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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 15, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa If you miss your news Call 75 City cab Between 6 3u and 7 00 p. M. These Days i by George e. Sokol sky a libel on the dead i have before me three items i 1. A Velum issued by the United i states government printing office i entitled a memorial services held in the Senate and House of represent j Tati yes of the United states to-1 Petter with remarks presented in j Eulogy of Joseph Raymond my i earthy., a issued in 1957 2. An item from a the new York times a dated december 16, 1957 in which rabbi Maurice n. Risen death president of the Union of american hebrew congregations proposed that or. J Robert Opp a Heimer and or Edward Condon of a reinstated As a positive step in t aiding this country so lagging i scientific said Eisen-1 Drath Quot tile time has come to rectify the damage which resulted from the hysterics of mccarthyism. We have matured since those Days of sickly panic. We must re examine tile distrust which led our government to Brand Loyal and distinguished citizen with the Label a Security risk on tilt basis of Flimsy evidence and unreasonable 3. An item from a the Standard times of not w Bedford. Massachusetts dated october 31, 1955 reporting a speech which h senator Mcca thy delivered in Boston in which the newspaper states a describing Hie intercontinental ballistic missile As a a thinking land to land weapon capable of flying from Russia to most u. S. Major cities in Hall an hour Mccarthy cited a report by or. James r. Killian jr., president of mtt., a to the effect that within a Short time the communists will be ahead Iii the icbms it is Hindsight of come for a Ane of those who Are today shouting about How much we must spend Foi scientists and engineers an the it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy bus vol. So no. 12 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening Jan. 15, 1058 Quot a a u.mal&Quot"1 jill1 wju.hul1 jill1-ii Jim. Uu"iu1 us a a a pow by Carrier 30v per week by mall Bio per year fast action on missile fund Quot up tracked Quot a the engine of this Chicago suburban train rammed right under tile passenger mail express at Cary 111. A trainman was killed in the crash. Crane and Petit jurors arc drawn mrs. Meta Brooks will speak at woman a club people like1 that in order to defend our Seive against an enemy who was recognized by Joe Mccarthy Early enough to have done something a Boul it. His detractors today that Only his ghost walks May one Day have to defend their own records if not for wilful distortion of he facts at any rate for mistaken and immature recognition of the truth. The memorial volume did no make me too Happy for some of those who extolled the senator in death fought him in life Over just these issues which Are today Paramount among us. Perhaps Hie most honest speech of All was that of senator Mike Mansfield who said a a Joe Mccarthy has left us. Some of us were in disagreement with him on occasion but All of us recognized him As a senator from Wisconsin. It will not be too Long when in the course of events All of us now in this chamber will join our former colleague too senator Mansfield could not have done less for after All Joe Mccarthy had been elect d to the Senate by the people of Wisconsin i an Mita my t Iowa Jane now Wesleyan Brooks. E Moi dyed Alumna. In Home cd one by the no International sound Toto i Loveless announces i his candidacy near Massena four youths Are killed in collision Massena la. It ins it two and two girls Weir r Jav a i tax i k today in a Ca r Ruck collide n a Highway 92 about half a mile it t a m a the dead were identified a it v u old Robert i qui. Belie it to be the Driver of my car 17->< Ai eld Dei in Morrison. 18-\ Cai old Sheryl i. U \ and 17 year of get to Denney All of Massena authorities said ail were k to outright. Reports said the foul Wen on their to town to v la Iii Tai i the movie a High school impel i 1�?~bid-basis�?T plan response neater i than expected Call for lids for seating in new Ivin ailing kit of Felting i he school boo d set up t a ions and Autho i cd tin for bids i of i he lean g a and scoreboards Ai the i i evening in he bids for the now equip Nen in the gymnasium Wilt ii. Open a i on wednesday afternoon. Jan a it a it a Ein ates w ill be provid. D a a tit he amount of seating Purrin cd May by at the option i the Boa j Ria notice of the cull tor bid i. Published Els whet it in tin i a tentative plans have been mad i. Sell the Bonds for the remaining $134,000 authorized to construction head of Hinton company to speak it Iowa Wesleyan la c Wagner. President of Clinton Corn processing company. Clinton will add the Iowa Wesleyan Slud it body thursday morning Jan to lit will speak Oil the needs of House votes half billion 37-1 to 0 Aud the of a it a Linter i the High school March the Board ago $70,000 of the j s by voters supt c a dolt Ila Board that guidance program addition my s Ane week >204. He author to Ell fail has reported to by Complete been set up responsible Foi Tina re it Earth Bureau in Burlington will be the Guet speaker for the january general meeting f the it. Pleasant woman a club tuesday january 21. At 2 pm at the Braselton. Hostess group for the mid Winter meeting will tie the Home and Garden department. Gland jurors for us year and Petit jurors f. R the february court term have been drawn. The grand Jurci i report for duty in tuesday feb. 4, and the Petit jurors on tuesday fib. 18. The term opens Fob. 3 with judge e. O. Newell presiding. Grand jurors drawn Are Virgil Aldrich Helen Barton Elmer Bencke Rex Canby Roy Dustman j Hazel Greene Herman a id Owell Milo Kudobe Harold Lee Raymond Long Joe Panther and n. J. West Erh ack. The Petit jurors drawn William Anderson Roscoe Bam Willis Bam Kenneth Barr Ethel Barringer Violet Berne Walter Boyd. Frank Carver Leonard close Florence j the speaker mrs. Brooks will Heater Glen h to tinder Stanley have As her topic a Kitchen Short Hill Maurice Hourihan Geneva j cuts. Following her graduation hummed Donald Jennings Doro j from Iowa Wesleyan College she thy Jennings Harold King Leon j taught Home economics at it. Miss veda Cornu k five minute talk on Iowa. Special music will tided by the pleasant in will give the a Industry in be pro ladies Barbershop Quartetti composed of Jean Shook. Margaret layer Darlene Taylor and Jean Riepe. Aid Maher Orville Messer Albert Monson Harris Morgan Edith Moxley Grace Mcdowell Vera Mckinnon Melvin Rich Ralph Rieke mrs. La lie Seal if Bernice Schrou Pearl septet Harold Seyb. Ruth a. Simmons waiter Spry Dean Stag Ner Hazen St be. Phyllis Stull Sam vice Catherine Wehr Luteru Wendel mrs. Roy White and Union and Fayette Iowa had to accept that be a fact. Also All men and anybody cause it was die. And so. I thumb through this volume and wonder Why it was issued at All. Particularly in the year of the sputnik. For it was the peculiarities of life that Mccarthy had no profound knowledge or deep conviction about Russia or russians or communism or marxism until a became a member of a Senate committee and then its chairman and came across Pater nil of espionage which forced him to believe that More harm had been done than the House committee on in american activities had brought to the surface he believed definitely that espionage was abroad in the land. Juanita Willey. Red China ruled out of any new conference by Ike she Laior worked As demonstration agent with the Norge company after which she travelled All i i Over the United states a y piano i giving demonstrations for the National live took and meat Board a Chicago. In conjunction with her talk then will be a display of new Kitchen ideas and glassware Madei in Iowa and a resume of Iowa a i Early c a a Ware factory by mrs. I i Des Moines ins i governor Herethel Loveless announced. Today he will seek reelection and outlined the nine Point platform on Winch lie will run. Loveless the fir. I democratic governor in tile state since the late 29was elected to his first term two years ago. In Lus announcement Loveless said lie pledged continued opposition to a any efforts to raise the sales tax rate above two per cent. He said actual collections during recent months a a indicate that the state of Iowa does not need a High. Ltd sales tax he also struck at til republicans for what he called their a soak the poor philosophy of taxation which lie mild would impose additional burdens on the lower income groups older citizens larger families and retail businesses in one third of the Iowa counties bordering on neighbouring slates. In addition to his taxation. Plat form tile governor also covered reapportionment education social welfare mental health programs penal institutions and parole practices Highway programs reorganization of state government and economic development. He said the demand for Lair representation is a was Basic As our Washington in Ama Nitin Secretary Ezra Taft Benson req met that Fanner response to the in called a a bad but Sis plan for putting whole farms in the Sod Hank a far exceeded Quot department expert a democratic Lions he told a news conference yester Day that the Tennessee agricultural live and stabilization and conservation com i while v us each teacher a i i on Pupil also he and principal georg1 Stanley Are Iii the process of Intel viewing All freshman to help them with their plans for the future and Chart a course in High school Winch will help them attain then goal such counselling requires about 4 minutes for each student and is he him to la helpful to the student he said he reported that the til ants have been eager and coopt a apparently grateful pleasant expel hoi e t the i to in 11 list the tot s. The on 11 Eling totals Many hours which no. T be taken from other work in a crowd id schedule in tune the school should have a guidance director in pointed out finding the tight pet son is difficult other schools him found. W to kidnapped abandoned Sisters Mccarthy was a profoundly absorbed in this problem that other interested him. He studied the v Hole of marxist literature even it temping to learn russian for More direr Access. His friends still believe in 1958, that had the Issue rot become confused by the raucous quarrel Over the person of Mccarthy. We might have saved ourselves the grief of such a speech As Washington ins1 president Eisenhower today ruled red China out of any new a a Summit Confer ence Between Russia and the Western nations. At the same time or. Eisenhower emphasized that tire u. S. Will participate again in a top level meeting Only if Tipiere is prior Assurance the Quot Parley will product i prof table results for genuine peace. The president in his first news conference since oct. 30, called on the soviet Union to give equal Puu i Bolty inside Russia to his message i to Premier Nikolai Bulgari no a let-1 ter obtained in the u. S. Or. Eisenhower also warned that a the struggle Between tire free world a and the communist orbit probably will continue for Many years. He said the u. S. Must accustom itself to living with this constant dire threat and must take continuous Steps to Deal . Guy o to lean. Members of the Tea committee will \ or Robert Ward mrs. Vernal Suc mrs. Walter Well Rich mrs Floryce Miller. Mrs. J e. Monger miss veda Cornick. And miss Parent Short. J Faith 1 then a Hasty heart to run thursday and Friday nights p resident Eisenhower delivered to Congress in january of 1958 when a j Rex he was forced to express a fear i ruq03.ll to that soviet Russia might pass us in tin arms race a fear which Mc-1 earthy expressed in 1955 when it _ was equally True but gruesomely Tokyo ins it. Gen. Unpopular 1 g. Trudeau declared today hit complacency Wallace Geary Iowa a Wesleyan thespian from it. Union will have the Lead in a the Hasty heart capital thursday and Friday nights in it. Pleasant. His part will be that of Lachlen Mclachlen the dour kilted Scot one of the patients in a Ward of a British Hospital in Burma during world War ii. The author. John Patrick who j spent some time in the South Pacific w the the american Field service set the play physically in j a wartime Hospital in the Jungle but the True locale is entirely i inward a conflict in tile heart the characters in the play Are i English american australian and in the democratic he went on to say that a a satisfactory solution will require straightforward leadership undertaken in Good Loveless said the last legislature which was dominated by republicans a demonstrated its unwillingness to come to Guys with this he also declared that Republican i aders love described the demand for reapportionment As a in the Field of education Loveless supported consolidation of a uneconomical High Cost Quot schools which Are unable to offer adequate programs. He also re advocated a Revenue Bond method of financing improvements at the state institutions of higher learning and said enactment of such a program should be one of the first acts of tile next legislature. The governor also said he favors immediate Stop capital appropriations for Tho. Institutions. But said it was not necessary or ethically to impose additional tax burdens for them. Mince had received 2,700 Quot bids by last monday and another 1,000 were submitted in Nebraska Benson added that reports were also encouraging in Illinois and Maine the other two states where an Early season try out of the bid system is now being held. The Secretary added that soil Bank officials expect the bulk of a. The bids to be submitted just be fore i 031011 j of jvi3ll tin deadline which is Jan is in n j Lino is Tennessee and Nebraska and feb. 28 in Maine. A nationwide Extension of the program would mean that Farmers could receive up to $10,000 a year if they agree to Plant no soil depleting crops on their farms for at least five years. The program also allows banners i to ofter their land to the soil Bank by naming their own rental rate lowest rates uttered in each county will be accepted. Success of the four Experiment. However will not be known until mid february or later bids Are locked up when received and will not be opened until the deadline. Officials Ila it no Way of knowing until then whether Farmers Are making realistic bids or offering their land at rates the government cannot accept. Benson also told newsmen the president s special farm message to be sent to Congress tomorrow will be a a firm a program that or. Eisenhower will personally support during the lawmaking session. He declined to detail specific parts of the program but much of the farm message has already been outlined in the budget message submitted last monday. Key Points Are lower support floors an end to he acreage Reserve More funds for disposing of . Surpluses abroad and revision of Rea financing to allow Loans from private Banks. The budget message also proposed a too million Dollar Cut in the agricultural conservation program under which Farmers receive Federal Cost sharing funds for certain practices such As Liming pastures and establishing Ponds. Benson defended the proposed cat yesterday by explaining that the reduction would mainly affect Short term measures not permanent conservation projects. Ile also noted business and Inrig j i v to my a Tarp i he to 15 n m Assembly is open to the Pubis All in Indus my Iii i Wagner has erred the company of which he is now president he begun july i Ibio when of was la Clinton sugar re titling i oink and. Predecessor to Clint ii Corn processing company a Divi Ion of Standard brands incorporated he is also vice president of brands a director of Iii ii National Bank Clinton and is a Truster both of the Jane i Temh memorial Hospital Clinton and Cornell College. I Wagon studied chemical in Kitt ening Al Iowa by a in College and attended Harvard Ufali Velty school of business administration. La is a Nisi non it the Alumina it Limin Al to Doty Clinton engineers club Clinton chamber of column it. Clinton county farm Bureau the american legion Rotan Iii first methodist Church of Clinton and is a Mason. Lear Way for Sarsfield to give allocated funds Vav Ashing u voted 371 Mon than it missile and n 1 i is 1 the House to 0 today to auth hell billion Dollar Lur air Force programs and to set i up a new space age research Agency in the Pentagon. The form vote Cam shortly after the lawmakers had shouted appt to a1 of 1 he first defense Legisla Mon of tar new Congress the authorization will permit construction of a newly disclosed warning system capable of quickly detecting enemy missiles thousands of Mill s away in time to permit the to launch a counterattack. The authorization for tile new space research Agency came a a Surprise amendment offered by chairman Carl Vinson Ltd it ga., of the Holts armed services committee. As the Advance Regency the plan anti missile miss Aud out spa programs under i the defense Micro Oklahoma City ins squads of Oklahoma City police launched a full scale search today for a Man who kidnapped two Small Sisters mom their mothers car molested one of the girls Aud then abandoned them three hours latin on 1 county Road the children aged five and three v Ere treated for Shock and exposure it St Anthony s Hospital after they were found tut Clay nigh in a ditch. Of i leers said sex i munition showed the five year old girl was sexually molested City police capt. De Rector Aid his 11111 already have compiled it list of persons to be questioned til 34-year-old Kotlier of the two children said he ran into it supermarket to buy milk arum when j she returned the children were i Yon her husband is stationed i j Guam. J or in oldest girl. Fighting a. K j _ a Teal. Told of Skirra that a Man had Xvi to. Ii. A x la 3 w approached them at tie super Nim 1 Ket Parkin lot forced them int his ear and drove a a Long Way out in the following the attack he pushed the children out into a ditch during Light freezing rain and drove off. To give the at Des Moines in the Iowa u011ley general s office today in Vived the controversy Over when j Cis the legislative budget and financial control committee can Alloch Money to various segments of the Tate government. The move cleared the Way for Slat comptroller Glen burst Laid to give allocated funds totalling nearly $500,000 to various state agencies they include $300,000 to the Blate depart 1 Tieni Quot i Public instruction for paying pm Pitons to teachers who 1 it ired before tin stat employees pension Hind want into effect $15,000 to Hie vocational re Habih Tat Ion Center far completion of its new building $34,504 Lur la sup Poi i Iund at Theldora boys i raining school $8,834 for the hiring of two More parole agents a file i Amin a school $119,000 for the sch nil for the deaf in Council Bluffs and $22,500 Lor the state. A. I a Al Laboratory at Iowa City for study of the effects of in i fall out on the state j 1 Ives streams and Pond. Attorney general Norman Elbe s opinion said ii tile commit toe Al own informally As la interim committee states that the funds arc to emergency use the state comptroller can co ahead and and Minh tor the funds he would not be liable in the Honey under the Rilling. To be known search project would put Rill space satellite flight research ice control of i Ary Vinson disc i Osi a development of the missile detection system in urn my the House to fake prompt action on projects to offset russian scientific and military Advance. Iii air Force promptly confirmed Vinson a announcement and added that the detection system was mad Pons bit by a major scientific breakthrough ill the Field of 3, or radar Vinson declared thai the program will enable he strategic air Cam i a rid to have it Long Range Hornbill the or to retaliate within to minutes after an enemy intercontinental missile is launched. He said Hie electronic devices can Alert us defense forces As die enemy missiles a a Rise above the horizon and can be put into operation a at Trust two years in adva Nee or prot iou sly estimated schedules the rapid warning Vinson said will place bag bomber �?�111 a position whore they can make an instantaneous Aud devastating retaliatory at he declared Quot if our enemy is Well aware that we can detect his intercontinental ballistic missile in time for our forces to make ii counterattack 1 in ii this is a great deterrent to his making such an Ike would prefer deficit spending Dies unexpectedly the police i Ckel Oid a Sony Gill was Abl description of says need for Lear flan is most urgent i mrs i o. Shaw 44. Died unix 1 Pete Day wednesday morning at memorial Hospital after a brie i ii i Ness death was attributed to a heal t condition. Ste entered the Hospital about 5 30 wednesday morning and died about 30 minutes later. Tile daughter of James and Etta Lowry Freshwater she was born june 19, 1913. At Fairfield she at tend the Public schools at Fairfield on october 27. 1933. So and l. In May is married and two children. He served two terms As mayor of Ottumwa starting in 1949 and ending in 1953. At any rate in the senatorial i memorial volume nobody labelled \ the dead those who currently attempt to blame Joe Mccarthy for j cur alleged Lack of scientific brains j t new zealand soldiers with the sex Arthur caption. Of the Lone female part. He w ill ithe nurse played by Jane Willows a reduce the Are in americans places Gram. Trudeau was named last night by come close to libel. Certainly j Secretary Wilber n. Brucker to succeed it. Gen James m Gavin As the chief of army research effective april i. They Are on a false premise when they contend that Only those have brains who Are held to be Security risks. That of course can amount to defamation of american Scien country. Fists and engineers who do their copyright. A Ork without Impe Rilling and destroy the com j of it pleasant. The men in latency that exists in Many Oast in addition to Genii missile pro 1 Duane Munson Wellman William b Kauffman Wayland Carroll i Alexander Rockford 111, Frederick i Woodard. Kansas City. Mo., h. Jett Kell in Chicago 111., and James Payne it. Pleasant j mrs. Jean k Gatch head of the speech and drama department is j directing the Hasty heart a As-1st-, de by Dorothy Bliesener of Burlington. Loveless who w ill be 47 years old j that the conservation Reserve which also includes payments for soil saving practices will be stepped up. Bain saws $9 taken in break in it was reported to sheriff Russell Van Tuyl tuesday afternoon that two Chain saws and $9 were taken Navy unveils two new torpedoes we mis tic a of u n if i 1 presi r of to that if Washington ins a president Eisenhower said today he would prefer deficit spending rather than a tax increase if his Hopes for a balanced budget Are not realized. In his first Laws conference in la weeks or. Eisenhower said it is impossible to Tell now whether the nation will have to spend More i than his $73,923,000,000 budget it i the missile speedup is to proceed j while Domestic programs Are continued. Ii said he still assumes that the r will de an economic upturn sufficient to offset the increased spend ing but would not favor <1 tax hike because it might slow Down this economic improvement 1 the chief executive said he j would want the Economy to have a i utile Needle rather than a Check. Rein. Or. Eisenhower who suffered a mild stroke on now 25, said that he Gilbert Shaw were married they had resided in and near it. Pleas feels very Wogu deed and is going of Wallington ins the Navy unveiled today two new lightweight i in a break in at the gravely tractor 1958, King e the in j Syndicate inc torpedoes that can track Down enemy submarines with highly sensitive sound gear. One of the acoustic homing torpedoes the Mark 43. Can be fired from both surface ships and aircraft the other the Mark 32. Can be launched Only from ships. Sales East of town monday night. The firm is operated by Donald Long of Olds. The Money was taken from a Cash drawer. Entrance was gained by breaking out a rear window it was the third time the firm has been broken into. It he tax in w Gro. Pre pal firm i devel missile Adrue a ii m. Ins a Lead in maker said today that the most urgent need is a Clr Cut policy of National that must Stem from Lent Eisenhower. N e. Gross Board chairman Kine aircraft corp., testified a tense dollars will buy More i Shower corrects an iof nag Lack of a Clear plan. I of o said he would advocate a a Tiase now if d fens spend a it up lifted. Testified before the Senate n is subcommittee. His. Is the prime contract for Anent of the Navy a Polaris which can be launched from i a i Omar ant since that time their Home re Cen my had been at la Tweedy farm of my pleasant. She is survived by her husband two children mrs Robert Buffoon of Newton and James at Home and by a granddaughter also by a Brothel and two Sisters. Glen Freshwater of Fairfield mrs. Floyd Best Fairfield and mrs. A r Miller West Des Moines she was predeceased by her father and Mother a sister and a brother 1 services will be held Ai 2 . Friday afternoon at the Crane funeral Home with he Rev. J. H.1 Teele pastor of first methodist Church at Fairfield officiating. Interment will be in the Evergreen cemetery at Fairfield. To carry on exactly As he has in the past for just As Long As he is Able. Injured boy remains in critical condition in a hear i. Tommy Martin remained critical condition at sacred Hospital in it Madison tuesday night after undergoing sixteen a rays tuesday. The doctors decided against transporting him to Iowa City monday morning As relatives and neighbors were informed yesterday. A cow kicked him about six or seven times monday night injuring his head badly. Somewhat encouraging was the fact that he was conscious and wanted his Mother mrs Merlin Martin near him

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