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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 9, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 8.1, no. 135mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening Jine 9, 1961 these Days by George e. Sokolsky labor s newest problem the High Tariff was a capitalistic device to build the new and infant industries of the United states. It was Alexander Hamilton Back in agree on housing Hill Washington a t up a the Senate Early today handed preside Days when George Washington dont Kennedy an important legis was president who wrote a report native Victory after a 13hour three dead in shooting on manufacturers that Laid the scrap eve. His $6 billion catch All foundation for our National eco-1nousw pm nomic policies the Tariff was not amid a i Urr of amendments devised Only to bring Money into Tho nat0 worked until 13 a m the Treasury but even More to pro Edt before quitting. A final Rou text the industries from being drowned in a sea of imports. In recent years. American management has ought foreign markets Aud has even exported capital j and machinery abroad. However the worker Carmot Export his Job. J he either works Here or lie is out of a Fob. This has Given concern to Many labor Union officers who see their industries destroyed by the course of events. Tile Tariff i on the Glass Industry has since 1948 been Iii from 60 per cent to a tar such coded in getting most 14 8 per cent with the result that a re it us red the plate Elas in he United state Sis undersold by european and japanese producers who have gained abut one third of the Domestic Market. Call vote was scheduled monday when the Senate meets next. No further amendments will be a1 slowed. The fight into the Early morn j ing hours entered Over a Section sought by Kennedy to provide 40i year Loans for Eon. Struck Ion of housing for families 1 earning Between $4,000 and $6,000 a year the Senate first eliminated the i Section but administration forces of rocket Man soars Over truck Enoch it. Rust International Vond ire president of the United it. Eustis a. I Upit at Glass and Ceramic worker.-, quotes the generals nod a weirdly dressed the interesting statement of Rene Man with rockets at his Side and Lambert. A belgian producer of handlebars Over his shoulders Sheet alas. Roared into the air and cared Large tree Falls across moving car . William Malcom had a narrow escape from injury Friday morning when a Large tree fell across tile Windshield of her moving car. She w As j starting the car Forward after backing it from the parking at the North Side of Beaver grocery when the hard i pie tree toppled without wan dug. I or wind lurid War crushed but by coincidence Tho Only Large limb on the tree extended beyond the 10bi Sedan and resting on hic to Rcpt supported the trunk of the tree at the level of tile engine Hood. I the car moving very slowly was i stopped before it smashed into the fallen tree with any great Force. I f have been crushed Iii directly above . Malcom. She was Able to get out of the i ear and apparently was unhurt. City officers and Street department employees rolled the car b a Cit i rom under the tree trunk. Tile car was then driven away . Malcom had stopped at Hie i Tore in route to teaching duties at the methodist vacation Bible r Lix a she later went on to the school the tree which was on or parking Iii front of tile Hon e owned by Webb Lins Ell had been topped i m the past and Only Hie Large limb i on the one Side remained. The i roots had rotted away so that the two murders and suicide at Iowa City Iowa City a unemployed or Quot n apparently vile and thro. Iowa up it father of six cd ii shot and killed by. Yet a old daughter the vehicle had been a foot farther tree had virtually no Anchor in hic Forward the top undoubtedly would i ground. And i n h and Hun Xii today after accusing his Wile of out a poll 1. Aid. A Iii bodle., of or. And mr., Angie Kiwi and their daughter Diana. 3, were found in Thor Horn at 1204 loth Avra by police. Two other children and ran sen am alg to a neighbor s Home for help Erbe orders liquor commissioners to put la suggestions into effect american companies not knowing when the strikes were going to be settled placed orders and Over a two ton truck it in it Buck Rogers with Little but a Dis integrator gun to Call i covered their requirements for an very own. Indefinite period with the foreign j what 27-year-old test Engineer manufacturers and. Consequently a Harold m. Graham of Buffalo., imports continued at higher than n. Y. Was demonstrating to army Normal level during the first nine brass thursday was a personal month of i960 Quot j rocket Belt. It s what spacemen from the labor Union standpoint will need to repair their ships in this interferes with the Union s flight or travel from one space ability to strike and therefore hip to another discuss new business development a Jacob Shaler second from left met with local persons to discuss the new Ford tractor sales and service firm which he will inaugurate for Southeastern Iowa counties with tile Central operation in it. Pleasant or. Shafer h is purchased Hie garage building shown in the background and will add another building for tile Complete sales parts and service setup. He is shown Bere with Frank de Lucia president of the Henry county Industrial development corporation c. It. Atwell my pleasant Bank and Trust president and la. Eugene Smith right construction firm head. With its very rum says existence. Of thus Quot when men hit the streets they Hope to urn their fight because the struck company or Industry can no longer turn out the goods they had been producing retail j customer can t buy. Industrial customers can t buy and face the possibility of having to shut Down their plants. And so they put pressure on the owners to meet workers demand a when however the goods can be picked up in Belgium or Japan i rom 12 to 19 per cent less than the american Price the strike in the United states become purposeless because the goods can be obtained elsewhere. From the standpoint of the labor Union the imported goods becomes a strike breaker tills raises a great Many ques j Bons of Union membership the j Standard of living of american workers the sociological problems of unemployment or partial pm i ploy ment and so on. Some doubt the intensity of unemployment be i cause tiny discount the Factor of i aril a1 unemployment which can disturb the economics of a family i As much As full . According to rust Quot last year 7,000,000 boxes of Sheet Glass were imported into the United states that a the equivalent of 3.700.000 hours of last work for american Glass workers and approximately equal to the annual production of three United states Sheet Glass plants. Quot or to put it another Way if that Sheet Glass had been made in the United states. 1.900 Sheet Glass workers would have been employed to make this is the fist of our present Industrial problem. The economist wonders How a creditor nation can limit the import of goods from countries which seek dollars to pay their debts whereas the american worker is beginning to wonder How he is to hold his Job in Competition with lower wages. To this query he m is add the Factor of taxes. This question cannot be solved by political argument because in a free country the unemployed worker has a vote the same As the employed w order. He will not Long tolerate conditions which produce i unemployment. His family budget j is based upon annual employment for at least forty hours a week. In i the 1920 s soviet Russia solved i such problems by liquidation but in this country it is not possible to liquidate workers because they object to unemployment in fact the soviet labor Union is an instrument of the government and the communist party and therefore exists More to discipline the worker rather than to defend them Graham wore a Loose Sui and looked something skin diver in baggy pants Ben Galer prominently mentioned gof Central committee to select new chairman rubber like a fuel Des Moines up. The Iowa i foot Republican party will get a new j in Moines saturday in ease to r i Chan Man saturday when the Gor gets the nod state Central committee meets Here plans for festival at Mhz advisor Council he tile Volunteer me monday room at the recently opened Active Des Moines up a gov i Norman a. Erbe wound up a three month investigation into the Iowa liquor control commission today i by ordering the commission in to put into effect immediately a ill or i sections Quot for changing admin Tetra Tive operations. A Erbe called the three liquor commissioners into his executive suite in the statehouse this morning arid handed them his recommendation personally. The recommendations included a provision that no member of tire commission or it. Employees shall at i any time give or soil any Sample i liquor to any person that no member of the commission should be author stirs Aid no official ruling had in in made but that it appeared to be murder suicide. I Linda Klett to who a l Long with her brother Bobby 13, be of Hie shootings said her a .�?�?�?1father had a cd . Klett of member of the commission Gerald a stepping out a and stalked to the f. Smith Creston stalk d out of basement the meeting bout five minutes be his wife followed but found the fore Burris or Homer Adcock Desba urn it door locked Linda said. Moines Democrat Lei. Sue Aid Lier Mother called to Smith told inquiring reporters to to conc upstairs and he Quot i t turn a or be it Tell you what Hap finally came bark up with a .22-petietl.&Quot he hinted that Burris and pistol it his hand. A cock presumably were visiting j Linda and Bobby ran outside with tile governor saying a i Only calling to a re Gubor. William Canyon with my friends and he Erbie non for help. Or first thought is no Friend of i they were just fighting but Quick Eric fir d off criticism of the by realized something was wrong commission operations even before inside the House. He told police he taking office last january and has heard Quot a noise that did not sound continued ills criticism Ever since particularly like a shot but called Ile once said the commission was police. Operating As if it were a Quot liquor officers found the bodies of the Iii Hie mental health Institute issued state liquor seals at any time. Promotion commission instead of couple in a hallway with Klettis evening in the conference and that All seals previously is a liquor control commission. Body lung on top of his wife a. He sued and unused should be i mined al be ducked out a Side door alter had been shot behind the ear. The other two a possibilities for ties Center and discussed plans for iat Cly returned and that All liquor the session with the commissioners Little Diana was found shot and rocket nozzles held from ii is sides Jaunted ground. Protruding handles like those of to Nami a replacement for retire j the state chairmanship Galer and the july 4th festival which win be should Bear state seals before being before newsmen could question him through the head in a bedroom a bicycle allow him to control Yaw pitch and acceleration. When he got the nod. Graham pushed a Button the rockets at is Side roared like Jet engines churning up the dirt at his feet. He went straight up for 15 feet. Then cleared an army truck and landed without stumbling 150 feet away. The flight lasted 14 seconds i Graham is believed to be the first Man to propel himself in such a manner. Tho Belt or Corset was Devo loj de for the army by the Bell Aero systems co. Of Buffalo. Ing state Bass Vera r. Martin j Martin is stepping Down after More than two years in the High party Post. He assumed command of the full time non paying Leader Iship Job in april. 1959. He said he i planned to devote More time to i a extensive Quot fanning interests in Benson will att rid the meeting in their capacities As District chairmen. Held for Hie patients. Volunteers j shipped into the state will of needed to assist in this event liquor commission chairman flee ahead of runaway cars Chickasaw county after saturday. There has been much speculation As to who the party a eight District chairmen and vice chair n will name. But Robin Tyson executive Secretary of the state party said rumblings in the gof1 indicate that the Choice has air Ady been narrowed to Tim e men. Entering saturdays balloting with Strong support according to Tyson Are two Eastern iowans George Nagle of Iowa City and Ben Galer of it. Plasant. Some conjecture i has also entered on Fred Benson j of Sheldon the by ii District chairman. Galer a my pleasant attorney has been first District Gap chairman for five years Tyson said. He is 46 years old meet announced that the wednes Galor like Nagle said he is not Day evening picnics for patients seeking the chairmanship. He said resumed again this us nor being considered for the Post was hrs to be held june 14th. The picnics will be held either at the the of pleasant attorney said summer House or by the Lake Bein did not believe that Eastern tween the hours of 5 00 and 7 30 or Iowa s bulging population trends p of vol Htee group., arc would enter in As a Factor in the needed to assist with these Active about the meeting. I 0 a a c the w Ord that the investigation j police Saki Linda told them her which is very much enjoyed by All j. Burris Maquoketa Democrat was now Quot concluded came from fathers accusation against the patients and eagerly Antic said there were Quot no harsh words Quot James mugger an assistant to the Ikje Twa so wrong a saying her rated by them from year to year. Between the governor or the com Republican governor. Mother had be n working As a James to ugh. Coordinator of the a missioners during the 20-Mlnute Dis Burris Aid some of the recon i Babysitter because Klett was out of rehabilitation therapy depart a Cussion. Men citations made by Elbe already i work. However the Lone Republican have been put into effect. Summer Reading program to Start Load drops from politics wife committee s Choice. Tile party will j a select a Man of experience and personal ability irrespective of geographical considerations. Galer said. He also pointed out that the Republican National committeeman ties. The my activities Center which was officially of suied last month. I being Utah Ziti each week by More and More patients with As Many As too on hand during an evening police said the family moved Here about six months ago reportedly from the Fairfield area. The couple had a married daughter Mary 24, who lives at Fairfield. Two other children. Chuck 17, and Patty 21, lived with the Kletto but were not at Home at the time of the shooting. Nagle 6 1, an Iowa City lumber dealer is presently a regional vice chairman of the National Republica a rapids Iowa i upi1 a string of runaway freight cars jumped a track Here today and crashed through Tho office of the Wisconsin lumber co. Authorities said one of the three men in the office saw the freight cars and was Able to warn As gop finance chief the other t to in time to leave the is not actively connected office before the cars left the Ith the slate organization now. Track and crashed into the build a -1 t old up that he is not a candidate for Martin s Job. However. He did not say he would not accept an offer committee if it i a morn new paper columnist Ilal in a in Lygis cd Boyle recently wrote Quot few if any j Iris 1 it a Wilc journeys in life Ever take a Cli ild j farther than docs his first trip to j Washington it Upit a rep. The Morwin Coad. The most successful those first impressions of the campaigner for Iowa s hard pressed a wonderful world of books Quot can democrats in r cent years with-1determine your child s lip loner Idrew Horn politics thursday As his for Iowa Charles Whitten Meyoki is busily engaged a variety of act in la if. Nut to feelings toward Reading and Educa owl Mea suit tor divorce. Could serving his hard term in Janet Megorden daughter of or off on the right foot by taking Elim the House and prominently men and . W. Ii Megorden left Janet Megorden now in Tokyo i rom Davenport Benson could no b reached for it in. Volunteer worker could give.,. Tion in general help your child yet. F valuable assistance in this Center on. I monday a it one. Day and Friday 12, pro figure Iii the party s efforts in can finance committee. He has also j Northwestern Iowa for Many years. Benson. 45, is an insurance agent in Sheldon an o Brien county Community of 3,768. His son Brad. Is Clarke county gop chairman. The my. The cars Quot about seven or eight Quot were sitting on top of a Small Rise when the air Brake system apparently malfunctioned on Tho Crandle no la Sald he by slant no but a Ali ble re Cord Cedar rapids and Iowa City cars i authorities said on music Camp program rail workmen in the area saw _ the cars begin coasting Down the Grade but failed in attempts to climb aboard and set the hand to your Public Library on june ,. ,. Evenings from 7 00 until 8 30 pm comment but lie has b in a leaning 1 i when this was tile last meeting of the _ a Gram Quot the path of the presidents Quot Council for the summer with Reg. ,. Gets under Way. Each child will be ular monthly sessions starting. I Given a Chart on which will be again in september.,. ,. pictures of All the preside lits thac present for the monday the United states in color each meeting in addition to or. Rough. Book read will be rewarded by h went Elam Quot Rukgaber coordinator. Picture or pictures depending on younger Benson lives at Osceola. But whoever the 16-member of front the Central Mittee names to replace Martin in turned to him. Will be faced with Matching Unen of Volunteer activities Erma scott.1, a us i i the size of the Book Many children crud and inhuman treatment women of the Moose Marge Wal-,. A already have seen a Sample of i brakes. Boy drowns near Muscatine minimum county wheat support $1.82 Compo-1 r r Evan Copley who Heads the Iowa w Cjan cold Glt music department has received word his Quot toccata will be played tuesday june 13, at the Cornell College Church music Camp v. Earle Cocks Nashville t in a Jujj a of up editor of ministry Quot for the Board of education of the Odist Church will up \ or. Copley. J father had Bren Muscatine up a 13-year-old Ixia drowned in the River near Hen thursday nigh when he fell out of a Ixia his a fishing with his father. The victim w charts Rhod. And . Charles Ston vow auxiliary Marie Mccoy american legion lady in Blue and Reserve ties and Dorothy Miller Reserve ties. 1 Many Avenue. Are open for Volunteer worker. And any individual or group interested in in formation May Call or rough a office these charts. Sample Are very enthusiastic about this year s of near Faix Jairt Moth a authorities Aid Tho to fishing and a compassion. The program will be on River and were return Hore when the Accident cd the minimum Price support rate 1 for 1961-crop wheat in Henry i county will be $1.82 per Bushel. Glenn p Campbell chairman Henry county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee. Announced today. Tills com pares with Ute county support runt to Lead b win j. rate of $1.81 a Bushel for 1960 wheat crop. The 1961 rate is based on the a pkg dec composer and his Shore and it hit the boat throwing minimum National average support Price which has been increased i cent per Bushel to $1.79 per Bushel to reflect 75 percent of the estimated july i parity Price. The new minimum reflects 75 percent of the 1961 wheat parity Price for May. Gin at 8 . And or. Copley will a scr attend. J curved. The Iowa Wesleyan music de j Tim father told authorities that the the boy was in the front of Tho National Fellowship of methodist float watching for logs. He Aid musicians composition contest. He Charles missed seels a log near Are being heard freon Nutly the boy into the River summer term to Start monday the regular term of summer school at Iowa Wesleyan College t will of n monday june 12 with j registration at 8 a in i St in the student Union. A special two Day workshop on Quot mental Hygiene in the began Friday june 9 in the Quot first i Rara of summer school Whir run from june 12 through july 15. The faculty include Joo attending inc workshop some 300 men and women Are attending the two Day workshop at Iowa Wesl Van on mental Hygiene in the Many of the visiting teachers came in late thursday and will remain through saturday. Shower totals Over half Inch honed As the democratic candidate i wednesday by Jet from Chicago to for u. S s Viator next year an-1 Pend the summer in Tokyo Japan bounced in Washington that he j tile flight to Seattle was completed would not seek re election or run Hift or hours and from Seattle to for any Public office in 1962. He Tokyo in less than twelve hours. Gave no reason for the decision. I when the Megorden arrived however his Wir Dolores filed Home in it. Pleasant a Cable from suit for divorce late thursday in Janet awaited them bringing the i their Home town of Boone charging news that she had arrived safely. She will be a guest of the Rev. And . M. A. Sorenson and their children who live at 66 Hayashi Cho Bunko Kun Tokyo Japan. The Rev. Or. Sorenson a Cousin of or. Megorden is a missionary of the lutheran Church assigned to youth work at the University of Tokyo. Mrs Sorenson is a sister of or. Austin of Ottumwa. Coad minister of tile Central Christian Church in Boone prior to All children from Grade 2 through i a Quot fiction 10 19 s. 1&Quot d 8. Are asked to r hitter monday i by a Quot prominently mentioned a a june 12 at to am i candidate for the u. S. Senate seat j now held by sen. Bourke b. Hicken a Looper a Iowa in 1962. In her divorce suit . Coad asked for custody of the couple s four Hildren. And $1,200 a month Iii Cli ild support and Alimony. Frank r. Collins supervises project for Seattle fair Wapello Man Heads bar Assn. Des Moines up w o Weaver. Wapello was elected president of the Iowa state bar association thursday at tile group s annus convention Lloyd Karr w Buster City. Was named vice president. Named to the Board of directors this then is our most serious hut ments against a High protective Domestic problem we face and it Tariff. Here is an obvious conflict does not seem possible that it can Between a social and political Solute solved without protecting Amer tion to a very serious economic lean prices within the United problem. . On ii unit re a. The other hand this nude numerous Corn it copyright 1961 Syndicate inc King features set it Fok Adi i i swimming night at it. Pleasant municipal Pool every thursday Nii Fht from 6 . I Natii everyone leaves. One must he out of High school to attend. Name Send Coupon to City Hall or news office. An area four Miles Northeast of Vin it. Pleasant received a beneficial Iacre Philil b Cless i of Moines or r w poultry Albert Shor thursday afternoon. More Jamrs p Kelly up Mars c h Wynne or Phillip Lewis. Paul than one half Inch fell one resident i a outline Center j. S. I Bauch Gladbrook and p b. Hol Miller. Or. Douglas Duffy Nancy Ora la in. Olan g Robert g. Jacobs or. Lout a. Has Knayer. Donald e Young. Or. John r Kapp . Loir Mechling miss Ruth Keraus or r Evan Copley. Burton p. Mahle . Miss of that area reported. Rubl Quot graduates from . College among the 391 graduates at Iowa Josephine Caiper or Emma m state teachers Coho. Cedar Layman or George e. Lamore Falls Friday morning were Alice jr., Leland Long. I Leola Duggins and Lois Jean Kirk the second term of summer it. Pleasant and Nancy Eileen school will be from july 17 through Dodds new London. Lois Jean Kirk j Bell John Elgar Harlan Bruiser August 19. Was graduated with honors Roger Galer and Harold Mcleran. Loran k Darling. Winterset was elected president of the Junior bar s action of the association which i composed of lawyers under 36 years of age. More than 500 barristers Are attending the convention. Attending from it. Pleasant were judge George Van Allen Tom Frank la. Collins of Bellevue. Wash., spent the weekend and memorial Day with relatives and friends Here. He travelled by Jet plane. Or. Collins is assistant superintend in charge of the four million Dollar coliseum 21 building now being constructed for the Century 21 exposition. America a it space Aye worlds pair to be held in Seattle from april 21 to october 21. 1962 or has appeared on television several tunes in connection with tin. Project and his picture form the cover Page for tile March Issue of tile Pacific builder and Engineer Magazine or. Coli it is a graduate of tin local High school and is a son of Myrtle collins504 West Henry. Iowa traffic Fatall tib thru june 8 1961 a 251 1960 a 204

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