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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 25, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy these Days by Gorje e. Rokotsky the Mallory Case Andrew j. Mallory a rapist was held by he Washington police for seven and one half hour before he was arraigned. It took the Wallin ton d c. Police that Long to gather the data to collect the Evi tar Rhee to Check ahb.5, Etc., Etc. Mallory a counsel went into the supreme court on a it Eal and the supreme court deemed that the. Police had held him too Long before arraignment seven and one a i hours Mallory not deny that h a a rapist. As a matter of fact he had been convicted in a court of Law at a fair Tria and condemn d to death. The Issue was not the nature of the crime or the crime it Elf it was a imply Keg maj the police hold an l i p re n to que Tion him to gather evidence when a i in h us actually been committed on t. At Issue the United states Stipe m court freed Mallory on i in sole ground that he had been h i too Long. P Bee officers throughout the cd uni or wore at this d e. In because it handicaps them i handling murder kidnapping and other criminal Case if they cannot immediately gather the evid Nee they must let the culprit go i vol. So. No. 21 it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening i is. 25, 1958 Snaer a Carrier 30 per week by Mali $7.50 per yeat in my Wmma new Snow in Are f a new Snow Torra brought in Ness to i he Winter scene in s n ast in l w i Fatu Day the old mum acc Tulat to nine indies was showing. It g a a w a k Aoi it a i it by no n that Giddy was Covi w the a Lay r of s me a it m h the n v Whit Tutt Star tin to tall abut Sev n a a to n w Snow Cam o. W n in h win tint at Tun and it Ault d i t anti us Tui w<1 it t i t a rom i per to a which had a u claimed w b it ii k clip 11�?� a a n a . High w lit i it in ii t i mph t \ n Ai the do Snow Mere j us p of the old Snow a k c uld it d t d and w re Ltd m. A i r tin t Orlf to but info t ugh a i in. A. suppose a murder is committed at 1 a. M the police Are Noti i d that a body is on the sidewalk at 2 . They arrive on the scene there is a fingerprint which is to Quot if faxed to the Fri for identification a 2 30 . The owner of the fingerprint is identified. By 3 30 am. The alleged murderer is brought in. He has an Alibi it no cos to be checked. The hours of questioning of denial of added evidence coming in in confrontation with tarts a. How Many hours some data cannot be gathered during the night. Morning comes a new Start is made in a dozen directions. It is found for m Tanee that the culprit who denied he Ever saw the victim had been her constant companion for a year in the end Forth comes a sordid Story of love offered and net accepted if unrequited passion of gifts accepted but its giver , of annoyance and anger and foul words hurled at each other. Finally the Evert two Umang and the murder. Are the Polk Quot a to be handicapped by requiring them to accomplish All this in 15 minutes or 1 hour or 15 hours How Long senator John mar Hall Butler of Maryland last july had introduced a Bill for the District of giving the police a maximum of 12 hours before arraignment. That is a reasonable period. Under the various protections of the Constitution the supreme court let the rapist go free. But the people Are not free from the fear of sex crimes which Are on the constant increase. Police work grows increasingly More difficult Borcau e of modern Means of tran.-, Ltd is about $62.ou Mori Porta Tion to take one facility. A j last year m the towns and about murderer with a Well arranged j$n>000 More in the townships formula can a in Cairo or Rio j the comb Ned Levy which is of by air plane before the police May poor Relief. Operation of county even be notified that a crime has a government veterans Bonus hos in committed. Spital county assessor county Extension. County Board of education and so on is up about $10,000 in the outstanding v 1 1 \ \ Ord a Edward k Luik trl Iii receives the plaque pre enter by the Junior chamber of Emmeree to the outstanding Young Alan of the year at the annual banquet. King who a a Long list of utilities m Junior hander of Commerce and other work is re Sivh g the plaque from Donald i it urn la t years selection for the h nor. Leo Brau beside Dun master of ceremonies at the banquet a and it a. Dean i Rish chairman Lorth occasion watch the proceedings. Senator Dailey Speaks a senator Tom Dailey right of Bur Lington speaker at the banquet converses with Robert Fleming Presl Dent of the Junior chamber of Commerce. More taxes for combined Levy schools and towns in i a it taxpayers paying their property corp Omilion and personal taxes at the county treasure s office this year will be asking where the extra Money goes. The increase m amounts Beau paid is about $62.00 More than school total combined corpor a Tion school 95,9 2 226.077 405,607 Coppock 234 172 1,666 s. Hamilton of near Winfield taken by death i Winfield mis Leonard Hanell a ton 77, lifetime resident of the win Field Community died suddenly at j her Home three Miles West of win-1 Field on no. 78. Friday. January 24 1 she was the daughter of Theodore j and Hannah Russell. She was born near Winfield in Henry county. June 16, Lhito her marriage to Leon Hamilton occurred flt Briary 15, 1905 surviving Are her husband and one daughter. Mrs. James Wilson of Crawfordsville one son Loren at Home four grandsons and six great grandchildren. Three Sitters mrs Nina i of Cedar rapids mrs Bessie Phillips of Des Moines mrs Harriet Woodward of Marshalltown and two Brothers. Earl Russell of los Angl Les and Harry Russell of Arcadia calif., and a number of nieces and nephews Are left. Mrs. Hamilton was preceded in death by one son. Everett a sister Edna and a brother Laurence father of Warner Russell of this City. She was a member of the Prairie fort it Istrin l w the p Saila to it the Snow continuing thiou1 the Day and possibly into the evening forecasters Aux it said there want p ability l drizzle Dir ing Day along with the i lit Snow Mot of the eat in tire pc Ruth of the state was receiving t it s a re snowfall. Fog hindered travel m tin it i dem part of the state Early Satur d in warning. At i t two Highway c. I new vistas for future a re opened Washington in a. President of or Shower said today that the u breakthrough toward harnessing the a bomb for peaceful uses Quot opens up unbelievable vistas for the tin president issued a special statement on the out announcement Friday that the two nations have made dramatic Progress toward developing a thermonuclear process for making electrical Power out of sea water. Pleasant and proportionally in Mast of the other towns of the county. In the townships around $9,500 modern methods of crime in to Dion have not offset modern mean of evasion. The head of a narcotics Syndicate May be a Well dressed. Well housed Cadillac trans ported gentleman who contributes to All the local charities and is a faithful member of his Church. The distance Between him and the Junkie is greater than the goo graphic distance Between him a a $12800 Wayland is pay the dope Market in tientsin. Than last year. I funds for the corporations Are lower m others in my. Pleasant the China. Pushers Are caught users Are caught. But this fellow does ing less. Winfield a Little More m Union More new London Niue Salem less and Hillsboro More. For schools the townships i re paying $9,000 less. In the towns it. Pleasant is paving $12,000 More. Wayland $800more Olds less Winfield less my i Union. $1,200 More Rome More new London $3,200 More Sal m ,$1,000 More and Hillsboro less j comparative figures for the amounts being paid this year and for last year All townships 1958 combined Road 1957 not associate with such bulgarians. He is a soft poker contributor on a local scale to one or both major political parties and probably has a congressman or two in i pocket having sponsored such lawyers politically and put up the Cash for their careers. He is a very smart . Law enforcement grows More difficult a crime becomes better organized. Big come is now International in its connections Small is growing younger and younger. The Law is inadequate in some respects it certainly makes j crime detection in Advance of com i a Sion practically impossible. The i do goobers Enco Unge criminal acts particularly sex crimes by their j psychiatric and social ideas. Does j it do a Young lady who has. Been mauled raped and left to die in 1 to Woods any be in a fit. To recognize j that the uncontrolled beast who did the act suffer 1 from an uncontrollable compulsion does it do her heart broken parents any i Good does it do the Community j any go cd f the by Council removed a re a copyright. 1958, King features Striction by City ordinance on Sun sync Licate j Bowling in it pleasant at a fire equipment cemetery total it. Combined $311,823 226,937 531,112 4.915 3.330 1,078,121 pleasant 83.557 540.327 73,127 total 2,072 Wayland 1.635 combined 12,037 10.873 Cut Poi Ion 11,806 12 205 s Viool 24.223 23.380 local 48.096 Olds 46,458 combo d 3,709 3.700 c of p to at i jul 2,198 2m, school 6.477 6,857 total 12.385 Winfield 12,66 it combing d 17.938 17,619 c. Portion 32.477 31 729 school 22,957 24.451 to Tal 73,373 my. 1 Nion 73.833 combined 2,412 1.707 or portion 2.678 2.335 set Hool 4.570 3.373 total 9,661 Rome 7.415 combined 479 535 Cox portion 204 235 school. 2.312 1 692 total 2.996 new London 2.463 combined 19.915 18.853 corporation 19.277 17,213 school 50.013 46,815 total 89.205 Salem 82.883 a combined 4.500 4,690 co Poi a Hon 8,080 8.414 s Hool 12,211 11,133 total 24.793 Hillsboro 24.288 combined 3,041 3.191 corporation 2.236 2 110 school 6,215 6.326 t dal 11.493 11,629 total towns 679.686 617 865 83,170 lit 3 i Grove friends Church As Long As it 354.619 cried. J funeral services will be held -2os Day at 2 . Ai the Barton Mckas egg soil funeral Home in Winfield with j 264 the Rev. Arthur Brent officiating interment will be m the friends cemetery West of Winfield. One killed five injured in derailment or. Eisenhower said that the Progress brings Quot within the realm of possibility a limitless Supply of atomic Power and Energy for All the world for Many thousands of years to he expressed Hope that other scientists in other countries will conduct similar research on converting the Hydrogen bomb process to peaceful purposes the chief executive said the accomplishments of t if american and British scientists make. A More inevitable Quot n world wide a Toms for peace program which will a permit jail scientists of devote their skills and energies to the betterment of Mankind not to its destruction a he declared that Friday s u s British announcement Quot is evidence of the continuous work going on by s dentists of our two countries to harness the atom for the Benefit of Cost of Highway construction up Grant License for Bowling alleys special meeting saturday was repealed. After the change in the ordinance was made a License to operate a Bowling Alley was granted to Carl Burka. No location for the alleys was mentioned in the request for a License. Several locations for alleys have been under consideration recently Ratt fir Tenn., <in3> a one was killed and five other persons were seriously injured today when in Cut a it of an Illinois Central passenger train were derailed near Ramer Tenn. An aide at Community Hospital at Corinth miss., identified the Bead person a. A. C Whitt of Birmingham Ala. Trooper James Piercey of the Tennes a Highway patrol reported that the train was the Seminol limited m Ami to Chicago. The injured were taken to two Corinth hospitals Community and Corinth hospitals. They were identified a mrs. Mildred Mccoully 65, of mend Ota 111 l. H. Mccurly 65, also of mend Ota. Mrs. C. E Mcbratney. 66, of Glen Ellyn til. Mrs Ellen Crutcher 54, it. 1, , 111. R it mph Haynes Jackson miss. Trooper Piercey also said five other persons were shaken up but cars driven by cb1 Hill and i apparently did not req re hot pit Wayne Simmons collided at the Aliza Tion. Southeast Corner of the Square at an Illinois Central spoke. p.40 . Friday a a a Whitt a a flagman and both cars were headed South on identified Haynes As a baggage main Street when the Hill ear col m ii on the train. Lived with the rear of the Simmons the said the derail car. Damage totalled about $75. Ment was caused by a broken con meeting Yoke in a switch. The Foremost of the six car de rested upright in a 12-foot ditch Washington. Dos a the Public roads Bureau reports that the Cost of constructing highways increased nearly two percent in 1957 and most of the Rise came in the last three months. The Bureau already has warned in s Congress that higher prices will inbound from crease by one third to about 40 j billion dollars the Cost of modern izing the 41,000-mile interstate High-1 Way system. Excavation which had risen Les than other costs since 1946, showed an increase of six percent in 1957. Surfacing also was up 1.3 percent but. The higher costs were partially offset by declines averaging about 1,5 percent in costs of steel and Concrete neither serious were in bad weather Lii Iun. The night a a Ecol to Gnu. And a it k truck u 1-Sci d Southeast of c u i n it the no injuries and a two i ii a it a of Euid on i o Cai t it r Point during the t. Ant a Lai ins�?T1 i Utate it he \ c my is i. U u i t .11. A no read re r i i m d morn be t Day it i snowing shroud i w i i i of a Tine to t i a i Oil and 1 pit it in Highway ill this i 1 v n w Packi l it that in the North 11.�if they i ise now p cd a d Iti Sli i u areas n f Ltd ivling i re it it in b j at. Highway in m ulv a. I w an t i w Ith my 11 now us 1and Floh zing m t and it r a it ads in s Thwe t j i v a to w be an1 a oat a w Ith 1 s a h. Ice and packed now with i the falling now turning to fit. In and mint highways in Northwest Iowa Are generally Dick with Sun ice and packed Snow except that in the area from Sioux City to a Ltd k rapids they Are near Normal Ali Etc is i l and r it m Nort Lowe t Low to services for judge Mcoid memorial services fir Jude j Paul it Mccoid District court Toi the Southeastern Iowa ,� Foi past Nineteen Yai. Quot a e it Lenc isl by Many attorn s from All parts of Iowa and Ullom in a and Many friends and acquaintances whom he had known during his outstanding Legal career i7ie final tribute w5v� j>nu1 by the Rev John Bigham unitarian l Al 1 a shop Clergyman of Burlington at the Cran fun ral Home him. Pleasant Friday jul Nuary 24 at 2 30 . Mrs. Ben outer waa the interment of tale a.1 lies follow ing cremation at Cedar memorial Park in Cedar rapids will take place at a future Dole judge i aul h. Mccoyd was uie on of John c. And Mary i tint Mokoid who Pretie cased him he was born july 8. 184hi in it pleasant and did wednesday january 22. 1958 following a three works Ilene s at memorial Hospital at the age of 61 Yeai a 6 months and m Days he married april 3, 1923 to Elizabeth a soigne of Evanston 111. Or. Mccoid and their two sons Alan of Minneapolis Minnan associate professor of Law at the Uttler Ity of Minne oui and John Charlottesville va., an Asao Ihfe professor of Law at the University of Virginia survive him a brother Eugene c Mccoid is a it. Pleasant attorney judge Mccoid attended the it pleasant schools and he studied at the University of Iowa for one Yeai he was a graduate of Harvard my of the Harvard University 8 ii Obj of Law receiving his Law degree from the latter in 1922 i was a former member of the Board of trustees of Iowa Wesleyan cold be and served As City Forney my for Many years As a number of the Sci tool Board. Alter practising Law in it pleasant he was Clit Ltd District judge of the 20th District of Henry Luisa and Des Moines counties in 1938 and began his duty. At the it of the following year serving until his recent illness prevented him from doing so. T e judge wus a Veteran of world War i having the rank of a lieutenant commander in the Nav. He was a member of the in tartan Church at Burlington of the manic ledge in it. Plea ant. And the american legion and also was an honorary member of tin rotary club. Iii i 1�?T it i it on i lie Mii was a Iii it Rulan a car after the drive at the Robert Stevenson Home in South Vit. Pleasant had been opened with i Power shot i new Snow w. A Ling in sat i Day and there a. Indication that Hgt Nightfall Snow ret Noval. Just completed in the bum Ness Section would have to lie Dom again. to have i tir 5 governo r candidates i it it Moines i in. I it Widt opt n m Lamble tor the Republican nomination Hgt a govern today appt ired to Quot in headed it it i a foil or a list race which could result in n t Ion meantime the Democrat seeking in console Date sheir 1966 Victory in deeds recorded Al our House l in Fout Wing deeds have tit d at the Cou thou Quot iinds. N and with. I t us. The governor office Gre looking up i it m. Hui f. Jane Baity Forward to a heavy run of c mid pts pity in Section 31 a i Tipp Date Foith it various state offices j Canoe town hip and in sect on. I he Republican Are nonet trat a r Salem to whip Leslie i Halim. On the governor s race and Lowell and to Mary g. , where get dial weeks ago it Hgt oked property on St uth Jack it on . I like an almost certainty of a Eon mar met enter on. It Al to i i it Tiou 111u.sii it now has simmered Hene aet quit claim dred in now London j. Lowr to. If n a Down to the four of five candidate so far three have Antio need u fourth is almost sure to get m the contest but whith i there will la any More is pure conjecture at the Date. The three who have announced Are w a Murray of Ames John of Albion and r t of Toek rapid Lieut gov will Iii Nichola. Of Maon City is expected to toss in his hat Early in feb Ruai y. St itt senator Jack Miller of Sioux City and former state senator Stanley Hart of Keokuk Are thinking about making tin rate but there is nothing certain make the contest a four of live race does not necessarily mean the contest would result in a convention selection because none of the obtain the necessary 35 parcel of the vote former gov Leo Holt go obtained 37 percent against fix other in 1954. To and wife to Glen d. Wood property in Wayland Raymond j. Kasji r t it l i Harlan , property in Salem Cora n. Pitzer it Al t it 1 Fiji n e Burn property in Section j 33 of Center township Alberts p round it Al to Eita Archer i party in eaten 25 of Canaan t Wash in Etta Archer and wife to to draw Hale and wife Etin 25, m Canaan township. William Crane and wife to Oln r e Lurk eve and wife property i n a t Washington Street. Co o. Be a Short and wife to William a k. Imi w.t1. Property on North trotted Jennings and wife they will me Vin and Ralph Jennings n p try in Section three of Canoe township William or i wife to Jeorge k. Helt Jar in s action 17 d n Louden t to ship. It plea ant. Ready mix at 1 a Gnu i by o to Limo w Lovit a i in h it Ali As ill. It Quot i i in i j it no Rich to i i w. I Ulvert i and wife property m new i is a Frances c Bis top and a it i Arcilee j Ginger Cut it a it p try t up a i i k1 t v cars collide of retail d our to meet i or Irmo crack no not have worry about the governors j Felt j gov Heichel Loveless is expected new London Bernard j f h i to Lead their ticket teds fall and in a to Damian Flinn pics to Stead they Are conventi rating on i Tion six of Tippecanoe t in. R. I getting together a winning slate of i state candidates consider Able interest has been generated by the democrats Foi the a Quot to vol it a non,.atan with e a f Lloil or Otha wearin of exch woe of the former Congressi Tui and mrs i Edith Johnson former do moines1 1 postmaster being mentioned As pos i sible in Dimatos. Glen or then of Harlan and Kenneth Robinson of Bayard also mentioned j six names Are being discussed for state Secretary of agriculture Erin to Olson of Sloan has Aln Ady taken out his no Matian panel s. Others being mentioned include James Mcnally of Hawarden Home hush of Des Moines Neel Hill of Webster City Harold Ohison of spirit Lake and Harold Larson of Ami most. Ohison ran for the Post two years ago Upton b. Kepford. Waterloo City attorney Bill Jones of Maxwell and Maurice Rawlings of Sioux City have been mentioned As possible democratic candidates for attorney general. 1 Harold p. Meloy present Dubuque county auditor is expected to run for the state auditors Post. Organize new officers were elected a a n / organized Union formed b / Empl Yecs at the mental health is Lute Friday evening. President of the credit Union to be known As the Mill cred uni u i. Keith Kin director of sort a vices at the Institute. Rob Jones is vice president or. Mon a Fairchild treasurer and i ice. Secretary. Committees named Are Audita a Harold s. Craig chairman Robe Brown and Helen Higgins cred pm Hall chairman. Dorothy Tucker Secretary and Mary Stinson tue credit Union the it. Pleasant is chartered in i state Laws inert was said and organized to promote Thrift at i make Loans for provident pure membership is limited to employ i s and their immediate families. An old timer remembers when you could go Barefoot without going an old ordinance prohibiting the in starting a to bed Charles Ruff Uig operation of Bowling alleys on Sun business. By Bulky and by others interested railed was angled across a siding and the last three including a similar amusement then it car was pitched Over Ai diner and two Pullman cars spread j in 8 a Cic Giec . Inet a u oat away an . I a luncheon meeting of the it. I inc to play pleasant chamber of Commerce retail division will be held at the Carthage tonight Harlan hotel at noon monday d n _ _ meth the new retail e chairman has 1 w Wesleyan tigers will important cd Ming event will b meet the Carth. Be. 111., College d cd d including plans tor Dol redmen in a non conference game Lar Days and Washington a birth at the College gym tonight at 7 30 a v Sale a retailers Are invited Fco clock a preliminary tilt is slated i attend. I at 6 45 p no girl fatally stricken while watching to Paullina la. It ins a a l7-y< a old Paullina girl suffered a fatal heart attack yesterday while watching television at her Home. She was Carol sew each a daughter of mrs. Leone Seh Webah of Paullina. Besides her Mother Carol is survived by eight Sisters and to free Brothers

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