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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 18, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news it vol. 83, no. 11 it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening. I eur any in i do i these Days by Ivorite k. Sokulsky new toys Ira be is Robinson of the metropolitan opera repeated a sentence of Amenta Galli Gucci a you can t play with the same toys All your i thought of this when i read a letter from a stud at in Elpaso Texas in which he took me to task. He says Quot. I am an economics major at new Mexico slate University which us co Duea Tiona and smok j my is permitted in most All of tie j class s. A the student Wear for Hie most part dungarees or Wash pants Anc shirts Hie women a skirts and Blo in is. A my argument is this what is wrong with smoking or wearing Hooligan Type clothes if a persons private morals allow him to sex Peli enee Hie pleasures of marriage without hic responsibilities then Why censor him a this Young generation is the n a a to Reiel be Merit awards a these three Iowa Wesleyan graduates will receive recognition at the convocation Here sunday afternoon they will be Given Merit awards from their Alma mater for achievements in their chosen Fields. They Are hmm left Warren b. Retarded c Hildren fund drive totals about $1,000 the Henry county association for retarded children met at Tho Hayes Palos Verdes estates calif., Joseph p. Chittum Whittier calif., a spacial school tuesday evening and he rho it Knutson Manhattan Kan. Should unite on Highway plan Rockwell states rep. John Rockwell after talk diesel unit incineration with mrs. A it Ndell woodsman president presiding it was announced that the Iowa a n for retarded children is currently conducting a membership drive and All units a expected to their membership en-1 role Nants. Anyone interested in working for retarded children is the pics it i unit purchased some1 invited to join. First to grow up with the threat of my to one of the members of the Eom Plet. Inc rom Nuci car dust Rue-1 Iowa Highway commission reports j turn imminent i that. I pleasant should get a uni a then fore i Only i. H to Pettit j do portion on Ute matter of the oui to you the. In a Serrations judges routing of Highway 218. Otherwise another by the criteria it Lias set then May be a Long delay Iii getting up. This is wrong. Every generation around to the improvement of the facing new problems it must re-s8hway South of the City. Act differently Horn i he Lait i or the petitions which Are being i Liis raises Many pm scions of the Tempora riness of propriety. It emulated giving sup kit it to bypassing a plea.1 ant either East or West Are designed for the purpose of bringing about Unity. Rockwell used to be that the president of said this appeared to be a Good the United states did not go a a thing in View of his conversation visiting because if he called on one the objections to routing with a How could be decline to Call on an in the City limits have irritated other. But today we have a new Highway commissioners evidently generation president who Steps outland Unity on the new proposal would to a movie show visits a Friend. I be helpful it is indicated hts in a bar in the White House j this would be a Good time to Fol months ago by the it. Pleasant utilities Board and in process of installation in recent weeks has been put into operation on occasions recently. The unit has Bern run at rapacity and is ready to share in the production of electricity at the local Plant whenever needed. It will be called into operation regularly within a few weeks while the Large Turbine outfit is taken Down and inspected. This work will require about three weeks manager Charles Roppel said. To tile up a is it right or wrong polka Dot lost found surely my. Of through on the slogan Quot United Little i Young Friend from Elpaso would toi i ugly is Rockwell said say Quot what s tile difference. Only old fogies go by protocol if the presid it wants to receive president de Gaulle in dungarees and i sweat shirt let him. Thank god we done to have a president who i a stuffed the question that stumps me in Quot if a persons private morals allow him to experience the pleasures gallon is conducting an investigation of the Dot socratic controlled investigating liquor control commission Des Moines a up a the state Bureau of criminal invert Washington a up a a Jilka Dot. Satellite circled silently around the Earth today As though it had never been last. But it had been last and the a contribution was Mach to. Fund at Glenwood. Mrs. L. R Philpott reported on news items taken from Quot Olill topic Quot a publication of the Glenwood j state school. Of special interest to the group was a description of efforts being made to teach lower functional patients self feeding. I some 50 to co patients were for Many years spoon fed. Nils require. Much time and lots of help a table is set for 5 patients and when they have been trained to feed themselves one More is added to the table. Fourteen Ila pc now been trained and All have gained in weight and some arc learning to walk. Reports of the recent fund drive reveal that about $1000 have been i received to Date. Tills includes con j to buttons from individuals and the following clubs overcomes h an i Cape a quadruple amputee at the age of two Kenneth cd alg demonstrates his dexterity with an artificial hand at his Denver colo., Home. Shortly after his birth Kenneth was found to be suffering from a condition that Cut off the blood Supply to his arms and legs. To operations were required. Montrose Man is killed students win 15 i ratings la individual event of Mio District speech contest were held All Day and evening Friday feb. 17. At j Marengo. There were 85 schools i represent d and go judges evaluating the events. J tile of. Pleasant Community it be Hoot District was represented by 11.5 St orients in 17 events there Trero j5 i ratings and two who received la ratings j he participating contestants i coached by mrs. Evelyn Trent Are i ii d with their events and ratings a As follows j oratorical d claymation Mary i Klodnycky a i dramatic declamation sue Cor i Nick i Linda Scarf a i. I i hum or jus declamation Pat. Keefe i Carole Dawson a i j Bike Romm i i. Original oratory Linda Biggs i i Jean Olson a i Janice Pat j to ii Public address Bande Cal life ter a i. Interpretative prose Linda Kitchi Sara Stanley a i sue Jackson a ii. Interpretative poetry Linda Biggs i Linda Kite a i lord i to Ross i. The local students were taken to a con i. Est in cars driven by mrs m wart jacked mrs. Dan of. Al icing in areas North and West Oakland Mills ladies aide. Wes Ley Chapel a pcs Amite club of officials at the National Winfield am wet auxiliary of Henry i Rose was kit a a d in Sian a aeronautics and space Agency i no 86a< Olds a omens car Accident n a he Fellowship Wayland Community Montrose Iowa it up a James Arliegh Corn 26, of Mont n a one i Ridgy dedicate project a new Yorkus gov. Nelson Rockefeller throws a switch that starts Power production at dedication ceremonies in Niagara Falls n. Y., of the $720 million Niagara Power project his gesture put into service the first of thirteen 150,000 kilowatt generators. When fully operating in 1963, the project will be the largest Hydro electric Power producer outside the soviet Union. Former resident of Henry c county found murdered of marriage without toe responsibilities then Why him a the excuse for such a View is Iowa liquor control commission i fold to test the boasting abilities that this la Dation is the first to a m a of Republican gov. J0f the inexpensive efficient scout grow up under the influence of i n a Nisi a Ert and to use the satellite to gauge the atom bomb. Therefore there Are to be no moral standards no responsibilities no respect no Del it Rob a a a a a 0 an toe went that Corum. Are Vee to turn this court-1 Otsui r d at a Ceola last year. At try to hooligans of course this is not a new Point or i us c a accused Nasa w a a unbounded when they found it again Friday. They dubbed it explorer in they fired the 15-Pound, 12-foot balloon thursday morning from Wallops Island va., with a four stage solid fuel scout rocket. Purpose of the shot was two n orman a. Erbe. Erbe h Oil ice disclosed Friday that the governor asked for the that time a democratic candidate of actually Many Mush i m,,1k �10lt, in it Sci of View. And act d that Way in the Genera lion of the flappers al Capone hijacking and spiked Beer. For a j while anything went but we got j Over that perhaps not too soon ii was the period when so called society merged with gangsters and produced cafe society it was a period when big businessmen found it profitable to associate with racketeers and when murder inc came into existence As a third party to labor disputes b ing employed by both labor unions and industrialists. The question that tin Sci t of the new Mexico state University raises is not the Issue. We Are not dealing with a the pleasures of marriage without the responsibilities Quot for there can be no marriages without responsibility. The Issue is lilt insurance to a liquor commis Ion store employee to Purchase life insurance. Following several Days of charges Ana counter charges the Issue was dropped. But. Re. La Ross Eric s administrative ase slant said Erbe then asked the criminal Bureau of Inver ligation Chi to go ahead with full Caie probe. The state Agency to id conducted a Small i Vestiga fion of tile incident of the liquor store employee turned it Over to bib who made it Public at Iii. Budget hearings in december. The amount of air drag satellites encounter High above the Earth the first object worked out nicely the scout got the satellite into the air. Nasa tracked it Halfway around the world to Woomera Australia. Then it went silent. Quot it s lost announced Crest-1 fallen officials. But it turned out the satellite s radio Beacon had failed. Nasa said they found the sphere again by visual and photographic sightings. Scientists using optical sightings Are. Carrying out the air density measurements for which explorer in a is designed club Happy hour sunday school class Wayland Progress club Wayland Olds congregational Church Winfield american legion auxiliary Trenton methodist a pcs. Winfield Robe hah Lodge 453, Iowa Illinois Telephone company Dorcas society Winfield Hope lutheran wmf., Brighton Henry county schoolmasters. Chapter h tit James Harlan ii ter or Roger Meeker and mrs. Traut. J relatives Here received word Between la afternoon and eve recently of the murder of a form Ning session or. Traut and or. Or Henry county resident. Mrs. Meek attended a dinner meeting j Miriam. By Crim 62, at Towson ii or Iii the presbyterian Church at Maryland. Her body was found on by up Winter weather raised havoc across much of the nation Friday night and today fomenting tornadoes. Heavy Snow and a Glaze of ice. Tornadoes swirled through Oklahoma Friday night injuring at least 14 persons demolishing seven buildings and damaging scores of others. Other twisters were reported in Kansas and Arkansas a snowstorm pushed eastward i rom the Central Rockies and heavy Snow warnings were out for Wyoming Colorado South Dakota Nebraska and Kansas. Freezing rain Laid Down a Broad Glaze of ice from the Texas Panhandle Northeast to Wisconsin and lower Michigan. Motorists were warned of hazardous driving conditions and traffic was halted m some areas. Rain fell in the East Thunder i storms rumbled Down the Missouri and Mississippi River valleys and a along the Gulf coast Snow flurries i drilled across the North and show ers fell in the Pacific Northwest. I Baton Rouge la., had More than 1 two inches of rain and nearly two i inches fell at Olathe Kan. Weathermen warned of another Hazard in Southern new Mexico a desert blowing dust. J some 500 Homes in the Western i part of Des Moines were left with the car Cornwa. Elm or left a Lee county Load about two mile Southeast of Montrose and want Over a 15 loot embankment sheriff Harold oui Aho d Aid coins head was pinned under the cards steering wheel and i. Skull was crushed. The sheriff Aid a Eaton thorns 39, Abo of Montrose was thrown Clear of in car Marengo for the speech directors a Friday feb 3 of the , during which time her parents were or. And mrs. Ou1 electric Power late Friday night Emery Mathews of East of it plan Wen formulated for next y ars District contest which will or held at Montezuma. And Early today when ice coated attend National Rural electric meeting pleasant. She left Here with her i tree branches fell on icy overhead family while she was still a Small wires. A Msj but Des Moines was not the., a a i Only Community to suffer under she w As a Cousin of Parke j. Cornice Perry Mathews. Mrs chapter dar., Henry county and escaped serious injury he said health improvement association i Thoman Corn s brother in Law pinochle club Wayland american was arrested for intoxication. Legion auxiliary merry workers Ricordo club. New London Friendly helpers sunday school Claa Wayland Wayland mennonite j Mission new London business professional women. 4 c club Winfield i. Pleasant jaycee., Rome Church Circle and Bona Amicare club new London. These funds to go Thor with funds the death was be second this Lear. County world Day of prayer Ossi Xvi d Rand carnival net is largest new company for Sheldon Jiu it. Pleasant Community District band carnival held recently Buzz Lemeut will be replaced by Sheldon Iowa up Northern biochemical corp., shattered economically by the 2 million Sheldon National Bank pm a mrs. Edith Willit played hic piano prelude us the Church women of tile it pleasant area gathered received from the Community of the Federated Church Friday of c Hest Are used to operate the local j Lemoon for world Day of play r. Special school. A vote of thanks mrs. Clarence e Grahn i is deft was Glim to ii Wayne Nelson who 0j i plea ant a Jar it it Council drier was the chairman Lor the fund of Church women Ope i cd the drive conducted recently in Henry meeting county in the arca not included in following the or eting there was a skit in which women of All the j churches i presented took Pari i group sinning a led by mrs. I James to of. Or Burton in Hie i Sang Quot Lead kindly Light those present joined tile women i of the nation Aud of th1 world in a we the service a i i. A it am Denis Jones Leland Robertson and others in this Vicinity. A sister resides in Oklahoma City okla. And a son in Texas. A Towson newspaper the jeffersonian. Gives the following a j count of the murder i police at weeks end were running Down clues in the parking j lot strangulation of a 62-year-old j woman Bank employer i Estill sought for questioning is a negro described As 30 years old a six feet tall weighing 160 pounds and having Wavy hair j also sought by police Are the i victim s handbag and car keys. I other things normally earned in a _ j handbag were found on hurtle re a mrs. William Baldwin 602 North parking lot in the Vicinity of Adams reported to police that eggs Dulaney Valley and Joppa roads in were thrown at the Baldwin retd Towson about la pm Friday. Bile body of the Middle aged Cus Ailt a she saw a ear leave but was it Omar relations woman Tho Southeastern Iowa coopera-1 passenger j tic electric association was repro Seti Tod at the National Rural Elco-1 Trie cooperative association con j mention in Dallas Texas this week. Included were or. And mrs. Harold Hite. Or. And mrs. In g White or. And mrs. Harper James or and mrs. Mile madams. Or and mrs. W. A Russell and Rita. I in v returned Home saturday. Over 1,000 attended the Corr to Ion. Reports eggs Are thrown at House the heavy Glaze. Carroll was but feted by a two hour sleet storm that left wires dangerously coated and at Hampton a resident reported ice so tin cd Quot you can skate on the the Northwestern third of the state was hit by up to five inches of new Snow. The Snow followed a fierce thunderstorm and As the White stuff fell peals of Thunder echoed across Sioux City. Sixty three Iowa a towns were isolated from Long distance Telephone service Northwestern Bell tale i phone co., said. Rain pelted Southeast Iowa Early i today but temperatures remained i in the upper 30�?Ts, and Little or no i icing occurred. Rainfall in it. Pleasant totalled. .63 of an Inch. The Community Chest. Suspended prison term for former postal clerk unable to gel a description of it. Officers Are investigating. Fined $75 for reckless driving Harvey l Gelaude Oregon 111a Hilt a fined $75 and cal., in a a u. T it George Means court of a Des Moines urn in a no Iii major Quot an. In a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a Umi a our. In. A. Quot a a a a a a a cd whet he halted Over to mrs. Indictment or the Persona involved aim uniter.1 to shout no-.11 1,1 lala<51 a a of a a a of the new company on sound Ananda Korn b. Murray. 37. Former postal prepared by la. Nation i Council of hallway patrol. Ibid ends ear to close a window a is disclosed Ndu. S. Dist. He saw her sprawled under the . E. Van Alstine said it Pir i Fiscino met of a Ore Lefian a year ago highest a and newsmen at a up until that time. J conference in the american legion additional Booths a take for the increase the Money is us Ltd for band uni taking $460.94 in past a i funds. Judge Roy l. Stephenson round More Hall that a ii would come As no leased Murray on three years pro at some of them accounted _ surprised to them that Northern i Bat Ion subject to immediate Revocal Bio Chemko id a in dire financial lion if he takes a single drink of Straits and probably would be any alcoholic beverage during that hums and other band expenses j forced to close a in hic very near period. Linda Biggs and Jack Pugh were future. The student chairmen this year. Have discovered that Repossi bitty is an essential Factor in life and that one who is irresponsible is literally mad. Are we to say thai discipline All is to disappear from our society William Benton discusses this quest Ion from another standpoint. In a stirring article in a the Satur-6av evening Post in which in a the Man shameful part of the situation 1-8 that colleges supposed to provide Guidara c for the future Are shortchanging youngsters a and their parents who Root the Bills. A Liberal arts curriculum in a Good school cuts superficial in to the Bon and tequila con toll rises to 30 Centra d doses of English math a Emetics. The natural sciences his Johannesburg South Africa tory psychology economics and up a the death toll of fridays Hie humanities. Sure. Its Tough dynamite blast in the South Roode but Tough subjects that tax a Stu poor Gold mine Rase today to 30, dents capabilities de lop the. And some sources said As Many As mental Csc inline and reasoning ten More bodies May be buried in Powers that can be projected to the shattered Shaft. Worship r Klevs or iring charge filed by the Shway patrol. Charles Plummer it. Pleasant mrs. Miriam Binder in was found on hic front floorboards of her car. Which was parked behind the employment Security office on East Pennsylvania Avenue in Towson. Her body was discovered about12.30 . I hours after tier murder by a Young Man on his Way to pick up an unemployment Check. It was snowing. Returns an indictment Sioux City Iowa up a a Federal grand jury Friday returned an indictment presumed to be in last Friday some 12 connection with the Sheldon National Bank embezzlement Aud its repercussions. However the exact nature of the carnivals to Date. The amount Rea footing and under new manage j clerk at Ottumwa wa.-, Given a sue Church worn. N in use on this dual Zed alter All Bills were paid was mint Elliott Roosevelt said Friday Pended two year prison term Fri there was a \ a Good alts and was lined $25 and costs on a bad $1,56.5, mrs John Devin. Band Par night. Day when he pleaded guilty in . Alice and an exceptionally Largo of Luck charge fifteen dollars of Chis president ref aired. This was Roosevelt told a meeting of t District court Here to a charge of Felting. Jins mom. U it d by the the Fine was in. Pended when the would not be until the indictment Council Lur Mission wot world. Ill Ovet the i $16 Check to the John Ore u store a mad Good. However he said a new Corsair a Hidge Stephenson also placed tion l being formed with a $500. Kamman Farmer Khz initial capital investment. The i Pastman Star at a Ogu be on one students and parents cooperate to make the event a Success. I he next meeting of the band tentative name for the new firm i probation after suspending a Par pts will to on March 20. Blast death is the Sheldon chemical co., said. One year flight engineers in Wildcat strike he Jim a prison sentence on a charge of pm Bezzi rent. Kamman pleaded guilty to one charge of embezzling $100 in postal i funds. Several additional counts j were dismissed. Areas beyond a Many a immediate new York up a flight engineers across the country today staged a spreading Wildcat strike against major . Airlines disrupting both Domestic and International flights. At least six airlines forced to cancel or or Lay flights since the walkout began Friday fatally injured when pinned by car in Lodgment never change. A dirty face and dirty hands and in but it is not Only mental Dis kempt nails a the exterior Trade but moral discipline that Imark of a beatnik a can never be night in near Defiance of a Prest essential and More discipline in i justified even by the fanciful As a nudes Matin is Aud the outward sumption that of rowdiness is a Mark display of manners which is of dissent. A boy can be angry with propriety of dress. Although styles in dress do change the essence. Or without a Beard. Copyright 1961, King features which is neatness and aesthetic ac-1 Syndicate. Inc dental order aimed at delaying it today the strike appeared still in its growing stages. One airline source described tile strike As an Effort to save Hight Engineer s Union Newton Iowa up John Deming 64. Rural Newton had been fatally injured Friday when he was pinned beneath his car when it rolled off a Jack. Authorities said Deming had jacked up the car to work on the j clutch on the Keith Blair farm near Metz about five Miles South of Here. The Blairs found him pinned the. Under the car when they returned Home. I dashboard. Mrs. Bind rim told friends at a 1s formally filed birthday party Given tor her at a Alstine did not indicate dance studio on Delaware Avenue quiet this might be. Tile night of her murder that her. Ear was on Hutzler s lot. Police believe that the 62-year-old widow w As slain there and that the i murderer then drove the victim in Lier own car to where it was even j tally found containing her body i a 14-Man detect Ive squad head cd by capt. Elmer f. Adamas j chief of the police bureaus in it pc. To native division has already i interviewed 14 friends and Assoc 1 i ales of the murdered woman and May quiz More Over the weekend. Protest sit Down against base time marches on Phil Harris and Alice Faye stand with daughter Alio in and her bridegroom Samuel t. Alcus Iii 25, new of leans. La., after the wedding in Las vegas Nev Alcus is a member of a Stock brokering family. The couple is honeymooning via a South american cruise. London up thou ands i to demonstrators assembled in the i hear a London today to Stag a i massive Adown strike in protest j of the granting of a . Nuclear i submarine base in Scotland. More than 2.000 demonstrators j led by Earl Bertrand Russell i 88, the noted . Planned to squat this afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the ministry of defense for three hours in a huge civil disobedience Campaign. In rare surgery Barbara Lowry 7, hugs her identical twin sister Nancy at University Hospital in Seattle wash., after recovering from an operation said to be without precedent in medical history. Bone marrow was taken from Barbara and implanted in Nancy to combat disease

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