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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 6, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. 8.1, no. 107mt. Pleasant Iowa. Smi Koay evening May 6, 1001 these Days by a Corge e. Sokolsky who is wrong this is m response to a letter i rom a lady in Louisiana who w rites a without knowing much about the russians i am sure that their development and accomplishments Are spotty and i think we should be told about it a i know that their development has been remarkable but what about thens in comparison to ours. A i imagine that they Lack aesthetic sense. Their interests arc limited in their scope. They set a goal and achieve it but there Are More goals than Are heard of in their philosophy. A do you realize How wonderful we Are i would hate to turn a Middle Middle class russian Loose among the second hand stores and Tell her to develop a Home. The result would to horrid. An american woman can develop a charming Home with soap boxes and a Little paint. Oui working Girts have the grooming and Good taste of debutantes. Things like that Are not superficial. They require admirable qualities perhaps the weakness in our position is regards soviet Russia is that we have Linden limited the i russians. The Assumption in the i Abow letter is that the russians Are barbarians although there is j a history of More than a thousand years of culture and civilization of j a very High order. As Long As we believe thai every russian is a j Mojik we shall continue to underestimate the Peoples who live in the vast area which is marked r is Ian on the map. How can anyone say that the russians Lack an aesthetic sense by which i assume that my correspondent Means that the russian have produced nothing in the various Virld. Of Ari. One Hir d Only know russian music Rimsky Korsakov Tchaikovsky Rachmaninoff to mention Only a few pre bolshevik composers or in literature Tolstoy Gorki Chekhov. No rely to scratch the surface of the subject. In science the russians and poles have a Long and Many nations Hail feat mild treatment in Russia i London up Tiu non Cun a a. Min world hailed America lion p. Pre. Ideal Kennedy on the launching of a Man into pare �?oslicer.,s of the first attempt to today contrasting the openness of shoot an the u. S achievement with the so american into outer Croc it veiling Russia prior a co a Konsut Quot claim a even Tim communist prec Quot it d t i Muir al to r til pan., lie new paper Figaro commented that frenchmen were a no ire a a a a it d or Shephard s Fligl t Siu i than iia Garie a recall a Aid. Feat but dried j the Atli . Marie it to. Hic for u. To Folk a. The whole experience minute by minute a France s communist Organ Llu Manite aul Shepard., flight a remarkable a run though it wa., a fica jump Quot in companion that to iou id not compare with Tim reported Orbital flight of in indy i Yurt Gagarin pm i rec London Dada the left la j Mirror and th1 Eon. Pm native Kex pres and mail ail carried for Ani. Headline Quot Hoy what a j to Gagarin frat. Ride a and i he tip tic a d he i us line. A dbl Iead s Phil Lipinn Hep Fuia to Bazar it. London commune t i a i i y of Riner defence minister. Aul work r. Which reported the Day i America s Quot magnificent feat Quot before the Kremlin announced it it should inspire the free world to gaga Vin claim that Kirpas first the com unto Quot blow by astronaut in Hospital Ireov-r-1 blow in Tim Field of politics mul Ling from the effector his flight., try achievement and science. I carried a lug picture of Sli Ephard under the headline a now there Are i two the work r retract d it. Story tile . Military newspaper Pacific stars and stripes printed 36,000 extra Copie. To carry the word of America s achievement title first psychiatric aide Grah i rating class ties Are members of the first psychiatric aide graduating elms. A the it pleasant men they were awarded certificates and pins following completion of Over too hours of classroom instruction the graduation held the in or i al ii the principal speaker Robeson. Dovic Cia a line viol thorium at the Hospital. Muss Paula Robinson executive Secretary of the Iowa association of mental la Aith inc. A first Row from left a Luvina Shamblin Louis Graham Violet Rice Virginia Brown Blanche Smith Mab it English Martha Shakka and Jem a Johnson. Second Row Glenn Stilson Wayne Allender. Russell Harp Man Marian Boxman Nadine Graham Joseph Are Whitham Alberta arte. Mary Miller Gertrude Brown and Harriet Willows third Row Jean hairy or an. Earl be Rne Raymond Daniel. Moses Glenn. Mabel Sharpe Eugene . Dai. Y of in., Root Sirarpi Anna iou a i Hon i Smith. Opal Sunderman Curtis Shamblin. Fourth Row Hubert Fetterman Jack Price Edith Dickey Joan Gilliland Paulene Jennings. Margate t. Todd. Robert brow a Lena Price Janice Fariss. Richard Johnson Katherine Mcpheron Rudolph Eckey and s. B. Smith. Not included in the picture due to hospitalisation 1 Mars Stimson Beverl. In lifer it a Dine tor of cd i health so tilt be Erie nu1 my Iii meat. Of so bite la. I Audi Ito debt try. A fran that a soviet aircraft designers to leaders throughout Asia. Mem a. Four Claes ahead of Ga-1 Moscow said Shepard. Ganu in Pace As soon As the a a a a one table achieve Kremlin Publ Heel its official mint i claim Quot now it is possible for America Iose Nei a map on a real Pace the mail praised the i Bat is. Along an orbit for a King the world listen in Ems around the e Arth the Moscow the whole Grant adventure and Hoad Cost Aid the Dalh Telegraph eng rat plated japanese said the sur a tic fluted states for bowing it Cess of the Sim Pard flight augured astronaut faking off and return j a Vii for u. S. Hopes of putting . Man into orbit not once around j from Cairo president carnal the Earth a la Gagarin but three i Abdel Nasser cabled congrats la times. Tornadoes kill 14 in two states Poteau okla. 1upi1 a Swift striking tornadoes battered town important history including cop in Eastern Oklahoma and Arkansas open House at local Highway garage May 23 the Iowa Highway commission maintenance garage in it. Pleasant will be one of 117 commission in names inc and Church in lost will Friday night killing at least persons and injuring 71. The twisters struck exactly one i year from the Date of the deadly i am not listing the wonders Oft Wilburton. Okla. Tornado which envious it a pole. Mendeleyev who worked out the table of valences and among moderns Many others. Stallions holding open House in conjunction with National Highway 14 week an Observance May 21-27 stressing tin importance of modern Highway systems to Quot save lives save time save Tours of the garage will be held at to a in 2 p.m., and 7 p.m., on tuesday. May 23. The garage tour will include sex car strikes Light Pule Russia. That is their Job i am left 13 dead. Injured too and denouncing tile ignorance of those 1 caused $1,500,000 in property dam who believe that Wisdom and age. Knowledge can be the monopoly of in Oklahoma authoring listed pupa ions of the work of local any one people Abel al Avicenna nine and 54 injured at i commission Crews and do Monstras born in Bukhara in 980one of Howe four kill d and three in tons of Winter maintenance equip the great philosophers of the mid-1 j ured at Richiert and three in mint traffic recorders and weigh die Ages e trom a country juiced at Glendale All in Leflore a mpg operations. Displays will show which is now become weak and county. A report of a death St sign fabrication anti litter work backward. Glendale could not be confirmed land such materials As traffic flow it is not lessening the Struc a one person Kilko and three maps sufficiency rating maps and Tuie of the United slates to recon injured when a Tornado struck a of research activity in Nize that their have been about farm House at Dover ark., about j addition special equipment such As 8.0u0 years of mole of written j 125 Miles East of Poteau. Eight i surveying instruments and school history whereas w e have been on persons were injured in an arca i bus Field laboratories will be shown Iowa Wesleyan College and first methodist Church. It. Pleasant were named among beneficiaries by Maisy Schreiner in her w ill w hich j has b n admitted to probate in court Here. She a graduate of Iowa Wesleyan 70 years ago this Spring. Iowa Wesleyan is to receive $1,000 plus the residue of the estate Over j $2,000 and expenses. The amount of the residue going to the College probably will be Between $4,000 and $5,000. Five quote Quot Bonds totalling $125 a 1953 Buick driven by Charlet r Conner Davenport. Struck an electric Light pole on East Washington Street at to a in., saturday of a r Conner evidently a blacked out Quot. City police said that Conner headed North out of the mental health Institute drive when he stricken. The car went across in ton steer t and struck the pole j an ambulance sent to the 1 scene but Conner Allright. He i 1 taken to the police station and cheeked Over by a doctor. The front end of the car damaged and the heavy pole pushed out of line Sev it Raj inches. City Fin ploy be doctors say Shepard injured i Gay in excellent condition electricity a Rand Bahama Island i up this continent Only three centuries near hot Springs. Ark we have inherited from others be a twin engined plane because the culture of Man is con ported to have crashed Iii the mucus Greece and Rome and Hilly country South of Poteau Palestine and the Long ancestral after flying into a storm and history of England have played an a Forest rangers from the nearby enormous role in the development ouachita National started of the United states. A search for the wreckage. Hardest hit Friday night at Many of the Sites. Convinced they saw Danny thou in Brief Stop Here a ree on Road fund wore left to the Church. Her furniture household effects saw Danny Thomas and personal belongings were left to her cousins Mary Williams and Ruth Forbes or the survivor who is mrs. Forbes. Likewise they were to receive $1,000 <$500 Eachor the full amount to the survivor. The original will drawn on March 4. 1953. Had been lost after hearing Fin court a copy of the original established and admitted to pro-1 Bate. The hearing held before judge e. O. Newell and testimony t taken from mrs Forbes and others judge Newell ruled that in consideration of the entire record the m lir ascription of Jow is distorting. It leads to false conclusions. We exaggerated the a town of about 350 popu Des Moines up a the pcs nation eight Miles South of to lion Kuig Battle Over distributing teau. Two churches were de-1 he $116.5 million a year Road Ute j appointed executor significance of sputnik because we stroy cd Ard a third and tax fund it Ruth it finally came to i assumed thai the russians could i 4q houses Werc to card an end in the Iowa legislature Fri next. Do what we could not yet do. The Tornado struck without Day. Some folks even vet. Refuse 10 warning late in the afternoon i the Senate vote 42-1. And the believe that their has been a Sputa to a ripping through the1 House approved the Compromise Ink and a Lunik and it is this Lack farmin Community of 94-3. Of understanding which is part y Fri Clivert. Townspeople unable to the Compromise sets up an allo responsible for our failures 1,1 reach their storm cellars dived1 cation formula giving 47 per cent one collided at the intersection of mrs. Charles Bruggemeyer and children Jennie Janet and Dan. Took a second look Friday afternoon when they saw a Man on the South Side of the Square in it. Pleasant w to looked amazingly eke to it 5 vision Star Danny Thom e the two men in the car were evidently taking a Quot break Quot a they stretched and prepared to Trade driving duties. Sceptical at first the Bruggy the California License plates that it a in decal Danny Thomas hot waved at the family before driving on. A few Days ago a woman of tin the non troupe from , _ Ewanec which had appeared on the cars driven by or. J. Stewart i Sullivan show stopped in Alt Jackson and Walter Stigge route i pm Capaiu and did same shot a amp Falbert Crill City employee in i charge of the local Parks suffer Dan electrical Burn on his left hand j and knocked unconscious when the pliers lie using to put in j i some switches and fuses at the Mc-1 Millan shelter House Carne into con i tact with a Cross wire at 10 30 i saturday. The Shock knocked cell off a ladder about three Lect. He i unconscious for about five minutes.1 John Entinger who Vork i tug with Grill ailed police. Since i the police car out on a Carf. 1ccived Accident county authorities were t j notified they went to the Park a and took Grill to a doctors office where lie treated for the second degree Burn j doctor attending astronaut Alan it Shepard Row it red today he came in using the term a Trainer a doughnut from his epic journey into Las a referring to a device which space in excellent physical and men j Shepard and the six other Astro t a i condition. J nauts used to simulate space flight he a in the Best of shape the during their two year rehearsal for Best of heal a. The Best of spirits my just like or before he left the Cape Only happier Quot project Friday s flight. Too Shepard a pulse went up blighty held to Drain jury Mercury flight surgeon or. Wiliam but wcl1 within the expected limit k Douglas said. J Douglas said. A that pulse certain Shepard who Rode a Bell shaped did not go up As far As mine capsule 115 Miles into the sky in a would have he said. 15-Mi nuts rocket flight from Cape Shepard to remain in a pc canaveral Friday undergoing Cial Hospital on this British own one of tile most thorough medical j wed Over Hie weekend for in ten examinations a Man has Ever to Sive observation even though Doc. Tors said he apparently came i through the 15-minute flight in doctors said one big thing shop j perfect condition. He underwent Ard proved that weightlessness psychological tests today to a probe in space is a a non spectacular his feelings and j he and his six fellow astronauts Douglas said Shepard s reaction will Fly monday to Washington to j during five minutes of weightless-1 meet president Kennedy and Tell Ness Quot just what we expected1 the nation How it feels to rocket from our experience with the train through space ,. Myers were convinced by St raiment established and should mans appearance and Hie be admitted to probate Ben a Galer named As executor in the capsule returned to starting place Darrell Wellington Rome waived preliminary hearing in Justice George Means court saturday Cape canaveral up morning to a charge of running a a. ,. A Alan Shepard s Freedmn 7 space gambling House and bound 1 v 1 capsule returned to its starting Point today. Car damaged in local collision Cuba. The Congo Laos and else Foj. So iter to the primary Highway system 40 Monroe and White streets at 2 50 in conversing he said tie wit h Orlendes Ross have a High bicycle Over to the grand jury under $500 i Bond which posted t John Mahnke and Paul Turner charged with playing a game o Chance changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty and were each fined $15 and costs. The charges were i lied Pili 7 after a raid of r Rne taverns by Young Man from Sweden coming Here where someone spread the notion i Lwi it it Cut a path Alx it per rent to the counties for second it a a a a Friday. The Jackson car a. Act and w it Rte t0 Apkar on the Cap Quarter of a mile wide through i and farm to Marki t roads and damaged an estimated $129. The business Section is a 13 put to cent for cities and towns caped the storm s fury As did a j 0 0 residential area in which a school i the a burdened Ames school i located District today awarded $500. J too by the state legislature to help provide additional classrooms. I Hom Kuik Siux that there is some extraordinary gift called know How which is sex i jj0w Elu sively american. We have been shocked to discover that know How i. Exclusive to no people that what one people knows is soon known to All. In the 1920�?~s we spoke of the United states As a a god a own country which both in a Moscow up a Premier Nikita historical and sacrilegious for Kari Schev today sent a Telegram of surely All the universe is gods j congratulations to president Ken the metaphor however meant Nedy on the successful completion of that this the Best country on the first u. S. Manned space flight Earth to live in which is True for j the official tass news Agency said. Americans but not for hindus. , welshmen of Scandinavia rest of me world. We need to 25,000 appropriation to finance a ans. They like their own country recognize that we Are one fact in is us a alcoholism during the As we like ours. Therefore w Hen i a vast geography and a Long his no it years the 1929 depression appeared we j tory and that we dare not cd Morrilly dropped dead. When Roose Angerate our own importance or stain Kangaroo program Abosh or. Jackson driving a Cor Jox Clainie Ltd repeatedly what. A won Vair East on Monroe and Stigge Dot 1 counts to. In and expressed driving a 1957 Ford South on White a last minute Effort to pass a liquor by the drink Bill failed in the Iowa Senate today when several sponsors backed Down. To a Surprise move on this record 118th Day of the legislative session the Iowa Senate accepted a when tile Accident occurred. Choir presents concert at h. S. The Iowa Wesleyan choir in scented a half hour concert at tin the How they might a it Tufa to b come citizens. They had a House trailer for their tour. Quot the in teachable Quot to be topic al rotary dinner word has been r Cei Ved Hen the death of mrs. Rose joins grass thursday evening at Washington county Hospital Washington when she had been a patient for the past two weeks. Mrs. Gross a former it. Pleasant Quot the unix Arabie a w ill to Topa 1 ubut the widow of Anton student Assembly at it. Pleasant. Al that add it of or. George la a a 3t lard Oil co Grant High school Friday afternoon. The Moi at a rotary in Ting next b a Quot him Onul years she Bari re. Monday trending a Inch 14 High Rcd in Washington Nice her mar about two years ago to w. R. It appeared to let in Good Condi. A Young Man from Ilada Vage turn for another space voyage any. ,. I Sweden will to a mems in it. ant in the Early summer to in fact capsule experts said. Spend several weeks under the a if. Is conceivable Quot that Mercury auspices of the kiwanis club space capsules feed into space by he is Rolf Lennart Lundh. 30 rocket could be re used although years old. Whose Field of study is St a to agent and to Unity authorities j there arc no Dot finite plans along i Medicine. He received his Bachelor 1 that line at present if Medicine in 1955 from Karolin or Vomaro i or a i i a Hist tute medical school with Ruk Mck local a More like future for i ree Jug Ina or emphasis on psychiatry. D Quot Quot is a plate c in whatever Jlas a special interest in music Cima age Hall of Fame the United al.0. He is single. J states May decide to set up to., of local families who will serve As memorialize Early manned con., ,. Holds for Short periods during the resident Dies quest of this Frontier. Two selected to go to boys state Summit r months Are now but my selected. This project is in Experiment in International living program. Jack jillion is the chairman for the kiwanis club. Concert which preceded the Awa my of the c. A. Cottrell memorial school seniors and tin ii parents will scholarship Well presented and won Praise from students and faculty. Volt tided to convince us that a third of the nation were economically disabled we forgot about a god s own which be underestimate the values of other nations. There is no greater peril than ignorance overlaid by emotions particularly when we reject tree blocks South Locust came a corny expression. We in j knowledge to prove an Assumption listed that All american history the error of the Paet 40 years in prior to 1932 had been an error and j our relations w Ith soviet Russia that we need to try altogether new and soviet satellites is that we methods. Thus producing the con a have been unwilling to believe the fusing new Deal. I truth about them because the proof did not sound True. We need a Mon realistic attitude j copyright 1961, King features toward our a. In c and toward the synodical i Hies the Iowa Senate today passed and sent to the governor a Bill to increase the agricultural land tax credit fund to $11,250,000. The exact amount requested by gov. Norman a Erbe South Locust Street blocked this is a $750,000 increase Over for a time saturday morning after the present $10.5 million a Propri a tree Lead Faden across the pave action Des Moines up i a the Iowa legislature with a new record for longevity already established. Rammed about million Winfield Roger Schenk or i Union annl no halite., of i a j i Winfield him Bien chosen to go to will of Laid Camp Dodge june 4 where they will tidally. J monday May 8, at to a.m., at the attend boys state the program which is held an Turnbull mortuary in Monmouth Nti Aily is a dedicated to excellence friends May Call at the Jones fun no a1 Home in Washington until sunday noon. Rose Ray born sept. 8, 1893, Iii Beardstown. Ill. A daughter of Lynn. Who is a Junior at the Henry and Albe Ray. She mar Winfield Community High school i Miami a up a Fidel Castro a Rice August la 1916 to Anion a. Us sponsored by the Winfield jruldtdi8 slate officials government made it a crime to-1 Jones who died in 1955 on april 9, Lions club. 10 measure Day for anyone to own foreign 1959, she married w. It. Gross. J $21,231,800 a year for operating to guests. The 14 a present the top of Oss. Who sur. In ten per Cen of the class scholar fun it to m Ive crime in Cuba to own foreign currency nog a who is a Junior student at tiie a Union High both will be. I ensured by Hie i. Union Booster club. Legislature votes pay increases Des Moines up the Iowa legislature Eye Day shoved through a state government operating budget providing a $2,500 a year salary increase for gov. Norman a. Erbe and $1,000 boosts for no. T. The measure which provides Merit from the cast parking. The site in the 600 Block near the currency m Cuba the Dot pm it is she a number of the Baptist Huger is the son of or. And mrs. Expenses of the various Agneu Phi Iell Kinky to make it harder for Church. White shrine Eastern Star Ralph Schenk of it. Union. Lynn j of the state also clears the us the son of mrs. Vivian Haines of i for some in appropriations Friday As it put anyone wishing to leave Cuba to and fortnightly club the final adjournment steamroller in the Stream of refugees now survivors Are her husband and. Infield Anc. William intr High gear i flocking into the United states Lone brother Wayne of Monmouth. Ainsworth. Haines of 4.500 state employees to receive pay increase of about 3 per cent during uie next two years

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