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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 11, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a \ of 83, no. 35mt. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening i ekk Ary la had these Days by George e. Sokolsky on vers i Ion piece she objects to War she did not raise her children to be soldiers or to be slaughtered by an insane Hydrogen bomb. Quot there ought to be smart men in the government to discover a Way not to have War with Russia and not to submit to Ltd Russia Quot she said. Quot that is easy enough to say. Roosevelt. Truman Eisenhower have All tried to find a Way to peace by this War constantly grows More co Lily we Send a missile 4 100 Miles on a target and the o hurl a now sputnik in orbit that j. Lar a r than any. In time both countries go still and she said. Quot it is not so bad to How off As Long As it is nothing More than showing off. Nobody gets killed by showing off. It Only costs Quot rut where is the Money to come from we Are already complaining Farouk taxes and about the debt and about the Drain on Gold. There Are Many ways of defeating a nation other than by what our grandfathers called she angered Quot Why do you bring in Bur grandfathers War is War. In War people get killed. Nothing is so terrible As to get a nothing but Quot everybody talks about slavery but do you mean to say that people like the poles Are actual slaves Quot she asked. Quot you object to British colonialism to French and belgian colonialism. You object to Mussolini paring into Ethiopia. You boycotted Japan because it conquered Manchuria. You would not Wear silk stockings after that. You wept with Gandhi Over India. But you Are not at All bothered about the latvians end iguana is the estonians and the poles. You do not cure about what happens to the tibetans and the nepalese. Really How do you make such a Sharp distinction Between one kind of imperialism and another Quot a it seems to me that you raise difficult she said. Quot what happens in Latvia will not involve us in War. But Why should1 we go to War Over Berlin twice we went to War with the j al aute and All of a sudden they be Coom vary important to us. Now you want my sons to be killed Abou a Bura h of people w to when i was a girl we called huns. May i be you think it was wrong to go to War with Hitler Quot Chart . Course Cargill shuts Down search for soybean plants missing family called to Mission work the Marvin Sweigert family of Rural route no 5 of it. Ima Sant has been called into Active Church work by the general Board of the mennonite Church with Headquarters at Elkhart Indiana. The Sweigart have been members of the pleasant View mennonite Church of it. Pleasant since its beginning in 1958. Their contribution to the Church and its activities will be greatly missed. Or. And mrs. Sweigart h Ive been sponsors of the my youth group. Sunday school teacher and music director As Well As leadership in other Church activities. They have been called to Saginaw mich., where or. Sweigart will he pastor of a growing Church in a new Industrial area. Or. And mrs. Sweigert with their children. To the left is Timmy then Marianne and the new baby boy Randy in the Back and Cindy. Chicago up i the Cargill corp said today if would hut Down a1 eight of it. Soybean crushing plants indefinitely must of them within a week of the High Price of soybeans. Four of the eight arc. Located in Iowa. A company Siok Man sail a big expert re in a my has bolstered la 1 son by Anoil Market but Aboba al catch huge i pins of soybean1 meal a live Price of no. I Grade yellow soy Beans at Chicago is the highest. Since july 1956. The current Price was about $2.74 a Bushel. The spokesman said poor operating margins forced the company to close its soybean plants at Chicago Cedar rapid Washington Sioux City and fort Dodge Iowa poit Cargill Minn. Memphis j Tenn. And Norfolk a. Lumumba asks for Stamps to be sent abroad meeting held i by Kennedy or. Emf. I Lemer Salem route i is eager to help in a Effort to Congo Send packets of. Tamps to i to w As Kington up a president Kennedy met today Writh his advisers on russian relations in a conference which May Lead to a hut my with soviet Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev within the next few months. The White House session which got underway at 10 17 . Est was called by the president to Over too in county in Iowa future series discussion Over 400 people participated in the first Iowa future series discus 1 Sion this week in Henry county reports Richard Thuma county Extension director. Tin first week s discussion dealt with recent world and National de elements their effects in Henry county and Henry county a oppor Trinitie to influence state National and world policies. County Extension director Richard l Thuma said that this opening meeting of the series set the foundation for the whole series. The discussions were held in Homes at regular meetings of several clubs and in High school social science classes fact Sheet no. I provided by Iowa state University was used As the basis for these discussions during the week of feb. 6 toll throughout the county. It was part of the statewide study program beginning at the same time in counties throughout Iowa a. And destroy communist Power now before they get too Strong a 28 percent said yes and 72 percent voted no. Participants were then asked Quot if you support the View that the United states must put its own House in order for reasons of foreign policy Are you willing to accept consequences of actions necessary to solve such problems As civil rights poverty unemployment racial tolerance Quot eighty three percent of the Henry county participants voted yes and 17 percent checked no those who voted yes indicated that they were willing to accept free Access to housing by All races and colors to pay More taxes for Aid to depressed areas Public housing and similar policies. Loveless May have company in his new office Farmers Coop fleets directors at the annual meeting of Hie it. Pleasant banners cooperative elevator held at the Rea building on elected Leo to i l Ville a up i Katanga troop. And police privileged collectors abroad secured the Bush country today she Wall Forward the Stamps in for e. Cap a former congo�?T.<\,r Preth Quot Quot stamp on common in Quot mar Patrice Lumumba but there program of the stamp collectors was Iff and. Speculation that they Hope to Send thou ands of the leftist Leader was dead. U s commemorative.1 and Pictor tie new., that Lumumba and in Els to numerous distributing in two bide manner my to and tens in Airo As Ian confine. Arise pm Okito a had escaped from cording to an article in Linn s an isolated farm Hon. Detention i weekly stamp news Mot by overpowering their guards j Many of thoe collectors abroad j t what he Hopes will be a More electrified the Congo and spread otherwise would in vet to Aine to dynamic american approach to fears of a civil War. Own such Stamps and learn the critical cold War issues Between the1 massive manhunt for the lesson of Liberty and democracy a Jjck United states and the soviet fugitives was entered in an area proclaimed by their designs the i 40 Miles North of mute Natasha article pointed but. Which was scaled off by author mrs. Lerner said that All that is tics of secessionist Katanga prov-1 necessary is to Send tile clipped into after they located the car in out cancelled Stamps to her and which the three men were said that she will in pare them for to have fled j shipment to the Headquarters in a a tango so plane flying Low new York. Potted the ear lying in a ditch searching parties wire dispatched into Hie Jungle i _. _. A _ _ Katanga. E Interior minister Godefroid Lunongo was reported Young republicans of District to Convene wednesday directors were for the coming terms. Frank Whitham was re elected Harlan Molander was named to succeed Elmer Bencke. And John Hunt Zinger and Howard a be us were j elected to succeed Clarence Reid Loveless j Anco n Mcallister. Frank Anderson was the speaker i heading to Mut Shatasha to Tak v charge of the search. I the announcement of Luzum summoned to the strategy meeting were Secretary of state deity Ruk and four soviet affairs experts who have served a its ambassadors to Moscow during Lour presidential administrations a Llewellyn e. Thompson the present envoy Charles f Bolden special adviser to Rusk on Russia Loving ambassador Averell Harriman and George f. Kennan ambassador designate to Yugoslavia joining in the meeting in the funner Washington it up it Iowa gov. Herschel c. May find his would be government office a bit crowded when he arrives in the nations capital next week. Loveless a Democrat was named last month by president Kennedy _ As the Choice to replace Donald three Accident have been re Ross a Republican on the re. Ported to City a it olice Linda Lamb negotiation Board. I College student reported Friday of but there was some question Lemoon that her car was damaged whether Ross would vacate the by another motor vehicle while cars damaged in three accidents Bas Friday by tile offi rial Katanga radio brought into the oium speculation that he had been killed or died in jail from i ill treatment after his arrest by army strongman maj. Gen. Joseph Mobutu u it was Lumumba s Sec-1 Richard f Redman executive Cabinet room was vice president Secretary of the Young republicans Lyndon b. Johnson j of Iowa will speak at a dinner net Kennedy and the officials dealing of tiv fir District Young re cussed tile situation while sitting a publicans at 6.30 ., feb. 16, at around a Long table. Kennedy Wai the Captain s table restaurant in flank d on his right by Rusk and Washington Iowa. in the left by Kennan. Across the Young Republican representatives a Able from them were Thompson and party leaders from Ach of the Johnson and Bolden. Leopold Ville province Clophas Kam Tatu told United press or that Lumumba had been killed. Members of the Winfield High $20,000-a-year Job to which he was parked on West Broad Street thurs school american government class i appointed in 1955 by former presi j Day night the Driver of w hich did no to Dent Eisenhower. Stop. And to complicate matters there at 12 15 Friday a car driven appeared to be considerable doubt by Irvin g. Leichty route five col who participated in the discussion As a class project Wert More optimistic about the future of democracy than adult participants but. 12 counties in the District will Par White scratch pads Wero in front Ond escape from imprisonment. \. 1 tic Pate in the meeting according 01 each Man. In or Harlan a in ter it. Pleasant news photographers Wero al ,. A a. First District Young Republican j Lowed to take pictures of the group press International he believed. T l.,. Chairman. Before the meeting starred. Theme of the meeting will be1 Kennedy went to the conference Quot action program 1961&Quot a state wide after witnessing the swearing in political education project. I of Robert c. Weaver As Federal i housing administrator. The presi marriage licenses issued Tif Quot to Tidence in the loyalty integrity a a a j Anci ability of Weaver a new two marriage licenses have been York negro whose nomination stir issued at the clerks office in the red up a controversy in tile Senate courthouse. _ they went to Allen Wayne Griggs of a duct ill or Lawrence Roth postmaster at Fairfield Dies Fairfield Lawrence j. Roth 23, Keota and Beverly Jean Smith whether he could be forced to quit lid cd with the parked car of James Fairfield postmaster for More than 22, it. Pleasant and to Ronnie groups did not seek any agree agreed that it Are in one of the government sources said the 1951 Folsom on North Broadway. L<4chty 26 year.-, died suddenly shortly j William Hart 17, and Elke Andry Quot my personal opinion is the same meat on the issues they discussed a Mast critical periods in our history Law establishing the Board to was driving South when the aedes George washing ones. But the however each individual completed sixth four percent of the Winfield eliminate excessive profits in do 1 Dent occurred. Both cars were darn ing Ltd Riv of our fellow citizens Dis j an opinion ballot on the issues and j students were in favor of attacking agreed with George Washington sent tins ballot to the county sex j and destroying communist Power and w Ith me they voted for a tension director Richard Thuma j now before they get too Strong. In Sider. I who was dedicated to after each meeting he will Send boys wore slightly less optimistic president by and with the advice the elimination of Hitler but not them to Ames for analysis by Iowa 8bout the future of democracy than 1 and consent of the of Stalin out of that War. Came state University staff members. The Fuhs with 54 percent indicating they j the Law neither specifies the our present enemy. Soviet Russia. University will report Back democracy a Rould be stronger length of the members terms nor trends of opinion the reports show compared with 63 percent of the holds that they shall serve at the on a statewide basis. I girls. Students living in town pleasure of the president. Material in no i fact Sheet sex j cd stronger 63 percent of the Ross said the Only word he had tension director Thuma says pro time compared with 57 percent for that he was being replaced was vie cd tie basis for discussing what its dying in the country a United press International Dis to visit far East sense contracts specifics Only that j aged. The Board be a composed of five a car driven by Barry Wilson members to be appointed by the backed into a nation Wagon driven health Friday morning and by Viola Holmes in the mental health Institute parking lot at 9 40 . Saturday. The station Wagon was damaged an estimated $79. Atter noon Friday at Libs Home 1206 sen 16, both of it. Pleasant. S. Main Street. His Dath a. Caused by a heart attack. Roth had been in his usual had fined on two counts Washington up a diplomats Here were convinced today that Secretary of state d an what do you say to that Quot she w in frankly puzzled Quot the world is so grown up. We know so much about everything. Wily can to the russians mind their own business and we should mind is the strength of democracy and of free men. It dealt with the i of Twenty three 23 percent of the Patch boys indicated that they Felt this j where from Palm Beach Fla Kennedy announced the will take part in ordination been at his office at the Post of a Robert Stearns. I. Pleasant has Rusk would visit the far Sut next lice. He had gone Home for lunch been lined $5 and costs for Speed and was preparing to return towing and $3 and casts for ignoring his office when he was stricken. A Stop sign by mayor Wade my our of n by. Mess. Then there w ill terns faced by people of the United Vivas most critical period in our Loveless appointment Jan. 14. Be no w a. A Quot your attitude is excellent. But history is against such sanity As you propose. In every period a ruler or a group arises which has All the answers to All the prob state since world War ii and their implication for individuals in i i by county. Henry county opinion ballots indicate that participants vary considerably in their attitudes on these problems Thuma history compared with 12 Percenti of the girls. This probably explains the boys slightly More pessimistic attitude toward the future of democracy. I thi Winfield students were near loins that face Mankind. Soviet says. I by too Peront in favor of correcting Russia believes that in marxism it thirteen percent of the Partici-1 social problems such a. Racial dishes found a scientific answer to pants indicated that they Felt de-1c1imination, poverty and a employ everything. A communist is Dedi i Moc racy As a Way of life and a ponied to tile Ideal of bringing all1 Lotical ideology would be much the world to marxism to the de j stronger in the world by the year s met Ion of All other sociological of 2, a 40 percent checked ethical econ Ami and political stronger 34 percent about the system which exist upon the face same la percent weaker and 2 per of the Earth. They make War by j i at much weaker unorthodox methods propaganda seb i Ion a i lira i Ion into other Henry county participants w re we Ltd Ltd 4c0-acre estate i becomes week end White House tent at Home As a Means of strengthening our Ion Ign policy. Middleburg a. It up it a a Snow smothered 400-acre estate in Virginia a rolling Hunt country today b rame president Kennedy s Newton will it the candidates or j. Raymond Chadwick will give the invocation Kaylor Noland professor of strings at Iowa Wesleyan will play a violin Solo and or. Raymond Recd will read the gospel at. The ordination of William h. Moi Hon. I at Der p River sunday. Bishop f. Gerald Huxley will give the Sermon and or. E o Cooley of his death came about 12 15 Beth. The ticket was issued by City Roth served his Community in j police. Public office during the greater _ part of his adult life. Or had Bren postmaster at the j continuing drive Fairfield past off ire for the past gains mail obscenity 26 years having been named j to that Post in August 1934, prior to that he had served As clerk of court Deputy and chairman of the county committee. Month on his first foreign tour. Rusk is under pressure to attend the annual meeting of the Southeast Asia treaty organization it Seato it Council in Bangkok on March 27-30. Seats asian members have complained that they Are treat d As Quot second class allies. They want to talk to president Kennedy s foreign policy chief about Laos u. S. Support of asian neutralise and oth r issues. If Rusk goes to Bangkok he probably will by asked to visit other asian capitals along the Way. France fears Russia to exploit Diane buzzing weekend White House others participating will be or mrs. K needy and the presidents Chark. S. Hallstead Cedar rapids Lively 3-year-old daughter Caroline or Alviry t a by try Oskaloosa g averments and so on. Tims far asked Quot in terms of the past his we have established that we can tory of the United states what is i Paris up flew by helicopter Friday to the and re Carl Wilson Knoxville rented lath Century Glen ova hide a it v my Chou. It the in of or. Away about 42 Miles from the Cap and mrs Herbert Morehouse of ital. Near of pleasant and mrs. More the chief executive planned to House the daughter of or. And j by by a copter to the six bedroom my it Bernard Bailey of it pleas Diplo stucco and Brick colonial mansion an hat j shortly after noon. It will be ills he attended High school and recent first look at the estate near sleepy College Here and red the follow an important new policy state on the Post office depart democratic i my nth a program in the Field of Law enforcement against mail obscenity Roth resigned his duties of a emphasizing enforcement with county clerk after boing appointed out fanfare a has been issued by. Postmaster in 1934. Postmaster general j Edward Day. Washington d. C., of Herman Lawrence j. Roth. 65, was Bomi the statement which applies to Womack of Washington and Alfred april 29, 1895, on a farm South-1 the whole anti obscenity program j. Heinecke of Lakewood n. J., on East of Fairfield. He was the son i was issued specifically in Oonnec-1 charges of conspiring to use the cd Jacob and Louie Monger Roth tion with the sentencing on Jan mails in the transmittal of obscene he was a graduate of the Binning-1 uary 27, 1961 in Federal court in material Ham High school and Iowa Wes Ock to Capitol French no in Defeated by such methods your opinion of How critical our Mats expressed fears today bul both we and they Are in a 1 present position is in regard to the Bassia would exploit the race to prove that the weapons a survival of our democracy and in let Ane buzzing incident off North Middleburg where he plans to spend in a churches Finley Trent of Are available rot Only to annihilate div dual problems a Twenty <20africa despite the government frequent we. Kend relaxing from the Wayland Oakland Mill and each of i Quot to but to destroy the a percent indicated that they Felt we formal apology. Lear s of the White House. Poll. He teen Wert world. Thus far both sides have Are in the most critical survival the diplomats based their fears j Kennedy planned to return to Heights Church and attended Drak talked for time. Proving that period in the history of our coun in reports of a nationwide anti-1 Washington sunday night or Mon divinity school. Neither Side is yet ready to fight,1 try we Are in one of the most Crit-1french Campaign in the soviet Day morning. The president s 2d but when the preparations Are so a Cal survival periods in our history Union following Tho buzzing by month old son. John or. Remained a . How can one be sure that was checked by 73 percent of the three French jct fighters of an behind at the White House with a there will be no fighting participants and 7 percent indicate Airliner carrying soviet . D that we have be n in Many other i Conid Brezhnev to Morocco the Virginia state is the latest a a ibis we know. Neither the More critical survival periods in our thursday. Tin a sting of famous presidential Ltd Quot. Nor a he sky is any longer history or that our present Situa-1 the government hoped to play j hideaways a Dwight d. Eisenhowe i protective shield for protect Hon is greatly overemphasized. Down the incident by exp. Ung Eros Gettysburg. Pa., farm. Harry s. Ton we Are dependent upon radar. Henry county participants were a Quot sincere regrets a a note of apol a Truman a yacht Williamsburg noon sonic exploration upon All fairly evenly divided on the a presented in Moscow d. Roosevelt a Shangrila kinds of be v weapons and new tion Quot which do you believe is the Day night in reply to a soviet note Mountain Camp in Thurmont my vehicle. Each of which is Cating greater threat to survival of de j denouncing the incident and de-1 also used by Eisenhower who r. T into poverty. You want us to Moc racy and personal Freedom in manding punishment for the "cut-1 named it Camp David and Herrin u. S a forces w within our own1 j Bel t Hoover s Tappahannock River country or forces outside our coun-1 the Rcch charge d affaires ins fishing Retreat in Virginia. Icy an College at i. Pleasant. He was United in marriage june 16, 1918. To of Telle Jameson. Be. Ides his wife he is survive i by swoon of tobit Roth Ottumwa and Lawrence Roth jr., Scottsdale Ariz. Will give instruction in Church finances be sane but you do not ask the enemy to it. Sane y to saw Thrush Chov i i television aet like a wild try. Thirty nine <29> percent Indi Mascow Jean de la Grandville. Middleburg was still digging out rated that they considered forces called on soviet foreign minis r. From a series of recent snowstorms w within our country the greater Andrei Gromyko again today. De-1 when mrs. Kennedy and her Daug Lith real and 61 percent checked tails of their meeting were not j ter arrived after their 26-minute forces outside our country As the disclosed but it was understood flight from the capital. Twenty boor a the United my lady was upset by what i said. She could Only answer i done to want my sons killed in v copyright 1961, King features Syndicate. Inc greater threat. The Frenchman again assured inches fell earlier this week on top in reply to the question. Quot would Gromyko France of support a decision to attack the incident. Is looking into of deep Snow left from three pre i Vinas storms Morehouse instruction in local Church finances will be Given pastors and laymen during a session feb. 19 at Burlington for the Quot six county Bur Ling on District of the methodist Church. District superintendent c. Raymond Reed of it. Pleasant will preside Over the two hour session beginning at 2 30 Separate sessions will be held for churches with fewer than 300 members and those with More than that numb r. Also to be included in the meeting is a Section on pastoral relations for local Church chairmen in this Field. Churches to be represented at the workshop at first methodist Church in Burlington Are located in Des Moines Henry Lee Louisa Musca i Tine and Washington counties. Historic Silver will be seen a visitors to on Home sunday and monday will m to some rare pieces a a h r which normally Are not on display at the Home hut kept in the vault at the Bank. Mrs. Eugene Mccoid left and mrs. E. A. Ila or examine two of the pieces. Mrs. Or old admires a Coin Silver Teaspoon with hinged lid that belonged to mrs. Abraham Lincoln. Mrs. Haye i admires a piece that belonged to the Lames Harlan family. Mrs Mccoid and mrs. Hayes Are members of the Harian Lincoln Home restoration committee

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