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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 10, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 160mt. Pleasant Iowa monday even ing july to 1061 these Days by George e. Sokolsky robbing i Nile Sam manufacturing and servicing rockets and missiles is not like making Candy. As things stand today. The very life blood of the nation is dependent upon the Speed and the efficiency of the production. Nevertheless it is on the record that certain americans have taken advantage of the urgency of this situation to place this country at a disadvantage vis a vis soviet Russia. The record shows that on february 27. 1981. The Deputy Secretary �1 defense. Roswell l. Gilpatric issued a memorandum which stated As follows a reports have been made to this office concerning excessive overtime work on contracts related to missile Aud space programs including activities at test Sites and operational Sites under construction. It is particularly important at tin time that our missile and space programs meet present schedules it is also important that these programs be pursued with maximum efficiency and at reasonable Cost As Well As Speed and that employment opportunities be expanded wherever possible. In Alk with Wilke May lose half of elms in five years find dutch Elm disease apparently Mas spread to Many parts of try Wilke family overjoyed when word is received for parking site two older residence properties on North Jefferson at Madison arc being razed in order to provide More of i Street parking. Work is advancing rapidly and since the picture wits taken late last week the House at the left. Which had Only the weather boarding and window Sash removed on the front at that time has been taken Down and work is Well advanced on the one to the right. Tile properties were purchased from the drawer estate to provide the off Street parking across from the Post office. Crate it. Sheaffer had close final payment connections in it. Pleasant Quot excessive overtime results in Craig if Shoalmier had Clit of con reduced efficiency unreasonable sections with it pleasant he had costs and unnecessary restriction served for Many year As a men of employment made on City s parking meters infection of it pleasant Elm i to a with dutch Elm disease is Ila greater than realized a month ago a he vie indicates. A the present rate of spread the City Mas lose hah of its elms pos Sibly More in the next five years 1 afro one to int agates the City tree commit e a Post a Chi by a City Council found what appears to be infected elms at ten different locations in a tour of the i City late sunday members of the i committee Are councilman h f moved from near Tew we is ago a another Southwest House. We a t ale f officers and family hear his Story i Eon. Iowa up i a state i officials today questioned an Iowa Highway patrolman who tumbled to cd sunday night when word i into a farmyard near Lamoni Sun came that her husband was alive i Day night bringing an end to a and Safe after being missing for two Day search which had fanned a Carlo two Days out Over a 300-Fquare mile arca. I a amende Burden had been patrolman Robert Herman Wilke bated from my the 3p-Robrrt Kennedy 31 Chariton was hospitalized for Var old Mother of three said when Charlton Iowa Cupi a or. Eleanor Wilke had just taken a steeping Tablet and started upstairs this location a pump Home near South Van Buren. Observation sunday night a few contorted by United press internal East of the municipal swimming hours after he stumbled dazed and Dona i in al shocked into the farmyard of so Northwest Corner intersection of Arch e keen about 3�?Tj Miles South a my. But she admitted she wag East Broad and College Avenue. 0f Bare. J almost reluctant to answer the Tel North of second Baptist Church. Wilke who disappeared Early Ephone when Iowa Highway Patio West Saunders. Saturday morning and said lie 304 East Green Street three Trees had been kidnapped War listed n the specimens will be taken from the satisfactory condition today but Ber of the Board of trustees of Iowa wes1 Cyan and at one period to work i Wafi chairman of the Board it was through his Corm it pm with Iowa Wesleyan that he be a Abbing a pleasant of ii is always possible flow in so that overtime becomes necessary. Such slow work is Sabo and this has been a fairly Carne interested ii general practice at the missile Branch Plant in it been associated with the pen com party throughout his adult life he the City of or. Pleasant now became treasurer of the firm in i owns its 335 parking meters out veil to 1920. Vice president in 1935, and i right As Tho final payment of succeeded his father As president in. $1,028.39 has been made to the a 1938. Hie widow and two sons. Fihe Affer if survived by two daughters. His father who died in 1946. Founded the pen company in 1913 Geo Hale Park of meter co. Of of b uses. Involved in this situation Are the Sheaffer pen company. He not Only workers but also contract made the decision to establish the tors and government officials who Plant Here which operated for Sorm with a capitalization of $35,000. Have been lax in their handling of 12 years making the Sheaffer Ball the firm grew rapidly and for improprieties. Also it has been in Point pens and paying out thous nearly 40 years has been one of fortunate that not enough pub Ancus of dollars a it it local employers the leading manufacturers of writhed a has been Given to this subject he a a Benefactor of Iowa my tools in the world general Thurman in testifying Wesleyan and for his he was in in addition to the main Plant be Tore the Senate permanent com on recognition in Many Wasto Here the firm owns a tool and die to tee of investigations has taken non worm. Ltd Winch a. The Shat Plant Here and the Mateo elec-1 sl.a98.82 March. $1,201.46 apis the position that the responsibility 0f name of the women 1 Lahoma City. Okla the total cast of Tho meters which were purchased by the City two years ago was $20,740 the City paid for the meters with half of each month s collection. The other half went into the City parking meter fund which is used for off Street parking facilities. The meter Money taker in the firs Cix months of 1961 follow january. $2,217.26 february tired anymore Quot she p admitted she who it to answer the Tel Iowa Highway patrol la. Leo Leonard s wife called with ice we m i it. .,11. Or r w Pou it or had 1 specimens will be taken from inc satisfactory condition today but j of Hie Wilke children. Alleno in Low v. A i v ii biology cd ices mid forwarded to the inborn doctors said they would keep him a a a and Charlotte in were still up Parte Chi Ami William to min j tory Foi tests. If the results verify in the Hospital tonight for further i Randy a it. Was awakened and told Thev found Trees with i Ava Walt that the to r. Are infected by dutch observation that his father Highway patrol 11.e at a local a us then Elm Bison removal of them will Man Robert Wilke 31, had been Wert others that appeared to be take plate immediately. State safety commissioner Carl found. But a a inc Cai approach there a no doubt that the Trees Pesch led other state officials Anda they All cheered and yelled and clan is tie e was in have Ltd Tine affliction with dutch the Fri in the questioning of screamed and cried or. Wilke Elm i inc definitely in the arca. Wilke. Only the authorities Aud Aid it appeared almost a certainty that Wilke s family were permitted to a i wish there who someway i they have the it disease. Cider his room. Could thank everyone who did so ii the tests show that they do Pesch said. In a statement before much to help find him a she said. Have in disease the rate of spread entering Wilke s room he had no a we Are All so grateful. We want Likely will Pyramid and it pleas evidence to indicate that Wilke to express our Heartfelt ant will Loose hundreds of its 4,000 bad not been abducted by three1 mrs. Wilke touched off the search Clin tres in the next few years. An men driving a a Muddy Blue Gray Quot about 8 a. In. Saturday when she estimate that half of the number Chevrolet Sedan As Wilke re i belatedly telephoned her husbands will be lost within five years a ported Superior officer to inquire whether peals conservative. The commis loner also said that he bad been assigned some special with the loss of Trees comes the officials were investigating an arca duty. O 1 to. K and expense of removal 3 Miles South and 2 Miles East of i he had Beer scheduled to Corn in Pori him tru per on. Noting i hat ire is wilting a that Wilt an rim is the leaves Curling and drying possibly turning yellow a Are asked to 1 report s to to the county Exten j Mon office. Tests can then be made to see whether or not the tree has dutch i in disease. I lie disease is Here. There is no need to try to hide it. Bringing the possible inter Ted Trees to the attention of officials will help control it. Ii admitum to the to. Of their Lamoni. He Aid officers found Paulete his regular tour of duty about the con dormitory maim to carry out a contract tractors he testified a now sir. I done to consider it to in mediation conciliation or any of those things when i Tell a contractor with the Arn Force who is carrying out a Job at one of our missile bases and there is a strike going on a i Don t con sub it a violation of anything to Tell that contractor a i consider it your responsibility to find an answer to this situation and i am expect a you to do it i have done senator Mcclellan then him Quot notwithstanding the fact now that it May be a jurisdictional p n co strike Over which lie has no control a to tin. General Thurman made this astonishing reply a notwithstanding that sir or Sheaffer tri sch a an to it i Ean from time to Tim put a a a chamber of Commerce and Otho r events and always expressed a very warm feel a Sheaffer products ing towards it pheasant he in v produced the speaker at the Iowa Wesley in asocial a dinner Here on june 2 his on. Walter Sheaffer. President of the w a Sheaffer pen . Is a number of the Iowa West Van b a of to a Rome. Inc Minneapolis maker $2,022.96 d hearing Aid and Small Electron $1,411.36. In devises. It al 0 has subsidiaries in Australia Brazil and Canada a sales offs e in England and Licensee a firm in Holland to make certain Mav. $1,535 pkg a hem it a v june certain Abou i resume the at the end of the first six months the City still owed $1,028.39 which the i us win was paid last week. My a apr at a a tin the found were a Cornel of fed to week. Wilting follows fort Madison. Iowa up a Craig r Sheaffer 63. Board chairman of the w a Sheaffer funded by his father and a former assistant Secretary of Commerce was found dead sunday a his Horn lure of a self inflicted 13gauge shot in wound in the head sheaffers wife Virginia heard parents charged with aiding son escaped juvenile former local resident Dies anything else. It is the contractors re. Portability under hts contract to the hot and Salt be Ltd to her Hus manage. Finding solutions to these bands up Stan it bedroom tile Dou problems is his business. We Are bl<1.barr, i. D so i Gim. With Only one paying him for that. And the fact camb Ltd or d and the. Other still that it is difficult does t excuse 1< add Lajb Side his body him from unfortunately this is nonsense. No contractor has the Power to Force men to work or to Force tile in to work efficiently no contactor ran determine whether a labor Union is to order a strike she summoned the family doctor who Calvd Lee county medical examiner or. Frank Mayir May nor ruled the death suicide by self inflicted gunshot wound and said no inquest was planned e. H. Pollard the family s attorney. Said Sheaffer had been Des re or not the government took that Power from toe employer by All Pond it it because of ill health sorts of legislation including the rom a liver ailment Taft Hartley act. I funeral services Ware sad for tuesday the Khrushchev Assumption of co existence is that our society is Sheaffer resigned As president Toft and self indulgent and that pen company in 1953 to a Friend and relatives word late sundae evening of the death of mrs. Otto e. Anderson a former resident of i. Pleasant which occurred at mercy Hospital in Springfield to charges of aiding an escaped the funeral mass will be said at juvenile under the jurisdiction of , to. At 9 i in. The state Board of control were tuesday morning and burial will filed Over the weekend against m to wednesday morning at Derby. Ai d mrs Avery Calhoun it. Ind. Pleasant rout 3 mrs Mary Byers is a sister in -1 the Calhoun Are the Parent. Of a of mrs Anderson. Carroll Duane Calhoun 17, Yuho ran away from the Toledo boys juvenile Home recently. He was taken into custody at hts Home Here Friday night and returned to the juvenile Home. Or. And mrs. Calhoun appeared in the court of Justice a f Timmerman and asked for a preliminary hearing which was set for saturday at 2 p. In. They were released when they each pasted a $1,000 Bond. Edward a Calhoun. 19. Another Beauty and so a de giving assets. Spot on a lonely county Road which i a in. Removal of Trees from City owned showed evidence that a person Hadj mrs. A Wilke said she did not or property will be done by the City town out of a car there Dina Rily wait up for her husband Liaise on private property Are to be Joe tail footprints were found in she went to bed jus usual Friday removed by the owners. Be sub along a Creek Bank and night but awakened about 4 a. In. In the meantime the City Council that weeds were crushed As if saturday to find that he had not Saunders decide on whether to follow someone had crawled out of the i returned Home. 1 hit or miss Spring spraying pro there were tracks of a Carl a live Only been a patrolman s peo Home on gum or to appropriate funds buy entering and leaving the lonely site. Wife about two she said j spraying equipment and Spray All 6 a a but Robert sometimes has to work the investigation had also turned ate if there is something going on West Clied fund or to let the disease spread toward the Topeka Kansas arca. J0n a a 1 two Trees South of pump House without any attempt to control it where officials said three men in a after she did make an inquiry received 011 Clay Ai. Infected teem the and thus let the City lose All its car fitting Wilkes description the search began and expanded leaves were Northwest is Hod. South Side of the i St mom Cie Northeast Corner Saunders Park Selma of the City from a tax support first found in it pleasant was re elms by default. Kathy to Talbott 3 years old Dies 237 dead or missing in ship fire stopped at a filling station near i Topeka. They ate and asked directions to the Kansa. Turnpike. Spurgeon a offers new credit flan Beira. Mozambique up a naval authorities announced today that 237 persons were dead or in an explosion and fire aboard with a a pin Hole in the right tail the saturday afternoon and All Day sunday into one of the most intensive Fine tooth combing of a Wilke a former Milkman w to <300-Square mile area Southern Iowa became a patrolman 2 years ago bad Ever told of being abducted by three i a a men Early saturday. However he was unable to give a coherent account of where he had been held captive while hundreds of volunteers join d officials in one of the most exhaustive search parties Ever in Southern Iowa. Wilke had Aid he last saw the car. Without License plates and Duane Quintin manager of Spurgeon s store in it pleasant announced today that for the first time in the stores 37 year history in it. Pleasant Spurgeon s will offer a credit plan to its cwt Omen tile customer will have he son of the Calhoun was arrested Uio ice of a regular 30 Day chary by sheriff Van Tuyl at his Home Kathy to Talbott three year old daughter of or and mrs James r. Talbott of new London died sunday july 9, at 6 p in. So Quot was taken to memorial Hospital by her parents but was dead on arrival there. Mrs Talbott w is the former Caren l Blackburn j the portuguese munitions and Pas Light. Katharine Jot a w. Lion schist ship which met Dis after dropping him off near the he As born in Sweden. Septem a Burlington. August la 1958 Baster off the East african coast. Keen farm. Ber j0 18 9 the in of Adoph f. Sides h. Parents is is survive d in a of feat is in the Mozambique Cap John a. Alvine taken by death John a Alvine 81, of swedes Burg died at memorial Hospital saturday evening july 8, about 6 45 after an Hines of the past As it sped into Missouri j several months Talbott or. Tai said they believed Many of the and Helena Hoakanson Alvine. Hohr said he walked about three a came to swe Dryburg from Sweden of a mile to the farm in 1914 he was a member of the a brother James r 14 months old her . J missing had managed to Reech Shore j quarters and or but had not yet been found by res Home occupied by Archie keen 83, i Swedesburg lutheran Church serv 77, and their son rus . Margaret his wife at sell. 4 7. Friday night and admitted breaking into two Trenton business firms thursday night the sheriff said. and cigarettes were taken. Two charges of breaking and in of these qualities we shall capt appointment As an assistant and a charge of aiding an be a push Over when the time 8bcretarv of Commerce in the al Uvrl a were i cd against a i. I al i Ai a in a Roll him Itron i m comes certain y a jurisdictional spa lower administration. He quit in a missile Lant can Only that pos. Abt it six months later by characterized As the product of j because of dissatisfaction with the a snit society. There have been a pro an he returned Here to be Large number of jurisdictional chairman of the strikes in the missile Industry bold of directors whether a strike is jurisdictional Jagt son w a Sheaffer Iii is or not it results in lost Man hours nov of Grid it of Tho firm and aural therefore in delay of the Othera Johr Dis a vice presi missile program also. The program d it becomes increasingly expensive. Sheaf r. A Republican conserva tie Day May come when the w0s critical of Tho Ommert it Ward a Calhoun. He is in the county jail in lieu of Throe Bonds plan with no carrying charge or her Choice of any one of several option charge plans which Best suit the individual need. Payin is As Low As $5.00 per month Are available under the revolving credit plan. The company started credit Selling two years ago with six test stores. This year approximate h la ten a in and mrs. A e Talbott and her j Cue planes flying to the area. Great grandparents or and mrs j earlier other officials said Roy Gilbert and mrs Vera Talbot j least too persons were killed when Russell keen private funeral it vice. Will of he 2.ooo-ton a save Quot was raked by on the front porch when he notice held at 3 o clock tuesday at Tho explosions and fire and foundered cd a Man walking across the term deacons for Aid he was Sittni Elliott Chap. Interment in Trinity by totalling $2,250, $750 on each the half the Chain a 55 Stotts u1 our youth appeared in Justice a f. Timmermans court saturday afternoon. He waived preliminary hearing on the charges and was bound Over to the grand jury. New face for the City Hall credit and the plan later will be extended to All stores a the of creditor quit in said a has become an import Ai part of the budget in the majority of american families and we Are Happy to be Able to bring this shopping service to our friends Aud customers in this area. Government will be forced to avoid private contractors to manufacture department during the Truman and mind Stratico. He was Given the As the starch co. Of Des Moines it. Own missiles and to use military Sostant Secretary s position although which earlier did repair work on he had strongly supported the late the sen. Robert a. Taft a Ohio appearance labor to get the work done. This would be an expansion of the roof of the City Hall has truck and car in collision Power of government Over the incl the a than new met d. Eisenhower visual which could ultimately in the 1952 Electon Campaign change our form of government j i Sheaffer was a member of that through 1962, the american tax Board of non Hutst m e la Teleport will have contributed $11. Phone c and a it an member 800.000.000 to research develop of the Iowa we Yanc Ltd go Beal i mint fest production and sup of Rua Tets porting faculties and for Costiuc native of Bloomfield he had lion for air Force missiles other. A a Va-1 cleaned Tho front of the Bufi Din the appearance of the City Hall is vastly improved. Serving As District i 3 patrol clerk Merle Paxson is serving As clerk of the 13th Highway patrol District recently transferred Here floor of the than tor icbms. That is a heavy fictional strikes Load for the taxpayer to pay for it would seem that Congress has from fail Field. He is on duty Din instruments of defense which he it As a duty to establish absolute ing the Day in the patrol office docs not know whether he will Ever controls Over the production of my on the second use. The taxpayer wants to be rations of War so that no country sure that he gets a Dollar s Worth can out produce us. For a Dollar spent he is not getting copyright 1961, King features about a year that d he Bas to pay for Juris Syndicate inc j from Fairfield a 1960 jeep truck driven by John c. Gain Jacksonville. Fla and a 1958 Chevrolet driven in Harry p Weirather Keokuk route 2. Collided on Highway 218, three Mil it South of it. Pleasant sunday night. Both machines were damaged. No injuries were reported. Bulletin Washington Chi a Secretary City of state Dean Rusk said today the Hall russian chinese communist bloc is Paxson has served clerk for plagued by increasing dissension he is commuting. And a a growing demand for tree Dom among some of the satellites. My on the Board of Many years. To 1901 in Sweden he was married to Albertina Samuelson. Who preceded him in death March la 1944 answered. A i am surviving Are six children. Mrs. He said he went to meet the Florian it Algne Sanburg mrs. Vir-1 visitor and found tile patrolman git Margaret Johnson and Henry Clad Only in his uniform trousers Alvine All of it. Pleasant John h to shirt and shoes. He complained Alvine of Winfield. Swan Alvine of Intra Indian Ocean about 200 Miles Yard and called to him the Man North of Beira. Of feeling a Dopey Quot and of a pains ill his or a said. Keen said he asked Wilke if he had been kidnapped a Well you could Call it that Quot the officer replied. Olds and Maurice Alvine of Ainsworth. surviving Are 15 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren. Lax rites will be held tuesday at 2 30 n in at Ute Swedesburg til patrolman refused offers by lutheran Church tile Rev Ken keen to her to prepare a lurch to the ebb of Emmanuel for him although he said he had at Mediapolis been Given Only Sandwich and Anc the re o n ebb of swede a a Little bit of something else Burg i officiate interment will that didst taste Good during his it in it Etc ordeal. Friends a a in 1 Cunera. Re cemetery. Call a the erne a the r k. Desire. He was reluctant to enter e farm House because his cd were dirty and his shoes wet Anc Muddy. Keen said he finally came in at Down and asked for a drink of water. While attempts were made to s Telephone Decatur county sheriff Galen Mcclure at Loon. Wilke doled off keen my he unable to ret an answer from the Telephone operator and finally drove Wilke to Lamoni in a pickup truck from there he called the sheriff who new manager at lumber Yard Ivanc he ,.i k Hack Ottumwa be in. Ager of the i Val else lumber company july 5. Oct minutes from Ottumwa in plan to move Here soon his who Ara two sons Lieut n ant c. It. Gole Iowa Highway patrol is shown adjusting a police band radio receiver to by used at the new head Quad leis of Highway District 13 in rooms at City Hail Platt right wat lies. Cd the search personally until i few hours Behn Wilke appeared. Was called at his Home in Des rushed Here and ook Wilke to the Moines office of or. Gary Swanson for. Swanson said the officer was in examination. An Quot extreme state of Shock a but state Highway patrol officers otherwise appeared unharmed sex patrolman Don were notified and safety commis cent for a few scratches on a Stoner Carl Pesch who had direct wrist and Ann

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