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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 26, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news she a a these Days by George e. Sokolsky Herbert Bayard Swope tin Art of reporting has changed As governments have devised methods of depriving the Public of the truth what made Herbert Bayard Swope one of the two or three most competent reporters of All time that he Long recognized that really to know what is going on a reporter must be inside the Story. In a word. While Many of his contemporaries were standing outside a door waiting for a great Man to come to to them to give them a statement Swope even As a Young Man dining with tile aforesaid great Man and probably helping him to write the statement. During the 40 years boy and Man that i have known Swope i have come to recognize Why so Many lesser and incompetent men envied him his combination of ability to get at the Central facts his last knowledge of men and events hts enormous memory and his capacity to organize facts. To listen to Swope discourse on the difference Between a reportorial account and an editorial account of a situation a lesson in journalism which would help Many of this younger generation to understand the reason wily with Superior communications the news is not Only belated but often an opinionated mishmash of a situation. Herbert Bayard Swope possessed qualities of aristocratic bearing and Noble Liv no which Are genetic not cultivated and which opened to him doors which were closed to others his the grand manner and Tho Noble gesture and he Able to get a Wall Street Story at the race track with greater ease than a financial writer could get it in the Stock Exchange wherever he his head High and nobody would Call him one of the boys and that made a tremendous difference in his efforts to get a Story because he treated As a responsible Man of understanding. Today when the hand out has become the fashion it is not quite As exciting to do the kind of reporting that Herbert Swope did. The hand out has become the curse of american Jour yol 80, no. 130 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening. June 20, 1038 a . By Carrier 39# per week by mall 7.59 per year i. Tells Goldfine boast ass refuse u. S. Army permission to Contact nine men program for band concert for her trip Home a Elsa part la men. Exchange student i presented a three piece set of Luggage by the rotary club at the Farewell meeting with the club before leaving on the first stage of her i homeward trip to Finland. Rotarian Robert w Ray makes the presentation of one of the pieces while other pieces were on the table beside her. The club sponsor of the plan to bring Elsa Here tor the year. Lauder store Here sold to e. L. Jim Roederer Sale of uie Lauger clothing store store by Leland Robertson to e. L. Jim Roederer of Oklahoma City. of it. Pleasant took place i in a recent transaction Here the contract Calls for the Sale to become effective on november 1958 Likely will continue with the store too. The new owner a prominent Iowa Wesleyan alumnus is a successful insurance executive in Oklahoma City. The store had been operated by i. John a. Lauger for the past several decades until his son in Law i. Heidelberg Germany it up Hie East German government has refused the u s army permission to Contact nine army men held til East june 7, the army said wed hcs Day a spokesman said col Robert p Mcquail asked permission to visit the men june 18 but refused the eight officers and one Selman t have been held prisoner by the East germans since their helicopter strayed across the Border in a thunderstorm and forced to land the East germans have refused to live up to four Power agreements on the return of the men and Are holding diem in an attempt to win u. S. Recognition of i their government. I agree to repeal tax on freight Phi i pleasant municipal hand 1 will present a conceit again on Frt i Din night of tills week the conceit will la in the City Park from 7 0 til h to. Friday june 28 Germany since i in week s program will be a follow j i pluribus unum. Jewell Ballet Pai Islen. Off Baek list of i Cedar King a it Iii i it Leigh Coleman m o l h Forth Moore col Lima i it Erose cd i bean Cartmal Bennett i lady of Spain Evan Cox Psi love song Herbert i would admit red China to the la. N. 11 Roederer s fathered Roederer is Robertson purchased it since thai j an employee in the store and has time. Or. Lauger has continued to i been for the last several years. Ste spend time in the store nearly every wart curia also an employee m the Day greeting friends and assisting House kills farm Bill Washington up tile nazism and it is undoubtedly the House today killed a democratic reason w by the american people i up snored omnibus farm Bill. A with a w widespread press radio and j a culture Secretary Ezra t Ben television news service Are so son had denounced the measure poorly informed and have become j As an a economic subject to governmental prop j the House on a 214-171 Roll Call Ganda which the old time reporters use As Upton Sinclair Lincoln Steffens Charles Edward Russell Ida Tarbell and Herbert Bayard Swope would have torn to shreds. Refused to even consider the Complex measure. This killed the Bill. Democratic congressmen from consumer districts joined a Republican drive to kill the measure. Republicans told them that it would drive up consumer prices of bread and milk. Republicans also charged that tile measure would add billions to the Cost of farm programs. They when Swope edited a a the world in new York he produced what has come to be known in american journalistic history As the Best Quot Page opposite a meaning opposite the editorial Page he employed a Galaxy of Brilliant writers. This still a period when the press accepted leadership in causes. Tile press still had a Mission and a purpose. It unafraid. When a William Randolph Hearst or a j although most major provisions Joseph pulitzer went after a poli were opposed by the adm Nistra Titian or a predatory businessman Jon especially those revamping the Devil trembled in his boots. He j Price support programs the Bill v Vanguard fails Airai Cape canaveral Fla. Up the Navy a temperamental and trouble plagued Vanguard rocket failed again today to put a 20-Inch scientific satellite into orbit around the Earth. The tall thin Vanguard roared from its launching pad at 1 01 a m. . And Cut a fiery track to some 35 Miles in the sky. But there its second stage engine failed to ignite and the rocket curved earthward plunging into the Atlantic with its precious payload. Washington Upit Senate House conferees agreed to Ltd Lay to repeal the 3 per cent tax on trails imitation of freight beginning aug. I. Bul they rejected a Senate proposal to repeal the to per cent Federal tax on airline bus and train passenger tickets. The legislation repealing freight taxes almost certain to be sent to president Eisenhower by monday it included in a Compromise Bill to continue for another year the present taxes on corporation income and on whiskey. Beer cigarettes and automobiles. In retaining the Senate provision that the freight tax be repealed the Congress voted also to lift the excise levies on the shipment of Coal and on movement of Oil by pipeline. A dream us a wish your heart makes. Divid Hoffman i k Ingston i Poi ii hoop Dee Doo loess i lowered the Boom. Lange Heath Olivadoti t a Meh Low a up it the Iowa Des Moines conference of the methodist Church today called for i the admission of red China to the United nation under certain conditions j the conference in a i solution asked the la s in the Best Intel jests of yes rot try Quot to adopt a new polio supporting the adm is i Sion of communist China to tile i in however it said this j should do so Only ii red China i agrees to the Independence of Hall of Fame and he unification of Korea under free and in Vised elections la also said till americans wrongfully held in China should be Relea cd. Continue probe into near collision of two planes the second and the rocket and third stages of tin shiny in fued that the House it pm und sphere attached to the third waste time debating or amending the measure because it would take Many Days to revamp it into acceptable form. Knew that the newspapers would get him and the newspapers served the Public interest. But at that time newsprint not expensive. There no radio and television to take the Cream off the advertising appropriations. Salaries were comparatively Small and newspapermen regarded their work As a calling not a Job. They worked around the clock with a Joy in toil hearts because they were making a new world. It a time of giants in this profession. Contained administration backed legislation to extend two programs which Are scheduled to expire at Midnight monday. These provide for disposing of farm surpluses abroad and for providing subsidized milk for children in summer Camps schools and Day care centers. Republicans said this legislation a which already has passed the Senate could be called up separately and rushed through tile House to the White House today Gage probably hit the water some 275 Miles Southeast of the launching an ignominious end for the Little a a Moon Quot destined tor space. It left the smaller Vanguard i satellite and the two Bullet shaped army explorers still whirling in space with the massive russian sputnik Iii a 3.000-Pound giant which dwarfs anything this country has tried to put up. The second of the army explorers due to fall bail into the atmosphere and Burn up soon j perhaps today. Quot its a shame but Well be try t ing said one Vanguard source. Old in new phase i it night on mud the cold hits entered an explosive new phase with the Iron listed latties of the late Josef Stalin taking Over a a in in International diplomacy diplomatic sources said today that the consensus of Western experts studying russians decision to Boycott next tuesdays Geneva Confer mice Oil nuclear tests Only 24 hours alter agreeing to attend it. Tile revival of stalinism already bad been marked inside Russia i with the execution of Imre Nagy i the hungarian Freedom Premier now Premier Nikita Khrushchev has carried it into the International diplomatic Field. Diplomats believed severe internal stress in Russia largely responsible for the Khrushchev turnabout. Observers Herr said the soviet decision on Geneva wa., a Mere Ripple on the surface of much deeper stirrings but a significant one. Diplomatic sources said the russian turnabout on the Geneva conference almost certainly torpedoed Hopes of holding Summit talks in the near future. St. Louis i up i the civil aeronautics administration today continued its investigation into a near collision at Lambert St. Louis Airport in which a single engine Navy plane narrowly missed an Airliner carrying 44 persons. The four engine passenger plane. a a \ z twilling to attend the Geneva con bound for fort Worth tex., took off shortly before noon wednesday and when it reached 500 feet. A Navy ad6 appeared out of the 1.000-foot ceiling and steamed into its path then veered off. Both Britain and the United states served notice they still Are die a oui Emu also adopted a Resolution on atomic explosion testing urging the government to work through the in tor the sus pension Iii All nuclear tests delegates in another Resolution urged that a Hospital tie is tarnished to that a rehabilitation of alcoholics to Iowa the group said Ila oust it the institution could be Etny it connection with the University hospitals at Iowa cite and could be paid for from tale liquor store profits. Other resolutions called for a Iowa legislature and support for the economic Sci Hoti of president Eisenhower foreign Aid pro Gram a pile conference wednesday admitted the first woman in Iowa methodist history to full con Lei Etna membership. Miss Nancy Nichols Brighton pastor of the Brighton methodist Church to be ordained in the Church to a night there ate a number of women among the methodist clergy in Iowa As pastors ministers or preachers but none of them has Ever been voted conference membership miss Nichols 27, is a native of Hancock wis and graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College at mount. Pleasant and from the Drew Rheological Seminary Madison n j she one. Of eight persons voted into full membership wednesday Mercury still below Normal in Iowa approve longevity i a for 1620 state employees am is Iowa up i Loliger it pay for 1,620 employees amounting to $449,500 per year approved by the Iowa Highway commission wednesday rhe executive Council Carlie tins month approved longevity pay for i or i ii m state employees however it let the various departments under its control Dei it mini which employees would git the Money commis Ion chairman chit Larson Sioux City. Asked the payroll department to list various wage increases Given commission employees throughout the Yeti lit said employees have been re reviving Merit raises twice a year and bracket met eases Oner a year lie said these two increases along with the longevity wage All mine at Dit lenient thru of the year Lai sen said he cannot a just Ify to the taxpayer a pay raise for one employee three times a year he called this a constant state of confusion a the 1,820 employees eligible in the longevity a in the Highway commission refit cuts 54 Lier cent of All employees working in that department. List Amateur show winners fax publisher in Boston testifies Herbert Bayard Swope never or Friday under a special Parli went to College but his knowledge j amen tary procedure. Of literature and history uni there were Versal and his use of English As j House leaders a tool w As craftsman like. He came course. Of a cultured family of distinguished jews who had settled in St. Louis. His brother Gerard whom he adored worked for general electric and became its head. Gerard an introvert Herbert an extrovert. Between them a tremendous affection and understanding. Them. Between Herbert indications would adopt the a this chuckles in the news Fritzlar Germany a Upit motorists not. Only dislike the parking meters recently installed they have contempt for several times in past Days the Friendship Between Hei i they have dropped coins in the Bayard Swope and Bernard Ai 11 11 meters set up tables and played has. Often been misinterpreted As cards until the time ran out an employer employee relationship to the vulgar everything is cast in the Mold of a Coin. These men had been close and intimate friends and to make a Trio the name of Winston Churchill might be added. It a Friendship based upon personal affection like mindedness and the give and take of great knowledge of affairs. I had know n Herbert Bayard Swope for perhaps 40 years with Birmingham Ala. It Lupi it a Adam Whitted 34. Today faced charges of driving his one horse than Wagon the wrong on a one Siept Street while intoxicated. Let contracts for Road projects Ames. Iowa i up More than $10,800,824 Iii contracts for construction of interstate primary and county roads were awarded by the Iowa Highway commission wednesday the biggest letting since dec. To when More than 19 million dollars in contracts were awarded. The contracts included for the first time Money appropriated by Congress in a special Road act designed to combat the recession. Iowa received an additional four million dollars for interstate construction an additional eight million dollars for primary Highway building and four million dollars More for secondary or county roads under the act. I the contracts included More the commander of the american airlines dc7, capt. Ted Kasper radioed that his plane suffered no damage and it continued to fort Worth. It had arrived a Short time before from Cleveland the Pilot of the Navy Plant e. V. Thomas reported he saw the i Airliner and turned away to avoid j it. Ference in Earnest search Ltd i an agreement with the soviet for effective controls that would make nuclear test suspension acceptable they were paying no attention to what amounted to a soviet ultimatum to agree in Advance to suspend nuclear tests without controls or Call off the Geneva meeting. By in i the Mercury continued to Range nearly 15 to 20 degrees below Normal in Iowa dropping to a Low of 47 degrees at Lamoni during the night forecaster said today. The highest Low readings during the1 night were reported by Davenport Waterloo and Cedar rapids with each recording 52 degrees. Mrs. Chas. Jarrard taken by death Amend rules on closing roads for events Ames Iowa up i the iowa1 Highway commission wednesday amended its rules governing the closing of primary roads within City limits for any kind of Cele i bration or event such As drag racing. The commission acted after a hassle tuesday in which it granted approval to a diag race on Iowa 143 at Waucoma and ten to j timely withdrew approval for a race i at Hawarden on Iowa 12. The amended Rule says a Resolution asking for the closing of a Road must come from a City or j town Council the event must be limited to within the City and a satisfactory Detour provided Ami any expense paid for by the com funeral Lites Are pending for mrs Charles Jaggard at the Barton Mckasson funeral Home in Winfield. The daughter of Andrew b Mary Jane Mewhirter. She born june 18, Lufto and passed away at her Home Southwest of Swedesburg june 26 she is survived by her husband a daughter. Mrs Ruth , three grandchildren and four grandchildren. Cool Canadian air spread Over most of the country East of the Rockies today following a flurry of Tornado funnels Over sections of the Midwest. Numerous funnel Clouds were sighted throughout Kansas wednesday As the Cool air sent readings dropping by As much As 47 degrees lower than temperatures and i of the previous Day. Tornado warnings were issued for parts of Indiana Western Ohio arid Pennsylvania during the turbulent weather wednesday night but the warnings later were lifted. An Amateur show entertainment by tvs Wes Holly and his troupe j and a Street dance concluded the kids Day festivities wednesday Linda Church daughter of or. And mrs. Virgil Church new London won first place in the Amateur show which viewed by children and adults too in front of the bandstand in Central Park children of the lower grades were on hand through much of the Day and increased in number in mid afternoon mum were present in the evening and the upper grades and High school set were present later in the evening. Winners in the Amateur contest were first place Linda Church of new London tap dance and singing Ait. Second place Rhonda Kay Overton of Donnellson song and dance number third place Jean Ann Coyle of it. Pleasant song without accompaniment. They received respectively prizes of $10, $7 50, Aud 5. Rides bicycle from Cedar rapids a Kington up ii Kex pub Sher John Fox swore today he heard Bernard Goldfine boast in Sherman Adams presence that the presidential assistant had promised a to take care of Goldt new a t roubles with a Federal Agency. Fox also said that Goldfine told him la had helped Adam Al i i hmm v materially a when j Adams children were going to j school he said he concluded a j Quot bul that Only a conclusion that Adams performed some j service for Goldfine in return for flu Aid a a a i Fox a Law Sci and promoter i who published the now defunct Horton Post made the assertion i before a House subcommittee investigating Adams relations with Goldfine it had previously been brought oui that Adams made for the millionaire new England industrialist at the Federal Trade commission Aud the senility is a Exchange commission. Fox said Goldfin made the boast at i meeting May to 1955. In Washington a Sheraton Carlton hotel two blocks from the White House j at the meeting Fox said were j Goldfine Goldfiner atm Horace and Sherman Adams. Toward the end Fox said he invited in to participate in a Toast. He quoted Goldfine As saying Quot let n have a drink to my Friend gov. Adam who never lets his friends Down and is not letting me Down this time Fox said he asked Gold Fine what the occasion and Gold urn replied Quot of those so and so s at the Federal Trade commission Are giving one of my Mills a bad time and gov. Adams is going to take cart of the lube Ommittee has disclosed that the Etc received a Misla Beling complain against one of Midline companies and that Adams in the industrialist s be bait. Made inquiries about the Case the commie Ion eventually got an agreement from Goldfine to Label lbs products correctly he told the subcommittee he Quot in a position to swear that the May to meeting actually occurred and that Adams attended it Fox testified earlier that i democratic newspaper had been forced oui of business by powerful forces High in the Eisenhower administration connected with Gold me he said Quot this influence inexorable deadly and great Fribourg Switzerland up a Marcel Peiry 26. Sentenced to five years in prison for theft asked for a new trial on the More or less intimacy for a Quarter grounds that one of the judges of a Century and i mourn him slept through part of the proceed with both affection and respect. Ings and therefore not Quali copyright 1958, King features fled to pronounce a verdict. Peiry Syndicate inc. I won a second trial four million dollars of the Unity million dollars for primary roads and More than $860,000 for secondary roads. None of the special interstate Money has been put under contract yet. Contracts for $2,416,903 were awarded for the interstate Highway system w in essay. About half of the $10,800,824 awarded for Portland Cement paving of interstate and primary roads injuries prove fatal Iowa City Monte Keller. 26, Iowa up Vinton died iat Michigan teenagers spend night Here three carloads of teenagers what Are members of the senior High Westminster Fellowship of the presbyterian Church at Holly mich., and four adult leaders were overnight guests wednesday in the Home of various members of first presbyterian Church. They were served a picnic supper by the local Church members and May Robinson Dies in California wednesday in University Hospital a enjoyed the event with members Here of injuries received last Sun of the local senior High West min Day in an automobile Accident Ster Fellowship. The crash earlier claimed to 01 the Holly Young people Are in life of Bert Long 24, Vinton who route to Laramie Wyo. To attend driving the car in which Kel j the Wyoming senior High youth Ler a passenger conference miss May Robinson 87, passed away May 8 1958 in Glendale Calif. She a daughter of or and or John q Robinson form it r residents of this City. The Robinson lived on North Adams Street where mite Robinson continued to live until she moved to California some years ago. Her Brothers. Edgar r. Robinson of i pleasant and Batavia and later of la Grange 111. And Charles w Robinson of Onawa preceded her in death. The deceased a lifelong member of the methodist Church. Funeral services were held at the Little Church of the Flowers with burial in Forest Lawn at Glendale Calif. David win whose Home is Iii Cedar rapids peddled his Down on his bicycle to visit his grandparents or. And mrs. Walter Lund Iii it. Pleasant. The distance from ids Home to the Home of his grandparents is 87 Miles and he co eyed this at the rate of 14 Miles an hour making two stops of one half hour each. On arriving Here. He ready to take a turn in the swimming Pool which he did in several stretches across the Pool David has developed Muscles through systematic swimming practices and experienced no unusual discomfort he has won numerous trophies at swimming meets Over the state and will take part in one Ai Ottumwa this week end. David is 16 years old and will be a senior in the Washington High school this coming fall. He is the son of major and mrs Robert Wray. Atlantic youth Accident victim Estes Park. Colo up a la my j Kullson. 20, Atlantic Iowa killed Early Todd to when his car went out of control and overturned near Here. Tile Highway patrol said Rolland Cookson 18, Windsor. Canada a passenger in the car injured. It also said the car apparently travelling faster than conditions permitted. J Bond sales in county above u. S. Average during May. Investments in United states savings Bonds in Henry county amounted to $72,890, giving the county a five month t0 Tai of $439,844 for 47 per cent of the 1958 quota. National average for the period 45 per cent of annual quota. E. A Hayes county chairman for savings Bonds activities reported that sales in Iowa during May Ware $11,308,020, making a total for the first five months of $72,729,571 for 52 per cent of quota. Receives promotion with Dupont company Virgil d. Lyon formerly of of. Pleasant has been named supervisor of the Dye properties division in the technical Laboratory of the do font company s dyes and chemicals division. Lyon whose Section specializes in testing fabric dyes for color fastness is a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan College. He joined Dupont As a chemist in 1941. Of. Pleasant stores will be open Friday night for your shopping convenience

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