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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 11, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa It pleasant news vol. 92, no. 291mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening december la 1970 Price to cents Cloudy these Days by John Chamberlain Simas Grozde the lithuanian bred Scott the name of the soviet fishing trawler from which the unfortunate lithuanian Sailor tried to defect in the coastal Waters off Martha a Vineyard is the Sovie Skaja Litva meaning soviet Lithuania. But the United states has never recognized that Lithuania belongs to Russia. Along with the other Baltic states Estonia and Latvia Lithuania Slid into the soviet maw As a result of the Deal with Hitler that isolated them from the West Back in the time of world War ii. We have declined to justify this extinction of National identity by Force and have always permitted a Lithuania in exile to maintain a charge do affaires in Washington and consulates in new York Boston Chicago and los Angeles. So what the commander of the first coast guard District in Boston rear Admiral William b. Fylis did when he ordered the return of the lithuanian Sailor from the coast guard Cutter vigilant to the soviet ship was doubly reprehensible. The poor fellow whom we surrendered to those communist thugs who beat him up As they dragged him from a seagoing Extension of american soil a his full name according to the local lithuanian Community is Simas Gru de a was not even a soviet citizen As we see it. In effect As our own Reading of International Law tells us we delivered a free citizen of an Independent nation to a third party which had never had any rightful claim to the Many a body. Too Admiral Ellis and Captain Fletcher w. Brown chief of staff of the first coast guard District took it upon themselves to Tell commander Ralph Eustis of the vigilant that he must let the communists retrieve the unfortunate Grozde. The state department had been advised of the presence of Grozde on the . Vessel but there was As Brown put it a no response from foggy Bottom. If it indeed turns out that the two naval men made a completely Independent decision not to roil a delicate International discussions being carried on regarding fishing problems a then they deserve the flak they have been getting. The Annapolis code of Honor should have taught them that it is neither civilized nor moral to exalt fish Over men. Even so the state department should not be let off the Hook. Someone in state with the authority to intercede in Simas Gru Zdep a behalf must have been a Ware that Lithuania has a legation in Washington and that this legation was entitled to demand Protection for its own citizen. There was ample time for the state department to Tell rear Admiral Ellis in Boston about the free Legal status on american soil of a lithuanian Simas Grozde was on the Cutter for several hours before the communists grabbed speaking it is not even right to Call Grozde a defector. He was a Man who had escaped from slavery and was now being forced Back into it. A sort of International dred Scott decision so to speak. Too one terrible thing about the whole lamentable business is that the soviets will now be Able to Tell the citizens of captive nations in a convincing Way that the West has deserted them. Our United states information service is of course working overtime to beam the news to Eastern Europe that two u. S. Naval officers made a horrible mistake. Maybe Frank Shakespeare the Usis Boss can succeed in undoing some of the damage. But in the present atmosphere of general appeasement it will be hard for or. Shakespeare to put More than unction into the american voice. We no longer celebrate captive nations week with the ringing proclamations of old. Five years of Static War in Vietnam passed before Nixon organized the first attempt to fescue american prisoners from North Vietnam. We let the egyptians and the soviets ignore the conditions of the ceasefire at Suez. Our credibility As a Champion of Freedom in t Good. Maybe the shame of the Simas Grozde incident will be a turning Point. Well believe it when we see it. Trains running after i Day strike in fatal crash new London Man injured Washington up a trains began running again today after a one Day nationwide Railroad strike and negotiators resumed trying to Hammer out a contract to head off another walkout As Early As March i. Railroad officials said operations had returned to Normal or were resuming on All lines except the grand trunk Western at Detroit where Union leaders said they still had not received official notice to Call off the strike. Too Union and management negotiators along with Federal mediators met for about 90 minutes thursday new warning to Hanoi by pres. Nixon Washington up a in a change of ground rules in the Indochina War president Nixon has warned he will resume bombing North Vietnam if Hanoi a infiltration of men and materials threaten the safety of u. S. Troops remaining while Nixon a Vietnam nation program continues. On several occasions Nixon has said he would take a appropriate action if the communists interfered with u. S. Troop withdrawals. In thursday nights news conference however the president said exactly what that action would be a if As a result of my conclusion that the North vietnamese by their infiltration threaten our remaining forces if they thereby develop a capacity and proceed possibly to use that capacity to increase the level of fighting in South Vietnam then will order the bombing of military Sites in North Vietnam the passes that Lead from North Vietnam into South Vietnam the military complexes the military Supply reconnaissance flights Nixon also changed the guidelines under which reconnaissance flights had been operating. He said such flights by u. S. Planes would continue but they will be Able to do More than fire Back to protect themselves. A if our planes Are fired upon i will not Only order that they return the fire but i will order that the missile Sites be destroyed and that the military Complex around that site which supports it also be destroyed by distributed Syndicate by King features terse verse by a. C. Gordon never Tell a Good joke even if you have one it too often reminds someone of a bad one. Thefts from Lincoln school supt. Robert Formanek reported to police Friday morning that a Small adding machine and a Small amount of Cash were taken at Lincoln school during the night wednesday. There was no evidence of the school being broken into. The adding machine was taken from the office and the Money from one of the teachers rooms. Whoever did it drank some Cartons of milk. Anyone who has any information As to the identity of the person or persons who committed the theft Are asked to Contact supt. Formanek or police. Night after Union leaders ordered their men Back to work and they resumed talks this morning at the National railway labor conference the bargaining Arm for tile carriers. Officials said these Early talks were dealing with procedure mostly and that resumption of a hard bargaining would come later. To four unions representing 425,000 rail workers agreed to return to the Job thursday night after a Federal judge ordered the strike halted then threatened a $200,000-a-Day Fine on the largest and most militant of the unions a the clerks a if they failed to return to work by Midnight. The other three unions representing train Crews maintenance workers amp dining car employees already had agreed to return to work under the court order but refused to Cross the clerks picket lines. Too the strike stopped almost every train in the country from late wednesday night until thursday night stranding passengers and freight and striking an immediate blow to the Economy and the mail. Major heavy Industry a including the big three automakers Bethlehem steel and . Steel corp. A immediately announced partial work shifts and ordered production cutbacks of As much As 25 per cent. Most said they would have been forced to shut Down by the weekend. The most immediate effect on the Public was an embargo placed on All 2nd, 3rd and 4th class mail which includes parcel Post going More than 300 Miles. The embargo was lifted today. Train and mail service resumed trains were running again Friday on the Burlington Northern line after the one Day strike had halted All train service Here and in Mast cities Over the nation. Freight service had been resumed and the afternoon passenger trains were expected through Here As usual h. J. Earley station a gent said. The morning Denver Zephyr did not make its run because word of the end of the strike was not received in time to resume service out of Denver. Postal service was Back to Normal. The embargo which had been declared on certain classes of mail was lifted after train operation was resumed. It. Madison a Wever resident died thursday of injuries resulting from a traffic Accident seven Miles North of fort Madison on Highway 88, about 8 15 thursday morning. Mrs. George Donna a Johnston 33, died shortly at 12.04 . At Blessing Hospital in Quincy 111. She was taken from the Accident scene to sacred heart Hospital Here by it. Madison ambulance service for treatment and was transferred to the Quincy Hospital by Lee county ambulance service. An Auto driven by mrs. Johnston was apparently travelling North on Highway 88, according to Lee county sheriffs officers and skidded on an ice covered Bridge into the path of a southbound Auto driven by John c. Iverson 47, new London. The entire front of the Iverson machine struck the right Side of the Johnston car officers said and both vehicles went into the West ditch. Both were demolished. Iverson was admitted to sacred heart Hospital Here and his condition today was listed As Good. He suffered bumps and bruises. He is employed in it. Pleasant. Mrs. Johnston a death was the 16th traffic fatality in Lee county. This year. The 1969 toll was seven. Twelve were killed in traffic accidents in the county in 1968. Bush appointed ambassador to . Abandoned car found on Road a 1966 Chevrolet which had been abandoned on a Road a mile East and a Quarter mile North of Lowell and was partially blocking the Road was towed to it. Pleasant thursday afternoon after county author ties were notified. The car had been damaged by a Hammer and also appears to have been damaged in an Accident. It is registered to Chester Byrd new London who Hasni to been located. It is believed he is in another state. Describes War intensify in j my Lai area it. Benning a. Up a a former infantry platoon commander testified today that one month before the american Sweer into my Lai 4 he had encountered automatic weapons fire so heavy in the area that bullets were a sweeping across the Field like a Gray a like a Cloud a testified capt. George c. White. A it was thick. It was extreme automatic weapons fire. A one of our machine gunners went up to a Hole and a burst of automatic fire went up his left leg and at the same time a mine nearby detonated. He did no to die but it Tore his body apart. A the Man next to him a it was the first time i had seen Battle Shock or combat fatigue a became a Complex vegetable. He speak talk walk or move a muscle. A this Man himself was an indication of the severity of the action described by White was in my Lai i on the South China sea the main Village in a Cluster of hamlets. Calley is accused of murdering 102 civilians in my Lai 4, to the Southwest of my Lai i in a sweep on March 16, 1968, designed to clean out three sub hamlets and ultimately take my Lai i. Lois level for a hoax Kansas City to. Up a Rita Lane said the two men wearing military uniforms who came to her Home one night this week to Tell her of her songs death were Nice very neat and even sat with her awhile after breaking the news. She said the men looked very official and she did not question them even though she thought her son Seaman Ralph i. Lane was in Hawaii and the men told her he died in Vietnam. The men carried briefcases she said and had such information about her son As his rank and serial number. A when they told me he had died i just went to pieces a mrs. Lane said a i just went she called All the relatives she could think of except the boys father who could not be reached in California. One of the relatives Roberta Johnson the boys aunt was suspicious because the Navy sent no official notification of lanes death. She contacted Navy officials in Washington and they told her something was amiss. They began an immediate Check. Mrs. Lane received a Telegram from the Navy wednesday saying her son was alive and told her to stand by for a Telephone Call. Thirty minutes later the Telephone rang. It was her son Fri agents told mrs. Lane thursday there have been four or five similar cases in the Midwest in recent months. Washington up a president Nixon personally announced today the appointment of rep. 1 George h. W. Bush a Tex. To be u. S. Ambassador to the United nations replacing Charles w. Yost. The president appearing at a White House news briefing praised Yost As having served with a great i area escapes worst of storm a break in two Days of drizzle and ice forming appeared to be in Prospect for Southeastern Iowa weather forecaster said. Partly Cloudy and a Little warmer were predicted. The Henry county area escaped some of the worst of the storm that moved across the Midwest. A slight Rise in temperatures thursday evening removed the threat of heavy ice coating As heavy showers occurred in thunderstorms. Total rainfall amounted to 1.5 inches. Light layers of ice formed on Trees however and a thin layer of Snow remained on some grassed plots. To the West the ice storm caused heavy damage. Eight communities surrounding Ottumwa were without Telephone service because of downed lines and some areas North and West of Ottumwa were without Power. Chariton reported heavy damage from icing As did other communities in that area. With Many thanks to the Home 1870-1880 time period the time snowfall was heavy in Northern owners Harlan chapter of quester when the three Harlan youngsters Iowa. Mason City reported 14 Inch ticket Sellers and the approximately ch11 h,0 Osage 12 inches and Marble two Holiday scenes in Harlan House on the Wesleyan Campus. Harlan House decorated for tour were still in the stocking at the fire place age. In the dining room the 450 people who toured the Homes the it. Pleasant women a club is pleased to announce the results of bust of Abraham Lincoln gazes setae very successful 1970 tour of1 Vrenely at a traditional cookie tree Rock to. New department Homes. According to chairman Dee and native Cedar boughs Garland i a i in medic i Vig Mehaffy the Sale of tickets and the doorways and staircase. Paper a items in the Homes totalled Over chains and Popcorn and Cranberry to aet $43,000 $600. I chains adorn the tree Courtesy of the income from the annual of Den 2, pack 103, cub scouts. Ames up a a Cal Fomia me fair will be used in some Way to the Harlan House decorations dial professor was ted further the groups civic awareness will be left in the Home for the hot and the newly formed dept atm project which for the last two years Holiday season. While always an ment of pamily practice at the has provided for the planting of interesting tour right now when University of Iowa College of med Many new Trees along highways the Home truly seems to be alive distinction As the american representative to the world body since january 1969. Too the president presented Bush and said he was qualified to take Over the United nations Post because of his experience in the House of representatives and because of his a enormous interest in the United Bash gave up a Safe House seat at Nixon a request to run for the Senate but was Defeated in the november election by Democrat Lloyd Bentsen or. Too the White House also released an Exchange of letters Between Nixon and Yost in which the president said in part a your performance at the United nations has been a source of great strength to the foreign policy of the United states and has been characterized by the highest degree of earlier this fall it was reported that Nixon intended to replace Yost with president counsellor Daniel p. Moynihan a White House adviser on Urban problems. But Moynihan who had been on a two year leave of absence from Harvard University in the end decided to return to his academic Post. 34 and 218. The Harlan House was especially decorated by the Harlan chapter of quester the first such group to be organized in it. Pleasant. The ladies attempted to keep All the decorations consistent with the with memories of the Young har line. The Iowa Board of regents for Lan family the Harlan House can mall d the Apfl nement of be and should be enjoyed by Many. Or Edwin a any individual or group can View for Rake Wowch we make we the Lovely Home by calling Kay highest paid state employees. Lange at the Iowa Wesleyan information office. Farm Bureau elects k us fuss Houston up a the american farm Bureau federation elected a new president thursday an Angus cattle breeder from Mackinaw 111., to replace Charles b. Twelve die on highways storm blamed Rakel who is currently chairman of the family practice program at the University of California College of Medicine at Irvine will be paid $38,000 a year plus a $5,000 annual compensation for loss of private practice income. His total salary of $43,000 a year a further augmented by the Standard package of employment benefits a is $13,000 a year More than gov. Robert d. Ray is paid. Rakel will also be a professor of up a raging storm system which Medicine in the University a family Shuman of Sullivan 111., who re swept across the Midwest was practice department. His takeover i tired unexpectedly this week after blamed for 12 traffic det chs in Iowa will come in february. 1 serving As president for 16 years. On thursday with five of the a William j Kuhfuss 58, Defeated Tali ties occurring in a single Acci j. Merrill Anderson. 55, of Newton Dent on an ice covered Bridge near Iowa by a 106 77 vote on the final Maquoketa. The latest reported fatalities were Day of the 52nd annual meeting. Both Kuhfuss and Anderson were a 43_year-old Council Bluffs Man 4� 4 mount pleasant stores open evenings until Christmas in a a a a in o Maroon and Gold singers on tvo area residents Are reminded that the it. Pleasant High school Maroon and Gold singers will appear in color on tvo Channel 3 at 3 . Sunday december 13th. The popular and talented choral group will present a 30 minute program of patriotic popular and Christmas songs. The girls will be wearing Gold dresses with Black accessories and the boys will be attired in Gold shirts White ties Maroon jackets and dark trousers. The Maroon and Gold singers Are under the direction of mrs. Mara Belle Magnuson who will be assisted by Marlene Whaley at the piano. The singers Are sponsored in this program by it. Pleasant Bank and Trust. Presidents of their state farm Bureau organizations and both Are members of tile Afif Board of directors. Kuhfuss who has an 880-acre livestock and Grain farm Rase and a Chicago truck Driver whose Semi trailer truck skidded off interstate 80. A two vehicle Accident on icy Council Bluffs streets claimed the seeks $20,000 in damage suit a damage suit has been filed in the clerk s office at the courthouse in which e. N. Walker is asking for $20,000 from Connie Ann Cox Cedar rapids administrator of the Victor j. Cox estate. Walkers son Roger was injured soviet cancels Bolshoi tour Moscow up a the soviet Union today cancelled a projected american tour by the Bolshoi opera and Ballet theater and threatened to discontinue All cultural exchanges with the United states if a zionist provocations Are not first Deputy foreign minister Vassili Kuznetsov summoned us. Ambassador Jacob e. Beam to the foreign ministry and delivered the protest cancelling the trip of one of the worlds most prestigious Heaters. The protest apparently was chiefly directed against the jewish defense league of America a Small zionist group which has broken up appearances by soviet performers in the United states and damaged the Tass and i tourist offices. The embassy had no immediate comment on the protest. The arrangement to Send the Bolshoi to America took several years to negotiate and was considered one of the greatest coups of american impresario sol Hurok Hurok left Moscow this afternoon after several weeks of what appeared to be successful negotiations with the Bolshoi. Life of Edward Joseph Weise. A through the ranks from president j thormities said the Weise car col in the Accident which occurred of the Tazewell county farm by i Jed with a pickup truck which june 20, 1970 at 2 55 . At the Reau to president of the Illinois drove jnt0 the cards path at a intersection of Highway 34 and the agriculture association. He served As state president since 1958. Judgment entered in damage action a judgment for $1,084.72 has been entered in District court against Keith Chamberlain in favor of Harry Hazen. The Money is for damages to Hazens car and injuries when it was involved in an Accident in new London dec. 16, 1967, with a car driven by the defendant. Help mail your Carrier slips and Falls on ice covered or Snow packed sidewalks. Steps porches and drives Cost the Public untold suffering and millions of dollars postmaster Wendell t. Smith said today. A with the coming of Winter a Council Bluffs intersection. Trenton Blacktop. He was Riding Charles Stanley Kraw 57, of Chi in a Van driven by Robert Bates Cago was killed late thursday night it. Pleasant which was struck by when his Semi skidded through a a car driven by Cox who was killed guard rail on the Skunk River j in the Accident and was his two Bridge near Colfax on interstate sons. 80. Authorities said the truck drop the petition states that it was Ped into the Skunk River following through the negligence of Cox that the Accident. I the Accident occurred. The Money the Maquoketa crash killed three asked for is for injuries to Roger members of a Green Island family Walker and for loss of time the and critically injured a fourth. The petition states victims were identified As Jack e. Daniels 24, of Green Island his 2-year-old son Todd and his 3 push on farm work halted december farm work which was going along on a big scale the first part of this week came to a halt because of the weather probably until Spring. Fortunately most Farmers who had Corn in tile Field were successful in completing the Harvest Early in the week. There remained a few Fields still untouched but the big Rush made a big difference. Many Farmers worked All or parts of nights to Complete the Harvest. Many others were in the Fields Early in the week Day and night blowing. Tractor lights could be spotted in dozens of Fields in the area As operators tried to get at least part of their fall blowing done. Some had to wait until near midday. After thawing to begin and slowed into the night until the soil froze again. S Nobel peace prize or. Smith said a your letter carriers year old son Fabian. Presented to Borlaug fear a disabling fall More than any mrs. Debby Daniels the Driver Oslo up a the 1970 Nobel other a we ask our customers to Clear Snow from walks and Steps As soon of the car was hospitalized in a peace prize was presented thurs quo Keta in critical condition. Mrs. I Day american agricultural Scien Daniels 19, was the Only one of j or Forman Ernest Borlaug a As possible after a snowfall and to the six persons in the car to sur j Cresco Iowa native who has Deuse Salt or Sand on ice coated sur Vive. I voted his life to help provide food als0 killed outright in the Acci a or starving millions. Postmaster Smith also pointed Dent was Steven Marburger 17, of Aase Linnaes chairman of the or curb delivery City routes to see that Snow does not Block Access to the Mailbox. Out the need for customers on Rural Green Island while 16-year-old Betty Randall of Spragueville died later at a Maquoketa Hospital. The Iowa Highway patrol said we want to give the fastest the Accident occurred when the safest mail delivery wre can a he Daniels car spun out of control on said a and we ask the cooperation an ice Slick Bridge Over the a of the Public in helping us through j quo Keta River on Iowa 62, then the difficult Winter norwegian parliament Nobel committee handed the laureate the Nobel medal the diploma and the $78,400 Check in an Oslo University ceremony. Truck. The truck Driver Robert Dean Messerschmidt of Cedar rap slammed Headon into a Semi trailer ids was not injured. To filibuster on set f und Washington up a Senate opponents of the supersonic trails port set vowed today to filibuster to death funds for the huge jetliner even if it Means blocking Congress pre Christmas adjournment. Sen. William Proxmire d wu., who has fought set development for years denounced the Compromise recommendation of a House Senate conference committee thursday that $210 million be spent on the controversial plane this year the Senate had eliminated All funds for it. The House had voted All of president Nixon Quot request of $290 minion

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