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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 28, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 304 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening december 28, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain the Fine Art of making our flesh creep a the last session of the 91st Congress. As it has been played out in the u. S. Senate will go Down in history As the one that tried to Dis invent the wheel. It has done its Best to Lead a March from the High technological plateau of the space age Back to the time of the fringe covered Surrey or even the Rickshaw. So Adamant have been the stands taken by individual senators against the sort of thing set in motion when the late president John f. Kennedy decided that Man a american Man a must go to the Moon. Too in an Effort to Start a backfire of silliness against silliness Wayne Parrish the master of the revels at a Wright memorial ceremony in Washington C., solemnly handed the new York times the bubonic plague award of the year for its stand against the still to be built supersonic plane the set. Or. Parrish an aviation editor of note recalled that when the Langley air plane cracked on its attempt to stay aloft for a couple of seconds Back in 1903, it was times that said it would be a thousand years before Man conquered the air. A week after the times editorial appeared the Wright Brothers plane flew at Kitty Hawk n. Or. Parrish Wasny to really trying to be mean to the times after All not Many believed in the possibility of human flight Back in 1903. But consider the difference today. Too item one the set which Boeing Hopes to build is not a revolutionary concept. We have had thousands of planes in the air Dur the past two decades that have flown from time to time at supersonic speeds. For years our strategic air command Sac maintained an Airlane from fort Worth tex., to Minneapolis where the b-58 made simulated runs on a a enemy bases. The b-58 could Only break the Speed of sound for Quick bursts its aluminium Shell unlike the titanium Shell projected for the set would not take sustained flight at supersonic speeds through the stratosphere. But it is an open secret that the b-53 did break the sound Barrier in the course of its experimental a a raids Over largely unpopulated territory. It is not recorded that it burst the eardrums of a single Prairie dog. Item two the yf-12-a, the super secret plane that so entranced Lyndon Johnson was transformed by Lockheed into the sr-71, a reconnaissance plane after Robert Mcnamara had killed it As a fighter. The sr-71 is quite capable of breaking the sound Barrier on its spy missions As the successor to the u-2. Senator Gaylord Nelson a. Wis. Says the set if and when it is flown would create sonic booms that would crush the eggs in the nests of our humming Birds. But planes have frequently broken the sound Barrier out of Edwards air Force base in California with be damage to the local humming Bird population. Anyway the set will be limited to overwater flights humming Birds done to nest on Waves. A whole Phalanx of senators har been worried about the a a debris which the set engine might put into the stratosphere at supersonic Mach 3 flights. However general electric claims that the set prototype engine that it has been running for a year is cleaner than the engines of any three Volkswagen. We have been a a throwing debris into the upper atmosphere since the Early Nineteen sixties with no known deleterious effects. Too does no to anybody remember project West Ford when the stratosphere was a a sowed with millions of Fine Copper a space Needles the idea was to put into orbit a sonic Belt that would serve As a cosmic Backstop against which we could Bounce signals. The humming Birds have survived the Copper Needles so have senator Nelson and senator William Proxmire d., wis. The human race also survived the explosion of the Volcano Kra Katoa in the Early years of the Century which almost literally blotted out the run in half a hemisphere. Moreover the atmosphere of the Earth is assailed every Day by 100,000,000 meteorites. No connection Between meteorites and emphysema has Ever been established. And the cows in Proxmire a Wisconsin Are still giving rather wholesome milk. Distributed by King features Syndicate Rivers chairman of armed services Dies Birmingham Ala. Up a rep. L. Mendel Rivers the colourful and controversial chairman of the House armed services committee died today 17 Days after he had undergone open heart surgery. He was 65. The White haired South Carolina Democrat died at the University of Alabama medical Center where a Leaky mitral valve in his heart was replaced with one made of plastic dec. La. Doctors said he would have become an invalid had he not undergone the surgery. Too the Hospital in a one sentence statement said a congressman Mendel Rivers died at 1 40 Arn. Cos monday dec. 28, of continuing heart doctors had said sunday he was making a slow he had suffered heart stoppages dec. 20 and sunday. His ailment apparently stemmed from a bout with rheumatic fever during his childhood. A family spokesman said Rivers funeral will be held at Grace Epis-91st Congress in concluding seven Days Washington up a the 91st Congress gathered today with Hopes it could resolve in its final seven Days issues it has faced for months including whether to build the supersonic transport and whether to require food stamp recipients to work. The Senate tied up in a monumental legislative logjam reconvenes today. The House planned to meet tuesday. Under the Constitution the 91st Congress must cease working at noon Jan. 3 no matter what it has or has not resolved. President Nixon has threatened to Convene the new Congress immediately if there is no action on his key programs. Too the House and Senate voted last week for the 92nd Congress to Convene Jan. 21, but Nixon has the Dower to Call an earlier session. House and Senate leaders agreed to give priority consideration to social Security and welfare legislation next year and to make any social Security increases retroactive to Jan. I 1971. But still pending was the major bottleneck to adjournment a Senate filibuster against funds for the supersonic transport. The Senate voted earlier to kill the set project but the House and Senate negotiators agreed to include some funds for the plane. Senate set opponents said the conference committee was loaded with pro set legislators and they vowed to talk the plane to death. Efforts to invoke cloture and to end the debate were unsuccessful. Population figures Given official pop orc towns of piously listed dilation figures for the area not pre cities and % of towns 1970 1960 change Insworth 455 371 22.6 Columbus City 312 327 -4.6 col. Junction 1,205 1,016 18.6 Conesville 295 248 19.0 Coppock 58 61 -4.9 Crawfordsville 288 317 -9.1 Danville 948 579 63.7 Donnellson 798 709 12.6 Hillsboro 252 218 15.6 Houghton 119 a a Mediapolis 1,242 1,040 19.4 morning Sun 906 875 3.5 it. Union 173 176 -1.7 Olds 296 189 9.0 Salem 458 442 3.6 Wayland 702 597 17.6 West Point 1,045 758 37.9 Winfield 897 862 4.1 Quot Dolly Quot closes new York up a one of Broadways longest burning Copal Church in Charleston s. C., and he will be buried near his parents at St. Stephen s. The Date of the funeral was not determined. Too president Nixon said Rivers death Means a i have lost a Friend upon which i could rely in times of great difficulty South Carolina has lost one of the most distinguished men in her history and America has lost a a throughout his career a Nixon said a congressman Rivers held unswervingly to the belief that the Freedom that exists in the modern world is inextricably tied to the military strength of the United states. He fought for that belief in the committee in the Congress in the country. No shifting National opinion no amount of hostile criticism deterred him from the course he deemed right for too Rivers As the hawkish chairman of the powerful congressional committee was a hero to servicemen everywhere and a recurring Thorn in the flesh of their civilian Bosses. He took the Serviceman a Side in most Pentagon Battles and aggravated presidents and defense secretaries alike with his insistence that Congress had a constitutional right to make major decisions affecting the military. Too with his death the chairmanship of the committee under traditional seniority rules passed temporarily to rep. Philip j Philbin a mass. But because Philbin was Defeated for re election in november the permanent chairman will be rep. F. Edward Hebert d la., who will take the Job in january. Rivers could be haughty arrogant and snide in House debate with those who challenged his views. When it suited him he also could be the very Model of the Southern gentleman courtly courteous and generous to a fault. Rivers is survived by his wife the former Margaret Middleton of Charleston two daughters mrs. Robert g. Eastman and Lois Marion and a son Lucius Mendel or. A a alderwoman a Mary Anne Dory Loyola University coed makes a Likely vote getting picture As she files for Alderman in Chicago a 49th Ward on her 21st court sentences 6 to death Burgos Spain up a a Spanish court martial trying j 6 Basque nationalist on charges of murder and terrorism today sentenced six of them to death defense lawyers told newsmen. The death sentences had been expected but there also was a growing belief Generalissimo Francisco Franco would commute them to prevent possible disturbances in the Basque regions of Northern Spain and in Spanish cities. The Start of the trial was marked by widespread strikes and disturbances. Too the lawyers said three of the six received two separate death sentences. Those three were found guilty of participating in the murder of a san Sebastian police chief Meli ton Manzanas in 1968. The other defendants received Long prison sentences. The sentences had been expected last saturday but were postponed until today without explanation. Observers believed the delay came because Basque nationalists had freed Eugen Beihl the honorary West German Consul who was kidnapped from his san Sebastian Home dec i and freed Christmas eve. The verdicts followed 19 Days of court deliberation a the longest such period in Spanish military judicial history. Only Franco has the Power to commute the death sentences. Communist forces increase pressure 3 prime suspects in Canada arrested local men Iii truck Accident Jerry alter 28, and Kerry Housh 22, both of it. Pleasant were injured when the global Van lines truck in which they were Riding was involved in an Accident near Kingman ariz., monday morning according to word received Here. The men Are in a Kingman Hospital and no report was available on their condition. Alters Mother mrs. Gladys alter and or. And mrs. Rodney me Haffy left for Kingman As did Housho a parents or. And mrs. Dan Housh. Alter was driving the truck loaded with furniture to California and Housh went along to help him. They left Here late last week. Kingman is located in Western Arizona. Bright lights no longer was shining today. A a Dolly had gone away a gain ending the longest musical run on Broadway. A capacity audience at the St. James theater sunday cheered and applauded Ethel Merman and other members of the cast repeatedly through the 2,844th and last performance of a hello Dolly a eligible tor $1434 disaster help Lloyd r. Smith auditor of state has certified that the Henry county conservation commission is eligible to receive $1,434 for disaster assistance from the Federal government in accordance with the Federal state disaster assistance agreement. Auditor Smith explained that the Federal government requires the auditor of state to audit the disbursements for disaster assistance and verify that the expenditures Are within the approved work categories established by the Federal state inspectors. Or. Smith said that he had a greed to audit for the Federal government More than 140 disaster Grants during the current year. These Grants Range in size from a few Hundred dollars to Over one Hundred thousand dollars. In the previous year 25 political subdivisions received a total of $575,000 in Gro lits. Montreal up a three prime suspects in the kidnapping and slaying of Quebec labor minister Pierre Laporte were arrested Early today and brought to Quebec provincial police Headquarters in Montreal under heavy guard. Police said Jacques and Paul Rose Brothers and Francis Sim Ard were taken into custody in a raid on a farmhouse at St. Luc 25 Miles South of Montreal. Too the raid was the second since Christmas Day when the House was inspected but appeared empty. Police raided the House once More when they saw a Light in an upper floor window. They quickly uncovered a specially contracted hideaway under the basement floor and arrested the three suspects. Too Laporte was kidnapped oct. To from his Home in suburban St. Lambert just five Days after the kidnapping of British Diplomat James Cross. The labor minister was found dead his body stuffed into the trunk of a car abandoned near the St. Hubert Airport oct. 17, the Day following invocation of the War measures act. Too an autopsy report showed he had been strangled with the Chain of a religious medal he wore around his neck. One prime suspect in the Laporte kidnapping and murder Bernard Lortie was arrested nov. 6 in a raid on a Queen Mary Road apartment. Testifying before the inquest into Laportes death Lortie quickly implicated himself the Rose Brothers and Simard in the kidnapping but said that neither he nor Paul Rose could have murdered Laporte As they both left the suburban St. Hubert Bungalow where he was held prior to the slaying.500 die ii Road mishap water line break on second Street a municipal Utility water Crew discovered a broken 4 Inch water line at the Corner of second Street and College Avenue Early monday morning. Service was temporarily interrupted while repairs were made. The line was Back in service shortly before noon monday. Up a total of 500 persons died in traffic accidents during the 78-hour Christmas Holiday Well below the preliminary estimates of the National safety Council. A final United press International tabulation today showed a total of 584 deaths from accidents of All kinds during the period Between 6 thursday and Midnight sunday. Ray opens conference on youth and drugs Ames up a gov. Robert Ray today told about 500 delegates to a statewide conference on youth and drugs at Iowa state University that Many persons consider drug abuse control the no. I problem in Iowa. He said the problems of drug abuse attack All social age race and economic and groups and solutions for the problem requires the help of All persons of All Ages. The two Day governors conference on youth and drugs is sponsored jointly by rays office and the Iowa Junior chamber of Commerce. Ray said the conference was held at the request of a group of Young iowans who met with the governor earlier this year. A we want you to talk about what you want and it will not fall on deaf ears a Ray said. A we want you people Active in the a program of nine seminars will be held with discussions entered 1 around creating Community awareness of the drug problem treatment capabilities in the Community and a possible drug program for youths. Medical history is being made by 6-year-old Matthew Winkler shown with or. John Stechschulte in St. Rita a Hospital Lima Ohio. Matthew is on his Way to recovery from rabies the first such recovery on record. He was bitten by a Rabid Bat As he slept at his Home on oct. crashes Iii Virgin islands Charlotte amalie St. Thomas Virgin islands up a a j trans Caribbean 727 jetliner from new York City crashed into a Hill at the end of the Harry s. Truman International Airport Here monday exploded and burned. An airlines spokesman at the Airport said he saw some passengers crawling out of the wreckage. The spokesman said the Boeing three Jet plane landed but then bounced into the Hill at the end of the runway. He said the fuel tanks exploded and engulfed the plane in flames. The spokesman said the plane left new Yorkus John f. Kennedy International Airport at 9 35 . Est and was scheduled to Stop Over Here before continuing on to St. Croix also in the . Virgin islands. The re were 53 passengers and Crew aboard. Industrial commission for Iowa to leave Post Des Moines up a Iowa a Industrial commissioner said today he will leave the state Post in the near future to join a Des Moines Law firm. Harry w. Dahl an employee of Iowa state government since 1959. Said he will join the Law firm of Nyemaster Goode Mclaughlin Emery and o Brien. The Law firm has already sent out announcements saying that the a former Industrial commissioner will join it. Dahl who has been Industrial commissioner since 1962, said he will make the move As soon As he can work out tilt details with gov. Robert Ray. Prior to 1962, Dahl served As Deputy Industrial commissioner. Phenom penh up a communist forces stepped up their pressure in South Vietnam Laos and Cambodia today and . Spokesmen said b52 bombers and hundreds of fighter bombers lash-1 de Back at the to Chi Minh Supply Trail through Laos. The air Campaign now nearing the end of its third month is the longest and heaviest in the history three killed Iii getaway attempt by up three men who were attempting to outrun authorities for alleged traffic violations were killed Early sunday when their car went out of control on a paved county Road struck a Utility pole and overturn de in a ditch about five Miles South of Cherokee. I two other men a so were killed j Early Sun. In two separate traffic accidents in Iowa. The deaths raised Iowa a Christmas Holiday traffic fatality count to seven. Too the three men who were killed near Cherokee were Dan Perrin 19, Cherokee Philip m. Perrin 26, Des Moines and John Gates 20, Cherokee. All three were cousins. Dan Perrin and Gates died at the scene of the Accident and Philip Perrin died about three hours later in a Cherokee Hospital. The Iowa Highway patrol said the Driver of the car failed to Stop at two Stop signs in Cherokee and was operating the car without lights. The Chase began in Cherokee and continued on the paved i county Road that runs along the Little Sioux River near the Northwest Iowa Community. Too Gary Lathrop 32, Houston tex., was killed Early sunday in a two car Accident in Des Moines. Police said Lathrop a car collided with the second car and then left the Roadway. Injured in the second car were Beatrice Behlor 39, West Des Moines and Norman Moitz 44, Commack . They were listed in satisfactory condition at Iowa methodist Hospital in Des Moines. Too Robert Kaufma in 19, Wilton Junction was killed Early sunday in a one car Accident on Iowa 76 just West of Muscatine. Authorities said Kaufmannn a car ran off a curve travelled More than 400 feet into a Field and Over turned several times. A passenger in the car Donald Rife 18, Atalissa was hospitalized in a Muscatine Hospital. Two persons were killed in a Headon collision on Iowa i nine Miles South of Iowa City on thursday night. They were Marion Wayne Cox 18, of Rural Kalona and Alvin Kelsey 31, of Cedar rapids. Of the Indochina War. Spokesmen have said the total tonnage dropped is greater than any other Campaign of any War a More than 166,000 tons. 0 0 3 in Cambodia communist forces overran the government outpost of Roar Kong 19 Miles North of phenom penh striking during a moonless night but were driven out after five hours of House to House combat. In Laos a defense ministry spokesman in Vientiane said communist forces captured five government positions in a weekend offensive but that laotian units near Kuong Soui on the Plain of jars drove off attacks Here. O a o in South Vietnam the communists followed up tile end of their three Day Christmas cease fire with a flurry of actions that killed or wounded 50 soldiers and civilians in incidents ranging from shelling of base Camps to mining passenger vehicles. The High command said in a clash sunday at Champak 19 Miles Southeast of phenom penh government troops killed 50 communists and lost three killed and 14 wounded. It said the communists carried away too wounded leaving ammunition and weapons behind. 48 rescued in sea storm 28 missing the breakdown traffic. 500 fires. 53 miscellaneous. 31 total. 584 California led the automotive death count with 49. There were 41 in Texas 23 in Missouri and 25 in new York state. It was the third Holiday period this year in which the automotive to had fallen below the estimates of Highway deaths made by the safety Council. The Council had predicted Between 550 to 650 traffic deaths Over the Long Christmas weekend. New York up a a severe Atlantic storm split one Oil Tanker in two and a second was reported sinking today As coast guard and Rescue vessels picked up survivors. At least 48 survivors from the two stricken vessels have been picked up and another 28 Are missing and unaccounted for. Thirty one crewmen of the finnish Tanker Ragny were rescued today after spending the night on the Stern Section of their ship when it split in two 600 Miles East of Cape May . Six other crewmen of the Ragny were unaccounted for but might be clinging to the capsized Bow Section of the split Tanker. One crewman from an american freighter was missing after a Lifeboat he was in capsized. Too the 644-foot panamanian Tanker Chryssi radioed Early today it was sinking in heavy seas 450 Miles Southeast of Elizabeth City n c. J a norwegian vessel the Ross mt., later reported it had picked up 17 survivors of the Chryssi including j the Captain. The coast guard said 21 other Crew members still were missing. The 31 men taken from the Stern of the Ragny were aboard the coast guard Cutter Escanaba. Both sections of the Tanker Ragny were afloat but the coast guard search and Rescue Center Here was unable to say How Long they might remain afloat. The Bow had to reopen Middle East peace talks by up Israel announced today it had decided to rejoin the Middle East peace talks and leading egyptian foreign ministry officials met in Cairo to plan strategy for the negotiations that Are expected to be Long and difficult with no Assurance they will or successful. A communique issued after a five hour israeli Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem said a the government decided that the present political and military conditions enable and justify the termination of the suspension of israelis participation in talks under the auspices of ambassador Gunnar v. Israel left the talks last september after Only one meeting charging that Egypt had violated the cease fire by moving russian built missiles into the Suez canal truce zone. A Cairo dispatch said the strategy session was chaired by Mahmoud Riad the Deputy Premier and foreign minister and attended by or. Mohammed Hass an Elzay Yat the egyptian ambassador to the United nations. Riad had just returned from Moscow where he won a Promise of soviet Aid in Egypt a confrontation with Israel.18 leave on european study tour eighteen Iowa Wesleyan College students left today on a monthlong study tour of England France Belgium West Germany and the u. S. The tour is under the direction of James w. Layman ph.d., Wesleyan counselling director and is part of the colleges interim term Between the fall and Spring semesters. The trip is designed to give the students a firsthand look at major patterns related to maladaptive behaviour in the countries what is being done to treat and or prevent the problems and the research being done in the problem areas. The Wesleyan students will meet with some of the leading psychiatrists psychologists and sociologists of the countries visited and will be briefed on the problems of alcoholism mental illness drug addiction remedial education and child and adult delinquency. Among those making the trip Are students Barbara Bishop new London Carl Frank it. Pleasant Mary Beth Bonnichsen Columbus Junction Phyllis Furomoto Keosauqua and Tanis Fortner Burlington. Check Homes of two juveniles City police who had search warrants checked the Homes of two juvenile boys Here Friday and found homemade hashish pipes but no drugs according to chief Werner Smith. No charges were filed in the two cares. The Check came As a result of a charge of illegal Possession of narcotics filed against a 17-year-Oid boy wednesday night who has been released to his parents pending a hearing in Justice William smarts court which will be held sometime after the first of the year two arrests in robbery Case i a Fairfield a James Williams 28, it. Pleasant and James Franklin Kurnes 22, Fairfield have been arraigned in Justice of the peace court Here on charges of robbery wit ii aggravation and their Bonds were set at $5,000. They Are in the Jefferson county jail in lieu of the Bonds. The charges Are in connection with the armed robbery of Otis cud Worth 81, at his trailer Home near Libertyville dec. 22, of $150. Williams was arrested in it. Pleasant Early thursday and Kur-1 nes was arrested later. Terse verse by a. Gordon the nearest to perfection in Many persons estimation is when these persons fill out a work employment application

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