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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 17, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 296 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening december 17, 1970 Price to cents Cloudy Jeffrey Hart off and running rams by Clark for the connoisseur the orthodox methods of seeking the presidency Are less fascinating than the infinitely varied unorthodox approaches. The orthodox method exists in two Basic forms. First the straight Power play or single Wing approach where you forget about the primaries control a sufficient number of delegates through organizational strength and then Roll Over other contenders at the National convention Viz Hubert Humphrey in 1968. In its second form prescribed for the candidate who does no to have that much organizational strength the strategy entails entering primaries As Well a As Kennedy did in 1960. Nixon in 1968, and Muskie plans to do in 1972. All the other approaches for weaker and lighter candidates involve special and ingenious tactics. Tricks deception special timing Surprise fancy moves of All sorts and this is where the real fun lies. You Are John Gardner for example and you want political Power the presidency so you run by not running by not even being political. You Start a citizens lobby which a a is advertised As above politics. You collect Money advisers support for measures in a the Public Good a like expanded welfare gradually you Edge into View gradually revealing yourself As yes political. Or you Are George Mcgovern against Muskie in a head to head contest you would be annihilated but you avoid that. You stay far to the left of Muskie knowing that though the left cannot nominate a candidate it May have an effective veto Power. You will consolidate the left try to Stop Muskie and wait upon events. Too or most ingenious of All so far you Are Ramsey Clark and right now you done to have much of anything to do. When you were attorney general you thought that Black panthers were Only Nice Tabby cats and that it was awful to indict Abbie and Tom and Dave and those Good Guys out in Chicago. And if it came to it. You a have sooner Sung the Horst Wessel song than have used a wire tap to catch a Crook and so. Therefore you took a lot of heat from congressmen and other primitives and troglodytes and Nixon said Nasty things about you in the 1968 Campaign which really burned you up. Then for some reason people began saying you ought to run for president an frankly you had noticed yourself that none of the democrats seemed Likely to end up on mount Rushmore a so Why not the next step was obvious. You wrote a Book full of wooden banalities about How nobody could do much of anything about crime until All our social problems were straightened out a thus shedding some Light on the reasons you were such a great attorney general and very carefully you inserted into that Book some attacks on j. Edgar Hoover. Nothing ventured nothing gained. Name Legislatures committee chairmen Des Moines up a lieutenant gov. Roger Jepsen and House speaker William Harbor forecasting a mid May adjournment for the upcoming legislative session today announced the 38 lawmakers selected As committee chairmen for the 64th general Assembly. At a joint news conference Jepsen and Harbor said they will rely heavily on the committee chair release a conservation funds for �?T71 w Ashington up a the White House announced it has released agricultural conservation funds for fiscal 1971. Sen. Jack Miller r Iowa said he Learned of the action wednesday afternoon. The funds had been approved by both houses of Congress but Frozen by the Bureau of the budget until now. The Money is used to assist Farmers who undertake soil conservation projects such As the building of terraces and tiling projects. Last year a total of $185 million was spent on the shared conservation projects with Iowa receiving $7.5 million. Too state soil conservation officials said the total amount of Money available to Iowa Farmers has not yet been announced. During 1969, some 44,000 Iowa Farmers applied for and received Federal soil conservation assistance funds. Miller said the announcement a indicates that the letter signed by 33 senators to the president has produced a this program a he said a has been highly beneficial in the cause of conservation and it should be continued although possibly with increased emphasis on environmental effects relating to water pollution officials said the soil conservation funds Are of special importance to Iowa since soil run off is considered the major pollutant of Interior streams and Rivers. Repeat offer of cease fire men All republicans. The men Are to provide workable Bill drafts for consideration by the entire body rather than producing a Large Quantity of questionable or unworkable Bills they said. After meeting with House and Senate leadership wednesday some target dates for key legislation have been established. Harbor said tax revision a a a the most controversial issues a will come up on March i and committee work on both legislative and congressional reapportionment will Start a one or two weeks after the session too however the two reaffirmed their opposition to a bipartisan commission As was done in 1969 to draw up the reapportionment plans. A a the legislature is going to have to do it anyway a Harbor said a so we might As Well take the Bull by the horns and move right off the Harbor also promised a real last action on legislation which would permit Iowa a governmental subdivisions to participate in Federal Revenue sharing. In addition to those issues Harbor said other main Points of attention for the 1971 Iowa legislature will be eminent Domain collective bargaining for Public employees drug abuse legislation witness immunity provisions and a change in the Century old abortion statutes. Too Harbor said announcing the chairmen Early almost one month before the session opens a will enable the lawmakers to become More familiar with the Type of legislation to be proposed to the general Assembly. A a it a just Good business sense a Harbor said. Jepsen said he will announce the full committee membership for both the House and Senate before Christmas. Of the 38 new committee chairmen a 19 in each chamber a 18 held the same positions during the 1969 and 1970 Legislatures. In key reappointment sen. Francis Messerly r Cedar Falls and rep. John Camp r Bryant were selected to head the powerful appropriations committees. Other committee chairmen for the 1971 session will include agriculture sen. Richard Stevens a Crawfordsville rep. Charles f. Strothman r new London. Both reappointment. Kajii. I. A \ \ Jye a r i. Y d Ai ,-.v Vav a a a it 4 a 7 s to amp Hill Lam -1 in n in a a it amp scr Council approves cd study contract the City Council wednesday on recommendation of tile City night approved the contract for plan commission the Council a the Central business District study proved a special use permit for a As submitted by William s. Law tract of land on the West Edge of rence associates of Chicago 111. It. Pleasant owned by the h eur and mayor Charles Hanna signed one Smith construction co. The it. Zoning classification of the land the Cost of the study is $6,500 was changed from r-2 District to and shared by the City and the special use. A too bed nursing chamber of Commerce. Home is planned for the site and it will be owned by the Hawkeye an ordinance setting Down the National investment of Des rules and regulations for the City Moines sanitary Landfill was adopted. O a o / a a it. X. V a Al i v .1. A 4 by x a a. A vip presidential Christmas card this is the cover of the Christmas cards sent by president and mrs. Richard m. Nixon. Center medallion in Gold shows the White houses North portico. The surrounding Wreath is embossed in Bright Green foil on a Green Silkscreen background. Inside is the inscription a with Pur sincere wishes for a joyous Christmas and a Happy new year. The president and mrs. Nixon. A its a hallmark creation and this is about the same size. Expecting offensive in Saigon terrorist Congress set to adjourn on Jan. 3 Saigon up a the . Army Gen. Michael j. L. Greene 51, of warned gis today of an expected new town Square pa., the com Viet Cong terrorist offensive in Mander of the u. S. Army head Saigon aimed at killing and maim Quarter area command. His state ing americans. The new drive ment followed another terrorist would take advantage of growing attack which killed two americans anti american feelings among Stu and one vietnamese and wounded dents. The warning came from Brig. 25 others wednesday night. Washington up a the 91st Congress is headed for adjournment at noon Jan. 3. When the Constitution declares it must quit a the latest such finish since the dark Days of world War ii. Even if Congress wanted to adjourn earlier president Nixon would not allow it. I i centers Mav treat in drug addicts Des Moines up a at Tormy general Richard Turner today in the past week u. S. Military and civilian vehicles have been fire i bombed two Bachelor officers Quad with the Senate hopelessly enters buildings were hit by Satchel tangled in a Maze of filibusters Well that really paid off did no to it Hoover came out and observed that you had been a jellyfish attorney general the Blunt old Man and he capped it by praising tor Quemada Mitchell your successor. It worked it worked for Days now the Liberal columnists have been writing about your profundity and your humanity and the times did an editorial about you and somebody compared you to Solomon and Lycurgus. People Are actually talking about you and just think of the honorary degrees you Are going to get this Spring a Harvard probably and certainly Kent state. Who knows Muskie and Humphrey and Mcgovern Arentt exactly heavyweights let alone Teddy boy. In fact you re at least As Good As they Are. So play it by ear. Who knows distributed by King features Syndicate Paris up a the Viet Cong today repeated its offer of an immediate cease fire in Vietnam in return for a declaration of us. And Allied troop withdrawal by june 30 of next year. Madame Nguyen Thi Binh the Viet congas chief negotiator told the 95th session of the deadlocked Vietnam peace conference us. A Cap Tance would also mean immediate negotiations on the release of captured american prisoners. The same proposal also was made at last weeks session. Madame Binh in her prepared statement to the session ignored the Allied counter proposal to i petition for showdown vote Washington up a Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott today circulated a cloture petition which could bring a showdown vote saturday on cracking the filibuster against the continued development of the supersonic transport plane set. Aides to Scott indicated he would file the petition which requires 16 signatures later today setting up a vote one hour after the Senate convenes saturday. A two thirds vote is required to end the filius charges and a sidewalk cafe Cater ing to americans was hit by Gre a Nades. These attacks were first thought to have been carried out by Young anti american students. Greene said he had advised persons under him to take precautions but he placed no restriction on their movement. He said he had ruled that Iowa a mental health asked military police to extend centers May provide psychiatric their patrols out no additional and treatment for meet every Day to try to negotiate Ter. Escapes from work Relea a program Cedar rapids up a a prisoner at the Iowa menus reformatory at Anamosa escaped Here wednesday while on a work release program. Authorities said Laverne Grauer Holtz 23, and to other prisoners were attending a manual training class at the Kirkwood Community College. When the men boarded a bus to return to the reformatory Grauerholtz was found missing. Grauerholtz was serving a to year sentence for breaking and entering. The release of . Prisoners by Christmas. She said her proposal a will insure in the immediate future the safety of the . Troops withdrawal As Well As quickly ending the War. The petition was circulated As the Senate came to a virtual halt despite 12 Hoar Days. Working disgruntled congressmen resigned themselves to remaining in session until noon Jan. 3, when the Constitution compels adjournment. It was the second night of such activity which has been on the increase since an american Soldier shot and killed a vietnamese Schoolboy in qui Nhon last week. Examination drug addicts. In an opinion Turner said the treatment of drug addicts is similar to the treatment of alcoholics which he approved in 1969. While the previous opinion was limited alcoholism Turner said a we feel the same reasoning by analogy would apply to drug he said experts have grouped j both alcoholism and drug addiction travelling by cot As mental problems and they i therefore fall within the scope of Nof Safe for Santa the states four mental institutions. In addition the attorney Gen Millville Utah up a san eral said the treatment of drug data found out wednesday that travel diets May be funded with Public by Sleigh through the air is safer monies. Turner said the funds for than by car on this Small City s congressional leaders abandoned Hope of leaving before the holidays Ami. Zere reduced to thinking a bout a couple of Days off for Christmas. Nixon dashed any other thoughts. Ile threatened to recall Congress dec. 26 if it adjourned before acting on welfare. Social Security Trade the supersonic transport set and appropriations Meas maps were ordered into the streets. Tires. Too too the wednesday night explosions a White House press Secretary killed two gis and wounded seven. Ronald Ziegler said a the president treatment May come from one of three sources a the Iowa mental health authority the state institution fund or the county that committed the patient. Turners opinion came in response to an inquiry from rep. Willard r. Hansen a Cedar Falls. Hansen had asked whether the state mental health facilities could streets. He was in route to a school party when the automobile which he drove was hit by a Snow plow. Since the Jolly red cheeked old gentleman picked the High Point in a Snow storm in which to travel traffic was moving slowly and tiler wore no injuries. The Utah Highway patrol saw feels very strongly these measures should be voted up or Down before the Congress adjourns. There Are other measures As an added slap at the already 1 restless lawmakers Nixon wed i mesday vetoed a manpower train i inc Bill two years in the making. I the veto enraged key members of j both parties but was Likely to be j sustained by Congress. Neither Nixon a threat nor the length of the session appeared to enhance prospects for passing what Nixon has put on his priority list of a overriding interest legislation. Too the last time Congress was in session Jan. 3 was in 1941. In 1951 Congress did not adjourn until Jan. 2. The Senate and House already Forst would lilt highest income persons Des Moines up a Iowa Revenue director William Forst said today the easiest Way for the state to acquire increased Revenue would be to Knock off Federal tax deductions for persons in the higher income brackets. Forst said at present iowans making Between $10,000 and $30,000 Are a hardest hit by the Iowa income tax because the tax Structure is based on a curve rather than a progressive scale. This causes moderate income groups to More he said and frees the higher income brackets. Too persons making More than $30,-000 a year Forst said Are allowed Federal tax deductions and do not As much As lower income groups. A the easiest Way to raise the Money is to eliminate the Federal tax deduction a Forst told the legislative tax study committee. The committee is seeking a Way to replace some $40 million that will be lost if the 1971 Iowa legislature agrees to a recommendation to eliminate the personal property tax in the state. Forst said knocking off the Federal income tax deductions for persons making More than $30,000 would raise about the same amount As the personal property tax. Too in addition Forst said Iowa would end up with a More equitable income tax than at present. A the Guy making about $10,000 is going to less of Overall tax collections but he is going to be paying Only his share a Forst said. A we would be giving tile fellow on the lower end the break because the Guy on the High end would be paying More a the Revenue director said. A if we need $40 million it is easier for the Guy on the High end to because lie can better afford the Council accepted the Low bid of sheets motors of $3,748 for a new truck for the City Street department. A bid was also received from Shafer motors. Too mrs. Elizabeth Mccoid and Tom Bell were reappointed to the Library Board for another term. Too the $16,093.22 the City received from the Utility Board w As transferred into tile Public safety fund $10,000, and the sanitation fund $6,093.22. Too the Council plans to Send letters to 200 local persons who have downspouts which run into the ground sometimes into sanitary sewers stating that those which do Are in violation. Too it was decided that no parking signs will be place on a half of Block of Brazelton Street North of East Washington. Too a class c Beer License was renewed for Hills Market. Councilman Darrell Donnolly voted no. A class b Beer permit was renewed for the West Side cafe. All the councilmen voted yes. Too the Council adjourned and met As the Board of health and renewed a Mobile Home Park permit for o. T. Wilson owner of merry acres. Says u. S. A Eady to Stop legally treat drug addicts and Santa made his appearance at have passed a Resolution under adults have fun with this Santa san Francisco up a Max Pincus 82, sat on a department store Santa slap and declared �?o111 Tell you what id like a Case of but then the retired clothing manufacturer added a ooh better skip it Santa. My doctor says no it was All part of an Experiment at Macy a department store which reserved a Santa for adults Only this week. Bob Halpern who plays Santa Claus thinks it proves that a people Are kids at Helen Maurer a Beauty Salon supervisor who just moved Here from new York told Santa she would be Content with a new car Good health added years an Ermine coat and a winning ticket for $100,000 in the shopping f Days til Christmas amp new York state lottery. Santa declared a that ought to be Peter Kump an Export import Man too embarrassed to sit on Santa slap said he wanted a peace on Earth. And a reduction in Santa offered Only to take that under consideration. Valerie Barnes of nearby Dublin put her request this Way a Well lets begin with a new sweater then a new refrigerator and. A i brought you a new refrigerator last year did no to i a a five years ago a a More like 15.�?� an overweight housewife told Santa she did no to want him to bring her anything. A just take away something like say to Santa who sat under a sign saying a adults Only and gave away free swizzle Sticks was asked what he wanted. A Beer for my Reindeer a replied Halpren from inside his red suit. Whether the centers could use Public funds to finance such treatment. Split vote on Aid proposal Washington up a Iowa a two United states senators split their votes wednesday in the 72-22 Senate approval of president Nixon a $255 million foreign Aid proposal to Arm Cambodia against North Vietnam. Republican Jack Miller voted with the majority on the proposal while Democrat Harold e. Hughes joined 21 others in opposing the amendment. Providence elementary school. New disturbances in seaport City Warsaw. Poland up a diplomatic reports said new disturbances broke out today in the seaport of Gdynia and that shooting was heard. They also reported strike actions in the textile City of Lodz and the Coal mining area of Silesia. The cities of Gdansk formerly Danzig Gdynia and Sopot were hit by riots monday and tuesday following Sharp food Price increases which came just before Christmas. The tri City area on tile Baltic has a combined population of 600,000. Which the 92nd Congress would not Convene until Jan. 21. It is expected Nixon will sign it. If he does not Congress would have to resume at 12 01 . Jan. 3. Shortly before the White House announcement the Senate plunged into the first of six possible filibusters a this one Over the funding of $210 million to continue re search and development of the set i the faster than sound jetliner. Ethiopian student guest of Coop or. Ato Getaneh Yemane of Ethiopia is visiting it. Pleasant this week As a guest of the Supply cooperative inc. During his visit or. Yemane will study the history organization and operations of the Supply cooperative As a part of his training program sponsored by cooperative education and training inc., of Madison wis. He is a graduate of Haile Selassie University with a is degree in agricultural economics and a project coordinator w Ith the Ethiopia ministry of agriculture Extension. Following his visit and training program which will be concluded Here on december 19th, he will return to the University of Wisconsin for about 18 months of training and study. I mount pleasant stores i open evenings a until Christmas i truck Load of Caille upsets a 1953 Chevrolet truck driven by Glen m. Seberg 47, it. Pleasant route 5, loaded with 16 head of Black Angus cattle rolled Over at 7 30 am. Thursday on a curve a mile South and three Miles West of Swedesburg and a 500 Pound calf was killed. Seberg was not injured. He was driving1 West and As he was going around the gravel Road curve his Load shifted causing the truck to go out of control and Roll Over. The truck was badly damaged. Deputy sheriff roil Elmore investigated. I fighting a now Paris up a u. S. Ambassador David k. E. Bruce said today the United states was ready to Stop the fighting in Vietnam a a now and asked the communists to negotiate. Instead Hanoi said president of Dixon had directly challenged the might of the entire communist world by bombing North Vietnam. Bruce told the 95th session of the deadlocked Vietnam peace conference the United states does not accept the communists deadline of june 30 next year for a . Troop pullout As a condition for a cease ire and does not agree to ouster of the Saigon regime As a condition for political settlement. A we have called for immediate negotiations on an internationally supervised cease fire in place throughout All of Indochina a Bruce said a in other words we Are ready to Stop the fighting now and resolve the other issues in an atmosphere free from the use of he repeated us. Readiness to negotiate an agreed timetable a for Complete troop withdrawal As part of an Over All settlement in Vietnam Laos and mrs. Hickenlooper Dies at age 72 Washington up a mrs. Verna b. Hickenlooper. Wife of former Iowa sen. Bourke b. Hickenlooper died Here Early today at the age of 72. Mrs. Hickenlooper had been in ill health for several years and underwent heart surgery about two years ago. She entered a local Hospital about to Days ago. She is survived by her husband two children mrs. Russell Oberlin of Des Moines and David b. Hickenlooper of Bloomfield. Survivors also include four grandchildren and a brother h. C. Bensell of Sanborn Iowa. Eurial and services will be monday in Cedar rapids Iowa. Local arrangements Are being made by Gawler a funeral Home where the body will lie in repose from 2 to 4 . And 7 to 9 pm. Saturday. Ato Getaneh Yemane terse verse by a. C. Gordon nothing flattens with such Volita Tiore As a sudden flattened reputation

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