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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 16, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 39mt. Pleasant Iowa. Thursday evening i Ghio Auy Iii loot spraying and sanitation recommended for control of dutch Elm disease Here to hold conference a report on the dutch Elm Dis a a Short Cousim hold at Amos ,11<n a Mhz a Quot a Lla Ulins a a Quot it 10 recently was made by Biose at la Quot a Quot Quot a tar a urine ii tending at the Cly Council meeting 15 could la contracted wednesday night by profession a a sprayers for a Cost tile committee pointed out that not 10 l a cd m j5&Quot Law and a a Henry count is surrounded on Tim a sides by Trio disease and is Likely to experience the disease in 1961,recommendations for spraying and sanitation procedures were made to tile Council after discussion of the threat of the disease the Council decided to employ the Davey tree company tot trim out the dead parts of Trees in the City s Park. As a control measure. I cast. Of around $5 per tree on private property. 16. That the communities and states which Are infected with ded Are overrun by Salesman Selling worthless cures and tree trimming services at exorbitant prices. Recommendations the tree committee makes the following recommendations i that tin Davey i rec company be engaged immediately to furnish climbers and equipment for trimming the Clin Trees in the City play rates division i because of the importance of the chem Oil to i pleasant which has Park Ancl and a re Iran estimated 3.000 Elm tree the conium Uon with Cut it employees on Valentine party a rotarians entertained their rotary Anns at a Valentine party at the s Udint Union. Shown at the head table Are mrs. Norval Evans Fairfield Fred Johnson governor of rotary District Weand mrs Johnson of Newton mrs. Arthur Rommel. Arthur Rommel president of rotary miss Joan o Hara of Ottumwa rotary fellow who gave the program or. Louis 11.is? in layer mrs. George Sutton and or. George Sutton. The play director by Roger Meeker Wii i Mary Klodnycky a student director received a division i rating in the District one act play Competition at Marengo wednesday. Steve Molby sue Cornick. Sara Stanley Tom Tuyl Ronnie Miller and Mary Klodnycky took parts in the presentation which was Given wednesday afternoon. Sixteen plays out. Of 116 entries received the i rating. Individual vents will be held Friday and the debate contest will be on saturday entries which receive a i rating Kennedy and Spaak will meet Washington i up a president Kennedy Quot seriously concerned by the Congo crisis announced today he will hold a key conference next week on strengthening the North Atlantic treaty organisation in the face of mounting tension with Russia. The White House said that Kennedy and Paul Henn Spaak. General Secretary of nato will m it Here next tuesday. Announcement of the Kennedy the ground. 2. That the Davey tree company be engaged to Spray the Elm Trees in the City Park and cemeteries to proper season. 3 that the tree committee lie Ben. Of the tree committee at authorized to publish a pamphlet tended the annual Shade tree Dis riving information about dutch Elm Case and infect Short course held disease for the education of the at Iowa state University at Ames citizens of it. Pleasant and the on february 2nd and 3rd report of the commute is Given Here in full. Report on dutch Elm disease Short course or it w Boulter William Hoag pm and Harold f. Mccran mein 218 hearing Date set for March 16 Lincoln Day dinner Hultman concerned about individual political interest further action for i in the state contest which will be held March 24 and 25 in Grinnell. Ames Iowa up i a i pamphlets mailed to the persons on control of dutch Elm disease the mailing list of the it. Pleasant Public hearing will be held at it. Was Tho chief emphasis of the. Utilities pleasant March 16 on proposed re port course and these committee 4 that an arrangement lie made location of u. S. 218 to eliminate members it it they were Well re a whereby citizens could Avail them a a dead Man s curve Quot South of i. Paid for the time spent j solves of the trimming and Spray pleasant. Ilia concern for individual Julep t and party organization machinery was emphasized by attorney general Evan Hultman As he spoke at a Lincoln Day gathering Here wednesday evening. Ile was speaking particularly flight recorder More parking revered from plane wreckage in the District contest will compete to Aak me Tunc came As Tbs it it hit House continued its close watch on the troubled Congo situation and the controversy in the United nations Over soviet demands that u. N. Forces get out of the Congo within a month. Tile Iowa Highway commission about the condition of our body slowly spreading across the country and in wednesday ret the hearing Date Iii received letters variously object politic about what a Small percentage vote the importance of the committee after fully con Jing services when the Davey people sideline tin material offered at the. Are in it. Pleasant. Short course and also other sources of information have the following Aryl tb3,s a Quot 1 ing to the four suggested and of having the Best pos conclusions amp and Rico mini and amp tons a ions which com in to n engineers Siulc candidates and then said he Max ,0 la Chi com cd. Of it. A a Quot a the a a a a a a a a have my a pro out Throe of the re is my it a a a Oil a jut so in pm Coant. Iowa. I playing Seq men j1 routing would run generally ars i div dual in til ii whole machinery Rose 1.1 Sions control 01 nie8 and new a Quot Noi Tho present and Tho to Oolitic i. Dutch Elm disease is slowly w 11 ded and make la Ltd 5p, a5&Quot fourth would run generally cast of it i Tai Hee. Lid Rod Ucris by mrs Cle Rekey county vice chairman. I poke briefly Abote what is Lam i Quot a Quot n 8. Imi. Tor a Public hear pening in the Iowa legislature j m. I under Republican finance chairman so it to about Patty finances and gave recognition to Harold Tolander for his tick t Sale in his arca. Attendance was Good at the annual event there being about 140 Prest it i the oily Council wednesday night ins in regard to tile acquisition of a to by 80 lot on West Madison Street for off Street parking f a c i i Iii s. Tile lot is owned by l. J. Roi he. In other , related to the Congo crisis it was Learned that Secretary of state Dean Rusk told Kay con Gressmen the United Arab Republic i up i a flight headed by Gamal Abdel Nasser is the jetliner that playing a dangerous role in the reasonable rate and thus be in line will undoubtedly Aff it olm commissioners to stong position to Spray at the Mast of im., wherever they grow in the 1 qua and Robert others introduced included mrs diaries Strothman chairman of the county Republican women. He discussed time facets of the Harlan Rainier District Young it Economy a the free Enterprise sys i publican it Barman Harlan a ter Brussel recorder on crashed and killed 73 persons Here Congo crisis. Wednesday apparently was not Kennedy served notice during a damaged by the fierce heat which j televised news conference parts of the plane s Metal Day night that the United states would oppose any attempt Quot by any government to intervene unilateral United states. Portune times. 6. The committee my in Lye is will 2 Henry county is or rounded on be available for the answering three sides by ded dutch Elm question. Of disease Washington Louisa. Des Moines and Lee counties have All i ported the disease. Des Moines and Lee counties Are badly infected. Burlington and Keokuk arc carrying out control measures but fort Madison is not. 1961 will Undoubt-1 Elj m c the disease in Henry county. 3 then is no cure for ded at respectfully submitted or r w poultry we. M Hoaglin Harold f. Mccran chairman. Albert n. Crill Richard Thuma noted there have been objection from it. Pleasant area residents to All four of the relocation although i not All the opponents Are against i the same re routing. Blier Waterloo conc Itkin of our body politic mrs. Helen Rohde Lanct Cong dwelling at length on tile latter. Skin a i committee woman Charles references were made from time to time to Abraham Lincoln who was bring honoured at this Republican gathering held in the Iowa Strothman District congressional committeeman a a Hayes recently to the Iowa development commission j u d g it the suggested relocation cast of a a 7 n Aiu a ii student Union. His Audi Geore o. Vein Allen tax count the present route will get the Maina v. Ence was interested too in his re of i co and others attention at the hearing commis Sion officiate said. Port of my Otu Happy names la would run approximately 8.2 Sulce took a fico the attorney general was Intro us launches loses sphere Miles South from it. Pleasant starting about a mile cast of pc diced by do strict chairman Ben a. Galer Richard Cornick Washington Uit i i the present time 4. Ail authorities seem to by j agreed that the Only Way to control ded is by controlling the Elm bark Beetle which has Bigorne the i Carrier of ded. 5 control can be effected by a combination of two ways i sanitation 2 spraying 6. Dot applied with a met sprayer is the Moat satisfactory me Hod of spraying and John bean Compaq equipment has proved to three hours and 32 minutes of be tin Mast satisfactory equip i tor the sphere was launched at men 18 05 am., scientists said they 7. Sanitation i. Recommended in could not confirm that it had gone j present route and extending South about four Miles. It would then join the present route for one mile then turn West of the present route and continue South around Quot dead Man s curve Quot a making a straighter Highway to tile eliminate the Cutic and conv United states today launched and then lost some where in space a 12-foot polka Dot sphere that was supposed to become a gleaming satellite of tile Earth. Addition to spraying but spraying j into orbit. Alone will prove to to a effective in controlling the beetles even on fiend Wood in the Elm met if a a space administration 1 announced however that sanitation can t be carried out immediately. 8 Hie Only Chance of Birds being killed by the Dot would be by the Sui pin. Dot falling on the grass and later being eaten by Carth to Ornis Winn they come out at night to forage. Earthworms Are not kill <1 by the Spray but if enough scout rocket Are Enen by the Birds it May it some loss of Bird life. Robins1 the purpose of urn launch was seem to in the Only Birds affected t it Tost the launching capability of a i they consume Large quantities of the experimental scout and to Back into present Iowa 218 for another 5 Miles South to the Junction with Iowa 125. The re location would Cost an estimated $1,054,000 for work tentatively scheduled Iii 1962, and another $894,000 for leaving Tenta a Lively set for 1964. The 1962 work would include Purchase of right of Way construction of Bridge. And culverts grading temporary re surfacing and erosion control. A northward continuation of the that the relocation from it. Pleasant Back burned out fourth stage of the onto . 2i8 has not yet been launching rocket had gone into planned orbit and is now circling the i county chairman ably presided at the City is already in the process body aviation sources said today. Of acquiring the Hallie of prop the recorder was recovered try on South main and the Drewer from the wreckage along with 30 in in the he said he was i. Late on North Jefferson and mad other instruments which invest Quot seriously concerned about the sit Ison for off Street parking. J gators Hope will help solve the nation. Mystery of the Boeing 707�?Ts death a a a dive. I Kennedy s firm warning against u. S. Embassy officials worked intervention in the Congo won backing from Republican congressional leaders who said that Quot firmness i the bodies of the 49 Amprin alone will solve the crisis. The end Hon the owner of the property has inc 00 31 tar ame cans 30 Day. In which to Appeal. If the aboard including 18 members of elopement Plvan the United states figure skating crop Leader Everett m. Durksen the Council authorized the making out. Of a Check for $17,500 for the Ott property. Hic Condo Man. With belgian authorities and a at that figure recently. In such ac-j1501131 a nes officials to identify bodies of the 49 Check is accepted by Ben Galer attorney for the Ott estate there i will then be no Appeal of the action. In other business the Low bid of Carl Register of $400 for a Lawn i team. Special guests wit Cli an Coni Mower for the City cemetery was actor and Mabel Edwards. Johnson i copied. The Only other bid received county chairman and vice -chair-1 was from the Long gravely tractor Man and Cedar county chairman j service for $525. De Kemp and mrs Kemp. Mrs. Will Dall led in the pledge of allegiance and the Rev. David Home badly damaged by fire tile George Craig residence at 702 Oak Street was badly dam the program which also included Ai Barker gave the prayer at the Short talk by Robert Tyson newly opening of tin1 program. Mrs Allan appointed executive Secretary of Shook cd group singing with mrs. The Republican state Central com Marie Wilson at tile piano the Midwest old threshers and settlers Assn. Was Given Permis. Sion by the Council to use Emil a y wednesday Terven tion in the Congo. Iii., and House Republican Leader charts a. Halleck ind., after a weekly congressional Republican legislative strategy session. Dirksen and Halleck also said today that this country must support the United nations. Quot we certainly applaud the firm approach he has taken Quot Dirksen said in commenting on Kennedy s declaration against unilateral in Lan Park during labor Day week of this year Lor their annual reunion Quot it would appear that firmness alone finally is going to extricate Schroeder plan sent to Senate Reform Jupen Doms the past several years. Amendment to it gee possible new airing soon night. At 7 25 . Firemen were called the Council allowed William t0 the Smau by use and put out a the free world from this difficulty. Hoaglin $75 to maintain Lim Lily a a we must support United a Pond in Saunders Park As he has and badly damaged the roof. The first floor rooms were also damaged. Sparks from the Chimney started the fire it is believed. Tons and develop militant action multilaterally and try firmly to resist any unilateral Kennedy a Stem statement no officials of the National Aero 13 now Earth. The sphere was launched at Nasa s Wallops Island va., station by a 72-foot All solid fuel it . 9. Spray applied in proper season particularly As a dormant Spray will have the least effect on Bird life. 10 cities where they have done nothing have been faced with the staggering Cost of cleaning up the dead t re. 11 it. Pleasant has something Over 300 Elm Trees in Central Park Saund it Park Mcmillan Park and study air density at Orbital altitudes hundreds of Miles up. Make plans for Rop in county submits plan to bolster farm income Washington up a president Kennedy today sent to con i the Senate has Iii addition to Sny an a Ymir army Quot proposal to us a pop a Quot do a sen. Jack Schroeder a Davenport to other reapportionment plans before if. For including the. House approved Des Moines up Hie Iowa Senate re apportion incl it committee today sent the Seh order plan to the floor for full scale debate passing Over the watered Down Shaft plan approved by the House. The Bill came out of Committer without any recommendation and will serve As a vehicle for debate on All other redistricting proposals. Tins was the same procedure used by tile Senate recently when it Defeated the Shaft plan. The other redistricting proposals May be submitted As substitute motions allowing them to be debated but not necessarily requiring them to be voted on. Union of factions j Des Moines up Hie j judicial Reform amendment to to Iowa Constitution aimed at removing i prone court and i. Eric to court judges from polities will get its second full airing in the general uni i Luna hons up in Assembly next thursday formed sources reported today the Bill passed 40-10 but the. Hat the United nations Concilia Senate fib. I after a bitter 3 ution commission in tile Congo had hour fight was placed on the House \ Ixo to shaded the political factions of Calendar today As a special order p Eside it Joseph Kas Mvubu and of according to firemen after the Tice ably dampened prospects that first fire was out Craig started a he Aiice soviet Premier Nikita fire in the Siove and w ent to bed. Khrushchev might meet soon. Fire broke out again at 11 05 .1 Coo and firemen again battled the Kennedy before a nationwide Blaze which we As nearly As bad As television audience watching wed when the fire originally started. Mesday nights new conference Craig stayed at a neighbor s called soviet unilateral intervene Louse the rest of tile night. Of business Fin to 15 a. In. Next thursday. The measure approved by Bot ii houses of the legislature two years ago must to passed again in year in exactly the same form a without the change of so much left comma a and then ratified by the voters to to come effective. Tin late Patrice Lumumba to in a Federal government. Award contracts for Road projects join Ames Iowa uple More than of per cent of $6,430,971 in Road Secretary general Dag Ham construction contracts awarded mar. Skjold summoned members of wednesday by the Iowa Highway in.-, Congo advisory committee commission is slated for work on comp l ing representatives of coun the Des Moines freeway with conting cols in the farm to Market roads got $2,-348,956 of the to a and the remaining $3,389,301 went for work tion in tile Congo Quot dangerous and he said this country stood squarely behind the United nations and w Ould oppose russian efforts to get u. N. Forces out of Tho Congo. Against this background of Sharp diplomatic language a Kennedy Khrushchev meeting any time soon appeared unlikely. Bolster farm income by cutting 1961 production of surplus feed grains while raising Prier supports feed grains soybeans and Cotton Nir Sulc Send. I sen. Irwin j. I my. It Man it was the first major action Chester warned the re apportion a committee of those interested j taken by Kennedy on the farm front meat committee it might be killing in crop Christian Rural overseas1 since he became president any chances of reapportionment Senate adopts permanent rules jul n. Congo Force to a private i meeting this afternoon. I sources said the meeting was called to consider a very in 011 i a mar it roads in the state be in raging of port from the con sides interstate system. Filiation group of african and asian countries which Lias been working for several weeks in the two killed in crash of Light plane the Des Moines freeway contracts totalled $692,731. They in wore killed when a elude construction of a Bridge 309 pane crashed and burst grand Mound Iowa up a two Omaha neb., businessmen Light into program met thursday Mornin in tile cemeteries it. Pleasant Haslin i. Pleasant for the purpose of $4 billion Worth of surplus Corn Over 3,000 Elm Trees in the Cor making preliminary plans for the Grain sorghum Barley and Oats to rate limit,-12 tin committee feels that wa1 have two choices Des Moines cup the Low Senate engaged in a bitter 100-min Ute Duel today before finally adopting its permanent rules for the cur the government now has nearly for the entire session by bringing i a Skint out a Bill other than that passed by the House. Congo under tile chairmanship of Ftp Jong Over Street at a Cost flames on a Fann flew near Here ambassador juju Wachuku of in i of s159 58i and 52 mile of port Geria. The victims were identified As disputes cd no red it Nann ii dec tits Long said. A will vote to brine it offered by democrats but tile von 1961 commodity program in Henry animal feed grains a piled up in Len Ltd w Uirt on or .j1 no hrs it Tim crasser. County. Rev. Richard h. Staple storage under the present no con he Schroeder plan out. But if i party Lim state director of crop explained j tool Price support program. J pc put any other Bill but the closest vol came on a or i. The program. J Kennedy said the existing pro a House one on the Calendar a Amir u a from melt signal trouble at two places i. Do nothing. 2 Start immediately on a prevention program 13. Of we do nothing the City the residents of it. Pleasant in fated with a clean up program j gather at the it. Pleasant Mathov. Inch on the average of $50 per tree for 3,000 Trees would represent a Cost of Over $150,000 and we would be without these Trees. 14 a sanitation program would require several years to carry out. The City could hire professional tree climbers to do the trimming at a Cost to the City of $4 per hour Mayflower co. Moving agriculture Secretary Orville l. On our Bill a Anent Senate rules. At present any dist Church to make specific plans Freeman told newsmen his experts1 by a vote of 12-1, the a captor j two minis 0j a commute can for the commodity drive in the fall. Estimate that consumer prices for i tion ment committee brought out i a a for a secret ballot once the committee in a dared session. Frommelt s amendment was Defeated 27-23, with eight republicans joining All 15 democrats in the crop program in Iowa con chickens and eggs would decline the Schroeder Bill which Calls for centrals on the Chipping of Corn j about 2 per cent if the Kennedy a 33-member Senate based strictly w hich is then exchanged for its full plan is adopted. There would by no i on arca and a 125-member House a h value in Corn Oil at the Staley change in beef and pork prices. Based on population. Manufacturing company Decatur if Congress takes no action free the one dissenting vote was cast by 111. The Oil is then sent Over j Man said the experts estimate Chic sen. J. Henry Lucken re Mont. I amendment seas and distributed through Ken and egg prices would drop 3 to i committee chairman Clifford a per climber and use City employees j Church agencies to those in greatest 4 per cent and beef and pork would j Vance a it. Pleasant did not As chairman on the a round in picking up the need. Decline i to 2 per cent. Vote either Way explaining that Neutral. Land Cement Concrete paving from Uene u. Milstead and Ray l. Just West of 21st Street eastward to rally both were killed instantly in near 12th Street at a Cost of 1,11 e crash $158,652. I tile plane a single engine four pass it Tiger Mooney mite Mark 20, tile Bridge contract was award crashed in a Corn Field bounced cd to Cramer and Bayse Newell. 50 Yards and then erupted into and the paving work was won by flames. Van the Hallet construction co., Eros j tile body of one of the victims was thrown about 30 feet and the in the freeway pro other was pinned in the wreckage 479 contract for Salv and burned beyond recognition owing of 49 houses and authorities said the two men anime my school Flasher sign. Commercial buildings Between 9th Par a fitly were in route Back to damage to the sign was estimate Verret and 2nd Avenue. Hie con Omaha from Chicago. Cd at $65. Tract went to j. C. White excavate they said Milstead apparently at 3 25 . Wednesday a car co. Des Moines. The Pilot had a badge with the driven by Maxine Parrot was dam the largest single contract it inscription Quot International heating aged when a signal Arm at the Broadway Railroad crossing was t wednesday s awards was for As and air conditioning exposition phallic Concrete paving on 10.4 International Amphitheater Chi twi lung a a ii working properly and fell on the of Iowa 77 from Richland i Cage Fob. 13-16.&Quot nearly passing the unprecedented i no in. J car. Bank my the Windshield and North to Towa 92. Tile contract a he should remain King bending the radio Aerial. Both accidents were reported to City police. Ralls was identified As president totalled $625,211 and was awarded of an Omaha pump and Supply to the Kaser construction co., Des company and Milstead a a heat Moines. I my and ventilation contractor

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