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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 13, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a a vol. 83, no. Tomt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening Marcu 13, Doi these Days by George e. Sokolsn copyright Leigl King. Features Syndicate inc a tue Peac e coups it is difficult to grasp exactly what the Peac e col is is meant to la it and to do. The Public relations on the subject is exciting but not clarifying. Precisely what will the Pence corps do who is eligible for membership ii the members Are to receive no pay but Only expenses is this corps limited to the Rich ii some of its members _ Are not Rich he w Are they Tojo up live the own and Oss sent some three traffic fatalities last week very unfortunate personalities to it it and marred what otherwise would Many parts of the world will the have been Ute safest weekend death peace corps get screened if l it top on Iowa streets and highways by which Agency if not screened a several months How will they know whether some j tie Hig death toll forced up of their members or not enemies Ward to too with the new addition. Of the United states another r gain Over the 84 fatalities what Steps Lien Are being taken recorded in the state one it Star a to prevent communist infiltration Ion this dab. The own tie Oss. And tile Usia one of the two weekend Girdle not succeed in avoiding such Tim mrs. Anna Metcalf Feguer sentenced to hang Ottumwa victim three killed in Iowa infiltration. Apparently the Fri and tile Cia have. How will the peace corps handle this problem in a word. What is the peace Collis How us it to be organized How us it to work How is it to about he of Ottumwa. She killed and eight others injured in a two car collision on Iowa to one mile East of Sigourney sunday evening. Hospitalized in serious condition be directed to american purposes As a result of that crash her whet advantage is this to be to son Marvin Marion Metcalf 58. The United states also of Ottumwa. L it seriously injured in the before the touted states goes til p Metcalf s wife bit Lier. Further in this adventure More Ailcy six teen age re from Sigourney needs to he known about it during and in a1 surrounding the the Roosevelt regime tile various town agencies of government were or the injured Young people in Gani Zed with the Obj i of absorb eluded Thomas Wayne Dumont 17 inc surplus population Young men Thompson 16 Mickey and w min. Some it them Compo shoots 15 Donald Rodgell 15. Tent others communists or Llano Bullard Vogel 15 and Richard Are a is. Were sent to Many parts a Mai Quot. In. Of tile world where damage Keokuk county sheriff John ii done to he reputation of the said the Metcalf car United stares this produced the a travelling South on Iowa Mccarthy investigations to which and had just turned West at so Many now object. Junction of Iowa 92 when it of course there Are mba teams rammed from behind by the wandering the face of the Earth hide carrying the teen agers and doing a magnificent work in i my driven by Dumont. Some places. Mra stands for Waderich said the Metcalf moral re armament a movement hit a Bridge abutment and travelled that to started Yea is ago at Princeton about 250 feet before overturning and spread itself All Over and Par in a ditch. Attorneys say House votes the y were victims of a Hay seeds the first of very Many making her first appearance As fit St lady at a Public function mrs. John f. Kennedy Cut a ribbon to officially open the Lith annual National capital Flower and Garden show. She is pinning a Pink Rose on Tommy Thacker 7, Adelphi md., a cerebral palsy victim. Wind blown rain---.87 storms kill one injure Loci ii ado Ufi i prominent Chicago attorneys claimed saturday they were victimized by a High powered Hays eds Quot from Iowa who concocted a purported plot to loot the $890,000 a i of a wig maker. Nat m Kahn and his son. Richard said two other attorneys George i q Johnson. Or. And Joseph w r turned Over i worn Gold watch and ring offered to sup port til latin of George Pat Jordan. 49, an Iowa farmhand thai he the wig makers illegitimate son. Tile Witch Engrav d wit la hic initials a a. Ii m a Quot Winch Hie elder Kahn said Hie state claimants contended stood for August Henlieh Max to Der wig Ilia k i to opera stars. Johnson son of a former u. S. District attorney confirmed that. The watch and the ring which bore the initial a a re a turned Over to tile kahns by Beer Aller the i Crone testing Laboratory Here bad certified tin age of the engraving on the jewelry. Kahn said tile jewelry a Only a Small part of a mass of evidence which caused him to Bli be Jordan s claim legitimate. He said Drivers test measure bulletins Havana i pit a informed sources said today three cuban youths Hae been arrested on barges of plotting against the life if soviet ambassador Sergej k Udria al Sci. 149 the we. Pc Dos Moines Uhm it the Quot Iowa House today finally passed an a implied miscue Quot Drivers lie Etc Bdl 90-10, after four earlier at to it nips for final approval this session had failed. A Jne Dill which the House finally Appl in d an amendment by rep Tom Bila i Cedar rapids. Riley a amendment a Complete substitute for Hie original measure. Win ii bad be la sponsored by it legislators and endorsed by the committee on safety and Law enforcement. Basically the Riley Ani and mint which now go s to the Senate in Lull Bain would require holders of Iowa Drivers licenses to submit to chemical t Sis to determine whether they Are int Xie ated Ai Cep Tanee of a Driver s License would carry with hic a implied consent a to submit to the i Sis at Hie of adv i Ace officer who had a reasonable grounds a for suspect my the Motorist of being under til influence of alcohol. However b fore a Driver suspected of intoxication would be re w a in \ it of i put Secor or Abraham \ Ribicoff Hula left an open door on the question of a Bill to provide Federal Loans to parochial schools. No Date set for the execution defeat Bill to establish i fun i areas Dos Moines a up the Senate today Defeated a Bill which would have permitted counties to a table ii dumping grounds. I hic Bill previously a cd in hic Hon e by in. Was turned Down in hic Senate 31-16. The major objection to tile Bill that it allowed or univ boards Waterloo Iowa a ufos i Aux convict who spent Bis youth i plotting Law to commit a the perfect crime Quot today sentenced to Lang flt it a the Kidnap playing of a prominent Dubuque physician. Federal District. Judge he nov n i Graven handed Down the sentence Lor Viktor Harry Feguer Winch had been recommended by a jury sunday. He did not set a Date for the circuit Ion. Before passing Cut race Graven a kit d Segut 25, St. Johns Michi if he wished to make any statement Iowa m his own behalf. Quot no i do not.,&Quot Feguora replied. Graven then imposed a sentence of Quot death by hanging in the Iowa state Penitentiary at fort he said the Date would be fixed at a later Date. Feguer a court appointed defense attorneys will file a notice of . Circuit the of. Pleasant area received by Uiti another soaking rain sunday after j Snow and sleet hit parts of the noon and night while March winds Midwest today and portions of buffeted much of the Midwest. J Missouri and Ai Kansas Cie ant d up the local rainfall totalled .87 of an j from tornadoes that killed one and Inch and coming in drizzle and injured at least la persons. And shrivers soaked into the soil. Bur a Snow blanketed Southern willing ton reported i 14 inches. Notion Ami sleet mixed with rain. Cai a i made driving hazardous in the by i cd i Flint mich., Detroit area another snowstorm swirled into j tile weather Bureau pc a Iowa today monday on the heels dieted Snow would fall on other traffic death of an All night rainfall and fore scat 10n. Of the Midwest before rest before a peace officer could demand that the Motorist submit to a test. Of supervisors to Levy up to one Quarter Mill annually to establish it Eal shortly at the and operate the dump the Levy court of appeals at St. Louis As is would apply Only to agricultural required in Federal cases involving pro Verty. J the death penalty. Sen ii or i Ong a Manchester Feguer had been found guilty of urged the Senate to defeat the Biu. The Quot cold blooded vicious Kidnap with the statement Quot gentlemen slaying of or. Edward r. Bartels let s not raise property taxes in 24. By a Federal jury sunday. The i jury recommended the death pen sen. Earl Elijah. A Clarence ally which binding upon the 1 pointed out. That the Bill judge. I necessary in generally level Conn-1 ties because there Are no gullies or the a a on tet w tried Only on cited for proved by an Parlier debate on Hie of her a mylar thou to Hldi Lra Fiji Federal kidnapping charge but it Ticu Early in Africa in recent times. Another weekend one meets very stimulating Young Gary Eugene Domoss 18, of casters said new Snow acc Mula night men and women in mra i re Maquoketa Lions would be up to three inches or winds of Gale strength. Whipped cent in had until with Gandhi s he we Killel in a one ear crash control sections and up to foul Over the great lakes of Huron. Grandson who is part of mra. Pm Iowa 64 0m-half mile East of inches East before the snowfall end end. An it i Michigan and al o Lake to d in Rali it made me real,/1 Maquoketa late saturday night cd at night. J St. Clair near Detroit. Quot base a. Idealistic rationally authorities said he apparently lost by mid afternoon the state High the weather Bureau said i ugh organized Young prof a can do who Ron Lori 0 Hie vehicle and smashed patrol reported roads were be j Vilkus and Tornado conditions s out t0 do it mra folks d0 into a Bridge. I coming very Slushy or Snow packed a hich threatened Southern Illinois Central and East High winds were an it i Indiana sunday night ended it would a take an hour Quot to list Allf it Nirid to submit of 11 or would of the supporting evidence present govt 1 b placed under actual ared by Jordan. The kahns Johnson and Baer have been ordered to appear in Cook county court april 5 along an amendment to the rib y with five iowans to show cause Why amendment which had been a the nine should not be contempt of court Bdl r written today. Hie action0 carries a possible death penalty Johnson said the ohm Mon by struck out a provision for the safety the Senate Abo passed a Bill when the victim is harmed. Jordan that the will ii presented Onmi is Oner to revoke n License in Winch would require presidential before passing sentence Graven a forgery a a Nightmare and 1 he of tit a per. On under Airest electors to vote for the party which there one facet of the Case of a Shock to to we Welcome tins willing to. A Brant to either Hie urine j received the most votes in the hich he took special note a what hearing this Opportunity to disclose of breath test instead of a blood a state. Occurred in a lonely Field in to everything we know about the Case h St i hat amendment offered gci1 Howard c. Buck. R-Mel-1 Daviess county Illinois the night we have practice Law Here for by rep Richard f St apeman Ltd Bourne said there had been a no of j Illy la 1960, when or. Edward Many years and there has never Council Bluffs. Stage mans earlier a particular abuse of tile present. Ray Bartels who had left Home on been a hint of a blemish or scandal aur dment Bud included a saliva jaw which allows the electors to i an errand of mercy shot Ani on our of test As Well As urine or breath tests. Cd t hair votes for he presidency shied without not draw salaries. They either support themselves or find their somehow. I h known tins group for at it is 20 v. Ars and have followed thur work rather closely and there has never been a scandal among them. There also is no external discipline a person either has it in him a or her to go the whole for sender or quits but nobody can live mra halfheartedly it just Doe not happen from his International experience. It is possible to believe that Good will cams f an perform u. E Ruth Coker 30. Oxford Junction v us killed late sunday night in a one car Accident on u. S 61 about a half mile North of Maquoketa. Til rec other persons Riding in the car were injured. Mrs. Log Enwiller taken by death causing blowing Snow and seriously today. It had been feared cutting visibility North Central and a Tornado like weather Northeast Drift into the Ohio Valley. The Highway commission said1 highways in the Southern part of the state were generally Slushy Slippery with thin Northwest end Snow parked and Slippery Antral and Northeast. Highways were dear in extreme Southeast Iowa the snowfall ended in Western lows a by late morning and sex earlier would the four lawyers also were ached the Riley measure further in the electoral College in any tiled to be quizzed by the Cook amended today to provide for i they Sec fit. County states attorneys office ast net Appeal to District court from1 Quot if there be a very close vote part of the foundation for possible safety department suspension of ii-1 sometimes an elector might go grand jury Adion against the census on suspicion of driving while wild and upset the results a Buck a tills a reference to the fact that Feguer contended that someone else had done the actual shoot iowans. Intoxicated said. Jordan described As a Quot Mere tool another change would provide for the and the government contended that a Feguer shot and killed Bartels a i Graven said that in View of the held to grand jury on driving charge Bill passed 39-4 of the Mastermind of the plot a a1 a six month suspension on second sent to the House. Ready has received a three year Sun of ruse of refusing to submit to a n a a evidence he would follow the rec Pended sentence at Maquoketa a chemical test for intoxication. Bdl which passed by both a of mend a to on of the jury. Peeled to move out of Central see Olive Jane Pogemiller 92. Died dons by Early afternoon. But the Early sunday morning at memorial a As not due for a let up in Fui Sci pc is the mra groups Are . Pit ii. Following an illness of the i the Snow until tonight and High voluntary and International in Pust three weeks. J winds w re expected to continue character the strength of mra is j Ujj. Daughter of James g and Ca St until about the same time. I ideological thou who have joined Kathryn Huffman Walker she Jefferson registered the top Murk i. Of various religious faiths be porn m Walker i to anon North of with 2.54 inches of rain and four Hove that f hey am help the world by i my Ion on october 21. 1868 inches of new Snow and Guthrie i through the guidance of god on february 9, 1887. She Center also had four inches of new there is no it nit no Bac i v. No married to Henry Pogemiller. They Renow with 156 inches of ruin he Ponsy in this movement i is lived on a farm North of burling Correctionville with rainfall of what it i and that is All its ton until 1899 when they moved to 2.35 inches measured two inches al numbers ale impervious to rid a farm near morning Sun. In Cole or criticism and go their recent years she had been a Resi fighting the awfulness of marxism Dent of it. Pleasant wherever it rears its head. Annually. There is a meeting in Eaux and at George r. Clark Waterloo. Charged with driving while his incense under suspension i waived preliminary hearing in a f Timmermans Colin Cia urday and bound oar to the grand jury under $300 Bond which posted. Tile charge filed against Clark by Deputy Richard Gray after Clarks car involved in an Accident North of town Friday afternoon and caught on fire. Iowa for posing us am of the wig maker who loll to his or Atli in a Loop elevator Shaft March 9, 1960. Authorities claimed Jordan j induced to pose As Roeder s son by his employer i Jester Lang Chr 48, Rural Monmouth. Iowa Farmer. Will admitted to probate or pleaded innocent. Reign at inc Emerald rail Bouses of Hie legislature two years i about too persons we Ere in to a ago Aud signed by the governor courtroom when Feguer sen passed again today. Traced. I the Bill allows cities towns and i however Bartelso attractive i counties to Levy up to one half Mill widow Ruth who gave birth to the Vin of Lester w. Mohr a. J for the Purchase of voting a their fourth child six months after her husband met his death a j not present As she had been when the jury received the Case saturday. Neither Bartel s father Roy. Hic entire sentencing session took Only five minutes and ended at 10 03 . Cost. Been admitted to probate at the a Chines. At present voting a Langrehr held tinder $10,000 courthouse and according to the Chines can Only be bought through Bond at Maquoketa on a charge of termly c. Tate left to his j Bond i sues conspiring to prepare a bogus Villi. Father. William if. Mohr a brother the action of he last legislature Irwin m mein appointed ruled invalid by the attorney executor general a office because then la. The will a. Drawn up Jiulie 18, gov. Edward j Mcmanus failed 1919 Quot missing girl Quot found by officers to place jus signature on the Bill a required by Law. The Bill pained 42-2. Nox Snow and Kennebec also had two inches of snowfall although Only .8 Inch of rain. The Only Good weather news Loi mrs. Pogo Miller a life Long Iowa a predicted return of Sun Switzerland and at Mackinac aug Ini ,�?~1 of Floc methodist Church Shine tuesday bringing warmer Michigan and until her recent Iliad took temperatures after today s highs i have brought in the Story of an Active l an work of Hie mostly in the 30�?Ts. Overnight lows mra because it has More than a 1lurch. 1 were expected from the 20 s North Quarter of a Century of history m Cleath by to die Low 30 Symth and tuesday behind with varying experiences her husband and three Soma his a he scr it precast from the upper youth found dead in car Arnold Swenson of Chicago 111. And Linda Schneider of Farnhamville both Sophomore students at which cannot be ignored because Challa Frank and Earl. And they have in Many places been three grandchildren. By 30�?Ts North to near 50 South. Wednesdays Outlook called for partly Cloudy skies and Little change j sons. In temperatures. Effect . Up to this writing tin peace corps has not declared an she is survived by three logic to position it seems to Bobasil of i. Pleasant Donald of an activist Effort but experience Wapello and Russell of Ephrata has show a that action without an Wash five daughters mrs. Lucy idea without a motive without an Wilson of Rock Island mrs. Hattie inspiration usually becomes futile. Willson of Fairfield mrs. Bess when tile peace corps has est a Owens of Davenport mrs. Lena us philosophy it is possible Thomas of Myrtle Point Ore. And that one can be enthusiastic about mrs Alice Prentice of san Diego. Up a a j. Gen. Joseph Mobil pro Lumumba troops captured Leopold Ville the Congo Dubuque Iowa up i7-y< a old Dubuque youth a found dead in his car Here sunday in front of a girl frit and s Home. Authorities said Donald Mclain apparently overcome by Carbon a fumes from the cards exhaust system. He took the girl Home about la p in. Saturday night after she complained of being sick while ruling in the car. Authorities said and a apparently Over cools by the Gas before he could drive away. Debbie Crabtree 5, a. Found by City police at 12 20 . Monday Iowa vile an College were Cho. In Ai w a Saunders Street after her to reign As King and Queen of Tho i Mother reported at noon that Tim Emerald Ball which held sat it girl haunt come Home from pm tiny night in the John Wesley hoi Dorga Tai at Saunders school which land student Union. The Vince la out at la a. In. Cas orchestra provided music. Farmers Union opens invention Washington up a Hie pro Kennedy National Farmers Union Clear he added at the Start of the hearing Graven . Federal District atty. I e. Van Alstine if he wanted to make a further closing statement. Van al the replied a we see no Point in extending the record by rehashing any of it. We Mads i our recommendation to the jury calling for the death penalty it at which time we made our position Paar gets Strong backing from Abc the girl had Stop a d at another j opened its National convention to girls House Quot to the Home from Day with an elated notice froma Bool. The Crabtree family lives one of its leaders that the group ii a trailer at 1107 West sound . I is once More Welcome in Wash Ringlon. All we ask now is the recommendation of the jury be carried Graven hic to turned to the defense attorneys and asked if they new York i ufi1 Jack Paar win prizes at More than 2.000 delegates had any statement. Paul Kildee series my Uek one Calif 35 grandchildren and its Conception. Until then must kit a his fingers crossed a great grandchildren movement without a Banner a slogan and a song. An Ideal and a Hope a cannot get anywhere. The danger of such a movement As the peace corps is that it will generate enthusiasm Aid then Peter out. Uke the acc Camps which served no effective purpose except to keep you. People Busy w i ii May be of some value As funeral services will be held at 2 p in. Tuesday March 14 at the methodist Church in morning Sun with the Rev a. V. A it Igel and the first methodist Church Burlington in charge Kennedy return from week in the country of Strong backing from his net a work in his dispute with de Sullivan today As the two stars prepared to debate their difference s on television tonight Abc to issued a Slat in it saying it warmly set Pinnix Jack Bam Delbert Nelson Russell Sponberg Victor Johnson and Miles madams my pleasant and Laverne grader Wayland. 64 Tux forces captured three companies of pro Lumumba troops in an offensive Ivar the Oriental province Border the congolese foreign ministry announced today. Mobutu a Long expected drive coupled with reports from Stanley in. . Notor of Alao inc Eizenga wa., be ave eased out a Boss of Oriental us a Crow ded with foreign Juilu province which is in the hands of matters including a Quot major Stab interment will be in Elm Grove followers of slain sex Premier a i Entz on latin America cemetery. Morning Sun. Rice Lumumba. Washington up Kennedy returned today from a relaxed sunday Iii the country to a White House ached in his argument with Sullivan that it a All right for Paar to pay a guest Star $320 to appear on his show while Sullivan inns to pay up to $7,500 for the same person on Din program on the rival lbs it two Rte Quot the stars appear Oil the Paar show because they like to and want to and because they feel it is to their Ben lit a arc said. Quot to attempt to Ilii Daic them from such apis cd ranges by economic threat represents in our opinion the kind of repressive tenon re assembled for Hie session w Ith the replied Quot there is very Little that air of pilgrims reaching Hie prom we could ired land after eight years of when asked if he had any state tribulations. Ment to make Feguer stood up the 750,000 member farm group steadily to the Bench and made he a Long time advocate of the mar reply in a Well controlled voice. A an Harry Johnson. My us non 1 keying controls and income boost j he retained his composure As the inf programs endorsed by presi sentence pronounced. Dent Kennedy almost Contin he returned to the Black piously on the our with the i Xci Hawk county jail where he has Mcallister events door prize winners at the of special events at the Ains tor seed farms the Pas Hewer administration. Community Chest Board to meet twiddling thumbs May be of some toe Pierce funeral Home morn-1 psychological value. But then who ing Sun. Is in charge of arrange really needs to twiddle his thumbs meats. The family requests that Flowers a Large number of Kansas towns be omitted and suggests that Dona got their names from civil Lions May be made to a memorial and other military personages. Fund for retarded children. Tananarive malagasy Republic i upi1 a Western diplomats expressed Hope today the newly formed a confederation Quot of Congo states would end the threat of communism j made the return flight. In the Congo and bring stability to the strife torn nation. Kennedy carried his daughter pug ant to the spirit of fair play. Caroline 3. Aboard the helicopter i no said in reference to Sullivan s for the flight Back to Washington edict that stars appearing for pea a meeting of the Community. Che t Board of will be or id afternoon at four i of clock at the youth Centi r. Appreciation Day is on wednesday Rig spy trial opens in Britain mrs. Kennedy and Prince and Princess stanislaus Radziwil her brother in Law and sister also been hold since he returned to Iowa from Birmingham ala., where he had been arrested nine Days after Bartels killed. To will remain in Tho county jail pending determination of which Federal prison he will b held in until Fie is executed in the London up Britain a big Iowa state paid tertiary. Gent spy trial in ten or ars opened Graven to Pula Ted that tin sex today w us five persons accused of cution will be supervised by the stealing naval and atomic Sunborn . Marshal for me North Ai Donne secrete and relaying them to to id of Iowa. Moscow Over a Jiow Erful radio hid nuts on Paar a show will get the same and no Mon from Hun. Case dismissed the ease of Corge Goettie appreciation Day at the Henry d 11 beneath the Kitchen of a Xuy count by Supply Coop will be wed Burban cottage. The a great to debate Between mesday March 15. Free Coffee and Rwy d he defendants Are Ainer Davis and Mary c Parker involve the two High powered emcees is doughnuts will be served. Attention leans. Ling a promissory note has been first on the president s ached scheduled for broadcast on Paar a is called to the Date because of an a five pleaded innocent when dismissed at the plaintiffs Cotla for on foreign Aid. Show on Abc at 10 30 . Cost a error in. Previous advertisement.,the trial opted. Lack of prosecution. Ult a meeting

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