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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - August 31, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 205 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening August 31, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain education needs something besides Money education has become the nations number one sacred cow. This is perhaps As it should be but unfortunately nobody knows How to nourish the animal. The most expensive feed sometimes brings Forth the thinnest milk our legislators think they have discharged their function when they have voted More funds no matter what the schools teach nor How Well they handle their disciplinary problems. Thus the House of representatives overrode president Nixon a veto of a $44 billion appropriation for the office of education at a time when several reports were stressing the evidence that there is no discernible relationship Between the Money going into a school system and the Scholastic Quality that emerges from it. Roger Freeman of Stanford University spent a year in the White House trying to persuade the president that a Money is not and Richard Nixon to his credit was disposed to listen. In his parting speech delivered in Seattle when he was leaving the government Freeman pointed to the James s. Coleman report John Hopkins University the Christopher Jencks studies Harvard school of education and the investigation of new York City schools made by the City University of new York. Coleman a a amazed himself to discover that a the physical and economic resources going to a school had very Little relationship to the achievements coming out of it. If it were otherwise we could give simple prescriptions increase teachers Sal Aries lower classroom size enlarge libraries and so on. But the evidence does not allow such simple too Jencks was even More emphatic than Coleman for his studies proved to his satisfaction that a variations in schools fiscal resources. Have very Little effect on student achievement a probably even less than the Coleman report the present rage in both Congress and the department of health education and welfare is to use Money to accomplish the social ends of a a equalizing the schools. Too integration at any Cost has become a fetish. And More than a billion dollars a year has been spent on special programs such As head Start higher horizons the a ban Neker project in St. Louis and the a a Madison project in Syracuse. The desire to bring All children up to the same starting line is commendable jeffersonian philosophy but unfortunately As or. Freeman said in his Farewell speech the history of the head Start approach has been one of a consistent no humane person can really begrudge the Money spent for head Start experimentation after All it was a thrust into the unknown. But it is unforgivable to apply the a a equalization philosophy to students once they have moved on from the starting line. When i was reporting on educational experiments ten years ago the District of Columbia schools under superintendent Carl Hansen were among the most promising in the country. Today As or. Freeman says they Are a among the country a worst. By any yardstick save expenditures per superintendent Hansen has Long since departed the victim of a totally misplaced a level Inge enthusiasm. Fortunately he now works for governor Ronald Reagan a California school sys team the Amidon school which was open to both Blacks and Whites on application from any place in the District made an enviable record under Hansen As other d. C. Schools that featured the four track system. Now most of the four track schools have been made Safe for one track mediocrity. Too the Only remaining Bright spot in Washington according to or. Freeman is the system of vocational High schools. A Bell vocational High school a he says a has Little if any of the troubles that beset most other Washington schools and its graduates. Almost All Black. Has no difficulty in Landing jobs. So what does the Board of education plan to do about it you guessed it a it intends to abolish Bell and the other four vocational High since going Back to his University Post at Stanford Roger Freeman has been warning his fellow educators that a the Label a education is no longer enough to justify claims for Federal before commanding Money he says youths surrender without executing ambassadors family the Hague up a a band of Ambo inese youths who seized the indonesian embassy in a burst of gunfire that killed a guard surrendered tonight without carrying out their threat to execute the ambassadors family one by one. The students had said they would execute the ambassadors wife and their two children if indonesian president Suharto dad not meet with them within the next 48 hours. Suharto who had been sex teachers to Start school work tuesday by Sandy Williams while students of the it. Pleasant school system can enjoy another week of vacation the teachers Start to school tomorrow tuesday. Pre school in service education grades 7-12 begins with a full Day for new teacher orientation. The Days program will include a Welcome and instruction from the administration Coffee break Courtesy of fat future teachers of America an address by Steve Savage president mph student Council a tour of buildings by student Council members lunch As guests of the school system and departmental meetings. Wednesday is planned for the entire faculty beginning with entertainment by the stage band and Maroon and Gold singers. Or. Robert Formanek superintendent will Welcome the group and introduce the speaker of the morning Assembly miss Christine Bell. Miss Bell a 1968 graduate of mph will be a Junior at Kirkland College this fall. All teachers will attend four demonstrations by faculty members concerning audio visual aids in the classroom before breaking for lunch and attend one of eight departmental meetings in the afternoon. A meeting of the pea it. Pleasant education association will conclude the afternoons activities. Curriculum revision in the areas of math science social studies and language arts will be discussed on thursday morning. A film for All the teachers plus Coffee with the National Honor society will Complete the group activities of the Day. The rest of the Day will be devoted to individual teacher preparation for the school year. On Friday the teachers will continue individual preparation in their rooms with a picnic for All in Saunders Park scheduled for noon. Too the theme for the workshop and for the year ahead is taken from a Brief selection in a the me nobody the Book of this title was written by a teacher of disadvantaged children an adaptation is now playing As a successful off Broadway musical production. Miss Bell will base her comments in part on the a hopeless tree theme. Totally optimistic gently reprimanding the theme might Well apply to All human relationship including ones attitude toward friends neighbors family and All those one tends to classify As a a different or a no written by a 14 year old the essay from which the theme was drawn follow the hopeless tree a there was a Man waiting under a baby Apple tree. He was waiting for an Apple to grow on it. He would just sit there and wait but it never grew. He watered it every Day but it just no to grow. So the Man got discouraged and gave up Hope for the tree. He wanted to Cut it Down. So one Day he decided to do it. He said he would do it on a sunday afternoon rain or Snow. So on sunday there was a fog and he could not see the tree and so he not Cut it Down. The following sunday a baby Apple was hanging on there must be a evidence that a proposed program offers the most effective solution available and a tangible return to the and there must be discipline before there is Money. Freeman doubts that finding sufficient financial resources is the main school problem a a finding leaders capable of coping with the violent uprising could be More distributed by King features Syndicate petted Here tuesday postponed his visit because of the incident. Too the students surrendered Atter talking with dutch Premier Piet de Jong. He conferred with them after creeping across a Garden from the neighbouring residence of an american businessman. The raiders left the residence at 5 30 . And boarded police trucks. Suharto was scheduled to arrive in the Hague on tuesday on a state visit but Jakarta dispatches tonight said he had postponed the visit for 24 hours and might cancel it altogether to let the dutch a restore too the indonesian ambassador to Holland escaped when the youths invaded1 the embassy with guns blazing but the raiders seized his wife and the ambassadors two children in protest against Suharto. Tonight they threatened to kill them one by one if Suharto does not listen to their demands. Too a up dispatch from Jakarta said Suharto had been scheduled to leave at to . Edt for a state visit to the Netherlands West Germany Auld a nonaligned nations conference at Lusaka. Indonesian officials said he had postponed his visit for at least 24 hours and might Call off the trip altogether because of the embassy incident at the Hague. Suharto a visit to the Netherlands was to be an historical onetime first by an indonesian head of state since Indonesia gained its Independence from dutch colonial Rule in the War of 1948. Boiler inspection underway the Fricke Brothers of it. In on and two Young helpers take a break while state inspector Charles Cain of Des Moines checks the boiler of their Russell steam engine. Each year or. Cain and inspector Charles Harris Des Moines not in picture Check each boiler on the grounds to insure the safety of visitors and owners. The Cost of $12 per boiler is paid by the reunion association. In the picture left to right Alden Fricke or. Cain Mark Nesbitt son of or. And mrs. Miles Nesbit Dave Williams son of or. And mrs. Gary Willia Scharles parties on Iowa ballot Des Moines up a Secretary of state Melvin Synhorst said monday 12 legislative candidates Are currently unopposed for the november elections following the deadline for filing nomination papers. Following a saturday convention 28 members of the american Independent party filed nomination papers for state office. The Field of candidates is headed by Robert Dilley of Des Moines a twice unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate. Dilley will oppose Republican gov. Robert d. Ray and Democrat Robert Fulton of Waterloo for the states highest office. Rep. Andrew Dooley City who lost to Koch in the primary Battle has also filed As an Independent party candidate. Synhorst said Dooley in an unprecedented move formed a party called a the Andrew Dooley for state representative Aid to Sang area phenom penh up a the cambodian government today rushed a battalion of its South vietnamese trained troops into the Sreng area 28 Miles South of phenom it penh to Block a possible Viet Cong Advance on the capital from the town they captured to visit reunion plans Are being finalized for the visit of congressman Fred Schwengel to the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion on sunday and monday. Don Gartin chairman and Dana Williams co chairman of the Schwengel for Congress committee in Henry county will have charge of the arrangements for the congressman a stay in the area. Congressman Schwengel will visit both the Midwest threshers event and the Yaap picnic in Burlington on saturday. Dale White and his family of it. Pleasant will Host the congressman at the Yaap picnic. He has attended 20 of the threshers reunions and has watched the event grow from a Small show with 35 engines and become the a greatest steam show on Check on local disturbance police investigated a disturbance on the North Side of the Square about 6 . Sunday. A youth told them that he had been hit by a Man who went upstairs to an apartment. Police went upstairs and talked to two men. They said the men were abusive to them and one officer fired Mace into the apartment. The youth identified one of the men As the one who hit him and police took him to the station. However the youth no to press charges and the Man was of Best in grand Ole opry coming tickets for the grand Ole opry shows to be Given in front of the grandstand at the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion have been in demand the last few Days for All three evenings. The Kitty Wells Johnny Wright family show will be presented thursday evening at 8 . Joining her Mother and dad will be Ruby Wright who has appeared with her parents for the past 13 years. Friday evening there will be two shows by Roy Acuff and Tex Ritter one at 5 . And the second at 9 30 . Both Are country music a shall of Farmers Ane Are two of the biggest talents the. Grand Ole opry has to offer. Sunday evening there will again be two shows starring Stonewall Jackson and Little Jimmy Dickens. These performances will be at 6 30 and 9 30 . Tickets Are on Sale in downtown it. Pleasant at Kyles drug store or they May be ordered direct from Herbert huh route 5, it. Pleasant Iowa 52641. Revered seats Are $2 missile intercepted by system bitter argument with u. S. Meir Chi israeli prime minister Golda Meir said today in Tel Aviv that Israel a is in the midst of a very bitter argument with the United states Over israelis charges of egyptian violations of the cease fire. Israeli defense minister Moshe Dayan was reported considering resigning Over the Issue. Washington up a the army has successfully intercepted a target missile for the first time with its safeguard anti ballistic missile it it system the Pentagon announced today. Assistant defense Secretary Daniel z. Henkin said the target minuteman missile was launched Friday from Vandenberg air Force base Calif. A spartan missile Par three patients returned to Mhz a 1965 Chevrolet owned by Ron Walgren 301 w. Saunders was stolen at 2 45 . Sunday and found a Short time later at Ainsworth Junction. A neighbor boy said he saw two boys and a girl leave in the car. At 4 04 . Iowa City police notified police Here that they had three subjects in custody and that they told them they left the Walgren car at Ainsworth Junction when the gears became stuck and hitchhiked a ride to Iowa City. The three Are patients at the mental health Institute Here who walked away sunday morning. They Are Diane Shaw 12, Robert steel 16, and Rudy Delegate 14. They were returned to the Institute. Walgren picked up his car. Of the Complex was fired from Kwajlien atoll 4,200 Miles away in the mid Pacific. Too the minuteman nose Cone was intercepted outside the Earth a atmosphere Henkin said. He would not give the Altitude. Neither the spartan nor the minuteman launched Friday carried explosive successful interception was determined by ground instruments which calculated that the spartans final stage which in operation would carry a nuclear warhead passed close enough to the minuteman target to have caused its destruction Henkin said. Too the safeguard system uses two missiles. The 55-foot-Long spartan has a Range of several Hundred Miles and is the primary rocket for intercepting enemy missiles. The 27-foot-Long sprint has a Range of 25 Miles and is designed to attack enemy missiles that elude the spartans. The sprint has not yet been tested against a live missile. The army has previously tested the spartan by aiming it at Points in the sky. Friday was the first time it was actually fired at an incoming Dagger in hijacking Dubrovnik Yugoslavia up a three algerians waving pistols and a Molotov cocktail held a scimitar like Dagger to the Throat of an air algerie Pilot today and forced him to Fly them to Yugoslavia where they asked for political Asylum. The plane a Turboprop con Vair 640 with about 30 persons aboard was ordered to Albania but tile tiny communist country refused it permission to land and the Pilot took the hijackers to Dubrovnik on the yugoslav Adriatic coast after stops in Sardinia and Itlay. Admire pressed Glass goblets mrs. Ross Lane and mrs. Leniert Bergdahl Admire the latter a collection of pressed Glass goblets in preparation for the downtown exhibits sponsored by the Saunders quester group. All exhibits will be placed in downtown business windows by tuesday. Mclucas convicted new Haven Conn. Up a Black Panther Lonnie Mclucas was convicted today of murder Consul racy in the j969 torture slaying of former Panther Alex Rackley. The jury had deliberated for 37 hours. Mclucas is the first of eight panthers including National chairman Bobby g. Sealed to be tried in Rackley a death. The judge set sept. 18 As the sentencing Date. Mclucas left the courtroom smiling. Prepare to serve huge quantities of food feeding the hungry thousands who will attend the 21st old threshers reunion is big business and hard work. Members of the 14 food serving groups on the grounds for 1970 will attest to the hard work but most of those involved agree that meeting and greeting the Many visitors is interesting and fun also. The financial aspect of the work is also a consideration for Many of the groups realize enough profit to fulfil the years budget. When you have walked the grounds Long enough to work up a Good appetite you la find a variety of Good foods and snacks available at any of the food concessions. Too one of the largest tents belongs to the presbyterian Church group. This Concession has served visitors since the first year of the reunion. This year the tent has been slightly enlarged for Kitchen and storage space. Approximately 6,000 Man hours will be necessary to serve full dinners As Well As Short orders on a cafeteria basis. Homemade baked Beans and other items will be prepared in the Church Kitchen., while other food is cooked in the tent. On saturday and sunday chickens will be barbequed Over an open pit behind the Church. The volume of food consumed from this tent is quite Large. In i960, for example the meat Supply included 1,300 pounds of hamburger 2,250 Sandwich tenderloins 1,170 chickens and 1,500 hot dogs. Too the first United methodist Church congregation of it. Pleas ant also runs one of the larger tents. This group is returning for the 19th year. A work Force of about too people each Day serves full meals As Well As a Short order menu from 10 30 . Until close to Midnight. Last year 6,000 pieces of Chicken and 6,000 pieces of pie were sold to mention Only two items of a variety of foods which Are prepared in the Church Kitchen As Well As on the grounds. The daily menu vanes somewhat beef and noodles is considered one of the specialities of the House. Too St Alphonsus Church also of it. Pleasant will open its seventeenth reunion year with a tent slightly increased in size for washing facilities. Also serving full meals and Short order the ladies of the 350-family congregation will prepare most of the food in the school Kitchen before taking it to the tent. It is kept fresh and warm there with steam tables and Gas burners. Too joining the food Force in 1955, the United Church of Christ in Olds started by Selling Popcorn Only. Over the years the 120-tamily congregation has expanded its line to include sandwiches and drinks. The most popular items on their menu however Are Caramel com Snow Cones and Taffy apples All prepared in the Kitchen area under the grandstand. The apples said one worker a go faster than we can make them. 15,109 apples Are on hand this year for hand dipping into the Large Copper kettles filled with Caramel. Cotton Candy is the new item on the menu of the Faith lutheran Church tent. The machine has been loaned by a member of this it. Pleasant congregation. Serving sandwiches drinks soft ice Cream and to manmade pies the group takes particular Pride in serving homemade syrups juices and relishes As Well As being one of the few tents serving Bleak fast. The Faith lutheran group in its ninth year of reunion food service will be one of the first to open its a a doors starting service tuesday. Too Prairie Gem methodist Church a congregation composed of five families is one of the smallest food groups. Using Many Volunteer helpers this group takes Pride in being a the last to close each evening. Opening at 6 30 . And closing at Midnight these Folk serve sandwiches pie fresh fruit soft ice Cream and drinks. Too the Prairie Gem group has one most unusual reunion histories for they started about seven years ago a in a hog Shade. In the following years they moved into a Small tent. The present two tent operation is three years old. Too the it. Union Booster club runs a three fold operation in the Village. In their sixth reunion year the boosters will once again serve and sell crackers and Kalona cheese the very popular Licorie whips and other food items from the Village general store. The tavern next door features a variety of soft drinks including cider. Sandwiched Between the two buildings is a Popcorn stand. Eighty nine families will serve As personnel for the three very popular Village attractions. Too the tent next to the Railroad station will House the Crawfordsville methodist Church group for the sixth year an average of 18 people a Day will serve sandwiches drips pie and drinks to Many of the hungry throng. Too a breakfast menu is available All Day at the Olds american legion tent. From 6 . Until 9 30 . Or later a hungry vistor can buy Large stacks of pancakes with All the usual breakfast Type trimmings. A bout 30 adults Are needed each Day to Man the tent with teenagers coming in to help on the weekend. The men do most of the cooking with the ladies helping with table setting and dish washing chores. A new slush machine will be housed in a Small Side tent where cider May also be purchased. Too the approximately too members of the Brighton Temple building association May be found serving breakfast Short orders and full dinners from their tent East of the old machinery building. This group has been part of the reunion food service since 1966. Too serving from an area next to the country Kitchen the Amitie club has Pink lemonade and big old fashioned sugar cookies to offer to the visitors. 1969 was the first year the ladies of this Winfield club joined the food Force. The ladies have 250 dozen cookies and 576 Gallons of lemonade plus cider and iced Tea in hand to refresh the Victor to the farm machinery building. Too there Are three new food serving groups on the grounds this year. The Winfield veterans and auxiliaries group replace Wesley Chapel in the Green and red striped tent i by the grandstand. Homemade i cake Slaw and applesauce plus a j six1 Cia i one night dinner of Chicken i and noodles will be parts of the j usual Short order and dinner fare.1 too i from 7 . La ., the 25-30 members of the Wayland Menno j Nite Church sunday school class will serve from a Short order menu i this group will be located in the Roundhouse replacing the Olds Church Concession there. 0 9 0 the ladies of the it. Pleasant business and professional women a club Are starting their first year in two locations. Popcorn will be served from an antique horse drawn Popcorn Wagon near the farm machinery building while bags of roasted plants in the Shell Are dispensed from a Booth under the grandstand. Too the 1970 food program involves 14 area groups Large and Small. Others have been involved in food service in other years and As the demand grows other new groups May replace or add to the current ones. One thing is certain a the greatest steam show on Earth is the place to go for Fine food and five i or i v service. Suffers cuts in Accident Bernice Walker 45, Hampton suffered Chin cuts when the 1068 Chevrolet she was driving cocked with a 1954 Chevrolet driven by Bobby w Phillips it. Pleasant on Highway 218 three Miles South of it. Pleasant at 8 55 . Sunday. She was taken to memorial Hospital and is. In Good condition. Both cars were travelling South when Phillips signalled to turn left As the Walker car was passing. Tho Phillips car was totally damaged and the front end of the Walker car was badly damaged. The Accident was investigated by the Highway patrol. Bernice Walker was charged with improper passing. Four arrested near Stockport Stockport a four Parsons College students were arrested saturday night near Stockport by Van Buren county officers and charged with illegal Possession of narcotics. Held in Van Buren county jail Keosauqua on $2,500 Bond each set by Justice of peace William Carter at Keosauqua Are Alan Richard Larsen 22, of la Grange Park di., Toni Wells 20, who said her parents Are employed in Tokyo Japan Jess Gordon 21, Schenectady . And Richard Armstrong 21, Parsons College they were arrested in a tenant farmhouse on the c. F. Dugeon property three Miles Northwest of Stockport officers reported they found marijuana. Trial delayed los Angeles up a recurring abdominal pains suffered by defendant Susan Atkins today forced a recess until tuesday of Tho Tate murder trial. Terse verse by a c. Gordon a Yawn although discreet throughout will often sound More Uke a shout

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