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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 4, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa These Days by George Al Sokolsky in ambition dead tin argument in favor of the cup to Iii t system is that it St Imu la Tea ambition creates initiative and provides incentive. The argument against socialism been Itiat it regiments human beings destroys ambition eliminates initiative and provides no incent Iio for achievement. In 1958. We Are forced to equate these statements in relationship to facts. And one of the problems that confronts us is whether since the 1929 depression ate is have not been taken in this country to rear a Genera tin that produces the impression that it suffers from the i sch logical characteristics Winch we need to attribute to socialism. My articles on education have brought me an enormous mail from ail parts of the country which gives me an insight into the unfortunate position in which the next generation find itself in one teachers letter i found this paragraph Quot we know that a first Day ent Tius a in in any situation a tendency to Wear off quickly. But when the stud it becomes surrounded by the confusion tense ii is and futility created by overcrowded classrooms insufficient and out of Date facilities and Over. 10 idea underpaid teachers Nat. Ural enthusiasm for learning is immediately crushed. And this loss of ent Husia in is Tine in teachers As Well As an inspired teacher can infill i erne the minds of the Young in a tent on a Park Bench in a crowded j Nom As Well As in a million Dollar building it is not that i favor Over. Crowding and Lack of facilities it is rather that i wonder what become of that word inspiration. This teacher writes me Quot when a teacher walks into a crowded loom of 30 to 40 a yapping kids. He a Little Choice but to establish an Iron hand Nile and play the role of disciplinarian in the old lecture recite assignment quiz routine. At this Point tile de 11 National philosophy of Hie administration and that of Ute teacher Are of Little consequence. Tile Choice is Between monarchy and anarchy a i have seen men and the it. Pleasant news u1 i Al ii a tax a. .1ulh.11 i Iii Uima jts my a Mim ii bum urn i a in. Warmer vol. 80, no. 20 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening Keh. I. 1958 a mum by Carrier 80# per week by mad 870 per year for More satellites three hours on the 13th problem persistence spelled Success for Jimmy Van Allen in . Physics class by Pearl Cochran the explorer sails on and with it goes some Cit the most spectacular accomplishments of a Jimmy Van a ten it pleasant a Topmost scientist of today. All Iowa Van Allen is proud of or James and particularly i ii St twelve Aud three hours on the last one. I hat w As James Van Allen s Way of doing things lie would keep on working until he cot what he was working to finished i Quot he had an extreme science Quot or. Cottrell pointed out which was furthered by the great interest of family in education or. Cottrell remember How fit was practically interviewed by the whole Van Allen family when he came to apply tor a school a xxi Tion. Atty a m Van Allen James father was on the school Board and All the boys were present James George Maurice and rattle William who was very Small it the time. The Brothers seemed to take a great interest in or Cottrell Ami what was going on. Doing car pen Tat my under manual arts instructor Glenn Hoffman a directions. Mir Mabel Walker also taught him contributing to knowledge of mathematics As she j to so Many others through the internal in j years. Quot but it wms Willt Nguc to give something extra that been the real key to Jimmy Van Allen s Success in mechanics and accelerated m Cottrell believes the Pride of James accomplish i meats in connection with satellites evidenced countrywide and in it i pleasant to a great degree extends the Van Allen Ianuly James j Mother or. A m Van Allen one1 of the most Motherly of mothers. Jibs been widely quoted in the associated press and Many new Sim talk about hitting the Moon Den fir is i to. Angeles Unk tin to is who Quot built America i Earth satellite believe it would hot j be Quot any great trick a to hit the Moon with a Man made projectile the opinion came out of a panel i interview yesterday with scientists Jot the California Institute of Rech zoology who int speeding a it it in on i the Ai my is explore 11 and at the same tune analysing Haiti radioed to Earth from explorer i Hie panel Ron alsted of or her a do bldg Cartei h president la will Pickering Jet to Pullion in it i oratory director or j i Rodich project Cinel in a it Hibbs and Wallet k Victor of the compute turn tracking and instrumentation Fields i ers following Success with sex i Dou Birdlyn or. Ottre ii helped a Lorca i Quot i m my Giitl proud Oil give Jimmy inspiration and j James said mrs Van Allen i a a bul then in proud of All my George is a it pleasant lawyer i Maurice a neurosurgeon at Low a i tap dogs two tibetan Max to fix each of which eats five pounds of meat a Day Start last dog up of their journey from India to Thomas Stevens tonner special counsel to president Millen Bower. They Are shown in new York. Stevens wrote to a Friend in India asking for two Lap Type tibetan terriers. Dhoti and Kanchi look As if they might lie i int11 Hilt Muni sound Upolu i Congress ready to give space age Money Washington ins a Congress was flying today an unmistakable signal that space age weapons Money will be president Elsen How Al s for the asking in fact. Indications were that if or Eisenhower any trouble with Congress Over defense Money it will be because some lawmaker want larger programs than he considers necessary i tin Agnel that the president will gel All he auks for defense was rung up v in n the Senate followed Hie House by passing unanimously or. Eisenhower a request for on billion 4lo million dollars in emergency funds for missiles and other space age programs. I rite House passed the Bill Jan 23 by a Ole of 388 to 0 file Senate i approved it yesterday 78 to o it is most unusual for Hie two houses to take joint unanimous action on any measure. A a a a it Ltd no Tan women prof. James Tau Allen pleasant where he received i scientific beginnings in supt. C a Cottrelly a physics class and further developed it in science courses at Iowa Wesleyan College. Many people Are asking or. J Cottrell what qualities stood out i about Jimmy Van Allen when he was a senior in the local High i school and valedictorian cd the class of 1931. Quot if there was any one particular key to Jimines Success Quot i Cottrell Points out a it was persistence to some of scientific urge. Somewhat smaller than the average boy As a senior Jimmy sat on the front Row in class where Ben Galor one of competitors for Good grades sat and Jimmy s hand always waving in the air when questions were a ked. Jimmy also silent a great Deal of time in the manual training room City and William a procurement officer with the Howard Hughes corporation. Their faille. A m Van Allen a prominent it pleasant lawyer. Died 12 years ago. Superintendents discuss county school affairs Iowa physics department is Center for decoding i i following school superintendents c a cot troll it. Pleasant Harold Fleming it unum Clit Ford Mckee new London a hit weasel Olds Francis Durn a urn to Engel Winji Eui and Carll fake Hillsboro Mot in the of i schools drop plan to reorganize or i in Elili said i relatively simple Quot Kirk in the apogee Quot could Send the i Tillery Shell sphere Eon struck a to at the Pasadena University hurling to the Moon of so id lie Kirk Quot could be done by substituting a couple of pounds of solid propellant for the radio a Battery weight then touching it Oil Washington a ctn a president when the font the stage vehicle Eisenhower was revealed today to reached the Point farthest irom ordered a in t i ii in its orbit he said it was also Quot within the realm of possibility Quot that the Moon study possible shift to civilian Agency it was that willingness to work quiet yapping kids by sheer per Lon and me time t0 Ata f a to Nasty. I have seen a Pupil in tj0n classrooms of 30 and 40 and in Ollie of them there were not enough seats to go around. Some teachers utterly failed under such during senior year. Quot Jimmy Aud several of the better students i a a a City. La., uns Hie University of in a physics deportment will be the Center for decoding and interpreting cosmic Ray information from the Quot explorer a americans first Earth satellite. Prof. James Van Allen and associates expert to receive their first data Wkho ii two or three Days from the Earth and cloned in latitude to the Earth magnetic in Oles the cosmic Ray count is expected to be much higher Ray suggested. It will take about four Days for information to travel from Bee til county superintendent j Joseph s a via for their monthly Calico on Henry county school i lairs monday afternoon. Subjects pertaining to schools in Henry county were on the Ligand a. Clifford Mckee gave a Brief report on the propound new London i . Carl Lake told the superintendents that the it Opo eed Hillsboro i Stockport Bonaparte and ton reorganisation plan Hud satellite to the physics building toy v Way of the network of observing conditions others met the Chal-1 them spent the class of 1931 had a number of i from the u. S. Army Jet propel j stations and the Jet propulsion huge with extraordinary courage and Charm. In every school there Are teachers who Are beloved and can get the students to do anything for them. But when a teacher writes this Quot there is nothing wrong in educate that Money wont he reduces education to a materialistic mechanism which no other purpose than attendance. If All a lot of time after Sion Laboratory in Pasadena Calif. School and on saturday working in the jul is gathering All tile raw the Laboratory. Or Cottrell who j data from the worldwide tracking to it. Pleasant High school and reporting system of Profe amp Sion in 1925 As instructor often worked 1 a1 and Volunteer observers. Tile t i 6 . And students liked space information includes Dos Rnic nothing better than to remain after i Ray and microdot Orite counts and school to work on experiments. J temperatures within and on the skin a number of civic groups have of the heard it. Cottrell Tell about the time that he assigned thirteen Pix blame to physics Moon. The sit group will receive copies of the cosmic Ray data plan temp Ura is needed i Money what about j class. In other years previous to erasure and time information. The 1531, no students had been Able to solve All thirteen of them. On the Day assigned or. Cottrell checked to see if any student had worked All of them and Jimmy Van Allen had. Too or Cottrell then asked each of the other Good students who had worked twelve How much time they had spent on the problems and All the centuries of educators who lived in poverty and produced great minds among their students too i do not extol poverty but its con ver. E is often just As ugly namely a total dependence upon dollars to solve All problems of character and personality. If dollars could solve such problems Why would so Many of the sons of the Rich be so utterly worthless As human beings to simple answer of course is that they Are spoiled but that begs the question. The truth probably is that character is not a product of wealth but rather of a combination of heredity upbringing in the Home education in the school and the disciplines of religion. There Are Many human problems that Money will not cure. Children of broken Homes for instance who regard themselves As deserted and who compose quite a segment of our juvenile population May not be in need of Money. Such children Reed love rather than Money. Such j a general meeting of residents of children need to believe that they role proposed it. Pleasant school temperature information is important for checking on the reliability of the specially constructed Geiger reenter and its electronic nest according to Ernest Ray assistant prof or of physics. Or Raynaid that he heard that the equipment had picked up a cosmic Ray count of 20 per second on one of the satellites first passes Over Northern Mexico. At that time said that they had spent about an the a Mon Quot was Only about 300 hour on the twelve. Then or. Cottrell asked Jimmy who said that he had put in about four hours on the problem one hour on the area school meeting on wednesday Miles from tile Earth and relatively near the Equator. I Laboratory. Data will by charted on graph paper which is expected to extend to a length of perhaps 60 feet within the first month of decoding and interpretation. Figures will then be processed by an electronic computer which will reduce the whole of the data to a formula of perhaps some 15 to 30 symbols requiring less than a line of print. A of joining professors Van Allen and Ray m the interpretation of the cosmic Ray data will be instructor Joseph Kasper and graduate to j Dent George Ludwig who devout ted j uie Cosmio Ray instrumentation forthe satellite under the direction of i Van Allen. Ludwig spent to of december and january at tile jul in Pasadena. Calif., helping to modify tile instrument bundle for the 80-Inch Long tube lofted by the army a Jupiter a system. The Iowa equip a ment had originally been developed farther out on its elliptical path for the 20-Lnch sphere of the Navy a perhaps around 1700 Miles Distant Vanguard system. Grand jury now in session held for slashing Davenport policeman Davenport Gas a a 35-Yearj old Davenport Man Arthur Brown was held at Davenport in the grand jury for the february Moon Bon it a Dune term of District court is now in sos have not been abandoned because of fathers absorption in new wife of that mothers eternal search for happiness Dees not leave the child alone frightened and hating. Reorganization area will be held at the High Choel in i. Pleasant wednesday evening at 7 30 Progress reports of the building and school Plant and the finance committees will by Given. Guy i raise this Issue because it is i Bummel is chairman of the build such an obvious one yet we too i lug committee and John Metcalf Sion. The members Are Herman Hallowell Foreman Virgil Aldrich Rex Canby Roy Dustman Harold Lee Raymond Long and n. J Wester Beck. Of As Auk with intent to murder in connection with the knifing of a City policeman. Authorities claimed patrolman John Dawson was slashed across the Throat sunday by Brown while he was making a routine investigation of an Accident Brown was bound Over to the Scott county grand july yesterday. Often fail to think of it. Tire High Cheol that posts a million dollars or More to erect with a swimming Pool and Fine lockers and rest rooms where teachers can have a make and scientific lighting so that children do not suffer from Eye Strain is a wonderful building. But its existence proves nothing in character building in stimulating i the mind. Parents need not worry j of the finance committee. Drastic move Nocki to open Pool Hall to dislodge Hoffa in two weeks been reduced by the omission of Stockport As that group did not wish to be considered Joseph Davis Secretary of us in enry c c u n i y and minis tin tot Council explained thai tin consultants for career Day which is to be held on March 17, have been obtained and that shortly this information would a in the hands of the school men. He further explained that there would be Tibu Drivers clinic in the courthouse on feb. 12 at 7 30 pm. And that Alii bus Drivers in the county and their superintendents were expected to attend. According to or Davis i 1 Harmon a Reading con utlant from i Iowa stale Tea Che College will i be in the county on feb 6 and 7 and also on feb 20 and 21 tin superintendents were advised to arrange their schedules to accommodate mrs. Harmon in the event they have need of special Reading Aid. Gariy n Wessel supt in ten tent at old and Robert Gibson special education supervisor of the tri county special education organization advised the administrators that they Felt thai there was a very definite need for special education rooms in the county to i take care of slow learning students. There a an open discussion on the Legal of school Dis a i riots for injuries incurred by students and patrons on school premises during school activities the superintendents seemed to have various ideas about the liability of the school Board and th1 superintendent personally. Davis advised the group that in opinion the school District was not liable but unit under certain conditions it might be possible for the school Boa id and the superintendent to be liable on a negligence count. I was liken last thursday. Hight by in steering committee of the proposed school District Roor i Iran a a Mon involving the Wayland. I old and pm a four Ville school Dis i trill.? tether with their for vice j area District to trap the study Ami to recommend to the various Board of education concern that at this rime the Pru Popaj be item Rimml. The committee itself Vot a to disband. Tills action was Token because uie committee after tabulating the results of the questionnaire direr cd to the resident living in the area of Hie pro a it we school District found that the results clearly tidies ted that t he majority wore spotted to Mie proposal i Leslie Anderson chairman of i the steering committee announced that 1900 p Tai cards were mailed out on which mod ants Weir asked to indicate thir wishes and tilts number 806 were returned fifty seven per cent of those who returned card indicated that they wished the study discontinued while forty three per cent wished thai further Rudy be made. Sixty four per cent of the a thu a vols living in he Wayland District who returned cards indicated that they favored further tudy of the proposal while in the Olds District Only 34 per cent favored further study and in the Crawfordsville District Only 35 per cent were in favor districts other than Way. Land Cho favored further study included Maple Grove Wayne it Walnut Franklin and Coppock. Sentiment a evenly divided in the Union District the proposal Lins been under study for More than one year. Steering commit tee members i eel that while at time residents Are not in favor of the proposal As had i a n tentatively planned that. They will undoubtedly go ahead and Endeavor so make Oiler reorganization proposals. They feel that the residents of the various comm in i to concerned because of this study have become much More acquainted with the problem confronting education. Ltd uld he lilt by mounting the satellite on a liquid fuelled first stage rocket of greater thrust than the modified Redstone missile used to thrust the explorer Lino space inst Friday. But die Mien Livic Tram said at the moment it is directing if efforts to producing a second satellite rather mum trying for a shot at die Moon the panel said tire new explorer probably will be launched within eight weeks arum will be placed in its orbit around the Earth by tile same combination of rockets that fired exploit i i the second space Moon As the first was designed by or. James Ari Van Allen of tis University of Iowa and revamped by the Cal tech scientists to fit the cylindrical shape of the explorer the second satellite will weigh about the same at the 308 Pound explorer i but according to the panel its improved inner Workings will be Able to Send Back More Dill ii have ordered ii study of whether i the space satellite program a Houri he switched from the Pentagon to a civilian Agency rile study was the main topic it discussion at a two hour and ten minute meeting of or Bisel Lium r w it ii Republican congressional leaders at the White Home i Senate gob Leader William f know land told newsmen alter the Scanion that the Survey is being made by or. James it Killian j i the presidents St ,., assistant a he mild that Killian will Rex Ort i in Quot what Type of Structure will ultimately Ira pc to by set up in the held of outer Aimer activities where it will be in me Overall Structure of government Quot says two Vanguard rockets nearly ready Washington Gas adm Rawson Bennett mind today two Vanguard satellite rocket Are close to the firing stage but Quot no one con possibly guarantee Quot How they will perform. The Navy research chief de fend d the Vanguard program in on cosmic radiation the count of i Dom d door testimony Murro meteorites mid the abrasive House armed action of dust Clouds in space. Army rocket men plan 700-Pound Moon tape canaveral fla., in jubilant army rocket men confident that their first Earth satellite will St by in orbit for to year moved ahead with plans today to launch a 700-Pound a a Moon later this year. Officials confirmed that the army Riding the Success of its a explorer satellite requested and received Pentagon permission to try to jail up a third of a ton sphere and before that a 300-Pound to equipped satellite. The army experiments would lain addition to those known to be planned by the air Force which include a satellite that would Circle the Moon and photograph the far Side of the lunar body thai never been seen. Before the services committee. Part of remarks were released to newsmen tile Admiral statement came us reports far in Hie Cape canaveral. Finest Center said that proper have improved for another Vanguard launching attempt sometime this week. Hearing on new London school plan two face charges at Muscatine mrs. Guy Huston taken by death mrs. Guy Mutton died shortly before noon tuesday at her Home four Miles Northwest of Winfield. Muscatine ins two Davenport men faced Justice of Hie peace hearings a Muscatine today on charge of breaking and entering in Hie night time. They Weir identified As 28-year-old John Leroy Behning jr., and 22-year-old Ronald Wayne Smith u to were accused of an Hunsuc notice is published Al where in this Issue of a hearing in connection with the proposed reorganize tin of the new London school District to include the Lowell District and Hie East half of tile l no Wood District. The hearing will be held at the new London school on tuft d a a evening feb. 18, at 8 . I Ila hearing is on an amended j proposal which does not include j Tho West half of the Linwood Dis i strict. This West half now served by it pleasant was deleted after Hie j county Board of education favored j keeping the lines prove ugly Stab i lulled. Panthers is. Muskies in game Here tonight it. Pleasant s panthers will take on the potent Muscatine muskies in the Las Little six Cage game Between the two schools at the about school facilities they need 1 College gym tonight at 8 of clock. To concern themselves with the the Sophomore preliminary game the Al Cio executive Council character of the teachers. J is slated for 6 30 pm immediately issued a charter to a from the City Council late last year in quoting from teacher s letter j Low. Wesleyan tigers play1 newly merged state organization tile White firm moved Miami Beach. Fla. Ins a a Al Cio president George Meany today revoked the Charters of the Al Cio state bodies in Michigan in a drastic move to dislodge teamster president. James r. Hoffa from control of the state Al machinery. Glen Kiger expects to have Pool Nail in Doc Rati on in about two weeks he said tuesday. The establishment is going in the building. Located in the too Block of North main Street formerly occupied by the White furniture store. Kiger purchased the building from George Short recently. Remodelling work is nearly finished rigor plans to install five Pool tables for which he got permits to v Isit school buildings of area the building and school Plant committee of the school reorganization study group plans to tour buildings and facilities in the proposed area on saturday february 8 committee members Are requested to meet at the mount pleasant High school at 1 00 . The body is at the Barton my Cesti attempt to open a Safe Ai goal line club to meet thursday k assail funeral Home Whei e funeral arrangements Are pending. I find it advisable not to give their Pima in most instances. Carthage College at Carthage tonight at 8 o clock. 111. Set up As a successor body to the separate Al Cio groups. The rear of the shop into Foss appliance out of 722,805 business corporation filing tax returns for 1956. 281.628. Or 39 per cent showed no end a patrol bomber smashed tops slits. Iowa Marine was plane crash victim Mitchell. La., ins a a 23-year-old Marine Corporal from Mitchell Robert Klein was one of the 48 victims of the two plane crash Over Norwalk Calif. Saturday. Klein overseas in Japan for four Vears. Was Enro Ute to Mitchell on Fin Lough when a hoop transport the rink grocery in Muscatine. Behning was apprehended in the mom by de Reifert an employee brother Bill and Huehl Irvin. The goal line club will meet at the Shoalmier quonset thursday at 7 30 . The Chicken Fry and athletic banquet will be among the All live non the store Smith was1 topics of discussion. J taken into custody later in Daven j a Good at Tendance of member i port. Is desired. J gather Over Hie Cost town. Dollar Days feb. 5 and 6

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