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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 10, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news Wal f. Vol. 83, no. 238mt. Pleasant Iowa to Sedav evening october 10, 1%1 these Days by forge e. Sokolsky i 11.1 it a Sill ii a to build of not to build is the Groat question of the Day. Up to a few months ago the compulsion was to build a swing nog Pool who could possibly have and state at All tiles ? tub of Green water Lay on Lawn tor All to or sometime. To Quot by even put on bathing suits. And Lay in the it in or n the weather was warm enough they hopped in and swam about for a few minute. It War i Iraq Tifful sight to behold tut most of thi time the Pool lathere serving neither Man or fish but giving evidence of Sta us. But now it is a bomb he or and they dig it deep and provide 30 Days of food and water and the fancier ones have a Battery room from which can come Light and heat with an Oil Supply to la. T exactly 30 Days this business has not yet reached Boom proportions anyone who will not own a private Bond shelter will have no status at All just i bum who will be killed by an a or ii bomb or a fallout f f com. A a time and a Quot it Ria move the r Neiry Way. The bomb Heteu v. T 1 he dug deeper and deeper and . They will but connected by underground sidewalks and later by an underground Road system so that automobile will be Able to move hither and thither it Wal truly be wonderful to live in underground caves Only the poor will live above ground. Thev will see grass and Trees and roads and the sky but they will have no state and when the 1x>mb Falls they will be killed first Aid there will be no one to Bury them. But Liat happens it la b Falls we shall of Coin. It have another Boom this time it will be to convert shelters into playrooms and there will be Clever manufacturers who will make special kinds of barbecues for a party Down underneath and it will be pm. To dress like tie Devil and to roast a pig in a get at on a spit the Dev. Etmo a chef special music will be written for such an occasion and the recording . Will Boom Selling hell music and there will by special cot Umes for All son of occasion. And jokers will desire ideas like exchanging wives and having orgies about which Bokr will be written and sold by the Hulhon there will he a Bomi it inverting belter into evident r. Of Leisure and Lux in v Kaiui whoever will not own an underground play room will be a poor Simp who did not make Ole. I is i of not hav Money enough to join a country club or to change the porch furn tui e c. It i y summer television a ill drive on tin r Boom. Beautiful girl with Well modulated voices and Long fingernails will be us d As models for All lbs of devices of luxury and nil or and the pour Dea a will eat no food that add to one. Figur an ounce of flesh in fact already food sub. Mutes Are being advertised so that a girl drinks her breakfast to keep her hips Flat and o there will be another Boom because the doctors will discover that thinness is bad for the lungs and awful for the feet and that everyone should eat real food such As meat and butter and bread then the researchers will rediscover How u did Mother made pop overs and How Good Fried Mush was if True Maple syrup was used with is. Non thu Cycle of life turn even As the Earth and All the stars turn in their rhythmic was and we shall be Back where we started eating an ice Cream sundae covered up with marshmallows and chopped Walnut and adding 500 calories with each dish As boy looks into the Lovely Green eyes of girl and thinks of the babies to come who will live in an in con Tarn mated world. I have been in a shelter deep a Mountain and Down very far but then that was built so that if War Ever came we could go on lighting no matter what the blew up. It looked like a comfortable place and must have Cost lots of millions to build and furnish. But there was no live cow and no steaks hanging in the icebox and nothing on hand but synthetic rations that taste like chocolate bars. Somebody said that War is hell and we sure Are preparing Lor a life in hell. Copyright 1961, King features Syndicate inc it berserk gunman kills l our or. Van Allen Given rocket society award Warner Russell Orn to named to National f Angs third Lay committee new York Fuji i air a Van Allen discoverer a a a a radiation Belt surrounding the Earth was Given the America. Rocket society s a Earth award today for his contributions to Baic a search in astronaut us and rocketry # Van Allen head of the Dep ment of physics and astronomy at the the University of Iowa w cited at the society s annual meeting for his Early Ion of rocketry to cosmic Ray research h discovery of radion belt1 and h continuing a. C research in it Field of pare the Awai Carrier a $2 5000 or Van Allen discoverer of the radiation Belt surrounding the Earth called on american universities to get 11.to s up with the nation s space race with Russia in a speech accepting the american rocket society s first a Vea h j award the head of the state uni j verify of Iowa a physics department called on tire Federal govern intent the National aeronautics and. Space Agency and private Indus re to provide universities with necessary space education facilities research support. Fellowships and comp Totive atmosphere. Quot graduate schools can make a great contribution to space science and technology but the universities j that Are doing tins can be counted on the fingers of both hands he said. Van Allen s.1 id the nation s space j program can Quot muddle Alor. With a level of Over All competence far Short of our is Parr ambitions but a gradually its efforts in the Field will become less and less imaginative. Fortunately he said the russians Quot suffer from the same malady a universities like no others ment of our culture have shown the ability to translate the Callow enthusiasm of our youth into Broad gauge Long term he said a it is up to the universities to put the cutting Edge on the Blunt tool we Are using at this time Quot he added former iowan shot and killed . A Chi i l i the Hoil i i a they a it Ned at the Alt. Picas school Homecoming events Friday and i id. Evening. Here Riding atop the seat of a convertible from left attendant Townsend Queen Christ or and attendant Barbar ant High they Are Martha 1 Taylor Mankato. Mum i pi1 a Foi ii in it a is Low i. Man was shot and killed today alter being summoned from his Motel it Redan c Stoll. 25, a Sab Man from Rochester. Minn., died in St. Josephus Hospital a Short time after he was found 011 the pavement the office of Kucs Tel. Located North of Mankato off u 169. Police were Holt in Quot Stoll Romp i Ion Robert o. Meckel a it 30 Kaukauna wis. For questioning. Stoll soil of or and or Leo Stoll. Des reilies. Was Man led and the father of a two month old daughter. Denise a graduate of the University of Iowa he married Janice Davis 23. Of Waterloo. Low., at Waterloo thru years ago sin is the daughter of or. And mrs dim Davis. Waterloo. Police told this account of tin shooting they were called to the Motel at 1 32 a Heckel told officers a Man came to the Cabin he shared with Stoll and said there was an emergency Call tor Stoll in the office. Heckt l said Stoll went out first after asking Heckel to accompany him. Heckel said when he left the Cabin a few moments later he saw Stoll lying on the pavement near the office. Heckel said he asked the manager to Call an ambulance at the Hospital h was discovered that Stoll had been shot twice in the head with a Small Caliper trim warn 1 if Roll of pie a. I a it 1 01 a of 24 iowan 1. 1 to Mem a hip >1 t a n a 1101 ail i i v it Tom in tec on evangel. M it i tie Tho a Chun i 1 affiliated with the Church Nati it boy re of eve Angelum he a. Onal la commit i a Jau advisory group an i Capri out special project a Cuc to Emp a a s is the Organ a Ion of one or n re urn of the i w i visitation and prayer Tody group in each local the National Lay commit 1 1 it t nov 2 i a in in a a a it in brei 1 i Tylor. It a it 1 Fite cent of rotary int r. A Ion Cna Iona Eads 1 of a la commit to an Sam brow n to c a i i Bluffs i it a a. inure gov. Erbe expects to come Here nov. 2 Washington Chi to a a 1061 Corn for Grain crop will be the third Large t on record at 737 151 00u bushels the agriculture depart to it c. today the Oft 1 Iowa Timat to it same a the sept 1 r in the whet v eld a. E t mated at a Perot d 7.1 bin Liels per acre National rot n yield w a it 1 at 60 5 Bushel. An car compared with 5-1 5 bushels in i960 farm Bureau to Convene Norman Wulf Speaks Given at al wants he is killed after firing at seven men the Henry county farm Bur ail v in hold the or annual or top or 18. A the St Alphon. U he ill \1 i to mar tag will p with a Turkey served by a hrs women tar at 7< dinner being of the Church fit Midwest 1 ers i Union i o i i 1 v i by flu k. Zvenit. They Wii diced at Norman jul am a 11 us i it trim n j program w. Wulf tol thought the Exchange w jurians of it land Way it of thin a wave of Lif a Vii a Trail null a in we. Old a an i Milt i i 1 Lul Gap 1 v or r i u a tided ind went Quot got t i. Hij it for i it Pii a a St 1 berserk after being t talking Back today f i tory killing f Pic a a Hibo a a four men a a and three More were shot a policeman killed the i change Iii Nisi Iii inti t in Iionia Aki l but i even that 1, to v Iii i him 1 f. The a he Hie p Davis 29, a o fellow workers Quot it g ing to get a new id gunned Down the reign of terror at and Mill co. T Ai he levelled to. D in Galiber revolver a Fri barring his path through to it Jolt of flu Plant. Ake 11 Tel met sri d a he h t Kiei 1 Luil presidents news the t one in i very i thirds europ ii a. Ked schools per can not seen cd in Iii i it As. I i 11. Governor Norman Erim. Who a la err in non plans to visit of the administrative director of the Low institutions expects to come to it i pm Bureau or incl on i a Virv plea ant on nov 2 with Board Quot a a i a p a of control to visit the mental r health Institute t c a a a Quot a a a term i ment and door prizes j everyone is Welcome to attend tickets May be obtained at the conference on to farm Bureau of of from am township chairman new York it Upit major 1 a television and radio networks an noun today they will Tarry plunges 7,200 or s Dot it Kennedy s news conference live wednesday afternoon. Abc. Lbs and Abc said they would broadcast the news conf a diver who plan Oci 7.200 feet Ford it Ila enc from Washington from 2.30 to 3 pm . On both Tel attempt t k a feet will survive Flemington. N j it up a a be As mind c the i i comps a in i wills Hei s w pre Ide old th1 Triduc the officers present Tuy Wen Sater. Or and or. A i i mid i Washington from 1 on both lion and radio. Mutual announced plans to carry it on its radio network. Gromyko arranges meeting with Macmillan k London up s o v foreign minister Andrei Gromyko today arranged a meeting 1 prime minister Harold Mcm it and Aid Quot Mure is a to a . Of a peaceful Berlin com Gromyko arrive i Imre on 24-hour Stopover car a it no firm i Berlin c. L is a Washington and Nev. Yo5 president Kennedy and set pm -. Of state Dean Rusk into a oilfield when i Para Hute a of t fat faded to open will survive doctor. And mrs s. Not said today. Harry j Shortt 34. Of fort Lee no a member of the tri site so. Divers a Parachute club was a Java reported in serious but not critical it Nch tion at Hunter Don medical he suffered multiple fractures a Llo but i this. My. Or and tid Mill aw-1atht v Ler. Or and mrs. Or. Edv Aid Lloyd Parson a and or Everett Houtcamp. Or and mrs c f and mrs Harry c d or and i Merle s Smith and or and i l Nunley a Captain i to o i in 1 y w a 1 recognition a. Tie comm and it goal line club meeting wednesday i officer of the Loc unit v h cd wiil Active duty soon a pre indent of t _ Laux Iliavi the i a al line club will meet i. I Elgar Ora at the Rea building wednesday recognition a 7 30 p film of the of he year at Vith Mafis Centerville game will be Union and a flt it shown the local coaches will talk 1 Gaui at on a. A it a inv be Lea and mrs District of a to. The old r i 1 v i 11 in gird a. Me id i t.or1 Fri urn from Yards away and dropped Dave with a Bullet Beital the right a to. 1 a id v a i it .1 gov Don 37, a v is u g Lio i a de Moran 46, in it re m.,i i k repair Neal w n Rath 1r maintenance metallurgy. L Fiat Royal Rutt. 25, a management trainee who had been on the Job Only two weeks. Wounded were Louis Massa 51 a general Foreman Jerry Meyers 48, general Foreman of utilities and David Staehr 29, general Secre tary of it Litie i or in i ,.�< or i Ogof d w Machin Vot the steel Mill Clank no so loudly tha a revolver so w l old have been drowned out be than tiv feet. Iway. Plant poll and factory workers alike App i. To a re aware that a kill r w i apparently came prepare i i for. Laughter. Thirty seven Bullet were found in his Possession. During the slayings he had time to reload his six shot weapon. Only one of his shots missed. After hooting the seven a Dav. Took a pot shot at a Winch of i tor. Blu. Aim failed ironically Davis Rode to Woik Focian with Guydon. I v. It a thru he under Ai on the r teams. Homecoming float winners fir a in tie pm. Ant High school Homecoming float Parade sponsored by to. His a mow pm Down Quot a the top to float a. Built by that a second place went to Quot fishing for a Victory built by the it club third to tie Gra entry Skunk pm Quot and fourth to the tri entry Livasy to i por of pays $300 Fine taxpayers Hoard on 0. charge elects Ollices Douds Cave in Ould make Good fallout shelter officials stale i Alai son of Burin 1 Harlan a i i r. Ident i Guc. ? of h t d l Othu i at by Eufima pm l aria k want a h a 111 k i w a his Douds Iowa Chi gov Norman a Elbe and other Gate official inspected a Limestone Quarry Avern near Here monday and Erbe Aid the Cave would make an Ideal Quot fallout and blast shelter for Tato government Quot tile potential of the Cave enormous Quot Erbe said Quot not Only As a a go or for fallout purposes if the immediate danger of an attack Wie on a sustained Douds is about 108 Miles South u East of Des Moines and with Only y a two hour warning tale official might be hard pressed to got to i the i in time however the d the re Poi com Mimi t v year Rober a Gibson of is Ltd rep a jabei1 i club at cited the Educ tag t u-1 a a a Campaign a word ii be n named an the r Robe w hit Afl-ci0 rejects Hoffa new York it up a t h is it Tivo a it mail of the al com today overwhelmingly rejected promo. In for t get re admission of Janies r Hoffa and his tear Quot to. Union to the International of Gamza Tiomi 1 to Board Ruth us silk Vot again 1 to member absent. Or president inline worke a Hoff of the 29-Tudor g Walt of the unit operating was into Van i mis Blythe a pleasant was sentenced in court monday to pay i pm of $300 and on a charge of motor vehicle while h can i d Blythe a 1 Cieck to 90 Day jail be of Movise it Onri offence but the term was suspended on condition that hot the $ of Fine which he did he was paroled to attorney Tom Bell Blythe a Driver License a revoked for five months. He had pleaded guilty to the charges last week when arraigned on indie Tiu it. Add to list of racial cases the Henry county taxpayer association Board Eio Tod chairman at an organi a i Ion meeting Munir eve Ning Max Kauffman wat a Cir Fly a Quot Eli airmail j j f Quot Patrick. To a and i Frank Wright re tar the Board of outgo selected at a recent meeting of tin association Ralph Shellabarger a to hav cards punted Whu. Will 1 sent to All tax pop a. In big county asking them to in coir Maljers dues arc to be two do int be Amity for one v a Garth a 1 r 19 1 the Money from the Riu s will be used to employ a Pul Tim a Cou hint who will examine All budgets and expenses of county towns and school do try s of a he county. Fallout shelter for state govern governor said it an attack appeared Nunt but also for the military and but of Long duration it would he people of the Community As Well a worthwhile to make the the club Vogt non to i ii a to it veiling Warren Fly new member on i sheriff under fire at Montezuma As for storage purposes Quot other Gate Oili gals in i. Party joined Erbe in Praise g the possible use of the Cav for bomb and fallout Protection. But much work would hav to be Don of make it useable a. A shelter the huge underground Cav in a note than 60 acres of open area trip goes to Council Bluffs storage mentioned during the inspection included state records. Food crop seeds and livestock v and historical books and documents William said the seed and live Tock might be needed to Quot get Low. Going again after Fallot Leon Yates Ottumwa president to of Lulu r a an let a cd a he Douds Stone in. Which nun he Cave. Said. The ceiling of the he ii. All unprotected live Tock might be destroy a and that re ave Range from 16 to 26 feet from a a a Quot a sch indicated radiation destroys he floor. The vanes from 6a to 120 Leet below the surface of the round and is topped by 60 feet of Olid Limestone aug i use of end of Ford strike in sight Lamm residence on Monroe sold or. And mrs Harold Lamm have sold their residence property at 604 East Monroe to the Bradley Wrights and Are moving to an apartment at 103 East Henry. The Rex lamps occupy the other apart nit it. Washington Fuyii a Challenge to segregation in restaurants and restroom of City air a it has been added to the supreme Coin it of racial Case. The court accepted review of the Appeal monday in its first business session of the 1961-62 term. The Case was brought under the Federal civil rights by Jesse Turner a Memphis negro. I who was denied service by Dobbs a houses. Inc. Which leases restaurant facilities at the municipal Airport. Scout troop 28 scout troop 28 will meet in the recreation room at the methodist Church starting next monday evening scout Mast r j w Krai said tuesday the meetings will be held at 7 45. The Junior High gym where the troop previously met has been converted to the school room and the recent meetings have been at the student Center he reproducing ability of see Tandy and Williams emphasized Quot a number of requirements would have to be met Quot before the Cavern could be used As a fallout shelter. Entrance to the Cave is made water food and Power through a gaping do or in it p facilities a Quot us have of be Provin depression eds said Williams and flood con Quot this would make a wonderful tool would h Ive to but saved facility for civil defense Quot said the Cave is dry and has no seep Frank Williams Cedar f ill chair a problems but could be fax Odd. Man of the state civil defense As it was in 1917, if the neat by Des Board Moines River Rose out. Of its Banks. Quot our engineers have Given us the Entrance to the Cave would very favourable report on the Cav Quot. Otto Lio problems 1 Antly said. Jul said adj. Gen Fred c Tandy of would be blocked up and he Iowa National guard. Air filters installed re keep Hatm however governor Erbe ent Ipha Ful radiation away 1 he Cuma Ion sized the Cave would be of Little of fish an is called natural value to state officials and office sit the Cave. A a. Too pro u runt Nul Neath that big Panther head the item Case of a sudden attack after the visit lbt was cautious ,u1,.rt 1. Neil Quot we would not have time to get about what plan., .1 any. A a tall a it Quot evident at a a it a j a mum i n Here from Dee Moines to we at. Take to Acque re the use of the Cave the. Here be peeked from i.,1 stae Tod off a. Tacked suddenly he said. How for he state. He said he would under the headgear. Twas he new Quot al. Ever it could still be used tor Stor Confer with defense officials it Holt. Montezuma. Iowa uni jury Consic misconduct of f i tion into the charges Anont t was scheduled to make it report Frida a under tire was William r Wei i who Ware elected to a four a term us county sheriff in last y a general elect 101 ii ii he a said tie included Thoner help for Privat that Thev reportedly he p is two years. Detroit tut appeared in sight Uek old strike by motor co work is the of to a v 120,000 the Panther peeks u. S. 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