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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 20, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news sleet or Snow vol. 8.�?~j, no. It a it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening March 20, 11 61 these Days by George e. Sokolsky enters plea of guilty fights it was a very wet monday night and i was looking for a fight. These Days. It is not so easy to of i111 �11 find a fight As most everybody ave vol Vav. A us either lackadaisical or polite i could have gone to Miami to see Adel Iowa it tit it arrest to african political leaders Johannesburg South Africa Jupi South african police arrested to african political leaders Early today in a nationwide round the a lip before the return of prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd from hear the Patterson Johansson fight but used Slayer of a 16-v a old i i had decided against that and it Moines High school boy pleaded i London where lie pulled this coun was now too late. I guilty to an open charge it murder Toa 11 British cd in in on so i thought that maybe i could see the fight Between de Sullivan and Jack Parr Well they called that off. According to de Sullivan Jack Paar wanted to change the rules in the Middle of the fight according to Jack Paar pm Sullivan is a liar and sue me. That sounded like comedy. It in Dallas county District court to of a hip Day. Earl Eduard Thompson 26, withdrew an earlier pm a of in Noe it by reason of temporary insanity and threw himself on the mercy of the court. Judge St nil y e Brail dismiss d Verwoerd received a tumultuous Welcome from 40.000 persons when in plane landed Here thus afternoon. Tension was mounting in the nation. Official sources said the arrests the 55-member jury panel that had v Vav despite Wmk fat a demonise ions being organized to commemorate the fir t anniversary degree of murder involved. Tim Day of the police shootings of Thompson accused of the Jan 31 africans at sharia Ville and Lamia tract attention. Everybody knows j met link we j r Elwi do Cal it on or among these arrested was Jor them. Millions listen to them. Jac Coull by its to Cia. On the Dan a Ubane. Vice president of Gallows if tin judge determines tile Liberal party he and ethers from the evident that first Dot or. Taken into custody were to have murder is involved. Other possible attended a conference next Satur penalties rang Down from life in Day calling for a Multi racial a a prison ment for either first or Sec tic Tuil convention to work out a Ond degree murder to a term of be Quot Constitution for s uth Africa years. South Africa was a nation Thompson an a convict released divided Over Verwoerd s withdraw been summoned and set 9 a m. Tues pounded Imp Anim Isth i to Day or to nine us. Milk to attract attention but then these Fellows do not need to at Paar is on every night. De Sullivan goes on every sunday night. Til a do not need the publicity of a fight. Still and All if two Fellows in the month of March just before St Patrick s Day. Want to fight Cadi of her who will say them nay. I but the Way to fight is with fists from t a exas Posont hulls of t e Cut entry from the come or swords or guns not with words. La t in 17�?� was vol a an Klump no a Alth o0a and wore Khaki Wash pants twee sport coat and Light Brown shirt this particular Battle establishes and dark brim ii to. a h a the significance of television. Here pealed in court. Are two rather simple and obscure he was handcuffed to a Deputy personalities probably pleasant throughout the to Minim court enough if one knows them Well proceedings which were witnessed who interest millions of people of by about 60 persons. All Ages. Their fans take a direct. Thump min. Already under a 25 personal concern in their affairs year prison term for robbery with in Issue disappearance of Franck boy still a mystery High court to decide Legal questions Washington a updo the supreme court agreed today to hear three die on Iowa holds educators Hou convention in St. Lous a seek ii cd a Itoi a my or. To challenging problems and issues at the Southern and mid Western regional convention of the american Anocia tion of school administrators in St. Lour to. Were educators from 20 r ate. Looking Over one of the Many school building architectural models in display Are from leu Clifford w. Mckee. Supt., new London Dwaine n. Hoffman supt. It. Union Robert Den Hart Csc. Winfield and Russell e. Stern supt. Wayland. Supt. Robert forma Nek of i plea int a m attended of Chi unrelenting death claimed three their fans watch their personal a Gravu Ion in connection with two victims on Iowa streets and High affairs closely their relations with service station holdups in Des want s during the weekend two in their wives and children. Moines sat calmly with his legs one tragic Accident which killed liquor commission should be placed under legislative control a Erbe so they want to fight. What is the Issue it would seem that Sullivan who runs a vaudeville show on television pays his stars up to $7500 a performance these same stars for some reason Are twilling to work for Paar for his Standard Price of $320 a performance. Sullivan naturally feels that he is being robbed and that anyone who w works for Parr for $320 will Only get $320 from Sullivan. Puary a View is that anyone who does not wish to work for him docs not have to. So there Des Moines it Upit a crossed As his court appointed at two do is Moines High school youths. Norman a Erly. Said today received a test or Sample Quot bottles the Iowa liquor control commission should be placed under bldg with a new system of accounting j and appropriation. Tile governor said he had Learned that the commission is holding a contingency fund of More than $800,000 and that the size and a fuzziness a of the fund pointed up need for legislative control. A it took a of liquor from the various tis Torney Don Iid Shirley Perry read 1e fatalities pushed the 1961 a statement to judge Prall inform i death toll to an alarming 115, As ing the court of the change of plea. J compared to Only 92 recorded on Bud teary control of the legislature Cany the state a quor lax Seal Thompsons Only remark was to this one year a8� answer a yes it when judge the two Des Moines High school Prall asked him whether the Ai youths were killed saturday when Torney s statement was his own de their car struck a Bridge abutment vision. On interstate 35 West of Des Moines Thompson from Wichita Falls and burst into flames. T was. Had undergone psychiatric i victims of that crash were examination at the a it quest of his Gustav Clark Bradley and Dennis by t defense attorney while awaiting Christianson both 17, and class trial. The re Poi t said he was men j mates at Des Moines Roosevelt tally competent at the time of sex High school. Lamination to stand trial and Par-1 the Impact sent the youths Ca o e tic Pate ill his own defense. N eng vehicle bouncing into a car but this is not much of a fight. He allegedly staged the Des a carrying two minnesotans but they after All. Actors and such work Moines holdups alter shooting Young Quot Ere not injured. Recommended changes in Tate where their managers Tell them Dickson and leaving the body in a Bradley a body was badly burned Overall the ii to com to. Tile reason usually that they crude grave along a lonely country it the wreckage and it was several a s. 2. 10 door cd a a. Go on these omnibus shows is that Road South of Waukee a Short Dis hours before positive identification they Are out of work a at Liberty Lance across the Polk Dallas county could be made. Tili eries but the bottles did not however the Elt nil Sion chairman has requisitioned enough of Hie tax seals to cover the number 1 of bottles involved Erbe said but a i can Sec no reason for this prac Tice and it Sli Ould be i Erbe said a fall liquor sent into i Iowa should have the Seal affixed rep. Schwengel blasts Kennedy farm program Independence. Iowa 111 a tile disappearance of Jimmy Franck. 4. From his farm Home near with lop remained shrouded in my Dory argument and decide Legal issues today i Quot ally two weeks after he surrounding local arrests in sit in vanished a Tow hours before a swirl demonstrators in tile South ing snowstorm struck the Northeast j tile court did so by accepting Iowa Ana. Appeals from 16 negro students Buchanan county sheriff Emery a. Who were arrested and convicted Hart said an organized search for in Balon Rouge. La., a year ago the boy s body would be As this month. If was the first time soon As warmer weather removes the court had agreed to hear a the heavy Snow cover from farm Gumont about the Quot demonstrations. Lieid.-. The do Monstras it a were found Hart said Tonce rows ravines and Gilty and Given fail sentences for Road tide Ditcher Are still heavily disturbing the peace in de Mons a drifted making any additional Lions at three Gores two search impractical. A few Days of ago the High court refused to warm weather last week plus the accept an Appeal by a croup of addition of a Light layer of wet White and negro sit in participants Snow Lias i Quot. Listed in a heavy crust who were convicted at Tallahass i a up 1,10 drift.-, some of which Are see. Aon local trespassing a till four to six feet deep he said. Statutes. Although a few persons still probe arguments in the Baton Rouge enough Tho area on their own. Hart Case will be heard sometime next said no Effort would be made to or fall. The result my opinion is Likely a Tuzo a full scale search until the o sri a Legal pattern for sit in i weather conditions become favor Gas throughout the South. �?�?T1 Able. A j he said scores of volunteers have made their service available a on Call Quot whenever the sheriff decides to resume search. It Jimmy a son of or. And mrs Everett Franck was last seen late in the afternoon of March 7 As he headed for the farm House after1 the spending some time with his father House hands liquor by the drink a defeat Washington up Kennedy farm program was blast i hauling Hay. De by rep. Fred Schwengel r j Iowa. Today for setting Forth a a not Tanck said the Box complained Dias on How to solve the farm fat i bin cold and started for the Bate on measures designed to probe. To 30 mop Gheen controls a in an address to the House of a l orc Quot lion last seen by clubs ,.his father representatives Schwengel said 1 Des Moines up a the Iowa House handed quor by the drink its first defeat of the current legislative session today and launched de week to get that. T distillery or at the Ware estimate from the commission a a Erbe said a but no one seems to be Able to Tell me the exact amount or status of the Erbe. A Republican sent a series it is called. Generally the Man line in Dallas county. Agers at such time will do anything to keep a comedians name before the Public because nobody can be forgotten faster than a comedian who does not have a Chance to be comical. It is like a Defeated politician who needs a platform to make himself heard without such a platform the politician or the actor becomes As dead As a marinated herring. Release six americans to . Forces Tho other Iowa fatality was mrs. Art Binder 47. Rural Clinton who died Early sunday of injuries Suffy red m a one car Accident North of Clinton saturday night. Authorities said the victim was thrown from a car being driven by lid husband. Art Bender 51. After the vehicle skidded on icy paving and careened into a ditch. Bender was reported in satisfactory condition at a Clinton Hospital. House before shipment into he also said it would seem a More logical a to make chemical1 tests from supplies drawn from the regular Stock rather from special a samples provided by the distillers. The governor said his investigation was continuing and to anticipated sending inure recommendations to die legislature later. Mission to legislative leaders he said the proposals were based on i an incomplete report of a widespread investigation into operations of the democratic con trolled commission which Erbe launched last fall while still serving a Torney general. # to governors. Id hire Are predicted the current administration s program is a combination of the a Poage Supply control and direct payment scheme and the a old discredited Brannan the principal of the admin istra turn s program would allow about 200 commodity segments of agriculture to actually write legislation Schwengel said. He said it might result in legislation which could in i card the rights of All put Laos question up to or. K Washington up the a heavy schedule of afternoon committee meetings forced a recess in the key club debate until tuesday. Debate got underway when rep. Nicks j. Nielsen a Ringsted presented the steering committee s a a vehicle for consideration on the liquor Issue which has plagued Iowa Legislatures in recent years. An attempt to legalize liquor by the drink was beaten Down 77-22. / Snow sleet so Hie actor s manager gets him on one of these television Vaude Between commercials and sometimes regains his reputation. New Leopold Ville the Congo it up a six members of american missionary families have been re Ville shows where he performs ,. R h a a to United nations forces sent to Tho chaotic Kiva province to drive out fanatic a Leopard men who one would really have a Tough hav threaten to kill .,11 Whites. Time of these vaudeville dhows did Tell. 0 n con Nanti an lome a Ltd to not give them a Many of Day than would have to work for a the americans Laving Are in in living for a Long time before they bars of the world Grace testimony got a Chance to show the world of chlcak0. They had or rvs it How wonderful they Are. Leg by that Kiva government from too i leaving the area plagued by terrorist attacks. The u. N. Said that in addition to tile americans six belgians and a dutchman also Are being flown out. I other american and european Whites. A a residents in Kiva have decided to Street in new York next Toto a a a a stay the u. N. Added. Tammany Hall and around the Comer loin the distinguished to. Americans leaving arc or. Academy of music was Tony ind mrs fit Derick Vinton Lyn pastor s a a vaudeville place when Wood. Calif., their 8-month-old son Many youngsters started great j Frederick or. And mrs Carl Anat reel s. Vaudeville was the train Derson. Chicago and her twin emendations included broadening a ban on gifts to members and employees of the commission. He said there Wras a need to a spell out regulations on distillery representatives who Call on the Cornmts-111 addition an iowan was one of suit a two persons seriously injured Iii a Back when i was a boy there was a place on the bowery called miners and Many a great Star started there singing a song jigging through some Steps reciting something memorized. On 14h two car crash sunday night which took the life of a cartilage 111., Man just 400 feet inside the Iowa mis Souri Border near Downing to. The victim of that crash was Don Mcculey who was reported to be in his 20 s. Seriously injured were Helen Jean a vinegar 20. Rural Downing a my k us Lister Bloomfield Iowa. A student at Northwestern University from Maquoketa Iowa was injured Early sunday in an Ara by up tin Weatherman tossed a mixture of set a. On., at Iowa monday on tie official first Day of Spring. Snow. Siet and freezing rain wer in the forecast for parts of the state Snow began pushing into the stat1 during the morning As Gulf Moi i under present Law the liquor company representatives Are forbidden to make gifts of liquor to Ture pushed northeastward and com mis Ion members and employees was scattered Over much of tin but Erbe said tile Law should Bel South pm and Western it ions of amended to prohibit any Gilt of the state by late morning. A us i the Snow was expected to become Elbe said however that the ban mixed with occasional sleet or rain should not include contributions during the afternoon and continued a by liquor dealers to fund., for i to spread lowly to the North and combating and studying Alco cast holism. Erbe has maintained that afternoon readings from near 40 a special commission should be j in the Southeast to the Low 30\> in Dent which killed three schoolmates up we the the state department the North a exp cud to Dot to a. E and injury d one other near san of la catch to study ways and Means chances of hazing a n during Tho Dusky Ohio. A rehabilitating alcoholics. The iowan was Lynn Nothdruft a a a Tunit a if a i talc a Don came on a proposal by i other producers and the rights of a a is has put it squarely John l a vilify a Dubuque the Goldal nubile i a a a pro mar Nikolu Thrush to substitute h8 across the bar ii. Lev this j just blvd comm la i too m a a a a a cd or a Quot Norz a Zjr than re s Merer and every Trade association other by Quot issues a an i Penman to Des Mornesi in America a Schwengel said. I offered another key club regulatory j if he does president Kennedy Bill for the Nielsen plan. I Pas Choice but to order a big Nielsen opened his explanation increase in american military Aid of the Bill endorsed by the commute the Royal laotian government to tee on safety and Law enforcement offset Large Eeals russian assist it by saying that a i am a Anre to the rebels. J he said he had been asked by Sev the u. S. Position was made Clear Era Law enforcement officials to Only. Secretary of state Dean Rusk produce the measure and it should during a five hour conference sat be a no surprised to his colleagues j urday with soviet foreign minister that Quot the liquor Laws of the state Andrei Gromyko at the state de j Are openly and flagrantly violate he added that the Kennedy Admi us rat Ion approach to the Tarn problem was Quot unbelievable and mrs. Mary Koch taken by death apartment. Mrs Mary Koch of Brighton i cd saturday evening at a nursing heme in Columbus Junction after a Long illness. Survivors include live daughters mrs. Loren Frieda Mcneese and mrs. Harold Gladys Robb of it. A pleasant mrs Velma Egli it. J mrs. Emma Folcke Williams 86, 1 a Ray mrs it Iceland Vera d of monday morning at her Home Horton of by la ilion., and or Wil it on South Walnut Street Ham Edith. Nolan of Estherville. The daughter of Fred and Eliza funeral services for mrs Totemeier she was born mrs. Williams 86, taken by death he said Many of the violations stemmed from private clubs fraternal organizations and service clubs which operate so called key clubs. Louise Putnam Dies in California 18, who was reported in satisfactory condition at a Sandusky Hospital. Former local resident Dies mrs. Merle Florinc it weat Lier i be Yeeu Eil the commission of failing to enforce existing regulations which cover liquor salesmen in the stale. However he said that apparently the regulations were not known by some liquor manufacturers in Light of this Erbe said he my school of the theatre just As daughters Elaine and Sally. ,. F. Burlesque was a Bridge Between head garters Bere received a a a a resident of it. Weald suggest that it be made the Amateur and . Aii is Well Radlo message Pleak Arit led Sun mandatory for the to nothing like that exists today. From the 200-Man Malayan a it m washing Tun shot a 18 survived furnish a copy of state regulation. Instead television has these few patrol which med from hindu 200 by her husband a service station a to All companies and their rep vaudeville shows. The Mast Dis Miles away to the town of Kasongo to gushed of these performances sunday to drive away the a Leopard is that of de Sullivan who pays men a tribesmen. Three speak opposition to Federal id to lunch related schools and one Sou sent Alives Doin commission. Business with the fabulous prices to performers and inform of sources said the Central who has managed to keep his show congolese government might relax going Foi. I believe. 13 years which the economic blockade of Oriental is a Long time for anything on province As a it stupa of Concilia television. Jack pairs show is Dif lion toward pro Lumumba Leader Ferent whereas Sullivan is a Mere Antoine Eizenga. Master of ceremonies. Paar is the chief performer on his show. In va/i1a a Vait Terv fact he is the big cheese his will Admi Ted performers give Hun background to probate support. Sometimes they ale hum a a oils sometimes they Are a vibe tile will of r Mph Walla has Movably mediocre but it must be been admitted to probate at Hie maintenance Man. Tommy. Funeral services will be held tile governor said he also at in am at Tho. A a,.i to obtain Federal Aid for Church re w in Osdal at to a m. At the Jones or sled t0 be legislators thai the l. Funeral Home in Washington. Com session be required to set and i a enforce regulations limiting sales i is gel Ald k. Knoll representing the National Council to show Railroad film at armory and promotional activities of the liquor representatives. Erbe also recommended that the a Railroad film a last of the gip to of chemist on the commission ants Quot will be shown to the cub staff be abolished and that any mrs. Louise m. Putnam 90, of Day. However Forneas is said there a Telemeter stir was born nov. 4, Camarillo calif., died March 16 was a Cham of Cattad freezing Ulm b Quot 1 1111 Oay in i noon at 11874 in Des Moines county. I after a Short illness. Rain and sleet mixed with new Iii 2 a or re m in a on i she was United in marriage in j Lou Magdefrau was born Jan the West and North As tuner tui ram and now mixed in the South-1septeinbor 1894 t0 the George i uary 24, 1871 in i. Pleasant. She drop monday night with Mortlo Ca b f Hupac who died a in the of h cd Putnam a she was married in april 1903 to former sheriff of Henry county. I Fred Williams who died in Jim flip they lived in it. Pleasant for i 1944 Tony years and also on a farm she is survived by one son Earl Southeast of it. Pleasant j Hume of of pleasant one grand she a l lived in Ventura coun son try Huene two great grand j lib calif., for 33 years Childr a and a brother Louis survivors include her daughters Veneke. Margaret Putnam of Cama she was a member of first pres Alpo it mrs. H. L. Nielsen of Bakers by Terian Church. J Field. Mrs. Helen Colcough and mis. Funeral services for mrs. Wil a of. Van Pelt of los Angeles a hams will be held wednesday mar.,son county fire capt. E. C. Put r 22. At 2 ., at the Cir cookes Nam of Camarillo a sister. Mrs. Funeral Home. The Rev. Or. Owen Jupa Newcomb of Chicago. Ill Wilson will officiate. Tunc grandchildren and 14 greatly pm Crit will be in Forest Home grandchildren. Funeral services w Cre held Mon at the Griffin Brothers funeral Chapel in Cairn Washington Ipi Asp k a ii for three Large protestant organizations today sharply a pos it cd in j Congreve. Iona i testimony the Foi a i of the. Roman Catholic hierarch a scout packs at the National guard testing required by the liquor con of churches told the Smarie education committee that other religious bodies besides the Catholic Church May decide to open full. Scale parochial school system if flit National Council of churches repro Man 34 major protestant and orthodox denominations with about 40 million members. The National Anocia tion of evangelicals w h c h about 40 smaller protestant bodies with two million numbers a. Sorted through its spokesman the r James d. I. V tothe cemetery., a quo of t those who wish to contribute to Day March 20, cat to in Hierarchy has taken an. S memorial May do so. Unwise and in american hand in declaring it will oppose Federal Aid for Public schools unless Pri annoy tuesday at 7 And any tool group be done by one interested in railroading is in agricultural Laboratory cited to attend. Erbe said a there seems to be the film which will be shown at Little Recd for the Fig the state Dubuc a a a a a made avar a Vale school bit help too. I Able to such school. J the r v. Or. Robert e. Van lha Jesuit la Aid would by a Docusen peaking for tin five rag mentation of aim rican eel million member National lutheran Keokuk votes Quot fast Quot time Rillo with the Rev. Warren Firth officiating. The body will be returned Here i for interment in Forest Home Cem a Terv. Keokuk Iowa up the Ort 29 j admitted that several of those courthouse and according to the kiwanis and to the boy scouts at ures showed that the commission Nealion along a litigious lines which Council said that government City count ii Here observed the first who appeared on Paar s show. Be terms his was left to became stars in their own right. Wife Orpha 8. Wolin who was alas there was no fight named executrix copy Aht. 1961, King features the will was drawn up Syndicate. Inca 7. 1943. Junior High tonight is about the tested Only 15 samples of liquor would Quot undermine flu Public school Loans to parochial schools would compound steam engines used by or wine during 1960 at a Cost of system and create Quot a cultural be a clearly a form of tax sup i the Union Pacific in Wyoming. $160. He said. Schism Quot in the population which port and therefore contrary to Jan. They were the largest steam engines the governor said his i Vestiga i would tend to impair our demo j constitutional separation of Church i built Ilion showed that the commission i Cracy land state. Day of Spring today by adopting Daylight saving time for this City on the Southeastern tip of Iowa. The a fast Quot ame will go into of a petition circulated by businessmen pointed out that Daylight tune is compulsory in Illinois just across the Mississippi River and mos of the major Eastern Iowa cities Fol j feet april 30 and continue until Low the system each summer

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