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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 30, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Jeffrey Hart Arthur Miller ill admit that i have a Low boiling Point where playwright Arthur Miller is concerned. Its the Way his mind works. Whenever i read something he a written i feel As if id turned Over a Rock and looked at the strange things under it. His prose is a menace to the digestion. You feel As if you re going to lose your lunch. Take his most recent statement in the times about the outrageous treatment accorded novelist Alek Sander Solzhenitsyn by the soviet authorities. Now As a Long time Miller watcher i am Well aware that Miller cannot deplore any soviet barbarity without saying at the same time that America is just As bad. He just can to do it. That a the Way his mind works. To i read through his Solzhenitsyn statement waiting for the a America is just As guilty part. Too remember that Solzhenitsyn has had an agonizing time of it in the soviet Union. The regime has jailed him for eight years kicked him out of the writers Union banned his books denounced him As an anti social parasite denounced his Nobel prize and let him know that if he went to Stockholm to get the prize head never get Back into his own country. Outside of shooting him forthwith they scarcely could have done More to him. So along comes Miller the incredible addressing himself to All this. He is a shocked a of course. And he informs us that the soviets have also banned one of his own plays a the he muses on the irrationality of this in View of the fact that he a just published a Book about How interesting and attractive Russia is. Then As always he slips in the great equalizer. A ironic parallels sprung across my mind a once blacklisted in my own country i was not blacklisted in Russia. Comrades shake hands with the House committee on in american too the mind reels. So a congressional committee asked Miller a few questions. Did they Send him to prison for eight years were his works banned did he live under threat of Siberia god no. All of his works remained in print. His plays were always in production his scripts on the screen. He steadily raked in the dough. He married Marilyn Monroe. He travelled freely. He spoke out endlessly. A comrades shake hands with the House committee on in american too the obscenity is so vast that it turns the stomach. Not Only is the implicit equation of America with Russia a Flat lie. Even worse the implication that Millers own career has entailed suffering comparable to Solzhenitsyn a a is thoroughly nauseating. What Miller is trying to say without quite saying it is a you and i Aleksander we have known repression we know what it is to write in a totalitarian country. You and i Aleksander we Are in a Way Yulch. But Brace yourself for Millers conclusion. The soviet censors and persecutors Are bad yes. A they Are disgracing Russia just As our Witch Hunts is disgraced us and Are again fingering the tools of the a just ask a in that sentence is a Beauty. It literally equates the treatment of Solzhenitsyn with the congressional investigations of the fifties. It can be read in no other Way. It literally equates soviet tyranny with american conditions in the fifties and with some Bugaboo of the repression which Miller hints heavily awaits us All tomorrow. I will just have to decline to comment on that. You Supply your own comment. Large Oil Well fire put out the it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 306mt. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening december 30, 1970 Price to cents Cloudy Wadena festival topped Iowa news stories of year new Orleans up a the rest Oil Well fire feeding a Drill a platform Blaze in the Gulf of Exico for the past 30 Days has in put out a Shell Oil co. Kesman said today. The spokesman said heavy a Drill a mud introduced through a Ries of Relief Walls neat the plat pm has apparently clogged up the ill cutting off the fuel Supply and id putting out the fire. Officials believed Well b21 pro ded More than one third of the i and Gas feeding the Blaze. The a form had burned since dec. I. Despite the dousing of b21, Oil of several other Wells burning on in platform threatened the Lou Lana coastline to the North. Well b21 blew out while underling routine maintenance work. He Blowout killed four men faired 37 others and touched off the by Cheryl Arvidson up they came to Wadena much As Itin Erate wanderers Clad in costumes of nearly inconceivable array and carrying their belongings on their backs. It was a sweltering weekend at the end of july but hundreds of Law officers kept their Cool while handling crowds that swelled to Between 30,000 and 40,000 As the event picked up momentum. The 220-acre farm was carpeted with people the spirit was festive and the drugs flowed freely. The obscure Northeast Iowa Community of Wadena was in Shock and Iowa officials were dragged kicking and screaming into the Rock festival business. The three Day gathering offering iowans their first real look at the psychedelic and free form world of the Young will not soon be forgotten. Witnesses to this fact Are Iowa newsmen and broadcasters who have labelled the Wadena Rock festival and the ensuing $1 million state initiated lawsuit Iowa Stop new Story of 1970. Q o a in the annual United press International Survey Wadena far outdistanced its closest competitor As the top ranking news Story. In second place the series of Spring dynamite bombings that rocked Des Moines and Ames while the selection of Cresco native or. Norman Borlaug for the 1970 Nobel peace prize was picked As the third most important Iowa news event of the year. Wadena caught Iowa completely off guard and sound storm inc., of Chicago had purchased the property printed the tickets arranged the publicity and had plans Well under Way before Iowa got its first Glimmer of the happening. Too with less than one week before the Start of the event county and state Law officers began their hurried and almost random attempts to put an end to Wadena. But despite an injunction issued by the Iowa supreme court the streams of Young Rock fans swarmed into the state from All Corners of the country. With Only one major Access Road and a population of 320, Wadena was even less prepared for the event than Iowa government. Wadena swelled the sightseers arrived the music blared Iowa cringed and there was no stopping the Rock fest. Too still pending final court settlement is the $1 million lawsuit filed against the seven top officials of sound storm by Iowa attorney general Richard Turner. Iowa is seeking both punitive and actual damages and Turner has vowed to recover the excessive expenditures for Law enforcement surrounding the event. Too on a More somber note the second highest ranking news event of the year involved Wanton destruction in a series of dynamite bombings. The onslaught started in Des Moines in the redrawn hours of May 13. Abruptly the Spring morning was shattered by a blast heard More than eight Miles away and the Des Moines police station had been bombed. Too officials estimating damage at $500,000 began an intensive Hunt for those responsible but no one has been prosecuted in connection with the blasts. One week later before Des Moines was Over the Shock of the bombing a similar explosion ripped through the Ames City Hall critically injuring one prisoner in the City jail. The Ames blast believed to have occurred when 12 pounds of High powered dynamite went off extensively damaged the Brick Structure. Then came june and the rapid fire bombing of the Des Moines chamber of Comerce Headquarters. Before the month was up another Des Moines building was damaged by a dynamite explosion. The fourth Central Iowa blast in six weeks was aimed at a modern science building on the Drake University Campus. The Drake blast set Back several major research projects at the University specifically in the area of ecology. Too the four bombings All believed to have been instrumented by the same group of persons left Des Moines and Ames faced with property losses totalling around $2 million but miraculously no one was killed. The destruction is expected to trigger a Large scale revision of Iowa Laws concerning the Sale of explosives witness immunity and harsh penalties for offenders. Too Iowa received a great Honor toward the end of 1970 when her native son Borlaug was selected to receive the prestigious Nobel prize for peace. The recognition was bestowed upon Borlaug for his work with High yielding strains of wheat that May hold the key to the world hunger dilemma. Famine fighter Borlaug 56, returned to his Hometown of Cresco in mid december to be saluted by his family friends and top Iowa and . Officials. Too the fourth and fifth ranked news stories of the year also were emotion charged events. Skyrocketing property tax loads despite state spending for Public education at an unprecedented level sparked the Iowa legislature and irate taxpayers to take a close look at the tax Structure. Coupled with the vocal complaints was a threatened taxpayers revolt and the emergence of numerous property taxpayers associations. The general concern although not swaying gov. Robert d. Ray to demand special legislation during 1970, Laid the groundwork for an interim tax study committee that has recommended sweeping revision of the tax Structure. Number five on the top stories list was a series of sometimes violent student demonstrations around the state following presidents Nixon a decision to Send . Troops into Cambodia. Adding More fuel to the fire on the College campuses were the shooting deaths of four Kent state University students by Ohio National guardsmen. Too in the past most student unrest has been concentrated on the University of Iowa Campus in Iowa City. Not so last Spring As even the Small private schools around the state reported demonstrations of concern and isolated violence in connection with the National events. The demonstrations also prompted the state Board of regents to hold an unprecedented Public hearing on Campus unrest then adopt a series of a hard line conduct rules and policies to Clamp a lid on future disorders. Too rounding out the 1970 top to list were an outbreak of Corn blight in sixth spot and the controversial trap gun Case of the Edward Brin yes of Eddyville in seventh. Tile Corn blight outbreak destroyed Iowa a chances for a billion Bushel Harvest and damaged about 25 per cent of the crop. The Briney Case started when their attempt to foil intruders Cost them $35,000 in court settlements. The Case has now gone to the Iowa supreme court for a hard look at Iowa a Laws on trespassing and property Protection and the Brin eyes plight was the key consideration when the 1970 Iowa legislature debated but Defeated a controversial a shoot to kill Bill. Too in eighth and ninth spot were the 1970 Iowa legislature a the deliberations and decisions of the states first annual session a and the 1970 general elections that ushered republicans Back to All the major state offices and tightened their majority grip on the Iowa general Assembly. In tenth place two news events tied with identical Point totals. The first was a walkout of More than 50 nurses at Ames Mary Greeley Hospital in a contract despite and the second the recent controversy Over Triplex rated movie Heaters in several Iowa towns. Tell results fourth outbreak of defoliation Iii Vietnam at science meeting Chicago up Chicago up a Demontra r the protestors began heckling american j tors disrupted a science meeting the speakers then rushed to the out one fifth of Vietnam a forests Jay but were shouted Down by Mem since 1961 and a virtually nothing hers of the audience who accused remains alive in some areas a the Young radicals of using violent meeting of scientists has been told methods themselves. It was the fourth outbreak by a use of defoliant sprays has wiped panel on a police and violence to panel table and grabbed microphones. Breaking one of them. One of four men in the group stood at the table and attempted to Stop speaker Joseph Coates panel chairman from talking by putting his hand in front of Coates face and later by using placards. They accused Coates of contributing to the technology of warfare used in Vietnam when he worked with the Institute of defense analysis. Tuesdays session of the 137th meeting of the american association for the advancement of science was the third Day in a Row with protests from Young radicals at the convention. A panel on a crime violence and social control had a living demonstration of its topic when the j wife of a University of California biologist piqued by interruptions from a graduate student jabbed him in the with her knitting Needle. Group of a anti establishment Quot science students and came on the fourth Day of the 137th meeting of the american association for the advancement of science. End hearings in investigation of Accident Arthur r. Westing a botanist at a Windham College Putney vt., told Des Moines up a Iowa la delegates that a virtually nothing a Bor commissioner Jerry Addy has remains alive in the defoliated ended hearings in an investigation areas of the mangrove forests along the coast of Vietnam a Mekong Delta. Its not enough to have the sissified ame of Gayton Glen Teddy thinks this Yorkshire terrier out you have to be decked out with curlers for Philadelphia dog show. Slock in if farm commodities to emerge As big Issue of the cause of a construction Accident that killed two workers in Iowa City. I killed in the dec. 17 Accident a team sent to Vietnam by the j which occurred at the new uni association to study the effects of verify of Iowa music Complex defoliant sprays also reported a were Oscar Tappen jr., 47, of Riv by Bernard Brenner up farm editor Washington up a proposals to set up a formal a strategic reserved Stock of key farm commodities will emerge As the biggest agricultural Issue facing the next Congress a farm Industry spokesman predicts. The Issue a Long simmering controversy in farm and food Industry circles has been relatively quiet in recent years. But Robert c. Liebenow president of the Corn Des when production fluctuates. The 1970 Corn crop and could re i appear in 1971. Provide new and i Clear insight for this old and sometimes controversial concept a Liebenow said in a year end report to his associations member companies. Too Liebenow contended in his report that creation of a formal crop Reserve program should minimize problems created when production goes far below or above expect i tons. He said a Reserve program would make Farmers less vulnerable to a Boom and Busty Price by higher number of still births in one heavily defoliated province for the years 1968 and 1969. The team members of the herbicide assessment commission authorized for the study by an $80,-000 Grant said about 35 percent of South Vietnam a Jungles have been destroyed in an attempt to Eli i reside and Jack t. Hain 26, of West Branch. Two others were seriously injured when a scaffolding apparently gave Way and spilled the four some 50 feet to the ground. Addy said tuesday it would be at least two weeks before he releases a statement on the exact cause of the audience reacted quickly a against the demonstration. A maybe you were sent Here to Stop us from talking about police and violence. Maybe you Are police plants a one said. Others shouted a sit Down and shut up a and another sue Haas 16, Park Ridge 111., Rose to accuse them of demonstrating violently. A maybe you re scared to hear what the speakers have to say a she said. A you broke the Mike. That a violence Isnit it a a panel discussion tuesday on a crime violence and social control had a living demonstration of its topic when the wife of a University of California biologist piqued by interruptions from a graduate student jabbed him in the with her knitting Needle. Nate enemy sanctuaries among the the Accident. Foliage. Memorial gift of $20,000 refiners association inc., said the question seems almost certain to pop up on Capitol Hill in 1971 because Grain supplies Are dwindling. A the severe repercussions threatened by Corn blight which damaged sentences of six commuted Franco by missile scores hit in test Washington up a a sprint missile scored a Bullseye against an intercontinental ballistic missile last week in its first test against a simulated warhead the Pentagon said today. The sprint is a Small High velocity missile in americans safeguard anti ballistic missile system designed to provide close in Protection. The test conducted dec. 23, was its first firing against Burgos Spain up a Generalissimo Francisco Franco tonight commuted the death sentences of six Basque nationalists convicted of murder and banditry the ministry of information announced. The announcement said the sentences had been commuted to a the next highest sentence the next highest sentence passed by the Burgos military court was 72 years. Too Franco planned to explain his action in a yearned address to the nation tonight. Lit has been under mounting pressure from european governments and the Vatican to commute the death sentences and faced possible widespread unrest in Northern spain1 if he did not. I there was immediate reaction from the Vatican which said it heard of the commutation with a enormous too France took the action after a special meeting with his Cabinet and the Council of the realm an advisory group made up of parliament members. The official news Agency c Ira announced the verdict by flashing the Spanish word for Pardon a in Delta Dos. Indus Taos. farm spokesmen however have been split in the past on plans to set up formal reserves with government assistance or under Federal control. Too the National Farmers Union this year urged Congress to provide for a Reserve that would include 15 million tons of con and other feed Grain in government ownership plus 7.5 million tons owned by Farmers but stored at government expense. Tile reserves under the Nofu plan and similar proposals considered in the past would be hedged in with relatively High resale prices designed to avoid downward pressure on markets. Some critics however argue that any buildup of surplus reserves a no matter How carefully guarded by resale restrictions a would inevitably aet to hold Down Farmers prices when the Reserve bins Are opened. I testimony during the final Day of the two Day hearing entered around the Type of scaffolding us-1 de to support workers who were insulating the new music building for Winter. Addy said he and two of his construction technicians were unfamiliar with the Type of scaffolding used at the Iowa City site., or. Louis a. Haselmayer Iowa the scaffolding was a Combina Wesleyan College president today tion of wooden planks and welded announced a memorial gift of $20,-1 rods and the Man who conducted too from the late Edward g. Fligg the welding was one of the witness Des Moines. F ses called in tuesdays hearing. To or. Fligg who died nov. 17, Desi Seph Morelia who works for a gated the gift to support the Mankato minn., firm awarded one Chadwick student loan fund Hon of the subcontracts on the projects Oring his Long time Friend the late said he did about 90 per cent of the j. Raymond Chadwick former scaffolding welding. Wesleyan president. Or. Fligg was a former Fairfield businessman Well known for his work and leadership in the meth Morella also revealed he had never used the method of scaffolding construction before a in my the Section of the scaffolding Odist Church. He had an interest that apparently gave Way was part in Iowa Wesleyan College spending considerable time working in its behalf through the Church membership of the South Iowa conference United methodist Church. Mrs. Fligg survives her husband at Wesley acres in Des Moines of Morelia a concern in his welding activities. Preliminary investigations indicated a nut and Washer at the end of one steel support Rod were sheared off during the Accident. During his testimony More a. Said the nut and Washer produced where the couple had moved from As evidence apparently were those Fairfield in 1968. A real icbms nose Cone. A the sprint was successfully launched and successfully guided coast guard officers blame Quot the system Quot Washington up a two coast guard officers forced into Early retirement for not allowing a lithuanian Sailor to defect from a soviet ship to a coast guard Cutter blame a the system for the mix up. Adm. William b. Ellis commander of the first coast guard Dis strict in Boston and capt. Fletcher Brown his second in com in and testified before a House foreign affairs subcommittee tuesday and i spoke with newsmen. Ellis said he was sick at Home at the time of the nov. 23 incident and lacking advice from Washington told Brown to allow the soviets to recapture Simas Kudirka j who had jumped aboard the Cutter vigilant to seek Asylum while the to o ships were tied together for of than president Nixon sought but Filiai talks off Massachusetts congressional leaders predicted he Brown ordered the vigilante would sign the Bill. Captain cmdr. Ralph Eustis to Al the action left Only two approx Low soviet sailors to drag Kudirka nations Bills to be acted upon a a Back aboard the soviet vessel. $2.2 billion Bill for foreign Aid and Brown told newsmen a i was Tho $2.6 billion for the transportation Man in the Middle. I was the son department. Of a Bitch who had to carry out the transportation measure has i the been blocked by Senate opponents Ellis testified a in the absence of he had welded. However he said he Felt the scaffolding was a a Safe following its construction. Senate votes appropriation Washington up a the Senate gave final congressional approval today to a Bill appropriating $18.9 billion for Federal health and welfare programs but with Only four Days remaining before adjournment there was still no break in the logjam on other major Bills. Transportation foreign Aid and social Security legislation were the principal measures tied up in the Congress. The appropriations Bill passed by a 69-0 Roll Call vote carries funds for the labor department and the health education and welfare department. It is $210 million higher in emergency situations Security assistance for patients in emergency situations is often done incorrectly and this May result in delays in treatment and additional harm or discomfort to the patient. There Are several a a rules to remember that May help As reported by Henry county memorial Hospital officials. 1. Be Calm in reporting an emergency telling such necessary information As where and what the situation is. 2. Your doctor not the Hospital is the on0 who decides the course of treatment so try to Call him first. 3. If you can to reach your doctor then Call memorial Hospital 385-3141 for help. 4. If you do Call the Hospital or an ambulance be sure to Tell them which doctor you have contacted or want to Contact so precious minutes can be saved in getting treatment started. Bruce appeals to communists Paris up a us. Ambassador David k. E. Bruce appealed to the communists today to work in 1971 to end the a far too Long and dreary chronicles of the War in Vietnam. But again today there was no Progress at the Paris talks. The communists called on president Nixon to agree to formation of a provisional coalition Cabinet in South Vietnam composed of three political factions a an apparent further watering Down of their position. But the United states and South Vietnam rejected this because it was tied to demands for Complete . Troop withdrawal by june 30, 1971. Bruce said communist intransigence made a negotiated settlement of the conflict seem a no nearer today than it did a year ago or even two years ago when these talks he asked the Viet Cong and Hanoi delegations to make the coming year a a year which will be recorded prominently in the annals of today a session lasted from 10 30 . To 2 30 Pun. And produced no results according to the delegates. Routine physical Check for Nixon Washington up a president Nixon went through a nearly two hour medical Check up today at the Bethesda naval Hospital and afterwards pronounced himself in Good health. A the examination was Only routine a Nixon told newsmen As he left the Hospital in suburban Bethesda my. He arrived at 8 35 Arn. By helicopter for the annual checkup and returned to the White House at 11 15 . A the doctors told me it was the usual Good Bill of health a Nixon said. The White House said a full report on details of the examination would be announced later. Other than indicating he would i remain in Washington Nixon did not say How he would spend the new year s weekend. He will be interviewed monday night by four broadcast network commentators. By the missile site radar to intercept an icbms launched from Van men Berg fab. Test Range in Call of the prox Ireci supersonic transport any advice from the commandant forma a said Jerry w. Friedheim Deputy assistant Secretary of defense for Public affairs. He said set which would receive a $210 million Federal subsidy. The foreign Aid appropriation was held up because of a House Senate Wrangle neither the sprint nor Over $200 million for credit sales of in Washington i considered the decision to return the defector to be the reasonable and proper thing to he said he a indicted the system for Lack of guidance. The target nose Cone from the icbms carried an explosive warhead. But he said a instruments indicated that the sprints second stage passed close enough to the target to have destroyed it with an operational nuclear military equipment to foreign governments. The social Security Bill was at a standstill because House managers were refusing to go to conference with the Senate to work out a Compromise measure. T Erse v Erse by a. C. Gordon Many curves admired by men with wonder and Delight Are removed and stored away in boxes overnight trucks damaged in Accident a by Vee Semi truck and a pickup truck were damaged in an Accident which occurred at the intersection of West Washiington and Jackson streets at to . Wednesday. A 1967 Ford driven by Larry Shull. It. Pleasant was going West and prepared to make a right turn into Leyden a station and a pick the regular meeting of the up Lrus a headed South on Jackson Southeast Iowa Community action caused Shull to slow Down quickly. Organization inc., Board of direct a pick up truck behind Shull Drivers will be held at 7 30 p.m., Janu i in by Jack Shulby Sperry also Ary 4, at the mental health inst slowed Down quickly. The by Vee tute human services building it. Semi behind Shulte collided with pleasant. The rear of the Shulte pick up Caus plans and priorities for the pro my damage. The Semi was drawn by Gram year 1971-72 will be discussed. D. W. Allen Chariton. The Public is invited to attend. I City police investigated. Cao Board to meet Jan. 4

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