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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 31, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky 8 her mrs ordeal in this Erea of sputnik and rockets and missiles and such the ordeals of a Saloon manager May not be very significant but the fact is that what happens to one Man could happen to another. Sherman Billingsley has managed to turn a Saloon into a National institution. Tile Stork club is a rendezvous for distinguished Aren and Beautiful women and is widely known and folks go there As much to be seen among then Peers As to eat and drink. Billingsley has had a picket line around his institution although the place has been in continuous operation and j us t As Well attended As usual. Mast of the customers of such a place do not worry too much about pickets anyhow. However the matter wont to the now York state labor relations Board on a charge that the Stork club Encao d in unfair labor practices vol. 80, no. 20 s.�.1. A uljjiuh&Quot"1 a it. Pleasant. Iowa Friday Eyen incl i1&Quot&Quot. �?1. Of Quot i Quot. Quot i we a a i Vav it 1958 Light Snow by Carrier 30# per week return boy killer to Lincoln Mem Mem my in i a his i . La to. A it to a a. A i awl fit a a Sherman Billingsley hired Roy j Colin a his lawyer and All of sudden it was discovered that this National institution engaged in interstate Commerce whereupon the a Rem sauce Cooks Fry Cooks and types of washers found themselves in the wrong jurisdiction and out of Luck. Meanwhile the place is Fuller than Ever it now having been proved that the Stork club like a Railroad gets it turkeys from Colorado Utah and Washington its Guinea hens from Missouri its lobsters hmm Maine its crab meat from Florida and also stuff from China Italy and Spain. One item in Billingsley s evidence fascinated me was that he Carrier approximately 3,500 charge accounts of which 1,255 were billed to persons in 40 states and Canada. The eight missing states Are not indicated but it just goes to show How National a new York restaurant can become. So the trial examiner for the new York state labor relations boo re Bernard m. Finelson found that the Stork club is engaged in interstate Commerce because it buys what it uses whenever it can find it and Bill. Its customers through the country and Canada too. Therefore the unions which have been picketing the place since january 1957 and not hurting business have to Start All Over again with the National labor relations Board however As usual they Are i was for polio please mrs. Earl Warren wife of the chief Justice goes a calling on mrs. Richard Nixon wife of tile vice president to receive mrs. Nixon s donation in the annual mothers March on polio. International sound photo rep. Schwengel to speak at Lincoln dinner Ike says to ill to he ii keep his Cabinet Washington ins a president Eisenhower said in a Quot capture Congress Pep talk to gop leaders to District affair and originated by miss Martha resorting to political pressure i Mcclure former National commit dropping names of governor har i Lew Oman from Iowa and has been tile annual Lincoln Day dinner will be held on saturday evening february 8th, at 6 30 . At the Dav that the current business Down Harlan hotel tins a Biroan Industrial commissioner Isidor Lubin and mayor Wagner none of whom will add a Whit to their political polarity by in i Cou raging a Union to disturb the streets1, for that is All that their interference Means. Lots of folks who go to such places As the Stork club hand observed each year since it was originated As a District dinner honouring Abraham Lincoln. Congressman Fred Schwengel will be in the District on that Date i and it was thought Best not to j wait until february 12 since lie is i to give the address following the dinner. He will return to Wash out tips amounting to More than i in ton d cd on feb. 9th. The tabs in most places. So the j the committee in charge of the customer pays anyhow and is glad affair is As follows chairman. To. That is Why he goes to eat Ham and eggs in the Stork club instead of the automat and the mrs. Harold my Loran miss Charlotte Davis mrs. Ruth Ogg. Miss Doris Sharp miss Stella Hartquist waiters know it. Maybe the sauce mrs. Lorena Ross. Miss Birdie Cooks should be tipped too i Glassine miss Ethel Hunt. Billingsley tells me that he got owing to limited a Pace of one a Telegram from More than a Hundred ten being served at the Hundred employees congratulating dinner it i advisable that re or him on his Success. As Long As be made Early customers keep coming and the the Young rept ii can organize place fills up nobody really is Don the i . Republican club sore but the leaders of the unions and r s o. Members Are invited involved who got themselves out to attend. Reservations May be on a legalistic limb. Made by calling 523 r d or 266 red. The Public is invited to attend the birthday Celebration. Rush to avoid turn is Only a reflection of tile Economy a catching its breath Quot for a new Advance. The chief executive calling for a battling Effort to regain control of Congress in next november selection declared a we have had five years of Prosperity. This simple truth understood by every citizen is not altered by the Plain fact that business in general has been lulling off in late months Quot he made his speech at a closed breakfast meeting of the gop National committee ind state Republican finance chairmen. Newsmen were Given excerpts of his message. However or. Eisenhower departed from the text that was handed to reporters to Tell flu republicans in effect that he was going to keep agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and Secretary of state John Foster Dulles in Tho Cabinet despite remit critic Dos of the two. After the president finished Reade the prepared text he sat Down and the n gut up again to say he wanted to add a few words. He said lie had Confidence in every Cabinet member and that lie would make no changes. Local woman taken by death the year 1958 May be a Tough one for All restaurants hotels saloons and similar places because the income tax collectors plan to get very Tough about expense accounts demanding to know such la neg i cell Cilev detail As Are usually withheld from j official documents. Is it exactly a j legitimate expense to entertain the Bossy wife when he is out of the courthouse was a Busy place died at memorial Hospital at 6 45 a a. A of q to Friday As car and truck owner s Friday morning she had been ill town it May not Only be a ic-1 ultimate expense but a duty second?�?�1 a a heir 1958 License piste the past week. To none for How else can a rising Young executive win his Way up j the ladder of life ,. A a end tee Urdaz. Knox county 111., and came to also tim income tax collector and at 2 . Friday 5,148 car licenses Iowa As a child she i who subsists on frankfurters Ana a c Beans on the Low salary paid to j him for such work May wonder the county treasurer s office Ini mis William Bruggemeyer 70, rites for 3 victims pastor Calls killings blot of shame Lincoln neb ins1 in a Kerne which was to be duplicated tour times today and tomorrow the ii it pics of three of Charles Starkweather a victims were Laid to final rest under i Gray Snow washed sky at Lincoln the funerals of 57-Yeiu old Marlon s Bartlett his Wile Velda 35, and their daughter Betty Jean 3, were quiet without the horde of curiosity seekers so often attracted by violent death. The tiny funeral Chapel at the wad love mortuary in l Lincoln held Only 56 persons barely two thirds full. An adjoining private room contained a dozen More tiler were an even 12 honorary pallbearers for the to o Metal coffins. Covered with Gray cloth. A third casket was not needed because the Little girl was buried la the arms of her Mother. Coffins remained tightly closed throughout the solemn ceremony hiding the violence torn features of the dead sprays of casket were pieces. Yellow Ulm among the for each 14 Floral j before the penalty goes into effect. Jennie Francis the daughter of a penalty of five percent of the Charles and Cora alien Mcwil-1 ice Rise fee a month will Start sat. Hams. Was born dec. 22. 1887, in Why so Many High minded executive. Eat so much caviar. Is it to encourage the cultural interchange Between our land and the unfortunates who dwell in the Shadow i of the Kremlin and so much in a Vodka too and even Champagne. O mls Al it i All to encourage cultural 1 and Intercourse and the slim la j so d in District court thursday Tion of foreign Trade with cur of Tai 1 j0 acres of and in sections 12 a resident and 1.418 truck licenses have been near Osceola until oct 8. 1917. Sold. Last year 5.784 car licenses j when she and William Bruggemeyer were sold so it appears quite a few were married. They lived at it. Persons will be paying penalties. Pleasant since that time. She is survived by her husband a daughter. Mrs. William Leyden it. The oration without the customary eulogies for the dead was delivered by the Rev. George Kulm pastor of the Ebenezer congregational Church in Lincoln. The Rev Kuhn delivered a stinging indictment of the Quot blot of shame upon Quot who would not cry out a i would hide my face a he said Quot when seven victims Are to by Laid to rest he continued. Quot what makes tile tragedy even greater is that one member of the family of the dead was at least an accomplice a most of Lincoln cannot understand a the minister said a but it is our obligation to the Rev Kuhn declared Quot i done to think a murderer like that could have been created in a minute or a Day or a week of Young people i t it a the wrong Road it is not a thing of the moment it is a part of their character. A where did they Start on this Road at the family he called for a searching of conscience by parents teachers and clergymen to determine whether Lincoln a families schools and churches Are properly discharging j their responsibilities. A i say to that father Quot lie concluded a that instead of teaching his son to be a Sharpshooter lie should have taught him to respect others and that the soul of Man is sacred and Only god who has Given it has the right to take it joint services were planned at 2 . Today at the Bennet neb. Community Church for 18-year-old Carol King and 17-year-old Robert Jensen High school sweethearts who fell before the onslaught of the crazed killer. An hour later at 3 . Funeral was planned at Trinity lutheran Church in Walton neb., tor 70-year-old August Meyer Bachelor Farmer of near Bennet neb. Services were set for 2 . Today at Wahoo neb., for 51-year-old Lillian Fencel a housekeeper at the g. Lauer Ward Home in Lincoln. The rites will be conducted at the Erickson funeral Home. Opportunity to share in bringing foreign student do aug there i Linos of urn it i at Nae War and National Lac. To outer Pace what better a can we help to induce Mon Friendly relationship and red win with of eign countries Ilia in bringing another foreign student to Cair i a i immunity a thi project benefits a ii a t us not Only As americans As pc it it Tho United state us iowan and its people of it pleasant t it my of ill a individuals. Having a foreign stud it Here in i Weagant is Alum t As n Ltd a if it pleasant wept loll at j foreign Caum in we learn much 1 about their land customs and interpretation with they will at the a a ame time learn tins and per i haps More about us j to let each and every p c Oft of pleasant and the i founding Community help enuf a tins g Den Opportunity the student Vuncle of it pleasant High Ach of i j going to a a Iii a shares of g xxi will to merchants townspeople Aud Alt who would Uke to partake Foi five dollars each beginning feb Mary 3 a certificate will to Given to each person who buys a a Hare j so that it May be kept or posh d w Ith Price proving the purchaser s interest in the betterment of his country and Community stud in us will be Given the oppor i Unity to buy Quot student shares at j fifty cents each beginning i Obuary 5. Of course they. A the Mercia outs and townspeople May buy a. Many shares As hey wish it you want to become 1 Stock holier of Goodwill this investment offer irs expend e and Quarter returns than you can possibly visualize cont bul Tel grandson of Faical woman is killed Michael Fay 18, Waterloo who hied of injuries suffered in an Auto Accident in Waterloo thursday night was the grandson of mrs j w Austad jut North Van Buren reel it pleasant he was the Sot of it Htut min Carroll Fay 1251 Hammond Avenue. Waterloo mrs Fay is the tonner Olive and of it pleasant Al o surviving is a Brothel David Fay was a student it Iowa state in ear hers College in Cedar Falls poll shows Over half favor Federal controls overnight i Stop made at Gering new schedule for trains to be j effective feb. I the new tune schedule for passenger trains stopping in i pleasant., Given in this Issue is in effect starting feb i. Eastbound no to will be due at4 p in., no. 8 at 12 31 tin no 301 Al 3 16 am and no 18, the California Zephyr at 9 to it will Stop on Advance notice to pick up Chicago passengers and will hop to let off passengers from Denver and beyond. Westbound no. 7 is due at 6 38 pm no 19 at 2 50 pm and no 17, at 7 05 pm i no. 17, the California Zephyr will Stop a Advance notice to pick up passengers flt a Omaha and beyond it will Stop also to let off passengers loin Chicago local woman i acquainted with the Star Weathers i mrs. Jean glitch head of the Iowa Wesleyan speech department. Is acquainted with the Starkweather family at Lincoln not Byland knew Charles Starkweather i who is being held for la murders j the Home of Hei parents a Lait Lur from the Starkweather boons and they were on the Starkweather garbage collection route mrs. Catch had attempted to Contact her parents and after she a could not get a response by to to Urs Mollie. slightly met e Titan half urn i Utu. In Iowa favor Fedora i control Oval acreages planted to feed grains according to the la teat a Oll taken by Wib Acon Fanner Iowa Home Stead Magazine a Cross Section of Iowa firmer. A. Questioned about the need Foi sen the controls to bolster feed a Tam prices and prevent livestock production Quot swamping Tho Market Ila poll showed >4 percent Felt men age controls were needed while on v 19 percent Felt certain Aud Cut Nicols were not necessary Tho other 27 percent w As not sure democrats favored acreage control More than republicans and farm Bureau members did not vote Quito As heavily for controls As non members. Thoro was Ronald to Lily in unanimity on the question of compulsory allotments to control feed Ai Ain acreage Howe to Only 26 percent voted in favor of compulsory acreage allotments for each farm while 29 percent favored voluntary allotments. Another 20 percent Felt that neither compulsory hit voluntary allotments would work and 25 percent a. Undecided the a i Ace Homestead Jagt la also questioned Farmers about one prop Al advanced by agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson and the Eisenhower administration to remove All acreage restriction., on Corn and Peg tin loan rate at 60 percent of parity about $1 06 it Bushel. Only 28 Perront voted for the f Coho wet Benson plan while 38 percent chose an alternate suggestion to Cut Corn acreage 25 percent below us Poat War average on etch farm and place the loan rate at in percent of pal try around $1 to a Bushel. Another 36 of Trent of the farm i was undecided which plan to favor. Bassett new a dispatcher la a is l o to i ii i rank Hardy profess a of Mair it Iowa w a Levin Ainee it my told friends Herr it it a his plans to it tit Al Hie lose of the present academic veal Al Iowa Whsle Van popular and Tai in ted organist and pianist it needy leis Wavd As organist ii the first methodist Church much of tile limn since coming to Iowa Wesley an Ile expects to reside Iii the i ipe cod at a where tie lits spent Many of the Slimmer vacation periods. G. I Utah in. A f an car i Cering inlay it 10 45 urn i cd i on the final leg of a trip to Lincoln Nebr to bring a l i nag gunman and Ida Young u mp3 to. N to an Are for the murder of one Oill persons he nu.1 admit u killing it Iho caravan was i North Platte at 2 pm Charles Starkweather a Rod. Lait. To to huge gun Happy kid who even ins family regarded a a Good Foi nothing could look Forward to possible execution in the chs to a a chair it found guilty by a jury in Lincoln. With stat Kim it her on Tho trip Back but Riding in Tho acc Oil ear w athe youth s 14-year-old girl Friend Cath Ann Fugate Henry Holden 85, taken by death hems Holden a \ limit of some 150 person Al l a Dat a round the Scotia Bluff county t air to Louse As the Young j couple were escorted to the oar one Nill in the crowd exclaimed Quot Why he a just a Little j another wild Quot look How Bow legged he is a Starkweather was Hustwit to the j first of the three can he was tiring manacles attached to a died i ruin j restraining Belt in tin car the morning at the University Hospital in Iowa City after being a Pat it tiler since Jan 14 a had Midei Kame surgery i Wien Ile a. Born Jan 15. 1873 in Saline county most a married july 14. 1896 to Mary Ellen Pierce who preceded Lulu in death Ort 15, 1025 for the a i 41 years i Holden had it sided in i pleasant a and during recent years on Cherry Street surviving Are three children Frank Holden of Bettendorf Iowa. Mrs a r Whittner and Loren Holden of i pleasant also five grandchildren and two great grandchildren he also leaves a Holt brother James Kenwood of Washington a funeral services Are pending the body Vas taken to the Weir Quot cokes funeral Home Law officers clamped log Irons around ins Starkweather qua wit iring the a i me clothes he Hart on wednesday afternoon when he was captured by i. A1 and county office at Douglas Wye miss Fugate appeared us loss. H i hair was full of b by pins. And she Wax silent a she entered the second of the two cars. Sheriff s officer at Gering re a sorted Starkweather was it a apparently without remorse. Sheriff Steve Warrick said a i looked in on him twice during the n ghz he sleeping Warrick said Starkweather ate two breakfasts this morning Al Thoutt Pale and Millen. A Cark a Ca Thor am Ltd at the Aln Tiff and said he did t need anything offered him four schools in speech contest Winfield Iii the stale prelim a doctor gave mins Fugate another sedative last night a sheriff s Deputy Kidd Quot she does t think her family is dead a a sheriff Karnoff quoted Stark a it Ither Asa Hying a i supposes they got the chair hairy speech contest to lie in id Here j pm fit f0 me Wyoming pm Ulp i wednesday feb 5 hoots compel chamber i done Tuke the Smoll of i tug will lie a Stroh consolidated j Olds Wapello and Winfield com i Unity. All except one of Hie contest divisions Wilt be held in the Metli Odist Church Here. J judges of the Battiest will be three Blond soaked flight i member it tile speech Tup tit mein the caravan left Douglas lint of the state University of Iowa. Night and Starkweather and mis i he following 12 students re it caved Fugate were lodged in jail at Ger to rating at the Home contest Mon for j1no get Day evening and is i 11 represent the i Starkweather waived extradition a the caravan fool nerd the mine cute Back to Lincoln. Starkweather and the girl to. Cd to escape a police net which tightened with the discovery of each new victim of Hie phone called h Cousin the Cousin went to the Home and found no one at Home presumably they Are on a trip estate farm i pleasant and two sons Charles an Ralph Bruggemeyer route 4, it. Pleasant also by eight grandchildren five Brothers and two Sisters. The Brothers and Sisters Are Cleve of Williams. Weldon Gene i and Carl Mcwilliams Osceola Pete generous . Also to impure our j a a a a a a 13 of Marion township from m,.wmlanm. I Avis cloy Wade Moths Clara b Kopp estate i to l Williams. I pleasant mrs. Marie c. And Wendell f. Peterson for $74,500. The Price per acre figures at a Little Over $465. Services for Ward 47, and his wife 46-year-old Clara Werc set for la . Tomorrow at Westminster presbyterian Church in Lincoln. A son of the wards14-year-old Michael flew Home from Walling throw lot Llars lord conn., where he is a student at Choate school. Return to u. S. Tastes so that we appreciate a chateaubriand instead of just Corn beef and cabbage in the Irish or Kosher variety. Copyright 1958. King features Syndicate. Inc Fortune. Weldon and mrs. Minnie Randall. Shelbyville 111. The parents and two Sisters predeceased her. I a services will be held at nine serve 120 1 o clock Munday morning at the St. I Alphonsus Catholic Church with the barbecued Chicken was served to Rev. John Manning pastor Officiat-1 120 persons at the american legion ing. Interment will be at St Al scout sunday will be observed a Post Here thursday night Phonsus cemetery. Rosary will be the 8 15 Ani service at the also served were baked potatoes said at eight of clock sunday even my ii Aiu Church Jui Ouy Fob j. Go Lic bread and Collet. Ling it the Crane funeral Home. Mph is. Fairfield Here tonight inc six meets Nashville san Francisco ins three a Merican women who visited their imprisoned a is in Cost nudist Cli Ina returned to the United states today reporting they were Well treated by the chinese red de Moines ins gov Ber Catiel lovele.%4 today anti i need the appointment of 49-Ywr-od Robert j a spit of Des mein of it the Post it f state car dispatcher has Cit w to will go to work monday Reo am Walter nuttier who As in assistant to the executive Council Lias operated the office recently the state auditor s office Crit sized the oar dispatcher office and pointed out that it a the a of Moi. Job to run the de a it ment a Veles commented that it it was his Job Quot he would run Haslett was ordered by Loveless to a mph Tel re organize the office within 30 Days. This will include a new system for purchasing a which has required each Purchase to be made out on an individual Cheek or voucher scout sunday to be observed j the it. Pleasant panthers i tangle with the Fairfield trojans in a six game at the College j gym Here tonight at 8 of clock. The Sophomore preliminary tilt is set for 6 30 . In a third game Here tonight the Iowa Wesleyan Tiger eyes face the Nashville. College be x let at a a q jux. I Dollar Days feb. 5 and 6 Winfield school february 5 oratorical Julie Van Dyke. Marion it Wickham and Phil Marshall. Drama tie Freda Cook Mary Ellen Dunn Aud Marjorie Hull humorous Carol Morgan Dennis Deal and Charlotte Wehner interpretive Reading no a Long. Mary to Paisley and Freda it took cadets to perform Between halves a c no Rvivle cadets who will per form saturday night feb. I. Be to Wren halve it the basketball game in the Iowa Wesleyan gymnasium include Judy Van Noy Michele w la Erie Jarn Val cup Pat y Edwards Kathy Klum Judith Mel holds Karen Phillips Suzanne Stuber Mary Milam Dibble Noland Irene Ritter Judy Coulter Nancy Miles Karen Jan in Martha Ritter and Donna Perkin. Drummers Are Linda Sacco Carolyn Johnson and sue Pullman. Mrs. Merle Hen or is the instructor. The precision marching group will entertain Between halves of to e game bet men Iowa Dedeyan s Tiger ettes and the Nashville tenn., business Colleg the game Between the outstanding women a teams will a Gin at 7 30 . Saturday the preceding evening thetis aet to and Nashville will also Augusta ga., ins a president meet but at 9 30 nm., following Eisenhower arrived by plane at the game Between the High schools Bush Field. Augusta at 1 45 pm. Of Canfield and it. Pleasant. Est today for a weekend of Golf. I in Wyoming but refused to Fly i in a Nebraska air National guard i pin a to return to face trial for i mind r in Lincoln. Sheriff Karnoff told International news service Starkweather j broke hts silence along the Way to explain his killings a it is just a hatred that has built up Tun me Ever since i Wax a child i wanted to be an outlaw. I did t mean it to go thus Karnoff said Starkweather Abow. A i no remorse a a whatsoever for his three Day killing spree. Gering Nehr. Gas tile teenage Slayer who bragged he would have killed a Wyoming sheriff Quot if i Wasny to out of bullets did no to know it but he did have a Shotgun shall left. Reporters toying with 19-year-old Charles Starkweather s jacket. In the Scott Bluff county jail at Gering today Felt something hard in hit lining of the leather jacket. It was a .410 Shotgun Shell one thai would have fit a Shotgun in Starkweather a stolen car halted wednesday in a rain of gunfire by Converse county Wyo sheriff Earl Heflin. Ike arrives in Augusta a. I i

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