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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 28, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy rep re a Naan a Jas Fiji these Days vo�?~-80 no 23 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening Jan 28, 1958 by George e. Sokolsky heroes Unsung when a Pilot knows that his plane is a goner and that he has a split second to make the decision that May save lives or lose them his a hero. He has faced the consequences of his decision and has dared to do the unorthodox. So Walter Hagen exhibited tile courage and aptness such As gave Arturo Toscanini his Start. When the conductor Pietro Cimara. Was beginning to slump in the the pit in the metropolitan opera House Hagen a second violinist stepped up to prevent the conductor from falling. Had no one stepped Forward there could have been confusion a scream a mad Rush pandemonium hysteria. Who knows what can happen when 3,000 Are crowded into a theater but Hagen 37. Did step out of line he was a Little late. Pietro Cimara already was suffering a stroke. So Hagen seized the Baton i and kept the play on the stage. A it was Only for a Hon interval until they found an older and More experienced conductor to close the show. Tos acini became a conductor because of his being ready on the spot when Fate required him to be. Hagen hould have a similar Opportunity. In an age of Feather bedding and Coffee Breaks of 40-hour weeks and punctilious graduate is and seniority of not sticking ones neck out and of not daring to get out on a limb it is a Mark of encouragement to see a Young Man stand up see his duty and do it. Although Walter Hagen was Lorn in Munich he came to the United states with his parents when he was three. His training education habits of mind and culture Are therefore wholly american. His father is an organist and the family lived in Philadelphia Detroit and Buffalo where they finally settled Down. Walter was undoubtedly a Prodigy because he played the Mendelssohn and Bruch violin concertos with the Buffalo symphony when he was 12 years old. He won the Rochester prize scholarship and studied at tile j Eastman school of music where he met his wife Carlie Fenton whose father also is an organist and choir director. Carrie is a pianist and plays the oboe and til Organ. After a tour in the army. Walter became a fiddler in the metropolitan opera orchestra. In 1941, Walter Hagen spent a summer at Tanglewood in the a. "ijj1&Quot Wing car by Carrier Sot per week by mail $7.50 per Yea heavy damage in Keokuk fire army has a to ahead to Ovate a Moon Orville Kinworthy named new c of 1 Secretary request change in reorganization plan of n. London a $100,000 career begins a Dave Nicholson 18-year-old St Louis sandlot baseball outfielder t or whom the Baltimore orioles paid a Bonus of $100,000, pack hts tips tor Spring training his Kotlier mrs. Lawrence Nicholson gives Hun a Farewell kiss i International search for t to teen agers wanted in slayings Cape canaveral Fla ins the army has a dear go ahead today to create an artificial Moon in Advance it tile Navy s next attempt to conduct a Mueh delayed launching of the Vanguard satellite rocket with its four stage Quot Jupiter cd missile i Lilly mounted and ready for satellite firing operations the Ai my is expected to reach the launching Imd 1> George Button met St a be this week the next Navy firing attempt will probably be a few Days later. The new sequence of events became apparent yesterday when a giant Crane lifted the Enone 31-foot proposed plan to conform to of second stage from the Vanguard founts plan missile for repairs and All activity switched to the Jupiter a thus the army Bullet a Pill satellite vehicle six feet eight inches Long six inches in diameter. The it pleasant chamber of Commerce announced i Quot u e a d a v morning the selection of Orville a worthy it pleasant As the new executive Secretary i a worthy has been a resident Quot to it pleasant since Novato the county Board of education Darrell Foss president Don Bell William Carden Lamoine m Bel Day evening at 7 90 in the of int of county superintendent cts it Bool Joseph s. Davis and unanimous voted to request the new Lindon Community District to Amend its the county plan adopted by Tho county Board in 1949 indicate that the county Board w ill Hanoi service areas Quot those areas wherein school buses of various schools Are Iii rent in operating to t he Best of then ability the my Ting was attended by about ten citizens of the Western half of the Linwood Independent school District who Stab that they wanted their children to bulletin Bennett neb., ins a an elderly Bachelor Farmer identified As August Meyer was found shot to death today Iii his farmhouse East of Bennett where authorities had concentrated their search for two teen agers wanted in mondays triple murder at Lincoln. I door had been a thormities said there was no i hinges. Sign of 19-year-old Charles Starkweather and 15-year-old Carrol Fugate in the Vicinity of the farmhouse. Law enforcement officers had spread out through the area. Meantime fears mounted for the safety of in year old Carol King and 17-year-old Robert Jensen both of Bennett who i Pany w Hen Bartlett worked As a night watchman said in had not reported tor work since last week they said someone called and told i them Bartlett was 111. Detectives said the three were j killed inside the Home and then car j i ried to the outbuildings on tile Back door of the Bartlett Home. The ripped from its officers were removing the plaster from a Wall in the living room in an attempt to recover a slug believed lodged there. Police had a report that the girl and Starkweather stopped at a service station South of Lincoln about 5 30 . Monday to Purchase Shotgun shells and .22 Caliper bullets. And weighing 29.7 pounds now seems most Likely to be the first us object Ever placed in ail orbit in outer space. The army took Over the spotlight at the Cape canaveral missile testing Center because of mechanical i Figuli irs that repeatedly frustrated j m attempts to launch the Vanguard or Norm 1 Bell. New London at the navys 72-foot rocket finally Tomey and spokesman for the noun Hud to be dismantled j Jav Board explained to the Linwood i resident that it is and has been the continue to attend the it pleasant much interest in judgeship appointment much interest is developing Over the appointment which will be made by in Lle Isebel Loveless to till the judgeship vacancy caused by the death of judge Paul h Mucoid the Assumption locally is Mist a Republican will be named since the 20th judicial Burlet has j lung standing custom of having one Democrat and Otic Republican the two posit tons local Republican members of the Henry county bar intonation met monday evening to discuss the situation they made no attempt at in time to Settle on a single mein $350,000 loss two buildings i destroyed flames i a a kit it Kim Kuk ins a $350,060 Flash tire gutted two buildings in the heart of the Keokuk Busine in. Sci to recommend tor the position four toe ii attorneys have been strict monday night and brought out in firemen from three states i re. One was injury d in the Blae which apparently originated in the Ford Hopkins drug store and i an to lit la l. Green variety store Ai the a ast the variety store olm and one half dories High a gutted along with the drug St a firemen from Keokuk for prominently mentioned As most mad son and Montrose in iu1 we red Tho general alarm in sub Low a eligible fur the appointment the Lour Are in alphabetical older Hen a Anim ii f Cleren Washington ins army see i ret Ary Wilber m. By Licker said today j the army wants to launch a satellite for the Benefit of a the free world and Hopes to avoid publicity until after tile firing. The Secretary told newsmen a we j feel that in an overheated atmosphere our own people done to perform at their Brucker who was interviewed As polity of the county Bon re to observe the wishes of school patrons As far to possible in sending their children to schools. All school patrons will be Given a Chance to object to or affirm lha proposed new London reorganization Ai the near future when a protest meeting will be announced Joe Davis county superintendent a left ii closed door Home hearing Quot out Hal a Quot it. Disappeared monday night after Berkshire where the music school j Init a Ndem is producing such a Galaxy of a Jeriean musicians. Tanglewood american Leonard Bernstein j Charles Starkweather was Behoved j co / As now reached a Peak in a a have barricaded himself. X has an atmosphere and an attitude which Are undoubtedly Best portrayed in the personality of an other Ain u to has music by becoming the musical director of the philharmonic orchestra in new York. Bernstein enjoys a mass popularity among Young people which is understood Lincoln neb. Ins a state and local authorities were closing in on a farmhouse two Miles East of Ben Nett today in which 19-year-old group deletes authority for he on army missile developments firmly refused to speculate on the Date of an army satellite attempt. He said he was not critical of the Navy for publicity on its attempt to launch the Vanguard satellite but he added a it has been our pos Hon All along that a mistake was should attend protest meetings but of 1940 he was of Lier open tor of the o k restaurant until Al ii 1953 since then he Bas bet n special agent for new York i lit insurance co. The new Kerr inn s family consists of his wife and five children Harold who is with the air Force Norma who is with Iowa Wesleyan College Judy. Who is in College at Holtsville to. And a Nils and Marshall who attend italian school. George i Van Allen my c m Vance at least two of these have virtually eliminated themselves according to statements they have made id ii tends information received Here monday stated that Louisa county May have a adulation for the position judge e it it Newt la forint in of Columbus Junction Louisa county is now a resident of Burlington de Moines county tile third county in the 20th judicial Hist Riel it has been assumed us unlikely that Des Moines county will have a recommend loft fit in that county since judge Newell is a resident there and having judges As residents in two of the counties has hoop since the resignation of Robert j desirable angles Humphrey As of the first of tin car. The chamber selection com. ,. A a senti Loveless said today he Baa not Metier Cornin St to of John Elgar Des Moville tins it gov Hor chairman. Leo Bragg and or. I m Deal have made a thorough investigation of possible candidates con fighting in Frontier area the Lincoln youth and 15-year-, old Carrol Fugate have been sought Washington ins the sen in connection with the slaying of ate armed services committee to three members of the girls family. A spokesman for the Lancaster to him teach a count it a sheriffs office said the Sher better As one listens in unit w�., the meaning of music to children i us four depute., state safety a in a j Holmen and Lincoln police had sur j my Elroy i Tel adv. It Insi israeli army Headquarters announced that fighting broke out tonight Between israeli and syrian forces in the Day killed a provision of a House j Frontier area near the Village of passed Bill authorizing the and j a Jhn banned research projects Agency those who favor the proposition so Fortis Werp made with National and hear state chamber organizations aking with newspaper advertisement for a possible chamber Secretary. A prox ornately in candidates were considered by the committee. Screening of the applicants produced four men with the qualifications to pro vide it pleasant with an outstanding executive Secretary. These candidates were invited to ii noon luncheon and interviewed by the chamber Bourd. Tuesday morning the Board met and unanimously elected or. Kin worthy. That the county Board Tan both sides of the question. Centerville Drill team to perform Here the Centerville a deter. A pre i Talon Drill team of High school girls will perform saturday feb j at the halt time of the game Between the Iowa Wesleyan Tiger eyes and the Nashville business College of Nashville Tenn. The a military poke Man said there j basketball game will be the second were a a number of casualties he claimed the fighting started Small syrian unit eroded the building and were j the committee deleted authority j when a the Border and opened fire on Over television on saturday morn . Bernstein possesses the Peda j rounded Quot Ogle gift of explaining the lbs fuse j a Vlnka in in the idiom of tile Day. Erly Bachelor identified As August committee he wants the Agency to ment of about 350 and i could not help recalling Meyer was near the site where j tart operations As quickly a. A northeastern Israel. For the space Agency even As my the farmhouse owned by an was telling another Senate israeli workers near Dan a in How Serge Koussevitzky was Able j authorities found a battened 1949 j to convey ideas by a gesture which Model car believed to have been j vice Lucy kid the Senate approx israeli police rushed to the area of course is what conducting really Means. The Boston symphony had been playing All the Beethoven symphonies one summer at Tanglewood. From one to nine right through it was a Tough chore to do and to listen to and one wond used by the two teen agers in their rations committee that initially flight from Lincoln monday. The Agency which he requests will it was not known whether there was an connection Between the finding of the abandoned car and the disappearance of Twu Bennett teen cred what would happen by the agers last night time the ninth came along. The Young Bennett couple. Car i Koussevitzky dressed in summer King 16, and Robert Jensen 17, left clothes White trousers and a Grey miss Kings Home at 8 . Last have a full responsibility for research and development of the anti missile missile and for cuter space projects. He said he will appoint a a High murder suicide at Des Moines or. Kinworthy said a i Ain very Happy to have been selected by the Board to serve As Secretary of the milk As int chamber of Commerce i am looking Forward to calling personally on each and every business and professional Man in it pleas the i Day night contest will by 0, or rear Lar any sugars of two games played in the Iowa Wesleyan gymnasium Friday and saturday Between top aau squads yet taken nation to appoint Sucre sets to two Iowa District judges who died recently. Posts to be Lilied were left vacant by the deaths of by Vear old District judge Paul h Mccold of it pleasant and 63-year-old judge la a Nichols the governor said he had not received a recommendation for a successor to judge Mucoid from the it pleasant area. And that two names had been proposed from Story and Boone counties for appointment to succeed judge Nichols president to attend funeral of his brother at 9 30 . Following the games Between i. Pleasant High school and Fairfield High school. The saturday night event will begin a 7 30 . The Nashville girls were four in place Iii the nation in the National aau tournament after having been Defeated by Iowa Wesleyan who placed second. In 1958 Nash ult a 62-year eliminated Wesleyan and was in turns that will cont i be to make the chamber Good for i Cotton coat which would become stained by sweat. Came the ninth and no Kous Sevitzky. The orchestra was on stage. The tuning up had been in Des Mollie. Gas old Des Moines Man shot and j turn Defeated by the Champion by qualified director for the Agen j killed his wife today and then fat team from Wayland College phoney who will have a staff and a Jally wounded himself in what Pohority a to perform Woik i lice said was an apparent Mur the House has passed a Bill a j Der suicide. Night to go for a ride. They a t01 Tho Zinb tin new Agency and an Hie couple was or and mis other measure giving it ten million j Daniel Gibson. Authorities said j girls basketball tournament dollars. But a Senate armed serv Gibson told them he first shot his March in Des Moines and last seen about three hours after Starkweather and miss Fugate were believed to have fled from Lincoln. Ices subcommittee has held up the wife Rita and then turned the gun the audience applauded. Those j miss King and Jensen since 3 a m. Who had to catch trains to new. Today. Showed anxiety a car parked near the farmhouse View Texas. The Kade los perform at half time at games in Centerville they were featured at the Iowa state last. Have appeared in television prof rams tryouts tor membership in the held annually at a posse Bennett Lesien s is authorization Bill because of mein on himself. She apparently died in duly prolonged. But no Koussevitzky. J been combing the Countryside hrs doubt about the proposed St idly while he died a Short time Kad ettes Are Agency. I later in a Hospital Broa lawns Centerville High school and the no reason for the action was compelled is keen. The successful Given 1 candidates make their own Black York or Boston still no Koussevitzky. Each minute was an eternity. Finally the Maestro appeared fully dressed in evening clothes White tie boiler plate shirt Long tails this in mid summer. The formality was a gesture to the greatest of symphonies. Tile audience understood and Rose and cheered. O o in the metropolitan opera orchestra is a group of musicians who play in veterans hospitals near cities which the opera visits when it is on tour. For the musicians this is a Busman a Holiday. Among there players is a group of 30 resembled the Auto driven by Jeu Shaw s contract sen last night. The bodies of 57-year-old Marion is terminated police earlier declined to give i velvet uniforms rehearse lore out any information on the double. Hours and perform double tim killing. S. Bartlett his wife Velda 35. And Denver. A tvs a the air Force their daughter Betty Jean 3. Were Academy at Denver announced to Dulles address found monday in outbuildings be Day a football coaching contract1 Hind their West Lincoln Home. Held by Lawrence t Buck Shaw an autopsy showed Bartlett and a. Been terminated by Mutual draws sharply divided reaction his wife were both shot in the head with a Small Caliper weapon. The child suffered a fractured Skull. Relatives told police that Carrol mrs. Bartlett a daughter by a previous marriage had refused them entry to the Home yesterday morning. Agreement. Without verbal commands. Mrs Merle Houser is in charge of the group. I the 9 30 starting time for the Friday game will make it possible for i. Pleasant merchants and j those shopping to attend. Four cypriot turks killed Nicosia it Inbi at least four cypriot turks were killed today when by t fish troops opened fire on rioters in Nicosia and famagusta official communiques said two turks were killed and one wounded in Nicosia when troops fired on a Cai which tried to crash through a but ii barricade. Two Turk a were killed in Fama j gusts while battling against troops trying to enforce a Curlew. Lowell girl still missing Kanji City mo., ins Picl int Eisenhower will attend his brother Arthurs funeral in Kansas City Widne Day memorial services will in held in a Iii Stu Are atme and Mcclure it i pm cos president Eisenhower will leave Washington at 7 a in Cut wednesday to Fly to Kansas City Tofor the funeral. White House new Secretary James c Lugerty Aid the presi a Dent will be accompanied by or. Milton Eisenhower president Johns Hopkins University. The body of the 71-year-old round banker then will be taken to new Yolk City for entombment. Arthur Eisenhower collapsed in his. A Urban Kau As City Home and died fit a heart attack sunday night he had retired As vice chairman of the t Sud of the Commerce Trust company a year ago freezing weather along with departments from Hamilton 111, and a Viand to the Blitz was b h. A isl unit r it on is after about two hours but then it broke out in the variety a Tore and was not finally put out until la 30 pm about three and one half hours after Tho first alarm was turned in customers and clerk at tied us store mad their Way to safety without incident considerable smoke and water damage was reported at Ute adjacent. I t a Gore the j. C Penney store Kinney a thou Ami radio station Kokx. Cot us i Dora blk water and smoke damage also occurred at the linguist Brothers furniture store. I thro Story building near Thorn end t us Blaze. However fire do a. Prevented the flames from spreading through most of Tho furniture e t a bushmen. No estimate of urn damage a. Made immediately streets Boca to very icy in the sub freezing cold and d is Black smoke Cov wed the by since District during tin height of the Blaze. Keokuk police Lee county Deputy Sher Ilia and company of 11it i Iowa National guard at Keokuk assisted in directing traffic around the scene of the fire. Governor and Schwengel in verbal rattle the whereabouts of a mussing Lowell girl Alice bus in i Zackmeyer 14. Were still not known tuesday sheriff Russell Van Tuyl said. The t irl has been missing f rom her Home since a week ago monday. Prepares to Fly More orphans to . I Moines in Pein Ocra in governor her chel Loveless got into a verbal Battle today with a publican congressman Fred Soh a Ngel of Davenport Schwengel earner had acne i the governor of Quot grandstanding in his attempts to halt possible Down grading or abolishment of the Rock Island Arsenal acre s us Mississippi River from Davenport. The governor visited Washington lad week and said he had taken up the question with government officials Schwengel declared that Lovell a it warn effect using tin pos Sib a of closing of the Arsenal As a political Man Euver. Schwengel said the Iowa congressional delegation had repeatedly protested against any downgrading of the Arsenal. Loveless said Schwengel a a shoot a be an expert on grand Tandig a Inee he declared the Republican congressman Lias b m doing jul that for a Long time he remarked that Schwengel was in de s j for the Republican Day dinner last week while Loveless was in Washington talking to government officials. In. S. Rejects new russian Quot feelers Quot a crude sign was tacked to the called the Dijanni symphony Etc front of the House saying which Walter Hagen will conduct a stay a Way every body is sick in its concert at Hasbrouck Heights with the flue miss in new Jersey. One Day he will. Doctors have determined that the conduct a full opera at the metro 1 Bartlett had been dead at least 48 polite which already has one i hours at the time their bodies were american Tanglewood alumnus i found. Conductor Thomas Schipper. 1 officials at the trucking com a acres for each farm family i Ankara. Ins Secretary of Tate John Foster Dulles aligning address at the Baghdad Bact min i ister Lal meeting Drew sharply divided reaction from the Alliance t Mem by is two Little six Cage teams of _. F j sex 1 u _ i to lie 163 were resounding Climers sir mid them urn find a Haj lip Wen pleasant and Ottumwa clash Ati. Spread Mem around. Winn be Wen. ,. The most virile official pledge j t out to resume the no sect All the the College gym Here tonight at n r Mim air i act to ii r of clock. The Sophomore pre Lihu mph is. Ottumwa Here tonight clinker a red Oak Man recently dump i pile of clinker in his driveway intending to break them later and nary tilt will Start at 6 30 . Japan has a farm population of 38 million people working 12 million cultivated acres a about two of . Military Aid to the pact a fingers Hack been taken. Nations in the event of communist. I attack. J Tan. But there also was visible Dis Dulles Promise to a push with appointment in american failure to Vigoro economic Aid for the area announce full membership in the without details of proposals was pact As urged by the moslem Mem but ing interpreted differently by i hers Turkey Iran Iraq and each of the members. Seoul ins an Oregon Tanner today prepared to Fly 93 j officer in Burlington received a korean american orphans to the report monday that a woman picked . For adoption and pledged to tip a girl answering to Alices de help Home is children a was Long As rip tical near Tho Iowa ordnance i live Plant and gave her a ride to West Harry Holt 52, aided by his Burlington. Title girl told the worn daughter Mary 22, took tilt Waits an tie was going to work in a res under their Wing in Seoul prior to Tannin it was reported. The 7,000-mile trip. They were it is thought that the girl May be scheduled to leave Seoul Serines hitch hiking town Ard Gary iud., Day night where a brother in Law and sister the orphans Are the latest group j Minsk. Or and mrs. Lester Sherer live. J of children for whom the Creswell j a state department spokesman the Young girl left Home on a ore., Farmer has opened the door i said officially that there has been school bus a week ago monday to a new life in America j no change of policy by the mexi went to her locker at new London the youngest of the 93 orphans can government on conditions re Washington Gas a the . Today rejected new russian a a feelers for an immediate a a Summit meeting to discuss East West problems. At the same time the state department accused soviet communist Boss Nikita s. Khrushchev of having Quot distorted u. S. Policies and motives in a speech last week at High school but did no to go tor class is two weeks old. The oldest is 14. Quire As pre requisites to a not w Sik has been missing since then. Holt has already placed 688 meeting Between president Eisen shot is the daughter of Tom Zaeh orphans for adoption in the . Hewer and Kremlin leaders at the Meyer of Lowell. And has adopted eight himself

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