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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 4, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Of you miss your news Call 75 City cab Between 6 30 and 7 00 p. it. Pleasant news warmer sees mph a a a these Days by George e. Sokolsky crime avd morals j. Edgar Hoover director of the Phi year by year. Issues a report on crime in the United states and one year is worse Titan the o to ter. The year 1957 shews the turn a1 increase in fact it is the All time High year for crime 2,756,000 major crimes having been committed tile largest increases reported Art in what Are called a crimes against property a namely robbery burglary larceny and Auto thefts. Tins is an inaccurate designation because not property but Persona Are robbed the loss tile heartache the inconveniences involve people not property. Crimes a against pre party Quot Are Normal in conditions of poverty such As do not exist in the United states where it is Mill possible even in a period of economic re adjustment to earn a living wage i if one w ill work. The crimes Are not committed out of desperation. A most criminal activities in the United states Ade wilful youngsters form gangs to go robbing to get a1 automobiles to be big shots before Bluey Are even Little shots. Crime in the United states is a reflex to immorality just As our sex problems Are reflexes to a morality. To an abandonment of Hie Basic moral and ethical standards of our society. Vol. 80, no. 3 it. Pleasant Iowa. Saturday evening Jan. I. 1958 by Arrier 3<v per week by mail $7,50 per year two bandits captured at St. Paul a Jas go i Bench parole for fort Dodge Man fort i k Kins a 85-year-El,i fort Dodge explosives Export who rigged he former wife a d w i n two Sticks of i d w it free on a Bench parole from ii 25 j Ltd p i n t no t nay Kernel i a Hill plead ii guilty b fore judge John to tic Tutu up Iii Day Mason City trucker killed to Unm a a. Ciu 11 i kit i ii it Ai old Jack ii Mil in Iii was killed when hts t idea gravel truck crashed into site cond Nim of a diesel Jiocomo i pc on u i Atis l in Gilt Ham sunni be. Nos Thoi Mason t it Al Lowell Man involved sentenced to 25 years for robbery new i it Oum la in office the All new City Council which clockwise Dean Cordes Ward 1 i Liny Waller at Large Perrell god Dard at tar Quot Mayot Wade my Beth inc Eleeta ill Over Ftp Alki a Ward i Mathias Fitzpatrick a d 3 and John Elgar Ward 2, seated a1 Back from left Kama hailed. Rit clerk i. W. Wright Fraus City positions and City jimmies were Given a look and Rome fit ,.r Art Lur Rommel Cill treasurer and Thomas hell Lily study. Shown around the table at hic first sex Ion Are from left attorney. I k the oath of office thursday b gait deliberating immediately on a w variety of Chy affairs. App liniments were announced to nuni fatal Accident this is a big problem that is variously an were. Some Liberal sociologists would solve it All by improving environmental conditions but it has been establish1 by police records in new York that gang develop in the new housing project de pile the improved environmental conditions. In a word experience in new housing developments in a City like new York shows tile Mere physical improvement of an environment will not make for righteous living if the Home life is inadequate if moral values Ara net inculcated in the Young in the Home the school and the Church. Palaces without morals will not produce moral persons. The juvenile gang our main source of criminal training is on the increase and includes girls As Well As boys robberies and Auto thefts in time Lead to murder but the most shocking increase in crime is crimes against parents including the killing of parents in fits of anger. A boy is now in the hands of the police for having shot and killed his Mother because she objected to his tying up the Telephone by Calls to his girl. The brutality of this act has attracted no Gnu Ual attention. I have noted no such excitement As when Harry thaw a millionaire shot Stanford White an architect Over Evelyn Nesbit thaw a Young lady who once earned her Way by jumping out of a pie in the nude. It is not the times that have changed it is that we have grown callous. We accept outrages against i placing him in society As More less Normal because our standards have been debased. In j. Edgar hoovers report it is stated that kidnapping convictions have increased by 20 per cent and that Over 16,000 stolen automobiles moved across state lines were located by the Fri. It is As important to think about what we should do to straighten out these John Schulte found beside ditched truck Iona ugly i taken by death i Wayland joint Egli 72, of near i Trenton Dud shortly before noon Friday at memorial Hospital in of. Pleasant where he had been taken the Hight before. Services will be held at 2 . On monday Jan. 6, at the United pen Industry a Outlook Bright Sheaffer says John Andrew Schulte 47, North sinary Church at Trenton. Rev. i us Quot Quot t a a a a Wymo Reford Ray h Elmore. Lee county re a a id. Tit. A f. Und be a Walter stump will officiate. The. Str ment Industry s Mil to Moi i Plymouth Donald k. John Side his wrecked pickup truck near body will remain at the Fehr Jor near recoup Levels in 1958, at m Union Plymouth Robert his Home Friday evening and was j funeral Home until time for Tho j Corol my to the part it Lent of tin tri ska Salem. Ford Jerry w dead upon arrival Al Henry county services. nation Lead i in in j j Lys Dii e. Plymouth Clarence b. Memorial to Pital. the on of Jacob and Barbara str ment sales Holtkamp. Salem Ford Lyman w. Although he was rushed to the Ruth Egli a born near Trenton americans should spend nearly j sheets. Foroi Howard w Dutton Hospital fee Likely was dead a b. 20, 1885. He spent his entire i $3a0 Muon for handwriting too la Raymond e Sharp Winfield when he was found lying on the i life in the same Community. He j next year according to Walter a. Roadside beside die truck his wife j was married to Elsie Lane. She and so Ca her ii. President of the w. A. And a neighbor Joe Romberg found i a our children survive. They Are Siu Affer pen company. Retail sales Register new motor vehicles j the following persons have Reg. .�red new motor vehicles at the i county treasurer s office at lie Bort Madison. La. I of toned i of Tho be where no town is list-1 distribution great i to of Gnu ppr it sol to finn is from it pleas -. Unproved ballpoint and increasing demand for nutria Fountain pan. f link Ltd should help push the writing instrument Industry a to record fort Didge Friday Ai \ is in ii humid tue in the state Mont Al health in ,.tut a in Cherokee wit u he my. I went in Mal treatment i with ult Gal use of dynamite Minim at to to the apartment it hts funnel wit 4u y i arid Inez in Suepke. In tit it it a and planting the Dyne mite under a mattress because he had seen in out with another Man. Hill sett he had planned to Wise the fused dynamite to the Tele phone so it would explode when tire receive1 was removed he was frightened from the apartment before completing Tine wiring Hon pit Tok e returned unexpectedly she recall to hearing what she thought. Who a prow Lei leaving the apartment when she discovered the dynamite two Day later talks will be continued monday nth Ihie cd i Tutti i i d i it to Hiti i Hest Aud Wmk Rio i Ltd Ai to a i at a Mason City Hosp Tai. I his death Cis Tho Fin to of Fie i fatality in f it in Gordo county Titis ear and lie fifth in Iowa tit Paul la Gynsi two tic oms Welt sentenced to not More than 25�?� Yea a in jail today for with aggravation after they. A t in Tapman ti�?u-4-. �4gh by a it Quot . Lydia Aldrich of Winfield Dies Winfield i Lydia hint to 94, tune Winfield resident die i Fridev evening at the Home of bet daughter. I id Marshall in Winfield title who hoi it june 18. 1868 it j a Penn die daughter of Martian and Susanna tin wait Van Vliet she was married to Joseph met age at it pleasant november 25, 1881 two 1 Hildren. Lawrence met gel and i diet Marshall survive . Metzger died in Marti tint j l a let she Antn led John Aldrich j of Winfield and in died May 13,1 townspeople of tit Paul Iowa the robbers 23-year-old Donald p. An id Lowell. I Awa and 29-year-l id Donald Madden of Granger the o my were Given the sentences t o Madison Penitentiary. Liny a it it. Apprehend cd by the people of the town tio a they to tempted to leave the . I i furniture store after rifling the Safe and Cash Register of about $271 1 it county Deputy sheriff Rob Tib be to said 28-year-old c a i i in Seaman was in tin front of tie i Tole when the two men entered masked wit handkerchief and it allying a .22 Caliper Rifle w Lute they bound Merschman and took the Money from the of n it a use Aud Ash Register Merschman s Fli thei a. C drench Man owner Oit he stoic slipped out of a Back d a a and obtained help at a nearby tavern. One of the tavern patrons obtained a Shotgun from his car Al i the quickly assembled posse Cap him. She had gone to after he failed to arrive Home at the expected time and saw the truck. She then went to the Berg Home and was accompanied by . Porn Berg to the scene. The time was about 7 30. indication were he lost control of the truck but was Able to get out of the truck after it went into the ditch and then collapsed. Edwin Egli Trenton. Mrs. Esther look for him 0rlfflth St Louis to Dorothy Powell. Iowa City and . Loi. Titan. Sigourney. Also surviving Ara seven grandchildren and one great grandchild Des Moines Man commits suicide volume in 1957 is expected to reach nearly $270 million. Roger it i Mcallis the Centerville dub discussion will be returned monday afternoon j i m2 beside tire son and daughter., to pm it a Bandit As Liev left the by Union and company official in she is survived by four grandchild h Orp a 1 Ulutu Tibbet an Effort to Settle a labor dispute Iren six great grandchildren Andl ,.urtj at tire Baxter Box company in i one great great grandchild Centerville 1 funeral services will to held at talks were recessed of Lei a Day the Winfield methodist Church monday at 2 the Rev Artim Des Moines ins a the body of j growing gift Market covering a 47-year-old Arthur. Stillwagon wide variety of products Quot Fui thei investigation was expected executive vice president of the to by made however time of the insurance Pian savings and loan Acca it was re Poitry As 6 to pin association was found hanging Leray , another neighbor j from a Rafter in the basement of the was called to help after i Olds Mobil tot. Union Buick Walter j. Virden Pontiac. Oliver e Tacken hire. Kurd Richard e Palm Buick John ii Roth route live Ford j shale motors Chevrolet Lester h a we feel that the writing in no j lamp Ford Charles f Hines in Ait Industry will its a j Upu London Ford and Howard o. Tiv Ltd in the gift Market i j wok Binner new London Ford see Gaffer said. Quot speaking for our be ter l. Roth. Wayland Ford o in Pany alone we Are not so con j Robert g Shaffer. Buick Robert i corned with our flare of the write Nicholson Dodge Alvin o. Kin ing instrument Industry us we arc Hyt Chevrolet Kenneth f Barr Whit our share of the vast and j Buick h t Dickson Desoto Carl i Kinney new London Eidsmo Long meeting thursday wit i state labor commissioner Don Ute Neitli Cash Albia attorney repro renting tile company issued a joint a a company Union statement late yesterday which said that the situation was unchanged pending mondays conferences. A joint statement thursday said some Progress had been made at Day Long meetings a graded by officials of the company and tile the a ii was taken to it. Mid Iron to filing of charges St Paul i a town of less than too population about ten Miles i Brent Hiji Oltie Ute Bui nil w j Northwest of of Madison in extreme Southeastern Iowa Horn was sentenced in District it nit at it pleasant on dec i. 1952, to a term not to exceed ten year in the menus reformatory a Anamosa for larceny in the nighttime he served five years of the sentence and was released last i year in in Winfield Tilott town hip Cern fiery the body is at the Bai ton i Kasson funeral Home. Against Maria Callas resuming Norma Roll rom in a a it i ions Hie of Schulte was found and assisted in car and bring business establishment in downtown Des Moines Friday. Polk county Coroner. Corwin ing him to the Hospital he a j Johnson ruled the death As suicide dead upon arrival there. After medical examination had been and quoted relatives As saying still Wagon had been despondent Over ill made Coroner Hugh Dunner was by it bile Beatrice Eland Mercury. Trucks Benesh plumbing and heating Chevrolet Sheila Barger implement Volkswagen. Cornell and mitts Transfer and storage Chevrolet trailers Paul Willits route five american. Called to make a Coroner record of the Ca e the Schulte farm h a is located two Miles Nath and one in in ast of he ugh ton and i jul South of the Henry Lee aunty Ine. The a occurred enemy and girls who live by crime. Fourth mile South of the. The body was found by still Wagon s father a. Riel still wag Oil ., president and Secretary of the firm. The younger Stillwagon was graduated from a Waterloo High school a was the War time baby Boom reflected in our population figure As these youngsters grow attend i school graduate and marry tile gift Market become increasingly important to the writing instrument Industry. This importance will be he in in increased sales the potential of this growing mar ret is indicated by the fact that the nations Grade and High school enrolment is expected to increase by about 1,400,000 in 1958 a a i recent improvements in Ball-1 n Hyork. Deaths from a Points. Such tis the non a erosive it it re it nth m the United state totalled Sterling Silver t a assure continued to Ost to 94000 by year end. Stat fewer deaths front accidents United packing House worker Union filial a id today die Home opera Centerville mayor Harold Fowler hours management is dead set at and two chamber of Commerce this Tine against allowing Maria member a Tong Vith Lowe i Callas to re utne bet Norma i the dispute erupted monday role in the last two performances Wien the company resumed opera a next week lion after a Brief shutdown union1 the left Elal Aid Hie opera Hon c officials charged that seniority rat i Fem that tile lugs were not observed in recalling j ii turn stage might touch Cli an even greater uproar than the one that erupted when Slit refused to finish a per Furman Quot at tilt4 Roening Naglit of the opera is. N Thuu Day la was confirmed unit her he -. Bund retired industrialist Haiti t i Mcneil Iii a trying five youths meet a fiery death employee to work. To sell Academy in Davenport Davenport ins immaculate Conception Academy a a year old 128-room Catholic school for girls is Harl the management incr in to be sold student at the Academy will at tend tile co educational Assumption Nuy change their mind before next wet k but. Us of now they were Aid to in adamantly High school in Davenport now under construction and expected to be ready for occupancy next fall and had lived in t ii la. Of Veta Vav. Undoubtedly bad me they enjoy a form., a p, at the a Ling Liat Way As it is to pro j Ghe Refro pen Anlanf in i Leix int. On ail. T Ron Plant in my his wow and a son. Mrs. So by Ite is an employee there _ desk Moines about i up anly us Thil writing Imu a i it to icons said the building and regiment. . Sheath indicated i rim. Is approximately i too less Denic of the nuns wh0 a Pera a it besides his father he is survived a a a porn by a Nofiu Racut it ule than in 1956. It was the first time i Hus been ppr ted Al $900 000 a a a a Duce Mere engineers and scientists. Hoover praised the citizen who act As an informant. He said a through the efforts of Fri informants it has been possible not Only to penetrate vast subversive conspiracies against the entire country but also to afford better Protection to the lives and property of individual citizens. Quot information furnished our agents by confidential informants resulted in Well Over 1,400 arrests new. I besides his wife the former to milk Price War Retta Kramer to whom he was mar Chat is City Point Hen has become tile seconding three years that the number of plier it Vincnt value. The the Academy is operated by the do l it a is a i Mother Atlanta. Tex., Gas a five Yoni ii met a fiery death Early today in a head on collision Between american Soprano two speeding automobiles on . Highway 59 near Atlanta. Highway patrolmen said All five died instantly and were partially cremated in Tho shattering collision thu Wisted the passenger vehicles Quot beyond re three of the do j of who were Riding in one of tile automobiles were trom Atlanta Tex they were a ii led by the state Highway patrol Ogle d. I 20. Jimmy Ray Chamb Vicc a said that officials j Lee 24. And Raymond Shelby 15. The two dead passengers in the other vehicle both airmen at Foster air Force base were Robert d. Hall 20, and James. West 19. Patrolmen said the vehicles apparel by met head on at an extremely High rate of Speed and exploded into flames after the Impact. To accept the Soprano once again of Ira own life wednesday night with a .22 Caliper Rifle. He left a note Reading a just Bury me beside relatives said the boys father order of the Sisters of Charity of lev Ltd in Maplewood my. The in Fri cases during 1957. Other i funeral Home in it St p int. Pen tip strictly functional writing fatally injured showed a reduction. Tool used for daily routine writ it the total having increased from to k Long wilting ballpoint a,0,000i in 1954, to nearly 93.000 in 1 the a by a so spa Virgin Marv Law same expected to a in heavy demand it 1965, and further to 95,000 in 1956jorder that operates the Ottumwa tied oct. 29, 1940, he is survived by in j 1958.�?T�?T he add n provisional figures indicate tha i Heights Academy which a design Mother . Christian Schulte Charles City ins a a milk while ballpoint have Inci a d a. Accident death rate in 1957 is troyed by fire it Losh of two Rul of Houghton and a brother Paul Price a a War was underway in in yearly volume Fountain pen .5 pp1 100,000 population about Don dodar8 late last Yeai. Cd of Houghton. There Are no children Charles City today with a gallon of ales have also risen thus is an in the level of the All time Low re i he was a member of St. John milk Selling for As Low a 48 cents dictation that i int companies curved in 1954. Youth crushed Catholic Church at Houghton of the regular Price has been 82 a the Industry the ballpoint Field motor vehicle accidents account Hie holy name society of which he cents g Plu business not previously c approximately 38.500 fatalities via an officer and of the knights the Price cutting reportedly was available to them. I1957, which again is about 1.000 1 of Columbus at Houghton. The result of an attempt by local new trends in pen it Ign and below the preceding years toll a1-j the Betty was taken to the link suppliers to Block sales of milk in use of color Are Antic at d to though still one of tile highest on i by falling Rock Charles City by an out of the area next year he disc to. To. High la. Ii heard. Motor vehicles continue to Dtta received from our informant funeral services will be held marketing association and Pas. Cd on to the authorities tuesday j n. 7, at 9 . At so the reduced prices were offered concerned were responsible for Colins Catholic Church in Hough Only Charles City grocery store last year Pearly 1,500 arrests by other Law in who the Rev. Albert Goetzman Home delivered prices remained in enforcement agencies. In addition officiating. Interment will be in St. Changed. As a direct result of their services a Robns cemetery. T Mere than $1,700 000 in stolen and j Tlle body will b taken to the brother of local contraband merchandise and Val Home near Houghton Sun 11 t Alf cry path a Abl was recovered Day afternoon at three of clock. Bramla i mix Cia a i cumin citizens would do Mere to pro Rosary will be said sunday and . And Carl Register have Trot society were it not that they i monday evenings at eight o clock at Bacn called to Waterloo by the burdened by the to p cent excise fatal injuries sustained Iii and Are pilloried in courts by shyster i he s Hullo Home death of Register s brother tax on writing to is Imp d in Ridout the Home also showed a re am colors in Cartridge Fountain pen he the leading cause of Tatul injury barrels pm stud extremely p Pular 1by a considerable margin ac-1 counting i of about two fifths of ail eater Uro of Fountain pen desk accidental deaths sets in the Home so would c trib the statistician see encourage Etc to increased pen Sale in 1958, Merit however in preliminary data according to the Iowa pen in my for 1957 which indicate that for the Factor. First time in t free years the annual i writing in Utun it manuf ctr death rate per too million vehicle end jailers and u is Are still Shower a decline. Lawyers. Ii used to be when i lived j in China that if a Perron saw i . Reed to speak another being murdered he ran away not because he feared the murderer but because he feared the police and the judges who looking a solution for a crime might Schizo at Chapel service Bella Vista Aikins an 18-year-old youth was crushed to death Early today when an overhanging 10-ton Rock fell on him As he slept beside a campfire. The victim was John Smith a student at the Baptist Institute of Bella Vista. His brother. Jim who had been sleeping beside him discovered the tragedy on his return with More firewood. Sheriff Joe Means of Benton county said the campfire May have caused the Rock to expand and topple Over. Seven other students were sleeping near the scene which is about to Miles Southeast of Bentonville Ark Kenneth 46. Who had been critically 1952. Sheaffer panted out. Unction of 1.000 from the year Bein during the last few Days. He had manufacturer will continue their fore the number killed in such a been in ill health for the past ear fight for removal of the tax in cadent in 1957 totalling approx and a half . Register died about 1958 j lately 27,000 on the other hand 2 . Saturday. Carl Register was fatalities in Public accidents other j Pine death of . C. Raymond Reed will be the with his brother during the week. Durn those involving motor vedic speaker at the weekly Chapel service the deceased is survived by his attends conference jes increased to about 16,500, youth suicide upon anyone to establish guilt. It 1 tuesday morning at Iowa Wesleyan wife two sons four Brothers and about 500 More than in 1956 is not quite As bad As that Here. College. The service will begin at his parents . And . . T. Prof. Jeff d. Swinebroad of Iowa accidents arising out of and in reckless driving charge is filed a charge of reckless driving was la d against Jerry Burns 18, it. Pleasant by City police Frida afternoon As a result of an Accident in which a car veil by Burn struck the City police car knocking it 219 feet. The Accident happened at 3 45 Friday Burns entered a net guilty plea to the charge and to ted a $100 Bond. Hearing a set for saturday Jan. La at to am. By mayor Wade Mcbeth. The blood test to Winch Burns. Us Mittie show d that he wins net n toxic ted at the t me of the Acei-0 do it and As a result no drunk Ai ii driving charge was filed. If i . Joan Wilson hand. Of. ? pleasant who was injured in the j Accident was to be dismissed from 9 memorial hos pita saturday aft pm \ noon. She and Mervyn a. Wood i Chariton route three were Riding a i. To of rom \ Rte Al a n the car driven by Burns. Master egg u Roy a. Rhodes former a a a a j j a u. To. Embassy staff member in j Frank Cowan of Denver did what i Moscow is accused on two counts almost every Home owner has been i of conspiracy to violate espionage j of a mind to do at one time fwd. A general court martial has t another. He dug up his 11,000 Grundy Broil ordered for the Eatontown Square foot Law a and had it Laid Engelkes n. J., Soldier who is presently con with Concrete which he painted prof. Jeff d. Swinebroad of Iowa accidents arising out of and in j Grundy Center. Ins1 but being a voluntary witness give 1 10 15 . And is open to the Public Register of Fairfield. The Brothers Wesleyan College has been attend the course of employment were re a county Coroner Harold ing Law abiding information leads . Reed an alumnus of Iowa Are Carl of it. Pleasant James of my the american economics Assoc Spon sible for about 14,500 deaths in has ruled today that the death of tined at fort Belvoir a. He a1 m. A to so much inconvenience that i Wesleyan is District superintendent Davenport and j. D. And Tom of alien in Philadelphia during the 1957, of which 3.000 involved a motor 115-year-old Larry d Chest offer lev eely carried into convict with cos a $. Many shun such activities. I of the Burlington District of the Des Moines. Latter part of the Christmas holi vehicle this latter figure also be son. A Dike High school Sophomore the to. Spy system in. Peop copyright 1958, King features methodist Church h s Home is in Syndicate tar j of the Burlington District of the Des Moines. Latter part of the Christmas funeral arrangements had not yet Days. He participated in a discus ing included in the total for motor was suicide. Sion Goujat the conference. vehicle accidents. 1 Engelkes said the boy j it pleasant been made. While Servia. There. To water an i mow their lawns for a took his International sound photo it Long Bee

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