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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 7, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news a vol. 92, no. 82 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening april 7, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain our Milquetoast approach wont save us the politics of Oil and the Middle Eastern policy of Secretary William Roger a state department seem inextricably mixed. But nothing in our Teeter totter Middle Eastern diplomacy seems to be thought through. We try to offend nobody neither the arabs nor the israelis and we end up by offending everybody. Jittery about our big Oil investments in Libya and in the arabian Peninsula we fail to give real solid backing to Israel denying that plucky Little country thirty five phantom jets that May be needed at some Point along the line to counter the steady flow of armaments including the new Sam-3 anti aircraft missiles that the russians keep sending to Egypt a Nasser. But if the arabs Ever get the jump on Israel a and we must remember that the israelis with their tiny living space can to afford to lose even a single Battle a our Eastern Oil investments will collapse overnight. Without a Strong Israel the russians using the arabs As their front stand to take Over the whole Middle East. Their fleets would dominate the Eastern Mediterranean the red sea and even the Indian Ocean. Paradoxically the Occidental Oil interests in Libya for example depend on israelis continued existence. As Long As there is a balance of Power Between Arab and israeli in the Middle East tense though it May be the attractiveness of our technological Oil know How and our capital can do something to protect our stake in Arab Oil. But if Israel Falls and the balance of Power collapses the russians probably with the help of the French would pick our Bones All the Way from Algeria to the persian Gulf. Too in a half hearted Way the Nixon administration recognizes the dangers we run. Realizing that it would be imbecilic to put ourselves at the mercy of the arabs and the russians a for our Oil Supply Nixon has shelved the recommendations of his task Force on Oil import control. The task Force panel headed by Secretary of labor Shultz had recommended a switch to a Tariff system which would have made imported Oil to our East coast Consumers More plentiful and cheaper than the present quota system allows. In a world without dangerous Power politics there would be no legitimate argument against free Trade in Oil. But when the marauders of communism threaten to close the seas it would be dangerous to tie our Oil Consumers to dependence on a foreign product even though they might save a few dollars on it for the Short run. Too so we continue to encourage the Domestic Oil Industry. By enabling the Domestic business to continue operating the More marginal stripper Wells which account for approximately thirty per cent of All Domestic Oil we keep the Industry profitable. Oil exploration capital continues to be raised on a complicated tax shelter basis by companies such As in Exco King resources Buttes Oil and Gas Prudential and Apache which can show funded people How to limit their risk in playing for big Oil profits. Oil cattle and real estate Are three inflation proof items that Oan withstand almost any Market debacle the very existence of Oil on the alaskan North slope even though the decision for a clearance of the trans Alaska pipeline languishes is a heartening Assurance that the arabs and their russian supporters a wont be Able to hit us in the solar plexus so far As fuel is concerned. But we done to use the Prospect of a Western hemisphere Oil sufficiency to any effect when it comes to our diplomatic dealings in the Middle East. Instead of letting the arabs worry lest we declare our total Oil Independence we seem to be doing the worrying. It would be a More effective diplomacy if we coupled a forthright support of Israel with a policy of blaring to the Arab world our successes in opening great new Oil Fields in Alaska and in sending ice smasher tankers such As the Manhattan through the Northwest passage. Congressman Lowell p. Weicker or. Of Connecticut sees the virtue of coupling Strong support for Israel with a correspondingly Tough diplomatic representation to Nasser that while we Are glad to have acres to Arab Oil we done to need it on any blackmail terms. In life the Milquetoast approach betrays the Stigmata of the born loser. In International diplomacy the same Rule holds. We should be bold in our approach to the Middle East. Distributed by King features Syndicate Mph musicians win contest honors it. Pleasant High school entries in the class a state High school vocal and instrumental music contest held Friday and saturday at Burlington received five is twelve ii a and two Illus. Approximately i too students from schools in s. E. Iowa competed in this division. Other class a schools competing were Centerville Albia Chariton Fairfield and Washington. Those receiving division i Superior ratings were sax sextet Jerry Tolson Judy Scott Debby Biggs Tom Padley Jane Prottsman and Steve Wettach first Mph Fine arts festival apr.22 plans Are being made for the first s Fine arts festival which will be held wednesday april 22 in Cottrell gym. The Fine arts festival incorporates the efforts of three High school departments the Art department vocal music department and the instrumental music department. The festival will feature Art work by outstanding High school artists under the direction of Art instructor Lonnie Pugh a vocal music concert under the direction of mar Abelle Magnuson and a concert by the . Concert band directed by Keith Thomas. The doors will open at 7 00 . At 7 30 the vocal concert followed by commentary on the arts by Art students. The concert band will play at 8 30 and the Public will be invited to View the Art exhibits following the concert. Win. R. Smith is candidate William r. Smith has taken out nomination papers for the office of member of Board of supervisors 1971 term. Smith was born and reared in Henry county on the farm where his parents or. And mrs. Harry o. Smith still make their Home. He attended the it. Pleasant schools and in 1942 enlisted in the United states air Force and spent 3 a years in service. While in service he attended ouachita College at Arkadelphia ark., and schools at Lowry Field Denver Colo. He later became an instructor at the armament school at Lowry Field. His overseas tour of duty was spent in the Phillip Ines Okinawa and Japan. He married the former Dorothy Cohrs from Donna Texas now a Secretary at Emerson electric. They have two daughters. Mrs. Kenneth Alicia Lewis of Rosenburg Texas and mrs. Danny Rosemary Brown of new London a Secretary at met Romail. He and his wife Are members of the St. Alphonsus Catholic Church. He is a Grain Farmer and farms 200 acres two Miles Southwest of it. Pleasant and 200 acres at Salem. He spent eight years farming Cotton Grain vegetables and Citrus in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. He has been Active in farm Bureau both in Texas and in Henry county. In Texas he served on the Board of directors and As county president and in Henry county he has served on the Board of directors and currently is serving his second term As treasurer of Henry county farm Bureau. Others who have announced for the 1971 term Are Clark Burns incumbent Carroll Crane and Cleo Johnston. Woodwind Trio Jane sheets Treva Graber and Cindy Lawrence woodwind duet flute Jane sheets and Becky Shook treble voice medium Jeannie Megorden Pupil of Burton Mahle inc girls quartet b freshmen Debby Biggs Marti Burchard Jeannie Megorden and Jayne Hayward receiving division ii excellent ratings were French Horn Solo Joann carrels piano Solo b Janet Mahle Pupil of Mary Anders inc girls quartet a Jane sheets Cindy Lawrence Janet Mahle and Linda Potts French Horn quartet Joann Garrels Rhonda Rankin Cheryl Schroeder and Nancy Kochneff trumpet quartet Van Rommel Scott Boal Bill Bergren and Martin Neubauer girls sextet freshmen Terry alter Anne Huene Ann Brown Denise Kenned Jane Tollefson and Marcia Kauffman mixed quartet Jane sheets Laurel Allender Steve Savage and Tom Galer double mixed quartet Jane sheets Laurel Allender Margie Lyons Patti Mcclure Tom Galer Jerry Tolson Steve Savage and Marty Gipple Cornet Solo Jim Perron woodwind duet oboe Cindy Lawrence and Becky Bates woodwind duet clarinet Diann Bare and Cindy Halferty flute Trio Jane sheets Becky Shook Regina Williams too tire girls Trio consisting of Jane sheets Janet Oldt and Denise Burchard and the piano Solo a Cindy Lawrence Pupil of Mary Anders of inc received division Iii Good ratings. Unless otherwise indicated All Solo and ensemble entries were in a Der the supervision of Marabelle Magnuson director of vocal music and Keith Thomas instrumental music director. No indictment Kopechne Case appears closed approve plans for Henry county fair the Henry county fair Board meeting monday evening approved plans for several events for the 1970 fair. Fred Strothman superintendent for the tractor pull announced that there will be seven classes which includes two a hot Rod class pulls. There will be five Cash awards in each class amounting to $195. The tractor pull will be accredited and sanctioned in accordance with state. Rules. Bill Mctee superintendent of harness racing reported that the popular feature fair attraction will be held on saturday july 25th and that an excellent Field of horses Are expected. The Board discussed the a demolition Derby a attraction and noted that local Drivers male or female May enter and will be eligible for Cash awards. Cars for Drivers will be furnished for a Small fee and Drivers under 21 May enter with parental consent. The Board authorized the payment of $1,000 to the City of it. Pleasant in accordance with the annual agreement for the new grandstand. Awards presented to cub scouts at Mai staff of mental health Institute witnessed a most impressive ceremony tuesday As cub scouts pack 35, Den i received Bobcat scout awards. Members of the troop Are All from the children a unit of Mhz. Pat Jolley District representative of boy scouts of America presented tin awards lectured with the scouts Are Robin Griffith Den Mother and or. Jolley. The cub scout group was organized Iii february 197 1, through the department of special therapies. A boy scout unit has also been chartered for other patients of Mhz. The scout committee is or. Stewart Jackson or. J. Wesley Krai and Lyle Conrad. Bill Long w do serve As scoutmaster with assistance from Ray Bankson and Keith King. Democrats of county elect delegates measles May delay Moon trip Cape Kennedy up a the Apollo 13 astronauts began a final dress rehearsal of their Moon Landing Mission today still aiming for a saturday Takeoff while Laboratory Henry county democrats gathered tests were underway to Del Ermine Green Beret arrested its slaying suspect it. Bragg no. Up a Green Edgartown mass. Up a the Dukes county grand jury wound up its investigation into the Mary to Kopechne death without an indictment today after insuring Only four witnesses who were on president s concert program i the concert program to be performed during a special president s concert april 12 at Iowa Wesleyan College has been announced by Lar in Cullison director of the College Community wind ensemble. The ensemble will perform the symphony no. 3 for symphonic band by Gian Nln songs of the sea by glues songs of Abelard by join with Richard Murphy As soloist Chopin a Mazurka no. 3 scored by student Rita Dockendorff and the purple pageant March by k. L. King. The score and set of parts for the King March were autographed by or. King and were Given to or. I Cullison by a. Lloyd Spooner of it. Pleasant for use by the inc band department. A reception in Honor of Wesleyan president Louis a. Haselmayer will be held in the student Union social Hall following the 8 ., con at the rec1 building on april 3rd with the measles while in space. For the 1970 convention. Members of the resolutions committee who had been chosen at the precinct caucuses convened at 7 . Charles Espy or. Was elected German measles the Mission prob whether they might come Down Beret copt Jeffrey r. Macdonald Cert in the Chapel. The it. Pleas committee chairman. Robert Mccullough of Swedenborg county chairman opened the convention at 8 of clock and heard the report of the committee on committees. According to the new procedures of the democratic party the members of All convention committees Are selected by a committee on committees not by tile chairman. V As under House arrest today As a ant Community is invited to the suspect in the feb. 17 slayings of concert and reception. If the blood tests show any of the a is All j to Young astronauts have Low immunity to a. J f. Tho army said Macdonald. 26, of arrested Atter Patchogue n y., was confined Coralville Motel Holdup ably will be postponed till May 9. Top priority on package Deal his quarters and relieved of his duties As a doctor with the 6th special forces. Des Moines up a despite a Surprise legislative move to demand a Public hearing on his mrs. Ernestine Timmons of new i budget suggestions gov. Robert d until monday army officials had said Macdonald was not a suspect. He has not been charged in the Case. Macdonald told investigators of William r. Smith chairmen named for Schwengel dinner Davenport a mrs. William Steele Burlington has been named As general chairman for the Schwengel fund raising dinner in Burlington on saturday april 25. Ticket chairmen for the dinner have also been announced. They include Ben Galer and Harold Mcleran for Henry county. . Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan will speak at the Burlington dinner. It will be held at the Moose Hall rather than the Holiday inn As previously announced. London was elected convention Secretary. After a Short recess or. Mccullough thanked Bernard Bailey and the rec for the arrangements and hospitality and the ladies who furnished cookies. The committee reports were accepted and filed. Too delegates and alternates elected to the District and state conventions Are Donald Bell Katherine Bowen Leo Brau Avon Coberly Alanson Elgar Charles Espy jr., Wilbur Garrels Virgil Hileman c. L. Jennings Max Kauffman Magdalen Meade Jan Mccabe Hillsboro James Mccabe Robert Mccullough Anna pulse Clarence pulse Ernestine Timmons Marilyn Brau Barbara Bergren Virgil Trabert Kathryn Mccosh Patricia Triska Thomas Bell. The District convention will be held at Iowa City on april 17 at 8 . At the chemistry building auditorium. The resolutions adopted after heated debate will be published at a later Date. Campaign material from candidates was read and distributed. Interest is being shown to reactivate the women a club. Mrs. Lloyd Bowen 501 e. Henry asked for names of prospective members of the women a organization. After the convention the Central committee re elected Robert Mccullough chairman and Magdalen Meade vice chairman. Robert Greulich was elected treasurer and Ernestine Timmons Secretary both of new London. Ray said today his financial package Deal is still Tho top legislative priority of the 1970 session. As the legislature moves in to what May Well be its last four Days Ray said it is incumbent upon the lawmakers to take action a and fact on a program which will save several financially stricken projects. Coralville up a Dennis Mckee 19, Oxford was being held in the Johnson county jail in Iowa City after a Holdup this morning at the Clayton House Motel Here. Johnson county officials said Mckee who they suspect is absent without leave from the armed serv Ter the murders that his family was ices is charged with armed robbery Ert f. Kennedy attacked by three men and a to the night manager of the Clayton Man. He said the woman a blonde House Martin Spriggs said a Man wearing a floppy hat repeated the ordered him to hand Over the acid is groovy kill the pigs Money in tile Cash Register Early j this morning and Spriggs gave him .>49. Mckee was stopped by a Security officer of the University of Iowa about a mile from the Motel. He fringe of the incident. Superior court judge Wilfred j. Paquet adjourned court at 10 57 a in. Est on the second Day of the investigation after hearing jury Foreman Leslie h. Leland report the to men and to women of the panel had a no afterwards District attorney Edmund s Dinis appeared in front of tire courthouse and announced to reporters a this Case is closed. A i will file the appropriate certificate required under the direction of the court to notify the clerk there is no proposed prosecution in this matter a he continued. A that should Clear the Way to release of the inquest transcript and the judges report on the inquest a Dinis said. District judge James a. Boyle of Edgartown who presided at the closed door inquest filed a report on the inquiry along with a 764 Page transcript of the proceedings in mid february. The documents were impounded in Boston. Dinis was aked of he could say when the inquest transcript might be released. Quot i have no control Over that a he replied. He would not comment when asked whether lie was satisfied with the conclusion but said a this is the end of the investigation into the death of Mary to Kovechi get. The Case is too that seemed to Mark the end of the Case which broke upon a startled nation the morning of july 19 when sen. Edward m. Kennedy reported to police Here that he had driven his Black Sedan off a wooden Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island. Miss Kopechne died in his car. The grand jury investigation was the fourth into the death by drowning of the former a boiler room girls who had been a Campaign worker for the late sen. Rob phrase hit pm backing car hits parked car a 19c4 Chevrolet driven by Charles f. Wilkins it. Pleasant backed out of a driveway at 7 50 pm. Monday across the Street and collided with a parked 19g7 Corvette in front of 705 e. Madison Street. The left door of the Corvette owned by Anita f. , was damaged. Police charged Wilkins with improper backing. It orc pressure by by troops Saigon up a North vietnamese troops increased pressure pm the Green Beret fortress of Dak Seang today with attacks from the South and the lotion Border to the v est. The fighting was some of the fiercest of the Vietnam War and the . Command called the situation critical. Allied spokesmen said the communists had lost boo men dead in the we Klong siege of the special forces Camp 290 Miles Northeast of Saigon and seven Miles from the Border of Laos. B52s fighter bomb ers and artillery pounded the 10.000 communist troops surrounding Dak Seang. Vote to withhold first half taxes Cresco up a some land owners in Northeast Iowa have voted to withhold their first half property tax payments. About 300 persons All Howard county land owners unanimously voted for the withholding monday night. More meetings set about Morrell closing Ottumwa up a although it still appears probable the John Morrell meat co. Plant Here will close meetings have been scheduled for next week in Chicago to discuss the possibility of keeping the Plant open. At a meeting Here monday night Morrell employees heard Union officials and company representatives explain the procedures explain the procedures involved in shutting i Down the Plant which employs 2.-700 persons and is Ottumwa a j largest Industry. I spokesmen said most of the meeting was taken up with a ques i tion and answer session. Composer Stravinsky reported very sick new York up a composer Igor Stravinsky 87 year old Titan of modern music was reported a very sick but not critical today at Lenox Hill Hospital As the result of a heart ailment. Stravinsky was brought to the Hospital from his Manhattan Home and placed in the coronary care unit immediately. The Bent frail composer had been slightly paralysed for several years. The russian born Genius who shocked the musical world with his revolutionary a write of Spring in 1913 has made few Public appearances in recent years. His popular opera Quot rakes Progress a will be revived Here april 23 by the Juil Liard school. Stravinsky is a naturalized citizen and lived for Many years in Hollywood. First loan by id credit firm the grand jury filed into the antique courtroom of the Century old courthouse Here at 10 53 Ain. Est. They had heard two witnesses during their first to minutes of investigation and two monday As the inquiry opened. Mrs Sophia Campos court clerk stood facing Leland and asked a emr. Foreman have you any presentment indictments a a Leland a local druggist stood and said a no i have judge Paquet interjected a does the grand jury have presentment a a the grand jury has no presentment a Leland said. The jury had called As witnesses at the Start of the session today Benjamin Hall a movie House proprietor and Robert j. Carroll former Edgartown selectman and a restaurant and hotel owner. Carroll flew Kennedy Back to the senators Hyannis port Home on Cape cod in a private plane the morning after the Accident. Hail lives across the Street from the Shire town inn where Kennedy was staying the weekend of the Accident. Kennedy was seen at 2 25 . On july 19 by a co owner of the inn and was said to have remarked he had been awakened by the noise of a party at a nearby hotel. Hall presumably would have been Able to have heard the same noise. Presents $150 to cancer crusade one of Tho first contributions to the 1970 cancer crusade was presented by the Henry county Saddle club for the District i Quarter horse association. Elmer Garrels right route 2, presents a Check for $150 to Dale Longwell crusade chairman and Gary see left vice chairman. The Money was raised at the District i Quarter horse show last summer. During the last five years the Quarter horse association has Given approximately $2,000 to the cancer association and the heart association. This year the Henry county Saddle club is sponsoring a Quarter horse show june 20 and proceeds will go to the cancer fund heart association and the crippled children s fund. Des Moines up a the president of a Centerville farm equip ment company today received the first loan from Iowa a newly formed Iowa business development a credit corporation it in dec it. Gov. Robert d. Ray presented a $69,000 Check to b l. Moore president of farm equipment manufacturing corp., of Centerville. The Money is to be used As working capital for the company which manufactures steel for farm use. The in dec was established last moving to Avert strike Washington Impi a tile House Commerce committee gave approval today to president Nixon plan to impose a previously negotiated settlement in the strike threatening Railroad dispute. The House committee action followed unanimous approval of the fall in Hope of helping Small firms proposal by the Senate Commerce which Are unable to acquire con committee monday As lawmakers vent ional financing. Officials say moved to Avert a Railroad shutdown that Many times a Small firm has threatened for saturday when a sound business practices but can to 37 Day congressionally imposed offer Banks or insurance compan moratorium expires. Ies Long established earning rec ords Good credit ratings or needed terse verse amounts of collateral. By a. C. Gordon in dec officials said seven other too Many childish errors companies have been approved for Are results Loans ranging from $30,000 to $250, of things committed by our too. I grown adults

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