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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 6, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Them pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 31mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening february 6, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain holding Nixon to a positive approach i am generally listed As a conservative columnist and though i think of myself primarily As a libertarian meaning that i favor a voluntary approach to solving our problems am willing to accept the description. At least it sets me apart from the liberals who always couple their proposed reforms with a demand that the government use the club of High tax compulsion to put them into effect. As a conservative however i am a bit puzzled by the attitude of some of my More pessimistic Brethren toward president Nixon a state of the Union speech. They assume that or. Nixon in urging that big sums of Money be allocated to such things As cleaning up pollution and training the unemployed in negotiable Job skills is making his goal of a balanced budget unattainable. The fact however is that the president has proposed to add something Here and take away something there. For my taste he does no to go far enough in taking Money away from numerous boondoggles. Too there is no sense in appropriating education Money to perpetuate bad methods of Reading instruction or to Force inter area school bussing on unwilling people in Defiance of the very words of the Law that says desegregation does not compel racial balance where it does not exist geographically. But the Nixon welfare plan while it could be negated by lax administrators dishonest and self serving social workers and pressure politics at the local Levels must if its terms Are enforced decrease the percentage of the non working poor. And the Nixon anti pollution crusade while it envisages the use of Federal funds does not preclude a big turnout by thousands of the private citizens and voluntary organizations to clean up our streets our Rivers our Countryside and the Circum ambient air. Job training has been ineffective largely because the original Sargent Shriver approach to the business Savoured too much of the civilian conservation Camps approach of the Nineteen thirties. On the other hand when the training was turned Over to the Ford motor company or to pan american world airways to pick a couple of big corporations at random it did work. Unless we Are prepared to say that nobody has a responsibility to train welfare cases to take jobs Nixon a critics should have stressed the positive elements of his plan. They could insist that he replace the present Breed of social workers who Are always trying to find excuses for keeping unemployed mothers from making Trade off deals which would allow some of them to take jobs while the rest look after the pre school children. And they could urge the president to come up with tax incentives that can lure the corporations into accepting and training the so called a hard cores cases. Finally they could insist that Congress in passing a a work or else Law define a Job suitability in the broadest possible terms As meaning any Job that would not be detrimental to the health of the Man or woman who is offered it. As for pollution control it must in the nature of things be a cooperative Effort. The Farmer must be convinced that if he puts Dot on his crops in situations that tend to Poison the land or the Rivers and lakes he will suffer a penalty. And the company that pours unhealthy rust or chemical residues into our streams or air must be put on its Mettle a and its Honor a to come up with pollution control devices or be subjected after a period to a smog or water contamination tax. Similarly with the Auto companies the Issue of a bad exhaust system or a defective Carburettor could be a reason for slapping a company with a Fine. My own Home town has announced that it will make the local anti litter Law much stiffer. This attitude multiplied Over the land Isnit going to Cost the Federal gov eminent anything. The Clear duty of conservatives it seems to me is to find voluntary ways of saving or. Nixon Money on his crusades not to throw cold water on the need for the crusades As such. If the Money can be saved the White House wont have to spend it even though Congress has appropriated it. # St j a is an important part of washing in Days gone by was the making of soap. This Home Craft is one of the eleven such demonstrations that visitors to the 1969 reunion saw in or near the antique machinery building. More than 1,000 bars of the soap were made and sold to visitors last year to take Home As souvenirs. Or. And mrs. Harold Rixe two of the Wayland group who had charge of the soap making tend one of the a a batches. The Craft exhibit will be increased this year. A Large tent will be erected to the South of the antique machinery building to House additional Craft activities. Austin car c to meet at threshers the National convention of the expansion of this phase of the show american Austin car club will be i it was mutually agreed that a tent held on the grounds of the Midwest old settlers and threshers this August 4th, 5th, and 6th. Approximately 200 people from across the country Are expected to participate and the Thresher Board has granted permission for the group to use the antique car building during the three Day event. Board members meeting wednesday evening authorized the printing of 125,000 handbills and the Purchase of 50,000 additional coloured brochures 75,000 membership buttons and 3,500 bumper stickers. Too year around camping fees were established. Campers will be charged $1.50 per Day without electricity and $2.00 with such a connection. It is anticipated that More use can be made of the camping grounds to accommodate campers at times of the year other than during the reunion period. Members of the country Kitchen committee were present and discussed possible changes and improvements that might be made in this attraction. Too after discussing with members of the crafts committee the possible will be secured this year to accommodate additional displays. The tent will be placed just outside the South door of the antique machinery building making it adjacent to the present exhibit area. Plans and estimates Are being secured for a new restroom to be located on the South part of the camping grounds. A report of the findings will be presented at the March Board meeting. Too the old Thresher Board members appreciate the Many hours of time Given by volunteers each year and welcomes the interest and desire of a a new volunteers who would like to become a a involved in some Way by donating their services to help old threshers both before the reunion and during the five Days of the show. Through publicity to be released periodically in the months to come a list of ways volunteers can be helpful will be made known. Those interested will be invited to drop a line to mrs. Sam Ewart who will maintain a card file and make such information available to the Board when specific services Are needed. Commanders order troops Back to War Saigon up a Allied commanders ordered their troops Back to the War today at the end of a 24-hour Allied cease fire marred by at least 120 communist initiated incidents. The one Day tet truce observed by u. S. And South vietnamese forces ended at 6 . 5 a. In. Esti. An overlapping four Day Viet Cong cease fire is scheduled to continue until 7 . Monday 6 . Est sunday the . Command said 90 truce violations during the first 18 hours of the Allied truce killed three americans and wounded 118 others. They said More than 115 communist troops were killed. Too South vietnamese spokesmen reported 30 communist initiated incidents against their troops and civilians during the first 21 hours of the Allied truce. The attacks killed four South vietnamese and wounded 46 others spokesmen said. In the worst violation of this years cease fire troops of the South vietnamese 1st infantry division battled a communist Force this morning three Miles South of the Doz spokesmen said. Too the government soldiers backed by mortar and artillery fire killed 45 communist soldiers Field reports said. South vietnamese casualties were not available. Shortly before Midnight thursday communist troops firing rocket propelled grenades and throwing hand grenades and Satchel charges assaulted the american Green Beret Camp at a Xoai three Miles from the cambodian Border and 120 Miles Southwest of Saigon the u. S. Command said. No rail shutdown before february 21 Washington up ii a there will be no nationwide rail shutdown until at least Fob. 21 but the threat of Union strike action and Carrier retaliation in the form of an Industry wide lockout on or after Washington a birthday remains very serious. The chief negotiators for both sides promised thursday in telegrams to labor Secretary George p. Shultz that they would continue contract talks through the Date a regardless of the outcome of pending court Israel Egypt air conflict escalated by up israeli jets bombed and Ark a 700-ton egyptian mine layer in the Imago display smog on for Nixon Chicago up a pre ident in the nation. A which is first Quot he Nixon touring the nations heart .-.keel. Told it was new York Cali kind to find weapons against pol wornian Nixon commented a i guess int son got a first hand look at its los Angeles on certain red sea today hours after Egypt Chicago ask delay of land Purchase Des Moines up a the Iowa Senate thursday approved on a voice vote a Resolution asking the state executive Council to withhold its approval of the land Purchase in Western Iowa for a fourth state University. The Resolution which has no Legal effect requests the Council delay its routine approval until the Iowa legislature appropriates funds for building construction. The House approved the same Resolution earlier this week. Matter of economics for institutions Des Moines up a representatives of churches colleges and hospitals thursday voiced an property Back on tax Rolls. Tick rated opposition to a Bill which would put their presently exempt at a Public hearing on the Bill sponsored by rep. Maurice Van Nostrand a Avoca All gave the same reason for opposing the Bill. It simply would Cost too much they said. Too legislators also heard comments from Des Moines and Ames officials about hardships the cities Are facing because of Large amounts of tax exempt property within their corporate limits. Although churches governmental agencies hospitals and fraternal organizations do not have to pay property taxes the cities still must provide them with Standard and expensive services. Figures for Des Moines indicated that Van Nostrandt a Bill if passed would place More than $33 million Worth of property on tax Rolls and relieve Many of the financial burdens on the City. But representatives from the tax exempt sector contested its not a question of right or wrong but rather economics which must be considered. A Many hospitals Are in desperate financial Straits now and if we were taxed wed have to raise our patient charges even higher a said a spokesman for the Iowa Hospital association. Tian frogman reported they Sank two israeli ships in the israeli Harbor of Elat an israeli military spokesman reported in Tel Aviv. The conflict Between Israel and Egypt escalated sharply in the air too. Israeli jets bombed Ami strafed egyptian Suez canal position for six hours in a massive attack and sent two bombing attacks deep inside Egypt. Egyptian jets struck the israeli held Sinai Peninsula. Tile israeli spokesman said the egyptian mine layer was caught cruising of Hughda Egypt a main naval base on the red sea identified it As a soviet made Type mine layer. In cd today and said he about 400 persons Many of them would anon Nee tuesday a $10 Bil school children excused from school. Hon program a to bring pure water Back to the tile present was greeted with a typical morning exhibition of fog and smoke Over Chicago when he turned out Early to visit a Model sewage Plant 30 Miles from Chicago Sloop Ile hurried Back to a closed meeting on pollution with four midwestern governors co Mem my a i never thought before Chicago had so Ile i much of a problem. It reminded t43 me of los greeted Nixon when he alighted from his Brief flight to the sewage Plant. $10,000 gift to Wesleyan announced fourth arrest in Miner murder Case Cleveland up a Annette l. Gilly who refused a Chance to testify against her husband now stands accused with him in the murder of rebel United mine workers Leader Joseph a. A a Jock Yablonski. Mrs. Gilly 29, a tall slim blonde. Was indicted for conspiracy thursday by the same Federal grand jury which indicted her husband and two other men a week earlier. A . Commissioner ordered mrs. Gilly jailed on $250,000 Bond on Federal charges of interfering with the rights of a Union member by Force or violence obstruction of Justice and conspiring with others to interfere with the rights of a Union member by Force or violence. The widow of an Iowa Wesleyan i College alumnus has Given Wesleyan $10,000 to establish a pre medical scholarship in memory of her husband. Mrs. Marjorie Throop Calhoun Lincoln. Nebr., made the gift to the which the Federal government College s endowment fund for is Nixon said that before he wound up his two Day a fixing White House tour of the Midwest today he would make a statement outlining a five year program under tables Ament of the Orange Van Calhoun memorial scholarship to assist inc students preparing to enter medical school. The scholarship will provide $400 annually for a Junior or senior 42 school buses damaged by explosion says adults taking drugs too Grinnell up a the director of a san Francisco medical clinic said thursday night youth today Are not taking any More drugs than their parents do. Or. David Smith of the Haight Ashbury medical clinic speaking at a Grinnell College drug conference said the Quantity of Tranquili Zers caffeine diet pills and alcohol consumed by adults rivals the amount of drugs Young people take. He also said that in the last to years Many youths have switched from alcohol which he regards As a dangerous drug to marijuana and in some cases barbiturates and heroin. However he said the Overall level of drug use by Young people has remained constant. A society arbitrarily selects certain drugs and Calls them Legal a said Smith. He added a drugs legality or illegality bears Little relationship to its actual physical danger. Smith spoke in the concluding session of a two Day symposium on drugs held by Grinnell College. T and a Bonus program monday ticket holders to the kiwanis sponsored travel and adventure in Tai ments will be enjoying a a a free program next monday evening at 7 30 at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel. This number is one of two Bonus programs added after the tickets had been sold for the Normal six program series. The club found that it could obtain the two Bonus programs and made them available without additional charge. This one will be brought by Leroy Crooks known to local audiences who will Tell a Story in narration and color pictures of Ontario Canada. Denver up a deliberately planted explosives ripped through a school bus parking lot thursday night triggering a Blaze that destroyed or damaged 42 school buses. The explosives were planted under gasoline tanks and one fire official who did not wish to be identified speculated the incident was related to a current Denver controversy concerning integration by busing. A forty two buses were damaged of which 22 were totally destroyed a said acting fire chief Dan Cronin. A a in a estimate the damages at around a half million dollars. A forty firemen battled the Blaze for Over half an hour before they put it out a he said. Students meet Iowa Wesleyan students in a general meeting thursday evening discussed Many phases of the incident at Hershey Hall last Friday Dight. Iowa s Ben Jensen Dies in Washington Washington up a former rep. Ben f. Jensen a Iowa one of five congressmen wounded in a 1954 shooting spree from the House gallery by puerto rican radicals died thursday. Jensen who recovered from his wounds and served la More years from Iowa a 7th District before retiring in 1965, died of cancer at George Washington University Hospital. He was 77, adult education registration time schedule second trial for stump recommend overhaul of penal system would be Able to help fund every sewage treatment Plant in the nation a to blin.�?T, pure water Back to the too Nixon had indicated in his state of the Union address that he would ask Congress for a $10 billion pro pre medical student to be chosen by rain for new sewage plants. He told the colleges biology department porters today he would spell out the first award will be for the 1970-the program in a message to con 71 academic year press tuesday. Orange Van Calhorn m. D., Grad the president accompanied by rated from Iowa Wesleyan in the the bulk of his Cabinet was on a class of 1926. He was a student of flying trip through Indianapolis a late or. Harry e. Jaques for which he visited thursday and Many years head of the department Chicago to find first hand what the of biology. Or. Calhoun attended people in the heartland think should the John Hopkins University school be done about such problems As pol 0f Public health 1926 1927 and re endorse schooling of 4-year Olds lotion crime and Urban distress. A we tend to talk too much Washington Quot he commented. Des Moines up a the education of 4-year-Olds in pre kindergarten programs financed by Cei Ved his m d. Degree from West in j pm Reserve University in 1932. From 1933 to his death he practice Medicine in Lincoln. He was a member of the Iowa Wesleyan College Board of trustees from 1947- 1953. Ile was up Bright and Early today to visit Chicago s sewage Plant in Hanover 111., one of the most Modem in the world. But it. Was not a it inc vile Piuggi Juo Bright morning. An overcast Hung i mrs. Calhoun is the daughter of the state kit Tendance optional i Ever Chicago and the Cloud ceiling j Frank Dwight Throop a 1899 Iowa was endorsed by tile Iowa state was Only >00 feet. Education association it Isea Nixon was told Chicago has the thursday at its convention Here. Second worst air pollution problem Wesleyan graduate who was editor and publisher of the Lincoln Nebraska Star and vice president of the Lee Syndicate of newspapers. He was a trustee of Iowa Wesleyan College from 1925-1944 and was honoured by Wesleyan with an honorary . In 1938. Des Moines up county District court said today it has scheduled the second trial for Ronald m. Stump for feb. 16. Stump a University of Iowa Phi Beta Kappa graduate was convicted in 1961 of the slaying of a Young Des Moines Man but his conviction extended registration for Iowa was overturned in 1968 by the 8th Wesleyan a adult education classes u g circuit court of appeals in St. Des Moines up a a sweeping overhaul of Iowa a penal system and correctional facilities is the latest recommendation of the governors Economy committee. In a report released thursday the task Force of business executives recommended the elimination of Iowa a county jails in lieu of area correctional facilities. The Economy committee also urged the state to eliminate the women a reformatory at Rockwell City and phase out the Iowa menus reformatory at Ana most. Gov. Robert d. Ray said Iowa would save about $10 million by changing the menus reformatory to a classification Center for Public offenders and Selling the Rockwell City facility and several pieces of farm land and livestock. In addition the state stands to gain about $900,000 annually which would be spent to run the menus and women a reformatories. But perhaps the most important area of the Economy report direct the Polk by affects Iowa a counties. The Economy report suggested taking the counties out of the jail business and freeing untold millions of dollars which we Ould have been used to maintain repair or construct adequate jails. Pastors of newly organized congregation Here announced the Rev. And mrs. Grover Senf musical programs for organizations in the surrounding arca. They also have held services at the Iowa state prison in it. Madison where the Rev. Or. Senf has ministered to the inmates. The Senf family pastor of the Calvary first Assem was featured in a Story in tile a i had been Able to received a scholar Bly of god Church in it. Madison Tiona Magazine of the assemblies j ship to the John Hopkins school of for the past five years. He formerly of god tile evangel. Have accepted a Call to become pastors of the newly organizing congregation of the it. Pleasant Assembly of god Church. The Rev. Or. Senf has served As mrs. Calhoun said she wished to establish a memorial for her husband which would enable other students to follow7 in his profession and to recognize the fact that while he was at Iowa Wesleyan he was a pastor at Farmington where he also pioneered a new congregation and was instrumental in building the Assembly of god Church building there. The Iowa District of the assemblies of god is sponsoring the new Church being planned for it. Pleasant. A two acre plot of ground has been purchased on South Street and ground breaking is scheduled for Spring. Services Are presently being conducted at the it. Pleasant Library. Rev. And mrs. Senf have two sons David in the Navy in san they conducted a weekly radio broadcast from Kugi in it. Madison during 1965. A similar Board ast is being planned in the near future to be programmed Over Kugi in it. Pleasant. The Rev. Or. Senf has been Active in evangelistic work and in children s meetings. He was the speaker for the Iowa District boys and girls Camp in 1969, at the assemblies of god Camp grounds in storm Lake. The assemblies of god is the largest pentecostal denomination Diego calif., and Timothy who is Iii the world. With a Strong mis minister of music at the Calvary first Assembly of god in it. Madison and five daughters mrs. Bonita Poe of Minneapolis minn., Melody a freshman at evangel College in Springfield. Mo., Nancy sinary emphasis they support Over 900 missionaries upon the foreign Fields and rank first in number of foreign Bible schools. The establishment of new churches in the Usa is planned Public health. Or. Louis a. Haselmayer inc president said the College is grateful to mrs. Calhoun for this generous addition to the existing endowed scholarships. A this is the first such scholarship to Aid pre medical education at Iowa Wesleyan. The College has Over the years sent a regular number of graduates to medical school who have distinguished themselves later in medical practice and medical education. We know that the Orange Van Calhoun memorial scholarship will enable Iowa Wesleyan to expand its program in this discipline a or. Hasel Meyer said. Will be held in the colleges student Union saturday morning at 8. Eleven 3-hour courses Are being offered on saturday mornings at Wesleyan with the program running through May 23. Courses offered Are introduction to Art educational psychology health and physical education in the elementary school Art in the Home household equipment Home economic general psychology psychology of adolescence history of . Since 1877, workshop in audio visual materials fundamentals of number systems and new testament religions Litera Ture and culture. Louis which ordered Polk county to retry him or set him free. Stump now 28, is free on a $25,-000 Bond after serving five years of an 85-year prison term for the death of Michael Daley in what was described at the time As a love Triangle. Stump is listed As a graduate student at the University of Iowa. Barbara and Susan at Home. The and sponsored by District officials Senf family has presented Many of the assemblies of god. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon the Quality of stubbornness contains its helpful Streak you always know just what you la think the following next week. Old armory zoning will revert to re in the account of the City Council meeting in thursdays news it was stated that a recommendation was Given by the planning commission to change the zoning of the old armory from re to r-2. This was incorrect. The planning commission has studied the zoning ordinance and in accordance with the ordinance the old armory will revert Back to re. Japan surrendered aug. 14, 1945, ending world War ii. May now pay property taxes Arnold Lindeen county treasurer announces that property taxes Are now payable at the county treasurers office. Obtaining of figures from other counties and applying villages to the valuations of the respective pieces of property delayed the completion of the books by the county auditor. They have now been completed and the treasurer is ready to accept payments. First half taxes will become delinquent on May a 1970. The Rev. And mrs. Grover Senf makes last trip As mail Carrier Gilbert s. Cantwell it. Pleasant Rural route four mail Carrier made his concluding trip As a mail Carrier Friday before his retirement. He has served with the postal department for Over 39 years first in the Post office and later on the Rural route

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