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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 9, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 83, no. 212mt. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening sept. 9, Imi these Days by George e Sokolsky the problem of eos Mion soon the schools and colleges will re open and boys and girls will hurl themselves into work which is designed to build their careers tot form their characters to improve them culturally. Our system of education has come in for very Sharp j criticism on several sides the humanists feel that our students get very Tittle of the humanities. The eternal values of learning during a four years course they feel that the youngsters Are being robbed of their time their Money and their opportunities by an inadequate probing into the near in 10,000 years of human culture which is available to them some regard the system of majors As unproductive of the Best values that a College can provide on the other hand Many parents and employers complain that Young people Are graduated from our colleges and universities without any skill any tools any training in the acquirement of knowledge and the application of what they learn re to their life work in a word they feel that they Are wasting their time the humanists say that Coll it is not a Trade Coop that if tie Young person wants to master a Trade he should go to a technical school that makes a specially of i subject the practical person want to know Why tin us it. After four years of High school and four years of College. Is unfit for anything in particular girls can j find jobs As secretaries or elementary school teacher although they Are trained for neither Bon become Stock brokers or clerk where if they can learn fast they can make some Money but How Many Stock brokers or Bankers Haw you met who know any economic at All for them not to know the technical basis of their Trade i a it wrong As for a stenographer not to j be Able to spell or for a teacher of history to know no history the practical Man a a about tools the humanist asks about know lode 1 surely after four years a student should have one or the other if no both the question tha needs to a be asked is Why there Are so main complaints boil what should b the Ordinary result of education no person can possibly be regained a educated or cultured who does not know the language and literature and history at teas of his own people that of courts just a Start but it is an is. no one can constr be Lively contribute to the welfare of his count. Who if not under Alai ins Fern and method of government one crowds Jam threshers grounds average size of Henry co. Farms up \ acres in year record numbers governor Norman Elbe in addition to driving a steam engine at the Midwest old bitter at thresh engaged in a number of i in 1960, Lim figure arc one to f to a Tivi Nat the ground. Fri i Tim average Sie Henry county j farm n 1959 was it,7 ares an in i accounted for 41 5 per cent 21 to if p of 4 acres Over the 1958 39 sows for la 8 per cent. 31 1 aver if a according to a Tate farm 40 sows 3 per cent to to 59 son., census report released recently. J i per rent and Over 51 i it v.7 Hie report attributes the increase per Cen in average size of farms to lunging of farm land the number of to of. 35.3. Per cent la to .0 i Day fat in. In the Comby Herrea cd Row. 43 per cent 21 to 30 Row. From 1.939 to 1,616 Dimmg the year. J 14 9per cent 31 to 40 sows la per average be Foi the 16.718 cent and 51 Row. Or Over 1.2 per in the Southeast Iowa crop report cent. Ing District was 174 acres state wide ave age for tit 184.856 i the percentage of county farms a Tease of Over 2.000 from the Quot us livestock remained steady. .9, previous rear a. It or 20 acre a Quot cent for both 1959 and 1960.1 than he Henry county Avn the actual number of farms re i porting livestock Drc reared by one. I farm 1.261 ill 1959 and 1.230 in hogs remained the in u irn por i960 to livestock on flouncy fat in with the statewide livestock percent i 59 per cent of the farm farrowing age was tin same a for to 1959 of pig 195 1 sows j county 79 per cml. Statewide Fig i tint a a a Iglus deem e for in ores bowed a decreasing trend in1 the til pm it or be previous year percentage of livestock from 89 per in Hon county but sightly Over cent Iii Idoo to the Quot 1960 figure. J governor likes development of 5,000 Bee i i threshers reunion Friday night productions Mumm b ing % t a the crowd is always just a eager for his successful balancing of an engine on the Teeter Board As is Peter Bucher of Jefferson county. Here Bucher is shown easing the a Black monster Quot into position for the balancing aet Friday afternoon. Water moving Forward and bark in the boiler adds to the problem of stopping at just the right place. Bucher has been a Long time Booster tor the reunion and mrs. Bocher is the Secretary of the association. The fellow with Black Cap at the front of the engine probably was William Sater president of the association who does a better Job of being everywhere at once than most people can do. The engine belongs to mrs. M. Phillips of Kansas it. To. S in the i -1 cd Kab 59 09 pc i a a Ltd it 66 sprit g fan of it fur the or i Brav in Titan a ii fall 838 farm As compared to 7-.i Fin a v per of i.? of hem pc it a Aly fan or 830. Reported both Spring and fall Farrow mrs tile trend toward increased farm size was paraded by of ii Quot per farm the Midwest old settlers a til rest ors r cud ice went into lie Rode on the narrow gauge 1 Mal Day saturday still main Tam Railroad and the steam powered big record breaking daily at tend merry go round. A stockholder in Anc an estimated thousand More the Railroad he told Friend that attended the repeat performance of he was Well pleased with i vestment. At the station he my a radio estimate Quot put the number at 5.009 Gram to his wife stating that he i a Pim making a total of 9.000 for was having a Good time and would the two presentations. These Mambo Home for supper within a half Ber do not include other thousand hour he had a message Back from who Choe her. He Rode on the Bob Wilt. Engine in the Parade Ani extended Greet j Milton Park saturday morning to Ings to the crowd in and around continuous lines and parking places the grandstand he told friends that he was much in it. Cd Orth the Thrashers added ,0 the influx. Gatch a per. Ill report chows a marked de reunion a How it has developed crease in the percentage of Henry the development of to reunion til county farm. With milk cows and i Tho to promote More interest my tile baseball Diamond and three in the civil War pageant Friday night than wednesday. A Quot Confer vat to roam the i during the shows cars wire. Trca Ming into my were already becoming scarce. A bus Load of women from Illinois heifers two years old or Over from to per cent in 1955 to 44 per cent in 1960 the decrease was less for More re ant it a ninth a at the grounds were expecting a a a tremendous crowd Quot for tile last in with what or is trying to do in based on the morning the stat to promote More interest traffic in Iowa by outsiders a to bring the r,.rne class in beef cows from inter in ids i39 for cent in 1955 to 34 per Cen last year. Nto Iowa it pleas quarters of the South Field were full ant is doing a a Fine Job. He said he of cars by 10 30. A parking attend a ant Aid he expected most of the Arter or percentage of Henry county no fee members and a in 1953. 42 per of if of All Iowa farms reporting Chicken flocks at of be at the Nom farm a Row inc Spring it a a a1 o showed a big decrease in tile j a Row f from or to 19 a. Farms 1950-69 decade the percentage was 4 111 ii la to 29 Spring sows halved from 76 to 38 per cent. Ate dinner at the methodist tent meeting with Central com available places including a Pas few others Ture t0 the tub and the armory lot to be filled by afternoon a i Sample court of License plates showed about 8 out of to cars from Missouri or Illinois one from r wins grand prize of show Jim Reed Blandinsville 111. Won the grand prize at the Southeast Iowa antique Auto show at the old threshers grounds Friday night. The prize Winner was a shiny 1926 Model i that looked like it was just driven out of the show room. A Complete list of the prize while is Pioneer class i. I Loyd pet r on it pleasant with a 1996 meets men who have degrees and Sears mad r 2 be i of Morris even Phi Beta Kappa keys who Wapel. It. Hl"7 Model r Ford 3 know nothing about their govern Che a in do. Cedar rapids 1908 ment. Who have no understanding Hup Mobile Road ter. Of the techniques of government who talk about democracy but they have no concept of what. The Law hts to say about that Finch a person might become All ext to d about some particular Issue without any regard As to How it fills into the entire mosaic of his country s Structure. Cars 1909-1915 other than Molli i i Vav on a pit Isar 1912 of i land a. Ii i Ray me cull v. Wall. 1914 a Bott det lit touring 3 Frank Dea Kin Middletown 1915 we Ste att Tom my Vintage 1915-1920 i Frank de Kim. Middletown. 1917 Hudson touring 2 Hamilton Williams it pleasant 1917 Dodge touring 3 de j a Soni hitch 1917 Overland t hiring j brass Fords i Tom Daw j Wayland. To. 1915 m a Lei t run about 2. Hamilton Williams. M pleasant 1913 Model t touring 3 Hurricane Carla aiming full fury at Gulf coast to arrive Here sunday new Orleans up Cane Carla packing i. Sunda Iowa and one from other states. Too one reason for the Over caper crowd Friday night was the double i attraction a an antique car show from 7 to 8 30 Aud the pageant for a nether two hour. Another reason obviously we As the spreading of the word about the Quality of the pageant. Us r. J freshmen w ill arrive mile an cent re be 30 mugs u1de that sept. To for the school year hour winds at its cent a today warnln8s a ent aci0r the Quot i Iowa Wesleyan College sunup it i aimed it full fury toward he up Guu of 00 from Coit it As chm will also be freshmen parents Day tire audience a packed m per Texa West Louisiana Gulf t tax Quot be Niace a Fia j ail new students both freshmen grandstand Between the Fence Coa t Advance winds and rising Quot Lar and Dan Eros a a Hurri j and upperclassmen Transfer and the grandstand which had been the tides Send ing Inland Shoreline dwellers flee Tine Calla was travelling at j their parents will be guest of the j filled already for the car show North we Teri Miles South co Liege at a Buffet dinner in the and Niles an hour in a direction some 380 mat swum student Union Between 1130 . Again j wags y must East of Galveston. But Catl Riv j anti j 15 pm from 2 pm to 3 30 tiie two hour 678-person presented just before i t in men predicted it would turn on a t1 m there up be a program for tat Ion required coordination and Hurricane Freeport Tex Smith of Houston More northerly course with i to grand isl. La. On the Edge Center of the storm moving Inland of the mis.-.-, up i Ila South of Oil the Lipper Texas or extreme it Tern Louisiana coast sometime us a sunday. Spreading to both Side received the pageant Wel new Orleans. Tile spurn was so a Petit jurors Are drawn taxpayers league rep. Schwingel to visit reunion this form of ignorance is no expected of an educated person just As it is not expected that a put shall not have read the literature of his language. Students go through High school and College whose knowledge of the literati a a Quot Quot a i of Towli Nativo Lang we it a. Lien �?o1� Wii kilns. Yrs Touth. Loll As thai of a foreign Tongue they my t Tun k a j \1nl1fhlv therefore Are Una Mallair with the Black Fords i. Jim re.-. To All i i let Ion old it Roo us of their culture. They May Iii. Old Jyh Morril i have a smattering of Hemingway a a Lka or grand Price Winner j. J Asti Ley have of Sara or but hey Are jus olm y. Not grounded in Shakespeare or a Milton As for Chaucer they heard Yates Cit Iii. Kho Model r Tom Alx iut him and they have read a poem of Longfellow and maybe Poe tire value of literature is Only amusement its main purpose is to bring the Reader close to Tho reports. All. Re i 100u Vertri a in i to apr i .1 a people i Ngin i h s Scarff two year old daughter of the Marvin is arils gets an engineers View of the world from tin cab window of m Ilia tile cabbage Slat k Railroad engine operating at til threshers reunion. Engineer Harvey Obrecht of Thor evident liked the View better than did Little Jean the october court term will con a lie monday. Oct 2 at Iii of grand jurors Are dire Ted to re months port for duty monday of 2. At to Alfin Hon. E o Newell will be the presiding judge a Petit jurors Are Frieda Aldrich. Ruth Anderson. Dexter Barnes. Dora Bosh Art Mil i p in. Parents in the Chapel building 1 for thought to no smoothly. Or. Parents of commuting students Are e a Hayes directed last particularly invited to Tom those i presentation in the absence of i. Bringing students to the Dormi j Glen Hiil quist. Who went to Colo tories. 1 Rado for a previous commitment. Freshmen orientation will last1 the colourful Climax with a 100-thoughout the w Eek a picked j voice chorus singing Battle hymn group of upperclassmen Are ached of the Republic and a Large Colora d used to arrive saturday. Sept. 9, i fireworks Flag had special Appeal for briefing on their duties As j 0 a a a dormitory guides and in giving1 or. Let use Smith Nel. Re. Eugene a Wenger 78. Died Fri it Thor d., 1k making the was crowned Queen of the South in. Sept. 8. At the res Haven nuts fre men Welcome Tea to Iowa antique car club during my Home in it. Pleasant where sunday evening there will be a. The a Ade of antique entries in he had been cared for the past six Chicken barbeque at the Union. Front of the grandstand first and later in the evening dormitory j second attendants were mrs Orace funeral services will be held Sun group it a a meet Quot a learn of Dormi Noraj. A to of new London and Day sept to. At 2 p m. At the Way mrs. Billie hitch it. Pleasant. My methodist Church with the special assemblies test and so-1 tile audience broke into Span Eugene a. Wenger taken by death it Zehr funeral Home in charge. Rev. Fred Martin and Rev. J j. Pritchard will officiate. Tile son of Joseph f and Adele Cial functions will make a Holiday. To. 1923 Model t roadster 3 r. Mph Clamer. Yal ing 1920-31 other than Model no it s i. Bill Bealing. It Madison 1930 Model a sports Coupe 2 e. L. I nov county taxpayers Lea gut at Henry county court win u iou i rep fre it i Fich Wengel in Congress rom or first Din no. Experts to attend that Midwest Gold settlers monday evening. Sept. La a land threshers reunion saturday 8 j in. In the court room purpose afternoon Richard Cornick county of meeting is to adopt Constitu-1 Republican chairman said t Ion and by Law and to cite 1 rep Schwingel sent word sat inboard of director Constitution and Day morning tha he a. It pct dred Boshart. Ray Brea i. Mar pie Chin Wenger he was born May a brei it Ailene Brill Terry car i1883, near Wayland and with. Den. Carrot Darbyshire. Marvin a. Exception of the six months he Doschadis. Gary Eland Maude a at the nursing Home he spent Fleagle Harlan Ford i so d Fos entire life there ter. Mary Gholson Helen Grin he never married. Rad. Mary Ellen Hanson Sally survivors Are to Brothers. Peter i Hassenfritz Allen or Rug. Gene p Wenger and Louis h Wenger Vieve Hollingsworth. M ii Hune an. Two Sisters mrs Adalmer John Harold Jacobs. Jane la Mort. Luna in in j mrs Max Hulme. Allot Landes. Landon c to h. Anita Wayland also a number of Niece Mathews Marguerite met tens. John a re nephews 1f. Mcneeley Vera Nelson. Gladys Busy i Vaneous applause during the show week for the new students a their when a Quot special entry a Blue registration ii thursday sept 14. Bird by the first manufactured inuit h upperclassmen registering 1 the Georgia company alot Friday classes begin sept. 18. Jibe track in front of the grand at 9 30 sunday. Sept. 17. Will be and. The 20-passenger Model a the All College Church Day con built Over a 1927 Model tech i. Vocation when the group will Wor to. Water announcer for a ship at first methodist Clerch. Parade explained that a Chi it. Pleasant or. J. Raymond Bird bus body co. Which sent the Chadwick president of Iowa arcs Imodel Here is just now building a Leyan. Will preach second factory in it. Pleasant. The faculty held a Retreat Fri Waters also topped and talker Day. Sept 8, at Golden Valley to briefly with Daniele arge Ilies it prepare for the College year. Sun pleasant High school Exchange Stu Norton Howard of Man. Parks. Elizabeth Philpott Hoyt ten mans. Dale Watt Rickey. Hazel Ritchie. Feciw ird Roth. You Day night. Sop 19. Or and mrs. John Chadwick will entertain faculty Donna Helen Sater George Short. And w. A. My personnel at the president s Home. Henn Tiger. It Madison 1928 Model and nomination com-1 my to visit the reunion. Nature the character the ideals of a. A a a i Mcdowell. Iowa no one can understand of a 28 Model a roadster the America of today particularly a a is isl. Bijj i1 our form of government our in 1 1 1 convertible 2 Harold Raymond Sis tence upon individualism with a a deep communal responsibility who re of it Kuk 1985 Aube n has not steeped himself in British 3 Mil s a it m f history upon which our institution 1030 a Quot a a a a a 1 a Quot Are based. I special entries. I Joy too i Greenslaugh Hamilton 111., 1938 Mil tees will make then taxpayer Are urged to attend. Consular officer visits madman in Kiev tickets still available for Outlook dinner Moscow a up u s consular officer Joseph Norbury spent an hour Friday with Marvin Makinen for the to the kit a a prison where Makinen s serving an eight year term As a our problem then is to review Packard convertible 2 Hostel our entire system of education from Davis. Perry mo., 193 Ford v-8, the elementary school to Tho Grade 3 role it i Beard. Oxford. 1935 dilate courses in our universities to Solo airflow for Dor Sedan find a technique for handling both cultural and vocational subject without taking so Many years of a1 idea elects Norris person s life president Kirk of Columbia University has recon Des Moines up mended the three semester year Norris or. Publisher of the mar which would help to solve the prob shall Torii times in Public a to it a tickets Are still available fall livestock and feed Outlook banquet monday night reports Rich convicted Quot american the u. S Ard l. . County Extension Di-1 embassy announced today a Rector. Livestock producers inter an embassy spokesman would tested in attending the banquet and give no details of the meeting say a Outlook meeting at the it. Pleas ing that any further information i ant Golf and country club should would have to come from washing a Contact the Extension office by not ton. Later than noon monday. Thu int Norbury was the first american pud g official who had seen Makinen since july 27. The Young America i Chai in Mogg D., extol was sentenced to prison tuesday. A a 4i,a i j n to a a a n economist will discuss the fall Makinen a student from upper in in of inadequate education pro was elected president and Hollis j llvr5tork Outlook and the possible a had born trending video we do not make the third Nordyke publisher of the Ames. Est act 0f the 1961 feed Grain pro-1 semester a summer school make Tribune was elected vice prudent shift. All this requires much think of the Iowa daily press Assoc a Zmolek Extension animal husband ing out and much discussion tion. I copyright 1961, Syndicate inc King features Norris succeeds John h. Notman. Publisher of the Clinton Herald a West Berlin University came to i Gram on livestock profits. Emiluss a a tourist. He was arrested on a charge of photographing i and taking notes on military this to nations in the Ukraine Dent from France. Miss Argel i Rode with other girls in an antique car entry owned and drive n by Herbe Keefe. A us Peme tit acc urge i when Hamilton Williams Fred a it balance his Model t on a r Board and did announcement was made thursday of the selection of Bob Willis 81. And Herman Elgar 80, of m pleasant and or. And mrs. k Hutchinson of Lowell for the of threshers and settlers award mayor Wade my Beth presented ? awards John g. Horn taken by death Man. Will report on results of livestock feeding experiments old building goes modern a this new front was rec Nutly added to the Siler Blacksmith shop. The right room of the shop from the window right was completely rebuilt. The building has housed Blacksmith shops for Over fifty years John George Horn. 76, Farmer residing la Miles Southwest of new London passed away at la 30 p in sept. 8 at the Burlington Hospital where he had been a heart patient for the last four a it the funeral will be held Mora a at 3 30 p. In. At the Elliott Chap at new London

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