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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 30, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news thunderstorms vol. 83, no. 127 two . Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening May 31, 1%1 memorial services held Rev. Troxel tells need to reflect trn i Illo Assassin 11 a Ted ? on a Beautiful memorial Day morning a colourful Observance of the Flay was heir in the Beauty of Saunders Park. As in the last few years since the i services have been held at Tho Marker erected there in memory of j the Henry county men and women who gave their lives the Green background of the Park provides an unusually Beautiful setting for Tho colors the two school in uniform. And the wreaths that Are placed. Barbara Taylor in her new zealand uniform carries an Load. She did t Send an itemized list but you ran see a Coke a basketball and some newspaper packages. Those newspaper packages Are fish and chips the new zealand traditional snack. A you eat them right off of the newspaper a Barbe writes Barbara Taylor writes of trip to South Island new zealand the Rev. James Troxel of the Baptist Church gave the add re is he stressed that everyone in pleasant should be attending the j memorial services or some similar j services. There is a tendency to for get the real meaning of the Day. He said. A rather Small crowd aside from those participating present this year in these Days when there isl much talk about Freedom and our Way of life he said that All have a part in the sacrifices that arc necessary to preserve our Way of life. A our hour of Challenge is at j hand a he Quot Aid. A we need to reflect on what these who gave their lives have done for us. A sacred responsibility rests upon in reference to the world situation he said the nations of the world Are seeking to reach the minds of men As never before. Iowa Wesleyan to Grant honorary degrees to seven report is received Iowa Wesleyan College will con jm11 Quot j for seven honorary degrees at Grad associates will hear Friday night nation sex Ere is s monday june 5. Or. Wishard a member of the four will go to speakers during the class of 1911 which is holding its j commencement weekend and the Quot 50th reunion is an attorney and other three will b for the Rev. Oil former California legislator. In late pert Stout it. Pleasant. Or. Leland years he has made safaris in Africa. H. Prewitt Ottumwa and Harry a re. Stout i Sentle pastor of Barbara Taylor in n w zealand As an Exchange student writes her a renter. And mrs. Ralph Taylor. Of a Vul it to the South Island. Richard Murphy served soloist filling in on the As vocal program fourth twins the Henry j. Uni it s show off their four sets of twins on mrs. Ullrich s return from Hospital with set no. 4. From top Judith and Kathleen 13, Daniel and David 7 in Mother s Lap Barbara and Margaret 2 in father s Lap newcomers Pat and Mich id. The Ullrichi have three a a singles As Well in their i in Yankee wish Home. Kennedy and de Gaulle in historic c conference i hard. Los Angeles. Calif. I i speakers who will receive honorary d Brees Are prot Edward a Wright of Denison University Granville. Of. Who will provide the program at the annual alumni banquet june 3 c. Maxwell Stanley. Muscatine business Leader and International figure who is the baccalaureate speaker Mackinlay Raptor Sarasota Fla., pulitzer ology and otolaryngology priest winning author who will de-1 the Dugre s will by conferred a liver the address at graduation and an outdoor commencement Mon Earl Newsom new York Public re Day june 3. At which Maek Mlay unions counsel whom the Wesleyan Kantor will be the speaker. The first method it Church of pleasant will become effective june 15, director of stewardship and finance of the methodist Church assigned to the National Board of Lay activities. Or. Prewitt a Wesleyan graduate has been elected to s Rve As president of the allergy group of the a to 1 to a american Academy of opt Hal pleads guilty to murder at Fairfield thunderstorms in prediction Paris up a president Ken a Nedy and president Chari s defj1 Atli an i cd Imus Salinger said. Gaulle a came to a general agree-1 hot a 1 bilks Between games. I Haven jammed any More after an hours notice fingers or Bent my glasses that first time either sine/1 15 May 1961 dear mom and bad. How did your trip to Lake Placid Hope they have go. Dad i know you had a won-1 Kerful time. Groups which placed were women s Relief corp Quot daughters of Union veterans american legion Post and a Tikili my nth on How to handle the Ber a two men at which Only interim situation today in Kennedy j cretors wire in sent Wen held in i paths first venture into european per f Airfield Iowa it up it a Donald Anderson 19. Albia today pleaded guilty to first degree murder in the death of 71-year-old widower Harry Mcintire who was beaten in his Home Here april la. District judge Charles Pettit Bloomfield set next monday june 5. To hear evidence to determine by up severe thunderstorms arid possible tornadoes were forecast for parts of now h this evening. The weather Bureau said a Broad band of Thund storms moving into the state from Kansas and Nebraska could touch off tornadoes in Southwest and extreme South Central Iowa until 9 . Paris a up a dominican Republic dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo has Beer assassinated White House press Secretary Pierre Salinger Aid tonight. A it is our understanding that Rafael Trujillo has been Salinger said. A president Kennedy has instructed Secretary of state Dean Rusk to stay in Washington and keep close watch on event., in the dominican Republic in View of the assassinated of president the reference to a president Quot was an error. Rafael Trujillo and his brother Hector both have served As presidents of t the dominican Republic. But Hector resigned aug. 3, 1960, and was succeeded As president by vice president Joaquin Balaguer. In Washington a High state department official today said the assassination report a seems to be but that the department could not flatly confirm the report without further proof. A department spokesman said the reports came from a a travellers arriving in a nearby country a presumably Haiti. He said the travellers reported an a unusually tense situation Quot in the dominican Republic. Officials said there were reports the capital of Ciudad Trujillo is a under heavy military they said false rumours of the Bureau also warned of assassination had been circulated Many times in the past. Sibly severe Thund storms for tile Craigs John and Sybil Are leaving for Japan today for the rotary International convention. I a wonderful time. When does Janet leave i Haven met them yet but we re hoping to just returned from the South is i a together when the return. Say a would you Send a couple. A a of. Gram which was carried out of pizza mixes it you will then 4 Barb and Carol can know what it Sonal diplomacy. White House press Secretary Pierre Salinger Marie tin disc Las a -. Veterans of foreign Post Jure on Berlin at the end of Zonver and auxiliary army Reserve and nations in the Elysee Palace that an Atmo it Pierc of great degree of guilt Quot and Southeast and East Central counties some appeared to have been started Salmaci said Kennedy was a sex to set the youth s sentence. J until 8 . Tonight. This area 227 land the eighteen ass students irom the North Island took a two week tour of the South Island. It a rese vettes explorer Post no and cub scout troop no. 28. Sgt. Derrell Goddard organized the Parade and announced the pro on Chelle As listed with the exception of the vocal number. Followed a cheering. Red carpet Welcome for the american president on his arrival this morning. Salinger declined to Cia Boral on his statement. But it was presumed i the greeting far that the French and american pres j accorded soviet to erne Ivd it lighted Quot at his reception Anderson was charged along with in Par. This morning. And it was Thomas Lewis 27, of near fair obvious the French were equally Field with the beating which red Light d with him and his wife. Suited in Mclyn tired a death. Lewis has pleaded innocent to is bounded Southeast of a line from Davis county North to Tama county and cast to Jackson county. Thursday noon the thunderstorms should have moved out of the state by Trujillo himself presumably to smoke out political opposition from the moment Hie president a first degree murder charge and after giving Western and his Wil Jacqueline stepped off robber with aggravation. His trial scattered showers in their air Ford j t. Plan from new yet a in. Pal. Took up in to heart. Outstripped that Premier Nikita Iowa the some Early is scheduled to begin next monday i morning hours after Andersons is completed. Wednesday evening Are reminded j to meet at the american legion i Hall at 5 30 p. In. Tile 1961 memorial Day planning session monday Venin 7 30 at the legion Hall. Was really great. We got time offs Okay thank of school to Roar around the country Hope everything is All right at in a by our trip started Here in j Home. Write soon. Wellington and went Down to Chris love always Church on the ferry Hinemoa Quot. J barbed from Christi Hun h we went to Ash say hello to everyone for me. Burton Geraldine. Queenstown a resort ure Invercargill. Dunedin. And Back up to Christchurch. Of Ohliger second week of the tour was spent j travelling about the Western coast j ,. Tii/y1 a 11 a and tin Northern part of the Island i it l ill incl through Grey Mouth Manueka and i _ up to up ton where we caught the or h b Van off it Rry i Ama Hine Back to Welling j Boulder colo., a former Iowa Wes ton the scenery in the South i Leyan College professor was killed land is really Beautiful. I Hope 1i in a traffic Accident near Arcadia got some decent picture s. The pen Cali Early in May. Pm of the South Island clo have the soul hot in hospitality they claim they i mrs. Van Valkenburgh. Who was Pony have everyone i stayed with was j driving is in methodist Hospital in pert it in wonderful. J Arcadia with a shattered knee be the schools Are now having their vere lacerations and other injuries. May holidays. We have a two week. Or. Van Valkenburgh came to vacation which ends next monday. ,.Wesleyan As head it the chemistry be Tore the rotary department in 1952, remaining two monday years after which he retired to a Home in Boulder. Tour began. I auditioned for the dents had reached a firm i vision j Khrushchev when he visit cd France groups picking up the wheat Sito give no ground to any renewed in Mardi. I960. Soviet pressure against the divided German City. The reception boomed along the boulevards Clad in tile Brilliant Sunshine of a brisk Spring Day. It Fol Salinger said most of the discus j towed to the Quai d orsay where mrs. Etta Mason taken by death Verne Martin to retire As Gap chairman win. Hoaglin wins Iris sweepstakes sweepstakes Winner in the Iris i show wednesday was William Hoag in. Best single specimen was sex mrs Itta Mason. 91, cd Winfield Vern r Martin of Newton has i Albite i mrs Manning Cline and committee will meet in a follow up Ision on b rim took place during a j the a Enneris Ai staying in the died tuesday afternoon. May 30, at annoy nod his retire mint As or a bust arrangement by mrs. Leland Junco at 135-minute pre lunch discussion be Royal suite it sound in the echoes rest Haven nursing Home in it. Rhu mum of Iowa a Battles. Of a 101-gun Salute and it swelled pleasant where she had resided for Erec Yve of. June Jaq j Twenty eight exhibitors entered to great volume outside the pres i she years. I j approximately 128 displays in the identical Elysee Palace where de Mary Etta Piper was born aug. I Martin is a retired sales off.-.a1 j show which is sponsored by the Gaulle and k needy conferred in in. 1869. In Mediapolis the daughter of the Maytag company of new it Pica amp ant woman it i club with al and the n Back to school for the second term. The Day b fore the South Island tells plans for Telephone building Here the Iowa Illinois Telephone com wiil Start construction of their new building at the Corner of Monroe and main Street about August 1st of this year according to or. A. W. Sanders of the Iowa Illinois Telephone company. He tween de Gaulle and Kennedy ter lunch during a meeting of More i than two hours they talked about i Quot the problems of Southeast Asia Quot the situation in Laos and Quot started private. Mrs. Russell Jay taken by death Ralph c. Wiley taken by death National youth orchestra the. We in fir my holi travel pictures Days and one week in the August build in the u they give one final shown at kiwanis performance at the end of the last 1 Pratti it Well a i was accepted i travel pictures taken by or. Max hut a a a Ess what the May Pinc 1 Deal were shown at the kiwanis held evening at the at their Brazelton meeting hotel. Or. Sanders said that present plans Are to convert to dial phones late in 1962. The phones will to on one and two party business lines j and one and two party residential lines. It. Pleasant will be retained As a toll Center. Also in the plans Are direct tier was Beld when i was in t he j club monday evening. He showed South Island and the August Prat i color slides of a plane trip to the. Distant dealing where Calls can be tier is going to be held after i be left of Well a at least i was accepted. Basketball is still going great. As the results of that first tournament w a raised our class rating Row bowl in California and others of a trip to Florida. Tile club discussed the approaching visit of Rolf Lundh from Sweden to it. Pleasant under kiwanis sponsorship in the pro from third Grade to second Grad Gram of an Experiment in internal sin a then we Haven to lost any tonal living. Public will have opportunities to see movie slur Mary Pickford placed anywhere in the United states just by dealing the number wanted. At the present Creston is the Only town in Iowa with add system. Tile company plans to Quot Pend about $13200,000 on tile project Here. Or. Sanders said that the combined operations of his company now have 120 exchanges with Over 666.000 subscribers. Or. Randy Gill of Texas was a guest at the meeting. J mrs. H. Russell Jay died wed Ralph c we v. 73. Of new Lon mesday May 31. About 5 30 Ain Don died a 12 30 pm. Tuesday at her Home at 900 Cherry Circle. May 30, Ai memorial Hospital she had been seriously Iii the last several Days. She was 74 years old Rose Bishop Good Jay was born March 15, 1887 at Dayton Ohio the daughter of Margaret to gordian and William Good on july 19. 1908. She was married in Dayton to the al v ii Russell Jay who survives also surviving Are Hie following Childress mrs. Norman Dorotha a Leibreich Cincinnati. Ohio mrs Wilbur Emily Engert. St. Peter Burg Fla. Mrs. R e Margaret Holben Quincy Iii Katherine i pm a Daught Jay. It. Pleasant and h. Kin sell Gick fou Jay or of Cincinnati. Ohio. 1 , Jan of Henry and Rachel Winters Pip a ton. He was named Republican j mrs e Schuerman or. J state chairman in april 1959, and on sept. To 1895 she was married has since devoted full time to tile to Frank Mason in Mediapolis. Her office. The Republican state chair married life was spent in Winfield Manship is a non pay position. Where or. Mason died aug. 18, 1941. J through applying Aggro Ive ales so was a member of the methodist promotional efforts at the precinct Church. Level toward getting out the re she is survived by a Ion Otto publican vote Hie Republican party As chairman. Mrs. B e. Ellis of Ottumwa judged the entries and spoke to those present in the afternoon following which a Silver Tea was held. Winners in All classes will be published later in the news. A tour of the Iris gardens in the area will Start at the e. J. Olson of Winfield and a brother Henry of Iowa has experienced substantial residence at 10 30 Friday morning ii i Pip a of new London apolitical Quot Success during Martin Quot i june 2. While tie had been a patient for her parents five Brothers arid tenure of office As state chairman. I _ Stven v. Leks i two Sisters predeceased her. J an activity that apr scared Toj Ralph a. Born funeral services will be held presage what might be expected in so Jolson four Miles South of Winfield on Decemb i i 1887. The on of either Matilda Canby and William Alexander Wiley. He a. Married in Winfield on a re ii 2. Iou to Jessie e Paisley who survives for Many years the Coupler Quot id d on a farm near Winfield retiring to new London in 1937. Besides thursday a it Moon at 2 30 . The future was the Success with St at the Barton Mckasson which he carried through in the funeral Home with interment in special congressional election in 1 Winfield Scott township cemetery the Iowa fourth District in Decem the Rev. David Barker pastor of brr 1959. To elect a successor for first methodist Church. Winfield democratic congressman Stephen Dies in Arizona will officiate. Milk \ he is survived % mrs Earl Marjorie. Of it. Pleasant two writ v of it pleasant opening new Barbershop Here and three great Anco Kenneth d. Wiley of new Lon Don and by nine grandchildren and Brothers and it ight great grandchildren. A sister and three Brothers died previous the Public will have ample opportune a to see famous movie Star mar Pickford Friday at it. Pleasant. As she did on a previous visit to Iowa Wesleyan commencement weekend she and her husband Charles buddy . Will ride around the Bushi is District. At 1 30 . Friday the police escorted car will Circle the Park. Tire famous couple will alight from the automobile and go to the band stand where mayor wad Mcbeth will extend greetings for it. Pleasant. Following this. They will go to the e a. Hayes Home on Broadway where there will be a r seption for which invitations have been issued. A 4 30 pin. The Public is invited re exp 1/11 1 of car to the Iowa Wesleyan College acc Chapel >0 attend ceremonies when is badly damaged miss Pickford will present a 17th a Century portrait to the College. The a 1958 rambler station Wagon picture Quot lady Jane Denbigh Quot is j driven by Cleon Babcock of Indi by sir Peter Lely. Ana was damaged an estimated it. Gov. William Mooty will speak $650 tuesday at 3 25 . When it briefly welcoming the guests to struck and killed a Large Buck Deer Iowa and Thomas Tibbs of the Des Moines Art Center will comment upon the Lely painting. Or. J. Raymond Chadwick president of Iowa Wesleyan will preside. Miss Pickford and her husband Are scheduled to arrive in Burlington on Ozark flight 142 at 3 45 . Thursday june 1. On Highway 34, seven Miles West of it. Pleasant on Highway 34. Sheriff Russell Van Tuyl investigated and turned the Deer Over to the county Home. The front end of the rambler was smashed. Babcock and a companion continued on to Idaho by i bus. Grandchildren grandchildren. Her parents three two Sisters predeceased her she was orphaned at the age of nine years and from that time until her marriage sire lived with the Rev. Or. J. G. And Emily Bishop. She was a member of the congregational Church and of the thursday. 3 p in. At order of Eastern Star. Chap with the v funeral services will be Laid Wollin if inn a Friday at 2 . At die Weir cookes funeral Home. The Rev Paul Pitman pastor of the congregational Church in Burlington and or. E a Mathews will officiate. Interment will be in for. Home cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral Home thursday evening. Carter who died while in office. 1 Martin who maintains his Home in Newton has indicated that he i wishes to give More time to t a a Tensive farm interests in Chickasaw comity and also to be Able to accept speaking engagements throughout the United states and Canada. Martin who by virture of Iowa chairman is also a Wayne Berkshire will open his cow Barbershop berkshires Barber Heru shop on North Jefferson just off member 0f Republican National the Square on Friday. I committee. The room has been Complete re there will be a meeting of the finished on the Interior with dark Gate contras committee on june fic was a numb a of the prosby Wood panel Walls Large Mirror and 10 at which time the matter of Tenan a nun ii at Winfield and of new lighting. Selecting a successor for Martin will Lodge no 28 a f. And . Associated with him in the two considered fungal s will be held. Chair shop will be Wes Roth of the Elliott West Burlington who with his wife John Oance three children will move to a Home on East Monroe Street. The children Are Patricia. 8. Terry 5, and Mike 3. Intel no will lie in Winfield Scott township cemetery with masonic rites at the graveside Long it members Are requested to meet Ai the Hall at 2 . Friends nun Call at that Hai Tel wednesday p in opening Hanna real estate three safety films to be shown i is marriage License issued three safety films will be shown at the City fire station tonight1 _ i wednesday at 7 o clock Accord announce Imru made of the ing to fire chief William Alvine. Opening of the Hanna real estate one entitled a How to save 50,000 lives has received wide acclaim. Local boy scouts and leaders a marriage License has been office Here. Charles Hanna i open issued at the clerk s office in the ing the business and will have his courthouse to Richard Lee in a. Office on the first floor of his build have been invited to attend anyone 20. Newton and Mary Loa Wilcox ire on the s nth Side of the Square j who would like to see the films May ii it pleasant. Anear the student Center j attend Verne Martin Carl Axel Swanson 90, died monday evening May 29, at 9 of clock in or Mesa Ariz., Hospital after suffering a stroke in the late afternoon. He was born april 21, 1871 in Sweden and came to Swedesburg june 5, 1892 at the age of 21 years. On March i 1899 he was married to Caroline Carlson who died july 26, 1947. To this Union were born two children mrs. Carl Ruth Sandburg of Swedesburg and Reuben Swanson of Tempe Ariz., who survive As do two grandchildren. Mrs. Earl i Carol Powis of Minneapolis i minn., and Gary Swanson of Tempe Ariz. He was baptized in Sweden and was a member of the lutheran Church in Swedesburg having served on the Board of trustees. In the fall of 1957 he moved to Tempe Ariz., where he was a member of the Good Shepherd lutheran Church. On sept. 24, 1952 he was married to Lillian Lundgren of Akron Iowa who survives. Funeral services will be held at 2 30 pm St saturday in the Swedesburg lutheran Church. The Rev. Arnold v. Thoren pastor and the Rev. Kenneth ebb pastor of Emmanuel lutheran Church in Mediapolis will officiate int rent will be in the Swedesburg cemetery the body will arrive Here Friday morning and friends May Call at the r. K Crane funeral Home Friday evening

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