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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 19, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening nov. 19, 1958 these Days vol80-n-273 by George e. Sokolsky Are you afraid to laugh j. Corey Ford in an interesting i piece in Quot the saturday evening j Post Quot asks the very pertinent question Quot Are you afraid to laugh Quot the question is pertinent because people these Days do not really laugh. They Grin they j Grimace they snicker they Giggle but they do not laugh. There is no uproar of laughter. There is no i belly laugh. True noise has become impolite unless it comes out of a machine it used to be that the purpose of dining was to talk and talk was usually de putative but never j pompous. Nothing is funnier than a pompous person attempting to establish his personality like a i heavy Hammer banging away at an idea. It is pleasanter to listen to those new i i machines Winch make so much noise or to a television late show. The pompous person realizes that his pomposity covers intellectual insecurity and he must kit up the act going to be noticed. However that is not the Only reason one does not laugh. It used i a ii s Here somewhere a Larry Anderson a Salesman from Des Moines. Iowa has rough going to be that when one went to a both travelling and working during a Snow storm in Liberal Kansas. He is trying to find the door lock Public dinner the speakers per i 011 his Snow covered car parked under a Bank thermometer sign registering 24 degrees. Anderson was by Carrier 30 per Creek by mail. Vim per year tragedy on Lake to Experiment with signals netted themselves wit and humor and some understanding of human nature. But in these Days of synthetics with most speeches written by ghosts the output is lethal. After dinner speeches Are a cause for the increased consumption of anti Gas powders and other nostrums which Aie advertised even on television without the burp slow ing. Tile failure of vaudeville ended the real Jokester radio Tele in Liberal showing a line of Spring Straw hats to local merchants. Plan for Rural area fund drive bus opening i attorney Calls Ames Iowa up the Iowa Highway c1 a Mission decided to i Day to conduct experiments with a now kind of no passing sign on the left Side of the Highway and Electron control of traffic signal a a Blind intersection. Carl s Bach commission traffic Mengirt. Said today the two research programs will be started As soon As the necessary equipment can be purchased. To indicated it would be b fore the end of Tho year. Schakeh Aid the new no playing signs will be erected along u. S. I 30 from Clinton to the Missouri j rive Bridge West of Missouri j Valley As an Aid to the present j yell it a no passing lines on th1 Highway i the Pennant shaped signs will give the Motorist an earlier warn governor favors state school study Lew. Wallace 1958 inc graduate Dies unexpectedly two rescued Lew Dwight Wallace j4, died j unexpectedly at the University hos Des Moines up gov. I Tai in Iowa City tuesday around Herschel c Loveless said today 12 30 . Death was apparently he favored hiring a private Effi i due to a ruptured artery in the Cliency expert to streamline operations of the states three tax supported colleges Loveless said savings could bi1 made in the Oscr spleen. The son of Dwight and Edith m Wallace lie was born april 13, 1034, at. Muscatine he was a graduate 33 aboard Cairo ship Are missing Charlevoix Mien. Up two survivors were rescued today from the sunken cargo ship Carl. Bradley that foundered in a of it Union High school and wild storm in the a a graveyard of at in of Iowa state College the graduated from Iowa Wesleyan. Ships Quot in the Northern reaches of University of Iowa and Iowa state College in june 1038. Teachers College by making an efficiency study. Quot it is time we re evaluate our educational system a Loveless said. Or. Wallace was valedictorian of Lake Michigan. But the wind lashed Waters a his class High school and patently planned the lives of 32 other men including the Captain Roland Bryan 52. There had this morning graduated Summa cum laude from Iowa Wesleyan. He was doing Loveless first mentioned the i graduate work at the state uni i been Early reports possible use of a private efficient i i v firm during a budget hearing i with the Iowa Board of regents this week plans Are now under Way for the invitation in rut a1 areas in the vision Are afraid of dialects Betase greater i. Pleasant Community sponsors Are afraid of Boycott fund drive the grand opening of the Brown Lynch Scott store this week end j will reveal a completely remodeler and restocked store new lines of mass killings common plot ingot an approaching no passing j zone St hat h said tile electronic traffic signals t it i be placed at a Blind intersection a will be activated Only when a vehicle approaches from the unseen direction he said. Varsity of Iowa where he had a that two More survivors had been assistant ship in history. He was sighted on an uninhabited Island president of Iota Phi while at1 not tar from the sinking but the monday when the regents asked i Wesleyan and was recognized in j report could not be confirmed by nevertheless a Diale t is a aider Harold Knedler chairman has fill fun and a dialect Story Well Ann timed regional chairmen As told sub Rosa perhaps by Hart ii follows of non i flank Connor Region 2 Richard Cornick Region 3�?warren Ford Region 4�?howard Burkey the Kickoff meeting for Herschfield is always Worth a laugh there used to by humorous magazines and humorist columnists As Corey Ford Points out but they Are ail gone unless one is willing to accept some of the extra Pon leaders and co workers has Tif ical stuff As a form of humor j delay a in order to give there used to be humorists like workers time to Complete their Mark Twain tor that matter or Harvest before starting the Solicia will Rogers. Today there re none tons merchandise and new arrangements of displays. A new front has been installed new electric signs erected and new window Harvest Brown enamel and alumni num Are used effectively in the attractive new front. Lincoln. Neb. Up a Carli Ann Fugate Quot encouraged and actually a Sis ted Quot mass Slayer Charles Starkweather during their murder rampage county att y. Anan cements provide a Mer Scheele told a jury today. A jury can 15 wept quietly As Scheule addressed the jury say on the Interior the amount of ing that despite her age. She floor space has been increased by i l about 50 percent by the use of Hcan More of the former storage space Al 1 for display area of merchandise. A the mass murders As a a common a knows the difference a Between right and her eyes were red As the prosecutor described Rui although few mean to be. Why has Iii Rural division of the com not the 20th Century the Middle nullity fund drive is an important of it produced a Mark to tin i phase. Many of the agencies which j other departments also Are being Balcony has been added at the rear departments have been shifted to new locations and one area is used for the greatly increased display of furniture and furnishings. There is so much to laugh about is e in the fund Are serving Rural there is not a single satirist in boys and girls and adults too just the English language. A. They Are serving those of pleasant. A Che my. Decision on Hall of Fame site is near for a record 114 million dollars to operate their six institutions during the next two years. At the time Loveless first mentioned it. President James Hilton of Iowa state College said he had had Quot unsatisfactory experience with such private firms. Who a who of american College the coast guard. And University students. On june 2, 1957 at it. Pleasant he was married to Rose Marie Johns. A daughter Christina Marie j was born to them get. To 1958. Or. Wallace is survived by his w Ife. Daughter one Brot Lier Lance Hilton said the three colleges j and a sister Sally Ann Wallce both were beginning efficiency study of their own especially in the Field of classroom use. Approve Sale of phone company a Henry county committee which Lias been working on the agn Cul i Tural Hall of Fame application for Henry county met tuesday morning i to go Over new information. Plot Quot by the two teen agers. Starkweather has been sen-1 tended to death. Caril could receive the same sentence. Her trial which began oct. 27. Is expected to reach the jury thursday. Tile stockholders of the consolidated utilities company at a meeting in Atlanta Georgia november 14. 1958, approved the Sale of their common Stock of the mis final selection of a site will come Sis Sippi Valley Telephone company students of Iowa Wesleyan College. Funeral services will be held Friday at 9 a in. In St. Alphonsin Catholic Church with Rev. John Manning officiating. Interment will be in St. Alphonsin cemetery. Rosary will be said thursday at 8 30 . At the r. K. Crane funeral Home. Scheule hammered hard on the state s increased in size the store will be closed thursday so that final preparations can be made for the grand reopening writing like even fun Els a. Uji not port meeting for the each department w ill have Many i Content on that the supplies a want and if there is several groups in it. Pleasant prizes to be Given away during the Llian being a lightened hostage no demand there is no Supply. I wednesday morning the summary opening. Hie v of be humorist is writing of the figures disclosed that the monday and it is Likely that a committee on the site selection will visit from three to five cities whim will be in the Quot finals Quot before the selection is made. Quot who Dun its and tilt satirist such As Westbrook per r might have been is telling the politicians on libations now total 65 per be a the goal. The re is still work to be done How to to decent a most futile by nearly All groups. They were task and utterly unappreciated urged to Complete their solicit Pegler s Spelvin storms might have Lions and turn in completed remade great literature it they were ports. Not confined to the size of a column. And probably at times Cut to fit. They need room for development and the spread of virginal humor. J Harry Hershfield Tan regale his coterie of listeners with Story after Story but in a column they Are too purified to be Worth while Hill urges caution in hog production Elkader Tornado damage High Elkader Iowa which is also True of Bennett Cert mayor Fern e Sharp estimated tiled Mage from a Tornado that struck the town monday at about $150,000. J Des Moines up a e How a re Hill president of the now a i farm Bureau federation tuesday a night urged state Farmers to be Quot cautious Quot in the raising of hogs. Since a Price decline is expected Upit Elkader late next year. Hill said the surplus in feed j the Henry county group is a lanky sex Fri agent hoping that it pleasant will be one of tile cities selected for visitation. That will be the final Opportunity for presentation of the local advantages. Of an armed madman had numerous chances to escape. The states theory. Scheule said. Is that while caril did not a actually pull the trigger in the j slaying of Robert Jensen 17, she did Aid and abet Starkweather and Quot is just As Quilty As the one tile committee meeting tuesday to the National Telephone company. National Telephone company is i subsidiary of general waterworks corporation of Philadelphia. Penn., and is an associated company of the Iowa Uli Nois Telephone company and the Western Illinois Telephone company both of whose general offices Are located in new London Iowa. Directors elected at the stockholders meeting of tile Mississippi Valley Telephone company held in w ent Over Many of the advantages \ Atlanta on november 14, 1958, Are introduced some new thinking tha adds to the prestige of the local Case and made tentative plans for entertainment of the visitor a w. Sanders new London Iowa v f. Rifling and a. I. Weisskopf both of Philadelphia Penn. Officers elected were a w. Sanders special Chapel series opens or. William l. Lancey Morristown n. J., spoke tuesday morning at Iowa Wesleyan College at the first of four special Chapel services. This is religion in life week on the Campus. Or. Lancey will also address the student body at the Chapel services at 10 15 a. In. On wednesday. Thursday and Friday. He is holding Many consultation periods w i t n smaller groups throughout t h e week. The w Eek a theme is a to u r tuesday morning the Sermon was Quot our need for truth Quot or. Lancey pointed out that people often mistake information for truth but when pulled the. Truf for Quot to mtg plea Sant be selected for president v f. Rigling vice presi that Man truth he who pulled me trigger. Ii a. Visitation this week end. J Dent e c. Gates of Minneapolis Able to stand up Gamst pressure. This selection of to e three j vice president John gob a be Suess,.d that Man in. Aqleh of Philadelphia Penn Sec-1 tended to be the Ineare of god and for tile Jensen murder that Starkweather was sentenced to die. Jensen a body and that of his sweetheart Carol King 16, were found in a storm Cave near their Homes in Bennett Southeast of Lincoln last Jan. 28. Five a finalists Quot will be known sometime Friday. Rotary and treasurer a. I. Weiss j the reality of god in everyday life Kopf assistant Secretary and As the truth about Many he or during tin three Iowa communistic Ames i Sis taut treasurer and c. F. Eichler car eco a us at god was so sure Dos Moines and it. Pleasant Are i new London Iowa assistant. Jle was a treasure that he gave his under consideration in Iowa there Secretary and assistant treasurer. A j greatest treasure his son for our Are some 18 others in other states i g. Ulrich of Carthage 111., will Early part of his Howard a. Cowden. Kansas City. I continue As manager of Mississippi the bodies of nine men w Ero \ sighted in the area Between High and Gull islands. The freighter trails Ontario recovered one body West of High Island and three bodies were picked up by the Cost guard Cutter sundew on the North Side of Gull Island. Five other bodies were in water too shallow for the sundew to go in to pick them up and the Lake was too rough for the Cutter to launch Small boats. An hour after picking up one body the Tran Ontario reported to a helicopter flying overhead that it detected the possibility of life. The coast guard ordered the helicopter to go to Beaver Island to pick up a doctor Fly him Back to the Tran Ontario and try to drop him aboard Over a rope ladder. However when the Quot copter arrived Back at the ship the Pilot was informed by radio that the crewman was dead and no attempt was made to put the doctor aboard ship. The two men rescued were first mate Elmer Fleming and deck watchman Frank Mayes to formerly of Waterloo Iowa Botn of Rogers City Mich. They had succeeded in getting onto a life raft when the Bradley broke in two dining the storm tuesday night and were picked up 14 hours later by the sundew. They were suffering from expose e. Fleming told the coast guard that the ship broke up in heavy seas. He said Quot there was no Richard Book 26, Portsmouth la., was among the missing who suffers from being an an Tho Logist. Bennett Cerf has the makings of a humorist who will ultimately rebel St his Tuxedo grains would Hurt the hog Market. Summation Scheele said the firs he urged Farmers to against acreage controls in the murders in which Carol an Fame idea was in Ames tuesday Valley Telephone company were a member of the Board of directors t Valley Telephone company. Vote three victims in the string of to and who conceived the Hall of i the general offices of Mississippi made the estimate late j Corn referendum no. 25, because Starkweather were involved were j to visit the proposed Hall of Fame moved from Dalton Georgia to new and do something that is remark t a Jav after residents cleared the. The controls have not helped to slain Quot in the presence of Carl site there. London Iowa november 17, 1958. Norfolk voters for segregation town of debris. J control the problem of mounting Ann Fugate these victims were1 the Community of about 1.600, surpluses especially in the feed her Mother Stepfather and baby i t. I u 1 to Quot he the twister Era i us half sister and she testified she Man likes to laugh just As a dog poisons was nit but the twi Sui. In monday afternoon. No one was in Hill said he favored the use of not know they were dead a conservation reserves til after she was arrested Scheele recalled a number of instances when he said caril could easily have escaped. He Abb Good likes to bark the sponsor radio and television is r. Illy afraid hired when it struck the Southern stronger that the customer might not like Edge of the business District and within the soil Bank and also can to be laughed at. To administer holy confirmation the right reverend Gordon v. J Smith std. Bishop of Iowa will administer the sacrament of holy confirmation wednesday night to j night at 7 30. At St. Michael s episcopal Church. Which is in Tore up from 12 doubt edly True. As everybody is a j places in the town customer it is impossible to have any laughter although Mollie Bishop g. Smith Goldberg achieves both laughter and pathos in dialect and the dialect is authentic. There is no laughter in westerns which Are now popular or in qui shows which were All the rage last year. At tempts to introduce the funny in quiz shows got them into trouble because it could Only be accomplished by exaggerating the in Proback namely by a Anil my it so that an obvious ignoramus seemed to be a know it All but nobody laughed at that any More than one laughed at Barnum s White elephant the usual May be startling but it need not be funny. The Clown could be Tunny but the strip teaser can Only be surprising she is never funny and Only exciting to tile moronic. I clowns Are f ast disappearing As burlesque is disappears r lid the machine shed circus has become genteel this is an excellent subject for a j Good argument particularly among thase who still prefer to laugh at the foibles of the human race after All we re very funny Aren t we copyright 1958. Kit Syndicate inc to 15 business de for payment in Quot kind a to help i use up the surplus in the feed grains. I he said surpluses could also be i eased through increased use of j farm products by Industry and memorial Hospit Al no admitted tuesday mrs. Mary Spray mrs. Willy Davidson of Salem mis. Jimmy. Miller of Hillsboro mrs. Lows cell a Vouhli it i fall mrs. Blaine Arnold i a a Quot a react favourably to Russia s space stressed that once two armed i admitted More foreign Trade. Law officers came to the door of card s Home but the girl awakened Starkweather before a a shooing the officers away Quot with Story that her family was ill. Reach airlines 15 killed in strike agreement cuban fighting Washington up officials Havana. Up fifteen per those who will receive confirm capital ail lines and the a j sons have been killed Here in 24 mrs. Harry Hoaglin of hid in it dismissed tues la y mrs. James Freen. To. And Bat boy of Danville dismissed wednesday mrs. Frank Hagaman of Olds mrs. Arthur Luton mrs. D c Wilson i. Walter Mcpherson w. W White we i tha Low mrs. Rupert Carlson mrs. Jimmy Miller or. Raymond Chadwick president of Iowa Wesleyan welcomed the visiting speaker. Paul penning ton. Columbus Junction prescient Norfolk. A. Up the of religious Lite Council Intro Norfolk City Council had the vol Eluted or. Lancey. Darrell Walton. I a Siree to two blcs5ms 10 ride with the state s anti integration policy which has closed six of Norfolk s Public schools. In tile first direct ballot on Virginia s Quot massive resistance Quot program. Three out of five voters said they would rather have the schools remain closed than have them fort Madison assisted in the service. The Wesleyan choir under the direction of or. Richard g. Parker Sang Quot praises to the lord Quot arranged by Christiansen. Blaze in baled Hay extinguished mation Are mrs. Elizabeth Logan chinos Union reached agreement hours apparently in clashes of births tues i George w. Wright mrs. Harriet Toda a on ending a 35-Day strike tween rebel sympathizers and to boy to or and i Wright mrs. Maxine Shafer forced the nation s fifth Lar Hee looking for the Tommy gun counter of what Chon Liers who killed seven patrolmen in births wednesday a gang St Yip massacre girl to or Anc. I bulletins night in suburban Mariana. Wilson the official announcement in _ _ _ persons had been a found dead Quot ii Mariana and six in Havana proper. Such vagueness about a violent prepare Christmas float death in Cuba usually Means that the victim was shot by police who Thomas Mcnamara. Miss Glenda be St airline to suspend operations Fankhauser and Larry Stout. A dinner honouring the Bishop and those receiving confirmation will be held in the Parish House at 6 . Blown from foundation Strong winds monday afternoon blew a machine shed oif its foundation at the Don Lawrence farm four Miles West of it. Pleas features ant. There was no other damage i on the farm Washington i i in defense Secretary Neil ii. My Elroy today Cut army draft Calls and ordered the armed forces to reduce their total Man Power by 71,282 men by next june 30. Jerusalem Israel i Pii a the israeli foreign ministry charged tonight that Quot armed syrians trespassing on israeli territory monday afternoon murdered in cold blood mrs. Mary Joyce Doran Quot wife of the British air attache in Israel Oakland Mills Church to United nations. N. Y. Up Western delegates reacted favourably today to russians surprisingly amiable plan for control of outer space. But they were giving it careful study before committing themselves. Soviet Deputy foreign minister Valerian a. Zorin produced the new Resolution before the in main political committee late tuesday j raising in Hopes of agreement by abruptly scrapping the the Krem Hillsboro lit demand that space control be i with elimination of foreign Robe t in tary bases. J u s. Delegate Henry Cabot j was out when they arrived Lodge told the in political com j Riehan i Mil tee it looked As if Quot Progress j has but it recorded Quot in Russia s i apparent move toward a Compromise but he promptly dispatched a copy to the state department for study. Opened and integrated. The vote tuesday was Quot against and 8.781 a a for proposal. 12.658 this after hold up a Small Blaze in baled Hay on the Dan Mcallister seed farm to i arrested soon cat a mile North and two Miles West of it. Union was quickly extinguished by the it. Union lire at Muscatine department at 1145 . Tuesday Quick detection of the fire by Muscatine Iowa uple Carl William Triska an employee on i Wells 49, Moline. 111., arrested a the farm probably saved several few minutes after a Sill Holdup buildings nearby at the Palms tavern Early today. The it pleasant fire department j waived preliminary hearing and also answered the Call but the fire As bound Over to District court. I Wells jailed under $10.0x> Bond was charged with holding up Bernard Gerber. 41, manager i of the tavern after Gerber closed j the Saloon. Gerber said Wells waited until Aledo 111. Mrs. Wallace Boyce he turned out the lights Aud lock-28. Muscatine Lawas injured1 de the door and then confronted Muscatine woman fatally injured Oakland Mills Community Church Don t want to talk about the Inci club met monday evening at the Dent. In All. 23 persons have been Church. It was decided mrs. W. Snyder Dies in n. Dakota fatally tuesday when she was am with a pistol. The thief rifled struck by a car while walking along j the Cash Register and fled. Highway 17 about 3 Miles Vest of Here. Prepare a float killed in or near Havana in ten for the Christmas Parade held in Days in a running Battle Between it. Pleasant each year word was received by Mary car was Lester Curry 58. Of new Edda a Field that mrs. Walter inv Boston police and rebels which starter plans were made for the family Der died in a grand Forks n. D another Motorist. Arthur Krahl but Gerber a passing Motorist and two men from a restaurant authorities said the Driver of the j chased the Man Down an Alley and cornered him on the roof of the Muscatine manufacturing him. Corp w Here police arrested when police killed insurgent Leader night Turkey dinner to be held Hospital last thursday at 5 p. In. J of Milian said he saw the Accident officers said they found a 32 Angel Amejeira and three Compaq thursday evening members and or Anc mrs Snyder have often and that Curry could not avoid hit-1 Caliper automatic pistol on the ions nov 7 their families ar1 invited visited i Quot. It. Pleasant. Ting the woman. Roof and $111 in Wells pocket

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