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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 4, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news \ of. S., no. It. 11.kas ant Iowa Sah Koay by pm no Maiu ii i 1961 these Days by George e. Sokolsky representative Kepi blk this is a representative Republic Cor trolled by a writ Ion Constitution and by acts of Congress As interpreted by the supreme court. By a representative ii Public is meant a government chosen by the people Ai elections for specific terms of office and with limited responsibility. Under the a Mei lean Constitution these limitations Are stated in very general terms ult us the economic and political life it the country has grown increasingly Complex Laws have had to be passed which in 1787 would not Ila pc been thought necessary and the Constitution has been modified to meet these new conditions. This particularly applies to matters of into Commerce of Public welfare Aud of flu general defense when Theodore Roosevelt and Robert la Follette favored the referendum and recall they were regarded As wild radicals. Today both these ideas Are recommended by nun and women who regard themselves As conservatives. They agitate for direct action against tile Congress the court and other government officials with whose views and actions they disagree. Tills would by tin referendum and recall. It would bring us closer to a democracy than to a Republic. Too the dissatisfaction with the court arises from the a communist decisions and from Brown decision which dealt with the question of see legation. Tile principal objection to Many of the recent decisions of the court is that they Are in reality acts of legislation the court assuming a function to Winch it is not designated one of my correspondents writes a but we cannot lie Down and , As the men in Korea had to do while we Are betrayed by our own government la there Are men in our judiciary government education Etc and Infin tum betraying us it is our duty to expose than and get rid of them before they succeed in destroying our country. These All sound like platitudes a that show platitudes Are congolese drive troops from base to restore five stars to Ike jurors in a Stew find Weger can get out in 20 yrs. Leopold Ville. Congo it up it a forces drove a detach mein of Sumbi pcs 0 n. T Roopi out of the naval a of Ftp Liana. 1 Ottawa 111. Iurii a Tho Jur ors in tin Chester Rocky Weger murder trial today were in a Stow Congress Over their verdict which would enable the convicted slayed to to Trio in 20 years. Quot to thought to d to in prison for Washington up toils v was exp cited to a s. Legislation next work that would put former president Dwight i. Air it Mimer Back m the army in life said mrs. Nancy Porter. of Leif it a Del Len i night 0 i rank 0f have Star general but fight Foi the strategic port it a la a difference a no pay. Holt c and Senate armed services committees a. Sod the Bills unanimously Friday and they were expected to sail through floor vol s with no trouble. It was recommended tin. Work by president Kennedy and i. ©n-1 to we i sex pre., cd thank to the the troops Utha n a a i i i l it nine x ears a engineers took a look Ai the in Ade of the largest of the turbines at the my pleasant municipal Plant this week for the first time in nine year. The big Turbine had not been opined tar inspection in that time and Hud been running almost steadily through that period. Installation of the diesel unit gives enough auxiliary Power when coupled with the other units i Supply the local electricity demand so that the 3, Kwh Turbine can be shut Down i Harles Koppel manager is shown beside the unit. Will visit All farms in feed i Rai n a retire s u Rev four in collisions Ion was reported today. The United nations flew n in few cent i to the nearby airbase of Kiona. Where Congo forces had been reported locked ii fighting other u. N . A spoke Man said score tary can eral Dag hum in ars pkg. Id ordered reoccupy commute Tho Lull Niller by in vol int Ion or by Force. The spokesman said col. Joseph Kamba. The chief of Faff of the Central Congo army had flown to Kiona with a Canadian major on duty with the u. N. To try to arrange th1 return of banana to Suc Ianes he said one congolese Soldier was killed and one sudanese wounded in the mortar and Small Arm fire for the town. Other sources said the casualties included one congolese killed and one wounded and two sudanese u. N Soldi is wounded. The first reinforcements flown to tile Kiona banana area at the Mouth of the Congo River were 125 indonesians. Wife and Sisters a waited huddled in the rain outside the City jail to get a Chance to see the convicted Slayer. A ref c was convicted of slaying mrs. Lillian Oetting March 14 at starved Rock state Park. He also let before it. A Quot we apparently did not under r stand what a life sentence meant accuse d of bludgeoning to death we did t know he d be Able to her two companions while they were apply for parole in 20 hiding in the arc a i to a seven woman five Man jury j Mcnamara indicated he would prowl in re a verdict of guilty Friday peal the verdict. March 31 was the afternoon after nine hours and 40 Date set for the formal sentencing. I minutes of deliberation. They sen Quot a a tit Weger looking tired face paste like heard judge Leonard Hoffman read the verdict without of two to life tried the 1 father imprisonment. Under till Nous Law a Corr would be eligible to apply for parole in 1982. Or would he 42 years old. Batting an Eye. I m innocent a said Weger a i wegers family received news of never kill cd any no 1 was framed. The conviction with murmurs of Quot he did no to do people trial. Told lies throughout the the family a 0 i wegers conviction came on a Bis Mother lather 22nd birthday. Even proved the Bill. Although five Star funerals Are always considered on Call for acini is Ivice Eisenhower won t git paid. Instead he would ror Timie ii draw ins $25,000 re presid hts pension and $50,000 allowance for a staff. Bus army pay would have Bern $20,543.36. Less i ban t he presidential pension but $7,626.56 would have Bien tax free. When the Bill becomes Law Eisenhower will be entitled to Post Exchange and commissary privileges and to medical and dental Are in military hospitals. Mrs. Eisenhower will Abo get medical care. Slaying step Grandfather last Section of operation fido i there was some talk in the november was sentenced to 90 Mancial and Industrial develop youth sentenced to 90 year term kick off in Rural on murder charge fido drive Des Moines Michael Scarlet t. Up James t 18, accused of tile kick off phase of the Rural whether years in the fort Madison state a feed Grain acreage Survey reaching every farm in Henry county will a made during the next two weeks it was announced today by Glenn p Campbell chairman of the county Aso committee. The information will be obtained in connection with the recent presidential message to Congo s r questing feed Grain Jegl Lancit hi., cup year. Pointing nut that Only two weeks Are allowed for getting the acreage i los tory for every farm in the county chairman Campbell org d All Farmers to cooperate to the fullest extent. A any Farmer who May be absent from Home from time to time the for next two weeks Quot he said a a should Contact a met Ember of hts ask Community committee or the county county Aso office in i pleasant by tin or Telephone or in person so that a Corn representative of the county office Karen Fiala crowned Queen Orange City Iowa up a a car Truk crash on a Snow Slicke cd Sioux county Road claimed the lives of an Orange City couple Friday night and injured three other persons two of them serious a a a by. Iowa Wesleyan Letterman held William Van de Brock 54, was dance at the student Union Friday tial nomination killed instantly in the Accident evening with the temp tones pro Jot White House news conference ment Opportunity will be held monday evening at eight of clock at the Rea building chairman de which happened in Miles South of Here. His wife. Ruth 53, died a Short while later in a local Hospital. The seriously injured were their daughter March 20, who was driving Van de Brock car and the Choice of Karen Fiala As let it s big us la and pm s to w.,1 not make a useless cull at �?�1�?� Sharon ver Steeg 20, also of Orange. Termen s Queen miss Fiala a sen i this is a profound emotional response to a grave sense of injustice. There is too great a tendency to Call everything Crackpot which is not currently fashionable. The fact is that Over the country groups Are organizing themselves in opposition to what they regard As a negation of the american philosophy of government. There Are for instance about too conservative clubs on campuses and the number is increasing. A Young americans for Freedom is an exciting youth body outs Okenly conservative Quot tilt John Birch society coi. Its of adults organized All Over the country to advocate special causes such As the impeachment of chief Justice Earl Warren. They publish a Magazine a american opinion Quot the Prim in ii conservative publication is the a National review a the circulation of which increases although it does not receive much advertising from business firms. Tins weekly publication has Gath red together a group of Brilliant writers mindful of the Quot new Republic in the Days of Walter Lippmann and Herbert Croly. Russell Kirk in Chicago edits a quarterly the a University which is conservative and intellectual. In addition to these publications Are numerous pamphlets newsletters opinion circulatory of every Type of thought some of which need to he taken seriously by the student of politics and social conditions and others of course must be pushed aside because they t present blatant opportunism. But even the latter Are interesting because one wonders where til support comes from. The a a hate sheets Are particularly shocking and the question is who puts up the Money for untruthful statements and miserable Distor Tiong. Yet even such publications give evidence of depth of discontent and discouragement not among the economically unfortunate but among All classes particularly the Pioves. Amass physicians. Dentists lawyers j 9 9 such movements Are usually not reported because they really do not make news unless they coalesce and nominate someone for the presidency As the Hillman faction farm operators of the will be requested to report 1959 and i960 acreage., of Grain representatives of the county ask farm office who will go from farm Toj a in own Best interests every i farm to obtain the information a Farmer should see to it that j s Parat acreage figures for Tach 1959 and 1960 acreage of Corn Grain of the four crops and for each of sorghum Barley and Oats is refile past two years will be listed. Ported in this Survey. It would be i Farmer elected ask Community j especially if every Fanner Cem Raitt vim n and alternate com a would immediately Jot Down the evening. Highlight of the announcement by House committee Over the Bill was generous enough.1 Penitentiary today on a second do. Some thought the former Prest Gree murder charge. Dent should get Choice of Polk county District court judge Ward Kins announced saturday. Being paid As a general or As an c. Edwin Moore Abo sentenced the farm area has a definite in sex president. Scarlett to 30 years on a charge Ofseur Clit in Industrial employment it Eisenhower resigned from the assault with intent to commit has been pm Inte it i out. Many can a army in 1952 immediately after murder in connection with the Prudil from the balanced Economy a winning the Republican presiden wounding of step grandmother. A Between agriculture and Indus and he told his1 the terms will run concurrently., Scarlet had been indicted on a anyone interested in the Finan in Cial support for local Industry is shooting of Harvey invited to the meeting monday Viding the music. The i phys pre that he would like to regain the charge of first degree murder seated Tim a vocal so i Catena during five Star rank he got in world the fatal War ii. Evening was Bob Hager r of one policeman Mitte Emen will be assigned the Job acreage of each of the four crops. A we Kend from Sioux City where of Colli Rig the information in for each of the past two years and let Young women Are Grade City who was a passenger. Both for from Solon was presented with to i a i a ii j were hospitalized Here a varsity letter and a bouquet of Vicich i in a 105110 1 Russell Van corp 40, Orange roses. City. Tho truck Driver escaped with a. Minor injuries. Van de Brook and wife had been bringing their daughter and tin ver Steeg girl Back Here for pj0 0 a do tors Thomas 70, lad nov. 26 at Thomas evening. Farm Home near Here. Tho fund is moving up steadily. However he had pleaded guilty but a 11 30 saturday morning it had to an open charge which left the p85 do $31,000 Mark a $31,039 i determination of the degree to11,0 1x1 exact judge Moore. First degree murder kiwanis t and a Des Moines state supervised lie up Detector in Iowa is punishable by death or life imprisonment. J Scarlett had also pleaded guilty a on the intent charge with the wounding of Thomas wife Ada Liz Taylor seriously ill their it pm it Ive townships. J have the figures Leady for the ask i ,scb0ol teachers subs Htu. will be named for any representative when he Calls or commit a n unable to assist in i make arrangements to get the lathe project. Gathering of the in formation in the hands of the rep formation will be monday March 6. Started nex Nta Tivix away from if he is going to be Fairbank Iowa up a a Headon collision on Iowa 190 about on mile East of Here Friday night in Nova Scotia 58 Scarlett showed no signs of emotion As the sentences were read to til audience attending the last in the current travel and Advent apparently has. Cleared one of Siree discharged Des Moines police officer.-. Of wrongdoing Iii connection with recent police department Bim. Scandals. Atty. Gen. Evan l. Hult Irvy i Man said late Friday. Lharg0s t 110 1 Hultman said the test Given by j an agent of the Tate Bureau of after 2 accidents wife of slain or. K. Ii Bartels gives testimony out mud probe of beating of Iowa investigator Waterloo. Iowa up a the attractive w flt of slain Dubuque physician Edward a Bartels 34,1 tight lipped testified Friday in the Federal Kidnap trial of Victor hairy Feguer As the preset ution tried to reconstruct the victims final hours. Mrs Ruth Bartels appearing slightly nervous but answering que St ions in a Strong voice related How her husband responded the red Oak Iowa up a Tate and county of j j facials continued an investigation j today of a private detectives re a port that three masked men roughed i up and warned to a play off a probe aimed at Clearing convicted 1 wife Slayer Darrel Parker. Killed two person or. Jean Mur lure scrims sponsored by the al wan criminal investigation to Edward in pity 33, Oelwein Aud Harold Ley i club will be taken to Quot Ilif Bull Crozier 31, indicated he was toll 24, al 0 of Oelwein. Rise province a Nova hts the truth when he denied mrs. Murphy was Riding in a car James Metcalf will bring tile Hardin in by her husband. John 40, the ration with the color motion Pic High school basketball coach at Ture at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel Hazleton Murphy was listed in fair monday evening at 6 30. Condition today at an Oelwein hos Metcalf has been in the photo pita. Graphic prof.,Ion for almost 20 police Olfie Era accused or men Leyh was alone in car. Aken into wilderness Canada responsibility for or any knowledge j pm Loco against two motorists Fol of the major allegations concern i0�?~n? local accidents which of ing in connection with al Jcu itch Early saturday k god wrongdoing. I 1vrr> was charged with Crozier was one of 25 Des moine0 Caj Quot class driving a., a result of an London a up a Hollywood i actress Elizabeth Taylor is a seriously ill with pneumonia and has been placed in an oxygen tent a spokesman said today. Muss Taylor who Only five dais ago was nominated for a movie Oscar award is being treated in her suite at the Dorchester hotel. Her physician or. Carl Heiz Goldman said she has a Quot very High charges have been filed by City t a Impe Ratute Singer Eddie usher husband of the 29-year-old actress was at her bedside. He is recuperating from an emergency appendectomy. Lbs Taylor a health has been a matter of concern in recent months Forest City Iowa up Paul c. Anderson 68, Crystal Lake was killed Friday when car was struck broadside on Highway 169 about three Miles South of Here. Tile Driver of the other car Oli ver h. Tankenoff 40, St. Paul. Years. His camera expeditions have toned by ousted patrolman mar. Tin b. Brigid ban jr., 25, in a de car alld at co11 with the parked Yucatan Mexico al Salvador Hon a Tullid statement concerning alleged or of Rex Sadler at 701 West Clucas Cuba Van,�?�/.��. Emu,.,,. Improper Polk activity. Toy sum. Both Machina were indict and now to nova1 Brightman gave the statement to i 1 j cause of the trouble eventually was Fiir it to in tron Welcher was charged with follow my b i diagnosed As a bad tooth which Accident which occurred at 2 15 a. In Krehan lost control of Sand Hai hot old Quot a Maolne 01 the Multi million Dollar movie Quot Cleopatra. Late last year she spent several weeks in a London clinic for a virus complaint and the sheriff Wilbur Hildreth a monumental1 ills Eoo Ond conviction on grand Lar j minn., was reported in satisfactory at a Mason City hos Ralph Peterson 63, who has condition planned for two years he knows Petal. Night of july la to a Telephone Call i the rial Slayer of Nancy Parker i Iowa Highway patrolmen said Aube a or. a who said told i. Son the masked nun heat j Date Sim slopped ear at a stop1 it Ras filmed the Scenic Beauty of bound up with wire and sign and was struck As he proceed n0vh Scotia and the remarkable then tossed into t he River near j cd across tile Highway. People. A Highway Bridge thursday night a a a the Scenic highlights include he was report d in sat i it factory of l la ii v. V Hillson Cape Breton Island and its Quot Scot condition suffering from Slick and exposure. Hospital officials declined to specify the exact nature of injuries state and county authorities said Edna Carlson 72. Died Satur Tuhcic had Bei n no new Deve lop j of the Iowa lutheran Home at men to in the Case since the attack thursday night. They had not be been abit to question Peterson they the West Scotia. A Nova Scotia if color portrait of Canadas Sunrise a Eny charges. He is now serving a province and Ocean playground. 10-Ycar sentence in the mens or the audience will be take from forma tory at Anamosa. Cat it North to Yarmouth in the Hultman. Aid two other Dis Harg South from Halifax to the dra d officers Richard d. Calion 27, a tit Bay of Purily. Metcalfe scam dind Marlin i. Long 50, were sex Wile was having Post operative Dif ii ullies mrs. Bart is who has borne a child a the couple s fourth a since her husband s death never saw alive after he left the House that night. The government contents Feguer a 25-year-old former Michigan convict made the allegedly fake Telephone Call then shot the physician to death in a lonely wooded Section it Illinois about ten Miles cast of East Dubuque 111. The former St. Johns mich., Man said. cd ii. Birmingham ala., nine Peterson a Days after Bai leis disappeared and i the attack one Day Bhoi e body was found j the is charged Only w til kidnapping. But the the phase ution has demanded the failure to have ear under control following an Accident on North i Romov cd main Street at 1 15 a m. Or 0l>l Lmh a a a a though Belchers car struck a parked the a a a it of Mcm al no nth 15 severe car of Max Kauffman Wayland 01 act Rcd a 18 Editp cd a a rcc0 or and shoved it into a parked car owned by Thomas Turner. Jim marriage License issued peeled to take the state tests Mon a Snavely a passenger in the Welch. Day he said arrangements would i or car it was Rtia Ken up and bruised. A marriage License has been is for the examinations at was tree cd at memorial hos sued at the clerk s office in the of their attorney Pital wild . Courthouse to Ronald Everett Ghol be made the request Richard a. Stricklr. Taken by death Tish the Cabot Trail �?1 a breathtaking Road of adventure Peggy a Cove a a photographers Paradise and an artists Delight celtic Lodge a a spectacular playground and resort and Bay of Home of the worlds High the Welcher car and the Kauff son 17, and Doris Elaine Freyen Man car were badly damaged. Berger 17, both of Wayland. Register new motor vehicles son Marion 32, said a very definitely a Madrid where she had been living Furril for the past la years. Est tides. Bite was born dec 30. 1888 in there is a wet bit 0 Scotland in h Ary county the daughter of John Antigonish xxx it ii its exciting Holland Clara Morgan Carlson. She land games and in pug wish the to fliers Tell Story Topeka Kan. Up burst of gunfire knocking out two in _ of fines Jerky movements of the tin following persons and firms _ motor Vert recon Nai. Ainee plane a. It spun out of control the sight have registered new hides at the treasurers office in death penalty ment when til harmed. The trim or was a cibber of the Messiah , of bus father probe of filth ran Church in Burlington five year old Parker Case. He a e is survived by several nieces and nephews. Aid father said the men toll possible punish to Quot Lay off the Parker Case tin funeral services for muss Carlson abducted person is and the Man he contends was the j win of had monday afternoon at nun Ca. I r a Man a said at 2 a clock at the Swedesburg Luther Bartels it Essed in j one time Wax serving time in an High heels a hat a Navy Blue suit Ohio prison. And carrying a hand a chief was Parker son of or. And mrs. Lynn i interment will be in the swedes Offiong 23 witnesses called of Nav by Parker Henderson Iowa i the prosecution. An Church with tile Rev. Arnold v. Thorax ofic Iang. They have produced no of the labor movement built up the leaders such As Robert personality of Fiorello la Guardia or As the left Wing of the new Deal came into Power during Franklin if Roosevelt a second term. It is difficult to report a silence or a resentment or an irritation. Yet National a. Taft was. Senator Barry Coldwater is a rallying Point. Politically conservatism Cann t by limited to republicans since the Center of such thinking is undoubtedly in the South and in this country a to Wax Aen Burg cemetery. Be d to life in a a Braska prison be bar Hal Mckasson funeral in 1956 for the 14, 1965 Stran a Home in Winfield is in charge of Gul Tiou slaying of wife both j arrangements. Had been students at Iowa stat i University Ames and Parker was City forester at Lincoln neb., at the time of the crime. Married recently at Carthage ill. J Carthage. 111. A a marriage the Greenstone found on the License was issued to Eugene Barnes out of such emotions come All Lotical grouping must i around a j Vermillion Iron Range in North land Joan Putz both of it. Pleas-1 ocular responses to government party and a new political party can pm Minnesota Are about two Btl ant on f b 20. The couple was conservatives Are so varied in Only come into existence with an Hon years old and among the j married the same Day by John Rhea Cit. And their intensity the Anima Tive i oldest rocks in the world. Gorby. County judge. 1 of other parachutes Drifting Down the courthouse. Where no town is. A. 1 Ward into a foreign sea. And then listed person or firm is from it. A a. Pleasant. Ars. Edith e. Martin Ford. Carl Boocker Salem. Ford Joseph a Panther Ford Carl a Lens new London Ford Richard e. A Long Dodge Harold f. Unternahrer Wayland Chevrolet John p. Hiscal m Ford mrs. Velma b. Whipple Ford Vira j. Ehrhart fat re Carrol f. Dart Shire. New London rout i Chevrolet Harold Olton. Winfield Chevrolet Martin rambler rambler Shafer motors Chevrolet Nelson Sullivan Ford Haworth motors Dodge Terry e. Miller Olds. Ford Elmo lion n. Eyler. Chevrolet Leo Lov a first Ett Buick and Loren e. Ocif. Dan Ville Oldsmobile. Nature of the interrogation went unanswered for a Security Aud defense but they were graphic in their descriptions of How they f red Back at the soviet Mig fighter which shot Down their plane july i Over Ute Barents sea of their a uncomfortably cold cello in Moscow s Lubianka prison of their treatment by the russian., and of soviet efforts to link their the struggle to Board rubber dinghies tox do about by icy Waves. These were the fleeting reflections of capes. John r. Mckone and Freeman b. Olmstead As night with the similarly ill fated they unknowingly hurtled head -1u2 Mission. Long into a new cold Wear incident which lasted almost seven months a the length of their imprisonment by the russians they told their tory a tale of solitary confinement endless interrogation by the soviets threats unless they lied about their mis but perpetual Hope a for the time publicly Friday at a news conference at nearby Forbes air Force Bac. Lames a. Metcalf truck Wayland Carpenter shop. Wayland Gumc. And Iowa Illinois Many questions pertaining to Telephone co., new London Chee the purpose of their Mission the i reset. 1 equipment in their plan and the for the first time Friday it was revealed that the rb47 return d the gunfire of the soviet jct. Olmstead 24, the co Pil said he .Elf triggered the Remote control twin 20 millimetre cannons which fired from the rear of the plane. But he did no to know if any of the shells reached their target. Mckone 28, the navigator emphasized the attack occurred while the rb47 was on its preplanned flight path which we took the aircraft closer Thun 50 Miles to soviet territory

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