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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 3, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news the esk Days by George i. Sokolsky Hoover at Briss is president Eisenhower could not have made a better Choice than to Send Herbert Hoover to Bra be is to deliver the fourth of july oration at the world s fair. Poi 44 years. Herbert. Hoover has been j closely related to the belgian people. A mining Engineer living in London he was called upon to organize for the Relief of the belgian people who were literally starving in 1914. No Man including Herbert Hoover was experienced in such work everything had to be Learned from the Start with great uncertainty among warring Powers As to whether the belgian Relief was not in some fromn. In the in my. Hoover actually created an International body with is Vino n pow a it but with the Soh atry of providing food to starving people and ii was All done in tin name of the United states his work a a Kremens u Success and this heretofore rather obscure mining Engineer became a world figure. Too now in his kith year having do recently Andemone a dangerous operation. Herbert Hoover returns to Belgium when he will speak on vol. 80, no. 156 it. Pleasant Iowa Thirso a evening july 5, 1958 by Carrier 30e per week by mall $7.50 per year Independence and Freedom for All the philos by and its a latin will Deli i in i the birthday and the next govern men a Hoover Day found resp Gian people f american life i Otle r people. He us ceases one on of our nation. July 4. Day Winc h the belgian has proclaimed As a Mark of the prot and love of the Bel for this Man. As this column ho., eat by fore either address is ii slivered i cannot Quot in in hem they will however by heard in the upped states on radio Nevoid in it is. I 1 in say that in b inner president us speak from ills \ to it i experience of six decades of Lite in Many c Unity Lek on every continent. Bras i mining Ohgi Iteni tin n As a i it in f officer in time of War then St rotary of comme it Aud preside Quot of the United state my finally food Admi Hist to ii by by Dent Truman to cd \ t no n prevent what Stem of to by Nethol world famine. When a Man reaches h Rbt it Hoover s give. Me. Ii in effect writes him i it in a 11 have no terror for him for he has lived longer than the Span off t As Normal by b ii to insurance Eon a the Petty Amin v polite a1 i those it to i Viii a u a slight step fora of adv Anbu a a in him he has enc vantages that can and All tile arrows him closely in the a Century. The up the Man in mined As i witness c. Politician evolve whose oui a. Pain of Mankind Bibl spin pm and the therefore Mil the Cipoli Foi Iii the ladder cd All the and come to a Man i have observed past Quarter of spiritual growth of i before my eyes the disappointed into a Prophet outed with each it ii i Aik i est grew from a amen an in spokesman ii raised i v Bess of i i Speaks the american in vim in he say that thi a get arc descended from e Herb in Ruer Hoover dual to an i of Iran to a pie. As Amos in righteous to Hoover b a principle in repeatedly r i can people cry nation of fire after lightning Bolt destroys barn flood death list rises to 16 As search continues predict to will die new London tuesday afternoon of lightning struck on the is h Rode journal at 3 30 a Bolt the High Peak new barn on tile Jack farm and destroyed it Ami a Cive me your tired your poor your huddled masses yearning to breathe free the wretched refuse of your teeming Shore a from a poem by Emma Lazarus Graven on a Tablet within the main Entrance of Pedestal on which the towering statue of Liberty stands in new York Harbor 4.000 Bales of Alfalfa Hay the farm i 4.3 Miles South of new London on fhe Lowell Road. The Bain was 52 feet by 52 fee Ami was constructed this year i a a pole Type with one end open new London fire department with two trucks saved an almost new double garage on the West Side Only a driveway distance from the barn i Avey fire chief said it was fortunate that the wind carried the flames away from Hie garage they used the water on the trucks and two new London ready mix trucks hauled two tanks Down. It was impossible to save the barn or Hay a canvass tank was filled and mrs Schroder said before Midnight the wind turned for a time and More water was pumped on the garage the previous Day a truck was in the barn but it. Had been removed tuesday. Mrs Sehr Orier was returning from Burlington in the storm and noticed the Black smoke in the sky by did not realize it was their farm until she stopped in new London and was told the fire was at their place. Kejty Clinger and Lyman Bliss j employees of or Schroder were in another building when the Light i Nung struck Clinger said it must have struck nearby and in a moment they saw smoke coming from the barn the last of the Alfalfa was placed in the barn tuesday. The building was insured but not tile garage nearby. Or. Schroder is a general Road contractor he has offices in Burlington and has a maintenance garage for repairing equipment in the former garage building East of the City Park in new London. I counties expanding special education program halt Airlift of prisoners i Henry county Board of Edu Iii n cooperation with the Van Buren county Board of education and the i Ouisa county Board Ofey Ava in is currently expanding the special education program available to the approximate 4200 children in Henry county and the approximate 2500 children in Louisa and Van Buren counties respectively. A tiding to it it Joseph s. Davis. My superintended of schools a vis special education program v or a i known As the tri county administered la roil us the offices if the Tiv dec county superintendents. It is one of its primary functions Survey pupils in the Public Bool having various physical visual personality and mental an. Is additionally it refers la parents of handicapped children a it v Illus specialists qualified to administer Aid. Special attention to Aid youngsters in the three counties in the area of speech vision hearing and personality and physical defects. This need has Only been partially met in the past but it is hoped that it will be More adequately covered in the ensuing school year. Levi Metzger taken by death Havana it up i a the u. S. Navy today suddenly halted its helicopter Freedom Airlift for North american prisoners of cuban rebels. There was no immediate explanation. By George b. Brown by Iti Audubon Iowa up Gully washing Rains hampered searchers today As they plodded and probed through the debris of one of the worst floods in Iowa history looking for the last of "16 to 18�?� apparent victims. The unofficial death list Rose to 16 whet three More bodies were found today another tour persons were still believed missing. X sear h Force of an estimated 800, trimmed to about 600 by the Rains probed die Silt and muck of the tributaries of the Nishina Botna River for the bodies. Tile footing was treacherous and the Low i Highway patrol warned the searchers to stay away from the creeks near Hamlin because the rain caused them to Rise More than a foot. 1 the streams and bayous were a mass l tangled underbrush Straw Wood and other debris which concealed water filled holes making the search perilous. Searchers found the body of Russell Smith 46, Exira along Davis Cheek about a half mile from Exira he was the husband of mrs Russell Smith who sur a led a 30-Mi in trip Down the Nishn Botna clinging to a log. They also ton lid the body of a woman tentatively identified As mrs John Parsons. Exira about 2b Miles South of Exira. Her husband was listed on the unofficial death list and one of her two grown daughters was still missing. Residents of he flooded area of Exira hardest hit by the flood attacked the debris and mud left behind with Snow shovels and determination. They seeped the Silt from their Homes porches sidewalks and driveways but Many no longer had Homes and porches and they poked through their damaged belongings looking for items that could be salvaged. Veteran searchers Many of them on the Job from Midnight tuesday with Only a few hours sleep wednesday night were joined today by fresh volunteers play director suffers Shock Desio nes Public safety predicted Iolo i be states big three Day july up the Iowa department today wans will die on i ways during the 4 weekend which mrs Jean Gate Iowa we lev an dramatics instructor was knocked unconscious by an electrical Shock wednesday evening at than my r play practice site North of old Pio i Neer. She also suffered bums in Jone hand she was alone at the scene before. Practice started and plugged ant electric wire into an outlet. There j was much moisture around and in some Way the Electra current hit her Kenneth Butzier who was Corning across the Campus for practice saw her from a distance and she waved. Be we lie reached he plat i form she had suffered the Shock i and was lying on the ground fortunately she had pulled the electric Cord from the connection As she fell Aud was not then receiving the current. She was taken to memorial Hospital. Complete workshop begins at 6 . Tonight Iowa Public safety commissioner Russell Brown mid the usual vacation travellers will be crowded on the highways with Quot thousands of Iowa families trying to squeeze in Quick weekend Brown said besides the to fatalities tile weekend probably will Dee 200 Persona injured in 400 traffic accidents. He said the economic loss in Shat Fred cars injury ass and loss work time could run As High As $450,000. Too the state safety offends outlined a five step program to combat. The expected death toll. The program will include i. Having All Iowa Highway patrolmen on duty throughout the weekend with most officers concentrated in a heavy Trail in and High Accident 2 a Dawn to dark Quot patrol of the staff s highways by patrol planes in cooperation with police ears. 3 use of All 14 radar Speed Dele tors to slow traffic. 4 posting 1.300 warning signs which read Quot radar Check. Speed slow Down. Save Points a 5. Handing out 75.000 safety four Europe and to i whatever the unit ii stat Lias by Ane is a product of the marring of various civilizations into tilt cosmopolitanism which h Titi american civilization dedicated to lie Clon of god and til a Roan. I lit ideals i for. It do not Spring from the form or Structure of govt in a i but rather Asho Beld Bonvehi from the religious Lait ii. The pm id in country and from tin is and Lorit of a people in response to the challenges Winch they i e and meet. It is nut so my. H that Herbert Hoot i oppo 1 a i in governmental Stria aures As that he recognizes that am my Ach people the re Art int Mal i in five Force which o to ii pre Tim e t Vallies that in the and i. A people a prey to despot Ai Winch Stibs cts mat to an ii. Lorit tin he wit a eased tin n to some 15 nations in in Lifet in of Tai Herbert Hoover will speak in Belgium toll the world. His speeches will b. Translated into All languages and will be heard All Over tile world ii Mil be an american speaking to Mankind on Independence Day about his beloved country on its 182nd Bimala and within a month of Hie huh birthday. For Hoover tin will be a glorious moment for tile United states it is a dignity copyright is. Lime features set i Clit stuff is currently comprised of Robert Gibson psychologist and mint to is and Robert Piper pay Ali Olingi t. Mrs hurling Winder j. Re Tolj trap i of Louisa county in my trifled to the staff and the and in i gust rat ors Are searching for another therapist. Tins service is designed to int a it. With nursing and Kindred professions dedicated to assisting my wrapped children. Tile Cost of til administration of this program i b gone on a pro rata basis of 40. Tor Henry county and 30 for f Ouisa and Van Buren counties this is based on the average daily att of St orients although the surveys Are not , it seems that hero Are fourteen physically handicapped children in Henry emmy seven in Louisa and Twenty five in Van Buren county known to the supervisor. There Are 192 youngsters in Henry county who have been re erred to professional personnel for the Cost of this program is split four ways As the state of Iowa pays approximately fifty per Cen of tilt salaries of the psychologists and therapists. However office spar. Fifty per cent of the salaries and Dian were most of hip travel expense must be Hight borne by the local counties As result of expanded educational program and an increase in administration Cost there will be an in areas of $1,695 in the 1959 Levy Over the 1958 Levy in Mills this represents an increase of .044 Mills. This year s minimal increase in millage for an expanded special program has been made possible by partially using accumulated re the Airlift was scheduled to Bezan at Dawn to bring 45 american and Canadian Kidnap victims from the Mountain strongholds of Fidel Castro la Bels. Winfield Levi Metzger Well known resident of the Winfield Vicinity died late wednesday afternoon at memorial Hospital it it my adjacent towns of Guth where he had been a patient since americans and brought out one Cana wednesday but at noon none of the helicopters at the giant u. S. Naval base at Guantanamo had gout1 into Hie Interior of Oriente province to bring out any More of tile prisoners. Serves according to county special consistent with counties. Davis the Henry education Levy is levies in adjacent add to cast of summer play Jack Stiles Bill Owens and George Weiny All of i. Pleasant have been added to the cast of Quot the Silver Whistler to be produced july to and la on the Iowa Wesleyan Campus. Lynn Dart and Kenneth Butzier will Piny the leads of the play to be directed by Jane k dutch head of the Iowa Wesleyan speech and drama department or Butzier is head of the it pleasant High school speech department and mrs Darr figured prominently in College theater while a Wesleyan student will be old main attention for visual handicaps ii Louisa sanity and 96 in Van i Quot the Silver whistle Buren county thirty four Young-1 outdoors North of Stern in Henry county Are known on the Campus. In Case of rain to have personality disturbances. The production will move inside. Ten in Louisa and nine in Van the outdoor setting is especially Buren. I Here Are 62 mentally re-1 appropriate because the scenes Are tamed in Henry county 41 in i Laid on the Lawn of an old people s Louisa and 52 in Van Buren. Home next to a Church. There Are know n to the super i the property Crew currently is Sot currently he educationally re-1 Hunting a wheelchair for use in larded pupils in Henry county 49 the play. Jane Willows has rein Louisa and 80 in Van Buren Tris Quested anyone who will loan one does not indicate the full number to Contact her at 548 Blue. B1 cause the Survey is Only partially tickets for Quot the Silver whistle Quot Havana up the rebel radio ordered the release today of All 50 americans and canadians held in their impregnable Mountain stronghold. Four americans and on it Canadian already had been flied and flown to the u. S. Naval base at Guantanamo. Fidel Castro Leader of the Roll Ilion against president Fulgen Eio Batista broadcast an order to his brother Raul directing that the remaining 45 persons be turned Over to u s naval authorities at Glia til Ana to Fidel Sui he had been in Dir t Contact with u s naval authorities anti was making the ast to avoid being held responsible should any harm befall the captives before they could a returned. The broaden t said the americans had no responsibility for the political situation in Cuba and denounced their capture by Rani us a violation of individual liberties for which Fidel said the rebels had been fighting. Many pet oils had thought Rani i Castro captured the americans in protest against alleged american Aid to the cuban government forces foul kidnapped americans and a Canadian were flown to the monday evening. Death followed a Long illness. He was born october 3. 1878, the son of Nathan and Sally Sellenger Metzger in Louisa county. He married Alice Maud Pierson april la 1901. She was taken by death july 23, 1914 or. Metzger was married to Mary Isebelle wince december 4. 1916 at Burlington. She survives with three sons and two daughters Russell of it pleasant Ronald of Olds. Virgil at Home. Mrs Dewey Jones of Columbus Junction and mrs. Fred Brockman of Ames also six grandchildren and three great grandchildren and a brother. J. O. Metzger of Winfield. Or. Metzger was preceded in death by a daughter Pauline Margaret who died in infancy his parents three Brothers and Sisters he lived ins entire life in the Winfield Vicinity. He was honoured in 1956 by the Chicago Union stockyards for 50 years of continuous shipping to that Yard funeral services will be held at the Winfield methodist Church saturday at 2 pin the Rev. Arthur e. Brent and the Rev c e Chandler will officiate burial will be in the Winfield Scott township cemetery. The body was taken to the Barton a Kasson funeral Home. Courtney was making turn into station details of the Warren Holland Bert Courtney Accident which occurred tuesday on n Lefter on v Ere incorrectly Given the wednesday Story should ave stated that Holland was grim it uth and Courtney North when Courtney attempted to turn leu into the Payne Sinclair station the irs collided be Center. Begiev Manning and Many other communities. Many Audubon county residents could thank the rescuers for their lives rescuers plucked numerous survivors off of cars Trees buildings and other places of temporary Refuge. Those who completed the music workshop at Iowa Wesleyan College the end of the past week included Almus e Caruthers Albans Iii. Mrs. Goldie Glazier Erie in. Mrs. Dorothy Glover Rock Falls. 111. Miss Eunice Beckett miss Thelma by Kelt mrs i Ola Bradley mrs. Edna Hawkins. Argyle mrs c. A. Drish Brighton mrs Helen Scott mrs. Beryl Reid mrs. Cleo Henry mrs Helene Siegle miss Marilyn Van Osdol Burlington miss Sharon Newell Columbus Junction. Mrs. Florence s. Long Donnellson or. Everett Schadt Fairfield mrs. Irene Hoaglu Hillsboro miss Marilyn Plaff Keokuk mrs. Mary Ann Eklund Libertyville mrs Hazel Lawrence mrs. Naoma Sasseen Lockridge mrs. Everett Barry mrs. Richard my Beth miss Rosemary Wagner mrs Robert Evans it. Pleasant. Mrs. Georgia Owens. It. Union mrs Harold Kermeen new London mrs Howard Peterson Oakville mrs. Mary Louise Wilkerson Wapello mrs. Alice Swanson. Mrs. Berneice c Howell. Washington mrs. Beatrice Hesser Wayland mrs Berneice nicked Wellman miss Cherrill Deal Winfield and mrs. Kenneth in of til. Warning cards with the help of american legion members to warn out of state Drivers to obey Iowa a Ira i Fie Laws. Brown said he had a ked members of his department divisions not directly engaged in traffic control to Volunteer for Highway patrol duty. A this should add 25 to 30 cars to our patrol Brown said. The divisions include safety officials engaged in licensing and inspection. If the prediction of to deaths on the Iowa highways should come True Iowa Are in for the roughest july 4 weekend since 1955. Fifteen persons died i n 1955 s traffic crush during the weekend while Only one person died last year and two in 1956. Transfer City funds grins tend Yar gifts for 33 u. S. Employees taking emergency Calls to Exira Sunderlin to rough a her sister. I although mrs h l Washington up a million j has been trying to put Aire Bernard Goldfine said today Long distance Call to he gave Christmas gifts of $50 or mrs Fany Platon of Exira who was less to at least 33 Federal pm formerly employed at Iowa Wes Toyes including the Secretary to Leyan College since the East w ii 11 e House aide Sherman Adams Robert w. Lis i Imam counsel for the House influence investigating subcommittee confronted the textile manufacturer with names of White House and congressional employees of this and previous Ari ministrations and asked if Gold Fine gave them Money. No agreement on gym floor the it pleasant school Board i and to representatives of the Vig o Jensen construction company it it of Iowa City failed to reach an agree a Merit on tin High school gym floor replacement at a session thursday j morning the school Board requested the installation tit a new floor of the exp is of the contractor the Jeu sen representatives resisted and fit Psi a Compromise which was not i a accepted. The floor that was installed a i buckled and in numerous humps i i in it. Complete. Are available tile Survey indicates that there son. Jewellers and has been a drastic need for is fifty cents at f b Crane and tile admission Price naval base by helicopter wednesday night. They described the rebel Mountain stronghold As a impregnable Quot and one of them called Rani Castro Quot a Well they were captured with 43 other americans 30 of them servicemen and two canadians when the rebels mounted a series of strikes during the past week against it s installations in Oriente province the rebel stronghold in Eastern Cohn building on cover the John Wesley Holland student Union is pictured on the cover if the Abc construction directory. The publication serves the building and contracting firms and architects. In the full Page advertisement f Carl a Nelson a company Burlington there is also a Large picture of the Union Dunn accepts Minnesota position Nishn Botna River flooded the Audubon Exira Hamlin area wednesday morning she feels sure that her sister and her Nephew Frank Wells editor of the Audubon county journal a weekly must be Safe Only emergency tails to the area Are being put through. The East Nishn Botna left a frail of death and wreckage alter a surge of violence wednesday morning following a 12-Inch rain in the area. Eleven persons were a reported dead and seven More were i missing. Exira is mrs. Sunderline a former Hometown and she believes that this is the worst flood that the i town has experienced in a series of floods Over a period of years j the business Section is located on higher ground than the rail mad tracks and much of the residential area and mrs. Sunderlin feels sure that her relatives Homes were on High enough ground to escape the extensive flood damage although Many of mrs Eaton friends Here Are inquiring about her safety. Missing girl is found Here several transfers of funds were made at the City Council meeting wednesday evening the Council transferred $5,000 i from tile water fund to Hie municipal enterprises fund and $7,000 from the Light fund. $3,000 going to the Street fund and $4,000 to tile sanitation fund. Also $4,000 was Transfer of from the Light fund to the electric Light sinking fund and in turn was used to Purchase $4,000 in Light Plant Revenue Bonds held by the old Forest. Home care and maintenance fund. The Council acted to refund to Donald Thomas one half of a transient merchant s License fee which he did not use the refund was $25. A cig Aret permit was issued to the p and g store. Some time was spent in discussion of the proposed City budget for the coming year without Akin r any formal action. Two members of the Council Mathias Fitzpatrick and Derrell Goddard were not pre sent list delegates to conventions delegates named to the state Republican judicial convention in Des Moines july 25 have been announced. Only a partial list was published previously. Those named Art Melvin a Herman Wesley Corry. Roger s Gal mrs june Galer. Eugene a Mccool w. Ii Blister. Mrs Frances Bannet. Mrs Dori. Vance Harlan a inter churl. O Garretson. Har old j Davis. Mrs Russell Van Ivi. Ward. E j. Olson or. B b buffing e i Pickard Miles e. Madams w w. Sunk in w local a Little aether police assisted girl and her in bringing parents to wednesday evening Donald Dunn former administrator at memorial Hospital Begani the Little girl was found on West duties tuesday As Hospital Consul j Monroe not far from the former taut with the Minnesota state de a a a a Plant location by a Walker store apartment of health he will visit deliveryman. She was taken to the various hospitals in the state help pm he station and inquiries were my the staffs with administration made of neighbors on West Monroe problems construction Etc the later a he parents from Burlington Dunn family will ave in mix Iea made Contact with the police a Polis i cording to the police report. Lyman an tile Jinn convention announced a it cd Judy Rockwell Ann Loran. Sarah Diane Jones Helen m Virden William ii Hayti avoid r tuck on. M d i aider. Delbert Mcguire. Georg e Means. Titer Carp a in a. Young to the state Robert i a delegation july 18 have been also. They Are David Robinson William Calloway. Mary my Flarv. Pat wat. T it. Linn Hunsaker Jim Kindler. John Stro Thynan j son. Mary Ellen a ter Don ister Jean Register and Hayes n Neill k

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