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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 11, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant. News Section one 3 sections vol. 92, no. In it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening August la 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain a tale of two islands a there Are no islands any More a said Edna St. Vincent Millay in a famous anti isolationist poem of world War ii. She should have lived to apply her reasoning to two islands at the ends of the american continent a Alcatraz in san Francisco Bay and Ellis in new York Harbor. Alcatraz at the moment is the More troublesome. It was seized some time ago by the indians the excuse being that As deserted territory it had reverted by some obscure right to its original owners the aborigines. One trouble with the indians thinking is that Alcatraz cannot be made self supporting. Even the soil that covers the rocks of the old prison Island had to be imported from the Mainland. After making a headline splash with their original seizure of the place some of the indians gave up on it. But a hard Core of squatters still lingers on and Robert Robertson who directs the National Council on Indian Opportunity has not been Able to persuade Tho pitchers that the Island will never have any a High density use. Secretary of the Interior Hickel has asked that Alcatraz be pulled out of the a competitive bid category of excess government property amp put into a Golden Circle of Parks ringing the san Francisco Bay area. Sailors have requested that the old navigational aids be restored to the Island they get poor Security from the temporary buoys that have replaced the old lights and fog signals. As a Park Alcatraz could be Given an Indian flavor the red Man could install exhibitions to Tell his Story. Nothing can be done constructively however until the indians give up their intransigent attitude. Too at the other end of the country something useful could be made of Ellis Island the former a Gateway to the new world a without Dis possessing anybody. The other Day or. Thomas Matthew on behalf of the Black self help group called negro Quot National economic growth and reconstruction organization made his application to the . Department of the Interior and the National Park service for a Twenty year revocable permit to use the Island for a dual but mutually supportive one he wants to create a memorial to the immigration of the past when the Island was the Symbol of Hope for All the dispossessed of Europe. Two he has plans for turning the Island into a rehabilitative Community which will draw its population from chronic welfare recipients drug addicts chronic alcoholics and former prisoners. Too the National Park service has done its Best to maintain Ellis Island As a Monument but it Hasni to had the resources to make of it a vibrant memory of the melting pot concept of american society. Using his own funds from negro or. Matthew would restore and maintain the main building As the Ellis Island immigration museum. The historical societies would be asked to create exhibitions which would allow tourists to retrace their ancestors Steps from the old world to the new. There would be eating and lounge facilities and transportation would be provided both from Manhattan and new Jersey. The remainder of the Island would. Become a self supporting Community for a new immigrants who Are seeking re entry into american life. Or. Matthews negro already operates a chemical Plant a textile company a paint manufacturing company a Angeles bus line and some Bronx apartment buildings. Some offshoots of the negro subsidiaries would be set up on the Island staffed by welfare recipients who really desire to get off Relief and by drug addicts who genuinely want to kick the have. They would live on the Island. A this benevolent isolation a says or. Matthew a will make possible the rehabilitation that negroes Complex sociological and economic programs too its a grand concept As or. Matthew has outlined it and it could be carried out without having to go either to Congress or to private Charity to get it moving. Or. Matthew considers Public welf arism to be the Modem counterpart of the old Plantation system which gave Black people a Cradle to grave support under conditions that were certainly not conducive to self respect. The a new Ellis Island would be a Symbol of Rescue from welf arism As Alcatraz under the indians could never Hope to be. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Seal off capital of Uruguay in search Montevideo up a police and thousands of army troops sealed off the capital from the rest of Uruguay today and searched door to door for a captive american and a brazilian Diplomat threatened with execution by Tup Amaros guerrillas. Authorities raided a suspected sup Amaros Camp on the outskirts of the City making four arrests police officer at Burlington fatally shot Burlington up a a Burlington policeman was shot and killed at his Home monday afternoon in what authorities believe was a Domestic squabble. The dead officer was identified As 28-year-old Lawrence Eugene Walker a member of the Burlington Force since december 1968. Mary Walker of Burlington his former wife has been charged with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting. Mrs. Walker who is presently undergoing psychiatric tests at a Hospital Here is scheduled to be arraigned wednesday if her doctors deem it advisable. Walker was shot in the head with his own 38-caliber service revolver said police chief Robert Dunham. Officials said Walker and his former wife were granted a divorce on july 2. Too Walker who was off duty had talked by Telephone with the Burlington. Police station monday afternoon relative to family trouble according to officials. Two patrolmen Bill Havenhill and Ralph Larsen were sent to the Walker Home and one of them followed mrs. Walker to a bedroom according to the report. There she obtained walkers gun and it was stated she fired a shot before the officer could get out of the House. Three other shots were fired the one striking Walker in the head the report stated. Too editors note the Burlington police Force had two Larry Eugene walkers on the Force. The one killed was identified As Larry Eugene Walker no. I. The other is identified As Larry Eugene Walker no. 2. The latter who is 33, formerly resided in it. Pleasant was graduated from it. Pleasant High school in 1955 and his father is a it. Pleasant resident. First reports stating that the former it. Pleasant Man had been killed were erroneous. Jury verdict for plaintiff a District court jury ruled in favor of the plaintiff James Ernest Steele it a1, against Craig we me thet a1, in a damage Case monday. The verdict was returned at 5 10 pm. The amount in damages asked for As the result of an Auto Accident in 1967 was $10,000. The judge is to set the amount the plaintiff is to be awarded. The Only witness heard in the Case was the Jefferson county sheriff. French firm changes name the consulting Engineer finn of French and associates inc. Has announced that the firm name has been changed to French Reneker associates inc. They have recently occupied a new office building at 1501 South main Street Fairfield Iowa. The firm founded in 1952 by Donald e. French pe., engages in projects involving waterworks sewerage streets roads Bridges and other municipal and civil engineering activities. French is president of the firm. The. Vice president is w. Daniel Reneker pe., who joined the organization in 1965. William l. Perry l.s., is Secretary treasurer. French and associates inc., has been employed on several it. Pleasant projects in recent years. And confiscating revolvers hand grenades machine guns and explosives. But they found no Trace of the two men despite Telephone Calls to newspapers Early in the Day claiming the Braz Ian had been ruled As was another american hostage on monday. Too the left Wing group killed Dan Mitrione 51, of Richmond ind., monday and warned that hostages Claude Fly 65, of fort Collins colo., and brazilian Consul Aloysio Dias Gomide 41, would be next unless the uruguayan government freed 150 political prisoners. The government has refused to Deal with the kidnappers. The streets were almost deserted in the Early morning darkness As military jeeps and police cars made Surprise raids in different areas. There were a number of arrests of suspected terrorists and police announced today they had picked up Andres Coltelli Chi Ribao 48, a suspected High Tup Amaro officer As he left a Church monday. Too Chi Ribao a son Alfredo Emelio was killed in a gun Battle with authorities when the Tup Amaros took Over the town of Pando oct. 8. What amounted to martial Law was put into effect by president Jorge Pacheco Areco when he was granted near dictatorial Powers by Congress on monday. He called out nearly 10,000 army troops to put pressure on the guerillas. In Brasilia the brazilian government confirmed that it has put brazilian troops a on alerts along the uruguayan brazilian Border to watch for Tup Amaros trying to flee North into Brazil. Bomb threat delays Brandt Bonn up a a bomb threat today caused a two hour delay in Chancellor Willy Brandts flight to Moscow to sign a no aggression treaty with the soviet Union which he said would help make a peace in Europe More a search of the plane turned up no evidence of any bomb and it took off on the three hour flight to the soviet capital at 3 . 9 a,.rn. Oot. Moments after the Boeing 707 jetliner carrying Brandt his official party and 196 newsmen started taxing for Takeoff an Anonymous Telephone Call was received by the control Tower at Wahn Airport saying a bomb had been placed on the plane. The jetliner stopped so it could be searched. Fire trucks surrounded the plane parked at the end of a runway and police cleared Public galleries around the administration buildings. Israel attacks Arab targets by up Israel sent warplanes against Arab targets in Lebanon today in what a Tel Aviv spokesman said was retaliation for continuing guerrilla raids on israeli soil. But a cease fire Hel on the Suez canal and there were Hopes for Early peace talks under . Auspices. The air raids on the slopes of it. Hermon in Southeast Lebanon marked the second time israeli Jet fighter bombers have struck there since the Oease fire went into effect Friday. Armed robber threatens to kill Council Bluffs up a a Bandit armed with a Blued steel revolver monday robbed the associates financial services co. Of Iowa inc., Here of $300 threatening to kill an employee. Officers said the employee mrs. Donna r. Doughman 23, told them the Man first requested a loan and asked How much he could get. She said she told him that would be up to the manager Ray Points who had stepped out of the office. The intruder then pulled a gun and said a give me All of your Money or ill kill Oregon cattlemen reported 193 head strayed or stolen during 1969. Like an apology this shrine was built in Tate Shina Japan by the president of the Toyota motor co. For the repose of souls of people killed by Toyota automobiles. It set hint Back $445,000. Inside is a statue of Kannon Buddhist god of mercy. Tate Shina is a Mountain resort where Toyota executives sojourn. Delay pressure for share in Federal taxes Lake of the ozark8, to. Up a the nations governors today delayed action on a plan to pressure Congress and the Nixon administration to share Federal income taxes with the states. The National governors conference voted to refer to a committee their plan for More Federal Revenue sharing. The committee was instructed to bring the Issue Back to wednesdays final business Sesslen. Gov. Richard b. Ogilvie of Illinois asked the conference to adopt a plan calling for state Legislatures to approve a constitutional amendment requiring that states share in Federal income taxes. Gove. John Bell Williams of Mississippi offered a substitute plan asking the governors executive committee to try to persuade Congress to act on Revenue sharing. He said a constitutional amendment should be sought Only As a resort. The governors then voted to delay action. Damage in print shop at threshers Herbert Hult reported to police monday afternoon the print shop at the old threshers grounds had been damaged and the nuts on the water Tower bands had been removed. N. Vietnamese surround base near Border Saigon up a an Allied commander said today some 2,000 North vietnamese have surrounded a South vietnamese artillery base near the laotian Border. South vietnamese troops sent in reinforcements and . Planes flew air strikes in an Effort to break up the siege. Col. Nguyen Van diem a regimental commander of the South vietnamese 1st infantry division said the 2,000 troops were part of five North vietnamese battalions around air support base of Reilly 26 Miles West of Hue and 12 Miles East of Laos. Diem estimated 250 North vietnamese had been killed in fighting around the base since saturday. Air strikes flown by Allied planes including u. S. B52s, were credited with killing most of the communist troops. Too military spokesmen said South vietnamese casualties were one killed and 24 wounded. Diem said the apparent intention of the North vietnamese was to take Allied artillery bases in the Region one by one with the goal of opening an infiltration route from Laos toward South Vietnam s Northern coastal planes. Special meeting of Reserve unit the local army Reserve unit co. B of the 495th engineers bn., which returned to it. Pleasant saturday afternoon after two weeks of summer training at Camp Mccoy Wise. Will have a special meeting at the armory wednesday night. Last of Sext plets bom in Italy Dies Rome up a the of the Sext plets born to a Rome housewife died today almost exactly one week after her birth. Doctors said the cause of the 26-ounce baby a death was failure of the cardio circulatory system. Will study accounting procedures Des Moines up a state auditor Lloyd Smith today announced a three Man committee will he formed to look into the accounting procedures being used by the Iowa liquor control commission. Last month in his annual audit report of commission records Smith said accounting methods being used Are a obsolete and cumbersome a he said accounting procedures have improved somewhat Over year but still result in a duplication of Effort in some areas. Too Smith met today with the three members of the liquor control commission and members of his auditing staff. He said the committee will be comprised of one person from his office another from the liquor commission and a third from the office of state comptroller Marvin Selden. A the committee will be instructed to report Back within 30 Days a Smith said. Too Shelden said a maybe the liquor accounting and inventory system is Okay the Way it is but its 40 years old and everyone who a Ever been in touch with it Lias been critical of a for a very few dollars we also could have someone come in and look at what we re doing a Selden added. Liquor control commission chairman Homer Adcock concurred. A for several years we be known our accounting system is old and we need to change it. We need to hire a Man to come in and study it a Adcock said. No action was taken on that recommendation. Byrne to head county drive for Wesleyan Lynn Byrne Hospital administrator of the Henry county memorial Hospital it. Pleasant will be the chairman of Iowa Wesleyan colleges 1970 Henry county fund raising Campaign Wesleyan president Louis a. Haselmayer announced today. Or. Byrne has been Active in Community service since his arrival in it. Pleasant in 1961. He is vice president of the it. Pleasant Community Chest a Board member and immediate past president of the chamber of Commerce and a Board member and vice president of the Henry county cancer and Henry county tuberculosis and health associations. A member of the it. Pleasant kiwanis club since 1961, Byrne is currently lieutenant governor of division 9 of kiwanis. A native of Arnegard n.d., Byrne holds a b.p.h., degree from the u. Of North Dakota and a . Degree from the u. Of Michigan. Too this years county drive for the College is sept 23-oct. 14 and the goal has been set at $60,000. The drive is part of three major financial campaigns to raise the level of giving for the 1970-71 operational budget. Other campaigns Are being planned on a National basis in the areas of alumni and Parent giving and in a11 three a number of $1,000 Challenge gifts Are being sought. In the county ten $1,000 Challenge gifts Are being obtained to encourage new gifts to Wesleyan and to get past donors to make increases Over previous gifts. The $10,000 will match Dollar for Dollar All new gifts and gift increases. Detailed plans for the county Campaign Are being worked out and various vice chairmen committees captains and workers Are being organized in preparation for the sept. 23 kick off. Special gifts in addition to Challenge monies will be solicited prior to the official opening of the drive. Expect defeat of plan to limit Washington up a administration spokesmen said today they have the votes to defeat a move to limit expansion of the safeguard anti ballistic missile system. President Nixon wants authority to build installations at Whitman defense pounds away Al mrs. Kasabian Angeles up a defense attorney Irving Kanarek pounded away today with More Cross examination of key state witness Linda Kasabian despite the objection of other defense attorneys to his tactics. The lawyer for 35-year-old hippie cult Leader Charles Manson handed another bloody photograph of one of the victims of the Tate Labianco playing to mrs. Kasabian on the witness stand As he sought to Force her to admit that she also had gone into the Tate residence. Mrs. Kasabian averted her eyes from the photograph. The a United defense put Forth by Manson and the three Young women co defendants was disintegrating and other defense attorneys said that Kanarek might be doing a Good Job for Manson but he was implicating the girls. Kanarek showed mrs. Kasabian a photograph of a window at the Tate Home and asked her if she had looked into the House. She replied that she had been standing by Charles a a text Watson and did glance through the window. She said that All she saw was a table and a Book Case in the room. Objections by the prosecution squelched Many of Kanarek a questions including one about Why she had lived in communes All Over the United states. The 21-year-old witness was in her 12th Day of testimony in the Case. She was granted immunity monday in the seven slayings. Air Force base in Missouri and Warren air Force base in Wyoming. Sens. John Sherman Cooper r-ky., and Philip a. Hart d-mich., Are trying to Amend the pending military procurement Bill to confine deployment of the Abms to the two presently authorized Sites in Montana and North Dakota. Too terse verse a. Gordon concerning average living it is better to have met a mind that can to remember than a Tongue that can to forget. Rain improves Corn Outlook Des Moines up a Iowa scorn crop Outlook brightened with substantial rainfall Over All but extreme Western counties week the weekly crop and weather report said monday. The Bureau said Corn condition reports indicated 31 cent excellent crops 44 cent Good 20 cent fair and 5 cent poor. About 55 cent of the crop was in the dough or sweetcorn stage Thile 15 cent was in the More advanced denting or hardening stage. At this time year 35 cent had reached the dough stage with denting just starting. A few reports indicate some Root worm damage and Southern Leaf blight in localized areas in Southeast Iowa. Thirty seven cent of the soybean reports indicated the soybean crop was in excellent condition with 53 cent termed Good. 19 cent fair and i cent poor. The report said week was a poor week for haying with 90 capt of the second cutting of Alfalfa and 60 cent of the Clover harvested. Water to be shut off in two areas replacement of water hydrants in two areas makes it necessary to shut off water in those areas utilities manager James Ritter said tuesday. The water will be shut off on sheaf Fer drive from Cherry to Walnut on wednesday from 9 toll . And will be shut off on Walnut from Washington to Webster from Locust to Walnut on thursday from i to 4. Memorial Hospital notes admitted monday Jimmie Mahan of Fairfield mrs. Gerald Barnes Arthur Rawlings dismissed monday mrs. Robert Thornburg and baby boy birth monday boy to or. And mrs. Fred Rugg of route 5 at 3 23 . Admitted tuesday Sally Roth Sara Roth Laura Johnson of it. Union dismissed tuesday Francis Mendenhall to veterans Hospital Iowa City. David Day Gary Quinlin of Winfield Anna Jones of Columbus Junction it. Pleasant native named College trustee Walter w. Straley who was born in it. Pleasant has been appointed to the Board of trustees of Bank Street College of education in new York City it was announced by John h. Niemeyer president of the College. A graduate of North High school in Des Moines and of Grinnell College where he is a member of the Board of overseers. Or. Straley is vice president in charge of the department of environmental affair., american Telephone and Telegraph a department created by at amp to because of its concern with the problems besetting the cities he is chairman of the newly formed National Reading Council of the department of health education and welfare and was formerly a member of the new York City Board of education. Or. Straley continues his personal involvement in new York City affairs As a member of the educational task Force of the new York Urban coalition. He is also a trustee of the National Council on crime and delinquency. Last year the Senate voted approval for those two Sites by a one vote margin. The vote this year a set for 3 30 . Edt wednesday May be just As close. Counts ordered by Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott and his Deputy sen. Robert p. Griffin showed 50 votes for the system to 48 against it. Republicans also were claiming they had a commitment from one Republican senator who is opposed to the expansion to withhold his vote and be recorded As in a a a pair with sen. Karl e. Mundt r-s.d., and supporter who is ill. They declined to identify the senator. Too democratic Leader Mike Mansfield discounted the Republican claim for defeat of the amendment. He said a a it a still a with the vote one Day away Cooper charged in a floor speech that the Pentagon is resorting to a wrong and unfair tactics. Nerve trains on run toward sea up two military trains carrying deadly nerve rockets cleared their Large City today and started their run toward the sea where the will be dumped in the Ocean Depths. A 24-car train from the Richmond ky., Arsenal rolled Down through the Appalachia Coal country during the night and made its Way through Spartanburg s. the largest City along its route about 9 . At the same hour a 46-car train from the Anniston ala., army depot left Athens ga., after a two hour Stop to take on added fuel and water. The two trains pick up the same track at Clinton s. C., and head almost eastward in their run for the sunny Point military terminal near Wilmington n. C., where the will be loaded aboard an old ship Hull for disposal in the Atlantic. The Anniston train looped far to the South to avoid passing through Atlanta and the Richmond train also detoured around the big population centers of Greensboro Winston Salem and Charlotte . Charlotte is the largest City in the Carolinas. Crowds turned out All along the routes of the two trains apparently satisfied by the army a assurances that the chances of an Accident Are Walter w. Straley drugs never cure a problem speaker Stales a drugs never cured a problem. What they do is create that was the statement of Earl Roberts of Burlington w to after serving several prison terms is now giving Good advice to Young people and adults. He was speaking at the kiwanis meeting Here monday evening. Roberts who has had numerous radio exposures and is speaking before student groups said that Young people do not know what they Are getting into when they Start drugs. Peoples ability to love Oiler people can be an important deterrent to crime he pointed out. He recited several instances in which some incident has caused hate or resentment to develop. It May stay hidden for Many years and liven crop out he said. Showing love and appreciation can mean so much to individuals he said As lie cited specific sex i Aniles. J announcement was made that a i ladies night and Steak Barbecue j will be held at the Home of or. And mrs. Warner Russell on september a

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