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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 17, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 193 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening August 17, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain will Domestic spending undermine foreign policy president Nixon has a great reve Tiv inn Tibig rally going in foreign policy. Hie ninety Day Cool off in tile Middle East will take him through August september and october a virtually to election Day. Unless the palestinian Arab guerrillas upset things Nixon s enemies won t be Able to manipulate the israeli Arab confrontation to Soots Points while the Campaign is on. And in Southeast Asia the Monsoon Rains should keep that front at least relatively Safe for the White House until some time in october. But even if the senatorial doves a and the College campuses presumably wont halve any cambo Chas or phantom jets to Israel crises to exploit on the hustings for a couple of months to come Richard Nixon who prides himself on his knowing Ness in foreign affairs. May be digging his grave As an International statement foreign policy in America will in the Long no be no Batter than the . Dollar and the Nixon Domestic policies far from being truly anti inflationary Are designed whether consciously or not to break the Bank. At the rate that Domestic spending will Mach if the Nixon revised family assistance plan passes Congress there won t be any Money left for High Grade defense a programs and what the soviets will do with that opening is almost to horrible to contemplate. Our Short run successes in the Middle Bast and Southeast Asia won t is Worth a dime. A a a a the White howls in election Campaign strategy will make much of foreign policy successes. But How is the White House going to explain the possible imminence of a $15 billion budget deficit Dor the current fiscal year How is it going to laugh off a projected $20 billion deficit for fiscal 1072? these figures Are being mentioned Sotto Voce in White House office cubicles the Nixon strategy for the Autt Joni will be to couple the Rosy foreign affairs speeches with denunciations of the democratically font round Congress for High wide and handsome spending and for overriding vetoes of the hew appropriation Bill and such. But All this will ring Hotow if Congress enacts an administration sponsored guaranteed annual family income plan that will More then double the welfare Roll from ten million to Twenty four million and add $4 billion and maybe much moire to the existing annual welfare Russell Long of Louisiana the democratic chairman of the Senate finance committee has been almost As displeased by the verified White House version of the family assistance plan Btu As he was with the original. But at last reports As he was inclined to wobble presumably because his party can to afford to be ant family assistance in an election year. Long admits that a guaranteed income plan designed to put every family Over the $4,641 Mark in welfare Money Fiaman flt and food Stamps would pot 35 per cent of the people of on welfare. Still Uncertain about Corn damage by up the Southern Leaf blight Plant disease is sweeping com farms in the South and Midwest with potentially Devastino results. A the disease May be As bad As the Irish potato famine in Ireland in the 1800s, a says or. Luther Farrell Extension Plant pathologist for Alabama. Estimates of damage to the 1970 National com crop Range from to. Oiler members of the finance committee a senators John Williams of Delaware and Herman Talmadge of George a ooh Lang a concerti for the inflationary potential of of Tammy assistance. Williams doubts that the a work incentives a aspects of the plan would cause anyone on Relief to do any extensive Job Hunting. Going from an unemployed status to full time work at Standard minimum wage mites would give family assisted people Only from Twenty three to thirty cents on the Dollar. Yet in spite of his doubts senator Long is committed to getting a Btu out this yearn mid the majority on ads committee will keep it from being anti inflationary. It int that pres debt Nixon has done any elimination of other welfare spending to make family As stance palatable to Budge balancers. Says senator Talmadge a i attempted to find out where the Trade offs would be. I requested a detailed list of programs that the administration intends to of limit finite or reduce in order to pay for the welfare will. There was no response to the Georgia democrats request for information. So How is Nixon going to it stick when Hie chastises the democrats for spendthrift action senator Taf Cnadis would be Light there As a a truth squad of ens to Call the republicans a Bunch Al phonies. Senator Fannin of action has offered a Btu that would make it mandatory tor Congress to balance the budget every year saws in times Walgren Sto enlarge store at new London Walgren a markets of it pleasant and new London have announced plans to enlarge the store at new London. The addition to the building will double the Selling area of the present store. The new addition will include expansion of the meat department Frozen food and Dairy department As Well As additional shelving space for the grocery department. The new Structure will be of steel with a Brick front and new automatic doors. Kenneth Wittaker who has been with the firm for several years will be a new partner. Other partners in the company Are Richard Walgren Stan Walgren Joe Casanova and John Ensminger. Work on the new addition will begin very soon. Explosion in Minneapolis Minneapolis Minn. Up a an explosion at the Federal building in downtown Minneapolis Early today blew out a dozen 10-foot windows threw pieces of Concrete 450 feet into a parking lot across the Street and injured a Security guard. Eight to 20 Sticks of dynamite had been placed under the main Steps on the East Side an officer at the scene said. But Federal authorities said they were not yet certain How the bomb was made. The blast severed the Steps from the buildings leaving a Hole about 10-feet High and 8-feet wide under the door. Concrete beams weighing around 300 pounds were heaved out to the curb. A Security guard inside the building when the bomb went off at 2 58 Arn. Was treated and released from a Hospital. Terrorists injure 35 Saigon up a Viet Cong terrorists injured at least 35 persons in bombings in Saigon sunday night and today. The u. S. Command said american forces accidentally fired on South vietnamese troops killing eight men and wounding seven others. Saigon police officials said the bombings appeared to be the opening of a terror Campaign in the capital to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the communist takeover of North Vietnam. Coal line directors and officers to meet tuesday night the Board of directors and officers of the goal line club will meet at the Roth Barber shop at 700 alter drive at 7 00 . Tuesday to make plans for the 1970-71 year. Any interested member May attend. The directors Are or. Ledru Kauffman Lawrence Mccoy l. W. Van Winkle Dwight Mehaffy Mel Kurtz Roth Dale Teberg Charles Shappell a a Doc Nau Lloyd Rose Chuck Robison Vint Rankin Bill Anderson Doyle Moxley and Don alter. Roth is presently president Bill Stoner vice president Bob Bon Trager treasurer and Jim Rose Secretary. There will be an election of officers. Of declared wars. A Good idea but Nixon would have to veto it if he continues to insist on raising the number of . Families on welfare Tram ten to Twenty four million. Distributed by King features Syndicate to 50 per cent. Agricultural scientists and u. S. Department of agriculture experts say the extent of damage will not be known fully until after late maturing Corn is harvested. Too Chicago Board of Trade Grain prices were substantially higher today with com futures remaining Strong. Soybeans and wheat fell off slightly from opening highs but Oats remained Strong. Live hog futures were also sharply higher in Early Active Trade. Too or. George w. Irving head of the Usdan a research service said top agricultural scientists across the nation have been summoned to Washington for meetings this week to discuss a everything known a bout the disease. Officials said the disease was first noted in Mississippi and Florida this june and appears to have spread on the wind to Indiana Illinois Iowa Nebraska North Carolina Georgia Alabama and Tennessee. It Iowa and Nebraska officials said the disease appears to be at Low Levels but May get worse. Or. E. R. Duncan of Iowa state University said the problem there is a potentially Boom times the howitzers Are Busy at fire support base of Reilly blasting away at communist positions. The Mountaintop base is in the North of South Vietnam near Laos Border and blocks infiltration from Cambodia so attack is expected. Four lunged after car and truck Accident a 1963 Pontiac driven by Terry Lee Stutes 21, Keokuk and a 1968 Chevrolet truck driven by John w. Klug 39, Farmington collided on Highway 218 South of it. Pleasant just North of the Salem stub at 6 15 . Saturday. No one was injured Klug was driving South on his Way Home from Winfield where he competed in a tractor pull at Winfield and according to the Highway patrol report the northbound Stutes car made an illegal pass spun a round into the truck and went into the West ditch. The truck continued Down the Highway and angled off into the West ditch and into a bean Field the tractor upsetting off the truck. Three passengers in the Stutes car left the scene and were taken into custody later in it. Pleasant. They Are George r. Dickens 20, Roger e. Dickens 20, and Harold e. White 24, All of Keokuk. They were placed in the county jail in lieu of $500 Bond each on charges filed by the patrol. They appeared in Justice Joe Ruby a court again monday morning and the Dickens were fined a total of $50 and costs each on charges of intoxication and illegal Possession of Beer As minors. White was fined $25 and costs for intoxication and $25 for making Beer available to a minor. Stutes was charged with improper passing. The Pontiac was totally damaged. The truck and tractor were damaged an estimated $800. Willing to Deal on pact Washington up a the Nixon administration is so optimistic about Tho chances for a weapons limitation agreement with the soviet Union it is willing to scrap the safeguard anti ballistic missile system to effect such a pact. In Exchange for Nixon giving up the according to administration aides the soviets would have to scrap their antimissile system and agree to out Back construction the ss9, a new intercontinental Balletic missile. Claim proof of violation by Egypt Jerusalem up a israeli military sources today claimed absolute proof that egyptian forces Are moving soviet missiles toward the Suez canal in violation of the Middle East cease fire. Foreign minister Abba s. Eban said he expected the United states to Back up Israel and verify the moves. A the most urgent thing right now is the question of israelis sincerity a Eban said at news conference. A we must reach a common understanding with the United states that these violations took Eban was commenting on a statement sunday in Washington by defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird that it was a difficult to prove or disprove the antiaircraft missile movements which Israel began reporting shortly after the Suez canal cease fire went into effect pm aug. 7. Israel holds the United states responsible for overseeing the terms of the cease fire which is designed to pave the Way for peace talks under u. N. Auspices. Ass student arrives Here Maria Fernanda Decenzi 17, of mar Del Plata Argentina arrived in it. Pleasant on Friday aug. 15, to make her Home with the Miles Nesbitt family of 808 Sheaffer drive. She is the ass student who will be attending it. Pleasant High school this year. Maria is interested in business administration and enjoys yachting swimming and Tennis. Amy Nesbitt who will be a senior at mph in the fall will be Maria a american sister. Soviet sends rocket ship heavy rain in part of county it. Pleasant was at the extreme North Edge of a thunderstorm that moved across extreme Southeastern Iowa saturday evening. Only a few sprinkles fell North and West of it. Pleasant but in town. A Brief downpour occurred and there was some Sharp lightning briefly. To the South and East. A heavy downpour occurred with estimates of the rainfall ranging Between one and two inches. Strong winds accompanied the thunderstorm in that half of Iowa population in 15 counties Des Moines a idea a the latest census figures show that one half of the states population lives in Only 15 counties. The pattern reflects the growing trend of the cities and suburbs. The Bureau of the census reports that Iowa a population on april i of this year according to a preliminary count was 2,789,893. This represents an increase of 32,356 or 12 per cent from the 2,757,537 iowans enumerated in the 1960 census. The final census figures will be released later this year and the census Bureau concedes that the final figures a May differ from the preliminary counts for a number of actually Many of the preliminary figures have been revised. For example the first nose count for Polk county listed 279,848 people now the census Bureau has increased its estimate for Polk county to 281,478. Revised preliminary population figures of there have been revisions since the earlier reports police trap at Omaha Omaha neb. Up a one police officer was killed and seven others injured by a dynamite explosion Early today when they apparently were lured to a vacant House police said. Police said they received a Call that a woman was reported screaming. Eight officers were sent to the House on the City a predominantly negro near North Side. A number of phony Calls had come from the area recently police said. The Call came three hours after three policemen were injured and five persons arrested in a disturbance. An officer found a suitcase inside the Structure and As he moved it it exploded. The officer identified As Larry Menard 30, was killed. One officer was blown through a Back door and another Halfway across the front Lawn. A resident standing across the Street was also knocked Down. The House a wit t Ness said was a shattered to kindling with some Walls barely standing. Toward Venus Moscow up a the soviet Union launched its seventh unmanned rocket ship toward Venus today on a four month voyage to explore the hot and hostile atmosphere of Earth a closest planetary Nigbor. The official Tass news Agency said the probe named Venus 7, began its journey at 8 38 . Moscow time 1 38 . Edt broke free of Earth a Gravity and began the Long coast to intercept Venus As it makes a close approach to Earth later this year. It was the first major soviet space exploration attempt since june when cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastianos spent More than 18 Days in space longer than any other men on a single flight. The last soviet probe of another planet was in May 1969, when Venus 5 and Venus 6 penetrated the dense atmosphere of Venus a Day apart and radioed Back information during a smooth descents of nearly an hour. The soviets did not say if those two ships made soft landings. Pole on fire firemen were called to the Dale Beal residence at 303 North Adams Street at 1 12 . Monday where a Telephone pole was on fire. The fire was quickly extinguished. One injured near Winfield a 1266 Plymouth driven by Dale r. Little 24, Winfield went off a read in Miles North of Winfield that is being repaired and rolled Over in a ditch on the top at 10 45 p in. Saturday. Damage was total. Wjlliam. Lloyd 21, Columbus Junction i passenger in the car was taken to memorial Hospital Here and treated for lacerations and released. The Accident was investigated by Deputy sheriff Charles Droz. 1970 1960 % change Henry 17,905 18,187 -1.6 Jefferson 15,433 15,816 -2.4 Van Buren 8,510 9.778 -13.0 Lee 41,926 44,207 -5.2 Des Moines 46,481 44,605 4.2 Louisa 10,506 10,923 -8.2 Washington 16,956 19,406 -2.3 cities and towns Over 1,000 it. Pleasant 6,990 7,339 -4.8 Fairfield 8,478 8,064 5.3 Washington 6,275 6,037 39 new London 1,877 1,694 10.8 Burlington 32,029 32,430 -1.2 it. Madison 13,106 15,247 -14.0 Keokuk 14,459 16,316 a terse verse by a c. Gordon they also swear and berate who Only stand and wait. Sylvia Nichting Sylvia Nichting Queen at . Sylvia Nichting 16, daughter of or. And mrs. Sylvan Nichting Pilot Grove was named Queen of the West Point Sweet com festival saturday night. The two Day event Drew Large crowds and tons of free Sweet Corn were consumed. Tow nerve Quot As out to sea aboard the Hartlet up a the condemned is Lebaron Russell Briggs its Betty lied with 418 vaults of Poison Nae. Silently followed a tug today towing the old War Veteran to a burial site 282 Milles off Cape Kennedy. A specially trained Crew will scuttle the faded Gray world War ii Liberty ship and its lethal cargo of 67 tons of nerve Gas in 16,000 feet of water tuesday unless a storm interferes. No soviets at Poseidon test Cape Kennedy up a tile nuclear submarine Janies Madison successfully test fired its second Poseidon missile at sea today and this time the Range was Clear of soviet eavesdroppers. The nearest russian ship was hundreds of Miles to the North. A soviet spy ship boldly watched from a distance of Only 3,000 Yards two weeks ago when the James Madison launched the first of the Mew multiple warhead rockets while submerged 30 Miles offshore. But today an accompanying destroyer and aircraft reported there were no unauthorized vessels in the area. The greatest steam show this is it editors note the following mews Story about the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion was mailed this weekend to news medias throughout the Midwest. Too engineers and engines will be making their annual pilgrimage Back to it. Pleasant Iowa sep trober 3-7, when tile Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion hosts visitors coming to the 21st annual steam spectacular. Dana close Jennings author photographer who in 1969 wrote the volume on the it. Pleasant show which he titled a the greatest steam show on Earth a stated in his opening a there is the biggest conglomeration of ancient steam traction engines Early Gas tractors classic automobiles old time steam trains and Pioneer artefacts you la find and it is just that. Steam engines numbering nearly too Large and Small models remain the stars of the show even though there Are literally hundreds of other displays and demonstrations to keep those of a1 Ages fully entertained during any length of stay. Too Between the horse and the gasoline engine these steam giants were a source of Power for farming sawing lumber threshing Grain baling blowing land shredding com grading roads and Many other farm tasks. At the reunion they can be seen in operation daily Dong some of these assignments and each one chugs past the grandstand in a cavalcade of Power joined by dozens of Gas tractors and Many of the too Vintage autos that take part in the a Parade of at this ambitious offering of Early farm Days there Are Many collections of farm and Home equipment and furnishings besides guns Indian relics and Antiques of every nature. Antiques Are for Sale too. Too the Midwest a largest exhibits of stationery Gas engines can be seen at the it. Pleasant gathering. Three Hundred Are expected this year. These Gas engines were the farmstead Power Plant before electricity that ran the Cream separa tors washing machines pumps Corn shellers Etc. The Iowa chapter of the Early Gas engines and tractor association supervise this i popular attraction. The Midwest Village offers a taste to All of How it use to be. Visitors May join in a hymn sing at the Church sip cider at the tavern while listening to tile tinkle of that old Pisario see a Blacksmith at his forge buy a sunbonnet at the country Stere Purchase a ticket at the depot for a ride aboard the Midwest Central Railroad probably the country a busiest one mile Railroad where a shortage of passer a trs is no problem. To crafts area has been enlarged to accommodate More artisans who take a special Pride in Perpet Uay a g the fir heritage. Visitors will wart to linger awhile As they watch Broom making soap making quilting. Caving Rug weaving doll making decoupage pictures Wood carving spinning Glass blowing hooked rugs being made Rock sawing polishing Etc., and the Potter. Too. Grand Ole opry Talent from Nashville ten i. Will make their first appearance at this grassroots funnest. Kitty Wells will visit re Union ers in front of the grandstand thursday night Roy Acuff and Tex Ritter will appear twice Friday evening and Stonewall Jackson and Little Jimmy Dickens will attract the spectators attention sunday evening at two shows. The famed Soh Aff Mer players Starling the fabulous Jimmy Davis As Toby will present two afternoon and nightly performances in the big Brown tent americans last remaining travelling tent theatre. Early arrivers May see shows two nights before the reunion officials by opens. Those who like to compete or watch Competition will seek out the old fiddlers contest saturday evening tile checker tournament saturday and sunday and1 Tho Horseshoe tournament sunday. Too camping on the grounds grows in popularity with ground trains servicing the area. Flying Farmers Host those coming in by air and free bus service is offered those at tending to and from the downtown Are in it. Pleasant. This is not a to spectacular. Rather it is a place to relive for five wonderful Days life As it was in a a grandma a the Harp members and Young teenage hostesses join hundreds of volunteers in a Friendly Welcome to All who come. With a $2 membership Button which admits anyone from erne to All five Days it is a real entertainment bargain. Children under High school age Are welcomed free of charge at this a giant of All steam shows Tine Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion it. Pleasant Iowa september 3rd through 7th, labor Day weekend. Agnew Calls Bill blueprint for losing War Miami Beach up a vie president Spiro t. Agnew charged today that a so called end the War proposal pending in the Senate was a Blue print for losing the Vietnam War and ruining chances for peace in Southeast Asia for the rest of the 20th Century. Agnew himself characterized his charges As a among the strongest since i took office As vice president but declared a no More dangerous proposal has been presented to the american Congress in those 19 months a. Or in 19 years for that matter a than an amendment to shut off financing of Southeast Asia operations by the end of this year and to pull out All troops by mid-1971. The amendment is sponsored by Sens. Mark o. Hatfield r ore., and George s. Mcgovern is. D., to the Long pending military procurement Bill now being debated in the Senate. The Senate currently is involved in debate on moves to limit anti ballistic missile delay ment also proposed As amendments to the Bill. A vote on the Hatfield Mcgovern amendment is not expected until late August or Early september. The sights and sounds of this scene in the Midwest Village will again be greeting visitors when the 21st annual Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion opens september 3rd for a five Day run. Neat monday August 24th, engines and machinery will be moved out of the buildings and later that week August 27th and 28tl�, the tents will be erected. Hearts and Homes will be open to Welcome the thousands of reunion ers expected to visit the it. Pleasant Community dulling these eventful Days

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