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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 26, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair vol. 92, no. 201 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening August 26, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the crypt repudiation of sen. Charles Goodell can one sense a coming overturn in the politics of new York state the news of outright repudiation of the senatorial candidacy of a Charles Goodell on the part of official Republican bigwigs has not it reached an impressive volume. Even so important party officials and office holders have been phrasing their statements about Goodell in some mighty Peculiar ways. Many of them seem to be saying to their followers a look As a party Leader r must pay lip service to the concept of party loyalty. But you members of the rank and file done to have to do any such thing. So if you want to vote for the conservative senatorial nominee James Buckley who is actually a registered Republican ill never hold it against in the North country the Hudson Valley Long Island and other areas outside the new York City area the. Crypt repudiation of Goodell continue. Says rep. Henry Smith Iii of North Tonawanda As of August 3a Charlie could turn me off before the says rep. Barber Iii Conable of Alexander a i want to support Charlie. But in a not going to be a hypocrite about says rep. Robert c. Mcewen of Ogdensburg a was things stand now i cannot support says rep. Martin Mckneally of Newburg a the things that Goodell stands for neither Nixon nor i stand for nor do the bulk of the people of this says Edwin m. Sci Wienck chairman of the Suffolk county Republican committee a i would be pleased to meet and appear with Jim Buckley a the conservative party candidate for 17.8. Senator for new York a any place any time but not with or. Goodell the Republican candidate. I do not care to be in Goodells too these Are not outright pledges to vote for anybody. But if i were Charlie Goodell a i. E., if i were an sex conservative Republican who had gone Over to an extreme liberalism including a Bug out position on Vietnam a i would count myself the victim of one of the coldest Semi repudiation in political history. In addition to the tacit desertions Goodell is going to have to reckon with some actual repudiation. Says the town supervisor of Hempstead Frank Purcell a a in a voting for Buckley a says Hamilton fish sr., who last defected from party orthodoxy Way Back in the Days of Teddy Roosevelt a Bull Moose insurgency Quot in a for Ham fish Hasni to yet brought Ham fish or. Of Millbrook Over to his Way of thinking but Ham or. Is keeping a a flow profile in support of Goodell As the party nominee. In Oneonta state assemblyman Edwyn d. Mason has announced for Buckley. So has assemblyman Edward j. Keenan of Ogdensburg. State senator John March of Staten Island who was the 1969 Republican nominee for mayor of new Yorac City has of course been for Buckley from the very beginning. Too this is the Way things have been going As of the Middle of August. Governor Nelson Rockefeller who has staked his prestige on support of Goodell whom he named to the Senate in the first place Hasni to yet begun to apply real pressure on the party officials to remain faithful to the whole ticket. As these words Are written Buckley supporters Are wondering if Rocky would Ever go so far As to require written pledges of support for Goodell. They recall that when Lyndon Johnson tried to enforce party regularity in new Hampshire in 1968, the whole business backfired in favor of Eugene Mccarthy. Anything said before labor Day about autumn politics is naturally subject to discount. But if Goodell can to do something about the crypt repudiation by labor Day it will be All Over for him. Either the incredibly Well heeled Liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger or conservative Jim Buckley will win. Abd if it happens to be Buckley it could change a lot of history in tile next . Senate. The stakes in new York Are National and even International. And the Honor of the or. In International affairs could be Riding on Buckley a chances. Old threshers a links with downtown my Circle a round the Square any Day starting next monday if you want to see the newest addition of the annual old threshers reunion. The merchants of it. Pleasant Are going All out to carry the atmosphere of the reunion downtown. Nearly every store window around the Square and North on Jefferson and main will contain Antiques ranging from buttons to bottles. The work is the project of the Hulda Saunders chapter of quester. These ladies most of whom Are collectors themselves have acquired additional collections from several Henry county residents and will be responsible for three plus Day care instead of head Start children enrolled in the coming head Start classes must be old enough to attend school the fall of 1971. In service training for head Start personnel will be held at St. Patrick a school in Burlington sept. 15, 16 and 17. The head Start program began in it. Pleasant in 1988 with two summer classes of 20 children each. Space was donated by the schools. A full year class for 16 children was conducted during the 1968-1969 school year and another class for 16 during the 1969-70 year. A class for 16 also was conducted last summer but head Start officials this year decided that eight weeks Wasny to a Long enough period to work with the children and a greater need exists for a Day care Center to help working mothers. Too the Day care Center held at the new National guard armory was begun with the use of head Start funds but will be funded in the future As a Day care Center. Some of the head Start staff and volunteers help operate the Center. Although a a regular enrolment of children three to six years of age totals 16, there Are 28 enrolled counting older Brothers and Sisters. The staff consists of mrs. Sandy Gill teacher mrs. Phyllis Parker aide mrs. Sue Woods aide mrs. Dorothy Birdsell head Start aide helping with Day care mrs Mary Ellen Biggs head Start teacher mrs. Phyllis Goddard Cook and mrs. Carol Dietrick nurse working part time with the program. Also assigned to the Center Are Phillip Sommers neighbourhood youth corps worker serving As janitor and to Rena Downey worker under the governors summer youth employment Opportunity program. Windows each. They will gather the items to be displayed and make the arrangements in the store windows often with the help of the owners of the Antiques. When the reunion is ended the ladies will return the items to their owners. As might be expected in it. Pleasant the enthusiasm of the quester was met by merchants and space was gladly Given. Some of the businessmen have gone even farther offering collections of their own to be used. The exhibits will be placed in downtown windows on monday August 31, in order that townspeople will have an Opportunity to enjoy them before the crowds and working on the grounds keeps Many of the local people from the downtown area. The collections will be removed on tuesday sept. 8. Special signs with Gold streamers will Mark the windows featuring the displays. Printed lists will be available at Headquarters on the grounds of the reunion designating the kind of display and where it will be located. In As much As possible the stores will be featuring displays in keeping with the merchandise handled within. A full list of donors display types and location of business will be printed in the news Early next week. Pieces of Pewter shaving mugs fans antique goblets Glass bottles clocks furniture guns buttons Money dolls quilts Iron cooking utensils paperweights Bells Wood end ear and books will adorn the downtown windows next week. Whether you have special interests you want to View or can take a leisurely tour of the whole area residents and reunion visitors have a new Opportunity to share in memories of yesterday. Martha Caris is the chairman for the project. The quester who Are working to unify downtown it. Pleasant with the threshers grounds Are Edith Lane president Mary Bennett Effie Bergdahl Margaret Cantwell Adra Coghlan Margaret Eckey Marge Harper Marge Hunt Candace Jericho Connie Lovett Loraine Mccabe Erma of Connor Helen Rohde and Elaine Rukgaber. Variety in w Omen s Day observances War anti herbicide Bill loses in Senate prepare records of Thresher Antiques members of the inventory committee identify and to pieces of machinery before the Thresher reunion. The goal of the group is to identify each item record its history and catalogue it for old threshers files hoping one Day to restore every piece belonging to the association. Milo Mathews is chairman of the committee which works year around on the inventory records. Left to right Phil Young grandson of Mary Ewart mrs. Ewari or. Mathews and june Klopfenstein. Enjoys Watermelon at fall festival Farmington a Bradley Smith 4, son of or. And mrs. Gene Smith of Farmington a Small boy wanted a Small piece of Watermelon at the Jaycee fall festival in Farmington saturday where 140 free watermelons were served. The melons were purchased by the Jaycees and served by the Lions club. Games and contests and rides were featured in the annual event. Try outs for production postponed try outs for Community theatre productions scheduled for sunday and monday August 30 and 31 have been postponed. There will be an important Board meeting on August 31, 7 30 pm at the presbyterian Church. Public is invited. Agnew confers w till Chiang Sun Moon Lake Taiwan up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew and nationalist chinese president Chiang Kai Shek reviewed the Security situation in Asia tonight during a private meeting at Chiango a Mountain Retreat. Agnew came to this Island bastion off the chinese Mainland to reassure Chiang that american overtures toward communist China will not Compromise . Defense commitments to nationalist China. The conference took place Only a few hours after Agnew arrived on Taiwan from South Korea. It is the second Stop on agnews asian tour who Chi will take him to South Vietnam Thailand and1 probably Cambodia. Chinese officials said Agnew asked Chiang Kai Shek to give his View of the world situation particularly events in Asia. Agnew in turn explained to the nationalist chinese president some of the Domestic problems facing the United states particularly the economic and financial ones according to the officials. Internal combustion engines leading race across is Chicago up a after two Days most of the on schedule cars in the transcontinental clean air race were the ones with a familiar internal combustion Roar. The whirr of electricity and the cambodian troops expect new attack Saigon up a Field reports today said More than 1,000 cambodian troops were digging in at a Village nine Miles North of the cambodian capital of phenom penh for a new wave of communist attacks. In South Vietnam communiques reported five americans killed in widely separated action two of them when . Artillerymen accidentally shelled their own lines. Up correspondent Frank Frosch. In a dispatch from phenom penh said three battalions of cambodian infantry were reinforcing positions in the Village of Prek Tameka for assaults by North vietnamese units expected tonight. Wheeze of steam were beginning to lag behind. And a hybrid steam Oil Burner vehicle was still trying to get started. Most of the vehicles which pulled into Detroit for the second overnight Stop were internal combustion types the Chicago Headquarters of the race said tuesday night. Some use regular non leaded gasoline others subsist on liquid propane liquid Petroleum Gas diesel fuel or liquid natural Gas. One hybrid electric car no. 71 from Worcester mass., polytechnic Institute arrived at the general motors corp. Plant i Warren Mich. It was towed the last five Miles however Beca Jse of a fire caused by overheating. Two steam driven vehicles were completely and finally out of the race with insuperable problems. A third steam car designed to draw steam from boilers fired by a Home Furnace Oil Burner was still garaged at the Massachusetts Institute of technology starting Point for the race. A we can to seem to get the boilers to stay lighted a Brunn w. Roysden jr., 25, Owensboro ky., adding that they hoped to get on the Road Early enough to be considered an official entry. Each of the 42 cars which entered the race was designed and built by students. Many received help from automakers and other Industry sources. The Winner will be determined by a formula including the rate of pollution emission. Contestants Are expected to begin pulling into the California Institute of technology at los Angeles about sunday. By up demonstrations to free women from their a second sex role got under Way slowly today and emerged in varied forms. In new York demonstrators passed out a parody of the new York times a a product of the National organization for women which was called the now York times. The columns contained an interview with a Dixon a alleged head of a masculine St group a movie review of a film rated a a we meaning women must accompany men and a sports Story by a truth too some of the feminist strategy seemed puzzling. In Pittsburgh four women pelted windows of a radio station with eggs before they drove off in a oar. Studio officials said they were unable to figure it out unless they had offended some listeners by airing a feature called a great women in later a speaker at a Pittsburgh suffrage rally told a cheering crowd of Bra less and Blue leaned listen ers that her group threw the eggs because a disk jockey on the air a a dared them to try something. Too women a liberation devotees in Indianapolis ind., ran into a problem with the predominantly male government of the City a no permit for their painted 15-minute Street production entitled a male they said they might stage it anyway. Charlotte n.c., women handed out leaflets in the downtown area forming the Public they were not calling for a strike but for a educating women about their problems. Talks on research on farm buildings in Germany Tam Muehling associate professor in agricultural engineering at the University of Illinois was the guest speaker at the rotary club tuesday evening. Professor pudding and his family recently returned from a years sabbatical leave in Germany where he conducted specialized research on Modem farm buildings. His project was conducted at the Max Plank University in southwestern Germany in association with German agricultural engineers with special work on hog far Washington up the rowing buildings and various types Justice department said today an of slotted floors. His informative International narcotics ring has talk was illustrated with coloured been broken up by the arrest and slides which included highlights of indictment of two men on charges other european countries they of smuggling an estimated $17 Mil vis Tecl j lion Worth of heroin into this coun he was introduced by program try attorney general John n. Mitchell announced the two men were believe big narcotics ring broken up Washington up a the Senate refused today to bar further use in Vietnam of chemicals to destroy forests that shield communist troops and crops that feed them. Rejected was an anti herbicide amendment offered by sen. Gaylord Nelson d-wis., to the $19.2 billion defense procurement Bill. After disposing of the Nelson amendment 62 to 22, the Senate looked toward a vote next tuesday on a proposal by Sens. George s. Mcgovern is. D., and Mark o. Hatfield r-ore., to Force u. S. With Senate vote on asian Aid next tuesday drawl from Vietnam by the end of 1971. It appears destined for defeat. Sen. Albert Gore d-tenn., a Long time War critic said today he would vote against it. Too in the debate on Nelsons amendment to Stop use of defoliants i and crop killing chemicals he suggested that the United states was a endorsing the concept of starvation sen. John Stennis d miss., chairman of the Senate armed services committee defended the practice. A so Long As there is any possibility that the lives of american boys As Well As those of our allies can be seved by using herbicides there can be no justification for arbitrarily depriving our military commanders of the option of selective application of this material a Stennis said. Wife held in fatal shooting at Muscatine Muscatine up a the wife of a Muscatine main killed in an Early morning shooting was changed with murder today and was being held on $20.,000 Bond. Mrs. Donna Allen 38, appeared in municipal court Here and waived a preliminary hearing in com Necton with the death of her husband Donald Allen 38, who police said was shot with a .38 Caliper revolver about 3 . Today. Reports theft from car Foster Mattson it. Pleasant reported to City police at 1 25 . Wednesday that some credit cards and a Small amount of change were taken from his car while it was parked at Iris lanes. Washington up a the Senate has scheduled a crucial vote next tuesday on legislation designed to Force . Withdrawal from Southeast Asia in 16 months. Sponsors of the measure led by Sens. George s. Mcgovern d-s.d., and Mark o. Hatfield r-ore., a greed to an austere six hour debate limitation on the amendment As the Senate struggled to finish work on the $19.2 billion military procurement Bill. Debate on the procurement Bill which in former years took Only a Day or two to whip through the Senate is now in its second month. Strict time limitations were imposed on other amendments including an anti herbicide proposal by sen. Gaylord Nelson d-wis., scheduled for today. The Nelson amendment would bar defoliants and ant crop weapons now being used in Vietnam to destroy enemy food supplies and Jungle hideouts. A if our role is to defend Vietnam How can we risk destroying the environment in which they must survive when we leave a Nelson asked. Awards to two Bonaparte youths Bonaparte a life saving a wards were scheduled to be presented to two Bonaparte youths this afternoon at the Iowa state fair in Des Moines. The youths Are Steven proper 16, son of or. And mrs. Carl proper and Wesley Nelson 15, son of or. And mrs., Elmer Nelson. The boys were credited with saving Leo Dossett of Burlington from drowning in the Des Moines River at Bonaparte june 29, 1969. Dossiers boat had gone Over the dam and capsized. After rescuing Dossett the boys also saved his boat. President gives boost to women a goals san Clemente Calif. Up a president Nixon today hailed the 50th anniversary of american woman a suffrage and gave a boost to the women a liberation movement strike goals. In a proclamation saluting the i9th amendment giving women the vote Nixon said a a. Let us also recognize that women surely have a still wider role to play in the political economic and social life of our country. A and in respect for american women a he added a Tot All of us work to bring this Pat Nixon and her daughters Tricia 24, and Julie Eisenhower 22, had no activities or plans in connection with women a Equality rallies being staged throughout the country today. Her aides pointed out however that mrs. Nixon has a always supported equal rights for a highlight of the presidents working Day at the Western White House is to be his 2 15 . But meeting with Cardinal Terence Cooke the roman Catholic archbishop of new York who will report on his recent tour of u. 8.military bases in Europe. Cooke also will be Nixon a guest at lunch at his Seaside Spanish style Villa. Trying to make assistance j funds More accessible in area chairman Tom gamer president Virgil Hillman Intro meeting at Coffee House there will be a meeting at the High school Coffee House Friday p Pia and Leo hangs of by taken in custody by Geneva August 28, for any interested High a Ranur ria., y diced new rotary members Jim arrested in France and Switzerland Ritter manager of the it. Pleas. Following their secret indictment by ant utilities and Virgil Trabert a Federal grand jury in Brooklyn local insurance executive. Guests . Included Colby Chandler of St. He identified them As Jack Gros school student. Elections for 70-71 officers will be held. Also decision will be made on future programs remodelling and decorating. Students done to have to be members in order to come. Goal line club to meet tonight the goal line club will meet at the . Building tonight wednesday at 7 30. All former members and men who wish to join for the first time Are urged to attend. The High school Grid coaches will be on hand to discuss the Progress of football practice. The Iowa Wesleyan football coaches will also be there. Eight air Force men killed Bangkok up a eight . Air Force enlisted men were killed when an express train struck a bus in which they were Riding tuesday night. Six other airmen were injured two seriously. Seven of the men were killed almost immediately while the eighth died in the Hospital today. The bus Driver and another thai were injured. Cedar rapid is. I police at the request of . Auth rotarian Ralph Taylor sent a Orit ies and Louis Stepenberg a card to the dub from England and rested in upon his arrival mentioned the before and after from Spain where Mitchell said he luncheon pleasures of attending had been under police surveillance. Rotary in London. The indictments accused the two of importing and distributing Large qualities of heroin including More i than 60 pounds Between june 1969. And february 1970. That amount has a Street Sale value of 617 million the Justice department said. The indictments contained 36 separate counts against the two. The maximum penalty upon conviction could amount to 615 years in prison and fines totalling $615,000. The announcement said Grosby fled the country after posting $50.-000 Bond in . District court in new York City after a 1965 narcotics violation indictment. Efforts have begun in Des Moines Henry Lee and Washington counter to make Federal funds already appropriated for food and medical assistance More accessible to Low income persons. Marjorie Sandage of it. Pleasant has been named director of a Rew emergency food and medical services program being administered through the Southeast Iowa Community action organization. The program was funded for 14 months beginning this july by the office of economic Opportunity Leo. The Federal Grant for that period is $40,000. Mrs. Sandage said a Small portion of the total Grant May be used to give direct emergency assistance to families in dire need. But the main thrust will be to put people who qualify for food Stamps and other programs into Contact with the programs mrs. Sandage said. Too an outreach worker will be appointed in each county and one of the first goals will be to make better use of the food stamp program she said. The Effort includes a request to doctors to Supply names of persons or families with whom they have had Contact who appear to have difficulty paying for the kind of groceries needed for adequate nutrition. Too mrs. Sandage said the staff would provide transportation to the Wel Faie office for persons who need food assistance. Staff members will not hold out false Hopes by telling people they can be certified to receive food Stamps but they will do everything possible to help them find out if they can be certified she said. She said the staff also would provide transportation to the welfare office on a buying Day for those who Are certified to enable them to buy the Stamps. The staff May even buy the groceries with the Stamps for the persons they Are helping if there is a need for such a service she said. Mrs. Sandage and other staff members of the four county Community action program Cap Agency were told by a consultant for Leo recently that about 5,000 families in the four counties could be using food Stamps but do not take advantage of the program. Families using the Stamps in the four county area total 1,026. There Are 1,762 families on welfare in the area. After As Many Low income persons As possible Are helped to use food Stamps Cap personnel Hope to develop Means for Low income families to improve nutrition and general health without direct Federal financial assistance. Among ways being considered Are Community gardens cooperative food Canning programs cooperative buying in wholesale lots and cooperative livestock feeding programs. Fair attendance Over 400,000 Des Moines up a the 1970 Iowa state fair heading into its final five Days today appears certain of a new All time attendance record. Tuesdays figures showed in. Attendance of 60,161, some 6,000 persons ahead of the 1969 level. The tuesday figures brought total attendance thus far to 403,826, compared with 310,520 last year. Officials said if the weather holds out this years fair will easily surpass the All time High at 607,000 set in 1954. Manslaughter charge in death of nun Des Moines up a Steven Reed 22, of Des Moines was charged with manslaughter tuesday in connection with the death last thursday of sister Mary Alice Howard 69, a teaching nun at St. Joseph Academy in Des Moines. Sister Mary Alice died of injuries suffered when she was struck by a motorcycle while crossing a de Moines Street intersection. Reed1 was arrested and tuesday. He was charged last week following the Accident with operating a motor vehicle with inadequate brakes. 26 freight cars jump tracks Atlantic up a Twenty six cars of a Rock Island freight train jumped the tracks tuesday about six Miles Southeast of Atlantic at a wooden overhead Bridge. Officials said 21 of the derailed cars were flipped Over on their sides and stacked up along the tracks the cars loaded with pickup trucks mail and Oil were in about Cim Center of the 80-car freight

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