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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 17, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy these Days vo180 no 142 by George e. Sokolsky the Ovee countries it would seem that americans Are obligated to drink Coffee so that brazils Economy will not go to the Devil. Unfortunately the Coffee producing countries out priced themselves and ingenious merchants developed All kinds of a instant brands which provide More Coffee per Pound than the old style Coffee bean so now. An $8,000,000 fund has been established Quot for promoting Coffee consumption and defending Coffee Economy the fund will be built by charging 25 cents it or j sack As a surcharge by the exporting countries if the plan is ratified. This sounds like a Public relations expert s idea of How to get a client and to do some work what Brazil and the other cot Lee growing countries need to remember is that nobody has to buy their Coffee and that Africa is exporting Coffee and except for connoisseurs of whom there Are very few most coffees taste alike. The problem of maintaining prices for excess agricultural product. I having the reverse effect of knocking Down the value of currencies in those countries which fail to recognize that the Large consuming markets Art very few indeed. The United states which is the largest consuming Market for most goods cannot carry the i Load for every country even with i the Best of intentions. When vice president Nixon was in latin America and got spit upon one of the factors in the outrageous conduct was that this hog travels Long distances with pals a when David John and Danny Rogers left with their Mother mrs Kendig Rogers recently to return to Iraq their dog. Brownie is is going bark Home lie accompanied them to the slates last fall. Frt i his expression he appears Happy about the travel pros Poi is. In is sitting on the Basket which was his private a room for the air rip. The boys who spent he school year Here Are from left. John Danny and David. Their father is manager of major irrigation construction projects in Iraq. Country did not buy enough Coffee j enough Lead to and Zinc and that we sold surplus wheat and Cotton the canadians Are annoyed with us because we sell surplus wheat and want us to give the stuff away free to nato which is not to use it in countries to which Canada can sell wheat. Why Why must we carry the Load of Amateur contest at kids Day one of the big events that will take place during the kids Day maintaining us Economy of other i c Quot br4tl0n in my pleasant on countries Why Moat our citizens wednesday. June 25 will be the be taxed so that Canada might be Able to reduce taxes Why must Amateur contest. Persons interested in appearing we drink of Lee so that Brazil s in the can Ltd a May ener by so Quot Ding their name or calling the chamber of Commerce office. Currency will be on a Par Why does not Brazil permit the development Ollier natural resources particularly Oil by expert foreign capital As the United states was developed by foreign capital in our Early years headlining the All Day affair for the children will be Wes Holly Cowboy Star of station Woc to of Davenport the program starts at to and continues All Day and evening the answer always is that it we j win prizes for the Best dressed do not do exactly what 80 foreign Cowboy and cow Fri Apple Dunk countries want us to do they will Jar contests pie eating contests All go Over to soviet Russia. If that is so we Are already As Defeated As messes. Khrushchev Aud Mikoyan say we Are and we had better take a look at what is happening to our own Economy particular to our Hoard of Gold at port Knox too much of which is already ear marked for foreign accounts. And Manv other events. Richard Forbes Dies unexpectedly Richard Poi bes 44. Son of Ben Forbes and brother of mrs Earl Horton Proctor both of my pleasant died suddenly near torring ton w.vo., about 1 30 a in sunday while helping to change a tire. I Forbes music instructor at Sibley Iowa for tile past ten years was in route to Laramie who. Lot summer study at the University of Wyoming. He had an m a degree from Drake University. He leaves his Wile the elementary music and English instructor at Sibley and two sons Richard Brian who was just graduated this june from the University of South Dakota As a Phi Beta Kappa and who a is in route to Estes Park to be a Ranger for the summer and John Raymond 15. Mrs Forbes and the younger son also were on a trip to new Mexico when or. Forbes there w ill be free pop and Many i death occurred other gifts for everyone. Wes Holly will be on hand All Day Long and will have special stage shows at i of clock in Tho afternoon and 8 30 in the evening. Brazilian plane obviously it is impossible for any one country whether it is ii slits to United states or soviet Russia to v i doll Lyllo i carry on its shoulders the total Economy of the human race. Cor a Curitiba Brazil up a mainly the United states does not brazilian Airliner carrying sever possess the reserves to support the a1 prominent political figures to currencies of those countries where currencies Are falling. If we have become unpopular in Brazil because the Cruzeiro has dropped to unfortunate lows it is just too bad. This country cannot support Brazil s currency during a period of inflation in Brazil and depression Here. If All that stands Between roman Catholic Brazil and athe Rio de Janeiro crashed while attempting a Landing Here monday night killing 19 of the 27 persons aboard. All of the survivors were injured some of them seriously. The dead included Nereu Llamas a former provisional president of Brazil gov Jorge Lacerda of Santa Catarina province and he was quite Well known As a baseball and basketball official. Also surviving besides his lather and sister mrs. Proctor Are four Brothers Donald and Joe of Denver colo., Raymond of Oakland and Robert of Aurelia and another sister. Mis Harley Kinney Otot Tum a. Or. Forbes and or. And i Proctor left shortly after noon tuesday for Sibley where funeral services will be held wednesday Artel noon. The deceased was born and reared near Keosauqua. Istle soviet Russia is the Exchange Leobert Leal a congressman rate of the Cruzeiro normally 50 the three All residents of Santa to the Dollar today 148 to the j Ca Taring boarded the plane in Dollar then the United states can Flori Nopolis do nothing about it but Reinst there were no americans tut the Monroe doctrine and get aboard the plane a con Vair 440 ready for our defences. I which missed the runway at Curi i Tiba Airport and crashed into a one of the great advantages in i Trp Ltd. Joyed by the United states in its Industrial and transportation de j tin pent a that it never Wor bodies recovered Rice about the nationality of the Money invested in this country j Marquette. Iowa up a we just went ahead. J the body of Roger Ahlstrom. 32 i slicing jury selected for Omvik trial a jury for the trial of Adrian Henry Kempker what cheer charged with operating a motor vehicle while he was intoxicated was selected in District court tuesday morning. The jury started hearing testimony in the Case tuesday afternoon. Members of the jury Are j of Fin Wolfe grim eigst.i-, Viola Crane Ezra Conrad. Ezra Martin Bruce Young. Lucille Ibbotson Clarence Reid. Florence Davis Harlan Ford. W. J. Lent and Lawrence Moore. Judge George o. Van Allen is it. Pleasant Iowa to Hodax evening. Jine 17. I san by c Arrier 30v per week by mall >7.50 per year Back Baler for District party Post a lessons Adams attorney Hen a. Giller was endorsed by the Henry county Republican Central committee monday evening tor District comm it us chairman he has served As county chairman the last nine years has been Active in the District and state party organizations and was widely mentioned for the District chair u two years ago the county committee convening m. At lie courthouse monday evening a a to go Over routine matters in or unanimous action by those present r endorsed him tot the District party office considerable tune was spent Bogan Speaks Here iowans must decide on Road building Speed living memorial established for la Tiwa announced tends and relatives of Fem \ count v i evident today to Dei have that a used est a i must decide How Hist they to Ai a Dei a t p Road building in Gerald Bogan executive Mary of the Iowa Good roads it and Ion. Told a joint Kiwame \ imaging litre monday night stud them Are several alter p c by the talc w it Prout of l it it kludge who accepted the by 1st int of that town by 3l mid my cd hts Community to do things that would cont til to to make the town go i trading Center program in Lucre natives which he listed As. I a rapid Accel Albin of by hic group in discussing the i a a chairmanship and the excellent Taxt qualifications of attorney older. In other business the committee voted to hold the county convention at tile it pleasant High school. The Date is Friday june 27. Procedures at a county it How. In i Las i it a part convention were reviewed fees for delegates is t and District and state convention dates restated. Day Cali next week Tux Sci. 4 Aud Load oui a continuation of the pre level and a stretch out of i Hill a continuation of the pre level but earmarking Road where it is needed most a reduction in a subsequent const met Ion. A reduction in Highway a Stem,1 Road eve mow Down a int Hie it i. Hui in Iii i espouse aut that the to Ltd thirds to or lied Access Highway similar Highway not is estimated ibid 40 saved of Iowa Intel Anima by a qui i iou Hogan Arr approximately on Eon than on i he a ont rolled to lives will be lie Highway is tor Brownie Day Camp will be held next week for five Days monday june 23, through Friday june 27, from 9 a in to 2 at launders Park Headquarters will tie at the Cabin in Saunders Park brownies Are asked to tiring a sack lunch marked with the girl s name a Pinch Type Clothespin for hanging sack to line and a Rug or a sit upon. Any girl from second Grade through fourth is eligible to at tend Brownie Camp she May bring a Friend who is visiting in it. Pleasant or a neighbor girl who has not joined Brownie scouts. New songs and new dances will be Learned and there will be new fun for All the girls mothers who Are interested in donating a Day May join in the fun and thus get acquainted with other mothers and the Brownie leaders. Interested mothers Are asked to Contact mrs. Roland Moureau 687 or mrs. Miles Nesbitt 706 Blue All of the women who ate planning to help or anyone who is interested please come to the girl scout room Friday at i pm where the manuals will be distributed so far 130 brownies have registered for Camp. A trained nurse will be present during the session As Well As Able directors. I has a huge backlog a feeds in All Road systems totalling $3 3 billion doll i and the Only Way to Speed up i program is to provide additional funds a Bogan said it present Revenue is continued it would take 30 veal to to Dei in a oui primary highways to the standards set Forth to Engi Beers Quot the alternative to this. Tic said is to reduce standards or to spend available funds where the need i greatest or to provide funds and finite to meet the Challenge the rotary and k trains clubs ate Ai their respective meet me places the Braselton and the Hui Lam after which the rotarians into cd the Kiwan ians at the Harlan ii the program. Hogan presented a map showing that Highway 34 is expected to have traffic by 1971 that would warrant a a four Lane Highway Between Burlington and Ottumwa Quot we ate milking Fin Progress on our inter tale Highway program in Iowa Alii in Pill motorists Pou id in i usim limited sections of the 700 mile network in Ilie state a Hogan said. La cited the work being deft in tile Vicinity Oldes Moines Quot hut tin interstate system is Only a Small part of the Road needs of the state the engined say that today Iowa has nearly 500 Miles it toads out Side Hie interstate w hich Are Cai i v my rat Fie which indicates they need to by t Lane facilities a Bogan said that while the Width of a Highway was an important Tea Tun ii Bambi not be considered As the Only criteria in judging a i Hwan us Pine. He said thai a recent Highway commission re port said that of the paved toads in the primary system -i.71k arc considered to be wide enough 2,238 2,238 Mil Quot of Tho have deficient shoulder in other words he said Quot Iowa has a Loup Way to go in Mode tin my its Highway system and any move to reduce pre Simi Road Revenue by we Atenci method would Only Post poll use Day when iowans would Hun a Highway system As blushed Blimp memorials 111 then names during the a i twelve i months t hese funds Are being used Ivy the american cancel society i it Larry out professional arid Public education programs and to further in Earch projects which will even j Tully prod in e Cam in control \ living memorial May to a and by writing to new i Iowa s free Maga Itie which has the violin s uni St circulation in the c Iucci Field 300, Mio i upon re i reviving a contribution a lotto ant a card w ill be Cut to those Mem a Bors of the deceased family who Ai do imitated. Infra Ming tie m that a memorial has been Esta wished it a memorial a already been established the family will ii notified of the additional Gilt t he name of the prison i to whom a memorial a been e to birdied will be inscribed in the pc magic no a having memo Iii la Quot Book it Iowa and will be Given a piece it it i Bono on tin pages of future i. Sue of Quot new horizons Quot sin. Memorial Day of i $57, living me Marl a been established for the. Henry county persons Las Jericho Maude a Noel. Edna i Wright Mary William David White mrs tunic a trim a min gape j Mill Hall. A Rah v hold Elum him Man and Aaron b Hai tor. Washington up in i Dan thai assistant Sherman Adams said today he and his White House associates have now concluded they our tit not to make personal Calls like those he mud to the Federal Trade commission Foi his Friend Bernard Gold Fine. I think thereat some lesson we ill Lenin to matter How tar a my w i get Adams said Hilton ills i press hot made t la is investigator Clat inn with i favors on statement to. Inquiring into Gold find who Adams while in he praised the recognition of pro Modem i the cars they drive rotary completes Barbecue flans 12 killed in truck fire Joo Register for girls state was from Linda Lanferman of Rome one of 300 High school juniors All parts of Iowa who registered sunday for the opening session of thirteenth annual Hawkeye the girls stale at Iowa state teacher. College tile first official business was precinct and Ward caucuses sunday night. Candidates for mayors of the four cities were chosen monday morning and balloting monday afternoon. The mayors were installed monday night by Robert f. Ray director of the Institute of Public affair at the state University of Iowa Linda who will by a senior my fall at of. Pleasant High school is the representative sent to git state at Cedar Falls by Bob Tribby Post american legion auxiliary mrs. John Moxley accompanied her to girls state. The annual rotary Barbeau will be held this thursday Evenin at Mcmillan Park final plan to the big event were completed Al the monday night meeting of i rotary club held at the Brazelton hotel Bob Wray Leader of Wray renegades announced unit his team has about 200 tickets old to Hie Barbecue. He. Ell Weir i upturn of the hayseed team announce it to Tat his team has sold from 25 to 200 tickets trailing t he pack i Joe part petunias with a very Small number of tickets sold so he. Following the dinner monday evening the rotary club joined i a kiwanis club at the Harlan hotel to hear a talk by Gerald Hogan executive Secretary of Tho Iowa Good roads association next weeks meeting will be a highlight with miss Elsa Parviainen showing some films of her Eutivi Finland and following with com followed j merits on what this year in i pleasant has meant to her. Soledad Callist twelve mexican nationals were killed and 19 others injured today when they were trapped in the Back of a makeshift bus that caught or As it took them to work from a farm labor Camp the Hie apparently broke out when a can of gasoline in the front of the bus overturned and sloshed into the Hack where 50 mexicans were Riding the gasoline apparently was ignited by a match or a cigarette Aud flames foaled through the Wood and Metal vehicle arraigned Iii robbery attempt prize winners at opening listed the answer it seems to me is a j Waukon who drowned sunday Kempker was indicted on the different one. During the exalted when he fell from a boat in the Iaian a t v to in and jury for the Mississippi River was recovered a l 11 of in of cult about 3 Miles North Ltd Here monday. Ahlstrom disappeared after telling companions he was going to sit on the ton of the Cabin Cruiser graveside services for Burden infant Days of the Franklin d. Roosevelt administration and More recently during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations much of the world has reached the conclusion that Domestic problems in their own countries can Best be1 on his return trip from Prairie do cured by leeching upon the United Chien wis., to Harper s ferry states. Officially this has Cost us i Iowa. He was not missed until about $60,000,000,000 unofficially i some time later. The figure is too enormous to Esti mate. Once some countries realize Lone tree Iowa it up it a the. Enis Anc the following grandpa to give reports on boys state Ronnie Lim Burden infant son of or. And mrs. Richard Burden born prematurely saturday june 14. Died tuesday morning at memorial Hospital. He is survived by his parents or. And mrs. Floyd Burden i and or. And mrs Andrew a Cdr i Ley. Graveside services will be held i that Uncle Sam is no longer an1 body of David Riggan 15, Lone easy touch they will developed i tree who drowned in the Des adequate ability to take care of Moines River about six Miles themselves As they did before the. Southwest of Here last Friday i United states took on the Burden was found today. J at to a m. Wednesday with Rev. Of the human race. They somehow j dragging operations for the i James Troxel officiating burial managed to aet along on their own j boy s body were held since Friday j will be in Forest Home cemetery. Copyright 1958, King features Young Riggan drowned when he the body was taken to the we saudi Cate inc. J fell int of he River while fishing. Cookes funeral Home Larry Kinney and Steve Proctor it pleasant a representatives b Hawkeye boys state will give the. Reports to Bob Tribby past of tin american legion wednesday at 8 . Sharp at the legion Hall friends and relatives of the boys an invited to attend the meeting Larry and Steve who will be seniors this fall in the it. Pleasant High school will be introduced by con mender Dick Howe of the legion Larry is the son of or and i a. O. Kinney route 4, i. Pm ant and Steve is the son of or. A a mrs. Earl Horton Proctor 304 North White St. The regular legion meeting w. Follow the talks a winners of door prizes of Bud Flower shop grand opening at 208 North main. Were i Leonard Ford 609 n Lincoln St 2 Grace of Yocum 606 e Madison St 3 Dan Collins 801 Jones St 4 mrs. Ted Shively 305 s Locust a total of 536 visitors attended i opening Friday and saturday visitors came from surrounding towns and a few were present from Illinois and even As far As Connecticut Indiana my a s fornia Keokuk Iowa up Howard Caruthers 30. Keosauqua Iowa Ope of two men charged in connection with a robbery attempt at in ill night restaurant was Arrau ted Heinie Superior judge Filiti i Proctor monday Caruthers and Charles Mel Aln 37, mow ii Al were arrested Satu re. In Al the apartment of Caruthers former Wile mrs Laverne Carn Liers. Police charged that Mcllain handed a note to mrs de Lipack. A waitress in the Palace cafe Early saturday and demanded the Money in a Cash Register authorities said Mclain tied but was arrested a Short time later with Caruthers on a tip Mclain was bound Over to the grand jury saturday and held under a $5, he Bond. Kidnapped child found Montri a. Al Ufi kidnapped Joel Beltman 21 year old heir to a woman s clothing Chain Fortune was i mind Safe and Welt today in the Home of an Ottawa Rah Driver taxi Driver Edward Rover told polite Tho child was abandoned in his cab monday by a woman and silent Hie night at his Home. Inspector Wilfrid Guan of the Ottawa Pollee department said Quot we Are looking for the woman now Quot the child disappeared from his mount Royal Home last saturday night with his 4<> year old maid the maid was still missing. Royer said the boy kept asking for a Mummy Quot and a a daddy Quot bul otherwise seemed Happy. Iowa reduces traffic toll Des Moines Ufi the state safety department said tuesday that Iowa has set a Post War record in reduction of trait in deaths since the Point system went into effect april i. Department records show that the slate traffic toll through monday night was 55 less hum at the same time last year 232 deaths this year compared to 287 last year. Clifford Swanton director cd research said the reduction 19 per Reid is the greatest since tin world War ii years of curtailed driving on april i the states traffic Den i toll was running six per cent higher than last year. Need students in chemistry class water with government Agen i 5 a i tie presidential assistant testified before a standing room Only audience Adams v Idle defending his actions Iii the Gold Flat Case. To titled he might not have done what he did for his Friend a Bud he known As he was told today the i Ai Tion was improper Adams said of lie had the Urie de in on., before him again lie would have Quot acted a Little More i Udo itly a he said two years ago he called members of his atoll together and ordered them to Quot refrain from anything that could Lead to anti qui tons As ate now big raised try the subcommittee the subcommittee planned later to question Mildred of Peiman Gold tines Blond bookkeeper. In attorney said she would produce records of Midline expenditures in be bait of Federal it Heads. Subcommittee chairman Glen Harris ii Ark said Gold Fine will lie Given an Oppio Unity to testify but no Date has been set. In Bis testimony and a written statement Adams said his family and Goldt Mes had exchanged gifts tor Many years. Denied that iii1 Ever sought or obtained Federal favors for Gold Fine asserted ii us the duty of the White House stall to relay Puller requests Quot to Federal agencies denied that president Eisenhower Ever received a Vicuna coat from Gold Fine. The White House said Goldt me in 1956 sent Eisenhower some Vicuna cloth but the president gave it away. Testified he considered his initial v to the Eto for Gold line Quot Cut ii Cly a rout inc mat i or a a said he and his White House associates now believe personal Calls such As his for Gold me Quot very Likely ought to be . Might Send troops Washington Ufi i a e iary it stale John footer Dull s said today tile United states might Send hoop into Lebanon ii developments there should Call for it. Dulles asserted that soviet pleader Nikita Khrushchev apparently has adopted the brutal ten Istle methods of the late Josef Stalin which he once denounced. That was Dulles reaction to Hie news that the communist have executed former Premier i hire Nagy and other Freedom fighters who led the 1956 hungarian revolt. Flood spills Over i in vees additional registrants Are needed for a course in organic chemistry at Iowa Wesleyan this summer College officials have announced some students have already enrolled and others Are needed to Iii up the class. Regis Ira Hon w ill be kept open until i wednesday noon ii was sin ted. Ule Swartout named Carrier Hillsboro Glen Swartout a been appointed Rural Arri or out of Hillsboro started Bis new duties on june 14 mrs. Floy Clark who was substitute Carrier has been acting As Rural Carrier since january i 1957, her the retirement of a g Hays who mail a Mathur contest entry Bank name address Type of Talent mail or print to chamber of Commerce office. Brazelton hotel it. Pleasant Terre haute id. Up debris Laden floodwater from tile Wabash River spilled Over levees into two states facing some 2,300 families to flee their Homes. The red Gross said it was a one of the most widespread disasters Ever to strike the major breakthrough occur d just South of West Terre haute monday washing away 300 feet of levee Wall and pouring Over thousands of acres of Rich Farmland. Some 1,500 persons were forced to flee their Homes other Breaks secured at Graysville on the Knox Sullivan county line farther South at oak1 own where hundreds of volunteers fought a night Long Battle to reinforce the bulwarks and at Hutsonville. Ii where Waters poured through with such velocity a sandbag Crews gave up any attempt to Stop its flow

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