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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 23, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. , no. 15mt. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening i ei5iu Auy 2 i it it a these Days by George e. Kokolsky m n it y the american people including j the Congress is by coming increasingly conscious of trouble about j Money. There have been other j periods in american history when the currency was not a Worth a that phrase is not used much these Days it was for a very Long time a reminder of i the issuance of currency by the Continental Congress. Ibis Money soon enough lost value. Similarly the notes issued by the confederacy during the War Between the states lost value. The Greenback was a Legal tend j or non interest bearing note first1 issued by Hie Federal government during the War Between the states and originally not redeemable in j either Gold or Silver. Thin the j term Greenback came to be used for any kind of paper Money. Sec \ rotary of the Treasury Chase used a patented Green Ink for this paper Money which was popular because it was accepted throughout tile United states like All currency not supported by Gold or Silver or both the a Greenback in due course lost in value a division developed Between East and West that is Between Wall Street and the Farmers. The latter inferred cheap Money plentifully provided producing inflation the new York Bank insisted upon a stable hard currency supported by Gold. The Greenback labor party went before the people and in the election of 1878, they showed remarkable returns. The major strength a1 this party was entered on bankrupt Farmers who wanted easy Money. One of tile principal items of Farmers distress was to find Money to move their crops. The tiny Banks of the farm count a were dependent on the Large reservoirs of capital in the big cities. I Washington up a Pix a principally new York Boston and j Dent Kennedy sent Congress today the Over Ali program until Legisla a vast natural resources program to tion us proposed for specific pro j Richard l Meyer College Stu protect and develop the nation s Grams. J Dent from Wayland has been fined Lifeblood supplies of water land. J in its Broad framework it was s25 and costs in mayor Wade my feres us and minerals. Obvious that Many hundreds of Beth a court on a charge of drink Kennedy into a pedal Mes j millions of dollars would be in. Sag ranging from Pun shed. For example Kennedy fiction of big City air to tin called for enactment of legislation desalting of Ocean water for along the general lines a of a Bdl drinking and Industrial use. Which would provide $1.25 billion he warned that unless Wise Over to years to expand Federal Broad scale action is taken a we j assistance for water pollution con-1 since i w la be in trouble within a Short a tool. I i j time a too the presidents 3.500-word setting Forth n claymation and age emphasized that a your entire against the Bankers and the other water resources recommend \ society rests upon a and is depend moneyed classes. It was an j datum.-., Kennedy pointedly de i int upon a our water our land growth of the Farmers Alliance j flounced the a no our forests and our which was very popular in agn-1 policy democrats have attributed Quot by the year 2000, a United cultural states particularly Nej of the Eisenhower administration states population of 300 million Braska. William Jennings Bryan j such a policy denied the re-1 nearly doubled in 40 years will who three times was nominated to. Turco requirements and potential need far greater supplies of farm the presidency brought populism Jon which our economic growth product Timber water minerals into the then moribund Democrat hinges and took a heavy toll in Finis Energy and Opportunity for in party and gave it new life. I added costs and even human life outdoor recreation a he said. William Jennings Bryan is one and Homes by postponing essential i Kennedy said his message wa.-1 of the most astonishing characters j flood control projects a Kennedy j a designed to bring together. The Iii american history. He repro Ai i widely scattered resource policies j scented the common Man Quot who re the president announced actions j of the Federal government Quot which i leu Louise Wahlborg 35, died at Garden himself As oppressed my j his administration would take and i he said had a overlapped and often i University Hospital in Iowa City who sought Relief from the Bankers sati what he would like Pongee he Aid Federal funds t aha it 8 o Dock thursday morning j and from the newly developed to do. Administration officials said i thus were wasted along with the a or an illness of the past six trusts. Bryan a skill was oratory an Art now destroyed by radio and revised Shaff plan is adopted Jap we a m War a. La i Henry plans and Noland l o be soloists for symphony trumpeter David flans of Burlington and k Flor Noland of it. Pleasant will be the soloists for the reach ii Road agreement on plan dirt Farmer tells views on farm proposal Washington it up it a Wallace la. Otto. York neb. Rcd eyed from Washington up it a House a sleepless night appeared before a Southeast Iowa symphony sunday agriculture subcommittee today House agriculture subcommittee action taken on Issue by Iowa Senate Des Moines a it up it a tile Iowa Senate cleared a legislative the concerts will be played in my reached a abroad general agreement a wednesday in favor of president reapportionment hurdle today by pleasant in the afternoon and at on proposals to adopt a Bill along Kennedy a emergency feed Grain adopting a revised Shaff plan Burlington in the evening. Oho lines of a Kennedy admin amp tra proposal. 27-23, and tos. Tog the thorny Issue conductor Noland will do Quot a Hon a a emergency plan to feed Otto Des tubed himself As Quot a dirt Back to the Quot of represents Leonard Bernstein Quot when he is the Grain surpluses an informed source Farmer having a Tough time univ. Violin soloist for the Bach concerto reported. Porting my Wile and seven thu in two Success role Call totes. In e major and conducts the Orch the subcommittee met in closed Tern on his 5 20-a Ere farm Citra session. The he. However the Senate Defeated to afford the overnight flight Lions to immediately message the the enter sunday program is a source close to the sub commit Here. Or told reporters he made Bill to the House and to kill suite from the water music. Ire said the legislators a reached it anyway because he Felt strongly motion to reconsider. Handel Broad general agreement that pro that men like him should by vocal arranged for orchestra duct Ion of Fred grains must be cur in supporting the Kennedy plan us has not been resolved in the upper chamber. Sen. C. Joseph Colemand Clarc to he is Vii representative a John b. Rockwell of it pleasant is now serving his second term in the Low a House and is show n Here Ai his desk in the statehouse. Or Rockwell a Farmer believes that individual counties should be allowed to determine whether or not a state liquor store should be located within the county and is the sponsor of such a measure in this session. He is also chairman of the House committee on mines and mining. Other committee assignments include Board of control compensation of Public officers drainage and al raid control elections political and judicial districts Public lands and buildings and ways and Means. President proposes vast natural resources plan fined on Beer charge other charges filed even though the Senate passed a. A a. The reapportionment measure the by Hamilton Harty tailed the source said the a Gen he urged the subcommittee to j Allegro i Oral feeling in the subcommittee make sure that support prices be air is that agriculture Secretary or i Given Only to Farmers who comply Bourree Ville l. Freeman should be Given with the acreage allotments. And Horn pipe. Dilt ratio nary authority to raise sup-1 thus try to balance Supply with do. An Rel vote from a Uay al Gro Ducci so t port prices of Corn and other feed Imam. T if immediately said a a Lullaby. Gains by connection with an acreage j rep. Heal Smith a Iowa pro-1 v 1 a motion t0 recons or. Leroy Anderson program. Let used that the subcommittee Amend a it David Hana soloist j fireman meanwhile met a vol the administration Bill to specify a no it tion to reconsider can Only concerto in e major. J. S. Bach Ley of critical Questore on details that the support Price be limited to toed by a person who voted on Allegro i of the administrate urns proposal As average production on the allowed twin i re Vallins a so Csc of the Issue. Adagio j he explained it in testimony to the acreage. The action came Arter several Allegro Assai Enate agriculture Committer. J a this would take away the in hours of debate and a writes of key Lor Noland soloist 1 j he administration Bill would give Centile to Kurp pouring on the fort parliamentary rulings which Block to a wild Rose. Mcdowell Farmers higher support prices plus Milizer and produce More and de any possibility of another plan a arranged by Arthur Luck conservation payments for scr inc to said. A it s the closest we can being discussed. Minuet. Boccherini tog acreage of com and other Ani come to Bushel of the Shaff Measle Mal feed grains by 20 per cent. J William Brooks representing the tried without Success to recon Sider a plan sponsored by sen Robert r. Rigler. A new Hampton la gov. W. L. Mooty president Philadelphia. From their exaction the Farmers sought Relief. In 1884, the Greenback Issue prevented James g Blaine from being elected to tile presidency. Too however the Popup St party often called the Peoples party a supported cheap Money the populists regarded the Gold Standard As a conspiracy against Mankind organized in 1891. It was a socialist party accepting the doctrine of the class struggle and seeking to protect the worker and Farmer Sheldon firm Over million in the red tog Beer on a Public Street in a car. Two other College students were fined the same amount on the same charge earlier. Bankers meet at Burlington the largest attendance in history met in Burlington february 21st and 22nd for the annual meeting of group la of the Iowa banker association. Over 500 Bankers and their wives attended the meeting the firms bankruptcy petition presided Over by chairman c. R showed the firm had assets of Atwell president of the it. Pleas Richard Godfrey a local bar $442,586.94 and liabilities of $1,449. Ant Bank and Trust company tender was charged with Selling 7g8.34 a or a deficit of $1,007,112.40 or. Earl l. ?., Dean of the Beer to a minor and his hearing i the petition of voluntary Bank school of agriculture at Purdue j was also set for March i. Meyer rust by was filed in Federal District University was the principal growers who voluntarily idled up National Grain Trade Council of a to another 20 percent of their acre posed the administration program age would get additional payments Otto and subcommittee chairman in kind Quot from government surplus w. R. Pogar Ltd Texas it agreed that of the Senate ruled that the 26-23 a stocks. The support control philosophy was vote by which die Shaff Amend the Only Way to Rescue Farmers Merit was approved wednesday from the hardship of falling prices land the Rigler amendment which a tile farm Bureau federation was Defeated 30-20, would both idea that by starving the Farmer have to be reconsidered you can reduce production is Sioux City Iowa up t Northern biochemical corp., shattered by by mice Geiger $2 million embezzlement of the shul a charge of buying Beer illegally Don National Bank is More than is he was under 21 was filed j million in the red it was disclosed against Meyer wednesday. Hearing today. W As set in mayor Mcbeth s court i for March i. And Godfrey were tog the hearings. Released Pend Helen Wahlborg Dies at Iowa City court Here wednesday details. Speaker. During the business in eel worm not disclosed because the ins preceding the luncheon at the court a. Technically closed Boca ase hotel Burlington noon. Of Washington a birthday. The following officers were elected utterly fundamentally false a Poags said. Rep. Don l. Short Ltd and contended through questioning Otto that if Ferd Grain prices Are raised feeders must increase the prices they charge for hogs and cattle. Consumption Likely would fall off he said. Otto did not agree. A people who Are used to eating Beefsteak and chops Aren t going to he said. Poags argued that since feed cattle prices slipped Down along with those of feed Grain. Both would Rise together. For a two year term. Frank l. Kos . Geiger sentenced to a 15-j vice president of tile Washington i four Navy men one an iowan plucked from sea year prison term for her embezzle j state Bank was calmed chairman Monte from her Bank a. Succeed. Or Atwell and Charles the largest single stockholder to Walsh president of the Farmer. Northern biochemical and the firm. And merchants savings Bank. Bur collapsed after Hor piracy was Dis Ijnar 0n> elected Secretary. Closed. I Ino Price tag could be affixed to resources men and women came i a Ato Bryan because his i i jul Kru at television to listen voice his gestures his organization of words were things of Beauty. Game slashed James Bryant morning Sun reported to City police at 9 wednesday that his 1954 Buick convertible was badly damaged while it was parked to the High school parking lot during the girls District basketball tournament games Here. The top of the convertible was at the meeting of tire local Jaycees a slashed to the scats i wednesday evening badly slashed the left front door Glass broken and two rear View mirrors were taken. Tire damage is estimated at $600. I City police Art investigating the act of vandalism. Improvements under Way in business District the 1890 democratic convention had to Deal with the question of sound Money that is. Currency based on Gold or currency based on the free coinage of Silver. The convention was split a Bryan had practically no position in the convention and no following. However. Bryan wangled Tho Opportunity to it liver a speech to close the argument against Gold. The a across of Gold Quot speech was oratory. It received the response of great oratory. At that convention. William Jennings Bryan was in Xii Ina Ted for president. His pc Rora tion was repeated by orators throughout the country a having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the j world supported by the Cor incr rial interests the Labouring inter j Cate and the toilers everywhere we will answer their demand tor a a old Standard by saying to them you shall not press Down upon the brow of labor this Crown of thorns you shall not crucify Mankind upon a Cross of 6 o the words m terms of economic thought meant be thing it stirred the belief that Here was a Man who could save the poor from poverty Bryan was net elected his unsound ideas have affected american political opinion since the a across of Gold a speech. The United states resumed the Gold Standard. In fact it de eloped a Central control Over Money by the Federal Reserve system and this control based on Gold con created the possibility of economic trued until 1933, when Franklin disaster Winch faces us. D. Roosevelt took the United copyright. 1961, King features Eft lit bold ii Adad Aid s Adieu in inc rack alter for Jaycee state office months. Tic daughter of Henry and Alice Lynchard Wahlborg she was born on Jan. 4. 1926 in it pleasant. She att adet Public m tools Here and graduated irom it pleasant High Lester Mohr found dead among the dist Ingui tied visitors present were Joe ii Gronstal superintendent of banking for the state of Iowa Ralph Eastburn. San Nicholas Island Calif. It up ii pour Navy men one an iowan a Brownout to sea on a sen. Eugene Hill a Newton tiled the motion to reconsider the Rigler amendment no one was willing to request reconsideration of the Shaff amendment. This prompted Senate minority Leader Andrew g. Frommelt it Dubuque to complain that former Liberal rulings by the chair wars suddenly being substituted with a technical a any fair ruling that is except one arrived at in the Back Halls would permit a reconsideration a Frommelt charged. Sen. David o. Shalf a Dinton who offered Tho successful measure tried to have the plan immediately messaged to toe Hou e in older to Block a possible recall for reconsideration. He failed by a 26-24 vote not enough because the immediate messaging requires a j two thirds vote. J after that defeat he tried to i have the motion to reconsider killed by another parliamentary tech i pique . That was beaten. 26-24, As three senators who voted for he it Bill reversed their vote on this Fairfield president of the Iowa Bankers Anocia tion prank War. H&Quot.�?�1 Mot on immediately after All of the votes were announced sen. C. Edwin Gilmour a Grinnell Point association and Glenn l. Ingle. Director of the savings Bond i i school. Sin also attended the North i it scr Mohr 67. It. Pleasant. Western school of Bible in mimic rivet at his Home a Short distance vision of the Treasury depart men Apo is Miti j East of town on Highway 34 wed-1 for the state of Iowa. Many Cor for the past five it wars she had not set by ni8ht about 10 30. I respondent Bankers were present 1 of o mks it if Nuder thi it idiom Chicago new York City or. It to us Mission a under the Mold Stedfast father. William. A. A a i Oga. A flotilla of Mailer ships and la l l ,. 1,, time Zitnik Wurl Nurr Molly is. St Louis and Kasso City. Or ving called or. Robert wet Tach to the 0 0 8 plan joined the Sean a Early to nor. Secretary or the Iowa Bankers c1-"0 am plucked from he scale a Good condition by a helicopter. Tile seamen including a would be rescuer were blown to sea while skin diving off a rubber raft yesterday. Tile aircraft Carrier Timon Der plans for backing Don alter for state vice president of the Junior chamber of commie c were made Tak place at Wyeliffe Bible w1 Quot Doi of in i Mhz of los House when he heard a Noi r in j pre. ,.ut for All or part of the i Day before a Navy tracking plane another room the Dextor was events were from the it. Pleasant piloted by la. Cmdr. J. T. Griffith unable to get in and notified City Bank and Trust company or. And1 sighted hem Drifting some 14. Police. Tile officers forced open a a q p Atwell or. Arid .1 Miles for re a where they were diving. 111 m h1 0 Luis isl door and found Lester Mohr dead Perkc in. Cornick. Or. And .1 1c helicopter was dispatched indians Mexico. In the state of Oaxaca her father. Henry Wahlborg prec ded her in death. Funeral services will be held monday afternoon at 2 of clock at in the i pleasant business District Are underway ahead of the coining of Spring. The first new front of die cur j it her cast or West rent year is nearing completion. _ this is the front of the building on the West Side housing the offices of the Eugene Smith contracting an building firm. A w steel beams arc being in stalled in the. Building on North Jefferson to be occupied this summer by the j c. Penney store Iowa. Wesleyan Coll. Be. Owner of the j building is making the improve-1 ments and doing the remodelling. Tills will be one of the finest re a tail store buildings in the City when completed the election will the regi brai meeting to be held in 1 St a father or. And . John Van j it pleasant on april 19. C. It. My a syne. Cum and Richard Eielson w re designated As co chairmen to conduct tire Campaign. Alter served As president of the or al last year and has Byo the prot Lapust Church with the a Leader in local Jaycee projects to x a of win it no. I lie Jaycees decided at tile meet int. Ament will be in Forest Home my to give their support to the pc cemetery tit ions being circulated relative to the improvement of Highway 218�?Tsunday afternoon from 3 to 5 at and the bypassing of it. Pleasant the r. K Crane funeral Home. I those who wish to do so May con in the floor near his Baptist Church of it. Pleasant. Sin is survived by her Mother and Russell Van thy i the Cornick. Bed. Sheriff a e Rommel or. And mr.,. Hugh from Tho p it int Mug naval Sta called since Rukgaber or and . Warren Don. It picked up the men and Mohr residence is of the it a and a Tolbrt Coghlan. Ferried them to toe aircraft Carrier City limits. Or Wettach the coun Vir and a. Harold Ensminger where the men were pronounced in medical advisor ruled the death and yir.,. Roy Gilleard. Or. And to a a a xxx Sha in a a by a Navy spokes was due to a heart attack . Blaine Arnold. Robert water. Man aft a they had a drink of warming Coffee. The search during february to 1904 in Danville t son of Mary Wiechman and Wiliam h. Mohr he had lived in it pleasant for 19 years 14 of which he had been employed by the the family will receive friends Shaffer pen co he was a Veteran of world War Lester William Mohr a bom his Jim 0rn, and or a and or of Philip Hoaglin from the Henry county saving.1- or. And . E. A. Hay a. Or cd that the 23 senators who voted against the Shaff Bill represented a nearly half of a million More people than the 27 senators who voted for too a i or plan introduced by sen. Shaff. And generally endorsed by the Iowa farm Bureau federation would reverse the present Federal system by making the Senate the population chamber and til House tax a Tea based body. If would the senat Quot from its present 50 members to 58, decrease the House from its current 108 members to 99, one from each county. It would permit crossing it bulletins tribute to a Mem canal fund of the first Baptist Church in memory of miss Wallburg. A Stiim. Ion i in 1 _ the House ways and Means commit j Cie today approved president Kennedy ssi billion emergency proposal to extend unemployment compensation benefits for jobless w or k ors. Lenten services at Faith lutheran Faith lutheran. With this Ning s service at 7 30 p. In. Hold regular lenten services ii and a member of Bob Tribby american legion Post no. 58. Or. Mohr never married. He a. Survived by his father William Mohr of it. Pleasant two Sisters mr.-. Kihei Martindale of Burlington and . Ruth Cummings of it. Pleasant a brother Irwin m Mohr Abo of it. Pleas-1 ant and by six nieces Aret nephews f the funeral services will be held sat Bloom the predawn hours was conducted with county Linos in setting up a Wipala and . Robert Norris hares and search lights heavy lion controlled senatorial districts. Or and or. Orville Allender or. J and Mist kicked up by Strong tile pressure on the senators to and . William Hoaglin. Dents winds hampered rescuers. Pass some kind of reapportionment Jones Dave Carrick j p. Buddy a tiie Navy identified the four a measure was evidenced in the Riband o. T. Wilson. Men As Ronald ii. Mccoy 19, son Bate As speaker after speaker re l. T Harlan. Phillip Hixson and 1 of of and . Glen w. My feared to the need for adoption of Edgar Hartley of the Hilb Boro Coy Marshalltown. Iowa ens. A redistricting Bill. Savings Bank and William Simkin 1 Chester e. Flint. 23. Whittier. Calif. Without mentioning the farm of the Salem Bank attended. First to report Crocus in Bloom Washington up a All of president and . Kennedy a personal staff have signed documents to sell or Tell any details of their relationships with first to Rex Ort a Crocus in this season is . Earl will urday at 1 30 pm at the Elliott Kuch. 301 East Green. Tile Flower each funeral Chapel in new London. Is on the East Side of the House thursday evening through Lent the Rev. Wayne Moore pastor of close to the foundation. The sermons this year will again the Danville Baptist Church will Many have Bien watching tile airman Donald i. Bush 19, Rolla. Bureau by name it was apparent. N. D and Seaman apprent. Rob i at most opponents cd the a it Ort la. King. 19. Elkhart. Id. I blamed the powerful organization 17irec off duty Navy men were for whipping Rural legislators into ski diving from the raft about 200 line behind the Shaff plan. Yards of Shore late yesterday when j 1 wind gusts up to 35 Miles an hour prevented them from rowing Back relate the history of the events officiate. Interment connected with the suffering and i death of Christ and will be based Grove cemetery. On familiar lenten hymns with the first family the White House their Bible background. Tile Public disclosed 1. Cordially invited to the service. Will be in 1 Green stems pushing through the Prairie j soil during the recent warm Days and hoping no doubt to soon have friends May Call at the Elliott a Bloom. Chapel Friday afternoon and eve-1 the Fust Robins were reported a Nung i few Days ago Lockridge Man taken by death will admitted to probate Fred Graff of Lockridge died thursday morning at Burlington Hospital. The body was taken to the Weir cookes funeral Home where funeral arrangements Are pending. 11954 the will of Vera or oui a Sun Mons has been admitted to probate and according to tile torn us left her estate to her husband. John Harold Simmons who a appointed executor. The will was drawn up get 28,

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