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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 1, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. No. Sii no. His it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening sept. I. I ii i these Days by Gcorge e Sokolsky the conservative revolt the p year 1961 will go Down american Campus history As the conservative revolt. During Tho 19308 the communists captured various students Over which they held pretty tight control until 1939 when the Hitler ritalin Alliance shamed Many who had joined communist front groups i not because they accepted marxist doctrine but because they hated Hitler and the nazi. The War came and College or-1 animations were captured by so called liberals that is by those who could Sec both sides of a question and favored one Side mildly but not j obstinate the lib rals have been by the very nature of their ideas opportunistic reaching conclusions without regard to Basic philosophy i. The 1961 United stat National students convention meeting at Madison Wisconsin found itself confronted by a committee for a response National student organization. A conservative group closely affiliated with the Young americans for Freedom led by Howard Phillips recently president of Tho Harvard student Council leftists and liberals Haw encountered capable organization and articulate conservative thought the National student association claims to pres. It 1,300,000 american he dents the reason for attempting to gain control of the National student association is explained As follow we Are att ? it hate the present s Arather Titan a tart. Because a tile a i official to re Habil Structure of at firs make s a sex. Self avowed. I Ngi Naona. Union for the United states it claims to Spak i it a 78 Airliner plunge to death volunteers transform Park for threshers reunion Volunteer workers have been j transforming Mcmillan Park scene longer run by the track that now of the upcoming old threshers re run from Ute Metal by the Union. Into old threshers South rec of the ground to the heaven. A Large building for hous old depot Tho la re d a thing antique car.-, and major Addi track Abo built by v Hunters look Lions to the a a new a old narrow ilk authentic one even sporting i gauge Railroad have been done a fill Over a d per Ion near it largely by the help of volunteers depot 1 interested promoting the annual j reunion. The new building. 80 by 144 feet charged with kidnapping and robbery Constellation crashes with great Roar it. Madison Iowa two men accused of up abducting Hinsdale up Tim e per one and robbing a tavern trans world anime Conte 11 Mon were charged thursday with with 78 persons aboard plunged a Quot limping and robbery with Algrava Earth today and exploded with such with 80 by 120 foot basement is uru hip opening Day of hic old settler and Thresher re will feature the 500-Prrson Mon. Clarence Parker 25, or. Pleasant Iowa and William Wixom. 27, forbid Merly of Hampton 111. Were charged before Justice of the peace Carl Hotop. Or. They pleaded innocent now nearing completion. A Large j civil War pageant h 7 30 p tile and for preliminary hearings covery that the Cement floors arc pageant will emphasize Henry Hotop set a hearing for sept. 8th Chamberlain had been Board and placed the two under $20,000 the ill fated Boston to san fran co com.&Quot., part the a but will share of done with Interior fixtures to a a up Voon tile men pouring and Ako include National Bond each. $10,000 the kidnapping Cisco flight with ins family finishing Cement Are the Only paid the a Climax of he avg it will be charge and $10,000 the robbery tiie All coach plan Quot earring workers the building. The famous surrender scene with charge some families of vac loners too general Grant and Lee the authorities said the men appear their Way to labor Day weekend volunteers Are also building a Soba a twins will also porn entry had split their almost $600 loot holidays a enveloped a Ball of civil War Era passenger car to add Strum t �?Ta1 and vex a Din at i 30 exactly and stashed it away before Orange flame to i 06 am Cost. To the narrow gauge engine and p. wednesday through a turd a he were captured three minutes after it had roared i fuel car use lat year the and ? programs or. Thun a officers said they found $293 off the new at Chicago Midway Railroad work was started sunday and Friday and the Shelton of the car is a1- to a1 Iizumi inn a i ready completed. Walls windows loppers unit of show la a Talent 1 and seats will come later. When th0 a begin Quot be Feri Vav i la uni it Buck it fresh new clothes show that Barbara and i Eslie i enter Are read for the first Day of school a new Grade. Barbara is starting sixth Leslie third. Under the h of of the car the men Field bound for Las vegas Nev were driving and that Wixom the plane plummeted like ,.n armourer brought $293 she said she Row into Corn my soybean Field found m her barn the outskirts of the Community authorities. And a he two men of Clarendon Hill clo e by a . Wed be Day night went to tile Frank Western Chicago suburb Lin Home of Morris Kramer a Friend of tavern owner al Weibler and forced him to go with them at and gunpoint. They went to Hie tavern where to the Ann rican student at important int manorial student meetings h receives tin informal cooperation of the United Sta government it has considerable strength and void plead Campus it to is of influence it is Quot of the. Most significant yet Little known j organizations this country Quot i he challenging quoi it Vin her the student Are really represented by their organization j or has it come under the control of leftist who speak their Nam testifying before a congressional comm it tee Howard Phillips speaking for the Young americans to Freedom said a a it is our it lotion that tile u s m the 1960s is at a crossroad but Ween Freedom and Federal domination the one hand a com j hut ment to individual responsibility. A belief certain absolute my a1 principles and the Quot a it Lati Velv free Choice of ones own Des Tim the other hand Federal Dom i Nance characterised by weakness j apathy false Security excessive Dojk and Little respect for the individuality of every la one dung people want advantages of american life the intellectual and spiritual heritage hut has come Down through the declaration of id p and Nee and the Constitution they decline to believe that marxism can drive a into Anc the r Way of life the j arc realistic the ii appraisal of current forces thee Are unlike the conservative Busin it Anan who is throwing up the s kit nge because he is scared by the mkt uses of soviet Russia. These Young p pm Quot say a fact. We believe that f a a Enterprise is the Best was to Glt a most things d be it is what has Mack this country great and it what has Given us the Best system of health care tins nation or any other nation Ever it is these Young people who must fight tin War which we re now engaged. Their jives Are already being disordered by the anticipations of War. Young men and Youn women talk to each other the Telephone by the hour about whether he should enlist or take his chances being drafted. Their parents say that the War will never come that no one would be so stupid As to hurl a Hydrogen bomb or to shoot a missile. The retaliation would be too awful. The Young people say that this kind of talk is meaningless because one Way or another their lives will be involved War. When they think of marriage they wonder whether there will be a honeymoon or will he be called to some service the Young Are not fooled by lh1 situation or by lie Happy talk of the oldsters. And not fooled their minds turn to the for a Volunteer Effort the annual old fire Dicks con sender car is quite accomplish Jan antique car. How menu the 30-foot-Long wooden lured urn. A body is being built from scratch events of tile week include Clift Metal Flat car bed workers de Gin a Rad a i 30 the engine signed it by partially copying an1 will a Cir pm thursday 1865 Model and adding their own saturday at 7 30 p touches. The seats which will hold features for a he ladies Tim thugs allegedly Macle Kramer 36 passengers Are discards from old the Chen Muic ii remedy wed it As a Decoy to entice Weibler school buses. Mesday at 3 urn. Rea cooking from Home when Weibler a i the Railroad also now sports a thursday a 10 30 peered he was forced to open his Model t Ford inspection car. The am and 3 30 p Flower cd no Safe and hand Over the contents of four Cylinder Model has Metal St rat . A 20 30 a and 3 30 ins Wall t. Police said. Wheels fitted to the track. Tile Ford p and the Barbe Sharp , two friends r turning from a and engine have been Given a at 3 30 p Oon Hun my exp Rii Nick red j a Din. Franklin and Bob Leisy Don Nellson. Told authorities they noticed what was happening and were seen by the thieves when they went for a closer look authorities said Weibler. A Quot Din a Bensenville policeman saw the Lames Hie sky and said i thought the Argonne Laboratory had blown the plane narrowly missed a club ter of 12 13 Homes As it came Down. Residents could see the tail lights flashing before their windows i split end before the crash .taut, the White flame tinned a Noonda Glare upon Hie Field St to Quot a of gasoline car i ref liquid fire into front Yards the acrid men of burning Coni Rose above the Field. The wreckage was strewn Over Ai t 900 fee Long arid 300 feet wide to were the victims. Their i Bodle Aud their shattered Luggage littered neighbourhood Back Yards the bodies a re placed Black plastic bags and taken a caravan of ambulances to the Cook county morgue Chicago. There w Ere four girls All 20-y a is Ole i and ill from the Village of Suncook. If Carol Chase Linda annus Linda Beasley and Nancy Berg t rom were heading for los Angeles it. Hopes of finding jobs Ai d Quot fling Down Southern California aunt of one of the girls Aid they found life Back Suncook Quot too Lea i Hait Maloney and hl3 wife had taken their four children a although National quaid.,men trip to be the youngsters grandstand sentry duty could be parents near Scranton a. They Quot Cen through tin Lull ram which took fit fated flight 529 for their a Roar that householders feared atomic bomb had fallen there were no survivors Twa officials Iii Chicago no d the death count from 77 to 78 Rev hours after the crash with the Dis infant Jarne. Bodies. Trip bark to Canoga Park Calif. I and mrs. Glenn Kraft of Charlo of pa., were their Way to visit the. Son his wife and their a Bree children near los Angeles during the holidays. Free rides to reunion Blue Bird bus William White Dies nearly 95 i girls win Blue ribbon \ Kuh a s Hool bus Quot tarts the Day for these Rural youngsters of the Alt. Pleasant Community school District. Getting off at Saunders tor that first school Day of the season were Glen Starkey. Bottom who begins fifth Grade Robert Vaughn fourth and Donald i it Alt fifth. W ills admitted to probate Bate. O the terms of the Dawn up a Cem the w and Walt admitted to i according to Ballard will Ber 1958, tile estate is to to divided equally Between three Sisters and two Brothers Tho heirs arc j Cia ii a f Jackson Des Moines i Cella v Zink of pleasant Grace a loin Vincent Carl Ballard los Quot of Calif and Donald , it pleasant. Executor of the Estat i Thomas Bell. Tiv will of Walter Buchanan ram h is widow. Zada. Sole heir Anc it x of the est a . Old fiddlers contest planned anyone interested erne Jold fiddler contest at the j there will to special bit Ore i the Type of bus transportation pro video by the it. Pleasant chamber or White had been enjoying his j of Commerce to and from the mid usual Good health and had just sat West old settlers and threshers j Down front of the television set j reunion next week. After supper when he died. Through the cooperation of the or. And mis Art White and sons. Blue Bird bus body company a Bill and Dennis will attend the fun Blue Bird will be making the Ner d i trips to and from town and til Airport. This will be al american transit Type bus manufactured rain Date set entirely by Blue Bir for rehearsal Tim is expected Here Moran afternoon from by it it Valley a. And will be put into operation a daily schedule wednesday to schedule is As follows 9 a . A Park to town i 9 15 a. a town to Park 9 30 a. a Park to Airport i i i town 9 45 a . A Airport to Park schedule will be repeated Houri. Until 5 Blue Bird also will have display the original Blue Bird by services will a Quot held saturday it and Leisy were taken As hostages 1 30 at the methodist Church at to a Cornfield and then released. Thorn Peon for Willham White who officers captured the pair Short died unexpectedly wednesday eve after roadblocks had been set up Ning. He Wath father of Art Parker served time the mens White of or pleasant and would reformatory for his part the Rob have been 95 years old sept 18. Berv of the new London . february of 1949. It Wixom is a former resident of Southwest Henry county. The two men were arrested at the Home of Wixom s Mother mrs. Peggy Wixom. Near Hillsboro watch for service station robber the old truck it. H. r Bayard j settler and threshers reunion i a b Chanan have i should Cap either mrs. A. H Moore Iii Case of rain bund afternoon the pageant Rehem a1 will be Bucoda. Nigh at 7 30 p it. Pleasant school Calendar sept. I a school building elect Ion sept. I a labor Day. No school. Blue Bird no. I a at the thresh sept. La a school Board ers reunion. The old bus is Brin election transported to it. Pleasant a sept. La _ North Scott Here sept. 22 a Warsaw. Iii., Here a Road Block had been it up by Oft leers a the South Edge of my pleasant shortly before three o clock afternoon following a Purvice station robbery at i Madison first reports stated $5,000 had been obtained the the Fri the fed ral aviation Agency and the civil aeronautics Board rushed experts from Washington to find the cause of the crash which ranked As the ninth worst the history of commercial aviation terms of lives lost Fri Riisa iter team from Washington was part of the investigative unit. The Fri confirmed that St was looking for any signs of sabotage a even a bomb a but that j a a this a is a rout do -1 the Henry comity 4-h girls asters of this the Fri stat but a Mon. A ration team wa.-, spokesman Sud any report of Evi awarded a Blue ribbon for their Dence that tile four engine con demonstration Lake off Hie old Stellatino was destroyed by a bomb bring Rise new. Team a is Mere speculation a members Are Christine Evans. the hours before Dawn Hie Plighter of or and mrs Firre. T Corn Field was littered the Evans of Winfield and Donna bodies of the at first the Bergstrom daughter of or and Field of death was lighted by White Gilder Bergstrom of Rural hot flames from the wreckage. Then route it pleasant. A graveyard silence settled Over a ii Anontine Merit a made when Field. One half of the counties Iowa despite the rain the weather a we rued Blue red. Arid White Parent played no part the Dis ribbons for Nacir demons ration j Aster. Heavy Thunder forms Given during Hie first half of tile raked Chicago my its Western Iowa state fair. They showed hew suburbs earlier the night. But to Tak Quot off the old finish and apply visibility a three Miles with penetrating Seal to give a Beauty broken and overcast skies when Ful Quot anti finish to old Bookcase the Constellation went Down j both girl Are members of the the four engine plane v. Is Wayne pcs 4-h club. Christine has All coach flight ailed the sky been Prev Difut of the club flu coach it had made Stop at new year Donna Ila been treasurer York and Pittsburgh and w to bound a the Iowa state fair to e for Las veg the plane came Down Cia by til Argonne National Laboratory. robbery a description of the car 0r installation of the atomic had been broadcast Wilke fired orgy commission at Lemont. Tile explosion and flames rising girl. Participated pedal Assembly. Programs were How esses at the 4-h exhibit and were guests a. Yoni a res s ores de. Moines i a breakfast during their four Dav a a. The girls were accompanied both r Leader. . Force t Evans tension assistant. Over a dozen arson from Henry county were hand to see the demonstration or George Haushahn. Each participating will receive $3.00 new Plant de Moines upi1 a Iowa Highway patrolman Robert Wilke. Who admitted he abandoned his duty a amp Ign ment to spend a week sept. 28_ Washington there end with a married woman was missed i fired from the patrol today from the wreckage were so intense Linfu mrs. Leland Long. County sex that the thought of a nuclear explosion sprang to the minds of Many w a Nesses. A or Reha Kand Quot lie thought to herself. A dear god what is this a the bomb a Householder Charles George whose Home was narrowly by the falling plane said Quot it sounded like atomic bomb Quot starting new the polls will be j at Muscatine open until 7 of clock at Cottrell gym North Entrance Are you a Parent especially interest Muscatine Iowa up a Monsanto chemical co. Announced i today it will build a Multi million i Dollar nitrogen fertilizer Plant near Here. The Plant will be constructed and j Jacent to the anhydrous ammonia i i terminal which the company now j has under construction four Miles i South of Here the Mississippi j i Erx i n�v7 a to j Rifer company officials said. Construction work Puiu Good Couch the Plant will have a producing lun3irvuliiuin Vav Irv a i capacity of 200 tons per Day of toll it your boys hydrous ammonia and other Nitro. J Gen fertilizers said Thomas k Chick girls and toll Smith or Monsanto vice president h. Eugene Smith is starting a major cons auction project at burling Quot Motel at the West Edge of Burlington twelve new units Are being erected. Tile Smith firm has several major projects Iii the last two or three weeks and will a finish within a few Days. Being. O ers. Are nos who believe Quot better red preservation of the kind of Anver than dead and they Are willing Lea they know and love. Willing to to us All they have their Intel fit even to sacrifice their live Quot cts a d tuts to prove that the they Are unwilling to accept new communist slogan is fraud marxism leninism As a Compro i tit Mise with Fate. Among the or copyright. 1961, Syndicate inc King be a Tun s have you voted your vote May help the it. Pleasant a o u i t y i said it would be. Dollar he also declined i strict to h <1 v p to say How Many workers would be. J employed. Some estimates placed even better schools. To hts figure of the operation at $12 1 Millier and general manager of the com Pany s agricultural chemicals i vision. Construction of the facility will begin next month. Smith said. With completion scheduled for october j 1962 Smith would not disclose How much the Plant would Cost but a a Multi million Horseshoe meet during threshers til Quot annual old Threher Hor tournament we ill be held to ire. T gilts. September 5 and 7. I at Mcmillan Park. All players taking liquid be a1 tile courts by 8 . Lucida. Evening. September 5. At which Tim name will be draw and first round played. To losers will play round Robin tournaments also the first night. Tile winners will play round Robin tournaments night Winch tune the finals will also be played Between the two top winners the to or and Winner Brack Jet everyone is invited to enter i no entry fee will be Quot barged trophies will to Given for first second third place. Warren Anderson is last years i defending Champion. Need to to 12 men to help building buys first season ticket a judge George o. Van Allen receives congratulations from al Riepe goal line club president alter buying the first season ticket for the Iowa Wesleyan Home football games. Wesleyan football coach Jim Hofmann balks approvingly. The drive is underway local to up h inc season ticket sales the old threshers and settlers association is making Appeal for More men to help with the construction of the new building at the Mcmillan Park ground. The Butler representative u Herr and he feels that with the Aid of to to 12 men nor. Afraid of a ladder i that the Metal part of the roof j can to finished Friday afternoon

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