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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 10, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news Cloudy these Days by George a Sok Emty pal i attended a luncheon to influence newspapermen to favor pal the new York City police sponsored organization which through some 40 centers interests boys and girls in the idea that gangs could be j teams and there is just As much fun i did not think that the idea was adequately presented. It was played Down perhaps because Public officials fear stating a Case with adequate and truthful drama lest they be accused of giving their City a bad name. This is bunk because when children play at murder the situation is real bad also for some reason All that those who run pal can raise is about $750,000 a year which is Chicken feed for the Job that needs to be done new York where some women buy dresses at $2,000 a piece can of fold $5,000,000 a year for this kind of work. By a Quot wig. Ie1 . Vol. 80, no. >8 it. Pleas ant Iowa monday evening Maio ii to 1058 a a a a 1 Fin a a a a a a a a in. A Mem by Carrier. St per week by mall by per year. My ii ii debate Aid plans Olds i. I Ilion speech is Adonis Advance to stale Quot Limiti Lii Nib Bai Kwh Mil i oozing East Monroe and Adams streets ing now stands. H a. Zuhn the after Alt cops cannot go out raising subscriptions because that soon degenerates into graft and blackmail. For this an effective citizens committee is needed with enough gumption to ask for the licht amount of Money to do some j ii a a thing about youngsters who Are i co 111 All unwanted because of their racial and i color and linguistic distinctions and j / 1 Lotf inn who know that they arc unwanted. Quot a i Louii this building holism a Carriage factory a total at the intersection of in it plea ant whore it a pres it i aft plumbing and heating build n Lee is Over the Entrance operated he earring works re picture was taken in 1884. According to his it will Zuhn who furnished it Ria following year la a Zuhn de the building and erected tie three s a it struck in now known As the Taft building the wooden Olds t Ile High 1 students returned from contest at Davenport i Rule 8 i lion i rat t no of Al entries those who won to Advance state i Mills in Grinnell i 29 c Mal u a la 1i n m to Ira i. Verena Ala Ahrn be eel i let i rupture it the right was used a iowan among pain i 10 the 11 28, i Liaison on l Ose lager Vernene heading. Ai l Ira study work i it Cuit in Al project featured Salem store Naha. Okinawa ins Twenty bodies have been recovered in Friday s two plane air collision Oft Okinawa in Winch 26 persons were killed. Among those listed As dead were s sgt Lyle d de Young son it or. And Roy de Young of Des Moines. Iowa. No names of iowans were listed among the missing new York gangs have always been organized by the newest element in the population. The notorious five Points gang of Horatio Aglor s term or the Hells Kitchen gang half a Century ago was composed principally of the Irish. The Gas holist1 and car barn gangs were Irish the latter with some germans. There Are no Irish or German gangs in new York today just As the jewish and italian gangs Are disappearing these in Cal group migrant populations have been to a lesser or greater degree assimilated and integrated to use fancy terms for a Normal process of old _ or generations dying off and the on die Kinworthy Secretary of newer generations seeking to be the m pleasant chamber of com. Like everybody else. Me rec announced today that he is organising a delegation from Here the newer population in our bigot attend a workshop for local cities particularly in new York is chamber members which will be negro and puerto rican. The latter 1 Beld in Cedar rapids on wednes have a particularly difficult time 1 Cay March 2t> at the hotel Roose because puerto Picans do not re a velt. Gard themselves As negro and re j flank Mueller nationally recon Jet the secondary status which is sized authority on chamber of the lot of the american negro in Commerce programming and director Northern big cities. The puerto of workshops tor the United state in to program i an ii people were quite interested in that appearing a of i ii. Robinson chairman of the Artiea la tidy work Camp project on tin net ankle tet to program finial or. Robinson is Chan Man it the study Tom for j plans to attend c. c. Workshop prying Robert Biti slum Tun tier Picans resent the racial discrimination and the fact that they Are unwanted except on election Day when the politicians need their votes. Because politicians Are anxious to avoid offending voters they do not face this gang problem honestly they avoid saying that gangs Are generally made up of persons of the same racial religious or neighbourhood affiliations. The present gangs in new York Are principally negro and puerto rican chamber of Commerce will be the featured speaker and discussion Leader. Ile and other staff officials of the National chamber will Dis Cuas chamber programming and financing committee organization duties and responsibilities of offs eels and directors and other reified subjects. According to or Kinworthy this is an excellent Opportunity for local chamber members to discuss chamber problems with National experts. He is urging members to Reserve March 26 and make plans which Bill Stoni Burner Leyano of student., it d. Iowa wits was select with a few Whites intermingled by j join the Large delegation which geographic Accident. The essential difference Between present gangs and those of the prohibition Era or half a Century ago or a Century ago is that the age of the gangster continues to be younger. J. Edgar Hoover has for Many years been calling attention to the fact that the criminals of the United states Are constantly growing younger. These j boys and girls do not get a Chance Gay thrown to be decent when a boy of la j commits murder it is a pitiful into gravel pit spectacle. By youths drowns it is probably Correct that there is not a single teen age gang that Dallas Tex. Ins two youths could not be diverted into a team i Arp in a nag juvenile Home tour a group of teams. These boys Dav a a confessing to police they he will head. In attending the Cedar rapids workshop. Designed to be a Vin clinic the workshop is a sponsored by the National chamber and the Cedar rapids chamber and is one of a series being held thi Spring across the nation. Reservations must be in by 12 00 noon. Saturday March 22. Said or. Robinson Iii the to talk a Africa i the democratic Opportunity ii this Century. It is going by be v on by somebody in ten j Cai both the bom and muslims Are making a tremendous bid tor the unti Lien t at its Peak. Then Union in the dramatic Cairo conference last year indicates the Quot seriousness of their intentions. the other hand the free world of the West has no Long Range plans and Hod no Yeative Sinh . Despite tile fact that 60 percent of oui uranium comes i no Africa and the United Stales Cap ital there has increased 2,700 percent i Nee 191. A tin a mean Crossroads project is being sponsored by it buttons and is led and concerned Young the Gene a1 store in Salem operated by Victor Morrow was broken into s duds it night missing w Ere three Wank jackets scleral pair of leather gloves and $9 4 it Pom the Cash Register file Thieve tried to open a Large Ault in the Ston but were unsuccessful entail ice was gained by open a rear door Depute n Lei tub in investigator four die Iii Auto rushes by ins trait in accidents in Iowa reached far outside the slate lot its victims Over the week end it it a the four fatalities reported since Friday night two were out of state residents one a texan and the other an egyptian Ai tending Iowa state College at Ames. The four deaths raised Iowa a 1958 traffic toll to 117 compared with 103 tin Ough March to last year the four week end i a Tali ties were 48-year-old Irene Viola Shalt of it Campin tex32-year-old Al Dada a Al Kadi 23-year-old Gordon Ruff Ridge of Decorah and 29-year-old Glenn e Mcmurrin of Cedar rapids. Al Kadi died in a Corning Hospital saturday of injuries suffered earlier in the Day when his ear went out of control and struck a tree alongside Highway 34 two Miles East of Corning Union High a i i dings est held tax evasion barges filed Davenport. Gas charges of evading state income taxes tor 1955 were tiled against five Scott county residents today. County attorney Marlin be or who previously announced plans to of their own volition l Ress to lug charges in connection la the risk involved to w1,h a s1ate tax commission crackdown said the five including two married couples allegedly evaded to is s i in in voluntary by Capa bus people we . Take do their shares in the influence a Occidental College in California it Union it i school students won Iii i at the dust i Iet a pen ii at Davenport the week Ca rep be Quot a won in both it u it i tor Ira i and in inter i relative read ing Don Ross Aion won a i ii j on lieu Leal a arum Allen i aint i i 111did i speaking and Jackie Spenley in it i i c Lam p Ion i All of tin other of Union cull j i est ants got i rating Janet m dim Iii dramatics lid Jim Niehold son in numerous tin one act play also got a h rating cast of the play a a concert Fen t he Park included Jackie i spotter Bob of re. Don hoi and Bill spinner i Joram i Iii i is Pooch Radii i in the of pm Iii High is Bool j. P. Reports that $5,880 is missing bet Lei idol i it i is it b nil Ai i Justice of the peace Dot Ald k Turner revealed today i at $5 880 was either lost or told from i car March i the Cash in a b it included $4 500 of s it county fund wha o i urn i Nile ted in by ourt. I inner Sari tie i ennui a a a i p. A a a a tiled the proceed from to photographic by. Mess Turner explain i that lie had a ported the to. To Bettendorf police the same a y it a. Not cd end to in t in had asked them Loie main silent it bout it. A Chei k revealed i Bat i Lido i chief of police notified Scott county auth Davenport pc lie of the lout Beloid no Utica of want to be Active. They want to make their Mark. They want to be admired by girls. They want to be heroes. As All of my childhood was spent under conditions identical with those which nowadays Shock he country i can have some understanding of the problems that face a growing child who has nov Here to go and nothing to do the child does not know that the real curse that has befallen him is that his parents have chosen to Jive in the big City where human tossed an eight year old boy into a water filled gravel pit. The body of Felipe Hernandez stripped of clothing was recovered by firemen from five feet of water. The two youths aged to and 14. Were identified by witnesses. They merely shrugged when asked Why the pitched Felipe into the pit i Roberts pointed out. Is endorsing ten student for the afric. Ii student work Camp tour they bid not select students who were financially Able and just wanted to take a summer vacation trip to Africa instead they chose Young people who Wen the Best represent payment of taxes during 1955 near settlement Cross named to succeed Mack new York gns1 Aud employer negotiators Tak it on today Tho last obstacles to a settlement it f the garment strike amid pc Tives to participate in a project of diction of a return to work wed Reed Richard a Mack in the this a tune a a Young people who mesday. Oral communication comm would Best represent the United a Washington Gas to Cross assistant chief of la a division a. Named today i 8 a Iesu fed would make Hilo the co Lineni former Muscatine Council member shoots himself beings Are crowded into tenements Muscatine pins a former like cockroaches. Member of the Muscatine City what does a child do in the Council 48-year-old David a Waseity in my Day. It was still i sink shot himself sunday in the l it it pm possible to play on the streets but garage of his Muscatine Home. Now the streets Are full of Auto Sywassink was recently Dis Harg mobiles. Where does a child go for j de from a Hospital companionship it depends upon is survived by his widow and Luck. Where there is a social j three children. Settlement or a pal club the child a could be fortunate. Otherwise the _ a. I gang offers interest and excite Mamie to stay in ment. So what we need is loads of Money for such organizations As pal. Millions of dollars to assimilate these kids into american life. Denver another Day Denver. Ins a Mamie Eisenhower will stay Over in Denver another Day As bad weather forced a copyright. 1958. King features change in her original plan to leave Syndicate. Inc. J for Washington today. States and who Best contribution Isi ted. A proximal by 50 students will parti Pat in the a Dean study work Camp project in which Bill Stone Bunn r will be the Only Stu Dent from an Iowa College. The St Oden were very carefully screened to ii hard ands Renous undertaking to determine their interest and a Illust Ness in the purpose of the trip tile Largo screening committee was composed of such outstanding in he religious Field As the Quot Ria Glenn Mcgee. D., of Tho Tucson pc byte Ian Church which . W. S Walters and daughter Eleanorr. Attended while they were a Arizona or Steven s. Clary head of the department of religion Brown University. Elton Trublood. Hen. John Irwin ii the Hon Edward Dudley and a number of others. A Large stat of advisors from Africa will assist the group in the project which concerns not just Oil Quot particular Church but All Church i and All America. Sixty killed in train c Kash a at least 60 Pel s in we killed in a pileup of three trains 35 Miles North of Rio de Janeiro Brazil. One crowded train speeding through rain and dark slammed into two of Liers halted because of faulty signals. It by sol s worst rail disaster since March 4, 1952, when 119 y r of. in a two Tram collision. Gateman a1 radio sound hot it will present i await decision i a i 3 his it it Oak in Eam will Advance humorous Robert Pell Benn Rich est Bel a i dramatic Jane met Sci to duct s i Thorp Cliv Max Cannon radio speaking j entries Winch i it Rived division Iii ratings were Vry Suciu Rodgers oratorical. Geraldine Unkrich humorous Joyce Hull Intel pre i live heading Donna Cannon i radio speaking Rich hew i1 x tempura Neon he a King As previously announced the one act play was in Competition a tuesday March 4. Aud was accorded i division la ruling thus in the cast for this entry Quot Ilie Bool i russian by Click Hov Wen mane a Btl Sioui holier i Peterson and Max a Ninon All speech activities Arim it cd by Jacqueline Hiil qui mr., Miabelle Eye. Vocal a numb ,. Tractor will present a Large East apr toxic Atrev 120 it pleasant to Chou students in a colourful a i Cit a Quot lie i Nice it Pil Seti to a in i to in the High school Aud rot n Aud saturday nights Al pm and on to hurs Dav afternoon a mat Mer performance to grades 11 id 8 tin refreshing mud in it promises to be one of the High id of 1957 58 school veal i in Aux Par fun has it a colourful assortment of to the hotel internationale. Be a group of american i it i he by Mig guests in Lud Lei girl under the Wing of miss Mel a Tiro Ker Al tie Winterset an English photographer Ami two no i toil it no n Down on their Luck Vav Ihm t and Dubai t i. Let 11n s Ai e joined by Jai k Bourne i i Lex in Oil and cattle Man and Hiim nut bul sister. Jean to to to amazement they Are welcomed i the Prince and Princess of Purn Wilbert and Hilbert lose no time in confirming them in this exalted p Ilion by filing Jake till title i Iii real Prine of i Hen arrives with a group of Heidelberg students in decides i Quot have some Fuji with the pretender to Iii title so lot the Nim brine Iii baronies Plum heir bundt hut when he meets Jean i Quot 11 me to unit Hind that the by tin Al the victims of a ludicrous Cito in identity and Tita i ii v tie blameless he loses his in i t to ii in you la want to see the rest of the Story unfold cart of characters Frau cot head welter. Joe Riepe wll bet f Unni be Jill Crook Steve pit Quot to Gilbert a his brother Phi flier in crime Ronald of lulls. Henri Bell hop. Billa Mills Artic Winterset Magazine photographer Basil in ton me Melissa Crocker Lead i sire of miss Crocker i pushing school Killen Biggs Sidon in Lier French maid Helen Rowe me Boomer of Gopher Gulch a attle and Oil tycoon. David Hinterman Jean Boomer ii Breeze Fin the wide open spaces. Judy Welby Nancy Adams one of i. Crockery a students. Pat Taylor Street sing Lynn Cochran Nim fee maid at. The Lintel Mike rite Ilia Paulette maid at the to i Carter Claudette meal at the hotel Roberta Davis Chi i Olio in Prince of . Bob i Lenin. Sgt. Brie of the local gendarmerie. Bill Rockwell sgt. the Imti gendarmerie. Robert Kerr chm u a of Walters Crocket girl a Hen Heidelberg student French maids Rainy daisies dam. Is special groups waiters Bob Huston i in Hun Aker Gary Smith Duane Al Lemang Kenneth Murphy. Kail it Mace i vim Decker Jim French bathing chorus Pat Waters Jam t Ross Jackie Mason Judy Stock John Elsie. Mike Vrtik Gabur a Vive King Gary Peterson. Students Bob Huston Linn Lim. Kei Gary Smith Duane . Kenneth Murphy Karl pc i Mace Lynn Cochran. Lynn Decker Jim French Crocker girls Vicki Lawr net it i in roil Wolfe Owen Gooding Murphy Janet Tmimcr-1 1,ii Ann Cowen Mary run Esse i Hula King Mary to Sutton. French maids Margie Wilson Sara Stanley. Betty Tweedy Sharon Eye a uni to Kerr. Rainy daisies Judy Ark be Rommel Marilyn Diane Peterson Heeder j Ato Mcmurtrey Jacqui Janet Jewett Lila Myers. Can can dancers Karin ii h on pal Peterson Janice Lawr a Piotti Eikon under tin direction of Mal Bell Eye. Student director Linda King i a Ete Aux in a Reum 1 secret love bottle of per Lune Janet Hayes Joann Berk hire Christy Strang Linda Biggs. Diane Jones 2 Moon Mist Brittle of perfume Anna Mary Cormace. Solo Penny Patterson pages i pleats hot High school debate team is awaiting the decision of William Gibson stale executive in a tie of three teams to determine which will Advance to the ate finals of the Iowa High school pc Chi a Quot elation at it in to Cli March 28 and 29 according to tire tilling on in Nan of nine teams in Hie Section would go on to the slate contest in Width Davenport Newton and Ottumwa wer awarded isl 2nd and hid place and it pleasant tied with Clinton and Bloomfield i of till place the local team which Coin cited saturday at Davenport in the Dis to let speech contest was composed of two freshman Linda Bigg Aud Mary Klod Nyeki and two soph mores Diane Jon and Allene Rommel each team competed Iii live rounds or a total to ten debates the negative participating m by and five affirmative in five i he negative team composed of i 11niit Bigg anti Arlene Rommel won two of then debate and the affirmative composed of Diane Jones and Mary Klodnycky won Thrish Debinis for a five won five loss record the nine teams Weir one half of two sections of 18 teams that participated in he event the other foul top winning teams of Hie second Section wire Oskaloosa. Muscatine Burlington and University High school of Iowa City a net i Butzier was quite pleased with til record made by in fresh Man and of Thoumi team Iii the cd Clit question of c Ost Iso osts is raised Washington ins Senate democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson run into Republican charges today unit plan to unleash pub worx. Spaulding might boost Cost of the Highway program and Spur uneconomic projects like building armoires. La criticism came from Ben Norris Cotton go n. Ii. As Johnson told the Senate Public works committee ii1 favors doing a a Dative it takes including deficit Imam my to a keep the unemployment a j it 11 a1 from continuing to grow and grow and grow a the Texas Democrat rejected Cottons suggestion that his Resolution to accelerate military and civil Public works projects amounts to crash he Sam it i. A just i first step and involves Only Money already appropriated Johnson said Congress wants action not. An the democratic Leader i there i was a balance of 7.1 billion dollars i in unexpended funds for military a lid civil construction at the Fin of this year. J meanwhile White House new Secretary James c Hagerty said that president Eisenhower will Send , his proposal to extend unemployment benefits around Quot the Middle of tile week Quot ii i scout week can count on Lier Lur Sci agree to release american Pilot it the communist agreed monday to i it urn in american Pilot who Par i Chute into not i h Korea when his a of Jet i shot Down by red ground gunners lust thursday the communists gave notice of their intention to release Leon Pfeiffer of Kenosha Wea mint Aly it mistier comme Ion meeting in Panmunjom fire destroys lumber Yard Cedar rapids inst fire Early today destroyed the Orrick lumber Yard at us South Edge of Cedar rapids flames were i Sybilc for As much us eight Miles. Award contract Quot you v ice a girl is out troops of it plea ant have helped with Many worthwhile projects the 5th Grade no. 60 girls under the leadership of . Wendell Smit ii and . Wayne Klop fun Stein a Pant their last scout meet my. Held at the methodist Church in placing the stamp on Hie easter seals for mailing in the it pleasant and Center township Vicinity. These girls live done Many worthwhile projects As they have worked on their service badges. Capt j they also helped with the Christ my. St Al for Henry county. Members of the troop arc Connie Roble Patricia Price Sheryl Roble Stephanie Hunt Becky swaths Sandra Warrington. Beverly Morris Janice Evajane Figart Mardell Smith Hazel Mckenzie. Judy Klopfenstei Cheryl hit to Ellen sessions Jill Howe. Carol Wolzein Margaret Nelson Patricia Mcmurtrey Margaret Coder Dell Agnason Judy Megorden. Cindy Shockley Sandra White by Sadler and Marie Millspaugh France of it. Pleasant has been avar Dexl the contract tor the change in the club House a tie of pleasant Golf and country club work will begin As soon As Hie weather permit.,s. I ii is hoped that the renovation j v. Ill be finished by May f Nice donations to reduce the 1 Pond debt have been received from j 47 member Pat Bryant Sarah Patterson. Joyce Coley. Tourist chorus Glendo Raff Sharon Marshall. Vonda Erickson Janice Martini Marlene a Ley Carol Yaley. Peggy Riley Mary Ann Fryer Ardith Rich Ray j Rheinschmidt. Zelda Olson. Shirley Guinn Lii lips. Lunette Crile Eleanor Lark. Glanz Nian Ellen Savage Gretchen Mcdowell Ellen , Shirley Bonser. Ruth Stafford Donna j Gholson Judy Prickel Barbara Manning Meredith Tharp Ruth Henessee Rosemary Hallowell Carol Peterman. Connie Schadt Donna Smith Kathy Hoover Lois Marlay a loin Ashy Jean Looker Nancy Daw on. Janet Mcculley. Don proc tor Steve Volt Dale Carden Gary j Prickett Gary Kyle j in Kite Eddie Means dance instructors Joann Berkshire Linda Biggs Karen Biggs. Lines controlling brakes on school buses found Cut a Lei Kapp Dayton. O., ins the Hydraulic lines controlling Hie Brake were found Cut on five school buses today at Centerville of just before the Drivers were to Start their daily rounds. The buses normally transport some Hoo Washington township school children to the District elementary school at Centerville near Dayton a possible tragedy was averted when the Drivers found the brakes inoperative while making their usual inspection before setting out to pick it children on Rural routes school superintendent Nadir y Watt immediately cancelled ill classes in the District. Quot tilts was done by someone who knew what he was doing Quot lie stated Quot it probably took More strength than a juvenile would the buses had been left parked in the open near the school Over the weekend a garage is now under construct Ion. Witness fails to show up Washington. Ins the House Irby Deerfield Ushers members of the operetta committee probing a Miami to to Mary j cast. Cense award adjourned abruptly Jean Mertens Sandra Aliet Judy stage Crew Jack Fenton. Bob today when the scheduled witness Bates Margaret Cash Huston Sharon Eye. Sharon god Miami attorney Thurman a. 3 Rouge it noir bottle of Darci Waurika Kerr. Linda Biggs j Whiteside failed to show up. Pc fume Sharon Swan. Sue me David Timmerman. Gary Peterson j Gohan Virginia Burroughs Judy Diane Jones win Rockwell Janet Robinson Pat Welcher. Timmerman Glenda Graff Sara 4 breath of Spring bottle Stanley. Virginia Burroughs. perfume Madeline Clark lights David Harlan Ronald soloist Yvonne Devol Sherry Stull j Riley Rand Beattie Jack Fenton. The polls in the it. Pleasant school election will be open until 7 00 p. M

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