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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 4, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 103mt. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening May i. 1901 Cloudy these Days by Iron up e. Sukolsky fixed responsibility the Constitution makes tile president the chief executive and administrative official of the United states. In that respect lie acts As a prime minister presiding Over a Cabinet of non political persons that is no member of the Cabinet is an elected official. All Are literally secretaries to the president with fixed but limited authority. Each member of the Cabinet serves it Tho pleasure of tile president. No member has political responsibility in his own name. Not All agencies of government Are directly or indirectly related to the Cabinet or to any particular cauda to officer. Many agencies of government Are Independent and function under special Laws passed by Congress. Some of these agencies ire supervised by committees of Congress the president is responsible for All of them but some officials Are appointed for a period of years and May overlap presidential terms they May even be antagonistic to the incumbent in office. Many of the personnel of government May not be dismissed except for cause after a hearing a cumbersome process which is responsible for the infiltration of government departments by communists homosexuals Blabbermouth and Cathor bedders who keep the decent folks in constant disorder. Local resident killed school Bills Clear House will open new recreation Center at local Mill Des Moines up several school Aid appropriations Bills cleared tile Iowa Itou. C today Blit raises v noted groups by c Ity Council a John it. Harris .lr., right newly appointed general manager of Blue Bird Midwest in i. Pleasant was greeted by mayor Wade me Beth Here recently. The introduction was made by Frank Dei aria president of i he Henry county Industrial development corporation shown with them. John in Harris jr., named Genera manager of Blue Bird Midwest members of the Volunteer Advt a proposal to allocate $4 million a or committee at in mental health year for supplemental Aid ran into1 meeting hits we k heard a storm of criticism before it was j Kough. Coordinator of the approved. J ibo habitation therapy department to in lie House adjourned for lunch plans for the opening of the before acting on the major Money j11 11 w recreation Center at the Bill general school Aid Hospital which will be ready Lorti e ii approximate two weeks the tin City Council Wydh Day Vot d to Givi Hill Cit tree ewer. Of. Aud Urban legislators Macle a concerted but. Unsuccessful drive to r a located on the fourth floor i increase the supplemental Aid it 1 building. Program. I 11 1 r creation Center which rep David m Stanley r-Musca-1 or a Quot is a a Quot other of the Advance line opened the attack by offering nun it being made at the Hospital an amendment to increase Hie John it. Harris roof fort Valley ga., who has been serving As Western division sales manager for Blue Bird body co., has been appointed general manager of Blu j Bird Midwest in i. Pleasant. This announcement was made by Joe Luce one of the three Broth is figure to $6 million. He lost. 54-43. Stanley said that even the adoption of he amendment would leave the supplemental Aid far Short of i the $6.7 million recommended by i toward Tho United states lie emphasised his concern boil t he gains cd it a. Norman a Erbo that communism is making in the the world Senate treat Down a million amendment tuesday. $6.7 will have facilities for the following. Physical Seth it room occupational therapy shop Volante r office and lounge to and radio area Long hallway tor Bowling and shuffleboard quiet arca for Reading or discus Ion group. Small rooms for special interest clubs such As and cemetery a nil. Of five cents per hour City police Jio per month. A group of i it employer. A pc and at u e mewling and Van Blythe r their i Vike. Man a pc s for a 13 remit an hour raise. Tin Council decided to give the five cents Taic and review hic wage scale in six months. I he City purchased an International tractor from the a list rom Hubbly co of Marion for $4,005 wit ii t he i id in of h to old tractor. The new tractor will be used mostly for work at the City dump. Ralph la nun w As to a. K for tin City to fund la the paint v. L. Smouse victim of gun Accident who own Blue Bird mid Welt at a therefore whereas the president i meeting ult the Henry county is politically responsible for the i Industrial development Board of i whole of his administration he1 does not have control of All of it. I a Large part of the government Lur lure told of plans to get the Plant construction underway lipre.11/cliy a a Kilts he also related How it. Pleasant1 was selected. In he i id had been narrowed to four cities he said and when the Luces arrived in it Blea for Freedom rectors at the Iris in it. Pleasant. Pleasant at la Oclock at night they Springfield 111. Were so tined that they had no in gov. Otto or incr today denied wednesday evening. He said that i the Blue Bird body company is Hap \ i by to announce Springfield Tov. Here. However they did take plea for Freedom for Upit a a Orville e. Etc for the painting of the Ball Paik Stamps photography current events amphitheatre dugouts poles and 1 Outfield Fence As he now has the i furnishings such As books drap manpower the Signa Phi rep Don fraternity. The City agreed to tur in h the i it aint. Cries and furniture arc needed to equip the new Center and the to Pital would be most grateful for any such gilts. Or. Kough it Runph sized that avenues Are open for volunteers for work in occupational therapy every afternoon except tuesday for work with patients in ceramics Clay personnel is under some form of by to announce the a civil service which provides pre and gave some details of or bar or 1 next Day Hodge former Illinois state Audi scribed tenure. Some Uke the impressive background. Hud h was than that they cd need tor who confess d embezzling $1.5 plaques etc., to help with Handi secondary personnel of hic state j o a department can and do form or. Harris is a graduate of tilt policy concerning which the pres Georgia last it Ute of technology at Dent May have no knowledge. In Lanta ga., Iii Industrial eng Inee r fact. In the Large and Loose or my. He has been actively associated their thinking and decided Quot this is million of the states Money. J Craft on wards and to help on the after four years and eight months monday night with Square dancing. The Council disc of lie off Street parking program informally and in general agreed that the pro Yerty already acquired for Oft Street parking should la it made into parking Anas i Foro any additional property is acquired. A Beer permit was granted to the Moo. E Lodge no. 1003. They wanted a com Munty much in prison tile one time boy wonder like fort Valley a the it wanted of Illinois Republican politics had a Community that wanted them i asked for outright Pardon or com Gemni nation of government depart j with Blue Bird body co., since i dub meets expanded during the new As Western division sales manager. Deal to make work and further prior to his connection with Blue expanded during War out of be Bird lie was president and general Ces shy even hic head of a dc-1 manager of Bullock manufacturing pal uncut cannot watch All the i co., in Atlanta. Din ing the War or Harris served in the Force As second Lieuten try wanted a solid feeling of a mutation of his 12-to-15 year sen in Ranee such its they found Liere. Terne. J they a wanted a town that wanted1 Kier denied the plea. But left us Quot they wanted a Community that the door open for Hodge to make a could provide them with tilings another plea before the newly a need cd Midi As suitable j pointed Illinois Pardon and parole secondary personnel in their daily years tasks and ought not to be required army a to. Thus. We suffer a cuban fiasco. Ant. Or. And mrs. Harris have three will nov the Plant be tics and so on and they wanted a town that would give cooperation. Thanks was extended to volunteers who gave valuable assistance during open House activities this past sunday Volunteer groups assisting included the Gray ladies. Blue ladies. Re it n it i is . I auxiliary and Iowa Wesleyan College students. T Lieux attending the business be Robert ii. Tweedy to visit school in science program Vernal l. Binous 71, local i Lyrist for Many years was found shot to death in the garage at his re Ideno at 203 Mills Street at 7 25 a in thursday and or. Robert wet Tach. County medical examiner j ruled that death was accidental. A 411 gauge double barrel shot gun was found under Smouse a body which was lying Between his car and one Wall of the garage one shot had been fired from the gun and it struck Smouse in the left part of Lite Chest near the t heart. J smote e got up before his wife and fixed his own breakfast. He i told his wife he was going to the a Garden to shoot some rabbits. Authorities theorized that when he took the gun out of a closet in the garage the gun discharged j mrs. Smouse heard the shot and believed her husband shot at a i Rabbit. She later found his body in lie garage and called a doctor who in turn notified City police. I chief Werner Smith sheriff Russell Van Tuyl and or. We. J Tach went to the Irene to invest i Gate. Or. Smouse was suffering j from Shock and was taken to memorial Hospital. Washington up a Percsi a or Smouse operated a teen Dent Kennedy appeared today to House for Many years in Northeast in drawing the final line against it pleasant before Selling it to communist expansion in South i Walter Hunt. Since then or East Asia in South Viet Nam and Smouse continued in the Florist Patti sue Heaton 19, achieves Beauty on a grand scale a she becomes a a Trout Queen at Kalkaska Mich. She a from Boyne City. Final line May be set Board. The old Board voted unan-1sion included june Garr gras Tov a. 1 a a Chi i Iowa a Robert h Mously against Hodges petition lady Isadore Moxley. Lady in to Rudy from the a j ref thu it. He expressed appreciation for the Kerner said. Blue Pat Sherr Volunteer in or of cooperation shown by everyone and i have always said that if he for which two officials Rov robot children. The family will move to particularly mentioned those who Hodge washes he can apply again a made land available. J Horner said. Thailand. Officials said this did not mean Hie United states had Given up Hope of saving Luo. Where both sides have halted military action but it does mean Kennedy i facing up to tile possibility the Geneva conference scheduled for May 12 May Lead to communist Ramies. Dean Leland Long of Iowa it. Pleasant when gins operation. Tom or. And William a Wieland. Should on the Chart be held re six sible during their term. However As the system works instead of being dismissed Rubottom was territory or. Harris stopped fur Vientiane Laos Upit a Gen. Busine. At his Home. Too Vernal Leroy Smouse was born in of pleasant november 9. I860, the son of David and Cora Van soc Smouse. He lived at 203 East Mill Street and had been a resident of it. Pleasant All his life j he was a member of the seventh Day adventist Church. He was married on August 26, 1913 to Lillian Troutfetter who in reference to the site or. Luce Aid i think we have the Best in Ard state prison will be automat Kough. In mid april on a trip Home from dust rial site in the state of j Mically eligible for parole in 1963. I prison by August appointed ambassador to gent me and Wieland sits the a a in pleasant. Ii met the about mayor and members of the Indus or pending a senatorial investigation. Trial development corporation at if As Many claim the errors were made by the Cia and Tho state department or by a pc Dent s that time and was shown Points of interest in it. Pleasant. He commented that he was very predecessor the president is never Quot us the Community. He said in announcing that or. Harris would be the general manager Here said no other p sons will be brought Here from fort Valley on a permanent basis. Some of the key personnel May come Here temporarily to train local persons. I rank Delucia chairman of the Industrial development Board Lead i introduced the members of the Board and e. A Hayes uce chair Man. Presented on be Hail of the Community four paintings one to each of the Luck Broth i s and one i for their father Albert lace or t founder of tin fort Valley firm thursday morning the Luck i Brothers and or. R. A Hall Blue Bird Plant Engineer of fort Valley i visited the site and tile Corner to Gcorge Luce who arrived ii re cation the new building was wednesday afternoon with ills slaked out. Brother to take bids for the construct Ion of the new Plant building spoke briefly it the dinner at the Iris he was making ins first visit to it. Pleasant and said that he had come to get. Acquainted. He said lie t a was pleased with what he has found i Here. I was on a round the world. J business trip for Blue Bird at the1 Ges Moines up a a con line the visits were made Here by Gressional redistricting map that Albert Lime jr., and Joe Luck. Makes a democratic congressman George Luck sign Oke briefly about the a fall ills observations in some of the sort in the i foreign countries and of attitudes so natives won final legislative Quot approval in the to publican Dom it a works , will visit it i. ,. A r. A a a apm is it Community schools on of los. Wesleyan Coli r. Marne rubber. My la As part cd the Iowa visiting. I Volunteer coordinator. Dorothy pro Riim survives Hodge now a disc jockey at men Miller of the Reserve Tes and mrs a Vii it. I Thoumi Nosavan the pro Western survives. F u a 11 h c Lam j military strongman of Laos said a daughter Hazel Alaine Smouse j i weedy will a Ravel to of. Pleasant today Bolh Jades have halted Mil of Glendale calif., is expected to o speak to interested science Stu itary aclloi1 in Lis troubled asian arrive by plane late and to Discie a the local science kingdom. Also surviving Are two brother program with teacher j Pho Sunj it Deputy Prenter and de Earl Smouse of Denver and Olney i purpose of Hie visiting he went to 1956, in one of the greatest scandals in Illinois political history. He Felt that he knew the City before he came because of Tho information Given him by Blue Bird official.1. To was pleased that lie had found the City As he had pictured it he said. As Western division sales manager Harris has had 18 stains in his territory w Linch includes 26 Western Iowa counties and extends to the West coast and beyond a to Hawaii and Alaska. Topless personally and politically responsible. His responsibility boing political he is limited in his conduct by the fact that there is a congressional election every second year and a pre. Identical election every fourth year. Too i fir i Rorsi Jornt is also head of state a ceremonial personality responsible for protocol appearances such As dropping everything to Chase Down to an air dirt to Welcome a visitor from abroad provided the visitor is of sufficient rank. He must also entertain on Many formal occasions with or without his wife As protocol dictate. As head of state his personal conduct is a matter of news As in the conduct of his wife and children. The president of United states has no private life Bec Ause he is always in tile presence of the secret service and of newspaper reporters and photographers. The principal task of a president is to keep himself informed about the multitudinous affairs of his administration. This is an actual impossibility. No matter How much Energy a president has he Carmot Sec All the Heads of agencies or read All the report that position. No other country has any come Over his desk. To do so he j comparable office. Great Britain would have to stretch each Day in i has a Queen and a prime minister space hop Likely Friday May end coalition Smouse of Chicago a step brother. Thoumi. Deputy Premier and defense minister in Prince Boun scientist program la to improve Tho 0um., govern col it old Ulm us. I David , of Chicano and a teaming of adage and Mathe cordial to to formation Hezlep so Star mrs. Violet Bice kit. Pleasant. Cape canaveral. Fla. I Upit officials said today chances Are for the Republican of xxi that America s first naut will hop into space morning. Astro Friday redistricting plan adopted vote in favor of rail merger i Chicago a up a stockholders of tile Burlington Railroad voted wednesday Iii favor of merging with great Northern. Northern Pacific and another line controlled by those two railroads. House approves Luminous licenses Washington up it several legislators said today the. Comeback Victory on the minimum 1 wage Bill might sound Tim death democratic coalition that has frustrated House liberals for years the House passed by a 3 -lp6 vote wednesday a measure to extend wage Nour Law coverage and increase the minimum wage to $1.25 an hour. President Kennedy supporters j hailed passage of the Bill w hich had been sidetracked earlier this year by Hie coalition a. A break a through for the entire adm Nistra i Hon program. Legislator declined t it write the i Tough coalition s obituary but hosted that Many Southern Ingres. A men who voted again t the Bill i last Man to 24 supported it . In High school my Junior j gather been Noones and to cumulate merest in i fighting since 6 am. Kot wed a Esdar. Scientific activities including scion i til in investigation explains t. R. J Porter associate professor of science j education at the state University of Iowa and director of the visiting scientist program. Tweedy received a b s degree in 1 agricultural engineering from Iowa j state University of science and technology Ames. Funeral arrangements Are pending at the r. K. Crane funeral Horne. Honor students and parents to be guests of rotary girl bitten by dog at new London a Faupel plan goes to governor Road use tax Dos Moines Arri. A an tip Sily in Iowa s loss of one Propri tion of $50,000 a year to make to 1111111 la i k k in u. S. House of repro Iowa Auto licenses glow in the dark Wichi Hill i work. Too the conclusion must be reached that the presidency is too responsible too difficult too inoperative a i to u so w Cdr i cd a y in mated to a a afternoon. Alter a 52-so rejection of a conference committee Compromise was approved by tile Ion a House wednesday but the legislators reject d the proposed expense of reminding motorists to renew their driving permits. Beginning in 1963, the numerals. Des Moines up tile Cou Trevert Ial allocation of Hie Road use tax fund we headed for a House Senate conference committee today. At the outset of the legislative Day i lettering and edges of License plates1 Relie Sci mite Rel used to go along the House voted to reconsider the i will be painted with a Luminous in House passed version of the Des Moines up die Iowa. House late wed Neuway completed legislative action on tile third reapportionment measure to Clear the general a Embly this session. The lower chamber with scarcely .1 word of discussion approved the so called a Faupel plan for or aligning Hie 50 state Sena Dis nets. A i in vote was �3-34 and the measure now goes to tile governor. Henry county in paired with be bluer Jim 1>uch a and p8t ru5lyn-Fcrson under the plan instead of v Ith Wallington. The latter w ill be with Louisa. J new London journal a i Dana two year old daughter of or. And mrs. Richard Dircks was bit _ in by a dog As she played in their i Yard tuesday afternoon sometime lop Mem scholastically in. Between 4 and 6 . She required the senior class and their parents doctors services. Will be guests of rotary at an u is not Knovs which dog of a j Luzion dinner monday evening at pack of the acc or four it the min in k j irl on the ear but it is thought it i or Geol go la More of the now a my v Wellman faculty will give the and Drc a certificate win in die students have been a Taffy coloured Cocker that was seen running incl recognition the area with two others. Tile to the seniors other two have been confined and on the Honor Roll will be observed for the next 14 who along with t heir parents arc Days receiving invitation Are Rita rus unless the other dog a it found Margaret Wilson Karin and confined and checked for the tonal Maui Quot al or Steve Young possibility of having rabies it i Linda Bigg. Jon Trueblood Janet will be necessary that the Little girl Mccamey Quot Blin Ley rude. Larry receive the painful anti rabies shots All Folk knowing anything of a Corker of the Taffy color variety Are Wilke Sharon Eye Mary Ann Road to action and accepted 73-33. The paint. To a week. A president therefore has his own staff upon which lie becomes increasingly dependent measure which had been approved by the Senate i in. Day. The first District remains unchanged. Turn Down proposal to help Ames District water will be off in one arca of City Dee Moines up the Senate appropriations Cam Mitzee late wednesday turned Down a France a president and a Premier soviet Russia a president Aud a prime minister. No country attic must also accept tile data pro tempts to Load Down All the provided by various agencies of Mary functions of government on government particularly by his one person. Cabinet officers As truthful and j the most difficult task hic Correct. A Well informed Well read. President faces always is Swift water will to hut off on North proposal to give the previously conditioned president1 communications. Too much time Lincoln Street from Baker street1 District $500,000. Might catch flaws in some matters j is wasted in going through Chan North and on East. Harlan Street. But no Man can have an in Cycle nebs yet if everything came Cli j irom i to 2 30 Friday medic mind which covers in detail redly to the president he would noon according to a the affairs of the universe. To Abe overwhelmed also the Congress department functions very slowly because of the separation of Powers. Decisions which need to be immediate arc Bill which called for the primary Highway system to receive 47 per cent secondary and Lann to Market roads 40 per tent and Cit in. And towns 13 per cent earlier hic Senate had de a 48-40-12 formula approx am Ltd it school named manager of Grinnell store represents Volunteer Nix i sunday Bond chairmen on state program _ la teen age Road to sport e a haves regional director and by the Junior chamber of county u. S. Having. Bond Volunteer comme in will to held next Sun chairman since the Start of the Bond Day May 7. In hic Eity parking lot i program 20 years ago spoke at a next to the City Hall. Hic event i at a wide dinner celebrating the Start at 1 30 p. In 20th anniversary of the program in anyone is eligible to enter who Des Moines monday evening. A not reached to Lair he was one of 21 Volunteer Camj Day before july i urged to notify the town clerk i Fern Davey or the local a a term an ans or. Rayner or or. Brink Meyer so the dog can be confined i for observation. Boost salaries of commissioners City after water Economy wave hits conservation commission Dean Van plump a Litant manager of the local Brown shoe fit Tore has been named manager of Des Moines up a members of the Iowa Highway commission i were Given a $750 a year pay in-19th birth crease in the appropriations Bill application approved today by the Senate. Can in obtained principal Georg from High i be appropriation totalled $211 Stanley s 1 per year an increase of $3 degree then the president becomes a slave of ins environment and his assistants. President Eisenhower attempted to organize prolonged beyond reason but a a kind of general staff headed by j cording to tradition. The cuban a major of the Palace Sherman j fiasco ought to awaken the nation Adams. It did not work. President to this peril. Roosevelt tried to manage every copyright. 1961. King features i thing himself which also did not Syndicate inc Phegn leaders of world War la who Blanks a still Active in the program. He school was also Ona of four regional direr office million Ovet the present budget All tors honoured he a a a Keas repro canc Lor in the Road of will,0 in Money Cornea from the the Brown Shiv pit store at. Grin sen tatic of the Volunteer workers to furnished by sheets motor co., primary Road fund. Senate reverses self on common Law marriages Des Moines up the Des Moines a Upit an Economy wave hit the state conservation commission wednesday and on a split 3-2 vote it abolished the $8,100 a year Post of assistant Iowa Senate reversed itself today director held by Lester f. Faber 45. And Defeated a proposal to outlaw a Veteran of 20 years with the de common Law marriage 1 a rime none ii. He to purchased an interest in that store. M. H Mcdonald of morning Sun,1 Shah r motors anti Kiln j Volute r chairman Foi Louisa motors inc Van Trump began employment in county was another county chair-1 the event is a test of skill in firemen called the local store after his graduation from Iowa Wesleyan under manager Dean not by i. Mrs. Van Trump is the former Ruth Scarff. The Van Trumps will move of Grinnell a rial guest Man honoured. Driving Over a set course anti in men were called at 2 5d the governor of Japan who head avoiding obstacles. Lire Winner will thursday afternoon to put out cd the Bond program there and was compete in a state contest and the Blaze in some Telephone poles on visiting in Des Moines was a ape-1 winners of that will enter a Broadway across from the Latte National contest service station

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