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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - April 20, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 93mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening april 20, 1970 Price to Cento these Days by John Chamberlain Lenin As a source of mental pollution a Earth Day a april 22 a is almost Here. The students on a thousand campuses will be thundering against physical pollution of the environment. One would Hope too that they might have a word or two to spare for mental pollution the sort of thing that has led to the widespread craze for copping out on drugs the flouting of moral standards the obsession with obscenity and the rage against the use of peaceful political Compromise in settling our differences both on and off the campuses. Further one would Hope that some Brave student would pay a Little critical attention to the fact that april 22 is by coincidence the one Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nicolai Lenin the founder of the soviet communist regime in Russia. Half the world will be going gaga on the Twenty second paying tribute to Lenin As a virtual Demigod. Admittedly he was a great revolutionary strategist. But the sort of thing being said about Lenin As a a a humanist is the sheer est Bilge a prime example of the mental pollution that has done our world More harm than Dot Fulfur dioxide and All the Carbon monoxide from All the exhausts of All the cars on All the roads of All the nations of the Globe. Too it has remained for u Thant the Secretary of the United nations to come out with the most inane Praise for the founder of soviet communism. In a statement read at the opening of the Unis educational scientific and cultural organizations symposium at Tampere in Finland held to celebrate the anniversary of Lenin a birth u Thant spoke of the creator of the Savage russian dictatorship As an a outstanding scholar and prominent humanist who helped Advance a human rights and fundamental Why Enesco should feel called upon to celebrate the birthday of a Man who regarded a human rights As a fiction and a a Freedom As an illusion can Only be explained by the cynical politics of a in that is dominated by a socialist bloc that hates the West where the idea of a a inalienable and a a immemorial rights originated. There Isnit a smidgeon of evidence that Lenin cared anything for human rights and fundamental freedoms As something that transcended class lines. He did no to even think that members of other parties in the socialist movement a the social revolutionaries the men sheiks the social democrats a had rights that must be respected. As he said to Vera Rasulich a contemporary of Karl Marx and one of Lenin a Early teachers a there Are no morals in politics there is Only we have been troubled by the obstreperous anti democracy of the More extreme factions in the students for a democratic society. They disdain intellectual argument and make it a practice of shouting Down opponents and disrupting meetings. Where did their tactics originate the evidence is concurs be that Lenin was the first Weatherman. We forget that Russia had already had a democratic revolution before the bolshevism seizure of Power. Too in january of 1918 Russia was governed by a constituent Assembly that was the Choice of the people. The bolshevik party had received Only Twenty four per cent of the votes cast in the election the social revolutionaries with fifty four per cent had an absolute majority. Instead of accepting the will of the electorate Lenin decided to treat the constituent Assembly As Jerry Rubin Abbie Hoffman and the other hippy hippies treated judge Hoffman a Chicago court. When they win an argument or a vote the bolsheviks disrupted things by singing the internationale. Lenin himself would lie Down on the Steps to the podium and pretend to be asleep when an opponent was speaking. There were demonstrations by bolsheviks and anarchists both inside the parliament and outside and some anti bolshevik deputies were murdered by Lenin a agents among the sailors. Finally the sailors moved into the Assembly turned off the lights and the russian Experiment in democracy was Over. Too this is the classic old left pattern for discrediting democratic methods. The new left has simply imitated Lenin. So where does u Thant come off in presenting Lenin est an outstanding scholars and humanist Why do we put up with this sort High winds leave damage in area High winds saturday night upset smaller buildings Tore roofs off blew Down signs Bent television Antenna supports and broke Down limbs at Many places in Southeastern Iowa. In it. Pleasant principal damage was to smaller buildings roofs signs and tree limbs. An unmounted truck camper was overturned from its parked position at a Home in the 900 Block on North Lincoln. The huge sign at the by Vee store was blown Down. Fortunately no one was near it at the time. The name portion of the Texaco sign across the Street also was demolished. At the Franklin Jewett acreage at the Northeast Edge of town a machine shed was blown Down. At the Golf and country club part of the roof covering Over the Kitchen was blown off and two antennas were blown Down. Too Power was off in several areas of it. Pleasant for Only a Short while and in some areas up to 7v& hours. The biggest area affected was in the Southeast part of town. The outages were caused by limbs and in one Case a tree being blown across the primary electric lines. It was necessary for Street department workers to Cut up the limbs and take them off the lines before the lines could be repaired by the Light department Crews. Too in Rural areas strips of Metal could be seen lying at various places evidently pieces that had been ripped from the roofs or sides of buildings. At the Lloyd Timmons farm new London Rural a machine shed Wras torn in two half of it wrecked. The other half damaged was still standing. At the Loren Reif farm also Southeast of new London a two year old pole shed about 20 feet by 40 feet was upturned. The poles were pulled out of the ground. Too the weekend rainfall from saturday morning to monday morning in the it. Pleasant area amounted to 1.02, according to the Federal weather Bureau gauge kept by Leo Turley. The rainfall came in showers and As a result streams did not react greatly. The rainfall did soften a shoulder area on Highway 218 South and a Section of the West Lane of the pavement settled some four to six inches. Barricades were erected around the fault. Tracks indicated that a southbound Motorist in trying to Stop As he came upon the barricade went to the West shoulder and slammed against the heavy guard posts. Officers were not notified of an Accident. No school for students apr. 22 there will be no school for students in the it. Pleasant Community school District wednesday april 22. This Day has been set aside for Parent teacher conferences in the elementary schools grades kindergarten through Goth. At Farmington Farmington a tile windstorm Early sunday morning ripped the Metal roof off the Kaiser Agri chemical building at 605 Walnut St. In Farmington. About 700 tons of bulk blend fertilizer was stored in the Wood framed 150�?T x 60�?T building. A Large Wood sliding door was damaged. Carpenters began repair work on the roof Early sunday morning. A Ion x 20�?T aluminium Patio awning was torn off the Merlyn Jeffers Home on South 5th St. At about 1 20 . The awning was twisted and broken and was considered a total loss. An 8�?T x Ion Metal Garden shed at the Lester Randolf Mobile Home on South 7th St. Was blown 125 feet and demolished. The pieces landed near Jerry Scotten a Mobile Home West of the Randolf lot. A Large Maple tree at the Clyde Boyer property on 4th St. Was blown Down blocking Highway 2 until removed in the Early morning. A Large picture window in the Southeast Corner of mrs. Bertha Kimmey a Home on 4th St. Was broken. Says America losing sense of Community new York up a Louis Cassel a senior editor of United press International in Washington said today that investigation into present social tensions had Given him concern that America is losing the sense of Community essential to preserve a free society. A i will speak very Burnly even at the risk of angering some who disagree a Cassels told the annual up breakfast meeting of publishers and editors. A in my opinion the great failure of the Nixon administration has been in this area of furthering a National sense of too Cassels and Helen Thomas a Veteran member of the up White House staff addressed the breakfast that is the opening event of publishers week coincident with the annual convention of the american newspaper publishers association. Miss Thomas said mrs. Nixon was the most approachable of first ladies during the decade she has covered the White House a warm and human person who relates strongly with people. Tell aspects in Laos Washington up a newly released congressional testimony today revealed new aspects of . Involvement in Laos the american ambassador there has been directing a secret military operation and a Clandestine . Group in Thailand has been training and equipping laotian troops. The embassy headquartered operation in Vientiane called a project 404,�?� involves part of the 2,000-Man . Mission in Laos. The ambassador supervises More than too military attaches some of whom Fly with the Royal laotian air Force and direct its pilots to targets. In addition the ambassador personally reviews air strikes in Laos by . Planes sent in from Thailand and Vietnam. Astronauts relive ordeal for engineers space Center Houston it up j four time spaceflight Veteran who Apollo 13�?Ts astronauts today Berun reliving their ordeal in space for engineers seeking the cause of the explosion that ripped away a 13-foot Section it their mooh.,hip a week ago. A there were times when we really did no to think we d make it Back Here a said James a. Lovell the a demonstration a an a a Armoreda policeman holds a tear Gas equipped Rifle in Berkeley Calif., As a handcuffed demonstrator demonstrates How to react in a situation like this. Ozark strike cripples Iowa Ai r service Nixon to speak at 8 tonight ii re Lias image v intensifier for radiology to plans were made at the last meeting of the Henry county Mem san Clemente Calif. Up a president Nixon will report to the nation today on Progress being made in turning the War in Viet up Nam Over to the South vietnamese. Airline service in to Iowa cities his nationwide address on the has been crippled by the Ozark air Southeast asian conflict at 8 . Orial Hospital Board of trustees to line strike and seven of those Cit Cost will be his first since dec. 15 Purchase an image intensifier for ies Are without any commercial and was expected to include an the radiology department flights. Upu Cement of a further reduction several benefits will be derived the strike which began sunday in . Troop Levels in Vietnam. The by the use of this new piece of by members of the aircraft Mech current ceiling is 343,000 men and equipment. It enables the radio antics fraternal association com actual strength last week was 429, Logist to do floors topic readings in Petely halted All air operation of too men. Ozark airlines. It is the first strike Nixon will deliver the speech in the airlines 20-year history. From the Western White House Here too and return to Washington tuesday. A contract Between the association and Ozark expired 16 months l Ake items in break in at Olds the c amp j fertilizer co., at 01dc was broken into during the night sunday. Manager Ronald Roth disc Vered the break in monday morning and notified county authorities. Taken were 75 boxes of at Azine fertilizer 50 Gallons of Lasso liquid herbicide too Gallons of Treslan a Johnson business band radio a Victor adding machine and assorted tools. The fertilizers were valued at 510,300. Entrance was gained by prying open a Small door at the Side of the building. Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore went to Olds to investigate. Ago and a 30-Day Cooling off period ended last thursday. Negotiations Between the groups had continued however until late saturday. Paul Rodgers vice president of Ozark said the company had offered the 430 striking mechanics a 53 million contract covering the next three years but it was rejected. Too the strike completely halted the data Queen cheered at Hannibal. To. Hannibal to. Up a tile proud old River boat Delta Queen steamed into Hannibal to the cheers of hundreds of townspeople on what May be its last Stop at the Suranee operations in 61 cities. Other air j historic Little Mississippi River port lines Are expected to be Able to take known to millions through the nov passengers from Ozark flights but Eis 0f Mark Twain Many smaller cities especially those j costumed por trayers of Tom Der a Light intensity which is Many times greater than that presently being used. This of course results in More accurate floors topic work. The unit also enables the radiologist to work faster thus cutting Down on the amount of radiation exposure. The Board found that it was necessary to make extensive changes in the heating and Cooling system in the present radiology Laboratory surgery and Central Supply areas an Engineer has been engaged to make a study before further plans Are made. The purchasing of a a a package in con tract was approved in the Midwest Are without any airline service. The seven Iowa cities without any airline service Are Clinton Dubuque Waterloo Mason City Burlington Ottumwa and fort Dodge. Other cities where Ozark flights have stopped Are Des Moines. Sioux Sawyer Huck finn and Becky Thatcher a kids whose fictional which \ ill Combine practically All the insurance insides of the Hospital into one. Bids were taken on this insurance policy and the successful bidder was Shook insurance Agency. The Henry county Asso antics helped put Hannibal on the citation of Independent agents had the project has been Coin on Tori cd and Cut Dar rapid however the past four years according to each of he three i ies has com testimony taken last fall by the medal a a eats a ther than a Zark Senate subcommittee on Security j agreements and commitments abroad. The testimony was made Public for the first time sunday after a Long dispute Over its release Between the subcommittee and the Nixon administration. All but to per cent of the testimony finally was released. Of intellectual garbage wont some student concerned for the health of the mind As Well As of the environment Call u Thant to order on april 22? the Point might be made too that physical pollution is reported to be even More rampant in the soviet Industrial areas than in the capitalist world. There Are chemical wastes in Lake Baikal in Siberia Oil drainage is tuning land along the lower Volga River the steel Mills of the Ukraine Lack anti pollution fillers and so on. Communism with its purges and Man made famines May be a cure for the population explosion but do you have to drown a dog to get rid of its fleas three accidents Are reported three accidents have been reported to City police. At 4 10 . Saturday a 1964 Plymouth owned by Jane Milligan was damaged when it was struck by a 1966 Ford pick up driven by Archie Christner who was located through his truck License plates. Christner told police he did no to know the truck had struck the car which was parked in the too Block of North Jefferson Street. At 3 45 . Friday a Steele lumber co., truck driven by Charles h. Bontrager backed from a driveway at 707 East Monroe into a 1969 Chevelle owned by Donald k. Vorhies parked in the Vorhies drive at 707 e. Monroe. The Vorhies car was damaged an estimated $245. A minor Auto Accident which occurred at the Coin laundry on West Washington at 4 40 . Friday was also reported to police. Office hours at selective service selective service office hours for two weeks beginning wednesday april 22 will be monday through thursday 12 30 to 4 30 afternoons fridays 9 . To i . Assistant clerk mrs. Matthew Laipple will be in charge of the office. Injured Iii car Accident a 1969 Chevrolet driven by Jerry Lee Young 30, i. Pleasant was totally damage when it left Highway 34 iv2 Miles East of town at i . Sunday. Young suffered a fractured jaw and Vete Rbra. He was taken to memorial Hospital Here and transferred to Burlington hos j Pital monday. According to Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore who investigated Young was passing a truck in the rain when his car went out of control and went off on the soft shoulder into a ditch and into a Fence. Honorary degrees to two governors map a braved a Light rain saturday to Greet the 190 passengers of the Queen. Too the old Stern Wheeler reported to be one of the two genuine pad dle wheel steamboats still in service is the Symbol of an Era in which the big Muddy River played a dominant role in life in this neck of the Woods. But this last vestige of that Era May be retired because of modern Day Federal requirements. And if so modern Day Huck finns and Becky thatchers will have to rely on pictures in history books and old movies to see the boats that captivated their 19th Century namesakes. Too the Delta Queen is the Only Stern Wheeler that runs to Hanni bal and the boats owners say it is 1 the Only Stern Wheeler left in the i country that makes overnight excursions. Greene line steamers of Cincin i Natl Ohio owner of the boat says 1 there Are no More trips scheduled to Hannibal and that unless con i Gressional action is taken the Delta Queen will have to cease operations this november. The Queen has a four year exemption from the Federal safety done much work in studying and preparing specifications for this package insurance policy. In order thai More Complete financial records May be prepared prior to each Board meeting it was agreed that future Board meetings will be held on the third tuesday of each month. The next meeting was set for april 21. Heavy let Iii tornadoes lean water vessels that carry 50 passengers or More to have steel hulls. The Delta Queen has a steel superstructure but a wooden Hull. Rep. Leonard k. Sullivan d-mo., introduced a Bill in the House of representatives last tuesday to 0f the inc biology faculty was Merida Yucatan up a honorary doctor of Laws degrees from Central College of Pella Are to be bestowed on Iowa gov. Robert d. Ray and Carlos Loret do Mola the governor of Yucatan Here tonight. The presentations by or. Kenneth j. Weller president of Central Are to be made on the Campus of the Colegio Peninsular where the Pella Iowa school maintains sponsored it the previous legislation Branch Campus operation. Which extended the life of the i the Delta Queen makes Vescur Sions of three to 21 Days to 17 states and such cities As St. Louis Memphis Tenn., Nashville Tenn., Louisville ky., Evansville ind. Honorary biology society initiates 22 Twenty one Iowa Wesleyan students and a it. Pleasant resident were initiated into the Eta chapter of Beta Beta Beta National honorary biology society during a ceremony last week at the Home of or. R. William Poulter. Initiated As Active members were John Cody Jerry Gayman Melissa Happ Mary Inglis Rodney Lang Wayland Mclane Tom Owen Elizabeth smart Raymond Smith Richard Watson Loris White Tom Wilson and Bruce Wortmann. Inducted into associate membership were James Andressa Bruce Dantz Roger fix Marcia Henderson Donald Lamb. Marc Lindeen Frederic Rahn of the mental by up amid tornadoes and violent wind and Hail storms the struck parts of the South Midwest five persons were killed sunday in northeastern Mississippi. At least 31 persons were reported killed and hundreds More injured 1 throughout the weekend from tornadoes in 13 Southern and Midwest pm states. Heavy damage was reported in Many areas. The worst Mississippi Tornado injured More than 70 persons and destroyed or damaged 300 Homes sunday. It first dipped Down near Ripley miss., and then took a 21-mile swing to Corinth miss., a City of 15,000. It left behind a 2o0-Yard-wide Patch of death and destruction. Officials reported five dead 20 people hospitalized and five in critical condition sent to hospitals in Memphis Tenn. About too Homes in Hie area were destroyed. In Texas state officials checking the rubble of Tornado crippled towns in the Texas Panhandle said twisters killed 26 and injured hundreds of persons in la towns in the Flat Panhandle country. Damage was estimated by one official at almost $5 million. A snowstorm associated with the big weather disturbance swung into Canada today from Northern Minnesota after dumping up to 18 inches of Snow on the Dakotas. During a six hour Span Early today Duluth minn., received five inches of Snow. Nearby Hibbing minn., got eight inches. Was robbed of a Chance to walk on the Moon by the blast that wrecked the Apollo 13 service module 205,000 Miles from Earth. Lovell John l. Swigert and Fred w Halse flew to the space Center sunday night after meeting with president Nixon in Honolulu. They had a boisterous Welcome from friends and loved ones and got a Good nights rest at Home for the first time in weeks. The Oliree astronauts were up Early today and by to . Est were in their offices at. The manned spacecraft Center recounting for chief astronaut Donald k Slayton and Lloyd Reeder their training coordinator. Everything they could recall about their harrowing adventure in space. The pilots were Quick to Praise the flight controller whose work they said made their return possible. A a. We looked Back on Earth again and. Realized that maybe we would not get Back Here. Said Lovell. His wife Marilyn stood by his Side fighting tears. I a if it Wasny to for you people on the ground we would t be Here tonight and i appreciate it very j too Swigert a Bachelor greeted by his parents echoed Lovell a sentiment a of All the welcomes Home that we be had this one Means the most because it is these people Here who j made it possible for me to be Here and then added Halse a we had a lot of prayers and Good wishes from people All Over the world. And we appreciated that later As he walked along a Torch lined path to his House Haise said a i am certainly glad to be five a copters shot Clown Saigon up a us. Headquarters monday reported the heaviest 24-hour loss of helicopters in nearly a year a five aircraft shot Down in crashes that killed four american crewmen. Statistics indicated that helicopter losses this year could set a record. Despite the declining american role in the War. Communist gunners since Jan. I have shot Down 148 . Helicopters including 33 this month. Based on the loss rate so far. A projection indicates the total number of helicopters destroyed this year could run from 490 to 560, military sources said. The figure for 1969 was 460, Down from tile 519 lost in 1968 but up from the 447 lost in 1967. Smashes into sheriff s car an 18-year-old West Burlington youth Billy w George suffered severe head lacerations when his cuban army and militia troops claim Effort to invade Culm Miami up a radio Havana says the remnants of a band of u. a a hirelings Are being hunted in the mountains after an unsuccessful weekend invasion of Cuba. Quoting cuban Premier Fidel Castro the communique sunday said two of the invaders were killed and three others captured after clashes Friday and saturday with speeding car struck a Des Moines county Deputy sheriffs car being use As a barricade across Highway 34 just West of Middletown Early sunday morning. The Voung Man was reportedly at sea Law which requires hairier health Institute staff it. Pleas chased at speeds of up 100 an Cynthia Risenhoover and a Njoes an hour by authorities when Mark Willis. J car Cra it bed into the car being or. Dolores Graf inc biology professor is adviser for the Eta chapter which was organized at Iowa Wesleyan in 1926 or. Poulter four cubans were killed and two others wounded in the fighting according to Castro s announcement. The remainder of the a invasion Force fled into the mountainous Jungles of Oriente province radio Havana said. Give the boat a permanent exemption from the Law. Mrs. Sullivan paintings on exhibit at Harlan charter member of the local chapter. Beta Beta bet to the advancement of the biological sciences was begun at Cornell College it. Vernon Iowa Iii 1922. H. Rap Brown and new Orleans la. Her Home fails to appear port is Cincinnati. A a a a a Ellicott City. My. Up California artist exhibiting her lege. Mrs. Rachford does much of Black militant h rap Brown failed currently on exhibit in the Din no room of the Harlan House Are paintings by Maryann Rachford. Until recently mrs. Rachford was a used As a barricade to get him stopped. The youth s car then went into the ditch on the South Side of the Highway slowed a deep Furrow and ended up on top of a Fence. The youth was taken to memorial Hospital in Burlington where 38 stitches were taken to close the wound in his head the Des Moines county sheriffs department car which was St Nick was totally damaged As was the youths car. Charges Are pending. The Chase began at 2 . In West Burlington. Maintenance workers strike ends at Grinnell Grinnell up a a strike by 90 maintenance workers at Grinnell College ended sunday night when members of local 90 of the teamsters Union agreed to the contract worked out earlier in the Day. Work there in Many galleries and her work on a commission basis. To Appeal ii i m of he new residents of it. Pleasant arson and riot trial today but the or. And mrs. Rachford Are Here to defense stalled a request for a manage the Temple theatre and contempt citation against him by the Ridge drive in. I challenging the legality of Hie trial. Business establishments. Her career began in High school continuing through three years of Art school and time spent in Coite r s f. Verse by a. C. Gordon the world could use As much of vision As now it does of television. Found guilty of murdering Stepson los Angeles up a Ronald Fouquet was found guilty of first degree murder today in the death of his 5-year-old Stepson who was said by his Mother to have died after Fouquet jumped up and Down i on him As the boy Lay on the floor

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