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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 15, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol 92, no. 89 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening april 15, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain when two crusaders clash head on a West German company the base corporation is suspending plans to build a $100 million chemical Plant on the South Carolina coast until a responsible Federal agencies have passed judgment on the pollution risk to Beach resort areas. This is a Good example of the new wariness about the need for protecting the environment and it is certainly to be commended. It shows that Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel once the object of suspicion in a conservation minded u. S. Senate is right on the Ball in his Zeal to make this a cleaner country. Even so there is a certain irony connected with it for if any Region needs new industries it is the Carolina Low country. The negroes who remain there resisting the urge to pile into the squalid slums of our Northern cities definitely need jobs they suffer from hookworm dysentery and various deficiency diseases and they can to make enough out of farming and shrimp catching to keep body and soul together. The irony is that two crusader both of them desirable have clashed in the Carolina impasse. There is the crusade for a clean environment and there is the crusade to decentralise our Industry. Somehow the two crusades must be merged for it is the congested cities a spewing out their wastes a that Are the chief menace to a decent life for two Hundred million americans. Too it so happens that just As South Carolina was experiencing difficulties in its drive to attract new Industry to its open Countryside a presidential task Force on Rural development report a a new life for the country a was reposing on Richard Nixon a White House desk. The report looks at the Drift to City life and is properly horrified by what happens when bodies Are impacted in rundown Urban areas when children become heroin pushers at the age of 12, and when rape and murder Are so common that decent people barricade themselves in their Homes at night. The task Force report addresses itself to the need for reversing what has been one of the a largest migrations in recorded history a a migration that has brought Twenty five million people from the Rural areas into the cities in the past Quarter of a Century. Some three fourths of our population now lives on two per cent of our land which is a ridiculous waste of a country that is still wide open and Beautiful no matter what its detractors May say. Too the task Force ticks off a number of things that might be done to restore the balance Between City and country. It Speaks of using tax incentives to lure business into the open spaces and of building new a people to jobs roads to get workers from their part time farms to supplementary jobs in factories. It suggests a Rural development credit Bank not for providing investment capital directly to Farmers but to develop Rural industries. Somehow the task Force recommendations sound Wistful. Not that they Arentt worthwhile in themselves but they run up against All the things that the government has been doing to Force the Drift into the cities. Franklin d. Roosevelt talked eloquently about restoring the balance Between City and country but his new Deal farm programs worked to displace the Small Farmer and encourage the development of Large scale corporate farming. This sort of thing still goes on. The big Farmer has used his support Money to buy new tractors better seed More abundant fertilizer. However the Small Farmer lacking benefits in volume afford the capital equipment to keep Pace in a continually Over produced Market. He has been crowded off the land. Too nevertheless the balance Between City and country May be redressed by a natural growth in repugnance to City life. A Talent Hunting firm reports that it is increasingly difficult to recruit executives to work in big cities particularly in new York. If this attitude snowballs we May see More and More corporations decentralizing their activities. Yet if we Are to hasten the Day we shall have to find ways of avoiding the South Carolina impasse. In moving to the country our industries must Recycle their wastes. This is the technical problem to which our Young a Earth Day enthusiasts should be addressing themselves which Means that they should spend less time demonstrating and More time in petition for vote on new Waco school the Waco school Board at a special meeting wednesday set May 18 As the Date for the vote on the proposed new building. The Waco Community school Board of education has been petitioned by the voters to Call an election and submit to the voters of the school District the proposition of issuing Bonds in the sum of $1,255,-000 for the purpose of building and furnishing a new school building for grades 6 through 12, inclusive and procuring a site therefore in the Northeast Quarter of Section 7 first District democrats to Convene Friday the first District democratic statutory convention will be held on april 17, at 8 00 pm. The Loca ton is Mcbride auditorium Corner of Clinton and Jefferson Northeast of old Capitol University of Iowa Campus Iowa City. This is the first time a political party in Iowa has attempted to bring a District convention to the people. The convention will elect a District committeeman to succeed Ray Walton of Davenport. Walton assured nomination As democratic candidate for state attorney general will not seek re election As 1st District committeeman. John Schmidhauser of Iowa City former congressman from the 1st District is the Only announced candidate for the seat on the party a state Central committee. Mrs. Gertrude Macqueen also of Iowa City is unopposed for re election As District committee woman. Delegates to fridays convention will be voting whether to endorse a congressional candidate in the primary. A a Blackie Strout of Davenport William Albrecht and Edward Mezvinsky both of Iowa City Are running for Congress. The convention will be passing resolutions to submit to the state statutory convention in Des Moines May 16. Henry county delegates and alternates May Call 385-4232 for information on car pools. Of Wayne township approximately two and one half Miles Northwest of Olds and North of Highway 78all in and for the Waco school District. The proposed building designed by Louis c. Kingscott and associates inc., of Davenport is to be adequate 450 students in grades 6 through 12. This size is adequate to meet Waco a present enrolment in these grades As Well As the foreseeable future enrolment. The building is to be designed to allow for use of existing curriculum and educational methods. It is to be de singed to allow for flexibility of changing curriculum and methods if desired. The construction is to include 14 classrooms a 3-room science suite music room with practice rooms Home economics Art room cafe orium 1,032 seat gym Kitchen locker and Shower rooms wrestling room health room guidance and counselling and administration offices boiler room and storage rooms. The building is to be located on a 30 acre tract of land which is Large enough for future building if the District so desires. Financial facts and figures concerning the Cost of the proposal to the Community will be forthcoming. The Board of education will be holding Public meetings on the proposed Issue in the near future to inform the voter and answer his questions. Watch for the dates and location of these meetings and please plan to attend. This is a Community project. It is the responsibility of everyone in the District to became informed about the school those in charge Point out. Or. Dan t. Smith named by Nixon on task Force or. Dan Throop Smith vice chairman of the Iowa Wesleyan College Board of trustees has been named by president Nixon to head a special task Force of tax experts to make a Survey of the Impact of tax policy on the environment. Or. Smith professor emeritus of the Harvard business school and a lecturer at the Stanford graduate school of business and his committee will do the study for the Council on environmental Quality and will concentrate on two questions i. Do present tax policies encourage undesirable activities vis a vis the environment 2. To what extent land How should the tax Structure be modified to induce individuals and corporations to meet environmental goals included on the 15 Man task Force Are diaries a. Anderson president of the Stanford research Institute Eleanor Applewhaite of the Law department and prof. C. Lowell Harriss of Columbia University. A former Deputy to the Secretary of the Treasury or. Smith has been a Wesleyan trustee since 1962. Testimony tied up again Boston up a a Federal court judge ruled today a court stenographer who recorded the secret Mary to Kopechne inquest had no authority to reproduce and sell the transcript of testimony of sen. Edward m. Kennedy and others. The judges ruling meant release of the Long awaited testimony taken at the closed door inquest would be held up once again a this time possibly for months while distribution rights to the transcript Are fought Over in the Federal courts. . District judge Andrew a. Caffrey however gave the Steno Graher a attorney until 3 pm. Est today to file an Appeal with the Federal circuit court of appeals Here. In issuing his ruling Caffrey said the Kopechne inquest transcript a is a Public the judge said he could find no authority that would allow a court reporter to secure a copyright interest in a transcript he prepares. Sources said the Case would be appealed by the deadline set by Raffrey. This meant the 764-Page transcript of testimony of Kennedy and other witnesses at the closed door inquest would remain ensnared in the Legal jousting which has marked the Case. Urge in to intercede on behalf of prisoners Des Moines up a the Iowa Senate today approved a Resolution asking that the general Assembly of the United nations intercede on behalf of the american servicemen being held prisoners of War in North Vietnam. The Resolution urged the in to insure that the prisoners receive fair and human treatment a As expressed in the Geneva convention of 1949.�?� the Resolution asks that the Iowa Secretary of state Send copies of the Resolution to the Secretary general of the in to the 124 delegates to the u.n., president Richard Nix on vice president Spiro t. Agnew and to the speaker of the u. S House of representatives. Their chemistry and biology laboratories. Crippled spaceship off course winners in Dogpatch Day costume contest panthers Rexall store won first place in the Dogpatch costume contest wednesday. Pictured from left to right is Elmer Frank Dorothy Mccormick Joe Panther Helen Anderson Neil Panther and Don i Ong. Fanny Larsh is kneeling in front. The City wide event sponsored by the chamber of Commerce Drew hundreds of shoppers to my pleasant stores. Space Center. Houston up a the stricken Apollo 13 spaceship sped toward Earth slightly off course today. Controllers said the astronauts must make another critical rocket firing to keep from miss first place in individual costumes for Dogpatch Day went to Max Vangorp of Harrison a variety store. Investigating alleged my Lai massacre Washington up a a congressional subcommittee opened a secret investigation of the alleged my Lai massacre today sub opening some principals in the Case Over the apparent objections of the Pentagon. Called As the main witness before the panel today with capt. Ernest l. Medina accused of Over All responsibility for the deaths at the South vietnamese Hamlet when his company swept through the area on March 16, 1968. The House armed service subcommittee headed by rep. F. Edward Hebert d la., subpoenaed Medina and five other army men when the Pentagon apparently refused to allow them to testify voluntarily. Medina was the Only one of those scheduled to testify today who has been implicated in the incident. Shortly before the subcommittee began its hearings Hebert added a civilian to the list of witnesses previously identified. He was Dennis Vasquez an artillery Liaison officer involved in the operation that encompassed my Lai. A this will not be a circus Maximus or a Witch Hunt a Hebert told newsmen. A nor will it be a . Shell Saigon again with rockets Saigon up a the Viet Cong shelled Saigon with soviet made rockets Early thursday in the second such attack on the capital in 51 hours. Military spokesmen said at least two of the big rockets hit inside the capital one of them near the american Uso in downtown Saigon. American military police said one of the Long Range 122mm rockets which Are the size of a Man landed Between two houses in the City s 3rd precinct causing no casualties and Only Light damage. Too there were no reports on casualties or damage from the second rocket which was reported to have hit an area near the Uso. The rockets hit the capital shortly after 2 . Allied artillery batteries pounded suspected firing Sites in Marshland Southeast of Saigon. In a similar attack monday communists fired four rockets into the Central sector of Saigon killing two vietnamese civilians and wounding 41 others. It was the first time Saigon had been shelled this year. Thursdays shelling followed a Roger Campbell nos speaker Roger a. Campbell 1966 graduate of it pleasant High school will be the guest speaker at the National Honor society nos initiation ceremony on april 23. Or. Campbell the son of or. And mrs. Robert Campbell 403 s. Har recon will graduate next month from Luther College in Decorah where he has accumulated an impressive list of honors both academic and athletic. He is on the Doans lust a member of Phi Alpha Theta an International history honors society elected to who s who among students in american colleges and universities and president of i Sigma Omicron brotherhood. A member of a a la club. Or. Campbell has played football at Luther for four years earning All conference honors elected Captain of his team and receiving honorable mention on the Little All american team. Area residents will remember or. Campbell for his High school activities in it. Pleasant which included the presidency of student Council his class and the letter club. Active for four years in basketball track and football or. Campbell was Captain of the football team winning such honors As All state All Eastern Iowa All conference and Mast valuable player in s. E. Six conference. Patricia Lynn Burk Campbell a former Mph cheerleader and Queens attendant will accompany her husband to it. Pleasant for the nos ceremony. She is the daughter of or. And mrs. William g. Burk route i it. Pleasant. Thirty seven Mph students will be inducted into the la in Pas men 71 Miles Northwest of Saigon and assault a South vietnamese battalion near the besieged Dak Seang Green Beret Camp. Spokes a n said both attacks were repulsed with heavy casualties. In other ground. Fighting the communists launched their second attack in less than 18 hours on a . 101st airborne division position i ear the old Imperial capital of Hue 390 Miles Northeast of Saigon. Court rules for credit Union ing Earth and swinging into a Distant orbit where they would be doomed. The Man Euver will be made tonight or thursday. Too Retro officer Thomas Welches said the course correction would be made by the lunar modules big descent engine but. Space Agency of of legals later said the Man Euver could be made with Small control rockets if the descent engine fails. The big engine however has already fired twice to head astronauts James a. Lovell John l. Swigert and Fred w. Haise Back toward Earth after a near disaster As they approached the Moon. The Small engines Are constantly used for attitude control operations. Too Mission control reported the miss distance would be 90 nautical Miles which converts to 103.5 statute Miles. Soviet Union offers help up the soviet Union joined seven anxious Western nations wednesday in pledging whatever assistance needed for recovery of americans Apollo 13 astronauts. Russia sent two merchant ships toward the scheduled splashdown in the South Pacific and Britain sent six naval vessels toward the alternate site in the Indian Ocean. France Holland Italy 8pain and West Germany in Europe South Africa and Uruguay in South America placed their navies on Alert and advised the United states they were ready to assist in the recovery n whatever Way needed. The offers of assistance for recovering the crippled spaceship highlighted increasing world concern for the Fate of its three astronauts James a. Lovell John l. Swigert and Fred w. Haise. Soviet Premier Alexei n. Kosygin sent a message to president Nixon expressing the a a concerns of russians about the Apollo Hight then issued an order to All soviet civilian and military authorities to use whatever Means necessary to assist Delores Anderson of bus inc. Was awarded second place in the Dogpatch costume contest. Chapter of National Honor society Day of ground attacks that saw the at 7 30 p m on apr 23. The Public communists strike for cambodian mos cordially invited to join with sanctuaries against . Cavalry administration and faculty in honouring the sophomores juniors. In7herecovery and seniors who have been elected to nos on the basis of leadership scholarship service and character the seventeen students who Are currently Active members of the Lampas chapter conduct the impressive candlelight induction ceremony. Or. Roger Williams sponsor of the chapter will be in charge of the evenings program which will include music by the Mph stage band and vocal groups. Juniors who Are currently provisional members of the Lampas chapter of nos will receive their membership pins at a morning Assembly on the 23rd at the High school. The names of the 37 newly elected members will be an in the Case of the Henry county bounced by or. Williams at that and boyhood companion of chief Justice Warren e. Burger also a minnesotan. His selection had been rumoured since Friday. Those senators willing to comment did so tentatively but favourably. None said an unkind word about i him. Nixon names Blackman Washington up a turning As promised to the North for a a strict constructionist a president Nixon has picked . Circuit court judge Harry a. Blackmun of Minnesota As his third Choice for the supreme court seat he has had so much trouble filling Blackmun 61, known Here As a civil rights moderate but a stickler on Law and order is a close Friend third place Winner in the dog Patch costume Arnold Schuetz of Iloa Glins 5c to $1.06 store. Contest went to credit Union is. Waters implement j time company in District court the Cut Urt ordered that the Possession of a 1960 John Deere 730 tractor be awarded to the credit Union and that Waters implement company be ordered to pay the costs of the court Case. The Case involved the Sale of the i tractor to David b. Burns on april a to 1966 by Waters implement on a Purchase agreement which was lat or assigned without recourse to the John Deere company of Moline 111. The courts opinion stated that after the tractor was assigned to the Deere company that Waters j implement had no further Security 1 in an open account against Burns in March 1967, Burns executed a Security agreement to the Henry c county credit Union and described As collateral the said John Deere Model 730 tractor. At the time of i i. This Security agreement a Check was issued by the credit Union to terse verse David b. Burns and the John Deere by a. C. Gordon company which was endorsed by the thing about an income now Burns and deposited by the Deere that stands out chiefly a company in satisfaction of the pre we be never had it quite so Good Ivious assignment. Or quite so briefly Roger Campbell Complete action on anti pollution Bill Des Moines up a the Iowa legislature completed ate Don tuesday on a Bill regarded As one of the most important anti pollution measures to be considered by the 1970 legislature. For the first time in Iowa a chemical technology review Board would be established to regulate the Sale and use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The Bill was sent to a conference committee of House and Senate legislators earlier when disagreement arose Over a House amendment calling for the Date of manufacture to be stamped on containers of chemical pesticides

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