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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 29, 1958, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it. Pleasant news these Days by George e. Sokosky a bad decision Public opinion sometimes Breaks a Man for the wrong reason. The reason that the rules of evidence in the Law courts have become so intricate and often appear to laymen so perverse is that it is the purpose of the Law to secure Justice by safeguarding the individual from the whims of fancies of Public opinion and from the misery of private enmity. As i watched Sherman Adams resign Over television i Felt that Here was a Man Laid Low by private enmity by erroneous Public Opin vol. 80, no. 229 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening sept. 29, 1958 by Carrier 30 per week by mall $7.50 per year seven die in Iowa mishaps by up three persons were killed during the weekend in traffic accidents in Iowa and miscellaneous mishaps claimed the lives of four other persons. Ronald Carbur 18. Camanche was killed sunday when the car in which he was Riding sideswiped a truck on u. S. Highway 67 near Ca Lon and by his own inflexibility j Manche. And coldness. None of these Are j four persons were injured in the just reasons for destroying a Public crash but authorities said none a service of 20 years and a repute pc a red to be serious. The truck Mon which brought a Man to his Driver John Belcher 41, Clinton High station. Was not Hurt but one of the six i horses he was carrying in the truck was killed. Richard Foxhoven. 18, Earling was killed saturday night when the. Car he was believed driving crashed into another near Defiance. Iowa. Two others were injured but not seriously. Authorities said Foxhoven s car May have veered into the path of one driven by Charles Hawley 21, Vail after having a Flat tire. Late Friday night. Gene Lee Martin 24. Mapleton was killed when his vehicle collided with another at the top of a Hill on a county Road Southeast of Rock rapids. A train Accident sunday claimed the life of Alva Olson. 22 months. Coralville. The girl was hit by a Rock Island passenger train when she wandered onto the tracks near her Home. Authorities said the girl the daughter of or. And mrs. Alvin Olson. Coralville stepped into the them As business expense which k i path of the Tram travelling 70 Miles was a miscarriage of hour after the Engineer sound de his whistle. J a Hunting Accident sunday took i the life of Myron Rueber 21. Rural if Sherman Adams was a thief he should have been tried in a court of Law of he grafted while Iii office he should have been1 tried in a court of Law. If he conspired with other officials to sell favors he should have been tried in a court of Law. There Are Laws that cover All these matters. After Adams had resigned he was pursued by extraordinary bad taste. Of i the worst that has thus far been shown against Sherman Adams is that lie performed the Normal american custom of doing a favor for a Friend such As every representative senator Cabinet officer governor and president does that Over a period of 15 years Long before he entered upon his present duties he and this Friend exchanged gilts such As most americans sex j change on Christmas birthdays. Etc. That this Friend on occasion paid his hotel Bills and deducted High court gives ruling reject barges made by Nixon lease four Little Rock crop director to speak at inc Washington. Up a state in a department officials today rejected i h i of a ii of i q vice president Richard m. Nixon s j a Kevil Vrvilo charge that someone in the depart ment has tried to Quot sabotage Quot the administration s Formosa policy. I Omaha it Ipi a a two fed Quot Ai Nixon made the charge saturday Jud is today issued a after reports were published that restraining mail received by the department was overwhelmingly opposed to the administration s decision to Del end the executive director of crop the Church world service overseas Relief Good program will be the speaker tuesday morning at Chapel the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Order barring the i transferring of the Little Rock Public High schools to a private corporation for use on a segregated basis. We want Faubus was the chant that brought this Little Rock scene Arkansas gov. Orval Faubus responding to students cheers at Back door of the governor s mansion. Their chant went Quot we want Faubus he is our Man if he can t do it. Nobody after shaking a lot of hands Over the Back Fence the governor told them to go Home to supper. Iowa political Campaign shows signs of becoming More heated ruling reserved in assault Case i Little Rock. Ark., up it the Little Rock school Board to Day leased the City a four High i schools closed four weeks in the i integration crisis to a corporation i for operation As private segregated the Case of Dan Housh against schools. Phil Zink was heard in mayor members of the Board and school Wade Mcbeth s court saturday and supt. Virgil t Blossom doubted the mayors ruling was reserved however that the schools can be put until next saturday. Zink is charged into operation before wednesday. With assault and Battery to which he pleaded not guilty. Zink also tiled the same charge against Housh and the Case will be heard next saturday. Des Moines up the 1958 at the same ump Iowa political Campaign showed Murray appeared As scheduled signs of becoming More heated the symposium and commented today As the relations Between that Loveless a a apparently Pur the two gubernatorial candidates pos Ely avoided meeting and that this particular Friend when he appeared before a congressional committee made an absurd and unacceptable witness. Chilled. The Cool relations Between gov. Herschel c. Loveless and his Republican opponent or. William g. Murray came into the spotlight during the week end at two meetings sponsored by United press International. Danbury. The Accident happened this is Only part of the picture. I Neal. Has Home another part is that Sherman i Woodbury county officials said i Adams Uke Many new englander Chr Voth stepped lnt0 the path 0 they could be traced to a re publican release issued last tuesday which implied by a association Quot that part of the a recovered $300,000 Greenlease Kidnap Ransom Money might have been used in Loveless 1956 Campaign. Murray later said the statement had been misinterpreted. Democrats immediately branded the release Quot Gutter politics Quot although Loveless a himself issued a restrained statement which said Only that it was a a a typical a Republican political tactic. His reaction to the charge became More Clear last Friday at a political workshop held at Cedar rapids by the United press International broadcasters of Iowa both Loveless and Murray talked freely with newsmen and taped and filmed separate interviews for about 20 stations represented at the session. But they steered Clear of each other. Finally. Loveless was asked dict older families is Stern influx i a .22 Caliper Rifle Bullet fired by one Ible and tends to be arbitrary. His of two 16_vear.olds in the prows6 attitude for instance toward Senor �8ighting in the weapon Ator Joe Mccarthy was unconscionable and relentless. He has made Anthony la Hart to. Rural Albia. It Dili cult for members of con was fatally injured saturday when Gress. Even of the president s own dragged by a Pony. The Accident party to have appointments with occurred on the farm of his parents the president. He withheld favors or. And mrs. Walter la Hart w Hen to have granted them would j Janet Konz 4. Rural Oyens. Died have helped an incumbent to be after being run Over by the wheels elected. It is generally held in of a Wagon being pulled by a tray Washington that Sherman Adams tor. The girl s father. Robert Konz. Was an arrogant person who exer said the girl was Riding on the cited vast Powers without Law but tractor with him and slipped off by tile Fiat of the president. I under the wheels of the Wagon. Perhaps his greatest difficulty vault Png a was that there was no precedent Uii Iii i it Gnu 3 for his Oft ice no president not of h even Grant had organized the a Levi ill presidency on a general staff basis. The president quite apart from Montgomery. Ala. Up a being the chief administrative gov. James e Folsom today com officer of the country and its Oma j muted to life imprisonment the mental representative is under our death sentence of a negro sched system. Also the chief political j Tod to be electrocuted oct. 24 for personality of the country and the i robbing a White widow of $1.95 in j rec y 11 hts would pose or a pics Leader of his party. In burglary at night a capital crime Ture with Murray. M 4.i in thi it i a tap a definitely not Quot the governor these functions cannot be Merg-1 in la is state. I 1 ,., i Timmy cd i snapped not since tuesday i de in one and a Long tradition re-1 Jimmy Wilson 55, was convict quires the president to have direct cd of taking $1.95 from mrs. Loveless replied that it was simply the Case of a conflicting schedule. In any ease the two meetings produced the fact that Loveless was definitely angry at Murray about the Greenlease charge although Murray said it was released without his prior knowledge. It was recalled that Loveless and Murray debated the issues several weeks ago in a joint appearance at a meeting of the Iowa daily press Assn. At that time the two candidates were cordial at least As cordial As two political opponents can be. This cordiality now appeared Over at least As far As Loveless was concerned. The lease does not take effect until tuesday. Blossom announced that a six hour a Day television school which started last monday ends with today s lessons. Or. Nolin at Iowa Wesleyan College. The address at the 10 15 a. In. Service can to nullify w rights of negro pupils Washington a up a a the supreme court held unanimously today that states May not Quot nullify Quot the constitutional rights of negro pupils through Quot evasive schemes Quot for maintaining segregated schools in a sweeping formal opinion that clearly sounded the death Knell for Arkansas plan for converting Public schools into a private Quot segregated schools the court said Quot state support of segregated schools through any arrangement management funds or property cannot be squared with the 14th amendments command that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal Protection of the the High court Laid Down this principle in a 5,000-word written opinion backing up its sept. 12 ruling that the Little Rock Ark. School Board must proceed in the corporation managed to get in tile hearing saturday. Housh the lease stoned before the nation-1 to which the Public is invited maintained that he went to Wmk s Al association for the advancement1 he joined the Iowa Christian residence next to his on North i of coloured people could ask a fed-1 pm Al overseas program crop j mediately with court approved de Broadway the week end before last i Era appeals court to Stop it. Staff in 1950. Becoming executive j segregation of Central High school. To talk with Zink and that Zink the lease said the rental value of i director of crop in 1955. The Arkansas governor reacted to picked up a Shotgun. Housh said he i the sch ols a Central High Hall i program is sponsored by the Iowa the sept. 12 ruling by closing All took the gun away from Zink and High utile Rock tech and Horace j Council of churches. I Public High schools in Little Rock wrapped it around a tree Zink i Mann negro a cannot be accurate or no a 1s an ordained United j preparations were being made in testified that he did t pick up the gun that Housh did and broke in against the tree. Take options on possible a Hall Sites sex convict held at Burlington by determined now. Quot tile rental value shall be determined at the end of each school year by three arbitrators a the lease said. Quot it shall not be less than $10,000 a Burlington. Iowa up a Earl Myers 38, Keokuk who was released from fort Madison state Penitentiary sept. 3 was held today Ai ter being picked up in a car allegedly Stolon in Illinois. Myers was arrested sunday night in a car authorities said had been stolen at Quincy 111. The car carried License plates which had been stolen in Keokuk authorities said. Myers served a prison sentence for forgery committed at Keokuk. Contact with political personal Estelle Barker during a might 1 tics of both parties whether he line robbery at her Home in july likes them or not. The adequate j 1957 trial testimony also showed and smooth functioning of the. Wilson attempted to rape the Al government requires that the presi Oderto woman but Wilson denied Dent forego his private Predi lec turns and accept the Choice of the 1 the Case told brought protests people As their chosen represent to Folsom from All Over the world a or Ruimy of the lists of the j Helene hits president s Stag dinners shows How badly both president Eisenhower Oval go 113 and tile United states were served in the selections of guests and when it was announced that the lists would no longer be published republicans were More than pleas Murray kept silent but Republican state chairman l. L. Jurge Meyer replied later that Loveless refusal to pose with Murray at the up meeting was a Quot calculated move to avoid a debate or joint appearance with Murray. The juror swelled when republicans Learned that Loveless had cancelled out on a joint appearance with Murray at a Public affairs symposium at Iowa City a a i under the sponsorship of United Halifax. N. S. It Upit a Hurri press International and the uni escapes from jail Newton Iowa it up it a Robert Monroe Wayne 38, new York described As Quot dangerous by police today escaped from the Jas options Are being taken on six j per county jail Here. Henry county farms one of which j police warned residents Here to might be selected for the site of keep the keys out of their cars mrs. Mabel Shafer Dies in Illinois the proposed agricultural Hall of Fame it Henry county is designated As the location tor the agricultural shrine. The six farms have been chosen by the site option committee and owners have indicated their willingness to sell for this purpose. Two of the farms Are located East of i. Pleasant two North and two West because they Felt Wayne would try to steal a vehicle to get out of town. Wayne broke out of the jail at 10 15 . By finding a Way to get through two locked jail cell doors officials said. The Escapee was described As gop caravan to a Man with a Long prison record. I cancel meeting Winfield mrs. Mabel Shafer died sunday at 11 20 p. M. At Rockford Illinois. She was the daughter of or. And mrs. James Mcclellen and was born november 2 1879 at Creston. She was married in 1898 to James Shafer in Winfield. He died in 1921. Mrs. Shafer is survived by four sons and one daughter. They Are James of Inglewood calif., Lester of Michigan City ind., Chester of Buffalo n. Y., and Keith of Rockford. Illinois. The daughter is mrs. Marcia Lauer of Galesburg Illinois. She also is survived by seven grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 30 p. In. Wednesday at the Wilbur Christenson funeral Home at Rockford with cremation to follow. Committal services will be at 2 o clock saturday october 4 at the win Field Scott twp. Cemetery with the Barton Mckasson funeral Home in charge. Church of Christ minister. A native i Little Rock today to re open the of Iowa he served congregational j schools under Quot private Quot manage Christian pastorate in Iowa Anc j Merit with state tuition funds. Kansas from 1940 to 1950. He is a a graduate of friends University and of the National Bible College school of theology. He will also speak at the noon forum to be held in tile private dining room in the John Wesley Holland student Union tuesday noon. Students and visitors will have an Opportunity at that time to direct questions to or. Nolin. Or. Donald h Bishop Iowa Wesleyan director of religious activities will conduct the service of worship assisted by Darrell Walton fort Madison Sophomore who will read the scripture. Mrs. Jack Wilson named to National committees Emmer Enke taken by death j Fps it. Cane Helene slammed unexpectedly into Nova Scotia Early today bringing Gale Force winds and de because the lists were politically four inches of rain which caused painful to those who needed to keep a severe damage and widespread presentation of the fact that actual Sites Are available is considered an important part of the presentation of the advantages of a Henry county location for the Hall of Fame. In the meantime pledges Are being received in the acre of land offer. Farmers residents of other the legislative program of the president moving smoothly. The Rise of Sherman Adams to Iris unusual position was not due to president Eisenhower a illness but rather to his army training his preference for army staff methods and his primitive views of the presidency. No Man ought again to hold the office that Sherman Adams held. It is unnecessary to the american system of i Tion. Franklin d Roosevelt con j ducted world War ii without it. 1 although Harry Hopkins seemed j to have unusual Powers. The in j official title of a assistant presi Dent is absurd in the american constitutional system. President Eisenhower will miss Sherman Adams. Quot i need him Quot was a succinct statement of fact. Perhaps Adams will write his memoirs some Day and Embarrass Many politicians by telling the Snoie Story of the political Man Euver to get rid of him a a Man Euver which succeeded because he had so Lew friends when he needed then. Power failures. No loss of life was reported. Verify of Iowa school of journalism. Loveless said he was unable to attend because of a Quot snafu Quot in towns of the county and it. Pleases schedule he said he had pre i and residents have indicated their piously promised to appear at a willingness to assist in paying for the Henry county Republican Central committee have announced that they will cancel the county wide supper meeting they had planned in conjunction with their j All Day caravan and instead the i group will return to it. Pleasant j and buy their supper in the Park to j support the agricultural Hall of Fame. I a Check with the visiting candidates that will take part in the 1 caravan was unanimous in win Field emm e r Enke of Washington died sunday afternoon at the Washington county Hospital after an illness of several months. He was a resident of the Marsh Columbus Junction Community before moving to Washington. He is survived by his wife Alda several grandchildren and great children. Four sons. Lloyd of Washington Guy of Columbus Junction Cecil of Winfield and Pearl of near it. Union. Also a step daughter mrs Lois Stead of Keokuk. Funeral services will be held tuesday at 1 30 at the United presbyterian Church in Washington. Mrs. Jack Wilson state president of Republican women attending the National convention of Republican women in Boston Massachusetts has been named to the proxy committee o the convention and has also been named regional co chairman for their conference. Mrs. Wilson in addition to these duties was previously named on the nominating committee for the Board meeting. Mrs. Wilson was interviewed by newspapers sunday and has a to program tentatively scheduled for thursday covering the bus trip of the women from Iowa but due to other celebrities appearing for their meeting it was postponed. Iowa was the Only state so honoured a mrs. Wilson reports. Mrs. Wilson together with other delegates lunched at the Durgin Park internationally known for its chowders Indian puddings Apple pan dowdy Johnny cake and new England boiled dinners. During the past eighty years the Durgin Park has had Only three changes in chefs and still serves much the same menu mrs. Wilson reports. Wilbert Messer found dead say farm youth apparently died of heart attack Public affair at Carroll to be held i want the agricultural Hall of Fame in Henry county in the event that Henry county is selected As the site for the agricultural Hall of Fame i wish to pledge the Cash value of acre s of land for the site. Signature address mail to Henry county agricultural and Industrial Board it. Pleasant Iowa a site if Henry county is chosen. They Are now being asked to sign the pledges so that they can be presented at Kansas City on october 7 As a part of the evidence of Community attitude relative to the Hall of Fame project. Additional motion pictures Are being taken for the presentation. These will be added to the mid-1 West old settlers and threshers pictures already available. Of i persons who want to go on the trip to Kansas City should leave their names at the chamber of Commerce office South Side of the Square. Seventy five persons can be 1 accommodated in the auditorium w Here the presentation of the j Henry county material will be made. A Small group representing the site committee of the proposed agricultural Hall of Fame will be present at this meeting to hear 1 and see the presentation they in turn will convey the information i to the general site committee i Marshalltown Iowa up a Young farm worker whose the 1 body was found sprawled beside opinion that they would not want tos car on a Highway North of to schedule a meeting that would j Here sunday apparently died of a detract from the All out Effort to natural heart condition author get the agricultural Hall of Fame in it. Pleasant and that they would Uke to lend their support by attendance at the Barbecue. The caravan will Start from the court House in the morning As previously planned and tour the North defective heart halt of the county in the afternoon he said the condition indicated and then return to it. Pleasant i any undue exertion might cause for the Barbecue Wilbert Messer 59, Fairfield was found dead at his Home Here sunday his birthday. He committed suicide by hanging. Or. Messer formerly resided in Rome. Or. Messer the son of John and Cornelia Hallowell Messer was born sept. 28, 1890, at my pleasant. He was never married. He is survived by one brother Garfield of Fairfield and one sister mrs. Fred Myers of it. Pleasant. He is predeceased by his parents two Brothers and one sister. Funeral services will be held wednesday. Oct. I at 2 p. In at the Tow performed by an unnamed w,ir.cooke5 film it a Home Rev Cedar rapids pathologist snowed 0llbm Stop of he f.,s, methods the victim. Dean Rhine Smith 24 Church wu1 a charge Rural Beaman had an enlarged an Buria pm of m Whf is cemetery. Ties said today. Sheriff Asa Landes said an ail army takes Over Premier u no top of Burma announced in Rangoon that he would resign next month in favor of Gen. Be win Botto commander in chief of the country a armed forces. The bloodless coup was apparently designed to prevent Burma a shaky government from Riftina Inlet re re Viand memorial Hospital notes admitted sunday Wallace Sherlock mrs Roy Wick of i. Union admitted monday Brian Harold Steele of Wayland 1 dismissed sunday i Harvey Hilbrant mrs. Lyman sheets dismissed monday Frank Fitch mrs Robert Overton and baby girl mrs. Keith Klyn and twin girls births saturday boy to or. And mrs. James Edgar of Crawfordsville instant death goal line club Rhinesmith a body was found on meeting tuesday Iowa 96 about six Miles East of 1 its Junction with Iowa 14 in North 1 the goal line club will meet at pm Marshall county. Authorities the re a. Building tuesday night said there was a bump on his alter the Junior High game which forehead and it appeared he had starts at 7 . The meeting should been hit with a Blunt instrument. Get underway by 8 15 . Films of Landes said it now appeared the inc Simpson game will be Rhine synth suffered a heart at shown. The films of the mph tack and bumped his head As he Washington game will be shown if fell to the Highway pavement. They Are Back United press International leases 425.413 Miles of wires in North and South America Europe patches and the far East for the trans Spanish by radio Printer United press International transmits news Dis including the news in from new York to Mission of its news and photo clients in 51 latin american cities services. 1 simultaneously

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