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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 9, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Pleasant Price to cent it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening april 9, 1970 Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 84 Kirk a school aides Avert u. S. Arrest these Days ruling complicates Iowa school dispute by John Chamberlain and now a two headed left youth group a special report put out by combat a publication which keeps tabs on the doings of both the new and the old left tells us about the creation of the american communist party a new youth group. There s nothing particularly remarkable about the fact that the comrades have decided to establish still another catch Mem Young vehicle for the Dubois clubs which have been designated As a communist front by Fri director j. Edgar Hoover have been losing their Appeal. What is interesting however is the communist approach to the problem of finding a name for the new group. Listen my children and beware. Publicly As the combat editors Tell us the youth group has been bet up As the Young workers liberation league. But it is also to be known As the Young communist liberation league. According to combat reporters who were present at the Sherman House in Chicago in february when the new youth catch All was being baptized the delegates endorsed a policy of permitting the clubs in various parts of the . To go under either name depending on local value judgments regarding a Public relations and recruiting advantages. Bradenton Fla up a two with a school desegregation order. Of gov. Claude Kirks aides locked the marshals arrested the Man themselves in an office with to Atee county sheriff and five dept state troopers and refused to come ties on charges of obstructing jus out today when Federal marshals Tice when they stood in front of the tried to arrest them for interfering office door and refused to move. For the land pursuant to the Turner said approval of the Iowa executive Council a is not a requisite to the a the state should not cast itself in the role of Welsher a Turner said. Des Moines up a Iowa attorney general Richard Turner today stepped in to the complicated dispute Over a Western Iowa fourth state University by ruling the state is obligated to buy land for the school on the basis of Oral agreements. The Turner ruling was requested by rep. Lester Kluever a Atlantic who has led the fight to save the proposed school. In december and again in january the Iowa Board of regents agreed to Purchase about 700 acres of land in Atlantic for $556,000 but approval of that Purchase has been delayed pending legislative action on a Bill to kill the University. The aides were in Bradenton administering the county school system on orders from gov. Claude Kirk who was trying to Block a Federal desegregation order. Kirk himself was in Tallahassee where his wife gave birth this morning to their second child a to Pound one ounce boy. A we re not thinking about anything at the moment except this baby a Kirk said when asked about the developments at Bradenton. The opinion was handed Down on the very Day the Iowa House was scheduled to take up the Bill which would cancel forever any plans for a Western Iowa school. The legislation earlier Jas passed on a substantial vote of the Iowa Senate and its passage is included in calculations for the funds which gov. Robert d. Ray Hopes to allocate to other uses. The chamber of Commerce Board of directors were informed about the status of a new postal facility for it. Pleasant at their regular monthly meeting thursday noon. Congressman Fred Schwengel of Iowa a first District wrote chamber manager Don Moth and enclosed a letter from postmaster general Wilton m. Blount indicating a Complete status report will be available at an Early Date. The chamber has previously gone on record in support of a new postal facility for it. Pleasant. However Turner stepped in to Rule a that the state has entered the contract in Good Faith and is legally bound and obligated to the officials locked themselves in the office when Federal officials including three marshals and an assistant u. S. Attorney tried to serve them papers charging them with interfering with school desegregation. Kirk suspended the county school Board wednesday night and placed the schools under his own control to avoid a Federal desegregation order which would have gone into effect today. The matter is complicated by the fact that both the 1967 and 1969 Legislatures went on record As favouring a new school and also appropriated about $800,000 for a site selection and Purchase of land in Western Iowa. The measure is confused further by the fact citizens of Atlantic raised about $130,000 to make up the difference Between the going Price and the assessed valuation of the land so the regents could stay within their budget for the Purchase. Weekend Retreat this is a full scale Model of a House under Experiment in Europe As a weekend Retreat. Called Rondo it is Complete in every detail including plastic furniture. It is strengthened by fiber Glass made by Milenka pig industries Netherlands affiliate. The unit includes a Hall bedroom and lounge with a Kitchen Dinette area. The unit also is being considered for assembling in clusters As apartments or hotel accommodations. Jaycees nominate candidates two contests for Henry county offices in other business the chamber approved manager Meths at Tendance at the Iowa develop ment workshop in Ames on april 13th and 14th. The theme of the program is a ten year target towards the year 2001.�?� renewed the lease on Mcleran a i a office for a period of one year in accordance with the option. Heard a report from Dale Longwell on the recent chamber membership drive. Eight new members were signed and the team under the leadership of Bill Bankston won the Steak dinner. The manager reported briefly on work being done in support of Low Cost housing programs. Dale Longwell was requested to Contact the presbyterian Church committee on Low Cost housing to determine in what areas the chamber May assist. The manager also reported on the newly organized Southeast Iowa chamber association whose purpose is to promote the economic and social development of be Iowa and provide opportunities for cooperative action on All problems of Mutual concern. A a churlish withdrawal of funds appropriated by two successive general assemblies slapping these people in the face for their generous gesture of Good citizenship is not in the highest tradition of the liberties we prize and the rights we will maintain a said Turner. Turners Home is in Council Bluffs a Western Iowa Community once considered As a location for the University but which lost out to Atlantic. Wednesday april 8th was the final Date for candidates to file for Henry county offices in order for the names to appear on the ballot. There will be two contests for voters to decide in the june 2nd primary on a county level. One of the contests is for a four year term starting january 1971 on the Board of supervisors. Four candidates have filed papers. They Are Clark Burns Marion twp. Carroll Crane Tippecanoe twp. William Smith Center twp. And Cleo Johnston of it. Pleasant. The second contest will be for the office of county attorney and the candidates Are James Morrison and Gary Weigel. Helen Virden county recorder and Arnold Lindeen county treasurer both incumbent candidates Are unopposed in the primary con i test. Johnston Heads inc students Green Beret Camp spared bombardment Parsons re accredited after 3 years Dave Johnston a Junior and the son of the former academic Dean at Iowa Wesleyan College was elected president of the inc student government during Campus elections wednesday. Johnston and his vice presidential running mate Mike Perelman Defeated Mike Rosen and Dave Hansen 324 149. The son of or. Howard Johnston Dean at Wesleyan from 1964 to 1969, and mrs. Johnston now of Durango colo., Dave is a mathematics major at inc. Perelman a Junior from Harrisburg pa., is a sociology major. Saigon up a communist gunners shot Down a . Medical evacuation helicopter near Dak Seang thursday but for the first time in to Days the us. Green Beret Camp was spared artillery bombardment. A Relief column drove to within a half a mile of the outpost. A a the situation is substantially cleared up a a South vietnamese officer said of the siege at Dak Seang an isolated fortress 290 Miles Northeast of Saigon in Jungles seven Miles from the lotion Border. Fairfield up a after three years of re trenching Parsons College wednesday was re accredited by the North Central association inca. Parsons which started life As a presbyterian school before the civil War lost its accreditation in 1967 while under the direction of or. Millard g. Roberts. Since then it has Cut Back on athletics and salaries of instructors and tried to rid itself of an image is a Haven for dropouts and those who could never make it at other schools. In 1969 it became a a candidate for accreditation a and school officials at the time said the College was Only a step away from restoration to the Good graces of the inca. Backup Man tests skill Nixon to speak to nation police school conducted Here court Reform still alive Washington up a president Nixon will make a nationally televised address on Vietnam next thursday night the White House announced today. He is expected to announce a further u. S. Troop withdrawal. Press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler said the speech on radio As Well As television would be at 9 p. In. I est april 16 and would concern Nixon a decision on Vietnam troop Levels. The speech will come one Day after the latest phase of the gradual troop pullout process started last year by Nixon is to be completed. Previously ordered withdrawals will reduce the ceiling on u. S. Forces in Vietnam to 434,000 on april 15. Local and area policemen county authorities and Highway patrolmen attended the police school at the vow Hall Here thursday sponsor by the Iowa association of chiefs of police and peace officers inc. Max Milo Mills director of the Iowa crime commission and state Bureau of investigation Mem caters were on the program. A Southeast Iowa peace officers dinner and meeting will be held at the vow tonight. Director Terry Ross gave a Progress report on the summer youth employment program that the Jaycees Are sponsoring in it pleasant this summer and reported that a budget in excess of $11,000 has been prepared and will be submitted to governor rays office for approval this week. Applications for the youth director Are being taken and interviews will begin immediately. President Marlow commented that the rubella German measles committee will hold their first meeting thursday evening at 7 30 at the Jaycee Headquarters and that representatives of each of the service organizations throughout Henry county will be in attendance. Bob Young is chairman of the rubella program. The president or. Millard g. Roberts took Over in 1957 and during the next decade he increased the enrolment from 212 to 5.000. Faculty salaries averaged $14,403, ranking the school behind Only Harvard University and the University of Chicago. Roberts blamed deficiencies on growing pains. But the Board of trustees fired him shortly after the school lost its accreditation. After Roberts Parsons was under the direction of two acting presidents before or. Carl w. Kreisler took Over May 27, 1968. Area College accredited Cedar rapids up a Kirkwood Community College Here has received accreditation for the first time by the North Central association inca. The action was taken As the inca met in Chicago wednesday. In social matters practically everything these Days is sold As a a jumbo ounces or a a giant Between two headed youth groups and a sick in work stoppages and a forces of liberation which have Only totalitarianism to sell we Are going to be kidded into collapse. Our English teachers in High schools should be warning their charges about the a Aesop Ian use of language. But the teachers seem to be on a a jumbo ounces jag Uke the rest of us. A a truth in packaging Law for the intellect forget it we Haven to the common Flentse to devise one. Distributed by King features Syndicate Akk

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