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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 15, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news vol. Its no. 217mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening sept. Lol a these Days by George e Sokulsky the right to privacy i was sitting quietly on a sunday morning doing some Reading and minding my own business when my dog Joe got himself All excited. I Caine out to see what was worrying Joe whereupon i witnessed that a Glassy automobile had stopped Down the Road and that a Young Man and a to Gay were walking up the Road to visit me. Perhaps the automobile did no top in front of my House through shyness or maybe its owner did not want me to know that he travelled about in a luxurious vehicle. Whatever the cause tile object of the visit was to convert me. Tile visitor started to deliver an address to me on the subject of How the world was going to hell because of wars that great evil was being wrought by various bombs Etc Etc. I asked him Why lie came to. Alo me on a peaceful sunday morning Why did he not go to Khrushchev to Tell Khrushchev How wicked he is the visitor replied that Quot we Quot have representatives in 81 countries. I said that t was not interested in 81 countries that i had asked him Why lie did not go to Khrushchev to talk to him about tile wickedness of tile bomb i said that there is no use telling me about i i cannot prevent Khrushchev from using bombs but no visitor who walks from House to House scaring americans out of their wits. Might go to Moscow to frighten Khrushchev. Too he said that we Are Iii Russia witnessing to to russian pc Opp i told him that he is a liar hallo one can pre a Ai a in Russia which i forbidden by the government and the communist parts nevertheless he our in try it because it is permissible to teach treasonable doctrines in the United states which is try. Football injury fatal 12 sentenced to death in Turkey homemade Hombs found youth is held temperatures flare on picket line with the United Auto workers and general motors hoping for a speedy settlement of the Industry wide strike picket at the new departure division of pm in Bristol conn., carry umbrella in the blazing Sun. Some 2,000 workers Are out Here. Yass Iada Turkey Upit a the a High Justice court of Turkey to i Day convicted and sentenced to i death former president be Ial 13a- Yar. Sex Premier Adrian Menderes j and to other leaders of their de-1 posed regime for abusing their constitutional Powers w Hile in of flee. Menderes was not in cear when j thursday night the ethene was handed Down a pan of Haw i the nine judge court the Che f 1 a homemade bomb. I Dubuque Iowa did an 18-year-Oln youth has verbally admitted making and riling an Arsenal of bombs ranging ens the size of a Many to a giant size $5 spa Gal w hich possible could blow i Small House april to Pollee said today. The youth was one of two being i held in connection wit ii an Ceplo u. S. Makes nuclear test underground two balloons aloft in study of loss of radiation two Washington it up it the from 25-cent-Iunited states conducted an in Index Finger de aground nuclear psst in Nevada today in an Effort to perfect weapons a to St Agthen the butene of the free world Quot or Ai r ii Harmony favored in new Black Hawk Loop Farmington Harmony Community which includes Farmington Bonaparte and Hillsboro school d ---11riots, will open its football season Here tonight Friday at 7 30 pm. Against Fox Valley of Milton Harmony unlike the majority of the schools in the raw Black Hawk j conference will have experience and returning Letterman. Alls on Russia to end demands Washington it up a president k needy c died on Russia today to drop her demands that the wast surrender its rights in Berlin. He proposed realistic negotiations looking toward a mutually acceptable judge of illness prevented his appear and the former or Mier was reported to have Lap of into a coma a few hours before he was to a oar before the court to. I rom an overdose of sleeping pills. There was no immediate official indication As to How or when the death sentences would be carried out. The sentences an subject to confirmation by the ruling military Junta Winch overthrew Bayar Menderes 1960. Regime in Zero cled of them about the size of a Man s huh x Finger and the oth r one a giant sized explosive. Officers said the 18-year-old said he obtained the blasting powder at a local drugstore ably the bombs were allegedly fashioned by the 18-year-old and sold. The Ama in ones like the bomb used to tear apart the cast Iron Mailbox sold Foi a Quarter. Police said they recovered a King sized one under the porch of a 16-year-old youth who was being held in Conner lion with the anime placing of the explosive in the empty mail Box. S the first u s nuclear sex. Nice 1978 when the United Russia and Britain Volun dec Larry a moratorium on atomic testing Losion states tardy the May while the White House gave no details on the nature of weapons i n v o i v Ltd congressional sources Aid earlier this country was interested in developing new tactical nuclear weapons for Battle-1 eld u by tin army and a i aes Birls beat and kick in s. Senior Minneapolis up balloon Weir. Aloft today in the of a Sci in. Of High to tidy i is. Of radiation from the vat it n radiation iut the too too Cuba feet p were launched night from a Field North of Man Papoi i the of in i at i in Pion Manitoba j the launching of similar balloon from Waterloo Iowa and interim carnal fall., mum were delay it Quot i Seif Fri t. From Ute ump it Hie a if Minnesota and California Are direct ing the Experiment i Ive. Ugh flights Are slated tilt month scientists at the Minneapolis he said the launching la. T night came off without a ii itch Boti balloon were expected to reach an Altitude of 120,000 feet and then land some i time tonight. John Merot he urn vers a j of Minnesota said the Mast intense j part of the outer Van Allen Radia i ii Ion Belt dips Down directly Over inc youth collapses at practice saturday s game will be dedicated to hawaiian grinder Howard a owe i c he of from ii report d for tile football team the fir i Olla a d Dun g it fir College a 17-Yoar it get to Hawaii i Iowa a t of Fie w a commage Field Thor at 5to i in and died Iii Memoria Hospital Here at 7 45 p in. Thor do without regaining an was performed i1 to Crane funeral Home Friday morn my and or Robert Wettach com. To medical examiner said that pathologist s report revealed Tim the youth died of a Skull Fra with an accompanying brain hem Mochoge the visitor replied that every Man is entitled to his opinion this i denied not on my Lawn he in t. The traitor get. No Opportunity to spread treason among my Ito said i what you Are doing is in the circumstance of the times treasonable. You May not know it but you Are serving Khrushchev in a period preceding a War a communist would be arrested for doing what you Are Doh but a you clothe your treachery in religious foliage you menage to get away with it but not on my Law n. Fortunately in hear unit moment ii. My younger Days i might have Given him an Opportunity to prow the courage of his conviction As it is he proclaimed that lie is to Coward that he has registered for Ute draft As i do not know who lie is i have no Way of discovering whither he a. Or has not and that does not matter most of us have registered for one of a draft and scum have been called and of Liers have not been. Khrushchev is counting upon a lie unwillingness of americans to go to War even on the television show for the selection of miss America one of the girls in reply to an extraordinarily stupid question delivered a pacifist peace corp speech which must have warmed Khrushchev s heart if he heard it or about it apparently the Young lady in question thought that the Way to get other nations to like us is for us not to Tell them about ourselves but rather to Tell them about themselves at any rate tha is what i made out of the rambling political statement made by one of the Young ladies the pre season favorite to take the Crown will be protecting a six game winning skein which was chalked up last season we n Harmony had eight Man football and now will convert to a 11-Man team. The returning Letterman from a free coun last season Are Bill Batten speedster he Backfield Wayne Cooper Wilbur Himes Jim Smith Duane Beaty Danny Spray a All seniors Dave s a Gary Shaw Gen pan key and Gary Kerr juniors and Jerry Fine who lettered As a freshman last season. Investigating deaths of babies Kennedy served Flat notice the United states would not negotiate with Russia on Berlin under threat j or ultimatum Indianapolis. Ind Upp a he the United states had a authorities revealed today they sol utely no intention of resorting to Are investigating the deaths of threats of Force but that three babes who were entrusted to to meet Force with a he care of the same baby Sitter. County Pra ecu tor Phillip l requests to institutions Force or it was preparer Force if it is used a a inst us. But that is no worse than a conversation with a very conservative lady who hates Khrushchev and communism but who assured in that i could not mean that the err was no other solution for our difficulties a til soviet Russia than a War. Quot do you mean a nuclear War silo asked i asked her what other kind of War she expects Khrushchev to make against us. Does she believe that he will make a War which is Harmony will open the 1961 Grid season Friday on the Home Gridiron As the v meet Fox Valley in a non conference til the first Confer Nee in Cousim f will b at Farmington. Also with Central. F other coaches in the conf la nce seem to be in agreement that Harmony will have a combination of i Speed and a rugged experienced line but the Harmony Mentor. Dave i min Art. An inc Grad says he still i has Many problems to solve. A near in his second year Quot of Grid reaching at Farmington said i that hat Mony is Light and the guard and end slots Are a question Mark. A we will definitely be hand pred by the Lack of depth Quot the Harmony Mentor added i Jerry Fine Sophomore Letterman will handle the quarterback duties i for Harmony this season Fine. Along with Batten w to will but a Light hid is the bulwark of the Harmony experienced a afield. Serif will Mast Likely be a running mate for Batten As a halfback. Batten is i Ted As the top Back in the new Black Hawk conference. The fullback Slot is the main worry for coach i Peart. At the present Gary Shaw is the top Choice. In the Middle of the line Gary Kerr is expected to i ill the Gap with Mike Hood also comp Ting for starting position. Mine tart uses both the split t my the Iowa Wing t but May be forced to use a multiple offence depending on the personnel in the Backfield. Assistant coaches for the Harmony squad Are Don Gibbs and Dave Spaulding. A it lid he would present several wit the president outlined his a l to a grand jury next tues a lion at length in identical letter Day in Connee Ion with the Case handed Las wednesday at the Bayt did not reveal he identity White House to emissaries from the of the baby Sitter except Toa that recent Belgrade conference of a a 23-Yeai-old woman the Ira nations. Sitter had been named by the liar-1 Jents of the three dead children a Bayt said toe will of William p Burke been admitted to probate at courthouse and Sec it al Cash quest were made. Mary e your. Kamas City Becque itched $500 As was a he f Flanagan Hon get boys town s Vincent port ant orphanage the letter was addressed to presidents Sukarno of Indonesia and Modibo Ken a of Mali. They were asked to relay it to the other participants. The 25-nation conference called on the Cha f executive to it it enter into direct negotiations with soviet Premie Nikita s Khrushchev a the outset of is letter Ken be by politely but unmistakably turned Down the idea it a Quick Summit conference without extensive diplomatic groundwork he said a top level meeting must have a reasonable Chance of Success Quot Senate keeps 150 million in Aid Bill i i Quot i just Learned of these findings j yesterday Bayt said we plan to j talk to the woman today by i de understand that he a. Denied o the p that she a responsible for the deaths although he did j a she put her hand Over one i baby a Mouth to keep it from dying Quot to Case recalled the deaths of five children in recent months in Dubuque Iowa and Milwaukee has the levies i ther Nebin Davon Dorothy Litton of. Plots route 2. And Stella Ford it. Pleasant route 4 the rest of the estate was left to Man e Young who was named executrix the will was drawn up on nov 18. 1958. Raise state salary brackets Des Moines i up a Gat of teen age girls beat and kit kit d a pretty 17-Yearold High school Fluor like a Bunch of Quot wild an j in a is Quot after a ballroom teen hop thursday not police Aid today officers Aid four girls had Bern j try esd in connection with the attack and they a it it looking for a f if ii 2ii i Bela v re to have in in in vol v d tile victim of the attack. Suai Recd an he school senior. Was listed in satisfactory condition at a Hospital although the full extent of her injure were no de item inc pending results of a rays i police said the attack came after i miss Reed complained to civilian i special at tile Val air i ballroom in suburban West Des she had been bumped by some girls a she Minneapolis making the area a a a a particularly nit Able for study he or. Wettach Aid the report a1 aul tiie of or t launching Sites arc1 disclosed that the youth had North South of the Pak in a Quot very thin Bones in one in. O ten. To. The Skull Winch Quot per do to. Re the Rad Ion be it. Are named after a owe to the possibility of such a James Van Allen head of the Phy j injury. Sics department at tile University of Iowa a re aiding Leyan head was playing martial Law in Congo 0 la g i up t o Leo Pold Vil be the a a up tile United nation martial Law in Elizabethville Day and Aid unauthorized civilian carrying weapons will be shot up Ray mole Vee lug to Jim Hof Marui. We football coach k in we in the line of the to a Tensive team against the first offensive team and apparently the j injury occurred when Kauwe Vij making a tackle he got tip after file play but then collapsed. A. Coach Dick Wurst went to a residence near Tim practice Field and called an ambulance which took Kau a e to the to. Pital. Kauwe i 210 Pound football a d track Star at Hilo High school wms the son of or. And mrs. Isaac Kau-28 Pusco St. Hilo he was try that and pushed was dancing. We ii m room ome Sparks 18, of five girls Reed left the time later with i tile sos said a jumped on lbs Des Moines up the executive Council today it up administrative framework fora at new a e proc ving a Tate tile the pro knocking bet Down a a All five girls Ixa and kicked the girl Quot officers said a ii july gang Reed of the a v d 25 leaders urge Nixon to run Washington up the Quot Senate Defeated today an Effort to slash $150 million from the military Aid Section of it $4 2 billion foreign Aid appropriations Bill san Francisco up former vie pre Ideon Richard m Nixon who said he will decide in a week or so whether to run for the governorship of California in 1962, was urged to do so thursday night by 25 gop leaders in California they met wit ii Nixon in hour closed door session Francisco attorney Caspar Berger told newsmen of meeting. A we All strongly or. Nixon to run Quot two san Gram and also raised salary i brackets for numerous posts primarily in the Highway commission tile Council meeting in spec Amon authorized a. Bary of be i then $9,900 and $10,800 Foi tic i pos1 of director of the data pieces ing system and raised. Alar. I bracket of All major engineers for the Highway cumin on the salary bracket for the Clin i Highway Engineer was Lions cd from a top scale of $19,200 to $21,200 year and the Deputy Cia ref Engineer top pay sea was b it it a i from $16,000 to $17,400 directors of diva ions of tin commission now May Utti to $16,500, and assistant direr to. O mix spar Violice said. A lit touched Quot school bus in the action taken on a vote of 52 to 29, was a preliminary Victory for president Kennedy. It came on an amendment by sen Allen j Ellender d-la., and a. The first major test for the Senate Bill which would restore heave minor Accident cuts made by the House earlier in tire Senate version the Bill provides $1.7 billion for military Aid. I division Wein piously t h e urged two boys sitting in a nearby Ca came a a a miss Reed a. Stance by before a hey could in Ivie. The five Gill. Ran and were lost in the c of d tile Iky drove i. Reed and mis Sparks to the Reed Home. Local dealer sees new Dodge Chicago i xxi be dealer from foul s atc.-, were introduced to tit new d an Breed of Dodge for 1962. Here this week enthusiasm ran High As each of the new ear and ult i models were unveiled Ney in sorted from Bancroft Northern Rhode. A. Hath w lining of summary execution came from the u n spokesman in Elisa bet ii Ville Moloney drove too Miles to the rhodesian Frontier from Elisa a Chville where he said bitter ran d for Tim thud a tor control of the a to Anga step ital City Kaut no i Force claimed to have overrun a 150-mile Irish u n Force a Tho Industrial and mining a a of Jado Tville 80 Miles North-1 West of Elisabeth Kllc and said loj irishmen would to a executed for every Katanga citizen shot. Out for a guard position on the Wesleyan team he arrived Only last week. Arm was one of four freshmen at Iowa Wesleyan from Hilo High school Kauwe played High school football for four years und was also Active in dramatics patrolman assigned Des Minei leu new member of tile Iowa High it patrol were worn in and Given of Weir assignments by state Safe. Commissioner Carl be Cli included was Robert h Meyer Wayland unsigned at r Nckee .1 City two arc fined i tir Wesleyan ten in Aud Roadie stunned by the death of the Hawa Nan youth met Friday after i noon and decided to go ahead Anet j play saturdays game with Central i Here. The game will be dedicated to Kauwe. Hic game Ball will to signed by the team members and Cut of Kauwe. Parents. The team will have a memorial service for k Ewe on the Tampu a tonight i tie e will b1 a service at halftime of Zaburd is game Lins decision was nude lots the approval of the administration a a u we de a ii believed to be the first foot Ball fatality in the in tory of College and prep football in Southeast Iowa and also in the Iowa conference. The body will be sent to Hilo Hawaii tin weekend. Up to $14,400 highs pre were $15,000 and $13,800 j respectively j among those attending a n c the Council also approved hiring Haworth Haworth motor co it a chief accountant for Tim commis . Ion at a salary Range of $10,200 la ,100. H Ltd i i Rich it Pica ii i a been lined $5 and cats in mayor Wade me Beth a court on a speeding i charge tiled by City police Jehu r. Anderson. Burlington was fined $3 and casts for running a Stop sign. A in i salary Issue results of elections in two nearby districts the St Ickert school election had a Small vote with Only 40 voting. Harold Webber win the 3 year team As director with 16 votes Ted Watson received to votes. Both were write ins for treasurer Sam Watkins was re elected of a write in vote Hilly nights an invitation to defeat she sighed receiving 31 vote but i am sure she believed a so Harmony Community Many do that after All Khrushchev at the regular school election is a human being and he could not j monday Harold m Dietzman redo so evil a deed. So was Genghis be Ved 225 votes for to m motor Dis Klian a human being. So was strict no. 2, 3 year term and for Hitler. I rest l. Fuhrer received 235 votes copyright. 1961, King features for director of District no. 5. 3 by i i there was a nip of fall in the air in Iowa Early Friday As the Mercury dropped to unseasonably cold Levels. Temperatures dropped to As Low As 37 at Spencer to equal the All time Low for the Date established Back in 1915. The highest overnight Low was 44 at Davenport. The Low in i pleasant was 41. A it pleasant common school District by. With a full Load of students was involved in a minor Accident at 4 10 p. In thursday i South of town on a gravel Road be the Harold ens Mger place there were no injuries tile bus was rounding a come r when a wheel slipped off the Roa Way and struck a driveway Cul i Vert. The tire blew out. The bus was driven by Keith Castle another bus was sent to the scene and took the students to their Homes. Deputy Van Crawford investigated. Navy brings food to re i ii gees one patient returned another is missing Syndicate inc. Freight car derails near Fairfield year term. City police took Walter c. Cook. Forecasters said temperatures who walked away from the mental would be unseasonably Chilly again health Institute grounds into Cus Friday night after rising somewhat Tody on East Washington Street at during the Day. However fair 9 53 . Thursday and returned weather was expected for the next him to the Institute. 36 hours at least As a High pressure Dennis Humphrey of Burlington of the Interior of escaped from the Institute at pm Galveston Tex up the. U. S Navy brought cases of food medical supplies and fresh water today to refugees from he fica be Carla. The aircraft earlier Shangrila was anchored a few Miles East of Freeport and another Carrier the ant in Tam was Oil Matagorda Bay both were being a it d As helicopter bases sending Survey teams and medical personnel As needed to coastal communities two destroyers the Gama re and the Compton were operating out of Galveston the Francis Marion a transport loaded with food was boing readied for use As a a floating suit dismissed Fairfield Iowa up traffic on the Rock j land line was held up for More than two hours near Here thursday when a single tank car of a freight train derailed cell covers most the car was not damaged and the the nation. Train Crew was Able to put it Back lows Friday nigh will Range authorities to went to Burlington. On the tracks. From about 38 to 15. I hot i. 18, 5�?T8 i negro. The petition of the Mayrath co against Laverne grab doing bus in mess As Grabe r implement has ice of a it a i in Sci jul c. And my w Des Moines up the int Ive interim Committer will ably be forced to abandon its i me Long stand on a salary it j for psychiatrist at Board of tool institutions j sen. John Shopman. R a chairman of tile committee today he Quot understood Quot a Rul the attorney general office i hold thai it does not have the Power to set salamis of individual at the mental health institution following meetings with atm Gen Evan Hul Tran. Gov Norman a Erbe and members of the Board of control. Showman Aid the commute would Quot have no oui t Choice but to go along Quot with to ruling Quot in View of the anon in general a ruling. I see no reason Why the interim committee should pursue the matter further Quot he added. Russia fires test rocket $100,000 vandalism thursday and it is believed by been dismissed in District Couit Ami the plaintiff assessed the Cost. An a count to $105 we involved two of five paintings damaged by an unknown Vandal Are examined by Edward Cleghorn right associate director of the Montreal museum of Fine arts and Francoise St. Michel. The paintings damaged by a knife and including masterpieces by Benoit Daumier and Mont ice ii ate valued at approximately $100,000, Moscow up rut. To fired a a new More powerful Multi Stag rocket Quot More than 7.500 me Over tile Pacific wednesday in 1 first of a scheduled series of test i the soviet Agency tass repartee t of a

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