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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 27, 1961, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant new set. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening sept. 27, 1961 vol. 83, no. 227 two sections these Days by George e. Sokolsky tiie Nansen passport it is not usual that a passport is named after a Man but att i world War i when Large numbers found themselves homeless and helpless a technique was evolved to give the stateless a document equivalent to a passport and generally recognized. That was the Nansen passport named after Fridtjof Nansen whose Hundredth anniversary will be celebrated on october 10. Too few have recognized that perhaps the most frightful result of War is statelessness which to Many Means homelessness. Villages have disappeared Homes have i been burned to the ground All documents Are lost there is no Money what does one do where does he live where does he go where Are Bis relatives and friends to this problem. Fridtjov Nansen devoted his life a norwegian Nansen had gained Fame As an explorer. He was the first Man to Cross Greenland in 1896, aboard a Small ship the Fram. He set off to reach the North pol it and came closer to it than any Man had before him. Nansen s professions were oceanography and diplomacy he was the norwegian minister to great Britain and then led a Mission to the United states from 1920 until his death he represented Norway at he league of nations it was during those years he devoted himself to the stateless. Congress adjourns local Bank is purchaser Bonds for Street project sold by City Jack Frost to arrive in Iowa Mccone to succeed Allen Dulles i r. 1 to t i i 11 adm o k Lawfore Caf err indicated for al o 1 111 a. Tern i rat i pm exp a a i to about 28 in he Northu it to Var said a hard Northu e t i it n Wedreu d Rete is a a with night to drop a and Souther a a it moved a Canad across the Hammarskjold grave this is the Hammarskjold burial ground in the churchyard at Uppsala Sweden. His father Hjalmar Mother Agnes and brother Ake Are buried Heie. Now sept. 29, late Secretary general of the u n. Joins them. Ill. Shook Joe appointed one third of reservists asking for deferments the it. Pleasant Bank and Trust company was the successful bidder on both issues of the Bonds for the Street widening project in a it pleasant sold at a meeting of the City Council tuesday evening some of the bids were very close. The local Bank s bid on the general obligation Bonds was Only $56 under the bid of Carlton d. Beh and company of Des Moines and was $814 under the next Low bidder on the Revenue Bonds Shaw met Dermott of Des Moines. A tie rate of interest on both is fount note night wilis tin s f i the sues was considered very favourable to id the an cold Stan tiie cold front which entered the Mit West Tuc Day night had Era. Cd All of that s h i a 9 a m it it Quot a it had it i immediate affect on t my Crater s Light showers Wen moving across the stau b it a a ill if i and the wind Dunn ii wed Day h l so a Trust e of six Vear a a re App med. Utility Board Foi my a r Wade m be a h it i t tuesday \ that c night v Counci Sho k War to Nansen was a h Man not a military problem and it dealt with individual human beings whose lives were suddenly dislocated and disturbed. As Herbert Hoover was concerned with led inc the starving Nansen sought to a. Find a Home for the homeless to move masses of people w Iio had become what we now a Days Call refugees to some place where they could live Normal lives look after their families earn a living by their labor and forget the tragic years which uprooted them. After 1921. When Nansen was appointed High commissioner for refugees of the league of nations he knew no nationalities no i Tinct Lons Between Man and Man he Only knew that human beings were struggling to survive As person and that it was his to k to help them the Nansen p iss Poi t was accepted by More than 50 governments and Many distinguished persons had no other document. Plated a two Vear Hoard of which he i other trustees Arlt an my Bruce Rohe councilman Joh meeting Lias com pm on the chairman n. W Mcmill m i n n e Apolis up i a p it kit Milan for he Xiv army corp said nearly one in three of the Midwest reservists and National guards men called to Active duty Are asking for temporary 90-Day c pressed t the Engineer he g r so City pro tiie City it there proposal the c u took no act straighten the Junior sewer prob tion. Opi t y be j n a t to Lould h on a e though d to it to take s Ltd a me ire a part it an surf exp Ting City time by Crisc u 10 act also on the w cd tree re by Sheaffer tin a Ken by t and the of i the Addi for the City. The Low bid on the general obligation Bonds was 3 24i8 per cent and on the Revenue Bonds. 3.6439. The amount of the general obligation Bonds was $97,000 and of the Revenue Bonds. $77,000. General obligation <$97,000� rate total it pleasant Bank 3.2478 $30,372 deferments to get More time to Carleton Beh 3.2538 30,428 it pare for military life i Shaw Mcdermott 3.27669 30,642 a a from the application we up Morrissey 3.51795 32.898 handled so far we expect a bout 30, Revenue Bonds $77,000 p. Cent of men called up to rate total apply for deferment according to it pleasant Bank 3 6439 $23.38 maj Edwin j Caffrey Xiv corps Carleton Beh 3.7336 23,967 information officers j Morrissey 4 2207 27,089 but Only about 10 per cent Are Shaw Mcdermott 3 69275 23,<01 deferred Quot said Quot def it r the companies were it. Pleas being granted Only in ant Bank and Trust co., Carloton Beh and co. Des Moines Morrissey and co. Davenport Slaw my co. Des Moines Frac generally fair Sklet will continue Thun Ian and it Mph nil a it w ill continue considerably below Normal with highs thursday mostly in the 50 however temporal str will recover somewhat under tinny Kies Tida \ a it a Newport. R i up Parsi dint Kennedy today named Republican John a Mcconic. Former in Fri of the atomic Energy com uni Mon to such Eri Allen w dul has director of the Central in to licence Agency. Mccu no 59, moves into tiie super Ecret Post which Heads up the a am s espionage system that dul Les 67. Has held for eight years. Dulles and Mccone flew together by alarm from Washington to the quonset naval air station thus morning then travelled by Heli copts i to Hamn Dirsmith farm where they met with the president for an hour before the announcement was made. Dulles. Brother of the late Sec a tail of state John Foster Dulles has served his country in Intelli Gini it a work since world War ii when hot was enlisted in the office of strategic services by his old Friend maj Gen William s. Donovan Dulles came under considerable i. Aim Lor la role the Cia festival placed m that dismal failure of the the last rebel cuban landings last april. Senate Bare House tactics i Linda Campbell daughter of or and mrs Dale Campbell will he among those Riding in the Roundup for the entertainment of patients at Mhz h t i. I it t 1 1 1 he con Sion i the senat 1c House Aib la. Early at went Hon 5 16 a n ingress it h use a round up replaces festival but ii for surface nth on 21s North met finer publican in the poll 10. A we. Of in fall r and up w held this sunday oct. 1st., at a it plea ant it Nial Hil 1 statute replacing the usual f which has been held i several years feature event of that Day will a horse show sponsored by t past Active in Henry county Saddle chill. T was chairman to of Eutest ailment will Mark it or it pm it Houf that ate c of of i w h becaus3 onh uld recall the it it sen re m. Dirk a House Mou was time to it congressmen a c for a in ments Are extreme hardship cases a Board of senior officers tin for reservists and guardsmen in Minnesota. Low.�. Wiscott a North Dakota and Soutsi Dakota Caffrey said most request. Dan Mcallister suffers injury Bui w ill a opened on of 3 the resurfacing of Highway 218 one North of it plea an to Ains corp., the. Application Dermott and co. Dr., Momet. Worth a it re. V deferment which come from which had handled the proceedings Iowa state the Haj conms.,. Or. For the City and guaranteed a bid. A announced j too the project involves 11 Miles in i the Revenue from parking meters Henry county a it it 6.5 Miles m Likely will be sufficient to service Washington county however in Case this two of Type a a Phal a c of the dec from 1958 to january frs for of the 1961 he voluntarily h it the Post a Jowa perhaps r Waif a the Kennedy administration nation Tim show took office North of the 20 by during his service the Eisen Neaba j How or administration. Mccone was p Nice. in get at e Hospit a first 11. W 111 be 1 Imp near from 2. Ide j. Uld tin. I or a i it 4 of the be resumption of although in requirement is came involved 01 it Ding advocates for nuclear testing a Iob whose prime secrecy Dulles be in controversy not Pony 52 inches and under mat Stock Hon a it be men s Western pleasure press indie. Western plea. Judge for ily Over tire cuban affair but also or an w we Eitai. In r. Jei m a Dan hybrid it. P ribs in farm tuesday he had drive the Nohel prize was awarded Nansen in 1932 As Universal recognition of his labors for the hungry and homeless. There have been too few men like Nansen in out. Do a tone Anc times a too few who lived utterly tractor onto the selfless lives and who devoted pos to Jumi themselves wholly to the welfare Field the a of those who had been abandoned and he or for those who could not adjust he was so to the startling changes of this age it Ould i the refugee problem is still with dragged us All Over the world there Are and a no operates a Corn farm just North of t. Suffered three broken unusual Accident at the of Moon Are a i both issues a a a a a. 1 Revenue would not be sufficient. A Jujj required Tikusis any pan in 7 the general Obliss tion Bonds could than Bab. Monthly and had a a tax Levy. At thl. Idea they would to reeled. Of income rom i several Hundred however there win by. Were included n us be l to .r0, e,.ty owners up thus far in addition to five j Iowa units called lip i ,.id there no problem q tract for a vhf ask of Francis Gary pow some 44.000 or it whose u2 plane was downed Rte Over Russia just before the Paris the the no of filling quotas but a it will Tak time to handle the deferment re or from the \ tract topped top of into the adjoining to t broke under him striking his Side. I badly injured that drive the thru i himself towards Ufa nailed to Sony of tin w of quest and that it a. A Tive problem. He sa.1 Nee Good unattached Roidy re the area will activated unit minis tra 5.000 to a rots in net ded to bring up Toof e Goth Trenton paving in who to Dilt c by where h a a Ca to m is re preparing him for space trip refugees from w in and revolution men on the farm and their numbers increase. The to him and drove United nations High comm is Morial i p a i sooner for refugees has taken on ceiling tre Aimen Nansen a w us such countries a Australia and Canada which need population open their doors to refugees from All european countries but we shall soon have a problem of african refugees which will not be so readily solv _ Able. Cape canaveral up the 100th anniversary of Nan scientist Are readying a baby sends birth to be celebrated on Chimpanzee for a late a october october 10 is a Good Date to give space Ricie that could Clear the thought to this problem of Man s was for an Atlas rocket trip into inhumanity to Man it is a time ii by a u s. A to Claut within to think this problem out. Three months the unit it d states is planning to Send the Little ape around Earth three times in a a Mercury a space Barbara Taylor tells experiences in new zealand War due not Only destroy it cripples it leaves men and women helpless. Its greatest Cost i homelessness and it is that problem that neither the conqueror nor the vanquished can do much about the conqueror is distrusted. Besides he usually has contempt for those whom lie conquered pity is a rare Quality. On the other hand the vanquished is stunned by the results of War often there Are marginal Peoples like armenians who Are wiped out in Large numbers by each conqueror perhaps because they lie on the highroad of an Empire. For the Remote the Dis tath homeless we May contribute a few dollars to buy food but that does capsule the target Date is oct. 31 it will be a full rehearsal for a manned Orbital flight with one exception the Man one of seven specially trained american astronauts a will be on the ground looking up. If the Chimp performs satisfactorily and if there Are no major mishaps with the Booster rocket or space capsule one of the astronauts could Board a Rock ? for a into orbit by the Middle or Barbara Taylor. It school senior the Guys Packer at the rotary meet ing tuesday evening at the Harlan awarded hot i mis Taylor spent of ghz a months m new zealand an Exchange student under the program porno red by tiie american Field service. She attended school at hut a City about 10 Mil Wellington the capital of zealand. Miss Taylor said that the of new zealand Are exactly the same As they Are Here and that they were very kind to her. She said that at first she had a i the county Board of supervisors tuesday awarded the contract for the paving of the one half mile Street through Trenton to the i Weaver construction co. Of Iowa Falls which submitted the Only bid of approximately $10,500. I the Weaver company is present y doing tiie Black Topping of a Road j from Trenton South to Highway 34 the supervisors looked Over bids 1 and equipment from a Davenport firm and a Des Moines firm for a i fire sprinkler system for the com Home but no contract was that the contract would be let is fall w As announced recently it Len w when the Highway com mis. N requested permission m ?. A cry Council to Widen a h it sect n of he Highway Winlun the Ltd limits at the North Edge of Towi the widening also will extend North Ward another Block or so to connect with the previously widened pavement. Reinforce Wall dividing Berlin Summit meeting of 1960 fuel Tanker turns into blast Furnace t Berlin up if i munits reinforce d Ali air v id ing Berlin Tod y to a by com going Wall i Furna it the Morehead City. N c up \ fire fed by a ship Load of High gasoline and Jet aviation furl burned out of con f. More hat. 12 horns today of Man a. Kiad and at Lea. T 27-1� d u the explosion and hat ironed 600-foot sea a Tanker no a whip to. Blast announcer Robert al -m.ng. A ribbon girl. Vick Konigh. The Burlington municipal bar one of the oldest Volunteer it of in tenure a the Hospital will or vide an hour Long concert o u Tern Muic starting at 4 p m. Group appeared at that fail festival for he past 18 y the it pleasant rotary cd supervising the or Para Ion barbecued Chicken supp r win to be served following that cot Many Volunteer groups Anc Divi duals will be on hand the. Out the afternoon and it or a. Sis with the activities a que tre who Cotile a Days activities for the up the commit be for t round up is to Orna p i meter tossed m i r a sentenced for robbing Bank lower it from n e w third barbed wire digging trenches. Ran sector Border police reported at some Pon. Built even higher from the ground b berliners still Man to the West four men Cut the. Barix d wire anti Wall and a 60 a a upped from the it an East b 1,. A it into the net of a it bar a a tip a me b r thunes were shooting 75 to sch above the charred Rusus Potomac aground about 100 Yard. Containing 25 ions of fuel Oil. The Hull of the the 80 f c i no Only tanks across t o tiie Bottom Stern people cock More than $1,300 during the robbery. Thomas Chambers 18. Griswo. Part the theft May 6 Harrill who was convicted s a j 8, was sentenced by Federal District judge Roy Stephenson mint today Swor that members of a 3,200-Man police Reserve to but used communists Start a riot latter part of november. The $400 a million plus Man in space program a project Mercury a a is on a quiet but intensive drive to provide the free world not solve their problem for what Wuh an an it Van. Q the Orbital Voy. Council Bluet Supi a . Iowa teenager involved it a Bank robbery March 20 was give i an indefinite term in a Federal Nen who Werwa correctional Institute Here tuesday the West Bei Donald Harrill 17, was Sente neen for his part in the robbery of the Avoca state Bank office at har it ficut time making herself understood because of the american Way 1 of talking. The Homes Are very., ,11 i pleaded guilty to taken much ours and they live much the same. Some of the ways in which that countries i infer Are in the schools which Are much More formal in the food they eat about 7 times a Clay and in the climate which is much Milder than in Iowa. At the conclusion of her talk. Of two officers miss Taylor danced a polynesian j _ dance called a Poi. A question and i Washington up v. A s i feet East Cape rough lie Man or of full shot higher each time the Bow it bottled spilling m the water. Smoke in the fir. Multi million Doliar tal lations including ports authority Robert to James Kough Community c Minger. Public Lene harm. 1 de Lampe i from storage s x a million Gaj ovum her an Emmett Down a had Middle an ,. Acc of Ilad of Elain i Haro in. M l. Threat i Fadjo irn ment a King to president the House Back a was made leu Dirks it n a ked a quorum it lie w i Cha a a a me Reque. ? a j erring with other Lead-1s do us Quot Rafic Leader Mike id Ohi it v found up by a. The sen ii would never to an adjourn men the House before i v a it n h id been cd ared satisfaction. Arly two hours of set gators Call Down upon the vanished f n relented. A Slu it recess the senators the Bill and a commit e i Kenned y by Telephone that a is stood ready to adjourn pro id it Cid. I names old i a Poi a Ted. Sen Quick la assured the sen it the cot Smittee a did get the. Hod a Mph session left a the her Medy administration b it republicans said it warm a a a and Short or of me session St m a c d t it tuesday v tion of the warm it Rov i of a $3,911 pict i nex week settled jetting up tie lire led on quantities of the vessel s cargo of 60,000 of in the Bow Section. Flame 10 is c fire cars of hurrying firemen damaged in a collision last Days in i wan is ticket sales go . 200 civilian f the fuel onto or a just off waterfront my the. A a a a can terminal. M was so morn in thick Sun it blot we out the it it selected for Quot 11 o clock singers 1 at Isu Margie Wilson daughter of d my mrs Owen Wilson has been assigned to tie �?o11 of clock singers it Iowa state University Ames Seeley farm sold Beatties to Texas two Volunteer firemen it. Pleasant fire Dep Rushing to the fire station spouse to a fire Call tuesday noon figured in a ear Colli Gary Eland and Dwight Burger were uninjured when to cars collided at the Northwest c Ner of the it. Pleasant sequel land was driving sooth on Jei son and turning West on m n Shellabarger was driving West Monroe the left Side of the Eland was driving was caved m l Vav ill the Theodore Huc nos have Pur wipe out rebuke the group one of three Divi it ions of 0hased a 250-acre farm from the in the b e see Leys and will move to the location tie farm is that West of it pleasant near the Golf and answer period followed col at army today wiped Edward Hunt Dean of men against two officers Iowa Wesleyan and Thomas Jack Paar stage a out a who controversial a Hearth they require is a Home for the family a birth and a place to die with dignity. For what else is there to the life of Man whether one is men a pauper or a millionaire these Ages of soviet Quot cosmonauts Yuri place to give Gagarin and Gherman Titov be the Calendar Fangman were introduced As new television show on tie Touchy Mot tiv of a. A c singers at Isu. Is composed rna Rily of upperclassmen the first division tie �?o9 o clock Singer a is composes of first year students and country club. The remaining Divi Iii. Known As the Robert Beattie family who he �?o4 o clock 11 of clock singers Quot rebuke lore year is up. Who understood that it was not geography that moved men it Are the ultimate requirements of is a smaller unit the Home and life. Beyond these there Are Only the family. These two men were degrees of advantage. Less than Fridtjov Nansen and Herbert these is not Only property but Hoover penury. Copy ugh 1961, King features less the out al world Wai i i w Niu in members of rotary guest at the meeting were Daniele Arnellies Rev. Beck r. And John Harris Berlin Border crossing it made Public a statement b Arthur Gen. Bruce c. Clarke army commander for Europe saying that no one did anything wrong enough to Washington a up United states May Send the the warrant criticism several j the Paar incident an Hundred additional Jet fighters to the to entertainer took a camera Europe by the end of the year in a Crew to the closed off Border be merger Crisp. Subsides pen tween East and West Berlin to id men stores. In. It to. Announced Truax. Neir new oils oozy ii right Teri Toriaz. I a show. And it the a get been residing on the farm and is composed operating it i re hold. A dosing non out Sale this week and will move to Midland text.-, where or Beattie will operate a cattle feeding station. The Hueners sold their farm jus new York Impi Mon West of the it. Leasau cry in. When Gomery Ward a co. Plans to enter a few months ago to the Henry discount business through a county Industrial d with interstate depart corporation. Blue Bird Midwest has part Ward to enter discount business and the front of the Shellabarger car was battered after Reg dining then equilibrium the men drove onto the fire station and went to the fire site which was in the eave at the mrs. J n Hileman residence 213 South j f Ferson the Fireda nage was Small goal line meeting at City Hall tonight w a tit Var \ h in m. K w of to on Soi 111 i Tho tract dam the goal l Ine meeting will of held on the second floor Ltd of the City Hall tonight at 7 30 of clock Otic instead of at the i \ building a it was announced wednesday. Kilm it of last weekend s High b tor school and College games will be met shown. In o

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