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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 17, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. Tomt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening Ferri Ary 17, 10gi these Days by icon e. Sokosky what loins want to know in to ii lies the total of life to Are too often told that Hie United states having become a world Leader the american people should All become historians International lawyers Exchange experts. Sociology b and economists. Hie fact is that most people pre Fer to mind their own affairs knowing a Little of this and that seeing acquainted with Kas Mvubu but also with Marilyn Monroe and the first lady and wondering whether fights Are fix cd. Be us put it another Way. Last sunday Many musicians were in ten Ted in Aaron Copland music in provided by Leonard Bernstein and the new Yolk philharmonic personally. I hav not been a open Cornerstone a the al night a a Quot a a Binal admitting qui Baptist Church on North main at Madison was removed thursday in i 1 1 1 Quot a a a under Juia eng y1building and the contents taken from the Lead upe a i Ai a 1,1 a it al say like capsule placed in the Stone in 1906 were examined. 1,1 Ullh Bel mein however has a present for the removal of the capsule As shown above were the Yil to1 and As he or a James Troxel at right pastor of the Church who holds the capsule a a l i 4�?o4 a a c it i an to the after the Cap had been removed Dale Boal. At left financial Secretary Young pc Ope w to Wen listening a the Chun ii and Don Whaley who is razing the building. The contents were taken to the new Baptist Church in South main people who were Telfel when they were ,.xamincd at a family supper thursday evening Sion i had a new listen to Copland j then was great int it it St in the typewritten history of the Church and a better understanding by will lain go Catt in a detailed n Prim of the history of the earlier Church 2-million theft new satellite t Arries instrument capsule payload Vandenberg fab California a a. Up a a beefed up discoverer if the heavier than usual discover satellite thundered skyward today tax Cutris orbit arid functions hauling an instrument capsule i properly Load that scientists Hope to retrieve1 during those four Days a roughly the than Iowa Wesleyan founders Day Observance mrs. Geiger draws 15 years for embezzlement in Hank Sioux City. Low a up after a record four Days in orbit. J 65 Trizis around the Earth recovery of t he 300-Pound rap j satellite would travel bion Sui would be attempted tuesday by j i million mile thro u cd space. It. I ships and Snag training planes Speed in pm bit is 1ft too Miles an Cornerstone of the former first a disc al in the Pacific near Hawaii hour mrs. Burn or Iverson Geiger who or lip shortage were net identified. Sunday Reb. To admitted embezzling $2 million from Van Ai Tine also said that up to i�?~�0 i Metier by invitation tile accounts of brr friends my january of i of the shortage at of Iowa Wesleyan student neg him it tie Sheldon a Tim <1 Tim hot Loon no to a Bank was i Ilion. Bank today was sentenced to 15 a bout id million it said a Little to ont it Ion feat or j year in prison in a b Inal judge More than an additional $1 million intr or. James Yan Allen or Geiger Tim lightly grading was withdrawn in Tim past year a a j be Ker. Only daughter r cd Tim Bank presi i us said in. Geiger husband of a wan is o pints tour Dent stood impassively by fore Feci Operand of a Sheldon hardware c. Hoard j congressional backs plan of Ltd list Ridi Quot 218 petition proposals offered Eon Mony for new Hall of Era judge Henry n. Graven science. All in inc Chapel. Public invited. Id Eption immediately following conclusion of Chapel be Remony. In student Nion. Public invited. He i store Lead no apparent knowledge Imp hands of his wife s speculation i pent dated 1878, by Lizzie Arrowsmith in the list of members of the Church the i. Pleasant chamber of Dos Moines up toe Iowa Senate today received two new congressional redistricting propos it is True that the time i a on Copland might belter have a d of the sunday school the list of Church officers two old pictures Commerce Board of directors voted j als. Bringing to seven the number by spent h adding Mao Tze Tungos news accounts of the destruction by storms and Iii 13 old coins. Fat give chamber support to the that have been introduced in the upper chamber. Both plans introduced today. While quite different follow the pattern of All other proposals in placing Boone county in the 5th be very rare. The action taken at a noon District. There were several other three cent pieces of other years and a two meeting of the Board Frida follow a this is an Effort to eliminate fat cent piece As Well As one can tors. Cd a canvass of the membership of j at least one of the state s two the pictures include one of the Church after it was restored follow the chamber of Commerce by the j democratic congressmen by Plao Hacks on Khrushchev but there1 the accompanying news Story of the laying of the Stone in 1906 states petitions being circulated urging it j. I was diverted to co piano that the coins except one of 1906, had been taken from the Cornerstone the state Highway commission to maybe one should never look at it the former Church. A improve Highway 218 South and Perry Mason because he diverts j Coin collectors were of the opinion that a 3-cent piece made of bypass it pleasant either to the i Nim tile very serious problem of diver and dated 1853 is the most valuable. It is very Small and is said to cast or West Gold. During the summer i Ina away from Wisdom and devote my Days to n adding principally those r Mote to i no which i forgot to if ter it was burned in 1905 look at earlier in life. Also i Reada local newspaper which tells about new Road repairs in the county about who was born or died of new visitors to various friends Etc. Alo she world in which i geographically situated durin summer is musical. Music festivities occur the dance so i Lac my a windstorm in 1882, and of the remnants of the restored building liter it was burned Iii 1905. The Story of the Baptist Hutch Cornerstone laying 55 years ago directors in the respective cat Gor ing their Home irs w hich they represent. I same District. Counties in the am tilt the following is the account of the canvass showed an of Ltd whelming majority of the membership in favor of giving support to Tiro petition tile canvass had four a Nihil ties i. D us support to the plan outlined in the in t it Ion 2. Oppose the plan outlined in the the 1960 census dictated that Iowa lose one of its present eight congressional districts. The legislature must redistrict tile state into band. Seven districts. New Waves of terror in Congo Leopold Ville it up new Waves Ltd of terror and violence rolled across tier Congo today. Lumumba i youths attacked roman Catholic missions and killed and mutilated a j Hie in Bukavu. A stronghold of Lumumba list forces in the North. Pronounced sentence gripping the table she could Haw when to ups hold expenses rail received a prison term of 17.� years higher than income from the store she remained tight lipped until and it Alary from the Bank they the end about the big i mauling were a a taken Carf of Quot by the Bank questions in Hie ease Why she. Van Alstine said meaning mrs. Took the Money and what sin did gingers embezzlement with it. J Van Alstine Aln said Quot on of the when the judge asked ii she had Peop who Drew or my Geiger for anything to say in brr own behalf mrs Geiger her head to cd slightly to the left replied. Quot no. Sir i Hay not. Graven asked again it she had anything to say that might mitigate about $140.odo to $150,000 has been the subject of an Fri investigation in flan i said the person died a Law Days ago a in an accidental fire in his he did not identify this person the punishment and then said Quot do but he apparently was referring to you have any information for the i Samuel Marvin hams 54, a win court a to both questions us woman replied no in Quot. However District atty. I e Van j Alstine shed some Light on these i questions in his presentation to the 1 court. J 35 counts to which mrs. A United nations spokesman said Quot mrs Geiger got to indulging in pleaded guilty Jan. 30. Dower who did last saturday morning in his apartment in san Francisco the death was ruled accidental. Harris Oner did some Interior decorating at the Geiger Home in Sheldon and was named in four of the Geiger of youths protesting the pc caution on her own and the the total amount involved in the death of Patrice Lumumba swarmed Money was disposed of in various Harris counts was $1,652 53. One plan was offered by sons. I through the streets of Bukavu. Cap he told the court. Melvin Wolf a Waterloo and ital of Kiva province sacked and Ile said one of the principal ways judge c Raven sentenced mrs. Tors room and choir practice room matter and 4 undecided. It opens into the choir loft. The sunday school room. Will la onto the West. Size 29x36 with chamber of Commerce office for class rooms to the North and a persons to sign who have not Library built into the Walls. In signed. Also extra copies will be All kinds of die Cornerstone laying at also there is kist Church Here As reported in the to read the 1 it pleasant news on nov. 9. 1906 local newspaper which tells me wednesday afternoon Ai four what i want to know. To me. All j o clock was set As the time for the this is very important and it is 1�-v11 ref the Corner Stone of the equally important to my neighbors. First Baptist Church. Owing to the All of whom read oils newspaper inclement weather the attendance not for great coverage of the do i was not Large. A Short program Wasi Kab rn1-hr Hev or the erudite can a clout during which the Cor-1 in m11u-�?~kwv of erudite fitted up with rolling partitions so editorial opinion of its editor but nor Stone marked with the figures because it satisfies a very human i�?~1906�?� was swung into place. Desire to know what going on in a it v Nicholas made the opening the neighbourhood. Prayer and Rev. Weston pastor of 0 o o the Church made a Short address. The other Day i listened to an after a couple of hymns by the argument of the responsibility of Baptist choir Rev Dyall. At on Quot editors and publishers to provide time pastor of the Church pro people with what they need town ounces the Benediction. Know. And there was much Wisdom Bito a Niche in the Corner Stone ii the Assumption that if the pet placed the following articles. Pie in a free country arc badly in description of the building of formed or inadequately informed int old Church and it dedication in about great matters they will vote 1878. I a Tore of in Church from los Huing cd owl organization to the present time. Official list of Church and list of members list of sunday school pupils and teachers. A few coins of minor denomination which were in the Cid Corner Stone and a Dane of 1906, the the Bap a a san al Roo a fitted up As a a petition 3. Take no action on this Lawrence Putney a Gladbrook. J burned a roman Catholic Mission was speculation on thee Board of Lteif or Rio years in each of th1 Only one of the pre Cut districts and attacked priests and nuns As a result of the action i it Chi would remain unchanged under Hon will by available at the their plan hic 3rd in which both live. The greatest alterations Are made in the present 4th and 6th Dis tranor to these rooms and the i available for circulation by persons tricks. The 4th would run from the mrs. Alice Rich taken by death Trad Quot which amounted at times to fir St three counts Gamst her with $1,000 a month Over a period of the rms to run consecutively a a Many years. Basement will be on Madison Street who May want to take them around the sunday school room will be to get signatures. The Board gave the streets that it can be divided into space highways and parking committee for different classes e. A. Hayes chairman authority to j 8th. It will also open by telescoping carry the plan advocated in the the other Mississippi River almost All the Way to urn Missouri River. The mrs acc Rich 73> of present 6th would be nearly com. Lon dlr at 4 25 thursday a he explained that she had withdrawn customers Ledger sheets from Bank files to cover shortages. Some of the Motley was loaned to local people and some tor one reason or another were allowed to draw on Thor accounts at the Bank without Petely merged with tile presently sunny Haven nursing Home records being kept of the credit he doors into the main auditorium petition through to completion and will add about too to the scat _ my capacity. The lighting will be by both Gas and electricity. Tile total Cost exclusive of the lot Winch is a very valuable oho will i Between ten and twelve thousand Dollar plan introduced by Hospital group convenes Here i sen. Dewey b. Phelps. A Hillsboro would leave the present in District i As is but alter All others. It too merges of the pres Cut 6lh with the existing 8th. She had been ill since May 31, i960. Mary Alice Mosser was born said. Van Alstine also disclosed that shortly after mrs. Geiger started total of 15 years. On counts i through 35, he sentenced her to five years each with the terms to run concurrently with count i no fines or costs were assessed. She could have been fined a total of $175,000. Mrs. Geiger dressed in the same beige dress she wore the Day she was arraigned entered the courtroom at 8 52 am. She had walked to the courthouse from the county jail flanked by Polico Matron Dorothy stupidly and elect unfortunate men to Public of ice and the pressure of Public opinion will be on the wrong Side. That re much truth in tin. Of opt that who is m absolutely sure about what anyone nerds to know for instance. I read about a missile or rocket or platform or some thing that the russians shoot1 pie Siut year. Heavenward and wonder Why the eve it Imbody is familiar with the experts say that it will take up a j history of the Church and the set Vear or it it to catch up with that backs they have encountered in so i ask a few questions 1 trying to maintain a Church Home. I. Win should we catch up unfortunate in having the build 2 Why do we need to go to ing wrecked by the Cyclone soon Vero ? j after t lie first dedication it a. Sew t Ai years before it was entire v rebuilt and the lire of last Winter i tot ally destroyed the building. The plans for the new Church Call for what will 3 if we get to Venus we do about it 4 How much new mathematics Cie i need to study to understand what it is All about i know some teen agers who an i. E about such matters and the can explain it perfectly. They know All about physics and astrophysics and Why a teen Ager has a rough time with parents these Days because they the parents Are so dumb about things that really count. So some parents try to keep up with their children by Reading science fiction which is easier than Reading Max Planck or Albert Einstein or even the pamphlets about a. Ane nuclear policy. A neat modern Church Home and everybody Hopes with the Loyal officials of the congregation that their financial plans will develop a it and the building of erected and placed Clear of debt by the time it is ready to dedicate. Tin plans for the new Church were drawn by c. N. Nelson an architect from Burlington. The Structure will occupy ground space of .55 x65 feet do ii of pressed Brick and with a tile roof. The basement will be Nice and Large and when finished later on expected for title game at Fairfield Highway 34 Between it. Pleasant and Fairfield should to quite Busy tonight As hundreds of it. I pleasant fans make tin trip to Fairfield for the Southeast six t championship Cace tilt Between the it. Pleasant panthers and the Fairfield trojans. District 9 of the Iowa Hospital association counties of extreme Southeastern Iowa convened in of. Pleasant thursday. At a lie Busine s session held at hic Hospital after a luncheon at. The Harlan hotel the representatives elected Don Cook Axial Hospital administrator As president Norman Jensen of Washington county Hospital As Secretary and treasurer and Catherine Hogan District representative of Blue Cross As program chairman. Plans were made for five meetings during the year four of them in it. Pleasant and one at the time of the state meeting in Des Moines. The 17 representatives present thursday for the annual meeting september 13. 1r87 in Merrimac. Work in Tho Bank about 35 years ago j of Neil. Sheriff f. O Whitey Ros he daughter of Elizabeth e Smith j Sec Jound a shortage of $75,000 in Roberger and several Federal Marsh Boot is que Perrons responsible Shams and policemen. And Calvin a Messer. Roared and educated in Henry county. On april la 1907 in washington1 tie was married to Peter n. Rich i and they made their Home on a farm North of Brighton. Or. Rich died in 1925, and mrs. Rich con boys and girls and their dad. Tinned to live on the farm until too were entertained a a minister1 moving to Washington in 1955. at the annual father child i the children who survive Are dinner at the methodist Church or. Archie Farrier of Brighton. Boys girls men enjoy program West Germany l o share costs to take bids for new roof thursday evening. Or. Alvin t. Maberry pastor of i. Cecil Porter of Carbon Cliff. Iii. Or. Edith Durian of tempi Central methodist Church. Olm City Calif., mrs. Jeuie Miller of Loosa opened with no Microu. Washington mrs. Grace Verrelli i a trick. A demonstrated on the draw of Curwensville pa., Donald and ing Board. He moved on intr can Peter Rich of Gas City ind., and features and finally into Many color Hubert Rich of Citrus drawl n of All. Wab i ii no on it u pit a West Germany agreed today to play a Long term role in glaring with the United states and other nation the financial burdens of aiding underdeveloped Cou 111 Ries. Gam time at the Parsons Field House is 8 . The title tilt will be proceeded by the 630 . Came from Muscatine. Washington enlargement of the West German foreign Aid program a announced after president Ken Heights. Nedy and Heinrich von Brentano that won flu admiration Calif. A. On and three daughters foreign minister of the Federal j schedules were Given some consid Are deceased. Republic Mot for about an hour j or Fotion and the school Calendar with their chief advisers at the i also was considered in the lengthy the it. Pleasant school Board meeting thursday evening gave further consideration to the building program for the District. Tentative plans were made or v siting one or two More schools in the near future to see types of construction and arrangements. The Board also set March 7 for the opening bids for a new roof tor the High school building. Salary Frosh soph game. Burlington Keokuk Sigourney and it. Pleasant hospitals. Over 600 tickets have been sold Here in Advance for the tilt and i More were still available Friday Erbe signs measure Thole fans who bought ticket Here Are advised to be in the Field House j Oeh Moines up a gov on the Parson Campus in tile North Norman a. Elbe thursday signed part of Fairfield by 7 . No Gen h Bill which advances the minimum Oral admission tickets will be sold age requirement for children in at the door until Arter 7 . Turing kindergarten or first Grade a crowd of around 3.900 is sex i i Iowa Public schools peeled for the game. Quot 1 a 1111or. Mac Raj was assisted by his daughter Joanne in part of tile program Jim Green led in group singing or. George pm la More gave the invocation and Bernard Bailey Ach cd a. Master of Chromo nit. About 390 men and children in i Joyed the Bee Burger supper served i by women of the Church. Decora i lion. Were of particular into rest to and ten children. Views differ on Kennedy farm Aid Twenty grandchildren grandchildren As Well As five Sis-1 tors and brother., or. Cleo Lyon of it pleasant mrs. File i la do ice of Wayland. Mrs. Grace Moran of Washington Lyzell me. Or of it. Pleasant and Howard Messer of Washington also survive funeral services for mrs. Rich will be at 2 . Sunday at Hie j Church of god at Green Mound of which. He was a member. Interment will be Ai the Green Mound cemetery. The Jones funeral Home Washington is in charge of rang cents. White House session in a mine blast kills w ill be a Fine place tor social i Awa. Gatherings no attempt will be j at Loesl i just to show off a Little i find made to finish it until the Church history or pathological psychology is in better shape financially when very thrilling some Days and other it will be fixed up in modern style Days. I like Agatha. Christie. But i two i enlaces will by placed therein know lots of people who when they to heat the building. Come Home from work like to look i the main Entrance will be on the at a few comic strips read the Southeast Corner with Steps up sports Page look at a couple of from both main and Madison pictures read one or two favorite streets there will be one main in columnist just to get sore a have trance from the Vestibule into Tho a Botts of Beer or Coke just before auditorium which will be 40 x 40. In dinner which they Call supper. The pulpit will be in the Northwest who is to say to them nay the Corner facing the door. Seats for obsession w till the word dunce -200 people will be arranged in three racy causes liberals to believe that sections from Corner to Corner. Tile not Only Are All men bodies of seven miners by noon equal but baptistry is immediately behind the i three men felled by fumes were Joh Annie Jib org. Smith Africa i up i a thousand pounds of dynamite exploded in a Gold mine near Here today trapping or killing scores of native miners working deep below ground the blast occurred about 8 . Shattering heavy wooden shoring a Shaft and causing tons of water to pour into the lower Levels of the mine. Rescue workers recovered us Washington up a Republican member of tin House agriculture committee. Rep Albert la i quit minn., thursday greeted president Kennedy a feed Grain proposal As a a Good. Workable program for the but democratic rep. Merwin two enter fleas of guilty Jeu v alter. I pleasant., plot and they Are the same. What a Horn pulpit with two dressing rooms brought to the surface alive. Blo thought leading off the choir loft will be unconfirmed reports said at copyright. 1961, King features u the North of the pulpit least 24 had been killed including a a a can a. Ii a i i Quot the Northeast Corner is to toe j four Whites 187 traffic tickets Michael Mellon 60, unemployed contractor talks with a reporter in new York after getting a Jolt of 185 Days in jail and $9,550 Fine for ignoring 187 traffic tickets. That makes him tile Champ a scofflaws Quot with 14 More ignored tickets than William Thomp a a Harlem Cook. Goad. Iowa was less enthusiastic cd Emily in Din rid court Friday in his endorsement of tile program morning to a county attorney s Blunder Kennedy plan Price sup formation charging him with drive ports would be offered to 1961 feed in while his License was under Grain producers who took 20 per suspension and was fined $100 and cent of their feed Grain acreage out costs. Of production. A 90 Day jail sentence was sus the Corn Price supports would be Pended alter was arrested by the j raised about 13 per cent Over the Highway Parol earlier this week j 1960 level to $1.20 per Bushel and Larry Allen. Of. Pleasant plead the support for other feed grains a guilty to a charge of breaking increased proportional in. Soybean and altering and sentencing was supports would be upped about 24 set for saturday feb. 25 at to a m. J per cent to $2.30 a Bushel As a i the plea was made to a county j Numier inducement to Farmers to attorney s information shift from raising Corn in areas Allen was arrested recently in where both it and soybeans Are connection with the breaking in of grown. Derrald Martins Cabin. Republicans have a party a those seated at the head table at the Lincoln Day dinner of local republicans held at the it in Dent i Ilion at Iowa Wesleyan Are shown. In the hip picture from left mrs. Charles Strothman m. I. Linder attorney general Evan Fiu Lynian. Speaker for the occasion and first District chairman Ben a. Galer. In the lower picture Richard Hornick and mrs. It Leo flt a \ county chairman and vice chairman Confer Robert Tyson slate Republican executive Secretary District Young Republican it Barman Harlan Bainter the Rev. David Barker and mrs. Mary Dyall tat Edge of put a Tun

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