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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 29, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news of these Days i �n<>-127 it. Pleasant Iowa the is i a evening my 2�?~>, 11158 by George e. Sokolsky Stassen and pretzels the defeat of Harold Stassen in his Effort to become governor of Pennsylvania will not shake the Republican party to its Core. In fact. It produced not even a shimmer on the perimeter. Harold Stas sen had Long ago outlived his usefulness As a political Leader not because he lacks ability but because the March of time has passed him by. Pew men Ever realize when their Day to retire from political activity has come and they invite cruel defeat rather than sit by in the bleachers. And cruel defeat usually overtakes them Harold Stassen at a very Early age. Showed enormous political Promise having become governor of Minnesota at 31. He brought into the Republican party a younger generation which was of great value because Atter 1 32, it looked for a while As though when a Republican died there would be no one to replace him. Then Stassen became Wendell Willkie a floor manager at the 1940 Convell j Hon. Which was a political error Washington. Up their coun because Willkie added nothing to try men paraded today tor the in Stassens stature and brought known dead of world War ii and of -li1 ski "wm"1"11 m.ll&Quot"1 by Carrier of per week by in. No. K to de Gaulle Riim Hunt last week drive made for v otes invites Drivers to inspect patrol radar i nits honoured Man pats homa it a a living War hero ampule Walter Davis it Corry pa., becomes the 11cst private citizen to Honor the unkown soldiers of world War i and the korean War the bodies of the two unknowns lie Iii the Rotunda of the nations Capitol As Davis who lost an Arm in Germany pays his respects. Up telephoto upon Hun the enmity of both the Taft and Dewey forces who were then already emerging to political leadership. Subsequently Harold Stassen wandered hither and thither seeking office which would give him a sounding Board and keep him before the Public. With the Aid of the pews of Philadelphia he became president of the University of Pennsylvania but like Eisenhower at Columbia University he found academic administration a different kind of chore than it was in those Days when Nicholas Murray Butler could make speeches universally and a University towing two children builder itself into greatness As a1 of school kids just Korea. A Gawky girl in floppy Blue shorts a faded woman who whispered a which is the one from Korea a. A weathered Man whose Green sport shirt dangled outside a one armed Veteran who insisted he was not crying. It hour Atter hour in the vast Rotunda of the u. S Capitol they streamed silently past the Black Flag draped Cata Salques bearing the caskets of two nameless lighting men appointed to act in death As trustees of a nations gratitude to the 327.000 dead of two wars. A Mother carrying one and. A straggle disembarked one Way for Many mine Accident fatal to four result thereof. Today running one i from a bus a Man in a neat of those schools is a Man sized business suit who stared hard at administrative Job and if not at the caskets for a Long minute As tended to. The University sinks into though memorizing bricks and mortar which Are after for someone. It the scene ail Little rubble. More than potential a Lassen a time to run for the presidency was in 1952. That was also the year when Robert a. Taft and Thomas e. Dewey should have run against each other for the nomination thus settling an Intra party feud by a vote on it. But the Republican businessmen decided that they required a More glamorous figure and they made the nomination of Dwight d. Eisenhower possible. Harold Stassen having nowhere to go joined the Eisenhower administration in various capacities. The president it is said took a yesterday vice president Richard m. Nixon speaker Sam Rayburn. The military High command ambassadors of great Powers paid their respects with splendid wreaths. Tomorrow in an Arlington National cemetery still wearing the soft Green of May. President Eisenhower will present the medal of Honor to the nameless dead. By dusk the newcomers will be enshrined a in honoured glory Quot w Ith the unidentified Soldier Quot known but to god a of world War i in the a tombs of the by Yipu the first Shock wave of Holiday travellers will hit tile nations highways this afternoon to Bruin the Long memorial Day weekend and the traditional Start of the vacation season. Before the Holiday ends at Midnight sunday millions of aim cleans will have taken lengthy trips to visit friends and relatives or Shorter excursions to picnic Sites the beeches Ball Parks and other entertainment centers. For Many celebrant. It will be one Way trip tile National safety recovered Council Lins estimated 350 persons will be killed in traffic accidents during tile Holiday period from to pm local time tonight until Midnight sunday. J Wharton w up j last two bodies of four killed in a West Virginia mine slate tall were recovered Early to Day nearly 12 hours after the a i Talent occurred at nearby Barrett i w a i the two who were killed Iii the Cavern at the Wharton no 2 mine of the Eastern ors and fuel associates. Were identified As Lien Bain 35, Bim w a and Cecil Brown. 47, Barrett w. A earlier the bodies of James Stone. 39, Uneeda. Viva and Harry Hartman 26, Bim had been to the miners j Jwj w mrs. We. Thompson taken by death Blanche Irene Thompson mrs. William , 66, 510 East Monroe st., Well known in newspaper and radio circles in Southeastern Iowa. Died about 8 30 a m. Thursday at me a mortal Hospital after an illness of the past c Leven Days. She was the daughter of Thomas and flatly Drennen up Barrett a tii Norman was trapped for five hours Wilder the huge Section of slate before Rescue teams using Hydraulic jacks to till tile mostly unbroken mass were Able to free him. He was taken to a Hospital where lie was later reported in satisfactory condition. I b shape mine superintendent said about 200 working in the mine m lines Ufi acting 1 j adet in Oil in today invited i a drive ? Cap Aud inspect in Glovac . Of u uni s Winc h will be set up on ways throughout the state ova memorial Day weekend t of n said 13 it l radar units Imp set up during Daylight hours in i of. Bal in Dav and sundae \ Veill by moved about to a wants on Majot mid the state town Aid it pm it unit y Altin patrolmen will ire glad to k the accuracy of speedometers la the radar. He warned Drivers stopping to a Quot it it a at the radar units to give a Cha signal of then intention to Stop to pull safely off us Highway and to walk on the Hankie of the Road and asked lot extra caution if children Are present Brown warned that All 13 racial unit will to used to enforce the state 60 mlle per hour nighttime Speed limit dining the Holiday i wicked receive Fop awards at Wesleyan farm prices remain stable Washington up Farmers received fur crops livestock anti prices to icy paid or eduction and living supplies i ices and for i e Maine unchanged from mkt april to mid May the agriculture de men were part tent reported today when the department said higher pro 36-Inch-thick and too foot Long i Chicker Price for hogs. Cattle and slab collapsed. Cotton were offset by lower prices i. A for tomatoes potatoes strawberries Sweet Corn and milk two accidents reported locally Jand Mary Lawrence Niece and two Auto accidents have been re today however was the Peoples was born july to 1891, in of. Pleas ported to City police Day. The newly chosen unknowns ant. She had lived most of her Lite at 2 50 . Wednesday a pick were lying in state especially for i in it. Pleasant. J up truck driven by Earl Swartzen great liking to him. But Stassens i them. Veterans and civic organic i on december 25, 1909, she was j Amber backed into a parked car interest had taken a turn to inter tons and nations not represented married to William f. Thompson at i owned by Ruth a Coe near the co yesterday brought fresh wreaths Burlington. Or. Thompson survives Lonial apartments causing some two Dionne Sisters to become mothers Bur Colona tonal relations which unfortunately for him is the province of John Foster Dulles. The attempt to operate two state departments led to All Hie complexities of a bigamous marriage and in the end Stassen had to go As his friends tried to Tell him All along. Every 15 minutes on the average. Ralph Adams is found dead As does one daughter mrs. Elinor i damage to both machines Lundgren and one granddaughter j Stace la in pc reported that a Judith Lundgren both of burling-1 pick up driven by Jay Barton ton Iowa and also one brother backed into his car in die Bennel Merle Niece of Sedro Woolley j parking lot at 5 25 Ion wednesday Wash. I causing a total of $75 damage to mrs. Thompson was a member of Dotur vehicles the National pen women of Amer this would not have been a Ralph Adams 55 of old died j a my a j served As treasurer 0f four marriage political disaster had Harold Stas i wednesday shortly Belore noon Asie organization she also belonged the result of a heart attack. His father j c. Adams with whom he made his Home came Home to i sen not developed an unquenchable envy of Richard Nixon the vice president who is constitutionally next in succession to a president who has cardiac difficulties and who is Likely to be nominated in 1960 As a Reward for j was called but or. Adams was dead Good conduct despite the Prest when lie a lived. To Iowa press women inc. And the National federation of press women and was a member of the order licenses issued lunch at noon and found him on j Eastern Star and first Presby the floor where he had evident ally suffered a sudden attack. A doctor Terian Church. Mrs. Thompson was very Active four marriage been issued at the the courthouse. A they went licenses have clerk s office in to Tei Rill in the women a Guild of Iowa was Wright 19, Princeton Dent s probable preference for general Guenther. So far As Intra party cleavage is concerned the two major factions in the Republican party Are now for Nixon. So Stassen attempted to have Nixon dumped in 1956. Such a the body was taken to the Zehr funeral Home at Wayland where it will remain until i . Saturday and the time of the services at the Olds congregational Church at j the casket Wall not be opened after the services begin. The Rev. Dumping Effort is usually done in Joseph Carswell of Olds will be in secret on a dark night in a smoke charge of the services. Burial will filled room by experienced poll be in the Finley cemetery Southeast Ticiano who do not need to use of Wayland words to express purposes. However Stassen did it All in the open like an honest but inexperienced Man. He created the impression that he was a fall Guy for one of the most Tricky politicians of recent years Sherman Adams who not satisfied with vicariously governing a country Hopes for recognition for himself a laudable ambition but generally unacceptable. At any rate instead of Nixon being dumped. Stassen was and he returned to Pennsylvania to run for governor hoping thereby to have a stepping Stone for 1960. He was however Defeated by an eloquent and competent pretzel maker Arthur t. Mcgonigle who took Stassen better than two to one and As a politician might say that is that. Had Stassen been nominated for Ralph Adams was the son of j c. And Eva Black Adams. He was born in Henry county dec. 17, 1902 his Mother preceded him in death in 1930 and a Nephew Michael Adams predeceased him in 1953. Surviving Are his father and one brother Homer also of Olds a Niece Charlotte Mitchell of i. Pleasant a Nephew Donald of Olds three grand nieces several uncles and aunts and friends. Or. Adams who had been in ill Kent la and Marlene Kay Jones 20, Winfield Jack Dean Brown in Gal a. Bloomfield and mrs Charlotte Faye Smith Legal age it pleasant Lyle Clifford Moore 19, and Charlotte Elaine fold 18. Both of my. Pleasant and to Donald Gene Lamm 21, and Mary Leith cios sett 19. Washington. Montreal up i lie four Vivang Dionne quintuplets Bra ted their 24th birthday yester i Day with the revelation Fiat two of the famous Sisters soon would to mothers. Cee lie i Phillippe Langlois j and Annette mrs. Germain All-1 Arri expect babies this Yea decile in August Annette in sep tem Ber a a we re hoping for a boy Quot Allard told United press International Belore. He and Annette left for a quiet birthday party at the apartment of Marie another of the surviving quilts. Marie and the fourth surviving. Quint Yvonne Are unmarried. The fifth. Kindle died Iii 1954 doctors caring for the Sisters whose Biri ii 24 years ago made headlines around the world said neither expected a multiple birth neither decile nor her husband could be reached for comment but sources close to the family confirmed that so was pregnant. Veyan College her daughters Alma mater and had served on the Board. She was employed by the it. Pleasant news As reporter for a number of years and in More recent years had served the Des Moines Register and Tribune As local news correspondent. She also had written news for the Kugi radio station for several years and had reported for wet radio station More elect local men services will be held sat-1 the Southeast Iowa peace 0i1-urday at 2 . At the Crane fun j Cera association held a dint neral Home. Or. Owen w. Wilson meeting at the v few. In burling pastor of first presbyterian Church ton wednesday night and election of Washington. La., apparently will peace officers Washington will apparently have liquor store pc a Wesleyan Acri Tol class president Robert Gunter by Moline 111, passed the academic gown and i mortal Board to Hon Sonnenburg a la j in. Junior class president thursday May 29 in the traditional passing cd the gown Quot ceremony Ciminel spoke briefly expressing appreciation on belial cd his class i it it ays mates for their College yews Aud i charged tile Junior class to continue or spirit and traditions of Wesley an. The ceremony was the highlight cd tile annual honors Day when academic awards Are made and honors announced. I our make Iota Phi most coveted Honor for Iowa Wesleyan scholars went to Lour who were selected for Iota Phi. Scholarship paternity on the basis of Grade during their College careers Robe of d Marshall who completed his College work in january and will graduate with his class on june 9, was announced As a new Iota Phi member As were Larry Calhoun fort Madison Sandra meter Garnavillo and Joann Peterson Oakville. All of whom made Iota Phi tii the basis cd their Grade Point average at the end of their Junior year miss Peterson will be an August graduate while the other two Are members of the class of 1950 outstanding freshmen named qui est and Blue key honorary i societies for women and men or i spa Lively a aril named outstanding i freshmen of their sex qui est announced the selection of eight cords Karen Flo lira elision Marilyn Brannon fort Madison Sharon Davis Hedrick Glenda Nicholson Maynard. Emma leu Hollingsworth Richland Sharon Buffo Selma Fonda Jones Wellman and p ii y no Anderson Minneapolis Minn outstanding freshmen men who were the Choice of Blue key Are Paul Duncan and Paul Pennington Columbus Junction James fide Garnavillo William Kauffman Wayland and Carroll Alexander Rockford 111 Jack Stiles it pleasant president of Blue key presented tim trophies Donna Garrett Ames president of qui est made the presentation for Lier group. Kauffman wins another Honor William Kauffman returned to the stage again to receive from Larry Calhoun Sigma Tau Delta president tile prize for the Hest manuscript submitted by a freshman to the honorary English fraternity. Thespians win oscars the director s award for the outstanding thespian of the year went to Dick Zimmer maim River Orve Iii he also won an �?ooscar�?T1 As did Wally Leary it. Union Jam Willows it pleasant and Frances Penn Cole Chicago Iii. Mrs Jean k a i re head of the speech and drama department announced that. Zimmermann s Quot Oscar was for his performance in Quot Cyrano Cie Bergerac. Parts in Quot the Hasty heart Quot gave miss Wil continued on Page 4 Des Moines up tin own will officiate. Interment will be in of officers was held Forest Home cemetery. J John Miler of Albia was Elf e _ president and Donald thornes m a pleasant police chief vice president sgt. Lowell Schell ase of the Highway patrol was re elected Sci rotary treasurer. Soon have a state liquor store cd Alvin Edgar Hood taken by death Alvin Edgar h Xii 66, died at safety Hub Caps taken from car news not to be published Friday City police Are investigating the health for several years was a life theft of two safety Hub Caps off a Long resident of Olds and attended j car owned by Clarence Kilbourn the Olds consolidated school. I Aurora 111., while it was parked in a garage at the Cecil Godwin residence at 601 Palm Avenue wednesday night. Kilburn is a brother of mrs. Godwin and is visiting Here. A a the thieves broke into the garage tile news will not be published Anco re noved tile safety rims by on memorial Day cutting the valve Core and letting the tires Down. Their efforts to re governor of Pennsylvania by the he would be Well advised to in move a third rim failed. Nothing Republican party there can be no 1 congressional parlance yield his else was taken from the car a 1956 doubt but that he would have gone j Day is done. J Oldsmobile. The god wins Buick. Into the Republican convention in j copyright 1958, King features parked in the drive Way was not i960 to seek the presidency now j Syndicate. Inc tampered with. Spite protests from nearly half of memorial Hospital wednesday Hilts residents. J Tern Don. He was born july 23, 1891 following a hearing in Des in Wayne City 111., the son of Moines wednesday stat liquor Jasper and Alice mandrel Hood. Commission chairman William p l on August 24, 1911 he was mar Housel and commissioner c j ried to Leona Smith in Fairfield Burris said they had nor changed us to this Union one child was their minds about opening the i Dom Harry of Cedar rapids. Be Washington store i sides the son and wife. Two grand a a of course a final decision has children and one great grandchild made Quot House Emphy j survive. J two Brothers loin and Noah of House i and Burris attended the Wayne City ii and one sister hearing but commissioner Gerald Loia Garner of Emmington 111., Smith was absent. I survive. Two Brothers and one Sis a delegation of la persons part Are predeceased As Are his geared before the commissioners talents. Present petitions bearing 2.116 Sig services will be held at the Weir a a Torch from the town of about j cookes funeral Home saturday flank Goetz Elma has been 5,500. The petitions protested open May 31 at 3 . The Rev. James fined $3 and costs in mayor Wade ing of a liquor store in the town Troxel pastor of first Baptist Mcbeth a court for ignoring a Stop one of six Iowa county seats with attending from it. Please were thornes , May it i Wade my be the sheriff Russell Val Tuyl Highway patrolman Dona Platt. Officer Eugene Barnes desk not been sgt. Harold Dovenspike Justice of sized the peace George Means Corone Hugh Dallner Jack Wilson a. Richard Comick. A roast beef dinner was serve d for ignoring Stop sign sign. L out 4 liquor store. Church will officiate. Interment will be in Forest Home cemetery. I i i is. I pm a in bar irs Ile Anile Lias Ani red to farm a government ii officially announced tonight Phil a. Utu Gen Cha in i a Gaulle Rode triumphantly into bought to lot a Quot government Olna time a i safety Quot and have the nation from civil War recon i Iona irs were reported ready to topple the fourth Republic it he tails president Rene Doty summoned de Gaulle with a warning to the nut Ion a Assembly that we Are now on the verge of re ii War he pleaded with Ute lawmakers and the nation to rally behind this Quot most illustrious of frenchmen a Vav tin had led Fiance Hack to Liberty in world Wai ii do Gaulle answered tile aim Mons with a 150�?Tmile dash by Cai i to Ute capital in inc Epting Coly Call tile general warned before he left ins country Home that the French army May revolt should lie Tail to win office by Legal though exceptional Means. And a Rmer president Vincent Auric revealed that revolutionary a committee of Public safety Quot already had sprung up Alt Over France ready to take action or. Braden Heads Psi department Baton Rouge Laor Waldo w. Braden professor of speech at Louisiana mate University has been appointed chair Man of Jsu a specs ii Dep i Tine it succeeding i Claude m Wise who is retiring at the end of tilts semester or or Aden was head of the department of sex a och and Dean of students at Iowa Wesleyan College and had taught in tin High school St it pleasant Iowa before coming to Usu in 1946 a native of Oskaloosa Iowa or. Braden attended High school there and received ins Bai Helot of arts degree from Penn College in that Community he is tin son of w c. Braden cd that City. He earned ids master s and doctors degrees at the Blate University of Iowa la Braden will assume his duties speech department chairman at the beginning of leu s summer school ten in in june the new department chairman is in charge of courses in Public speaking at Usu and has taught Many courses in communication to business and Industry personnel he directs tile University a debating i Prog i am and is immediate past sex i ecu tic Secretary cd the speech association of America which has its i National Headquarters of the Usu campy. During his teaching career or Braden also taught in the Iowa Public school system. Or Braden is the co author of three books Quot Public speaking principles and practice Quot with or. Giles w Gray Usu professor of speech Quot Oral decision making Quot and Quot speech practice a a which has just been published a contributor to volume Iii of a a history and criticism of american Public address a for which he co authored an analysis of the oratory of Franklin d Roosevelt or Braden has contributed nearly 30 articles to speech and history journal Many of ills articles in speech publications have dealt with of dry a oratory the new department chairman has also been selected As editor of a projected volume a studies in Sou Hie in oratory Quot a study of the oratory of the old South from 1830-60 contributors will be faculty members of leading Southern institutions. Most of Colman estate to family Santa Barbara Calif. Up actor Ronald Colman will directed today that most of his estate be distributed to his wife Benita and daughter Juliet 17. The will of the British born j Star reported to be extremely i wealthy was filed yesterday in probate court relatives and employees were left a total of $32,500. Colman whose stage movie and television career spanned 30 years died of a virus lung infection May 19 in a local Hospital. The handsome Debonair Star was 67. A whirlwind finish in which Candida Tea have been making handshaking House to House Calls and mailing literature to voters May Alt ret the number voting in monday s primary election. Quiet weeks have suddenly turned into a last work drive for votes that should be getting the attention of voter. Candidates for the three contested offices in urn county have been in be Hon seeking the voters support there Are contests for Tan to terms of supervisors and for state i a preset ta11vc there is Abc the two county contest for state senator on the Republican ticket. At the state level voters Are hesitant to predict except to say i hey anticipate a close race. For lieutenant governor Little interest has been stirred up in tile three Way contest. The candidates on the two tickets Are As Ollowa Republican for governor William q Murray w i Nicholas for lieutenant governor Jack Miller w i. Meany Alan Vest Lur Secretary of state Melvin d. By Horst i or auditor of state Chet. B Akers for treasurer of state m l Abrahamson for see a of agriculture Clyde Spry for attorney general Norman a. Elbe for Commerce commissioners Dean Reed Herbert m. Reed j olm m ropes Lloyd r. Smith j. C. Tollman Jelm Hamilton Gruickshank Frank b. Means Lur representative in Congress first District Fred Schwengel for state senator tenth District Charlesf Strothman Chito Crl m. Vamo for state representative Russell Beauchamp Elmer r Meyer John b. Rockwell for county auditor e. J. Olson for county treasurer w. H. Hayward for clerk of la rect court Harold j. Davis for sheriff Russell k. Van Tuyl for county recorder Helen n Virden for county attorney Charles o. Garretson for county Coroner Hugh r Dallner Bourd of supervisors 1959 term Raymond Baker l. T. Harlan George Smith 1960 term Melvin j. Haberman John w. Metcalf Clarence Reid Wilbur Sater Hospital trustees Orville alien Der Edgar Hartley democratic for governor Herschel c. Loveless for lieutenant governor Edward j. Mcmanus Corbin Crawford for Secretary of state Edith m. Johnson for auditor of state j Rex Weddle for treasurer of state Harvey e. Montgomery for Sec a. Of agriculture Noel f. Hill Ernest l. Olson for attorney general Don Wilson William h. Welch for Commerce commissioners George e. Cutler Harold e. Hughes Bernard j. Martin for representative in Congress first District Thomas j. Dailey for state senator tenth District Virgil f. Trabert for state representative e. N. Smith for county attorney Robert l. Hansen Board of supervisors i960 term rain Meade

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