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THE ALTOH DEMOCRAT THURSDAY. APRIL 30, 1964 Alton Democrat has one of the principal newspapers of Sioiuc County, one of the largest and richest counties in Iowa since 1882. Published weeJcly at Alton, Sioux County, Iowa- M. L. Bowers, editor and publisher.

Subscription rate, by mail, $3.50, payable fat adrance. $4.00 out of the state of Iowa. Entered at Alton, Iowa postoffice as second class matter under the act of Congress, March 2, 1879. It Was A Great Day The settlement of the threatened rail strike is a boon to the country and another feather in President Johnson's cap. He kept pressure on management and unions until a compromise was worked out with the aid of mediators.

Undoubtedly the President was the moving spirit in the settlement. He refused to accept a defeatest attitude and huddled with the parties until the compromise was accepted. The settlement is the culmination of 4YJ years of bargaining. Each side had to yield. President Johnson reminded all that "on that tragic day in November" they had pledged their assistance.

He wanted it "now" he told them. And he got it! That was a happy day for the President, and also for Kathy Baker, the bright little 7-year-oId who had written him to keep the railroads running so that her grandmother could come to her communion. Perhaps that letter could have been the human touch needed to bring about the settlement. Economy On Move- New Records Seen by Walter W. Heller Chairman of the PresiJent 't Council of Economic Advisors The American economy is on the move.

Even after J8 months of unbroken advance, it shows no signs of stopping. And it promises to leave all records for length and strength of peacetime expansion far behind. In the past three years, we have added more than $100 billion to our annual rate of output. I'lill shares have been dealt to both business and labor, more than $16 billion of added profits and some $5 5 billion of added labor income. At the same time, the consumer was benefiting from a more stable price level in the United States than in any other advanced country in the world.

The expansion is picking up speed in response to the tax cut. After nearly 7 years of below- par performance, this WilMr W. Hdhr "Fast Time" Coming Nearer So our nearby, progressive city of LeMars is one of the many towns in 74 Iowa counties to join the daylight savings march. Des Moines has adopted daylight saving time but Sioux City holds out because it borders Nebraska, the state which by law allows no change in standard time. It is going to create a lot of confusion to have some of our towns on daylight saving and some on standard time.

Isn't it time for the government to override "states' rights" and make summer daylight savings time uniform throughout the countiy? Now the change is scheduled on different dates in different states, towns and cities, thus adding to the confusion. Uniformity is the only answer. Remedy for the Coin Shortage? The bankers, annoyed by a coin shortage which they believe is caused by the great number of people collecting or "speculating" in coins, are suggesting that the United States mints keep putting 1964 dates on coins "indefinitely." This shortage over which the bankers are concerned, has been going on for several years, increasing each year. If the same date were continued for several years the supply of "1964" coins would be so great that they would be less valuable to collectors. A bank in a neighboring town ran an advertisement asking customers to bring in their coins, so we judge the shortage must be acute.

The local 'bank has made no public complaint. Perhaps' there are fewer coin collectors among their customers. The New York Years Ago The Metropolitan Fair of New York was opened in April 1864. "It will be one of the great events in the history of New York," said Harper's Weekly. For three sad and troubled years the Civil War had dominated the news.

Now the great fair, organized by the Sanitary Commission, was the big topic in the news. A picture in the April 9th issue of Harper's Weekly shows the buildings in Union Square, New York. Entering the 'grounds were elegant women in long sweeping dresses and men in high silk hats, as well as carriages and phaetons drawn' by high-stepping horses. Foreign exhibits were arriving, said the newspapers, which were elsewhere speculating on the chances that President Lincoln would be reelected! in November, and' praising General Grant, who had taken command of the Union Army. It was still a time of stress, but the people were welcoming the respite of attending the Fair.

Tampering with Nature Our group was discussing an article in the St. Paul Pioneer Press which speculated on the possibility that the diy winter in the Midwest and' the unusually high windls this spring might have been caused by atomic explosions. Most fortunately the bomb tests have now gone underground, but at the worst of the testing late in sevieral' eminent scientists stated! that the great jet air that flows across the world) had been disrupted and that freakish weather would follow. Although this was denied by the atomic scientists, meteorologists stated that disturbing the air cuarents would be "apt to cause a rise in the incidence of hurricanes storms" while another predicted! that the tJ. S.

and Russian atomic tests in 1962 would definitely change our weather pattern and that central and east- em U. S. would have dry, cool summers and Russia a drouth. So man-made "tampering with the weather" was decried by our group, as well as-other interference with the course pf nature, such as the wide- offers us the solid prospect of breaking the stubborn grip of unemployment; pushing production above the plateau of 85-87 per cent of capacity; lifting corporate profits taxes to $32 billion or ore, a full $10 billion above levels of 1960 and 1961; strengthening our international competitive position and further subduing our balance- of-payments problem. I am not talking about remote goals for the late years of the increasingly Solid Sixties.

I am talking about job, production, and profit levels that we can reasonably expect to reach in a year or two. We have substantial evidence that unemployment need not be a permanent fact of economic life. Careful sifting of post-war employment statistics shows us that the amount of hard-core unemployment has been overestimated. Though we must constantly up-grade skills, we know that increased production still means more jobs. Yet we are taking effective steps to see that needed skills are available.

Manpower training and retraining, vocational education, and the proposed Job Corps, work-study, and work- training measures in the President's war on poverty will all help adapt the labor force to the demands of a modern economy. Along with encouraging prour pectj on the job front, I look for continued improvement in profits. In this expansion, productivity and profits have coo- tinued to advance briskly, versing the all-too-typical Mtj; tern of past cycles in wnkli profits tapered off or went into reverse in the second or thinl year of an expansion. The 1961-64 profits perfonn- ance impressive by any ard. Corporate profits after taxes moved up from $22 billion in 1961 to billion ia 1962, and $27 billion in 1963, with a year-end rate of nearly $29 billion.

Rising sales, the tax cut, and the full flowering of the investment tax credit all promise an even brighter profits picture for 1964. After-tax profits of over $30 billion for 1964 will exceed the pre-1960 peak of billion. The American economy clearly out of doldrums into which it fell in the late And there is no bust in tight. But let me add that this reassuring outlook assumes (1)' that calm confidence will not give way to overconfidence and (2) that as business, labor, and government become attuned to U.S. economic expansion, they will not come to take it for granted.

BENEFICENT FALLOUT You need not climlb up to a summit tf you are willing- to get diown to ibrass tadcs. That seems to be the moral of the latest chapter in East-fWest relations. This story comesi to its climax in President Jolinson's and Premier Klirushchev's, simultaneous announcements of cutbacks in the iprodiuction of the sinews of nuclear warfare. Rarely has so much been accomplished! for so many people in so short a time andi with so little advance fanfare. The contrast (between this igreat political aaiidl ipsycfaoJogical achievement and the mouse-like results of earlier ooldwar summitry makes us wonder if we are diving in the same two worlds.

To 'be sure even' now. as when the earth cooling' ifrom its molten state off a chunk tliat became the moon, an errant satellite whirls just outside the onbit of the new hopefulness. Communist China still endorsing violence instead) of coexistence helps us to keep optimiism wltliln reasonable bounds. And) ol lesser mfi'itnitudie of mistakenness, France remains both to its own allies' unifying realms and to the larger nuclear detente involving those idteological planets. NATO and Warsaw pacts.

But those who did sign the nuclear test ben are now Inherit- inj? new confidence in the efficacy of independent but coordinated! action to lessen world tensions. "ITiey see new ways to test the practicality of what would ha've seemed a few years a'go an impossibly iniformal approach to problems fraught with awe and ifumfoling. this Isi the most significant aspect oifi the most remarkable development in East- West relations in nearly 20 years. Mental attitudtes have so changed that where an almost fatalistic 'belief in mutually adimlnister- doom consumed imagination, thought can now move more freely toward faith in possible peace. It is hard'ly necessary to warn anyone that outbacks in prodtiic- tion of uranium and Plutonium the wall across Berlin, confrontation in Cuba and the threat of it in Latin 'America, The questions which have always burdened efforts for nuclear security are still there.

These concern initernational inspection, safeguards aigainst surprise attack, the actual levels of armaments, the risks of trustfulness. 'But for one big and let us hope not brieif moment they are less imiportunate than they were. Relief from their clamor may give us time to think how to answer them. There can 'be more of the same quiet, thoroughgoing diplomatic spadework andi allied' consultations as have built the present achievement. There can be new moves to narrow not only the 'East- West no-man's land but in addling to unity among allies.

In weeks to come there be plenty of time for analyzing, for pointinig out pitfalls, lor making sure that does not drug the free alertness. But right now is a time to accept the in'vigoration that comes with renewed hope and can clear the vision ifor wider and farther horizons. Christian Science Monitor COURT NEWS In the estate dt Aaltje Bteen- hoven. the executor reported the leasing of decedienf real estate to Arte Steenhoven at the rate of $24.00 per acre. In the estate of Elizabeth Vaas, the adndnistrator reported the sale of decedent's residence in Orange City, Iowa to Joe C.

Hof- lan for the price of The sale was approved by the court. The estate of Henry O. Johnson was closed. The court approved the Ibial report of Donald Johnson, the executor and he was dSschaiwed. The final report of BDora Vande Garde, executrix oif the estate at Vende Garde, was approved by the court andi reduce the capacity of was discharged and estate for seM-dfestructiott not by one ounce of fissionable material.

The bombs are still there in closed'. The estate of William Wolf is closed. The court approved er ntmDber than might actually the final report of Tom Hamil- ever be used in a swift suicidal ton. the administrator, and! he panic. problems are still was and estate clos- there too: the conflict in South- ed.

east the monstrosity of Lucretia Bilsland) submitted spread and indiscriminate use of pesticides which in many instances have caused the destruction of songbirds, fish and other creatures. Our trees and crops must be protected, but killing the birdfe which in turn destroy bugs and worms which prey upon trees and crops, is mutely not the best way to preserve them. her final report as administratrix of the estate of Gerhardina Ten Velde and it was approved by the court and she was discharged and estate closed'. The final report of Florence Heemslra. executrix of the estate of Johanna Short was ap- oroved by the court and she 'as discharged and estate closed.

The estate of Lamert Rons is closed. The court approved the final report of William Ren.s and Jake Zoet, the executors, and they were discharged. The case of Sh'aron Ver Stcpg of Oranse City vs Russell Van Gorp of Orange City, was tried bv a iury with Judigo, James P. Kclloy, presiding. The trial commenced iVIonday.

April 20th and on ThLir.sdav, at P.M. the iury rettirncd a verdict for the dofcnd'ant. Russell Van Gorp and against Sharon Vor Stoeg The iury momtyerg were Char- lenc Klostor, Irmg Buckley, Jennie 'Haverhals, Hazel Bertram Hubert Notoboom. LaVonne Gregg, LaVon Wood, Ray Vender "Meulen. Harriet Rolston Marion Krediet, 'Mary L.

Gardiner and Margaret Reekers. Sharon Ver Steeg 'Was suing for $86,544.31 for iniuries, temporary and perm'anent, past and future medical bills, past and future of earnings, which she sustained in a car-truck collision about 2 miles south of Orange City on March 3, 1961, at about 5:40 p.m., when she was riding as a passenger in a ear owned by William Vande Broek. The last will and testament of John iH. Van Roekel, late of Maurice, Iowa, was filed for probate. May '5th at 10:00 a.m.

is the time set for a hearing on the will. Rena Maassen and John E. Maassen were appointed executors of the estate of Teunis Maassen. late of Orange City, without bond. The last will and testament of Raymond Konz, late of Granville, was filed for probate.

A hearing on the will was set for Mflv 9th at 10:00 a.m. The court appointed Ringert Glenn De Mots. Arllene E. Winterson and Jane Eva Boeyink as executors of the estate of Eliza- ibeth De Mots, late of Sioux Center, without bond. Arnold M.

Streff of Alton, filed a suit against Glass-Rozoll Land Co. of Sioux City. Plaintiff states that he entered into an oral contract with defendiants, who were to sell plaintiffs farm in 'Plymouth County, Iowa, for commission Plaintiff states that defendants obtained a bu.ver and d)id sell the land and they received $2500.00 as a down payment. Plaintiff states that defendants refused to band over to him the $2'500 less their commission and asks judgment in the sum of $1000.00 be awarded to him. Mattie Johnson of the State of Minnesota and Nellie Toering of Sioux County, filed a suit against Arie Steenhoven of Lyon County, Iowa, et aJ.

The plaintiffs and defendants are owners of certain real estate in Sioux County, Iowa and according to the petition are unable to agree upon a division thereof and ask that a referee be appointed and that the land be sold and the of the owners established and the proceeds be divided a monig those entitled thereto. The ttOth annual report of Marie 'Jantzen, guardian of the property of Walter Herman Heitritter. was approved by the court. George F. Meyer was appomt- ed' trustee of the property of Kathryn F.

Meyer Rudolph to succeed the former trustee. Jacob W. Meyer, died on February 20, 1964. Bond of new trustee was set in the sum of sao.ooo.oo. Floyd Falcons 4-H News The Floyd Falcons held their monthly meetin'g at the home of Rodney Korver.

The meeting was called to order by 'the president and roll call was answered iby 22 members and two leaders John Vender Weerd led hi the 4JH pledge. We filled) in the enrollment sheets and also talked on ways of making money for the club. A demonstration on "Electricity" was given by Lyle Van't Hof and) Robert Too. Gerald 'Kals- also igeve a talk on electri'c- ity. The hosts were Stanley Korver andi John Vender Weerd.

Reporter, iDonley Korver ItSeemS'To Us (By Floyd River Philosopher) A true story that reflects the homespun philosophy and practical viewpoint of the late Judge William Hutchinson is amusingly told by George Henrich who was called upon by the quite often to act in the capacity of chauffeur when he was holding court in a nearby county seat of the district. On one of these occasions the judge was hearing a case at Rock Rapids and phoned George to ask him to drive the judge's car up from Alton at a certain time when he thought he would be ready to come home. George reported on time with the car but Judge Hutchinson was still hearing a case in the court room and when he noticed his driver come in he had the bailiff escort George up in front and take a seat at the defense's table. T. E.

Diamond and George T. Hatley were the opposing counsel in the case and were haranguing about some point of law as hard as they cou'ld go. At times it almost appeared that they were about to resort to fisticuffs. But nothing violent happened and when George went into the judge's chambers to wait for 'him, here were the Messrs. Diamond and Hatley in friend'ly confab, talking and laughing like the most devoted friend's.

On the way home George commented on this to the judge and said he had supposed they were deadly enemies from the way they had been acting in court. "George," said the judge, in his most judicial tone of voice, "the horse race is decided in the bam!" It has been suggested by an authority we do not feel privileged to quote directly that the United States Senate, while tied up in a filibuster of southern Senators over the Civil Rights bill already passed by the House, in all probability already knows how the issue will be decided. No one in Washington expects the bill to pass the Senate in the fonm it was adopted by the House. There will be compromises to make it more palatable to the- southern states but this is an election year and the Civil Rights bill has terrifically dangerous political implications. The House threw it into the Senate's lap, knowing the Senate would not pass it in the form that it cleared the House.

If the Senate passes it in too innocuous a nature, the President will probably veto the bill. But Senator Dirksen of Illinois, the powerful Republican leader, has already proposed certain amendments to the bill in an effort to get action on it. In all probability, we think. Senator Dirksen is the key to the lock that will eventually open to permit passage of some kind of a Civil Rights law. It may be, of course, that the filibuster will continue indefinitely to keep the Senate in session until after the general election in November.

Neither party wants to alienate the large Negro vote before the election and what the Senate does may have a bearing on the choice of a nominee at the national Republican convention in July. In the meantime, of course, the Senate is getting little work done and the House is more or less marking time. The long battle is keeping northern Senators who are up for re-election from getting out into the field to mend their political fences and the outlook for a recess much before the Republican convention is not very bright. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE OF IOWA IN AND FOR SOIUX COUNTY In The Matter of the Estate of Raymond Kons, also known as Raymond P. Kons.

Deceased. Notice of Probate Of WUl No. BSeS To All It May Concern: You are hereby notified that on the 9th day of May, 1964, at 10:00 o'clock am. at the County Court House in the City of Orange City In the above County and State, hearing will ibe had lor proof of the instrument purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Raymond IKoia, also known as iRaymond P. Konz.

deceased, at which time and place said instrument wiU be adi- mltted to probate unless good cause be shown to the contrary. fSeaW D. Wiersma, Olerk. Said District Court James M. JWcNaUy.

I Attorney (Published tor One week, April 30. in The Alton IDemocrat) M. iSee where the annual Ramona play is on now out at Hemet, delightful event. We saw it one spring some years ago in the remarkable Ramona bowl near Hemet, through the courtesy of Homer King who was editor and owner at that time of the Hemet News. Homer is gone now but the Ramona play goes on as always.

Homer's father, John E. King, who Worked on The Alton Democrat as a youth, was very instrumental in promoting the Ramona play until it developed' into the tremendous success it has a California institution. Those who are in Southern California in April -will miss a fine time if they don't get to Hemet and San Jacinto at the time of the play which is given on three weeik ends during April. It was pretty warm the afternoon we saw the play and a straw hat felt good. One of our favorite people was the late William H.

(Billy) Hospers who was a crony for many years of Chan Pitts, the senior. We have never known anyone to be so elated over anything as Billy could become over casting a plug into the weeds on Miller's bay and getting a mess of nice black bass early in the morning. The enthusiasm of Mr. Hospers, of A. J.

Kolyn, and others, was one of the prime reasons why the Lions club at Orange City became such a force in making that a modem and up-to-date county seat town with a live chamber of commerce taking over the job within a few years and carrying on the work. Thought Gems Slow Down! No man who Is in a hiurry is twite civilizedl tourant Rusliing aroundi smartly is no proof of accomplishing much. Baker Eddly Though I ami always in haste, I am never in, a hurry. Wesley He that takes time to think and consider WiU act more wisely than he that acts hastily and on impulse, Simmons and ole that run fast, i Manners nothhig is haste. require time, more 'vulgar and than.