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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 3, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. , no. 52mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening mum ii a 1%1 these Days by George e. Sokolsky the hidden attack on Hoover j. Edgar Hoover director of the Fri was reappointed by president Kennedy and so far As anyone knows he intends to remain on the Job. However a a the insider s newsletter a says that some washing ton a a insiders Quot predict that Hoover will be out of the top Fri Job by summer. A direct inquiry brought no conformation of such a prediction but one can always wait tor a summer to come Hoover has Given 40 years of his life to the Fri and undoubtedly expects to give More they cheer for new London ready to Lead the new years. London Ian in yells As they Back their tig cretors in the girls Why is it that the Rumor is so District final basketball game with morning Sun at Cottrell gym Here often spread that j Edgar Hoover tonight at 8 30 o clock is this quartet of cheerleaders Darlene Leyan student Union on february will resign when it is quite Well Baker Diane Straw Hacker Karol Schroeder and Barbara Shipley from 15. With attorney general Evan known that he will not resign but 5 Ibe . Shultman the main speaker. 22 Dielen mine disaster reports Given at county Republican meeting Here Spurgeon a to enlarge store by adding basement area another major improvement in. The it. Pica ant business District stalled. New fixtures and truck strikes massive blast c Alves on Highway kills All in one Crew could of course be dismissed by his Chiel the attorney general. Hoover is not Likely to make it easy Lor anyone by resigning because he Cloes not choose to risk the integrity of the Fri by making it easy for anyone to use it politically. A truck driven by Lewis i. I up Zinger. 28. Stronghurst iu., n Quot a struck four calves owned by Idle Henry county Republican one of several to .01 in in tin l it lighting an to be iou tall d in the Marvin Corn irk on Highway 34. 2. Central committee met thursday i weeks of the current y a. A. An stun al o Miles East of it. Pleasant at 8 30 j West Terre haute. Ind. Night at the courthouse with Rich noun. A d Friday by Duane Amram Allim Snow carried will be a pm thursday. Two of them were Fuji a night Long struggle by arb Cornick chairman presiding j manager of Spurgeon. Panelled. Que am Aid lad us ready-1 a lord Nat Antly and another was Rescue Crews to save the lives of m. I Linder in Asut or reported i in store is to Ltd mar. ,1 b to Wear and on will be so balt Jav injured that Hie animal 22 men trapped by a Coal mine Exon the successful Lincoln Day Din-1 the addition of a basements. I aimed on us i floor and a Ishol by sheriff Russell Van j Losion ended in tragic failure to Lier which was held at the Wes area which w ill Gin a a i of ionic tie. And Horn i urn Bing put 14,000 Square feet of space. The line., in the a. Cent sales area. Basement will be completely us work of remodelling the basement modelled and a Modi in stairway in will Start within he not few Days Rockefeller trapped briefly in n. Y. Executive mansion fire Albany n. Y 1 up 1 gov. And mrs unseal Rockefeller and were Roosevelt Grover Cleveland Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Evans Hughes. I look d out the bedroom win mrs. Cleo Lekoy vice chairman. Sevic cd the first District meeting i which was held in Muscatine recently. Senator c. M. Vance and repro j sen to live John b Rockwell were1 guests at the meeting As Well As Henry county office holders tile lawmakers reviewed the action in both houses of the state legislature up to the current Spring recess. The Day must come when Hook Lureo of their servants or will not be Able to continue in trapped for a Short time today by his Job for such a time comes to a fire which broke out in All men unless they die with then the executive Man. Ion. Destroying boots on. When that Day comes paintings Worth thousands of Dol j it would be j Edgar Hoover s Hope . That his successor might be a per the rocket ellen., two son in the Fri and not some and a Butler with cola hastily s Politzi in who could use this thrown Over their ugh cloth s ,. R t b. R Slon period followed the africans swarm to Refuge Dow one minute and saw flames. _ i Uliey brought Back the thinking of were com. The legislative group on such issues for a minute a a reapportionment congressional Rockefeller said. Maid -1,rred 1st r 14 Ting appropriations Educa the governor and Pittely isolated or she pounded on the door of he Day. The body of the last of the tile fourth calf received a Brok doomed 22 was brought to the amen leg. Fare at 7 35 am. Cost up Inger was driving the truck. The miners were killed late owl Sedl by Charles e. Muhleman thursday night we in n a massive Stronghurst 111., West on 34 and a blast shattered a car was approaching from the Section of the Viking Coal co. Mine cast. The cattle had wandered on j Iro feet below the floor of the a to the Highway. The car Driver Bash Valley. The explosion a loosed went into a ditch to miss the i tons of Coal and Earth knocked out animals but the truck struck them Cement and wooden ventilators and tile car Driver went on. J twisted Coal moles and loading a Only damage to the truck was Chines into crumpled masses of i Chicago Clifford m. Vance a broken fog Light and clearance Metal. J president and counsel of the in Light. Rescue Crews brought the charred Congo. U since Pian savings and loan As-1 sheriff Van Tuyl was called to mangled bodies out of the diggings 1 one by one through the Long chill night and carried them away in. M. Vance named to advisory group of s and e league and i tion and taxation. A Lively discus mighty Agency of government Tojo scamp Rcd Down ladders raised and climbed out onto the disadvantage of the american by firemen in biting 36-degree people. Weather. Whenever it has been proposed Rockefeller said both put on Coats night clothes and cd the roof of a Small Wing of the tion of these matters. At the close of the meeting of the damage to that the Fri be expanded into a the historic residence and the National police Force Hoover has paintings which lined its Walls opposed it. He has also opposed would total about $500,000. Amalgamating the Fri with the firemen controlled the Blaze secret service the Bureau of Narie. Than an hour after it Brok Quot a comics the investigative agencies out in a first floor drawing room of the immigration service and sending thick smoke swirling j state department because it has through toe 34-room mansion. Always been hi.-, theory of of Rockefeller made one trip up a j a rations that the Only Way to pro ladder to save a painting of i. Mansion. Firemen the Tim alarm Blaze raised a ladder to them. Among the paintings destroyed who answered of and set cd i tween the . Command and the. Quickly Mary or a ret Scarf cd a rms a �1 Central congolese gov. In in ism refreshment committee. Other. A a a Ull Law Leopold Ville the a it up a hundreds of africans Socia tion Olmi pleasant Iowa has j the scene to investigate. Fearing the same Fate As 44 appointed to the 1961 advisory a a slaughtered by rampaging con commit tee on state legislation of Golese troops swarmed to Refuge i of United states savings and loan with the United nations command i league today. At the same time friction to working on the committee were fido now at $27,323 ambulances to a mortuary Chap a where they w re Laid out in two i rows on Green and White sheets. The 22nd body was brought to the surface 41-. Hours after the fird tras recovered. Or heavily damaged was a Coiler a lion donated to the state by former gov. A pc re la Harriman. Rockefeller said they were ruined and he estimated the loss at $250,- too. The damage to his own personal was about $50,000 to Enola Carter and Helen Rohde. Ralph g. Violin Dies unexpectedly feet the people from a Gestapo like father the late . Ald organization is to limit its fun John d. Rockefeller jr., a paint Lions. There have been tunes when Ings by Picasso and a sketch by the Fri was so popular that Yan Gog ii Hoover could have got any measure later the governor went Iasi Quot through Congress he avoided sex the smoke blackened and debt pension beyond efficiency As he littered lower floor of the three avoided becoming an Independent Story Brick building to inspect Agency outside the department of damage. Justice. 000 Rockefeller said he and his wife an College sold a 160 acre farm in dents involving u n. Personnel frightened into a specs in Lulu Bourg the capital of j Kasai province where the Mai i a Ere occurred tuesday night and j wednesday the Bloodbath the wont in the Congo ii months and the troubles Ralph Gilbert Woisin 51, died j Between president Pika. A unexpectedly at 6 30 thursday Ivy by government and i n a the appointment w As announced today by c Elwood Knapp of Pittsburgh apron id it of the league which is the nationwide Trade or gain of the savings and loan i Money was coming in Friday to Coroner i. M. Ferguson said the business and re presents More than ur1hor augment the funds needed menus lives were lost in a a a violent the total in operation fido it i froze one victims hand in front of native s streamed 4 Loo savings associations and co for he local Industrial development Type concussion explosion that Tore a1 u n. Camp set us it j Obj Ergative Banks. Program. Away limbs obliterated faces and judgeship evening at his Home six Miles North of it. Pleasant. He was born june 17, 1909 in it. Iowa Wesleyan Sells Canaan farm _ i pleasant the son of Carl Fred one of tie comparatively a we k and Moll Mae Johnson sales of a larger Choice farm oct it Jin a a .,1,a to a a he was married in Cambridge curved recently when Iowa Wesley whereas in the past there have were awakened by the smoke been direct attacks on j. Edgar boiling through their second floor Hoover the current Campaign is living quarters it once served More Subtle it is devoted to Ere such governors a. Franklin d rating an atmosphere of imminent a a departure. It is like suggesting that a Man is about to die or is really dead already. It starts out with the Assumption that a Man is too old. That he ought to retire or will scroll retire it is like the propaganda a year or so ago that Justice Felix Frankfurter was retiring and a number of judges and lawyers put themselves in noticeable positions with the Hope that the spotlight might fall on them. Frankfurter fooled them All he just stayed on and said nothing. It was like that with vice Admiral Hyman Rickover. All sorts of plots were devised to end Canaan to Ether Moore. Sale Price for the farm known to Thor tics came at a tune when congolese leaders were preparing for a conference at tananarive. Malagasy Republic on sunday it was hoped that leaders of All factions would attend including Antoine Eizenga. Leader of the 111 february 25, 1933, to Orpha j leftist pro l urn Umb is t regime in Swanson who survives. Stanleyville. Also surviving Are his Mother Bill passed Mancial and Industrial development i Opportunity was up to $27,323 at 2 30 Friday afternoon. There a still Opportunity to Send his face As he apparently tried to Ward off an accompanying Flash of flames. The explosion occurred about or bring in your Cash or pledges 10 30 it was entered in a Bee the Quot committee pointed out. Investigator in murder conviction Many a the Quot Sater farm was re mrs. Carl Wolin. Two daughters. Ported As $500 an acre. Saunders bark acquired 50 \ ears ago serves Manv natural Beauty retained open House at Hershey Hall fifty years ago this Date aliment was made in the new.-, 1 Anilla that Saunders Grove had been Pur Ine Well known pleasure ground familiarly known As Saunders mrs Richard Marilyn Tolander of Olds and mrs. Glen Janet Lampe of it. Pleasant and four grandsons and one granddaughter. He w As a member of first meth j Odist Church where services will Hershey Hall Nan. Dormitory at by held sunday afternoon at 2 Iowa Wesleyan College 1. Holding i o clock t open House for Hie. College com j Tho Rev. Gilbert. Stout pastor of Unity Balut Day night March 4 Washington a up a tile St rate t o d a y president Kennedy judgeship Bill after in. Creasing the number of new Federal judicial posts to 73�?14 More than i he my thrown in River included in the measure is one1 additional Federal District judge for Iowa red Oak. Iowa a up a the Bill sped through the Senate a private investigator engaged in and smoke ill cd tunnels. By voice vote follow ing defeat of a a continuing probe aimed at Clear a Oil on by Senate gop leader1 Darrell Parker of a murder lion of the diggings More than two Miles from the mine Entrance and struck Down a Crew working on the 4 . To Midnight shift. Not a Miner in the Crew escaped. Too the heat generated by the blast was so intense it melted plastic insulation on trolley wires a mile from the Center of the affected arca. Heat and Gas drove Back the first Rescue Crews to enter the dust eve it Tell m. Dirksen to postpone conviction was the victim of a action until March 16. Vicious assault first methodist Church and the Rev. Arnold v. Thoren pastor of. Grove. At a special meeting held last a a _ chased both it. Up aaa it City Swedesburg evangelical lutheran levelling the Council voted to make 7 Council., Church will officiate. The Purchase and authorized the is. 1,1 a Quot a 81 thit a urn. Of Bond with which Tafi in. Hated that it was probable met the Ca thai Ai some jut Are time the City the act comiss of 31 acres would take of a i Quot further beaut at Lough a a Hild ch., a hands in i and make it one of to Quot to St teas a it Ord my Parks in a town this size to be found Send car Colatc. Was recently there will be informal entertainment from 8 toll. Highlight of the it veiling will be tile selection of a que n. Candidates interment will be in Forest Are Barbula Burion 2. G Ardmon Home cemetery. Ave. Haddonfield n a clued Oak tile family will meet friends at \ Kocl 3516 Sunnyside ave Rook the Weir Cyk Kes funeral Home saturday evening. Clothes line owned by mrs. John Neal of this City. A few Days ago it was put on the Market for Sale and but for returns three fold anywhere. His Days in the Navy. It w As not that was an a curate diction. Planned for him to resign rather 0vf>1 Tiu Llie palk As to it a he was to be passed Over so that developed and has ban one of the prompt action of the Council he would no longer be there. It most popular picnic reunion and would undoubtedly have Bern sold was such a simple plan. But con creation centers in this part of t0 private parties and Cut up in Field 111. Janice Mccurdy Fremont Iowa Elaine Schmidt fort Madison and Connie Phillip. Keosauqua. Jobless pay Bill rushed to House Auh thursday night sheriff dict Mccune said. Mccune said he found Ralph j Peterson 63, red Oak on the Bank of the East Nishn Botna River a Long . 34 West of Here after the investigator had clambered out of j River. Washington up a the Peterson rushed to a local Commerce committee to pad it waa reported in satisfactory Day unanimously approved an condition suffering from Shock and Uii recce ton Bill providing $24 exposure. Million in extended jobless payment to 69,000 unemployed Railroad workers. Mccune Aid Peterson apparently had been severely beaten and his hands and feet bound with wire de Gress took a hand at that one. The the state. Lots thus destroying forever the scheme fell Short of its purpose a iou Ca Kin of an it Arle Day has Beautiful Park and shutting off and the United Stales Lias its been a Ida for a rustic touch and nearly All Hope of the City Ever Fleet of atomic submarines which fireplaces and picnic tables have it was expected that Rickover Bien erected All Over the area. More would not succeed in building. Recently the t. T. T. Memorial owning a Public Park at All suitable. Realizing this situation the Grove was taken Over a few Days mystery a Why did tile clothes line disappear More mystery a Why did it come Back three fold prison Escapee captured in raid now Withrock Island ill. Up a prison Escapee from the term tile news reported thursday that ism state at Nashville the clothes line at the Dalton Gray tcnn., who had eluded Polit Quot for i Home 411 Broadway had Digap More than two years was captured Washington Ltd Donald Pear cd in an Early morning raid on Ani Ross said today that his resigns Stelte House to. By added a do Ako by councilman Van Allen until to it Jay a cwt can 0lat apartment Here today turn from the renegotiation Board. Edgar rightful gathering place for picnics the Council could have a Chance to i no hearings were held on the orc was tossed into the River j leg Isla lion so it could be seeded f rom Pic Highway Bridge. I through Congress. A committee his hands and feet were still j spokesman said it would be con hound when Mccune found him. I Side red by the House Quot As soon As the sheriff first was called by Peterson j i on Marion after he found the door to his fathers of fice broken open and evidence of a struggle. As Mccune was leaving his quarters at Hie jail two teen agers rushed up and told him they had Eon a Man climbing out of the River near the Highway Bridge. Mccune sped to the scene and said he found Peterson standing on Lears Way for Loveless wives children and friends a some sobbing others grim and tight lipped a clustered around the crude Concrete and Frame lean to building that covered the Steep in cling Shaft As the bodies were brought up in Cable cars. They winced when a rasping Burner signalled the arrival of each body and shrank away when Brooks after definite or tentative identification was made walked Over to console the waiting relatives whole Vigil was ended then each body wrapped in Dull yellow Burlap was carried away to the funeral Home. The disaster was the first at the 14-Ycar-old Viking mine and Tho first in Indiana since 12 men were killed in a mine at Princeton in july. 1948. The scene was about 125 Miles Northeast of West Frankfort 111., where 119 miners died in a 1951 blast and 110 Miles Northeast of Centralia 111., where 111 perished in 1947. Tile United states worst mine disaster killed 361 miners at Monongah w. Va., in 1907. New clothe line three strand of William Fred line >2. Who which cleared the Way for Lormor. Held to grand jury after hearing the tin Post any tune Kennedy formally Antenna Rotor not stolen after All he is on bad terms with Robert former wading Pool a converted j the Price paid was $6000 and the for the but win try i sentence for murder in Kennedy the attorney general to an aquatic Garden playground Council authorized the issuance of l make for u with More . Confinement when lie es-1 notified him that his services no who is Hoover s chief. Robert Ken equipment is used by the children 4. Per cent Bonds for that amount i to Emo a a ice Ped longer were desired. Nedy is an astute Man who has through the summer. To finance the Deal. These will be Gray still in stifled Raj had Long service in the invests in is and shrubs and perennial placed on the Market at an Early phantom s needs food i sativa functions of Congress. He a Lowers have by a a planted in the Lac win have cookies out on us i knew his Way around the Fri Park t0 maintain its natural Beau the Saunders Grove is a famil x Rich saturday night before he became attorney Gen to. Many of the older tree have Cie car resort for it. Pleasant people. Era i. Thus far. He has avoided any it morn cd a the passed and Atka tor years has been the popular political mistakes or getting in Bave b in re moved from the scene place for summer gatherings pc solved in a controversy with con be too is the location for Hies strollers and pleasure been Gross. It is not Likely that he aia mortal shrine to the men who Cis. It consists of i acres of Beau fall tor the scheming and plotting made Tho supreme sacrifice for rolling ground will supplied Abc missing television Antenna which always go on in washing to ii country. The county Hospital. With valuable Shade Trees and All Rotor Wasny to stolen from the Resi ton As they do in every overlooking the expanse and Bead natural scenery necessary tor Dot nce 0f Quy la fever in Sheaffer capital for to dismiss j Edgar a 0j the Paik is a Henry county such a place. The Council docs not after All it seems. Hoover would tart such a fracas soldiers and sailors met mortal build .cxp0 t to do anything with the. Repairman had taken the Rotor As no one needs surely not a per my. And in its Shadow is a Granite Grove at the present time the chief j to place on another House a the son with political ambitions and Shaft in their memory erected Only concern being to get hold of it Jesuit of a mix up. It a simply a political sense. Those who Hope Vav years ago where sen ices Are Ancl prevent its being sold to Pri comedy 0f errors fully speculate on the prospects of bid each memorial Day. Vale parties. It is probable How Hoover s have i fear Ever that at some future Date the been talking to the wrong insiders f rom the i. Pleasant news of City will take what Steps Are Neces but then that is so generally March 3, 1911 j said to further beautify the place True in any capital particularly probably one of the Mast in and make it one of the finest pub Washington. Where the real inside portent actions taken by the pres hic Parks for a town this size to be Era Are those who work on the t it Council and one which will meet found anywhere Job rather than at a cocktail party with a Mort general approval than from now on it will be open to preliminary hearing for Richard Godfrey local bartender who is charged with Selling Beer to a minor w As held in mayor Wade my father a local Auu dealer told Beth a court Friday morning. Of appointed to serve As Justice of peace a f Timmerman has been appointed by the county Board of supervisors to serve As a Justice of him lie was attacked by three a. Cd men who beat him gave Bim a hypodermic injection to Knock him out then hauled him to the River and tossed him into the water. The attack was Quot very definitely Quot the result of Peterson s probe of the Parker Case the son said. He said a Large display of new Pap it r clippings and photographs relating to the Parker Case that his father find histed on the Wall of his office had Beal ripped Down. It was found crumpled in the Back or a truck in the Peterson showroom. Mccune said furniture in the office was overturned Glass door and windows shattered Dix a and file draw a rifled and Peterson glasses and Wallet were found on the floor. Tor evidence was presented by county attorney Harlan Bain or Godfrey was held to the grand jury under $300 Bond which was furnished. Witnesses for the state at the hearing were police Chiel Werner Smith. Jerry Nobel. Richard Meyer and Gerald Pope. Moyer charged with buying Beer As a minor waived preliminary hearing and was bound Over to the grand jury. No Bond was set and Meyer was t held. Payne faces seven weeks in Hospital new York up a movie and to Star John Payne a reported in satisfactory condition today but faces seven week.-, in tile paker who received a life in Hospital copyright. 1961, King features an other one thing done in years the Public for All legitimate Public the peace in it. Pleasant. The a Syndicate inc w the Pur a e Las i Venir it us As a Park and City men is now in effect. Six passenger pickup trick a Henry county supervisors Fence maintained throughout his Payne 48, was struck by an recently acquired this vehicle with a different look for the county sur trial thai he was innocent and a. Automobile wednesday night As he keying Crew. The six passenger pickup truck provides enough space to confession he had signed was of v a walking in the rain to a red transport the Crew us Well As the tools. Tamed under mental duress. Meurant

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