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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 6, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 132mt. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening june 6, 1961 these Days by George e. Sokolsky hic Jim Sanger no More kindly person exists upon this planet than big Jim. Better known to the lesser Folk. As James a Farley who was among his sins responsible for making Franklin d. Roosevelt president of the United states. In recent years big Jim has been Selling coca cola outside of the United states and has been making speeches All Over i the place he is usually applauded enthusiastically even if he rises Only to take a Bow. Rarely angry about things big i Jim enjoys his Way of life Coil tines to make friends continues to travel and is never lonely. Unlike Herbert Hoover Jim Farley remains a partisan. Hoover has become a general american without too much regard to political parties and he Speaks As kindly of Harry Truman and John Kennedy As he does of his erstwhile Republican colleagues. Jim Farley remains a Democrat supports his party and despises mugwumps who slide hither and Yon wherever the provender is Best. So James Farley went Down to san Antonio Texas and told an audience Quot but neither the greeks nor the pranks nor ourselves Ever before faxed the mortal Challenge which confronts us today in world communism. Tens of millions of Graves and thousands of concentration Camps prove conclusively that tile go a Quot a communists place less value on the j a Assissi he i iou human spirit than did at Ilia the i Hun. Space rockets and spinning Jola j it satellites prove that our enemy in t by Hill tends to borrow every technical Advance of Western civilization to j Ciudad Trujillo 1311 a destroy the spiritual values which Carity police shot and killed Kennedy flies Home new Point system to go into effect explosion causes $300,000 damage at Sac City j Sac City Ufi a an cup a. On blew the top off an 85-foot storage elevator. Pc wed flames Down on surrounding buildings and caused damage c. Mated at $x0. Des Moines up a a new Point system for Iowa Drivers. Including a a credit Point allowance w la go into effect june 15, state too to the William. Milling co Here safety commissioner Carl Pesch .da-, licht said today. J the blast occurred shortly after on that Clat All Points on Hie Aby it fee 0u a he top of the records of Drivers will be willed off a or which contained about the books and a new simplified j 75000 bushels of Corn Oats and version of the Point system will be to it in firemen from five towns were for . Iowa severe storm warning Dos Moini,3 Utt it Karin Reiner guest of Honor at rotary meeting to report to the people at to tonight of soil told a news conference summoned to Battle the Blaze. That the revision was necessary in destroyed was a three Story feed Eider to eliminate the confusion receives bouquet Mary Pickford m its with my pleasant mayor Wade Mcbeth after Reeth ing a bouquet of roses and speaking briefly to those who gathered noon to her. Mastermind be re produced these self same material 1 tired Gen. Juan t Diaz alleged worse still not being Mastermind of last week s Assassin hum Antiwar tan and i nation of g nepali amino Rafael l advances bound by our spiritual values a with unparalleled cunning the communist enemy has used the symbols of Trujillo in the streets Here sunday night. An armed forces communique is in Central Park last Friday after James Van Allen will receive the Iowa award to their 30,000 Bushel Des nos up gov. Norman a. Erbe said today plans Are being made to present the Iowa award to two of the states leading research scientists. And misunderstanding which chokes k Orth the effectiveness of the present Fly it a system. He said i done to want to be in the business of administering a mystery a under the changes i Irvint will be added to the record of am Driver convicted of any one moving traffic violation. Tins is a substantial change from a mid tie present Rule whereby violators capacity get different number of Point for j Fremon from City Lytton different driving inf 1 actions. Lake View Nemaha and Early All moving violations will have a to it act exl the Blaze which authorities a i Point value Quot on the record under 5akj Wajs that most in the the Pesch system. At present j towns history. Speeding convictions add 4 Points drainage was estimated at $50. Failure to signal adds 3 and in ooh in an apartment fire Here proper changing Lane of travel adds than tir it r we it a a�?z0 ,2. A i any Driver who accumulates three j a Quot chert hoop the on record in a 12-month resume testimony a Hie weather Bureau Lias a severe 1 weather warning for Southeastern Iowa forecasting Poi Ible thunderstorms with larg hailstones and winds gusting to g0-70 Miles an hour. The warning covered an arca in Southeast Iowa northeastern Missouri Central Illinois and extreme Western Indiana and extends from building housing about 3 pm 9 pm Ltd 8 of feed ingredients 1 we a Titer Bureau said Hail pallet and mixing equip stones might be As big As i to in men according to feed Mill Mana inches in diameter and that sur Ger John Laughlin. Buildings and thou Toutt Miles an hour which we re destroyed included two1 the Iowa Ara coven wooden storage bins containing 30.000 bushels of Corn each. Fire had a log broken out in two of six steel storage bins which were i St or be miss Karin r Iner fab student from Germany was the guest of Honor at the monday night Ineer i g of Tiro rotary club in id at Tho me ionic Hall i Reiner v in let ave jute t told the group that in r year in re has passed very quickly Ann that would like nothing better than to stay another year bile said that had a wonderful Home Here with or. And mrs. Staid y Looker and Jean and everyone in the Community and school has done so much to make her stay Here pleasant. When returns to her Home Karin said that was going to do Washington uf11 a look Ting a and Happy Kennedy flew Home today to report to lot Gre. And lie american people on his meetings Urb soviet Premier Nikita 3. Khrushchev and we Tern leaders. Kenned s military Jet touched Down at Andrews Field in nearby Maryland after a flight from London interrupted by a f a hour rest Layover at Goose Bay Labrador. The Chiel executive went immediately to the White House by helicopter after a five minute round of hand shaking. Her Best to have the rotary club in accompanying him in the town sponsor an fab student copter were Senate Republican face winds could gust to 60 or 70 for. _ _ _. From this country. Leader Everett m. Dirksen 111., d is w 1 four win the Pirana miss and chairman j. William Ful a a a Reiner was presented with a two air Bright. D-ark., of the Senate for path Jeffers Henry. Mouw. For lick trip Home and a a Cirn 11 committee. The an Uren and a 0 coun of a swim Sui. She will leave Here june president sought Dirksen out of .24 for a months tour of the Eastern he line of Welcomer and invited j part of the United states and will him to the White House. I leave new York for Germany by air vice president Lyndon b Johnnie last of july j son and other congressional Lead i visiting rotarian at the meet res followed in other helicopters f ing were or. Leslie Carr of Alta tor wha1 apparently was intended 1 Dona calif., and John Miller of. By Kennedy As an immediate re Toluka. Iii. I chairmen car forced into River in latest strike violence port on his trip to the top lawmakers of both parties. Sioux City. Iowa it up 1 a Faith Hope and Charity to us sued Early today Aid Antonio de la Vert and destroy those values the human heart in Maza Vasques one of Diaz s right hand men. Was killed with him in a Tommy gun Battle m downtown Ciudad Trujillo. The 38-caliber revolver with which Trujillo battled his killers was found on de la Mazas body this is the strongest language i have Ever heard James Farley use. Then he said a let us not pay tribute to the enemy s Zeal that is Only half the communique said the Story of his Success. Tile other the death of Diaz and de la half we have contributed through Maza increased to 12 the numb r our Folly our child like ineptitude of persons known to have been Aland our outright j rested or killed by police searching for the assassins. These Are important two i sentences for the president to Bear in mind during his visit with Khrushchev in Vienna. For after former presided a a Quot a period will of called to App Arim Iki Tai Ai Rye Ottumwa guru of b i a bus far fore a hearing officer of the Iowa. U the a Lien he a iv1 of a Iii 1948 Highway patrol Pesch said at a a a Ivri teacher at a Bith Day Quot 1> Ira lion at his i the hearing the Driver will be in i birth pm me at West by neb. The Utvic wed and his entire record awards will go to Janus Van Allen examined head of the physics apartment at the hearing officer May tile Hun Erst. Ovva and or. I action two men were being held Here today after a car was forced Down an embankment into the Floyd River in the latest eruption of violence at tile strike bound dressed beef Plant. Police identified the pair a Don Ottumwa. Iowa up a test Simony resumed Here today in the open assault and Battery trial of an of tion with Ald Howerd 34, and Adolph Ollison Sheppard paid very 20, both of biota City. Smay a physiological taken to a Hospital for observe Price for ride and abrasions Joe Williams and James Green announced plans for ticket sales for the annual rotary the president will report to the Barbecue which will be held june people on his private talks with 24. Proceeds of the event Are used Khrushchev French president to finance the ass student Exchange Charles de Gaulle and British prime minister Harold Macmillan during a half hour nationwide radio to address scheduled for cd. Program Here. Flank h. Spending or the atomic Energy Laboratory Iowa state University. Of i recommend probation or warning suspension. Titiwa High school teacher accused John Hines 19, City the president beamed happily 1 As he alighted from the Silver and 1 Orange air Force Jet liner which Washington a up at a a j taken him on his 9,120-mile on the record. The of knocking a freshman student out a Ivor of the car Georgc Coenen danger. Packed moment in the j journey from new York to Paris of his desk with a a half clinched Quot in Quot list last april. Onawa at basis of the interview and review of of is ask with a a half clinched a sl0ux cil it a and Earl Ritz 22�?T course of his hop into space Alan Vienna London Goose Bay and All. It is As easy to give away As to be taken. Who is to say that Franklin d. Roosevelt was taken by Stalin at Teheran yet today we know that tile losses of the United states at that conference were enormous and the fact that none of them were incorporated in a treaty does not make the loss les.-. In fact Farley denounces a policies and attitudes for which democrats were More responsible than republicans although both sides pursued the same course. He says further a it was the incredible theory of the leaders of tire West that our great strength frightened the Security police sunday that three suspects had been arrested and a fourth Hati commit a Ted suicide six persons had been i either captured or shot while re i Sis Ting Airest earlier. I according to the government Only one of the actual killers a an i Tonio Imbert a still is at Large. Three persons suspected of complicity in the assassination plot have not yet been captured. Erbe said the awards be an expression of the gratitude and admiration of the slate for the outstanding accomplishments of or. Van Allen and or. Van Allen is working in the development of instruments in outer space. Spedding conducts research in the Pori action of rare Earth prior to departmental action. Metal and their application in the noted the review procedure Atonia pm re program. It not new but hearings normally have been held Only at the Roquero of the Driver. The change makes presented late in August a during i fair time by lie Iowa memorial Centennial foundation. It Sam Rodgers. Or. 35. Heard test the change in the system under Imon it of Lour of his students by hired to replace members or United i at to could not the instr which Drivers accumulate Point it fore a Jur it a of Throe Man and three i packing House workers local 721 merits on which his life depended markedly different from the present j women in municipal court Here trolley Pesch said. Under the exist-1 John Miller 15, the youth Rodgers my Rule a Driver who accumulates a be achy assaulted was the first to or More Points in an 18-month t0 be the witness stand. A Shepard vision so j Home to Washington in a total they Are All non Union workers buried by Ucac ratting vibrations Hying time of 19 hours and 50 minutes. Before leaving London the president had shown weariness As a result of his arduous six Day schedule. Who walked out May la after al but the moment and the danger Steward was fired quickly passed. And aside from tie incident occurred shortly be to in thru a pounds according to fore six of clock As the non Union medical examiners Shep Aici period is sent an Advance notice of he testified he had come into Emil ovens were Sretta Nii off work paid a a very Duvall physiological suspension. There was no hearing class late the Day of april 14 and police said formal charge would be Price for the historic rocket ride Muin the nl8nl and the look of raised his hand to ask Rodgers if he would Correct an assignment which was finished late. Filed against Howerd and today. Ollison which made him America s first Man in space the was brought out today at but lie got about to hours sleep bring the night and the look of fatigue had vanished trom his face Erbe said the awards will be Rodgers told him he would have to talk with stabbing victim sheriff Russell Van Tuyl said tuesday morning that in will co to Burlington tonight or wednesday morning to talk to Clifford communists. To accommodate the Manning. 35, i. Pleasant who supposed fears of the enemy we disbanded our forces demobilized our armies dismounted our air mothballed our Fleet. The communist at once expanded into the Power vacuum we had left. Country after country fell before their unopposed coining from James Farley this attack upon the policies of general Marshall and Secretary of state Dean adhesion policies is startling. It can Only mean that in 1961 what seemed to be right in the 40 s Hium proved itself wrong and that some men Are capable of recognizing error no matter where if originates. It is True that John Foster Dulles attempted to undo the errors of his predecessor but he could not have succeeded recall e they were established fait a comply. The russians had taken advantage of every Opportunity and using lie Teheran agreements As a base proceeded to commit their outrages legitimately even though inhumanly. It is lie legitimacy that must now be brought into question and that can Only be done by the publication of All the documents relating to Russo american relations from Teheran on. Only then can we know the precise truth. Did he give away human Freedom or were we tricked by our naivete this question can Only be answered by looking at tile facts without partisanship desiring to protect personalities. History will by written in brutal language when All lie data is in and no one will be spared the fact is that Western civilization was struck a relieve is under in pressure London up rope an diplomats a Quot Inland hearings mandatory. If the hearing officer recon mends License suspension the de ailment will Issue a 20-Day Advance notice of suspension to the j Driver. At. The end of the 20-Day i period a 30-Day period of us spin. Ion will begin. The suspension period is undergoing a major change. Periods of earlier monday some ,�00 per on it a Day Long conference in the state jammed the approaches to the department auditorium on the Plant overturned several cars and a medical results of the first u s my on a current my Miller .6maihed wlndw5 to oth i when he bounced out of the Jet i liner Here after it landed at 6 30 . Cd. Said. When this was finished. Miller said he repeated the question. The youth said Rodgers then became angry slammed a science Book Down on his desk and struck Plant president Lloyd Necdham met with attorneys to Lee of action could but taken against local 721. Tie Union was enjoined from him alongside the head knocking mass picketing and violence of any him to the floor. Kind in previous court action. Miller said the it Acher hit him return two indictments to was stabbed during a fight at Kay s place in Rome saturday night Manning who was stabbed in the Abdomen is improving at burling i pres hied to the Kus in people ton Hospital. J a sued Robert Musgrove 25. Rome. Is j Troy Art to 1 greed Quot ii wily suspension now issued by the de again about five times picked him Many apartment vary from 30 to of Days up Shook him and threw him Back m a Omi cd soviet and in ome cases up to one year Down on tilt Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided several weeks it go that the Vienna meeting was going be As he floor. Pesch said he wanted it a under three other students in the Classa Toode that the department a car also testified that Rodgers had and will order longer periods of Knock to the Miller boy to the floor accused of the knifing and is in Tho county jail in lieu of $10,000 took that decision although most of them believe he is under some sort suspension for Drivers who Are incompetent or habitually reckless Quot but Pursch said the Exi it Prience of the department has been that manned suborbital space i in contrast to soviet behaviour j since Yuri Gagarin flew in orbit1 around the Earth april 12. The United state., at today a Confer j ence reported the scientific results of a Leopard s Shorter trip in com tie grand jury for the May plete detail. I term of District court has made u. S. Officials Hope the russian j a partial report and has returned will now be candid about a two indictments Garins flight. J indicted were Darrel Wellington Shepard s flight from liftoff at Rome on a charge of keeping a 1 Cape canaveral fla., to his drop gambling House and Ralph p. Unto the Oconn 302 Miles Down Breite Boucher Keokuk on a charge Range lasted Only 15 minutes and of operating a motor vehicle while i lie was intoxicated. A spokesman for tile Iowa state n ado like winds ripped Aero is Iowa but it provided a mass of in both men a Cre to be arraigned education association said the Asun the past 24 hours doing some formation about Many a ability to tuesday afternoon Socia tion is assuming the Cost of property damage. Perform in space it also augure showers cause property damage and struck him repeatedly. Heavy showers. By tit1 showers and Thunder occasionally carrying tor 122 seconds. Intent to commit murder fierce blow it Teheran a blow from which it is not recovering we need to know Why and by whom. Copyright 1961. Kmic features Syndicate inc a Bond on a charge of assault with 1 of i Vine to present the future to lie russian ,1 period of peace in which their living standards arc going to be unproved the russians wer it much More enthusiastic and optimistic than the americans we ii the Summit communique was issued sunday. I lie russian press spokesman not ordinarily Given to fancy flights of language desc a cd the talks Between Khrushchev and or Sidcot Kennedy As Quot the Quot beginning of a dialogue which eventually leads to the solution 01 outstanding International the americans wet cautious and reticent. They two Small tangible achievements a the Vienna in a ing proved it was puss but to talk with Khrushchev on a fairly wide Range of sub lire Csc suspension either Doe. Or j Rodgers Legal counsel in tile Case does not Correct a bad Driver Quot the i i length of suspension seems to Haw Little bearing the commissioner said. A new innovation Poult system a ithe a a credit allowance a a credit Point Quot will come into play Only after a Driver has received a Point on his record the tie rainfall reached More than liquor commission to dismiss 21 r a of its employees in inches at red Oak. And fort Dodge was deluged by about an 1 Inch of rain and heavy Hail in a Brief downpour. A possible Small twister dipped j Down into Hie 60-tent City at the 1 Well for America s future a ii in a space plan. These include Radcli firemen answer two tails Des Moines Ufi a the Iowa seventh Day adventists Camp Iowa liquor control commission near Nevada Ady night Over today said it would dismiss about burning eight tents and tearing Potol however May be Witrod off by 21 per Cerit its employees j three others right out of their 12-months of convict Ion free driving Pesheh said. A if a Driver has no Point on his record the credit Point allowance does not come into action Quot Pesheh said. Six children die in fire tonal rocket hops like Shepard s for other Mercury astronauts later this summer and a flight All the Way around the Aith Lute tin. Year or Early next. City firemen were called to 900 these flights in turn Are but s. Walnut Street at 7 25 . Mon the prelude to trips around the Day to extinguish a fire in the Moon and eventually a Landing on car Suerator of a car owned by the lunar landscape by Crews Amy Litton. Manning the Apollo spacecraft sunday at 1 15 ., the fire a now being developed for launch men went to Rome to put car a 1 Viiu wms injured since All ring later in this in the Olson grocery store. Persons were attending an evening i a the Blaze was Between the floor 1 service in the Campos main Audi shortage of $3000 j of an upstairs apartment and the ia2nhi�job�?Tis son e Omi or tor Quot a h Wev r cl0�,n a a Quot at Humboldt Bank i 1 ulc Tore for a men a a units of bedding at the Camp was generally to up off a tin ceiling to get to soaked Humboldt uple a shortage at flirt Dodge the three hour 1 about $3.000 has been turned no one was commissioner Homer Adelek said mooring 119 of the commissions 674 workers would be Cut completely from the payroll. I. Pleasant. It. There was some water damage to the stores contents. Portage i ule. Moll wins Grill mrs Milo Mckim of i. Union was the Winner of the outdoor charcoal Grill Givin by la users paint store during the 38th anniversary Sale. The drawing was saturday afternoon at 4 of clock reported shot a Edvard Kardell above yugoslav vice president is reported in a London Hospital being treated for gunshot wounds suffered in april. The report says Kardell 51, was shot twice in the face by a top yugoslav communist during a Hunting party. Jerks and still not a Gago in brawling fire in a Frame Shack killed six and Nauru calling children and critically buried a Khrushchev s willingness to seventh monday night in a Outh agree or. The Impi me of an of a East Missouri farm town. Etive it be fire in Laos is said the victims All children of to Haw pie cd k a do because he mrs. Jessie Mac fore were a hews it showed that under some identified As Aaron Forest io1 conditions lie russians Are willing Don. 7 Ema Mae 6 Kay seen 5 to give slightly Jennett 2 and Robbie i. But in re press International i a seventh child Michael whose correspondents could find no Amor a age was not immediately deter i Iran official connected with the j mined we a a rescued by a neighbor i Vienna Summit who believed the youth James Davis. cold War was about to end. They at nearby Hayti mo., Hospital said described the situation us a slight Michael suffered bums Over 60 per dismiss d tuesday rising of the thermometer but the cent of his body but was a conscious Mike Kitch i tree .0 Llu and expected to pull i mrs. Richard Bracewell Shower which included minutes of Hail flooded a few streets and Tore Down several Power lines. Firemen were forced to Rescue two women and three Small children from a car that wa.-, stranded in three feet of water. Firemen at fort Dodge said they Beli a Ved several minor fires were touched off by lightning. Several i lie accounts of the hum memorial Hospital notes admitted monday de Klaus Mike al Tell mrs. Cora Woodson mrs. Everett Lance Boldt to. A and savings Bank Here Bank officials said monday. Rink vice president j. L. Campbelljr said a Teller had been discharged but declined further details. He said the Bank did not plan to press charge the shortage. Campbell said. Was fully covered by insurance tie Federal Deposit charge filed after collision cars driven by Kerns Cartwright Nevada Iowa Ai i f Nederlk of. Shelton Galesburg iii., collided it the intersection of Washington ins ural ice and Adana Street at to pm marriage License issued a marriage License Lias been issued at the clerks office in the courthouse to Lynn Irvin Beauchamp 19. And Mary to Testrake 19, both of Winfield. Corp. Has been notified he said Campbell Aud two other Bank Dav both machines were damaged. Boti Cai were going West on ers recently chartered the citizens Washington. Cartwright stopped at state Bank at Sheldon. Iowa. The lie stoplight and the Shelton i960 new institution replaced the old Chevrolet Coll red with the rear of Sheldon National Bank which col-1 Cartwr lit s 1950 Mercury. Shelton lapsed following the $2 million pm was Quot Hun Rod with allure to yield Bezz Lement by mrs. Burnice Geiger tile right of Way by City police

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