 61. And his son. Von Tana. 15. Mrs Honeycutt the Only other occupant of the House escaped through a window and was admitted to a Hospital with Burns and Shock Honeycutt s daughter mrs. Jos plane Wilson. 26, of Newpor news and her two Joe. 2. And Roger i were the other victims trapped in the blazing Frame House. Fireman said the Blaze apparently started from an overheated stove or Tern in open fireplace. Quot in i services were tuesday Aln Moon a the Wayland me Bori Church it i 30 in Torch org Haberman who bed Early Munday morning at his Homo four Miles North of warned where in had re id d the past 17 years after an illness of two weeks he a a retired Butler maker Zohr funeral Home in Wayland was in charge and Rev. I de Martin and Rev Willard Leichty officiated interment was ii the North Hill cemetery the son of prank Haberman and Ana Tasi Fisher he was born november 13 1864 at holding Ford. Main he was married to Mary a pjs who survives. Also sunning Are seven children Edward and George. Or. Both of Tama Melvin j. Of Wayland. Ervin a i m. Quot ii. Ariz Archie of Kalona. Mrs waiter Otto and mrs. Warren Johnson both of Omaha Nebl 13 grandchildren eight sister and three Brothers. Or and i s Haberman Wen privileged to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary a Little Over a Yar Avo. He was a member of the Wayland methodist Church the masonic Lodge and the knights of pythias. Cur i i irs a a buoy a the Woi ids first a powered buoy is lowered into Waters of Curtis Bay near Baltimore. It is powered by strontium 90, which keeps its batteries operating. And the buoy is one of the first peaceful t a of tile nuclear fuel Purchase of car for governor approved Des Moines up ii the Iowa executive Council today approved the Purchase of a 1962 Buick Sedan As tin official car for can Norman a Elbe. The Low bid for the Black air conditioned Electra Model was submit de by Jack Kaldem Buick. Des Moines. The Low bid offered Hie state was $3,550 against the Normal list Price of $5,265 for the Auto. During the past year the state was leasing a Pontiac for Erbe. Former gov. Herschel c. Loveless drove a Ford in his last term of 1 office by i Bdie Atli came com to declaring a Holiday on Low a mow logged highways during 11 in Long Chiv a week in Only three be r. On died Over tis 78-hour period two in traffic and a third ii. A Home fire tile two traffic los. Which Raison the stat 1961 toll through can unas Day to 626 compared 609 la y Arwa in Harp contrast to 196 l Long weekend in Winch 15 were killed Theta safety department sail in the 1959 Chittmas Holiday weekend. 7 persons to t their Holt on tin highways tile traffic victims were mis Eunice be is 51. Oakland. Iowa and Jack e Salt 39, Independence my pen Riding in a car Wuh Lier husband and four children was killed in a us car and one truck Accident on u. S. 6 about la mile West of Atlanta monday twelve persons were injured in Hie crash and win h i from to to poor condition in an aflame Hospital. Ca. Univ Deputy sheriff Robert Voggel. An. Quot la ear a Iriri d on the icy High a Ann t of Ideo with the stated inn a thar containing the Peters i oilily a. Sideswiped by Hue first Ltd and then rammed by a third i Dele Swary if. It k a d if. A Star trik k Accident on u s 218 about two Miles out i of rial rapid authentic said Swasy lost control of his Cai on the Slippery Highway and i skidded broadside into an oncoming Semi trailer truck operated by Robert Page 49, Quincy. Ill pare a. A Hurt a fir a i parents Horn in Des Moines saturday la ind flu life of v Illiam Ward or 2 he was play a in an upstairs bedroom when the Blau wa.-, discover cd by his Mother. Neighbors two other Ward Auldren by were Unuk la get to the two year old boy Iowa added at Ither Trafeli a can a to its 1961 toll during that weekend but tax Ai i Lex id it uric i j ii. 5 Ronald Dale Woel 22. Clear Lake died sunday in a i m no nursing Hong la id not a gain i consciousness sine being injured in the mishap n a Newton Mon Tham five Mon to ago a Cornu Low in the be Hen. Wilmot. 47 in to monday of my juries revived sunday in a two it r Era. Ii in wisc on an. Jus Aero tilt Mississippi from Dubuque. A Foi my i a w As pastor of a Church at Dubuque Aud a. It route of it Cascade Iowa to spelt i Christmas with relatives when the Accident occurred. The of. Or Whir. A s wife it Sci 6-year-old daughter were injured in the Usnap and hospitalized n. Fair condition at Dubuque. The family had been recently it Covington fire Snail Kimmitt. 86. Died a i he memorial to pit a a to 40 in saturday a Hie Dangle r of Duvall Aiti do Lizima a int it fund a. He v a born May la. 1875. a a Harp la she Iliad ended with Lier daughter or Robert n in of plea lit. For map five month. Her Lubard Tioma ii Kun Ini t prof cried Lur or death in 1919 she i survived by two . I Jemima Fuller of Galesburg arc mrs Robert Nicholson of of pleasant four grandchildren right great grandchildren and to great great grandchildren body was taken to the he cd Riff Prarson funeral Home at Galesburg. 111. Where funeral services will be held at 1 30 wednesday. Interment will be in ens Lynwood com tory in Galesburg Ould repair . Overpass do. Of >1 it. It it 11 tile Capitol planning Coni my Ion today recommended the court Street overpass on Hie Capitol grounds Here be repaired despite a suggestion by the Highway Ion that the. True me be demolished planning commission chairman Amos Emery told the St Ite executive Council that after numerous inspections by engineers and safety officials no one on the commission Felt the pan to be unsound or dangerous the overpass us sub Trot of much controversy earlier tin year when a chunk of Concrete plunged through the top of a convertible and seriously injured a Motorist. However authorities have be Nee concluded that the falling object was not a part of the overpass and had apparently been thrown Over by children. Emery said replacement of the overpass was estimated at about $2>0.000 i m cd Huson. Chief b Ginger of the h a Hwan c it Mission. In a letter to the executive Council. Estimated that repairs of the overpass would run $64,200 he also estimated that the demolition of the Span and its replacement with a pedestrian overpass would Cost about $101,000 gov Norman a Erbe agreed with the planning Cairn Mission that the ovetpas., should be in paired a it provide. Easy and ready Access to the gardens South of tile memorial and would also provide convenient Access to a proposed Amphitheater from the parking lot a Erbe said police report quiet weekend woman injured in collision of car and milk truck me Ami in a injured in Ltd a milk i i in k a i a a Ideo i no Mil 11 11 la of old on Highway 218 in. About 7 to Ain tin of was a ii i in if Quot i by 1higha Pat Quot i i Che. Tor Condi Moi it ii ii to received a broken Arm and was taken to memorial Hospital where Lier a Fri Ilion i it sat Isfalt tot y. Mrs Condit w i Riding in a 1957 Dodge b Ine Xirui n by her Lur band Ariot hoi pen on a w till them com it attempted to a s the milk truck a it a. Making a left turn into i Fatm . And the High collided lie Dodge was badly damaged the truck damage was mall i Lei Law is a. Driving the milk truck owned by Allen Lucas both Are i rom it Awili Deville of to a Iii fat inlay a car by in to by Lai i v Jacobi pleasant. Was damaged Quot inside ably when it was i Row ipe i by it r a k on High w a y to at the int i a lion with h ghz a v i a i o i a ii1 oled a a and to a lied to make a Lei a turn unto iof hic truck a attempting to pass at tin Aine time and the collision followed i he left Side of Jacobs al a. Damaged damage to the Uniek a Fini aled at $50. Tile name it it t h Iii Ives was i Ai nod i he acc Lent was import d to the Highway . Tom spa lir Dies in California re a i it s in received word on cd instill a Day of to e a at i the Cav of in ten of it pleasant in Sherman Oak Alif. Shwa. 47 her in. Band preceded he several years ago slue was tax former Vivian Anderson and was a Daugher of Enoch and Idle Anderson surviving Are two daughters. Nancy Aud Midi i and son Tommy two Sider. Mane Bloom of of a. An and Midi cd a u a i org 1. Colo., and two brother. Boyd at any. A pleasant Are a. Raymond . It. Union funeral services anti burial will be in california525 persons killed on highways by i a ill a. Ai cos during Tho can nun w eke is killed 525 in tie w St Highway Slaughter of t a three Day Yule week in a a a ars a Mal tabulation -. To wed today. Howard Pyle of he n. 1 t n ii say Council said we eau Idy Hoiu it that i. S tragically High can i Mas toll w ill have a sobering i i Lect on All it v 1 Aud that tiie comm j new year s weekend will not ilk of marred by similar to a by. Iii final United press International count of accidental deaths Over the 78-hour period Between 6 . Friday and Midnight monday showed his breakdown traffic 525 lire 77 planes 6 miscellaneous 68 t 676 al form. By tile death Coni but ii adj to i Fie fat a1, ties. Then wit 50 m Texas and 40 in new y irk Tate followed by Illinois an i Michigan Wail 26 each Ohio and Pennsylvania Wall 23 each Florida and North Carolina with 19 each. And k Mucky and South Carolina with 18 eath not since 1955 when 609 per Sci died Over. 78-hour Christnia. V a in and had so Many persons Bee killed in traffic during a Christmas i it Day of the same period. The 1955 a of i is tin highest for any thee Day on record and a hut weekend became known Black tile toll a Supra cd tin next year however when 706 Poison were do me a foia Day Mist Max Holiday dump 1960�?Ta i or be Day Holiday traffic Accident killed 488 persons. A total of 493 died during the same period in 1959. City firemen were called to the Gerald Heisel farm South of the Forest hmm cemetery sunday about 7 in. To extinguish a Chimney fire local police report that everything was quit orderly Here Over the Christmas weekend. There were no arrests and no accidents reported locally. On red school Holiday thu blah Clark the 14-year-old not Gro girl from Newark n. J., who was sent to school in Moscow a to escape Jim Crow a tells reporters she will return after spending the Holiday season with her parents. Huldah strip to in Sia followed a meeting with Premier Khz Schev w Hen he was in new York. Her tuition Board and rot a is paid for by the soviet Union perish Iii darn fire can t suspend imposed sentence Des Moines up Iowa tic >1 the Mace South do not have the a Kier to suspend Sentinel they have already imposed j atty on i is Hultman ruled Toon v or a c Gnu a v of j ii Samo it had a r de w Tiecher a in n a at the Pace Ouid. U Pend a Ltd i a has afro acid up and an order. Pending such a Cia a in a in Pond tax Power of the court and is therefore void Huff ii a i full d is ii Tex e a ii have b in Sis i a cd d under t1 Ich an order my. I be served Hultman added Wayland a tile Wayland it to Partri in w As called out ear morning to the farm o the late Milo Kumpf where Davi Ruth lives where a Large Bat burned to tire ground. Ten or twelve sows and 93 burned. A Large amount of bal flaw was destroyed the cause of the fire is unknown indictments on charges of to Kaw violations Washington up a the Justice departing it today announced the indictment in new York of a teamster official two vending machine company tiv s and three corp rations in charge of i tit Hartley labor Law \ Tolaio it. The Union official is Milton h i 52, of of cd . Secret Ary of a a1 805 of the ii a mat tor. A i Broth Rhood of teams a ,. The indictment charge d v the taking $92,000 in illegal pay mends from in employer. lie t to liar Ley Law makes a a crime fur an employer to in a payments to a representative of in Piny cd groups unless they Are for wag s or other valid reasons tin mid Etc tit. Was the St it. Be s of. 21 involving teams a a us Ciais in several Large cities \ total of nine to a nut office a be to involved Otter defendants in today s chs Are Harold Roth. 42. And he re i s sternly a. 44. Bom cd Long i in lid and b a vice presidents of us Continental vending mat. Col p., Westbury e i the co pot at. Are continent. Industries. Inc., which changed a name to Continental vending a i Chine corp. In i960, according a it to. Announce tut it. The National vending it Upland a i of Ltd. A Olvet i firm known As Cue neural vending machine corp. I to a latter two merged into Continental industries in 1958

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