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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 28, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 151 two Section set. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening Jene 28, 1%1 these Days j my George e. Sokolsky Hill Stuk nation of error j professor Henry Steele commager is an historian who has supported tin new Deal and who believes 1 Quot sometimes we forget How close the nazis and the fascists and the War lords of Japan a with All their inhumanity their hatred of life Cann to Victory. If Winston Wulchin and Franklin d. Rouse veil. Had not formed their grand Alliance if Adolf Hitler had not committed the incredible Folly of attacking Russia before he had Dis a i of Britain if men of Good will and of it of age everywhere had nut battled gallantly for Freedom. The i would be no Point now in discussing advances. The Black loud of tyranny and superstition would have settled alike Over All the i t glories and future Hopes of in 196. This particular paragraph is startling because As a re ult of our inability to recognize Iii 1939 the peril of supporting soviet re a we Are in major Dill Levities for which there seems to be no imminent solution a a Mankind then w As Given a new lease on what kind of a new lease of life a a. The world Given since 1945, the world has been disturbed by sons a int War by revolution by up a Oculi and economic conditions everywhere. It us impossible to Bela \ that world War ii saved the w rid from disorder world War ii destroyed a thousand years of Hus but it opened a new Era it Era of the emergence of the Maes under the leadership and a i dance of an intellectual elite. It vast areas of the Earth marxism a. Lea n substituted for Christian. Socialism has been substituted for private ownership materialism a in a substituted for idealism family Outing ends in tragedy new Hole in farm measure Washington ubi pres j Dent Kennedy a farm Bill a. Taking on water fast today a new. Hole blown in its Side by the sen-1 at agriculture committee Southern democrats and re pub is ii homed up tut Day to yank in be provision our of the Bil by a 9-8 vote in county s schools j Calls Kennedy a transporting peace corps pupils costs Over $131,000 a a Boondoggle h. H. Watts drowns at Lake Darling Washington Iowa congressman president Kennedy. Quot an International total Cost of transporting Public i school pupils in Henry county in 1960-1961 school year was $131,295. A report prepared by county superintend it j ii Mcgrath i Uey Cut on1 to administration shows. This was about $9,000 More request to allow new farm pr0jthan for the preceding year Grams a it to v it up an today labelled \ family Outing ended in tragedy peace corps Lake Darling in Washington i county tuesday afternoon when to but a vein he by the Sec j the 74 buses in use in the county it agriculture and Farmer averaged about 1.000 Gallons of Gas , subject Only to con Oline each. The amount of gasoline program from it a it in veto and Farmer refer consumed was 74.565 Gallons at a option or said Hdldn believe rep la r Oro. A Lowa. An Harold h. Watts. 34, 1107 e Madi out porn critic of the Kenned son St. It pleasant drowned while administration raked the or wading in th1 Beach area. He could Dent s Brothel in Law r Sargent not swim. Shriver tor asking Congress to Watts received new swimming a proper Quot $40 million for the trunks from children recently peace corps and went to Lake Geod Southeast of it. Pleasant a week ago. He enjoyed himself greatly and decided to go to Lak Darling tuesday and Grose said he a. Questioned the Cost of $19,362 the Quot hokum Quot that peace corp end us. _ the committee substituted a pro the amount for Drivers salaries was a a a stripped to the Bone labor a vision under which the farm pro-1 was $51,773 and for depreciation of love Enterprise a Grain. Would be sent to Congress $26,113. As Ordinary legislation. Take hts family. Cooking outdoors is an american pastime a pictured Are some of those who participated in the informal festivities of a recent Barbecue on a just finished Patio at the Helen Virden Home at Oakland Mills. Mrs. Virden holds grandson Scott while master chef Harry Whaley presents a Sample to Scott s Mother mrs. Curtis Virden. More vacation and summer recreation pictures and stories will be found in Section two of today news. Indict four Salt firms Floyd Vance Edwards. None of this is justification for ignoring the errors in judgment unexpectedly at Home it and in policy during the past 30 ten hair East Madison at 7 p. In. I which resulted in the United Floyd v. Edwards table of social Security Dies unexpectedly j b fit under new Bill Watts was on the first Day of Gross said. Shriver and . Or vacation from hts duties As a co i repairs Cost $17,119 and tire a Coors of the simple life May not Ionia i baking co., truck Mechanic j 920 insurance amounted to Abir to Spak and tribal dial cd a Here. Ii was acc Ompa Reod to the $2 678 and storage to $2,504 al juncture neither Are they Lake by wife and their four the average cd it f per Pupil was relying on Moke. Signals or sign children. About 2.46 . Mis. $66,61 the per cent of pupils trails language when they seek to Hake Watts returned from a trip to the ported of All those enrolled was Down the taxpayers for $40 million freshment stand and Hee husband j 49.4, As compared to 44 9 per cent just a a starter was gone. She Caliz d she haunt the or ceding year. The average Gross also bad a word of critic been tor about 30 minutes. She number transported the preceding Clem for one of the or Biden v. Now far Ted looking for and told a a year was 1.795. I farm adviser. Erie Johnston Richard Mentz of Chicago hi., a four j state appropriations for trails a John. By a motion picture to Carsons College student who was at por tation will pay approximately Dusty executive is a member of Beach that she find St Paul Minn a up Federal grand jury indicated of the nations leading Salt comp. Today pm charges of fixing per Pupil. The $131,295 total Kennedy s National agricultural adopt husband. Prices in be Alc of Rock Salt Cost to the local districts will then visor commission. J Mantz and an unidentified youth the indictment named Morton urdu cd to about $94,600 for the went into the water but could t Salt co Chicago International to Fil school year Salt co Clarks Summit. A j Diamond Crystal Salt co., Salt co Clair Mich and Carey Hutchinson. Kau 70, died at 303 tuesday yet stat reaching the position of univ to 1< id r and then losing this p. It Ion in the shortest time in a c. A filet with soviet Russia. It is. A to say that had Hitler not in Defeated he would have at it Ltd a the United states. It is easier to say from the available facts that by inning with Stalin and running through the whole of in Khrushchev regime the United states has been to the peril of v a and a had to devote its budget to warlike preparations. The new Era is a continuation of w to by ail sorts of frightful devices actual Mankind has not been a in a new lease on life but has lifer d the calamities of Perma it til revolution and disturbance a it Are at this moment in a More dangerous position than we Ever i it Eon in before and every per a i f is it in the not Only in Iii Economy but in social i bit of nip. Some of which Ai tort in particularly As Between 1>. I ii and children. Tin professor fur her says import a it among these was the Washington a up a Here a table showing the monthly evening. June 27 i benefits Lor men who elect to re he was born february la. 1891,1 tire before 65 under terms of the in Henry county the son of Grant and Elizabeth Sneath Edwards. On february 2. 1946, in Washington he w As married to Lucy Perchal who survive. Also surviving Are three Dan liners. Mrs. William Pauline Trout of Fairfield mrs. Clarence Maxine Bates of Davenport. Mrs. Earl Frances Schaeffer of be Claire five grandchildren three great grandchildren and one sister. Mrs. Ralph icy if Schuller of Mitchellville. He had been employed As an attendant at the mental health Jdith Institute for several years before scale retiring due to ill health. Funeral arrangements Are pending at the Weir cookes funeral Home new social Security Bill now await lug final congressional action working men working since 1956 they ave Raj in month y permanent j scale of benefits if retire at Ages wage 65 64 63 62 $50 $ 40 $ 37.40 $ 34 70 $ 32.00 85 50 46 70 43 40 40.00 110 65 60 70 56 40 52.00 180 80 74,70 69 40 64 00 275 Ioc 93.40 86 70 80.00 370 120 112 00 104.00 96 00 400 127 118 60 110.10 101 60 women have been allowed to retire Early and draw permanently reduced benefits. Their scale of benefits is identical to that listed above for men however the method for computing gets 8 years for aiding mrs. Geiger Start new round of negotiations Detroit it up general highlights of presidents news session motor corp and the United Auto i workers Union Start a new round. Find Watts at that time. Joe Murphy the Park custodian was Noti i tied and he had a human Chain formed by a number of swimmers at a the Beach. They walked in a line across the Beach area. Too Mantz found Watts body in eight feet of water about ten feet beyond the Beach markers at 3 30 . I apparently Watts had stepped into a deep Hole while wading. The body favourable for women than men. Average earnings for men arc reduced by years of non earnings be tween 62 and 65 but no such sentenced to eight year in prison Harold Sioux City up e Kistner j. Once a fast rising Young Busine a Baron today a under existing Law benefits before 65 and the of benefits with one except auction is made for women tilts makes a difference in some but not All cases since both men and women workers in computing benefits Are allowed to eliminate men cannot live years of Low. Or no. Earnings a aiding since 1951 and count Only the remaining years Between 1950 and for aiding the Quot lady Bountiful Quot of Sheldon in her $2 million embezzlement and for mail fraud. Kistner wa.-, sentenced by Federal District judge Henry n. Graven to five years in prison on one Colin of and abetting mrs Burnice Washington up a High of contract negotiations today for rights of president Kennedy a news was brought to Shore and members nearly 600.000 Auto Industry work conference Era Berlin he Law president Walter p. Reu crisis Quot soviet i of the Brighton fire department called the b rim Fried to revive Watts with a r manufactured Quot and a Sensita Travail. Or. G e. Geiger in the Mammoth embezzle orders French troops Home Hon is the same As that listed i now. Above for that age. Men with aver a the pending legislation would age earnings of 50 now Are entitled j boost their benefits at least to per to Only $33 a month. The Pend-1cent. Minimum j the following Chart lists Bene w Ith those firms. Ing Bill would raise the i it refit to $40. Fit amounts for widows under existing Law and under the pending wives of workers legislation Tore entitled in general Toj husbands widows widows Braw 50 per cent of the benefits j average Benefit Benefit which their husbands draw but monthly wage exist a Law under Bill Linen and to three years on one count of mail fraud j he could have been sentenced to 60 years in prison and fined $85,Coo Ion All of the counts against . The sentence was handed Down i for the 36-year-old Busine Man at j Holly i of Luloh tiler calling for a Tough but flex warned soviet Premier Nikita s. Montgomery Washington county Ible stand at the bargaining table Ohms sch v that the West was do medical examiner pronounced Watts was slated to meet pm vice term toed to maintain the Freedom dead. No autopsy will be held. President Louis g. Seaton for the j 0f West Berlin. Watts body was taken to the first bargaining session in the nuclear test ban the president Jones funeral Home in Washington Auto Industry since 1958. Disclosed he has ordered establish-1 and then to the Crane funeral tie opening Day activities were men of a special panel of scientists j Home Here expected to be largely ceremonial. I to determine if Russia is holding j the drowning was the first at Reuther will repeat the seen 1 secret nuclear tests. J Lake Darling since the recreation thursday at Ford and Friday at test resumption he said rus area was opened in 1950. Chrysler As negotiations begin is a a refusal to negotiate seriously 0 0 0 vacancy in Harold in Watts the son of How Ard and Bessie Scarf Watts was bom in Henry county near Trenton Jan. 15, 1927. He graduated Paris up preside t do Gaulle a ordered a Charles division Iii my of the Peoples of am a and 0f French troop Home from North Africa out of centuries of poverty Africa and was reported ready to Atid ignorance and . Here Clay to allow u s. Nuclear bombers. A revolution As significant As inc to return to French bases or discovery of the twin moves were said Renaissance Ann m a Quot reliable sources to be a Demon by when in their history have stratum of franc s Quot Ilard Quot Posi he people of China or Tibet or tion on Berlin and ii. De term Ink a e con offered greater oppress to a to stick with the or m d a a Ion than lit the present moment states arid Britain in a solid from when has Cuba for instance had a against any arbitrary action there to Economy than its present by the soviet Union on ? when have the cuban people sufi red More than now it is difficult to understand Pequot a what Tho purpose of this professorial grandiloquent optimism is to believe that All is Well even though taxes remain unconscionably High Are we to assume that the condition of permanent Revo am is a pleasant one and that living for most human beings is. Ii it nor to what it was say. In 1912? under existing Law can elect to re tire at 62 and draw a smaller Ben-1 to for example if a Man who i would be entitled to $100 at 65 under the new legislation claim a reduced Benefit of $80 at age 62 lie wife would get $50 if she were by i age 65 when he retired. She would it Only $37.50 if she were age 62. $ 50 too 150 200 250 300 350 400 $33 he 44 30 54 80 63.00 71 30 78 80 87.00 95 30 $40 00�?~ 48.70 60.30 69 30 78 40 86 70 95 70 104 80 survivor. Or. Welch named to Denison position or. Janies c. Welch research supposed to do for us. Are wre. To 11 if m psychologist at mental health Institute has been appointed associate professor of psychology at Denison University Granville Ohio effective september i prior to taking present position a year ago or. Welch was on tile faculties of the universities of new Mexico and Idaho and la is Del i ii ult for those who live Millahn St Quot in Ltd a a Bonk. To understand the harm Coue is vice a Quot world a a Vei v existence of soviet in. Has done to the younger i la ration of this and other Cour a in tile fact that much of the world is on a military basis that y lung people Uke under the Cloud cd being called up. That marriages Cit Lur premature or Are Post a med indefinitely that inflation it toys tile value of Money unit ally Are sufficient to justify mood that things Are much worst Titan they might be and the War to that look to Okinawa and Korea. A native of Hillsboro Ore he graduated from Dansville n. A. High school took a. B. A com at Colgate University m. A at the University of Oregon and pm. D. At the state University of Washington governors display Unity and disunity Honolulu a up a the nation governors lined up today for a display of Unity behind president Kennedy in foreign affair and of disunity on the civil right Issue which a formerly marked off units at their annual conferences. They were also embroiled in a minor argument Over the Choice of a new conference chairman because tile heavily democratic majority proposed to keep the Job from gov Nelson a. Rockefeller of now York a potential Republican presidential candidate in 1964 a where widow is sole after 24 hours verdict of guilty a verdict of guilty was returned by a District court jury at 2 30 . Wednesday in the ease of Ralph Powers Bre Itenbe ii r of Keokuk. The charge was operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. The jury was out nearly 24 hours having rec ived the Case from judge George o. Van Allen at 2 40 pm tuesday the jury deliberated until Midnight and retired for the night in the jury rooms. A lie end of a 2 hour hearing before judge Graven two Ohe tune aides of Kistner also Wen sentenced at the hear ing. J Adolphi m Biderman 39, former Nikki keeper and Secretary treasurer tor the firm Kistner headed was fined a total of $350 on a total of 14 counts of mail fraud. Robert s. Smith 42. A Stock Salesman was Given an 18-month suspended sentence and placed on three years probation on one count of conspiracy in connection with the fraudulent Sale of Stock. Keith Glover employed for the fort half of tile year As tile it. Pleasant City has concluded work and there now exists a vacancy in the position. Glover will be succeeded by someone who will be assistant to 30 million Dollar indenture on file a implement a i indenture tor 30 million dollars from tile Michigan i my pleasant Junior chamber of Wisconsin pipeline co. To the first Commerce members will hold their National City Trust co. Of Dela Ware has been filed in the recorder s office at the courthouse i the instrument consists of 47 Page. On a test ban is Quot disheartening a and rages the question of How Long this country can safely refuse not to hold tests. Laos u. S. Delegates will remain from it. Pleasant High school in at the Geneva talks on Laos in 11945, on Jan. 24, 1948, he married Hoper of reaching Agre Merit on of Winifred finn who survives. Feet Ive Means of assuring a laotian other survivors Are three son. Peace i Lyle 12, Michael to Roger 8, and Summit meetings the president daughter. Rebecca 6, at Home said Dpnna meeting with Lis parents who live Here and a Khrushchev was Quot useful. But he sister mrs. Willis Marjorie Gra said he has no plans now for a fun per Wayland. Tore conference with the Premier. Watts was employed at the co tractors for prisoners Kennedy ionian baking co., Here the past the county assessor and will also Kalfel that the refusal of cuban pre ten years. To the it pleasant assessor Oner Fidel Castro to bargain funeral services will by held at county assessor Willard Jensen j brought collapse of toe prisoners the r. K Crane funeral Home said tile Early part of the year for-1rat"tort Deal. He said he was thursday at 2 . With the Rev. Will be devoted to tile it. Pleas-j6orry the prisoners captured in the Alvin Maberry pastor of the first ant work and the remainder of i invasion of Cuba will not be treed methodist Church officiating. Lithe year to work in connection production he tossed Oft torment will be at Forest Home with the assessments Over the Khz Ushev s warning that Russia a cemetery. Friends May Call at the will Over take the u. Pc it. As tile no. Funeral Home As they desire. I economic Power. He said the so i _ Viet will not catch up to the United not u. Edward Seaton j under consideration plans for Par tial mobilization because of Rig 1. Berlin crisis recommendations be it t a g o n regular dinner meeting at the in a nudes and recommendations of a i special group studying the Berlin pro born will be presented at a National Security Council meeting county. Acc to install new officers taken by death services for member of inc associates service were held at Evanston 111. Tue Day for John n. Thorn Burn 54, a member of the Iowa Wesleyan associates died Satur Day. He was an attorney a director of j the Uptown National Bank and a Eichmann vice president of the Chicago United cerebral palsy association. Surviving Are widow the former Marjorie Gib on a former at now a Wesleyan two of a jew and never had one carried sons. Stanley Ana John or. And a brother. Never signed order for execution a of ii. View is nothing to be of t ii .-1ic about. Certainly the next Jerusalem a a up ii a Adolf r iteration must inherit a Burden Eichmann said today he never of debt and bad Money signed an order for the execution student c Pright 1961. King feature synodical inc it former Teller placed on probation Lan hotel wednesday evening with their wives As guests. Tile installation of my officers will be on the program with Wayne thursday. Nelson to be installed As president Dick Elefson first vice president Bob Young second vice president Steve bad Inage Secretary and i Dave Carrick treasurer. On the Board of directors will be Frank Allred Dean whaly Dick or Aud or Alanson Elgar. Gholson Marvin Doan and Don Alan. Mary and Robbie will leave Graben Tony be litter will be the i Friday to drive to Toronto Canada new state director. For the kiwanis International con guests at the my tint will be two will go to Toronto for kiwanis convention resigns As Deputy recorder or Beverly wha b a Deputy recorder at the courthouse for nearer Edward Seaton 88. A former resident of Danville died tuesday at St. Francis Hospital in Burlington. He was Bora August 14, 1872 near Danville the son of Grorge and Eliza Anderson Seaton. On january 26. 1898 he married Jennie Coad who died in 1941. He Farmed for Many years near Danville retiring in 1941. He had made Home the past eight years with daughter mrs. Marjorie Cline in Burlington. He was a member of the Danville Baptist Church. H is also survived by a son vent Ion. From Here they will go National directors Ron o Brien of k eight years a resigned the to new York City to visit mrs Fairfield and Mike Howard of it. Position effective Friday. Recorder Dwight Seaton of a Minneapolis. Two Elgar s Brot in r. Robert Dnnis Madison. State vice president Don Helen Virden has announced. J Sisters. Mrs Edna Ostrich of Carth or. Demand daughter Abigail. Alter will also be or sent. Two suffer fractures or and mrs. George Means and or. And or. Ralph Barnum will leave saturday to go to Toronto. Also. Or. Means and or. Elgar arc delegates from the it pleasant Lowell Billy frailty son of kiwanis club to the kiwanis con or. And mrs. Dale Francy suf fort Dodge Iowa up a former Teller at the Humboldt Iowa Trust and savings Bank who admitted stealing More than $3,000 was under three year probation today for embezzling from the Batik. A. A a a a ----15 i Richard Cahill 36 Humboldt was Given two year suspended sentences each of three embezzlement arrived tuesday evening and will mrs. Effie Bergdahl has been age 111. And mrs. Myrtle Gaines of named by mrs. Virden to succeed Burlington four grandchildren and mrs. Whale mention. Feed an ankle fracture while mrs. Ramona Lambe of Chicago i helping in Field work recently. Marriage License issued a marriage License has been issued at the clerk s office in the Bradley Raines son of or. And courthouse to Donald Wilbur al Ture great grandchildren. Two Brothers died previously. Last rites for or. S Aion will be held thursday at 2 . At the Elliott Lunn tog Chapel with interment in Jagger cemetery near Danville. The family will receive Friend our after he be to to remain in the Means Home while i mrs. Mervyn Rhine suffered an Lien. 22 and Nancy cortical he funeral heme wednesday eve. Its e emf Reed of iwed Mey a away j ankle fracture at their Home k both of it. Pleasant. Nln

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