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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 3, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one s 2 sections vol. 92, no. 28 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening february 3, 1970 Price to cents Cloudy these Days by John Chamberlain labor follows some shortsighted policies poor George Meany. This stubborn honorable head of the Al Cio gets it in the neck from self styled liberals who think it a a reactionary of him to support an anticommunist foreign policy. An implacable author Ronald Radosh writes a Book a american labor and United states foreign policy a to prove that Meany and his International advisers Jay Lovestone and Irving Brown have been dupes of the Cia. Think of it a the Al Cio helped put the Kibosh on the pompous and incompetent Juan Bosch in the dominican Republic on marxist Cheddie Jagan in what used to be British Guiana and on communist manipulators in the fifties in Guatemala. Terrible terrible. But when one considers what the alternative might have been one is inclined to bless or. Meany for doing More than the Marshall plan to keep the communists from overrunning the world. On the other hand the liberals like what or. Meany has been doing domestically to help Cesar Chavez in his attempt to impose compulsory unionism on the nations four million farm workers. And they approve of any and All of or. Meany a efforts to put the Power of the state behind strikers. A libertarian when it comes to opposing state domination of labor move ments abroad or. Meany deserts the old Samuel rompers theory that the labor movement at Home should be an Independent a business organization for wage earners who Are willing to depend on voluntary persuasion to get their Way. Open committee hearings on . Washington up a chairman j. William Fulbright opened Long delayed Senate foreign relations committee hearings on Vietnam today saying the was to eight students placed on probation by enlisting the state to favor the unions in strikes or. Meany undoubtedly gets some immediate benefits. The new York state Law that Grants unemployment compensation to workers on the picket line has helped the striking general electric employees in Schenectady to endure a hard Winter. It can be argued that any Law that enables unemployed people to keep up with their mortgage payments and support the local Butcher must be Good for the Community As Well As for striking workers. But the Justice of forcing the Community As a whole to finance strikers is not immediately apparent. It might even be construed As an infringement of the first amendment for it amounts to using the Peoples Money to support issues that they might very Well oppose if they had any say so in the Money a distribution. Too leaving constitutional issues to one Side Isnit it a bit shortsighted of or. Meany to depend on the state to help finance his strikes Only two states new York and Rhode Island now Supply unemployment compensation to striking workers. There is a movement in Massachusetts however to pass a strike Benefit Bill. News that the Massachusetts legislature was considering S.C. a measure Drew instant fire from a general electric vice president Clement e. Sutton jr., the general manager of the Industrial and Marine division. Be has plants at both ends of the state in Massachusetts it is a big employer in Pittsfield in the berkshires and it has another operation in Lynn North of Boston. Or. Sutton said that be would have to reduce its total employment in Massachusetts if a strike Benefit Bill became Law. Quot our competitive disadvantage a said or. Sutton is becoming a so bad in Massachusetts a that if the. Bill passes wed have no alternative but to set in motion programs for a More serious scaling Down of our operations Here and a further expansion in other too the a anti management legislative tone in Massachusetts or. Sutton continued has already had its effect on be decisions affecting the location of new plants. A to remain competitive a said or. Sutton be has already transferred businesses that started out in Pittsfield to places As Remote As Rome ga., Hickory n. Car., Shreveport la and Merced Calif. Operations that originated in Lynn have been removed to Maine new Hampshire and Vermont. No doubt or. Meany would condemn be for encouraging a a runaway plants if it went through with threats to move out of states S.C. As new York and Massachusetts because they Are but Why should a com Pany put up with conditions that favor one Side against the other when it comes to bargaining As gets or. Sutton says a paying strikers benefits is As absurd As the state reimbursing employers for business lost due to a what eight Iowa Wesleyan College White students accused in an incident at Iowa Wesleyan Friday night were placed on student probation and required to make full restitution of damages to College property. Miss Carol Nemitz Dean of personnel services reported the action late monday afternoon after the students had been informed following a hearing. The students were accused of splattering blood and entrails in the area of Hershey Hall which Black students were to occupy. The area involved was cleaned up by maintenance men. Sean Starr an assistant chief Justice of the colleges student court system said his group did hold a hearing on the charges. He agreed with school officials that there wre no racial overtones to the incident but blamed it on resentment by students forced to move from their rooms to allow the Blacks to have their own Section. A i done to think the majority of the student body objected to this a Starr said but some of the students who lived in the basement did. He said it was not because the students moving in were Black and he thought the ousted students would have Felt the same resentment towards Whites taking their rooms. The ousted students were relocated in the dormitory. Carol Nemitz Dean of student personnel services said there were about 40 Blacks among the 929 students enrolled at Wesleyan. A we have been thoroughly investigating the situation during the weekend a said miss Nemitz a and it does not seem that racism was involved in the situation what help not hinder president Nixon in bringing the War a to an Early the Arkansas Democrat setting a Milder mood than he often has in the past said there had been a a signal improvement in u. S. Vietnam policy Over the past few years. But he cautioned his colleagues against Fulbright pledged during the two Day re examination of the Southeast asian War to conduct a thorough open discussions of the Best possible Means of achieving the objective which All of us support a an Early reasonable peace settlement in he said the committees objective is to a assist the president in bringing to an Early end this War which has divided and agitated the american people for the last five raises House one of the first witnesses sen. Charles e. Goodell in. A a a said Nixon a Vietnam nation program might not work at All and even if it did 5,000 to 20.000 More americans would die during the three years it was being carried out. Goodell called for congressional passage of a Bill to require withdrawal of All u. S. Troops from South Vietnam within a year. Looks like maybe a shattered window pane until you look closer and see that coast guard Cutter. The Cutter is searching the broken ice of Lake Erie 20 Miles Northwest of Cleveland for wreckage of the tag air lines plane that crashed with nine persons aboard. Jury finds Mcgovern and Wixom guilty Peoria 111. Up a a jury of eight men and four women deliberated about 3x/st hours monday night before finding Roswell w. Wixom 35, Davenport Iowa formerly of Hillsboro Iowa and John p. My give 42, East Moline guilty of a counterfeiting conspiracy. Wixom and Mcgivern were found guilty on four counts. Authorities said sentencing would not take place for about 30 Days. The pair faces a maximum sentence on the charge of up to 15 years in prison officials said. The two men were tried in us. District court in Peoria before judge Robert d. Morgan. Iowa doctor evidently killed by a robber Overland Park Kan. Up a. Sioux City Iowa physician who was stabbed so Many times officers at first believed he was struck by a Shotgun blast probably was the victim of a robber police said today. The body of or. George Rowney a Gyne Logist was found late monday face Down on ithe bed in his Motel room. A Belt was pulled tight around his neck his feet were bound with an electric Cord from a Coffee maker which was in the room and he had been stabbed a More than 20 times in the Chest neck arms and hand. Officers said the weapon was a something similar to an ice it was not found. Rowney a Wallet was missing and the pockets of the trousers he wore were turned inside out. Rowney 50, was believed to have been dead several hours when the body was found by a maid at the Holiday inn Motel where he planned to stay while attending some a a refresher seminars at the University of Kansas medical Center in nearby Kansas City Kan. Russian warnings in Wim disc Quot is 1 head Start messages i o leaders tile Henry county Community action program will have a Gen London up a the Kremlin i personal messages from soviet Oral orientation on concepts and warned the big three Western pow Premier Alexei n. Kosygin to pres 1 goals for head Start on monday ers that Russia is keeping All of i ident Nixon French president feb. 9, 1970 in the r Attice Al tons open in the escalating Middle 1 Georges Pompidou and British rated on the 2nd floor of 20 by id fast crisis but wants a political prime minister Harold Wilson resettlement High diplomatic sources slivered by the soviet envoys in the the said today. It urged the Western leaders to press Israel to a Cool it a since Russia could not stand by idly if the escalation led to All out War in the Arab israeli conflict. Too the warnings were contained in teachers refuse to Transfer to Black schools Atlanta up a seventy of the 76 White teachers in a Georgia school District refused today to obey a court order to Transfer to Black schools throwing the system into a crisis. A i cannot operate the school system without the teachers a said Washington county school supt. W. B. Ouzts or. A some arrangements Are going to have to be Ouzts did not order the schools closed immediately. The teachers warned monday that they would defy the supreme court s desegregation order because they were afraid to teach in negro schools. Western capitals monday sources said. Kosygin did not spell out what Russia intended to do but he left All options open for russian action depending on developments in the Middle East conflict. Too the sources indicated Russia May Supply More sophisticated offensive weapons to the embattled Arab nations notably Egypt. They did not Rule out soviet intervention but Only in the event of full scale War that would threaten question of leadership Washington up a rep. Jerome r. Waldie a Calif served formal notice on speaker John w Mccormack today that he will ask vote of no Confidence in the House leadership at tile next Caulis of democratic members. The action by Wald Ift a third term Liberal fell Short of seeking the replacement of the 78-year-old speaker but brought into focus a growing discontent among some of younger House democrats Over the performance team. Ii of the leadership i launch drive to Honor Neim inc president Mccormack has been the focal Point of the criticism. He declined immediate comment on the Waldie action. He previously had announced his intention to run for another term As speaker next january and has said he has the votes to win. Waldie served formal notice that he would ask a Roll Call vote of House democrats at their next scheduled caucus feb. 18, on a Resolution to express a a Lack of Confidence in the present House democratic at the same time he told the speaker by letter that it was the Quot increasing belief of Many members that the present House leadership is not responsive to the prob terns of the 1970s.�?� ing at the mental health Institute the sessions Are open to All in Teres ted people of the Community the morning session opens at to ., and june Dugas Volt technical corporation specialist in Parent involvement from Kansas City will be Here to meet with us. Those in charge Hope Many will Avail themselves of this Opportunity to learn More about this work and How residents of Henry county can contribute to the growth of head Start. In the afternoon beginning at i . Ive will reconvene at the armory in the head Start classroom. This will be of special interest to a Campaign to raise funds for the restoration of Iowa Wesleyan sold Pioneer building in Honor of the colleges new president or. Louis a. Haselmayer was announced at an inc faculty dinner in the student Union monday night. Prof. Joseph l. Mauck. Head of the teacher education department and master of ceremonies at the dinner said the Campaign was conclude hearings on judge Carswell Washington up a the Senate completed hearings today kicked off at noon monday and by on the supreme court nomination of Early last evening nearly $1,400 had judge g. Harrold Carswell but a been donated or pledged for the j judiciary committee vote was put restoration project. Off for perhaps a week or More. Tile committee wound up hear old Pioneer built in 1845. Houses amp attorney the Wesleyan English speech and Maracl prize Cadwell a nominated drama department and is one by pre Dent Nixon after the Senate rejected judge Clement p. Hans the oldest academic buildings still in use West of the Mississippi River. Or. Haselmayer. Who became in cd a 23rd president sunday had served As head of the English speech drama department since his arrival at Wesleyan in 1952. Residents of the area who care to make a donation to the fund May Send their gifts or pledges to the arabs with a new defeat on Tho parents of head Start children the old Pioneer fund. Iowa Wes firemen called firemen were called to the Iris restaurant at 5 50 . Monday Sparks were coming out of a Chimney and a passerby thought the building was on fire. Court reporter named Wilma Shebetka Burlington has been appointed court reporter for judge Harlan Bainter in the first judicial District. She began her duties monday. Lines of the 19t>7 scale. Kosygin a message did not specifically mention either course. Too the informants said Russia could not stand by idly in the face of the growing escalation and certainly would be in no position to Swallow another All out Arab defeat. They made it Clear Moscow does not wish direct involvement in the Middle East nor confrontation with the United states unless it sees no Way out. I Salem a a cow owned by Terry Kosygin a notes running to some Vance which strayed onto a Road a two pages were said to have been mile North of Salem was struck by currently enrolled in the program. All parents interested in future enrolment of their children in the head Start Day care program and All past head Start parents will want to attend. It will Center effective use of Volunteer skills and How to achieve total Parent participation. Car hits cow couched in very firm terms. Cars damaged inv increases movement of supplies a car driven by Grace Garmoe at 6 30 pm. Saturday. Damage to the car was placed at $250. The Driver Wasny to Hurt. The cow was slightly injured. Leyan College it. Pleasant. Monday nights dinner was Given in Honor of or. Haselmayer who i m presented an entertaining Vignette of the College s previous 22 Peai dents. Prof. Mauck made a couple of humorous presentations. Prof. Burton Mahle who succeeded or. Haselmayer As faculty chairman gave a few remarks and several faculty members read humerus literary pieces written about or. Haselmayer a Long service to the College and about his future in the inc presidency. Music professor and pianist Larry cull son provided dinner music and a student brass group from the music department entertained following dinner. Worth As Quot a judge Haynsworth with a bitterness and meanness that judge Haynsworth did no to too the committee at a closed session. Then voted 8 to 6 against reloading Carswell to answer a variety of charges by opposition witnesses accusing him of racism both on and off the Bench while a . Circuit judge and. Before that a Federal Dis a vote on the nomination itself was held us because of a parliamentary Wrangle involving efforts by proponents of electoral Law Reform to get the committee to approve their legislation first. Committee aides said the next committee meeting to consider the nomination May not be held for another week. A 1964 Chevrolet driven by John Madden it. Sterling backing from a parking space on the North Side of the Square near the Alley at 12 50 . Monday collided with an eastbound 1868 Chevrolet driven pm a a a a South at a a a a. 50 by Saigon up a informed Allied military sources said today the North vietnamese were moving sup Linkletter urges fight on drugs that killed his daughter a do everything in your Power to counteract indifference or while refusing to recall Carswell the committee agreed to keep the hearing record open until thursday night to permit the judge to tile answers to the testimony by attorney Joseph l Rauh and others who attacked his record on civil rights issues. Chairman James o. Eastland d-miss., sad one group of senators led by sen. Birch Bayh. D-ind., wanted a to tie electoral Reform to a vote on but he said sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., would not agree. A sooner or later in the current state of our society your child is going of be offered marijuana barbiturates amphetamines Ltd or you cannot avoid having your child exposed to drugs he says but you Thelma Scarff it. Pleasant or cent hi3her than last but other ii Gitl drugs under enticing can try to build a relationship with route 3. A truck blocking the Alley obscured Madden a View. Both cars were damaged some. For Boord discusses plans the Henry county agricultural fair Board met monday evening for their february meeting. Fred Strothman newly elected Board member has been named superintendent of the tractor pull and he discussed his plans and program for the 1970 fair. President Bernard Bates also announced other superintendent assignments to Board members and stated that All contracts for feature shows and attractions have been signed. Dean Bagby member of the Board was approved As the associations treasurer for 1970. County conservation Hoard j to manage Oakland Park terse verse by a. C. Gordon poker often is expensive paying All the pot demands but then so can any game be where you re always holding hands. The Henry county Board of supervisors has entered into agreement with the state conservation commission to lease the Oakland Mills state Park consisting of 84 acres for a period of 25 years. The action was taken at the request and recommendation of the Henry county conservation Board which will assume the management and maintenance of the Park. Formal approval of the lease by the Board of supervisors is required by the state. The conservation boards vote was unanimous and the Board of supervisors voted two to one in favor. Supervisors Lester Meeker and Clark Burns voted favourably this did not indicate a major com mists offensive during the tet lunar new year period. . And South vietnamese head circumstances most Likely by a member of his own peer group. A these chilling words Are address quarters announced today the allies de to parents everywhere by a Man will of serve a one Day cease fire \ not usually known for hts solemn during the tet holidays three Days Ity. He is entertainer Art Linkletter the funny Man who became a tragic figure when his youngest daughter Diane took her own life some weeks ago in what Linkletter Calls a a mood of irrationality panic and despair that was the after math of a bad trip on too in the february readers digest the show business Veteran warns that drug abuse has become a a National plague an epidemic of monstrous military sources said troop infill Quot if you have a child in Ollie -. J d actually decreased com High school in Junior High or even Henry county Board of Supert t and elementary school he is bring sex sors to execute a management Pai d ,30sed to illicit drugs at this to agreement Aith the state censer the communists apparently Are not posed toll vation commission with the under replacing ill their casuals i j underscore his Point link let that the Henry county South. But the arms Supply Down to the to Chi Minh Trail has Mcreasy in recent years. Management and maintenance have been at a mini j mum. The Resolution adopted by the county Board of supervisors stated in part a whereas the Henry county Shorter than the cease fire announced previously by the Viet Cong and the North vietnamese. Too neither the arms buildup nor the latest communist activity is expected to change the truce decision. The Viet Cong staged their largest attacks in the Saigon area in three months monday and Early today ambushing a truck Convoy with assaulting two conservation Board at its meet i Roc it Grena is an ing held monday january 26, 1970, Hea Quai ers. Passed a Resolution requesting the standing conservation Board would assume the care and management of the Oakland Mills state Park. Which the Board of supervisors believes de. Ter cites California statistics showing a 2100-percent Rise in juvenile marijuana arrests Between 1960 and 1968. And just under a 2000-percent this country needs is a More evenhanded state attitude toward both management and labor lest the unions Power to Force inflation should kill every last one of our entrepreneurial Golden geese. Distributed by King features Syndicate will be for the Best interests of the and supervisor William Sater citizens of Henry county. Iowa for late in 1970.�?� against. Sater explained that he and Talso the state of believes the Cost of maintenance of it therefore moved by Clark the Park should be carried by the Burns and seconded by Lester state. Meeker that the Board of super conservation Board members pointed out that the state has Vir. A a tally abandoned operation and agreement and hereby authorizes fuel dumps in Quang Binh i Ovines a they want to preserve their one High ranking source said a they could be planning someone increase of juvenile drug arrests i the same period. J he says that since his daughters reliable informants said about death he has received thousands 15,000 truck movements were of of letters and telegrams from All served on the to Chi Minh Trail Over America from frantic parents visors of Henry county. Iowa Here during december alone and that tit whose children Are using drugs. By approves the management communists also had set up Uge disclaiming a role As an hereby authorizes fuel dumps in Quang Binh province in it in Kletter says maintenance of the smaller Parks the chairman of the Board of of North Vietnam bordering Laos j exp him to a serving primarily local persons. Supervisors to execute the Man j and above the demilitarized Zon. Q a conclusions that he Oakland Mills is one of the Small i gement agreement for and on be the Viet Cong Assaul in parents est state Parks and has been with half of the Board of supervisors of Gen area killed four persons and a a a he writes it out a custodian much of the time Henry county Iowa. I wounded 21. A the child that will form a protective Barrier Between him and this kind of menace. A no matter How much time you have been spending with your kids try to spend More. Talk to them More. Express interest in an aspect of the child s life and then look for the Best in your children and Trust them Linkletter says but be Alert to puzzling changes in behaviour. Quot if a child who has been an achiever suddenly starts being a non achiever be concerned i if he begins to show sustained periods of listlessness a or Over excitability a be concerned. Talk to your family doctor if you become j seriously alarmed Quot Linkletter also urges parents to fight for special classes on film showings on the subject of drugs and drug abuse. A education is our great weapon a he says. Finally the radio to Star says done to Over react if your child does admit to experimenting with drugs. A the panic reaction the heavy handed moralistic counterattack will Only Breed antagonism. The fact that the child is telling you is in itself a hopeful it Ign. It Means that he is really asking for even your Best efforts May fail Linkletter admits. His did. But by hitter a old Iii Midwest bitter cold swept the Midwest monday night with readings Down to 30 below in Minnesota. The readings in Northern Iowa were in the 15 to 20 below areas. It pleasant registered an official five below Early tuesday morning and probably even lower officially later for there were unofficial readings of eight to ten below in the area later. Moon trip shown at kiwanis the Apollo ii trip to the Moon and Back on film made a highly interesting program for the Kiwan is club at the meeting monday evening. Arrangements to get the film were started last september program chairman James May said. The film was obtained through the office of congressman Fred i Schwengel. Car License sales total 6,350 a total of 6,350 car licenses and 2.050 truck licenses were sold at the educating yourself thoroughly and Auto registration department at by an open readiness to talk to the courthouse before the penalty and listen to a your children went into effect february i. You la at least be taking effective j about the same number of plates Steps to meet a problem that has were sold at the same time a year turned into a plague. Jag0_

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