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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 5, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant new vol. 92, no. 30 it. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening february 5, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain this is the year of ecology is the steam going out of the anti War protest movements i Laid aside for future reference some of a the new left promises made last november of a further nationwide protest activities in december across the country on the twelfth through the fifteenth a and More Large Public events in the the de Mcember a pm oratorio a either never materialized or if they did they caused no widespread journalistic Ripples. So what of the a Large Public events a promised for the Spring since president Nixon is still pulling , troops out of South Vietnam can the new left work up any real passion for new marches and demonstrations against a a imperialism somehow one doubts it. Interestingly enough the recent pronouncements of profess or Staughton Lynd the leftist historian who quit Yale to go to Roosevelt University in Chicago for a Short period tend to confirm the doubt. Speaking at a Midwest youth organizing project in november Lynd said that demonstrations in Washington d.c., failed to get at the heart of the matter. What he suggested was a new form of protest aimed at our a International these he said were the real instigators of american he proposed a number of Spring demonstrations aimed at involving a masses of people not just a dedicated few a a in a anti corporate actions designed to Embarrass general electric Westinghouse Boeing Martin Marietta general motors and Standard Oil of new Jersey All of whom he inferentially accused of making Money out of being part of the military Industrial Complex. Too for the Benefit of students who have no idea of How to Embarrass an a International corporation a professor Lynd listed the dates of Spring stockholders meetings. He suggested that some demonstrators should a work from within the meeting a while others conducted a supporting actions at the plants owned by the target corporations and on the campuses to which they Send their the Campus protests could make propagandist in capital by showing that the a a universities Are deeply involved in War through their Stock if this is the Best that Staughton Lynd can come up with i think his career As Field marshal of the revolution is just about Over. He wants to make Clear to Quot the general electric stockholders meeting in Beverly Hills that the a a people Are very much against gets a Imperial however the be stockholders have other things than get War activity to worry about these Days. Tile company has been put through the wringer in a Long strike and it is much More concerned about recouping its Domestic consumer markets than it is about a War what Staughton Lynd does not know is that layoffs in the so called aerospace industries Are Well under Way. Workers Are now worried about their jobs and stockholders want to see profitable Domestic production picking up where War connected activities Are tapering off. As for Wall Street it is totally weary of the War which is blamed for inflation onerous business taxes the High Cost of investment Money and the Low estate of the Dow Jones average. All Staughton Lynd will get from stockholders for his a marxist Leninist analysis is a great big Yawn. Nixon and Cabinet Fly to Midwest Indianapolis ind. Up a president Nixon and his a flying White House flew to the Midwest today for two Days of conferences with mayors and governors on crime prevention and pollution. The presidential party including mrs. Nixon and 22 Cabinet members and top level advisers landed at Weir Cook municipal Airport in Damp Chilly weather. Too gov. Edgar Whitcomb and Indianapolis mayor Richard g. Lugar were on hand to Welcome Nixon to Indianapolis where he was to Confer with mayors of nine Middle sized cities from across the nation. Lugar said in Advance a some very articulate mayors May suggest to Nixon some safeguards to ensure that Federal Money from the Safe streets act a goes to the cities where the crime too Nixon and his party were to move on later today to Chicago for meetings with Midwest governors. Members of the presidential entourage make up two key Nixon advisory groups a the Urban affairs Council and the new Council on environmental Quality. Mrs. Nixon also went along and had a separate schedule of visits to Volunteer welfare agencies and pollution control projects. Postpone vote on nomination Washington up a the Senate judiciary committee today postponed for at least la Days a vote on the supreme court nomination of judge g. Harrold Carswell. Sen. Joseph Tydings a Mcl blocked committee action on Cardwell by exercising a members privilege to delay a vote on an Issue by a week. Since the Senate will be recessing tuesday for a Lincoln Day vacation that would put off until at least feb. 16 the Date for the next possible session to consider the nomination. In another development. Sen. Charles Goodell of new York became the first Republican senator to declare his opposition to cars Well s confirmation. Goodell announced in a statement he would vote against president Nixon a nominee because As a Federal judge Carswell a has demonstrated a Basic insensitivity to fundamental civil liberties issues which Are essential to our survival As one indivisible Cargill inc., will continue Scarff feed Hanoi accuses . Of strikes against by Paris up a Hanoi accused the United states today of resuming air strikes against North Vietnam and threatened unspecified a serious consequences. The . Delegate accused Hanoi of murdering two american prisoners and suggested North Vietnam was not even a civilized nation. The heated exchanges meant another Day of no Progress at the talks and belied us. Hopes the return of a communist official from Hanoi consultations would bring a new peace proposal. Too Deputy Hanoi negotiator a Van Lau who was leading his countries delegation during the continued Boycott of the talks by chief negotiator Xuan Thuy said More than 40 american planes bombed two Southern provinces on Jan. 28 and feb. 2. A the . Government must Bear full responsibility for whatever serious consequences Are brought about by its above mentioned acts a he said. The implied threat was that the communists would resume full scale activities in the demilitarized zone and the bombardment of Southern cities and towns. Cessation of such activities by North Vietnam was tacitly understood when the United states halted the bombing. Too by coincidence the . Command in Saigon reported today there had been a new attack on North vietnamese antiaircraft and missile Sites which had fired on unarmed u. S. Reconnaissance planes the 42nd such incident since the bomb halt. Ambassador Philip c. Habib acting Leader of the american delegation said the communist forces had recently executed two defenceless american prisoners in South Vietnam and called this a new shocking evidence that prisoners of War whom you hold Are subject to inhumane he said the execution Quot is unacceptable when measured against any Standard of civilized favor hiring to give cd firm plan Gary Williams chairman of the i a cd improvement program. Cost mayors special Central business District committee presented the committees recommendation for a study to the City Council wednesday night. The recommendation included a of the Lawrence proposal is in the amount of $7,500. Too Williams requested a joint meeting Between the Council and chamber Board to discuss the proposal from win s. Lawrence ways and Means of financing the presents $500 to Hospital from kiwanis club the last of three s500 checks Given by the it. Pleasant kiwanis club to the Henry county memorial Hospital is presented by or. I. Max Deal second from right treasurer of the club to Orville Allender chairman of the Hospital Hoard of trustees. Watching the presentation were Dave Carrick it Rii it president when the $1500 gift was approved two years ago l. W. Van Winkle immediate past president at extreme left and James Morrison president. The Hospital project is one of several of the kiwanis club made possible by the patronage at the clubs travel and adventure entertainments. Say soviets sending weapons to Egypt and associates inc., planning consultants of Chicago 111. To develop inc agrees to take control of Muscatine Bridge j Ames up a the Iowa Highway commission tentatively has a Recd to assume control of the Muscatine Bridge which spans the Mississippi River. The commission meeting wednesday set tile effective Date to take Over the responsibility on or before april i. 1970. The action was taken after the Muscatine Bridge commission a which has operated the Structure since 1057 told Highway commissioners there is a a creditability the it. Pleasant Board of Educ rap in the Community because the Board meets with school architect by up a Beirut newspaper reported today the soviets have begun a Large scale Airlift of weapons to Egypt in the past 72 hours most of them defensive to counter israeli air raids around Cairo. The be Jour report hit the streets Only hours after president Nixon lion met wednesday evening wit i the schools architect in executive session to discuss the school site and study. Several professional firms were interviewed by the cd committee and their decision in recommending the Lawrence firm was based on a the completeness and scope of the Lawrence proposal at a reasonable Cost a according to Williams. Too the main items that would be studied Uri Fler the cd proposal include land ase Survey of buying habits parking traffic flow improvements of physical structures and a general development plan. The presentation of the recommendation concluded the work of the special committee. Following Williams presentation mayor Charles Hanna and the Council expressed their appreciation and passed a motion dissolving the committee. Members included Leo Brail. De Walker Stan Hunsaker or. J. Stewart Jackson Morton Dodds and Williams. Tony Bentler of the City plan commission presented four recon implored the soviets to join in building program. No formal action limiting arms shipments to the Middle East and restated his Promise to Israel a was the need was scheduled a. commission had delayed the proposed takeover of the elderly Bridge. The commission Assumption of ownership and operation of the emendations made by the group to Bridge is part of a master plan to the Council for consideration. No was taken. Friday february 13th at 9 pm. Construct a new Structure under the immediate action was taken. Toll Bridge act passed by the 1967 legislature. A special meeting Date for discussions with the pro the commission recommended that the drive in Post office Box As if to justify sending weaponry fess ional relations committee of the to Egypt the soviet government newspaper Izvestia said the israelis it. Pleasant education association. The regular february Board meet h of Ever a District court ruling South of the Post office be moved slowed Down the commission action to near the Alley East of the Post because it stated that no funds from office tha parking meters be in the new left is breaking up for want of a unified mass base and Field marshal Lynd will shortly discover that his soldiers Are marching off in a score of different directions. The students for a democratic society have split up into the Weatherman faction the worker student Alliance the mad dogs the crazies the youth movement and heaven knows what else. And the big new thing on the campuses a and in the mass Media a is the a ecology a not a imperialism a is the study of the Day. Professor Lynd will have to recheck his premises when the Spring Campus protests stirred by senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin began to hit at the automobile companies not for their War related activities if an but for their failure to provide smog free internal combustion systems. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Cargill inc., Minneapolis based agricultural firm has purchased the business of Scarff produce amp fuel in it. Pleasant. Announcement that arrangements have been completed was made by John Seward Eastern Iowa regional manager nut Rena peed division of Cargill. The business will service nut Rena dealers in Southeast Iowa. The office and warehouse at 504 n. Main St. Will be used for the immediate future Clarence steams manager for mrs. Ray Scarff will continue As manager of the operation for Cargill. Louise Lauser will also be associated with the new operation. They will provide continued service for mrs. Be Arffa a fuel business from the same location. Cargill also operates soybean processing plants at Washington and Cedar rapids in Eastern Iowa As Well As seed com processing at Grinnell and it. Pleasant and wet Corn processing in Cedar rapids. Cargill a Hales and Hunter division operates feed plants at West Branch Greeley Reinbeck and Grinnell. The nut Rena feed division revolutionary Bas plants at Cedar rapids Centerville Rowan St. Ansgar and Cresco. Lovell to retire after april Moon trip Cape Kennedy up a americans third Moon Landing Mission in april will be the fourth and last spaceflight for Apollo 13 commander James e. Lovell. It also will make Lovell the first a age Bill give approval Des Moines up a legislation designed to extend voting privileges to 19-year-Olds, along with All other adult Legal rights has received final passage by the 63rd general Assembly. However before the proposed constitutional amendment could be presented to a vote of the Public it must also pass both bodies in the same form during the 64th general Assembly. Passage of the measure came wednesday after the Senate reversed itself and pulled Back an amendment we hich stipulated that 19-year-Olds also would be eligible for election to the Iowa House of representatives. The amendment was tacked onto the measure by the Senate last week. But the House in action wednesday refused to accept the amendment and sent it Back to the Senate for further consideration. After the Senate detached the amendment the full measure was considered again and approved on a 44-14 vote. Senate passage came following vigorous objections from democrats. Senate minority Leader an Drew Frommelt of Dubuque said if the House wanted to give 19-year-Olds full Legal rights then it should allow them to be elected to were planning a another round of ing will be wednesday feb. 18, at Fie primary Road fund could be used stalled on Madison Street Between Blitzkrieg so and were keeping the 7 30 Middle East a on the Edge of a big be Jour an anti communist newspaper quoted Eastern european sources that giant Antonov transports were Landing at egyptian airports at the rate of one every 30 minutes from Russia. The shipments did not include new Mig fighters As Egypt has requested the report said but instead new radar surface to air missiles and antiaircraft batteries to be Strung around Cairo. For this purpose. Jeferson and main that the zoning will manage Harrison s store act fully. Max Van Gorp assistant manager of Harrison a store at Knoxville has come Here to manage Harrison a store during Hie absence of manager de Walker. Walker who has been ill recently and is now convalescing at Iowa City expects to return Home soon to further recuperate. Van Gorp a native of Knoxville has been assistant manager of the store there the last year and one half. He and his wife and their two children Dean. 4, and Curtis two Irvin Jerrel reported to police at m0nths, expect to move to of 7 10 . Wednesday that a Tacho pleasant As soon As they can find reports theft of tachometer from car there is a measure pending in the of the old National guard armory legislature which is designed to Clear be changed from i to r2. And that up the problems raised by the court a 60 foot Street Between Green and Outing and would allow the commis Webster streets near Walnut be Sion to implement the toll Bridge sold. A Resolution was adopted by the Council authorizing the execution of a Grant agreement Between the Federal government and the City on the building of an Extension to the existing sanitary sewer system. Too final payment of $10,069.05 to the Central Texas Iron works of Waco. Tex. For the grandstand at Mcmillan Park was authorized. It was necessary to Transfer $3 too from the recreation fund to the Park Bond fund in order to make the payment. Too the flashing red lights on the meter had been taken from his 1965 Mustang parked behind panthers drug Between 5 and 7 10 p. In. Jerrels wife parked the car and went to work at the store. A two or three bedroom Home. Find parts of body of suspect in bombing Shaker Heights Ohio up a Martin brins was quiet and introverted. He rarely said hello failed school could not hold a Job. His parents said he reacted to adversity by withdrawing into a Shell. According to police berm is signs at the intersection of new dead the victim of his own bomb 2jg Anco 34 in East it. Pleasant will to assign attendants to 1-80 rest areas which destroyed the $800,000 municipal building of this fashionable Cleveland suburb. Parts of a body found in the rub be removed the Council decided until Spring when the wiring for them will be installed underground As requested by the Highway commission. Prisoner escapes from u. Hospitals Iowa City up a prisoner Orington Spencer Gardner 24, escaped from University hospitals Here Early today after being transferred for medical treatment. Gardner is serving time at fort Madison for robbery with aggravation. We wednesday matched Berea de t c a Schway common objected 1 sorption. His car was found 500 Ames up a admittedly Dis Lur bed by an increase in crime on feet away. Police said it contained Iowa interstate the Iowa Highway a machine gun two handguns four commission has Given the go ahead hand grenades and a a sufficient to a plan it believes will give More amount of Protection to motorists and travellers. The commission has decided that effective this coming june All in i Testate rest areas will be manned by uniformed unarmed attendants 24 hours a Day. To overhead wiring to the lights. The lights were in operation one Day. The flashing red licht on Winfield Avenue at the 218 intersection will continue to operate. A letter in agreement with the police removed a Large Box of explosives a carbine and some Muon from berm Home. Police Burlington plight station for pm chief Carl Longstreet said Bema a Quot a tor he my., a j Airport was approved and signed by knew about explosives. He said t Hie mayor. It involves safety measures. Man to return to the Moon and it the 1 it wer chamber. Will give him a total of 34 Days in Gen Gene g Enn d.0ttumwa, space a an individual world 1 ecord. J Gai j pr0p0se j constitutional a a there a a lot of people in the am no Ament was a an example of program who want to Fly but have a a publican chicanery at its height not flown yet and i think i pc had n a Pian to defraud and trick More than my share a Lovell said voters of Iowa and ultimately terse verse by a. C. Gordon a pull yourself together As Best you can Seldom is bespoke to one who can. Of. Vernon rur Cri Man Dies in fire mount Vernon up a Wallace Lyon of Rural mount Vernon died this morning in a fire that swept through his Home. Officials said the House was apparently soldering most of the night but the fire was not discovered until about 7 a. In. By a passerby. The body was recovered about 8 . Fire destroyed the two Story Brick Home and. A barn located Only a Short distance away. Lyon believed to be in his Middle 50�?Ts, lived alone. At the conclusion of a three hour Moonwalk rehearsal wednesday. A this will be my last Lovell a Navy Captain who will be 42 next month will be the fifth Apollo commander to retire from space flying. Only Apollo 12 commander Charles a a Peter Conrad is actively seeking another Mission. Lovell Thomas k. Mattingly and Fred w. Haise Are scheduled to set out on their 10-Day expedition april la. Lovell and Haise Are scheduled to land in the Foothills of the Moon rugged Highlands at 2 16 . Est april 26 while Mattingly orbits nine Miles overhead. To disenfranchise the Young people of Glenn said republicans tacked on the amendment to give 19-year-Olds full adult rights As a Means of killing the proposal when it goes to the voters. Fat committee on drug Mcva police would reopen an investigation of a fire that destroyed a neighbors Home a month ago. A psychiatrist who had been treating be is 21, a former mental patient said he had a a passive aggressive personality a his feelings of anger and hostility All bottled up. Tin psychiatrist or. Irving Ros trip Eity treasurer was authorized to renew $70,000 in certificates of time Deposit from the sewer rental fund $10,000 from Public safety and $10,000 from recreation and to Cash in $10,000 from municipal enterprises. A number of routine matters were livestock lost in barn fire or. Paul Fite president of the Quot re. Dived. That it. Pleasant Community school Congress is state District parents teachers association announced today the formation of a . Committee on drug dependency. Authority to name this committee was Given in a motion passed by the membership at their january 19 meeting. Named chairman of the committee is the reverend Timothy h. Little protestant chaplain at m. H. I. Other committee member in the National branches districts councils and local units develop additional information programs to Alert both adults and youth to the serious dimensions of Hie dangers of fume sniffing and the use of stimulant and depressant drugs and. That the Naen was shot twice Only minutes before the municipal building three discussed including junked cars in blocks away As blown up monday eve it Ming. Rosen was in fair condition at a Hospital. Police suspect be is shot him. The municipal building which contained the police department courts and other offices was a total loss. Fifteen persons include residential areas. There is an ordinance against the latter. Would freeze property taxes for schools Des Moines up a a Bill designed to freeze local property tax levies for school District support has been introduced in the Iowa House. Rep. Norman Roorda r Mon fire late wednesday afternoon destroyed a barn and its contents elude Delmer c. Eggert m d., pay on the Albert elder farm three fourths of a mile Southeast of Primrose. The Donnellson fire department was called at 4 45, but tonal Congress and All it., divisions ing five policemen were injured. Institute studies of regulations Jne cled to control the distribution j sub to control 1 and Sale of these dangerous stances and work for enforcement of existing regulations that protect Chia Trist and clinical director at m. H. I. John l. Becker principal at Childre n and youth from the e a Saunders and pleasant Lawn Zards to their health and Well be schools Carolyn Castore and Todd approve regulations for snowmobiles when they arrived the Blaze was Mcbeth High school students jul out of control and the barn burned a Larsh 8th grader at the Junior to the ground. Lost in the fire were about 500 High school Allan Shook local businessman mrs. Richard i. Bales of Hay stored in the loft the j Mary Beth Young housewife anti milking parlor which contained a teacher and Joseph Foster Resi milking machine and cooler and Dent adviser Mckibbin Hall c. In naming the committee or. Des Moines it up 1 a tile Iowa Hou t today approved 93 23, a Liberal set of regulations for the state s newest fad a snowmobiles. The Bill now goes Back to the Senate because of a minor Amend 400 pounds of ground feed. Killed Roe the Bill a sponsor said the and in the fire were two milk cows and Fite noted that a a great number of Dit ional income for school districts a calf and 8 litters of pigs a total people in our Community Are deep would be raised by an income tax of 80 pigs. The local . Feels that it is Clear that its membership should give some serious study to this Issue in the Home Community. Or. Fite observed a we Are All pretty ignorant. In a sense we All need to do some Homework. I have appointed this special committee. To assist the . In accomplish greets county roads and highways. Back away from one City tax proposal Des Moines up a a special legislative committee studying optional taxes for cities and towns has backed away from a proposal which always require a local election before a special tax was imposed. Rep. Leonard Andersen r Sioux City said the a reverse options tax provision was dropped after considerable pressure from other legislators and the general Public. A reverse option arrangement would have allowed a City or town i by concerned about this Issue. The ing this task and offering ment added by the House. Under the measure snowmobile Council to impose a special tax by operators Are allowed to travel a ordinance. The tax would have Lone Highway ditches in slowed done a a a a natron Durn unless 5 per cent of the num itt Are and any hate lands approved by Ber of voters from the last general rather than a property tax. Under the Bill school districts elders. Franklin Mullen Donnell would be limited to a property tax son fire chief said cause of the the fire was discovered by the . Is especially interested in the vices responsibly to school officials. The Iowa conservation commission. Atter Long but Good natured de election petitioned in protest. Threat drug dependency poses to students parti and other com representatives fought Back Ader had proposed several safety tire Young people in oui schools. It groups. E ale a . Attempt to restrict snowmobiles provisions he said were necessary to pile Drew attention to a pol proud of the three Young people attempt to res r in of hit by the snowmobile Bug. Resulting in $360 per Pupil. Roorda Blaze was not known. The barn was m r said however his Bill would put no wired for electricity. The loss is icy statement of tire National Par who have accepted Respo Sibik it on 1 o limit on spending of any District. I partially covered by insurance Lent teacher association the la a in f a

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