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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 5, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. It no. It. Pleasant Iowa. Tick Sivay evening Jani any 5, i Imi i these Days by George e. Kokosky the Tariff question every Day Public relations literature crosses my desk As it does the desks of others dealing with some Industry that regards itself As being slaughtered occasionally such material also comes from a labor Union. But when the men s clothing Industry gets excited tile subject takes on special interest. The menus clothing Industry both on its employer and labor Union sides has always been what might be called Liberal and in ter nationalistic. It is an Industry dominated by Jacob , preside to of its Union it is this Industry which now concerns itself with the word survival As the watch Industry the knitwear Industry the Button Industry the Ceramic Industry and Many others have complained granted that we can compete with other countries in a free Market. No free Market exists anywhere this is a major economic evil of 1961 too the Industry s circular states a but survival for America concerns More than defense against guided missiles. A to Many hard pressed High wage american industries survival depends upon defences against guided merchandise in Orts from Low wage countries aimed at american Domestic and Export markets a in the menus clothing Industry we cannot complain that we have not Bren warned the Alert has been sounded often loud and Clear Quot then it goes on to say a six months ago the general president of the amalgamated clothing workers of America. Jacob s. Potofsky portrayed the peril of the wage War in an Effort to Wake us up a a for most apparel manufacture ors the rising till of imports from1 Low wage countries threatens Dis Aster they cannot in the second half of the 20th Century compete successfully against 19th Century wage and working conditions. No american apparel manufacturer j no matter How efficient no matter How Forward looking can Long survive against wage Levels of to and 12-cents an hour. If apparel imports from Low 1 wage countries continue to increase apparel factories will be forced to close tile closing of these factories will mean the loss of close to a i Ilion and a Quarter jobs in the Needle a a ooh of course these industries were warned the clothing Industry devoted itself for Many years to supporting every form of political arid economic internationalism but throughout the world there Are tailors and a suit can be made by a tailor in Bong Kong or Tokyo or Ghana or anywhere As Well As in the United states. In fact italian tailors Are supposed to be the Best of All. Brice then becomes one killed in t to car Accident chamber or Commerce anneal meeting or be discusses state and a Hume problems Ivy. In John Rockwell. An informal talk about governor who Hane r s Vej i Side of the Gove norms my in of jul a o a what he nut j mat s in or it it. Iii gov Ernst elect v introduced governor of that to of by Karl Smith n w president of twas Given by ten. I it Norman the chamber a com a who had Elbe at the annual f limit r of or Quot pied the g \ it i rom Mars earlier com mar e meeting at the inc it to Imu in first Dent Henry Bigg i student Union wed Edey a Antic by idiot Smith pm noted a plaque he so mod the Imp Ryan e of the i my by Tim Boa id of dire tor to i budget hearing held i it Cal a. The or Biggs and the hoi ii Centrepiece time consuming procedure gave an by or Biggs excellent Levi w of Iowa Goy Era Smith in accepting the pied Anent operation. I Elbe Aid la Lime sin cd that he Chandi r is talked with the departmental pee pledged to Coop ration Aid support pie about their i til is and How til any Ping ram Whit h is designed i their i Par merits could be in but in re i pleasant a better pier proved. In which to live or to do business la a1 o emphasized that the Cham Llis budget to ice u it pre b i would i Ovule Leader Dup j pared. In said tile figure which Biggs it to i five developments As will be presented an b tag de the most important of the past i b mined As a to lot a e hear i ii i planned i pro agents j Inch a n Highway 218, the proposed j we did not it be a fat Cut of parking Lai Tiliti g tile Airport in �11 tile governor Lect Aid prove merits the army r serve i a we Are making an educate d Cut by Center Ami the increased strength j department <1 the chamber partly through in Hgt Aid that he is a aware of creased a slip the needs it get education As my p a i son in Hie state he is equally aware of the concern about the tax Load receive inaugural invitation i 1 an of fit i i in Vita a to to inauguration of til Quot i Den and vie president or Jan 2ft a Bren received by m and m James t a d a or my a al a i i i i m r it Pat a y pout Ion or the year an i Cade i the i it lined c my or i i r1 a i is that t inuit at on w a i a the oui. On r of Uteri in of i a ant the invitation Lead a. I Blo a i eat it Gold i the inaugural it a mites i Istl i Tell i ii of \ my j a or to attend and participle in to Ina gut at of John Fitzgerald Ken up a president of a he United thai of America at d i y Don Bain Ajohn s vice i id it of the up a t v 4 f America n Friday the twentieth of ii ii in ii in Hun of e in the City of a t it Edvard h. Espy Cha b m non Oakland Mills Road in a. Miller victim of Accident a it a uni i my ii cd a ii Dpi cars demolished in fatal acc Iden in a both vehicles were demolished in the collision South of Oakland Mills wednesday night Iii which Howard Albert Miller was killed and Gerald Bailey critically injured. I he ear in the top picture was thai of Miller and the lower one that of Bailey. Ship Vav till local aes student aboard Council acts goes aground in Honolulu Harbor Lorn Iowa girls aboard four Iowa girls including Barbara Taylor daughter of or. And mrs Ralph Taylor Are aboard the Readia. I he others Are Sharon Mapes daughter of Robert Mapes of it. Madison candies Rogers Des Moines and Beth Uneberg. Daughter of or. Paul Anneberg of i Armil. To aboard is Ernest stack of Rock Island Iii 111 Are in route on funds veer d off comae and ran Bow on o the a it of under that guidance of Honolulu Harbor Pilot guse Aren a Veteran of 30 years sex peril . To zealand As american the do Field service Exchange students tent tining Factor in the american Market. Nobody looks for a Label an in a made in that is popular isolationist slogan. His the store Sells a suit with two to no Lui pail of trousers made in puerto p and o Rich or Hong Kong out of cloth lint made anywhere perhaps in Poland the american worker can go hang except miss lingers who was going to Australia the City Council wednesday night Fri i adopted Tho estimated appropriations Resolution for the 1961 fiscal year. The estimated amounts appropriated from different funds follow i general government fund $45,- too Street fund $110,000. Public safety fund $60,000. Sanitation fund $275,000 municipal Enterprise fund $50, in mid Channel near 40 fief deep the Arcadia i Harbor of Uriah said the tide was going out As tin hip ran aground the Arcadia was caught about 300 Yards off san Harbor in mid Channel a coast guard 95-foot Cutter was located 200 feet from the vessel in Case help was asked. A i iks i eur Rill go i Rook a i it Iii my life have win la a ilk lip a i Quot a d Cio Norm an a in it the Ltha in a Ltd non metre Dir r. However be w la in a it a Rig one at Hie i ii ii Quot i i i Jim of la pm Dent and vier presi Deal in Washington d on Jan 20, lie indicated ii said Hill by bad brn to d by those in charge thai hip right Ore s would in a top Bat. Cutaway rat Aud strip d trousers. Ile bad contacted hrs tailor and found that he will be properly outfitted. Ile has i Eti Assurance bit he will head the Iowa suction Iii the Parade. The two groups a band from be and a Drill team from it. Dodge will participate and he has had a request from the committee in charge for something to a till in Quot Between them. A float was lunges he but be Aid til it Linch Iowa military cadets would a Quot sent instead. Ring Tho p introduced Weir or. A Smith Vici president and m a James Green and the i 1-lowin�?� directors and to Lair wives or and mrs. Leo Beau. Or. And mrs Roc r Galer or and mrs William a Cut ritz., or. And mrs Willard Jensen or. And or her a i j ne., i Aid mis Edward i. I and i Paul Kyle. Or j and or Dwight Chaffy or arum Jim Dean Nebel. Or and mrs. Lyt Man so Els or and mrs Gene j Smith Blan v Warren and or and mrs Hail Weir. Ilka installs More coastal defense Duns Havana a Aba i itt1 Cuba tarted Rrt aft tip coastal defense tins along the famed main on or also and mis e a presented and h Lyes were sea drive today and declared the area a a military zone Quot the rest Lett 1 area reaches for Quot a the Junction f a Llano stayed Arri the Malem Westward Henry county iced Ier Quot Dos first to of Fie fatality of i96l at. To 05 pm wednesday Elvn How Aid a it a ii Mille i 71, i ple a ant route 3, was killed instantly Iii a to Wai crash on the Oakland Mill Salem Road about three foul the. Of n mile South >1 the it Kui k River Bridge. The i�?~m7 Chevrolet Miller was driving collided with a 1057 driven by go and rail a 18, bal in who was seriously injured in i Accident Jam hat Abbas err. 17, Salem a passenger in the Bailey car suffered lacerations and abrasions of his fac1 and arms. Both youths arc in memorial Hospital Here. By Iby suffer d a Skull fear lire Taw fracture and severe lacerations it the Throat Mill t died of Lead and Che i. Injuries on of his leg. Was by Ken. According to sheriff air sell Van Tull who investigated along with Deputy Richard Gray and the state Highway patrol Miller was driving North and was attempting to turn West al a Quot to intersection worn the southbound Bailey t r collided with the Miller car. The Miller Auto was rammed 91 Lect backwards and ended up Down a de p Dit h on the West Side of the Road. The Chrysler went into a deep dish on the East Side of the Road. Both machines were demolished. Miller was thrown out of his car and his body was lying near til Quot Light Side of Hie car. Bailey a found lying near his car and a Rah Barger was walking around when the reverend Gary Caldwell of ii Den Indence. Jim Jackson and Robert d Tim both of of. Pleasant recognition the suburban veda do location Juvin i. Hayes As the outstand 0j by abandoned u. O. To a g Man of the year in South Altern building. Emu. Pic is i ii Smith also gave army Crews immediate shirt recon Iii tit n to the past presidents of cd rolling heavy Gung Irto the upon the Knight Hart the c oct and particularly to John area and by n am they had a Ludde tile firs president of tile been Emp laced for roughly a Miles organized chamber in 1941 . Barger to the Hospital. An Anbu a Hillsboro arrived on the see it a surf time later and took h to h Between Galliano Street and Macro tart of the veda do sub la look Bailey to the Hospital. Miller s body was taken to Crane funeral Home. The of the stat can the too. The it is up Orient lines passenger Arcadia went aground on a Coral reel in tin Honolulu a in today but w freed about an hour and a a Lithe later at 9 32 am est hot 2.31 the coast guard reported the freed a a and moving Seaward curious How the wheel turns. If used to be the big industries that wanted a projective Tariff. The big industries Are pro Lei tin. Themselves by exporting jobs that is by establishing far immediate word w is give by tories abroad big Industry also has skip a Cam w t i Linos increased automation which Means Harbot Plait a. Tuie. F wer jobs 7�?Tlie theory in favor of Brislance a automation is that there will be t a a Iun it n in it d a p Job transference that More work Hrry Ltd not a a Sui a ils Quot ers will move from the Mill and Tom the w St Road amp with 1182 factory to the services to playing it no a Alid 700 cd w 1ad not the saxophone Aud guitar in combos or being a manicurist or a Secretary the tailors Are not easily shifted in the higher echelons such designers they Are professionals with specialized skills in the Low i water f i j requires 20 feet clearance i passengers aboard the Vess i eluded several delegates to Are it pan i in area travel Assn Conven j i tion scheduled to begin Here Jan j h also aboard Weir or and mrs i main Channel of Herbert Capozzi of Van Over or. Ai d mrs f Goodrich Brighton Ontario Capozzi is manager of the Van Over Lions football team and Goodrich is mayor of Birghton. Two West coast tugs were involved in the Salvage operations the is a rangers out of san Francisco and the Alaska height lines tug a a Orliam it Quot the ship was Docking at Honolulu after making Stop at Van coup it r. San franc co and Izi. That the resident can y. A somewhere there is he Eirphy sized. I leva von a of i i ready i cat re j the tax Load that would fully pro-1 vide All that u ask of a a in id do i Don t a Sci in any Richard Hartley of pig the lice Man Tiger Beverly Moxley and Urb w a Russell who had charge of the Mascon overlooks the Gulf Clang my hts were Given Recagni 0f Mexico along its approximately Miller had been at the farm of. I la j Raymond Chadwick and to Mike expanse his son in Law Glenn Shull about Ivlow. K were Pieser cd and Cuba blamed the Eisenhower one half mile South of the Accident in tion was made of the import administration for ifs break in re scene and was on his Way Home to j nuo the Coll be to the common in tons with the u s. And implied his Small acreage two Miles South j by i c Hadwick the Bene thin night improve under a St of Romp when the Accident president. Elect John f Kemie Civ occurred Bailey and Harshbarger a Cabinet St a t Ernt along the had been in it. Pleasant and were january Rusaw propaganda line Laid Down by Utu ining to Salem. J to Row a thai the main trouble with the United states was the a Eisenz Mower adm ii a ration a a i i january thaw boosting pressed Hope. Thai rela on would Miller s death wms the Iowa highways this year. Third on it hip go or Igrec n. Recreation fund $36,000. Utility fund $300,000 debt service i mid $11,325 Trust and Agency Hind $50,000 liquor profit fund $10,000. Street Road use tax fund -$50,000. And Street improvement fund $20.-� too. 1 sewer improvement fund. $30,-000. Light Plant bored sinking fund $200,000 parking meter fund $150,000 pal King met r bund fund $130, too a cd coast guard 9 a in. Haj 1. Honolulu at Midnight for Sidnry Australia via the Fiji Island Anc All Pac in Gers remained aboard Auckland zealand the ship according to the Emu As guard eight to it our/1 a r a i i a i to i eight die est Echelon they Are unskilled a ship o a a my to Ruck i workers often Unsil a for other several hindi i p n it types of work. Competition within ered to watch the Alvar up Raj this Industry remains be e n and the Hon. In other business a Council met j with James r. Holley of Burlington the milk Insp tot for of pleas i ant and he outlined the procedure i of i inspection for the Council Angel. She sri Dulce of ice Holley was requested by the Council 1 to appear at the meeting in order i for the Council to learn More about i his duties. I a representative of a Cedar a talking about cd or prot Blui of a governor he said that Many Poi on have a ked when he is moving to is Moines from by one. The Dale Likely will be the 24th or 25th of january he has never been in the governors Home his wife has bul so die not get All of the information needed there is much to learn lie said a i done to know what is there i want to find out a he said. In closing lie and that in fed thai his in bite government tile i j six years will be helpful in the years ahead lie Aid he looked Forward to working with the legislature and Mullio particularly sen. C m Valier and rep in Ward Miller the son of Sylvester and Martha Lemon Miller was born March 19. 1889 m Henry com Iowa. He had been a lifelong resident of the county engaged in farming. On of 4, 1912, a was married to Albe j Whittlesay who predeceased Hiu on aug. 25, 1959. H is survived by five daughters and two sons they Are mrs. Dale Violet Campbell and mrs. Glenn my aft r an overnight june Shull of my pleasant. Mrs. Pra Ted to reach into the lower 50�?Ts.pm my from the Eland Republic Thame Isabelle Edgar of Orlando lows tonight should read from tin 74 p roger., in to Ani it Fla. Mrs. Robert Ruth Kingos of 1 he 2f, s in Hie Hoith to around 30 a n a in flu y Perron of so and to a i of Annees. Calif. Mrs Brm a in the Smith. Families v. A a amp d and oui Eulit Mcdowell and Howard Mil ill h in i plea ant Wetters bar about tin a to it not on Bown Lei or. Of Joliet 111, and Riche d Day was 46 and was at that Point a by two or How Quot up on who Mill a of Ottumwa. A Mph re Terra upwards into the be restored it some in closed i to and 50�?Ts and melting most of future Date i the now Winch had covered the the abatement ame Dor a ate ear Lim in the week ruled nigh Long Cabinet be. R ton which lev a Wea her picture thursday. Mad Quot Nadat us firing squad j Southwest to Westerly winds an deaths for anti Ca Dro a a terrorists Clear skier accounted for the1 Whin 72 hours of their convex i warming trend the weather Bureau tion. Ii West Palm Beach Fea 1 til i a ire f Reading in Iowa to up an Ocic joins ti1day was expected to be recorded crowded with Railroad car and in Tho extreme Southeastern part refugees from Castro s Cuba land of the state. Highs there were sex cd her in at 2 15 thursday were or Quot of cd by heir Faun in House fire i girls firm talked to the Council again about the possible purchasing i of a Bulldozer. No action was taken. Margins Large. Of profit Are not vein there was no immediate a pm Ana tion As to win to a Arcadia Lynn. Mins up and seven children a Moth youth killed in collision such an Industry can readily be a wiped out by cheap Competition Tilting to a Famich from the mid Day. T n oth persons escaped the Horn abroad particularly if the Point of economics their m Esler Flam in to. A i in. Inu a dead Araud six of the infant Hoiu Naswor in of them Fontanelle. Iowa up p filled in a in a c tut to r x Leroy Campbell 16. Rural Prescott. Was killed and two other p a sons were injured today when two cars collided at the Crest of a Hill my Ann Amerault near Here. R Sev n children and. Injured in the crash were Campit of m s. Barbara Bell s sister Sheryl 14. A passenger tiv Cicada Amerault in the car driven by Campbell and i Bael 8 u 9 years Oscar Gibber Fontanelle who was Competition is subsidized by gov Encl it Iob in \ to to it s. N. Trn ments from a labor Union a sociological s , 1 by c an standpoint this can also mean an in de True in Enoi Incus loss of membership. The this question b come in Ore worker has seniority rights Only if pre tag As Nuri a uni a. Re Asch Aren a he remains in his own Industry is. Particularly in Large cities Cid Shirley Donna hoi and and in his own Union i a where lh1 can be difficult in a and Barbara Jean Man shifts from being a pants pre id l Ines. Delay in dealing Donald Amerault u ban it Road about three Miles Southwest of Presser to Selling peanuts at a Bill with it can Only increase the the d and woman t d tin r Here. Game he loses his life work in danger child 4 month. Ai. To miss Campbell suffered head in seniority rights in fringe benefits copyright. 1960 King features Safet from a second Fin r parch juries and Gruber suffered leg and and insurance that can be devas Syndicate inc it Bito the arms of a head injuries. I Kathy driving a pickup truck til. Crash or urged on a Craw Nineteen grandchildren and a Bro her William Miller of Aurum 111, also survive. Two daughters and a grandson predeceased him also funeral services will be at 2 pm. Saturday at the r k Crane funeral Home the Rev. James trowel Payr i of the Quot fir to Baptist Church will officiate. Int in int will be in Forest. Home c meter y Jin family will receive Friend of the Crane funeral Home Friday evening from 7 30 to 9 of clock. Frank Stef lick Dies at it. Madison n to u ii in i a a it \ Elf nok-1 be i visitor Here a governor elect Norman a. second from e Fri it ii verses with officers of the i. Pleasant Hamber of Commerce about the local or Grain. President Hail Smith def James Green vice president and immediate past president Henry Biggs Are shown with him. Bai Emsa loin a i a Ive received word of 1 us of f ii Stef lick 54, of 1310 a ii f Adit the Day of Moon Bact cd h Art h pit a1 of Lei n of several a eks he a Rad in 1946 to Beth of mrs a r in and a o surviving Are three a a Gary. Diana and pay in ill at Home i Unta a re a a held Ltd % p in thursday n Chap i with burial in Oakland cemetery

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