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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - December 31, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The i pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol 92, no. 307 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening december 31, 1970 Price 10 cents warmer hese Days Nixon still has six crises coming up As 1971 dawns president Nixon must be shedding a tear for the dear departed Days when he was Eisenhower s vice president and the country was lapped in the sole interval of serenity which it has enjoyed since the time of Calvin Coolidge. True enough Nixon survived six crises As he explained in one of his books before he finally made it to the White House. This coming year he will surely double that number As crisis after crisis hits Washington. O 0 o 1. The inflationary crisis Isnit going to blow away. The country May want Low prices but it wont take continually increasing a employ i ment without venting its rage on whatever political party is in office. The United automobile workers have already had their raises the steel workers come next. Professor Milton Friedman challenging conservative economists such As Henry Hazlitt and Lawrence Fertig May be quite right when he says that wage increases by themselves do not create inflation Only the government which has the Power to add to the Money Supply can do that. But you can to pay High wages to people for producing cars when cars Arentt being sold without putting an unbearable pressure on the government to lower interest rates and to flush the Money Supply. 80 any time wages begin to outpace the annual increase in productivity the natural response of the politicians will be to inflate the currency. The administration will surely do what it has to do to avoid being stigmatized in 1972 As a just another Hoover a year or so ago i recalled in this column a conversation i had had with Arthur Burns now the chairman of the Federal Reserve. Speaking sardonically or. Burns said that Herbert Hoover had failed in 1930 and 1931 to understand that the one thing that governments can do with some measure of Success is to create Money. If the administration attempted to Force an a incomes policy on labor by instituting compulsory wage and Price controls it would simply mean a crisis of a different order. Wage and Price controls would mean a suppressed inflation with Black markets everywhere. 2. Nixon is heading into an armaments crisis. The doves want to trim the Power of the Pentagon. But the a a musts of the world situation Call for rebuilding the . Navy and the merchant Marine. Once the soviets break through from the Mediterranean sea to the Indian Ocean As they will do if the Suez canal is reopened under communist auspices control of Western Europe a and Japan soil lifeline to the persian Gulf will shift to Moscow. Only by dealing forthrightly with the israeli Arab confrontation can we keep a balance of Power Check on soviet expansion in the Middle East with a joint use of Suez As the big diplomatic stake. 3. The students. After a somewhat uneventful autumn things seem to be looking up for the Nixon administration on the Campus. The deaths at Kent state University were a sobering influence students have been turning against the that they can be provocative without taking on any personal risk. An organization called the Campus coalition formed in Chicago in late november is dedicated to the purpose of keeping things Calm in Academe at last reports this new coalition had chapters in nearly 60 schools. The organization is non partisan and to keep the colleges open for students who want to study. The University so the coalition stresses a must not be politicized to serve the goals of any. Faction or interest through the closing Down of classes distortions of procedures by which curricula Are set or other manipulations of the academic 4. But if the students Are less violent it does not mean that the insane bombings which arc plotted and carried out by the frustrated radicals wont increase. Any University with a computer Center or a Laboratory that does work for the military is advised to keep in close touch with the Fri. 5. Pollution. The administration has every intention of protecting the but it is up against it when it comes to reconciling economic needs a i.e., the expanding demand for electric Power a with the ecological imperative. We need that alaskan Oil to run the Power plants of tomorrow. 6. The a Southern if it is openly junked in favor of a combination of strategies will it enable a divisive George Wallace to throw the 1972 game to the democrats Nixon will continue to need Agnew a or maybe former governor John Apollo 13 trip top news Story of year 1970 new York up a the flight of Apollo 13, in which three . Astronauts brought their crippled ship safely Home after an explosion deep in space was the top news Story of 1970. For the second year in a Row the . Moon exploration program was ranked no. 1 by american editors participating in the annual poll by United press International to select the news stories with the most headline Impact. This time it was the abortive flight last april which kept the world in suspense for four Days until the three astronauts landed safely in the Pacific Ocean. A year ago the top Story was the successful first Moon Landing by the men of Apollo 11. O o o up asked the editors to Mark a second ballot to select the stories clean air Bill signed by president Washington up a president Nixon signed far reaching clean air legislation into Law at a bipartisan ceremony today but failed to invite its sponsor sen. Edmund s. Muskie d Maine a presidential contender. The new Law orders the Auto Industry to produce a virtually emission free car by 1976. Senators and congressmen from both parties were invited to the ceremony at the White House but Muskie said he was not even notified that the Bill was to be signed. Sponsors of legislation often Are invited to such ceremonies. Too the new Law states that the Industry come up with an engine Jan. 1, 1975. That will reduce emissions of Carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons by 90 per cent from the maximum 1970 permissible Levels. The administrator of the environmental Protection Agency is empowered to Grant a one year Extension but after that no new cars could be sold that did not meet the new standards unless Congress extended the deadline. The Industry May apply for the one year Extension by Jan. 1, 1972. There is no doubt that the Industry will ask for the extra time. Even that is not enough its spokesmen have contended. The years Extension would provide a 28-month Lead time to Engineer an ant pollution device into the car. In addition to the Auto features the clean air act authorizes $1.1 billion Over three years for re search and Aid to states on air and noise pollution problems. Sees better business in new year Washington up a Commerce Secretary Maurice h. Stans predicts that business conditions will improve in 1971, fuelled by higher consumer spending and a rebound in Home building. In a year end economic review issued late wednesday stans also predicted inflation will decline in the new year. A renewed growth in economic activity is already underway and a slower rate of inflation will renew the Faith of All americans that their Economy can and will move toward an essentially Noni Fla tonary growth path a he said. Stans predicted that Consumers who saved More than usual of their paychecks last year will resume spending in 1971. A consumer expenditures can be expected to climb More rapidly than disposable income a he said. Nonnally of Texas a As a Buffer to Wallace. Nixon is a Clever Man he May survive All of the coming crises. But he has his work Cut out for him As never before. Distributed by King features Syndicate they Felt had the most Long Range significance. This list was headed by the sluggish . Economy which covered the declining Stock Market inflation unemployment and numerous other business developments including a strike against general motors. Under the listing for a headline value the editors ranked the deaths of four Kent state University students killed by National guardsmen during a confrontation on the Campus in Ohio As the no. 2 Story. Too the invasion of Cambodia by u. S. And South vietnamese troops in May which provoked a wave of student protests in the United states including the one at Kent state was ranked As the no. 3 Story in the headline category. It was no. 2 in the most significant category. A 00 the results of the voting by . Editors in the two categories top 10-headline value 1. Astronauts return safely in crippled Apollo 13 ship. 2. Four Kent state students killed by National guardsmen. 3. ., South Vietnam invade Cambodia. 4. Mass airline hijacks by Arab nationalists. 5. Charles de Gaulle Dies. 6. Gamal Abdel Nasser Dies. 7. Economy in trouble. 8. Crashes of charter planes carrying Wichita state and Marshall University football teams. 9. Cyclone and floods devastate East Pakistan. 10. Midterm elections. Racial violence in the United states including police clashes with the Black panthers arid the shooting of two Black students at Jackson state Slege in Mississippi was a close runner up to the ten As were developments in the Middle East and a wave of bombings in the United states. O d o top 10-significance 1. Us. Economy in trouble. 2. ., South Vietnam invade Cambodia. 3. Kent state students killed. 4. Indochina including continued . Troop withdrawals and the stalled Paris peace talks. 5. The Middle East including the cease fire in August. 6. Us. Racial violence. 7. Midterm elections. 8. Bombings in the United states. 9. Flight of Apollo 13. 10. Death of Nasser. Political kidnappings in latin America and Canada were ranked just outside the top ten in this category. Will observe new year s Day most business places in it. Pleasant will suspend operations for the Day on new years. A few will be open part of the Day and a few the entire Day. Individual announcements have been made by the firms. The courthouse Banks savings and loan and Federal offices will be closed. There will be no mail deliveries nor will there be window service at the Post office. There will be mail deliveries on Jan. 2. Numerous parties to Welcome 1971 there will be numerous new years eve parties tonight in it pleasant and Vicinity to Welcome 1971. In addition to Many House parties there will be new years eve dances at the it. Pleasant Golf amp country club the v.f.w., legion eagles and Moose clubs the Iris Restua rant round table lounge and Dick amp Kay sat Rome to mention a few. Faith lutheran to have new year s Day service Faith lutheran of it. Pleasant plans a special new years Day service for new years Day at 9 . The Sermon theme for the Day will be a a god a gift of time. The Public is cordially invited to attend the service. Happy new year folks % Yah of Bright locally some dark spots the year 1970 was Bright in it. J born to or. And mrs. Doyle Dunn pleasant with High employment route 1, at 1 15 ., was the first year had expansion and general Prosperity prevailing. New store fronts a new store building a new restaurant building new service station numerous re baby born in Henry county in 1970. Jan. 6 a c. Maxwell Stanley Muscatine a member of the Iowa Wesleyan Board of trustees and his wife pledged $100,000 to inc to modelling projects a expansion at much a similar Challenge gift made 1 9-1 a to men in Norr mine blast fatal to 38 Hyden by. Up a an explosion ripped through two shafts of a soft Coal mine wednesday killing 38 trapped men and spewing a pillar of Coal d is a like a Tornado High above a Bleak appalachian Mountainside. Grieving relatives gathered at the Mouth of the mine shafts As soot covered workers Laboured through the night recovering bodies from the second worst mining disaster in Kentucky history. Too one Man working just inside the mine Mouth survived. H. T. Collins who was Only a few feet from the opening fled when he heard the blast. Officials said if he had been any deeper in he Shaft he would have died. State mining officials who rushed to this appalachian Hamlet of 400 persons in Southeastern Kentucky said victims died instantly. They speculated a faulty dynamite charge or an electrical failure triggered the blast. By 9 45 ., mine Rescue Crews brought out All 38 bodies from 1,600 feet inside shafts 15 and 16 of the Finley Coal co. Mine. The search i was halted a few hours by a heavy 1 concentration of deadly Carbon monoxide Gas but the poisonous fumes were blown away by a makeshift ventilation system. Kentucky mines commissioner h. N. Kirkpatrick said it was determined Early today that one Miner Carl d. Mitchell was not at work wednesday and the death toll originally reported by Kirkpatrick at 39, was revised to 38. Too one Miner who stood just outside the mine opening As the explosion hit described it a a Ball of smoke and soot As big As a mine Hole roared out of the mine like a he said the huge Cloud blew to the opposite face of the hollow covering leafless Trees with dust and mine debris. Gov. Louie b. Nunn arrived Early wednesday evening and visited in a j makeshift morgue in an Elemen 1 tary school with the families of the 1 first three victims whose bodies were recovered. The governor gave a report on the disaster to president Nixon from a Roadside Telephone Booth. Metro mail and expansion at Vega industries Good crop yields despite the cutback caused by Corn blight sewer and water line installations new Homes. Plus substantial payroll checks. Those were among the things that kept the Economy running at a favourable rate. It. Pleasant again had More new Homes built than Many similar cities. Most of the new construction concentrated in Linden Heights and j in North Lawn new buildings included that for surgeons the new Iron Kettle restaurant and the new pester Derby station. Major improvements included the remodelling of the former Spurgeon location for the Essex and the super savings stores and of the building on North main for kill All new businesses in the year. Too remodelling and expansion projects included the Home furniture location the Thomas Bell Law offices the Iris restaurant Williams clothing smitty a cleaners Wal Grenus Starlight cafe Shafer motors it. Pleasant Bank and Trust and improvements at the City Hall. Business changes occurred at the cozy cafe to Charles Shappell the b and b cafe in new location from 34 Grill Scarff feeds to Cargill some of the Beauty salons to new locations Fly in Gables Lodge from the Darrell kidneys to the Norman showers theater Transfer of owner parents of the first baby born in ship to heartland productions Sale Henry county in 1971 will not Only of water softener business by City be proud parents but will also be to Keith Vetter firm the Beatty blessed with Many Good wishes firm bought the Zehr funeral from it pleasant businessmen. I Home at Wayland. To the parents of the first baby 000 born in 1971 will go the following Brilliant reflections in the year gifts $5.00 Worth of Shell gasoline a addition to the examples of eco from Leyden a Shell infant seat nomic Progress were the Many Hon from r. K. Crane furniture 5 Book j by Public school and College announced m the Premium of regal Stamps from students in competitive events. O president for 1970 by Vee 2 dozen Gauze diapers from a stories reflected the Fine w of. A c of a Penneys 10 one Dollar Bills from a a Una people of the Community insurance plan savings and loan in positions of leadership and association $5 in dry cleaning from achievements. Ruby cleaners $10 gift certificate tie new lutheran Church was from Benda appliance diaper pail dedicated in 1970 and likewise the from Hoaglind a 2 cases of Gerber new National guard armory was go of Hillsboro it baby food from beavers food Mart i dedicated a d g y i were Kiuei when their car was $5 savings account in the baby a had an a Mia opening. Struck by a train at a crossing six name fro Henry county savings the had its dark Side Miles East of Fairfield. Bank $5 from United 1 1 a prizes for first �?T71 baby by e. A. Hayes in 1969. This is part of a one million Dollar trustee fundraising program and depends on other members of the 32 member Board raising the other $800,000. Jan. 16 a Frank l. Fuller 26, it. Pleasant Albert l. Barrett 23, of near Salem and Kenneth l. Watson 21, Stockport route 1 were killed instantly when the car in which they were Riding went off a curve on old Highway 34 West of it. Pleasant East of the Skunk River Bridge went through the air and landed at the Bottom of a deep embankment. Harris Gene deck 25, it. Pleasant was injured. Jan. 16 a or. Louis Hasenmayer 56, was named As the new president of Iowa Wesleyan succeeding or. Franklin h. Littell. Jan. 19 a Thomas m. Martin 16, son of or. And mrs. Merlin Martin it. Pleasant route 2, died of injuries received in a two car crash on Highway 34 two Miles West of it. Pleasant. He was a Sophomore at mph. Four others were injured in the Accident. Jan. 21 a James Ritter 52, Hannibal mo., was named As the new manager of the it. Pleasant municipal utilities effective feb. 1. He succeeded Penn Marsh who retired. Jan. 2i a David Mccoid a lawyer was named As the outstanding Young Man for 1969 at the Bosses night distinguished service award banquet. Loren Beachy was named As the outstanding Young Farmer John Becker As the outstanding Young educator and Joe Panther As the Jaycee Boss of the year. Jan. 28 a Chad Wymer director of the Iowa development commission spoke on a Iowa a place to grow at the annual chamber of Commerce dinner meeting at the student Union at Iowa Wesleyan. It. Pleasant lawyer took the oath As judge of the 1st judicial District in a ceremony at the courthouse. Feb. 16 a Edward s. Deao 66, building centers and a Percolator from Southeast Iowa cooperative electric association. The baby must be bom in Henry county memorial Hospital to be eligible for the contest. Driver leaves after collision a Cadillac driven by Leo Kennedy Westwood was struck in the rear by another car on East Washington Street near Walgren Market about 1 20 . Thursday and the other Driver left the scene. Authorities were looking for the unidentified Driver and had the cards License number taken by a witness to go by. Kennedy was headed East and was in a line of traffic when the westbound car collided with the rear of the Cadillac causing considerable damage. The unidentified Driver backed up went around the Kennedy car and left the scene. The Driver of the car came to the sheriffs office about 1 45 . And said that he was the person who was involved in the collision. Investigation was turned Over to City police. News not to be published Friday the news will not be published on Friday new years Day. Abandon efforts on set ibis session Washington up a the House and Senate abandoned efforts today to break to Weir impasse on financing the supersonic transport set and House leaders proposed a truce of sorts simply to keep the project alive pending a decision by the new Congress. The temporary settlement House speaker John w. Mccormack said would carry a deadline of March 30 for a final decision on whether to continue with the program that created the chief obstacle to adjournment of the 91st Congress. House negotiators on the Issue failed even to show up for a meeting with the Senate team this morning. The set controversy and other unresolved matters had threatened to keep Congress in session until its constitutional term expires noon sunday. Hopes had been expressed earlier today for some kind of set agreement to make possible adjournment by tonight or new year s Day. Youth held after Nin Nim him Battle the number of violent deaths on feb i6 a John Hannon 49, the highways and in other accidents Homewood 111., was killed in a two was unusually High the Corn blight car crash a mile West of it. Pleas took its toll financially cattle and ant on Highway 34 during a High hog prices dropped to unprofitable Speed Chase in which the Highway lows and the drug abuse problem patrol was trying to get him Stop plagued this Community As it did j Ped. Many others. J March 8 the new Faith Luth the number of fatal accidents eran Church in Northeast it. Pleas in the county and the number of ant was dedicated. Fatal accidents in which Henry March 18 a Jon Cook was named county persons were involved out to manage the it. Pleasant Muni Side the county totalled an Unlusu Cipal swimming Pool during the ally High figure. Ten persons were summer months. Killed in traffic accidents in the March 30 a the Nichol construct county eight Henry county persons tion co. Of Dyersville was awarded were killed in traffic accidents out 1 the water and sewer lines contract fort Madison up a Side the county four persons were by the City Council. The firm sub charges were pending against a killed in non traffic accidents in fitted the Low bid of $22,265.50. The Vid Allen Rudd 17, of fort Madison the county and one county Man water and sewer lines were later in connection with a running gun was killed in a construction Acci installed in the East Industrial Park bad the with a fort Madison service Dent in Missouri. Also an Iowa Wes station manager Early today. Leyan graduate and a former Iowa Joe Brentise the manager of Wesleyan student were killed in Beck Oil co. Said a youth appeared accidents outside the county. At the door of the station about 4 the Corn blight damage potential i. A ii the class a state High school vocal this morning wearing a ski mask was a matter of concern to an7 Warp Paw and instrumental music contest at and carrying a handgun. Farmers and the losses were Neavy Brentise said he grabbed his own on Many farms but the Overall 0�1 gun and the youth fled. Brentise yield was Good. Prior to the blight ran outside and shouted for the boy damage the Outlook had been for to Stop but the manager said the a record High yield youth turned and fired at him. News stories in the Spring reflected Brentise said lie must have fired six the discontent of youth at the color seven shots during the Exchange j lege and in the Public schools. Of fire. A a Rudd who was wounded in the of the happenings of the leg was found by police at a private year As Slu in in a Check of the residence shortly after the shooting. News files Rudd is being confined to a fort Jan 1 a a Irvin h hil1, and his Madison Hospital for treatment of he Evelyn Mary 49, of new Lon from near the mental health Institute North to East of metro mail and in Northeast it. Pleasant. April 4 a mph students won five is 12 ii a and two Illus in the wound. Law designed to protect investors Washington up a a Law designed to protect investors whose brokers go bankrupt similar to Laws insuring Bank deposits has been signed into Law by president Nixon. Don were killed when the car in which they were Riding struck a Bridge abutment on Highway 61 three Miles South of Wapello. Jan. 2 a mayor Charles Hanna and four new City councilmen. Edward King Darrel Donnolly l. W. Van Winkle and Max beavers took office. The councilmen who were re elected Are Ray gis ser and Henry Biggs. Jan. 4 a Traci Annette Dunn april 6 a John s. Swan former Iowa Wesleyan student front Danville who died in Colville wash., at the age of 97, requested in excess of $200,000 to Wesleyan. April 11 a Michael Nichols 17, mph senior won first place in the Ila Keye science fair in Des Moines in the physical science division. His exhibit was entitled a the correlation Between River volume and Channel april 16 a Rev. C. Dendy Garrett of the methodist Church was appointed superintendent of the Perry District. April 22 a Paula Swank mph Junior was selected by the american legion auxiliary to attend girls state. May 5 a Lisabeth d. Van Winkle 50, Salem was killed in a car truck continued on Page s

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