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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 21, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. Ii it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening Marcu 21, 1961 these Days it George e. Kokolsky an unnecessary Issue the quarrel Between president Kennedy and the roman Catholic Church is unnecessary and pointless. The idea of having two Bills one covering Aid to schools generally and the other making a special provision for private and Church related schools is a political gimmick which is designed to avoid an unfavourable supreme court decision on the major Bill should it be passed by Congress. Tim trend ency of the supreme court to legislate has an ulterior effect upon both tile executive and legislative branches of the government. The argument Over separation of Church and state is unrelated to the Constitution which has not one word to say on the subject. The Assumption that financial Aid to parochial schools a establishes Quot a Church is obviously fallacious for no established Church governs our armed forces which has the largest and most effective chaplain service also every meeting of Congress is opened by a clergy j Man who. If he desires wears Hie uniform of his Church on the occasion. Tile Constitution is opposed to i an established Church that is a government owned Church like the anglican Church whose titular head is the Queen of England opposition to a establishment Quot did not mean and could not mean opposition to religion per be or to the right of parents to Send their children to denominational rather than to secular schools. True taxes Are used for Public schools. The parents who Send their children to denominational or other private schools paying double for the education of their children. There Are Many kinds of denominational connected schools in this country a roman Catholic Episcopalian lutheran. Jewish hasidic nation of islam Etc. Rho largest Are the roman Catholic schools which in a City like new York include about one third of Phe v was in the school population according to found . Til trunk so ii Cis policeman Dies of wounds suffered in gun Battle Cape glad Lardeau to. Up i patrolman Don Crittenden. 25. Died at a Hospital Here Early today As a result of Bullet wounds suffered in a gun Battle with two j desperadoes March in cl4 it in Don. Married and the father of two Small daughters is Erbe firm in opposition to tax Cost cars damaged in collision contour Cable t it Quot Christmas wrapping stuff actually is Quot it mum it Hie developed by Hughes aircraft in its los Angeles an a Plant for in Rig guided missiles. Shirley Gray sex in ii res the Flat be Tai stripped in plastic ribbon. This Type wiling is said to save nearly half the weight of conventional wit Rig. press tile third victim of the manhunt 1ft i that resulted in the wounding of three other persons. The policeman was shot and critically wounded when he and auxiliary policeman Herbert Cross 68. Attempted to question two men in a car on the outskirts of town Here Goss the first victim was killed instantly. I two men. Calvin Willis Johnson cars by Cuen a Haines. Winfield route one and Arnold ego. I pleasant were damaged when they were involved in a collision 3 Miles West of it. Union on Hie Blacktop at 5 10 monday. Earryno was driving West in a 1060 i irk and Haines was headed South in a 1056 Pontiac i ii Nile stopped at a Stop sign and then reportedly pulled in front Erbe who waged bus successful i of the memo car which was dam Campaign last fall on a hold the aged an estimated $150 the Ponta Itoe tax and hate budget platform j re was damaged about $65. Told his news conference that he j Don plat Highway patrolman not changed his position de investigated and filed a charge sliding formula for Road use tax fund favored asks end to . In the Congo Des Moines it Upit gov Norman a Elbe today reaffirmed his opposition to Anil increase in the Sta r sales tax and said iowans should look to their own local governing units for property tax re Des Moines up the Iowa Senate Mads committee monday Aji proved a sliding formula which would eventually give cities and United nations up a the soviet Union today demanded the end of United nations operations in town 14 per cent. Of the Road use tax Hie Congo within one month and fund. The proposal received nine votes the withdrawal of All foreign troops. Soviet foreign minister Andrei in commit tee exactly the number Gromyko opening the Congo d has search for y Outh in hold up Council Bluffs Iowa a authorities Here searched for an 18-year-old Carson High school boy As the prime suspect in the Holdup monday of a Hancock Iowa Bank Ottaw Ottamie county so Riff Roy Wichael said the youth was identified through the getaway car found her monday with. B it a i in it. It was r Elt it red to the boy s father and the youths Drivers License was in the Glove compartment. Tells rotary about ism uses and Sammy a Tucker were arrested Tho following Day. However a third member of the group Douglas Wayne Thompson was the object of a six Dav manhunt that claimed another life shortly cd ire Williams of Cedar rapids. A before his capture near Poplar n of or and mrs Joe Williams Bluff ., Friday. Spite continued pressure for a boost j against Haines of failure to yield in the sales tax from the present to oncoming traffic. Haines is to two Irr Centra e to three per cent appear in Hie court of Justice a f. The Republican governor made Timmerman at to . Saturday. No reference to his democratic predecessor Herschel c. Lov less who vetoed a sales tax increase Bat in the u. N. General Assembly launch d a bitter attack against Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold As a Quot Field Marshall for colonial Powers. Gromyko also demanded the armpit Tody Low a v is la i gut t speaker at Tho monday night meeting of the rotary club. Or. Williams is a Salesman and Engineer for International business Thompson machine co. At the present time when the tile victim Raymond s. Glover 45, had Given Thompson a ride in j his automobile. He was shot and j killed in a Brief skirmish Between and the patrolman i trooper attempted to voted by the r publican controlled j legislature in 1957. That action by Loveless has been largely credited for his successful r election Cam i pain in 1958. I Erbe recalled that he opposed tax i increases in his election Campaign j and made his position Clear on that j j Issue and property tax Relief in his a budget message to the general As i Sam blvd in january. Needed to Advance the measure to Tim Senate floor for debate. Several senators indicated they would not vote for the sliding scale when the Bill comes up in the Senate. The formula would give Cit i s1 test and trial of Moise Tshombe and towns ten per cent of the a j and Joseph Mobutu for the Assas proximately is 16.5 million Road use Moat Ion of Congo Premier Patrice tax fund in 1962. While 50 per cent Lumumba. Would go to the primary Highway Tho russian foreign minister de syst in and 40 per cent to secondary Mandod Tho removal of Hammark roads. Jold from his Post As Secretary gun in 196,j. The municipalities would Gal he called for condemnation of receive 12 per cent of the fund Pri Belgium As an Quot aggressor in the Mary highways 49 per cent and Congo and the removal of All Bel secondary roads 39 per cent Gian troops. The municipalities would reach Gromyko said the soviet Union j their maximum of 14 per cent in recognized the legitimate govern seventy five or Gio Aires. Auxin 1964. While primary highways would Orient of the Congo to be headed by Btry members and their families and by trimmed to 48 per cent and Sec Antoine Giz Aga Lumumba s Dep j guests enjoyed a very delicious Din Mondary roads to 38 per cent. Duty nor and interesting program Sun the proposal ignores a rcom winning essays Given at legion birthday dinner to Vaid today that he Felt iowans murder of Goss. Thompson is currently Cape Girardeau county jail at Jackson to. Charles Silver president of the Board of education. In the discussion of Federal Aid to education the term a said Quot is false. The Money comes out of taxes which All citizens pay. In fact the citizens pay More than they receive Back because there is tin a Satchel two Shotgun shells Abo wire found in the car. We i la who would not identify the youth said he was from a farm family w As a Hunting i enthusiast and an Excell i t shot the boy has never been in previous trouble with he is engaged installing electronic question the men curio is at Collins radio in Cedar j Thompson and Tucker rapids of cording to or. Williams the electronic computer is Best known for scientific calculations but its Popia great St use will be in the business Field businesses use the machines to keep perpetual inventories make j payrolls plan production and for indu Situu process controls to name just a few of the uses. He stated that the surface has Only by t n scratched in the use of tis computer in Industrial control i proc aes. In some instances the Complete production in Industrial plants Are controlled by the commy r. I Day night March 19 at the legion Man Saturn made by the majority of Home in Celebration of the amerian interim Road study committee i should look More to their City coun ,.an t , i. Tv1. U i to legions 42nd birthday. During set up by the 1959 general Assembly 1 to and school administrators for the i inn or aare. .1,1 Ciminel mis. Howard Adams which proposed that cities and it 50 per cent and secondary property tax Relief instead of seek a Xvi a or ,.charged with the first degree. Auxiliary. Presented the legion and towns get 15 per cent. The primary ,. Ling state assistance. He pointed out1 roman new Pavi a a. Murder of Goss Thorn san is cur a , rail i Letoi with a very i system that virtually All property taxes Are a., i y being held in custody att both in today Ako Horn the Aux roads 3o per cent beginning Jan. I a assessed by local governing units Nirav a co a Buff. Tucker s in Cape a a Mary. 1962. House votes time lock on key clubs and the state has with a few minor j exceptions left that Field open. Erbe recalled that in 1933 a Bill was introduced in the legislature i i which would have forced a Cut series of moves by local firms Law by local governing units. Quot i am against state control Quot Elbe said but he added that Lygis lat Ive action to lower the ceiling on the lev ifs could be reduced. About the Only property tax Relief Erbe proposed in his budget announcement of the Sunderlin printing company that the firm is i moving to a new location is the first of a series of moves which will take place in the next few weeks. A diversion of funds Between collection and expenditure that almost amounts to a brokerage fee by the Federal government. If enough lax Money were left for local communities they would have sufficient funds to take care of their own schools and would use those funds in accordance with local Public opinion. A used ported to the Matching the tried to buy Day w Ith Cas of the Bank loot he was suspicious dealer ii re also n a sheriff that a youth a suspect s description a ear from him Monti i Sievi d to be part the dealer said refused the Sale furthermore three formulae Are possible for the distribution of Aid. One is that Aid go to state governments to be expended according to their judgment without Federal supervision another is the expansion of Federal supervision until All forms of local control Over education disappear and a vast Federal system of education lakes i missing its place. A third possibility is tile Anco 0j1 current mixed system in which local direction of schools is ostensible but Many controls Are set up such state boards of regents state universities College Entrance boards supervision through state Airi to schools supervision through Federal Aid to schools a until their individuality disappears and every school up to College grades be Cornea Identie. There Are proponent Ane defenders of each of these systems which grow in authority from year to year. So that local control of education weakens and notified authority s. The sniff said i had a report that the boy then tried to steal a car Here. He was Hunsuc it Soful and was believed to have fled on foot. The Sherif the youth was at Home about 5 . Monday or two hours aft 1 the Holdup. He ate his evening meal and left about 6 ., saying he had to go to the High school. Wichael said a other our from the Carson High school were the youth b sough of the others both Skippy d school monday Bank manager Willaid Reineke of the Hancock Branch of the Avoca state Bank said til was Young wore a Gray Parka athletic jacket and carried a sawed off Shotgun. Or. Williams answered questions Des Moines up a the Iowa follow the talk. He was Intro House today moved toward putting Nissa Quot a Quot As a substantial increase i a de by his father. Joe Williams a Quot time lock on key clubs and Ain chairman for tile month. J granting Broad control Powers to guests at the meeting were Rich local governments Over operation Aid Hartley , Roy Almond. Joe of the establishments where rape was introduced As the High i Bors May consume their own school rotarian and Kenneth Klop liquor. F Stein the College rotarian for by a vote of 96-11, the lower the month. I Potest by Russia chamber passed and sent to the Senate a much amended key club control Bill. Tile final action came after the House had beaten Down 54-51, a substitute proposal which would have drawn the controls even tighter. However before final passage of the safety and Law enforcement Washington upi1 a Russia com Mitt cd approved measure the chairman of the soul lira t Low i is charged in a protest to the House adopted some features of the Council boy to to sit d states a rb-47 recon nals substitute proposal As amendments sauce plane h id violated soviet air to the original Bill spa 1 in in the Island of Vize in As finally approved Tho measure the k a sea. The state depart would permit cities towns and ment said today. Counties to adopt ordinances or ply department said the United resolutions under their police pow Bai Idit states after an investigation told. Ers extending beyond control of the Eagle scout award. Tin Eagle tile ii a ans that it did not be j House during which the key clubs Board of review will be in Lei 00 commander Proctor brought the at present the allocation is eight meeting to order following dinner per cent to cities and towns 50 per and then turned the meeting Over cent to secondary system a divided to mrs. Adams who introduce d mrs. 35 per cent for secondary roads and Tom Cathey auxiliary americanism j 15 per cent for farm to Market Back in property tax assessments i ,.,. /�?��?�.,.# us a a a in an Man mis. Ca a hey spoke on the roads a and 42 per cent to the Pri scr it National americanism essay May system. Contest conducted locally in the 7th there were Strong indications and 8th glides of the nubile and that once the measure reaches the the Suri Derlin fun us moving i parochial schools. The topic Quot lest Senate floor there will to healed con rom a fax Bureau build los on i new i i open y ti1x1 us one a a j it forget Quot was presented in Many with Many big and medium North j1�?T1� a n the it. Pleas varied and interesting ways As was sized City senators opposing any Viden cd by the winning essays thing Short of the 15 per cent Given by the authors. The winners recommended by a professional Orwell As follows i a animation hired by the Road study 7th Grade i. Judy Gorton 2. Committee. Erma Pool 3 Mary Kay Lampe a a All of or parochial school. Atli Grade i Cynthia Pobanz 2. \ cya wat Tom Chr both of Public school jul to i in to and 3. Susan Gorton parochial school. After the second and third place winners read their essays .mrs.1 Cathey presented each with a gift from mrs. Paul Schmidt and Lier in state Aid to schools and a slight boost in the state appropriation to pay agricultural land tax credits against local school taxes 18 to appear at Eagle scout Board of review self. Tile first place winners were i Given medals presented by mrs. A a a a a Cathey on behalf of the american a t lining Burlington. The i legion auxiliary. The essay of snowstorms of the Council advancement committee Cynthia Pobanz will be sent in to v of or reaped the first Snow of Eon 1 in in in the state and National set lip. At least up until press time cont ests. This contest w As conduct j tuesday. Re As the earlier one in the High i Herr was a possibility of Snow school essays being numbered and showers in the Hrpa tuesday night tilde d by persons outside cd the Itaf is said but generally auxiliary. The parents and Fame a the temporal be above lies of these winners were special 1 breezing. Ant Bank and Trust building facing Monroe Street a half Block East of the Square. A water softener firm has been in the location. The farm Bureau offices will be moved from the Hanna bulding in j the South Side of the Square to the building Sunderlin is vacating. The building will be remodeler with offices in the front and with a Large room in the rear for township or county meetings. A Kitchen will be installed in the rear. Part of the front office space in the Hanna building will be occupied by the Law offices of Bainter and _ Bainter. The other office space is the Henry county area by passed not yet leased. The moves arc to be completed by May i. Of Spring misses area Day that 18 scouts and explore from the Southeast Iowa Council will appt a before the Spring Eagle Board of review to let a reviewed for the highest award to i get earned in the boy scouts of America. Defense blow to budget rainfall in it. Pleasant monday. 5. Two part program Given at kiwanis the Church related school is old in american history. In fact at tin beginning All schools were Church related and tile teachers were clergymen. Until this Century this was a religious country the atheist being regarded As an enemy of society although the Public schools were secular daily assemblies were opened with the Reading of the Bible the singing of a hymn and such holidays As Christmas and thanksgiving Wert celebrated by children of All faiths and nobody suffered the consequences. The injection of materialistic ideas in education the rejection of All forms of religion As antagonistic to sectarian differences the tendency of the court to establish a separation of Church from state As appearing in the Constitution which it does not and the translation of that term to mean the separation of americana from religion is Nart of the confusion 0 ideas which came into our a two part Pilot Gram was presented at the kiwanis meeting j monday evening. The lieutenant governor of the j division of kiwanis alb it Nail made an official visit to Hie club and gave the Addris he entered on the Objeeg of , reviewing them and enlarging upon them. He was into dried by program Cha i an 11 Arian. B 1 nit r the other part f the program was a Union Panfic Railroad film Quot tile last of the which had been obtained by la f. My it Loran a lilt film a wove round the 4000 class s am it ne. its tremendous size Aud Power and. Its use before giving Way to the diesel units. Richard Wilson of a t scout commissioner presented Hie Charters of the boy scout troop 28 and pack 28, Spensi i he by Tiki Ains club to president John Carter guests at the Mecum included Wilson Ervin of Centerville. David haitian and Lloyd Peters lieu that a violation of soviet air space had the protest was made a few Days alter Presa it Kennedy was inaugurated Jan. 20. Fire flares near could be open. April 9 at 2 00 p in at the exalt . Makes concessions Ive officer of tile sin Aff r pen company in it. Madison each scout and explore r who is 1 Washington hip a orca Ille guests tor the dinner and program til commander then introduced monday met and tuesday until 1 Joe Rio pc and his parents. Joe. Was on a a a red to .42 of an Inch Dent Kennedy told congressional tin aes representative from of despite the Snow which ranged leaders today that a forthcoming plea to Germany this past sum t0 right the Way request for defense spending will Mer he gave a very interesting and and Lucas count it Hora of Southwest throw his new budget out of bal informative talk with slides on his,nwl1 highways generally were nor i passed by the Board of review will e experiences living in a foreign coun Edwards Alit Force babe. Calli. Up a fire flared in the right front wheel of the Mother slap b-52 today temporarily Encl t Goring the manned x-15 rocket plane Slung beneath the bombers Light Wing. Smoke and flame shot from the Landing Glt a when the heavily Laened bomb r touched Down at Eduards air Force base after the x-15 is scheduled Altitude flight uras a boned a to electrical Power failure. New pastor at Calvary Church i receive his Eagle scout badge at the Eagle class court of Honor hot id tin the Spring and fall of each year. Gevena up a the United states the Spring Eagle class court of today announced concessions to j Honor will b held in it pleasant meet soviet demands Quot More than j a a april 30. Half Way Quot but warned that the 1 or. Lunning also announced a russians must make equal moves if j Warner a Rue. Ell. My pleasant an a nuclear test ban treaty is to be j outstanding Civie Leader and Volun reached. Steer Scouter accepted the. Pon the . Move was put before a notch in of the Spring Eagle class the 247th session of the three Power a court of Honor. Or. Ravel is the try with a German family. Nuclear test ban talks this afternoon by chief u. S. Delegate Arthur h Dean. Crew rides crippled bomber to Safe Landing Evansville id. Til a four in an Crew Rode a crippled b47 Strat Jet bomber 200 Miles to a Safe Landing after an explosion manager of the Southeast Iowa cooperative electric association. The 18 scout and explorers who will be Xcvi it wed Are As follows Tim Dwight Tony Ekdall. Bill try Senate Battle Ance. Mal except wet to Slushy. The president said he would during the morning Snow packed Send to Congress Friday a balata were reported in the Corydon raised budget. But he said he and Chariton areas where the Cav would submit a special defense Iest Snow fell anti around Dubuque budget next week calling for in the Northeast. Chariton reported greater funds which would put the Dos Moines up an insurgent group of Republican senators with solid democratic backing today won a fight for a steering committee to guide legislation to ult floor of the upper chamber bypassing at least temporarily the powerful sifting committee. The Battle against the Republican leadership a fought out in a 90 vis Mike Travis. Troop la William j Minim caucus Aid Rcpt vented a Hierstein. Troop 68 John drubs., major defeat for gof floor Leader or. Troop 70. All from Burlington j Ken la u lyrics it Plain i id Kerry . Mike Kelley Derby j however lyrics made tile motion Linder i Roop 21, Winfield Jama calling for appointment of the Kilpatrick and Jeffrey Doran steering committee by it. Gov w. Troop 53, met Mike Rice l m00l after it became apparent Hanson Bill Wilson. Post Iii hic gop caucus that lie had lost five inches of new Snow with a total j of six in it ties now on the ground. Another heavy Snow pocket was i reported in far North Central Iowa around Osage near the Minnesota Border. There Only in inches of i new Snow had fallen but it topped a layer of old Snow making a total j of eight inches on the ground. Some other Snow amounts included three inches at Conrad and Hubbard two inches at Buckeye j Albia Parkersburg and Tracy and on Inch at Zearing and Brooklyn. Government in the red for tile fiscal year beginning july i. Fined $50 for assault Batter increase in judgeship favored thu r a John Sherman and family have moved to the parsonage of the Calvary Baptist Church at 504 East Warren. He is the new pastor of the Church. Simultaneously w h u. A tune if j of. Has just finished his school Burn up fuel before attempting a lives thought and h bit has come in at pills Bun conservative Bap Landing. Wing Section from the Craft tile big air Force plane limped from Evansville in Southeastern Indiana to Hie Bunker Hill iud., air Force base late monday and circled the base for an hour to Washington up a the House judiciary committee today ,. Brian ripped an engine and a 16-Ioot a _227, it. Pleasant David Hartman his Batik to Force dumping of Iii Quot troop 50, Warsaw 111 Douglas so nato Calendar directly into the approved a Bill that would pro Atterberg and Brian Ibsen troop Lap of the powerful sifting commit vide 70 new Federal judgeship in-69, Keokuk Paul Woods Post 155, tee which he Heads. Eluding one in Iowa. This is one Melvin Lundeen Burlington was fined $50 and costs in Justice George Means court monday night on an assault and Battery charge filed by a. C. S Ottumwa. The charge was the result of an altercation which occurred feb. 27 three Miles East of it. Pleasant on Highway 34. Lundeen brother Duane was also charged with assault and Battery by Simon and pleaded not guilty. Hearing will be held monday. Keokuk. During the past 40 years part of this change is due to the philosophic failure to reconcile the new sciences to old religion concepts. But i. Eau be did of it thai creased juvenile criminality and list increased divorce. In a word man1 still needs god. Bible College and they have two hours after the blast ripped moved Here from Owatonna. Minn. J the bomber it rolled to a Stop on the sheinaus have two children a Bunker Hill Landing strip and copyright 1981, King features Timm in to months old. And indic Etc ins.1 i Lynne two years. Joy the four men stepped out. A Little car damaged in Accident Senate passes savings and loan Bill the motion carried on a voice More than by the u. S. Act it without a Quot nay Quot vote being judicial conference but three fewer audible. Than voted by the Senate. A a a a a As approved by the committee Des Moines up Tbs Iowa Bridge on old Highway 34 near the the Bill would provide for a roving Senate today passed a bid to allow shaken but unharmed a 1951 Ford owned Casanova was damaged skidded on ice on the overhead by j. When Golf and country club saturday and rolled in a ditch. District judge in Iowa to serve in both the Northern and Southern the ear was driven by Wayne districts. Iowa now has two District Dud rid in Chicago. Til i judges one for each District. State savings and loan associations to make Long term Home improvement Loans in the tame manner As federally chartered

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