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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 17, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa These Days by George e. Soko Teky the Schwartz episode the real significance of the uprising of or. Bernard Schwartz is not Over big business As he puts it. Bribing Federal commissioners with Small gifts. It la rather that what or. Schwartz discovered is thai the White House had Man a a d to Haw considerable influence Over congressional committees if that is surprising to or. Schwartz who is an sex per-1 in administrative Law. It is no Surprise to anyone Cise familiar with tile Way of Washington. That was the realistic reason for senator Joe Mccarthy s difficulties. He found that White House influence was interfering with tile initiations of his committee and he made a ruckus about it. It became a test of strength by tween president Eisenhower and senator Mccarthy and Joe lost just As or. Schwa to lest Over the same principle. Recently Robert Morris counsel for the Senate internal Security subcommittee had an experience similar to that of senator Mccarthy and or. Schwartz. Robert Morris had had a Long tenure with investigative committees beginning with the Rapp Coudert committee. He had worked in naval intelligence and had served on the Senate internal Security Subco Prmt to und. I senator Pat Mccarran. He had also been the Republican counsel for the Tydings committee. During the past two years he found that some of the members of his committee were sabotaging the committee and its counsel. In the first place he found that instead of being Able to choose his entire staff Many of the places were filled by non working political appointees. As this consumed an important part of the budget i committee lacked funds to do a first rate Job the it. Pleasant news cold vol. 80, no. To it. Pleasant. Iowa. Monday evening. I Kum any it. 1958 r.rss9sh3 by Carrier Ste Par week Dis a amp a Msj mountainous drifts bitter cold in East then he tried to undertake an investigation of the raids that were being made upon american in Dutty by alien capital the ownership of which was secret particularly to discover whether any of the capital came from behind the Iron curtain. Nothing developed. I Hen he found that although summon is were issues for witnesses for hearings before the committee the hearing had to be curtailed the sessions shortened or no senator could be found to attend. Hearings were postponed or never held. After numerous postponements it was obviously an injustice in. Bring witnesses to Washington and Morriss principal duty became eking for a senator to hear a witness for More than a few minutes. The work of the committee became farcical. What had actually happened was that morn had come across material that ran counter to Hie desire of the White House the state department and the Cia and they were Able to bring enough pressure to Bearen his committee to establish a Republican censorship Over its work. The Hatchet Man was none other than senator Arthur Watkins of Utah who in a holier than thou spirit served to destroy Joe Mccarthy. Morris resigned and is running for u. S. Senator in new Jersey. His resignation was very polite. Chicago it ins wild winds mountainous drifts of Snow and bitter cold spread death and havoc across the Eastern half Ai tile Milieu to Cav at ii ast 36 deaths were blamed in the. Storm which gripped a vast ars extending the Mississippi it Haid to tin Atlantic coast Aud from new England southward to Tennessee. Numerous Citira and lawns were in a state of emergency As the near blizzard blocked highways halted plan and buses Cut Power shut Down ire is try and cd. Cd schools a Freak a Valan he of More Titan four feet of sin w dumped on Michigan City ind., and adjoining communities kit the Region isolated from the outside world. Mayor Francis Fedder declared a a Tate of emergency and Chicago and nearby Indiana cities rushed anew plow and bulldozers to help dig out the stricken town of 3b, i persons. J in n w England and the Middle 1 Atlantic Sta wind up to 50 j Miles an hour More than 0 inches i of new and near temperatures i Brough life to a virtual stand 1 still. The nation was nearly paralysed by almost nine inches of Snow some i a Odo sanitation depart it and transit authority to Kris Laboured around tile Dock to Wick g City streets. Airports in the new York area were of n but Many flights were Merit d Aspa singers tailed to show up b came of snarled ground transportation 4 feet of Snow isolates Indiana area an estimated 45 inches fell in Pennsylvania a Wayne county in the extreme northeastern Corner of flu Tate. It was the worst in w storm in the aria in 50 years. Pennsylvania gov. George m Leader ordered civil defense units mobilized to help the s ate Highway department Clear re and new York the largest City in Washington buried under More than 15 inches of Snow causing olives to abandon cars Truk it and Bines. The District of Columbia com Lins in Cis held a Snow emergency meeting and scrum White House approval to Grant an annual leave today to All Fedora and District government employees in the capital except Thor required for absolutely essential duties. Baltimore reported 19 inches of a Snow the heaviest in the City. 1 met 19412 elsewhere in the East Snow piled up to it depth of 58 inches at j be ban pm new Hampshire 32 at Caribou Maine 21 at Middleburg j in new York s Catskill mountains 19 at to ton Ami 18 in Virginia. The storm caused enc of the worst transportation snark in the area in years. A Veteran Nir line executive said the tie up of plane to avel was a the Wor t. I be Ever trains ran up to two hour into new York City. Temperatures hover around Zero As. Far South As the Mountain of Kentucky and Tennessee and Northern Florida had readings in tile 30s alumni service awards presented to three sunday the Iowa Wesleyan alumni service awards were presented sunday afternoon to mrs. O. A. Clark of Ottumwa and . Patterson and Joseph a. Panther it. Pleasant. Tile ceremony was part of the founders Day convocation at which or. Joseph c. Kinsey was tile speaker. The awards recognized outstanding service to the College on the part of alumni. The Choice was made by a secret committee of alumni. It the inc 114 28. Robert five children graduating class of the oldest of their is now a student at Wesleyan and. As president of the Junior class last Spring took part in the traditional a a passing of the gown when the seniors pass Academie regalia to the juniors. The alumni service awards which mrs Clark. Patterson and Panther received were secret until time Michigan Cit hid i ins City id Aud adjoining 1 communities wire in a state of Cine ego tick today bind my and isolated by mole than four left of Snow nearby Indiana cd tie rut aul to the stricken communities which have a combined population of some 39,0 10 and a Nee also was off red in Mavin l a of Chicago William Wells 31. Of Porte. Ind. Was found dead in his stalled 1 Auto on a Road about two Miles i it huh ast of i tug in City hand j rids of other vehicles were stalled in streets and major highways Michigan City mayor Francis fodder notified Indiana gov Harold we handles yesterday Ltd the a perilous situation Quot Handley order cd a heavy concentration of state Highway Snow Clearing equipment into the area. Chicago s Iii three rotary now plows six truck plows a service a truck and a 19-Man emergency i Crew. Similar equipment was Dis j patched from other Cit it Michigan City polka1 Aid they barely were Able to keep open emergency Lane As Drifting Snow piled in Rome reaches to j seven fret Depths j All firemen police and civilian 1 late i defense volunteers were on duty residents were warned to keep furnaces fired Low de pile zen it temperatures to ret Luce die risk of pres schools and fact i is were closed tile deep Snow co tired a Section off the Southeast tip of Lake Michigan but the Sun shown Bright at Gary ind., a few Miles West of Michigan City. 1-im Al temperature Down to 21 i Lelow Zerola Liat frigid february Wenther hat has taken u turn grasp on flu mid West pushed the temperature Down to anti 2 decrees below Zero in i pleasant sunday night i to ill was tile Reading pm the Federal we a hum to Fnu thermometer. Fit hoi readings in the open country Ami in Low areas neat in were much Low by 2g Anet 28 degrees below for example till 21-below Reading followed a cold saturday night and sunday the Lew of saturday night was a mums to Widen was the temperature it 7 30 sunday morning the Mercury Clung to the sub Zero regions most of the Day. At it la unit was five below Winter seen a Helicon Tel from Stewart All Force base Newburgh. N a Lamia i the schoolyard at Schoharie n y., during Rescue operations in the Countryside. Hut that s not what catches Hie eve Here. Hie gut la cutting gym class or anyhow cutting it Short. The Schoharie a Lei is so Snow bound that fuel food and Oiler supplies have to he flown in. Int maternal Sou tit photo j or. Hinsey Calls for balanced education in . Cats that had been i is fat Toralv through Mouths ground to a others refused to even the Start i w in applied starting Saith Winter i fizzle and grind when her vice sin Lions were receiving Calls for help in Maiter Laster than they could take cure of them Many Calla were being received monday also attendance at the a hutches and of the Iowa Wesleyan convocation was reduced because of Tho cold. .�?~>4 below at Atlantic i Moines rns b her cold stung Iowa again today with the or Rem d Putns to an official 34 below at Atlantic tim mme City had a Mark of 33 sunday As did Washta for his oldest Mark officially in eight v ats until today s Reading of 34 Trelow i ast year Boone had an unofficial 42 be Lorn on Jan 14 so fur hits month temper . Have averaged 16 degrees a Day Balow Normal readings for the time or year Only once during the prolonged cold poll a a the Mercury Bren above the freezing Mark. Thu w other Bureau the High pre tire respond we for tin of Tun a retie readings will remain Over Iowa today so skins will he Clear once again and Hie High will ram it nay from Zero to to above la Joseph c Hinsey new York medical educator told the Iowa Wesleyan College found s Day audience sunday that education must b. Balanced and without Over emphasis on any one subject the famous scientist who is director of the new York Hospital Cornell medical Conter spoke at a convocation commemorating tile founding of the College in 1842 an honorary Doc us of science degree in my opinion the place where we in pc to Start is in the family units when the mothers and lath it of this country become aroused something will happen but the lethality and Lack of interest of Many of the parents is one of hic greatest deterrent to prop rift a was conferred upon the medical cd 800 legion officers at conference Cator who began in at Iowa Wesleyan i a member of Wesleyan Board of visitors Des Moines ins an estimated 800 officers of Iowa american legion Post were on hand in Des e of the convocation. Announce Molnes Tod of a or a a earlier were the recipients of the alumni Merit award Harold f Mcleran it pleasant or. Joseph c Hinsey new York and David a. I bluster Iowa City. Seth Barker Ottumwa received the honorary alumnus certificate Given trustees who did not attend Wesleyan Wilson Ervin it. Pleasant was Given a certificate Honor Patterson big both mrs. Claim and Ere members of the Iowa Wesleyan Board Board of trustees. Panther is National vice president of the Alum Iii association. His five years of of trustees. Service on the the senators in the committee had become frightened after Canadas ambassador to Egypt Herbert Norman committed suicide. Lester Pearon. Then Canadas minister for external affairs tried to blame that suicide in Morris and his committee. Of any rate the White House and the state department seem to have been embarrassed by the Norman incident and the left wingers packed at Morris the Way they used to Yack at Joe Mccarthy and Rey Cohn. So in the end Morris a squeeze out of his Job by ingenious sabotage. Too a congressional committee possesses great Powers and can serve Noble purposes. It is always bipartisan. As Long however As there is either great respect for or great fear of the White House a Cong regional committees investigative capacity is lessened. Republicans and democrats alike with f w exceptions avoid embarrassing president Eisenhower and what Schwartz was apparently after was an investigation that involved mrs. J Al a Hewer a brother in Law. 1 Schwa to a politically naive to bring up the subject. He should j have known that most politicians j of either party sip through the i same Straw Schwartz Mac by Lieve that he can win this fight but when he brings i investigation to the White House Steps he must expect trouble. The la.-1 Man to try to investigate the acc was Eugene Carey a very Able lawyer. He too i i ought his investigation up to the White House St is. Then that building was the a me of Franklin d Roosevelt Carey resigned from mrs. Clark a member of the Board of trustees since 1955, has Bien especially Active in Ottumwa in behalf of the College. She helped to organize the Ottumwa alumni club and has served in various offices for the alumni. She is presently on the development committee of the Board of trustees. As Betty key hot Iowa Wesleyan and degree in 1929. She taught in the i monday March of dimes torchlight visits Are postponed conference of commanders adjutant and service officers. Principal speaker at a banquet tonight will be John s Gleason. It. Of Chicago National legion comma rider. Iowa commander v j. Maximin of Des Moines presided at opening sessions sunday including climes on the rights and benefits of veterans among those from of. Pleasant attending Are commander Dick Howe and past commander Jim Mcca be. College work i., presently science Quot although i am on the science Board of visitors and have devoted a great part of my life to scientific pursuits Quot he said in ailing for a balance in education i still contend that file ideals of Liberal education must be maintained and advanced. A we need diplomats to negotiate and maintain n lasting peace great teachers to carry on oui whole eduction a1 system political leadership of a higher order to Advance our democracy artists of various kind to brighten life highways and minister to install the spiritual ideals w r Are to live As a so necessary of Murden trial opens in Omaha Omaha. Ins the first degree a murder trial of George Daniel Jones lire March of dimes porch Light a re a opened in Omaha today with Campaign has been postponed us the first of 206 prospective jurors til the weather disqualifying himself. Jones 32, is charged with the May 29. 1957. Slaying it mrs. Rita rap Penman wife of a Creighton uni Ottumwa schools until her Marri ? nights Twenty one degrees below if Rosity dental student. Mrs. Kap to hotel Man a. O. Clark. She i Zero temperature that it was too 1 Penman was found shot to death in is prominent in civic and social j cold to solicit from House to House ithe basement apartment in North activities in Ottumwa. Land to make change monday night Omaha where she lived with her is warmer. Hie i she attended i women of the Moose and the a i received her me can legion auxiliary decided morning after sunday in discussing russian and amen can education or Hinsey said Riga rifles of any comparisons every one of us must appreciate the needs of our whole educational system. Probably the greatest of those ii that our teachers and educators must be placed on a Quot higher shelf Quot in the esteem of our people and accorded a More prominent position in our scale of values la a. Harryf a jaunts and other former Iowa Wesleyan professors received tribute from the distinguished medical educator As Well us Praise for the school for having a but so Many graduates into and i Vance study. I of his of n impressions of his i training he Aid Quot Wesleyan mean. I to me an environment which if j conducive to the Opportunity for learning and development with Strong spiritual and moral ideals it has had devoted teachers and a a Small but line student body oui of religious Homes a he Aid further a Iii my work i have always been aware of the significance of the Small denominational College because of my experience Here i have a profound resp s t tor the contributions that Are made by an institution of this j nary kind Quot at the conclusion of the convocation 117 indents lighted candles in a ceremony honouring the years which Iowa Wesleyan has been in existence. Or. J Raymond Chadwick president of the College presided Arnold Salisbury Galesburg 111., president of the alumni association conducted a Candle lighting service. The Wesleyan choir Sang several selection or Jack Early Dean gave the invocation the attendance was Good considering the cold we a tiler. I sunday night s sub Reading marked the Lith night in february i that a it Reading has been below Zero tins was the 10th night out of the last it that the Reading has been in the sub Zero Region i i he minus Zero readings have 1 Brenna follow feb 3. I 7,-4 8,-8 it 11 to 8 ii 12, i 13, i is. I i 17, Ai d 17,-21 on the 14th, the lit Gid spell was broken temporarily with a Low of 15 above while there hint been lower read lugs they do not occur frequently and the length of the present cold per Hui is lasting Long i than most of those of the past the records indicate. The Winters of 1905 and 1936 Ere often referred to As timing among the coldest in february 1905, the lowest recorded was 27 below in january that year the Low was 12 below j in february Al 1936. The lowest recorded locally was id below in january a Low of 21 below was recorded borne of the Oiler lows recorded locally through the years were january 1902 17, january 1910,-18 january 1912 24. January tau.-20, january 1915,-21. February. 1917, 20 february 1918.-17 january 1919,-19 february 1933,-21 Jan-1940 in january 1943,-17 january 1947,-17 j i Iowa tonight will no from to to 20 below once again but there is Hope for a alight warming trend farting tomorrow and continuing on wednesday u go leading in the state sunday out is ted More in theory than in i fact the top Mark wha five a Bine at Spencer and Sioux City while the Mercury never got higher than one below at Mason City. Hie five Day forecast for i it w 1 Doem t hold out much Hope fat. J a great break in the Long cold Ell the forecast indicates that temperatures will average from to to 20 degrees below Normal for the remainder of Hie week. Normal Low s for this time of year run from to to 22 above while usual Higi s Are from 34 to 43. Cold around Boone Boone. Lagas a if gets mighty cold around Boone in the wintertime even though official thermometers done to show too Grout a variation from other areas of the state. All unofficial Low of 42 below Zero was reported on Jan. 14, 1957, at tin Joe Kisir farm Home Northwest of Boone. Today and yesterday the same thermometer recorded an unofficial Low of 40 below while the official Reading in Boone was 21 below. Two captured alter hold up de. Met me As first notional chairman of the living endowment fund Panther helped to formulate policies and procedures for soliciting alumni to support the College through both personal and mail solicitation. He is i presently National vice president of j the Iowa Wesleyan College alumni association. A 1934 graduate of the College lie j Heads Panther s Rexall drugs in j it. Pleasant. O. T Wilson chairman of the husband. Henry county infantile paralysis foundation has reported. Several of the ladle.? made their solicitations sunday. Another Date will be set and announcement made at a future time. Iowan among is on missing plane Oscar Alvine taken by death five die As Hume explodes Patterson editor of the i. Pleasant news became a trustee in 1938 and a member of the executive committee in 1939. He was on Wesleyan first development committee organized in it. Pleasant and is now Secretary of tile Boardo trustees. He has supported the College loyally in the news and has j been Active in the colleges behalf the Community and alumni circles. I tie and his wife the former Margaret Rogers Are both member sit Ion suddenly and the investigation dropped dead. Copyright 1958, King features Syndicate. Inc governor requests Highway report Oscai Alvine. 81, died at the r a Haven nursing Home saturday evening after an illness of several years he was the son of i b and Washington inst a the air Hannah Alvine he was born de Force announced today that 15 per i Cember 26 1876 in Henry county i sons on a plane unaccounted for on Iowa South of Olds a flight Between Naples and Athens have been listed As 1 they included first it. Reed h. I Hartsock Des Moines. Iowa. Evans ilk Nelsons Wert id ins killed today five w Hen unit or no exploded and collapsed a a from c tile by a Furnace Jai was it recently believed converted souk e of Des Moines ins a gov her Schel Loveless today disclosed he is making a probe into the a contusion Quot resulting from the Highway commission�?T., handling of the interstate program and a Cut Back in the 1958 primary Road program. The governor has asked Stan comptroller Glenn Bayfield for a financial report on the Highway commission and revealed at his press conference he is planning of asking the commission for a report on Highway programming a a lot of questions have been asked me by people and i Don t know the answers Quot the governor commented. Judge Hicklin suffers stroke Burlington Gas Federal judge Edwin r Hicklin of Burlington a reported in cod condition today at a Burlington Hospital after suffering a Gin be. The 62-Ycar-old judge appointed to the Bench for Southern Low a last july by president Eisenhower was stricken saturday at his Home in Wapello. He recovered from a heart attack in 1955 pc Harles Rose of Drakes Ville be Gan duties monday morning As machinist for the Garretson equipment company. Or. Alvine id been a resident of i pleasant since 19, d after having lived on a Faun be Ai Keosauqua for j 20 years he is survived by his wife. Barbara a sister Josephine Jacobson of i Acoma Wash. One brother. Sam Alvine of Sioux Falls. South Dak. Also several nieces and nephews. Private funeral services were held at the Crane funeral Home at 3 . Monday o. T. Wilson of it pleasant officiated. Or. And mrs William Van Amerongen Sang a we Don t hav it to crass Jordan alone mrs. Ben Galor played the Organ. The pallbearers were Ralph Ward Ware Taylor. Phil Zink. Del Roberts William Alvine and Glen Hayward. Interment was in Forest Home cemetery. The dead Are Virgil Ogle by 47. Nellie Ogle by 44, his wife Patricia Ann Oglesby 16,� their daughter Jam h Cooper. 56. Mrs Oglesby brother and Mel a c Cooper 80, Moth 1 of or and James two other members of tin household in Acu Tately escaped death when they were blown a jumped from the Dot undo lion e As it was d integrating. They were James la cry. 26, and Bobby Lee Oglesby in so two men aimed with knives who robbed a hotel clerk of $83 Early today were captured a Short time later and waived to Hie Polk county gland jury in charges of robbery with Kagia a Tun i Bond was set. At $15,000 Lor 19-Yenj old James Edward Ritchie and 18 it Ai old Millard Whitehead or. Wii it head Aid he a from Chicago 111. And Ritchie from Emmalena. By. They reportedly Arete in route from Hica go to Nevada. The men were captured when a policeman spotted them near a service station where they had gone to gel Aid for their car which was stalled by the bitter cold weather the two men took the Money at knife Point about 2 . From Ralph Owens clerk at the Earle hotel. He was bound with towels Whir they made their escape. Police said Owen identified the pair captured at the filling station a. The men who robbed him. Fiance Tunisia accept help Bai in i Quot Nso France and turn a accepted today american and British help to Settle the explosive Fra Neo tunisian crisis the tunisian government accepted offers of Good offices from both Western nations soon after it was announced officially that France had decided to go along with their help to celebrate Quot Muster Day mrs. O. B. Taylor taken by death Iraq no to withdraw j tim bul ins turkish Premier a limn me ode res said today after an hour Long meeting with iraqis ambassador that Iraq will not withdraw from the five nation Baghdad pact interment services will be held at St Alp on us Catholic cemetery about la 30 or 11 45 . Tuesday mrs Rose h. Taylor form Erly of it pleasant mrs. Taylor died saturday in Cedar rapids. She was the widow of the late Oliver b. Taylor cashier of the Henry county savings Bank who died in 1944 services were held at 9 am. Monday in Cedar rapids with the Brady funeral Home in charge. De. Moines ins members of the Iowa air and army National guard will celebrate their third annual a Muster Day next saturday with an open House at All National guard armoires throughout the state of Iowa plans for the ceremonies we announced today by maj. Gen. Fred c Randy the adjutant general of Low a. 1 general Tandy said that my ter Cia will be observed in connection i with Washington birthday by j army and air National guard units i throughout the United states Ala a Hawaii and puerto Rico. Some 470,000 army and air guardsmen will conduct celebrations to Honor our first president himself a colonel in the Virginia militia. Fined by mayor Homer j. Snyder mental health Institute employee has Bren fined $5 and costs in mayor Wade my Beth s court for driving without a License

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