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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 25, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news warmer vol. 80, no. 71 it. Pit is i Low v. To Usu u Tkv Kami m a kill 2� 1058 Airliner Falls to oui Pete in slate a a Peteh meet m pleasant v kit i j i Perch it i in ii Dut Sion High school1 i n 111 t a til a i till n Vav i to i i litmus in in him i let speech Coin est i it Vei us Iii ii Ltd the Lott i i ate team which lied plate Alai St a u held in it. Pleasant High St Hool am in concert to Nigel i a i w rid to right Janice Lawrence Vicki Lawrence christs Strang. Drum majorette j do Melby. Sue Mcgohan. Row i Judy Guinn. Charles Hourihan. Ruth Henessee. Evelyn Lim Wanda Whaley Kula Jennings. Ann Cowen. Virginia Burroughs Mary Sharon Eye. Sharon Wolfe. Karen Biggs Alan King. Row 2 Ned Collins. Sherry Stull. Janet Hayes Marlene Mcwilliams Diane Janus Stii Oon Goddard Carol Williams Alma Anderson Bonnie Koch. Linda Bathman. Sara Stanley Linda de vol Jack i in ton Betty Tweedy Marvin Peterson Clu Renet i ire tot e. E. Melba. For foot h w ill go to Chinnell j1 Ai a i to a v to take Pat in the speech finals of tin4 Iowa so were Assoc lilt Ion Lite my. Yvonne in harms v k nip. Jon p it vol. M. I a Miller. Dims Purins. Hobe to i Wallet cedi i a d. On Sharon Mai Hall. Mary a Dei Waite. Gary my u ii Taler. Shir Kwh Jaeqer Linda Ned. Ann Miller. Cory Dovis gun n mat he Row i a i ii cd i ii in the ii Tillson Sam i no \ i a is Dei Jean n Kincaid. Naie v Dawson in Mike kit in. Waun j a Kerr i Moo Biggs Jill. Arith Paltin it in looked g Koch Janet m ii it Wilson Ida ii at i Joy Mccoll a Janet Row 3 Rita Russell Sally Sutton Janet Timmerman Ellen Savage a i in rom Row e Kobe ii dive Carol Kraut ii v Sui comte Vena Mary Hermaie go n Gooding Bally Wilson Linda Shaw Jai \ i i Cullet Jane Hawkins Marilyn link. Rand Beattie my ii r Jones. Mum Ellen Balei Karen i Horn r Barbara Memphy Cartel Hilse Days by George e. Sokolsky the i ans to ii eni Ruth hams director of education of the Board of education St. Louis writes me a Long and informative letter that is of rial value Iii any appraisal of the ideas of the better trained educators of tins country. It is for this reason that i choose to share with you a paragraph from her letter which i think states the Case for Many educators phrase we teach the child not the subject Means that the teacher is supposed first to know and understand the children whom she is teaching. She is instructed to learn of their Homes neighbourhoods and Community backgrounds. She is supposed to use Many different techniques in order to discover the nature of the i Reserve needs of her class after analysing 1 Farmers the by fisc needs she is called upon to use subject matter As a Means to an end. La end being the Type of democratic citizen which we desire for our society. From this Point of View it is True that we teach the child and the subject matter becomes subservient to this end. A farm Money in House Hill District valuations listed in school report fire near frat douse Washington. Ins the Hon. E passed and sent to the Senate today a Compromise Bill providing $2 861,008,793 for nearly a score of b de a1 agencies for the next three months. The catch All Bill contains 3j million dollars in Grants to states to Cope with increasing a employ Merit under the unemployment compensation Prog ram. The measure also includes neatly $2,300,000,000 to reimburse the commodity credit corp action for operation of the Federal farm Ponci support program. Another 250 million dollars is Cai marked for this year s acreage program under which ire paid for not growing surplus crops. The Bill also includes $1,100,000 for the u. S exhibition at the Brussels world s fair opening next month. Elvis is in the army now what is the Type of democratic citizen which we desire for our society first of All. Who is the a we ? is it the Republican c.i.o., the roman Catholic Church the democratic party the Kun Kitis . The Council for Judaism. Jehovah a witnesses who is the we this is a wry important question to ask for we Are not a monolithic society this is a very mixed society of numerous religious seels of varieties of racial and nationality groupings of different political parties. Is the school to. A. Twist history As some new Deal j form of government but words historians have demo or is it to i can be twisters and one need not be revisionists like or. Harry fort chalice. Ark ins Rock party the j and Roll idol Elvis Presley rolled out of his bunk a half hour before reveille today to begin his inst full Day As a u s. Army private at for Chaffee. When the blaring recorded Bugle Call sounded at 5 30 am. Just and the lights went on in the singing sensations Barracks Elvis v As dressed and making his army bunk superintendent c. A la of j the i pleasant Public a Hooks i the guest speaker at the rotary club meeting monday evening at j the by a Elton hotel. I lie topic of his talk a is Quot school i or. Cottrell Aid that school reorganization in the state us pro a greasing rapidly and about two thuds of the state has already completed the reorganization. All distr hts must be reorganized by 1062 the it. Pleasant District a j completed joint planning with or rounding counties and All committee reports on the different phases have been completed with due exception he said that a vote on the reorganization will be held sometime alter july this year. The present it. Pleasant District us about 210 Square Miles and could be As Large As 234 Square Mil it i other districts Are included. Iii the i new plan All fit the High school indents in the District could be a a to moated at the it. Pleasant Hill school and one half of Ila elementary students could attend in the it pleasant schools the Ethel half of the elementary indent would be divided in four other attendance centers according to or Cottrell. Great interest shown by Hie rotarians in ii different Pha a of Jie proposed budgets the millage Levy us expected to be about 32 Tinner the reorganization. Following. An the assessed valuations of the different districts so. I. Valuation it. Pleasant. Center in up. Pleasant Lawn 4.5 31.0 17.4 4,460 79 1,468,047 1,068,624 f fret to a in i. B 3 192 012 11 in ton j we 27.0 715,813 Elm id 4 9 125.214 Jackson twp. 36 2 1.027.942 Tipper a hoc Law p Charier it Aik 4 i i a 1,785 Fairview. ,. 3 2 170.649 Oak Leal. 4 75,146 plea ant 4 0 78.227 Rome. ,. 3.3 155,65? pleasant Point a 0 102,588 Blain jell. 3 3 to 853 j Maple trove. A 9 1311,583 i Ciao Hove j a 78,275 i Oakland Mills. 3 4 106 452 w. Highland. 3.8 128,137 Marion to p. By Aine Mound. 4 i 206 >67 by Aine ii in3.3 207.403 teds Grove to 124,685 Oak Grove no 2 4 0 159,563 i Hickory Grove 3 i 162 814 pleasant or. I j 234,332 j Canaan twp. Sherman. 3 to 24 a 324 new London to p ext Quot Imor. J a 201 383 Hawkeye. I 2 82 308 Oak Rove ,. 2 0 53,492 Baltimore twp. Linwood. 3 0 of 918 Bethany. 4 0 101,215 Jet or Rod co Rouru Prairie 2 0 of 142 lot a is. 207.a 12 ,213.969 Salem ice area Ltd Vega Jet Fen in co it not included. Guests at the meeting w cd de dec Galer who a s Choen Hie j j american i i Lei service to go to Europe tin., summer under the sponsorship of the rotary club and j the i pleasant High s Choel my dint Council. John Bobbit Bual i ne4 manager of Iowa Wesleyan j and j v Pyle of Wellman virtually age building a the Rem of the. House on not the Day Alto noon about firemen put out Elmer Barnes is the school to recognize that our institutions Are based on the Judaic Christian civilization and therefore must provide Bible teaching from the earliest grades or is it to be Secula Ristic and reject the Bible but to teach the children Darwin Hix by too tight about semantics j what most americans loosely mean by a democracy is a govern in of chosen by the people at an election and not one that is captured by an individual or a party i or an oligarchy. But what kind of citizen must a person be in such a govern Road Issue is argued lev. Marx. Engels Lenin As Basic leaders of our thinking the meat if he is to be a Quot democratic citizen a a is he taught arithmetic j a a a i spelling writing is he to Mem the moment the student goes Orize poetry is he to study latin to school for reasons other than French German or Spanish or. To be brought in Contact with the is there something else he might rudiments of intellectual disc have to be taught pones is he to be propagandized in a particular direction to adjust 1 or instance in the new York him to be a particular kind of legislature a Bill has been in citizen then we must Call for a produced that such a person should series of definitions which have j be exposed to the ten command never been defined in the United j ments but there Are those who states i say that such exposure us strictly for instance the phrase Quot demo unconstitutional. Is then this cratic citizens a Means what Frank a democratic citizen to be taught the Henry county Board of supervisors and the county Engineer Are hearing the arguments in a Road controversy affecting til Ca j part of the county North of new London. Residents along the win fir new London Road straight South from Winfield believe that Road should be the one to first be by. A topped while those residing Ionthe i. Union new London a South from it. Union Are Bucko. That Road. I american history about the Pilj grim fathers and Pocahontas and George Washington and Abraham j Lincoln or is this person Only a a All persons born or naturalized to hear about Witch Hunters in in the United states and subject Salem. Massachusetts and the to the jurisdiction thereof Are by i cannot define that phrase. R to me it Means nothing. In the United states a citizen is defined by the Constitution As follows both groups have had Idee Ting with tin Board of supervisors and Are putting Forth arguments Why the respect Ive roads should be it t to receive the surfacing the Eon Troverso us a hot potato for the supervisors who h Ive to take the run surfacing program a step at a Tiro because of the edits involved. President urges added payments Washington ins Presken Eisenhower ordered a goo million a Dollar Speed up in government pm run men i. Today and reviewed with Gap congressional leaders his in 11 recess i plan to extend unemployment benefits. So i know Jan i Aid Mel a Hower will make his formal re in Milstein on giving most in in played an extra 13 weeks of pay ments in a special message to con ar-.-, a a today or pm Aland it explained that Loden i funds would be advanced to continue unemployment benefits la i m c Ai Gnu jobless compensation is exhausted. Tik4 Advance would be for a period of half the Linn i Gill Udy authorized by the Tate i filled the Situ former garage a bid i Fella i he a main 11 eel Lur i 4d. The stubborn Blaze bul not until Atter Hie build tug had Bren badly hailed the lire rather close to the Rem of the Iraq Brinly House and had los Blaze gained in intensity might have in Dang ted the House the Leal it the House scorched furniture window screens and Lav n tools Shired in the struck un4 were destroyed i Vive i near discovered the fire and Jerry Downey Turtle in the report firemen made their fourth lire Call Iii Lour Days at la 30 a Iii tuesday when they went to Hie Arthur Dpi Aker resident at Hoo f Monroe Street to est a Small i ass fire monday night about ii 30 pm the firemen extinguished a Glass lire West on old Highway 34 South of the overhead Bridge quite in extensive an i Alo g the Highway burned Oil some Telephone poles and Fence pos caught on i ire sunday it 6 i in a run made to the Marvin col Nick farm a ast of Tov n to put out a Small Mot flit caused by Chimney Sparks saturday Allemon at i 30 Pun Hemen Wen to the George nod in Tat Iii i in. I hoi in ast of town to take cure of a Glass fire Tome grass on some site owned and also burned off monday afternoon workmen were turning off some grass at the of a peasant Golf and country club la tarted to get out of or Tiol but j he workmen got it out before much damage dont. Firemen Wen not called Price tag t acceptable stat even a or in of two such cull be i Ben g held in Ute state competing will be the following is ii ten to l i a Psi a Lalaleo in dramatic Der ulna Ion w ill give a a the gradual Ion chit Timi i remember mama by Forbes Barba i a Murphy in humorous Doe. In a lion will give Quot Snoop paths by i Eatock Al o entered Iii i min. In declamation is kill i Mill who will give rile tooth. Ila4 whole Booth and nothing but the Root i Quot by Bend Ley in Ila interpretative Reading ii vision Shane Jones will give a Umal it Stuart Quot arid Linda Bigg will Tom j Pete in of trial oration wit ii t reelection entitled Quot i lie fatal full j acres a a j in Indio speech Cynthia cacti peer i Quot wondering Quot. Satin Day s events will consist of i j Jan Hawkin Ora Toth to declaim lion entitled a a brainwashing in China by Applegate i fleas int has two entries in la haitian declamation event Cynthia Carter will give a fancy Duball by Daphne do manner and Janet Hay will give the while Chil of Dover by due i Miller Janet Hayes also will compete in the radio speaking event giving a budging the Atlantic rile other radio speaking Contes Faut a Karen i begs who will give fort american a. Wapello Man rash Vici in Mil a ii Hue a in Cue person a killed Aud three others in i i4d in a head on collision on h u ii w a ii about six Hiles South of Muscatine late month killed 58 yen old William it a lie is flu Engst of Wapello who thrown i rom he ear by the impart i Lopi a ii re it Mie i me Vav Ere by vent old Larry Welkin of my eat ira4 his i y pm old w lie. Bat b Ara did mrs Weikert Mol he 50 veal old mrs Cleo mum nth is of Muscatine authorities s us i Elten Gei to a cling alone swerved into the path of tin Weikert a when he came us behind a slow Nim ii. A vehicle on th4 Highway Welkin t and hts w Ife escaped with minor sprains and cuts and or Maul Nill Sut cred a severe Tongue la in a Mon mid a 11 a to cd Vav i isl Register for selective service nine dead 15 injured in a rash is Iai f i inc a Brandf International airways dc-7c Enro Ute to Rio de Janeiro Brazil. 1 u Ghi Fin crashed and exploded i be minute Takeoff Early today from minims International Ger pm in killing Al leu t nine person., and injuring is others there were 24 persons on the South America bound plane including a Crew of five and three other inline employees Enro Ute to another assignment due of i he right engines of tire loin engined plane blazed in the night Tkv Over Miami moments Al Lei la hug4 plan took of the do pc ranked to the West and jct a bed in. Than a minute later it at try dump in the marshy almost met i a Sable Everglades a ret t he plane then exploded. The plane took off at 12 04 a m Fhi and crashed at 13 05, Accord ii of to Blains of officials in Dallas Lex in he following Young men Hove Sicri acred at the Henry county Wokf live Bervie office since the Middle Oija no a i y James William Grimm. New London bos in Marvin David Johan son i jute 5 Box 195, of. Pleasant Wendell Thomas wit hams new London Jerry Lee Horn i of Ell Robert Eugene i cli11 new London George Louis Mckenzie Rome Don Ottiker Mig in Salem Larry Verne Wright it pleasant rout 3 David i in local debate team Page mint scheduled to a saturday tin4 local team has in All Day if comp Quot Quot i of i la Ida Biggs. Diane june Mary Klod Nyeki and Ai i be rom my. Fifteen teams will participate la Competition will be exceedingly Tong and each school team will debate five other teams. I plea spat s affirmative team composed of Mary Klod Nyeki and Diane Jones will debate Newton Davenport Ottumwa Burlington and Oskaloosa rho negative team composed of Allene Rommel and Linda Biggs will contend with univer try High a a school of Iowa City Dubuque me i at or Decorah and Well Burg Ai Quot Ina Nimg the local cont taut to Grinnell will be i. Edd Bowers. Or. Kenneth bunder local instructors and mrs is a Haye All will take ears and the g11nip will stay overnight in it d Ilia full. Dotson i Rue blood Salem route 2, George Edward Means Jim South Harrison St it Blea sunt Cai sol Lester Spence ii West a Las St i pleasant Basil Ernest Huston 406 South main St i pleasant Keith Dale a seen Richland Iowa John Robert Anderson i route 5, it. Pleasant Robert i Harold Mel,, in West Broad St it pleasant Kenneth Fred i Crick Klop Benstem route i two helicopters brought survivors and th4 dead to iwo Miami hopi to is wreckage of Hie do to Hen Over it to ill mile Square area. It seemed a it a giant mixing contraption scattered bits it the plane in every direction i Quot a burning ruins cast sin eerie greenish Hue in the Milky ground j tog that Hung Over the Low lying Evel eludes a i a i l William s George said four lot the la victims were dead on arrival at Jackson memorial Hospital hi4 added that of the seven survives one in critical condition another in serious condition i and that the others were doing i a a Fine a at mercy Hospital. Sister l kit win said 13 of the victims Wen brought there she said five were dead and eight were injured four of the injured she added Are Quot in quite serious condition Quot one in j surgery another in such poor land John Arthur French 36� j physical condition that a necessary Vernon i. It pleasant operation has been postponed and Terry Lynn t read Box 301 Winfield an sex Serviceman a registered with the local draft Bourd following return from service. E. N. Smith to run for representative e popular film concludes series n Smith new London to Inker Lur announced his candidacy for state representative on the Democrat ticket i Smith has been Active in Henry county bunking circles since 1920, and is the current president of th4 limn county hankers association in addition to his bunking interest or Smith has owned and operated the Smith insurance Agency at a w London since its founding of two others Are in Good condition. An unidentified survivor whose Only injury a bleeding ear told International news service i sitting in the extreme rear i of the plane when it took off. After i the plane wa., about 1.500 fee above the Field one of the engines on the ugh Ade hared up and Mien dropped Back to Normal then the engine spouted i Lames again and i do plane suddenly tarted plunging to tile ground the next thing i know i tumbling Over and Over i remained in the Tail Section bul when the plane hit i Flung into the Muddy hostess Madeline Campion 25. Of Lima Peru reportedly walked out Washington Gas Secretary of state John Post Dull said today the soviet Union has put a Price lag on a Summit meeting which is totally unacceptable to the u h and it., allies. I he Cabinet officer told a new conference that if the West at Cep ted the russian terms the free world would lose its Shii t before it Ever got to the Summit. I Quot Quot Quot Street sweeper seen in action at. The same a Ach state. Rate As is in Hie t in citizen of the United states and of the state wherein they the citizen born in the country or he naturalized by Law. The Constitution guarantees a Republican form of government a a the United states shall guarantee to every state in this Union a Republican form of it does net guarantee any other United states Senate the times grow perilous and the future of our country depends upon educated men shall we be forced to import such men from Europe or shall we educate our own children by standards which have proved themselves to be Correct since Plato conversed with Socrates copyright 1968. King features Syndicate inc j four Young people in custody Stevenson buy Albert Home red Oak ins a four Young people from Illinois were held at red Oak for authorities from Ottumwa today after being arrested in a car reported stolen at Ottumwa. M and i George Steven i ave purchased the Richard alb Bona a 362 South Wilson St m and mrs to move meter maids for Keokuk Keokuk. Ins two uniformed meter maid. Will non to issuing overtime parking ticket in Keokuk. Holding tryouts for senior play tryouts for the senior class play All my sons Are being held Mon Stevens m and Becky plan Day tuesday and wednesday at there april isl from 710 the local High school. South main route 5. The Ralph a wards expect to move to them Sao Paulo with liver three Mil Home to be vacated by the Steven Hon population is now Brazil s sons. J largest City. The concluding film in the i Wani travel Slid adventure serifs Egypt today Quot proved to to popular with the audience monday evening. Alfred Wolff so delighted the lectures with interesting and at times humorous commentary unit added to the entertainments the current Utu Tion in the Aret added to the interest of the coloured pictures and j the narration. At the intermission a flute Trio Compo cd of Deedee Haler Shirley harms and Jacqueline Kapp and a ter added Rita Russell for a Quat let entertained. Fiore says Road Rill will help Washington ins sen Albert gored it ten today called the j million Dollar Highway speedup i 11 a a major step toward putting America Hack to the chairman of the Senate Road i subcommittee said congressional amount of dirt As it went Over action is necessary to keep the fed i one Block on West Washington eral Highway program on schedule twice and n Block on South Jack and to Ward off construction slow son. Some of the City councilmen Down which would Worsen the re-1 expressed satisfaction with the cession i demonstration. The blazing Auci aft and appear in 1920 he has solved a develop a a titty uttered Little injury. She. Too Merit chairman it Geode state taken to a Miami Hospital. I bark for the past 16 year Aud has 1 been one of the principal support Bra a Lff airlines in Dallas a Denim ers of tin Fine Recica Titial Are in Iford the t Lher four Crew members beside miss Campion As Cap. Don George 50. Coral Gables Fla. First area in Henry county the 1950 or a Smith. Together with his in Earl established Geode industries a la India i y business which ranks among to it leaders Iii its Field or Smith a Long been one of the Active leaders in tin new London Community in All Fields of Community St i vice. Office John Cooper Winthrop or 37. South Mamie Fla second officer Charles Fink 23, Hialeah Friand Purser Alberto Zapatero 21, Lima. Peru. The three other airline employees Enro Ute to another assignment were identified As capt. Royal h. King 44, Coral Gables capt. Davis f Leake 42, it. Lauderdale. Fla., and George Hogan 42, Dallas Tex rescuers were directed to th4 crash site in a fairly Remote Section of the greater Miami area by cab j Driver Bob Grant who said he saw j the plane hit Che Black Mucky Marshland. He said the plane broke into at least three pieces on Impact i Washington and Jack son streets with the ground. I i tuesday morning j Grant used his taxi radio to Tell the sweeper brought Here his dispatcher where the plane i by representatives of the Herman came Down and then stood at a Brown roof Cedar rapids. It is j crossroad directing firemen and three years old and formerly policemen to the wreckage. City councilmen City Oft a inks and a number cd citizens watched a demonstration of a rebuilt Wayne Street sweeper git West used by Ottumwa which has bought a new one. The firm is offering tile sweeper to the City for $7,500 the sweeper picked up a Large More than 50 ambulances 20 fire trucks and 300 police cars sped to the scene. Thousands of spectators cars jammed the area forcing police to Block off the Section for Miles South and North of the scene two helicopters that brought the injured and dead to hospitals criss crossed spotlights on the desolate scene so that rescuers could find the victims

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