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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 28, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news colder these Days by George e. Sokolsky it started in 1946 la is impose bar intelligently to it �4ci the testimony cd Robert e. Groat chairman of the Lockheed aircraft corporation before the Senate preparedness subcommittee because most of it has been deleted. Nevertheless one catches a word lure and there. And the most important one is 1946 for apparent it was in the year 1946 that this project was conceived Lockheed subsequently went into various lieu weapons projects on a limited basis How one engages in such an Enterprise on a limited basis it is difficult to say. Most americans assume that the United states got into the sputnik business after we discovered that the russians were beating us to the punch but Here we discover that tile Lockheed aircraft corporation has been in the Enterprise for at least 12 years. L Eugene Root a Lockheed vice president testified a a it remains to give this program a Complete authorization Arni centralized and go on it taking advantage of this work that has been going on since 1946. We have a tremendous group of subcontractors and associate contractors on this thing that number up into the i it ice a a Fine needs to be a detective to piece together All the quarrels in the Pentagon during the 12 years since 1940, among the army Navy and air Force Over which department will produce the sputnik for the Lockheed people produced a contract at the committee hearing Aud senator Stennis wanted to know what the red lines in the contract meant. And it turned out that the red lines indicated cancellations and changes. A aging vol. 80. No. 50 it. Pleasant. Iowa Friday evening Eek. 2.s, i9.w 8? by counter Ste Par week fear 20 drowned or. J a us to Ile alumni head for Hall of science Low a Wesleyan alumni chair Man tot the Hall it science pro j Gram will in in Harry i Jaques. Hie announcement was made by i Ltd Maxwell Stanley Muscatine. General chairman j or toques emeritus of i iou i we.%1e.Van, who has continued Janet Hayes salutatorian Vicki Lawrence Xvi i mis valedictorian to make his Home Iii i pleasant teat lung duties 1 of Hie fund among fellow tornadoes passengers bad just left this bus in Rankin struck whipping it off the Road and onto its Side in a ditch. R. A Bailey of Lockheed said a the contract which was cancelled was a new air plane and new system a new electronics system. It was an entirely new air plane and system. A senator Stennis. Was that to be used in connection with the Early warning plan a emr. Bailey yes sir. A Early warning and control it was to be used by the Navy in Early warning and for the air Force in the contiguous areas a i have no idea what All this Means and i give it to you Only As an example of the Monkey business which hat been going on for 12 years among the departments during that time the russians made sputnik which they succeeded in orbiting. This situation has for some reason not yet been corrected and although president Eisenhower has on at least three occasions indicated that a centralized system of control of the new scientific weapons was being established naming the person who would have authority there is no indication that the separatism of the three services is less today than it was when James Forrestal fought to make the department of defense a unil led administration. Rotary to have Rural a than dinner monday Washington ins j Litten bom by hell burst ate Kohler strike when sen. Barry g rotary will by Host to Many Farmers from the surrounding Community at the club annual Rural Urban dinner next monday at 6 15. Guest speaker will be Lei w Weaver sales administrator of the sales department of the John Deer Ari accused Ottumwa works Ottumwa. He will investigator of talk on the "5th or Weaver was born and raised on a farm near Lancaster to he graduated from the Lancaster High school in 1942 and then went into thi Marine corps of his 42 months in service he spent 32 months in the South Pacific upon returning Home he purchased a farm and operated it in conjunction with his father. In december 1946 or. Weaver quit farming and joined the Deere organization at Ottumwa in the Post eleven years he has been in the receiving department specifications department Foreman of the receiving and distribution stores assistant parts department head assistant and then manager of the whole goods department. Just recently he has been appointed i sales department administrator Bombshell bursts Over strike probe county miss., when a Tornado f International hound photo j Fellowship supper to Ile held Al methodist Church a new poorer the sen probe today Goldwater in it rackets committee conducting a a to resided Quot pro Union probe Goldwater made the accusations against Carmine Bellito who testified that tile Kohler company built up an Arsenal of arms and ammunition in anticipation of the bitter United automobile workers strike that began in april 1954, and still is uni r Way Bellino denied he had any orders o Whitewash the Caw or that he would do such a thing. Chairman j lip l. Mcclellan it it it Ark backed up assertions. The staff investigator also was strongly defended by committee members John Kennedy Ltd it muss., and Sam Ervin d n. C., who described Bellino As a top flight prob j or who was notable Lor his fan Ness. No Apt. Engel resigns position at Winfield Man killed at if Arlington the real trouble seems to be that there is a Lack of Money to do the Job right but it is not understandable Why there should be a Lack of Money with the huge amounts that the United states is spending on National defense except that much is being spent on obsolete military activities that too a a school election March Little remains for the modernize 1. Finn of our weapons. Senator Stuart Symington brought this Issue to a head when he asked Bailey from the standpoint of the committees record we want to be sure that there is no technical disagreement As to whether this is the Best Way to do it or can we afford to have it later or something of Liat character. It is just a direct Lack of Money is that right a to this Bailey replied a i know of no technical disagreement Between Winfield supt Roe a gave his formal resignation to the Winfield Community school Board at the special meeting tuesday evening. The Board accepted his resignation. Engel is serving his fourth year As superintendent Hen it is under stood the school Board is screening applicants but that no selection of or. Engel successor will be made until after the to. I or Engel has announced that he will enrol in the state University of Iowa at Iowa City next fall to Complete his residence work on his doctors degree. Burlington ins a a 25-year-old Nian Horn Stronghurst 111. Sal-1 m y c. Seh Wellig was killed today i and a companion critically injured j win n their car smashed into the j 1 1 i Side of i Burlington Railroad switch engine at a Burlington crossing. I Schwelm Linig a. Dead on arrival at 1 a Burlington Hospital. Reported in it id i condition was 21-year-old j a hum a Chubb of Burlington j wreck ii. Crews were called to u y Fie two men out of the smashed car. I police mid crossing signals were working at the time of the mishap Early today. I sunday night at 6 o clock the congregation Wall join the youth groups of lie first methodist Church in ii Fellowship supper. The food and service Wall be provided and a fret will offering will be taken. Following the supper at 6 30, miss Alite Cheney the missionary from the Iowa Des Moines conference Burlington District of the woman society of Christian service. Will be the speaker miss Cheney who i a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College and whose Hometown was Keosauqua served As the conference representative in Japan in the Field of education and missionary work for Many year1 la summer a Cheney re-1 revived a very High Honor from the emperor of Japan. At a special ceremony at Ayania oakum woman Junior College in Tokyo the follow in certificate accompanied tile in penal decoration for miss Cheney. A the emperor of Japan invests j miss Alice Cheney citizen of the i United states of America with the a Fth Grade of the order of the sat red treasurers on june 28, 1957 i and causes his Imperial Seal to be j affixed at the after miss Cheney a reception of the order he was granted the Quot cd Dit ional High Honor of an audience with the Empress. This Veteran missionary spoke in fluent japanese to the Empress whom she described As Quot Friendly and easy to talk everyone will want to be present to hear miss Cheney Tell of Hei experiences in Japan. Study new information from explorer Farmers Cost at record level in a word an Early warning system and a new air plane system both declared to be essential Are held up for 12 years because adequate appropriations Are not made. The russians approach their problems much As the United states did Between the end of tile civil War and the end of Theodore Roosevelt administration. It was an Era of push and go. The entrepreneurs did not worry about precedents and traditions they moved ahead in every direction. We Are now suffering from three social diseases one is bureaucracy both in government and in business another is the socialistic characteristics unwitting perhaps of a management which is unrelated to ownership another is an orthodox stuffed shirt ism which appears in both government and youth arraigned on three barges at Hospital red Des Moines ins a a 19-yea.r-old Des Moines youth was arraigned today in Des Moines on charges of i murder assault with intent to com i Mit murder and breaking and entering at his Hospital bed. The youth Richard Craig of 301 Hackley pleaded not guilty and was held without Bond in connect-1 Tion with the killing of a Des Moines taxi Driver during a gun Battle with police Early tuesday. I Craig entered his plea before municipal judge Ray Harrison who j went to the Hospital where cram is confined with wounds suffered in i the gunfight. He was hit in the legs and Groin by a Shotgun charge fired by police. Assistant police chief Malcolm Dailey said similar charges will probably be filed against 17-year-old Gary Lee Wessling later he i said it we Ould probably be several Days before court action could be business which rejects aggressive taken against Wessling who was Ness and controversy. Critically wounded in the licht and copyright 1958, King features was to undergo surgery for removal Syndicate inc of bullets today. J w its Bing on ins the agriculture department Rej sorted today that Farmers costs reached an record level in the month that ended feb. 15. The parity Index which Mea sur prices of goods purchased by Farmers a climbed to 302 per Cen f the 1910-14 average a year ago the level a293 per cent. A Quot is i Ark. Miss. A pc i of. Canton Union Tornado area a map locates towns where fatalities injuries and heavy damage were suffered when 8 tornadoes slammed through Mississippi. Death toll reached 12. An Alert had extended from Alexandria la., to the Meridian miss., area. Iowa City. Ins one of tilt nation top space researchers said today the a a space picture is build a i inc up piece by piece like a Jig saw j j Puzzle of a Gigantic new Vista a or James Van Allen. of i he University of Iowa physic de i Quot apartment. Studied new information radioed Back to Earth from the satellite a explorer and said the major scientific value of the Man made a a Moon is to provide i additions to the previous spar it knowledge of the a abroad Stripe of upper air and space Quot being charted by the a whirling i fragmentary reports received from the satellite Are being Stu a bed and evaluated at Hie univer j sity by or Ernest Ray Chiel the-1 Ore tical physicist it said there i has Bien Quot nothing startling in the i information although there is some i i data which does not seem to fit j the pattern. Ray referred to these As a Winter jesting cases Laid Asid it tor further j study. J i despite the failure of one of the i radio transmitters on the satellite j information on cosmic rays in the i j upper atmosphere is still being relayed to Earth by that remaining transmitter Ray said. This information is picked up by j various recording stations through Cut the world and relayed to the Jet propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena Calif. The cosmic Ray is then shipped to the University of Iowa j for study. Van Allen said a tape recorder designed by George Al Ludwig of the University of Iowa staff would be aboard the next satellite launched by the United states. 1 since leaving Active i w Iii be in Clung raising program i alumni while w mining in Moi Ida he has already begun work on plans lot solicitation tin pier Aln j will he officially launched March 20 the distinguished scientist who 1 alight biology at Iowa Wesleyan from 1912 to 1947, is not retired 1 he is preparing for the Printer his j most recent volume to add to the pictured key natureerie.-, used in j Many classroom Ani Laten a tories. Flus Well As by the general to Blit i nature study is or Jaq ties Hobby j As w Ell As his Poi Essron and led him to prepare How to know the inst cts and the score of volumes i to follow ithe is past president of the Iowa j Academy of science and the orig Nalor and director of the Iowa 1 insect Survey a seasonal and i geographic distribution study of the j insects us Iowa j like some other famous to Wesleyan science graduates such As i or James Van Allen rocket expert and i Thomas u foul tor i Vii Cist and Antarctic explorer la Jaques was born in Southeast Iowa. Ain r having attended school in his native Danville Iii entered Low i Wesleyan where he a graduated in 1911 and received a mantel Dee i be in pin i i Arthel work was at Ohio state University town Wesleyan alumni tradition ally credit or Jaques with supeno teaching Abib to i it a Joseph c Kinsey director of the new York Hospital Cornel i medical Center two weeks ago As inc Day speaker Paul libido to or Jaques two years prior or with Atli w Frye Dean of the school of Medicine of Louisiana state University who is a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan Iowa state College and Vanderbilt stated speaking of or Jaques a i hew my a m s., ph.d., and my and in studies Foi these i 11 a v never had bet Lei teaching from anyone than i had when i first started to College ii was not Only the teaching but the stimulus from teacher that gave me courage to go on. In competing till graduate students i a on a Pat and ahead with training i got Early Iii biology and other Sci in 1925 Iowa Wesleyan conferred an honorary degree upon or Jaques. Who was to train Many scientists his majors have been accepted throughout the years at leading graduate schools of the nation. Or Stanley made the announce j Merit of or. Jaques appointment j before leaving for Washington i d. C., where tie went at the inv j tation of president Eisenhower to j attend the foreign aspects of u National Security conference he i was one of a group to discuss lie requirements of u foreign economic policy with emphasis on j partnership with the developing nations of the free world the conference explored Means of convey i ing to citizens a Fuller flow of in i formation about threse require j ments. I or. Stanley is the author of it recently publish i Book waging an analysis of today great world problems and an outline of recommended policy. Hot hoi student of lie i pie. Vote announced a Tubby Friday i ugh school. \ Teki i a cure and m i Ion i. 3 i pleasant Tan of a class of of the 1958 class ant High school in a special As Al daughter of or Wiener of route is the Valcris Petot 104 students will ill head of in Accident a i Lour year Avn agr Lay a Lata liter of i a Hayes of 107 ii of 3 968 Janet or and mrs West Blond i aver 3 466 on a Aiu atm inn her Grade e in the finn years w As i lied Grade w ele achieved 4 11.1 i 111 to a col ranking third in the clean to Sherry Stull with a Grade average of 3 954 her Parent me or and Milt by till i 61 a North Jack son Street i he local to have a Dent a a i Cia. W Inch la i lie i irs to reign Exchange Stu member of their class re very proud of Kina pan la my i of Finland who ranked in i j in the class with a 3.250 average till is an unusually High average considering the feet that i e. A had to Cope will a mostly Trange language in a different Cunt v onto the the i he Hon of Roll and mention follows Honor toll Tamo Able i Vicki Lawrence 8 988 2. Janet Hayes 3 968 a. Sherry still 3 of i 4 Myers 3 928 5, Judice Martin 3.785 i. Karen Biggs 8 780 7, j mates Looper 3 633 8 Marilyn Clark 3 571 9 Curt Virden 3 575 to Lynn Cochran 3 481 la Bob Mcleiian 3.400 i 2 Doris Shellabarger 3 393 13. 01s/ij 3 357 14 Ann Piatt 3 321 15 Judy Welby Lory Wright both 3.28,6 17 Elsa p Ary to inca 3 250 18 Lyn Robertson ninety one head of hogs were killed will n a item trailer went in a ditch and overturned big la a 78 East of Winfield mar the Henry Lorn in county line about 8 15 pm i tim san v the truck of lied by Park Ding Ley of Knoxville ties barn was loaded wit i 300 head of hogs and was travelling West inc Driver whose name was t Learned told Deputy Robert Nicholson that the truck hit the soft shoulder and when he tried to pull hark the Highway it overturned drivel was not injured tire hogs which survived wreck were driven to a nearby farm and two truckers Robert of re of it Union and Robert Hewitt of Winfield were to take them to Knoxville today the Semi was badly damaged and brought to a it pleasant i garage a group of i a a a boys were having a Merti Rig thursday night at i Union and when they heard of the Accident went to the scene and helped out a Highway patrolman from Bur uti ton also investigated the acct Dent with Nicholson. The officers were at the Cene until 2 a in. Kentucky tragedy school bus plunges into River a a Preston Burg by info a More t Titan 20 children were feared j crowned today when n school bus turn tiled Down a ten foot embankment mid is ilk in 30 feet of water i a in i a swollen River near Prestonsburg. By the toll was estimated by Kentucky state Pollee and rescuers who reported at noon More than four hours alter one of the Weest bus accidents Iii the nations history i hat no bodies had been recovered. They said grappling Hooks had been unable to locate the submerged vehicle and expressed fear it had been swept downstream by lie current of the big Sandy River at my helicopters from Charleston. W a. And the Ashland Oil and refining co., at Ashland by. Were flying diving equipment to the scene Ilir bus Driver John Alex do ton sett 35, is missing and also believed dead Ai least 13 children survived lie t hic it by by scrambling through tie rear emergency door they escaped i death As the Quot bus plunged into the lev Stream it a spot known Aska -1 Nottley hollow on u. K Highway 23 reorganization plans agreed upon 20 24 Sandia fold Stooks Berry both 3 214 3 178 John French David Trueblood Pat Taylor Mary Ilene see Ellen Savage Mary Alice Savage Sharon Swan a1 3 071 3.036 Botti 3.ooo honorable mention 27 Marilyn Anderson Amie Sperfslage Linda Shaw de Means Marie Diane Peterson Iwon it Modding dusk Buffington 35. Karin Johnson 36. Linda King Mary Ellen Watters both 2.678 38 Basil Huston 39 Eleanor Landman to Sharon Jarvis jury i Mcculley Helen Rowe Janette Ceile Roberta Davis 45. John Schroeder Mikel Ritchie Marilyn Messer Ann Wallingford Ronald Riley Jai k Fenton Patty Christ Lier 28. 29 30 31 32. 33. 34 2 906 2.985 2 964 2 933 2 892 2,857 2 750 2 733 2.724 2 642 2 607 j Willis Dyer Hay i 48 it All 2 571 All 2.535 Union those with 2.8 All 2.500 car better follow Thor missile launched Cape canaveral Plains the air Force launched a 1.500-mile Thor missile today that was reported to be the first american space rocket fully equipped to carry a Hydrogen bomb warhead. The thunderous firing took place at the Cape canaveral missile Center Midway Between platforms where the Navy Vanguard and army Jupiter c satellite rockets 52 53. 56 58. 62. 65. 67. 68 69. 70. 71. Ai Lone Campbell Richard Meade Jerry Vicker Elmer Wells All Richard Stookesberry Pat Penhook Karen Welcher Rex Sadler Joy Guinn Larry Calhoun Larry i Lite Pat Peterson Gary Aller Mel in Conrad 2 464 2.392 2 357 2 333 All 2.321 All 2 300 the county boards of education of Louisa Washington Des Moines Lee and Henry counties met thursday of ii of pm in the of i ice of the Henry county superintendent of schools in the i pleasant courthouse to agree on plans for the reorganization of school districts a Long their boundaries those present were Des Moines county Chi lord hell Kenneth Todd Gilbert Keller William Parrott Lloyd Schielser. L l. Woodruff co. Supt Lee county Robert Riddle Kohl Wayne Smith Irvin j Charles Rupert co. Supt Washington county George cd Lester Krabill co. Supt. Henry county Donald Bell or George Sutton. Darrell Foss la Moyne Mosher William Garden to Davis co. Supt Louisa county of a Deppy Ray-1 mood Pogemiller Fred Stone Elmer Thomas Mal shall f held co. Supt Darien Foss was elected chairman of lie joint county meeting and Joe Davis Secretary. Or Foss asked for a discussion on methods of procedure and l. L. Woodruff suggested that the counties having Mutual lines and problems meet separately. Lester Kra Bill stated thai he thought tile group should aet As a unit. Marshall Field then proposed that combination plan be used and he further suggested that there be an Intel a change of affidavits agreeing to Ute j plans and that in try county. Louisa and Washington counties accept a j plan Winch outlines the Winfield and Olds districts As they now stand and includes the present area that i they Are serving. It was moved by Donald Bell that j the Boundary line be accepted As outlined by Marshall Field. Motion seconded by Elmer Thomas and j carried unanimously it was then moved by la Moyne j Mosher that the Henry and Lee county Boundary line represent the territorial limitation for planning j purposes and that Jackson town collisions with a wrecker and ii parked automobile sent the bus Cai the wild dive into Levina Fork of the big Sandy which normally is Only ten Lect deep heavy Rains by the past Tan Days have rafted the River to Hood stage. The bus had left the cow Creek area in Southern Floyd county a Coal mining Community shortly berm 8 no. Est with an estimated 35 to 40 elementary and High school youngsters. As it approached the Village of Allen. 3-u Miles South of Prestonsburg the bus struck the rear of i Tow truck in a Nottley hollow sideswiped a parked ear and sped Onward out of control. Tire skid Marks at the scene by dictated lie bus Driver tried vainly to save the children from distil in Bennie Blackburn 34, who lives in a nearby trailer said a it was about 8 05 a in. A i was to Lomg with Donald Horn Driver of a wrecker who had arrived at Tho scene to Tow away a i car that bad run into a ditch. I a we were standing near the Dis i ruled ear. I a i saw the bus coming. Visibility was Good. I done to know what could have happened but the bus hit the i rear of the truck it kept going and sideswiped a parked car and headed Light for the River. A was it reached the embankment it seemed to come to a Stop and then suddenly tumbled into the i rivet i Blackburn said he and Horn ran j to the scene and found some of i the children crying and streaming As they a poured out the Back door just As the bus was sinking a Quot there were at least a dozen who Carne out alive a he said. Passing motorists stopped their cars and ran to the scene to Aid in Rescue operations. But their efforts were thwarted when the bus vanished beneath tile turbulent Waters other motorists sought out telephones to report the tragedy. The nearest communication line a a t Ephone in a farmhouse a is a mile from Kanott Lcy hollow. News of Tho tragedy brought hundreds of persons in Automa . State police set up roadblocks Toke up open Tho Way for Rescue equipment including a Bulldozer. Madeline Anderson both 2.250 shed re main in the contemplated my Gerald Sammons Pat Robinson Joyce Keeley Anita and Resen Hill Henry holler Ronald Christner both 2.000 2.178 2.142 2 107 2.035 pleasant reorganization plan. Or Sutton seconded this motion and it i was carried with one dissenting vote. I generally there was Mutual agreement Between the five counties Swisher Farmer commits suicide Iowa City. Ins a verdict of fined by mayor involved that the tentative inter suicide was returned today at Iowa county reorganization plan should City rhe death of,57-year-old observe school districts and service Herbert Smith Swisher Farmer. Areas As they now exist. These plans he diet a last night in an Iowa l. Schock Donnellson May be changed when the reorganization of specific school districts Edward has been fined $3 and posts in j take place if it is apparent at that Are being prepared for launching i mayor Wade Mcbeth a court. The j that a majority of school a attempts expected next week i tickets was issued by police. J Lons desire a change. City Hospital of what authorities said was a self inflicted 32-caliber Bullet wound in the head. Smith was found in a garage at his farm Home with a Rifle nearby

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