Muscatine Journal (Newspaper) - October 11, 1971, Muscatine, Iowa Briefly speaking Death is investigated WATERLOO Iowa AP Fire this weekend examined the Rath Packing Co becon smoke houses where one man was lolled Saturday in a flash fire Authorities said the boy of Ev erett S 57 Waterloo was found face down near a wa ter cooler Carbon monoxide poisoning was listed as the cause of death Investigators said Hassis was one of three employes in the smoke house when fire erupted Saturday They said Hassis tried to turn off the power in the building after noticing flames Better highway needs DES MOINES Iowa AP The state has greater highway needs than a proposed road through the Amana Colonies Gov Robert Ray told an educa tional television audience Sun day night He said during his televised news conference he is opposed to construction of a way through the Amana Colo nies to connect Cedar Rapids with Interstate 80 The highway would run within 14 miles of another interstate spur between Cedar Rapids and the Interstate 80 Tiffin inter change Struck by a train POTOSI Wis AP Ray mond Kedley 23 Dubuque was killed Sunday night when he was shuck by a Railroad freight train near here Investigators said Kedley was walking on the railroad tracks about Pns miles south of Potosi when he was struck by the trams engine Tractor overturns Iowa AP Two Marshall County teenagers were killed Saturday when farm tractor they were riding overturned on a county road six miles east of here The victims were identified as Al Nicholson 14 Legrande and John L Bean 14 Marshalltown Would confirm Byrd WASHINGTON AP liber al Sen George McGovern of South Dakota says the Senate probably would confirm a con colleague West Vir ginian Robert C Byrd should President Nixon nominate to the Supreme Court McGovern did not say which way he would vote but Sen Fred Harris of Oklahoma said he would oppose Byrd as not having the depth of judgment and legal experience that you would associate with a justice of the nations highest court Trucker of the year WATERLOO Iowa AP Chester Nelson 56 of Ruthven has been chosen the Iowa Coun cil of Safety Supervisors Iowa Trucker of the Year Nelson a contract trucker for Warren Transport of Waterloo received the title Saturday night during an awards banquet here Nelson who logged more than four million miles without a chargeable accident now moves on to competition in the Nation al Driver of the Year contest sponsored by the American Trucking Association Not seriously hurt SPIRIT LAKE Iowa AP BL Daniel of Spirit Lake es caped serious injury when his light plane crashed as it came in for a landing at the Spirit Lake Municipal Airport Authorities said the plane was apparently caught by the wind Sunday and was carried about 500 feet off the runway The place sheared off the top of a tree before crashing on a golf course near the airport The Dickinson County sher office said Daniel received lacerations on his face and neck Iowa weather Partly sunny and cooler with highs in upper today and lows in mid 30s over night Mostly sunny and cool Tuesday with highs in upper 50s Winds northwest 15 to 25 mph t o d ay Precipitation chances 5 per cent through Tuesday High temperature Sunday 65 low daring night 42 MUSCATINE Established 1840 No 237 October IT 1971 Muscatine Jowa Zip Code 52761 16 Pages Price lOc Bloodiest weekend of year occurs on Iowas highways Marijuana lobbyist R Keith Stroup lawyer sits at Laws last January on money from his desk m Washington D C where he runs the Playboy magazine foundation Sitting on the legalize marijuana lobby Stroup founded Stroups desk is a plastic marijuana plant The National Organization to Reform Marijuana To legalize marijuana Lobby group lacks WASHINGTON AP R Reith Stroup runs Washingtons feeblest lobby Aim Legalize marijuana for adults Legislative results Zero So far The old lawyer founded the National Organization to Reform Mari uana Laws last January on money from the Playboy maga zine foundation Be quit smoking the stuff himself he says for fear his new activity would attract po lice NORML has hired a secre tary and four parttime staf fers and pamphlets assembled a presti advisory board attracted 1400 duespaying members and run up a telephone out of its office in ithe semi basement of Stroups home But it has not enticed a single congressman or senator to in a to accomplish aim And there re main the matter of 50 state laws which despite a recent trend to reduce penalties for marijuana smoking still carry punishments rang ing from a minimum of proba tion in many states to a max of life in prison in Texas If NORML has its way mari juana could be purchased legal ly by 18 or at stores like li stores Advertising would be We do not advocate the use of marijuana Stroup says in his standard pitch But we of no medical legal or moral justification for sending these to jail who do use it We believe the present marijuana laws cause more harm to progress society than the substance they seek to prohibit Most of the 1400 persons who sent NORML membership fees appear to be students or GIs and the money they have contributed so far makes Stroup doubt the organization will ever be selfsupporting through memberships The Playboy foundation has supplied about half income Stroup is applying for greatly increased aid to under take a program of legal aid for accused marijuana offenders and for a program of lobbying in state legislatures with the help of the American Civil Lib erties Union Meanwhile Stroup and his staff helped by three volunteer law students who get course credit for their work work at answering piles of requests for information and getting their views into the hands of state and federal lawmakers help this economy everyone should pull in his Family of the Future series to start Tuesday in Journal Families of the future a search for meaning was the theme of the centennial conference of the college of home economics at the Iowa State University held earlier this month Starting Tuesday a series of summaries of the 11 talks given at this conference will be published on the Womens page of the Muscatine Journal The speakers included a biophysicist psychologist mar riage counselor economics professor and others Their top ics ranged from the population crisis to the problems of the black family education at home to aesthetics and human potential to family functions weekend appears to be the worst on Iowa high ways so far this year says Iowa Public Safety Commis Michael Sellers The unofficial count shows 20 persons were of them in multiple fatality acci dents The worst crash of the week end cams Sunday evening one and one half miles west of Fort Atkinson in Winneshiek County where six persons died in a headon collision Sheriffs deputies said three of the dead rode in one car and three hi the other They were identified as Dewey Earth 34 of Decorah one of the drivers his wife Ellen Ruth 26 and their daughter Su san Also killed was the other driver William Lensing 16 and at least two of his passengers his brother Henry 15 and Deb bie Krall 20 all of Unconfirmed reports indicate another passenger in car died en route to a Roches ter Minn hospital Another passenger in Len sings car Roberta Schmidt of was under treatment Sunday night in a Rochester Minn hospital The fifth occupant of the car Stanley Dowd 27 of Calmar was under treatment at a Deco ish hospital Sunday night Commissioner Sellers said the fatality number was a terrible figure He noted there is no way to anticipate ac Last he said they were one of the contributing factors of the high total of 912 road He said this years total is about 12 per cent be hind 1970 and about 7 per cent behind the fiveyear average Commenting on the unusually high number of fatal accidents last weekend Sellers said The best thing we could do is to them and see if we can learn from misfortunes Four persons died Saturday a accident near Mar ion Dead are Raymond Ed wards 19 and Michael Ander son 18 both of Anamosa and Richard Bauder 46 of Cedar Rapids and his son Frank Authorities reported the Ana mosa youths rode in a sports car which went out of control on US 151 and struck the Bau dar station wagon Mrs Bauder and the couples daughter Rebecca were hurt Dennis Countryman 22 of Des Moines and Romane George Leet 60 of rural Jesup died in separate accidents Sat night Leet was killed in a accident on a Buchanan County Road about two miles west of Littleton Authorities said Leet was try ing to pass another vehicle when the wheels of his car left the road Leet was thrown from his car when it entered a ditch authorities said Countryman died when his car collided with a truck on North Vietnamese I is freed US 69 about one mile south of Ankeny John Leonard Beene 14 of rural Marshalltown and Alec Nickelson also 14 of LeGrande were killed Saturday afternoon in a tractor accident The Marshall County sheriffs office said Beene who was op the apparent ly misjudged a turn and the tractor went off a county road between Marshalltown and LeGrande The tractor over turned pinning the youths in said Others killed in traffic acci dents Saturday were Francis Donahue 52 of Iowa City and James Leo Roe 24 of the men died when their car collided with a Rock Island freight train at a crossing near Tiffin Priscilla Welch 30 of Bettendorf who was killed when the car in which she was riding collided with another ve hicle on US 67 near Betten dorf Steven Doss 27 of Daven port Authorities said Doss died in a accident on a Da street Mark Dudee 13 of Mon mouth who was killed when he ran across US Highway 1 near and into the path of a car driven by Michael Spates 21 of Dubuque The first recorded fatality of the weekend was Gary Graf 14 of Coming He was killed in a acci dent on an Adams County grav el road just west of Corning Day huge crowd to By JOCELYN PEDERSEN Journal Correspondent COLUMBUS JUNCTION More than 5500 free ham sandwiches milk and coffee were handed out to the crowds who came to attend the an Columbus Day Celebra tion Saturday and to enjoy the festivities and bargains of by the Columbus mer chants It was a windy cool day but at least the rain held off and all of the children in their var costumes got to march in the parade Leading the parade was the Columbus Community High School Band In the honor cars were the distinguished citizens Mr and Mrs Herbert Harbison Gordon Bowen Mayor of Columbus Junction James Lochner president of the Columbus Community Club and Sherri Stapp and Tom Skubal King and Queen SAIGON AP The United States and South Vietnam set a North Vietnamese lieutenant fre in Cambodia today in a surprise move reciprocating for the release last week of an American sergeant We have no assurance what ever at present that this rocal gesture wili lead to the release of additional American prisoners a spokesman for the US Embassy said That however is the goal toward which we are working The POW who had been held by the South Vietnamese was flown by into the Fish Hook area of Cambodia 100 miles northwest of Saigon The said he was freed in response to in that the enemy would welcome such a release at a given time and place This in that there had been ad vance communication with the North Vietnamese The Americans said the POW was released in an area under enemy control the same gen eral area where the Viet Cong released Staff Sgt John C Sex ton Jr 23 of Warren Mich last Friday They said the American heli copter crewmen sighted no ene my when they landed the lieu tenant and then took off Sexton had been a Viet Cong prisoner for 26 months and was allowed to go fres along the Cambodian border He walked for eight hours to reach the South Vietnamese base camp at Loc Ninh 70 miles north of Saigon Sexton told American inter AP Stay away Ren Abell who has incorpo rated the formerly fictitious James G Elaine Society po ses under a Portland Ore stop sign The society is dedi to the proposition that Oregon is for Oregonians and others should stay away Abel telis outsiders it rams continu in Oregon Noise in pipes preceded blast in Ohio church MARIETTA Ohio AP We heard a noise in the pipes about five minutes earlier said Diane Slaughter then the wall above us fell in Tons of debris showered down on Diane her 10 classmates and a teacher in a Sunday school classroom be neath the boiler room of First The explosion of the boiler claimed five Jives teenagers and Dianes Michael Murphy married and he fattier of one child Fourteen ofthe 140 pea sons in the Sunday school wing of the church were injured The dead included Ricky Morris Gary Hoiley and Carol Joy all ninth graders and Heather Dawson a high school sophomore The explosion came less than half an hour after services had ended in the main church build ing A persons remained there listening to origan music religious classes yere in progress on all floors of the Sunday school wing of church events draw Columbus Jet of the Columbus Community High School crowned at the Homecoming this year Also in the parade were the members of the catine High band American Legion Dram and Bugle Corp from Burlington S h r i n e r Units from Davenport Bur lington Ottumwa Oskaloosa and Sigourney with ature trolley cars cycles fire truck and A number of horsemen were In the parade and members of the L Bar M Saddle Club as well as many antique cars and new 1972 models Awards were made at the parking area following the pa rade They included Childrens division Decorated Randy Redlinger 2 John Bell 3 Lori Woodring Cartoon characters Jason Please turn to page 3 rs that the Viet Cong did not tell him why he was being freed and did not give him any messages to bring back He said that during his cap while constantly mov ing he often saw other Ameri can prisoners but did not know where he or the others were held US officers believe it was in Cambodia some dis tance from the border The US Command an that Sexton would be flown to the United States Tues day after being released from an Army hospital Journal photo by Lois Weggen Receive distinguished service plaque Mr and Mrs Herbert A Harbison were presented a spec ial plaque Saturday for community service at the annual Columbus Day celebration held in Columbus Junction Mr and Mrs Harbison had been in business for 35 years in the Columbus community in both farm implements and the Colum bus Coffee House They retired in May of this year A form er member of the Columbus Community Club Mr Harbison is also a member of the Masons Mrs Harbison belongs to the American Legion Auxiliary and Order of Eastern Star and both are members of the Columbus Junction Presbyterian Church The said they were surprised and pleased at honor bestowed upon them
