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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 13, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky education is of the mind i see that Young people today to get out of College have to have posture lessons and All sorts of Odds and ends including their photographs taken to show that they stand Well and do not have Flat feet. Charles Steinmetz however. Was a Hunchback and he was nothing exciting to look at but his researches in electricity were of tremendous importance and value. The american Public school system is the product of the Genius of Barnas Sears and Horace Mann who fought for Universal compulsory education Bemas Sears came from the town of Sandisfield in Massachusetts which is poor country where i have a farm he went to a Little red schoolhouse which i have often visited and later to Brown University after receiving tuition and religious Edu Caton from elder Jesse Hartwell the pastor of the Baptist Church which has since become a Syna 1 Gogue for the jewish congregation at Montville. Sears who was born in the lowest agricultural circumstances. Became president of Brown University 11865-67 and eventually director of the administration of the Peabody education fund founded by George Peabody and devoted himself to negro education in the South. Sears was neither poor nor underprivileged nor was he afraid to seek an education because he came from backward country. I vol. 80, no. 241 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening october 13, 1958 by Carrier so per week by mail. <7,50 per year Moon rocket in space 43 hours new London Winner in class mph March intr band wins division i rating it. Pleasant High schools j of band director Charlie ferns marching band smart in Maroon who was assisted in the p r r i a and Gold uniforms and flashy in of the a Ching by sgt purr Cli their precision appearance won a Goddard of the National guar division i to Ting in Tho marching j upon their return Horn. T c band band contest held at Fairfield sat members marched a Hind the i afternoon. Square doing their routines in Anither division i rating Cam Celebration of the Ichi Vetne to the county also when new Lon band Cap Welt worn in Don took that Honor in its class signifying the winning of to v the new londoners likewise made j and placards Unn Oun a we i an excellent appearance. Both won a one i. Pleasant and new London have j other division i winners in Chis been frequent winners of division i a at Fairfield were Fairfield and i rating. I Ottumwa. Bloomfield received a i a tile playing of the i. Pleasant rang because of fan inc it Impi j band received much Praise. Not we some of the requirements of i Only did the band make a splendid. The cont is a of trance and do excellent in the division i winners in Cle c i various Maneu vers but also it was i besides new London were Las outstanding As a marching musical nation Williamsburg and Wapello a a animation it was generally a Eddyville and Montezuma receive d arced the re were Many comment division 2 Ratini will sell tickets for Barbecue Horace Mann was born in Franklin. Near Boston under circumstances similar to those which Sears encountered at birth. In their Day there was no separation of Church and state in Massachusetts an event which did not occur until 1833 Massachusetts was the Pioneer in general education the act of 1 Home cells 1647 requiring every township i which had 50 householders to establish a school for its children. When there were too families a grammar school was established where latin and greek were taught the qualifications for entering Harvard Back in those Days were a whoever shall be Able to read Cicero or any other like classical author at sight and correctly and without assistance to speak and write latin in prose and verse and to inflect exactly the paradigms of greek nouns and verbs has a right to expect to be admitted into the College and no one May claim admission without these it was this Type of schooling that produced the great minds that built the United states. T7ie.se men were not Only clergymen teachers and scholars they were merchants engineers shipbuilders and shippers and their fleets were on All the seas. They were the men who carried the United states Westward and opened a great new country they had All been forced by the conditions of life to do with their hands their minds were flexible and their bodies Strong. Al Wani ans pose a members of of the kiwanis club busily engaged in promoting their travel and adventure series of time recently for Charles Duvall to take this photograph. Shown Are from left front Row Ben a. Galer d in Nobel or Robert w. Ii Rudolph Eckey and Harold Craig second Row William Hoag i in. J r Taylor Eldon . Wilson Ervin. Of urge Means. Or i m. Deal Henry Hartrick John Carter. Vero Boshart Richard Wilson third Row Richard Manuel. Keith Klyn h f Mcleran rom Galer. Mar Vin Van soc. Robert Hannum. Melvin Talbott or j r. Chadwick or. F v. Coles Marvin Wing. Frank do Luna fourth Row e a Hayes Ralph Shellabarger Lyman sheets. L. P. Hixson Dwayne Rohweder Alanson Elgar. Dale Boal. Arthur Mills Robert Ford Dick Millspaugh t. Wilson i t. Nelson Back Row. De Walker w a. Russell Leo Bragg. C. R. Mcuen. Orville a Lien Der or Raymond Hanks la mar i Hills. Harold hurdler. A m Patterson. Olin Robinson Joe Ruby. Leland Robertson and Fred Abraham. C a Cottrell and a m Wettach had been present at the meeting also. That it was the Best a playing band Quot to appear during the afternoon. The band has been practising faithfully the last few weeks since school opened under the direction several from it. Pleasant went to Fairfield to see the colourful band event presented in Brilliant october Sunshine in the High school stadium. Keokuk girl victim Many activities at Homecoming a torchlight Canvas will be made wednesday night. Oct. 15 from 5 30 to 7 . By girl and boy scout groups to sell tickets for the county wide Barbecue in connection with the proposed agricultural Hall of Fame. Residents who have already secured their tickets by that time Iowa Wesleyan is in its final week of preparation for Homecoming. The game with Buena Vista saturday afternoon at 1 30 at Mcmillan Field is the big attraction however there Are Many other activities. Long hours Are going into time table Washington Upit time table of pioneers 43-hour life All tunes e. D. To. Altitudes and velocities in land Miles and Miles per hour saturday oct. La 4 42 a. In. Launched from Cape canaveral Fla. 4 58 a in Pentagon said second and third stages had fired Suc decoration of floats. Campus groups of Cess fully boosting it to Speed of Are practising a Boom night skits College men Are hauling combustibles for the a biggest yet Quot Bonfire. Alumni reservations for special events Are arriving on every mail. For the Public not concerned with the work and preparation of Are asked to turn on their porch Homecoming weekend events begin lights so that they will not be Friday night with a Boom night Quot solicited again. Tickets will be when skits precede the announce a a liable in the business houses ment of the selection of the Home tuesday and wednesday. At a meeting monday morning in the chamber of Commerce office coming Queen and her attendants and the Quot big wheel and two a Little wheels Quot top honors for la is largely due to the influence of these two men Sears and Mann that the concept of compulsory general education spread Over the United states Horace Mann particularly As head of the Massachusetts Board of education was Able to Forward this Effort and he has come to be known nationally although we really have to go Back to the Law of 1647 which was # probably the first legislative act hair Ges against in the world to provide Lor free Public education through the Gen Rel if la Oral taxation of All the people. x us Lii it must never be forgotten that at the heart of this system was Omaha. Neb., up mrs. William Hayward represent students the Bonfire follows the ing the veterans of foreign wars Boom night. Auxiliary no. 2651 and june saturdays activities begin with Klopfenstein and Helen Virden j a Coffee hour for visitors and a representing the business and pro Letterman Brunch both at 9 30 fess ional women s club set up the a. In. In the student Union. These ticket Selling schedule. Are followed by tile Homecoming ladies of the Moose american Parade with five bands floats and Lemon auxiliary and the it. Pleas marching units the Parade will Beant woman a club will be serving Quot i at la a in. At the big Barbecue in Central Park on saturday. Oct. 18. Killed his parents prepare to file after the game sororities and fraternities will hold open House. At 6 p. In. To c e is a Homecoming Buffet in the student Union and at 9 p. In. The Homecoming dance. President cites free world threat about 25.000 Miles per hour. 10 47 a. In. Altitude 44.390 Miles velocity 5.083 Miles per hour. I 45 p in. Pentagon said rocket i Quot departing from its intended 4 47 p. In. Altitude 65,000 velocity 3,000 Miles per hour. 7 p in. Pentagon said rocket was i too far off course to reach a near Vicinity of the Moon. 10 47 p. In. Altitude 74,750 Miles no Speed Given. Sunday october 12 Between 4 47 and 6 47 a. In reached Peak Altitude of 79,212 Miles started falling Back toward Earth. Noon. Scientists began unsuccessful attempts to fire pioneers reverse rocket which might have put it into orbit around Earth. 7 47 p. In. Altitude 45,770 Miles no Speed Given. 10 47 p. In. Altitude 21,045 Mil no Speed Given. 11 46 p. In. Hawaiian tracking station heard Pioneer radio for last time. About Midnight. Plunged int heavy atmosphere and apparent i burned up Over South Pacific reentry Speed about xj.000 Miles per hour same Speed attained shortly after Takeoff. Bus starts remodelling extensive remodelling of Brown Lynch Scott store started monday morning when completed the changes will give die store a completely different appearance both from the outside and on the Interior. The front will be rebuilt and will be changed to give a View into the store. One main Entrance door will replace the present two entrances. The Interior will be changed and a different plan will be followed in the arrangement. A Balcony will by added at tile rear to give added display space. Provision will be choral eight die in festival Iowa mishaps thursday eight persons were killed in accidents during the weekend in the i Iowa including three fatally Hawaii Jared in one Accident. The deaths boosted the 195 8 traffic death toll to 433, 102 less than at the same time last year. Three persons were killed sunday two in a car train crash and one in a one car Accident Winch produced a strange Story. Lloyd w. Nelson 21, a Farmer near Melbourne and his son Rodney i were killed late sunday night when a car rammed into a freight train at a crossing 2 j Miles East of Polk City. Nelsons wife and another son Kim 3, were injured in the crash. The made also for a furniture display in addition to remodelling the i Engineer of the Chicago amp North. Store will be enhanced by the in j Western railway train apparent i ? College and his choruses i uni o nut of Tho c1 in a a i null i in the Southeast six choral festival will be held in it. Pleasant thursday october 16. The schools participating will be Bloomfield under the direction of h. B Gentry Fairfield under the direction of mrs. Jane Ruby it Madison directed by miss Dorothy Costelloe Washington directed by Robert Ferrill and it. Pleasant directed by mrs. Marabelle Eye. Sally Wilson will be the festival accompanist. Curtis Hansen director of vocal music at Washington High school and Junior College in Brainerd minn., will be the guest festival director. Or. Hansen is a graduate striation of new fixture -. When completed the store will be one of the most modern of general stores of this Type in the area t and a series opens tonight by was unaware of tile crash and continued on his run. Mrs Ollie Mae Green 24, Clinton. Was fatally injured sunday when the car in which she was i iding smashed into a fire hydrant in Clinton. Authorities said her husband William 20, apparently thinking his wife already dead tried to conceal her body in a the first in the kiwanis travel Yard and flee. He w As charged and adventure pictures Aud Mara a with leaving the scene of an Acci lion will be Given his monday dint an inquest was scheduled evening at 7 30 at the now a Wes j tonight Leyan auditorium. J it a a the first entertainment. On it of j Lour persons were killed Satur six to be presented will feature the Day two in one Accident. Rockies with emphasis on Colorado j Wayne Morehouse and Gerald and surrounding area Cooper is the a great it a Washington up a president Eisenhower said today the threat to the free world of a atheistic dictatorship Quot can become us enter pleas to gym Charlies Promise to extend truce author classical and religious education ties today prepared to file charges More dangerous a unless All of the collegiate school in new York against a a High Strung Omaha Arm ourselves with spiritual and City which dates Back to 1628, was youth who they said signed a intellectual defences. A parochial school of the dutch statement admitting he killed his tote president called for a Pedu _ reformed Church. The Boston parents in an argument Over a car. Cating soldiers of peace to Ere Taipei it up it Quot i a latin school goes Back to 1635 it William Leslie Arnold. 16, took a a a great army that should be a nudists in an anti Amel was a congregational parochial police to his backyard saturday and making its first business. Develop gesture regarded by new a school. Both Are still in existence showed them where he had buried my Anco sustaining peace with Here As a prelude to a a a i i the bodies of his parents two weeks Justice and Honor blackmail Quot promised today the president spoke informally win extend the uneasy Tine he Formosa Strait for two we. De piping radio announced even before the Days of Sears ag0 in a shallow grave in a Flower and maim private academies came bed. A dedication and Cornerstone Lay into existence often endowed by an autopsy on the decomposed n<1 ceremonies for the new William p. Garn. Not guilty to an my Tun my with operating a to while he was intoxicated u trial was set Foi tuesday. O in District court Lawrence a. . Jilt guilty to an indu timer. Ame charge Tim t it a i e was set for of 27 at in a to receives minor injuries in one car Accident Dei i s j sleep both 29, of Belford were i killed in a two car Accident on a i gravel Road about three Miles i Northwest of Bedford a third person Dale sleep 56, i father of Gerald died sunday i night of injuries suffered in the crash he was survived by his a pit Aried j a id a and to children. Have Sung at the concert Hall in Chicago the music educator s National convention in St. Louis and various places around the country. He has recently been selected along with Olaf Christian san to represent Minnesota in the j National choir directors Guild. He has directed Many festivals All Over the mid West. Each chorus has been practising this fall on eight choral numbers and will spend the Day thursday working under the direction of Curtis Hansen. Individually each chorus will sing for criticism before or. Hansen. This is not a contest. There will be approximately 375 students singing together a1 Day and practising for the evening performance at 7 30 p. In. Tickets will be sold at the door. This is the first festival for our new conference and All except Centerville Are participating. It is Back into atmosphere i sunday night Washington up americans Pioneer Moon rocket apparent a crashed like a meteor into the atmosphere Over the South Pacific at Midnight . Sunday night after completing an unprecedented 43-hour explore not to of outer space. The heavily instrumented rocket which soared More than a third of the distance to the Moon to reach an Altitude of 79,212 Miles sent Back a constant Stream of radio signals until 11 46 . . Sunday night. Too the air Force announced Early today the pioneering space vehicle was assumed to have struck the atmosphere at a Speed of nearly 25.000 Miles per hour and to have been completely consumed by friction about 15 minutes after its last radio signal was received. Although it failed to reach the intended a a Vicinity of within 50.000 Miles of the Moon the Pioneer rocket blazed a Trail into space that May Well be the forerunner of True manned flight to the Moon the planets and even someday the i Distant stars. Too a top scientist said today that for More than two hours americans lunar probe rocket virtually floated in space when it reached a historic Altitude of More than 79,000 Miles and slowed to a Stop. Air Force figures bore out the scientist s statement by showing the rocket was at about the same Altitude Between 4 47 and 6 47 a in. . Sunday starting at 79,120 Miles it Rose to 79,212 and then fell Back to the 79,120-mile level. A 9 a or. William w7 Kellogg acting chairman of the International geophysical year Earth satellite panel explained in an interview this was because the rocket was so far away the pull of the Earth a Gravity was Only one four hundredths As much As at the surface of the Earth. If a 200-Pound Man could be placed on a scale at that distance he we Ould a a weight Only half a Pound. The 82-Pound rocket s a a weight by the same measurement was Only slightly More than two tenths of a Pound. Can go by bus to see president in other fatalities saturday hop that each of our own Choricy \ t hide were Joan Shupe 16, Keokuk and members will have members of 21 private citizens or Given land by bodies of his father William. 42. Fund a the state. The first incorporated and Mother opel 40. Showed he Academy in Massachusetts was had pumped six bullets into each of founded by judge Samuel Phillips his parents from a .22 Caliper Rifle. In 1780. J police said the Arnold youth a Walsh memorial build-1 Extension of the cease fire ing at Georgetown University he i 3o a. In. A half hour after it received an honorary doctor of to have ended. The a noun erne Laws degree. This very incomplete and cursory student at Omaha s Central High Dies of head wound Sioux Center. Iowa up James Brouwer 15, Doon. Iowa Niu nist a resume their a died Here sunday night of a head Bailment of chinese National. Wound suffered in a Hunting mis offshore islands immediately Hap earlier in the Day. Brouwer was shot in the head Cius in be area. Account of this subject is Given school admitted shooting his Parte Call attention to the simple fact ends on sept. 27 when his Mother that those who Avant to tax ele forbid him to use one of the fam mediary and High schools of any ilyus two cars for a saturday night kind for any reason have forgotten Date. What the United states is and How it came to be what it is. The enor-1 Mous Range of american Freedom goal line to includes the Basic doctrine Itiat while education for children is meet tuesday general and compulsory the Par ent decides what kind of school the the weekly meeting of the goal squirrels near the Brouwer farm at child is to go to and that there Lane club will be held at the the time of the Accident has always been a variety of schools Sheaffer quonset tuesday at 7 30 he was brought to the Hospital from which the parents could . Films of the it pleasant Here Early sunday afternoon and Sej pc i Bloomfield game will be shown i died about 6n> hours later said the reds Hope their a it i w ill cause dissension Between United states and its can allies. I it said also the c cd Minoi eve cuing a one car u. S. Destroyers return to conv. With a .22 Caliper Rifle sunday by his brother Jack the two boys and another boy were Hunting judgment asked at to a petition has been lieu clerks office in the court a the Standard Oil co. Again r. Payne and wife asking judgment for .<1136 87 for him. H Ove Leroy John Patio on a Witback injuries Satin a about eight o clock in Accident three Miles it in my a. St. Paul h a was Brough it memorial Hospital and was leased monday in Truing the 1951 car went Aci is a newly haded Road it an my a on to n a he John Mensch maim farm out Ltd a Hort abandoned Sec to n of Road hitting the grader ditch and then travelling a Short Dis Ranee on in abandoned Road the id out o Tho ear badly damaged when r struck the Erice of the Glacier Inch. Fire claimed the. Lives of 11.000 americans in the u. S during 1957 Lan a Gerritsen to. Rock Valley. Hiss shape the daughter of the athletic director and head basketball coach at Keokuk High school was killed when a car driven by Richard Dimond. It Keokuk struck her As she was about to enter her own parked car. The Rock Valley youth was kill a d when his bicycle swerved into a path of a car just East of the la k Valley business District. Their families in the audience As it Wall give the parents of local students a Chance to hear what the j group has been working on. Inc enrolment closes at 700 stores to decorate for inc Homecoming Iowa Wesleyan College closed its enrolment with 700 students according to John r. Kapp. Registrar. This does not include pre Colleg students such a. Those studying music but indicates the number actually taking College work. Full time enrolment of 543 is i Larry Belles it. Pleasant senior Hundred greater than a year ago at Iowa Wesleyan is in charge of there Are approximately 60 men . With i. Pleasant Mer and 40 women a trend since cd int regarding window Decora world War ii however the fresh a non for Iowa Wesleyan Home Man class is More evenly divided it Ming get. 17 and 18. The College 118 men 124 women j color purple and White will be High selectivity characterized the used prominently and pictures and choosing of students with tests j lunges of former years will by High school Scholastic records and displayed in some windows. Re interviews being weighed. Or. J. 1 turning alumni will enjoy strolling Raymond Chadwick. President of past or pleasant a stores and find Iowa Wesleyan stated recently ing themselves and friends pictured a we Are determined to maintain in old scenes a the High standards we have plans have been made to charter a bu.-, for the trip to Cedar rapids Friday oct. 17 to see and hear president in it Benhower As he appears at the National Corn picking i contest. J the bus will leave from the Harlan hotel promptly at 8 00 a. In. And will leave Cedar rapids in the late afternoon. This is an Ideal Way to go inasmuch As it does away with Tho parking problem on the grounds and insures a ride Down to the i Center of the festival without too much walking and is economical. You can take a sack lunch of you prefer but food will be available at tire noon hour on the grounds. All those wishing to take advantage of this Opportunity to see and hear president Eisenhower and attend the contest Contact Harold m Loran. Phone 68 or no. 5 by tuesday evening. Smith Heads postmasters Wendell t. Smith it. Pleasant postmaster was elected president of the tri county postmasters association at a meeting at the j Burlington Golf club last thursday i evening. The association includes Henry Des Moines and Lee counties. Smith succeeds o. J. Her Lei of Burlington. Other officers Are Theodore Seyb of Donnellson vice president and Albert Schmidt Winfield Secretary treasurer

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