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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 17, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news a vol. , no 0 i it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening March 17, 1%l these Days George k. Sokosky Batista interview after a silence of two years Ful go nolo Batista has presented his Point of View in a letter to a a the Miami it surprising1 that the Senate committee which now holding executive session hearings on the cuban fiasco has not called Batista to give his Side of the startling claim that it was american officials who instructed him to resign to leave Cuba and to turn that country Over to Fidel Castro. For what the testimony of ambassadors Arthur Gardner Earl e. and Robert Hill amounts Erbe critical of lit nor control objections to proposed route of 218 through City aired at Public hearing Strong objections to routing Highway 218 across cast it. Pleas artery Between St. Louis and the,., twin cities the in kit it acc of unto precisely this and although�1 Quot Ltd pm ctin�?zs1 proved Highway to Industry and possibility that a f i it v mrs. Kroger Peter Kroger executive session testimony not Quot 34 a a a a were voiced at a Public hearing available for quotation most of this data will sooner or later be published verbatim. The testimony of sex ambassador to Brazil William d. Pawley has. Proceedings conduct d a staff been made Addabel it to the. Paw Ley evidence that Batista addresses himself. Batista says of Pawley Here thursday evening. The City Hail second Story room i was Jam packed and persons crowded tile stairway trying to hear the representing the commission. The Meetin Iowa Hsiuhwa cited possibility Liat the traffic count comparison percentages May shift within a comparatively Short time. He concluded urging tile improvement of 218 and giving of every consideration to the possibility of passing on the West Edge of i. Pleasant. Was orderly Well a a. He further said that although he wits not authorized the state department High officials of the latter were of his Opin i Ion however he could not say or remember their of course. Pawley May have declined to reveal the names of the organized and apparently carried Leonard Peterson business Man through to the satisfaction of All concerned. Presentations we 1 factual and without bitterness Ager of the mental health Institute presented on let Oliaf of the Board of control and supt Wayne b i Brown reasons for their objection Muir of them. Howe Amul to Roux cl0m. To a emotional pleas of safety for children. Many of Hie objectors ask d Only persons in the state department that Tho Highway who agreed with his View that Batista should form a government including the opposition but it to believe Liat he did not remember who they were. Paw of 01in. Hound 1k Ley has had a Long experience in to through it a t Miasia and in latin America and not Likely to forget readily Why he came to Cuba. Batista replied to the idea of including the opposition in his government follows a a during this private talk i gave him opinion al amt the very serious situation that confronted country which was a victim of intense terrorism at that moment and under communist pressure whose influence and control had been ample proved i explained in him that the conversations with Aid win the opposition had come to an end because Ca Tro opposed them a thens threatening the leaders with per six mutes manent loss of All promotion in p ban son or death if they continued to sonic of or have Contact with represent one More or Rives Quot East i pleasant a that it go either to the East or the West outside the City limits. Several persons w Cre definite in statement a that Highway not pm a. Ant but that West it. Pleasant beyond the City limits offered bettor possibilities for the route no one introduced into the record any objection to the improve silent of 218. Many statements pm Bari Zed the need for such improvement and commended the Highway commission for its action in panning Suc h unproven it the fact that. The Road would carry heavy and noisy traffic with ii a few feet of the West line of the not go through spa al rounds was pointed out. It was stated Liat buildings of the recommend new formula for Road tax 155 ifs. Students to visit Wesleyan in c amps saturday from tile 155 High school student i Wiio will visit Iowa Wesleyan College saturday for critique sessions with inc music faculty a Small number will be his comment More like promotion commission Des Moines a up i a a new formula for distributing the $115 million annual Road use tax members a mall number will be i Des Moines up a gov. Fund providing 18 it or cent for chosen for a Public recital saturday Norman a Erbe said today that the chips and towns was recommended night. Iowa liquor control commission for a Sage today the Iowa at 8 p in. Ai College Chapel the was not living up to the Quot intent a Hon Etc it a Metier on roads and chosen students will perform of the. Legislature and seemed to be highways earlier at 4 30 p rn., a1 n in the a Mort like a liquor promotion com the , and Ord 27-4 Chapel a group of Iowa Wesley amp a the Catmint to it p. Would increase the students will featured. Hie tiie Republican governor would. I cities and towns share of the fund Public invited to both recitals. Not elaborate on his opinion that i from Hie present 8 per cent the College has invited High the democratic controlled liquor it also would place the allocation school students to the Campus for commission was failing to do its to cities and towns strictly on a a critique session before the Stu Job but he told his news Confer population a. instead of the dents go to the various music con once that he would recommend record. Marion Overton speaking from the floor mentioned that i. No school East of the proposed route of the Highway and the proposed residential subdivision in the line of tile proposed route. To called attention to rerouting ionic presentation oth la Wax commission outlined inform Ilion on the routes that hav it been e red gave figures about costs East route through it. Pleasant favored Over the Institute would to so close to the Road that inmates would be subject to traffic noise which might interfere with their possible acc of a i v it wins Fin Iller mentioned that any inmates who were successful in git Ting Over the Fence onto the i a Way would be exposed immediately to traffic hazards. Too Warner a. Russell manager of Tho Southeast Iowa cooperative electric association cited the extensive traffic use at the Rea building at Washington and Wil. It ii of problems that a Highway at that location might cause and of the Wisdom of passing congested a l was. U to Harlan chairman of the Ink a Tref no Mac county Board of supervisors would evaluated attention to the possibility that the0 proposed cast route might in Terre e with the flow of traffic on certain secondary roads and the of congestion at the intersection of the highways because of a concentration of primary Ordary and local traffic. Henry Houghton Elizabeth gee spy net tightens Here Are the five on trial in London spies in theft of naval secrets along with Phe old Bailey tile court building where criminals have faced Justice fur nearly a thousand years. Lonsdale. 37. Has a Canadian passport but the prosecution claims he a a russian. Miss gee 46, had Access to Quot highly secret work in Portland from 3950 on. Houghton 55, her Fiance also worked in Poi hand. The Kroger says the charge were the ones who transmitted the stolen information to Russia. It began like this i on Dale worked his Way into Houghton Confidence Houghton into miss gee. And now ifs ending in the old Bailey. I e. Cut Idan of 60 i it or cent Oil tests not cd and Ari per cml on population this exclusive population Baize would result in cities of More than 8.1.000 receiving less Money despite i the larger Overall percentage. De., Moines for example now receives j about $1.7 million a year from the of Road ase fund. On a strict population base the Iowa capital City would receive Only it about $1 2 million. Redistricting Bill called null and void some changes in state Laws pertain to the liquor control act. Erbe said his recommendations would be sent to the legislature i monday and would a a pinpoint a his i dissatisfaction. Waco school plan upheld no sets a holding action Price at $22.75 the pro pox d Waco school itis Moines Upit tile a Ifill approved the joint county lion a i Farmers organization Nix gently at Keokuk and Montrose to j boards of education alter a Public thursday set a Quot holding action Quot avoid a ring within Tim City him i . Hen was Given approval Price tag on hogs at $22.75 per a with oui exception Tho Stab hundredweight and immediately Wendell Smith said that if the proposed route followed an estimated 17 families will lose their chinese communists in eminent. It mindful a. d. E. And ired considers t Ion go to the East Side a less up the Middle others to the West and vary in the termination North of a tills mindful of those Days in p <a., advantages if a Vanc China when general George mar disadvantages if any. Were men shall and general Quot vinegar Joe Quot toned Stilwell were putting pressure on the Highway comm. Ion Sai 1 tha Chiane Kai shark to include the lengthy statement set a for his gov to of of prepared of of those a it Chons Impromptu comments let. Hat a ,.s of the City tha very Busy people in the state do Urs in v received and a to Cut who were under the in in questions and answers All of f i lie Nee of the Institute of Pacific tic Bich were recorded on tape for relations and who were Busy try the later consideration of the ing to formulate policy to a com. Members of the Highway comm Iodate soviet Russia a a policy i Jon which has brought damage to the United states decision of the col unties Ion Likely Batista thereupon states his Reft will be Modi a to eight sons for accusing Castro of being a weeks and another two weeks would communist a cd according to his be required for Federal approval statement the state department since Federal funds would be Biwa fully informed in 1958. Tins vol. D. The audience was Formi d confirms Tho statements of the am personnel Here from the staff in Bassadore that they had informed eluded Ray Kassel the Moderator the state department of Castro c. J Lyman de of Connor de communist affiliations prior to John con Wendell and Cone Mill. Robert Gibson county Engineer. With no. 34 traffic estimated to double in the next 20 years it would seem a certainty pass of the City Highway will to advisable. Tie muting of 218 should fit in Well wit ii the Long Range program he. Aid. He pointed out that Thor might be certain advantages then in having the 218 route to the West Clit. Pleasant. He also mentioned tin probability of an increase in traffic South of of. Pleasant when the Road improved and traffic department of Public instruction threatened a major farm to Market the one exception was that the Boycott if their demand not met. State departing it granted the re the More than 1,100 delegates of quest of Russell Sponberg to be sex from 12 midwestern states who ral i eluded from the proposed District lied Here promised to stay away information of hic decision un1 from the Market Quot soon a in two at or three weeks Quot Iii an Effort to prices to Erimine Fanner after the approval the joint participation. Aid he knows of the a Angels of Boarts 0j you counties involved in the new demand Price of $22.75 Tim Highway and that they make Waco proposal an Appeal was based on no. I and 2 hogs one feat of Las life he he majr yl0 a Tate department weighing from 190-220 pounds. In Ped build the Load about 30 Washington county Board of cd Staley said. Denver Williams who a farm j Par Nril Wils i n Biden Southeast of pleasant of m,.y a Amon Eimear has travelled 218 Sutti Many times although free declined to discuss his legislative changes his administrative assistant. Russell Ross. Said one of the major issues 1 was the Lack. Of fiscal control Over Iris Moines i up i _ an the liquor commission attorney general a opinion today Quot they be got a Little Empire of i in i null and void the action their own Over there a Ross said. Ria Iowa House of represent a Quot neither the governor nor the Jiiv Hipa sing a congressional re comptroller has any ii.-1 meting Bill last week. Ross indicated that one of Erbes i Here can be no Bill because principal recommendations would i to premise on which the Legisla be enactment of legislation to plice t hire to proceed was not there the liquor control commission under atty Gen. Van l. Huh Man said. The state budget Laws. He opinion expressed orally a this would require the comnr-thc request of the Senate Rodis s50n to submit an. Itemized budget trading committee Drew immediate showing anticipated expenditures Lead Ion from House speaker and receipts for approval each year. Henry c. Neh on a Forest City. J a it it so far i am concerned we lube has been critical of the have a Bill a Nelson said. Quot and be liquor control commission for Sev a sides the problem in the Senate j Oral months. His displeasure with hands now Quot i the democratic controlled agencies Hultman Aid lie Bast d his Opin operations broke into the open Ion on the fact that the Legaria during his budget hearings last Ture was not officially notified of december while he was governor the faeces Ity to reduce Iowa a con i Gre. Signal representation from eight to even. I Iowa loses one congressman boded still serving attorney general. At that time he had obtained a report from the state Bureau of a ars ago and that main lives have been lost. Duration which called attention to president Oren Lee Staley Rea i cause the states population growth1 criminal investigation about Alleg a tile last to years did not keep de incidents of a political pressures it the a for a demand on it because the in Joe objections of resident in part mo., Sud prove mint of the Highway has not of the Crawfordsville District Price on hog. not met at the Waco includes Wayland. Olds Market that it could touch off a Pace with the National average. Advanced with the times he said that persons should if Broad in this matter and that their Only concern should be that Road improvement should if approved and that the Community should get behind the Highway commission and let Hie commission decide where the route should go. and some smaller major Boycott of All farm product Arras. In the Midwest the next. Top presumably will be the purpose of the Boycott would tin calling of an election for ii vote be to four upwards the prices on the proposed District. City manager Heads Parade of witnesses being exerted on employees of the commission especially the managers and clerks at state owned liquor stores. Last month it was disclosed that count percentages might change. He said his remarks were pre. Ated with the hop that further study might indicate tile route to the West might be Mast desirable not Only from the com there followed the Reading into tile record of letters which had thus been received members of the Highway commission and or got Norman Erbe. Senator c m Vatric and rep. John Rockwell. Throe letters were signed in Frank Abraham in Fyrn Bril mrs. Bess Carroll or. And mrs r death lakes Minnie Trueblood Des Moines a up a City j Erbe since becoming governor had manager elder Gunter thursday ordered the Bureau of investigation i armers receive for their products headed a Parade of witnesses that a or it make full scale probe of the at livestock and Grain terminals. Appeared before the Polk county i communions operation Salv said the new Price tag i Quot Rand jury in connection with a at at time. Ross said the probe Winch was established thursday j the rec pronged probe into the Des covered How stores Are placed How based on the of not a Quot holding Price Quot Moines jail inc scandals. Of $1 49 Lier Bushel on Corn. In Unity a standpoint but also More Castro seizure of Power. Although they represented different or. Wens Focas Jwuc hmm hot. Read ,r Send. Pawley could not establish in a of the staff work Tistan a mind the bonafide of his mayor wad Mcbeth c a incited authority a week after the Pawley briefly at the opening welcomed a Point than first determined. Minnie b. Trueblood 82. Died at the Kenndy nursing Home thursday evening March 16, after an ex-1 tended illness the daughter of Joseph d. And Hannah Rob Ria Bogue she Wasj born dec. 6, 1878 in Lee county. She Evan Copley Linn Ferguson ben1, ,. lived All her life in the Salem Rule deaths of couple murder suicide Steve Youns appointed to of Academy Paul Kyle a business Man and visit. Ambassador Earl of the group and introduced taxpayer said that he believes it Council present the from Wash cd the Batista said Way commission presentation Highway i the local1 returned to Havana in ton. Of this Quot we met at night in Library then made after which of the a Equine estate the minister citizens a it n in arc of foreign affairs or. Gonzalo one la and i the ambassador about to chamber of Commerce streets and l. A. Hayes chairman of the olo sized for what he was say. And told in Many equivalent words that Washington considered government Over and they could not recognize that of or. Rivero Aguero president elect who would be sworn in the following february. At the end he surprised me highways committee stressed tin need for improvement of 218 South of it. Pleasant a safety measure and said that if the improve it it requires a relocation of routes the j committee recommendation that the new route pass either East or West of it. Pleasant. He pointed out that statistics indicate that not to the Best interest to go ahead with Plant for the East route he also read the Junior huh p f a. Concern for the safety Factor tor 75 children living North of Washington and South of the Railroad. And their endorsement of the Fey past petition prepared the chamber of Commerce. Too Stewart Dalton presented the Junior chamber of Commerce endorsement of the plan to pass either to the East or West. He later expressed hts personal feelings on the matter stating Tliatha had a. Galer or. And mrs. Howard w h Libra it and mrs. Velma Whipple. Edward King mrs charts it me Cuen. Mrs. Carne t. Mini a or and mrs r. T. She ofor and mrs. Wendell Smith. Mrs Virgil Tabort or. Robert wet Ach and Charles a Young. A map which purportedly showed coloured pins the location of new Homes constructed in m pleasant in the last to years Anc i the proposed new Homes in the tract bought . Pleasant Linn a but or company was presented to tin commis Ion staff to taken Back to Ames for further con. Id ration pleasant communities. On i famber 19, 1900, she wa.-. Married to Charles m. Trueblood who died feb. 14, 1938. Sin Nevada Iowa pail elderly nev1 a Ria couple w found shot u death Early today and Story survived one son veil a county authorities have ruled the b. Trueblood of Waterloo one a murder suicide. Daughty. Mrs Herman Lois Hal the bodies of Lou Larson 75, and Lowell of it pleasant three grand estranged wife. Mary. 74. Were children and four great grand Chii j discovered in mrs. Larson Home a can shortly after 3 . a neighbor. Also surviving Are a brother. Store county sheriff Ivan Shal Walter r. Bogue of i pleasant. Aid the cause of death in both i two half Sisters mrs. Beda White cases was a blast from a 410 shot a of Bristol. Colo., and mrs Neva trim believed to have b longed to Thompson of Holly Calif two half Larson. Brothers Henry r Repult of in. Steve Young an out standing tons came senior at. It. Pleasant High school _ has received notice of appointment to the air Force Academy at Colo-1 Rado Springs Colo. Senator b. Hieken Looper made the appointment. Young son of or. And mrs. Art Young will enter tile Academy in june provided he passes his physical examination. He will go la liquor purchased., personnel and j Quot everything i several new stores were Stab i listed last year despite protests 1 from various Church and civic groups in the communities. Ross singled out Grinnell Washington and mount pleasant those from i which the most vociferous object larges Aid to fund Des Moines a up George of Malley a Des a a sen. Monies Belleville Iii. On March 20 to take today urged the Iowa Senate to the physicals. In will go to Des take rapid action to prevent a 13 Moines on saturday to take the per cent Cut in the monthly Aid to College Board tests. Dependent children add pay Yorng an outstanding athlete Merit. At Mph. He was named to the the department of social Wel pcs Moines Register first All state fare had said it might have to Cut a greatly practically repeating passes Are a Boon to certain to locate in Shoalmier Addi of businesses Pawley swords in the sense that to provisional government could establish peace through negotiations with the Leader Castro or confront t ,. ,.of the approval of the rec him with arms duly supported it. ,. Of tion of the St reets Ani a the communist Leader rejected to Karl Smith per. Id of Iii chamber of non because it was quiet and that a she travels extensively he Netts the Highway changes and that he consider the negotiations that Washington was of the opinion that i should avoid great bloodshed if i abdicated adding that family could go directly to Daytona Beach and i also if i wished although the government officials with whom he had spoken in the United states preferred for political reasons that Spain or some other country for commission even considering going through it. Pleasant. It seems to him that this step a step Back wards he said Commerce reported j recommend a be Highway committee the c of c Board of directors and the printing and distribution of a petition which had received about 500 signers favouring j a Pas. Citing to the cast or a letter from tile business and West. Professional woman a club Over the signature of Ethel v. H. Gar Kichard Hartley manager of the president was read Henry count Industrial develop Richard Hartley. Mrs Garretson men corporation stressed the in sported that the Bpwe vote was iou go o Porta Nee of 218 a Cro queting move the Highway outside residential sections such those on the proposed route. Diana Polis. Inc., Iii the question period Rii Bai i 1 1,1 b let Hartley asked about procedure such Bro Horn for la v. R Alif when the outcome of the hearing would be known. Tom tume a. Ked about the method of figuring Road user i Cost and Alanson Elgar whether a recent second original destination Survey had Bren made. At the conc mus Romayor Mcbeth i expressed appreciation for the a. The meeting had been Fondue Ltd and or. Wenden of the int Cpl it. I shown. He said in effect Quot this evidence of the intense interns Calif one brother Royal p. Bogue and one half sister to i Boga father of College ceded in in death. A. Funeral servus tor or True play director Dies blood will be h id saturday Ait a noon at 2 Oclock at the Cedar a Rcd cd Church with the Rev. Arditi Anderson pastor of the Church officiating. Int rent will a in Cedar Creek cemetery. The a k. Cran fun a ii honk Ball team this past season. Tile $350,000 from its old age fund to 205 Pounder a Weightman in the add division. Track. Sri a it Mumm three or four months at the end sized Pawley or to order a of which i could rejoin wife government to go out of existence and children in the Home that we this from the standpoint of Amel a. A had owned in Daytona for some lean it policy More important than a letter e. C. Mccoid stating s whether Paw Ley. Smith or Gard he prepared Hie petition that was this an amazing Story who. Lier adopted the right attitude to circulated and that a favored you have in the development of Quot Shi it Ila re o. Ai Rangenau no. Your Opportunity was Given to. Con vill admitted fir with individual member of to staff after the meeting was con to probate eluded. Robert . Director of tin play a the visit at Iowa Wesleyan received word of the death of his lather w. C. Frontier House 69, at Enid okla. Wednesday night. He had Bein ill Only a Short time from a heart condition. Or. And mrs. Fronterhouse and soil left Friday morning to go to Enid for the funeral. The College play to be presented Matin this evening. I of Pold Viele. It up i a thirty Hie Congo missionaries Duluth Minn. Up a five the will of Norman o. Koff has Young airmen from the Duluth air been admitted to probate at the trapped in a Remote part of Kiva Force base were killed Early to j courthouse and according to the province fanatical tribesmen Day when their speeding car i terms he estate was left to his sex have been rescued United a crashed into a Concrete abutment wife Jean Bollard Koft. I he will tons to c Ops the l. N. Command an alternative proposal the department suggested the Lect Sla Ture Grant it an additional $250,-000 in order to meet its present add payments. Sheaffer makes 100th million pen in tile elate department author Wald Castro. Passing the City was read into the and split in half. T a a drawn up oct 30. 1952. Said today. Young it. Madison Iowa up a a Milestone in the u. S. Writing Industry was reached Here today the w. A Sheaffer co with the manufacture of its 100th million pen. J the Sheaffer company was organized in 1908 the late w a. Sheaffer who it that time was a jeweler in it. Madison. Sales have soared from $17,000 in i 1913 to approximately $29 million in fiscal 1960

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