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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 19, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 113mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening Jun e 19, i do i these Days by Pori of e. Sokolsky National accountancy what is the United states As a going concern Worth governments employ primitive methods of accountancy with the n sult that we Are in the red when actually we Are in the Black or vice . The Treasury of the United states could not file a statement of assets which would be accepted by the securities Exchange commission or the new Yolk Stock Exchange or any Bank representative Charles e. Benne t of Florida has introduced a Bill or. 9021 in the House of representatives w hich would re j quire the government of the United states to employ Correct accounting methods. The present Secretary of the Treasury cannot use the plea of ignorance Douglas Dillon is a banker the son of a banker Well trained. He must know that the government of the United states cannot produce an accurate or even an honest balance Sheet one that the internal Revenue service would accept from a citizen. O a congressman Bennett a Bill us a first step in the direction of preparing a proper balance Sheet. Its preamble reads Liddy named Bank Teller Secretary of found shot agriculture Wood River. Ill up John Koppel 95, Dies at Fairfield John Roppel 95, died at 11 30 new Wayland Chi Kuh work is advancing towards completion on the new mennonite Church at Wayland. The attractive new Brick building which is adjacent to the old Church is shown Here from a the North View. The tront us to the South. Des Mornesi up it a l. B. Liddy state personnel director today named Iowa Secretary of agriculture by gov Norman a or be j Liddy 55. Said he has Loyd i Van Patten to continue As Deputy ii v i i seer tar of the department j Liddy sworn in at 9 30 a. In. 1 in the a we a supreme court Chambers to succeed tile late Clyde Spry. Who died in expectantly last Wod a Day Liddy will Serer on the executive Council in his new position. Diary of an adventure by two oils St. Louis of an adventure a up diary to Chest a to Cost Abl i h program to Aid Public debt of an immediate in reducing the j providing that j certain receipts from the Sale of capital assets of the government shall be used for such actually the bookkeeping system used by the Treasury includes no capital assets ii the United states Sells a building it does not dispose of a capital asset it Sells its proper a like a housewife Sells old clothes to a junkman. She puts the Money in her pocket j spends it. But she has made no record of a capital Sale or of Ai profit or loss. A monday Betty kazak. 19, couriers Grove iu., Marianne Ahern. 21, Sweden armed wih Mark Twain a Quot life on the Mississippi set out for new Orleans a no a plastic raft the coast guard says tile raft is unsafe i orders them off the River. Tuesday the Gills. Student at Mil Waukee Downer College Milwaukee try again with a rubber life raft. They Load the1 raft with blankets Blue jeans i bathing suits shoes Spaghetti four cans of Beans Mark trains Book. The raft sinks i rainfall nearly a foot i Frank Morehead a Bank Teller j p. In. Sunday evening at the Jef a who mysteriously disappeared i9 j in on county Hospital in Fairfield Days ago. Was found shot j where he had been a patient for the so riots by wounded Early sunday j past seven Days after suffering a i morning shortly after he had broken leg he became critically ill walked into inks to the res Home i three Days ago. Here to disclaim knowledge of a he born february 8. 1866 in i $35,000 shortage uncovered at the. Ontario. Canada the son of George Bank. Louisa Swanker Roppel. To Wood River he married Maude Franklin on township a pita where i. Con-1 december 23, 1892 m Montgomery county Missouri she died september 8, 1946. Lie had been a resident of the Fairfield Community the past 16 rears. to going there he had lived in the of. Pleasant Community for Over 22 years. Search for victims of train wreck edition described As fair. He apparently shot himself w it ii a 410 gauge Shotgun which a found at i. Tide in tire in Cmunt of i. Home. Poi in said Morel la ecu on the evening of May Iii when lie told they hitch a ride 111., on a towboat. Wednesday they launch Hie raft. Miss Kozak Falls Over-1 Board. A storm forces them i up ashore. The mosquitoes Are j tem doused the Island City of groups Industry terrible. They put on Mosquito Galveston. Tex., with almost a foot j his wife lie going to pm i St Liddy said. A there will be some Lour to make Tome collections changes in the policy of th1 depart a shortly after i. Disappearance ment such As the consolidation of j the Money found to be missing cars us Quot a by Ling from Tho first National Bank the new Secretary also said he where he worked As supervisory would form committees to advise Teller. assist him in correlating the Shortie after Morehead appeared a torn adic storm sys u he is survived by Hie following children chark.-. Roppel of my pleasant mrs Edgar of inc. Of fan fold Andrew Roppel of Ersk me. Alberta. Canada mrs. Teddy Bac Iller of Peoria 111john h Roppel of Colona. Us mrs. Vitry be Francois France a up a French Rescue workers u. S. Soldiers Laboured Side by Side today searching for More victims in the wreckage of a crack or Ach passenger train. U. S. Army officials at a base near thus Eastern French rail Junction said at least 24 were dead 153 injured French police placed the d Atli toll at 20. Many More were teared still in the wreckage some of them possibly alive. American troops i rom the army Bas at Bordun worked throughout the night helping firemen policemen Volunteer workers extricate bodies injured from the wreckage. At least two of the surviving Pas sengers Wert americans. Fifteen Ork of the department with farm in Wood River Fri agent r. D gibbon.-, issued a statement saying t Liddy is no newcomer to the that Morehead denied donation the mosquitoes Are still of rain sent Muddy Waters or mate department of agriculture i unction with the missing Mone terrible it Rains All night. I surging Kne deep through the hour. Of a a. I t. T a a server unan Bury lox nearly ii later Gibbon said Morehead had thursday Tho Start out str is t0 i Aye years As director of the Dairy Bern chained with stealing $35,850 again a River Bank work Crew storm whih Ting Feied four xxi division before b my appoint from the Bank gives them a ride to a farm i tornadoes sunday continued to de state personnel director by Erbe Bank of tibial made in Aud a soak the Western Gulf of Mexico Orval i in Merman of Fairfield Roaches loaded with week trawlers returning to Paris from Stra Bourg crashed As it passed along an embankment at 3 20 p. In. Sunday. The train travelling at full Speed. Boti it where they dry out. They Hitchhike to i Rida Giai Ardeau i coastline with slackened intensity today. I last january. Tin negotiate or a to Cape he spent 13 years in the feed Galveston measured a 24-hour produce business before joining the t rain total of 11.34 inches�?3 inches department As an inspector in Quot 1 a a a 0f r Gince Midnight. Houston Tex. I Southeastern Iowa in 1939 in 1950. Sturday t1.cj Uke n Bui for la i 7.4 Lnch to Spry named Liddy of Tho rain slicked pavements were Dairy foods division. New or in an. Two sentenced in District c ourt representative reads Bennett s Hill 25, 150 Donald William Thomas Washington sentence d to Days in the county jail on a charge of making Beer available to minors in District court monday morning Ralph Eugene Smithart 24, it. Pleasant sentenced to 105 Day in county jail on an oms charge. Indictments in basketball scandal Quot be to enacted by the Senate House of representatives of the United states of America in Congress assembled that in order to establish an immediate program to Aid in reducing the Public debt i All receipts covered into the Treasury for Deposit in the general fund resulting from the Sale it after the Date of the enactment of this act of any property of the fed National meeting Oral government which is considered i blamed for 22 out of 26 weekend traffic deaths in Texas. Another Motorist drowned at san Antonio when flood Waters swept his Auto away. In the East a record Cool snap continued into the last week of. Prog. A 50 degree Reading at a Liddy married the lather old three children att tided the uni-1 verify of Iowa. He has also attended Short course in Dairying poultry egg production at Iowa state University. June 6 reported that Morehead accounts Teller records were in order that the Money had be n Akin from the Cash vaults. Hold three of 2,500 rioters mrs Gino Sondi of Alhambra Calif. Also surviving Are nine grandchildren six great grandchildren. He the last member of a family of 12 sons. I funeral arrangements Are pending at the Weston Behner funeral i heme in Fairfield. Theodore Christe taken by death body of missing iowan found in Wyoming Elkhart i a i. We up new York up Coit of Boston a Philip la Nivy York head of press women attends he is a methodist a mrine r Leigh Durham n. C., set a Low rec of several masonic orders. He also i police today held three Mouths out Ord for the third consecutive Day. Has served As a member of the0 a noting a of group of 2 500 ports Columbia. S Chad a record timing chemicals additives committee of 55 degrees. J the association of food drug of the worst of the Gulf born twist j Fici Ais of the United states for the associate were indicted by a new Cis sunday ripped into a Galveston past eight years. York county grand jury today on i residential Section destroying four i i charges of bribery conspiracy apartment houses damaging More a native of stray Berry Point in the basketball a fixing scandal j than 50 others injuring 24 per-1 old Ray graduated from Hawk la Coit a. Charged by District i sons. J Eye Ltd it a High school. He lived at Don t have a jail Here attorney Frank s. Hogan with Keosauqua while serving As an spending $10,000 to finance five j agriculture department inspector. Of the Point shaving deals Early prob in car racing fans who battled authorities saturday slashed fire hoses in the Center of town. A we could have arrested too but we could t handle Deputy police chief John Cam said. A we had to let them go because we the youths part of the this year. A capital asset under proper act mrs Ethel v. H. Garretson Haj counting procedure shall be de Jast returned from the National Hogan said that players who posited into a special account Winch i convention of press women in took Tunnel in deals that la con shall be established on the books of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury shall from time to time utilize the Money in such special account for the payment at Matur v of obligations of the too Many can produce too much cum said some of told him they were a the agriculture department Pri fort Lauderdale Fla. College Manly is responsible for the in j most of them were a col for Cement of sanitary Laws relating lege boys from 19 to 21.�?T he said Theodore h. Christ a 82, of new London died at 4 30 . June 18 at the University of Iowa Rock Springs. Wyo. Up a Hospital where he had been a a Sweetwater county Coroner Peter j Tient for six Days vase Slid sunday the body of a he born at Burlington on 77-year-old iowan found late sat i March 16, 1879, the son of Alice i Day after a disappearance of Miller Joseph Christe. More than a year would be shipped j he married in it. Pleasant to Dunlap Iowa for services tues in november 3, 1904 to Ada May Day. Marley. For the past 75 years he had lived in new London. He a member of the methodist Church. He is survived by his widow two sons Wallis t. Christe of it. Union Raymond j. Christe of new London a brother Joseph Hon Here w Nile on a Cross country Christe of it. Madison trip grandchildren grandchildren. The in in Jesse Burton Reese of Woodbine. Iowa formerly of Dunlap had been missing since april 4, 1960, when he wandered away rom a greyhound bus Sta badly decomposed body found by Carl Eugene Hawks of Rock Springs after the two Brothers had been target shooting about Here. Two six great a sister Kate a brother John Are deceased. Funeral services for or. Christe seven Miles Southwest of de at h . Tuesday at the Elliott Chapel in new Lon to the production manufacture processing Sale of food products. The deportment created Little Rock. Ark., which she at financed were Peter Kelley of tended last weekend As a Delegate University of Connecticut Jerry from Iowa As a member of the Graves of Mississippi state National Board of directors. I that offers were Given to Edward Ames i Wii up _ a Over. J1923 by the 1 40th funeral Assembly j bruises this mrs. Garretson recently Tresl of University of Tennessee. Supply of farm producing an for the exp Crft Puri 0se of pr0. Us in elected president of the Iowa press Richard Fishero Tennessee of prom it div t to s asn2iecj out my Ting advancing the inter j Savici. Cain police chief John Zimmerman called for help from 14 sheriff s deputies six state in Highway patrolmen. A we All got morning. Not one uniform got Awa death attributed to natural Don Rev. Harvey g. Quandt causes. I officiate. Interment will be in i the Coroner said $480 in Cash appear cemetery at Danville. J Reese carrying when he Dis friends May Call at the Elliott appeared w As found on the body. I Chapel monday afternoon Reese got off a bus at Rock evening. One 01 Springs at 10 28 april 4, i960,1 a Quot Cain not seen again. United states which Are included j women at the annual meeting in Edward Bowler of in the Public debt of the United Des Moines. 1 a Philadelphia states All obligations of the j United states paid redeemed or Brief Shower purchased with Money out of such special account shall be cancelled j retired shall not be re la Salle col Over Supply of crops singled out a today by an Iowa state University six inc trustees in it. Pleasant students Register for conference farm economist a. The Basic reason for the failure of net per capita income to ruse during the issued All Money deposited in the special account is hereby appropriated shall be available for expenditure for the of the a Brief Shower at the noon hour moistened the top dust in the it pleasant arca spotty Rains have missed it. Pleasant Many other place. In the county since May 17 on that farm 1950s. Geoffrey Shepherd presented a _ detailed Deport of an extensive Nashville Tenn. Fourteen Survey in the current Issue of Iowa College whose Homes Are in Iowa have University registered thus far to attend the while net farm income remained seventh quadrennial National almost constant during the 1950s. Methodist student conference farm land values Rose substantially. Lits Secretary for almost la years i longer then any other Man in the departments history. The department is also responsible for the elimination of unfair Competition by the impartial enforcement of Misla Beling Laws of foods paints to j arrested on oms charge again. He travelling with his wife Jennie to Oregon at the time Arp a lofted apparently had had a Long argument with her before the bus got j into Rock Springs. Van to us Blythe it pleasant the essence of this Bill is proper Date about one fourth of an Inch aught 26_31 at the a Laver ily of i Shepherd said. Accounting procedure. A. It stands today the United states maintains that if carries a debt of $289,000,-000,000 a against w hich it has no asset. Except the Good will of the government As a going concern. Proper accounting would probably establish that the United states has a secured indebtedness parts of which could be wiped off without lessening the value of the Dollar our government is enormously Rich in assets. In 1959, the United states owned 1.837,762.560 fell total measurable rainfall Ince luin0ls< Urbana. Ill that time has come in three showers which also totalled about one iowans who have registered thus fourth of an Inch. Tar Are Linda Irene Laird. Knox a j Villi Margaret Ann Gibbs Ames we i aft Mitten Judith Ellen Pollok Frederick Hugh Richard my pleasant David to probate Alexander Mcblain Adel Phoebe Karen Petersen it Ayr Martha die will of Grace m Van shoe Pearl Martin Emmetsburg Elaine Winfield has been admitted to Ann Cummings Bedford John probate. I he will drawn up Howard Bohstedt West Des october la. 1950, named Pauline Moines Lila Jean Phillips. Carson june Hill executrix the will is a Edwina Joanne Starks red Oak University student i farm science published by the. Troneum product Tbs insecticides feeds charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated saturday control Tho y Ishway patrolman Don Plait promotion it a pm shows Slid sex Blyth Quot is o 1 Bono will appear for hearing in Wade Mcbeth a fertilizers seer.-. Livestock disc ase court among the factors responsible were development of new farm technology mechanization rising Cost of operation living j Coop ration with the Federal gov overproduction under the Cir eminent is responsible for service cams lances in the 1950s, Shepherd. Reports concerning weather Market said these factors resulted in an news crop statistics crop Esti excess Supply of farm labor mates i ids management a or farm operators j an oversupply of Farmers causes the total farm income a pie Quot to be Hibits control of noxious weeds insect pests Are also included viaj0 s in the department s work. Julu Idaj morning i the a nest wa., made w Hen Iii addition the department Iii Blythe drove up at the City Hail. Washington up a House two marriage licenses issued marriage licenses were issued a the clerk s county courthouse sat acres of Public Domain. Tile Federal k 1t r one an Judith l. Charlton Janie. B government owns 369.995 buildings i husband. Regina a Van shoe who Posey Iowa cite Ann Elizabeth which Are valued at $17,523,984,000. Pr0fif it As it d 1 Linter Estherville. This valuation is an estimate As no not settled at accounting Survey has Ever Bei n Cut into smaller pieces arid the agriculture subcommittee on a 7-5 urday morning to Terry Edward rental Sale prices of farm land i party one vote today approved an Anderson 22, Winfield Dixie arc by up he added Arimino traction proposal to curb Lee owen., also 22. It. Union i wheat surpluses by forcing growers Jon Robert Sadler 22, mrs to reduce plantings to percent next Ann Gerleman 20. Both of it. Year. Pleasant. Made. Public bookkeeping generally is shamefully kept. For instance the City of new York is now going through a disgraceful scandal Over its school property. Buildings have been neglected abused. Repairs ire rare. Let us have a look at this from the standpoint of accountancy. These school buildings Are w i t ii about $1,500,000,000. If t it. O per cent were set aside each year for repair reconditioning it would mean that the City would have to provide $30,000,000 for that purpose annually. The City has never done that. It has made repairs when it has been required to make repairs. It has patched up Hole covered up decay. No accountancy system has Ever determined the Alue of this real estate no depreciation fund is set a.,Ide no contingency fund exists. The time of her husband s death a left to pauline1 june Hill Mariam m. Myers Catherine Elizabeth Crawford Lavern i. Van shoe Ralph g. Mccosh Cairo Glenn Mccosh. Mrs. George Chandler of Seaton Iii., Dies new administrator of Hospital arrives vehicles damaged in two accidents two Accident were reported to City Polit Over the weekend. A 1 25 j in. Saturday car driven by Van Louis Blythe a parked car owned by Verne Rice were damaged slightly when Blythe collided with the Ric car while backing up according to police report. At 8 50 in. Saturday car driven by Larry Leroy Robinson ,.nd Cleo Guy la user collided at the intersection of Washington Jefferson. La user going North six trustees were elected to the Iowa Wesleyan Board at the rec it j meeting of the South now a annual conference of the methodist Church i in Des Moines. Those elected were mrs. Laura Muster Atkins. Alden l. Doud Wilson Ervin c. F. Hayes All reelected Paul m. Haun Ann Glenn r Parrott District superintendents newly appointed in the Burlington Ottumwa districts respectively. Claude or. Cooper of it. Madison elected a conference visitor to the Board. Second murder trial postponed Monmouth la mrs Chandler 73, Seaton 111died saturday at 3 15 . At Mon Mouth Hospital where she had been a patient three weeks. Nellie Harris Johnson born feb. 17. 1888. At Lewistown. 111. The daughter of William Maud Harris Johnson. Silo married i Ottawa ill. Up. The second murder trial of Chester Rocky Weger. Accused of killing three women in starved Rock state Park postponed today until Janu j on be 17. 1909. Ary 15. 1962. George Chandler Weger convicted three among relatives surviving is or. Months ago of the murder of mrs. J Chester e. Chandler of Winfield Lillian getting 50, one of the three Iowa. Services will be tuesday at women who w re beaten to death Seaton 111. In the Park March 14. 1960. He had been scheduled to go on trial today for the murder of another victim mrs Mildred Lindquist 50. Or mrs. Byrne Ani three children have arrived a it from Jamestown Inland Are George residing at tin Starlight Motel until they tan find a residence they Are making contacts now in an attempt to find a Home. Or. Byrne began his duties monday As the new administrator of Henry county memorial Hosp a succeeding Don Cook who resigned a it w weeks ago in order to accept another position bomber crashes killing three of the four aboard Lincoln. Nebr i up a a b47 strato Jet bomber crash d atty turned in a Geyser of flames on Franklin Krieger of new London to on Jefferson Robinson East on1 Pekin school Post Washington. According to police report. Robinson said he had j Stopp a for the traffic Light then new London a Franklin Krie tar Ted through the intersection in fru mental instructor at new when it turned Green ij0n Len school for the past ten struck by the la user vehicle. There Fra so Bas resigned to accept a a no estimate of the damage. Similar position at the my Pekin _ consolidated High school at Pekin Iowa. This new High school consolidates Farson Martinsburg Pekin Linby Ollie Packwood Richland. Mrs. Krieger who has been the vocal instructor at it. Union for the past eight years will assist her husband As instrumental instructor i in the grades Junior High schools at Farson Martinsburg Ollie Packwood. Or. Krieger will finish the summer program at new London after which he will move his family to a farm Home Between Richland Ollie. Or. Bach resigns need to know where Washington up Gen. Robert f. Kennedy said today Takeoff from Lincoln air Force base _ it had Cost taxpayers $225,000 to sunday night killing three of the we Send boo u. S. Marshals into Mont four officers aboard Gomery ala., to protect a Freedom the air fore said the fourth in we government has become too big stand for this sort of free easy act copyright 1961, King features riders Quot after local Law enforcement Man survived with no serious in counting t Ither nationally or local Syndicate. Inc. Broke Down. Jury. None from Iowa ten year a lass a several mrm brr of the ten year class of Lima Wesleyan the class of 1951, As Emberd Here recently. Together for this picture were from left Marilyn Compton Ellender. It. Pleasant Helen Scott Hauser. Missing n. Y. Patricia Hamlin dodder Guthrie enter Delores Harper Bell new London Meredith Maas Riverside Leon Shahan it. Pleasant Don Keller. Burlington Marilyn Welch Quincy in. Rev. Robert dodder Guthrie Center Robert c Lark Hillsboro. Iowa City Iowa up a or Marcus Bach author of several books on a variety of religious movements has resigned As profs Sor in the University of Iowa school of religion it am bounced saturday. Bach however will remain on Tho staff As a special consultant

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