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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 6, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news \ i. Hajj no. La Jet. Elk As a it Iowa monday evening m Aki la 6, he i Cloudy Tim Days by Corge k. Sokolsky the heart when journalistic highbrow get together some the shop talk gravitates about the very old question As to what is news. It used to be in this country that folks were interested in what went about them births marriages murders lost and found Crooks poll tic. I and just Plain and such stirring hems. Then we All became educated and took to dealing with things significant like Cuba and the Congo and what Nasser said to Khi Shch v. In fact. All a sudden the country got so Lull expert that ail in indent Kennedy needed to do was play Golf at Palm Beach and professors just fitted into jobs in Washington. So instead patronage going to deserving Dot Mot rats it went to relieve the universities Ai surplus faculty. The human heart however still responds to Joy and laughter and sorrow and suffering and therefore when a Little girl Only four years old. Is raped and abused and beaten and killed by a drunkard an entire nation is moved. The Story is sordid. The pictures Are revolting. The description the Man is degrading. But were it not for the excitement newspapers and television this miserable creature might still be moving about killing other Little girls. S wit Ell to Congo spa la i Driver car escapes injury 111 near Quarry collapses forgeries May run $250,000 Navy task Force to stand by a 98-font Long Bridge Borthne t Mil s la said a a i Quot construction at Meni al health Institute a building a new patient dormitory at the my pleasant mental health Institute has moved right along during the Winter months. Warm Days have made possible the continuing the work. A Concrete floor Hail just been poured this late february Day the portion the building to the right. I he View is looking East i rom the front Steps the Central building. At the right is shown a portion a patient building the Stone building completed in irk. I he new building shown Here replaces the first building dedicated too years ago this Date. Hie Bridge. A i lip to is Cord at. The $2->nhoo the county Quarry two Mas Bri Drc Mil travelling northeasterly Southwest i. Pleasant collapsed j when it started to buckle and fell into big Creek about la a he Hlf into s. Cond pin. Sunday As a car towing a churn Day across the remainder a by charges Wagon loaded w till Wood passed Over it. The car driven by i Anderson 25, route two. I. T made it across the Bridge when the St nature collapsed. Tile two wheel trailer broke Loose from the car but did t fall into the Creek. Anderson told sheriff Russell Van Tull that the Anderson vehicles were in the Middle Tho Northeast Corner the Bridge napped and the Bridge fell into the cock a i tie Bridge War. Totally demolished. County Engineer Robert Gibson said that some the Bridge flooring can be salvaged. He estimated the Cost replacing the old Bridge. Using the present abutments at $20,000 Princeton lib up prominent attorney and business-1 Man Ben i. Spaulding 44, wa-1 Brid in Bureau county jail today after to his brother Nanri Honvo anti Hometown sheriff in Louisiana. And drove involving Vlot 10 South Africa to i the Congo today and ordered the ships to stand by for possible Call it Fri in _ by the United nations. A state department spokesman Leopold Ville Congo a up a the United states switched a Small Navy task Force from a first building at Mhz dedicated too years ago rainfall totals 1.07 Maisy Schreiner taken by death fido at a i 1,889 Mary Maisti Boon Schreiner. Do died at memorial Hospital att 0 0 0 tin dedication the first build elderly people geriatrics cases. Perhaps a picture Quot soapy Quot in 0 tie i plea tic menial this building was completed in j Southeastern Iowa. Unlike most i 1 a a m a May mar hot it amp health Institute occurred this 1952 at a cast $1,357,000.00. The Tho state was warm enough to re Williams talking to Kas Mvubu less sordid than the shocking tale a Wanton murder a child by Quot Aith Date too years ago at the request building accommodates 3ir patients Clive rain instead Snow and was bile was bom in my pleasant Oil Jan. 6, 1871, hic daughter the William Sapulding and Clement Kel it her returned the by six Tom lawyer by plane to Chicago sunday night from make Charles lie surrendered earlier in the Day. William Spalding told a clerk j in the hotel where ins brother was seized that Quot Ben wanted it this Way. He did no to want to be taken by stranger. Quot j Nils prosperous farm Eom Numi a to 6,700 about to Miles South Chicago was rocked by a grand Lur. Investigation last month in d when an $11,400 forged promissory note for a Farmland deed was detected. Dis when governor about one half the in Ginal j soaked through sunday night. The rpm Edwin by. Int is i cinch and car Ltd Kin reported. T it ration Udo financial Andi a r ,., other forged notes were Industrial development opportune., 11 covered in the probe and itys had reached a total $31,889. ,. A a. A a the grand jury findings were re monday afternoon chairman de. Said in Washington that the action had Quot no unilateral significance whatsoever a a he said the United states had no thought intervening directly in the fighting which broke out during the weekend Between congolese and u. N. Forces. He said the ships were diverted Quot Only to be available in the event the u. N. May need them for further tile . Navy moves came As a battered United nations sudanese Force returned to Leopold Ville by train today after surrendering the vital Supply port Matadi to prevent the spread warfare in the Congo crisis. A degenerate but this is news and Grimm in 1855. The Iowa legislature wards in 1959 which were Dedi rainfall amounted to 1.07 inches in Martha Robinson Schreiner. Very important news while a soapy a is Only a problem. And when thinks such an item and it makes him a bit emotional and raises his blood pres historical sure it comes to him that we spend $14,000,0tx a year for search about the heart and blood pressure. In them Days easy Bill ins Why a there so Little for a isl oui tin appropriated $50,000 to Start the1 fated in 1861, As Well As those i my pleasant. Burlington had .55 first mental Hospital in Iowa and al which were completed in 1885 and an Inch. Commission was appointed. J 1887, Are still in use at this Hospi lightning and Thunder occurred the following Are excerpts from a Tai. In an attempt to replace thereat times during the night. Sketch read by . J outmoded wards construction Oft much Northern and Northwest Only Wayne b a it. Up mite Mien two new wings was started by the Board a in Iowa had Snow and some areas i s doggies in 1894 sin studied at Boone Young re years ago. Jot control in the fall 1956 had sleet rain and Snow. Spencer j the University Chicago and Stan-1 nip i when finished the building will reported a total 15 inches University. The commissioners held the a sister Olive s. Barnes preceded her in death. Miss Schreiner was an 1891 graduate Iowa Wesleyan College i where she also obtain d her Mas the Rara i division tile Udo Effort will get underway at a meeting at the Rea building tonight. On March 15, 1855 two Days later the state Iowa Cost in the neighbourhood $1,600,- ,000, and accommodates 251 a Snow the ground. At this time a year ago. Woman Dies silo b Gan teaching Iii Fairfield after collision something so important tier. Even with such a Small amount a indic 123 arms cd Ann which available for research so much is now occupied by the Hospital Inch school in 1892. Then went to Ida Grove in 1894 she was elected being done it used to be that if thu land was purchased for the a fellow had trouble with his us $2o0� her acre the com heart he was an invalid. He sat since that time another building Fum been started and leased leu Spaulding fled. He was traced through Peoria where lie bought a revolver and East St. Louis where his car i bearing the insignia Tho paint company he operated was abandoned. Police said. I county state s atty. Donald c. I Martin said last month the losses i might run from $150,000 to $250,-i . I Spaulding was suspended from mrs la practising Law by Bureau circuit 18, Boone. I court after a warrant was issued wll along As indicated by the a i pleasant had some nine inches Ian Grove in Syi one was Electra Ames Iowa up new the ground. The temperature tile assistant principal Albia High venue Leigh Mcintyre is i fifth was 15 below and the sixth school in 189# and appointed Priori a fatally injured in a car truck i for his Airest 12 below which was quite unusual. I pm i 898. A he served in Albia and Accident near Here today. Compa Nying picture. The �?�1861 i missioners then proceeded to visit. 777 77 7 building was razed to make Way various hospitals in tile East and eventually obtained the services . Henry Winslow who had pre vie us in been connected with a mental has ital in the state Maine to act As superintendent j construction he began his duties in a chair waiting to die. He was afraid to move too much to walk. To get excited to take trips. He probably died from boredom. Today one lives through a coronary doing what he used to do Bitt just a Little bit More sensibly. He Dees not eel a mud and lie it a a 0club�r it a a a construction cob chooses his food Aith just a bit it inked for approximately five years More delicate. It used to be that Tow a a Ldina a a i could assume any Quantity Section attn three food any Richness. But a hat Quot a 0,1 rach Side talc a Compa cd 18 wards the Wing contained a total 220 single for the new Wing. Lyle brow a 83, Dies at Carlisle did it prove it seems to me now thai it Only proved that i could do it without Bur Mig my trousers just As a weight lifter can lift heavy weights w without falling Dow in readings 45 above through much february tornadoes hit parts three states j Ames until 1912, and taught at she Dud m Mary Greeley hos Roosevelt High Des Moines Frond pita Here about three hours after Kew Dis t and a 1920 to 1940, whore she was chair the Accident picture at 7 30 Man the foreign language do a the Iowa Highway patrol said a partition. He Accident occurred five mile.,. The last in the current series retirement miss Schreiner re West Ames u. S. 30. They said travel and adventure pictures spoil j turned to it. Pleasant where sheer car crashed into the rear a sorted by the kiwanis club will be was Active in her support first j a Semi trailer truck. She was alone shown this monday evening at i in the car by Iti tornadoes hit parts Indiana Illinois and Tennessee today and killed at least Lour persons. Tornado warnings were issued for West Virginia. Maryland Virginia Eastern Mississippi Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee. A storm Center swept northeastward from Missouri toward the great lakes and Gale warnings Lyle Brown 83, a former resident Henry county do d saturday. I month. On 13 the 28 Days. Or March 4. At the Home his sister j Only one Short half the temp mrs. Anna Sammons near Carlisle Era lure reached 45 degrees above. Where had been cared for for the High was 53 the 21st. Methodist Church and Iowa Wesley fcb Runov mild temperature wre att cd ill dec to 1952 Iowa we5te"n reflected in Tho summary for to awarded bar a a honorary decree . Went up for the great lakes. Wis 7 30 at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel. A Consin and Minnesota dug out looms and 18 dormitory 8 the original Structure was built to accommodate Soo patients. I he mental health Institute at it. Imea Sant Lima was dedicated and opened for the admission 6, 1x61. Tile was it Chard several years. Funeral services for . Brown will be held at the Rome Baptist Church tuesday afternoon at i it Jock. Ile is survived by two Otho r Sisters. And several nieces and nephews including Lawrence Sammons Rome. So i weighed 234 pounds. Linked about 20 cigars a Day. Slept Only patients March five hours a Day and went every first superintendent where saw everything and when it j Patterson m. D. A a ii Over. I had count Cai j. Only a in a to r v acc Dav ones so today i we Iii 148 Pound. Might j Quot a. Aft r it a a ant a extend jobless pay smoke Ltd All sleep and opened in ii to . Wire boo Jaq workers off As fatigue gets me read More patients when tile building a. Only j five nights the Low temperature was a above Hie freezing Mark tin Low for the month was Zero tin fourth. Precipitation for the month totalled i 84 an Inch. Much the water came in the form Snow at the Start the month. There was an eight Inch accumulation Early in the month but it was virtually All gone by the Lith. Work harder at essentials than Ever built for 300 by 1880 the patient before. The Only thing that Hap population had risen to 750 Many i lied was that i Cut the in Essen patients could not be admitted belial the time wasting health cause the very crowded Condi wasting activities that bring no Bons that exp Ted at that time. Rewards. I never Felt better since patients were sleeping in hallway. My boyhood and i have also had a a floors. In 1883, til goal line club meeting wednesday doctor science and education. She also received a 50 year certificate from Iowa Wesleyan she was a member first methodist Church. Original a p. E o., rut bean. Inc Guild Paauw i a Moines women a club a pcs Clio. Scribblers Alpha i i Ila and the Cadet girls military company funeral services will be held tuesday afternoon at 2 clock at the Weir cookes funeral Home. The Rev. Paul Pixler will officiate. Following the funeral service the will in remains will be cremated and returned Here at a later Date for interment services at Forest Home corned to. County 4-h club week Washington up a the House today passed by voice vote legislation to provide $24 million in 1 the goal Lim club will meet at extended jobless pay benefits to 7 30 wednesday March 8, at 60, pm unemployed Railroad work the . Building. Re. I final plan. Will be made for the the measure flow goes to the goal line All stars is. Tiger ettes Senate. It was d signed As a follow i basketball game to be played in democrats frown Elverst vote Dos Moines i up a the Only democratic senator to vote in favor a Republican ism. Ored National 4-h club week March j4 Boll. Will be observed by about 360 Active 4-h cars in Henry county. The Young people to to 21 Yea re old Are among Hie 2.302.000 member., America who belong to some 94,200 clubs in Rural and Urban communities. The continuing theme is Quot Loarn Lva serve through 4-h&Quot. This carried out All Over the country through displays special newspaper radio and television feature., and talks by 4-h cr., to various Community group. Special activities have been planned by local clubs to help spotlight tile 4-h program the members and projects according to Richard l. I Thirma county Extension director. S p it a a heading the county wide Effort during National 4-h week an operation for a Small localized twentieth general Assembly a cancer. Prop Ria Ted fido too for a two win Njo legislation passed last week i goitre gym tuesday March in course there arc folks who Extension the East Side this cling for tip to 13 weeks adj members who have sold All reapportionment plan today was like to be sick. Both types arc would provide space for 200 Dit Oual jobless pay for idled work part their banquet tickets May accused f irrational reason dictates that we patients. Construction followed and is m other industries. T urn their Money into the treasurer face the facts life and do the he building was finally completed it a a to hic the report will review in Story and pictures outstanding 4-h achievements and current projects. While in the nation s capital the three girls and thro boys will visit the whit1 House meet several member. Of Congress High government officials and other National leaders. Best we can. The doctors who Are in 1885, doing heart research and dietary the Twenty first general a. Research Are infinitely More in Sembly meeting in 1885, approx porn is to us than politicians and printed another $100,000. With this movie stars and similar celebrities Money construction proc it led they Are making it possible for us the West Wing the main build to live longer and in better spirits ing. Again additional space was and to continue to be useful. Provided for 200 patients. This and j 6 a edition which is still used today the Day May come when nobody Vav. Col al Ted and pc it up d in thinks retiring from work until igg7 Dirksen asks administration to Ming away the lying Towel Republican Leader Everett m. Washington up sen,.to lessor said Kennedy might Issue recommendations next week How sen has called the Kennedy and i. ,.to Spur Industrial productivity by ministration to lung away the ,., ,. Encouraging business investment crying Towel and show Confidence i _ the government reported that in tile nations . Businessmen plan a mild three per Selling the dem Ltd Ratic party and the people Clayton county Down the soil. Adolph elvers a Elkader was rebuked by rep. K. W. Fuelling a Farmer Burg As Senate democrats considered action to bar elvers from participating Iii future party caucuses. Elvers remained defiant in the face a democratic state Central committee recommendation that lie be Quot read out the party a tile brat term senator and Are til girls and boys county i after a stay in Washington officers cd by presidents Carole Ivey expect to it go to new York and Jerry perhaps elsewhere to meet with other friends 4-h. Cons and Minnesota dug from heavy Snow and braced for More. Rainy Windy weather hampered clean up workers Chicago s Tornado plagued South Side where a $5 million twister saturday killed one Man injured at least 115 persons and damaged about 3,000 buildings. A Tornado skipped to rough parts Western Tennessee today killing three persons including an 8-month-old baby. The twister hit Fredonia where three persons were killed and two houses were wrecked and damaged at least two Homes in nearby Koko a Haywood county Community. A Tornado Aho snaked a two Mike path to rough a South Side residential area at Kokomo ind., Early today crushing a 68-year-old woman to death beneath the collapsed roof her Home. A least three persons were injured at Kokomo and about 20 Homes were damaged. Studier Winfield and White route 2, it. Pleasant tin a w London ladies. Way i cites and Salem Champion Are planning window displays in store windows hic Kiever Klover Klub and can Terette will display the Olla at National 4-h club wok Paster the new Bondon lassies will Wear their 4-h uniforms to school one Day by Canaan to Ltd it and club members everywhere will share Honor. With the 302,500 no and women who serve As unpaid Volunteer leaders and guide 4-h work in local communities through. Out the 50 slates and puerto Rico. Among pure ass 4-h club week Are to acquaint More Young people with opportunities open to them through joining forming 4-h mrs Isa Traxler taken by death he has reached the Century Mark. More and More patients came Toj exaggerated Well who in our it. Pleasant. Conditions were Gen-1 1 Lle Illinois senator said the bus cent reduction in investment spend a anal her Linn could have crowded. In july 1907 a a a a Quot to us .�?~1�?o a a a it cum Ltd a a Shaft reapportionment plan passed i a. Ming 4-Hcrs lived that anybody could manage contract let to convert an old a incl 11 to it us socratic Aam Inishia j by much shallower than the 17 per. _. To survive heart ailments continue Brick Hay barn into space to house1�?T011 would cease talking other club arc also planning activities us a Vance National 4-h j chit to increase Public unc r club week standing 4-11 Aims and a com the a r k will be highlighted pm Ishmen. Aud to express App re ton county Farmer said he cast i Washington inc. By elation to the Many friends 4-h the deciding vote by which the a team six 4-h members pc who support the Quot learn by doing Quot everywhere who program character development i a mrs. Usa Leona Traxler 88, died u the Kennedy nursing Home Early sunday morning after a Long illness. She was the daughter John l. And Mary Elizabeth Nicoh Robinson and we As born at Moundsville. W. A. April 30. 1872. She had lived in it. Pleas int for the past 40 years. On september 26, 1890 she was married to Isaac Traxler who became i doom crafts. A like font reduction in outlays for new.,. F. Judgment and in the Light my i modernization i a a. Conscience that action would Bel reces-1. The the House feb. 23 eau.1 a Quot in my will Nice tin annual "4-h report and Good citizenship. Factories and Plant the 1958 for the Best interests All Quot people Clayton county. Elvers added in a formal state this i shall do always regardless what tile political consequences May be to me personally politically to be president the United patients. This Builtin. States play Golf and be insulted know n As Farmers Lodge i in a speech prepared for delivery j which intensified by Khrushchev without Keeling thi. Building is in a to it Oor state j today to the ninth annual re pub j Sion. Over repair but is still no d for the i Lien women sconce rence but re i a the same Survey made by by so ii the ghost Lumumba housing patients Tod a in the leased sunday Dirksen said Quot All comm Roe department and tile be. Bores you and the Stony lace same year 1907, a contract was let j that is needed is to translate peo j purities and Exchange commission. Gromyko annoys you and you to construct a women a infirmary pies wants into purchasing action also forecast a three per cent Sale want to think something Gay this building was finished in 1908 and that requires Only expressions j Rte. With the notable exceptions and cheerful cast your mind a a Cost about $66,000.00, plus Jot Confidence in High government Auto and steel a two Basic in Tusche wonderful work that is being the Cost by this build tries in which sales a Hilling the ii legislature off done by obscure and a thanked my was remodeler a few years a year. It add doctors nurses dieticians Pathol i has accommodations for 72 there were these other develop Lester l Colbert Board chair to Siow Start gifts and All sorts technicians patents and us till is u a a today my lits the con onus Trout Man and president Chrysler to prolong your life by helping your it is known As our medical and a a leading adviser to president corp., today predicted an mimed Hes Moines up the heart do its Job. Surgical unit at thus . J Kennedy . Paul a. Samuelson late upturn in automobile sales. Be Iowa legislature moved off to a slow a copyright. 1961. King features from 1907 until 1950, there was Massachusetts Institute tech said in a copyrighted interview in Start today its first Day after its Syndicate. Inc a Little no construction for patients1 ology predicted the recession j u. S. News amp world report Mac j annual Spring recess. A in it. Pleasant a. The years went would hit Bottom by june and there Azine that Auto sales a always pick both the Senate and the House Iowa has about 111.500 Miles by conditions became Mere and would be no need for a general tax j up to some extent in the Spring but were in session for less than an roads and streets the sixth High More crowded. In 1960 construction Cut to stimulate recovery. J this year we expect the Spring pick hour and passed a total four ,. Total in by nation a was started a Buddie to Bons j a Samuelson an economic. Pro up lobe much stronger than usual learn live serve through 4-h1 National Bills All minor. A daughter Ruth died in Igor at the ago eight years. She i survived by a sister. Labelle Robinson Wheeling w. Va., and by several nieces and nephews. Funeral services for mrs. Traxler will be tuesday at 2 p m at the r k. Crane funeral Home. Or. George e. Lamore Iowa Wesleyan College will officiate. Interment will be at Oak Grove be Intrery Northwest it. Pleasant. Early Garden Roscoe Jacobs 901 North main reported the latter part the week that he has lettuce and radishes up he planted the seed feb. 13

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