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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 13, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. So no. 36mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening february 13, in i i these Days by George e. Sokolsky sectarian i in cation William j. Ryan sr., of Brooklyn writes in Quot or Sokolsky Many of us would appreciate an article or two by you on the question of Public funds to aul private sectarian education a nothing in the Constitution says a by thine about the separation of ouch and state not one word appear either in the body of the Constitution or in its amendments which it in be correctly construed As limiting education to a secular curriculum i he Only reference to the subject is in the first amendment which contains the clause Quot Coureas shall make no Law respect no an establishment of re i Imam or prohibiting the free ex-1 Ere ire thereof Quot file term Quot an establishment of j religion Quot taken in its meaning when the Constitution was written can Only refer to an established Church namely one that is recon i Zed As official say such As the a ilk in Church in great Britain the roman Catholic Church in j Brazil Judaism in Israel. The j term has nothing to do the j free exercise of relic icon by citizens who May accept any Church of their Choice and change from one religion to another. Nor does it in any Way forbid change from one relic on to another. Nor does it in anyway forbid a state to Stab natives kill Lumumba scout Camp fund drive in Progress names chairmen for easier Seal Sale in county scientists term soviet shot death raises at Venus a remarkable achievement hears of civil War Walls come Down a part of the former Baptist Church was falling As a news photographer took this picture of the dismantling of the building. A Cable attached to the Tower was pulled by a tractor some Yards away to bring Down a big Section of the Brick and Stone. A Short time later a new tie on the remainder of the Tower the remnants were brought Down. The former Church is being razed to make Way for a new Telephone company building. Reapportionment Issue before a again on tuesday i Dos Moines it up a the Iowa legislature Quot great debate Quot a whether or not to re apportion the Lush a religion As the state of general Assembly a returns for Massachusetts t red its citizens round two in the Iowa House tues to support the congregational Day. Church up to 1833. In fact it has generally been 10 15 a. In. Tuesday As a Quot special the lower chamber has set aside a matter for order of business Quot for the reapportionment airing. Held that religion is each state and not for the fed eral government to Deal . Sun . I v Are therefore pass the Senate toy d the Shaff de or not p issued by slate legis so called for its chief sponsor not by Congress released sen David o. Shaft a Clinton. Time for Public school pupils to be Jast week before refusing to give it educated in be re Cion of their guided majority of 26 votes. It the Church building As it appeared when still in use by the first Baptist congregation. Give recognition to local Agency my pie anti and surrounding area proud of its boy scouts and the Opportunity for scout camping at Camp Eastman is being asked to Contr Bote a share to the $300,-000 development program at the Camp. Joe Panther the assistance of Ralph Taylor and Sam Ewart is heading up the Campaign in this Vicinity. They Are giving hundreds of persons in the City and Rural areas Opportunity to participate. Sharing in the program arc Burlington it. Madison and Keokuk along it. Pleasant and the by la District. Each area is organizing and is having a fundraising Campaign for the Camp Eastman development. Needs Are being presented they include new buildings a swimming Pool and general development of the area. Costs of each run into the thousands of dollars brochures prepared for the fund disclose. Since the Early Day s of development of the site soon after it was purchased Little Lias been done to Donald in Long. 1961 pm ter Seal chairman for Henry county has announced the appointment fit town and township chairmen tor the Campaign in tins Aren which runs from March 2 through East r sunday april 2. Those appointed arc i Baltimore Donald in gang Canaan mrs Howard obit Man Center business and professional women s club mrs. Jack i Arlart Jackson mrs. Everett Wright Jeff miss Mata i Collins Marion mis. Edward Scott Ernie Ross Tippecanoe miss in leu rom key Trenton mrs. P h. Millspaugh Wayne mrs. Lester Mcgohan Sam Donald Long or. Long said. Quot we Are pleased the to have the services of these Good a neighbors to help in the easter Seal drive. They in turn will rely on the Good neighbor spirit of All families in their local areas to give As Gen Campaign crossly As he pointed out that this is the 40th anniversary of the easter Seal society nation wide. A thanks to the Good neighbor spirit More and More crippled Chu tie first Man in space close to Earth. Finnish astronomy prof gusto Elizabethville Katanga Jaeme sctt said the feat would be the Congo up a Hie Katanga most remarkable if the rocket government announced today that ship were Able to take pictures to former congolese Premier Patrice Jordon up j West or tilt Ici it is today termed the soviet United states the task of putting unions Piggy Back rocket shot at. Vent a remarkable achievement that May help plumb tile mysteries of Earth a Cloud Covo Rcd sister planet a this venture demands by times much pm i Ion a their previous Chow what kind of a surface Venus Lumumba and t to of his aides shot tit the Caid pro. J. Of Lias. Were killed by natives sunday oort director of the Leyden ob-1 prof a c. Bernard Lovell Chi three Day alter their reports ii Dory in Holland Rector of Britain s Jodrell Bank escape Horn a farmhouse jail. Quot i am led to believe that the radio Telescope described the shot the do the of no. Quot us in a is. Hav developed a As Mastic Quot , highly i cd Able system or guiding prof. Ana Nev said the Venus Congo is approaching All out civil a rocket while it is travelling project had tremendous propaganda nigh a value for the russians. French s pact expat i prof. Alex a if you demonstrate you have Andre an nov said soviet Scien the technology to put lists seemed to be trying to leap into orbit around the Frog space achievements by a fir a War. Katanga s i Tite r t o r minister Godefroid Lunongo announced the a Fig big spate snips room for to Quot of or three men far out into the solar he said it appeared to him that russians might leave to the a deaths of Lumumba former min Earth an or y0u alld egg pig Maurice rocket of that satellite at. ,.motolo and former Deputy Senate right moment the right a speaker Joseph Okito at a news trajectory and the right velocity this afr noon. To hit Venus you ability to hit a Cam shortly. Any Point on Earth becomes All it Bot orc the United nations Security fire the the More impressive a a he said. Forel it ears is a state not a National Issue had the mormons not got into a controversy the Federal government Over bigamy Utah could have had a state religion. The Wilson insurance Agency received a certificate of recognition and appreciation for Over 36 years representation of employers Mutual failed 25-24 casualty company of Des Moines i the measure which will be the on feb. 9. The presentation was House s vehicle for launching the made by w. B. Schmitt Iowa Field debate tuesday would set up a 99 supervisor for the company and a member House based on area and Centeri on behalf of the Agency by j a 56-member Senate based on to. T. Wilson. O. T. Wilson has Long been Active i the Bill was drafter by the House in Community and Church affairs. Reapportionment committee and of is a director of the Henry coun endorsed for passage. Unlike the to savings Bank the Henry county. _ a Rita if Shaft proposal in the Senate the agricultural association a past City our i Iii a England appeared House Bill goes to the floor councilman a amp at president of the improve the Camp located a few Miles South of Nauvoo 111. Many Drin have been Able to Benefit from things should have been done but easter Seal care and rehabilitation for various reasons they have not been. An rocket on Way to Venus . 3 years away from Matching russians feat they will not All be accomplished in one year now it has been stressed. But by getting the program underway contributions on a continuing basis Many of the projects can be carried through to successful completion. He added. Quot and this Yew the need will be even greater the opening of Camp Sunnyside ill this new summer Camp established for Iowa s crippled children is the first of its kind in Iowa and will be operated by the easter a interplanetary Seal society. Moscow up a a ton soviet rocket ship hurtled through the blackness of Venus today in Washington a up. A the United states is about three years away from Matching russians space toward of launching a spacecraft Toman s first at a hid Venus. Religious institutions appeared at the very beginning of our his a Jpn Ai on ton the episcopalians were Here in 1607 the roman catholics in 1539 the jews in 1654 the congregationalists who became so in portent m new auditor tills week. In american 1620 and the methodists in 1766. The term separation of Church and state has gamed excessive cum in recent years our Early universities were established by religious groups some to train their clergymen i tor to the revolutionary War All the colleges and universities in America had been established by protestant churches. In 1791, a Catholic College was established in Geol Etown which is now part of Washington do a by archbishop John Carroll of Maryland right of religious denominations to establish their own universities has never been questioned since the Dartmouth College Case in 1819, in which the chief Justice John Marshall held Itiat a charter Given to a College could not be trans formed by acts of the state legislates. This decision has never been j changed either by constitutional i amendments or legislative action Chancellor James Kent said of this Case a a. Did More than any other single act proceeding from the authority of the United states to throw an impregnable Barrier around All lights and franchises derived from the men and to g inviolability to the literary Charit .sci100j Able religious and commercial institutions of our country a since then however some of the sectarian universities such As Columbia which was Episcopalian or Princeton which was presbyterian Lave Bec it me secular institutions however the roman approval. The kiwanis club past lieutenant gov criticizes a closed meeting a decision on car tempt to reach out mechanically scientists said it would take this t Cartis companion Planch country that Long to achieve the tile Palt probe a called an necessary rocket Power to Send a station Quot by the space probe to Venus or other re. was launched sunday planets from a Quot Mother Quot satellite which president Kennedy had carried it beyond the heaviest informed saturday night pull of Gravity i Council in new York was to take up the general question of the Congo and Lumumba Fate. I too Lunongo said the three men have been identified beyond any possible doubt and that their death has been Quot definitely Quot their bodies have been buried immediately at a place we do not wish to reveal Quot he said. A we Are not revealing either the name of the Village w h i c la witnessed the end of the sad exploits of Lumumba and his accomplices. A in effect we do not wish that these Katan Gese a of which tribe will not be mentioned should be the object of eventual reprisals on the part of the Lumumba its. W a i committee Shaft plan passed out of committee Cranor of the Iowa Illinois District Sioux City Iowa up cml endorsement. I of kiwanis an Active member of Woodbury county auditor George. Des Moines up a Melvin the House version of the reap the methodist Church and a past m Carlin whose accounts showed Synhorst Secretary of state today most of pm ratio Ament Dangle is expected to member of the school Board. He has a shortage of $10,500. Was ousted soundly criticized the Quot closed b at least spirited As the one Over the years carefully trained his from office today by the county meeting practices Quot of other Mem which occupied the Senate for 3 a it son r a. Wilson in the principles j Board of supervisors. Bees of the Iowa executive Council. Hours last wednesday. Of Agency management. R a. Wilson the supervisors voted unanimous Synhorst said he was Quot excluded Quot i and As the various factions re Jug j ast Secretary of the kiwanis a by to fire Carlin 41. On grounds i our themselves for tuesday s de District commissioner of Hyla Dis j that he failed to file quarterly Bitte. Gov. Norman a Erbe in i. Trio. Southeast Council of boy reports. William b Harper a re scouts of America is a graduate of publican businessman who lost to the school of Mutual insurance Carlin in the election last novem company management of Purdue Ber. Was named to succeed him. More than office just one floor below the legislative Halls still climbers for reapportionment. The Republican chief executive the russians elated at from a meeting at which three shot said the station would members allegedly approved the rental of a 1961 Model automobile for use by gov. Norman a. Eric. Grant Cunningham Council Secretary. Said he , state auditor Quot we do not wish either to be of the the object of pressure to exercise soviet launching before it was of judicial action against the a we Stern and soviet scientists tidally announced by Moscow,.tangelo who have maybe acted. Hid the system indicated remark a and the United states has been somewhat a advanced guidance systems tracking the russian Craft. J nor Lunongo added did the and powerful rockets. The method j however White House press it government wish to encourage had been discussed for years but Secretary Pierre Salinger said i Quot eventual pilgrimages to the so far As was known thus was the Kennedy would have no com first time it had been Trad. Mint. This country maintained a i since their reported escape if successful the Pace probe news blackout on tracking Infor-1 from their jail at Mung Lunga might be likened to standing in in at Ion about the Venus shot and last week the whereabouts of the the 7.1 ton sputnik launched t three had been a mystery. Only j sunday night they were unofficial the target year for tending a in reported to have crossed into u. S. Rocket to the Vicinity of be j no. Or Mars i. 1904. The next new Yolk a Rifle and hitting an Apple in san Francisco. To travel for months be i Ore of the planet part of May. Premier Nikita the have three Northern Rhode. A Reading Venus Quot Ute Quot an a i Ideal launching period for a to the latter to Venus will come late in 1962 Khrushchev University Secretary treasurer of tile Board s action was Imine i hot b Akers and treasurer m l. Returned to Moscow sunday from Survey of the in the cd Libra Abrahamson attended the meeting an agricultural Reiter Tud his desire for adoption of the Henry county Mutual an acutely challenged by Carlin s at a reapportionment Bill to Legisla tic member of the methodist tourney Frank Margolin who con tuesday Jan. 31, which was not provinces to share live leaders last week and is sex Church a member of both the Iowa tended that Only a District court open to new men. Petted to lobby just As tirelessly Mutual agents association and the could remove Carlin from office. Executive Council j but the United states apparently i wont have sufficient rocket Power i for the attempt by then. American Hopes for Firin cession Aie Ion. A i he comm Uuk t party new spa Iowa association of Independent i however Woodbury county atty. Usually held on monday mornings Jyh r pravda proclaimed Quot new insurance agents and a member of Edward Samore said that the Board a d Are open to newsmen Mem Steffensmeier boy taken by death Michael Leonard Steffensmeier 16, died sunday about 4 30 p. In. At University hospitals Iowa City Atter an extended illness. The Eon of Andrew and Adelaide Groene Steffensmeier. He was born january 3, 1945 in Henry i county. He was a member of St the Henry county association of id pendent insurance agents employers Mutual casualty company now has offices from coast to i coast and in Canada. The company w rib s a full line of insurance Cov Era gee outside the life Field through 1 Independent agencies such As the Wilson firm. O. T. Wilson started i writing insurance in 1924. And pm jul oyers Mutual is now in its 50th year As an Iowa company serving iowans. Stage in Conquest of outer space Quot and carried comments of Praise from soviet and Western scientists. N. Bomb Basho director of the Kharkov Blate University Obert. Tory said the new space hot possibilities is beneath the Cloud cover around Venus often termed earths ter planet i he in. Tans said a special Grant it govern a i Phons us Catholic Church and at Phi Affif is i Kuil Ive solidity and fended the St Alphonsin parochial 1 guilt Lull As he preaches surviving Are his parents three Sisters Joyce and Donna at homr j and mrs. James Wanda Pruett of it. , and the maternal grandparents. Or. And mrs. George Greene of West Point. A brother Arlo predeceased him Cath on november 19, 1943. Olios have e i a ribbed a Large turn last rites for Michael Stef f Ember it it universities such As Ford Ham. Notre Dame Villanova etc., Meler will be held wednesday morning at 9 o clock at St. Al a Quot 1 a a As have established Phonsus Church the Rev. John Yeshiva University in new York. New London a the Rev. John Well to. Pastor of the new London presbyterian Church became ill while preaching at the morning service sunday. He was taken to a Burlington Hospital by ambulance and is undergoing tests to determine the cause of the attack described Asj St. Alphonsus j resembling a Quot fainting he All schools cold ties and universities secular or denominational a usually subsidized by both the state and Federal governments by lie it a opted from taxation. Without this exemption these in could not exist. Such been presented to Congress in the lame contributors to education As form of an act of legislation it the various foundations usually do is not final that the proposed j could oust the auditor if he failed Bors of the Council Are the gov to file quarterly reports. He. Said Cranor Secretary of Static Secretary this opinion was concurred in by of agriculture. State auditor and Iowa atty. Gen. Evan Hultman state treasurer. At. The same time Earl Holloway. Erl c has not yet re lived the j in charge of county audits for the Pontiac air Gondi tinned four opt my Quot Broad t state auditor s office disclosed that door hard top automatic traits Lor discovering what an audit showed the county Mission Auto auditor s funds had a shortage of the leasing arrangement $10,500.79 for the period from Jan. Sumner Pontiac co. Des Moines i. 1959, to feb. 6. 1961. A pre called for a $122 per month fee Laminar audit a week ago had placed the figure at $13,666.83. Carlin a Democrat who first took office Jan. 2, 1959, was reelected to a two year term in november. Atter the shortages were Dis closed. Carlin offered to step aside to exist years ago Quot but the practice Lor a week. While a state audit was bad been a pretty Well broken up completed. The auditor s office was recently. While the state audit was al Quot be said the dispute Quot is much Earth i ado about from the beginning. Observers had viewed the reported Quot escape Quot of the three men disbelief. Some had speculated that the three were killed and that the re a re port of their a a escape a was an Dace Nee rocket to Venus rest j Lyra Tely planted Story to set the Saturn upor Booster a a the stage for a claim that they a rocket 15 million pounds j were killed while in flight. Of thu t. The Saturn s first stage Lumumba and his two adherents i scheduled for a test flight later had been transferred to Tho this year. Death claims mrs. R. Pfeiffer mrs. Robert Pfeiffer 71. Died a government sunday morning february 12, at Tain. Memorial Hospital. Custody of k a t a n g a province president mole Thor be the def premieres bitterest enemy from custody at the congolese army Camp near Thys Ville Las ii Jan. 17. Tile three men were beaten badly at the time by their Cap tors and had disappeared behind imposed Iron cur flight. Center was tracking the which covers All costs except Gaso Rodeo ship and controlling the line and washing. Times it radioed Back to Earth on Clara purse Tia Wagner i Eifler Synhorst said he neither objected 922 8 Mega cycles. Was born june 23. 1889 in Fredonia nor approved the leased car a there a. No indication Wyeth the daughter of Charles and Launa ran gement but said he protested or the rocket ship would hit pc i Mickey Wagner. As a Quot matter of Nils Circle around it. Or shoot to said the secret meeting Quot used right by into spate. The a Mother Quot satellite which earned the interplanetary tation aloft started in orbit around the of this Union wore born attempts but representatives she was married on october i Dio in Muscatine to Robert pal for who survives. Closed made. The announcement Aid. Rep. Schwengel eulogies life of Lincoln before general Assembly to play title game at Parsons College fieldhouse four children mrs John anon Jeffrey i of it. Pleasant Ralph Pfeiffer of Oakdale Robert w. Pfeiffer of i North Liberty and Raymond l. 1 Pfeiffer of Avalon Wise. I Manning pastor of officiating. Interment will be in St. Cemetery in St. Paul Iowa. Rosary will be read at 8 tuesday at the r. K funeral Home. James Des Moines a up it a the life was reported getting along Satis of Abraham Lincoln was eulogized Facto Rily monday. To is serving his p m.,f the Crane j i new third year London Church. Over 400 visit Harlan Home not discriminate against schools or school legislation in Congress will colleges because of their religious discriminate against religious reduce non of ii oils affiliations. National institutions. The proposed this is the situation As it sex new York state legislation to give Isis at moment. The present each student $200 is really a Meas ass no it Ion by roman catholics is lire to help support denominational thai president Kennedy s school Colleg without raising the Issue Aid a in a i be entirely Sec of the separation of Church and alar and already Cardinal spell i state. Man has voiced a protest. As copyright 1961, King features i of v r. The or Yivon has no yet indicate. Inc a Over 400 people from a radius of too Miles attended the Oplt n House at the James Harlan Home on the before a joint session of the Iowa at general Assembly today by rep. Fred Schwengel a iowan Schwengel a Davenport r publican now serving his fourth term in Congress from Iowa a first District eloquently recited a Lincoln sesquicentennial address delivered by poet Carl Sandburg two years ago before a joint session of Congress. The House chamber packed members of both houses and on Ture s Observance of the 152nd anniversary of Lincoln a birth. Hailing read a poem entitled Quot picture Quot he said a famous statesman had written to describe i Lincoln a appear a Nee at Gettys Burg. Pa., for bus historic address there. Knowles Sang three ballads accompanying himself on a guitar. Schwengel. A former Iowa House speaker remarked that Knowles a inc Campus sunday. Mrs. Helen lookers in the eateries. Was Revor Virden assisted the executive director. Larry Belles in welcoming visitors and showing the Home. The James Harlan House was open again monday additional out of town people visit tog u entry quiet As Schwengel spoke softly slowly and fluently. Two members of the Iowa House reps. Eugene hailing Ltd Orient and Paul Knowles a Davenport in participated in the Legisla tie site of the it. Pleasant i Airfield Southeast six title rage tilt i riday night has been changed from the Fairfield High school gym to the spacious Parsons fieldhouse. Details on sports Page. Student arrested on driving charge also surviving arc seventeen grandchildren two great-grand-1 children and seven Brothers and two Sisters. Noah Wagner of Sig tourney Benjamin Wagner of Thompson iu., Carl Wagner of Salem Ralph. Donald Barton and Arnold Wagner All of Fredonia mrs. Mahala Smith of Muscatine and mrs. Erma Miller of Stour i United Nalo no to see or interview Lumumba or his companions were denied repeatedly by the Katan Gese authorities a who insisted the three men were in Good condition. Tile Katan Gese government said Lumumba and his two supporters had overpowered their guards at their farmhouse jail and fled in an ancient ear two rifles and enough gasoline to last 60 Miles i the Katan Gese government said the car was found wrecked in a ditch last Friday. Lumumba a death was expected to set off new violence in the Congo. Ney. By parents and Are deceased. Or Pfeifer was mrs. R. Smithburg taken by death Harvey Gelander Parsons col the Church of Christ pc Rcd to be just As Good As Sand Ieese student from Oregon 111., was Bethel the Rebecca Lodge Burg at playing the guitar. Arrested by the Highway patrol and the vow auxiliary. The High school chorus from North of it. Pleasant on Highway i services will be wednesday Schwengels boyhood Home of so f 218 and charged reckless at 2 p. In. At the Weir cookes Field also appeared on the program j driving liquor involved. Funeral Home the Rev. Gil and Sang two selections prior to the Gelander posted $100 Bond and Ben Stout pastor of first Metho was released. Hearing will be held dist Church officiating. Congressman a address. Gov. Norman a Erbe was a Spe in Justice Cial guest on the speakers platform. Saturday. George Means court interment will Home cemetery. Mrs. Ralph Smithburg of Lek a half brother Ridge died saturday. Feb. La in j Lockridge. She had let in in poor a no tuber of health tor several months. Cedar she is survived by or. Smithburg arc and the following children mrs. Robert West of Dave Nix it it mrs. Ben Houts of Bettendorff Everett Smithburg of Fairfield Aud Clarence Smithburg of Lockridge funeral services will be held tuesday at 2 p It the new he be in Forest Den methodist Church West of four Corners

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