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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 16, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days i 80 no 2,8 it. Pleasant. Iowa. Tuesday evening sept. Lei 1958 by George e. Sokolsky counting chickens to change the subject there is a congressional election in the Outing and Many things Are Likely to happen which May be of interest next november for instance the election of governor Edmund s. Muskie to the United states Senate is regarded by democrats As an augury of Good Fortune it being an ancient truism that As Maine goes so goes the United states the reason for the adage is that Maine elections Are held earlier and therefore the Yankees up there record their decision before other americans even think about it. Of Couise. The population of Maine Asol All new England has rapidly been changing in recent years. Maine like Massachusetts and Connecticut is no longer As Yankee As it used to be and certainly not As Republican. The civil War has Long been forgotten and governor Muskie who is of polish origin and who is a roman Catholic is the most popular Man in the state. He was elected to the United states Senate by an overwhelming vote. O a o one of the telling issues in the Maine Campaign was Bernard Goldfine the generous gift giver from Boston who rescued new England s textile Industry from going South at an5 rate the Maine folks did not like what was testified about senator Frederick Payne and apparently tor All the free loading that or. Gold me provided he is not As popular As he should be. Down South in Florida Claude Pepper once a figure in Washington tried to make a come Back m the democratic primaries and failed Claude Pepper is what might of called a Radical new dealer Way Over on the Side of those who would change the world perhaps by oratory and by doing favors to those for whom favors should not be done he was once a United states senator and did not exactly adorn the Senate chamber. A o a in California senator know lands tight to become governor of the state is taking on momentum. William Knowland stayed in Washington Overly Long doing his duty As Republican Leader of the United states Senate it make his present Campaign More difficult. California is an individualistic state with patterns All of its own Knowland will have to Appeal to the women of the state if he is to be elected governor this is certain whether Knowland will be elected governor or not. He will not return to the United states Senate and that Means that the Reub Lieari in that body will have to find a new Leader someone in their party of the intellect and parliamentary skill of senator Lyndon Johnson tie democratic Leader such men Are rare. Robert a i aft selected Knowland As his successor because he recognized that Knowland possessed talents and attributes of i senatorial leadership and also a Noble character by Carrier 30 per week by mail $7,50 per year elect Malik Murray says gop Active in encouraging Iowa Industrial growth to mail first Batch of korean bonuses Friday Many die As commuter train plunges into Bay a the third car of a five car Jersey Central neuter train rests nose Down in Newark Bay where it had followed two locomotives and two coaches through an open drawbridge with an estimated death toll of 25 among the approximately 100 passengers. The train ran past warning signals and through an automate stopping device minutes after passage of a vessel. 22 bodies recovered raise head car of train which plunged into Bay spend Over billion on farm Price Middletown a Ian killed by train bulletin Bayonne n. Up a Engineer Lloyd s. Wilburn apparently was dying of a heart attack As he plunged his Jersey Central Railroad commute r train through an open drawbridge into Newark Bay a medical examiner reported Stopgap ways to teach .1,470 students Little Rock. Ark it up a the Little Rock school Board cast Bayonne. N. J. It up the about today for a Stopgap Means head car of the Jersey Central of teaching 3.470 students unable Railroad Tram that plunge a to attend classes because gov. Orth rough an open drawbridge Mon Val e. Faubus has closed All four Day was raised from the Bottom of of Little Rock s High schools Newark Bay today bearing on it t h e school Board considered badly smashed roof the body of a lessons taught on Little rocks Man. Three television stations and study another to xxi was taken from assignments the students can the water a Tew moments later by j Complete at Home or in the pub the coast guard Harbor t u g Library. Tuckahoe the coast guard reported. Tins brought to 22 the number of victims recovered from the Waters and coaches beneath the drawbridge an undetermined number of passengers and train Crew still Are missing Faubus closed the schools monday because he said opening them integrated As the supreme court ordered would provoke almost certain violence. 0 a a Newport r i. Up Justice no dead were visible Wude the department officials Are confident Washington. Up a the government spent $1,072,688,152 to support farm prices in fiscal 1958, about a Quarter of a billion dollars less than in the preceding year. The agriculture department reported monday that the Cost represented the difference Between what the government paid for surplus farm crops in the 12 months ended last june 30. And what it was Able to sell them for. The department s investment in farm surpluses As of june 30 was reported at $7,029,695,000 compared with $7,338,081,000 one year earlier. Wheat Corn and Cotton were the major items in the inventory which included crops actually in government hands or covered by Price support Loans. The government owned or held under loan wheat valued at More than $2,368,000,000 Corn valued at $2,369,000,000 and Cotton valued at More than $545,000,000. Tobacco stocks under loan were valued at $566,883,526. Middletown Iowa up Frank Jacobs 62, Middletown was. Killed today when he was hit by a 1 Burlington Railroad freight train while walking across the Railroad j tracks Here. Jacobs suffered from diabetes and his hearing and sight were poor Coroner Dave Wallen Bur-1 Lington said no inquest would Bej held 1 Engineer Robert Steward West Burlington said the train was go-1 ing about 25 Miles an hour when it hit Jacobs. Des Moines up William Murray Republican candidate for governor said today the Iowa gop has taken Quot constructive Quot Steps to encourage the states Industrial growth and create More jobs for Young iowans. Quot contrast this Republican attitude with that of the democrats As expressed by gov. Loveless in a speech made at Benton Harbor. Mich., on feb. 1 of this year Quot Murray said. Quot there he said a the Plain fact of the matter is that studies show that state and local taxes have Little value in Choice of Sites for new Murray said. Quot jobs meaning wages and salaries and business concerns meaning jobs and profits can be brought to Iowa if our state encourages the development of in a us try alongside agriculture Quot Murray said. Quot the Lack of jobs Means Iowa is losing its greatest asset Quot he said. Quot it Means that seven out of every 10 of our Young people Are leaving the he said Iowa must make it a attractive and profitable for new industries to move into the state Des Moines. Up a the first Batch of Bonus checks for Iowa korean War veterans will be mailed Friday state Bonus Board officials said monday. Officials said the first mailing will be to Only 4,000 veterans or their beneficiaries. However the mailing will come about three weeks ahead of the original estimate of when the checks would begin to move out of the office Here the state provided for $26,000,000 in funds to pay the bonuses of up to $500 to about 100,000 korean i veterans. Officials have raised $1,400,000 in special tax Revenue and the other $24,600,000 by the Sale of i a Bond Issue. Mrs. Jennie Reynolds Muscatine,1 was scheduled to get the first Check issued to a veterans beneficiary while Dale r Wedgwood. Marshalltown will be issued the first Check Given to a Veteran. The next group of checks was expected to be mailed oct. 3.hot fight Over u. N. Presidency estimate Drake enrolment at 3,200 car As it was swung lip by a hug gloating Crane and held above the reopening of a closed Public school As an All White private institution Bay while muck water drained to avoid racial integration would from it the car had been a Deadhead Quot and was believed to have carried Only three persons i two of whom escaped. Still to be raised was the third car which plunged off the Bridge it had he g half in and half out whom the of water Lon tenth we for Many of is occupants to climb to be ruled unconstitutional administration sources said today. It is difficult to a republicans will accept in know tend place. Leadership does not a a a a a a a by a Nambe of a a Mon merely involve Choice it also Rel a a Quot Quot a Quot Quot a a a quires acceptance the Leader must to prosecute Goldfine in next few weeks charge Hoffa took $5,000 believed entombed in it be a Man whom others Are willing to follow there must not Only be competence but Confidence men in both parties Felt that Way about Robert a Taft William Knowland and Lyndon Johnson senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona it re elected could aspire to one phase of Republican leadership namely moral Confidence and intellectual integrity he is a bit too Independent but so were Taft and Knowland. One could not think of making a Deal with Suc h men although Taft was a very among the dead identified officially was George Snuffy Stirn Weiss. Former new York Yankee second baseman and american league batting Champion in 1945 Stirnweiss body was among those raised m the coach brought up Early today. The Hudson county medical examiner meanwhile scheduled an autopsy on the body of Engineer Lloyd f. Wilburn 63. To determine whether he May have had a heart attack at the throttle nearly e v e r y window was Washington up _ t h e administration extracts to begin prosecution of Boston millionaire Bernard Goldfine for contempt of Congress in the next few weeks it was disclosed today. A spokesman for the attorneys office Here told press International he the contempt citation voted by the House to be turned Over to a grand jury Quot within a matter of several in the news u. S United expects understanding Leader who under-1 smashed m the first car hauled up a mans leg Hung outside on a shattered window indicating he nearly escaped the watery death the hands of another Many a body were badly Cut apparently from smashing a window in a vain escape attempt. No one was known to have escaped from the second car which stood the other Man s problems. As a matter of tact that was an important element m tafts political strength. In new York state the Campaign has not yet started in Earnest. Nobody has yet made a telling speech. It could be a hard fought Campaign with violent attacks au-1 followed the two engines and to around but so tar none of that j it a pad car Ojito the water like has happened. Here everybody in a Lek m an Anchor Chain both parties seems to be angry at everybody else and they All take determination of the exact photographs smiling at each other death toll might take Days offi maybe ii there is no excitement in vials said because the Strong tithe Campaign Only the politicians dal currents in the area May will come out to vote. J have washed bodies out through in Connecticut it would seem As l uie smashed windows though the democrats have it for Federal and state inquiries at the United states Senate where j tempted to determine Why the Thomas Dodd is running against train rolled apparently in hesitate track Down the odor Charlotte. No. Up a in a matter of a few Days police should be Able to track Down the thief who took c. H hampers car simply by following their noses. Hamper said the trunk of the can contained ten pounds of cabbage and ten pounds of onions. Hakes a mean cake Isleworth. England up it a the sole male entrant in a cake baking contest walked off with the first prize monday beating 30 women competitors including his own Mother. The prize Winner. Gerald Simpson is eight years old. Washington up it a Senate rackets committee investigator charged today that teamsters president James r. Holla Quot took Quot $5,000 111 Union expense funds. Hoffa admitted he paid income taxes 011 the Money. Hoffa claimed however that he listed the amount As income on the advice of his accountant because he had no Bills to prove it was used for Quot organizational Quot i got stuck pretty Good a he testified. Hoffa was questioned about the Check in the course of tracing a number of incidents that com min tee chairman John l. Mcclellan d-Ark., described As Quot cover up the charge that hot la Quot took the $5,000 was made by Carmn a Bellino committee moves tight n and accountant. He testified As the group sought to bring out further details about the funds. Des Moines up. A Drake president Henry Harmon monday estimated College attendance Here this school year will be 3,200, a jump of about 200 Over the previous year. Drake began its 78th year m011- Day. Harmon said the increase in enrolment this year will begin a a rapid push in enrolment Quot which will effect Many colleges and universities. He said the menus dormitories at the school Are Quot More than trespassers expose themselves to danger Hunters and fishermen trespassing on Burlington right of Way expose themselves to injury and death from moving trains according to w. G. Fetzner chief special agent for the Railroad. Fetzner explained that because of the growing number of Young people taking up these sports each year he has Loi and it advisable to make Public periodically the Railroad s warning on the dangers of one liquor stores hours for thirsty Iowa fans Des Moines up a the Iowa liquor commission today took note of the thirst of University of Iowa football fans in approving a change of hours at one state liquor store. Joe o Donnell the Vendor at the state store in Williamsburg asked the commission if he could open his store an hour earlier on six saturdays this fall. He said Quot lots of fans come through out town Quot on their Way to Iowa City for the Hawkeye football games. Quot they have found it is a Good spot to Stop for liquor Quot rather than try to get it at the crowded Iowa City store. The Williamsburg store hours were recently changed to Call for opening at noon instead of 11 . However today the commission decided to let o Donnell open his store at 11 . For the six saturdays that the Iowa Haukenes play at ships planes go through Taipei Formosa it up a the defense ministry has announced nationalist ships and planes broke through communist artillery fire today to stage the biggest resupply operation in the Quemoy in More than a week. The breakthrough was announced shortly after Premier Chen Cheng told the nation that the War in the Formosa Strait would spread to the China Mainland if the communist blockade of the Quemoy islands was not ended soon. The defense ministry announcement said the nationalist ships escorted by nationalist and United states warships unloaded its entire cargo on big Quemoy in a record 20 minutes under heavy red artillery fire. United nations n a. It Upit a or. Charles Habib Malik american backed lame Duck foreign minister of Lebanon was elected president of the United nations general Assembly a 13th annual regular session today. Malik Defeated sudanese foreign minister Mohammed Ahmed Mahgoub. Who had the backing of the Arab league and of the soviet bloc. The vote on the decisive first ballot was 45 to 31. Too the soviet Union at the last moment threw its support in the hottest Assembly presidential race in years to Mahgoub. Czechoslovakia announced at the outset of today s session that it was withdrawing the candidacy of its Delegate Jiri Nosek in favor of Mahgoub who was backed by the Arab league in repudiation of Malik earlier this month. Outgoing Assembly president sir Leslie Munro of new zealand who Gravelled the session to order at 2 16 . . It. Appealed to the delegates to Quot adjust their National policies to the larger objectives of the do but the soviet Union and the United states already had squared off against each other without waiting for the session to be opened. Russia passed up its first Opportunity to move for the ouster of nationalist China in favor of the chinese reds Wrhen it accepted the appointment of a credentials committee with no attempt to take the floor. The Issue will come up later under an Indian item demanding full debate on the chinese representation Issue.16 injured in derailment Settle strike at far mall works heart attack theory As a possible cause. One question being asked by in the incumbent William Purtil who singly through two warning lights Vest gators was Why. If the in has been in Washington for a term and a final red Light into its a Ginger did suffer some sort it it without much excitement. Dodd at Tery Tomb because of the Man seizure were not the brakes a any rate is putting up an interest Ner in which the train ran non plied by a second trainman being Campaign. J Stop off the Bridge investigators lived to have been in the engine More on tips anti j were inclined to spotlight the Cabin with him Rock Island Iii. It up about 2,400 workers at the earn All works of the internal tue a. Harvester co., Plant Here were get petted to return to their jobs today after settling a strike late Mono it the workers members of local 1309 of the United Auto workers took the action after a company Union meeting at which a agree meat concerning an undisclosed list of Union Quot requests was reached the workers left their jobs last thursday. Company officials said tin Union a a requests have been taken under consideration and would be the subject of a future meeting for which no a to it set Minneapolis Mian. Up a nine cars of the Soo line s Quot Winni Peger a passenger Tram jumped he track West of Minneapolis monday night injuring 16 persons the crash occurred near t h it it oni Unity of Hamel 16 Miles a Vest of Here to it it ambulances my sheriff s cars shuttled the inured to North memorial Hospital at nearby rooms Dale. Allo the injured were treated it and released except one. Who was reported in fair condition at the i Hospital. I Laletin Little Rock Ark. Up a gov. Orval e. Faubus t o d a \ signed a proclamation moving up to sent. 27 a special election in which the voters of Little Rock will decide whether they want their four High schools reopened on an integrated association to incorporate the Henry county tuberculosis and health association met september 12 at 11 00 a. M. At the Iris Cour to plan incorporation and activity procedures. The officers of the organization a Eod that incorporation was necessary and a committee com posed of mrs. Frank Abraham miss veda Cornie and mrs. Karl Kneen was appointed to study proposed articles of incorporation. Mrs Wood of Burlington stated that or Partlett and or. Youmans of Clu ago have develop died a simple cheap but highly specific serum test for Active tuberculosis which shows great Promise for smelling it seems that there is an urgent need for Money to Complete tins important work and the Henry county to association has agreed to contribute $100. Also the organization agreed to contribute $5 per month to the individual expenses of Henry county patients in sunny Side in mounts in Auto Industry Detroit up a tension mounted in the Auto Industry today with nearly 3,000 workers walking off the Job at two Ford plants in Chicago More than 24 i hours in Advance of wednesdays strike deadline at Ford motor co. The United Auto workers Union and Ford were termed a within reach Quot of a contract agreement but Law president Walter p. J Reuther left Little doubt that Ford will be struck unless the Settle i ment is reached by the deadline warm weather needed for Cor ridiculous Day wednesday two Are fined on driving charges it Madison a two teen age boys. Alfred Mortens Salem and Carl so Harpenan West Point were each fined $25 and costs thursday when they appeared before Justice of the peace de Boedeeker Here and pleaded guilty to charges of reckless driving. The two boys were arrested wednesday night near St. Paul by the Highway patrol the patrol charged the boys with Quot drag racing their automobiles Des mines up a warm dry weather is needed during the next few weeks to hasten the maturity of the Corn crop agricultural experts said today. The weekly weather and crop bulletin said that despite slowed Progress because of Cool weather and dry soil conditions nearly 90 per cent of the crop was expected j to mature if Frost arrives at nor Mal dates. J a of monday evening virtually 1 All of the com crop had reached i or passed the soft dough stage. 75 j per cent had dented and 50 per i cent was Well dented and hard j on this Date a year ago 85 per cent had dented and 60 per cent 1 was Well dented and hard the same As the 10-year average. I about 60 per cent of the soybean leaves were turning yellow and about 30 per cent were shedding their leaves. Yields were expected to be Good. About 20 per cent of the Winter wheat had been sown compared with about 15 per cent last year and a 10-year average of about 10 per cent. Fall blowing was about 30 percent completed about the same As a year ago but less than the 10-year average of 35 per ticket sales for symphony mrs. Baron d. Crane and mrs. Hall Weir Are heading the ticket sales for the Southeast Iowa symphony in the area outside of the Burlington Community. The announcement was made by mrs. Eugene c. Mccoid it. Pleasant member of the symphony Board of directors. The 1958-59 season will open for the Southeast Iowa symphony on october 26 when miss Elaine Cray formerly of Burlington and now 1 a member of the faculty of Monmouth College will be the soloist. Under the direction of the conductor or. Richard Lee Morse the afternoon concert will be at Iowa Wesleyan College it. Pleas ant and the evening concert at 1 Burlington in the memorial auditorium. Other concert dates Are december 7, March 1, and april 19. Season tickets which admit the Holder to All concerts Are $3.00 students twelve years old through College May buy tickets for $1.00. The More than sixty members of the orchestra come from Nineteen different communities of Southeast Low a. Mrs George a Crow Burlington is president of the symphony Board. Ticket chairmen in the Burlington area Are mrs. Ralph Schweizer and mrs. Frank Schau Weker. Members of the Board m it. Pleasant include in addition j to mrs. Mcvoid or. Plank Coles i or. Frank Delucia and or. J. Raymond Chadwick president of Iowa teachers at special meeting the it pleasant teachers of j Reading in grades 4. 5. And 6 w ill i have the Opportunity to attend an in service training meeting on Reading thursday afternoon. Sept. 18 at Harlan school. Children in these grades w ill be dismissed. Children in town will be dismissed at 2 10. A country children will stay at school in care of teachers. This meeting is in line with the administrations policy relating to the continuing improvement of the Reading program in the it. Pleas ant Public schools

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