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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 20, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Muthe it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Skomsky taxes ant osts Ilie eternal problem of govern no tit is he w to raise Money to do All that a bureaucracy can think up Hie eternal problem of the taxpayer is to keep enough of his earnings to provide for a livelihood and to leave something for family should he die at the wrong tune inn is a Universal struggle not limited to our society. It is so general that Many of the rebellions Arain i governments including the american Resolution against England Wei Over taxes. But Here in the United states at this time it is exaggerated by the inordinately High Cost of government West which outrage Public opinion in the aggregate but which Are supported by Public opinion in the details of supports and benefits and subsidies which the various elements desire for themselves. It is impossible to Cut i lax is if everybody wants a Subj Sidy out of taxes vol. 80, no. 13 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening Keb. 20. Mos a Quot win a a Nam. We Leopold Touvh granted paroles warmer by Carrier 30 per week to Springfield. 111., two of the most controversial figures in american crime thrill Slayer Nathan p. Leopold and prohibition Era mobster Roger the terrible Touhy a were ordered freed from prison today. The 52-year-old Leopold can be released in one month. Touhy 59, can leave about August 1959. The parole was announced by the want pictures of first focal courthouses j. C. Penney to sneak at inc on june one of hic major difficulties a request i made for pictures f tic first two courthouses in Illinois Pardon and parole Board in passant the pictures Are Springfield. Both arc in Stateville Quot nud by the inn bet Orion i so Penitentiary near Joliet 111 Doty Leopold convicted in tile 1924 tor anyone having a he pictures May Ture slaving of 14-year-old Bobby Yoav a them either comity about our problem us that nobody j Franks in chlcag0, has in Pris a auditor e j. Olson or county re on for 33 . Touhy. A one time Colt a a or Oden Virden pies will foe it underworld Czar a 8carface&Quot mad it it try the original pictures Ai Capone was Quot sent up Quot in 1924 on it our d to Hie owner a conviction of kidnapping John 1 Soma his rips give Alt pleas Jake the Barber Factor. Ant credit for having the first the parole decision was an courthouse in bounced by Board chairman Frank the 8, l Ada in u. Stransky of Savanna 111., who 1 1 this a inv said the five Man Board reached a1 $642 50 had quite knows what the american budget the accountancy methods Are so cute jete that it is difficult to discover what a $70,000,000.-000 carryover Means. That is what the Hoover commission i covered namely that the United states Treasury a. A carryover of $70.-000,000,000 our budget in 1957 was $71,600,000,000 the carryover from Ether years amounted to $70,000,-000,00, nearly one years government expenditure. No accountant would a. That Ort of thing for a private finn the internal Revenue service would not tolerate so Chan accrual. I would demand that the funds be used or be dim buted. In or Senate passed the Ken my Payne Byrd Bill to place the budget on an annual accrued expenditure basis which is the Basilica like Way of doing it. Who can oppose the application of Businesslike method to the Public business it my t be who believe that nothing should Ever be done if it ainu to never before been done that w a. One of the governmental problems which always faces a Republic the most serious is How tile Public pulse is controlled when a King controlled the Public purse it was hts private property to do with As he Chese. The Constitution of the unit d states gave that function to Congress with initiating authority in the Home of representatives. In a word control of the Public purse a. Put closest to the people themselves. It was not Given in the Constitution to the president. By various devices during periods of crisis the executive has invaded tilts authority to the Point where not the Pongee s but the bureaucracy gained the initiating control Ever the budget. Thus has been justified by the need for expert Ness in handling Many budgetary details but such expert Ness has not proven itself. Rather huge sums of Money have been hidden in the books $70,000,000,000 of Money. The state of Iowa of the county holds been received j c Penney one of Americus greatest merchants will lie the baccalaureate speak it at Iowa Wesleyan col leg june 8 rite announcement was made by or. J Raymond Chadwick president of tile Coll be. The will known Layman will deliver tile address usually made by an ordained minister the Bora laureate son ice w ill tie part of the Iowa Wesleyan conium iceman which will begin saturday june i discussed others Council acts on several matters j he City Council wednesday ingot acted on a number of mutters Ami split decision in Leopold s Case but in subscription in february. 1667, was unanimous on Touhy. Word reached Stateville Warden Joseph Ragen at 11 45 a in. Cost. When he told the two men be said a for a Short time they Bot ii looked a me with Blank faces As if they comprehend what i was telling them. Quot then tremendous smiles of utter the court de id to that tire lots should be properly surveyed and that in Montvitt terms for credit should by Given the april court agreed on a 26 by 18 building and ten feet High Between the joists and the same was to be weather boarded and shingled and delivered to the supervisors sept. I 1827. In a later record it was written that the subscription being not Joy and Relief spread across the enough to underwrite the building faces of both. Leopold put his hand to his head and his voice was shaking As he muttered Over and Over of wonderful a wonderful after All these years a Quot foully was a Little More Calm but he was saying gee great i was hoping All the time did no to know a a prof. William f. Byron sociologist and longtime supporter of Leopold declared a a Justice at Long last has been achieved. He will be a great asset to society now that he is to be free. By no stretch of the imagination does he constitute a risk to poet Carl Sandburg and Lincoln scholar Ralph Newman came to Ransom Leopold s support a week ago wed All former orders were rescinded. Liter there Are records of payment for material and the final payment for rent of a place for upend ors court a paid to Presley Saunders in april 1840, indicating that the courthouse might but i have been ready then. Tile flame courthouse located in Central Park near the Southeast Corner was used until Chi War times when an old mercantile Btl lid. A located on what is now the courthouse Block at the North we t Corner was purchased by the county this was a two Story Brick building and was converted into offices. As the father carried out the instructions police arrived with mesday when the convict made his j the tragic news that Bobby had been fourth bid for Freedom before the found dead in a drainage ditch parole Board. He never has denied the boy had been beaten. An add Les guilt but pleaded for not Quot mercy Cook county states attorney Benjamin Adamowski who vigorously opposed parole for Leopold saturated rag Mouth. Was stuffed a ill his and extend through monday june 9. Or Penney in expected to la in i pleasant for the entire period or. Penney i not known alone As a Merci philanthropy and Espousal of Christian service arc noteworthy in 1952 he a the recipient of it up Elia award Fogt outstanding Christian service by the Church federation of greater Chicago the same year lie received an Horatio Alger award from the american school and College association and Ute following year the service medal Awald of the rotary club of new York. He is chairman of the Board of Allied youth a group aimed to shield Young people from Hie dangers of Alc hoi. And vice Prochl Dent of laymen movement for a Christian world inc lie founded the memorial Home Community at Penney farms in Florida for retired Christian workers in remembrance of his Mother and father us latter a minister. Momti id it l i of lilt Joseph Ihns \ an Hon a truce degree we ow.,rigid i Joseph huh v noted alumnus in the held of Medico a Al til he had Given Iowa Wesleyan founders Day convocation from and vice of the i a it i Calden of the it Lilly Alai in j i or him y humid Cha my i l Ite position it superintendent the City dump was heated by tin Council and City manage it Wright announced he will appoint Andrew a Sot lev to he the Post Hon at $12a a month and have sex elusive junking privileges Mcsorley will work six Days a week the Quot Damp will be left open on sunday mornings. There was some discussion about the hiring of a Man to pick Iii the garbage and cans in town Wright was instructed discuss the Job with i Keokuk Man Clifford Hornung Herman Whaley my at the meeting and talked about Hie dump Job and also the garbage Deal lie told the Council he was t interest either one. Imp to w my Swan to to tech Pip to Tel a a . A a pm a presented in i on vocal Ion then began one of the biggest manhunt in the nations history. But did not object to release of a Sci it a Days liter it Leopold and Loeb Touhy. Was unavailable for com Werc s a in cd after a pm Ece of evidence Merit. His Chicago office Aid he is a a Leopold a eyeglasses a had been a out of the found at the scene of Bobby a Tomb. Stransky said it would be Quot several both confessed that they dad from a Start As an apprentice in a store working far Ute sum of $2.27 a month in his native Hamilton to Penney Rose to be chairman of the Board of a Chain of Over 1700 stores j c Penney company inca founded in Kemmerer Wyoming where or. Penney had gone for his health a tile still a youth. Two partners who ran several dry goods and clothing stores in mall Mountain towns gave him a Chance to begin a store in Kemmerer and buy a third interest out of his earnings. Six yearn later he bought three of then stores. To expand Ute Young Enterprise treated others just As he had been treated. To hired an assistant taught him the business made him a partner in a new store and continued Ute Chain rep. Schwengel announces hell the problem is to put the government on a co t accounting basis so that there can be exact daily Elmer Gertz of Chicago. Thus or. Penney came to by weeks Quot before Leonold san role pm tricked Bobby into Riding with them. A a a Puiu a pal of pm a known As the Man with Over a ploy ment prospects Are investigated m a fan ted automobile after he had information As to what is being expended. Nothing can be hidden padding would expose itself. Neith r hiding nor padding is in of Facto wrong it a process in government for the bureaucracy to be Able to function without the authority of Congress or to provide for delaying enterprises. It does not mean that anyone steals the Money it remains in the Treasury but not immediately used As in tended. Our government need not accumulate funds if there is any accumulating to do that should be the function of the taxpayer. As a matter of fact we hat is held a a carryover is really Money taken Cut of the Economy and is lying dead producing no w health and no work. A that same Money in the hands of the taxpayers could in our particular Economy turn Over 20 or 30 times a year producing increased wealth and giving jobs to Many a worker therefore h r 8022, new before the House of representatives is a measure w hich in the Long run sets up a Modem system of accounting for the government but As applied to present conditions is a measure for the reduction of the depression conditions into which we Are falling. For what reasons do ame members of Congress defend the concept of a huge Quot carryover Are they afraid that Congress will one Day refuse to vote them funds for their pet waste Are they afraid that a proper accounting system would disclose their failure to protect the Public purse and approved. Leopold s attorney said Leopold has an offer of a Job As a medical technician at a Mission outpost in puerto Rico. There Are other Job offers from Illinois new Yolk California and Hawaii. Touhy has repeatedly claimed he was Quot framed Quot a that Factor to escape extradition to Britain on a swindling charge went along with a Quot caper a engineered by the Capone mob to get Touhy out of circulation. As the two prisoners sweated out the result of their latest plea for Liberty their behaviour was described by Warden Ragen As very Touhy kept to his regular chores explaining Quot in a just trying to keep Busy until the word left school Leopold and Loeb said they had made Bobby their victim in a Quot perfect crime s c heme they had hatched six months earlier. At the time Leopold said a Bobby just happened to be our victim. Ile was a Nice kid. We had nothing Aga inst Leopold and Loeb pleaded guilty july 23, 1924. And Only an impassioned plea by the late Clarence Carrow famed criminal attorney saved them from the electric chair. Ninety nine it Rar prison sentences were imposed Over the vigorous objections of stale s attorney Robert e. Crowe who called the Case Quot the crime of the crowed now dead a had demanded the death penalty for the killing of a Quot helpless Leopold volunteered As a human i lie Midwest oui set tiers Kiel threshers association we v granted Hie use of Mcmillan Park i or sept 3. 4# 5, and to this year mid sept 9 Roll and 12 in 1959 fur the j annual reunion. J the association Wax also granted i permission to build a permanent i unloading Dock for the engine near the transformers in the North Central part of the Paik Lyle Burroughs and William Bater Wen at the meeting in behalf of the is a., a a n seek reelection mayor Wade or Beth reported that Harold Vermace has he. Ii lured to serve As meter Reader and custodian of the City Hall the is 5 Tion was created by the Council recently and pays $225 a month the Council renewed the Ben permit for the i hat cafe councilman Pii a Walter mad p motion but later withdrew it that two councilmen but appointed every two meetings to go Over the City s Bills. Reading of them aloud it each Council meeting would then be eliminated. Several of Hie councilmen and attorney Tom Bell stated that it was All right for two councilmen to Check Over the Bills before each meeting but thought they still should be read aloud Al the meeting. Waiter then withdrew his motion. La Mion iou ii pm to a who s who in amen. T cd Hon to the town of i pleasant for outstanding contribution to i Independent educational main tit Ion Low Wesleyan collect president Chadwick to mayor Wade i Mcbeth at mayor Mcbeth responded with appropriate remark we the thou. And partners Quot and a the Golden Rule two of Ute j three books he authored reflect 1 these experiences they Are Quot a. C. J Penney tile Man with a thousand partners Quot and a fifty years with the Golden rub Quot his i third Book is Quot line of a eleven colleges and universities have conferred honorary degrees upon or. Penney. They Are Kansas Wesleyan University Bryant col lege Baston University Drexel Institute of technology Rollins College University of Wyoming j a a the curb. The Council now Westminster College and Coe 1vels this an Hiis Little in Weir College. He a the recipient of inc get a Doois wow nil us tile 1952 Tobe award for Dis the parking situation Iii the too Block on North Jefferson was up again the possibility j changing the Angle of the parking spaces was discussed the City manager a advised to study the feasibility of changing the Angle at an earlier meeting there was some talk about changing the Park j my from Angle parking to parallel curb Wilco opened i it get out making it hat Leopold however asked the i Guinea pig in malaria experiments Warden to relieve him of his cled-1 during world War ii. And for this. Cal duties in the reception 99-year sentence was commuted he said t0 85 years by gov. Adlai e Steven linguist had contribution to ameril can retailing and has been named to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the Hall of Fame in distribution As w Ell As being a lieutenant colonel on Ute shift of the governor of Florida. He nerves As chairman of the Board of the securing Tornado insurance Lional Council of Community in machinery in the Light Quot the Strain of waiting is just too son Reat. I can to in great. I can to j in Lis bids for Freedom Leopold s today Leopold was put in a Small i petitions begged tor mercy so he office with his attorney and new could de outside prison Walls. He is Allan Shook and in hard Wilson discussed insurance with the Council. They have inspected Ute City insurance polities and made souk a commendations one of which is on tile Plant. Discussion Abote for the City a Man to await the decision. Leopold was 19 years old and Loeb a year younger when Bobby Franks vanished May 21, 1924, after leaving the fashionable Harvard school for boys on Chicago s South Side. The anguished father millionaire Jacob Franks received a Telephone Call hours later. A voice said Quot this is George Johnson. Your son is Safe. He has been kidnapped. We need money�?$10,000. We will it you know. Do not Call the suffering from diabetes i the next Day Franks received a copyright 1958, King features. Typewritten letter giving instruct Lyn Dicato inc Lions for delivery of the demanded most it. Pleasant stores Are open on Friday nights and closed at regular week Day closing time on saturday nights. Pavement which has As aim developing self Reliance. Or. Penney now 82 year. Of a 1, became interested in cattle raising in later life. He is a director of the american Royal live Stock exposition Aud Hoise show a trustee of la t in states expos i summer made a request that a see lion and president of Emma dim be13. Made there was some Tornado insurance ter Tower. The matter of setting a rental fee for use of the rat a track a Mcmillan Park was discus cd the v f w. And the Jaycees two group planning to sponsor car race tills farm inc. He is also a member of the american Guernsey cattle club. The american Hereford breeders association the new York state Guernsey breeders associated and an honorary life member of both the English Guernsey cattle society and the Royal agricultural society of England his fraternal affiliations include masonic 33 and shrine rotary new York and the Union league club new York. Since then seems to be some controversy about the use of the lights at the track owned by the Henry county fair Board Wright w As advised to Check into the situation at the Paik. Bridge flood control my navigation j project along the m. 1 Sippi Mer j which is the Eastern Boundary of i tile first District have received i Schwenger x const ant attention he j has helped get approval tor fund to Complete the projects at Coralville and Keokuk a k no dam no 19, and t it go t the mad arc it project it Muscatine underway levee projects at Muscatine Island j and 1 oui a county drainage Dis j trials have recons d plan ii Mon \ j and Iowa s Flint Creek project Hasit i authorized for a pre con a i Tructien planning Survey. Favor 5-cent postal rate Washington the Senate p St office committee approved a Hill today to boost past a1 rates including an increase to five rents tor mailing an out of town letter. Loud Revenue from the increases v Titch would become effective july 1 it enact 1 by Congress would be 75 i million dollars rile five cent rate for out of town letters would be limited to it three years an accompanying foil Cut rat for local first class mail w it did be imposed without any Cut a Oft Date catches 5-Pound Bass through the ice new London journal to Colton caught a Fiva Pound Bass and me other fish at the new Loudon country club Ink monday. Fishing through the ice new to Colton hut after such a catch Holh an enthusing. Everett Wasson told Irving senile and lie told the journal. Moines said we should verify the 1 tory first but who Ever ii cad of v drying a Fiah Story in we cd of a work in the the w a ame of i Colp of Engin area sch my spearhead a movement to prevent till n 11 in. I tint i on of the Rock Island District office of the Engi Nee is with in office in St Paul 1 the 1 hectic es.,i his Hor was n i t 1 d in an ii noun pm Clit on 1 i a Elau a y 5t.ii t hat thro k Island ire would continue to Erve a i did i office. The f i a1 Aid Highway and of 1956 which authorize i the Cia it auction <>1 Lite id in it in lie inter stat i la i Way yet m Wafa. Ii lolled in the Public Woi i. It Mitt a use harem a a vital part in the pc lotion and in followed implementation closely. Sub Wencl Hajj recently introduced legislation a it Speed up Tho pay men of fed rial fun to Flat a for material it corp a ted in Foderl ail pro 1 ctr tit Iii pm att nation i a1 Foci t. He Sec ured a a Post Oft c e it Pla Lemout is one of the Iff ice problems it when hit Muscatine Ilia Psi it for Tho second 1956. Schwengel secured Sade of a Bdl to create a mini is Ion with authority to the present Structure and Rai c funds to construct a new j a 1� a w Here six la Arm Tel h a made a contribution iming h. Is t Lune in to ii. A to v Ai lit run on to staff at the stale Una ors to of Iowa ext 1 by i us his Uch d i or to x r h t for pm Enta i cd Liege Atli Dent arid t Tea cd ten a to must continue 11 >1 a due lion in Orr to Advance Iii f or Fersick. a lion t make x intr it nos od1 ice d legislate Den id Ria in of am get greater Par in mint arid poli i continuing his h dig to no project or Tad in 1955 to students arum pro Feivor an Opportunity to get a first hand to k at the operation of the Federal government. Glen Kiger. Who plans to open a 0.1 sunday was repealed Pool hails Pool Hall Luff soon talked to the were also included. Return from writ no Are prop Council about having the Pool Hull the Council told Kiger that Jool pm tical but a contract fora night j open on sunday. The Council told Halls Are not usually open in other club appearance is specific. So i 1 him that when the ordinance pro i towns on sunday because Tho write Between engagements Gyp ii biking Bowling alleys being open Cis choose to close on that Day. Syr lose Lee. Washington Riff Day sales have become famous in Many l Ilies for their exceptional bargains. Wanted items Are priced at ridiculously Low prices. It. Pleasant merchants Are having a Washington a birthday Sale on saturday. The reduced prices Are amazing you la want to Heck every advertisement in this Issue and take advantage of the Money saving opportunities

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