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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 1, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair Section one 2 sections vol 92, no. 282 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening december i 1970 Price to cents Jeffrey Hart Lumumba Zapata University the University of California at la Jolla is one of the newest in the California system. In a Short time it ought to be just As famous if that is the word a As Berkeley or san Francisco state. The town of la Jolla is deceptively Lovely a Palm Trees Long White curve of a Beach Tennis and Golf clubs the Pacific Bright Blue under inevitable suns. When i visited the Campus there the faculty members i spoke with were in emotional states varying from sheer numbness to acute terror. Two years ago the faculty voted to establish a a third colleges within the University there then being two. This new College quickly became known As a a Lumumba Zapata University a after the congolese Witch doctor commissar and the mexican real life version of Marian Brando. In the words of one faculty member. Lumumba Zapata will be the a most Radical academic institution in the United he explained that the students mainly negroes and mexican americans will completely control admissions policy and will also have the say in hiring firing and promoting faculty. The first freshman class was screened by militant faculty members already on the scene and consequently is rather explosive. Next year these students will pick those to be admitted to the second freshman class. When it reaches planned strength Lumumba Zapata will concentrate some 3,000 militant negro and mexican Amer ican students on one Campus they will be presided Over by a Radical faculty since that is the sort that will naturally be drawn to the project. Too Lumumba Zapata i was told will inevitably be soaked in so called third world ideology and its courses will be super relevant. It was Clear that no one interested in teaching a regular College course a in Shakespeare say a would have anything to do with the place. Whether the courses the students take would be relevant to anything besides revolutionary activity is doubtful. I was curious As to Why the faculty Ever voted to establish such an academic monstrosity. Those who pressed the project i was told constituted Only a fervent minority of radicals on the Campus but in fact almost everyone voted with them to Start it even though practically everyone had serious misgivings. Then Why did no to they vote against it and get on with their legitimate activities Well it was explained anyone who voted against it was a afraid of losing his Liberal he would inevitably be called a racist and a fascist by the militants. Too i found that it is almost impossible for some faculty members to vote against a proposal no matter How absurd or destructive if it is put Forward in behalf of a people of nor were the reluctant supporters intimidated merely verbally. Some were threatened with and Many actively feared physical attack by White radicals if they voted against Lumumba Zapata. Under the circumstances almost anything is probable. Berkeley will grind along its War of attrition with the regents and with governor Reagan having reached a sort of equilibrium. The University at Santa Barbara along with its student ghetto Isla Vista is both emotionally exhausted and More or less blanketed by the police after last years orgy of Bank burning and shooting. For my Money. La Jolla is the place where its at this year. Watch Lumumba Zapata. Federal Reserve Board cuts discount rate Washington up a the Federal Reserve Board has Cut its key discount rate for the second time in three weeks in another attempt to revive the sagging Economy. The Independent Board announced the latest Cut late monday a lowering its discount rate from 5 and % to 5 and Viper cent. The discount ate is the interest the regional Federal Reserve Banks charge on Loans they make to commercial Banks. The discount rate traditionally has been regarded As the gauge of Overall government Money policy and mondays Cut was expected to stimulate business activity by reducing the Cost of credit. The reduction followed by less than three weeks a Cut from 6 per cent to 5 and % per cent. Board ponders Waco a future building plans the Waco Community school Board of education met in special session monday evening to discuss possible action for the schools building program. Two special elections to authorize the Sale of $1,255,000 in Bonds to finance a new school building for grades a the through High school have failed to obtain voter approval at the meeting monday evening the Board decided to Contact the Iowa Center for research in school administration in Iowa City for the purpose of conducting a study pm the school system. Such a study would Hope to produce recommendations and alternates for the schools Long Range building program. Two petitions on file with the Waco Secretary calling for special elections for building programs have been deferred until decisions on the study have been completed by the Board. Jury selected in trial in Wilson death the jury which will hear the Case of Frank Edward Wilson 25, my pleasant charged with second degree murder was selected in District court Here monday and was scheduled to Start hearing testimony in the Case tuesday afternoon. Judge William Cahill is presiding. Members of the jury Are Dorothy Helphrey Richard Fullerton Naomi l Inden. Karen Brown Harris Morgan Frank Becker Donald Anderson Winifred Hunting Ralph Mickey Raymond Pickard Thomas Willis and Leona Fitzpatrick. The alternates Are Jean Clark and Robert Dean Davis. Wilson is accused of the strangulation slaying of his wife Sharrine Ray 23, last june 27. Her body was found in a Creek near her car Northwest of it. Pleasant. O o a the opening statements were made in the trial by county attorney James Morrison and William Hanson one of two defense attorneys. Testifying for the state tuesday afternoon were mrs. Lowell Burden sheriff Crawford Donald e. Leyden Tom j. Hopewell and Wayne Sikeston special agents for the state Bureau of investigation and or. Harold c. Rankin. There was no Cross examination by the defense. Inflation warning by administration when this woodwind quintet appears at Iowa Wesleyan it May a a first in it. Pleasant. If not someone May recall when another such group presented a concert. Shown Are from left Jan Burnham Ruth Keraus Larry Cullison Susan Ingold and Tony Kullmer conceit May be fir by woodwind quintet the Iowa Wesleyan College com i ice Burnham flute Suzanne in Troi Rene by Milhaud trois pieces Unity woodwind quintet will pre Gold oboe Tony Kullmer Clari net Larry Cullison French Horn and Ruth Keraus Bassoon Jun the group will perform divert the quintet is comprised of Jan mento by Haydn la Che Minee do sent a Public concert tonight at 8 ., in the inc Chapel Auditori Breves by Ibert and suite for woodwind quintet by Washburn. The Public is cordially invited to the free performance. Deer evolved in two accidents three accidents have been investigated by Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore. Deer were involved in two of them. At 5 46 Monday a 1968 Chevrolet driven by Jerome t. Carter 43, Keokuk route i was damaged an estimated $800 when it struck and votes tuesday to retain a quota on foreign made shoes in a House passed Trade Bill. Estimating that the shoe quota committee favors shoe import quota Washington up a after will Cost american Consumers $1.9 an overnight flurry of lobbying j billion a year in higher prices for three members of the Senate fi-1 footwear the Nixon administration Nance committee cast the deciding had comf>s9pned against the re Pope condemns White Australia killed a 300 Pound Buck Deer which ran in front of it on Highway 218 four Miles South of it. Pleasant. Carter was driving North when the Accident occurred. He and five other persons in the car were not injured. The carcass of the Deer was picked up by a conservation commission officer. At 9 40 Monday five Miles South of town on 218, three Deer ran across the Road in front of a southbound 1970 Chrysler driven by Dale Eiden Keokuk. He swerved to miss j the Deer and his car went into a ditch on the West Side of the Highway but Wasny to damaged. At 9 30 Arn. Tuesday at an intersection in Salem a 1963 Buick driven by Alice e. Savage 68, it. Pleasant route 4, and a 1964 Pontiac driven by James Lee Barnett 18, Salem collided. The right front fender on the Buick was damaged an estimated $300 and the front end of the Pontiac about $500. The Savage car was going North and the Barnett car West when they collided. A truck blocked the vision of both Drivers. There were no injuries. Firm to open new it. P. Store soon Striction. It May seek to kill it in Senate floor debate. Too the committee voted 8-6 monday to kill the shoe quotas. But when three senators who missed that meeting a democrats Albert Gore term., Harry f. Byrd jr., va., and Vance Hartke ind. A All cast their ballots tuesday in favor of the quota the Issue was decided by a 9-8 vote. Congressmen and senators from new England where most of the nations shoe factories Are located urged the three absentees to support the quotas. As the committee gathered a lobbyist from the in teem Tiona ladies garment Sydney Australie up a Pope Paul i standing frail but Resolute against 45 mile an hour winds buffeting his outdoor altar tonight condemned the a White Australia Quot policy which excludes All but a handful of non caucasians from this vast and scarcely tapped land. He did so in appealing to australians a do not close your limited Circle for the Sake of a selfish and he called on All who hear responsibility in Australia a to take advantage of this occasion for an examination of the pontiff spoke after attending a morning meeting of Bishops of Oceania who gave him specific condemnations of australians race exclusion policy. One. Bishop John h. M. Rodgers of Tonga said that because of land and work shortages Many Pacific islands were facing a grim future. Washington up Nixon administration said the United Auto workers settlement with general motors was inflationary and warned that higher wages coupled with higher Auto prices would cause More americans to switch to foreign made cars. Units second a inflation Alert a the administration said wage increases a averaging about 7 per cent throughout the Economy were too High to be compatible with a stable Price level. Too the report was prepared by the presidents Council of economic advisers and was made Public by the White House. It pointed to Price increases in the Auto fuel local transportation and Copper industries As factors which contributed to a continuing inflationary spiral. But Only the United Auto workers and general motors were cited by name. The j and growing share of the Domestic today i the Law and pm last month settled a strike of workers by negotiating a contract that the administration said would Cost an average of close to 7 per cent a year Over three years. A it is Clear that this settlement if generalized throughout the Economy would crowd further upward Cost for unit of output and therefore the Price level a the White House report said. A it also raises Cost further in an Industry where producers overseas Are accounting for a substantial the administration said it had made some Progress in its efforts to slow inflation but a nevertheless the rate of inflation remains higher than had been expected at this time. A at the same time there is considerable Slack in the Economy a manifested most obviously in an unemployment rate of 5.6 per cent a the report said. Boo the administration appealed to business and labor for voluntary restraint in their decisions on wage and Price increases to Check inflation and to set the stage for economic growth that could solve unemployment problems. A the chief concern is the failure of the average rate of increase of wages to slow Down in response to the Slack in the Economy the squeeze on profit margins and the decrease in the rate of Price increase that has already occurred a the report said. The administration said the increase in compensation per hour had averaged 7 per cent Over the past 12 months. It said that exceeds by 4 per cent the Long Range increase in productivity of about 3 per cent. While inflation continues to plague the Economy business has been sagging. The Federal Reserve Board has made its second move in three weeks to Cope with the situation toy cutting the key discount rate. At 2 30 pm. The jury was taken to. Exd notion of a Cnnon or Hora a Riv was found. A the scene where the body was found by Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore. On their return to the courtroom the jurors were to be dismissed for the Day. The trial is to resume at 9 . Wednesday. Jepsen attacks school spending Des Moines up a Iowa lieutenant governor Roger Jepsen today advocated a no nonsense approach to state spending and geared up his Long standing attack on school administrators and society a free loaders. Defector incident Washington up a president Nixon has ordered the coast guard to explain within 48 hours Why a lithuanian Sailor was handed Back to the soviets after he tried to defect last week. The White House said it appeared the affair was a poorly Nixon directed a full investigation monday amid new criticism of the incident in Congress and an added note of explanation from the coast guard. Super savings Center inc., will open their new it. Pleasant facility located at 103 West Monroe on thursday or Friday of this week., workers Union buttonhole Mem the building formerly occupied by Bers in the corridors asking them Spurgeon a is under Goang extensive t0 support quotas remodelling by the owners Iowa Coo investment company. It has been in new York before the British previously announced that tomes 1 american chamber of Commerce sex will open a ladies clothing store Commerce Secretary Marjioe h. In the East part of the building. Stans sought to defuse the arg ii the super savings store will car j ment that the Bill would touch off by a full line of discounted Mer j an International Trade War harm Chandise for health and Beauty aids i Ful to the economies of All trading fail to orbit space satellite Cape Kennedy a the u. S. Space Agency a $83 million stargazer burned up in its space ascension due to a faulty nose Cone late monday. The satellite carried what was to be the most powerful Telescope yet placed in space. School supplies ambassador greeting cards gift wrapping material and notions. Mrs. William Betty Allbaugh has been named manager of the store whose Headquarters Are located in Louisama to. The firm opened a similar store in Fairfield some three weeks ago. Taxpayers association said that iowans Are a ready for some mod Jensen appearing before the Iowa j est limitations on praises conservation Board and Progress in Henry county h. W. Freed who has worked the under the county boards Are Pri last seven years with county conservation boards in Iowa told i anians and their Farmer guests about the Progress of county conservation in the state at the Iris monday evening. The 93 counties which now have conservation boards have a total of 695 areas and Over 40,500 acres in their programs he said. In their Early stages the county boards spend most of their Money in buying land. He praised the Progress in Henry county and the program of the Board. He pointed out that the county has a plan As required in order to receive Federal funds. To Date some $11,450 has been received in Federal funds in the county and Moo More is expected for the mud Creek development. Tile county program is not designed to replace the state program rather it is designed to supplement the state program freed told the group. Parks and recreation areas supervisors. Mariilyn for the people in the Colin to who pay the Bill but there Are no restrictive lines to keep neighbouring counties out. At the Start of his talk he discussed some of the state conservation commission programs and particularly the pheasant stocking program in Southern Iowa. He called attention to the stocking in the Northeast part of Henry county and the Success there. He mentioned How the Farmers of the area Are assisting in keeping out illegal Hunters and commented a if we do not have support of the Public we Are licked before we freed was introduced by Logan Heusel chairman of the committee. Robert bondage kiwanis president presided and called on the Kiwan ians to introduce their guests who represented widely scattered areas of the county. Special guests were members of the county con most of Iowa scorn harvested Des Moines up a Iowa a 1970 Corn crop is nearly harvested and the total Harvest is running about 5 per cent ahead of last year. Tile final . Weather Bureau crop report released monday said Frozen ground in some sections of the state permitted harvesting activity in otherwise wet Fields. Harvest reports Range from 85 per cent Complete in South Central regions of the state to virtual completion in the Northwestern counties. The crop report said the 1970 Harvest. Expected to put Iowa firmly in command As the Corn growing St state in the nation is running slightly ahead of the five year average. Nations. That argument is the chief weapon of the Senate a outnumbered free Trade bloc which Hopes to stall action on the Bill when it reaches the floor about dec. To Only nine Days before Congress Hopes to quit for the year. Stans pledged that president Nixon will not administer the Law in a Way to provoke a Trade War. He said a the most fundamental Point about the Bill was the wide discretionary Powers it gives the president. British businessmen have warn rockets hit . Division Saigon up a communists hit the . Americal division twice monday wounding to men with a Booby trap and slamming rockets into division Headquarters killing or wounding All medical personnel in a Small dispensary which received a direct hit. Terrorists also struck in phenom penh and a plastic bomb heavily damaged the . Embassy there sipping big holes in the Walls and blowing out the windows. The at de of a massive retaliation if the came before Dawn and there Bill becomes Law. Record High temperatures by up All time record High temperatures were reported in three Southern states monday. ,. Record highs for Early december j a communal Snyr in were noted at Macon ga., with 82 were no casualties . Spokesmen said nearly 20 rockets hit the americal division Headquarters at Chu Lai in the coastal area below Danang killing an undisclosed number of persons including those in the dispensary. Another to members of the division were wounded when their Tan like armoured personnel Carrier hit a mine. One other american was killed degrees Jackson miss., 81, Huntsville. Ala., 76. North Platte neb., experienced 71 degree weather before winds up to 70 Miles an hour moved into por soybeans however were not fair tons 0f Nebraska and Kansas ing so Well. The crop report said the peasant s temperature tues soybean Harvest was 95 per cent May afternoon was 59 degrees Complete but nearly two weeks Tobin Dinh province in the Central Highlands. Georgia steer grand Champion Hind last year and three weeks Lye Hind the five year average. Some Iowa Farmers reported the Sharp cold spell experienced last week resulted in freezing of unharvested Beans. Six of the seven Days last week Chicago up a a charolais Angus crossbreed the color of by i Brid Mink won the grand Champion steer trophy of the International live Stock exposition monday for the University of Georgia. The 1.250 Pound steer shown by it. Pleasant and surrounding tire University a associate professor area sent in and pledged a total of cattle Breeding Robert Scarth of $1,072 in the tvo cerebral j 31, had never competed before it total of $1,072 Here for telethon were reported suitable for Harvest. Editor s note Henry county still telethon sunday. As of Mon i was entered in the exposition the has several Hundred acres of Corn amp to Ottumwa of a St and most prestigious Cornin the Field. Wet conditions in some Sqq Anco Money was still j petition of its Type areas have delayed the in 1 runner up and Reserve grand Blaine Arnold was chairman for Champion was a Hereford Charo new York up a number the it. Pleasant area. Eagles and Lais crossbreed owned by Kendall of new yorkers including Boxer the auxiliary manned the Tele Taylor. 17, Dysart. Iowa. The calf. Cassius Clay reported seeing uni phones. A total of 255 Calls were named and truck licence 44-44 to Charles l. Harris it. Pleasant. Take turns waiting to get Low car License numbers the first 1970 car License plate Elizabeth a. Shafer it. Pleasant 44-1 and also nos. 2, 3, and 4 went to Rev. Alton r. Koch it. Pleasant and the first truck License was purchased by Rodney e. Wilkerson new London when the plates went on Sale at the Auto registration department of the county treasurers office in the courthouse at 8 . Tuesday. Rev. Koch a son Bob went to the courthouse at 3 Monday to be first in line and held the place until 6 30 . Tuesday when his father took Over. Sheriff Crawford could have purchased the first car License plate if he had wanted but did no to desire to do so. There were Over too persons in line when the office opened at 8 am. At la ., 211 car licenses and 60 truck licenses had been sold. There was still a Long line waiting at that time. Car License no. 44-44 went to Morris named of. P. A head George w. Morris assistant football and basketball coach at Iowa Wesleyan College has been named executive director of the it. Pleasant recreation association John Stiegman association chairman bounced today. Morris replaces Dwight Wallace Fprmer Wesleyan assistant coach who left it. Pleasant last summer to summer to take a coaching Post at Central Michigan University. As association executive director Morris will be in charge of the City a Winter and summer recreation programs. Morris 28, is a former All Ohio conference halfback from Baldwin Wallace with an m.a., from Bowling Green. He came to Iowa Wesleyan from the head football coaching Job at Columbiana Ohio High school. While in Columbiana he directed the City Symcma summer recreation program for 8-14 year Olds. Morris his wife Theresa and children George Iii 6 Douglas 2, and Denise to months reside at 1009 College Avenue it. Pleasant. The first 35 car licenses purchased toy the following no. To 2, 3 and 4, Rev. Alton r. Koch it. Pleasant 5 and 6, d. D. Mugs Paugh it. Pleasant 7. Peter in Millspaugh it. Pleasant 8. Rodney e. Wilkerson new London 9. Richard Peterman it. Pleasant to. Mary l. Peterman it. Pleasant la. Billie c. Morrow a few London 12. James w. Dunn lit. Pleasant 13. Mark l. Hamill it. Pleasant 14. Robert j. Hamill it. Pleasant 15. William o. Bater my pleasant 16. Harvey starman it. Pleasant 17. Archie w. Ledbetter it. Pleasant 18 and 19. Jamet e. Mulleins it. Pleasant 20. Charles d. Dietrick it. Pleasant 21 and 22. Richard f. Dietrick Salem 33 and 24. Ira a. Prinkett it. Pleasant 25. Claude a. Renwick new London. Too the first ten truck licenses went to i. Rodney e. Wilkerson Mew London 2. Darrell l. Peterson new London 3. Richard d. Peterman it. Pleasant 4. John e. Calhoun or Francine Barnett Danville 5. Jimmie d. Cosgrove new London 6 and. 7. James w. Dunn jr., it. Pleasant 8 and 9. Safer Blacksmith shop it. Pleasant to. Claude a. Renwick new London., pumpkin because of its in addition several Bright Orange colouring won the sex a i a i or nuns of children went from door position s Junior grand Champion ser vation Board and of the Board of j Day but astronomers said the sight groups of Gnu arts went Nom 1 identified flying objects at Dawn to received. Ings probably were of Venus. To door collecting. I ship Friday. Echeverria inauguration Mexico City up a Lute Echeverria officially took Over today As Mexico a 21st president since the 1910 revolution with a pledge to waste no time tackling the nations economic realities of the moment. Although the former Interior Secretary legally assumed office it Midnight monday night inaugural ceremonies were scheduled to get under Way at 3 Est. Echeverria 48, succeeds Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for a six year term won by a 12-1 margin in july a presidential election. He was the candidate of the party of revolutionary institutions Pri which has ruled Mexico for 41 years. A a in a going to skip the romanticism and the usual allusions to history and talk about the economic problems we face a Echeverria told foreign newsmen. He said his inaugural speech dealt mostly with Mexico a economic problems Imi said it was an indication of the course he wanted to follow in his administration. George w. Morris terse verse by a. C. Gordon to keep a Friend today done to give that Friend away

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