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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 1, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 27 it. Pleasant Iowa to trs a evening be Kiu Ary 2, 10gi to Quot v a isms Cloudy these Days George e. Sokolsky appointments when one is elected president of United states he is faced by political necessity of appointing a Host of deserving an undeserving fellow a countrymen to positions in government for Winch they May or May not be fitted no Man can possibly know personally or by name All those who arc recommended by senators representatives politicians and even personal it lends. Tire pressures Are frightful and often disgusting. President Kennedy s slate departure is a three headed monstrosity which May straighten out before Loup already Adin Stevenson Spok out of turn As to what he a guessed a president intended to do about ii meeting with Khrushchev. Tins did not. Comport with in id id s own statement at ins pre s conference and Pierre Salinger presidential press Secretary had to say that Stevenson a statement his private opinion. Immediately thereafter a general order issued that All Public pronouncements made by great it administration had to conform to its policies this supposed to re ter particularly to an address Admiral Burke to have delivered but it could apply to Stevenson s orbiter dicta at United nations. At any rate that ought to in Rule or we shall have All kinds of opinions issued by All sorts of great men for Woods Are full of them and they All like to talk. Erbe proposes budget increase snowfall slows traffic heavier Iii other areas wind driven Fine Snow gave South astern Iowa traction and transportation troubles thursday. Starting in pre Dawn hours snowfall had Ace Mulat d three inches in i pleasant by Norm Light snowfall conium to through afternoon and Forica t Indi ated that it might continue through part no night. Ini ans Winter i about Over however it still snowing and forecasters said there be an additional accumulation of one to five inches in All but ext erne Northeast part of Stair by time Snow ends tonight. No tax increase most of for school Aid Des Moines a up gov. A House which Keith Nau Home on Highway 34 Eart of it. Pleasant for several years took a trip thus week mounted on timbers and trucks it hauled from tract now Industrial Park to a location on East Monroe one Block North of Bents cry a Texaco by owner Eugene Smith. Norman a Karl get today propose in a new area of Snow in expected $18 million per year increase in to Lur and info state by Friday or state budget but Aid it could afternoon or evening and continue be achieved without any increase in East to Northeast winds caused Ujj of tiring night and saturday. Taxes Drifting and Snow lows were not j about la inches or Snow re to t of increase which keeping pavement Elar Traf-1 ported in tile Spencer area with 9 up . Tate annual budget to tic moving slower but without Inch s at Humbolt #189.430400, go for state Aid any great delay however and for Dodge reported 7 on to All types of education including school buses were to leave at their j ground. Hubbard 5 inches Wil nearly a 29 per cent in Aid regular Lime. Hams Gilman and Ottumwa 4 to local school districts. In it. Pleasant cars wet expel inches Mason City and Sioux City Kobe s budget proposed no new Kennedy Rea tests expected Alvine named to total five billion fire thief Washington up president Kennedy asked Congress today for a Multi billion Dollar economic a Road to recovery a program containing increased social cd laity benefits for 4 6 million appointment of Thomas k. I Wjk sons on april i. Fletter to be ambassador to decline and Slack in said in or Fly i Willis Alvine assistant fire jeering a three year drive to no Tel wa., named chief of restore America s a a vigor and vital Lone leg some difficulty. Snow removal operations were delayed until later in Day. Tile situation much worse to West. Fairfield had much East of a line through Muscatine $171 million More Snow probably twice As much Waterloo and Cresco. As in of. Pleasant vehicles were bad Drifting reported in 3 inches and lesser amounts else-1 state programs for taxpayer.-, where. But did contain a Sharp increase in lie Only area which escaped tile total expenditures. The preen onslaught during night yearly budget is slightly More than Street there. Ity. The Kennedy program if approved soon boost wages and welfare benefits of million. Of apartment by City Council at meeting wednesday evening. Alvine has beep on department for Over 27 years. William Sator Abo a Long time nato is undoubtedly a phase of House and Senate Kennedy Abo in a 7,500 word message to americans and give Economy member of department emergency Exten a massive injection of buying pow Jer. By i Pii tile groundhog got int in Tim face with a snowball today in Iowa. A swirling snowstorm buried state under a Blanket of White that ranged up to almost a foot in depth clogging highways particularly in Northwest part of state. At least one Dot ath blamed today. On storm. A Joes e rec said increase in spending could be met through no Ulm i Huwui in i state cd 011 Highway in Hie Only aj1tj by taking about $15 Mil Southwest and South Central area were 75 to too per cent Snow packed. Having trouble getting around on i Northwest Iowa and in some areas Naura a growth of of Southeast i lie coldest weather of year lion a year from state surplus funds. Ii estimated that state surplus to about $44 million by june 30. 1961, total expenditure of #65 million to pay credit in full during next two fiscal years but he said he hoped his nearly 25 per cent increase in Aid to local school districts help to remove bitterness Over unexpectedly Low hike in credit pay Intuit. I lie git Vurnor Aid he hoped i. $30,131,530 he proposed for local school District Aid a give some me Asur of property tax re Lief a a this is nearly $6 million More than to local schools to each of lat two years but amount us so Iii about $24 . Less than a. Bed tar by Hie shite department of Public Hist auction and Iowa stat0 education association. Various slate supports for education including agricultural land tax credits making up an even 43 i r int of total Budge. I a if we fail to provide As much state assistance to education As is humanly possible we shall be failing future generations and encouraging outward migration of our j youth a Erbe told legislators. I included in proposed educational outlay a $40,373,000 for six Bisti tut ions under Board of regents this represents a to per cent Over its present yearly budget. Gripped new York City where 15th Day of sub freezing tempera lures equalled a Mark set in 1881. The year of City a great blizzard. To Wisla fire it is legislature i 2-5 million Over its present Bud readings dipped to i below Early which must decide where to spend get Iowa slate University Money available anti whether governor presented Bud 11 of Iowa g h cot mine to a joint session of it a a a Millton a in a a a a not a out snowstorm named assistant fire chief. Dwight Shellabarger named Deputy chief and de Kitch Captain. Alvine succeeds Axel Bergdahl. Usu uus 11,10 0#wmi a Quot gang Lase Mien Eric told lawmaker. Iowans fire chief last 13 years and Snow ported causing Hazard it Igan from Milwaukee wis., South have traditionally adopted a Wise dumped a to increase taxes. Considerable Drifting and blowing half foot of Snow along Lake Mich political situation in new i recommended York City mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Sjon 0f unemployment benefits Ani 0 Ltd a senator he Bel t Lehman and increase in minimum wage to j president did not put a Thorne Finletter Are organizers of $125 an hour faster Federal Price tag on his anti recession a a a Demon pie reformers who spading on highways and Public package. White House official de j member of department for 34j or Lvi cd Ditis As 011 mom 0f it 1., illin�1s state Lin a a 11 a so course of living within its income. Milll0n up about $332,000 a y ear. And Aid for depressed 1 dined to estimate its Over All Cost j years. Alvine employee at i but said it not be above $5 Crane furniture store is married receive $13.08 million a $1.2 million jump. Iowa state teachers College Cedar fails receive $3 82 Hope to oust tammany Boss car 1 works mine be Sapio and take Over areas. Democratic organization. Obviously neither mrs. Roosevelt nor sen j a tor Lehman could be tammany1 i Iowa a highways. The chances of j Milwaukee a first real snowstorm of an j added groundhog j season have one daughter Kennedy announced in Mea billion. 1 and they Sage that unemployment Rose an-1 under Kennedy program. Carolyn. Other 900,000 in january to bring however expanded social Security Council gave special rce Ogni Bosses Iii i not know ii number of jobless How. Thomas Furler ter could have seeing his Shadow in Iowa were very Remote and theoretically this with 75 Inch of rain pursue a thunderstorm hit Tyler tex., deficit standing we must continue to a Wjk Iiley which avoid taken Ove leaders wanted him which they did not. And now to 5.400.000 he stressed that unemployment a. Been rising since last Urmer and a has reached and workers starting two years lir Las 11 1 ,0 a 10 serious proportions in these rigor from now. Employers covered by which Tak s him of of new York 0un Winti r i unemployment insurance by. 900 tem finance Extension benefits be paid for by an j Hon to Bergdahl in a Resolution Tak in Ltd Birls increase of one fourth of i per pissed at meeting , amp cent in payroll taxes on employers evening. To in Resolution As j for Star route polities where some advocated that he be democratic candidate of governor against Nelson Rockefeller who probably have made mince meat of him. As for appointment of de of jobless benefits by paying High or taxes starting next Jan. I president who pictured u s. Economy a sagging badly in a time of world crisis warned that slump might get worse unit is Congress swiftly approved Ward it Mon. To be head of Dis 12-Point program. J levies soon to provide additional no a 1 Nind states nation cannot arid will j incentives for corporate spend a a 1 a v a i a of it s Ole to say no. Do satisfied with economic Ling on Plant and equipment. That since its organization this i a. Humor has no it ver been mu1 ably a / \ p n u land passengers or. Follows resold i Ion j bids Are being accepted be it resolved transporting mail on a City Council of City of j route Between Burlington for Star and i Rhea a proposed budget also included $14,933,470 per year for capital improvements. That makes he told Tim legislators that Only h two year total of nearly $30 Mil-10 state., in nation Levy More lion stale and local taxes per $1,000 this Money Erbe said should be pers tial income than Iowa taken from states surplus fund it com to me to Boim in Treasury it estimated Para tic to keep tax Structure of it surplus Rise to $45.9 on a basis that will not strangle i million by end of current there were several transfers of individual initiative of our Iowa Fai year. June 30, 1961. Funds made at City Council newly elected Gocr this trim surplus to transfers made of oily funds it pleasant Henry county Iowa a of wifi daily except sundays and Kcf Lac Cut it a hal1 wednesday in his Only reference to income p�.1�?T sincere thank. On be bolide. A yet half of City government and schedule Calls for Driver nor said. In a briefing session with news taxe.-. Kennedy said to expected Ali at Jyl Law a a a a a a a i Ane sen eau in Caus for me Driver j transferred from Light Plant men Eric said he expected j to recommend revision of thesclt5ie of to cil3, of plot leave Burlington at 5 45 . Fund to Public safety fund greatest opposition to budget 0 Only about $16 million Well below $24 million figure that traditionally thought needed As a ant to Axel Bergdahl for out and arrive at Fairfield at 7 45 Arn $4,797.48. This is part of five1 Corno in his proposal for standing service he has rendered to 0n q1c eastbound trip he is to percent of Light Plant Gross a1 Money to pay Hie agricultural land last leave Fairfield at 5 30 . Leave Lowed lip City this year by util tax credit and Ity Board. Or proposed $11,250,000 per year. 7 15 i in ii in i Nuiji 1 i is 111 no current this Community during i thirty tic years As a member and it pleasant at 6 15 pm j Chiel of Volunteer fire do arrive at Burlington at i apartment . A competent propagandist a firmer believer in nature and product of american civilization an Able administrator of a Large body of adv Kates and propagandists in every Media. Not to get into a con hijacked Santa Maria Recife Brazil Luff la Hilly March 2 for term from March 28. 1961 Troverso Over personalities. I shall Jacki a portuguese liner Santa a ii a Nae o d id men As examples a pulled into port fit recite. Of tile in j personalities which today and began Landing ex-1 i believe be fitted by train toasted passengers who had been lug. Experience and told captive 12 Days. Tem Peru Mer to do a Las work Ivy two Ocean going brazilian tugs Lee and car Byon in their Field moved alongside 20,000-ton lid i there a it Many capable no n in j a i and a Stream of doctors and mod this country but they Are not in peal authorities went aboard to1 though never adequately re winded. Axel by i Dahl ila.-, devoted _ hundred., of hours of i. Time to proposal must toe this official position in Many in stances risking i. Life for Safe a it ju"1 30 1961 of Rma Uon May by and welfare of Hie people of to Oil waned from postmasters. Patton of Boulder City i this comm unit. Of 42 americans Faithey service has Bien an Citow a. I ufus total annual Miles is listed As population basis transferred to appropriation a seven or cent cities or Iii die Pubis Eye. They j Heck project tin r clients not themselves sengers. Condition of Pas Portugal. Douglas nev., one aboard reported minor disturb greatly appreciated and it i it Noces As tile Landing approached j through this Resolution that tile he said members of captive pc Ity government acknowledges a few beat up one Galvao guard. I Axel Bergdahl. Unceasing and some of 350 portuguese Crew courageous efforts men aboard tried to get ashore before Galvao relented and decided Varv Imi finally to land passengers. Seal Street fiend. Noah wit t Mer Given permission by Ila Council to construct an eight Inch lateral sewer on Baker Street from East end of tile present sewer 300 feet to West prop cry line of Ute wit Mer property. Laken by Cuth confirmed by Senate a y be Mumm can do this propaganda Job better than his predecessors not one of whom understood great Art of press Gentry which is at heart of work tile late Herbert Bayard Swope disliked word press agent. He called himself a policy consultant. Tin l ulu i it term these Days is Public relations consultant. Call these workers in Field of j propaganda what you will this j country needs someone who w ill i bring to it flair imagination de a Votion i Iii and vast skill int projection of ideas. The Best at it Are British who skill-1 fully and convincingly have beaten i Down a a Lenora Ting View of their significance. Tile russians Are not equally Good at it because they some talked of diving overboard first passengers boarded and swimming to land when Galvao tugs for Transfer r to Shore where dropped Anchor three Miles out red Cross ambulances waited to wednesday take More seriously ill to hos j brazilian health officers who petals buses were on hand to take j went aboard to Check 620 Pastis other passengers into town. Sengers found Many of them weak. The passengers had been held they were tile penniless spaniard Apt Ive by capt. Henrique Galvao immigrants being returned steer who seized ship Jan. 22 in a re age class to Spain at government Volt against government of expense. Andrew j. Burns 85, died thins adopted thus 1st Day of Gebru Cav morning about 8 00 of clock at1 Point enc of Jerome Vav. Corbett memorial Hospital after an illness Sioux City Republican to tile state of past to o weeks. I employment Security commission he Tim son of William and confirmed today by Iowa i Margaret Hooks Burns bom on i Senate. Attest March 22. 1875 on a farm 31 miler1 Chaden. South of it. Pleasant he had been Wadi l. Mayor my be however. Erbe proposed changing time of year that state turns Over to per cent of sales tax to Road use tax said if Tim change made Hie $4,147.32 m liquor profit a1 this be an increase of Only possible to Dower Lowed to tile City by state on a $750�0� a it far Over current Treasury surplus normally needed to protect state at Slack tax collection periods of year. Erbe said a it is not purpose of government to accumulate a surplus i do not subscribe to practice of exacting excessive taxes from taxpayer so that we May have a surplus in state Treasury for future he Aid Hie state must be on a a pay As you go basis in meeting its recurring expert1 is but added surplus can a in Good conscience be used to catch up in overdue building programs. More than two thirds of building program funds were earmarked for state s educational institutions. Dos Moines it up i tile a r c clerk sentenced to second ordination held five year term mat pleasant View cold period in dry january Des Moines a up it a Marlin bight Man jr., fired from Des Moines police Force for taking pan in an alleged series of burglaries today sentenced to a Are coarse and offensive. They do second five year prison term on a january w As a finished out As a very also. Precipitation totalled Only on ordination service. Were held for fifth of an Inch for month Rev. Gien Richard on sunday and this came mostly in 3.5 inches evening Jan. 29, at pleasant. Of Snow. View mennonite Church. A v. Rich after two thirds of month a re serving Church under had been comparatively warm. Zero a life Long resident of Henry county living on same farm All of his life. He Ai ver married. He is survived by four nieces and four nephews. Florence Burns mrs Alice Scott mrs George windus All of it. Pleasant mrs. Elmer Anderson of up cry. Lucent Burns of dry month and Long n it Ach Calif. John Burn a it cold month janci5villr wuss a Jofs Burns of Lockridge and Damien Buras of i pleasant. I corbetts names submitted i to Hie Senate by gov. Norman a Elbe inst week. Hike some legislators have said they not accept less than a $5 million jump in credit payment fund 1 but Erbe said a there is Only co much Money a and he proceeded to propose that Iii recommended apr prop Ria Lions by used to pay in full jail claim for land tax credit Between 15 and 20 millions pro a video school Levy is Over 15 j Mills. I now credit is paid on All j millage assessed Over 15 Miles on agricultural land. The said current state appropriation of $10 5 million to tile fund has paid Only 44 per cent al All claims. He said it c tinted that it require a a License for a last two years. Better than we do what we have charge of larceny to sell human Liberty and human dignity. The Peoples of Earth somehow do not believe that that is our motive. Meanwhile our colleges and universities Are in my denuded of professor. Who Are taken Over by administration. What Harvard will do about a faculty is up to that University Winch apparently can afford to rid itself of its scholars for any administration that wants them perhaps Best to get a Job in Washington is to be neither Iii. Worked out satisfactorily for i or. Richard and his constituent. Bight Man had been sentenced to consequently this ordination serv five years on another larceny ice planned giving Hun com it Barge earlier and District court Piete responsibility As tile pastor. Judge c. Edwin Moore refused to j Rev. Vernon Grig Wayland make terms concurrent. Weather set in and Mercury did not Rise above freezing from Jan 19 through Hie 30th. Only on 31st did it w up and then shot up to 46 decrees. Below Zero temperatures were recorded on eight out of nine funeral Servici s for or. Burns will be saturday in Ming at 9 of clock at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. The Rev. John Manning pastor will officiate interment will be in St. cemetery Rosary will be read at 8 . Friday at Crane funeral Home. Auto Accident injuries fatal Moore chastised Brightman for casting a reflection on whee department. Brightman a father a Veteran Des Moines police detective Iowa by hop of pleasant View starting on 21st. The Range Roches i or Minn it up it Cham from one below on two Day s prank n. Bay 68, Aubin Iowa. Congregation in speaker Rev. Hermon j to to below. Other readings were described As an budget at a glance among courtroom. Spectators in Ropp pastor at West Union mennonite Church at Wellman. After ordination service retired senior Bishop of sugar four below on two Days two below. A old time family doctor died at methodist Hospital Creek mennonite Church at a right Man Lias appealed his first land made a few remarks. The Rev. A r Publico nor a Democrat but conviction but said he not. Glen Richard then gave his to go i Harvard it to to a pro Appeal second. He taken response. Special music pro fess i and end up a government immediately to Polk county jail to j video by men s Quartetti of official Columbia. Yale and j begin serving second sentence j pleasant View namely. Gary and Princeton do not seem to be in Ute and will be transferred later to i David Graber and Dwaine i in th., time j men Reform a tor Anamosa we it Richard. Six below seven below and eight Here wednesday As result of in below juries received in an Auto Accident j average High for last 12 last Friday at Albia. J Days of month about 22 Bay who suffered rib fractures degrees and average Low near in a fall Down a Hight of stairs by two below Zero. The mean tem Jan. 6, but had continued his Pesature for 12 Days about medical practice until Auto act to degrees. Cadent occurs. The highest temperature during and month 60 degrees on 13 la. Celebrates >0lst birthday a mrs Ida Ilam Mei Short had birthday cake Flowers and cards aplenty As she celebrated her 101st birthday wednesday. Feb. I at tile Millspaugh nursing Home. Hoi East Washington. Bile born near Asbury Church in what is now Iowa ordnance Plant arca in Des Moines county on feb i. 1860. She and George Wesley Short were married in do Cember 1880. She lived at Danville in later years. In july 1960 she came to nursing Home. She has two daughters mrs. Fern Walker and mrs. Hazel Nan. Des Moines up a Here is gov. Norman a. Elbe s budget proposals at a glance total of r year $189,430,850, about 10.5 per cent increase. Average Cost Fin every iowan $68.69 a year. I commends no increases in Tams. Biggest increase state Aid to schools total education $92,816,630 a year. Total it pit ii improvements $14.-933,470 a year. Majot recommendations Board of regents $20,834,200 a year up t n per cent. Board of control $24,922,640 a year up 10 3 per cent. Public safety $5,477,460 a year up 12.6 per cent. Administrative departments $8,-309.285, up la p r rent social welfare $18,908,500, up i 12 per cent. Macmillan to come to us Bay formerly Monroe county Coroner and a. Appointed a county medical examiner this year Washington Upit president Kennedy announced today that prime minister Harold my both of Danville four grandchildren and ten great grandchildren radian visit him at she is last of a family of eight children. Her parents were White House during week of Nathan Raison and Elizabeth Blakely. Lain me. April 2

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