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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 27, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. He no. 12.1 these Days by George e. Sokolsky Montgomery racial conflicts always arouse fief emotions and the world is full of races which when in juxtaposition can manage to develop extraordinary hatred for each other despite the efforts of philosophers moralists prophets end saints the human race continues to enjoy and practice its prejudices. Tile american negro finds himself in an anomalous position in his own Home in View of the emergence of tile negro and mulatto into the political Arena tile various Peoples Grade from Ebony link to Ivory White but color does not matter when one of them is a Delegate to the United nations or the guest of the president of the United states. But an american negro in his Home town in his own country cannot achieve such Equality or superiority of j Pavilion. He May have an m a or a pm i or some other degree but he remains a negro or to put it As it is spoken a Nigger. This then is what has let Loose All the excitement in Montgomery. As it is Likely to let Loose similar unpleasantness in other cities tile negro no longer feels weak. He has become a political Force because of his Large voting strength in cities like new York Philadelphia. Pittsburgh Chicago and los Angeles uniting with democratic a Olit k lans the negro has become in Many cities the balance of political a it wer. For instance today in new York City the strongest political personality is Adam Clayton Powell. Or. Clergyman congressman and politician. It. Pleasant Iowa sat Koay Eveni no May i Mil order of Parade for memorial Day which Wilt Karuan Nevi 17 be a her a hath world Baa see a 12 delegates to girls i ii convention twelve 4-h re. And two leaders will i pit rat Henry county at the 32nd annual state girls 4-h convention june 0-9 on the Iowa stale univ ii Ity Campti at Anam in Jefe 3,370 mph�?x-15 Pilot Joe Walker is All smiles As he leaves the x-15 rocket plane rear at Edwards air Force base calif., after setting a new 3,370-Mph Speed Mark. That s about five times the Speed of sound. Lower the x-15 Landing. Heat Waves make double image on the dry Lake Sands. Activities form it Morial Day observances in i pleasant have now been completed by cooperating patriotic groups in the area and Are reviewed of re for the interest Aud informal Ion of those attending and those participating. Sprays mad by Volunteer work ers will la1 placed on the Graves of Henry county War dead Early the morning al May 30th by members of tin american War dads vow Post no 2561 and scouts. Tho1 e assisting will meet at the american legion Hall at 6 00 a. In those planning to assist with the pick up of the sprays will meet Che following afternoon wednesday. May 31st. At 5 30 p a for this purpose those participating in the Parade will assemble in front of the american let Gion Hall Gay tween 9 and 9 30 a in and the Parade Mil tart moving at 9 30 a in. Tire Parade will move East on Monroe to Cir a l Wanda co ,. in Liu. In. Jefferson South on Jefferson Toj Gois Bulbul la wizards Barbara j Warren then West through . A. A a it t v. Sharon Lee not w Park Entrance to he memorial ladies Marsha boogers Marker site. Champion Iii a Marj , final put Salem Cut. Ann kid Gar canaanites Ste vie Sibert i Tow actus Judy la Lier Canu Ancl i pcs Hita Grater the Aion Sun amp Dot i of the Many Vernc f of Fries soviet premiers will a in Vienna to Confer with president Kennedy or will to icy a1�?T Snow up from tune to time ten captives take report to Castro democratic leaders to Honor if two Are iowans four killed in collision t he follow my will be attending Christine by ans Lea fret Man. T girls and leaders the convention. Wayn a tics Roza up Canoe Topknot Miami up cuban invasion captives returned to Havana today to report to Premier Fidel Castro on Hie Success of Deal mind on in the ignited slates. J w Ashine i i on him i demure Quot i in feed a if leader.-, from throughout the country assembled today to Honor president Kennedy before his 44th birthday and to take another whack of the party s deficit. Tile president will be the Prin $100-a place fund raising dinner expect Jod to draw about 6,000 guests to i the National guard armory. Or i will share the platform with for i Mer president Truman vice president Lyndon b. Johnson and j Spaker Sam Rayburn. Sgt Derrell Goddard Marshall of the Day. Announces the Parade order As follows the democratic party faces Hie dilemma of antagonizing the negro in the Northern big cities where a hey have been winning elections for the democrats Ainee Franklin d Roosevelt became president or antagonizing the Southern senators and representative who can in anger kill president Kennedy s program in a coalition with Northern conservative republicans. The Kennedy have definitely risked the antagonism of the Southern democrats in Congress. They have chosen to support the negro s demand for social Equality. Attorney general Robert Kennedy went straight to the Point when he sent his marshals to Montgomery. He asserted the authority of i the Federal government Over any state which in his judgment or that of a Federal court violated the Xiv amendment to the Constitution. He ignored the amendment x which is in conflict with everything the Federal government has done in Montgomery. Amendment x reads Young father 27 a a Freedom rescued from Well Bine Kay i in Borgir i american usion command Erim 0la a a Earl la. Proclor. Vdoran., a to foreign War commander Edwin a Bothy Mccormick assistant Leader Kraut National guard commander cd Lively Lai it Kun i r youth Dor i tile Quot negotiating group dressed nor i a Packer tonight at a in the same combat fatigues they i were wearing w Hen they arrived a i week am. Took off from Miami a International air Wrt at 8 30 Edt it was a Gray and Rainy Day j j unlike their arrival when some 5 h persons cheered them w ildly.1 i Only a comparative handful of i relatives and friends saw them leave because of the relatively i i Early hour about 25 to 30 per-1 cuts were on hand. As a preliminary to tonight festival the democratic National committee was scheduled t ii i s first meeting met to Cele j the sober faced Young cubans Brau. Ali Kennedy inaugural expressed Confidence the Deal s trac morning to hold it. Since Jan 21 when it Fredericksburg a. Up a rescuers working in 40 agree temperatures at the Edge of a civil War Battlefield Early t Day freed a Young father of two trapped since Friday afternoon in a 43-foot Well. Ralph Burges. 19. Was finally hauled safely to ground level 7 15 . Edt and gasped a boy As he saw Daylight for the first time since 2 pm. Friday. The youth was trapped in the Well located on the Rural farm of Everett Henderson to Miles East of this historic Community while cleaning it to earn extra Money to support his family. His attractive 17-year-old wife. Linda and both his parents or. And mrs. Robert l. Burgess stood huddled in army blankets As Rescue Crews worked gingerly in the Glare of flood lights to free Burgess. Tile father earlier had been told to rest at a nearby farmhouse. Riders in jail Yaj sit Derrald Martin and army Reserve unit commander Leo Turley to2 Veteran of foreign wars j planned and american la Gion members accordia. Jackson Twenty seven riders sat in Day refusing at. A a i posed miss. Up convicted Quot Freedom a downtown pail Toto pay fines in for breaking Mississippi segregation Laws. A new wave of protest rides was expected to swe�pj0iuhon the South during the weekend. The 25 negroes and two white1 men Friday were Given 60-Day carrying color. 3 firing squad. <4 american legion Bob trip it by j Gram. Post no. 58 j a Makl <5> veterans of foreign to a no 2561 6> american War dads. <71 National guard. <8 i. Pleasant senior band. <9� women relic corps. <10 daughters of american Rev involving Supply of 500 u tors in return for release of some 1.200 captured cuban invaders a ears four dust event is w it uld go through despite mountie emphasize citizenship u. S. Opposition. To Linda i. Louden exp n. Ion assistant. Dis _ i in and up t Lai p0 research group meets Boilow county Cus ions speakers anti up vial pro will Boilow the theme Good citizenship your task. Wars a pre convention workshop which Jucis Launcr will attend begins june 14 . Ion techno jul it awareness i of High a in citizenship responsibilities tour Llie conv tuition and county leadership will be stressed at these workshop sessions. Sun. Vance Heads state committee the committees executive body met Friday night and decided i that an Early Start should be made to plan for the 1964 democratic National convention. It was agreed that party chairman John m. Bailey should ask the committee today for authority to name a subcommittee to choose a site and study the program for the convention. Moun Carroll ill. Up a a two car head on crash on . 64 i it in Here killed four p sons last a night ii Hie Woi t traffic mashup Jot tile memorial Day holidays Early hours. Roller identified the victims As j Vernon Brown 25, Thomson in. Or. Bevrly Wolfe Monticello la. Melvin to. Monticello and Carl i pcs scr mount Carroll. I authorities were unable to readily id let mire the cause of the wreck. T he Eoll. Ion occurred on a straight stretch of Highway under Good weather conditions police said. Mrs Wolfe s husband Donald and mrs. Beverly Kotz Are listed in serious condition at the Savanna ii Hospital. Brown was killed instantly in Tho crash the other victims succumbed in arca hospitals. Authorities Brown and pcs scr were travelling in one car while the Kotz and Wolfe couples were in the second. Pressure on stronghold i daughters of Union veterans tent no. 34 auxiliary j but returned to the Rural farm in Quot tile Powers not delegated to the j time to see his son rescued tile United states by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states a reserved to the states respectively or to the too in taking a risky position. Robert. Kennedy re asserted the Roosevelt inn principle of equal social economic and political rights for negroes it was this assertion. As much As anything else which gave Roosevelt such enormous political strength. Wherever negroes voted they voted for Roosevelt. Wherever they vote now they will vote for John Kennedy. I am discussing this question in tile cold atmosphere of cynical political advantage because that is the Way most of the negro leaders now think it is True that Elijah Muhammad a muslims do not go in for politics at this time Bot it must be recognized that the existence of this movement has brought a tremendous pressure on More mild negro leaders who realize that the As he is called is adding to his strength As Heik and youth wore a Broad Grin Wras placed on a Stretcher taken to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg for observation. His wife broke through a of axion of Well wishers and rescuers and shouted Quot i Hope to tied he s All then she managed to squeeze into the ambulance which was taking her husband away. Or. Lloyd Morris who had been at the scene since the pre Dawn hours said Burgess condition appeared to be Good. 12 american legion suspended jail sentences and fined a no i $ 200 each by City judge James l i Spencer on breach of j charges grow ing out of their arrest in wednesday s a Freedom irides into the Mississippi capital. \ negro attorney Jack Young said after the two hour court session the riders agreed to stay in jail i Quot As a Means of calling attention i to others the conditions in j but Young indicia by the group would soon be freed on Apical Bonds. For each Day in jail. $3 deducted from tile 5200 Fine Hie riders thus could remain con nearly 1,700 girls and leaders will j Register attend tryouts for special events get settled in their Dormi tory Homes and tour the Ute opening a it. T senator c m Vance a member i of the semite and House legislative Campus research committee was appointed chairman of the committee until <13> veterans of foreign War Gates will assemble tor the the 1963 legislature convenes at v a j auxiliary no. 2561. <141 it. Pleasant Junior High band. <15 the stutters twirling corp 116 boy scouts. It 171 cub scout a it. 18 girl scouts. Go brownies. First time tuesday evening hear a report from the National 4-h conference and meet the eight candidates for state Oft in. Tho following program will 1> Given at the Marker site invocation Rev. Arthur Bicker. Pastor of St. Michael a episcopal Church or. Robert Ray Dean it the dl-1 \ lion of pc Cia Sci v in e.-, state j University of Iowa. Iowa City will kick Oil citizenship discussions which will follow his talk wednesday morning or. Charlyce King professor of Home economics at Oklahoma University will be the featured wednesday afternoon speaker. The other special will an organization meeting in Des Moines Friday. He had been named one of tile three Senate members by Lieut. Gov. William Mooty before the i Senate adjourned. Three other members Are from the House the research group already has j eight studies under Way by Subj committees which have been named. These sub committees Are composed of members from the Senate and House and one Mem-1 it each from tile Parent commit with the Royal army Padang Laos up a communists put intense pressure on this key pro Western stronghold today raising fears of a full scale assault using communist chinese Quot human wave Quot techniques. Pro Western troops of the Royal army and co tribesmen w Ere Able to beat off an enemy attack Friday and one thursday despite the avowed Quot cease tile communist Patchet lao hurled about 200 shells at the Mountain government position. In jail they could to removed to senior High school band fined for 67 Days. After five Days i National Anthem my pleasant be Givin by i. I in Ria it Arthurj Ames on Quot tie Young citizen s i Barbara responsibility in politics Quot at to i Ursa y s us e Ion. The Hinds county prison farm for work on a Road gang. Negro leaders Iii Nashville. Gettysburg address and Rebecca Bigler musical selection Quot Battle hymn Tenn. And Atlanta indicated iof Hie Republic Quot by it. Pleasant meanwhile that a Freedom riders could be expected during the weekend. At least one a. Aimed at this City Contero hard Core segregation in Mississippi Sweet Adeline former resident of Wayland Dies miss Emma Hebe a former re.4 Dent of Wayland died saturday morning at Hie sunny Havon nursing Home in Washington where she had lived for the past two years she is survived by several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held monday afternoon at 2 o clock at every Day. His disciplined nation of the methodist Church in w ill return to Germany after la years mrs. Hemline Aspe Greti of it. Pleasant and her two Sisters will return to Germany this summer for i Logan a orders read by Sherry i Lovett senior girl spout address Rev James Troxcil. Pastor of the first Baptist Church placing of wreaths by patriotic groups a Benediction Rev. Robert g Jacobs Iowa Wesley an College firing squad and taps groups placing wreaths or sprays during the services Are asked to a a Pec a j please have them on a Standard if i possible. I members wednesday night the roof conies off Quot the state gymnasium As the girls turn to politics and elect their official delegates parades speeches tee Stude which Are under Way Are 1. Accounting and bookkeeping systems of cities and towns. 2. Children a c it do which deals with juvenile delinquency and Many other phases of procedures with children. 3. Employment securities com of All patriotic groups i Are again reminded of the invitation by Rev. H. Russell Jay pastor the first visit since they came to this of the Federated Church to Wor country with their parents 40 years ship together at the Federated islam need not vote in any election but it influences those who do vote and that influence is potent in some Northern big cities. A o o Iii a word the negro question which was regarded As a major social problem having to do with segregation integration or assimilation is now so deep rooted in politics that those in office calculate Hie effects of such an event As Montgomery in terms of political risks. Those who have to seek votes in the Northern big cities dare not antagonize these powerful negro organizations. Among negro politicians the greatest. Fear is that Elijah Muhammad will go into politics and Force them to adopt some of his very dangerous methods. The Quot messenger Quot is anti White and therefore favors segregation. He wants no Contact with the Whites and he goes after the negroes who believe that the Whites my Blacks can with interment in Center cemetery East of Wayland. Tile Zehr funeral Home charge of arrangements us receive degrees ago. Mrs Kate Lynch of Camarillo cali., will join mrs. Aspengren Here and they will leave june 4 by train for new York City where another sister mrs. Barbara Brophy resides the three Sisters will Board the1 s. S. United states on june 8 for the a Dean crossing and will spend the e months visiting relatives in Germany and France. Church services on memorial sunday May 28th at 10 45 a in. Death Pace quickens and caucuses. Of ricers Are installed Mission Industrial commission Bureau of labor and mines inspection whether they might i combined. 4 Structure of accounting of Tate government. 5. Trade practices in the Dairy Industry. 6 mental retardation. 7 state school Aid program it sen. Vance is a member of this study in group j 8 Bovine brucellosis. More studies Likely will or a tided. For any live members of the House or Senate May request a study. The committee has requested a it study of methods on How Best to review rules and administrative rulings of the various state departments. Mrs. Vance accompanied sen. Vane to Des Moines. June 9. Thin. Day night program includes the initiation of honorary members and a music festival of singing and dancing which will let Ortray world understanding throughout the four Days Are talks and discussions on career and Home economics i Crest areas. New District superintendent or. Paul m. Hann above who will come to the Burlington District of the methodist Church As superintendent on june 15 is known to Many in it. Pleasant. He has spoken Here at gatherings and has had close contacts with Iowa Wesleyan College. He will succeed or. Raymond Reed w to completing his six years Texas goes to polls Dallas Tex. Up a Texas went to the polls today to pick a Man to replace vice president Lyndon b Johnson in the u. S. Senate and for tile first time since reconstruction the Republican party had a fighting Chance to win. It wat a race Between a multimillionaire financier and a coins District superintendent and whose Lre professor. Both Are conserva new appointment will be announced tier at lie annual Confer Anoa at mid tiie june. Boy on bicycle killed by car among those receiving Der rfcs at the commencement program at j Iowa state University Ames sat Many a it urday were Keith Thomas. Fish and wildlife management and Wayne Whitmarsh Bachelor of Archit it hit both of it. Pleasant and members of the american legion George Askew animal husbandry it auxiliary were deeply grat till on of it a with poppy sales Bladensburg Iowa up a Wendell Jones 14, was killed late Friday when the bicycle he was Riding collided with a car about one mile South of Here on a Wapello Punty Road. Tile youth was tie son of or and mrs. Keum Jones Bladensburg. Authorities said a car driven by a a a. Howard Smith. 31 Rural Batavia by i i was approaching Young Jen from tilt Highway death Pace Quick the rear. The boy apparently became ened after a slow Start on the excited when Smith to aked and first full Day of the Long memorial Hgt St control of hts bicycle. He turned Day weekend today. J directly in front of the car. South a record break my Dull Hung said. The Eastern two thirds of Wapello county so Riff Clift Ell v Ottumwa boy Dies of Burns Hillsboro. Live together As unspeakable Uncle Toms. The negro problem in the United states is now Back to the Days before Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker t. Washington to Dine at the White House. Copyright 1961, King features j alive the memory of those who gave syndic att inc i their Liv a that Freedom might live Friday evening to the people of Henry county it. Pleasant and the it. Pleasant news for the generous support Given them on poppy Days. Every Penny donated will be used for the great rehabilitation program of the auxiliary. These Volunteer women who helped distribute the Poppi s help keep filed the nation. It threatened to last said no charges would of through most of the springtime against Smith in the mishap Holiday dedicated to the memory of the nations War dead. A United press International count at 10 30 . Edt showed41 persons dead since the Start of i firemen were called to Henry the Holiday period at 6 . Fri i county fertilizer Plant in West i grass fire it Viti Quot Mia. If a mud a Jour year old boy critically burned Friday night while apparently playing with matches in the Back of Dis father s panel truck died today. He was Pete a hone son of Orand mrs. James Mallene. Ottumwa the boys Tallier saw smoke pouring from the Back of the truck which was parked in front of the Home. He ran out and threw some burning rags to the ground. In the bundle was his son. The boy was apparently lifeless but a passerby applied artificial a Nativ of Winterset the new funds Burlington District superintendent has been pastor of first methodist Church in Ottumwa since 1953. Prior to that he served As pastor at Lone tree Wellman it. Madison Santa be and spent two years As a Olla Plain in the u. S. Navy. Or Hann is a graduate of Simpson College and the Boston University school of t theology and in 1948 it Iky degree by Simpson College. Chairman of the South Iowa conference Board of hospitals and Homes or. Hann is also a member of Iowa area planning committee Secretary of the North Central jurisdictional committee on entertainment. And a in Ember of the churches National Board of publications he has been a member of two general conferences considered one of the High St honors that can come to a methodist and three j in fictional conferences or. And mrs. Harm have two children Bruce 22. And Martha 18. Candidates Are interim sen. William a Cowboy Bill Blak Ley b2, a Democrat and Republican John Tower 35, who resumed As protestor of government at midwestern University Wichita fails to Mil car truck collision on 2 8 a in i v county produce truck drivel in Darrell Shaw it. Pleas a. Presented a doctor of la Vin i ant. And a ear driven by a Dysart. Iowa Man collided on Highway 218 in Miles North of it. Pleasant at 9 a in. Saturday. Neither Driver w As Hurt. Shaw was turning into the drive of the Elvin Cornick farm when the Accident occurred. The car was shoved into the Cornick s Yard. The name of the Dysart Man Wasny to available. Dies after shooting self Sioux try Iowa a up a Richard Clark 36, Sioux City a the Rev. Glenn r Parrott who i United packing House worker died was born in Danville will become tin new superintendent of the Ottumwa District. He has b in a Here Friday re Gilt from a self in of i in Eft Gui Aret wound police said. Wood Bur county medical sex tor of Broadway methodist Church allure in to 10mas l. Coryden in Council Bluffs since 1954. The Rev or. Fred e. Miller of said Clark left his wife Lola the following note Quot i am crazy for Waterloo was named superintendent what i in bout to do. I am shot of the Waterloo District. Or. Miller pastor of first m Tho dist Chun ii in Waterloo since 1950, was assistant to the Iowa Wesleyan president trom 1935 until 1937 he has also served Day. There were three persons pleasant at 6 25 . Friday to respiration and he was taken to dead from miscellaneous causes for distinguish a grass fire North of the Ottumwa Hospital where he was j pastorate al Kalona Brooklyn and an Overall total of 44 buildings near the Railroad tracks listed in critical condition. Washington. Over $800 in Bowling league funds Quot police said Clark was tile treasurer of a local Bowling league and apparently had embezzled the 1 s funds police a Aid Clark had $219 in a shift pocket when they found ills body

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