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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 23, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 69mt. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening March 23, i Ogi these Days by i Rorge e. oldsters peace corps the idea of a place corps is premised on the Assumption that the United states has something to contribute to Ute lives of other Peoples. Digging ditches is not precisely a very valuable contribution nor is it of tremendous raises c Orn support Price to $1.20 Battle looms on wage Bill Washington j up agriculture Secretary Orville i. Free i significance that an athlete comes Man wednesday raised the support among people who Are runners be pric it for the 1960 Corn crop to $1.20 cause they have no vehicles to per Bushel and lot soybeans to $2.30 carry them. Bush i. However there is a part of the Freeman also proclaimed higher american population that is sex Price support for Barley Grain sorg Perlen ced. Competent and Able hums Oats Rye flaxseed and cot Thoy have experience because they to sced. Have devoted about 4-0 years of the increases Foi com and other their lives to some particular of feed grains were ordered under Erat Ion they Are competent because they have been continuously retained in their Field they arc still Able because in our country men Are not retired from their work because they Are sick or feeble or incompetent but arbitrarily at a specific age either to satisfy a legislative dictum or to fulfil the requirements of an insurance contract for instance there Are thousands of men who have served in the army Navy and air Force for i Long periods who Are required to retire by Law usually these arc highly trained and skilled human beings. Why not put these in the peace corps rather than out to pasture As is done nowadays Many men and women Are forced to retire at the Ages of 62 or 65 because that is the pension fund arrangement. This group includes successful businessmen engineers scientists University professors and almost every kind of person you can think of. These people have needed skills particular abilities which no eager Beaver just out of College can have because he has not lived Long enough or benefited by so extensive an experience. When to the enthusiasm of youth is added the experience of age a task a Chance of being successful. A # g Why not mobilize these older men and women to be a peace corps to Aid countries that need experts More than they need enthusiasm Why not Seiki Over age doctors into areas that could Benefit by killed physicians and surgeons Why not Send engineers into countries that need Bridges or or irrigation wily not Send Over age professors to teach in universities which Are Short of adequate faculty tills appears to me More practical than to Send teams of very Young very enthusiastic and very inexperienced boys and girls into difficult countries where one word can do More mischief than a Hundred cannons. The missionaries sent to various countries from the United states Ware very much like Tho proposed peace corps except that those who went into backward countries expected to spend All their lives there. They devoted themselves unstinting by and per i Manenty to their particular tasks. There was not talk about a two year term or a three year term they came to stay. Too most protestant missionaries were married the Catholic priests and , of course were not married but they too remained at their stations permanently and if there is affection left for the United states anywhere in the no communist world it is due More to missionaries Titan to government officials and businessmen. The peace corps it is to be assumed is being mobilized to win friends for the United states. If it is to do that its work must be useful and its personnel must be appreciated. There is a vast experience on this subject going Back to the 1830 s the remarkable fact is that Long before we became a world Leader the United states was a favourably regarded nation. It is hard to think of saudi Arabia kicking us out of Bahrein and becoming a Neutral but that is happening now because the weak and Beckwall countries wonder whether we Are Strong and Forward. They have witnessed the great United states knuckle under to Small countries and its Kuckling under has never been regarded is a respect for the rights of Mankind but As weakness and uncertainty. No truly great country would permit Castro for instance to act. As he has toward the United states. Tile result of weakness is neutralise. Gog can a peace corps turn Back the tide that has been moving against the United states that us its function and it is for that purpose that it needs to be organized. To do effective work competent Able experienced men and women need to be mobilized. Either such a Job is conceived correctly or it it f. Id nut b done at >11 terms of the emergency feed Grain Bill signed into Law by presid it Kennedy less than an hour before Freeman a announcement Freeman said soybean supports were increase d because More food oils Are needed and higher Price supports would persuade Farmers to take acreage out of Corn and Plant soybeans. The in w Corn average support Price of $1,20 per Bushel compares with the 10g0 average of $1.06. Soybean supports in 1060 were $1 05 per Bushel. Other crop supports announced wednesday Barky a 93 cents per Bushel for Grade no 2 or better compared with 77 cents per Bushel in 1960. Grain sorghum a $1.93 per hundredweight for Grade no. 2 or Batter compared with $1 52 last year. Oats a 62 cents per Bushel for Grade no 3. Compared with 50 cents last year Rye a $1 02 per rustic i for Grade no. 2 or better or Grade no 3 on test weight Only compared with 90 cents per Bushel last year. Flaxseed a $2 08 per Bush i for Grade no. I. Compared with $2.38 per Bushel in i960 cottonseed a $49 per ton for Loans on farm stored cottonseed and s45 per ton for Psichas s from producers. Compared with $38 and $34 last year Freeman Aid he increases a Grain suppers will help bolster farm income. He noted however that und r the new feed Grain Bill Farmers cannot collect feed Grain supports this year unless they reduce Corn and Grain sorghum acreage. Prep grinder says girl asked him to kill her Odessa. Tex. Up she Cook a Cee pts position in new Hospital think it la rain seems to be the query of Edward r. Marrow As he chats with president Kennedy in the White House after being sworn in As u. S. Information Agency chief. Kneuver in c critical situation in Laos big i pm the United states and Allied a 1 Lions mane Vered forces into position today for a Buttle against the communists in Laos if the russians refuse to negotiate. Washington al 5 i conference in ., Cost. Sir Frank Roberts British Atn a Bass a Dor to Moscow was instruct i cd by London to deliver to the i Kremlin what foreign office fated with a massive red arms sources said was a a final plea buildup and rebel successes in the Ltd or soviet cooperation to head off an armed conflict. Military leaders of the Little Southeast kingdom a the West made it Clear the hour of decision was near at hand. President Kennedy arranged to explain the critical situation to the american people at a news Southeast Asia treaty organization it Seato met in Bangkok Thailand to map strategy for blocking a communist takeover in Laos. A voluntary quite a repeal injured As cars collide Gar my a kiss to remember hoi by i pulled the trigger. And she was dead jul t Uke the bizarre Story of the High school football Placer and his melancholy wee heart unfolded piece by piece today in this we. T Texas town where both were known and liked. The motive for tile killing authorities Haven to found one yet that satisfies them. A you done to take people out and kill a pm like rabbits sheriff l a Fyk Luclin. Of Kermit. Tex who i is spearheading the investigation said Toda i happened jus across the county line in his jurisdiction about 30 Miles from Odessa even if of accept his. On that he killed her because sin j asked him to. Its murder a he i said. A you could hardly Call it a mercy killing a too Elizabeth Jean William 17, failed to How lip for Cia. Wednesday. She w Fri a slander girl 5-foot-5 and just under too pounds. Nice looking with Light Brown hair Ane Blue ryes. Rather St Riou most of the time but when she laughed i was . Her parents thought it strange she did no to come to breakfast. They called the school to Quot be if she had walked out without them Woodby. Announcement i made Orvill alb and it r. Chairman of i he hems county memorial Hospital Board of tru. Pi., of the r v ignation of Dor Cook As the Hospital admin Gator. In will Uati Sukmi to pit a1 on july i to a count tin a do Ini Rotor of the to w Elbow Lak mum., Community memorial Hospital which will go into operation this fall at a con. Scrabic increase in salary he been the administrator Here since july i la. T y a. Coming Here from Barron wis his resignation was accepted regret by the local Hospital Board of , who pointed oui that Many improvements have Tai Ltd place since la came Here and. Till other will be Mach of fore he Ieuv s. The Board is now taking application for a Succur or to the position republicans to try for substitute House passes medical Aid measure $10,000 instead janitor Douglas Vav. Johnson and w Ife Helen look happily at a $10,-000 Chack from brinks. Inc., in lieu of a $90-a-week Job and a College education for his eldest son As Rewa for turning in a $240,000 bundle of $10 and $20 Bills in los Angeles. Johnson Jani Toring now said he was taking Tia Check to be fair to his other sons and Quot i Hope i never find any More Money like that a a added. Washington Ufi Alioth major legislative Battle began today Over one of president Kennedy major proposals and this time the republicans Aid they would win the House began debate on the Kennedy backed Bill to race the Federal minimum wage from $1 to $1.25 an hour after a meeting of top a Publ can. T a leg in a in the morning hone gop Leader Charles a Ballock said he Bari the votes to i it eat. Kennedy a proposal. A Heck said a there is a lot of mane vering going on Quot but pc a dieted a Republican substitute version lowering t he increase from 25 cent., an hour to 15 elite a 1951 International pick up cd in ,rhel1 by Rob a d coma. I. I Mil o in ii allot i Union a it Ute one and a 1960 clo vim j before Quot Des Moines up a the Iowa House today passed the emotion charged medical Aid to the aged i Bill. 88-12, but some legislators said then the v called the police 5br censure fell far Short of the juvenile officer James Brown intent of in s we n adopted located one boy he declined to to Maui Pio Giam last Yucai identify who had a Coke Date with Howzw Iowa still could not Elizabeth the night before. She participate in the Federal program had slipped out of her House in her pyjamas and a a Robe shortly special interest in publications about schools two school publications in tins i sue of the news have More than Normal interest. One is the notice for the election to vote on Hie question of the would be Ai proved. Too other congressional news space Gen. Lyman l. Learn Tzer chairman of the joint chief., of a staff told the House lie. In Nee and space committee that the joint chiefs were not consulted on in Secretary Roberts. Mcnamara s order turning Over to. T military Pace responsibilities to the air Force. Depressed areas congressional Gap leaders said they would seek to Amend president Kennedy a depressed areas program by cutting its total co t and revising certain provisions. Forming of the Waco. School Dis-1 strict tile election is for Mon j Day april 3, from 12 noon until j 7 p. In voting places will be at Crawfordsville. Noble Wayland. Olds Maple grow into pendent no. 3, Union Independent no. 9, and Jolin. On Independent no. 7. Sentenced to 99 years for killing of his father a Ven port. Low a up it Richard l. Wei Quot. 29. Whose career aspirations apparently were frustrated by his fathers concern Over a speech impediment today was sentenced to 99 years m prison for the a a1 shooting of his father a prominent Bettendorf a butt Tricia. Wets was sentenced by District judge Nathan Grant after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of second degree murder Iii the slaving of or. Howard a Weis 65. Last Jan. 23 he will serve the sentence in the men s reformatory at Anamosa. Authorities charged Weis shot and killed his lather during an argument Over the younger Many a decision to quit his Job with a Davenport construction company and Start work As a Hospital orderly. Investigators were told we is once had wanted to be a priest but that his father opposed the idea because of the youth s speech impediment. Police quoted Weis As saying he fired eight shots a his father As the older Man Lay in bed. Three shots struck the doctor in the head and five in the Back. Young wets then went to our lady of tile Lourdes roman Catholic Church and confessed his crime to a priest who culled police. Des Moines up a repeal a of the a voluntary quite provision in i i the now a unemployment Bompensa a a non Law was approved today by the Senate on a nearly party line vote i of 32-16. The measure which now goes to Ilia House would remove from the i jobless benefits act passed by the 1959 general Assembly a Section pro Vining that an employee who vol a in Turkily i aves his Job can not by disqualified from compensation if he fills a claim within 90 Days of termination of employment. Sen. Jack Schroeder a Daven port i said the 90 Day provision had led to a widespread abuses and requited m Many Small employers j having to pay unemployment compensation when they were not responsible for the situation. In place of the voluntary quit clause the Senate measure would provide that an employee who left his Job Quot without Good cause at i trib table to his employer Quot would forfeit any credits acquired by him during that employment. J however the Senate approved 0f provision would not affect such voluntary situations As illness family illness and some other exceptions now include d in the Law. Fourteen democrats and two republicans opposed the change. The Only Democrat who voted with 31 republicans in favor of the Bill was sen. Charts Eppers a Keokuk. Let Corvair driven by Donald d Ross Muscatine were involved in j a when i brought her Back she lows tie state to take part in the Quot a collision seven Miles North of got out of my car and into Kerr milk act program providing new London at 3 40 Wednes Mack s car Quot the boy Quot Aid. State Matching fund. Arc approx Day. J Weihn Mack herring 17, who printed. Ross suffered Shock and bruises earned his letter playing end last and was admitted to memorial has year As a Sophomore on Tho 1 i pit a1 Here for treatment and re High school football team Walt person leased. J taken to police Headquarters for Ito it nil full no and had support until the legislature appropriate about $1.5 million or More. The House approved measure which now goes to the Senate merely a1 by the county Board of education giving the reports of the regional consultant from the state depart foreign policy Senate Gap Leader Everett m Dirk in said the republicans must show Quot cohesion and Unity and a common purpose Quot in supporting president Kenned on the laotian crisis. Planes congressional testimony a disclosed that Tho air Force Withine other is a publication ordered out prior approval from Congress signed a $12 billion contract for six passenger jots to transport taken to police Headquarters questioning about noon. Aul program for had been room Norman a. A be from the Iowa both mud Tim. Were travelling South. Co nip was turning left As j Quot you were the last one to see re was passing and the collision her. Son Quot Brown said where is billowed. The car which ended up Quot he Quot in a ditch was damaged an estimated <135 and the truck about $75. Ross was charged with improper passing by Deputy Richard Gray who investigated and was lined $15 and costs in Justice George Means court. Connop was charged with failure to signal and is to appear in Justice court. After Honing herring arrived. About 40 minutes of quit. The boys father. O. Ii a an electrical contractor. Mack Turtle to father. Methodist laymen to hear or. Bach annual laymen a banquet Burlington District will be held on Friday flight. March 24. In first methodist Church. The serving will be continuous from 6 Elks chanters Here tonight n. L. Township staving on .s.t. To assist the heart fund Sigma Lii Epsilon will prevent the Muscatine elks chanters in concert to a night. The Public is invited to the event which will begin at 7.30 in the John Wesley Holland student Union. There will is no admission charge by an offering will j be taken for the heart fund. This is the third consecutive year Tho Iowa a it Sleyman chapter of Sigma i Epsilon has presented lie chanters. Prior to that they new London township is an of it Teci the Morrell Choricy of bouncing that it is staying on Ottumwa. Central Standard time this year. A formal announcement is in id in an advertisement elsewhere in this Issue by officers of the township of the decision. They Point out that St does not conform to tile working hours of agriculture and is an inconvenience to families with children in school. It is Quot lated also that St creates general confusion when one Community is on Daylight time and a neighbouring one 11 not. Or. Marcus Bach of Iowa City j is the speaker for the evening. He will Tell of his trip to Africa and 1 of his visit with or. Alber Schweitzer. He will begin speaking in the Sanctuary at 7 30 pm. Preceding the speech there will j be an old fashioned hymn sing j with accompanying instrumental j music by or. R. Evan Copley. Or i George e. La More jr., and prof. Keylor Noland. I anyone unable to attend the i dinner but wishing to hear tile i speech May in the Balcony. With tears in his eyes and blurted out. A i killed her Quot too Mack let palier to a ranch cast of Kermit where his father leased Hunting and fishing rights. In waded into a clock Pond Ann while police watched from the Bank reached into the water and dragged to the Bank the body still in pyjamas and a role. The body had been weighted Down with two pieces of Lead. A til Ere is no motive i i Ink i am crazy that s All i can Tho boy said later at Kermit where Murd it r charges were filed against him. Justice of the peace Jeff Worley let Bond at $10,000 a she first asked me to kill her on monday Quot Mack said. A a i told her it was foolish but she i talking about How sin wanted to be in heaven. State medical society an amendment adopted would i limit the income of unmarried applicants to $1,500 and married persons to $2,200 annual income after deduction of medical expenses. In addition unmarried persons would be ineligible for b units if they had economic resources exceeding $2,000. And married applicants would be denied Ald if they had combined resonate a in excess of $3,000. Mint of Public instruction relative to the schools of the county. The reports have special interest to All school patrons to taxpayers and others interested in Hie schools of the county. The schools Are Wayland Community. Olds consolidated Winfield Community of Union consolidated new London Community and it. Pleasant Community schools. Government leaders. Polaris test fails mrs. Ira Guy Dies in Aledo ill Sai pm word a been received hot in of the death of mrs. Ira Guy in al do ill. She was a sister of Ray Davidson of Salem. Capi canaveral up the nuclear submarine . Theodore Roosevelt launched its first Polaris missile from the Depths of the Atlantic Ocean today but the test was marred when the rocket had to be destroyed. The slender Black sub. Cruising about 200 Miles Southeast of Cape canaveral triggered the missile from a tube in its deck at la 25 am. Heal Tate occupied As a residence household goods and furnishings an automobile personal al feeds and tools necessary for Pursuit of a Trade occupation or , and the Cash surrender value of life insurance would not i be included Iii the computation of j an applicants resources. All other resources would be evaluated at the current Market vain minus any incur Brances against them. I tin House appt Ovid Bill also prohibit elderly persons from receiving the medical As. Benej fits under the judgment asked i Hie bottle shaped Polaris til in i dared to Hie surface on a column old compressed air broke water and a petition has been filed at Hie ignited its solid fuelled engines a Ricks office in the courthouse by split second later while hovering the do Sunray co. Against Clar i a few feet above the surface. A Nee summon. Asking judgment for5 be Navy said the rocket $197.92. A account is involved. Jury considers Case i los Angeles up the Fate i of lovers or. R. Bernard Finch j and Carole tri Toff was in the i hands of a jury today for Tihe program if they also j Hird to were receiving state old age As a a a a a. Distance. Severely injured in a beating Walter Allsup of Salem is receiving treatment at a Burlington hos pit a i for severe injuries received in a beating saturday night at Salem. It both jaws and his nose Are broken according to reports. No charges had been tiled in tile Case up until noon thursday the her Ifft off let reported 1 a i made a Date with her Alx iut Midnight we drove into lie country and parked. We talked about what it would be like in heaven. J she Wasny tsa d. She a. Happy Quot we got out of the ear and walked to the Bank of the Pond she had left her fluster Robe in linear and went Back to get it because she was cold. She said she had thought about it a Good while. She tried to take sleeping Pill Quot once. But she just got sick. A we Quot at on the Bank about 15 or 20 minutes. I had the Shotgun. She told me she was sorry she had to leave me like this. I said a give me a to remember you she turned up her face and ii kissed her. It is estimated that there Are about 325.000 iowans in the 65 and Over age bracket and anywhere from 20.000 to 90,000 Quot of these might need medical or Hospital care Eachys car. Tin state Board of social welfare had recommended a state appropriation of $4,152,000 a year to implement tile program. This would make the state eligible for $5,848,000 in f Cral funds to provide a $10 million a year program. Expect Kennedy to sign quickly Marcus Back Washington Bud broaden Kennedy is expected to sign the jobless pay Bill into Law quickly so that unemployed workers can Start drawing the extra benefits in about two weeks i the Bill first of the adm ims i raised the Shotgun barrel up. J frat ions anti recession measures. She took it with the Back of her j provides for a $1 billion Extension hand and held it up to her Brad of unemployment compensation and i pulled the trigger she was j payments to Idle workers who have Lead or i like that a a exhausted their regular benefits. A she Quot Aid ill always then a thank you Mack Quot. Remember you for she said and Pill i Stein services a at the Lockridge Baptist Church by Gilling March ii. In Hie evening at 8 . Rev. Marvin eng Brecht a Bove will be the speaker. Ile i Quot from the United missionary Church of Trenton. A pc Ricky of music has i a is it lined Well on its Way to a fully suede soul flight a to a target about. 1.300 statute Miles away when the rocket veered out of control after about two minutes of flight. A safety officer touched Oil a Quot destruct a system which exploded the missile. The wreckage fell into the Atlantic in hundreds of feet of water. The Navy said cause of the Mal-1 unction could not be determined immediately. Camp fund near $10,000 tic of. Pleasant Pluto of the Camp Eastman development fund drive is near the $10,000 Mark i Sam fart Quot be of the co chairman of the local drive Aid wednesday those who have card., out a a urged to get them in As soon a a possible. Those persons who have t not Ber n contacted will to soon. One contribution of $10 to to fund to develop tile scout Cam came from mrs. Dirk Groat Aid or Groat the famous of the Pittsburgh Pirau. Contacted by one of la local solicitors she wrote that it was impossible for Groat to solicit of or been secured for the different nights with youth night on j players and Mack ame ukr a Lon urday evening. Come hear the then at the Bottom of Tho tui messages and enjoy the music. Rev. Six added a note the groats were c. Ii. Peters is the pastor. Sending tile $10

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