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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 5, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokolsky surrender psychology the principal achievement of propaganda Public relations and advertising is to make a person believe that somebody else wants him to believe. A nine out of ten a shrieks a girl on television and you Are therefore supposed to believe that nine out of ten doctors prescribe a certain drug for a headache it is not True in the first place because the Way the medical profession is organized doctors specialize and therefore no such ratio has anything to with headaches. Furthermore my own doctor warned me that As a cardiac patient if i took this or a remedy of the same ingredient it would me damage. It might kill me. It is the same in politics. In order to justify a budget and to continue High taxes the government propagandists took advantage of the sputnik to scream that if we did not something drastic we would be licked All our cities would be wiped out. And our population destroyed. Therefore the a educators Quot got into a Tizzy by demanding More schools and colleges to turn out More engineers and scientists even though by such acute specialization the engineers scientists and All others would come out of colleges and universities ignorant uneducated specialists slide Rule pushers who could not think for themselves. The principal task of All learning after All. Is to train the mind to think for itself. 000 then free lancers for magazines and news afters began to sell articles on How we Are going to surrender editors bought such articles in the Hope that people like to read about the worst. Of these articles the most unbelievable and therefore the one that attracted most attention was by brigadier general Thomas r Phillips . Army retired. Tile dateline is Washington. August 5 brigadier general Phillips has had an interesting administrative career in the army is the author or editor of a number of books and is the military analyst for the a St Louis Post dispatch a tins particular article has the following headlines and sub Heads All bunched together in the a congressional record Quot in which i read it Quot question of when United states should surrender in All out nuclear attack studied for Pentagon a scientists Are proceeding on Assumption Russia has achieved or is rapidly gaining inter Continental military superiority with the article deals mainly with a Book. A strategic surrender a by Paul Kecskemety published by the Stanford University press for the i Rand corporation which is an air Force Agency. Who Kecskemeti is i cannot discover in usual works of reference the brigadier gives no biographical sketch neither does senator Symington who Calls attention to the article. A a a senator Symington said that he railed attention to the otherwise obscure article and Book for the following reason a a. The article has prompted considerable correspondence from disturbed constituents who asked whether it is a fact that the United states is in mortal danger As general Gavin stated according to an article which was published last week in life Magazine they want1 to know whether general Phillips is Correct when he says a a a the United states will be in1 mortal danger until bombers fast enough to limit the effectiveness of hostile air defences and thou Sands of intercontinental missiles Are ready to respond to the opponent. Who Lias trumped our Ace by jumping Over the phase of j intercontinental warfare represent j cd by Long Range bombers As a Means of delivery a Quot 001 i the phrase a mortal danger a is a most serious one and cannot be used lightly. I have read general j tames m Gavin a Book. Quot War and peace in the space and came away from it disturbed but j without any feeling that we Are in Quot mortal in fact my own reaction was that As Long As general Cavin could write such a Book for general circulation and state his criticisms in Freedom we j Are not in a mortal and j Miral Hyman Rickover does it better. I think he criticizes but stays on the Job As Long As he will be permitted to stay on the Job and a Many a work. There is no use minimizing the peril of having such an enemy As soviet Russia tout it is really Dan-1 porous to shriek a mortal to get a budget through Congress. There ought to be a More mature Way of getting things done. Copyright 1958. King features Syndicate inc.1 j vol. 80, no. 209 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening sept. 5, i9.-.8 Aaser by Carrier 30v per week by mail $7.50 per year integration troubles continue Granddaddy of them All a this 40 horsepower Avery which came oui of Oklahoma a few weeks ago is the big one of the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion. Standing 12 feet High the big Avery makes the other one the Robert Willits owns Quot look like a Little miss Teresa Ann Johnson four years old is Only a Axle High Quot on the giant it will be noted. She is the daughter of or. And mrs. Cecil Johnson new London. Owner Robert Willits an enthusiastic Booster for the reunion Over the years stands at the throttle. He bought the 23-ton engine at Tonkawa. Okla. Governor visits reunion another big Day expected on saturday 12 summoned for traffic violations highlighted by the visit of tile governor of the state of Iowa. Herschel Loveless the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion attracted visitors from a wide area again Friday. The attendance by Early afternoon was much smaller however than the big crowd of thursday. The unfavourable weather Outlook Early Friday May have affected attendance by those who had intended to come from Distant Points. The heavy Shower late thursday afternoon was a deterrent but still there was a Large crowd present in the evening. Food tents had done a big volume of business through the Day and continued serving through much of the evening. Too local democrats were on hand to Greet gov. Loveless and have lunch with him at the grounds. He ate with a group of party leaders at the St. Alphonsin food tent. Meeting him Here and visiting the reunion also was Tom Dailey of Burlington. Democratic candidate for representative in Congress from the first District. The or. Pleasant High school band wearing Quot threshers outfits Quot was to March in the cavalcade of Power Parade Friday afternoon the antique car Parade will be a feature this evening. On saturday which should be another big Day weather permitting. The cavalcade of Power will take place on the track in front of the grandstand. The antique cars will Lead the Parade. The cavalcade of Power will bi1 repeated saturday evening. Awards will be presented to winners of contests in Progress during the reunion. A program for the ladies is planned for to a in. Saturday and the afternoon entertainment at three of clock after the Parade of Power on the track will be a Home Talent contest. School total near 1600 enrolment in the or pleasant Public schools is 1,592. Which is 24 More than at the opening last year supt c a Cottrell has reported. The number in the grades is 1089. Last year the number was 1047. Mast of the increase is accounted for by the Clasing of Rural schools in the area and the sending of these pupils to my pleasant. The number enrolled this year is Only one student different from the projection made a year ago of the probable enrolment. A decrease in the freshman class enrolment from a year ago resulted in a drop considerably below the projection for the High school. The number in High school is 503. The number a year ago was 521. The number by classes freshman 125 Sophomore 145 Junior 133 and senior. 105. The number in the grades kindergarten. 125 first 130 second 116 third. 130 fourth 123 fifth 121 sixth 155 seventh 97 eighth 87. The number of children being transported by buses has risen to 472. A new High for the local school. A concentrated traffic drive carried out in Henry county thursday night resulted in the issuance of 12 summonses into court four j warnings for nighttime speeding j 26 faulty equipment tickets and one arrest for driving while intoxicated. I engaged in the concentrated Effort conducted Over the county were ten patrolmen and sgt. Lowell Sehell Haso. Sheriff Russell Van Tull and Deputy Robert Nicholson. The drive was similar to that being conducted in various counties Over the District and state in the safety Effort. Four of those Given summonses have appeared in Justice Rudolph Elt keys court and have been fined. M Brenneman Kalona was fined $40 and costs for driving 60 Miles Lier hour in a 20 mile zone at Olds and $18 and costs for violating the nighttime Speed limit on the open Highway. A patrolman followed Brenneman through Olds and before he could Stop him the Motorist was Stop id by patrolmen running the Speed analyser near Swedesburg. I John White Union mo., paid $8 and costs for violating the truck Speed limit. George c. Austin. Fayetteville ark., and Donald Borg Austin minn., were fined $6 and costs each on the same charge. Arrested on the Omvik charge was Frank Hunter of Winfield. Third offence Omvik charge conference is proposed Berlin up the East German foreign office announced today it has proposed to the big four and West Germany a conference to discuss a peace treaty for Germany. A foreign office press announcement said East Germany in notes to the United states Britain France the soviet Union and West Germany said negotiations should be opened on the a a preparation of a peace treaty. The announcement said the notes to the Western Powers were handed to the Western embassies in Prague by the czech foreign office because East Germany has no diplomatic relations with the West Frank Hunter Winfield was or rested by the Highway patrol near Rome at Midnight thursday and i charged with operating a motor vehicle while he was intoxicated. A third offence. Hunter waived preliminary hearing in Justice Rudolph eckey�?T., court and was bound Over to the j grand jury under $1,000 Bond Hunter is in the county jail in lieu of the Bond. A one Story building is Washington. D c. Headquarters for one of the nation s largest elevator companies. Priest killed in car truck rash North Sioux City n. Oak. Up a the Rev. Robert Duffy. 41 Omaha editor of the Catholic diocesan newspaper the True voice was killed late thursday when his car collided with a truck near Here. Highway patrolman John Anderson said a Blowout apparently sent father Duffy a car out of control and into the path of a Grain Laden Semi trailer truck. The Driver of the truck. Willard Lefler. 45. Winner s d., was has vitalized with a slight leg injury. A passenger in the truck. Tony Conelie. Winner was not Hurt. Father Duffy a fighting Irish priest who liked Quot anything that was a was alone in his car controversy in Virginia and Arkansas by up the nations school integration controversy raged in Virginia and Arkansas today. Manifestations of the racial troubles included t h c burning of a negro in effigy in Arkansas and a fiery Cross in North Carolina. Virginia a integration spotlight was on Charlottesville where the City school Board met to weigh the advice of gov. J. Lindsay Almond to make no assignments White or negro to any school in the face of a Federal court integration order also in Virginia Federal judge Albert v. Bryan ordered Arlington i county schools near the nation s capital to open monday on a segregated basis pending the u. S. Supreme court s decision on the Little Rock crisis. He ordered the Arlington schools to hold up admittance of 30 negro children to seven White schools and took under study the petition of the j applicant too Almond informed All Virginia school boards thursday they had been a totally divested of any authority in Pupil assignment by the state s Pupil placement Law part of the states Quot massive resistance plan. Almond s message magnified the dilemma of the boards which Are named As defendants in desegregation suits against Arlington and Prince Edward counties and Norfolk the states sensitive integration spots. In effect Tho boards Are under Federal court order to assign negro students to White schools and under state Lawr Are forbidden to make any assignments. Almond admitted in a press conference thursday that if the boards not make the pupils assignments they could be cited for contempt by Federal courts. On the other hand the state could take contempt action against them for violating Virginia a placement Law. Too elsewhere in the South there was a faltering Start toward school integration and some Vio a Lence. J a fiery Cross traditional Symbol of the segregationist extremists flared twice thursday at a previously All White school in Winston Salem n. C., where Gwendolyn Yvonne Bailey a negro girl had registered a few hours earlier. Tile enrolment of three Young negroes at another school in the City caused no undue excitement. About 60 boys staged a strike at the Van Buren ark., High is Bool and threatened to remove 13 negroes if they did not withdraw in six Days. The boys burned an effigy of a negro on a school flagpole. Ii Alusie St Alf. Model a this to horsepower Star engine built in a i to 2 ratio of a Standard 20 horsepower Star made its first Public appearance at the reunion Here. In fact builder and owner Nat lung of Charleston iii., standing beside tile engine still has some work to on it he said. It was not even broken in when he brought it to the local reunion. This is believed to be the largest scale Model engine in existence. It is a double Cylinder under count. Lang is an old Thresher worked for Many years in Stone Quarry operation and has been associated with engines since he was to years old. He has been coming Here to tile reunion the last seven years. U. S. Will defend Quemoy against invasion Washington up sen. H Alexander Smith said after a conference with Secretary of state John Foster Dulles today that the United states has Quot definitely Quot decided to help defend nationalist chinese held Quinoy and Matsu islands against any red chinese invasion. Quot we have to that a the new Jersey Republican said. Quot if we let those Down the whole thing Formosa and other nationalist islands Smith said he believes the administration will get in touch with Republican and democratic leaders of Congress if the Formosa Strait situation becomes More serious. Smith was asked whether the United states does t already consider the crisis there very serious. He replied that the United states does not now know what the communist chinese will in View of thursday s Eisenhower Dulles warning against any aggressive move. He said red China s increased military activity in the area a May be a great big wins four ribbons at Wayland or and mrs. Glen Donald attended the Hoise show saturday. August 30. At Wayland. Their daughter. Mary sue was entered in the show and she won four ribbons a 1st in Stock horse a i a in Cloyer Leaf a 2nd in children a equitation and a 4th in Western pleasure. F freshmen to arrive on sept. To the College year at Iowa a Wesleyan will open monday sept. 8. With the annual faculty Retreat. Two Days later sept. To freshmen will gather for a week of orientation classes begin sept 17. The freshman orientation Blendes testing counselling special assemblies and sexual events. Sunday sept. 14, will be freshmen Church sunday with new students attending churches of their Choice. The following evening churches will entertain the freshmen at dinner. Upperclassmen who will assist Iii Campus Tours and in orientation include Winn Mccray Darien. Conn. Kay Clifton Dallas City. 111. Barry Caris Highland Park 111 Jim Anderson Frank Guz Zardo Rockford 111 Barbara Bai i Ley. Appleton Wise. John hath j away Plymouth mass. Fred i Woodard Kansas City to. Donna Garrett Ames Phil a Johnson Arlington Jerry Courtney Burlington Phil Killinger Carson Paul Pennington Columbus Junction Ritchie White Crawfordsville Beverly Harper Dumont mania Gordon fort Madison James Fiete Garnavillo Larry Middleton. Gibson Sharon Davis Hedrick Glenda Nicholson May 1 n. Re Bob Potter or. Pleasant Katherine wait. Olt Wein Carrol Newquist Ottumwa Hilda Schneider. Wapello Nancy elder Wayland Fonda Jones. Wellman and Ann Boyd Winterset. Dag and Nasser discuss tensions in Middle East Cairo up a United nations Secretary general Dag Hammar skjold and president Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United Arab Republic discussed Middle East tensions in a 4%-hour session ending at i a in. Today. Well informed sources Here sail Hammarskjold had made Quot Good Progress in his search for peace. The sources described the Long session As a Frank and useful Quot but did not disclose details of the discussions immediately. Previously Hammarskjold had met for 9�?Ta hours with . Foreign minister Mahmoud Fawzi in an attempt to reach agreement on the role the United nations should play in helping to oversee peace in the Middle East. Thursday nights meeting of Hammarskjold and Nasser was their first since the . Diplomat arrived Here Early this week. There was no word on a further meeting. Move Inland to get away from storm tiny Sawmill a Clayton Parsons left of Lowell has been bringing his tiny Sawmill to the re Union for some seven years. Its Abig attraction each year. It is powered this year by a miniature steam engine built and owned by j. It Bowers of West Liberty Ohio who has been Eon Irig to the reunion j he list seven votes Ilso he a a is standing in the Haek Roond to the extreme left gives report on two �?~34�?T projects Fairfield Robert h Given assistant District Engineer for construction for the Iowa Highway commission has made announcements on two Highway construction projects which Are of interest to Fairfield and Jefferson county residents. First the Highway commission will soon let contracts for the completion of the four Lane Highway on 34 Between Agency and Ottumwa second the completion of new paving on Highway 34 from the Shuppy farm East to the East Boundary of the county. The it project East of Fairfield is part of the program to improve Highway 34 from Fairfield to of pleasant the new paving begins a the Shuppy farm and travels South of Lockridge to the East Edge of the county where it connects with the new pavement extending on to it. Pleasant. Given said the new stretch of paving completed by the Hanson construction company will be opened to traffic in the near future As soon As shoulder work is completed the remaining part of the Over All program surfacing East from a Point East of Fairfield to j the Shuppy farm will be done next year. Traffic will continue Over the Prest it Highway in that location during the coming Winter new Orleans up a wot i cd coastal dwellers began pack big up and moving Inland Toda t get away from tropical Stori Ella kicking up in the Gulf wit winds up to to Miles an hour. A noon advisory from the be Orleans weather Bureau put the storm about 320 Miles East South East of Corpus Christi Tex. Wide area Between Corpus Chris and Galveston was put on Hurr Cane watch. The storm was expected t smack the coast slightly North c Corpus Christi late Friday niger or Early saturday with winds c about 70 Miles an hour. Hig tides appeared to be a great danger than wind velocity. A new storm was Brewin no awhile in the Caribbean 27 Miles East of Martinique. Red planes Over Formosa trails Taipei. Formosa it Upp a the communists threw two Waves of warplanes Over the Northern part of the Formosa Strait today setting off air raid alerts in toe offshore Nemon Alist held Matsu islands the defense ministry said an undisclosed number of russian built Mig Jet fighters were sighted West it if Matsu this afternoon. An air raid alarm w As sounded on the Island. A second wave of communist warplanes of unidentified Type flew West of Matsu a couple of hours later setting off another air raid Alert the defense ministry said. A combat was reported with nationalist planes in either Case

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