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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 5, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 83, no. 106 it. Pleasant Iowa Frida evening Mav 5, 1961 showers these Days by George e. Sokolsky carnations presented to local teachers approximately too carnations Hoh much must we lose there is no use going into a fight unless the intention is to win. To lose is to strengthen the enemy. The Only reason Why soviet Russia has Defeated the United states in Korea. Caba Laos a we a a presented to the teachers in shall lose in other parts of the the pubic Mai �?op�?�11 world is that the russians Are in a a Mornin tent and aggressive whereas the United states prefers to Retreat to a negate to avoid direct action to talk talk talk until the vapor of words fills the air. Man what ride 9? by the ladies auxiliary to Henry county j veterans of foreign wars pest no. 2561. I additional gifts of 50-Star Home i Flag kits were presented to mis Lucille Turney vocational Home All this talk of doing nothing making instructor and mrs. Edna about Cuba is childish because if mme. 3rd Grade teacher at Lin i the United states does not do Coin school both of whom Are re something about Cuba the rus tiring at the close of this school is ans using Cuba As a fortress will year aft it r Many years of dedicate d do something about the United states Hie logic which produced service to the Community. Earlier in tile week mayor wad our defeat in Korea is producing me Beth had signed a proclamation our defeat in Cuba. Hie same men declaring May 4th As National who brought about our defeat in teachers Day in it. Pleasant. The Korea Art bringing on our defeat local auxiliary along with the other in Cuba v p w auxiliaries across the a i tion. Have for the past several years Tho argument rum that if we j Rico ruined the p. Acher. In the protect the United Slater in Cuba comm unit for the important Tole soviet Russia will Seise Berlin in i they play in shaping Ole lives of fact. Khrushchev said so. The Jour month answer to that can Only be Quot seize \ and be thase who Are afraid Are already dead. When a nation shudders at the thought of War. It is already in the process of being conquered. This is the basis of soviet strategy against the United states. It is to defeat us step by step with Aux Luary members representing their organization and delivering these remembrances included senior High school pleasant Lawn Trenton Elm Montgomery Pauline Spraker Dolores Ai Rick and maty Lou Liechty Junior High school june Mckenzie and Marvyl Graff. Saunders Dyall hours la Ion astronaut roars 115 Miles above Earth returns and is rescued safely at sea Cape canaveral it up a out of tie capsule and a. Bear a Mer Ira. Fit i a or naut. Roared my Hun and his space coach to 115 Miles above the Aith today he aircraft Carrier Lake Cham aboard a spar Craft named Quot face Plain. I Dom 7&Quot and won for Amel so a1 his tor in breakthrough Ute first a Hen earn the word i flight in space controlled by tin and Aon the deck i Pip i him a of j of ii Pawer and doing very we i astronaut Alan b. And i spa Craft tat i without a flaw and that slip a fund or his i Pil d or i Yuti Gagarin in april 12 flew performed i around the world m a five ton oth Cam i spacecraft which was of rated Home from the sky in perfect con it it rely by automatic or ground edition. Unlike russians rocket at j controls. Tempts anybody who wanted to so Pard during much of hts ride could watch. Ten of thousands i put Tho capsule through various did. Maneu vers. J he changed the Way it pointed a a Man. W Ilai a ride a a it the in space astronaut s grinning comment to he controlled its pitch Roll and cmdr. Alan it. Shepard or. U. S. Navy americans Greet Success with jubilation All americans rejoice says pres. Kennedy to attend boys state a Mike Harlan enter and Garry Nevinger right will represent the local american legion Bob Tribby Post no. 5k at the Hawkeye boys state at fort Des Moines june 1-.lune to. Earl la. Proctor left commander of the local Post made the announcement recently. Mike is the son of or. And mrs. Jack Harlan and Garry is the son of or. And mrs. Edward Nevinger. Them it it who pick d him up al sea. Quot Freedom 7�?� a i Stile perched on red tone rocket. Awe i report d what be la shaped Cap lug to him when by up americans greeted astronaut was happen Gravity force5 tin no. E of a multiplied his weight some six Alan b. Shepard s trip into space blamed off from time.-, during powered flight and j today with jubilation. Out War and to isolate us. In Wikul and Juanita brag Laos the British confused us by the proposition that they would act As broker. To effectuate a truce. Meanwhile the red chinese directed laotian rebels steadily moved Forward. Tile game is nearly Over but the truce is still in the making. Perhaps we shall get Walker and Morris and Lincoln a tic plot Nee Kinney. Harlan Ida Belle Hazel Massey. Salem. Oak Grove Marge Waldon and belly Parker. St al horns and Henry county special school Ruth Roederer around to a truce when the red later in the morning All of flu chinese will move into Cambodia ladles assisting enjoyed a coff it and Thailand. Shall we Retreat hour together in the Home of rut from there too Roederer with mrs. Roederer and Washington up president Kennedy said today that All americans rejoice in us successful space flight by astronaut Alan b. Shapai d. The president said the achievement should provide incentive for redoubling americans efforts in the 1 space Field. To explain feed Grain program benefits individual in to non signers the Sands of Caux canaveral at 9 34 a in cd tin hollow whistling Roar War. In Aid for Miles it pushed up into a Blue Ray 115 Miles up with a up cd hut reached 5.100 Miles an hour. The capsule to Corn and Grain sorghum producers of Henry county who have not yet signed up for the governments feed Grain program for a a Back constantly by voice lied free from that everything wus i the silent rocket arched into a after extending a perish up i High trajectory that put Shenard a ported exult Antly in to realm of space j a what a Beautiful la times when to Cattie Back Down millions gathered around radios through the atmosphere. And in sets in their Homes a b to t throughout the physical bars and restaurants and on Street sin. Aud the mental Strain of Corners for the countdown and watching or operating More than i finally the blast Oft that sent the u i j j Vii and broadcast Sta too instruments Shepard reported 37-year-old Navy commander Alo radio he newspaper. Lions were flooded with Calls asking about the Success of the shot. Shepard a wife two daughters and his parents w Ere among those program is i livestock feeders could i who waited and w watched. A huge on the beaches 11961 will have the 20 within the next few is exc tally appealing to for be minutes and then rushed from 115 Miles up he Back toward the sea. Shepard can tile azure Atlantic and carib crowd gathered j controlled movements though bean with their Green islands and j near Cape canaveral. There were Paitich not its comic during that five i it Quot Southern coast of the united1 cheers when the rocket started its a big advantage to ii Opportunity i Ujj is Liat the diverted land minutes. States As far As rest while earning the 37-year-old Navy commander it n c. Of re Joy Hayward a. Hostesses. If to have neither the courage nor the technique to defend our word Why Don t we quit altogether tile russians will isolate us in a year or two unless we choose a place to fight them and Stop thus process. It is our isolation that is their target. The russians and red vote Money for state departments in a stall meet Issue d about 20within the next few Days i in Jucs a a Jubah minute after the recoil v of Shep ceiling a personal explanation of. Diversion payment which in most hit the sea 15 minutes after mastoid a space capsule at sea. Kennedy the program in their own Homes. win the nit return from i tog off i and said the United stat s would make j a a ,1 a Normal crop of Corn or Grain j tile space Cap us landed less Earth Cape Hatteras Case Glenn p. Campbell chairman of a Bol Mal the county ask committee has announced that Farmer elected ask Community committeemen have Kennedy w to watched to. T of been enlisted to Call in person on available Quot to the worlds scientific Community Quot the important data obtained in the flight. When he return d Home to again aboard the Carrier flight and As its Progress Wras reported. Mrs. Shepard knew the televised it rage of the flight All Corn and Grain sorghum pro Calli d it Quot an historic Milestone inducers in their townships who Haw the Iowa it us. Exploration into not yet signed up for the new feed up1 0 1 1 Ltd a Oil ��4 a Quot 8ains ate Quot but America still needs to work Grain program. Petty Propri tion for operating expenses j with the utmost Speed and vigor in i Des Moines up chinese Are building empires and Senate today passed a 521.231.800 ap-1 Are not wasting time with conversations either at. The United. Of the various state departments nations or any other conference during each of the next two years. While they make speeches they the final figure was $80,230 less also March Forward. Than recommended by gov. Norman a. Erbe and $252,185 under the de. ,. Part mental appropriation approved their argument is rj.4 1,by the House wednesday. You want to talk so talk. We have plenty of delegates to Send to As a result of the difference in meetings. Let them talk. It counts figures the measure must be Rotor nothing but you westerners Are turned to the House for further desc bogged Down in a swamp of tion. Words that you talk because it gives you pleasure like a debating society in College. You talk to old discharge papers Are found the further development of our space he said. Kennedy extended Quot special congratulations to astronaut Shepard and Best wishes to his family who . Tile county ask commit lived through this most has set 6o0 applications As the goal for Henry county. Applications to participate have already been find for 485 Henry county farms or 29 of All Corn and Grain sorghum farms in the sorghum i than four Miles from the aircraft Lake Champlain he jauntily re flight would be Success in addition producers of Corn and Carrier Lake Champlain and it j entered spaceship a Freedom i Quot to Gram sorghum who participate in took a Marine helicopter Only retrieve the pressure helmet he the program will be eligible for three minutes to Pluck both Shep had doffed during the helicopter support on 1961 Corn sorghum bar arc and his. Spacecraft out of the recovery. Ley Oats and no my him Prit sea. Electronic sensors fixed to Shrp doctors who rushed to examine aids skin kept medical monitors higher for 1901 than they were for Shepard found Quot nothing. In any in Tho ground control Center Here 11960. Producers of Corn and Grain. Way constantly informed about his j sorghum who do not participate in j Quot i Don think you re going to j breathing heartbeat and temper the feed Grain program will no a much to do Quot Shepard told nature. Their one word eligible for Price support on their or. Jerome Strong. His condition 1961 Corn Gratin sorghum Barley. The Redstone mis lie itself Van Oats and Rye. Time w re each other and you talk to us. But we Are very Busy men. Two wills Are admitted to probate probate at the courthouse. The will of Roy a. White. Salem provided his property be left to Quot with us. It is different. We arc original discharge papers for one his wife. Ruth White who was attending to business. Our Busi Cpl John Hatton b iring Date of named executrix. Tie will a Ness. Your business. It docs not october i Rte. Have been found near drawn up Jan 30, 1959 tile will of c. D. Provides that his property go to his wife Minnie m Rawhouser James Harshbarger ,. ,.first recipient of Quot the initial sign up was Goon chairman Campbell declared Quot Ami Cottrell award i we believe the final sign up will to j considerably greater if the benefits James Floyd Harshbarger re i offered by the program become j calved the c a. Cottrell memorial two wills have been admitted t0lfully understood by those who have scholarship in a presentation at not yet filed applications. So a it 1 fhe of pleasant highs it Bool As have asked the ask Community j Sembly Friday. May 5. Committeemen to Call on the non-1 Jim the son of or. And mrs. John f. Harshbarger Salem is the first recipient of the scholarship clued out into Hie sea. Of j the National aeronautics and space administration happily an a flounced Quot the i Pace flight is a it does hot october 1865. Have been found near drawn up Jan matter. We have men for talking the t h Harney residence on and men for acting. If we have a i North main at second Street by who lumps on a horse and Man who jumps on a rides furiously until he comes to a ditch then he turns around and goes Back slowly if we have such a mail like some of my colleagues were. We Send them far away. We do not need those who dare not 1 take the next inevitable step. We i get rid of them. Quot the West objects that Khrt ish chef said. A we will Bury so he talked too much so what you Are burying yourself by be ing afraid. And the More afraid you Are the More we will say boo Quot too and it k All a Correct position. Our president has chosen As his advisers these who advised president Roosevelt and president Truman the results of their period of political activity have thus far been disastrous. During his Campaign president Kennedy said that we had reached a Low prestige. He would raise our prestige but Many of those whom he chose to help him raise our prestige were among i those who helped lower our prestige. President John f. Kennedy is nobody s fool. Sooner or later he will weary of Hie supercilious advice which he receives from those i who Are always proved to be wrong by the course of events. He will j ask himself Why the course of events proves them to be wrong. I he will then set up his of n policy i without the counsellors of defeat j when he does the United states1 will again go Forward. It will not go Forward by retreating. Carol Harney. The papers May have signers in their respective townships to give them a Complete explanation and to answer question Phish honors in Rawhouser. S lat i. Pleasant we feel that most Farmers w ii i superintendent of schools who last sign up once they get the boating Accident last some value to someone and if so who was named executrix tile will chairman Campbell said that May be Home. Obtained Harney i was dated june 23. 1924. His life in summer. The scholarship was presented by Community committeemen j mrs c. A Cottrell at the Assembly / Malm making the Calls will be prepared i in the aft Moon. It was awarded Hatteras to sit Down with paper and Pencil on tie basis that Jim is an out and Ligure out exactly How the in-1 standing student and a Tive in sex president Kennedy personally congratulated Shepard by Telephone shortly after successful completion of the flight Tim chief executive promised to share with the world the scientific material obtained during the Hight which he called a Quot historic Milestone in America s space Effort. As Shepard sailed High Over the Atlantic three Hundred seconds after liftoff he reported the flight was going Quot very smooth a seven minutes alter launch he had put the Cabin into position to reenter the atmosphere. He said it went Quot Okay a twelve minutes and 30 seconds after the launch he was in his Parachute and coming radio cjowi1_ the j to National aeronautics space administration announced al 10 10 . Cut a a project Mercury spacecraft carrying astronaut Alan b. Shepard jr., on the nations first manned space flight landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 302 statute and surveyed the u s Miles from Here at 9 49 . Cd. As far North As Cape Quot rile Craft reached an Altitude ii radioed Back of about 115 statute Miles and a Virginia Beach. A. Upp a an excited radiantly Happy mrs. Alan b. Shepard said today she knew her husbands flight into space would be successful Quot from the minute it blasted flashing a sparkling smile the Beautiful Brunette came out on the report of j porch of her ranch style Home at 10 25 . And told a throng of reporters and cameramen Quot i Don t have to Tell you How i feel. Its wonderful. Its Beautiful. Just Louise the tall Willowy wife of America s first Man in space went through the ordeal holding a transistor radio in her hand and watching the Awe inspiring flight on television. Mrs. Shepard said she had been kept up to the minute on All of Abd the details of the flight by col. John Powei a the space Agency information officer at Cape canaveral now she said she was waiting for a Call from mrs. Shepard said that As soon As she Learned of the Success of the space shot she immediately called Shepard s parents at Deery n. H. Quot they were so Happy. From the div dual Farmer can gain financially by taking Par in the program the chairman added that the porn Mit iceman will explain How part a pation will not Only increase Hie Ira curricular ova tit. Jim will enter Iowa College in s Sternb r. T h. Harney chairman of scholarship fund Aud a member of capsule Quot what a Beautiful View i another spaceman Wesleyan Yuri Gagarin had gone and Lardier and faster. J pc d of approximately 5,100 Miles just As Happy could be a she an hour. The suborbital flight of Russia them re Ury red Stone 3 required higher j 15 minutes. Pc luminary data in but Alan the Pilot performed Satis or in most instance but. Win a help All Fanner by preventing further build up of National sup plies of feed Grams. Net income of the individual farm-1 is Bool Boa id Gar a talk Ila most instances but will Alsop be 10 a Cornell and Hie scholarship and then pre billed mrs. Cottrell. In addition to presenting the scholar hip to Harshbarger mrs. The program provides for the j Cottrell also pres need an Oil por voluntary reduction of Corn and trait of or. Cottrell to the school Grain sorghum acreage from la 1 1959-1960 average for these crops on individual farms i would make free make the reductions will receive payments for diver in the for a Corn or Grain sorghum acreage to i conservation uses. The payment Des Moines up a an Iowa certificates May of exchanged to liquor samples unlawful the Shepard was the first Man in history to exercise control Over the motions of a Craft he a Riding in Ipac said Nasa while Shepard St ill in space Quot he is working As a test Shepard and Freedom 7, in a from launch pad at 9 34 cd on the nose of a 66, 00-Pound ads tone missile. The launch postponed inc tuesday came 2 hours and 34 minutes after the planned shot time of 7 . Cd. Seven Quot holds delays Many for Rathier and one to change an Facto Rily during the Shepard directed Rescue helicopter said excitedly waving her arms and looking around at her own parents who stood proudly by her Side. Shepard relatives excited and pleased Senate committee order d to invest electrical part in the Redstone Derry n h up a the parents of americans first Man in space said today it s very hard to express our Alan Shenard or. Hugged his wife As they walked out to meet newsmen clustered around their colonial style Home in the Southern new Hampshire factory town. A when we heard he was Okay both our hands went up in mrs. Shepard said. Cash or for Corn at the local Market Gate the conduct of the liquor con once. Half of the diversion pay tool commission today recommend had kept the rocket earthbound while so Pard Lay strapped to his men i will be advanced at once if Ltd un1 Laws by pass d to prohibit catch aboard the lit to Mucury the participating Farmer so Des any distillery i rom Ewing lice Sam Caj Vule. Copyright. 1961, \ a in inc King features exiles visit Freedom shrine members of a caravan of 300 cuban exiles arriving in Washington from Miami fla., March silently or Kneel in prayer before the statue of Abraham Lincoln. The anti Castro group made the pilgrimage to express gratitude to president John f. Kennedy for his efforts in behalf of free Cuba. Match be a at Arling Iola cemetery. Pies to the commission. He had been stated the for most farms the pay or to will the committee w Inch was lot need Cabin at 6 07 a in. He a tin a be higher than the probable t after gov. Norman a. Elbe ordered la rec hours and 27 minutes b. It income from the diverted actin the three liquor commissioners to the tension breaking Anontine account for some 4,000 state liquor \ Quot liftoff came from tin eats or face ouster from office rain v control Center made it Clear it did not feel the present do nun lesion members Hadj but once so tarted the Light w n d via Ted from the usual practices perfectly. Second by cond Nasa regarding samples. Reported what. Was going on the six member committee filed aboard the Freedom 7 t its report with tin governor and before those waiting on the Cap expressed Confidence that if Laws could catch their breath aft a prohibited any liquor Vendor from watching Tho Redstone s offering samples and bar commis flight until it was out of sight the aboard uss Lake Champlain a it up it a astronaut. Alan Shepard directed Tho Rescue helicopter hint plucked his space capsule from the sea today followed Tho capsule to Tho desk of the aircraft Carrier Lake Champlain then leaned Back inside to get his helmet. J he Licop r. Had his capsule in sight soon As its a heat shield glow d red from the friction of its j re entry into tile atmosphere the out. And climbed into a a a horse Choup is orbited around the Cap Collar that Drew him into the Sulo As it. Floated to the Ocean i helicopter. Ben Atli its red and White Para a after Landing on the Champlain Chute. J a the spacecraft dangling from a Marine helicopter piloted by the helicopter landed first Shep it Wayne kaons of Lyons ran. Ani donned an Orange Navy flight they were in production. The payment assures a a it Ato Nable net income from the diverted Are s a it i garb less of any Adverse condition such drouth flood Hail disea"1 or insects. For those who us a All of the feed Grain they raise or even More the diversion payment will permit Purchase at Market Price of More than one half of the feed Grain they with la George Cox of in. Fla., As co Pilot hovered Over the capsule Winn it splashed into the sea. Suit Aud talked by radiotelephone with president Kennedy. Doctors said his physical condition App ared Normal except that a we ask dish Pard by Rad if he was perspiring noticeably Aud he Waii Tod us to lick Hun up a his pulse was High. But his Pul. It a kaons said. A the said Roger. Quickly returned to Normal Ani Shepard told one of the doctors a i Don t think you re going to would normally raise on the divert -1 stoners from accepting them their Wold Arn at 9.58 a in j helicopter come after Cox attached a line to the Cap Beautifier Lic Abd Shepard asked rooms to have much to do lift the Quot Pace raft slightly out of a there us nothing we can deter the water to stabilize. Then Shep mine that is Iii any Way Abner that Ted acreage. This advantage of the would be no further abuses. Had plucked Shepard Ard opened Hie Hatch squirmed i Mal or Jerome Strong said

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