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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 22, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant new vol. 83, no. 219 two sections it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening it. 23, 1961 these Days by George e. Sokolsky the new Eisenhower i find sex presidents More interesting than presidents. Certainly Herbert Hoover has risen in stature in thought in Independence since he has been an sex president Harry Truman a. Always a Salty personality but he has a better understanding of tile world today than he had As president of the United states Dwight i Eisenhower is quite a Surprise lie sounds As though he writes his own speeches which no j president can any Long do. He sounds free even Gay. It is i Uto much that he can play Golf without a television Ca my a being on his Heel. It is rather that or has Bein relieved of the controls of High office and perhaps what is More important the advice of his underlings. President Kennedy might Well watch the development of Eisenhower As sex president and note How much better a Man does when he cease to be enslaved by his subordinates. The Republican party requires intellectual and spiritual leadership. It has lf., t its Way in the thirty years since Hoover today it is divided into four parts the followers of Harry Gold a her the follow ers of a on Rocke Filer the followers of Richard Nixon and those who Hope tha these thief will give them Back their party Nixon Tom a wry. Beni to be eliminating him. Elt to astute to run in 1%4. I. Politics wot a indicate he a interested in 1968. Nelson Rockefell is developing a Strong sense of humor and is not Likely to be trapped into a defeat. Barry Coldwater building the equivalent of a new party one Winch w ill be Able to attract do Ocran a who Are weary of the new Deal. Tile fair Deal and the it w Frontier and would like to be a party that reminds tile not tin last Days of al Smith Barry g Gold Waters Strong h is not in i. A merging leadership us inn the Republican party As much us it is in the Broad non parti an on native next generation following which looks upon him u get Only As a Leader but As a Prophet ukr i j my massive blast Homecoming to follow dedication Jaycees to have halloween party May have been soviet for children oct. 30 super bomb new Harrison store a Harrison s new store on tin location has this impressive new front. New class and Entrance door the appearance of the location. Grand opening is announced in East Side of the Square near the. Former and the Large sign abort enhance a spelt Ial Section of this Isiu of the news. Now a we icy an Homecoming will follow the Fieth at Ion of the Adam to i sch Diann Hall fit of in Nee the dedication with or jam0.-. A Van Allen an speaker will be at 2 30 p in Friday. Get 27 Homecoming i oct 28 Tours of the Silver science Hall will la Friday. A urday and sunday Harrison a announce opening in new location us made in this store have been not Only increased the grand in elect on but the lines Havi been a expanded to include Many new especially in the ready to a v of this week the grand open Wear department Sab will Start Wusi mesday and or. De Walker. Announcement sue of the news of opening of the new Harrison a fifty department store on Crines items on Naif through saturday. Manager of the store opened the first store Here in it. Pleasant on october 23 1953, exactly eight years ago today. The new store occupies about 6500 Square feet of floor space or Aphis fight years the proximately two and one half times be a completely re that in the former location. The new area gives wide spacious aisles and new fixtures of the latest design make for easy and convenient shopping. Tile new a rn.-. In store is located on the East Side of the Square in the form a j c Penney location and is Quot next door 1 to Harrison a location of the building has modelled and enlarged and has been outfitted with ail new fixtures and i equipment Mer. A i n disc Lim of to. New added Spale makes it possible to display More merchandise within easy View of the customer As indicated in thi it Section of the new Harrison store where novelties and dish s arc neat arranged. Albert i. Hod Wick Dies had Many if connections a. Vav. Johnson taken by death tile re emergency of Eison Owci complicates an already Complex situation Eisenhower a not run for president again under the Coli Stith ional limit to prevent a third term. But he might develop such political Strong ii that he coid name his successor in 1964 and in 1968 at any rate he is moving upon the i it political stage with More agility than he cadence when he was Presalee Cardinal Type Lyman s al memorial dinner is each year a barometer of political e there Are in tally three speakers. The mayor of the City of new y it re the governor of the state of new York. And one oth r the a very mixed contenting the leading person. Iii the City. Without regard to Faith or politic this year on this occasion mayor Wagner made a Good speech b i the audience was cold in fact. Oui a startled by its timidity lot generally speaking this particular audience is Good natured and generous with applause governor Nelson Rockefeller was very human and used the occasion skill i Lilly to give mayor Wagner s Opp aunt. Louis Lefkow it an Pool minty b i a Bow and for applause but tit enthusiast in. Spoil a in Ais. Exciting applause went to d Eisenhower who appeared As a general. General not As an sex president tie Audi speak enc was Back ii. In Day. Of we like Ike Quot 82. 21. In albeit i do Wick. 57. Iowa we icy an gut Dua and member of a Board of trustees for Many years died in a a. . D Hospital sunday morning following surgery for a brain tumor Arthur William Johnson. Stockport died saturday. Get a the Morris nursing Home Stockport he had Beer ill years and seriously the a. A months. will a tuesday. Oct at 2 i it in at the Waterman funeral Home in Salem. With Rev Chester Mabeu to 24. Many awards presented Over 300 attend Lii banquet a o f the Stockport christians he had entered the Hospital four worst we cd. Ago t it a a physical cheer up. Church officiating burial will to in the Spencer cemetery in Stockport. Total of 317 Henry com and leaders part the 1961 4-h Ach a min friends Here have been informed he had of a in failing health the la Sev ii years and after entering the to. Pit a1 his condition continued to deteriorate la a graduated from Iowa a it Leyan in 1925 and received an Honor try doctor degree in 1940 he was a member of Phi Delta Theta i came to Low a it hymn from Mystic he held executive wha firms engaged in production of a Irp Ai managed the Howard Hughes world flight in 19 58 and owned and operate d tin Lakeland school of aeronautics i , l i t. Aud who Ludwiek aviation military Academy. Avon Park. Fri. Training pilot.-, in later years in continued to be associated with business enterprises in Florid to in i Active years he assisted Iowa Wesleyan in Many ways particularly lie assisted in bringing a pre i Gilt air corps unit to til Campus for Trainin a Hap Quot he born january 13. 1879 a Stronghurst in he a. Been a resident of the Stockport Cor Onui in a for 25 years and a a Fanner and Carpenter by occupation he was married to Josephine put ter. It Calloha. Preer Deb Hun death. Ile was Ako preceded by his father and Mother. William and Louise Carbon John. On three Oil and two Daught is surviving Are two son. Harold Johnson of Burlington and Virgil Johnson of Marion. Inc foil Brothers. Edwin Johnson of m pleasant George e Johnson of la Harpe 111. Elmer g Johnson of Hillsboro and Fred w Johnson of Ottumwa Oneter. Maude Bryson of Winfield ten grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. And brought Arnold Here to Max Spray 7.1, of Hillsboro Dies politically All this is ignorant of something possibly of the resumption of leadership by an sex president Over a very split party and should that develop into real political strength. Eisenhower s significance will be outstanding during the next years. It will strengthen the position of Nelson Rockefeller. It is Likely to weaken Richard Nixon because As the last Defeated candidate. He cannot compete successfully with the Las elected candidate for the usually meaningless titular headship of the Republican party in fact politicians feel that Eisenhower is elbowing Nixon out of Hie picture at the end of the al Smith dinner at any rate. Eisenhower elbowed everyone out of the Way he took the applause and the cheers. Naturally tile politicians were not a Little surprised that the principal speaker was Eisenhower and not president John f. Kennedy. Oil a previous occasion Eisenhower two of his Brothers diaries and John Ludwiek who had just returned from a trip to Europe were in Washington i c. With him another brother. William xxx Wick who has been residing in Spain is expected to come for the funeral services will be held wednesday at Mystic Max Spray. 73. Of Hillsboro died sunday. October 22. At 4 a in in St Mary a Hospital at Rochester mum he had been ill two weeks services will be wednesday october 25, at 2 p in. At the Waterman funeral Home in Salem with the Rev. Wade Dillavou of new. to writ representing the goop i Tives of Henry county 4-h Pari d banquet last Satu Day reports Richard l Thuma. County Extension Din tor. Tiu banquet is tin Dun x a a to 4 ii y in in hem y t omit v no planned and conducted to the retiring county officers Jerry the j boys 4-h county pit Idem. A rid As master of ceremonies c Iroles Stueker girls 4-h county president concluded the banquet with a talk on living Abun Rigi t. County 4-h officers w to Amis Ted ii the presentation of awards were Jerry a be us. County seem to a Ltd a Steve Seberg. And dial i red Tern county historians and Jim Mccormick. County l in Ari Rich inn. Ann al Leger 1962 county n rout it a chairman led a it layers or. George e la More director of religious i lie at Tow Wesleyan gave the major address at the banquet Hie pie ii fat in other is Quot stressed the import,.-of our spiritual heredity h Ippi be Honor and holiness in to. Envelopment of useful list highlight of the award p tons was the announcement of tin 4-h dubs i i i ing the Heil a i trip. O t Wilson. I a preset a. It pie i ant club bounced that the Tippecanoe to Ltd a not hers had received Tjho a to. Points toward winning the girls 4-h club award trip i i. Anc rape and Home be Judy i Mer i w Lorn in a inn in of a lie youth mini cd. Ai a id Conn a u cultural award boy receiving these were a agricultural award. I Ruth fall crops Carl Ai electric Bob Brenneman m. Xvii Helphrey Bruce lid Gary Betti. Dairy be i or and bet Bob Lee d i c t to Dudle y Pankoke and Dean Rodens al a i a id i sent d us hem y county fair Here Man slip awards to the Champion clippers k-9-f, and Wayne soil savers 4-h clubs la a1 o pit s. Need Home economies up a1 Booth awards to tile can. Centre tics. Klever Kiev Elv lassies new London Las and Tippecanoe Topnotch ers. Tin 4-h award of Hie Clove r is presented to dal Crawford prov i it c Dun in Van Moon land Don. Tie weekend Eric begin on thursday when or John c l Blagg. Park Ridge n j wid Pok at Assembly a to 15 a in in the Chapel building Tho Public is invited to join the student to hear or Blagg. Who i. Law Leyan alumnus and is now production manager of Cha pier a co Brooklyn. N y Friday lie will receive an honorary degree Charle. I. Pm. Rockford. La. Is chairman of Homecoming for tile student bods serving a i Chait Man for publicity and promotion i James Spiegel apr. Bezel Conn he will ire assisted by Barbara Griggs new London Denim Nicholson Coli a Beverly Howell. Co-1 urn bus Junction Lea Ca. And Nell Padgett. Letts Teiry Cion. K. Morning Sun. Lore a Ann Lim Crawfordsville John Lilly Denver. Colo., Gary Maxwell Peoria. Ill. Roil Sable. Farmington. Jim Cole Iowa City Don Brandy Dot a it fugal and Tom Stewart. Burling or and j j Casanova. Bill Jig. In Frank Deleia Aud Robertson. It plea ant the ail Aal Jaycee h �>1 to party will to held Iii Central Patk monday october 30 at 7 p in tiler will be two cont a Tim j a to lantern and till cd a turn then Are two age groups in each con test under 7 years old. And 8 years and aver prize will lie a Dollar for each of the first Tim e in East ii Content and a group Steve Sage is chairman of Tim project Refre Mont will be served following the Conte t Bullet from officers gun wounds boy it it al to m urn Titi j t Ion t of a. P exp la Ion 1 probably a t super bomb in a week by Pima Chee if it was the s Bla. T was equal of int and the plodded by Man apr of a i to 50 arg i. Ever a in ii Upp a la a in the explosion Iti to tic ground at 8 3.5 a in get e so1 w a s 4 35 a a Short Lino atomic in Rev in Paris that a very Vrr which Piti legation s the fir to j. Etymology to Ruments the super Advance a later t Agency hat v had pow Erful Bably w is it or Quot a. Poke i formation s in Edu frer. In ounce expo ii a Bor in i night i. A 8 p in Hun Day get 27. Followed by a int la v and Bonfire Tim next morning saturday there will to get a Letterman Brunch at 9 a in. Parade at la a in. And info Mal it unions in the afternoon at 2 p in a Park will a tin football game against Wartburg til a Homecoming dance is at 9 p in in tile John Wesley Holland Studen Union. Exp Dei Kennedy weekend with can officials sex Over the report have fired ins a in addressing party co last tue set announced plans of soviet nuclear the end of the Nan a device in the to such a blast would greater than the nuclear we pc been tested in or i sics a Pill a employees learns to report tuesday in i cd ice to of tile Tun i Tim 1-11 a count team Captain in the employ cd division of the fund drive arc asked to have a heir a report men years of serv at the youth c Etc it ii a. Ai r and member morning by two a to 8 a u 9 Quot youth commit tee i Ivr tenders a Arm. Of lir completing fix 1-11 club ii Chat i it i re. Were presented Silver Clover tor years of service to i idea were mrs mrs Laverne Gra trnian Melile mrs. Or and mrs warier Bir mis i Kenneth i Schlatter. Karl a unit i i e away of a he it pm a Titch unix at gunmen j presented longtime record Book awards no four years Thelma Dorothy six it is. Evans Roza Lea Ere Man. Judy i her. Sharon Lee Stew Seberg. Carolee Stueker or to veal Nancy to Steve Sharon Wood eight year Redfern Mary francs Raie. It Whis Ymir. A i i v m in i qui Quot til Illo Wuu instruction it a for a fit Ort a in try May com at a a huh 1 a a Herb Keefe i d a Ltd w Ains captains sic Vomm of err. Stall hut is. A Xvi pah a i it Ubert i a inn Pun k of a. L a card. Do k Naej. Bud cot stall of biker. Dick a joker Mir. Van so Quot a. Leo brei i it a b it a. Rouie re , Milton a k r Noil akan . R m Chaney. Peny Cornil. , Robert Mende Liall of i mean. Stanley Swail and Dean Corol s three patients leave my Institute Fairfield Iowa did Janie. Mcshane 18, Fairfield was it. Fair condition today after being wounded by a Bullet from a policeman gun during a scuffle a the boy a being apprehended police chief Rumell three officers a in a local used car lot Early sunday As they were investigating report concerning two auspicious men . Of mesh an Quot a. Tied for a car parked in tire lot and a a to drive away the officers two warning How Gin Moi. Aid they als tried to shoot the tire. To the ear the police chief Aid one officer jumped in front of the car in an Effort to make the youth top and the Xii iceman barely missed being run Down apparent a one hot punctured a but forcing a he Driver to top Simmons said Mcshane refused to Ramo his hands into View and Grout of the ear. One of the officers warned tabbed they uth and a ruffle in produce sued As he pulled a he boy from the Active car device sunnier Aid during the struggle Clear f hi-1 officer gun Dis Harg a tile a die i Bull Quot entered the youths left the. F it am id punctured one lung and came United out his right Side debate Mcshane was charged with Russia larceny in the nighttime and held bomb under guard at the j county Hosp a1 Tyre the chief a Aid t c youth ear i tilt 1 v re allegedly a a Olet in Wal a. A r Tore v iou. Y con a i a of g and enter j g it january of this Vear and served a term in the county jail Simmon. Said exp Khz r i r Ftp al m lev after be tie Gat d be the in of t know n e v 10u.-.v Power to a would be 2,5<k tunes the he Onier bomb w h Hiro Silima in Scienta Debr. E Cpl a e is report w War Tnge Des it natio on a not us h a bomb my Bird As much a it As All the tic dried by All the Prev iou Siy. T of the new so few hours before us was to Cor Quot Resolution calling to set off its s big share of find 5 Here two of five escapees taken into custody Here approximate allocation to the the Community Cally Robert pointed a of it i a atm secret Meuse Payne Well. Aries. She r. Ran a. Wand c Stevie or pen a Hist advanced Model of Polaris fired Sharon friends Church of and bur.a1 will be in Hillsboro cemetery he was born june 3. 1888 in Henry county where he had Beer. A resident All of his life. A was a Farmer by occupation. He was married to Myrtle White the april 14, 1909, at Salem he was for affiliated with the congregational i Church of Salem and served on Cape canaveral up the Navy today fired an advanced Model Polaris rocket from Depths of the Atlantic Ocean the first time. The uss Ethan Allen. Amen the school Board of pleasant Ridge chs largest no township. Clear submarine triggered the 30 foot tall Polaris "a-2�?� rocket from a firing tube in its deck at 40 seconds past 1122 a in. Est marriage License issued a in Arrage License has been issued at the clerk s office in the spoke at this dinner when he a. C0urth us to Roy Ernest Rauscher president of the United states. 2 an Ltd Jay up Ann . In. Both i this event is arranged Long in and of Lockridge. Vance and the Date is not so rigid a a a that the dinner could not have president of the United states been adjusted to the needs of the theft is Goi pm c in he he was preceded in death by i parents. Samuel and Julia Tribby Spray and one on and two Sisters surviving Are his wife four sons. Sam Spray. Hillsboro. John Spray. Lincoln Nebr. Tom Spray Billings mont., Max. Spray jr., of Rock Island i five daughters. Mrs. Dorothy Isaacson Stockport mrs Julia Landess. Stockport mrs Margaret Mccabe Salem. Mrs Donna Jean Rube Rolston. Nebr. Anontine u that the clippers a the 1961 winners of the Bov to ii club award trip sponsor d by cooperatives of Henry com. Y winners of county award to in projects and act vital open both boys and girls were pres Quot Ted by mrs claim bums on Bihari the county youth committee i award winners were achieve Jerry White and Jane Wickham leadership. Carole Stocker at Jerry Mabeus Community Sere. Jim Mccormick recreation. S on Lee Danforth award. Steve Seberg safety Wanda Cor y i faster and Susan Rockwell and entomology Mike Lindeen no Vicki but Robert Hun a Extension count a a re get tit Federal ext Ash United states d ult me. Norm u farm Bureau tin i trom. G. Cha Cann Russell Ruck a inc. Man of the presented Cloverton behalf of the to sen ice of he a ii in it of Agri Moehly comity ident rep resist Bure Ferrei a ver und girls repins pro Home economies were present d by Hunting county member award winners mrs. Robe youth commit to a girls receiving riles a the Iowa farm Lon in pre. Anti Iii Gold Clover tote i t 12 a Quot ice in cd third year member yid i by Ria i pleasant do w. A diary mrs Art i present ajl the pins on behalf Otth auxiliary the me of b to que was Quot abundance through 4-h&Quot it was pointed out that abundance Means More than awards. Instead it Means abundance of Opportunity to learn live and serve through 4-h. Prepare site for new building three Pat cuts walked away from the state mental health Institute Here sunday night and South St Iowa authorities Are searching tor them tilt were identified Ria John Anderson. 17. Washington Iowa James Puiri. 15, Mediapolis and Gary claim. 25. Des Moines la -pita1 officials said Hev Wen among hundreds of patients who were privileged to walk about the grounds sunday the three were first missed when they to appear for supper about 6 pan Andrei on de. Rib Rias 6 toot 145 Pounder Cirii Brownh it in Hazel eyes a so Tien last seen he was dressed in a Bill suit Fruitt. 5-7 and 135 pounds has dark hair. Brown eyes and was wearing a White shirt and dark trousers. Claim. 5-7 and 131, has dark hair Blue eyes and is tattooed on both arms. I five boys who escaped the state training school for boys a Eldora Early sunday were taken into custody Here monday morning Duane Calhoun. 17, it pleasant i a a my a Ila. Barker. 16. Waterloo. Reportedly Tole a 1953 Mercury six Miles Vest of Grundy Center Atter their escape and drove it where it ran out of a. On Olith White Street. The boys contacted Calhoun s Mother. Mrs. Avery Calhoun. Who turned the boys Over to sheriff Russell Van Tuyl. The boys ire being held Here for Eldora authorities who will return them to the school. Til live youths got away from the school s emotionally disturbed unit by using a chair leg to pry open a window. I Hool superintendent Anthony tra Casino said All five of the boys had Etc aped a once before the latest getaway. Rayburn fails to rally from weakness i i he Cross u my 2.500 Cross report s. I pc Mot Quot or young.--1 swim i in Ain it pleas int p o erne my t Ion for this a unit 150 a Gram Hor b Iso 11 comm and i boy s o pc Tibt la Lulu a Unity 25 a of de air in ?. S w i a r n at a a pent a n Civ Enny of 300 Lic Pate m. The program to. For the youth cen1 tire amount is pent locally same is till of the Amouli retarded children rite Welt Aro it lation and til human s for the army a Tima Ted $180 is spent locally Edwin e. Greer Dies at Aurora grandchildren and four great and dance Johnson Stockport 26 awards were county Horn i comics award Sharon Wolan Horn in Lush by a id d t1 preliminary work preparing site for the new building of the the Low a Illinois Telephone company in it . Has been started. The location is at the site of the former first Baptist Church North main and Madison s reets just South of the present Telephone tier. Sunday Ani he has building. Dallas Tex. Turd a House speaker Sam Rayburn. 79, lost More ground today in his tight against cancer. He failed to rally from a weakness which de Cleved in his _ St Alert Ness a re Civ death cd resident pm v to word w my of the a former at the c i. Time of the Edwin was Harlan molar of of plea a burial will noon in Auto sundae a i it e d plea. A d c wednesday Iii

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