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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 15, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 165mt. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening july 15, 1961 these Days by George e. Sokolsky i an unsigned letter i i usually do not see unsigned letters. They Are thrown in the wastepaper Basket where they belong. However. I have received one that is so unusually stupid that i read it and give to you the publishable part i a have you forgotten your boyhood Days when $30.00 a week was probably a Fortune to your family. And perhaps today some one ought to Wise you up to the facts of life believe it or not. There Are still thousands existing on $30 00 a week. You could t expect them to cry in their Beer Over $30.00 a Day. A it. People like you who Are overpaid living off the fat of the land Are the cause of inflation and poor people having to pay More than afford to keep the writer of this letter is innocent of economics. My father probably earned about $25 a week More or less. When i went to High school i was Given 25 cents a Day. Out of that i paid subway fare ate my lunch read two newspapers a Day and had enough left to sit in the top Balcony of a Keith and Proctor vaudeville show. I had a brother who sold millinery and was always on the Road he May have spent $5 a Day travelling maybe a Little More out West. It was possible to get a break ast of stewed prunes three eggs and Bacon or a Small Steak with German Fried potatoes and hot cakes or Toast and Coffee for Well under a Dollar for a time when i worked As an office boy i had my lunch at Max a Busy Bee. I am sure that i never spent More you ter and than a dime and i got Good. Say a a nourishing food. Plans to meet soviet threat take shape new reminder vote Money Washington up a Prest Dent Kennedy a plans to meet the i i Ion i russian threat to Berlin will begin i taking visible shape next week. Tkv or \ 1> Xvi on tuesday Kennedy is expect Jim i of to Send the Kremlin his rejection i of soviet Premier Nikita Thrush i Jujj. Moi nos up tile Che is German demands. a interim committee f lion wednesday he will go before in Eri Ltd. to the state Board reporters to answer questions about Ontrop v option on a 1.500 i the Berlin note. I in aim mat Newton to be used woman held at Chariton its Good to have been president you gather from this photo of former president Eisenhower exchanging greetings with his Host Pakistan president Mohammad Ayub Khan at a state dinner in Washington. Iowan admits killing two officers stunned parents cannot explain what happened i also sometime next week the Pentagon us expected to Complete its review of u. S. Defense spending j Kennedy ordered the review after j Khrushchev announced he was increasing russian military spending. White House press Secretary Pierre Salinger said there was also a i Good Chance that Kennedy might Send Congress a special message next week asking for expansion of the National civil defense program to show Russia the nation is ready if the Berlin crisis erupts into War. Storm Lake Iowa up a i just Don a know what made him do . Floyd Spooner Mother of the 25-year-old iowan who admit-1 Ted killing two Colorado lawmen Aid her son Quot was quiet As a never had much to tit gurus Back and was told he had to return to the station with his tat Lier. They never a him after that Spooner Aho was traced through the registration of a car he bought a a Sioux City used car lot and later abandoned in Colorado after organize for old settlers Day at Salem but that cannot he done today. A Salesman if he travels by car May stay at a Motel where the room May cast As much As in a Good hotel. If he stays in a hotel he cannot possibly get along on $30 a Day and stay at an Quot address a that is the kind of a hotel in a g did neighbourhood to which his customers would come to look at his samples or to discuss a big Deal. Slaying two police officers had ne-1 Spooner the turned Moth a it it a Jer in any of Erious trouble be-1 or of set n children s Ned at a Forf loss to explain was one of her Chil a father said he didst even1 Dren would go on a ramp a and know has on a j bought Ute car wind up facing a murder 1 hang Quot j m Sioux City until the title was Delmar Dean Spooner what left mailed to the House. He said Del storm Lake. Iowa just a it w Days mar did t say goodbye when he ago. Was captured Friday near i apparently left for Colorado july Salem a tile old settlers association meeting was held tuesday night at the youth Center with j. H. Moeller presiding. Committee for old settlers were appointed with the following named As chairmen citizen to be honoured Arlo Foss us a state penal farm the option on the farm. Owned by Carl born. W Ould run until t oct 14, 1963. The total Price Oft the farm is $384,000 \ under the option the state would take Over operation of the farm Iii i March 1062. Anc pay Blom an an Nual rental of $25,000 until the of i tion is exercised i the Newton farm would replace the present state penal farm at Clive. I at present the Board of control 1 has no funds to Purchase the farm j and l waiting for the 1063 session of the legislature to vote the i Necess by appropriation. However the interim committee can authorize the Board to excrete the option if the Clive farm can be sold for enough Money to cover the remaining Cost of the Blum a Arm. About 50 it a Myers Are quartered _ at the 700-acre Clive farm. Which Williamsburg leases in additional 700 acres. The women were badly new in Faun would House approx their car plunged Chariton. Iowa up arraignment on charges of conspiracy was continued until tuesday today for the married woman accused of going on a two Day escapade with Iowa Highway patrolman Robert ii Wilke. Or. Nancy Grubbs 40. Chariton,1 Mother of two laughters and a ton appeared before Justice of the peace Daryl Ambelang after arriving Here Friday night from Hiawatha Kan. Ambelang ordered her held in i i lieu of $2,000 Bond and she was taken to the Lucas county jail. The up Aid he permitted the Case to be continued in order to give . Grubbs time to consult with a detente attorney. She was arrested in Hiawatha after Wilke 31. Father of three admitted his Story of being abducted last weekend by three men was a hoax to cover up a trip to a Sioux City Motel with Grubbs the wife of a retired mail Carrier. Proclamation is firmly worded three women injured in wreck up three injured when off a Tricky Blately to. Ame number of prison j curve about two Miles East of Here ors 1 Friday. Board of control officials have i Edith Woodrow 61. Of Ottumwa been trying to find a suitable j the Driver of the car Eunice Wil Queen Enid Baity slave auction,1 place Foi it new Honor farm because j hams 59, of Ottumwa and Dorothy Howard Pittman j. H. Moeller of the. Due of the Clive area Phillips. 52. Of Riverside. Iii., needs psychiatrist or. Robert Soblen above new York psychiatrist is under conviction for espionage for the soviet during world War la. The conviction comes after that of his brother Jack who spelts the name Sobie who admitted in 1957 that he had spied. Or. Soblen has leukaemia has been Given a year to live. East German exodus Singer by Ann is port. Mass. Upp a president Kennedy a firmly worded a Cap be nations week proclamation was regarded today As a new reminder to Russia that the United states will not give up Berlin the proclamation which called on All americans to a recommit themselves to the support of enslaved nations desiring was similar to the one issued two years a so by president Eisenhower which enraged soviet Premier Nikita s Khrushchev. Kennedy a message issued Friday night following his arrival on Cape cod for a weekend rest with his family preceded by Only a few Day the note on Berlin he plans to Send to Khrushchev. This note is expected to reject Thrush -1 chefs demands for a separate i peace treaty with communist East Germany before the end of this year. Bonn. an y it it 11 pc in j Urilt pre. Mires sent tin West a Ward exodus of East German ref j gees surging today at the rate of 1956�?the year the soviet satellites exploded. War German of f in Iii is said tie j county auditor cannot collect f or extra duties refugees Are streaming into West Des Moines up a the Iowa attorney general s Vilice ruled Fri finance. Louva Pickard Parade j. I proper a the present prison farm i were taken to Marengo memorial Berlin at the rate of nearly 1.000 per Day. They said the total for. The Driver of the car suffered be week ending Friday night was concessions. Merald j considered extremely valuable As Hospital of its Bond Colo after a relentless two Day manhunt. He father a track inspector for the Illinois Central Railroad could offer no explanation for his sons of i wants to butter up a buyer which is Ordinary sales practice actions either he must take him and his wife a i didst notice any change in to a show at $6 60 a ticket if he him before lie left town the heart can get a ticket at that Price or broken Parent said i dont know pay anything that the Speculator 2. He said Only one of his four daughters had seen her brother when he left a free Man that morning. He now admits slaying the two Colorado officers too Craig Colo up a Delmar Dean Spooner. 25, of storm Lake. R. Hoyer Bailey saturday . Program. I an Industrial site because John Moxley decorating Grace closeness to Des Moines and inter Watson saturday evening Marj a fat a highways Orie Lanzman Bingo Donald Glanzman dance we. Barber advertising. Ray Elmore enrol youth killed ment. Mabel Pittman mortuary. Mabel Pittman seats and grounds Carl Wagner. Day that a county auditor is not due extra pay for doing the county recorders duties when a vacancy Back injuries. Mrs. Williams h�?o�.737. Almost 2.000 More than for a Quot a re get Back in ones and lot the aeons week Oscar Strauss. The Phillips woman who was the a has Back a a sign of the Sun. A current i was requested by Mahaska county Dis quip in West Germany is that title atty. Harold b he alga. Most severely injured and internal injuries and a in Auto mishap located shoulder. The mishap occurred shortly be when the Driver lost it a Marion a Elde is first word of a baby in communist East Germany Are Quot mama. A noon demands. I i if lie goes to a suitable place Why he went to Colorado he didst Iowa who eluded a 225-member have and friends there that i know posse for two Days was placed in storm Lake policeman for dinner say in new York at Mcdiarmid. Who went to �?o21�?� or the Colony or the four seasons or the Pavillion something interesting and spectacular his Bill for four can easily run Between $80 and $100 a and that is not High for such places although extravagant. Tary and High school with Spooner recalled he Quot never saw him smile All during High school he said Spooner did t even show any anger when Mcdiarmid and other officers took a Rifle away Moffat county jail Here Friday and Robert charged with murder. Moffett county sheriff w. H. Terrill said Spooner apparently Wras Quot unconcerned about the whole things. Spooner a captured without s 1st Ante by state patrol sgt. Morris Becker near Bond Colo., registrar named at Iowa Wesleyan control on a Rainy u. S two Miles North of Here. Richard nor 20, was killed out right when the car he was driving i Iowa Wesleyan will have As it a failed to make the curve. Taken to j new registrar Harold a. Renwick mercy Hospital at fort Dodge in. A a a a air if a i. A a a i a a j or Webster it Cit Quot South and control of the car on a county Road i the name of a West Berlin suburb Mother liar curve. It a the same Corner where a Bis refugee Center is in night when their car went out of Here four teenagers were badly tested. Injured recently. 20 curve scenes at the refugee Camps re Healing had asked for the ruling aft a vacancy occurred in the county recorders position and the county auditor took Over the responsibilities. Strauss said Iowa Law holds the duties of a county auditor includes services of every kind for the Bene Garst boy killed by car sem bled the Days w Inch preceded j county or the several Olathe 1956 uprisings in Budapest an it faces in the county government. A it is a Well established Rule of Coon rapids Iowa up a now superintendent of schools at critical condition was Charles sri a a a. He will begin his Stuart Gartt. 6. Was killed Friday. When he darted out in front of a i fear in front of his Home just South increased exodus apparently stems cast of the City limits the fear that Russia May a no a t tribute to the Aeeden i tally sign a separate Poi be treaty Bushnell 111 he win begin is Jey 22 new duties sept i j author die said it was raining at or. John r Kapp who is in a the time and this May have con a registrar will devote his i Poznan Poland. During that period of unrest in the satellites the flow of East German refuge.-, to tile West averaged 27.000 a month West German officials said the i duties to Strauss said Law that Public officials Are Only entitled to such compensation for Ute performance of their prescribed fixed by statute a a phase of doing business is w. ,. Attainment and during out. Of he Didu a Quot acc Tea a a kens Becker Tom i use. There Are Folk who Carn a a hum the animal i time to drop new summer term Small fire to Start monday the first term of the summer school at Iowa Wesleyan ended i we live Iii a competitive world and a phase of doing business is enuf Cour Little but they do not do the work that involves an expense account. Loot us say that i am ordered to go to London or Geneva or Rome or anywhere i could not do it on $30 a Day. It just is not the Price tag o 9 the Anonymous writer asks me if t have forgotten my boyhood. ,. Saturday. July 15. Another 5-week Days not at All. I remember them very pleasantly. For a time i worked after school for the new York Public Library and got $2.50 a Day. Many students did that and it helped a lot. My Job was to stack books and the work was hard but pleasant. After doing that. I went Home for dinner and Home work. We managed very completing then comfortably on what today would work at this time will be at not pay the rent for an apartment a in a decent neighbourhood such As inc Chapel from him recently spoon told Friday. Tile pin sized gunman off seers he had the guns with hum five feet five and 125 pounds let to Hunt for foxes and told police a his pistol fall to the ground after him for the fourth it or a til blow your police said he1 asked How to get brains out time to teaching political science and history which he has been icing part time for some years in connection with work As registrar. Or. Renwick a native of by. Ville he attended Knox College and then taught in the Public schools of Henderson county. Ill. And Biggsville before going on to tile University of Luinis where he received the Bachelor of science a degree. Arlis Ross taken by death the lad was the son of or. And mr., David Caret. Coon rapid. Andls00n the East oni it in regime she grandson of Roswell Garst Iowa it it Hole Miu left in the i rom termer who entertained soviet hot. Curtain. The it Aid tile have abandoned Hope tha a patient for several Premier Nikita Khrushchev during ibis visit to tins country two years j1condition Ever will become Ripe arbs rots. 73. Of of. ?0for a revolt against the common died at 1� 35 a Iii saturday. July authorities identified the Driver 15 at memorial Hospital where he of Lac Rar Charles Hutch tjj0 Over incr Asma Ison 35. West Des Moines. Tile a Quot Jughes is seriously cadent happened on Iowa 141. Communist my s no Charce were filed against Hutchison in the Accident author i a had been weeks. The body taken to the h k. He studied for them a Crane funeral Horn where Funer degree at the state uni Vermij of 1 ��8ement, Are being made session will begin monday morning. July 17 students May Register at 8 a in. In the social Hall of the John Wesley Holland student Union. The second semester As the first carries six hours of credit. About Hor brother Iowa receiving it in 1934, after the Toj. Of the Quot boo ih7eauledwhlch he a red a Quot a superin Tenient seeks information in Seaton Iii., Atkinson 111. Anc Bushnell with three years out to service in the naval aviation program. In his College Days or Retina k was a trackman and Active in Campus organization. In later Lithe has worked actively in the boy a Short in a Neon tube which runs across ii Small fire at the Princess cafe Friday at to . Damage was Small. The Blaze at the front of the cafe was discovered by bib Faunt a College student who was cleaning cities said. Flight of ref depleting the manpower in Quantity and Quality tile officials they said East Germany is Kennedy will meet with Macarthur Short 100.000 skilled its Economy. Workers for an inquire has been received from haul m Strum seeking information about her brother. Guy College 10 30 in. Saturday August 19, in Tho degree j on finished extinguishing it. We had when the rent amounted to about $40 a month. The landlord became a Multi millionaire. The answer is that if a Dollar had the purchasing Power in 1961 that it had in 1910, life would be much easier All around. As i write this t recall a one Dollar dinner on the there and vegetables Corn on the cob. Which was then a luxury pie. Cheese and Coffee. Get that meal up after the cafe had closed. He the summer graduation for those i called firemen and put some water tile fire. Firemen arrived and a scoots be is past president of. Bushnell rotary club and an elder in the presbyterian Church the fire caused the cafe to fill his professional associations in with smoke. Ralph Lamm owner dude Phi Delta Kappa Illinois of Tho cafe was driving by when he education association and la ii not saw the smoke. He ran in and association of school adm Nistra helped Faunt fight the fire until tors. Firemen arrived. Letters keep coming by Ann is port. Mass. Up from dead son a president Kennedy will meet with Gen. Douglas Macarthur at Santa Monica Calif. Up a clock posh another opinion issued by the attorney general s office ruled that the state Board of control is required to Kep permanently All personal records of All individuals committed to so ate institutions under the Board. However the ruling held that the records May be microfilmed and the originals destroyed. Tile opinion was written by asst. Atty. Gen. John m. Greger. In another opinion. Asst. Atty. Gen. John h Allen ruled that a county commission of hospitalization a. Authorized to determine How to detain a mentally ill person suspected of being violent until a hearing can be held before an insanity commission. Petition protests food service Dunlap she had information that lunch at the White House thurs a every week regularly As he was in i. Pleasant in 1935, but Day to hear a report on the retired work. Or. And . Joseph _ has had no further word from him. Military Lader recent visit the of this suburban los Angelo Emu-1 Deg Moines up a nearly Philippines mum tar receive a letter from their a 4v._ writes. Start work on new rectory excavation work was Friday for the basement started of the smoke damage evidently was confined to the one area. Or. And . Grown children. Renwick have two bound Over to p Hudson River Day line. New Rector on the lot adjacent to m la Fht Nic taif to toi Idt was soup roast beef potatoes St Michael a episcopal Church at a a Clell 11 Ollit tik District court East Washington and Adams streets. The new Lectory will be on two anywhere in the quantities then Levels taking advantage of the provided with the trimmings for natural cont0ur of the lot. The one Dollar today exterior will be of Brick veneer. Times sure have changed Melvin Smith is the contractor. Brother copyright i960, King features Syndicate inc Delegate and alternate named free swim night monday evening Delegate and alternate to the convention to name a representative to the state Board of Public Mstruc-5 tion were named by the county Board of education wednesday eve there will be a free swim night Ning. At the municipal swimming Pool i they Are or. George Sutton Del monday from 6 to 9 ., if the Gate. And Leslie Anderson alter weather l favourable. Nate. Civil War display a part of the civil War Centennial Observance during the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion relics and Antiques of the civil War period will be on display. Persons who have such articles Are asked to loan them for the event Phil Crawford said Friday. They will be kept in the Metal building which will have a guard Day and night he said. Written articles uniforms utensils and the Uke will have special interest during the Observance and in connection with the pageant. On murder charge Boone. Iowa a urd a a to Quot to Ager was bound Over to District court on a charge of murder Here Friday following the stabbing of a Cook at the Woodward state Hospital sunday. Michael Faught 18. Mason City is charged with the slaying of . Jessie Zenor 53, a Cook at the institution. Faught an epileptic patient at the Hospital had been assigned to work with . Zenor in the Kitchen and was quoted by authorities after the stabbing As saying he had thought about it before. The youth was ordered held without Bond on the open son. Eugene. I they do not know and probably never will that maj. Eugene Rosa i was among the Crew of an rb471 i reconnaissance plane shot Down july i. I960, Over the Barents sea i by the russians. Friday the air Force declared Rosa and two other crewmen officially dead. But the letters will continue to come from the major according to his brother. Phillip Quot i can t Tell the old Folk the Shock w Ould be too said the brother who weekly reads to his 80-year-old parents the letter i he composes for his dead brother. Places where while elephants May be left anyone wishing to donate articles for the White elephant Sale to 250 employees in the state office building Here signed a petition protesting food service in the build ing. But about 70 of them had their names removed Friday by order of their superiors. State safety commissioner Carl ii Pesch said he ordered the names of about 70 state Public safety department employees stricken from i the petition. Pech said he ordered the names removed because he could not condone the language of the petition and because he Felt the paper was the wrong Way for the state workers to present their complaints. The petition still contains the i names of about 170 workers in the health department tax commission and welfare department. Grand opening of cafe successful first drive in polio shots . Gerald Twink Waits at the wheel in Grandville mich., while or. Raymond e. Hud in administers polio shots to her children at what is believed to be the nation s first drive in polio vaccine station. It is sponsored by the Junior chamber of Commerce. Bein vaccinated is Karen 4. Waiting their turn axe brother David 3, and sister Diane 2. Be held at their Booth at the fair grand opening of the new in i by tile Republican women May remodeler West Side Cate leave them at the Home of . Friday was a big Success. The cafe will Dyall or at the Benesh plumb was crowded with patrons a a Day ing and heating. Women will then i an evening. Free Coffee and dough wrap the packages some of which nuts arc served during the morn will be especially attractive because an it Avory presented the rest they will contain Dollar Bills. Us

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