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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 1, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy these Days by George e. Sokolsky still another explanation Back in 1929 and 19.50, As is True today everybody and his grandmother had an explanation for the depression. I have received a letter from a Man who signs himself or Karol i Fahnestock 109 Randolph Street,1 Richmond. Indiana in which he i gives every novel explanation for Why things have gone wrong now. The aforesaid or. Fahnestock writes a it has been the constant yapping of people like you on tile red a menace baloney along with your Ami communist propaganda that has dulled tile democracy in the heart of the american people and killed it. To the extent that the american people have allowed Wall tied to take Over lock Stock and barred and now it is this same Wall St monopoly in Washington that is really harming America at. Home and abroad and reducing this nation to the pitiful mess that it is in. This is the truth. This anti communist yapping has mortally Hurt democracy and that is Why America is in a of or. Fahnestock a letter does represent a continuing protest in this country against the Power of Wall Street. When Andrew Jackson fought the Bank of the United states he was expressing the sentiment of the Farmer against the stranglehold of the circulation of Money by the banking Powers then most characteristically represented by the Biddles of Philadelphia. The same Power exists today in a Cartel of Bankers brokers underwriters. Heads of life insurance companies of Mutual and of labor Union pension funds wild put firms together in mergers who take firms apart to Benefit by the difference Between Book values and Market values and take apart values who sit on numerous boards of directors so that by interlocking director ships or by other group activities. They dominate the policies of a company or even of an entire Industry. Vol. 80, no. 103 it. Pleasant Iowa in Enin it. M i 1058 Hajj Fig of by Carrier. 3r per week a by mall so per year a in or. Van Allen reports discover outer space zone of dangerous radiation Challenge to soviets the Miles out into space. A it took some detective work i my out what was going to he Washington. Ins americans i Earth satellites have discovered an outer space zone of unknown but i dangerous radiation that throws up Domaiko a a. Or. Van Allen and his fellow a new Barrier to space travel., i physicists had a Quot spare a explorer existence of the hitherto misos 1 a 1 brought to Iowa University from the jct propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena. Calif. It was then irradiated or bombarded with a rays i and it was found that equipment aboard the sky borne explorers was not malfunctioning but that it 1 peeled radiation was disclosed.1 along with other new information on outer space by scientists today in their first report on data i obtained by the satellites. Information radioed Bick by explorers i and Iii still orbiting the Earth is lows that the radiation is hundreds of times Mea i or than expected More than 1,000 Miles out ill space tile scientists told a meeting of Hie National Academy of sciences that the present of the radiation1 suggests there May be a space one a Only a few Hundred or thousand i Miles deep Quot where the a potentially i dangerous a rays exist. They warned that this will make it More difficult to build a space i ship where Man can survive for any length of time without succumbing to deadly radiation the new discovery was disclosed exclusively last saturday by International news service. Could be Sci whelmed by intense radiation. Chief source of tile new discoveries or. Van Allen declared is the tape recorder or a Magnet in memory aboard explorer Iii. Which on radio command sends taped information Back to Earth scientists who joined or. Van Allen in presenting the reports were or. A r. Hibb i of the Jet propulsion Laboratory or. Edward Man ring. Of the Cambridge research Conter and Dis. Joseph w siry and g f. Schilling who tracked the satellites. Or. Janie it a. Van Allen 48-year j old University of Bina physicist formerly of it pleasant., rn-1 ported radiation within the a Tel-1 Lites reached an intensity of ooh Roentgen per hours so powerful it knocked out the Moons cosmic Ray counters. About five hours of such exposure is equivalent he explained to the maximum weekly dosage recon mended for workers in Industry. He added a this could mean it would not he Safe for a human being to remain More than Miles out in of. Space for Mote than five hours in the peril to the country is that j less he could adequately be shielded they Are killing off the smaller i with Lead or enough mass and Den manufacturer and the smaller Dis shy to Block such dangerous Quant i tutors and Are socially driving i titles of penetrating invisible Light the Middle class of this country in i known As to the proletariat where they be i come an element of dissatisfaction and protest. I have often written on this subject because i am convinced thai the greatest peril to american capitalism is the concentration of the control of Money. Now i find that the Rockefeller report a eth Challenge to America its economic and social aspects a reaches much Hie same conclusion to wit Basic to much of our past economic achievement has been our ability to encourage men with new ideas and new products to establish their own enterprises. Our great industries began As Small scale operations. And the majority of them air still less than 50 years old. A there is. A growing body of evidence that smaller and medium sized businesses and particularly manufacturing firms a even those that have successfully established themselves in their industries and have solid prospects for growth a have difficulty in obtaining financing for the expansion of their operations there is also a probability that inadequate financing reduces the rate at which new firms Are established. Of the need is primarily for Lon term equity or loan funds. As a result of the inability to obtain capital funds the Opportunity for establishing a new firm or for expanding an established firm is too often lost. Often the established firm merges with a larger Enterprise that can command the necessary resources. The past few years have seen a wave of such mergers. Such a condition is neither conducive to vigorous Competition nor to economic even More than the economic i consequences of this trend toward j sputnik i had a lifetime of 92 j the elimination of the Small pro Days and sputnik ii with the Laika 1 Ducer and distributor Are the social dog aboard lasted about five i Over 175 visit Homes on county Kitchen tour a compliment i Hom the top or. Dwight i i youngsters clothes Admire the of stylize of est Ai i a hit ii of cd the first lady with a mental 11 of till pm t i White hods 1958 a mental health week a i i a. I n d ill o to i e i interested til Aill of who had just piece tit the Tel l inns launched the International bound photo i Over 175 Henry county men and women visited the to Homes on the Kitchen tour on wednesday. The Home economist miss Marilyn Sweizer brought two ear loads of interested people from Washington county to enjoy the tour. Mins Naomi Shank Home management specialist of Iowa state College visited each Home and answered 34 paving contract let for $293,669 affixes la. Ins Booth and Olson inc., of Sioux City was question successful bidder yesterday on it the gracious hostesses who Portland Cement paving opened thou Homes and explained 011 relocation of Highway the features were As follows mrs 4 a Henrj an i Jefferson coun i ties. I he firms Low bid w As $293,869. Many receive a directory mail Tai of plea a Iuna i men is from tile unit business ant have i Eta Ivet Din c ton adva i in Man of president to Aid jobless tining listing co of St Paul mum Orville pm Woithe Birbil of ii it Melte in Etaf \ Aid toil a v. Or Van Allen said the radiation encountered was so intense that it a overwhelmed Quot cosmic Ray counters a Boa id explorers i and ii of Hor scientists in their technical papers reported a density of the atmosphere about 230 Miles up is 14 times greater than that which had been predicted in pre satellite Days a in one of the most careful and reasonable studies Ever made in this Field by the u. S air at Heights of 625 Miles there is still More atmosphere. Data radioed Back from the. Explorers May provide new info it Ommittee mation about the Earth a equatorial i in of bulge and deviation in the Earth s Gravity. To control tem a satellite a has. It is now a very a Man s ability Pesature within been confirmed. Simple a explorer i was hit Micro meteorites but not knowledge of tile density meteorites is necessary Ray sea Iff mrs. Robert Lofgren mrs Harold Mccabe. Mrs. Floyd Helphrey mrs. Thro. Fye. Mrs. Karl Kneen. Mrs. Homer Hillyard mrs. Vav. G. Grimmer mrs. Wayne Sacker and mrs. C. M. Lauer. At noon a Large group gathered at the Rea. Where they saw the very Fine film a Beltsville Energy saving Kitchen while they ate their lunch in the afternoon they continued the very helpful tour. Everyone was interested in the arrangement of the kitchens and j Beck the Many unique and efficient Fen-1 Mav hires of each of the new and remodeler places to make meals those responsible for this interesting and helpful Day were Phil Baird co. Extension director and the members of the family living mrs. Byron Cory mrs. Karl Kneen mrs. Loren Johnson mrs. Frank Shaffner and mrs. Ralph Wenger. By seven i damaged. Of microbe fore a manned space ship is launched. A a a announcement 0f the discoveries was regarded As a propaganda Victory for americans working on Tho satellite programs of the International geophysical year it Igya. Or. Van Allen said earlier the reports represent a full disclosures a of what the . Had found so far and that they proved this country a peaceful intentions in space exploration. Every nation participating in the Ign will be Given the findings he said. O a # Russia a participant in the Ign program has yet to report any in Foi relation from its sputnik i and Winfield cafe operator Dies in addition the Iowa Highway commission will spend about $700 to improve a county Road to Carty a Detour around the construction project. A delegation from fort Madison was advised that a widening Anil straightening project on Highway 61 in fort Madison could not be attempted this year. However commissioner Robert Ltd of Centerville said it tie possible to include the work in the 1959 schedule the fort Madison delegation was headed by mayor Walter j. Guenther the Highway commission awarded contracts totalling $8,489,455 tor Highway yesterday including $2,800,000 on interstate project. Acc a Side lenient Cen lit Yut the Lorn in directors the form a Gill in elicitation Whit h care tilled rending the Filiti tin Back. Resembles i advert using in advert is in idea print or of on devices consequences that emanate therefrom. Management in Large enterprises is most Likely to be divorced irom ownership so that the salaried Man and wage earner Are Only different in degree whereas an owner of a property has More than a temporary interest in it to him it is often a vested interest to which he is emotionally bound and which he seeks to preserve. His attitude toward his country is Likely to be the same As his attitude toward his Enterprise namely a mingling of Pride with a Strong sense of preservation. A a a ownership is psychologically different from a proper tied management and produces a different kind of person. In the up building stage of a capitalist society it is ownership that manages and that builds. In the Duvon going stage communion the. On the basis of new calculations in the reports today it was estimated that explorer i launched Jan. 31, would last three to five years and explorer Iii. Put in the sky March 26. Would stay in orbit for five or to years. The reports today did not cover findings from the . Vanguard i. Launched March 17 to cause a big sensation later when it was announced it would stay up More than 200 years. Of or. Van Allen said scientists were perplexed when the unidentified radiation knocked out the explorers cosmic Ray counters when the two Earth satellites got More than Winfield Otto o. Sutor 59.j died thursday morning at memory j Ial Hospital in of. Pleasant where lie had been a patient since wednesday morning. He became ill shortly after he and mrs. Sutej opened their cafe wednesday morning. I he was bom november to. 1898 at Pandora Ohio the son of Peter and Sarah Suter. He married Kathryn Wenger february 18, 1925 at Wayland Iowa. Surviving Are his wife a son Harry d. Suter of Crawfordsville a daughter mis. Joy House also of Crawfordsville and six grandchildren. Two Brothers and a sister who reside in Ohio also survive most of or. Us Teit a life was spent in tile Wayland and Crawfordsville communities. He and mrs. Suter moved to Winfield two years ago. A daughter a brother and his parents predeceased him. Funeral services will be held at the Crawford Shiue methodist Church at a time to be announced i later. Burial will be in the Craw i Fordsville cemetery. The body is at i the Barton Mcka soil Funera i. Home. Washington ins the gov eminent lifted the secrecy curtain today on an ambitious project to use nuclear Energy to Power to cameras and other device in Futon Earth satellites. The disclosure came from maj Gen. D. J Kehrn who also predict cd that a with adequate appropriations nuclear rockets can be provided for space exploration Keirn chief of the joint Atonia Energy commission air Force air nuclear propulsion office said that existing chemical fuels will a Era a to be practicable or economical for future space journeys the air Force officer made pubic one of the first detailed Summa re of the Tong secret a project snap systems for nuclear auxiliary Power for artificial satellites Minnesota Man Dies in crash postpone arraignment in nurse stabbing Case new York ins a the arraignment of or. Rodrigo l Sarmento was postponed for two weeks today so his lawyer could prepare a de Tion lessons and mergers increase j lense against charges that the it is then that the Small Man of Dapper filipino surgeon fatally great initiative loses his incentives stabbed an attractive Fairfield reports a flooding that City with a similar mailing according to the Iowa better business Bureau. Merchants la Many town have Bern or led to by i live lir form was i Bill far theh listing in the Telephone directory. I a numb i of Linns la p res it oiled with checks ranging in amounts i from $12 50 to $65 the Bureau urged persons who feel the mailing i Ere i deceptive and misleading to Contact w j Means Post Oiler inspector main Post Oft ice St Paul mum bar association adopts Resolution the Henry county Bai Assoria Ion meeting of a noon luncheon thursday with All members at tending adopted to Resolution in connection with Law Drula pro claimed for this Dale by pres id Clit r the Resolution reads in part Quot be it resolved by Jin Henry county bar association that if shall through the members comprising this organization strengthen the nation s dedication to the i tile of Law As Tho foundation of our free soon to and to freshen every american citizens a wariness of the rights and Privily s he enjoys by reason of oui system of Laws and courts memorial Day committee to moot at 7 p. In. The first meeting of the 1958 memorial Day planning committee will be held in the to ii meeting room at the american legion Hall monday evening May 5 at 7 p in instead of 7 30 . As previously stated according to Anontine in a by american legion commander Richard Howe. A fling on i info a top Bouthern jillion a tie coalition today overwhelmingly rejected a democratic jobless pay proposal Aud approved president Kim How i s program for extending unemployment l Lumpen at Ion payments in Lii Volt a 194 to 95 and wits illicit to a possible bul not probable reversal on u Roll tall More than in Southern Ivino a Era to joined a solid corps of he i publicans in Ute presidents proposal for. The democratic plan wins h would have helped most unemployed who ale not How covered by the unemployment Compon i Salton aet tin pre Idem had strongly in Jiei in would veto la democratic version which he said had a grave deice the major of two healed erotic vote giving i Eisenhower a it clo i v came attn tilt close Day it formal debate thai opponents Label lilt demo Nian a Dole Aud a soc inti demand for tax cuts Washington a Infra top labor business Aud farm organizations today Choiu cd a demand for tax cuts along Wii i a wide Range of other Mea urea to a at the recession. Poki alien tor the Al Cio the association it it la turf a Tunis the National Farmers Union re up a All urged a tax a heating of the con Bucom Mutee on fiscal and other i i duct Ion in ssi onal Spring subsoil moisture highest in three years the Spring subsoil Moi urn Supply to a depth of 5 Lect is the hights t in three years at the Sites Sam i butt in Southeast Iowa Stales Dwayne a Rohweder area Extension agronomist i he samplings were taken 111 i in a Lack of a ii 7 to 12iii Iii the by i it i Oil ordnance Plant washing ton amt Donnellson id show the soils to of noun Al or nearly no Mal in the ii Upah of Moi i lire Whit to is available tor flit crops to use this Spring Aud Mumei in general. Washington was somewhat drier than either Burlington of Donnellson slates Hob Wardri the determinations it Wahington show 8 it inches of moisture available in the Coin ground and 7 to nets under the Meadow at Burlington there was i inches of Wale nude Corn Aud in 2 Mille available under the Meadow Hind free a let was obtained at the depth of 4 feet at the Corn site at the Donnellson Sites 9 2 inches of moisture were available under Corn ared it i inches available under Meadow in general the soil moisture de terminations show the soil moisture Supply in the subsoil has increased Tiv 3 inches at Washington and Burlington Aud from 2 to 2.5 a her at Donnellson Ainee the determinations were made november i t of last year precipitation Iroe that tune has been 7 3 inches at Washington 9 2 inches at Burlington and 8 7 inches id Donnellson the Oil moisture Supply indicates that banners should expect a profitable response from balanced fertilizers and proper stand Levels of Corn this year states Rohweder this of course. In assuming there Wall be a Normal distribution of rainfall throughout the season wheat rate set at $1.81 Washington Ink the agriculture department today set the 1959 wheat Price support rate at $1 81 a Bushel three cents higher than tins years level the 1959 rate is at the Legal minimum of 75 per cent of parity. The rate can to raised later of the parity i ice increases but it cannot be lowered. What is now supported at $178 a Bushel i he support rate last year was $2 of a Bushel Das won Back Down from stand United nations n a ins Dag Hammer skjold declared today Quot under no circumstances a will he Back Down from i support of the american Arctic inspection plan. The u n Secretary general told a news conference he has been a in j constant contacts with the rigs j mans since i dramatic Appeal for j reconsideration of the Eisenhower plan Lait lugs received no reaction As yet j a hostesses named for candidates dinner la. S. Would malt flights Over Arctic Wasington Insi the . J told Russia today this country will halt american nuclear bomber flights owl the Polar Region if my i soviets will accept International of the Arctic Aro i Secretary of state John Foster Dulles disclosed the offer had been Inadi in a special message from pit aleut Eisenhower to Ute Krem in. Dulles challenged the soviets to i accept the us Arctic inspection j proposal promptly he told a news conference that the safeguard system against Surprise attack across the top of the world could be worked out immediately without waiting for a sum a Mit conference on intr Ca Bito t officer Ald a sum Mil melding could be held later and would be desirable if it would provide Opportunity for conducting j serious discussion of major prob 11 in and would be an effective i mean for reaching agreement on i significant subjects Quot Dulles called on Hie Kremlin a to sit Down with the interested states at once to begin the necessary i technical discussion looking for establishment of an Arctic to spec Tion zone a Ai the same time Dulles said president Eisenhower has not reached any decision on halting u. 8 nut b a tests built disclosed that he Quinmon cd soviet ambassador Mikhail i Menshikov to i Home saturday land delivered a personal message on the authority of president Eisenhower to the Kremlin urging acceptance of the Arctic proposal. He said at the time . Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge delivered a similar message to soviet ambassador Arkady Sobolev it Hie United nations Dulles said a the to 8, not Only publicly but privately has done it Best to make Clem to Hie soviet government the sincerity of its purpose and its desire to avoid turning this grave matter into a propaganda Battle Quot the soviet government has said it is worried by the Rishi of u. 8 aircraft ill this an a we have said we need to keep plans aloft because we hic fearful Hie soviets might launch a nuclear attack against us Over the lop of the world a Bomarc missile is launched Cape canaveral flu Bornean a a interceptor successfully launched i Nso missile to at a a was from and society becomes Static. Nurse. Brooklyn wreckage Chest in Charles City Ink a 65-Yeai old minnesotan was killed wednesday night when his car crashed off a curve and overturned about five Miles Northwest of Charles City. The victim dead on arrival at a1 Charles City Hospital was Ridenti fled As Arthur l. Or to an of Annandale. Mir i he reportedly was travelling alone when he lost control of hts car on a curve on highways 18 and 218. He was pinned inside tire and died of a crushed route to a Hospital shop in i. Pleasant Friday nights most stores Are open until 9 00 p. Ire. For your shopping convenience Only organizations the american farm Bureau federation Alai the committee to i Coomie de a Velnp ment Back off from urging to x lashes sit i his i line however Ceu research chair j int n. Fra a b Wilde said that Congress should Start working on a to in to be a promptly enacted if Clear info an upturn do Noti emerge soon ilor plication of crime criticized Vav Tun ton ins Fri director j. Edgar Hoover sharply criticized today what he described As Sun it glorification by movies and to Hoover said that while the nation was going through its worst Juvenal crime wave Quot we Are threatened v the a Hood of movie and televise presentations which flaunt indecency and applaud i referred to Fri compiled figures which showed that youths in i pleasant i mrs Alyce bene.,, Republic an vice chairman for Henry county has named the following persons to serve As hostesses for the candidates dinner and open House to be held at the Braselton hotel at 6 30 this evening mrs. Leah Smith mrs Cleo Hickey it Union mrs. Lester Selmer Man mrs. Dale Watts mrs Florence Lee Salem mrs Enola Carter mrs Helen Rohde Ada Frances Anderson mrs Allen Wenger. Wayland veda Cornic k Helen Romkey mrs Emma Cottrell mrs. Doris Scott Winfield and mrs Ruth to Lander Olds reservations show a record crowd is planning to attend and take this Opportunity to meet and discuss pertinent political issues with both of Hie Republican candidates for governor All three candidates for Hie missile test Center at Cape canaveral. Tho air Force termed the missiles flight a Normal a and identified the projectile fired As one of the oldest Type Bomarc. On april 28 the air Force announced that flight tests with an Quot improved Quot 400 mile Range Bomarc soon would get underway at the Cape the present models designed to Knock Down enemy aircraft far from . Shores have a lunge of approximately 200 Miles today s missile flashed upward from its launching pad at 10 4. A in. Elk to and sped out Over the Atlantic leaving trails of vapor in the Cloud dotted skies. Short Parade staged in Moscow Moscow ins a the soviet army staged its shortest and least warlike May Day military Parade in recent russian history today. There were no big rockets no heavy tanks no atomic weapons of any kind. Divorce petition filed with clerk a petition for divorce has been filed at the clerk s office in the lieutenant governor As Well As other courthouse by Joanne Gordon slate and local candidates. Chairman in Ward 3 Der 18 years of age accounted for 47.2 percent of the arrests for Malor crimes in 1957. In the cancer fund drive in it. Catherine Mccormick is the chairman in Ward 3. The against Harold Bernard Gordon. The petition states that the couple was married in i. Pleasant sept. 12, 1952, and lived together until May 27. 1957. The plaintiff asks for the custody of a minor daughter and that cer name of the chairman in Ous report was incorrect. A Previ Tain household goods be set aside for her

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