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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 23, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 301 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening december 23, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain when a Philadelphia plans break Down the Washington Post has discovered that the a Philadelphia plan a which seeks to establish a quota on the upside for Blacks in construction work on Federal projects 2,000 jobs in Philadelphia by 1973just Isnit working. The reason the unions wont cooperate by admitting enough negroes asap entices. Well the labor Secretary of the a act National association for the advancement of coloured people Herbert Hill put his Finger on the trouble five years ago. The attempt to solve the problem of Black employment by recourse to quotas does no to get to the Bottom of the problem. Said or. Hill a was Long As Union membership remains a condition of employment in Many trades and crafts and negroes Are barred from Union membership solely because of their color then Trade Union discrimination is the decisive Factor in determining whether negro workers in a Given Industry shall have an Opportunity to earn a living.�?�1 in trying to Force the Philadelphia plan on the construction Industry the Federal government must contend with the slowdown imposed through Union operation of the hiring Hall. A Black can pass All his written tests for apprenticeship qualification and still be Side tracked in favor of someone else. To push the Issue the government must then turn to the courts where both the unions and the employers Are contesting the constitutionality of the quota idea. Work ideally speaking should go to those who Are Best qualified to do it without regard to religion color the Possession of a College degree or whatever. The test should be one of relevance to the Job not to extraneous sociological considerations. If a a sociology can be made the criterion Job relevance is thereby denied a and the a reverse discrimination that might result from a quota system would give an opening to anybody with Good work credentials to sue for redress under the a equal Protection of the Law clause in the Constitution. If the government were genuinely sincere about making openings for negroes it would address itself to the problem of compulsory unionism. If Pennsylvania had a right to work Law with Job re levance the test for hiring qualified Blacks could get on those Federal construction jobs without having to fight it out through human relations commissions and the courts. The trend in the country however., is All against the spread of voluntary unionism. In California Cesar Chavez has not Only achieved the Power to organize the vineyards on a compulsory basis he has also gained the right by the terms of his contract to Black list any worker who agitates against the Union. If Chavez pursuing a reverse discrimination policy should choose to do so he could make it almost impossible for a dissident grape picker of Wasp White Anglo Saxon protestant background to get a Vineyard Job if a person of mexican origin happened to be applying for it at the same time. This does not mean that Chavez will act this Way. But legally he could. Too the United states steel cooperation is currently being sued by the government on a charge that it has practice discrimination against Blacks in its Fairfield ala., Plant. . Steel naturally counters by saying a a a to ainu to then proceeding to the attack u. S. Steel s chairman e. H. Gott accuses the department of Justice of demanding that the company give 50 per cent of All new office and clerical jobs in the Fairfield Plant to Blacks in the next five years. Furthermore or. Gott says the government is attempting to compel u. S. Steel to give 40 per cent of the new management jobs to Blacks in the same period. This could be discrimination in reverse. The attempt to impose quotas puts you on treacherous Shoals any Way you take it. The civil rights act says there must be no discrimination in hiring or promotion because of race color Creed National origin or sex. A quota could easily become discriminatory for it excludes As Well As it includes. Thus exclusion at any arbitrary quota margin is discrimination in reverse. A much simpler a and presumably More constitutional Way of handling the problem of jobs would be to make unionism a voluntary matter and to Trust to Job training and the a a Market to help minorities once fluidity is restored to hiring. Distributed by King features Syndicate Stanley Stigge and Arlene Moore first two winners Stanley Stigge 710 Lincoln Street it pleasant was the first place Winner in the 1970 Sleigh of gifts drawing held at the chamber of Commerce office wednesday afternoon. The Tigges were out of town on a Short Christmas vacation in Arizona and not available when Santa Claus called to inform them of their Good Fortune. Second place Winner miss Arlene Moore of 505 e. Monroe Street will receive Christmas gift selections valued at $320 and miss Catherine Mccormick of 505 South Jackson was the third Winner of Choice gifts. Duane r. Joy of Rural route i it. Pleasant has just returned Home on military leave and was the 4th Winner and miss Fern Ranck of 501 West Washington Street was Winner number five. The winning registration slips were drawn by four year old Steven Wallingford and his Little sister Sandra children of or. And mrs. Wendell Wallingford of 411 e. Madison Street. Mrs. Wallingford served As official witness and assisted Don Moth chamber manager and mrs. Marlyn Madole assistant office manager. Ken Rogers served this year As chairman of the Sleigh of j gifts committee. The Complete list of winners their j gifts and the merchants who donated the excellent prizes Are listed As follows too 1e70 Sleigh full of gifts prizes is prize Stanley Stigge 710 Lincoln it. Pleasant. Every other Christmas club payment on a $75.00 club for one year a insurance plan savings amp loan association. In pc. Set of China a Dejaynes jewelry. A gift certificate for $40 in merchandise a Seifertt. A grouping of Fine Tajma brass Bates office Supply. A Beautiful Home Gas Light a Iowa Southern utilities. 59 carpet tile 12�?� x 12�?� a Steele lumber. Magnus chord Organ with legs Bench 3 music books Spurgeon a. $ i0 of sports coat a of Connors clothing. $41.95 value floor polisher a Sears Catalon store. A Fine Rod reel and line a Crane hardware. Two mud amp Snow tires a Supply Coop inc. Boston rocking chair a r. K. Crane furniture co. Four years free subscription a it. Pleasant news. True tone am pm table radio Western Auto. 2nd prize Arlene Moore 505 e. Monroe it. Pleasant. Pre Hung and self storing aluminium combination door United building Center 30 cup Percolator use Iowa cooperative electric association. Wall clock a Beckers jewelry. Mod acrylic wig and accessories plus pre styling a buds super Valu. A swag Light a Home furniture. Tape recorder Aida solid state a Brau pharmacy. Ivy league sweater amp Jaymar Slacks. Arrow shirt and superba tie a Roederer a. A sheets motors rent a car for any two week Days a 300 Miles free expense paid a sheets motors. 3rd prize Catherine Mccormick 505 s. Jackson it. Pleasant. Eureka vacuum cleaner a Nesbitt a. Boys or mens clothing of your Choice $40 value a Williams tape recorder a Benda appliance. Shop Craft 7 Inch Power saw and i g. E. Steam amp dry Iron a coast to coast store. 4th prize Duane r. Joy it. I it. Pleasant. Notions and regular fabrics for sewing fabric. Nearly $800 million in Highway projects for next five years Ames Iowa a almost $800 million in Highway improvements were included in the new construction program approved today by the Iowa state Highway commission. Mum benefits for Iowa Highway Santo and Reindeer designed built by Joe beanies Santa and friends adorn the Lawn at 309 Cedar Lane Home of mrs. Caralee beanies and her son during Calendar year 1971, the commission estimates that $138,-124,000 Worth of construction and formal approval of the $793,352, right of Way acquisition will be ac-000 program came after months of complis hed on Iowa a Highway sys study and planning by the staff j terns. During the five fiscal years and lengthy consideration by the commission. A the Basic objective a director of highways j. R. Coupal jr., said a has been to develop a plan for the utilization of anticipated Highway resources which will result in Max Joe. Joe. Who is 16 and a Sophomore at a pics designed and manufactured the wooden figures Home workshop which his father Don now deceased had. Ile was a Carpenter. In the Accident to local fatal resident value $40, fashion first Robert Stearns 31, it. Pleasant was killed Early tuesday afternoon just South of it. Pleasant near the Oakland Mills Road while loading Corn into a truck at the Henry county ass bin site. Stearns Foreman for the Supply cooperative inc., which leases the bins became entangled in a Corn Auger drive Shaft and death was caused by strangulation. Stearns and Doug Derscheid of Winfield and mrs. Robert Marilyn of Hara of Ottumwa. His Mother mrs. Harry Stearns survives. Their decorations destroyed while they View others or. And mrs. Woody Tozer who live at 716 North Lincoln Street have enjoyed decorating their Home and Yard for the Holiday season for several years. This year services will be held at 2 00 . Their Yard theme was a huge Santa j Mickey Donald Nicholson Doris thursday dec. 24, at the Weir Claus sitting in a picture window Peterson Olin c. Robinson James also grand and Petit j jurors Are drawn grand jurors have been drawn for the year and Petit jurors for 1 the Calendar Quarter commencing Jan. 4. The grand jurors Are Robert Connop Ralph Despain Hartley Michael Jarvis Kenneth Knowles Phyllis Mallams Eva beginning july i 1971, and ending june 30. 1976, improvements to Iowa a primary and interstate systems Are expected to Cost $655, 228,000. A this years edition includes Only those projects which can be developed with the employee Levels currently approx Tsend which can be funded from current resources at current rates a Coupal said. Delay local Road projects for one year cookes funeral Home with the made of Christmas greenery. Rev. Carlton Easley pastor of the Church of the Nazarene officiating. Interment will be at the Oakland Mills cemetery. On tuesday evening the towers took their grandchildren on a tour of it. Pleasant and surrounding Countryside to look at the Many friends May Call As they desire other Homes that have been gaily Wissot grinder and magic hos were using a tractor powered port Al the Weir cookes funeral Home. It. Pleasant number just Over 7,000 it. Pleasant a official census figure is reported just Over the 7,-000 Mark a 7,.007 to be exact. This was a gain of to from earlier preliminary figures. While the number is 332 less than the 1960 census figure the City actually had a substantial gain if the state mental health institutes were omitted from both totals. Henry county has a population of 18,114, the official figures disclose. This was a loss of 73 when compared with to years ago. Comparative figures for several counties 1970 Henry Jefferson Washington Lee Van Buren Louisa 18.114 15,774 18,967 42,996 8,643 10,682 1960 loss or gain 18,187 -73 15,818 -44 19,406 -439 44,207 789 9,778 -135 10,290 392 Saigon up a the communist forces began a three Day Christmas cease fire at i . Wednesday noon est tuesday17 hours before u. S. And South vietnamese troops said they would Lay Down their arms for 24 hours in Observance of the Holiday. A Viet Cong radio broadcast monitored in Saigon tonight said any violation of the truce period by Allied forces a will be met by severe the Allied truce begins at 6 . 5 . Est thursday. Tess can opener and Sharpener a Orscheln farm and Home store. 5th prize Fern Ranck 501 w. Washington it. Pleasant. 5 lbs. Russell Stover Candy Coro jewelry perfume mens Cologne Kodak camera a Panther drugs. Samsonite Luggage a $40 a Browne a shoe fit co. Gnu prize mrs. Leslie Logan 903 s. Locust it. Pleasant $40 merchandise gift certificate Brown Lynch Scott. 7th prize Ralph Mertens 209 n. Jackson it. Pleasant. $40 merchandise a j. C. Penney co. 8tii prize Walter Wehrle 305 s. Jackson it. Pleasant. Gift certificate for $40 a Iris restaurant. Oti prize Maxine Foster. Crawfordsville. $40 in merchandise a Roddis. 10th prize Howard Ensminger Rome. Choice of $40 Worth of merchandise. $20 from ready to Wear department and $20 from our other departments a Harrison a variety dept. Store. Huh prize Glenda beets. Box 131, Olds. $40 merchandise gift certificate a vans to and radio. 12tii prize mrs. John Sizemore 302 Garfield ave., it. Pleasant. $40 meat a Walgren. 13th prize mrs. Joe Strang 410 s. Jefferson it. Pleasant. Assortment of toys valued at $40 a Hoaglind a 5c to $1 store. 14th prize Maurice Osborn 500 e. Henry it. Pleasant. Your Choice of one pair of menus or women a dress shoes slippers and overshoes a Tompkins family shoe store. 15th prize Hugh Conrad 6c0 e. Washington it. Pleasant. Two $25 u. S. Savings Bonds a Henry county savings Bank. 16th prize mrs. Earl Swartzendruber 910 e. Madison. It. Pleasant. $40 Worth of merchandise from gift department a Braggs Davis paint store. 17th prize Joyce Johnson 314 e. Henry it. Pleasant. $40 gift certificate in merchandise from any current wards Catalon a Montgomery Ward Catalon store. 18th prize Dean Noble Salem. Kodak instamatic camera set a Kyle drug. 19th prize Dennis c. Holtkamp Salem. 20,000 regal Stamps Why Vee food store. Decorated for the Holiday season. F. Rosehill and de Wagler. Petit jurors drawn Cara Jane Arnold Gary awaited Merald Bailey. Ron beavers. Janet k. Betz. Gary w. Brown. W. P. Brown. Jane Chandra. Vera Davis Ann r. Devinger Ruth Douglas total $1500 Able Auger to Load Corn into a truck from one of the rented storage bins. Achy Torell f la to Cis Derscheid left the Job site for a i few minutes and when he returned found Stearns caught Between the Auger tube and drive Shaft about 12 feet above the intake end of the funds totalling Sloop. Given Rexall Auger. It appeared that his Glove or friends and family in memory i jacket was caught by the turning the late or. William h. Megorden drive Shaft and pulled his head have been presented to Iowa Wes Between the tube and Shaft. It was Leyan College for the old main necessary for a welder to Cut away restoration fund. Part of the Shaft to free Stearns mrs. Megorden delivered the Check to Wesleyan president Louis when the towers returned Home Eva r Elgar Donna j. Ensminger about to . Their Santa Claus widening of Highway 34 to the country club Road West of it. Edgar j p peasant and to the metro mail Corner East have been delayed one year from 1974 to 1975, according to the Iowa Highway commission projected program released wednesday. Reason for the delay is Given As financial consideration. Likewise the completion of the 218 improvement from the Junction with 125 Salem stub southward has been deferred from 1972 to 1973, also because of financial consideration. And Yard scene had been destroyed by vandals. By of . Windows to close at noon thursday Idell Foster Helen Grinstead Virginia Hillyard Jeanette Howe Walter e. Huddleston Joy Johnson Marguerite Johnson Raymond King Robert Koch Larry Kuhlen a Beck Edith land. Richard Lee Dale Longwell. John Mayberry Leroy Menke James Mueller Mildred Myers Vernon Oetjens Alice Parks i Ronald Parker Aileen Reinier Glenn Rodgers Olive k. Rogers Max Roth. Mrs. Wilbur Roth. Joe i Schlatter. J Arnold Schuetz Gary y i last wednesday. The it pleasant Ost Offit a we see Roy Sharpe Elisabeth Sprott. The old main fund was Stab close at noon thur5da> t0 observe Margaret l. Sutton Glenn Tim pushed by chapter original a of the a he executive order issued by pres Mcennan Lloyd Timmons. John p. Peo sisterhood to underwrite a Dell Nixon which gave All Federal Warth Deana Watte Betsy Weld or. Warren Scott acting Henry county medical examiner ruled that death was by strangulation. The body was taken to the Weir cookes funeral Home by ambulance. Stearns name was withheld by authorities until All the relatives were notified which was about 4 30 . The Accident occurred about i . Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore was called to the scene. Too Robert Melvin Stearns was born january 25, 1939, in it. Pleasant the son of Harry and Gladys Goldie Long Stearns. He married Emma Lillian Blythe on september 24, 1966 at Kahoka mo., who survives. He had been employed by Supply Coop for 12 years As an elevator assistant. He served in the armed forces from 1961 to 1963. He is also survived by a daughter Shelley Elizabeth and four stepchildren Virginia Florence Patti and Richard All at Home and one step grandchild Christine. The following Brothers and Sisters survive mrs. Pete Viola Van Amerongen of it. Pleasant mrs. Paul Margaret Iserman of it. Pleasant Edgar Stearns of it. Pleasant Clarence Stearns of it. Pleasant mrs. Lloyd Helen Oge costs for the plumed restoration of employees one half Day off Onde or worthy Wickham. The Cember 24. Normal Lockbox delivery services collection and special delivery service will be provided. Postmaster Wendell t. Smith in behalf of All the local Post office employees wishes to express their wishes for a very merry Christmas the Wesleyan building where sisterhood was founded in 1869. Mrs. Megorden is a member of chapter original a. Or. Megorden was on the Wesleyan Board of trustees at the time of his death sept. 19. Christmas eve service at pleasant Hill Many beautifully decorated Homes pleasant Hill United methodist and a Happy new year. A Precia j Church located South of the Airport persons out w ant to drive and see some in their cars will Over it. Pleasant of the beautifully lion is also expressed for the Fine cooperation of All local Post office customers during the Busy Christ j Mas season which made it one of the most successful on record. The Henry county courthouse also will close at noon on thursday. Most stores will be open until appearing on the a critical needs list but not yet in the five year program Are three projects one is the freeway from West of new London eastward. The Cost of the 3.t i term Henry county is estimated at $3,456,000. A second project in this category is from Hillsboro to Iowa 16, estimated Cost $493 000. The third is from Salem East to 218, 3.3 Miles estimated Cost $812,000. Too the Section of 218 South of Iowa City to the Riverside Junction is scheduled Foi paving in 1972 and the Section from the Riverside Junction to the Ainsworth Junction in 1973. The Section of 218 from Coralville to Cedar rapids is scheduled for paving in 1971. The Section Between Donnellson and Keokuk is scheduled for paving in 1975. A Section of no. 2 Between Donnellson and it. Madison is listed for 1976. On Highway 78, a Section Between will hold a Christmas eve Candle Light service at 8.00 . Wesley Highway i and Highway 63 West of Chapel and Prairie Gem will also Hedrick is scheduled for paving in be participating in the service. 1975. Decorated Homes. They will be five or six thursday and a found in almost every sector of few will opon water to Accomma j town North West South and East Date late shoppers. Including Linden Heights. Several of the hoist s have been pictured in the news and there Are Many More which have not been shown. Many favourable reports have been received about the two Homes at Yarmouth which Are brilliantly and effectively decorated. They Are readily seen As the Driver approaches Yarmouth. Business generally will be suspended All Day on Christmas Day and stores will be open As usual on saturday. Holiday spirit Brief vacation and May Santa visits county Home Rose Moran looks doubtful As Santa asks a have you been a Good girl this year a the Iris City cd radio club made sure Santa had a gift and Candy for each resident of the Henry county Home at the party sponsored by the club recently. Refreshments were also provided by the Lull with ice Cream for the party donated by philos Shell station in Olds. Seek two in robbery cose Fairfield a warrants have been issued by Jefferson county authorities Here for James d. Williams 28 it. Pleasant and James f. Mcshane 27, Fairfield charging them with robbery with aggravation in connection with the robbery of a Rural Jefferson county Man monday night. The two men Haven to been taken into custody. According to Jefferson county authorities two men went to the Home of Chis Cudworth 81. Who lives five Miles Northwest of Libertyville monday night knocked on the door and were let in. They reportedly held a Shotgun on cud Worth took his Billfold and took $150 out of it threw the Billfold on the floor and left. Cudworth does no to have a phone and since it was icy monday night did no to Tell anyone about the robbery until tuesday when he told the mailman who notified the sheriff. Assist Congress Washington up a weary senators and representatives Home for Christmas Hope the Holiday spirit and a Brief vacation might resolve All their problems. There was some indication the legislative cause logjam was breaking. Congress shut Down tuesday night for the Christmas weekend with the Senate returning next monday and the House the following Day. Before the lawmakers left they killed off any Chance there would be a social Security increase the House strike the language might be Adamant. A a $2.5 billion foreign Aid appropriations Bill Compromise rejected tuesday by the Senate Belt contains $200 million in military credit sales which have not been approved. A a $1.8 billion supplemental appropriations Bill which includes actual funds to carry out president Nixon said to Cambodia Israel and several other nations. A a Compromise food stamp Trade legislation or action on Wel Gram. Sen. George s. Mcgovern fare Reform this year. D s d. Has asked the Senate to re too Jet the measure because it denies when c ingress returns it faces food Stamps where the head of a in no particular order a a filibuster against funding of the supersonic transport plane it set it a debate which Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield called a problem a almost impossible to it in considered the major bottleneck to final adjournment. A a $66.6 billion Compromise defense appropriations Bill already which family refused to take a Job. Chairman Wilbur d. Mills d-ark., of the House ways and Means committee and rep. John w. Byrnes r-wis., issued a joint statement which killed All prospects for social Security welfare Trade and catastrophic illness insurance legislation. Mills and Byrnes advised senators that no matter what they do on the welfare social Security terse verse by a. Gordon its not the storm through which you skip but rather How you save the ship. Approved by the House contains language diluting a no package it is too late to work out loophole ban against the introduce a Compromise with House Mas tion of . Troops into Cambodia ures. That ban was written into a Bill they did not mention the Trade already sent to the White House and catastrophic illness sections the Senate will seek to reject the but it was Clear that All the Provis Compromise ask for new negotiations with the House and try to ions in the through. Senate package Wert

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