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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 17, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. Hit no. I 12mt. Pleasant Iowa sat Koay evening Jine 17, vow Henry county supervisors had problems in 1861 it Mph committee members would listen much has been written about Herm county during the civil War Days another phase of the problems of that period is reflected in tile Board of supervisors minutes a.1 gleaned from old records. In april 18�, tin Board faced with a deficit in delinquent taxes with Load and brides in disrepair with insufficient room or proper place to hold court with the jail in obsolete condition and warrants not yet at Par and with Bonds still due on railroads had the added Load of War and Home defense. The minutes of the period Are quoted Here As gleaned from the old records Koa i of supervisors Mim the 1881 they were fully Correct they did however according to the Best Light they had but subsequent footings have shown them to be mainly i Correct in the distribution of the i funds your committee advised the i clerk of the Board to procure a proper Book in which to open accounts with the present treasurer and then agreed with such treasurer As to the amount of delinquent tax lists with which to charge him then superintended the opening of accounts with each fund from the time or. White went into office until the first Day of january last and then striking a balance of i each account on that Day. And a. J the treasurer is now charged with i one Hundred years ago the the total uncollected taxes on thei nation was facing its most serious j books for the years 1856 to 1860 in i crisis and the minutes of tile Board j elusive which Are the Only figures of supervisors of that age furnish j available he must be credited at i ample proof of the loyalty and the time he goes out of office with Quick response to Lincoln s Call for what then volunteers. In Henry county As in after giving remains uncollected a detailed accounting All of Iowa More volunteers rescinded than they could possibly care for. They stormed the recruiting centers and made such an uproar hat they had to find places for them to train and serve. Hears county was in bad financial Straits at that time in 1853 thee had bonded the county for $109,000 00 for railroads with the provisions that that a Railroad was to Issue certificates with a prorate of the present set of books they a conclude your committee but indulges thi Hope that an Effort will be made by the taxpayers to pay off i their delinquencies and Lessen the great amount now due on several Legal funds on Tho books of tile treasurer and thereby enable the proper authorities to liquids it a1 just demands against the count and at a he same time make our warrants Par report agreed to and Mon if. By. No widespread indication of change on salary cuts Des Moines up i members of the legislative interim committee who voted to slice salaries of Inch paid slate mental health cd i per said Friday they would to cult i to listen to a any new Attu mint. Flow r a. Ltd. There was no v Rad i indication that they would change that a votes i fat while criticism continued to j swell again f the Republican dominated committee which wednesday j voted 6-3 to rut Back the Salami of 18 psychiatrists and other physician at the states in mental health Institute. A $18,000 salary lid was set on the professionals. Lex Hawkins Des modes actor a til is is no a Fly by night commit a. It ,., a a Brjch 0j banners Oil to wreck Progress Lynes said. Shopman the committee chairman a. Not very favourable to it i on Ederine the matter. He indicated thai the matter was finished a. Far Ahe a concerned. Lineman Aid or consideration will have to come from someone it r j won t ask for it a Brocman also took Issue with Republican party Boss George nag who thursday warned tile gop lawmakers against what he called a Are regressive showman said the controversy was not a political matter. A it. Is neither nov and state chairman of the Iowa j a partisan affair or is it Retro Gress democratic party said the com Ive action Quot the Atlantic Republica Mil techs action reflected the re i said. Publican party s Quot anti people Biti a the people around Atlantic have Tudic Quot five republicans and one j complimented me for our action to Democrat voted Lor the salary i Cut the salaries Quot of the Psychia s lash inc action. Trl to showman said. Dividend of the earnings to be a. Ii d. Plied to the payment these As Well april 2nd tuesday. 1061. As other provisions were not com gentlemen in compliance with plied a h Ann the county re Fuad i the Resolution of your honorable to make the necessary payment i body. I Lay before you an abstract and a Law Sui followed of the distribution of the Tempo the Henry county people As Well Ary school fund among the school a ill of Iowa had just changed districts As of this Day made by their plan of government. Original-1 me under Section 2060 a 2092 of in Iowa was governed by the revision tile temporal Disney Iva Ilia county commissioners Tribu Tive fund $8386 20 total num plan but a 1851 the legislature Ber of children in the county be i passed a county manage ship plan with All the Power Given to the count. I Tegt this proved to be an a Popula plan and in 1861. The plan was changed Back to the township plan with twelve super visors and later to the county Hawkins was highly critical of the committee s decision and Republican gov. Norman a. Erbes a fail he added a the taxpayers had no idea what Iowa was paying for the Board of control s salary scale. The r proposed Street widening areas a heavy Black lines indicate the area where Street widening is proposed in blocks near the business District. The Street widening program first major Effort of this nature since much of the pavement was installed Over 50 years ago is part of a general program to improve the parking situation. Added parking in off Street areas which have been purchased will he provided also. Two Washington youths captured al ter a Chase supervisor plan which was a moderation of he original county commissioner plan. Tile county was renting rooms from the City Hall and trying to make the old courthouse suffice. One of their first acts was to take1 action regarding the Railroad Bonds and refuse payment of same. With thus representative plan of county government with one Man named it by election from each township tile following served in 1861 pleasant Almond. A Baxter Joseph blown. H. R. Lyons j w Maynard. T w woo Ison Jacob Luzadder. R. M Pickle e b. Ratliff. John it Temple John p West and a l Auld. Woo i son was chairman of the Board my John p. Grantham served a. Clerk of the Board. April 1st 1861. Or Pickel presented the follow Long report to wit the committee on finance to whom referred the matter of adjusting the accounts of the county with the present treasurer and also other matters of finance beg leave to re port that by reason of unsettled conditions of the late treasurer accounts it was impracticable and Impo. Is Hie to make a report at Tho a Nanuan meeting of the Board but your committee have availed themselves of the vacation since the adjournment to investigate the matters Reb incl to them in pursuing such instigation they have found great difficulty in coming to satisfactory conclusions by reason of the previous Modo of keeping acc Oil is by the treasurer and county judge or rather the reason of no such accounts having been kept there has never been any Day Book journal or Ledger account. Kept by either of these officers. The settlement Between them tween the Ages of five and Twenty one a. by the county us Perm pendent 6212. Amount pc 1 scholar $135 or Maynard made the following report which a. Adopted i Fairfield Iowa up a two the committee on roads and Washington Iowa. You were Bridges to whom were referred two Caiu pm in a Cornfield near Here petitions for altering roads one Carly today al r Scadina Olli cps signed by Charles Maxwell and on a 100 m p h. , others and the other by win. Kirk touch d off the drove right Patrick and others respectfully re-1 port that no evidence is presented j to the Board that the petitions in either Case have Given any not in blowing hot and cold deeds recorded i for properties the following deed. Have been by up recorded at the recorders office in scorching heat churned a county courthouse mounting toll of lives in the far i. Pleasant deeds Austin h. West Friday while cold weather1 i a ton and wife to glean heart fund totals 81804 the Henry county heart Campaign totalled $1804.34 the amounts were As follows Efrom clubs and Organ records toppled in eight Eastern j Schlatter and w Ife property on i Izat ions 06.00 Ever b Refl 011 Llie committee. And midwestern states. South main Everett c Gillaspic to special events. 57.50 tile heat was blamed for at Ethel l Jones property on East it. Union and Canaan twp. 199.00 ure to exercise positive leadership Only objection i received came from and discipline Over the gop mom a the league of women i Bors of he committee. The Quot re publican lawmakers countered that sen. Scott who made the motion the Metier Quot was not u political i tor the $18,000 maximum said he i so Quot i probably would not change his i a although i la listen to any recon i or direr senators who Side ration i were among those voting to Cut the i Scott said a tile people in West Lianes of the psychiatrists. Bens Union Aren t even talking about j Kendall Lynes a plot Infeld our act Ion Quot John d. Shoe Man a Atlantic and Hawkins said he was putting the George Scott a West Union said responsibility a squarely on governs people a Aback Home favored thenor Erbe s i cutbacks. J a Zerbe got a pay raise from the Lynn. Who served As gop nut legislature. This pay cutting scheme Joi try Leader in the Senate in the Points up his failure to exercise recent cession of the Iowa leg is positive leadership a the democratic la lure. Said however that we j chairman said. A would be Clad to listen to any new the mental health program in j arguments Quot j Iowa during former democratic gov the Plain idol Republican said. Herschel c. Loveless term 1956-i never Cia o my mind to 1960, made tremendous Progress but that. Boscn t mean i u change Hawkins said. Fund my vote Quot j Hawkins said a governor love Lymes praised the committee s less brought Iowa s mental Heath he said it was the first program from one of depletion to time that three floor leaders Bael one of the most progressive in the la deaths in California and Madison Gerald r. Steen and wife j Trent to twp. Seven deaths in Oregon. To Edwin w. Poock and wife prop-1 tip Picanco twp. The Mercury sizzled up to 118 cry in Sheaffer addition Leon Salem twp., town and at Thermal. 116 at Blythe. 114 at in. Opperman and wife to Jay c. Hillsboro. 49.60 11.30 107.32 i he fired two warning shots their Heads after they 1 the car on a dirt Road Miles Northwest of Here i they were identified petitioners have.1, White. 17. And Ronald leave to withdraw their required by sections 821 and 824 of the revision of 1860 consequently we have no jurisdiction we recommend that or. Maynard also favor of allowing p Almond $55 for repair. Done by him a. Committee authorized for that purpose which was adopted and so allowed. Follow part of claims allowed Abner Wells for services As Bailiff $25.50. Past the Fairfield police station in a stolen car. Fairfield police officer Max Ste i Vena captured the two youths when. Paso Robies 113 at Bakersfield Timmerman and wife property int Baltimore twp. 36.42 abandoned1112 at Needles and 106 at Daggett Sheaffer addition orc r. White j Center twp. 61.83 about 20 in Interior California. And wife to Marvin j. Deedy and Olds swed Surg and sea breezes brought Relief to wife property East of North Lin Wayne twp. As Ronald c0hi>tal areas. La Angeles had a Coin Virgil Ayer and wife to Winfield and Scott twp Miller 16, hash of 83 and san Francisco a Thelma m Mullin property nigh of 72. ? North Lincoln. Is i Pearl f Finger and wife to Edgar w Conner and wife. Property on All of North Vin Buren Albert Monson 9 county boys return from 4-h Short course both of Washington. Reported in officers said White s two Sisters heat damage to crop. Was had been arrested about a week ago tinted at $2 million. A j while Riding in another stolen car Cool weather blanketed i with three boys at Muscatine the Chase began Early today Board to the Rocky mountains ton Young property on Sou towhee mrs. Grunt Walker. Washing lows earlier Iii the Clay ranged i Adams Glenn e. Schlatter and i ton called police to report she had Down to a freezing 27 at Saranac j wife to h v. And Florence Baker i seen her car bring driven . Yew Hile record lows for the property on East Warren Wesley about an hour later the Fairfield Date were set at cities in new Mickey Ai d wife to Earl c Morrow w a. Saunders for use of Hall near Marion twp. J Jackson. New London and n. L. To p j Fierson and Wayland it pleasant. 105.65 217.37 23 on j the nation from the Atlantic sea and wife to Herbert w. And Thorn-1 Boa re to nine Henry county 4-h�?Tere and Lea lers returned from the annual 4-h Short course held last 3.00 week on the Iowa state University .268.60 Campus filled with ideas and inspiration after a Jam packed 3-Day schedule of events says county Extension trainee Don Billman. C. Of c. Board backs new school plan 234 91 261.02 $1681.52 remainder trom mail. Police dispatcher who had heard York Connecticut West Virginia property on College Avenue Vertie Foi Man ii trim of Dis i let court the report on the state police radio. Ohio Illinois Wisconsin Iowa Smith to Ronald m. Kaska. Ii Missouri. 5f glanced out the window and saw h h. Mcmillen 45 Days for As-1 the car driving by. He alerted St Sessing Center township $90.00. Yens who was in a squad car and t r. Hoag As trustee for Jack Stevens took out after the vehicle son township $7 of i youths led him on a Chase l. H. Doc lower As twp. Clerk North on Iowa i and then West on Tipp. Pm $2.95 j78 before they turned onto a dirt j Vav f Andrews 24 Days assess Load near Ollie. They abandoned ing Scott twp $48 00. The ear and tried to flee into a w m Spry 4 Days trustee of Cornfield but halted when Stevens Marion twp. $4.00. J fired the two warning shots. 1 _ Joel Jones 361 j Days assessing a a week ago Friday. Whites Sis Keokuk. Iowa Salem twp. $73.00. Ter Linda. 14. And Cheryl. 13, were j More than 50 Slot win. Kneen 16 Days assess in Canaan twp. And i Day Clerkin election $33.00. J. L. Waitman trustee son twp. $8 50. Hugh Cam Pix la trustee son twp. $750. Joshua Van Winkle Trenton twp. $3.20, Henry la Nim trustee twp. $4.00. A tills interesting item As j or. Tracy District attorney abstracts for school among five youngsters arrested in a other gambling property on West Henry Charles i Smith to Earl Dean Reynolds and j wife property near Saunders Park James Kenneth Darnell and wife to Vertie c. Smith property oui South main Blue flame a. Co. To Blue flame a. Corp., property South of West Washington near i i Railroad switch track j other town deeds Otto h. Nan i it. A1, to Harry j Harper and wife. Property in Hillsboro John machines and a Christner and wife to Earl Berk a devices wore found Shire Wayland James k Bey Erite search for two convicts t7ie delegation included Jerry White county 4-if boys president and member of fire Champion Clipper Marvin Ytley Jackson Junior. Joe to lick k-9-f, Gary Bettie. Scott so busters Blan Young. Slot machines found in a vacant House at Keokuk i Montrose Iowa up authorities pressed their search today for two convicts who walked away from the state Penitentiary farm Here after a car a reported stolen during the night near it a it i hip Rijh is a up land dress Ralph a Myers stolen car at Muscatine. Officers i in a presumably vacant House Argand wife to Duane ii Aidman and j said the five had stolen a car at a local resident was ordered Friday wife. Winfield Jeffer Washington abandoned it near to appear at a hearing next Iowa City w Hen it broke Down and Day to show cause Why they should Jeffer then. Tole another before being a Mot be forfeited to authorities. Ii sled by suspicious Muscatine of-1 the show cause order was a tied j to Cecil Bottger by Justice of a lie j spoil Borg to j. Russell Sponberg. Peace Elmer head who set a hear property in Section 32 of warming for thursday. Township William j Lenz and no criminal charge Iliad to Arthur of. Luecking. Prop filed in the ase. in Section 36 of Baltimore Tant Lee county am Trust e flyers. Salem regard. Castro s popularity reported waning Miami i up i Rob have hem made in the usual Loose re Garden abstracts or balance sheets or else lands. On my of radians which have not j. The District attorney by j Premier Fidel Castuli popularly Han 50 gambling devices including been within reach of your commit-1 reason of his Many and arduous a has nose dived in the past two tee and indeed they think that Ever since the late county judge system was established such has. I a a ,1. If Tilv meat have prawn sea rep and Iago Nellson. The prisoners. Robert in j. Baird.30. Serving a three year term for Drunken driving and operating a j motor vehicle without the owner s consent and Larry d. Spillman 21. J serving a 10-year sentence for 1 larceny of a motor vehicle walk 4 net led away from the farm late Friday. Wife to Greenwood Community the two were re ported pc East Hall property in Section 13 of j of walking along a township Mildred v j Plire Row about Friday. About i 7 a in. Chat today. Virgil Ray skin i Lier of near Donnellson reported that his Black 1961 Mercury automobile had been stolen during the night. The car carried License no. 55-12432. Baird was described As 5 feet governor and family leave for Hawaii report new counties making twelve terms lasting an average of three in in the custom of All Tho incumbent. In those offices consequently the re is no reliable data to work from in our present labors from1 weeks each As your committee the past year unformed. Your committee but even assuming the Happy to Bear testimony to amount due from w s. Viney to faithful manner in which but Correct the report of these men Only a it in the aggregate. Without any manner indicating How much thereof belonged to the diff rent funds. So it will be Jar a dozen or More lot machines Dutie. Cannot find time to give theu0 is because of growing food Dickey said Many of the a matter his personal attention. He a shortages in tile Island Republic. I Chines were antiquated and had is obliged to attend All the term ill a Uusi my Liefl Elk pc been damaged by Ai ire in Tho , a i win of the District court in the save a1, i ally meat have rown scarce and nearly two scans ago although v Iula i lulls arc the or Tracy discharged All of his duties and we disdain As we doubt not this Board will ail idea of casting 1 snicker any reflection on him by employing parking. Township Dale Hensley it. Al., tot a a _. Ltd 1 Dickey Aid a raid on the Louse George and Brooks Lang property turning Frein Cuba toe a reported , 1 t thursday Nln it produced More i m action 9 Oija Teuton ohm help. 7 1., till. 153 pounds with Lusht complexion. And Blue eyes Spillman was described As 5 feet la inches to pounds with Blue eyes and brow to hair. They were wearing Light Blue Denim work clothes. Kennedy rests at Virginia Retreat Middleburg. A. Up a the pro president Kennedy rested his ail regular i Cven oranges Are hard times. Beer and soft dunks to Laid St amp Omo were in working order. Arc i he said tin raid was conducted hard to get. Apparently because of5y chief of polio a got tic shortage Tren Marion go getters Steve Bebert. Wayne boil savers Jim Mccormick Champion clippers Aud Maurice Meade and Jerry Maben. Of the tips Canoe Hawks. A Boa us also served As an usher it the convention. Emphasis at this years Short course was in the area of cittern Ere urged to begin i with themselves a building their i of n character and the image they convey a in working toward bet i ter citizenship. Delegates sensed the firm belief of or Robert Ray Dean division of special services. State University of Iowa. That citizenship is a Job for All individuals. A citizenship is riot something vague or magic Quot he told the Delegate it is a kind of membership. It is a process a we become part of the on going Stream when we re born and leave it when we i in an of Peng Day speech. Dean Floyd Andre of the College of agriculture stressed the importance of j Opyr Unity and told How an institution such As Iowa state provides Opportunity. He urged the youngsters to continue 1 i their education throughout life a not inst to Complete High school pg5 Msj Idaho or College. The school building program for tire it. Pleasant Community District a presented by supt. Robert Formanek was endorsed by the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce Board of directors at a meeting til is week. Supt. Formanek presented Hie plan tor a Grade school building in it. Pleasant and a Grade school bidding at Salem for a bus maintenance garage As he had at the kiwanis meeting earlier in the week. The plan will make it possible to use the present Junior High building for seventh and eighth Grade pupils from the entire Community District. Des Moines up a gov. Norman a. Eric i r today with his family to attend the annual governor s conference in Hawaii june 25-30. The governor his wife and their children de Elda. 14. Jennifer 12. And k Vin 8. Left by commercial Airliner at 8 a. In. They will make in overnight Stop in Phoenix be torn going on to the coast on june 20, the governor and his family will sail on the s. S. Lur line for Honolulu. They will return to Des Moines on july 2 in time for the governor to give a speech at a fourth of july Celebration at Malvern. Former resident slight damage Alberts seven or eight and two state agents. E. Ca policemen j i i 1958 do Soto owned by g orge and parked in the City lot was damaged slightly j others to perform what we thought when it was struck by a 1954 Ford Money s Money missing Geneva tipi Hie United i states today reported new Viola j Lions of the cease fire by communist laotian forces. Will bar preschoolers at Ottumwa program Ottumwa Low a it Upit preschool age children will be barred. Grace e Collins 88. A former resident of i. Pleasant died Friday afternoon in twin Falls Idaho. The body will be shipped to the r. K Claire funeral Home where Back today at bus Virginia re Frau future Ottumwa High achoo a in a Gemetta Are pending. Aus delegation spokesman treat and waited for his doctor to j commencement exercises the school Sherman Oaks. Calli. Up Eaid report from reliable sources j arrive with her ultrasonic equip Board Ila derided. James r. Money reported to to i in Laos told of new mortar at-1 ment. The Board said the Small child be Ive d that your committee were lie could not attend to in Conse being backed out of a parking lice today that someone broke tacks and other aggressive action j Kennedy planned a weekend of j Cen get nothing from the ceremony j a marriage License a Bien i obliged to distribute the aggregate i que Nee of his other Dutie. Or. Place by Zelphie Mae Lane ac-1 into his apartment during the by the a that lao rebels against i rest and treatment with or. Janet and done to add much either other sued at the courthouse to Frank v from the same committee i cording to City police. There was night anti took $235 from his t the Royal laotian Roveri unsent Travell s ultrasonic equipment for a it a it i it v i trouser pockets i his Huck Struin marriage License issued among a a a the various in any funds without Lynn Trine tha pinned on Page 6 than disturbing both speakers and Coles 58, it. Pleasant and Helm the . Margaret Oles 50, Iowa cry

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