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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 8, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a \ of. 83, no. 56mt. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening Maki ii 8, i do i these Days Isy George e. Sokolsky fac ing the Issi e the report cames out of los Angeles that Hie plasterers local no. 2 has turned Down a 12 12 cents an hour pay boost in order to a support president Kennedy Spica to hold the line against As novel As this sounds it makes very Good sense because ii there is no work there is no income and despite everything that apologists and propagandists say prices Are Tex High. And a plasterer knows As wed As anyone else that higher and j higher wages Are not an answer unless the Money is Good it is possible to pay a million dollars an hour if the million dollars is Only j Worth one Dollar in the store. That is us True value its sex changeability for goods services or taxes. Mom v is not Worth its face value it is Worth what is accepted. In International Trade this produces the business known As Exchange or Aluta that is. The difference in the value of currency As it flu Cut i ates in markets. Why should it j fluctuate because of acceptability for instance the american Dollar j is not Worth too cents in Canada i if you want too cents Worth of something it is necessary to pay Mote than too cents. A Pound Sterling when i was a boy was said to be Worth s3 of probably $4.85 to be exact. Today that same Pound Sterling is Worth $2 80. Thus a British Pound can buy fewer dollars than it used to. In the Domestic Economy we have not yet reached the Day when we buy and sell quarters dimes and pennies but tin re Are Many parts of the world where the moneychangers sit in their stalls and meet the Dav s rate or do better deluding upon the Market tile los Angeles plasterers face another situation namely that As prices go up substitutes Are offered. The substitutes May be better or worse by they Are never the same nor do they require the same kind or same amount of labor. Substitute in building materials Are numerous and houses today i is space task to air Force proposes taxes to raise estimated 40 million yearly up a to Des Moines 3 pc it a cent state tax on trading Stamps and Gross receipts of hotels and motels was proposed tuesday by rep Alvin Meyer a Winterset to increase Revenue for stat Quot Aid to Knock schools. Meyer filed an Ani dment his original Bill which would vide a Broad tax base for state million in the year school Aid funds. As first Intro july i and More diced it was estimated the Meas ure would produce about $25 million a year. With the amendments Meyer estimated the total yield would be increased to $40 million All Revenue from the various taxes proposed by Meyer would be earmarked with 75 per cent Gong to the school Aid fund and 25 or cent to the agricultural land tax credit fund. The farm tax credits Are paid to the counties to reimburse the in for Washington it up it a defense s ret Ary r brr s. In Mara today assigned the air Force almost total responsibility for de be Lopic i t of military space vehicles including devices to Down enemy satellites. Tile military space research and development program is scheduled to Cost $850 St a t by in i than of pts cent will be carried on under air fare sup vision. Mcnamara s order jolted army Kiel Navy space aspirations but put the an Pone a new giants i s o it n the Road to beef in ithe nation s military space Agency of the future. Unto r a 1959 order of former d Fen s. Notary Neil h me Elroy. The air Force already was for a space transportation a tilt development and congressional districts tentative agreement on proposal an in of Ace launch coasters. Under m Namarah a order the air f rec except in Quot unusual circumstances a will now develop space vehicles As Well no matter what service is to use them. Vehicle rocket credits allowed on agricultural Des Moines a supt Lith hour Republican Ca lieu the Iowa House today forces that rammed through a ten a o native agreement on a congressional redistricting plan by a vote of 69-37 in committee of the whole the lower chamber gave its endorsement to the Graham Lange amendment to a committee approved Bill authored chiefly by rep. Dewey e. Gooder Bloom Field. The House then promptly adjourned until 9 39 a m. Thursday without bringing the measure to a final vote. The amendment reportedly endorsed by congressman Charles Hooven was sponsored by reps. J w. Graham a Ida Grove and ,., Elmer f Langer Sac City lands against school taxes in ex-1 Rea a tile caucus Call by rep Robert Nadan a Webster City gop floor Jufe. Missing one Bridges Only a few floor boards and parts of some of the beams could by seen after the Bridge Over Rig Creek two Miles Southwest of it. Pleasant collapsed into the Creek sunday night. The Bridge went Down As Richard Nderson. 25, was driving across it towing a trailer Load of Wood. He said he thought the Bridge was going Down shifted his car into second and drove off the end of the Bridge before it went Down. The location is near the county Quarry and is Between the Rex Morris and Victor al Houn Home. Defeat Effort Cess of 15 Mills several to the starting Point of the credits to 17 Sud 20 Mills have been introduced in both houses of the general As or in by v. The trading stamp tax proposed i by Meyer would is imposed a at the sonic Quot a a so that merchants buying 1 supplies of the Stamps to give to Leader caught Many Republican members by Surprise but the hour Long session apparently resolved any differences which the gop legislators had regarding the four redistricting measures on file. Nadyn summoned the caucus shortly before la a m. Just As the tit feb a i 7 a it House took up Tho Graham Lange j o reconsider ,, on Cra eth a it amendment after would convinced i can fake him to Brink of space let contract chinese for be w roof Cebu Effort Edwards fab. Cal a up it a the Pilot flew the x15 Rock Enship to a world Speed record of better than four times tile Speed of sound said today he is con Are Vinced the experimental Craft can thrown together of materials which seem to Hau no substitute but they do stand up and their defenders say that actually they Are stonger. They do not however give the impression of substance. V Man can Only really have whet he can afford and if Home building becomes too costly there is always the possibility of a do it yourself which is socially very unsound because r throws people out of work in an Economy where unemployment can become a major disaster. This then is the nub of the problem. Many industries Are beginning to feel the Pinch of High prices less costly substitutes. Imported items and a do it yourself operations. Newspapers women a magazines and television have increased the amount of space devoted to a do it yourself instruction. It is True that in the Good old take him to the Brink of space j air Force ma.�?T,. Robert White streaked above the desert contract for placing a new roof on the original portion of the it pleasant High. School built in 1933, was let to the Monson roofing company by the school Board tuesday evening. The Monson bid was $5,692 for a 20-year bonded roof. There were no other bids. Further Progress was made on at the building plans and a Washington Uri tile chinese communists have rebuffed the initial Effort of the Kennedy administration to secure the admission of american newsmen to the red held Mainland the state department announced today. The department said that the Snow follows 1.3 Inch rain Stormy March weather that has plagued a Large part of the country the last several Days dipped into Southeastern Iowa Early wednesday but apparently Wax soon to give Way to warmer Days. Part of the snowfall that started coming Down about 6 30 a in following an All night ram melted pay the 3 per cent tax to the trading is amp company. The the Iowa stamp firm would in turn be re def Abd a quire to end the Money Over to Des Moines it Upit Senate this afternoon motion to reconsider the Shaft re state treasurer apportionment plan. Meyer also proposed a 3 per cent the vote was 27 to 23, with the tax on the Gross receipts of hotels majority voting a a not a. The margin is the same As that by which the Shaft plan was approved by the Senate feb. 23. Escape injury in plunge Down an embankment and motels including their charges for rooms and All services. Tile original Meyer Bill called Lor a a 3 per cent tax on Gross receipts of Bowling alleys. A a to percent tax on the Gross rec e i is of wholesale Boer distributors rejecting two other offered As substitutes for the committee endorsed Goode Bill. First a measure by rep. William j. Scherler Henderson was turned Down 60-37, then one by rep. Maurice e. Baringer Roel Wein was Defeated 89-10. The committee of the whole got under Way with an explanation of the committee Bill by Goode. He said the measure provided an Quot equitable distribution a of the seven Iowa congressmen. He explained that Iowa must More than 2 >650 Miles an hour tuesday in the first National aeronautics and space administration Nasa test of the x15�?Ts 640,000-horsepower rocket engine. A i behave now we will probably reach our design goals without any ,�?T said the 36-year-old Pilot after the record flight. Goals of the $125 million program Are flying the Dart shaped further j chinese representatives at a meet during Fly Day but Sui us re remained a White coating of a half i realign its 99 counties into seven a to per cent tax on All liquor Batad 0 the state s population failed to keep Pace with the National growth in the last to years. Report will be made at. The next in Warsaw tuesday with u. A meeting on results of a Check on Costa of Pic Opo Sals. At the next meeting Aho election of teachers will take place and a salary schedule adopted the meeting will be held on wednesday evening instead of the regular tuesday evening time. Supt. Robert Formanek will attend the ambassador Jacob d. Beam a Are Inch or so on the ground. Henry Cook Ottumwa and and most Omaha neb. Man with him is j fitted to take a list of 32 amen of tie Sno w melted from highways caped injury when the ear sales made in i Tate owned stores. An increase from $1 to $2 a a year in the Cost of a permit to buy liquor at the state owned liquor stores. A a to per cent tax on Gross re loan newsmen who had been or caused Little trouble except to which they were Riding was struck seipts of wholesale distributors of cleared by the state departments of traffic. To go to red China. Tie rainfall late tug Day after from the rear by driven by John w. Semi trailer bottled soft drink.-. Refuse to a a. A a a i a a. A a a return ports ambassador to Poland Wrang to 130 fiches bringing the total deep embankment off Highway 34. Pm Nan rejected the list on the precipitation for the week to a five Miles West of my pleasant at Ipp it ago the state cigarette tax j in Van grounds that a it would be difficult proximately 2 5 inches 9 if a. In wednesday a 2� annual for rach pin i Hedlund fair a tax of 50 cents a gallon on soft drink syrups. A an increase of 2 cents per plane too mile above the Earth regional meeting of the american j at 4.000 in . The first maximum j association of school adm Nistra performances flight is scheduled tors a St Par pm for sometime this summer. Week. To Settle the question of newsmen while the United states continued to a occupy Taiwan Ball machine Juke Box or other com operated amusement device outline plans for hearing on relocation of 218 introduce new farm measure heavy wet Snow driven by Cook a sewer Engineer was on Strong northwesterly winds piled ids wily Here where he is doing into drifts 4 to 5 feet deep in ewer Arvry work he was driving places in Northern Iowa. Visibility East ahead of the Semi. Hedlund was Cut to one fourth mile in Many said that another Semi coming sections and Down to Zero in i from the threw slush Over his others. J Windshield preventing him from tile Snow should end Ever most seeing the car ahead. The front of _ i of the state by evening and the Frei lunch s i collided with the i Strong winds were expected to sub it rear of the Cook Auto causing j Waterloo up a defense Side tonight it to go off til Road and Down the testimony opened today in the Lod defense testimony opens in Feguer trial Ames Iowa the Iowa state Days Mother spun and weaved and Highway comm Ion has set a wed and everything was Home thursday March 16, As the Date made that could be. And father for a Public hearing on the pro sawed and hammered and plastered posed improvement and relocation and built and the neighbors came of . Highway 218 in i. Pleas along to give a helping hand. But ant and Henry county. In those Days. It was not socially the hearing will be held in the necessary to keep 60.ooo.ooo adults Public service room of the City Hall at. Work for a wage which would in it pleasant at 7 30 . Pur not Only support families but pro pose of the meeting is to present to vide the Leisure time for children the general Public facts about the to go to school to at least 16 years design construction and right of of age without earning a living Way requirements of the proposed in some places the Law puts this improvement. Figure at 18. Which Means that the it the policy of the Highway joining present . 218 North northeasterly crossing the Skunk River East of the present Structure to a Point about one mile South of the it. Pleasant state Hospital grounds. It proceed. Northerly going East of the Forest Home cemetery to a proposed Junction with . 34 in it. Pleasant Between Wilson and Porter streets. From Here the new relocation will go North and northwesterly to Winfield Avenue approximately 700�?T Grams Washington up a farm program based on retiring land from production payments in kind and tying Price support for wheat feed grains soybeans and flax to the Quot cropland adjustment a was introduced in the Senate yesterday sponsors included Republican Leader Everett m. Dirksen. Ill. Bourke b. Hickenlooper a Iowa and Frank j. Lausche. A Ohio. Hickenlooper spokesman for the sponsors said the program would bring supplies of wheat and other an in line with current do once the storm passes slims were expected to Clear and Wanner temperatures were predicted for thursday Aud Friday. The Low i Highway comm Ion reported up to 14 and 16 inches of Snow in Northern sections of the state. The Snow fell on top of a layer of ice and Frozen packed Snow making Side roads impassable and blocking some highways for a time. The heavy driving Sou storm d traffic and closed hundreds of schools in the Midwest i embankment. A Highway patrolman Accident Happ n and Hedlund with following vehicle too clo. Cly. The pleaded guilty to the charge in mayor Wade Mcbeth a court and was fined $15 and costs. Up a the Congo Central government refused today to return the strategic Supply ports of Matadi and banana to u. N. Control. An announcement said the Leopold Ville regime had decided to assume control of u. N. Troops and supplies moving in and out of the Congo. At the same tune it was reported that 800 moroccan u. N. Troops had ret used orders to Fly Here from the a Tim charged another trucker rial trial Olex convict Victor Feguer accused of the Kunnap slaying military base at Karina in inde Snow plows Pinch hitting for storks of a prominent Dubuque Iowa physician. The jury was excused during the morning session which judge Henry Graven set aside for hearing defense motions. At torn nyx for Feguer 25, St. Johns midi., were expected to try to prove that Feguer was insane last july when or. Edward Bartels 34. Disappeared. The Quot doctors body was found ten Days later in a wooded area near East Dubuque 111. Pendent Katanga province to reinforce the u. N.s Leopold Ville Garrison. Feet East of Palm Avenue. From Mand. The result would be to Winfield Avenue it goes North reduce the huge surpluses increase wage earners in the family Are re commission to conduct such Public diced in number no matter How Many Mouths have to be filled. When Burt Chapman president of plasterers local no. 2. Said Quot we feel our present wages Are sufficient.�?T he uttered a slogan which both labor and management must take seriously. A halt hearings before final detail of the project Are t this policy allows consideration of suggestions raised by interested citizen. At the meeting. Public hearings Are also required by the u. S. Bureau of Public roads where Federal Money is sex must be called somewhere to the pelleted on improvements of High Rise in wages and prices and con ways going into or through any sequent unemployment. So called City. Town or Village. The Federal social Security is no substitute for a Job. Nor is dependence upon government a moral equivalent of personal dignity and self respect. Aid Highway act of 1956, comp b it. Pleasant near Grove cemetery. Total length of the project is 13 88 Miles. Design in Rural erections the new relocated route is designed As a 24-foot Roadway with 10-foot Tarth shoulders a new Span is proposed for the Skunk River which will eliminate the Quot dead mans Quot curve South of town. In the Urban arca the new High Waverly Iowa up a Snow today and a Tornado Cut a violent plows were Pinch hitting for storks a Swath across Alabama her today As they brought two sex goal line notice the Man Ive late w Intel storm poet ant mothers to mercy Hospital a tax Cost of dumped up to 16 Inch cd Mica. In from outlying areas. I the goal line club will meet i the present farm program he said Quot or Thorn i a. I Quot a Antral or a i a Braska buried under a one foot Snow making travel next to im-1 mesday at 7 30 o clock. Final a of i farm prices and per family farm income and Cut at boy missing in Iowa storm the Hickory i income and Cut the with nearly a foot of blowing the . Building tonight wed proposed i under the measure the Price i support on Corn would remain in fal1, belted the Chicago metropol possible a stat Sno plow took mrs. Range ments for the goal line All to search their outbuildings care changed at 90 per cent of Hie missing in the Iowa storm we As a four year old boy who disappeared from his farm Home near Winthrop tuesday afternoon. An All night search failed to locate Jimmy Frank a son of or. And mrs. Everett Frank Buchanan county sheriff Emery Hart notified Farmers in the area stat Highway departments to cer Way will be a four Lane Roadway 48 tiny that a insuring has been held a feet from curb to curb. An overpass on .11 such Federal Aid projects. I w ill be built Over the c b. A q. Average Price received during the three preceding years with a floor of 65 per cent of panty. Support Levels for other feed grains would be comparable to that of corr., with the provision that the support Price for the 1962 wheat crop could be no less than 120 per cent of that for Corn for the same a car. The Secretary of agriculture Titan area w Ith a barrage of sle i freezing ram and Snow and lashed Dixie with torrential rams. Fifteen inches of new Snow ill on 13 inches of old at Emmitsburg. In Northern Iowa Aud an 8-Inch fall hit red Oak in the Southern part of the state. Mike Schuldt the five Miles from. Stars is. The inc Tiger eyes Bas fully on the Chance that the boy Sli u1 Rock to the Hospital. The netball game at the High school next had taken Refuge in on8 of the stat silents in favor of or against j Railroad near Cherry Street. At the would determine the acreage Adit is therefore necessary to face the proposed construction maj Junction of new 218 and . 34, a just ments and establish the annual j percentage of cropland to a i placed under contract in order to qualify for Price supports. Symphony numbers at inc thursday h. Ii winds and Sno plow won the Rte against j tuesday night will be taken care of. I structures. Time and mrs. Schuldt a seven Pound 15 ounce daughter was born i a Short time later at the same time a county plow was Rushing to nearby Tripoli to1 taxi mrs Kenneth Kurth to the Hospital. She also arrived safely i the blizzard crossing the mid a St stranded some 26 Semi trailers Here and virtually All traffic was at standstill a his problem honestly and to Deal be presented and entered As part with it beneficially. Building a lot of the official record after formal of unnecessary Post offices is no presentation of facts on the project substitute for jobs Iii Mill and there will be an Opportunity for channelized be built. Construction right of Way is Type intersection schedule scheduled to be factory it is paid fur out of taxes que ions. By individuals and repro purchased from Iowa 125 to and i Heoclore reduces individual sent tiv of groups. Earnings and Possession. A Man Only earns what he can keep and adding a tax to an earning and accepting the total As a wage is a fraud. Therefore to raise government costs and taxes is no solution at All. Description the particular improvement of . 218 which will be considered at the Public hearing begins on present 218 just North of the Junction of Iowa Highway 125. The project extends northeasterly Cross copyright. 1961. King features my the Skunk River East of the Syndicate. Inc it 34 in it. Pleasant in 1962 grading and Bridge construction is Abu expected to get under Way in 1962 the Section from Iowa 125 to . 34 should be completed in 1964 remainder of the prox used project is not in the present five year construction program but will be scheduled at a later Date. Instructed to expand probe of police scandals u. S 218 just South of the Skunk i tin project cm�?Tencl-1 estimated to be $2,714 800 the Southeast Iowa symphony will present three of the works heard at the reef it symphony programs for students of Low. 1 Wesleyan. The music will be heard at the regale r Assembly period thursday March 9 a 10 15 am. Enrolling fall kindergarteners enrolment is now being taken of kindergarteners in the it. Pleasant Community schools for next fall. Parents of children who will by five years old on or before sept. 15 arc asked to fill out a Des Moines up a the Polk the Public is invited county grand jury tuesday was i conductor Keylor Noland will instructed by District judge e. Eel play the Bach violin concerto in win Moore to expand its continuing to major and conduct also. Other registration torn before april i. Investigation of Des Moines police music to be heard will be a to a registration of the kindergarten department scandals to include and ild Rose by Mcdowell and Els at this time assish5 school of total Cost of the improvement l ministration of the department by a Menuet do quintette a by Boc facials in making plans City Cher Ini. J new school year. For the Ballet dancer loses foot following amputation of her right foot to prevent the spread of a tumor Ballet dancer Nelly Galvan smiles As she shows off a picture of her 8-month-old daughter Daniele in a Paris Hospital. She was the Star of Fernando Rego s Argentine troupe. She plans to become a beautician. Radio photo

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