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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 20, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleas a. It news partly Cloudy vol. No no. I Jet. Pleasant Iowa i Maul eni my Jan. 20, i of i to i ask Days four Crew members killed 102 flee to safety As Jet Airliner crashes by George e. Bokosky the St aim a Case i n ter marriage racial or religious j always involves family problems i religious intermarriage Are not dil 11-ult for those who have no religion or who eschew their own in favor of another Blit they never can Guarani it wha will happen to hem As they grow older whether historic memory traditional responses social ii latious hips will not pull the individual Iii one direct Ion or another. Tile Scarsdale Case has attracted and unusual attention the father is a non act icing i w. Tin Mother is a lapsed roman Catholic i he son seeking a form Roll wild Airport thursday night a1 relationship with god i oui turned pour Crew members died. Many to the episcopal chm the lie a were injured. Invited to escort a Young lady to j a we done to know wily the plane the Scarsdale Golf club and Wajs a shed Quot Carlos a. New York re tented by the committee in manager Lei Aero news de Mexico charge because they characterized. Skid. Him As a jew a category of he i the mexican Airliner took off at inanity repugnant to tin in. Acle 8 15 . For Mexico City with 98 ally he Only halt a jew be passing is and eight Crew members. Cause his math r a roman it crashed and burst into flames begin anew quest for peace c Fieldon shakes off fears and faces the future new York up one Hundred and two passengers fled to safety from a giant dc-8 jct Airliner that crashed and burned on Takeoff in a swirling Snow storm al shortly afterwards in a marshy area a Short distance beyond the end of the runway. Too la the City s second Jet Airliner crush in five a leks the dec. To Era ii the nation s worst when another dc-8 collided in Hight with a Constellation. Both approval of his Bish planes crashed killing 128 aboard and six on the ground. Passengers fled from the burning Plain thursday night just before ii engulfed in jct fuel holocaust Catholic and the Scarsdale Golf club ought have permitted him to attend on a half time basis. Tile ult by made no fuss. The Young lady whom he to have escorted also did not he Over she declined to attend her debut which a and moral act. Her Rector ethic episcopal Church in Scarsdale. With the it p and Olin r clergy refused communion to those who had committed an to in Simian act futile George in in ii Kernp sell jr., the episcopal an minister who took this firm position has thus far been fully Sirj ported by the ministry of his Laith and by the clergy of other religions that kept firemen 60 feet off because of the intense heat. It hours alter the crash that the Pollee department tally. How cd ural of the 106 aboard four died and iou Weir found alive the four victims were identified As Tho planets Captain. Ricardo Gonzales first officer Antonio Bravo re is. Second office i Savior Burka Alvarez and Gloria Sanchez a stewardess. The civil a Ronald irs Board launched an immediate investigation of the crash. The cab inquiry began this morning with officials of the Federal aviation Agency the airline and the Queens District attorney s office in attendance. Many Federal officials summoned to the meeting wire delayed because All of new York s airports were snowbound the fact that the plane leafed for Takeoff despite a driving Snow storm rough winds and poor visibility is one of the possible crash factors which will be Analysed by the investigators. I Here is Likely to is ail increase in mixed marriages in this country and in Many instances no Pat Tern of affiliation is Bein Quot. Followed in a family or where Hayoung meet outside of Church at filiation tile roman catholics insist that in such a marriage the children should be brought up in that Faith but this Rule is not always followed instead children Are often left without any religious train or affiliation. In Many families it is left to the children to decide for themselves they usually go As their marriages and Oft a involve their parents in emotional difficulties at an age when such misunderstandings can be disastrous it is the Childe n who have to resolve these Emot ional cd if i Levities. It is particularly troublesome in a marriage Between a jew and n Christian it one of the parents is a violent anti semite because his or her bigotry sours the marriage and ultimately must produce confusion if the bigot lives Long enough. Whereas love is supposed to overcome everything it rarely overcomes bigotry. As rec a. Re racial mixed marriages the difficulties arc plentiful marriages Between Whites and negroes Are forbidden in some states in others. Huy Are growing Ueita a urm Rous. I know of four such marriages which seem to be i pc Anc others one of these marriages i have noted for some years As a very Happy one with an offspring who is a musical Genius and is doing remarkably a Ell it is of course impossible to know much about Sueh human j relationship without better study than has Iren made of these reial mixtures. Marriages Between Whites and orientals rarely present extraordinary problems although j in places and at times the off-51 i no have diff Levities in starting life unless they Are unusually gifted in lie Scarsdale Case w ill attract i attention because of the firm stand taken by the Episcopalian clergy who could not do otherwise for Why a old an Episcopalian to discriminate against on the grounds that lie wa., a jew the Young Man did not attempt to join the f ars Dait Golf club which has a right to limit its membership to wasps if it. So desires or for that matter to or Ivr a a Gers or Bankers or in any other a girl asked him to escort he r to her debut a f lev custom which continues the Busine of Nutting girls on the marriage Market would Tho club ii in be a drilled by Tho presence of the Episcopalian or clo they object to h in in racial grounds rinse iii1- father s ancestors lived in pah Stine 4,000 years ago and his mothers in Europe a generation or two ago the Scarsdale Golf club May choose in guests according to the tastes of its members or it May one Day sell its grounds to fatties divine to improve the in or it May a o to move away to some Remote an a to avoid direct Contact with the for in whom its numbers in Jet i somber explodes 2 of seven Safe kiwanis club to sponsor Scholastic croup in la. S. The Kiwata club plot up ant. n Sci cd it. Charter Ashr Community to Asor for the society for academic achievement Saa in Tim of pleasant High shool the Saa with headquarter at quine., 111, and launched there in 1959, i. A non profit International. Monticello Utah up a b52 into jct bomber exploded six Miles above Hie Southern Utah badlands thursday night apparently killing five crewmen. Two officers survived a Long organization sponsored by several Parachute drop it 38,000 feet an medical and al is organizations olde a i Hay described As Quot colder it dedicated to promote Populis Tolian then they inked to a Nae and Reward High academic Scho Highway and hitched a ride into warship achievement in the High town neither badly injured. Schools of the u s. And Canada to thee no nuclear bomb on Early identify provide guidance Servile Plain the air Force said. Ices and to motivate talented a a i he pc Highway patrol said dents to seek a College education four bodies had been recovered the Saa is dedicated to a College from the smouldering widely scat education for every talented High tired Mckage but a fifth Crew school graduate it i. Attempting to member remained unaccounted for. I p soc the educational problem fragments of the $8 million orca Ted by the fact that nearly half Eula jct bomber scat tend of of til Quot brightest High school my several acres of Rocky ground 12 dents do not go to College Mil s North of Hee and one chunk award membership i the soviet by a Clit jilt Ting out into a Val for academic achievement will be Ley. Fires burned tor several granted etch year by the kiwanis Horn at three a Para to spots. Club of it. Pleasant not to exec d i or two survivors told a doctor Jop a cent of the graduation Chi. Who i of ated them for abrasions of the it pleasant High chop ii Saa has e. Tabor la d Del nit i Hei j x in Iowa up tile of Sheldon when the most reaped re business lady in town is accused of embezzling $2 million. Shook off its fears today and faced the future. The town s Busine. Fades said tiny were not seared and Sheldon not broke. Nineteen of the business leaders of Shldon a town Wile ii has grow n Rich on Corn and soybeans gathered thursday night on the second floor of Sheldon s Community building. They had to talk loud because a Square dance in full swing downstairs. There Only one real subject of conversation mrs Burnie Iverson Geiger and Hie $2,126,859.10 which she embezzled from he Bank where her Ether president. The i Ink. The Sheldon National. Was just Down 9th Street and Federal Bank examiners Wen Busy behind locked doors figuring out How mrs Geiger the assistant cashier stoic the Money. Afterwards. Chamler of Commerce pre Alf it. Mason ski w is issued a statement. A Quot i Hisa or All by r immunity Quot he said Quot its not a scared i own. We n just completely shucked Quot but Sheldon is still doing business Asu Imi were not broke we be had ties experiences before and we re ready for More Indus ides to come to Fin Hie face of it. These were chamber of Commerce platitudes. In reality they expressed the determination of sturdy dutch Man and Irish iowans to win out against shame and disaster. Pos cont Kennedy s request makes i Mea in cold after taking oath of office Washington up John e Kennedy tin k office a the nation 35th president today with a Para for to a b Pear who a. Warren a 11 51 a Lyndon b Bot h i n Side a ii w in the of ult a Cid for communist to a1 All Anc Quot to overt a Dis a c to the huns a Quot grand combat and .&Quot by and Coni in by Quot Birt jul t the 35th pre Idem to p n minute Johnson had been worn and glob Quot tyranny my r sol the in jt>6 in the huts and villages of half the Globe a he pledged help a no Recap a the Are after Noire if. No incan e we seek then vote but became it us the intending rations of and Wen he said Quot a t Side explore what problems u. Instead of Bela Boring the problems that Divide us. Let both sides invoke the wonders of. Cie Nee instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars the deserts eradicate d s to East both unite in As vice president. Holo Siul the Quot summons moments after taking tile historical oath that made him at 43, the y Ming a Man it Clit i to America s highest offic. In a 1,300-word inaugural address delivered on the capital ups in the freezing aftermath of conquer a driving snowstorm the new Case. Chief executive directed his or the a a absolute Power to destroy Marks not Only to his countrymen other nations. He raid must be but to my it How citizen of the brought a under the absolute con hoi of an a get every nation know Quot Sci i said whether it who us Well or ill that we Trail b Ai any bind Sui i r1 a Iny j so any foe in pay Nuet any pc any hard for Trad or up Rotter to a Quot tire tire urinal Aud Cuoc Liberty Ile pledged thus country s continuing it Salty to its. Long time allies support of the newly emerging r Public and a special consideration for its latin american president John i Kinni do smoke wisps Freni speakers lectern credits republicans with predicting ceremony Des Moines up Low a House democratic learn Scott swish r. Iowa City took note of the inauguration of John f. Kennedy today. And credited the republicans with predicting the err Mony. Quot the r publicans said it would be a cold Day in hell when John Kent Edy got into to White Houm Swisher said. A today it appears As though their prediction is quite noting the freezing weather and Snow which marked Kennedy s inauguration. Washier wished out it Tern today inaugural on Tim tank of Kerzic of eau Nhomi i forefront of form. There a n burning win no trial a Hor get slightly wore Mal Cli inn Quot of cd i he ill or tut some of s rat i tji Tojiu Hami Lynne Cilek resigns from welfare position that a severe vibration much like turbulent weather Hook the plane a it winged North from Biggs air Force base. Elpaso tex., on a round trip training Mission. One Wing apparently caught fire and then exploded. A witness said he saw three flaming bits of wreckage plummet from the Clear sky. Bub free my temperatures were hampering the search for the last in w member. Listed Iii Good condition at san Juan county Hospital were 1st be Thomas a. Is out. Be or Lea lift. La., the co Pilot and 2nd a. Jerome r. Calvert 21. Phoenix Ari the navigator. They said they thought they saw another Parachute floating Down Between them raising Hopes there a third survivor. No iowans were aboard or. Norman Koff taken by death or. Norman o Koff 58, died a memorial to Pital Friday at 12 2d a m Atter a Short i lne. S Ile a psychiatrist at the mental health Institute where lie had been a 1954. Or. Kofi a native of cd Eho Slovakia born on Jim 3. 1902, and educated at Hie University of Masaryk. He Cairn to the unit d stat s. In 1910. And had held p i tons in Phila Iphia. In. A n. And in Lincoln. Nebraska before coming to i. Pleasant. He is survived a one brother in this country. Funeral arrangements Are being a e by the funeral Home and will be announced when completed Deuce Day earn their living. A copyright 1961, King features Syndicate i be 1 i. Regulations for membership which Are a. Chi chiefly on his scholars a achievement in tie academic col lege preparatory subjects in the ame mat Lier As Phi Beta Kappa membership is granted in the Lead will ing colleges of Liberal arts Niue Cilek who a. Been employed in he s Mal we lie it Hee for the i St to a i it. Lamed. A Fleet in a 11 a y it i miss cil k. The daughter of i and mrs j. S cil k of City of marred on february 4 to it. Parsons the son of m and John science.-. The Saa Aims to thu and or. John a High school counterpart of Itiat great i City. They w ill College honorary society established he in 1776. Esmi or hid a tilt 1 up i i am in ii speaker a ice e of 11 d Small lire break out at in i Kin i i by 111 Bol trn 1.1 Ute i Clem. A i ire sex i ii Guise or Sun w in tin Filen m d f11air r is and Glia ids crawled 1 teming i. A1 n around o i i in red carpeted floor Niters Iii the 11 Vul g in find this Nice of the Ina ugly ii Ion Piat smoke. I Kennedy e Senhor a vice presi it of Able Quot a Dent i in son b. Johnson and out in h like ail it a e going vice Pix 1 shut Richard m. It it appeared to Nixon All Appl. Ired to a How some a r. Ella re card concern at f in is but i Hen later Boston to 1 in grinned then chuckled together i. V i i a it 1 Ila Trot Hie apparently r. Though i i y rectified and the smoke stepped. Mon ? Miles often j up i i i is a pm ii o Back Long it tar a Ca read a Malch a mid kit i is tis. My Mink Mut i the i re vc., of the la i if Iii a a x i 11 ire quart r length v i the Aurta 1 in i m a who gloves pm a v la the 111 co a Jai Airn i a inst the Bilth in d ii i y Elt a Day f a 11 i ii i la Quot i 1 of the i Lite Ina a a i. 1 i u ii bar p a Ideal Eisenhower in or i. But it u in r i Tiai cd lady Bird John a a a Timi in sat j in w in of ii new vice in Side til in in or k n 111 i r i Iglus. Eisenhower smiled could 1, in i 11&Quot to a it y at her and each signal to the nations of latin America Kennedy made Quot a special pledge Quot for Quot a new enhance a against poverty aggression and subversion. And in an obvious reference to irs new soviet influence Over Cuba he raid a let every other Power know that this hemisphere intends to remain Hie master of its own Kennedy poke in a White City blanketed with Snow he spoil3 in neighbor. Then he added lie presence of two men who had Quot finally to these nations who run prudent before him a Harry would make them so i a it s our and Truman. 76 and Dwight. D a Rosary we offer not a pledge it Eisenhower 70. A third sex pre i a requite thai both sides begin Dent Herbert a Civ a 85, in anew the quest for p ac1, before to attend because of the the dark Powers of destruction in weather. Lea. Tied by science engulf All Bu-1 1 no a Torch Kennedy said inanity in planned or accidental iia Sbei a Pesse a to a new Genera Relf a Sirut non Quot Tiou of americans a born in this o a it it Century tempered by discipline d Ile summoned the world s p o by a acid and b iter peace proud of pies both communist and non our ancient dazzling Power display in Parade not much of a Mississippi accent Washington up Mississippi gov Ross Bartlett boycotted the inaugural governors reception yesterday but a lot cd people thought they had met. Him at the affair. Two enterprising iowans slipped into the Booth reserved for Barnet and set dip their own refrains line. On of the run who asked not to by identified introduced visitors to his Friend Quot gov. Ross Barnet Quot tile deception lasted until some j one remarked that the governor and i aide did no to have much of a Mississippi accent. Name Washington up a the Quot. United states amassed a dazzling Vance an Assembly line space display of military Power today for vehicle that had Bien orbited and president John i. Kennedy s tri recovered. Four years ago there Imphal procession to Hie Wiatr no successful u. S. Space be House after solemn oath taking hide in existence ceremonies at the Capitol. J leading the Parade As grand mar mighty missiles aircraft Battle thai retired it. Gen. James m. Field weapons and 16.000 members Gavin the famed world ii i the aimed Force a All symbols paratrooper selected by Kennedy in of the nation s Power to prevent contrast with the custom of Roar were mobilized for the three signing the chairman of the joint hour March Down Pennsylvania ave chiefs of staff nue. Boo the new president escorted by sixteen thousand civilian parti the 100-member u. S army band Pait. Ranging from High ranking and 3rd u. S. Infantry troops in fractal and state dignitaries to High dress blurs near the Vanguard s Bool in Mdse and boy scouts of the procession in an open car were on hand with 40 colourful floats with his w Ife Jacqueline and sen. And 40 military and civilian bands John Sparkman Ltd Ala completing the pageantry. I following vice president Lyn starting Point of the Parade Don b Johnson accompanied by his the Capitol Plaza these be of w Ife. Ladybird his daughters swearing in. Its Climax a and Lucy Baines and speaker k in Civ. Special reviewing Sam Raeburn stand in front of or White House. Otters in the presidential Section wot al peace through new and joining Kennedy in the pres Emu tar. Quot a. Hic them. It de do tial reviewing stand were chief lived from Kennedy s acceptance Justice and mrs. Earl Warren for a peer h at Hie nominating Convell Mer president and mrs. Harry s. Lion last summer Truman mrs. Woodrow Wilson and a a 0 mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt a joint there were precedent Breakers for congressional committee. Cabinet an inaugural Parade for the first members Gen. Lyman l. Lemnitzer Tim >0 states were represent d. Chairman of the joint chiefs of marking the admission of Hawaii staff and hic chiefs of the Mili and Alaska. Marking scientific and tary services. Army if workers Clear 7-Inch Snow Washington it up a Miracle of Iii today won Washington s a1 night Battle against a Ell Snow storm which Gad threatened to bog Down the dental inaugural eel John f. Kennedy. An in. In army of Carcel All traces of the historic Parade pent,.sylvania Avenue by Dawn the work Crews then twitched to the swearing in site at the Capitol Plaza for Back breaking dig out Prest operations there. Eau. Hie far inaugural Day dawned Tunny land Bright. Workers Hadj ter. Form had a. Cd by Early Snow Fryni. Morning but the temperatures route Down ranged in tile Low 30 and a bitter void Ednd swept through the City. Nomination Blank Junior chamber of Commerce outstanding Young Man award mail to Box 112 it. Pleasant firsts for a new president c hag a h allowed it 8 pm. The div end suggest cd that the k Mif us min to Hie White House a tut Cai Lier than the St be dolt d Horn or la 2ft a rn., and have Coffee web the Biset Bowel s in the i m. H dining Roe re before their departure for the Capitol. The k Nedys arrived at 11 04. Wait Noto n up jul in f Ketu Iedy u the youngest Matt coct ejected president of the United Blate but he is not the younger Man Ever to serve As president. B in n May 29, 1917, k need is now 43 years 7 months and 22days old. Theodore Roosevelt lacked 41 j Days of reaching his 43rd Brill i Day when he moved up from vice president to president on sept. 4 1910. After president William Mckinley assassinated. Other Kennedy Quot firsts Quot or is the first president born in the 20th Century. He is the first american president of the roman Catholic Faith. He is the firs r president Ainee Andrew j Huron to have had previous service in both the Senate and House Kennedy us the second Man in u. S. History to enter the White House both of hts parents were living. Tile first Ulysses s Grant

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