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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 11, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The . Pleasant news vol. 8.-j, no. 111 . Pleasant Iowa till Kasday evening May ii 0 01 asks leadership against crime these Days by George a Sokolsky the answer is no i done to know whether you like to fill in a let of questionnaires but i am what is characterized by the United states Treasury As a self employed person. Whenever i i ghz of have to employ someone i find i. Sliv a that i am often asked to pay not for ability but for time which is worthless. I recall an ancient d try sunt perhaps by the negro Bert Williams in my childhood which contained the lines if time was Money i d be a millionaire i be got time Honey and lots of to spare. The trouble with most folks jew Cne awarded by the Iowa Highway these Days is that they have too commission wednesday with More much time and want to be paid than half of the going to for . In fact some people want i Arm to Market roads to be paid for being alive which e m. inc Mason is no fault of mine and when Lucily received the largest sin 1c, have to pay taxes to keep them con act on 8 bid of $780 03 for 11 8 going. I feel like a philanthropist much of to Rand Cement Concrete. For paving Iowa 16 Ames Iowa up con tracts totalling nearly $8 million except i can afford . To o o what the self employed Busi i Nessman suffers from most is questionnaires forms and All sorts of papers he has to make out to keep the bureaucracy going. The bureaucrats dislike lie self employed Small businessman and Load him Down with All kinds of bookkeeping and paper work which has no value and could be done once a year or maybe once in a lifetime. For the bureaucrats is easier to Deal with a big corporation which can afford to hire a mass of Loi k and a Battery of computers to do All the work required to keep the bureaucrats work. \ Friend of mine sent me a copy of a letter which he had sent to the new York Telephone company apparently the acc wants to1 make a Survey of Telephone services of course they can get All the information they want from paving on Iowa 16 from Iowa 1 North of mount Zion East to Iowa 270 South of Hillsboro. I contract for Bridge. And Culvert on thus Section of Highway was let to the Hanson construction co., Washington on a bid of $47,666 in pcs Moines county the contract for grading 4 3 Miles farm to Market was let to the tri coun i to construction co., on bid of $5,170. Neighbors help school i us e. Jalk a farm s Rud. By in air truck neighbors and friends of or. And mrs. Elmer Craber went to the Grabor farm on tits morning of april 21 and helped or. Raber haul manure. The Job was completed in a matter of two hours. The following men assisted Herb Swan Marvin Widmer David Allen Raber a Bud Quot Schantz , Minn up a loaded train truck Era. Tied broadside into a school bus and Bur into flame today. Many of the 11 Chil Orval Roth. William Freyenberger Dreb Board Quot arc Init of l and 11 and Jakie Widm r. On wednesday May 3, another group came. In the morning mar we re hospitalized. A mall Eikild saved the truck Driver hmm burning to death Vin Rinner helped him Lay out lands a to or Rhow in lord in in reparation for blowing and that urfi of of of 1be caved in bus afternoon 13 men with tractors and by was making to a us n onto plows came and slowed 30 acres of a Strart leading to the school Corn ground in about two hours. Whf a was to a by or 1nuk Drav this group was compos d of Noah in by Wald Homuth James Widmer John Widmer Lester Tov 11 in Raber a Bud Quot Schantz. David al the Himfy i Nark in he in the Lien Raber. Warren Schlatter Ray Klc f f the by and than Caref fied into gasoline pumps., where caught fire Walter Blythe taken by death Walter Blythe 79. Died . The Wehrle nursing Home wednesday evening about 8 o clock after an illness of the past month. The son of George w and Mai Elizabeth Kennedy Blythe lie was air a a f born february 6, 1882 Oakland cd 1 Clec so circa Mills. He has been a life Long Ritsi flabbergasted a mrs. Louise Sevier Giddings cur Rey 58, Mother of six children says she a Quot feeling slightly flabbergasted Quot being chosen Quot american Mother of 1961.&Quot she a from Lookout Mountain Tenn and is shown in new York named to county mond Rich Mahlon Leichty. William Brook. Orval Roth. Orval and. Elmer Roth. Or. Raber has been somewhat Homuth War pinned in the truck handicapped in his farming due to hostess As the flames Mountj the illness of his wife who is a vie then school supt Duane Lund Tim of multiple sclerosis and has said Quot some Little Kio got a fire i been confined to a wheelchair for extinguisher and handed to would fight juvenile delinquency about six months. Smoke fills Ward Mill through the truck Cal window to the Driver for him to put out the fire in the i a mattress caught on fire in a room on Ward 16 East the state i i mental health Institute about 11 35 i a m. Thursday and filled the Ward mrs. Chris d iming has been a Fuh of smoke mrs. Short 101, dies., Dent of Henry county and was the the Telephone company. All they l ,., ,.j Power Plant operator Oakland need to do is to look the various of pointed to serve on the contracts for services. But that is welfare la mid to fill the to anguished the Blaze. Too a v. What fun would there be a a of Cru iry he a vacancy caused by the resignation. A. Married to Anna Belle Raines who of c f Imkin Smith in being an inspector if nobody was of c Smith. Bothered a Surv is. See and of scr member of teachers returning he let al of survived by three sons the welfare Board super i or l of a a a Kin Rhodi but my Friend is a Tough Guy. He and three daughters. John and Harlan and or Hattie b Leach Ami Iwu by null had on c been a fighter has an George of route 4, . Pleasant will go to Ottumwa for an area excellent v in record is still an sex and James of Stockton mrs. J meeting the Cor Spieker restau Clent wrestler and he hates George Alice Lewis of Chicago rant on Friday. The other members bureaucrats so. He declined to be 111., Gertrude Blythe of Burlington of the Board of supervisors May pleasant to a Survey team. He did and Jane Blythe of . Pleasant al of attend not throw the team out of the five grandchildren and a brother window or submit them to judo and , William Blythe of Young Shiji urfi or Fence with them. He merely and mrs. Rose faulkner1 mrs. Ida Belle Short 101, died thursday morning 3 of clock i the Milspaugh nursing Homo in a pleasant where she had been a patient for ten months mr.-. Short of Danville and known As Danville s oldest resident was born on a Faim South of Middletown in what is now the Iowa ordnance Plant area on feb. 1, tie daughter of Elizabeth blinded by suitor Willda Riss Bronx county Point 1n new York tells How became blinded in on Quot Eye and partially blinded in the other when Lye was thrown in her face on order she testified of Burton n. Up Gracli disbarred Law scr. She said Pugach s co defend int heard Harden looked Quot exactly like the Many who hurled the Lye. Pugach wanted to marry her but she said no. That was before the Lye throwing. Building mans discussed Saunders Pat told them to go to the Devil which of Marshalltown is a Good place for Survey teams i funeral services for or. Blythe to go. He wrote a letter to the will be held saturday 2 . have White tails Wayland a present teachers of the Wayland Community schools i860, who have signed their contracts to i Blakeway and Nathan Lam me. Sin return to the Wayland faculty was a member of the Danville another year Are methodist Church. High school Fred Ekstrand. Jerry Barnholdt v. Ii Boekelman Mildred Gisel and Elmer mover. A general discussion of the building program in the . Pleasant Community school i amp Tidi. Look place tie 8atinders meeting a w Iierda Xvi Ilia charge filed supt. Robert for Nanek gave information about the plans to build i a Grade school m East pleasant five iowans Accident victims Muscatine up chalks c. Inv dry. 77. Muscatine was fatally injured Here wednesday in a one ear Accident authorities said i. Car missed. A curve and rolled Over several Washington a <up1>�?presi Cirrus Down an embankment in the Dent Kennedy asked Congress part of town. Snyder died Day to approve a five year pro a few hours lat a in a Hospital. Gram of Fivi eral leadership to tight the increasing wave of jul Festina tipi Leo Itu Inker Iven Ilc delinquency. 53, Farmer near this Winneshiek in the next 10 years Kennedy county town was killed Wedny Day said up to four million children 1,1 tractor Accident. In a v appear before the nations authorities. Aid the aeneid Cut of courts erred when the machine Over i for the immediate future the irn on him As he was driving the president ordered formation of a vehicle from a Field onto a county committee on juvenile delinquency Road the farm of his son Linus and youth crime. will be headed by his Brothe k8six u i John a free . Gen Robert f. Kennedy num. To. Pre Fanner was killed who Long has been interested in wednesday in a tractor Accident toe problem of juvenile crime eight Miles Northeast of Here. The i David l Hackett a special tractor slipped into a ditch and to. A stain 1he Auorey general i 1 incl onto fireman. Executive director of the a 1 committee. Callender turd a funeral 0 0 0 no ours for Robert Gene Ras-1 the president said he views the mus in. To Callender who was present trend of juvenile Delin killed in a farm Accident Quency Quot with Erious conker no us be held Liere k riday. J Jar a said he had received reports Rasmussen became entangled in indicating increases in youth of a tiling machine while working on 1 lenses in both Urban and Rural a drainage project on the Clarence communities Quot most often among o son farm Northeast of Here. J school drop outs and unemployed. Youths faced with limited oppor Lucas up a Husan Clara unities and from broken fam Stammeyer 6 -. Was fatally injured Dos a today when struck by a car As i a a # she darted across the Street near has proposed Bill would Over a her Home Here. Five year period provide for authorities said the. Car was. Demonstration and evaluation driven by Edward c. Wurzer. 25. Projects Grants to state local or Waucoma. Other groups to evaluate or dem lie girl daughter of or. And on Strate Means which might sub mrs Donald Stammeyer. Appear Stan tally contribute to preve Twu entry had been playing in a Road or control of juvenile delinquency Side ditch and dashed across the including treatment of Young of Street after one car had fenders. Major emphasis would be and ran into the path of the Given to selection of a limited Worzer Auto police said. J number of communities or states a which might Lead the Way if Federal funds could finance part of their Effort. Fairfield a charges were fixed she was married dec. 16, 1880 in and a i Fie of drool in Salem the Middletown to g orge Wesley Short Easl or pm. San site on which fat a Grade school Lyle Bower mabel"10 Price cd bar by death. Dec. 21. Tons Are being obtain d is located Young Gray squirrels with al. J Huffman Helen Carter. Darlene .1920 in the Wock cast of the Highway Telephone company which contains the r k Crane funeral Home with1 Whito tails Are attracting attention a Linch Myrtle elder Alma Conrad these two paragraphs the Rev e. A Mathews officiating 11x1 he 400 Block on interment will be in Oakland a Mctenus wat Chiti Quot if. As explained to me by the Survey team which came during a very Busy office hour period they surviving Are two daughters mrs maintenance garage. Broad was i Rozent Marcia Freyenberger Marc acc Hazel Nau and mrs. Jay i Many que r Tho a a Norri a flite a Zaida Stanley and Arlt a Rev Walker both of Danville in Jorma Ive or against one of the Drivers follow ing a four car crash the Corner or n court and Kirkwood about 6 51 . Wednesday night. Stanley b Meyers Wayland a. Student Iowa Wesleyan College training of personnel Federal Grants would be authorized to train workers in programs for prevention or control of juvenile crime. The funds Quot would make possible an intensive Effort in meeting the acute shortage of Mills cemetery. The squirrels playing in a tree beside the John dil11 Ingn Tanson. The family will receive friends eau scr in pc said they were Thoj funeral Home of a Ida a a a a had Ever seen with whle held to grand jury i of the litter of in. Five have on Omvik charge i White tails one of the five was the Crane evening from 7 30 to 9 Ting. There was a four grandchildren and nine great Dis u. In of the planning and i in general the comment was favor truck Rolls Over on Side in ditch. Church in Danville. The r v. Har i a of killed by a passing car wednesday Ralph p. Breitenbuche. Keokuk old Vaughn and the Rev Horace waived preliminary hearing in jus Ireland w ill officiate. Interment will time George court thursday be in sprig Creck cemetery in the morning on a charge of operating a iop area. Motor vehicle while intoxicated and friends May Call the Elliott asks for guardian a petition Lias been filed in the was bound Over to the grand jury Chapel new London. Friday eve picked the office by lot or Chance then there Are hundreds of thousands of other offices available to study. I would suggest however that by arrangement the Survey s or inventories be done night or on holidays so As not to Cost the subscriber valuable time. I belong to the vast majority of a Semi trailer owned by no new Small businessmen who desire to Ison trucking co., of Media polls s ?fflc0 that a Cou House by under $375 Bond which was posted. Ning. Be left alone i accordance with1 and driven by Robert w Smith 55 no a Salladay Askins that a guar-1 the Keokuk Man a arrested1 the free Enterprise system and do Burlington went off the new do has be ?<1 for John saturday night by the High-1 not want controls inspections Don pleasant Grove Road Northeast a Laclav i Way patrol surveys inventories or , per. Of new London 3 . Wednes haps my expense through Day and rolled Over on one Side taxes by the Federal or state in a ditch. Smith suffered a minor head Cut. Several of the cattle in the trailer a. Tear me. Why not live and two or 5tunned but otherwise not Inlet in a the bureaucrats need jury cd something to do particularly the grandchildren mrs. Short was the last member Able of a family of nine children. J the a Hod Board will meet next i unreal or Vicci will by Licud sat. Mond in even Iii u a the fire Hilet Wen asked 111 Hie a a a a charged with u-tr4lm.d workers this Legal entry into a Stop , pro Billon a or Llew i mall police said Meyers bad stopped work House urday 2 . the methodist to go Over the plans he Lias pre. A a Par for the mop sign Kirkwood. Youth gang workers and then drove into the intersection in front of one driven by mrs. Marie e Roach Fairfield who a. Going East. Meyers had been going North on court. Others. Technical assistance services technical assistance would be authorized to help state local and other Public or private agencies in setting up and training workers in tin s Indri. V i a its in -1car to two others that had matters relating to the Incus i Hillel. New Ofelt sur Arlitt West on Kirkwood hut a retention or control of Delin had Stop fed for oncoming a. Follow president. Henry Biggs vice president. Rev James Troxel and treasurer Marge w�?T,1 Iston traffic. Quency or Yilth again All four ears were damaged. Treatment of offenders would be the entire front end of the Mey 1 involved r ear was smashed in. Tells of plans for Volunteer program mental health Institute Kennedy in Florida students of Olds school make Llis logical tour in county Johnson arrives in met Nam Washington up a a feeling the need for a rest. President Ken-1 1 a �?oa0 and of to. Old Nedy al w today from rain Wash sixt a Mil a a tit Gradt Aero a the group connected the i. Topical Unes Zotigh. Coordinator of tie 1 a a a sheriff Russell Van Tuyl me reliability action therapy department 1 a Ullic a open Lor Volunteer tig a Ted. Check for evidence of sabotage in crash of plane 111 the mental health Institute we is Rvl . A Quot a expert 10 by Quot in ully in Jan invited gue the May meet a tiv Les a a Volu Noccra very soon. Ling of the monday eve a a _ ,.mrs. Leggy Hays gave a report of Ning and spoke informally of the in. A. The rese vettes assistance in the plans for the Volunteer program format the ii Ospital. Acc Wlinich fears to do its Prin Cipal business which is to super Vise radio and television. If they Monkey too much with that How will they act. Jobs after they leave of sabotage in Low paid government service we should be fair and let them occupy. Themselves counting telephones. V a a 1 al Anu d bit Many Between 75 and 80 persons have in discovering Why is impossible a Algiers up ii a French air a us 11,11 is re a 0n 01 volunteers Dica cd their interest in this pro even to see the astronaut do in r which crashed into the a 1 to Slot ital either As individuals Gram by registering thir m Ember America proud without constantly Bala in Sert wednesday fell to1 or Kly to Setlur in groups. Vol ship with the . Being interrupted by some Dames Carth from a comparatively Low Gnu Rry a May Render service on the report were Given of the groups dinging Dull and tiresome jingles a Rilk from the scene Wai is or a Sorvo As Tofit and Host assistance open House and the which we have heard time and of Tho crash Faid Uda a French ass a in recreational areas. These graduation of the class of psychic time . The acc does not Careiro parts Werc checking possibility Hrcar Sulu provide a valuable serv Hetric aides the Mhz Saigon South Viet Nam up vice president Lyndon b. Johnson arrived in this communist Harington for a Long weekend in then Lair tsa Lieis mrs h a spots and customs of that Day with Florida Sun Palm Beach. Williau and or. I a. Roth mini stories they had heard from their Rod country today to bring direct before leaving he held a cabinet8 by fur of Hei fount. A families and in their study of the Quot Ord 011 bout United states will meeting and attend d services at1 cont astion with their. Tudo a history of our county. . Matthew s Cathedral in observe now i or h or on ,1�?~ help crush the red guerrillas who to ,., y. A a. I kill hundreds of South vietnamese each brought a sack lunch to eat,.every month Saunders Park and Rota. For1 ,.i Johnson received a festive w -l-eoke.-, and ice Cream were a Wel come from cheering thousands who Ion of the mental Alth As Florida least until sunday night a a n. A a rigid let i in a come feature. Flocked to the Airport and lined the soc nation in Henry county. To Date left their Childr n the White i Onra a Nee of ascension thursday. The Kennedy plan to stay in nay May b is tio group who hav Sittg a Tiki a a n Mak House. About this. Of sabotage in the tragedy be to the patients As they will make All 78 persons aboard the super possible the patients participation bureaucracy can become a Dis Constellation in route from Braz in varied activities such As they will Zaville to Paris Dilt a in the crash. B d0111&Quot when the y return to their the victims included five Salem boy injured by dynamite Cap Salem news a Allen Watson. A year old son of or and mrs Everett Watson was severely in re trip a Well planned in do Road into the cloy when his jct Gnu / i nyx n Tad and Ira a accurately to take came in from Guam re. Tit a. Much of county history As Ity precautions were tight Ful ,-tim& venture we is sible ill tie one Days tour. Or a $10 Cash contribution was Vot cd to the memorial Day Flower fund a a Rod saturday met _ we n la and members Are skins contacts a a cd. Do a a pm. Communities in Many casts the a a a a ease because these people need something to do. is like cutting out paper dolls or building houses out of tooth picks. Maybe is family. Cheaper that because if we French Oil company executivedl5cbaigc la get refreshments May evening of May 22 Between 7 and 9 re by Mireau crafts we increase in Henri Markel who visit d the 01 Niay no a be set read areas . In a recreational area. Volun Bers of an american Diplomat s f Ata who will Puli be those areas the next Volunteer work to be he \ f Rie rtt arid a the most will be those closest to a done by the members will be the made thi. Pilot ment in sue re. Versed in much of Iowa and Henty Hagen drove the bus and was a county her iry the group was Happy Choice since he has an Active to native and expressed Surprise in interest in history restoration projects such As the Quot Harlan House and the Quot a Weiling quake v so in i p a the in favourably v the. Rotation. Many Gettysburg a. Up a for of them had n on tar away trips1 a a Quot a a a no a a Quot of a Quot Mer president Eisenhower invited Tak n with the r Panni. To the a a ration of Urry High rank my members of his and the or was a i w tudy uni by a ills of i us Harlan Nin Quot. Ministration to lunch and a Quot free Provasi. D a m William and mrs.1 a 1 for re of a Catnip informal and Frank discussion Quot mrs. Virden ate lunch with the group and accompanied them to the Quaker Linne. Meeting with Eisenhower employment and taxes will be crash site today told United Kough Hole blown through the Palm of was also severely burned. He ran to the Home of Rex higher. If the bureaucrats would twiddle their thumbs they could do no greater harm than they wild if they were unemployed. Perhaps they Cost less that Wray. Perhaps the acc will one Day count television sets and radios. Perhaps they will want to know How Many transistor sets Are available and How Many come from Japan. By of Kou Irh Stokr Knorp Sepci firn i a a % a ? Iio. Tic Irin to tii Ltd Honic of fio a poke More Peci Zicai Teer workers from the women of areas where Volun Tipri to tiv i Barron As Jar .1, were Awa Ana. Win vote Niezers May of the Moose will accompany the re a a Hel n Virden and a i a Bruf sket Cli of Henry county history with detailed history on the projects the Harlan tui or. And mrs. Elbert Brown and Howard Pitman the Lewelling Altrine As Well As county about politics arid other subjects today. Former vice president Richard International by radio Telephone that the plane apparently did not ols Vur durbl8 be eve nuts but Serviettes this particular evening fall from a great height. <ll�?~s0 m a cloned a Utor areas where following the business meeting. Lbs May Ltd daytime activity. The hostess mrs. Billie Turley As . Madison Iowa up two any individual or group Inte r Sis d by mrs. Terry Heilman Barton rushed him to Tom Henry county memorial hoi Pital where he will be a patient for several Day.-. Officials who explained duties and or Vilynn a in Tulia a grou planned to visit rhe Fie i4 Wixon a now die Absentee. A. _. Historical records to the forty two ,v,.t. , trip Induc d the Harlan a n previous speaking engagement to Camp Harlan Henry my y court houses under Park the i a a. Student inmates who walked away from the est d 111 obtaining More forma state prison farm near Montrose tion is invited to Call or. Rough s monday night were Back in custody office. Toda a mrs. Erma Scott representative the prisoners Ivan Glenn Gers of the women of the Moose was an Tenbergen. 31, Independence and invited guest to hear or. Rough a Donald Mosher. 35. Fined for speeding night in Monterey calif., kept him this a a Quot time project m away from the get together in Kis Hng quake r sir Iii a. Well As Oak i. Lory and the Success Echo were a office on the Campus of land and Webster Mill Silt s. The of the Experiment proved its Worth Gettysburg College. Workbook provide. A Lan for As a met Hod of learning and Apprey a activities. Icin Ting Henry county As Well a or. And mrs. I. A. Shaw have the 1 encouraging a deeper interest m moved from tie apartment 503 student car a i p Neil history of the pioneers of this West Monroe to the Home copy night. 1961. King features captured late wednesday Syndicate. Inc Hoka to Nave expressed an interest in the summer Camp in Wisconsin served refreshments to the 14 members and several children present. I the june meeting will be a Pic of posted county Rodd Nic supper 6 30 . the Home i of mrs. Martha Ann Bright with Don Sammons has been fined $10 and paper and mad a tin. State. Tite study unit in Mimeo-1 purchased recently 105 South Van mrs. Peggy Hays assisting. This will and costs in Justice George meagre viewed a he i -1. in and graph form a. Made the Bur n. Or. And mrs 8haw spent interested in school and contains Nineteen last weekend with the or son Gary furnishings and sheets of information and study Shaw and family in , Charles was issued by the Highway patrol clothing of another Era. Several of plans to. Madrid were discussion of the Volunteer pro i be the evening of june 12 while court on a charge of speeding Mil were a Day Nar a a Gram. Several members of this group the men of the r serve unit Are a pasted county Road. Tie ticket tools equipment

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