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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 14, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Soke by the Post office mess if an incumbent postmaster general could be convinced that criticism of the Post office is not criticism of the postmaster Genet a1, As it cannot be since the difficulties go Way Back into american j history and for which Congreve is As responsible As any individual More Progress could be made in rehabilitating this organization. The Post office is a business and requires business management. It is Abo a Public servant and re a quires the Broad Outlook of the j first and most usual Contact that every citizen has with his gov i eminent. It is also a source of to i Litu Al patronage for politicians an therefore a undoubtedly been tile j most abused of All government Lin. Tuition. It is a difficult Agency to it Hie Post office is neither modern in it methods nor efficient in its operations. Tile Hoover reports have est bullied Many of the shortcoming f f this Enterprise. Taking it for granted that the present postmaster general Arthur Sun Merfield is an excellent business manager he would not operate his. Own business with antiquated tools i and obsolete methods. Iii most Matt. Is. He has practically nothing to. Say As to what the plot office should do because he is bound by j t Gilt Laws passed by Congress Over j to e past Century and a half or 1 Mere. Senator Olin Johnson in an article Calls attention to these two facts a first our Post office was not designed to make Money for the government. Created by the Continental Congress in 1775, it was conceived As a service to the people in contrast to the practice in other countries where pot office w Ere run As Money makers for Kings. A second the Money you pay for such pot office purchases As stamp does not go to the Post Chi ice. Every cent the Post office receives goes into the general fund of the Treasury. Every cent it spends comas from appropriations by Congress. When Revenal Are less than the congressional appropriations we have the familiar a Post office deficit a vol. So no. 38 it. Pleasant. Iowa Friday evening. Eek. I i 1958 by Carrier St Par week by mall 1730 per year Iraq and Jordan unite As Arab Federal state Amman it ins it Kings Faisal cd Iraq and Hussein of Jordan v Nitro their Arab kingdoms today under the Banner of their great Grandfather. The Young descendants of Hussein bin a of the great hash emite dynasty proclaiming that hereafter their kingdoms would be known As the Arab Federal state agreed to a single government Economy army and foreign policy. The federation will be headed by Faisal who will alternate his capital every three months Between Baghdad and Amman but Hussein also will retain the title of King. The new Arab federation the second to be proclaimed in the Middle East in two weeks links shout 5,000,000 iraqis and 1,500,000 jordanians. Egypt and Syria joined together As the United Arab Republic f b i and Yemen has agreed to join them later this month. Faisal Hussein and iraqi Crown Prince Abdul hah who played an important role in bringing the cousins together under one Flag each declared a this is the happiest moment of my shortly after tile signing Faisal returned to Baghdad the two Young Kings embraced at the Airport and Faisal leeches a 21-gun Salute. The proclamation signing took place at a pre breakfast ceremony in Hussein a Palace at Amman after til rec Days of negotiations \ jordanian spokesman said details of the federation May take three months to work out. A big detail concerns iraqis membership in the pro Western Baghdad pact Jordan along with the rest of the Arab world has a posed the pact in the past. King Sand of saudi Arabia reportedly was represented at the merger negotiations but his position is highly Uncertain. Mack answers charge Iff Quot a. A a a i _ i. Tail l1 Quot a Quot. Ii i Lull i la i i -1 a a iu.�?1,1 i celebrates her first Valentine Day at age eighteen bathroom May be w election Issue an american experience that she had not Prev Toul it enjoyed in nil her eighteen years thrilled Elsa Ilion Exchange student from Finland and a senior in the local High school Friday in Finland St Valentine s Day is not observed so previously had novel received not exchanged Valentine. Hoi i pleasant classmates and friends decided to do something about cupid s i la y vat Vum began to arrive thursday and Friday at the it Tlell Taylor Home where Elsa stays and when she went to get her books from her locker that she shares w Ith Pat Taylor near Princl a pal George Stanley a office it was covered with a Gigantic Valentine made with four pieces of construction paper As a background arum with ii big Pat cd cloth heart in Center edged with lace and bearing the inscription in Geld. For Elsa a Small hearts decorated the four Corners of the Valentine it was so big that its Width covered two lockers and it had to Bel removed when Elsas and paths next door neighbors wanted to use their locker. Boy Dies after being swept Over Waterfall Star is born a Dave Garroway and ins wife former actress Ballerina Pamela Wilde look joyfully at their Newborn baby David Cunningham Garroway jr., in new Yorkus mount Sinai Hospital. He a their first. He weighed 5 lbs. 5 of. Nurse is Eva Blumstein. International ids Angeles ins a Calif Bey who was swept Mountain Waterfall and f Colton of or a la Joo May i. I Ink end it belial e x i Pientz. It of mount a today Lias charged that a bathroom a apparent has been Given Prim try Over Rotnor capital improvements in the he referred to a news item w sch reported that $2,087 had been spent for i a a modelling a bathroom ii til governor s mansion in Des m lines the Veteran legislator said it Torday that the remodelling lob took a a preferences a Over the a veterans in the Marshalltown Soldier of in Iowa or n to i bos trite i patient my the states University and Coiler students a tin state Senate Alii the gov Emory a veto of capital improvement funds has cawed a plaster tailing it other state institutions the governor was quoted As by ing that the plaster was falling in the bathroom at the mansion and that a something had to be it us Quot Prential included that the a e modelling of the room at the Nikii on a has been placed Quot before other improvements. J referring to the remarks made by of Antis the Gove nor Ald in j Des Moines the state Board of a it cents had More t Han one and one half million dollars for repairs and alterations to state institutions of higher learning and that Prentis perhaps did no understand the inference Between repairs and capital improvements the governor s veto of a capital improvement Bill for state institutions was criticized by Prentis regarding the bathroom situation tile governor Auld men s lounge in the House and Senate California to Texas by ambulance Barbara mane Johnson 3, looks not at nil concerned about a trip from Al Monte calif., to Houston Tex., by ambulance she needs medical help Foi a rare muscular disease and Houston doctors hunk they can help Houston citizen donated funds for Barbara s medical care. International sound Futta i Jenson May ask Congress fur Moro soil Hank funds i a it Moi lies in culture Secretary at a news Conli that his might ask p Etc Narv funds Etc payment. In 11 r i aft i cure i a i Heidi , Tod a \ in a word the pest office May net have a deficit at All or the deficit May be larger than appears. The Post office does not knows it carries operations for other agencies of government which Are charged to it such As the Deer and grouse census in Michigan that senator Johnson tells about. The Post office registers aliens for the department of Justice for instance. Hie Cost of such registration is charged to the Post office and t makes up the deficit. You ought to read senator Olin Johnson a article in the february a a Reader a digest Quot to realize How much of this sort of thing goes on. Women of Moose and auxiliary to Call at Homes report big sheep losses because of the heavy snowstorm and extreme cold the annual mothers March and torchlight Campaign was postponed until better weather made it easier for the women of the Moose and the american legion auxiliary to get about. The women of the Moose will solicit the East half of i. Pleasant while the american legion i iary plans to canvass the West Richard Anderson new London has filed a claim in the auditors office at the courthouse for $1,470 for 70 lambs which he reported were killed by dogs or wolves last tuesday. Sam r. Spray Hillsboro filed a claim of $123.50 for 18 sheep killed recently. Max Spray of Hillsboro Auxin a claim of $39.60 for two lambs and another claim for $42.80 for two Fet in two stages died of hts a i juries As rescuers tried to reach him. I body deep in a Rock bound i Sherr wailed Canyon is to be i i brought out today. The victim of Ute Accident was Donald bums 13. He was on a hike with nine of his school mates to the lop of big a Falls Canyon on 11.485-Fuot it. Washburn in. San Gorgonio. Wednesday when a year old Rural Joe slipped off the icy Trail at the 7000. J h Ortner was crushed foot level and into coursing in a series the torchlight Campaign will Start Unis. J at 6 . Sharp monday night. All with this evidence that dogs of i residents of the City Are asked to i we Lycus Are roaming the new London i leave their porch lights on until of a 11h Hillsboro areas Farmers Are and i ter the solicitors have called at is cd to keep a close watch on then i flocks. Their Homes. Deeds recorded two proper special groups Are interested in modernizing and rationalizing the past office bookkeeping system if nothing else. One 1 a. A group is the citizens who regard t of i of pm Lucs the Pat office As an important i instrument of business because of1 their dependence upon the mails j for their services the other group j Are the postal workers who Are i inadequately paid. I new London township. As the bookkeeping system of the j Walker to Andy Hoover pc-1 office controlled by acts of Congress is so antiquated that nobody really knows whether there is a deficit or not. Ever time there is a Public outcry about the size of the deficit or whenever the past office employees want higher pay l<1m the Only answer seem to be to charge More for tamps and services or to Aioli it a a service. This defeats the purpose of the very existence of the Post office. J the sheep claims arc paid by the a county at the end of each year. Papers hied for chamber were remodeler it a of $20,000 following action by last legislature. Young Man Accident victim Tost the ii la soil Hank Benson arrive �?T2nd National f Bon Giess for tor acreage View of the Prog i am j to addle., no Institute sup re Rush the in select y Ards to build subs the Stream thursday when a of cascades i of l on him As he in up Man to dump rut k greased Tho a 25 Hugh death Box vehicle authorities said the victim cd said a Trident was working under raised Box at the garage of Young but construction co. The the tile at school offices b in for instance this year the question of increased pay for postal employee must come before Congress. The majority Leader Lyndon Johnson in a speech on the Senate floor warned that when the question of postal pay legislation arose he a had been informed by both Republican and democratic senators that they would introduce amendments to raise the rates. Til Post office does not need a profit but it ought not to claim a deficit unless by the Best accountancy methods a realistic deficit is established. Senator Olin Johnson said pay increases for postal or other Federal employees should not and Mast not depend on the increased revenues from postage rates unless we wish to limit future pay adjustments for the employees of the agriculture department until that department budget is balanced or of the employees of the internal Revenue service unless and until taxes Are increased and so on Down the line. We had l tier not set thus dangerous the following deeds have recorded at the courthouse. William licit and wife to George k Helt. Property in Section 17 of Millie j. Property on East Washington Street. Emery l. Wood and wife to Cecil m. Wood property in new London. Robert w. Mckim Ani Wile to Charles h. Rauscher property on North Pine. H. M. Hild and wife to Robert w and wife property on East i Monroe. Oscar v. Abrahamson and i wife to state of Iowa property in j Section 34 of Wayne township. Walter s. Brown it a1, to Vincent s. Chafer it a1, quit claim deed j property in Wayland. Oliver e 1 Bur key and wife to Maynard e it i Miller property in new London. J n. J. Westerbeck and wife to Dick 1 Mcpheron and wife property in j new London. Helen v. Bishop Sam to son and husband to Mason Al a Ion Ann wife property at East Mon be and Harrison. George Willeford i it Al to Roger s. Galer attorney and agent property on South to i Cust. Nomination papers have been filed for Stanley Looker for Relec i Tion As a member of Hie it. Pleas i ant school Board. His term is the Only one expiring this year nomination papers have also been filed for j. P. Buckle whose term As school treasurer this year. The school election will be held monday March to. Down the Steep Canyon. His chum Mickey Gardner reporting on what happened a i till d to grab him but he flipped and i hold on. Tile water to lied him the Burns boy plunged with the water to a ledge he feet below then the water pushed him Over that Brink and he fell another 2 x feet to a second ledge the boy survived the Falls and waved to rescuers who tried to reach him All Wec lne Day afternoon and night. The membership report for the however he was in an almost Fine arts series will be made Bat a a Cees Ible spot and could not be urday noon at the luncheon at the reached. He Lay on the ledge in i Harlan hotel worker who have freezing temperatures All night. Contacted residents of the communal thursday efforts were made to Ity for membership will meet tor get him with a Marine corp lunch at i ., according to mrs helicopter but the Canyon was too Henry Traut vice president and a Row for the machine to descend membership chairman. I Washburn when the to it of slipped 1 Down crushing his Chest the Waterloo Rescue s q u a d rushed to the scene and admin uttered oxygen without results. Will report on Fine arts membership into it. Present proposal for a a Extension school at Ottumwa Wilbur Sater to seek nomination Des Moines Insi to use the former Navy turn Waas a two year a proposal base at of a a Extension Quot most of tile visits were made prior to the snowstorm today and a Large Congress had membership is in store for the mendahoiv1 1958-9 season. New members joining j Benson under arc permitted to attend the remain Farmers lot Hiing concert of this season april 15 on that Date Mildred dining harpist will present a concert. He said that he might by limed to ask rung less lot Anthol it my Hunts i. Make payment in Cush or kind Quot despite the Lai t that the risen Howe administration a. Heady announced intentions to do away with the soil Bank program he said the reason for his possible decision was to get More funnels in under the program before it is halted. He said tin administration plans to it terminate the sol Bank program la cause the conservation Reserve a is beginning to take hold a Benson at the news Conte cure termed the criticism of farm subsidies a Vei v Luif Aii a and Aid that All America to Benefit by subsidies to some extent he said he wanted to do wha was Quot Best for Agricula Tine in the Long run but did no elaborate la or thai in his reasons or planned programs he suggested that shipment of More food abroad would Cut surpluses in this country and declined t nut it was uni air to hav the Cost ii this program charged to la department of agriculture since it Quot is really foreign Aid Quot Ben on also Dedans i that the Quot reason the soil Bank funds have run out Quot is because Congress failed to appropriate enough Money Fin the program he said that there would have it been sufficient fund if followed his recon i is i two Solick d let the Navy loth rec biggest sub world for firing Laris missile from unsubstantiated he says requests a a Hance to appear Washington. In a fac commissioner Richard a Mack do. Lxiv Tho Cheges that he accepted Money in return for his vote on a valuable television License award in Miami Fla. Were �?ounsub-1 stunt Atod Quot and Quot without found i mid in a letter to rep. Oren Harris i Ark which was Marie i Public at the Federal communion i Lions commission requested a Chance to appear before the House subcommittee investigating the charges. Bernard Schwartz ousted committee counsel told the group i Lim Shay t Tiht Mack had received $3,6 from an attorney employed by a National airline subs id iary who ii wan seeking and eventually won the to station giant mat k also told Harris who has assumed chairmanship of the strife torn subcommittee on legislative oversight that he was in touch w the Fri director j. Edgar Hoover a to cooperate with him or his representatives at any time in every Way possible a tile Fri is investigating the charges on orders from attorney general William p. Rogers the Florida Democrat named to j the commission by president Bison Bower in 1955, told newsmen As he a reset cd his letter that he has no j intention no resigning Ai a result of the accusation made at thursdays House subcommittee session Tho commissioner said he wanted j an a Early Opportunity Quot to answer mile Quot unsubstantiated lunges a in Hon gum Vaicuis were elect Day to build tile marines in Tho the 1.500-mile i1 under water the first of tin three Hue Leaf powered submarines will be constructed for it it i to million dollars a Hie electric Buat division of tile general dynamic go it a a j duration innuendoes and distal Groton Conn builder of tile naut us flip first Domic sub tile boat division will Alo build on Quot of the other in by a tines at a Cost of 85 to to million dollars tile third us will in con tinted it mire i. Land naval shipyard Lear san i Anc Roo. Gunman gets $1,418 in Holdup about 450 see play thursday night Wilbur Sater new London town hip Fanner and former supervisor announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for the 1960 i term on the Board of supervisors. He has served two terms on the j Board. Sater is the fourth Republican to enter the Quot race for the 1960 term. Others Art John Metcalf incumbent Mel Haberman Wayland and Clarence Reid of Canaan town i ship. School for the state universities was made today to a joint meet ing of \ the state Board of regents and department of Public instruction. Representatives of the education committee of the Ottumwa chamber of Commerce submitted the proposal to the joint meeting. Two unions to Pool resources ask Security Council to act United nation. N a ins Tunisia Calid on the u. N Security Council today to halt French actions Quot which threaten Tunisia Security and endangers in Terna tuna i peace and Security in North Africa founders Day program at Iowa Wesleyan fire from Midwest program said he wants to give the funnel the a foul freedoms they want. I Freedom to Plant Freedom to Market Freedom to meet compete i lion. And Freedom from govern. Men interference As much As is possible he defended lits program by runic what he called the highest incline per Poison on farms in history despite the fact that farm costs Are High to and declare Blat there has been a halt to the postwar trend downward in Price. I is Moines ins a Lone gunman held up a Des Moines tavern today and escaped with $1,418. A Hie Holdup occurred at the Golden Nugget tavern. The Bandit walked in pulled a gun on mrs Fred Bishop the operator ordered Tai to ii on the floor and scooped up tile Money As she was counting it u Frank Fredregus of the police department said i Bishop had just opened up the tavern and 11 n shed counting the Money when the Man walked in. Mrs Bishop was not Hurt but was badly frightened when the Man Drew a gun and ordered her to lie Down she was not bound la Fredregill said the Man might have worn a Scarf Over his face but j materials Quot that mrs Bishop could not give a radioactive Lions no recklessly made by Bernard a i am confident a Mack told Harris a that when All the facts Are presented to your committee you will conclude that the accusation a if Bernard Schwartz Are without foundation Quot crashes May spread a hazardous nuclear materials Washington Intile atom c Energy commission and Tho defense department admitted today that Quot hazardous nuclear materials can by spread by Era hrs of Plain s carrying nuclear weapons even if then is no atomic explosion. The joint statement said Ruch materials could be distributed Quot locally and could re edit in serious injury to human beings if taken a internally a by the two agencies emphasized however that such nuclear material would not be Quot fallout of fission de that is it would not be Good description of him. Transient causes trouble at Church Percy Givin i Seldom t e Stone to Day in mayor transient u Poi kit d Wade my be Washington Insi a the ousted bakery workers Union said today it has reached an agreement with the j teamsters also expelled from the Al Cio. Under which the two unions will put their resources to a crowd of about 450 persons enjoyed the second presentation of j High ground by the Junior class of it. Pleasant High school at the school auditorium thursday even ing. The play was again splendidly presented with the entire All Junior cast doing exceptionally Well. Firemen at Salem collect bather in organizing workers and. $120 for March of dimes Salem firemen collected $120.65 for the March of dimes saturday night Wrhen they covered the town Topping at All Homes where the torchlight were turned on to accept the contributions several persons stayed at the fire station until late in the even both unions were expelled from the Al Cio by the federations convention last december on the ground that they were dominated by corrupt leaders. Marriage License issued precedent a How True copyright. 1958, Syndicate inc marriage at the King features License has been is clerks office in the ing to the Polo fund. I courthouse to Roland Leslie Hatton j chief j. H. Moeller of the Salem 25. Winfield and Janet sue Fye 21 i fire department headed the Effort. Or Union. Ing playing games and further add a sued i courthouse to Roland Leslie 3 p in sunday Iowa Wesleyan Chapel Public invited special music by the Iowa Wesleyan choir directed by or. David e Price invocation or. Donald h Bishop introduction of speaker Arnold Salisbury address or Joseph c Hinsey presentation of alumni awards Arnold Salisbury j presentation of honorary degree candidate. Or. Hinsey by or. Jack Early a presentation of who a who citation or. J. Raymond Chadwick j acceptance mayor Wade l. My Beth i Candle lighting ceremony with 117 Iowa Wesleyan students participating or j. Raymond Chadwick Benediction i reception at student Union a spaceman show signs of fatigue san Antonio Tex. It ins it air Force a a spaceman a Donald g fal Len. Getting a bit tired of it All after his fifth Day in a make believe space ship Cabin was reported today to be filling the gaps of boredom by purported confession read Washington ins a purported confess on in which m set. Royia re d a a told of a waking up in j bed with a russian Beauty As a i prelude to entrapment in a red i spy ring was read today at the 1 soldiers a court martial on espionage conspiracy charges. Court Friday afternoon on a charge of disturbing the peace the sentence was suspended on Corii lion that the Man leave town which he did. I bion Quot a taken into custody by City police thurs by night at to to i . Aft r be created a disturbance at. The Baptist Church. The Man a kid for Money at the Church. He was offered a meal but j it mad and made another de i mend for Money. Police were called my took the Man to the City jail. Christian science program Over wet a radio program of the a Columbia Church of the air series will be broadcast from station wet goo be on sunday night Fob. 16th from 11 10 to 11 40 . This will ire a Christian science program with in subject Quot Many a growing awareness of gods gifts a p tic pants will be major general Charles w. Christen Berry of new York and quartet and soloists. J the statement noted that the i Pentagon and dec have adopted j a strict safety measures and it is a unlikely any Perron inadvertently exp r de would inhale dangerous i amounts of the unfit signed Iii earlier this week a military to lib so it tuber and a Jet aircraft crashed off the coast of Georgia sending a nuclear weapon into the Atlantic Ocean. The Pentagon refused to comment today on whether this crash precipitated today s announcement. The statement Aid the u. S. Has specially trained teams which can be dispatched immediately to contaminated areas and a twist experience has shown that clean up procedures Are highly cold weather keeps Ike indoors Thomasville ga., inst c id weather kept president Eisenhower indoors today and he subset tut i. Bridge for the Hunting and golfing he had been looking Forward to n his annual a sunny South vacation. At 8 30 a m. It est the temperature was 22 degrees and the forecast was for cloudiness this afternoon and rain this evening

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