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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 12, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky Church and state mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt speaking on a meet the press a was asked this question by Luke p. Carroll of the Quot new York Herald Tribune Quot mrs. Roosevelt a Gallup poll Survey just completed show s there s j a great decline in prejudice in politics and that he figures Are that 68 r of the people in the United states would vote for a Catholic if he were nominated by their party. Do you think that either referring to a part of the question Here omitted of these possibilities w ill occur in the near future a it was a Good question to ask of mrs. Roosevelt. The Church and state part of the question struck me As curious because mrs. Roosevelt knows better having Long been associated with a husband who owed much of his political career to governor Al Smith and John j. Res Kob. Also the Man who handled the mechanics of Roosevelt a career was James a. Parley and the two men who were most effective in holding divergent forces together for president Roosevelt were de Flynn of the Bronx and Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago. It is impossible to believe that mrs. Roosevelt is not cognizant of these relationships which Are thoroughly documented in the history of those times. Vol. 80, no. 267 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening november 12, 1958 by Carrier 30 per week by Mau. 37.50 per year threat by e. Germany at Swedesburg Olds Cash and merchandise Are stolen prepare for Christ Mas Seal mailing near Wellman 35 students escape injury in bus car crash Church building Progress a the new Baptist Church on so fair main takes form As indicated Here. Erection of the big rafters with a Boom was a major project a and was made More difficult because of the Strong winds at the time the work was in Progress. This View is from the Southwest. A Wing extending to the South at the Southeast Corner is not shown. May have special vote on terms for councilmen i Volunteer women walkers spent i wednesday preparing thousand j of Christmas Seal letters for mail the Farmers Union Exchange Isis e. Stare in Swedesburg and the Olds i arc up a i the men school were broken into tuesday j Wimer Hure volunteered to set a 1 who or a Narizy Ndoc night. Cash and a number of j my in >8 Christmas Beal Bale off articles were taken symphony season to open at inc sunday the symphony season opens a Iowa Wesleyan College sunday with the first concert of the South ast u. S. Has 600 planes for Airlift Wellman Low a up thirty rot. J Iowa symphony under the directive children escaped serious in-1 r. J i lion of its regular conductor Rich jury tuesday when their school j Ard Morse b s was struck and knocked Over i by a ear carrying to school two throughout the season the Ai Berlin up a communist East Germany said today that the Western allies were occupying West Berlin illegally and threat la to noon concert is played on Herd Quot us so�1 Aid to Ake Quot or i Iowa Wesleyan Campus at 3 30 Talca i Quot the a 10 a a a a a a the dded my at an election. Pleasant May have a special Thomas f. Between $45 and $50 was taken at the Swedesburg store As were two electric drills two electric razors a be radio and a West lox wrist watch. Several More valuable wrist watches in the front window were overlooked. Entrance was gained by prying open the front door. An Rua table Model radio and a record player were taken from the help fight to Haa Una 1958? Tom Bates. 34. Rural Wellman said he decided to drive his two children Leona d. 9. And Janice. Superintendent a a office at the Olds of. A 12, to school tuesday because it i was a Holiday. Bates suffered serious Chest injuries and his two children re coiled minor Chest cuts and i bruises. All three were hospitality ground to a flying Start on i 1zpl Law a City. Friday nov 14. I the most serious injury suffer tile volunteers met at the meted by me children on the bus was s of 1958 a a a buy Christmas seals flying with the 8 . Performance in Burlington. The Chapel building will by used in i. Pleasant and the memorial auditorium in Burlington. In addition to the nov 16 concert there will be a a a pops concert dec. 7 and other concerts March i and april 19. Sundays program May be considered a concerto concert. Miss Elaine Cray. Burlington Aud Monte assemble the. Matyi. A a. B11,.fcui attorney school Entrance to the school was cd sea for the Henry j Crossett a third grader. Several election in february the Proba was present to clarify the code and lined by breaking the Glass in the county tuberculosis and health i others received minor cuts a n d i captured Arm by Raymond Mouth it win by Fred As soloist surely mrs. Roosevelt cannot vilify is a result of the league to answer questions. Of women voters meeting tuesday to Call a special election i 5 8 below that if a roman Catholic nor sting in the Harlan hotel. The signers Are necessary. It is the Hope is elected president of the United league planned at that time to of the it. Pleasant league of states lie would betray his coun circulate petitions for an election to women voters to present the try. Or would it perhaps be Wisest Institute staggered terms for City petitions to the mayor dec. I so to elect an atheist w to would have c0u1nmn no affiliations except with the that he can Call the election the present Law in Iowa provides february. Front door the door of the superintendent a a office was pried open. Association. A we be added a number to the Christmas be Seal Devil for most human beings j r us a have some Aln lations sentimental the league s Contention is that the need at the High school for a Iff Robort Nicholson went to the nest Alagic Hist of ital traditional i instead of election of a Complete Reserve Book shelf on the United the dream of America was that a i set councilmen staggered terms nations. Ways of obtaining this for i bruises. The bus Driver Everett l Plucker. 43, Wellman was not injured. After the crash he rushed to the Roar and opened an emergency door to let the children out. Seal chairman. Quot we wanted to but each of the children on the bus the Bieak ins Weie discovered j that everyone had a Chance was checked by a physician in Wellman and returned Home. Twenty of them returned to a screw Driver taken from the families janitors room in the school waa mailing hot it and we be sent three found in the store. It is believed fihe ets of seals in each letter said that it was used to pry open the j veda Cornice. County Christina m doors. A a of Ems addlti0, Ai bu5�?o is . Was i wednesday morning. Deputy Slier j buy cd Ruitman so als and mkt As Large a contribution As they state would come into existence will make possible experienced the school was considered. Which would accept a Man Toi what members always on the Council miss Marjorie Huston was hostess he was Worth no matter what his religious ties. To Carrolls question mrs. Roosevelt answered in part the first Catholic that is elected i Hope will be Strong enough so that if the question should arise of the difference Between Church and state he can really act apart from the religious precisely How can any question of Church and state arise that would affect a president of the United states at Wlms Point would it arise Quot the Constitution in the first amendment states a Congress shall make no Law respecting an establishment of re with never More than two Chang for the morning meeting. One in series of 3 articles store and school to investigate. Governors mansion May not impress Rockefeller Little Rock school Board May resign new York up i a Thorn As has gits the old saying goes. But for Nelson Rockefeller it hardly seems worthwhile. Rockefeller today the brightest Star in the Republican party has ideas about Standard Oil. Nelson is also a member of 18 Board of directors. He owns 1,500 Jon resignation j Little Rock. Ark. Up a i the Little Rock school Board invited the Public to a meeting tonight at which members Are expected to announce their decision a new Job As governor of new Gion or prohibiting the free sex York with rent Hee and a yearly excise salary of $50,000 starting Jan. I. The Issue Here it would seem j that Tkv Almast As much As he is perfectly Clear no established now makes in a week. Church is Ever to come into sex pieces of primitive Art and a Large collection of Modem paintings. Stence in the United states. By an established Church was meant when the Constitution was written. A government Church one and the governors in a n s i o n May not impress a Man who already has a 32-room apartment i overlooking Central Park a Home it took an hours conversation with his father John d. Jr., on the evening of dec. To. 1948. To get 85 million dollars to Purchase i land on new Yorkus East Side i and donate it As the site for the permanent Headquarters of t h e i United nations. among the volunteers were local Christmas Seal chairmen from 20 towns and townships. A luncheon was served at . Mrs. Louise Woods of Burlington Field representative for the Iowa tuberculosis and health association met with the women to give i instructions and help to distribute i the supplies. The annual Sale of i Christmas seals which support the i year around program of the Henry county tuberculosis and health association will begin nov. 14 and runs through december. The Money is used not Only for a rav and tuberculin test Case finding programs to discover in. Known cases of tuberculosis but to carry on a program of education would resign As a result of Mon. _ about tuberculosis. The executive Board of the association held a Short meeting before noon and the articles of incorporation for the group was adopted. Mrs. C. A. Cottrell gave the Secretary s report and mrs William Heaghn the treasurers report. Classes. Predicts turn to new versions of a Brannan plan in the Tschaikowsky concerto in a Flat minor for piano and orchestra. This is the work that brought Van Cliburn Fame recently in Russia. The Brandenburg concerto no. 5> by Bach Wall open the afternoon. In this miss Gray or. Roger Galen and or. William Siebers will be the featured artists. Miss Cray teaches piano at Monmouth College. Or. Galer it. City. But East German Premier Otto Grotewohl denounced As a a sensational Western speculation that the communists might be planning a new blockade of West Berlin. Too to Washington american officials said that if the communists planned any such new blockade 1 the United states has More than 600 four eng med aircraft available i a almost immediately to Start a massive Airlift to this City. The speculation arose from soviet Premier Filuta Khrushchev s j statement that the soviets would j Transfer to the East germans control Over the Western Allied lifelines to Berlin. Grotewohl said the main Point in Khrushchev a speech was not Berlin but the need of East we est German Nego i to nations to bring about a German j confederation and a peace treaty. It was generally Felt Here that some members of the Board Days Federal court order to proceed with integration of Little rocks four Public High schools. The schools have been kept closed this fall because of the integration controversy. The Board held a closed two hour meeting in a hotel room tuesday but All that Wayne Upton president of the six member Board would say was a a we re going to have a Public meeting at 7 30 . Tomorrow or. Dale Alford the Only outspoken segregationist member of Washington. Up it a big City democrats in Congress will turn with increasing warmth toward new versions of the a Brannan plan for direct Federal subsidies to Farmers a new York lawmaker predicted today. Rep. Victor l. Anfuso Brooklyn Democrat and Only a Sci Tyr member of the House agriculture committee said the direct subsidy idea will Appeal to lawmakers anxious to bolster farm income without raising consumer food prices. Anfuso a statement in an interview came after agriculture department economists predicted farm income will drop 5 to to per cent in 1959. In a related development sen. School orchestra. Pleasant attorney. Is first flautist j the statement indicated the of that Southeast Iowa symphony s0viets� might have created the . Or. Siebers. Concert j new Berlin dispute in an Effort master of the Southeast Iowa sym t0 Force the West to accept mos phony disc cts the Burlington High proposal to hold four Power talks with East and West German participation to bring about a peace treaty. This we Ould have the effect of gaining indirect Recagni ton for the East German regime which the West considers illegal. Whatever the reason the communists did not appear ready to push the present situation to a dangerous degree. However the West German government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer took a serious View of the situation. Following a special Cabinet meeting in Bonn it issued statement warning that if Khrushchev backed up his words with action he would endanger soviet West German relations and increase world tension. James Curley political Boss of Boston Dies Boston up a James Michael Curley one of americans last big City political Bosses died today just eight Days before his 84th birthday. The former Massachusetts gov f error died at 8 55 after an emergency surgery at City Hospital where he had been recuperating from an abdominal operation performed nov. 4. The Veteran political Warrior had described the critical operation As a just another vote changes in canvass subsidized by the government per 011 top 3.000-acro ancestral estate one of his few setbacks came haps the Best Way to describe an hear fair town n. Aan 8g0 last Yeai when the Brocklyn established Church is to say that it i acre venezuelan farm where he dodgers move to los Angeles is one which is included in the now vacationing and a summer despite his offer to donate 3 Mil budget of the nation and Over j a cottage Quot at b a r Harbor my. J Hon dollars toward building a new which the government exercises a a 0 stadium for the team. Wincn me government exercises the Board left the meet us shortly a herds Rockefeller and his father is estimated to be before the others tuesday and said official canvass of the Hen-1i for instance the Queen of Mon v Are almost inseparable Worth More than 500 million Dol-1 by county vote in the election last j a i tuesday w As made by the Board of and his one sister Are believed to 7_j supervisors and there were a few be just about As wealthy As Nelson. Curley thus became the second William Proxmire a wis pledged i former Boston mayor to die within his support As a member of the a week. Former mayor Frederick j Senate agriculture committee to j a Mansfield died nov. 6 at the age j proposals by National Grange Mas of filter Herschel d. Newsom for raising i a a i a pm income without a the present excessive level of government sex pass 50 % Mark in fund drive words Rockefeller and instance the Queen of j Money Are almost inseparable Worth More than 500 million Dol a personally was not going to England is the head of the Stab Nelson is by far the richest Man Lars. Each of his four Brothers ladled Church of that country the Avci to a old High elective offic chairman of the committee for j in America religious affairs is in control of All churches and religious institutions in soviet Russia. In the United states no attempt is being made to establish a state religion. It is True that in some states there is a controversy Over school buses Orange juice for children taxes for parochial and private schools Etc. But none of these details of american education have anything to do with an established Church which would be objectionable to All americans. Mrs. Roosevelt has. Perhaps inadvertently. Added fuel to a rising anti catholicism by emphasizing this unrealistic Issue of Church and state. Should such an Issue arise it one is head of Rockfeller Cen would go to the courts and not to Tei inc the great clu8ter of sky the president it would be difficult scrapers in Midtown Manhattan a us to conceive of a single question now valued at 125 million dollars of this nature that could come Bui is not for a e at am. Once before the president of the United j the other is chairman of states. Mrs. Roosevelt must know International that because she has been close to corp. A the limitations of the presidency. I four his personal Fortune is estimated at More than too million dollars. The bulk inherited from the estate of the fabulous John d. Carefully invested at 4 per cent that amount would return 4 million dollars a year or about $80, 000 a week. But Nelsons share 01 gifts by the Rockefeller clan figures out to about $20,000 i to says. A if used construe 5 resign. Alford was elected to Congress in the nov. 4 general election by defeating Veteran congressman a a j Brooks Hays . In a write Rockefeler says taxes now Are in Campaign. Such that no one again will Ever i a. Amass such a Fortune As his Grandfather did. But he is not interested in Money As such anyway. A i personally think Money is a j changes in several precincts. None affected the outcome of any race. I rep. Fred Schwengel successful candidate received 67 votes in j Jackson township instead of 57 of injured in Mountain Road a Accident open House in schools plans arc being made for open House in the it. Pleasant schools i supt. C a. Cottrell has announced. Week so he Only has a net of $60,-000 if he paid straight income tax on that. It would be sliced Way Down to Only $6,800 weekly accepting t h e governorship Means he will have to resign the two Board chairmanships which in the past few years have occupied most o his time. Sale precedes remodelling tile remodelling Sale which is Plis ments of a great Many taking place at the Lauger store things. Money can also be a under the new ownership is con jul be held on monday evening timely it can be of tremendous assistance in facilitating the a com a total of 3.267 instead of 3,257 Tom _ Dailey be hew Engels opponent re a word Las been received Here by nov. 17. Teachers will be in their Cei Ved 169 in Ward Iii instead of Long distance phone Call that mrs it the first general report meet i my in the greater it. Pleasant Community fund drive disclosed satisfactory achievements to Date. Leaders and coworkers of tile i groups previously announced met at the Harlan wednesday morning and presented their totals to Date. The figures disclosed that pledges and Cash at the moment total open House m the Gracie schools. T. Us a n j about $10,000 or 51 per cent of the 2 goal. The women a residential rooms and parents and others Are Cam invited to visit the buildings see 159. Making his total 2.216 instead j Donald Brockway the former Ruby of 2,206. I Rudat is hospitalized in serious some of the work which will be on i. County auditor e. J Olson. To condition following a car Accident it display and visit with the teachers. I lvlsl0ns a As unopposed received 70 and not monday at 8 . At Norwood Colo. Open House in the High school of votes in Baltimore township for a pick up truck which she was has been set for sunday. Nov. 23 pain had the Best report a a to Sharp destructive tool. It All depends on the Way you use Abo Nelson is still a close Man with a Buck tinting until the Stock can by greatly reduced in order to facilitate the making of Many chances in the store. When the Sale is concluded Tho this will be following the first basketball game. Visitors at thi it building will have Opportunity to visit All of the rooms they will be 1 Basic the e c o n o Iii v during the recent Campaign he store will be modernized and Rev ent into a jewish Delicatessen arranged to make it one of the and spotted a huge Salami hang j Mast Modem in the area owner e. Ing above the counter. He pointed j l. Roederer has stated. He purchased the store a few weeks Igo from Leland Robertson and took Possession this month. Stewart Caris is the manager of the store. De Roederer continue to it and said a a How much a the proprietor said the regular Price was $5 but for Rockefeller he would let it go at wholesale a total of 3.896 instead of 3.916. Driving Over a Mountain Road Robert Hansen unsuccessful demo j rolled Down the Side 35 feet. Cause erotic candidate for county at of the Accident is unknown. Arney. Had <4 instead of 69 in lip she was removed from the truck Pecante township for a total of j which was completely demolished i specially interested in the changes -.643 instead of 2.638. And taken by ambulance to the hos in the Home economics depart Neel in Hill Defeated in the lace pit Al. Her address is mrs. Donald ment the new addition which to. Secretary of agriculture had 64 Brockway Montrose Hospital and eludes class rooms and the gym Istead of 54 Voles in Jetson. Clinic. North third st., Montrose a slum and the new Kitchen and township for a total of 2,153, no a j0> she is a sister of mrs. Frank lunch room 2 143. Harold e Hughes Del at it i Ford Anc mis. George Willis. Mrs. I locally in the Commerce commis Willis will leave thursday night on race had 163 votes in Ward j a be California Zephyr to be with Tai of $1,655 to Date. None of the have completed their work. The leaders and cow orders were optimistic about the Campaign. They were fully aware however that there is much work vet to be done and indicated they will do it Quot solicitors who have completed their work should turn in their reports to their leaders. Those who have not should get out and Complete their solicitations a co chairman Darrell Goddard said. For $3. The Sale was concluded sort of personal Point and As Rockefeller left the shop. In the store and Milton Roederer program. It runs super a woman said loudly to the will be assisting part time but let us take up this argument markets in Italy Sells instant of owner j Horn another standpoint How can fee in Salvador makes Automa Quot to a Rockefeller you give a any Man who believes in god and Tion devices in new Jersey build discount to me in god s moral Law separate him housing projects in puerto Rico Sel from a religious basis what is and finances Small Auto Loans in next Nelson had a 25-cent Al a a religious basis is it not living Venezuela according to the revealed Laws of j o a a life which in the three major Reli last year it showed a profit of Gions of Western civilization Are $1,214,891. Rockefeller owns most identical this is called the natural of the $16 million Worth of Stock Law and it was the inspiration of his main income still comes the preamble of the declaration of Lorn Standard Oil Stock but he Independence which is the Philo has no role in running Hie com Sophic basis of american life. Puny More than tile voting Power ing tonight wednesday it As i fear mrs. Roosevelt got her of a Large stockholder. Many peo planned because of several con former county resident Dies Iii instead of 153. Changing a total to 2.162 from 2.152 Charles f. Wennerstrom. Defeated Supre in court judge candidate had 335 and i get 340 in Ward ii for a total of 3 171. Not 3,176. Woman Dies after being struck by car her sister. Shell blast injures leg reports car is stolen buy amplifier for new gym Low Anre As a boy and the Shoeshine Concession. No goal line club. Meeting tonight there w ill be no goal line meet mrs. Mary Everts mrs. A the Des Moines up Hue Piper and mrs. Mary Keith re Regnier 74, Des Mona turned from Superior neb. Tues a broken neck today and died. Of Day. They were called there by tilt ter being struck by. Car Here death of a sister mrs. Clara Coroner r Corwin Johnson a it a a Hodges. Johnson said the woman who a mrs. Hodges was brought up in patently lived Here with a Niece Henry county and attended Iowa was thrown Backow tile from Wesleyan College. She was a mein fender of the Auto and her Bod a a. Purchase of an amplification unit Ernest Bright. 301 North Jeffer for the new High school gymnasium son. Reported to City police at 1 10 was authorized by the school Board . Wednesday that his 1957 i at the meeting tuesday evening Chevrolet was stolen. The car was j bids had been taken from several parked in an Alley near the High dealers. Purchase was authorized Dale Parker. 14, son of or. And school. J rom the Mefford firm at burling Leila mrs. Delbert Parker who live 12 the car is a White and Bronze j ton which has made other install suffered Miles Northwest of it. Pleasant. Hard top. The License number is tons Here. Cost is expected to be suffered superficial wounds of one i 44-4082. Lea when a Shotgun Shell exploded j mar him tuesday about 6 p in. Memorial Hospital notes the Accident occurred at the admitted wednesday Parker Home i Deanna Billingsley the Shell was not in a gun. It dismissed wednesday Learned How the Shell was mrs. A. L. Spraker Bert Johnson Ber of i Beta Phi sorority and the hurled several feet he said she exploded self All tangled up in that sentence pie still come to the Rockefeller flicks. The next meeting is set for peo. She was a sister of Clark was dead on arrival at Broa lawns the youth is a patient at memo William Hunt of Oskaloosa. About Church and state mistakenly with criticisms and next wednesday night Everts who preceded her in a mph Hospital i t a a in d Here. Nos Frank Monson about $750, installation will be made for the opening game the Basic equipment will be available for use at the High school football games and also special events in the gym. The school Board took official recognition of the Southeast six championship in football won by it. Pleasant

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