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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 22, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy is Quot these Days j by George e. Sokolsky i a daring Man 1 a draft dodger is a fellow who bit a the Law wilfully and often j because he fears to fulfil the Law. I la afraid it death. There have b in conscientious objectors who d clonal to kill but who undertook the bravest services at tile front who displayed courage and a Trio Tom of a High Quality. H is comes a letter from a Reader who pronounces himself to be a draft dodder and is proud of it. He says in a t place the increasing number of draft dodgers is not appalling it is Mott heartening especially to one in that younger gent ration which has been so justly a pm d a the pre Roosevelt generation a having no guts. Or my to it lie has guts As he Call it. He says that there is an increasing number of vol. 80, no. 18 9srskb9x9hbe Quot a Mii Maut i a to. I Job it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening. Iwk.1 ail -.�?1958 a we a a by Carrier 30 per week by mail $7 to per Yew More funds requested Washington president1 Eisenhower asked Congress today for supplemental 1958 approx Ria i tons totalling More than two billion. 800 million dollars largely for the commodity cry Dit corp. The White House said that the urns had been outlined in or Eisenhower a budget for the fiscal d g year starting next july i and Are Ca area digs out after nine Inch snowstorm Sou the a Tern Iowa resident. Were no out wednesday after the n a worst snowstorm. Tile americans i about 54 million dollars below the Snow measured nine inches in my my St fays the self j budget estimates. Pleasant asserted draft dodger a who Are d added that the $ 2,896,234,968 Snow lows and maintainers were riot convinced that a duty to serve supplemental appropriations hum it through much of to Day Busy schedule w for the youth of Baptist Church cues it in try Cut to s be litre one warily implies a satellite rocket May be fired end of the week Cape canaveral fla., it inst a a 72-foot Vanguard satellite rocket was reported ready today for truly i cannot understand what his talking about. There can be no cd unction in the United state., Between the people and the f it a fitment. Our government is not impost d upon us from outside. It is not hereditary. It is chosen at a Bort interval by the people of the United Stater who vote in free 8 a ret elections and choose repro of stat it officials in accordance with tim Constitution. All acts of govt rum it arise from legislation m Congress Beth houses of which a Clr ii by the a Quot Cpl therefore the government Ana people Are one As is stipulated in the Constitution which begins with the words Quot we the people of the unit it states my correspondent writes to me Quot in voluntarily foregoing a sheltered existence in a glorified b a a Camp. I have been forced to hit the read to escape imprisonment i if Ting from one skid Road to another and living that hand a Mouth existence which besides death is the Only existence open to the re who have not or dare not use the Union card the social i Clinty number and the other credentials of regimented i Liis sounds very Good but what Doe it prove my memory goes i cd to world War i when Many americans were pro German and were unwilling to go to War in a cause which they believed to be unjust. Many organized themselves into societies to keep this country Cut of War but some of them discoloured that the societies were actually being managed by persons in the Kaiser s employ. They discovered that instead of pursuing their consciences freely they had Ben tricked into treason. There Vas less of that during world War ii. I cannot imagine Why this correspondent needed to land on skid Road unless he preferred to. He or Gilt have found a life in some by due Smial activity As other conscientious objectors have done. This May be one isolated instance of bid judgment or is it can us fight a totally dec splined nation with even a mall part of our citizenship thinking As illogically j As thi. Correspondent who is not Only literate but educated but what could have produced this in j any american mind Quot but sometimes when in a broke j end Hungary when i m cold and j wet i wonder if perhaps in j choosing a precarious Freedom to an expend ent slavery. I have made a mistake. I wonder if i have made More of an Effort to mid stand my government if i have rid my mind of Locke Rousseau Mill and the to s. Constitution and filled it instead with Marx Lenin mrs. Roosevelt and the u. N. But then j i remember the poor saps i have j san Aud the poor saps All Over the world who have sold their us for that Gold plated Lemon a and i wonder then if the sheer Joy of just being alive b a Man. Being free is sex i re ived by them As it is by me wednesday night. This was incur i wonder if the Sun the Moon Lect. F f wind the rain the cold 1 a pop even the hunger carry the j sputnik i might Fame message from god to them As they do to fitted today Quot will not result in any night and wednesday Clearing increase in 1958 expenditure or in Aud Rural roads the Par. J you h of hrs new obligation Al authority Over la. A i highways and most a1 the new j Busy schedule from Jan totals for 1958 in the 1959 budget or Gravelled Iliad were kept open although at Seine places Only one the largest request included about Way traffic was possible. Early two billion 200 million dollars for wednesday the newer paved High the acc of which one billion 725 ways were nearly Normal the old millions would be for the surplus pavement South on 218 which has uary 26 to february 2 As they enter into what is nationally known As youth week a committee made up of Jim French Marilyn Anderson Mary Scarff and Velda cobol in i have been working for several weeks commodity disposal program and cult., and High shoulders a ,annln8 act Vine the inter. 1 Snow pack in Many place.,. Is o la. Group Mem beginning with the youth service 489 million for soil Bank other requests included i in my pleasant Snow lows and �?288 millions for veterans pen shovel Crew cleared the Snow away skins and benefits. J from curbs and around the Square a Ito millions for Public assist moved it to the Edge of the Park Ance Grants to states. I residents ranging from youths �?57 millions to help local school to aged persons were working on districts construct buildings in areas a big walk Clearing Job. Some feeling the Impact of Federal a Tiv started tut Day evening while cities. Snow was still falling and Drifting. �?76 millions for labor department most however waited until wed administrative costs for various be Day morning programs. Ill 8 millions in new obligation Al hotels and motels were All Lik d authority for the National advisory capacity tuesday night after committee on aeronautics to expand Many motorists decided to spend research involving missiles space die no it Here rather than try vehicles and other similar projects. 8� 011 to their planned Sestina a to million dollars for expansion dons of research and other activities of truck Drivers had difficulty. The National science foundation. Stallings within the City limits i White House news Secretary James w pre among their problems. Gaines. Hagerty said the amounts would momentum was difficult on the be chargeable against the current of St Hills on 34 once a truck budget rather than the record a a stopped or slowed Down peacetime budget of $73,900,000,000 in the in la v South part for the 1959 fiscal year. Begin plans on school again county livestock n thursday marketing Survey a a i members of the farm Bureau county livestock committee met monday Jan 20 to begin plans on a county l livestock marketing Bur v by those attending were it b Buffington Chati Man v let Eckles. Roy Dustman Carl Hyrum Robert Young and Vernon Brower the committee aunt ised farm bureaus i Orcy on marketing to j search and the promotion program and discussed other produce groups policy and action on the same sub i Jetts or Buffington gave a report on his attendance at the Cornball feeders meeting in Chicago and bowed s. Tine i. >i2-h-Ui-�?levant-�?uke school will be resumed in toe my pleasant schools on thursday after a two Day re we because of tim now. Tom sulk c a. Cottrell said Beme ter examinations will be Civ n on monday and tuesday he. Lid. The y Hod beam scheduled org itally for thursday and Friday main schools of the area cloned became of the snowstorm among them were Wiy wind Olds Winfield we main new i Union Hiu. Boro. Cow Nordwi i or Salem. Danville Fairfield Keosauqua and Bloomfield at 6 30 pm on sunday will Mark the opening of the youth week Chap. Howard Blandau from the Eldora state training school for first lady modes Spring Bonnet mrs Dwight d Eisenhower poses in Lier new Spring hat for the news photographers at tile White House it is made up of Large yellow blossoms with a fancy Wiite Feather trim. Int emm tonal sound photo Paul Iii. District court jul i ire i ii years Dios Southeastern Iowa boys w ill be speaking with special court fudge for 19 years music provided by the youth again Mccoid of i pleasant it at the 7 30 . Service or. Blandau will be speaking refreshments will be served in the Church Parlours following the service. Monday evening a skating party will be held at larrys rink at West Point Baptist youth from Danville fort Madison and Keokuk Are invited to the party tuesday evening is left open for the Young people Paul la wednesday morning at county memorial Hospital judge Mccold who a til not been Well in recent Mouth three weeks ago entered the h my had and Hospital for a physical checkup there had been reason for grate concern about his condition once that time judge Mccoid attended the it denies permission to Hee report to attend the it. Pleasant Ottumwa pleasant schools and it tended in of the City on 218, trouble was i experienced also. One southbound j truck stalled near the res Haven nursing Home about ten . And j tied up truck traffic there for two i hours. Seven trucks and a few cars were at the scene and evidently other truckers were stopped lie fore they left the business arca. Patrol i men and City officers arrived and finally with toe traction assistance Given by cinders from a cinder truck and the Power of a wrecker Basket Ball game. Wednesday evening the Young people Are having a swimming party at the College Pool. Thursday evening is the regular hour of Power service at 8 . With the youth in charge following the it. Pleasant Fairfield Basket University of Iowa one year. La was a graduate of Harvard my of the Harvard University school of he graduating from the lath Iii 1622 he was a former Membri of the Board of trustees of Iowa weal Vart scheduled firing ibis week in the to a pulled Quot uck a a up ulc Hill and proceeded. Service on sunday feb 2. Will be geared to youth. The Harmony four will again provide musical selections. A youth choir will also sing second u s. Attempt to create an Arti fica i Moon. Navy officials revealed that a launching Crew at work on Cape canaveral has successfully overcome technical difficulties that had threatened further delay of the firing. The Biti three stage rocket now is the now storm diminished in the Early evening but Drifting continued through much of toe night. Ottumwa reported one of the heaviest amounts an even foot on the ground. Other amounts in the Southeastern Iowa Vicinity rang d from 8 to to inches. To expected to be sent on journey a a 10 Inch a a a a a a Mil. To outer space some time Between we thursday morning and saturday noon depending on weather and Progress in a final Check up of the equipment. Chicago c ourt to Convene then adjourn District court has been adjourned until Friday. January 24 at 10 00 , judge Nowell will con 11 inches reported 5 to to inches. The form stranded some 300 airline Pas tigers in Des Moines at least temporarily As planes were grounded. However the heavy snowfall Belt was South of Des Moines. The Midwest storm that tied up 1 12.8 inches of mow there Jan 9, 1930, and was being compared with the City a record a 25 Inch fall Vene at that hour and immediately Maic l 23 24 912 drifts More than six feet High were reported in Missouri and adjourn out of respect to judge Paul h Mccoid. The next Day of court will be thursday Jan. 30 at 10 00 . Goal line meeting thursday night the goal line club will meet at the Shearer quonset thursday night at 7 30 . It was stated in the headline of the Story in tuesdays news that the meeting was Kansas. Together with abandoned cars that blocked vital roads the Snow drifts halted Access to highways and even main routes were reduced to one Way traffic Safe Only for vehicles equipped with chains or Snow tires. Bus and plane traffic stopped in the Kansas City area but trains although off schedule were moving. Ball game Friday night a fun Spira j College served a City attorney and lion will be held in the Church Par-1 served for May Yeh a a of 1 tors. It will be an informal gathering c s Tobl Board Ait i Pretie with food and games. J Awn pleasant la a a youth banquet will be held one ctr it i District judge <>1 t in Jot ii saturday night at 6 30 to in. In tile District composed of Henry i Juisa Church Parlours a musical group and Des mollies court the Iii Hhd from Chicago the Harmony four Ennd begun his duties at tin a n will have charge of the program. As a following Yucai Nervine until a Climax to the youth win k the i la a recent illness prevented him from doing so. He was a Veteran it get world win i having the rank of a lieutenant commander in the Navy he was a Troxel will be speaking. Sunday a m1bci of the unitarian Church Ai evening at the 7 30 service the film Burlington of tile masonic Lodge Iii Quot preachers kids will be shown. I it. Pleasant and tile american _ i legion and also was an honorary member of the rotary club. He was a son of John c Aud Mary Hylnie Mccoid who prep ceased him. His birth Date was Jill i. 1896. On april 3, 1923 he Ai i Elizabeth Gase Ogine of Evanston ii Wert married. She and Thel two sons Alan if Muniu Pupoh. Minn., an associate professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and John Charlottesville a an associate professor of Law at the University of Virginia survive Itta a brother Eugene c. Mccoid is a it pleasant attorney. The body was taken to the Cran funeral Home. Funeral arrange menu were to be completed Atter More than a thousand of Ai Val of the son. Alan who throughout the nation Lliel a wife Bis lather last weekend end resumed to Minneapolis sunday night. John had come recently in visit his fatties and had re mauled Here. National farm loan meeting on february 5 directors of the i pleasant National farm loan association have set wednesday feb. 5th, As the Date for the associations 1958 annual meeting of members according to v. M. Boshart secy treas. The territory served by the local Kansas City exceeded one that left i association is comprised of Lee. It Henry and Des Moines counties one of n which will be holding annual meetings during the next few months j the meeting will be held in the first methodist Church in it. Pleasant and will begin at 11 00 . A noon dinner and entertainment Are planned in addition to the business session. The speaker for the meeting will1 be announced later. Washington Linsi president firn Helwer refused today to let Ilia i ale investigators sat the topic act Gaither report which is id to warn that the in 8 is in grave Dang i because of bovid Span weapons achievements lilt Chiel executive told Senate i Epa mini a. Subcommittee Chan Man Lyndon Johnson Ltd Texas that to refusal we based on the traditional Light of a president i withhold limn Congress Quot confidential info a Don or data which when disclosed would Quot jeopardize hic nations or. Eisenhower also declined to in Iki available Hie so called Killian report compiled in 1355 under to direction of or. James r kit Han now his scientific adviser. The Killian document reportedly urged Early development of a la 8. Inter Continental ballistic missile Johnson who made Public the president s letter of refusal called a a Cal lower s attitude a Sun Fortu mite but said Quot i know of no Way in i which a countervailing opinion that to May Nave can but made Ellei Dulles carries Ike s pledge a Iii gun �in8� Bec re tary a j state John Foster Dulles hew to tin Middle East today wit ii a pledge from president Eian Howei of Quot con i ant and unwavering u s. Support lot Hie Baghdad pact nations inst the threat of soviet Daggres Ion. Dulles Leit Washington at i pm it Ksn i with a Large american delegation to trend Lur the first tune a meeting of the Cive Baghdad pact count i it which opens in Ankara Turkey next week. Loveless returns to his desk livestock producers today i he men listed some of the live Stock problems As 1 a need tot a Quality product. Such to a meat Type hog 2 a multiple farrowing requirement 3 inadequate of Afu Oer financing and too High an interest Rale i a Lack of cooperative marketing 5 a Lark of consumer education j to Lack of financing and Lucili j ties to compete in a hade a milk nun ret 7 other problems were discussed the committee dismissed various solutions to flu problems and Felt that there must be joint action and study by All. Producer cooperative and livestock groups throughout the area county slate and nation they Felt thai Unity of thought and a unwise must he achieved among these groups ii was also Felt that cooperative milking and marketing facilities should be studied is a possible solution for the Small Dairy producers a Survey was Ako done on marketing fact i tues in the Aren. Giving the Type of facility location Price being paid and the percentage sold to each Type of Market the committee Felt that the number of marketing facilities compared to the number of livestock was favourable Phil Baird county Extension director. Also added some information and stated that he would be Rind to cooperate in setting up a marketing meeting Between he various producer groups and cooperatives. Credit Union annual meeting next wednesday the annual meeting of the Henry co Only credit Union will la held wednesday Jan. 29. At the Methodi Church with the meal being served at 6 to pin All of the More than 500 members have received invitations and anyone interested is most Welcome featured speaker will be or Olaf by Upland director of the world Extension dept of the credit Union National Assn. Of Madison was he Lins just returned from a trip to Southeast Asia and Europe and he will re tort on the Progress of credit unions to Many part. Of the world and he methods Many people Are using to promote Thrift and salts Facto by Deal with the economic problems so closely related to then Well being it a. Desirable that All who plan to attend tins annual meeting should make reservations by calling 192 or drop a card to or. Harold Knedler treasurer indicating your attendance plans. Two accidents on local streets to have plunged to Earth january 3 by the chief of a two accidents were reported i police Early tuesday afternoon j at 12 10 pm., cars driven Ewart Scarff and Leonard Fogle collided in the too Block of South Jefferson. Fogie Wras headed South Bank re elects directors officers this year. I have played upon every instrument to arouse your i Tokyo. Gas interest in education in schools pants Observatory said today do and Scarff had backed out and was in teacher nobody can read Tow tailed calculations showed that letter from which i have quoted j russians sputnik i might Quot very pos do when the Accident so volumnia Nusly without wonder j Sibly have plunged to Earth Jan inf what mad hrs obviously j to the Himalaya will read Man so antagonistic to Bis own world. A is neither a turning South into the line of tray occurred. The Scarff car was damaged mountains near cars driven by Allen Shook and Snow capped of. Everest. F t Simpson collided in the 200 this would confirm reports from Block of North main Greet at 1 30 Denis t. Jones assistant Cashiers aver three City officials showing improvement the three City officials mayor Wade Mcbeth City manager g w Wright and cemetery Cushman will Fenton who Are pneumonia patients at memorial Hospital a reported to be improving gradually a rid As Well As can be expected mrs. Wright who is be fast of the weight Home with flu also t better. Or Wright had an attack of the flu which later developed into pneumonia. Directors and officers of Hie Henry county savings Bank were reek cled at the annual meeting held recently. Directors were re elected at tile stockholders meeting. Directors Are j p. Budde William Hoaglun. E. A. Hayes b. E. Seeley and o t. Wilson. At the meeting of the directors. A a officers were reelected. They a Many local per fins president j p. Budde vice presi conscious since the sputnik Dent. William Hoaglin cashier watched a balloon hanging High it. Pleasant from mid balloon hangs High Over City Thoreau nor an be is Only tired Elf it of. I copy re. 1958. Syndicate. Inc a South and Orville Allender Edna Michener horribly tired King in riling on until n on at least tile balloon which stood out As a White against the Brilliant Blue Emma Goldman four americans who told last pm. Shook was going of week that they watched the Arti Simpson was backing from the curb and Robert Norris facial soviet Moon descend to Earth when the Accident happened. The j excellent reports on the year s spot features like Quot a glowing Silver disk Quot around Shook car was damaged an Esti business were Given at the meet was carrying weather j the Tibet Nestil Border mated $75. Pug. Instruments melt a d p from More sky i it flt t a Theta til up t of to Ink Mea was us Mem i. Munkirs gov. i Voles returned to hts desk at the i a House today after a visit. A in a it a d cd and report o to i news conference that la Ommittee of the Senate agriculture uni tree will probably la id i earnings in Des Moines in a family size farm la a Democrat appeared b to n e subcommittee during his v i to toe nation s capital tin Nix Man tree is concerned with Rej red reduction in the i nub r f toe country s and the trend toward or holdings. I governor also announced a Ndini a letters to Iowa Coniner bout the proposed clothe Rock Island ordnance Are Ess the Mississippi River Davenport and believes the department is a a giving a a to hts objections. A no Eitor said he also took he question of the reduction c National guard forces Dur his visit. Under proposed arc.-, Iowa s guard strength i be reduced by about 1.0 x renew attack on Benson or Washington in8i senators renewed their attack on agriculture i Secretary Ezra Taft Bensell today i at another Stormy hearing on the admin traction s farm program and acc Sal him it t distorting facts. Agriculture committee chairman Allen j Ellender Dot la., charged that Bent n s statement just week that the government crop stabilization program resulted in a loss of j $3,250,000,000 was misleading. Postpone meeting of antique car club approximately 128 Telephone Calls to numerous towns and cities in Southeast Iowa had to be made tuesday afternoon and evening by William Van Brussel and his committee when the Southeast Iowa antique car association conceded their banquet scheduled for wednesday. January 22, because of blizzard conditions and blocked roads. The dinner will be held Here next wednesday. January 29. Building and school Plant a roup meets the building and school Plant committee a Al the school a Sorgani action study group met at the m pleasant Lush school at 8 pm. On monday Jan 20, inclement weather held Down attendance but much was gained by a general discussion of the problems and recommendations to o made by ibis committee the committee plans a tour of facilities available in Hie North and West areas of the proposed unit starting from the my pleasant High school at i ii in on saturday Jan 25 All committee members Are invited and urged to be present for this tour. Resident near Lockridge Dies Dave o Nelson 76. Died at his Home two Miles South of Lockridge wednesday morning following a heart attack. He was born neat Lockridge on nov 22, 1881 he is survived by a Nephew. Roy Brantle it my pleasant two nieces mrs. Leslie Barr of my pleasant and Ralph goop of Omaha Nebr. Funeral services will be held at. The Hoskins funeral Home in Fairfield on Friday at 2 pm. Burial will he at Upland Quot cemetery two Miles South of Lockridge annual meeting held by Bank at the annual meeting of the m pleasant Bank and Trust company held tuesday evening directors and officers were reelected. Directors Are c r Atwell Parke f Canuck Wilson Ervin w b Hoaglin. A e Rommel and c. M Vance officers elected by the directors be c r Atwell president w. B Hoaglin vice president a. E Rommel cashier and Mary love Ruk Gaber. Assistant cashier. The Bank had a very Good Yea reports Given at the meeting Dis it based father of local Man taken by death or. Elmer Munyon 74, of Des Moines father of Wayne Munyon manager of the it. Pleasant school busses died saturday about i death was caused by a heart attack or Munyon had been in ill health for about three years but had been up and about and had planned to come to it pleasant for a visit with his son and daughter in Law in the near future. Surviving is his wife two sons and two daughters. They Are Gaylord of California Mavis Page of Des Moines. Pauline of California and Wayne of it. Pleasant. There Are to grandchildren. Services were held tuesday in Des Moines and interment was at grand River Iowa. Or. And mrs. Wayne Munyon remained in Des Moines until wednesday. Heavy and Campaign for Skrip ballpoint fluid it. Madison. La. A Sheaffer pen will use one of the heaviest print Media campaigns in recent years to introduce Skrip for ballpoint us. And manager g p. Karle announced today. Skrip ballpoint fluid is the newest addition to sheaffers line of Skrip writing fluids which now outsell All others

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