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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 25, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news fair these Days by George e. Sokolsky a look a r figures general motors has issued an information handbook which is very enlightening about our Economy. For instance although it is generally assumed that the growth of sales has been steadily upward the figures show that since 1938, it has been Zig Zag Back and Forth but beginning with 1948, there was a sudden spurt cd buying running vol. So no. 119 it. I Leasa it Jow v. Wedness it a Fahning la 2.�, is by Carrier Sot per week by mall >7.50 per year like this 1948 $ 4.ooo. 1949 $ 5,000,000.000 1950 $ 7,000,000,000 1951 $ 7,000,000,000 1952 $ 7.000.000,000 1953 $10,000,000,000 1954 $ 9.000,000.000 1955 $12,000,000,000 1056 $10,000,000,000 1957 $10000,000,000 obviously 1955 was an a1 Yirai the automobile business but that is not readily explained because it was the year of doubt economically the year when the recession was beginning to make itself Felt in certain industries. The immediate problem that faces the automobile Industry is to continue to keep style As the major sales Factor tor a Utility product in a word to continue the enormous Sale of american cars to the american population it is essential to establish standards by which a car Betonie old fashioned within a year obsolescent within two years but the american car is a Well constructed vehicle that lasts Many years Atter a primary and secondary Sale. The actual improvements in the operating machinery can by very Tew and they grow less significant to the Motorist each year. Soviet w withdraws Brownie Dav c ambers a brownies attending the Day a in at Saunders Park started work immediately on Indian Wear. A news photographer picked out a group which turned out to to i nit i a picture typical of the Active y of Many units. Shown arc front Row i. To r Merna Rawlings Shirley Rose Peggy t arruthers and Nancy pounds second Row mrs. Holland vol Nick Leader Lane Kus Sci Lora Row Christy Nau Glenda Stout Dixie Carty i Lien House and win Ultima Wilson assistant Leader third Row Sheila Schroeder Karol stut Inan Mary Megorden Carolyn Bra be and Kathryn Weir Brownie powwow continues so it Moines to a matter of styling and styling is taste taste in shape decorations color interiors Etc. When taste rather than necessity is the Factor purchases become Post Pona ble it used to be said say 20 years ago that it was impossible to saturate a Market consumption goods in a High Standard capitalist country that was an argument against communism and other forms of socialism. Depressions it was said were caused not by sex Tom Jessive production but by under she consumption the theory was that Industry could continue to expand in every Field As Long As the con j Sumer found Money to buy goods. But 1956 was a Good year eco a nominally and despite All the talk about depressions. 1957 and 1958 i Are fairly Good years although not up to 1955. Why then the resist Ance to buying if you Are driving through Saunders Park this week you May wonder what has happened. The City fathers have not turned it Back to the indians but have Only Given it a week to the brownies of the shining Trail Council. The chief of the tribe mrs. Roland Moureaux set up Headquarters the Camp at the log Cabin from sixty Camp and Twenty girl scouts Are Richard Scarff and two girl i scouts Christie Strang and Kay allies. Big chief Black Eagle mrs i Miles Nesbitt has been in charge of the site and kept the tubes in i their appointed areas. The group 1 moved to the armory their wednesday operations because of Linda big and Bai lie Urpin son singing it Woodland i oho Murphy i Princess have ted the Camp the rain. And supervises operations i chief Wampum mrs. Keith Wye there. One Hundred and i More Lias served As the business brownies Are enrolled in manager few the week Long Camp and mrs John Lee is Chiel of the wigwam. Mrs. James Woepking is Medicine Man and supervises Papoose w Ith the Donnelly Loretto Carol Alice and Vicki Shive assisting along with the Many adults who have been giving hours the of time in preparation As Well As. The care of the the actual week s camping help of Joyci chief White Cloud mrs. Lowell Ross Schellhase has kept the indians j by Busy making Feather headdresses i Diane Jones and Becky Toms and Sun baked pottery. Girl scout Anis have has been assisted by mrs. I the dramatics the Rommel supervised Camp and tile indians Are in ated up into tribes Al ten a u ii and Cai ii unit a two Leader the Climax of the week s Outing will in the final i Council on Friday afternoon when the mothers of the indians As Well Las tic Public will by invited to participate i the Camp is one of the most Succi tul ones m recent years and flu Good Organ coition proves that planning lid Many Long hours of w Ork have a Kip into the i preparation As Well As the actual i week s camping it will be a Camp j that the 160 brownies of the shining Trail Council will always remember with pleasure ask in allots to he mailed til is week a ohs the annual election of acc Community committee in township of Henry county will i cled i it by Alay june 7 at to Glenn b Campbell mum of the county acc cumin to my i sons he Gib to take pail in ask elections will have until Illy 7 to Mark their ballots and Deva of mail them Bat k to the vac office in a pleasant \ cd Ament envelope. W Inch i it o tio postage stamp mailing j be provided Fri use by voters i a turning their marked ballots to the county Oiler. \ ballot will he mailed to each o la i4io farm of Neil and Ope a it listed in the minty ase of lire As eligible to vote in the Clee lion of Community committeemen Jesuit a ballot and i postage tre it jct in envelope eat ii voter will it Complete instructions on to assure secrecy in his voting any farm owner Ope a tor. Land lord or tenant who believes he is is Idle to vote hut who i a 11 to re pent a ballot his township i rn11 d to Call or visit the county a office before the voting period end on july 7. Two missing Iii Mery ship collision in Vav a t irk i and a gasoline the last rivet Ting off a fiery gulled the two Manhattan Bri Brilliant flu bad Tanka eat in a 11 eight cd collided in today set in the explosion that hips and set in afire ii of igniting mar la. Frazier taken in death m in Ramah Franz ii i at tin slate die Bosga of me flared Avet t he la or set mitts it it to tic explosion. Almost immediately it a of help w a j Ltd heard on Shore from flame swept where inc wine who jumped overboard struggled against the incoming tide the swedish freighter Nebraska moving South rammed the Small a a amt n of gasoline Tanker pm press Bay. It Lieut is said just South of he Manhattan Bridge spanning the East River Between Manhattan and Brooklyn the pm press Sank about two hours later. Flirt \ nine it re Vuk men 11 out the two shits Wen rescued and most Quot i them ho., pit a ii cd in treatment of Vii dolls Ingli is Al 44 i t w men aboard the freighter were accounted and live of the seven Clew members of tin Tanker were re cued Vivo til file Lanker Clew Are missing my june pita at Iowa City she had been at the Beauchamp nursing limn in Winfield Anet nov i 19.54 she re calved a tall in the nursing Home sunday Aud was taken to the memorial Hospital and on monday was taken to the University Hospital miss Era Lei was Ina n match 8, i87i> peal Salem and spent most of in Lite Ileal Tuhcic she was the Daughd of n and Matilda Ltd amp Silb la Tartlet and was the last of then nine children to Quot pas., away she i survived by several nieces and nephews. He Bod. At the Burton a a a on Hind a1 Home in Winfield will he taken to the Waterman funeral Home it Baleen thursday morning where service will be held at 2 o clock with flip Rev May a to of the friends a Bur ii official lug banal will he in Smith Salem Comet i v miss Eva Freeman taken by death the answer lies not in figures but in the mysteries of the human mind. Nobody has advocated not buying nobody conducted a Campaign against buying. Nobody suggested that this was the time to go slow. But there was an atmosphere and a climate and an attitude in 1957 that it was smart to delay the Purchase of Post potable commodities. That resistance grew to such dimensions that it produced what the government chooses to Call a republicans to decide one contest the Republican candidate the 1959 term Henry county supervisor will be decided at the county Republican convention Friday. The convention has been called 10 00 at the my pleasant High school. Tho High school was chosen the convention this year to accommodate the 210 delegates who Are expected to attend and decide the contest As Well As transact the other business of the convention and to provide room special recession particularly in the Auto i delegates and guests. Mobile Industry. This is not explainable either by the economics of this country or the world it is in the realm rather of mass psychology. Another Factor has come into the picture and that is the import of mass cals from Europe. Prior to this period imported cars were the three candidates who ran in the Pinnacles in june the 1859 term of supervisor and the number of votes received were Raymond Baker 716 George Smith. 696 and l. T. Harlan 653. None received the required 35 percent nomination other business of the convention will include the naming of the regular delegates to the state and swells the very very Rich j judicial convention delegates to the District judicial convention pass on resolutions of the group assembled and nominations of Junior delegates. Ben a Galer is chairman of tile slowly the German Volkswagen and other european cars began to appear on our streets. So Many have been imported that a need is being made Manifest namely strike All but ended ars collide at intersection on 78 Detroit up double barrelled action by the Macomb county sheriffs department and the United Auto workers International Union today All but ended the Wildcat strike at the reds tone Jupiter missile Plant. More than 5,500 of the 7,500 nonunion Day shift employees at the government owned. Chrysler operated missile Plant showed up . ,. Damage d work the largest working Force in the Plant since the Wildcat action j started monday morning. The need the Small car. Of county Central committee and Aly e course the tin Lizzie the old ford., Benesh is vice chairman. And All the cars in its class were Small cars but we seemed to move a was from them in the direction of a very Large car which while it pleased the ego was and is sociologically w Cong in a big City. Therefore the Small ear becomes popular it is most often without t much taste in design in contrast to the stylized Large cars. It is a a Heap to operate does not require j much room parking or Garaging. Already some american Manu j Faett Trees Are making Small cars and before Long that will be a Vogue too particularly in the larg or cities to which our population has moved. It will be like the efficiency Flat convenient if not Beautiful like utilitarian furniture usable but not ornamental it might even be compared to Short j shorts on women ugly but Cool. Copyright. 1958, King features1 Syndicate inc and mrs mrs mrs. And and the alaskan statehood Bill stirred in a Sharp Senate dispute j today Between southerners and leaders of both parties. A prolonged debate seemed to be in the t Helen making tic precinct men and women serving through the convention will be Canaan b. B. Buffington mrs. Cleo Meekey. 1 Center m. I Linder and Elsie Schuerman. Hillsboro l t. Harlan and Wilma Dean. Jackson e d. Pickard and Dorothy Watts. Jefferson Delbert Mcguire mrs. Allen Wenger. Marion Miles e. Madams veda Cornice. It. Pleasant Ben a Galer mrs. Emma Cottrell Harold , mrs. River Benesh mrs. Enola Cai ter Eugene Mccoid and mrs. Helen Rohde. New London corp e. R Lead Ham and mrs Virginia Little. New London twp or. And mrs. Chas. Strothman. Rome miss Ada France Anderson. Salem w. W. Simkin and mrs a j isec. T p a. Lyman and mrs Doris Scott. Tippecanoe John Rockwell and Romkey. I Trenton Robert l. Young mrs. Grinstead 90, new London Dies new i on Don mrs. Marge i Grinstead 90. Died tuesday. June 24, at 4 . At the Shelton nursing Home where she had been a patient the past eleven months. Margaret Minerva daughter of Matilda Ann Ward and Joseph Henry Tague a gota june 6. 1868, West of Diu i in Henry county Iowa. She was married May 16. 1888 also in Henry county to Jesse Edward Grinstead who preceded la r in death july i 1952. Mrs. G instead was a member of the methodist Church. Surviving Are Ope son Glen Grinstead of new London eleven grand children and Twenty four great grandchildren. One son Joseph Edward Grinstead. Of brother Danny two Sisters. Jane and Lyda. Are deceased. Services will be held Friday a 2 . At the Elliott Chapel in new London. Burial will be in pleasant Grove cemetery Southeast of Nev London friends May Call at the Chapel thursday evening from 7 to 9 . Cars driven in Otto w. Anderson. It. Pleasant and Lee Heaton Adair Iii. Collided on Highway 78 about three fourths of a mile East of its intersection with Highway 218 at. 9 0 a in. Wednesday. Anderson was pulling out of a farm drive and turning East while Heaton was travelling East when the car collided. 7 he left front of Andersons 1954 Nash rambler Waas was the right front of Heaton s 1954 Chevrolet total damage was estimated at $300. J no her Driver was hut t. J Deputy Robert Nicholson invest i mated. Printed on the ballots each township will be found the i ainu it All Candida cd nominated by the Community election Board the township Aud also the names of Ain eligible candidates nominated by petitions of i Anne additional names May be written in by vote w to so desire. To la1 elected in each town hip e three ask Community commit men and two alternate commit members. Their terms of office i be one year beginning aug ust i. The person receiving the greatest number of votes is ill be declared elected chairman of or township s Community committee in similar manner the aum Bel of votes received will determine win Are elected vice chairman regular member first alternate and in Ond alternate. Stone Mountain out Ade Atlanta ga., is the largest exposed Granite Ock in the world. It is his feet High and seven Miles in circumference jeering crowd shouts insults Moscow. Up a placard carrying jeering crowd of 2,000 russians shouted insult but caused no damage Clr violence in an anti american demonstration Iii front of the u 8 y today the demonstration aged in reprisal last sunday s riot by hungarian refugees at Fri soviet United nations embassy Iii new York appeared to be Well unit i a d and Wel planned kids Here i Iii Day in i pleasant was turned into handle wednesday As children from a wide Aliaga tin red tor kids i Lay Wes Holly and bib in ii out Wile the Central attraction bul special events and free refreshments added to the Day Bradley fold was selected Ashi Best dressed up Cowboy and Jeanette Lyon As the Best dressed up cowgirl they received pictures taken of Holley in his tent heft in the pie rating contest which provided much fun tilt spectator.-. And decorated faces tor the contestants. Larry Messer was the Winner lie Holly troupe entertained in till Olte noon and will be featured i. On this evening along with in Amateur contest in Central Pink. May act on farm measure Washington bad the i rules committee by a 5-4 vote Day cleared House action an administration opposed omnibus farm Bill. It May be called up debate thursday. Tit ins Eva Freeman 82, died at 12 01 this morning in Burlington Hospital Whilt she had been a patient sin ii May 2. When she received a broken hip in a fall it her Home i. Freeman War born on a farm Iii it i Winfield june 18, 1876, the Datlag la Lei of a Al and finances Nixon Freeman she was Grad hated i rom Iowa Wesleyan in 1887 and was a Mcm Bei of i Bela Phi Slie had travelled extensively the body is at the Barton me Kasson funeral Home a Niece mis Lucille Mal to of Sonora Caln. Will arrive thursday to Complete Lulu i a1 an Angelin lits divorce granted in court Here a divorce has been granted Iii list i let court to Katherine m Lee from William Pearl Lee on grounds of cruel Aud inhuman treatment. The couple was married Al Kahoka mn., in july of 1941 and lived together until september of 1045. Will admitted to probate the last will and testament of Lillie Mille has been admitted to probate at the courthouse. According to the terms of the will she left her estate to Ralph r Holstein it it new London who was also named executor. The will was drawn up june 15, 1941. Wont discuss nuclear test suspension i Moscow Iund the soviet Union announced tonight it was a i ii it 11 awing t r o in hic july i i Geneva conference on nut ii a i test ii pension. Iii soviet unum previously had accepted the United states invitation extended by president Eisen i Hower to Send scientist to East i we i tee ii meal talks starting in Geneva next work j the sudden and surprising Diplomat in move was disclosed in a note to Lite United states. The j Genev a conference was to have included scientific experts from the soviet Union the United state Britain France Cace Slovakia Poland and Canada pile soviet position was con-1 tamed in a communication from foreign minx Sci Andrei Gromyko to . Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. In if the soviet government said it saw no Point in at lending the conference since Secretary it Blate John fo., it Dulles had publicly stated that by going to Geneva the United Stater does not necessarily agree to cessation of nuclear lest u. S. Charges demonstrations �?osfairiw1�?� washing pin up the United states charged today thai Ani i american demonstrations at. The embassy in Moscow were a obviously staged Quot and Weie Quot bound to increase International tension Quot at the same Lime. The . Rejected russian assertions that new York police did not try to restrain hungarian exiles who demonstrated sunday before Ute soviet unions United nations head Quai tors. State department spokesman Lincoln White said that the Quot free world Public Quot would readily appreciate the difference Between the Quot spontaneous demonstrations Quot in new York and other Western cities Aud the a obviously staged Quot Moscow outburst. Mrs. Leah Smith Wayne Leslie Hultquist Anc i. Harold Tolander. The new committeemen and women who will take office following the convention Are Harold Tucker t Baltimore mrs. Virgie Gilyeart. J Center mrs. Wilma Doan. Hills j Boro mrs. Lucy Hesseltine a Patterson and George Means. Pleasant Wilbur a ter. New London township Ben Breazeale Tippecanoe Raymond Baker and mrs Jane Lauer Wayne township due to the major items of business necessary to be accomplished temperatures set records la i pm temperatures dropped to till lowest Ever reported in Iowa this tim a of year tuesday night a a Ridge of High pressure poured Cool Canadian air into the stale. The Outlook tor Iowa is unturned Lair weather with coot temperatures through thursday. A St a in record Low of 4,i was set at Sioux City during the night and Low records were also set at Des Moines Spencer. Mason City and Council Bluffs rile Higa tuesday was 80 at Lamoni. Chuckles in the news Hafl a apr London up it radio Moscow reported today that the Russ i a us have a Citrus tree the tree is said to hear 30 types of Citrus fruits seven varieties of tangerines three kinds it Lemons Lour types each of oranges and Grapefruit and 12 other varieties. Too Birmingham Ala. Upit a City commissioner j. T Waggoner had been Given a rough Gung Over by reporters at his news conic knee but he took the newsmen out. For Coffee telling his Secretary As he left a to on my Way to prepare a table in the presence of mine menu proposed Baptist ii i rth its scale Model a the new Baptist Church with revised plans which were in Quot i recently approved by the congregation is shown Here in a the full scale Model. The View Here of the building to he located Coin and overflow lounge will seat approximately b80, on the tract on South main Street is from the Northwest look educational Plant will provide 33 class rooms in addition to intr at the West front of the Structure. At the left is the foyer the Sanctuary Fellowship Hall and Church offices. By the the basement of the educational Wing on the right Tak advantage of the sloping terrain is at ground level on South and East sides. The Sanctuary including the Baillie at amp to ordered to Cut rates with entrances from the West and East. The main part of the building comprises the Sanctuary Wilh the Chancel area in the West end nearest the Highway. At the convention there will a no the Chancel area will he lighted by clerestory windows open and keynote speaker this rearing to the Cost use of folders in the departmental rooms the class rooms May eventually be expanded to Al contracts will be let in july. Groundbreaking services will be held this sunday june 29, at i p. In. The Public is invited. Washington up a the Federal communication commission today ordered american Telephone amp Telegraph co., to a tit rates its private Telephone service by a approximately 15 per cent within 60 Days

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