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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 8, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 211mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening sept. 8, 1%1 these Days by George e Sokolsky Brazil it has become habitual to speak of two continents As though they contained Only one country. Africa is an area of varied Peoples South America is even More Complex. There was a time when the entire continent South of the United states was referred to As Spanish american which it was not. The largest state and in Many respects the most important of South America is Brazil. Principally portuguese in language and atmosphere. Brazil is 3.300,000 Square Miles in size the fourth largest country in the world. The people Are mixed aborigines called Indian portuguese negroes. Italians germans. The portuguese never practice racial discrimination and therefore since 1500. There h is been constant assimilation it was the sugar Cane which first interested the portuguese in Brazil. They brought the Cane from their native land and found that the soil of Pernambuco was suitable for this crop. During the 16th and 17th centuries. Bra a 7il was the world s chief supplier of sugar. It was this crop which gave the country its economic Start but As there was insufficient j labor. Negroes were imported from Africa. The1 land owne s were extra ordinarily Rich and this attracted the attention of Europe Tho French and the dutch tried to establish themselves in Brazil but they did not last Long. Publicity stun District vow school voting a to Sidon a auxiliary on monday to Convene not monday. Re Hon i election Day to elect Board member in a districts of the county for the or pleasant school District the name of the two Din a and Henry county veterans of foreign wary to t no 2561 and its Lade it auxiliary will Host Tom first Marvin Hun tin appear on the dist dirt fall Convent Ai of the veterans if be reign War auxiliary of Southeast Iowa the it sunday. Sept to registration for both groups will star1 at 10.30 am with the men assembling at the to t heme pm Harlan w Swanson. Mini. Ipod inn was in the w off for. A j Day morning reminiscing about no friends and acquaint a noes he had known a Rood Many year a co. When lie lived near swed Bur a and also taught in Rural school.-. In Henry county he att and cd th1, i plea Aid aes Den or. Kwan Cit. And h t c it ers. Fliner t Swan on Salt i Ore City Utah and Arthur c so in on Aberdeen s p. And a or i Lillian Ere Hen the in i anti Muir have Bre n in the it to lot i a a a v. Khrushchev fails to Send invitation Blit Biros olo and new Blue Bird bus no. I. Brought Here from it. \ Alley la., for the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion is shown parked beside the modern All american transit Blue Bird bus brought Here from i t. Valley for conveyance of passengers to the reunion. John Harris new manager of the Blue Bird operation demonstrates How to Crank the old Model to Bari Smith president of the chamber of Commerce Frank Delucia president of the Industrial development corporation. And Don Atkinson who drove the truck that transported Blue Bud no. I Here. Garretson named new City attorney Burlington Man arrested in Ottumwa raid b and finale features choir Ottumwa. Low a up sex convict allegedly wanted All or. One of the highlights of the j civil War Centennial pageant to i be Given again tonight Friday. I was the grand finale featuring the too voice choir under the direction Charles o a it Tson was named a Peveri Midwest states for passing i of mrs. Marabelle Magnuson. This elect lot for a lie county Board of education there s one candidate. Darrell w of. Incumbent the Only Mem of r whose term expire Only in this election will be in the areas which he represents staying at the Harlan boo attending the old settled Friday. With or. A i spot a and they were Gin t toi dim Friday evening of or and mrs. Carl be Fin. Swedesboro they will leave for Minnesota saturday morning in due course Gold. Silver and a he new a to att Oney at the City a d checks a. Arrested Early to diamonds were found in Brazil a Rouneil meeting thursday night. He Dav a a raid on a suspected one time More than 40 per cent j a Jujj Start his duties oct. I Garret of the Gold of the Earth was found son former county attorney Suc in Brazil. Needs Thomas Bell who resigned Brazil became a a Public in 1889 of ill Fame. Their singing of the Battle hymn of the Republic music by the it. Pleasant High school band i and the March of flames by the and has since suffered from considerable political disturbance. In Richard Laverne Watson. 33, National guard and the army recently after 12 years of service. Burlington was arrested and first jerve8 made a spectacular Long to in other business members of the told authorities he was a Robert be remembered. And ballot tile District will be voting at five places. In it plea ant. The voting place will be at Cottrell gym. North in Ira Nee. The Ether voting places Are West Washington and the ladies at pleasant Lawn. Trenton Salem Titre by r. Reunion the i oof on South adms the and Donaldson Chapel All eligible or Breu Cuthin pent auxiliary will have officer s voters of the District May vote in practice at Llain and audit of Book. Also at that time. District. Vow inspector Elvin Dickey has called a meeting of All Deputy inspector at i pm. And Ute District vow Book will be audited at i . Business will get under Way at 1 30 pm District vow. Commander Walt r Schwartz of Winfield will preside and mrs. Lien Turley. I Trio . Auxiliary president of a pleasant will be in charge of the auxiliary business session. Mrs. Gerald j Miller. Department Junior vice president of the ladle auxiliary. Will be Hie official representative of the department she and her husband will t arrive in it pleasant sunday governor Norman a by be a drove j Washington up a the White hot e today dismissed a in a v far tic soviet Premmer Nikita Liru Schev. Recent offer to Nice with president . Pit. See rotary Pierre Salinger id pointedly that Khrushchev has i i i a cd any invitation through diplomatic channels but Washington up i he this in general is the West part of tin Ted and to Hen it county and a Little of Extrema East Jefferson. Voting places will o at Trenton and Salem today warned a in Ute most solemn terms Quot that they would not tolerate try wherein in. With poll will be open from 12 noon civilian flights in the in 1 until 7 pm for both elect iou corridors governor drives engine i at old threshers reunion Henry county for Board were Shaffer of Pittsburgh. A. 1930, Getho Vargas a Strong Man. and went Over the contract became president and served until with the City. The dates of the 1962 1954 when. During a political Fullr were set t As july 22-29. Crisis he committed suicide his1 the Council approved a Bill of place was taken by jul Celino j$868 78 to the firefighters equip Kubitschek in 1956. He was Fol ment c of Rock Island la. Followed in 1961 by Janio Quadros repair of the pumper tank on one who was elected by a popular vote. J of the City fire truck. And other but who resigned a few week. Ago equipment fire chief William al set Date for Sale of Bonds because he could not meet the Sale of general obligation Bonds the members of the choir Are Robert Smoot. Robert Lawrence. Kenneth Murphy Ward sessions. Allen Nordquist Steve Proctor. Dave Rogula. Bernard Hultquist. Maine Courter. Dick Stucker Dick Moring to Pend he Day and Par steam engine at the old thresh to be disappointed a a Vaipon fun in the Day s activities mrs. Ens reunion her Friday afternoon i. Or and mrs Paul Devon Miller is a president of her the engine belonged to William drove the Hundred Mil f of the own auxiliary served As third hater and was being driven by j Home Friday morning or we put n District president for two Teim. Frank Rhodes. Kalona j the kid on the school by. La and in several appointive and else a photographer asked the gov de Voces said they had warded to Tive capacities in the department error to a drive the engine for a bebop being elected Junior vice picture. Fie consented but when Mccabe Roger Meeker Bill Koch preside at the department con told to a grab Hie throttle he asked Don Kreutner Glen Whitmarsh Art Young Phil Myers Rilla Mills Jim Deyarman. Ronny Deyanna pre. Sures of inflation and popular dissatisfaction. Vine brought the truck Back from an j of Revenue Bonds was it for i Lyle Sheila Berger. Robert Lofgren. Supt. 26 by the City Council thurs j Robin Formanek. F h Larson Cay evening Don Miller. Mike Riepe. William Roth Larry Hense Judson Meyer Rock Island thursday night Arnold human la was hired by the City to remove four Trees which the future of Brazil depends Nutch Elm disease from upon the development of the in Saunders Park and one from Cen terror the vast Amazon Basin a trial Park Region of great potential economic j wealth the principle crop of i Brazil is presently Coffee president Pian it to build on Winfield Avenue Over a period of 15 years Kubitschek sought to vary the across City property to Highway 218. Tie Bonds Are in connection with the City Street widening and off Street parking program and total Richard Wilson ,.sked the City to $176,000. They Are to be paid from give him Access from a hous he anticipated parking meter receipts vacation in Mason City in june. Where is it Quot Rhodes Hided up this Vin be her first visit to it. Driving it As the governor posed pleasant safely on the step. Rome for several pc irs but had Dif-1 Lenity finding when it would be a last year we were All ready to j said mrs. Devote a eth a. Found we were too late Quot they chose1 the trip Here Over the state fair., and has made he offer Only in Public and garment and interview. To a White House Alo accused a Hie Kremlin of preparing for the f it i edit merits of atomic test explosions even while soviet negotiators were participating in. Test ban negotiations in Geneva. In another development. Nato seer or general Dirk Stokker Aid War Over Berlin would i it pm lab flute la foolish a but he Dee red that if the a a Ait hostilities a Onato will St Kerr. Herr Lor strategy talks it i state and defence official., a old new men hat Nav to military i oui in ruler Gen. Lauds nor. Tad a told Hun a if anything happen.-. I have Hie mean. To fight and i la Damn Well fight. In his discussion with reporters Salinger said he considered it Sig i Uncan that Khrushchev had de-1 v i telling the soviet people that Rill it had fired four atmospheric nuclear tests. Word of Khrushchev., first disci.,tire to his own people that re ii and resumed came at about the time Salinger was meeting with reporters. Lunch at the Home i the Airport at la . He was ex-1 Day Quot said Devon who has and in the evening a peered to leave about 3 . Here acre farm near Chariton Aud a productivity of the country. One the request was referred to the of his methods of opening the streets committee Harry Zink. Era. Obligation Bonds and $77,000 ladies of the local auxiliary Are serving a at 12 noon Chicken supper is being served at for the second year. I spent his l. Duwa me hereby. Harold Rixe. J 530 pm a Ltd entertainment and time enjoying an a old threshers Glenn Hultquist George Boller. I dance to f0iow j dinner at one of the Church tents Erie Boller t e. Myers Keith. A a and looking Over old engines. Zickefoose Jerry Hawbaker. Bob Stanley. Burdett Davis mrs. J the third Day of the reunion saw Arthur Davison Christine Evans. It some of the hottest weather yet Connie Foster. Marilee Donnolly. J temperatures reaching into Judy Melba. Marilyn Boa. Betty the qts thousand. Of people a Larson Frances Hulme Treva Jar a majority out of states. The governors plane arrived at Quot id rallies see it than the tail any to Orff 1 Deyarman. Jerry Magnuson. J a uni to Kerr. Sharon Eye Joh of the amount. $97,000 is in Gen-1 Anna Larson. Christine Larson. Interior was the building of a new j asked that the drive to his prop a parking fact Itji a Revenue Bonds whle it is anticipated and Virtu ally certain that the entire amount Widmer injured Driver faces charge Law. City. Brasilia which serves As the it Rev on m0rth Adams Street be wid capital of the country and from ene j action was taken by the which modern roads run in All Council. Directions. In addition air service a class b Beer permit was a has been developed beyond any sued to Charlie s Market. Thing that could be expected in such a country to pay for All this Brazil entered upon a program of wild inflation. The Cruzeiro falling from 20 to the Dollar to about Between 220 and 240 to the Dollar. It is the fall of the Cruzeiro which is Caus Roger o Ford. It pleasant my lug most of the trouble in Brazil four suffered a broken and at the present time and of which nose when the car to was driving the communist Are taking full left a gravel Road i Miles West of advantage. It. Union and crashed into a tree too in a farmyard thursday at 12 30 the building of Brasilia is an pm excellent idea in the brazilians font car swerved aft r sonic Elm i have tried to fit a 50 year pro onto a shoulder of the Road and a Xiv j la 11v/11 Gram into As Many months in fact went into the farmyard at the _ Brasilia As it is Laid out and As Alden Fricke place after striking the buildings Are going up. Is the the tree the car came to rest most modern the most highly against a pole. Developed City in the world. The i Ford was admitted to memorial creation of Brasilia has in no Man Hospital thursday afternoon thursday evening Are interfered with the growth of a charge of failure to have his Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo. In car under control was filed a gains., Sandra Madden Jolene . Clara Luck Grant. Pat thronged amongst the Black smoke of the hot engines and looked at other reminders of the past. Carmen Crawford Suzanne Hult. J Hultquist Bonnie Boom. Alliman. Gwen j Cannon Donna Cannon Cleo Susan Burgraff. Cheryl j Rekey Jacqueline Hulme. be paid from parking meter Davison Kathy Henss Esther Hill j line Rickey. Doris Clark. Betty one sign of the crowds coming funds the issuance of the general Pat Keefe Carole Dawson. Thelma i Lite. Delynn Hanson Sally Sut Here for the reunion is the Scarcity Revenue Bond. Became necessary i Whitmarsh. Marlene Van Tuy j ton Connie Mcclure. Linda deck of a place to sleep Hail Ison Moore because of a technicality in the Mary . Zelda Graber. Virgin j it. Judy Lampe. Linda bigg.-, hoi wh0 assists at the Headquarters tent with housing visitors reported All motels had been booked up for approve 218 improvement in City at the Knoxville veterans Hospital. Devore said they definitely plan to come Back next year. When Thev ii. A bring the a i was sine stir-1 a Road improvement project at prised he commented. I never the North Edge of it. Pleasant May thought it was a lug As it 1 come sooner than had been an Philip Friend. 66-year-old Obi to mated it became apparent at the net maker from Asl on. Ohio ii lid City Council meeting thursday of the reunion from hts brother in evening. Law Raymond Cox. New London. A the request of the Iowa stare Gas rate us requests approval by i increase asked Days. It it weren t for the to. Vitality of the towns people a he could follow it a. Pointed Friday they include in involved and costly. Outright Grant of approval of the request. I find lodging out losses til is too can become High j much of it was in private Homes. Another gauge of out of town visitors us the Airport John Hinkle. The proposed increases would Trenton who drives a he new Blue not affect the first 30 Kcf Kcf Bird bus on passenger runs from holding a Public hearing to let Means Hundred cubic fact of Gas the Park into town and the Airth people of Hie Community voice each month Tho minimum port said he had taken passengers i opinions and then to give a decks of waver would increase i fron from about 16 planes thursday. 75 cent to is 25. Eight or nine were reported to have the increase for a too Cifu a landed Friday morning. Would be from $$1165 to $13 05 a utilities at the City Council meet-1 give a decision. Employment of auditor. And a request for approval of an in j make an audit of Iowa Southern crease in the local Naturel Gas Utility figures to see whether or rates was made by Iowa Southern i not an increase is justified then from $2�?z 6_ 2go_. For amp of n in a a Quot Kcf user from $39.65 to $45 05 and j deny the request and leave the for a 1<000 Kcf $74153 to $65.05 Robert Ford local manager for Burden of further action with Isu the proposed g neral service rate would be e have been first 15 Kcf a 25 a made about each of these four next 15 at 20 next 70 at 09 balance at 08 the present general service rates while visiting Cox la april was Highway commission a Resolution it Worth the train ride ail the Way a passed by the Council per from aah ton i would t hamstring widening and Black Topping missed it for a too dollars Quot Friend of Braodway from Orange Street said. He especially enjoys seeing the North to the City limits. The indians in the unique building i widening and Black Topping will explains to comp Back sex year a if to no beyond the City Limiti about i m Able Quot Block to connect with the pave ment widened under a previous activities cd ruled for of Ger project. Broadway was Black topped r of invented. A we could never do it a a a include the antique a or Paide in a North As Orange Street some he said that they had been Able to front of the grands Rod it 7 and or four years ago. For All the visitors. J Fappo to. At 8, of wed Uday nights tin Section of narrow pavement successful civil War cent Musl Page fam Orange Street northward was least which has a of 678 pen Jet unimproved at that time Benic in of a tentative plan to relocate mrs e a Haes will direct re Highway 218 to the West of the nights presentation of the pageant present routing. According to mrs Helen Vin ii. There also is Rome indication 1 it Hor of Hie pageant clips to at til Black Topping of 218 on mrs Glen Hultquist who due a mirth to May take place cd the pageant wednesday a of Soo Alft than previously anticipated for Colorado in connection with her in the five year program this re duties a. National chairman �?o5 in ii ,.urfacinm is scheduled to be done defers for the american legion met year there us a Chance that whatever distance people comte see the event they Seldom seems auxiliary k i Isu and Galen Macneily of Centerville rate Engineer for Isu. Made the request on behalf of Isu oms i charge and presented statistics relative to. Possibilities. Cost increase and rates in other of approval wow cities. The amount to around $33,000 a year increase requested would mean placing an approximately on the basis of present consume $33,000 Burden on Gas Consumers of the Community solely on the basis fact All of Brazil is on a costly Ford by Deputy sheriff Van Craw Engineer for Isu i. Building spree. Tile potentialities Ford who investigated Fords 19og.these observations of this country Are beyond image Ford Hao a Damag d. Nation. Brazil is Rich in All min i reals in food products in Wood lands. The present revolution could of course arrest brazils development. This struggle is Between left Wing groups associated with Cuba and red China and the conservative military forces of the country. The left Wing elements Are associated with Castro and their Victory would extend Castro a influence throughout South America. Should Are Hon and would be about la per first 15 Kcf at .25 next 15 at 20 i. Balance at 07 William p Hale St Charlesmo nut it it toe . Accomplish Little. It undoubtedly tile average proposed increase i was wrested by City police at la $33,000 in Equa. I would be limited to a Small per approximately 114 per cent thursday at the Southeast the amount of the increase in a a it it of ?1 and the Roun ii of Isu s presentation. I holding a Public hearing would . Tho Michigan Wisconsin would still have to make the Decu Corner of the Square and charged Winch with operating a motor vehicle while pipeline company passed on to Isu a a Ouw. Vowel he was intoxicated. Last september food said. Hale is in the City jail Waltin the military prevail they will be hearing which pending until re-1 Tolk r raises Thal have la to a in forced to establish some Type of its of an alcohol Content test Are curved since the present rate was figures were present d to How or give scone the increase in costs from 1950 to Opportunity to express i960 for various items including an dictatorship to hold the country together and to resist communist influences. To keep the soviet world out of j South on 2i8 and reported to to Brazil it is essential for the cult that Halo was driving. Critical up to Date United states to act swiftly. Brazil by Nicholson filed the information Borders on Colombia Peru Bolivia. Gamst Hale. People themselves and might bring out 83 per cent increase in the Pur angles that otherwise would not chased cast of Gas for firm a a absorbed behave considered. Customers. A it 11 employment of auditors is an j the increase in the Cost of Gas j expensive procedure for the City alone from 1950 to i960 Alii Ami us of to 97,983 a year the information costs and income becomes a Long presented showed. A ext Micron. It. Pliant Isu he said obviously the approx followed hah into town i rom a a Boen Abbot cd Quot by Tho going into All of the details Iii Eony act might be awarded yet to 1 is near. The Highway commission has indicated. Threshers program saturday. Sept. 9 invocation a 9 30 a. In. Special events announced each Day 1 30 p in. Sobask cavalcade on track led by antique cars Frony Brake threshing Baker fan Job horse shoe awards checker award a 7 00 pm. Cavalcade on the truck�?7 30 p. In. Bus schedule to threshers reunion increase in volume of Civ ump j drawn out process that might run other increases were for steel Paraguay Uruguay Argentine Venezuela and the Guiana. Lion has assisted the company im11110 meeting part of the increases thousands of dollars in sex pipe meters and wages for Fin be j phases to the City. Plo yees. 1 ,. Tui could resort to the District comparative rates for a group of a conclusion that left Wing efforts Sald but still they have reached a coup a my a 10 i a. In not to decide if the Reacus were cities in Iowa Man of Mem sum Basic political and ideological cannot prevail in such a country Point where the company needs re. Such court appeals an Lur in size to i. Pleasant show change in Brazil cannot Bot al Lect the evidence is to Tho a a a a Quot a a a j be through an increase in Rau a. On the Onu nation hat after the proposed increase All these countries. Namely. Wing revolutions o hat Law sure w Franl the. Request it. Pleasant would compare rather j namely left Wing revolutions of varying intensity have developed j the Council took no action at Brazil like All the countries of in the countries where roman this time and will give latin America is intensely roman catholicism is m s deeply in Catholic this leads to the false i trenched. The bus schedule is As follows for coming from faraway to see the old the i. 1 a it fro rides to the threshers run Arthur Dean Mills left and i Mother mr.-. Orvn Emily. Lov Ion land Colo. They came especially for the show Art visiting Iii the 9 . A Park to town Stop will Home of mrs. Mills Mother in Law mrs Ethel Mills right show be ii Middle of Block on East Side Here looking Over the old mail Hack they liked the show very much i of Square they used to live in Henry county where mrs. Mills taught in a of in 9 15 . I own to Park try school a just like the old fashioned one Here at the show i he 9 30 a in. Paik to Airport via mail Hack formerly used in Missouri had been loaned t it the tin ors reunion by the owner. The Hack was shipped Here through the a f town 9 45 a in. Airport to Park. Further i is confiscatory in nature that is-1 closely. It fort a of Gilbert Cantwell from Washington d c where it had Bein j schedule will be repeated hourly study to the request. The Council that the operation is being placed some in some Brae a Ever procedures which t in financial peril because of a he ban no. In Brodee 1 on display until 5

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