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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 2, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 51mt. Elk a i Iowa Iii Usi Aye Umno Mauch huh these Days by George e. Sukolsky whats a name ibis the to Laird article concerning Hie strange cult the nation of islam that seems to be growing apace among the american negroes. It remarkably organized headed by astute person who Calls himself Elijah Muhammad but whose Correct name Elijah Poole. To become a member of the nation of islam must write ult following letter which May not contain a single error it must be written the applicant penmanship. The letter reads Quot or. W p. Muhammad 4847. Woodlawn ave. Chicago 15. Illinois a dear Savior Allah our deliverer i have been attending the teachings of islam by of your ministers. Two or three times. I believe it. i Bear witness that there no god but thee that Muhammad thy servant j apostle. I desire to reclaim my own. Please give me my original name my slave name i Olio wit name address City state this letter goes to Headquarters Chicago. If the applicant accepted lie sent a questionnaire which requires him to give full j data concerning himself which must be answered correctly a Toon a when tilt Chicago Temple if satisfied that the replies have been too Quot Correct the applicant receives his official x name. The reason for the x has been explained a during slavery the slaves were known Sam. John Luke George Etc. All were known Jones slaves Smiths slaves or whatever the last name might have been since the original names had Long been dropped along with a our culture religion we took our master name after we were freed when you become a Mem to by it or slave name dropped you Are Given x until your real name Given City accepts hid to raze local House prisoner who left Willi nurse aide arrested Industrial development fund near $25,000 Mark \1trik nation a several organizations expressed their appreciation to . Olive met la ran director of Volunteer services at the mental health Institute after she had announced her resignation . She shown by some of the gifts a chair. Those who represented organisations presented gilts were from left . Fern Mason i. Union representing the department of Iowa ladies auxiliary Veteran of foreign wars . Roger Haler Henry c county Gray ladies . John Moxley l Adies Iii Blue . Edna Krebill Donnellson Volunteer ladies Blue Gray ladies . Ruby White a. I. Vav. Auxiliary . Or it a Mccoy american legion auxiliary . Frank j. Miller res or ties. Red Cross fund drive county Oil l scouts to present pageant March 12 i. T. Harlan state committee l t Harlan chairman of the Henry county Board of super visors relived word them a that a a. Sun a March Oci Quot Kim i do a mar of 0,.s m Coll so dispel the. A a a u. Sup a f the 1961 membership girl scouts of my. Pleasant of Foi the it ii Cro. Pre. a pageant a message of a it. V the Adit Ion a. Candle Quot which All girls the if there Are More than of a similar name a numeral put before x for instance John 17x once admitted the applicant goes to a nation of islam Temple White he makes a Short speech answers questions. The meetings at the temples Are of two kinds those open to the general Public the private meetings. Until very recently Whites were permitted to attend the open race Tings. Recently a Public relations policy some willies have been admitted Whites can be admitted to meetings conducted for members Only males attending meetings Are searched Lor liquor guns knives files Sharp instrument Alo for cigarettes gum paper packages anything else that May be objectionable. Tile member Given a claim Check for his stuff which he can redeem after the meeting. The female members Are differently handled but such items lipstick cosmetics Are taken from them Elijah Muhammad guarded at All times. Wherever he May be lie always under surveillance by hts followers who not permit strangers to talk to him when Elijah comes to a building t thoroughly searched inside outside. When he arrives at Airport a guard there to protect him to escort him to wherever he going. His food . Under Security. Members who do not obey orders May be tried punished. At a trial there no defense. The. Wurst form of punishment to be expelled from the nation of islam this amounts to total excommunication. No member May even talk to expelled Jurson some of the crimes Are Quot i. Reporting Temple activities to a non member. 2 committing adultery. 3. Using narcotics. 4. Not attending Temple meet Ings. 5. Manus funds collected forthe Temple. J listing unbecoming language f before female members. 8. Eating or Selling pork. J u mentioning by lore Temple members that he would re i fuse to die for Allah i 12 sleeping during Temple meet Fine of the sins being overweight members who Are so Are fined so much per Pound. Those who report to a White or to the Phi which regarded a special enemy Are report id spies. Glenn chairman fund Henry March Campaign be conducted by volunteers each area of the county except it pleasant where red crass included the Community Che. Or Hultquist Aid that township leaders Are now being organized. rho i t of those assisting be announced. Oon. During world War ii or Hultquist was a state Annacia organization have a part. The event a tribute to the founders of girl scouting the United states Juliette Gordon Low. Wheel 100th birthday anniversary was celebrated last. October 31. March 12 l the Date of tile organization of the first girl scout troop the United state. So especially timely to present this prisoner a German pow Camp program at that tune for several month.-., i stated tile world Friendship Fin cd that fix red Cross contacts gift collection Given annually packages sent across the lines were i further scouting throughout invaluable Aid to the american captives. The humanitarian purpose of this program continues today across the lines of every country for the Benefit of service men disaster victims. The red crass also has j recognized be. A vol Imp r services Henry flags county .1. . Gra y everyone interested the girl hauling it first Aid. water scout organization invited to sap a my diarist r preparedness i attend. Programs i a to Hie world be presented during the pageant by representatives from every troop the City. Eleven of the 52 countries who Are United the world association of girl guides girl scouts be through costume Mitten of the Low tion of supervisors he has been a skid to attend a joint meeting of the committee the county engineers leg,.dative committee March 8 Dos Moines to study the Road study committee re port learn its effects it my Road funds to make recommendations to legit hit ure m. B Hendrickson of St. An. president of the association. Albia rejects school Bond plan the City Council wednesday night Are pled the Low bid of Arche Buck of Revere. To of $500 to tear Down the Hallie of House which the City condemned for off Street parking arca recently purchased for $17,300. The bid was accepted with the provision that the City can buy choler Lumbar from the House at $70 or i 1.000 Board Lect Subj it to the appt Oval of hic cont Raf t. Councilman m Goddard voted tax motion to Tun Bick the other councilmen Vot cd yes Goddard was of tile opinion that the City should tear Down the House he earlier made a motion that the Council r acct All bids have City workers tear Down Lite House the City keep the Salvage the motion died from k or a fond. The Oiler Bald were Darrell Kinney. I pleasant $1,470 Myna Decker West Point $850, Don shaky. I. Pleasant $2,340, Ralph Bruggemeyer i pleasant $975 tile Council Vot d to name a new Street East of South Walnut near t la Ted Bueno property Laurel i i eel. E. A Hayes Richard Hart y were present at the meeting to discuss with the Council the possibility of extending the sewer line to the new property acquired by tin Industrial development commit West Highway 34. The City plans to make a Survey of the sewer lines the w St part of town. A t a committee from Harlan school talked Over a dog prob he with the Council. I the fund raising project for local j Industrial development was Ivar 1 a up a $25 too Mark at 2 30 thursday of away i rom Tenison. Edward King chairman ill til w Ith a Young so been arrested Ohio walk a i a Pri Oner w i Iowa he nurses aide hts a routine Check Ohio. La 11 y Lee Jordan 20, a prisoner at the Iowa men�?T.-, reformatory aft Anama a or girl blend a Schott to. Of Iowa arrested wednesday to j w f re i Arr tall 6 flt i Btu i i add i d after Bein High w a \ a 111 a rout Heck g told the from City lad Pryatl can City night. They a slope d by i u to it til v Wen county jail the t wat Rad Appeal University hospitals at. Iowa where i Sidon wolfed sunday nigh a wide search had been launched. Jot Dan. R i ving a 10-year term for Auto theft had been a patient at the Hospital. I ceral times a he began Sering his sentence sept 26. 1058. Auf Horn speculate al t hat he. Became Friendly with miss Schott during his i its to the Hospital for treatment of ear infection tiny decided to Rqn a a j to it to a r i be Holt with aiding the i to w reported fund a if coming rapidly at two of clock the figure had passed $24,500. Tin. Fund a ii g it it i. Call d of ration f11 to financial Ludo trial development Opportunity j for clarification Tho following facts Arr repeated j the fund raising project i provide Money i j o buy land for if a it not Fay a Gilt i to Industrial firm which expects to fume to i. Pleasant 2. To make it possible to retain the extra land of the new Indus Iii of . I ii window Many per. want to help the Industrial development fund operation fido by giving our two live or ten Dollar Bills but do not i al like signing cards. Here a the Way to help. Stop at the chamber of Conizene office leave hic Mouy. It be placed the front window inside of course. Who not Cov r the whole window Mikeso dark thai tile Light have to be inside All the time this could total $400 to $500 i., no i. A a i a trial Park of town for future u. F. 3. To install edit Lex within ewer water lathe Industrial Park. A cheap politics Cli Argos hurled i Louse Kenned v j i Heap with the Sui Anetha la Ichair it d Abt 11 Rig or escape e driving a 1351 the or Calls for death penalty Mercury registered to miss Schott Jordan was unarmed . Urand it red quiet i j Jordan was Oik of Many prisoners p runt Titi to go tips Hospital i a parole basis for treatment h was not guarded or confined to bed. Iowa p t.a1 Din tor Benjamin Bair i ordered a temporary halt to the pea it ice of sending inmates of the mens Reform a ton the Fate Jan Tenti a i v to j he univ a it y Hor pita except. event of emergency. Pending a Complete investigation of the proc Dure. All i ones sent to tin Hospital for emergency treatment during the investigation be Liana d by a guard he said a cum w. C. Eggleston Dies Chicago Albia. 1a. Vote the Albia Community school District rejected a proposed $550,000 Bond Issue wednesday the vote was 860 favor 1,079 opposed a go per cent favor Able majority a needed for passage. Easier seals Are distributed . Lee Emry 44, of Brighton Dies Wash ton Uri i republicans accuse d the administration Wedner Aday Polit Ain connection Early distribution of i dividend Cheeks rep la r Gross Ltd Iowa said t he it i rails admin to rat Ion Ett closed a so with his insurance Cheek describing the Early payment a., part of the president program for advancing the Gross said he wondered if payments made under Kennedy a proposal to extend jobless Ben lits i would contain the same kind of i plug for tie chief executive. I resent tilts kind of propaganda t going out Gross told the House i. Quot this the presidents dial i rep said my. try Erie Vas description of the dividend. A i think it the cheapest kind of politics Curtis said. Republican members of the House applauded his statement. Democrats assured Gross that there was intention of enclosing similar message with unemployment Bend it payments t Hon Zed the Kennedy backed log isl Atlon. Dank took $1 million rond feb. 21 a k nox v i Lije. Low a it Upit a $1 million Bond was taken out the Community National Bank Trust co., Only three. Days by it fore president Eldon l. Job i confessed Embe Zah a about $700,000 committed suicide Bank at a tourneys said today. I but Hie attorneys said the taking out of the Bond was not a part fit a Cheme to defraud but was purchased a routine matter the suggestion of National i Bank examiners. The disclosure was made Thomas b Curtis for in. Bonding company personnel was Lic ked Quot by til Vas Bank examiners continued to go de i tie 40�11 Anniv i Ary Baxter Seal Eggleston filed tuesday if Appeal opened official today with at his Horn at 7754 South distribution exp r seals to j Homes Iowa throughout the i w c. I to Moon i Saginaw. Chicago 49, 111., after Sui feeling a heart attack. He sur according to Donald e Vived by his wife the former Laura Long chairman Lor he my Comdr the 1961 Appeal continue through easter sunday april 2 v it red Cross Gray ladies bring Relief from boredom into Hospital wards Good things happen when you help. Fraker by a daughter muss Camille Eggleston. The Fraker family were formerly residents of it. Pleasant the Rev. A w Flaker being a methodist minister. Funeral services for or Eggleston be Friday afternoon at 2 o clock from the lain sons funeral Home Chicago up rail has lose Call blizzard members of the nation of islam like to show off their physical strength particularly the presence of Whites Are notable tin a it mr., of to Fairfield spi Maynard calf Jefferson county Serviceman stationed at Fairbanks Alaska Means it when he says he Lucky to be alive. Graff 22 miraculously escaped death Whohe was t rapped for 33 i ours a raging blizzard High m the alaskan Mountain he Wax rescued after his company commander had reported him missing with Chance to live through the night. Detail., of the ordeal were related by Graff a letter to his Parent or. Dale Craff Brighton. Route 2. The Craff farm located South of Germanville Craff. 22, miraculously escaped army Winter operation the alaskan Range above Fairbanks Snow the arca measures More than too inches. A severe storm halted the operation the entire party was snowbound for four Days. Food a Cline was supplied by air drop when the storm ended tin police. There undo bit Day be much More to Tell of tin nation of islam what it represents basically discontent. Fear a compulsion for self express n. It can be used for Good or for evil. instrument of race hate it can be extraordinarily evil. Copyright. 1961 King features be Tea tri ordered to return tot troops were their base. Craff was sent out with a d8 Caterpillar to remove Snow pull trucks Over a blocked Mountain pass. A new storm struck the Arew he worked throughout the Day at Elevation of 7,000 feet. Craff Wax waging a lasing Bat a against. Co mile per hour winds at la p. In. His tracker froze up he Wax strand to 2d-below Zero temperature. The Quot be a re St j shelter was 12 Miles a v a Ai d j chaff had Caton Only a ration meal during the 24 hours Quot believe me i Wax praying like j i never prayed for anything before he wrote. After St a v my j with the stalled barter Merci than hour Craff of lie would soon freeze to d if he remained. H started to walk j Down the Mountain had gone i less than too Yards when he found a five ton truck partially buried j 1 the Snow. J la Driver Wax inside the truck i the two men huddled together during the night most of the i next Day until a Rescue team reached them Craff had sleep for 33 hours but he came through the Ord Quot Alj without suffering frostbite. The j Jefferson county Serviceman to a i diesel engine repair specialist. He i graduated from Fairfield High sch a i a i he urged All families this area to be watching for the sheets of Green Blue seals to respond generously to the Appeal. A special return envelope provided which contributions May be made. The local chairman also urged Reading of the special Appeal letter accompanying the Veals m which the activities of tie local easter a1 societies outlined Jack Darla of said a crippled children of thus j throughout Iowa depend the j i generosity of our g xxx neighbors to i receive the treatment Reh Abili i tat Ion services that the local easter Seal Sci Oaks provide primarily a result of fund from this annual i drive at Ottawa Iii up a prosecutor said today the starved Rock state Park murder Case a cries for vengeance Quot called upon a jury to inflict Leat to Chester Otto Wager 21. A dishwasher charged with the slayings of three Riverside ii matrons Brighton or. It Emry j _ a Yeti Kir a if Ever a Case deserves capital 44. Died at 7 a in. Wednesday j fall Frlj Ari fitting punishment it this Case Quot cried University to pita Iowa City of Bpwe Friday Robert Richardson. La Salle coun j when six to la Ita patient for to states attorney at the of the past three weeks had a summation which took More i a Crotie major surgery. Than 2�?Ti hours. I Leola Ramic was born dec. I make a verdict so that when i he North cd Keota. A daughter you go Back to your Homes you of Harvard Opal Tierneyhold your head High Quot lie told Ramge. She Wax married March la 1939 to Lee Emry. She taught school for eight years Brighton elementary school she clothes line missing was a number of the methodist churl. Mrs. Dalton Gray 411 Broadway survivor. Iii hid Lur he band would ills to know what happened her sup a flier Mother or to her clothes line. She went out to m Tony Mouth of Brighton j hang a Rug thursday morning three sons Jack a student at Tim j the clothes line was gone. State University of Iowa Howard,1 i a student of Iowa Wesleyan col at i 25 Hun Day morning at Bur Jim. To senior Brighton another first Lingual Hospital where she had Bacn Jhio a a Isch 0l Nomy Vin. A patient for three Days. Len Tom r of Brighton John Mol it v of Princeville. Ill there to a called meeting of the it pleasant Bpwe at 5 to . Mint. Friday match 3 at the Braselton j hotel. Consideration of support tor the fido operation other important matters Are the Agenda. Over the books of the Bank to term the exact loss. Carroll Johnson attorney for Hie Bank member of the Board of i directors said the bonding company has a taken the position that it does not have to make Good the Bond to cover part of tile loss i Johnson said the Bank Board has i taken the View that the Bond was placed effect at 12 noon tuesday feb. 21, just three Days before Job committed suicide rocked the Small Community. fact it went into effect just a few Livours before a Bank examiner found some questionable notes that led to discovery of Hie embezzle the jury of seven women live men. A this crime cries for Nellie m. Williams taken by death . Nellie mar Williams 77. Died a Johnson said the a Bond provides that it u. Effective at noon Fob. 21 further provides that it covers All Deal cations regardless of when they occurred but discovered after the effective Date of the Hie Bank had a $300,000 primary Bond with the National surety insurance corp., Chicago. Johnson said this Bond was not question there was doubt but that Tiu would be paid. It for three Days she was born april 29, 1883 it. Pleasant the daughter of Phoebe Hobbs la fast the Housel 1 she wits married August 5, 1908 at i. Pleasant to Sleph to we i 1 Aims who died oct. 14, 1957 or. Williams wits a member of the methodist churl of the birthday club. Surviving Are two sons. Edward r. Williams of Denvir Colo Wayne ii Williams of Danville three grandchildren. A brother Edward a sister Glace Dud previously funeral service Foi or Williams be held saturday afternoon at 2 of clock al the Elliot Chapel with the Rev Harvey o Quandt officiating. Interment to Plasant Grove cemetery Soutua. T of new London. Mother of local woman Dies at Ottumwa Mike president entertains leaders of both parties Washington up. President Krum by made a Goodwill be Faire taxi a to congressional leaders of both parties apparent move to enlist support for his legislative program. The president who has served Iii hoi ii that House Senate indicated the importance he attached to cordial relations with Capitol Hill by inviting 15 d socratic Republican leaders to lunch at i . Let. S. To Starnes of or. j Duane St a a 308 East washing ton reports to the news that he i saw his first Butterfly thursday j by ill i i m w j Ork a Iii a j Adlai i. Stevenson i. S. 4m Bas ador til i .n., warned i Russia today that a soviet attempt to Lake Over the Congo Lead to War. I Avila a Ipi a Max Conrad arrived Manila tonight the fifth leg of his attempt to set a round the world Speed record for a Light 1 Piston plane. J Speed . Construction Washington a up a t7ie while House a further anti it f Ion move announced today that a $270 million xxi office Conli auction program be seeded up. New buildings be gotten under Way during the next Mouths instead of the next month originally planned White House said. To 18 the Lites waste plane purchases . Truman a nuke of Fairfield the Mother of John Lynchard of my pleasant Dud wednesday. March i. At St Josephus Hospital Ottumwa following surgery. Funeral services for . Rowley be held saturday morning at 9 of clock at St. Mary a Church Fairfield. final service of religion life week Ben. Washington up Stuart Symington d-mo., said today Cor grey., was partly to blame for the Navy a Purchase of $663 million Worth of faulty planes aircraft engines radar j this Quot a. To the management of our defens should not b blamed entirely the services a Symington said a prepare d Senate speech. Quot con twas ii. Shares a grave responsibility Quot for i the Quot present antique organization Structure of the tin final Chapel service of r Ligion life week be held at Iowa Wesleyan College at 10 30 . Friday with or. Don w. Hefter speaking a Awakening world. The nubile i invited to attend. be cheering Foh Olds tonight a Hie Olds cheerleaders be rooting for their i a verite raiders who he seeking its 22nd straight win without a loss when they face of Sis Champion Fairfield a Semi final District tilt at Fairfield tonight at 7 30 of clock. From the left Are Patty Johnson Donna Cannon Betty Mcgohan Suzanne Hull. Threatened strike m. Amp St. L postponed Cedar rapids Iowa up a threatened strike the Minneapolis St. Louis Davison of the Chicago North Western railway has been postponed pending at tempts by a Federal mediator to Settle Hie dispute a Railroad Union spokesman said wednesday night

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