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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 9, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 33mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening february 9, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain the Art of drying up information the Black panthers Are a fearsome Bunch and you can to blame the Federal government for taking extraordinary precautions to track Down every Little thing they Are saying and doing. But the More that one muses Over this business of using the Power of Federal subpoena to commandeer reporters notes and tapes bearing on the panthers activities the More shortsighted it must seem. Such an observation coming from a newspaper columnist who has been a reporter might be dismissed As self serving at least for his profession if not for himself. But the objection to publicly prying open the files of time Newsweek the new York times the Chicago daily news and the big broadcasting systems is not merely that a possible infringement of the first amendment the one that guarantees Freedom of the press is involved. In criminal cases where the life of a president is threatened or the identity of some brutal slayers is at Issue one would Hope that the news Media would not be finicky about offering at least silent cooperation with the secret service or the Fri. The real objection to subpoena ing records which necessarily involves considerable fanfare is that it promises to make the collection of information much More difficult in the future not Only for the newspapers but for everyone who relies on newspapers including the government itself. Too what is to be particularly feared is the effect on All sorts of people who have been led to believe that they Tell a reporter in Confidence will never be betrayed. And it is not Only reportorial Stool pigeons whether criminal themselves or not whose Mouths will be sealed by the fear that what goes into a reporters notebook May some Day be appropriated by j. Edgar Hoover. The thing cuts two ways government officials themselves will no longer be willing to serve As news sources even for reporters whose reputation for discretion is unquestioned. Who know the Power of the subpoena might even strike at the Fri the whole thing promises to dry up a give and take that maximizes what is known to society a bout the identity and the operations of criminals and near criminals. A secret tip from an Fri agent May enable a reporter to get something out of an informant who belongs let us say to the violent Weatherman faction of students for a democratic society. There would naturally be a playback in secret to the Fri agent. Sec. Rogers to meet with president Tito Rabat Morocco up a u. S. Sources said today arrangements were being made for a meeting later this week Between Secretary of state William p. Rogers and president Tito of Yugoslavia who also is touring Africa. The report came As Rogers wound up the first Stop on his 10-nation says budget will boost debt higher Washington up a president Nixon a new $200.8 billion budget although technically in balance will run the government at least $7.3 billion further in debt rep. George h. Mahon d-tex., said today. Mahon chairman of the House appropriations committee said the fact is that budgets for the current year and the previous year also pictured As a in the Black a a ran in the red. The total added deficit for the three year period. Mahon said runs about $19.9 billion. Mahon said the apparent Small surplus in Nixon a budget for fiscal 1971 a and that for the two previous years a results from a new accounting system under which income and expenditures by government Trust funds such As social Security Are lumped together with other government Revenue. In recent years the Trust funds have run substantial surpluses that. Were borrowed by other government funds and included in the National debt. Mahon said Nixon a projected $1.3 billion surplus is based on a number of assumptions some of which will not be borne out. However budget director Robert p. Mayo told Mahones committee a the 1971 budget is an anti inflationary budget. A prudent budget. As lean As we could make fill cast rehearses for a Mamet african Goodwill tour with talks in Rabat with King Hassan ii of Morocco. Rogers met with Hassan at lunch after morning sessions with foreign minister Abdelhadi Bou Taleb and prime minister Ahmed Lara i. The u. S. Official flies to Tunis tonight. Too the sources said indications were that efforts were being made to arrange a meeting Between Rogers and Tito a Leader of the so called Neutral nations bloc in Kenya. Of his talks with Bou Taleb Rogers said they were a very pleasant and constructive and added a we have few Rogers visit to Morocco has been diplomatically Correct in every aspect so far As protocol is concerned. However certain developments indicated Hassan had Felt it necessary to reestablish his credentials As an Arab Leader by giving Rogers no More Courtesy than he was entitled to by diplomatic protocol. Too u. S. Officials understood the necessity for the moroccan government to avoid making too great a show of its Friendship with the United states at a time when Hassan must demonstrate at Home As Well As throughout the Arab world that he stands firmly with the Arab front against Israel. Defense Secretary to visit Vietnam Washington it up it i Dent Nixon dispatched defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird to Viet pres fast the United states can continue to pull out. Nixon who met with Laird at Nam today for a top to Bottom look j the White House sunday said he at How Well the South vietnamese j wanted the Secretary a to follow up Are taking Over the War a and How j and go thoroughly into the areas _ of Vietnam nation a even More j thoroughly than he had done Laird and Gen. Earl g. Wheeler chairman of the joint chiefs of staff planned to leave on the 10-Day trip at 8 a. In. Est. New clash till forces from . Hearts in his work postmaster Fred. Brewer holds a Carton of some of the tens of thousands of Valentine mailings he receives every year about this time in Loveland Colo Valentines Are addressed to the postmaster to be remained with a Loveland postmark. He a got them from All 50 states and 25 foreign countries. The president declined to offer a personal evaluation of How the Vietnam nation Effort was going except to say it a a is making Prog Saigon up. For the fourth Ressy a new assessment of the War. Successive Day Allied troops clashed How Vrr was released today on today with North vietnamese forces Capitol hid by a House armed it Erv attempting to push into South Viet Ces subcommittee which visited i Nam from cambodian bases Mill i a a team month. Tary spokesmen said. Defense bests House acts to lift lid on lotteries see slowdown in . Without recession threat Iii be veil trial after Bingo seven killed in accidents a cheering thought on a snowy Day in february is the anticipation of the Happy show a a Mamet com and there would be a worthwhile ing in May. With that not so far disclosure in the news that remained just Short of betraying the source of the information. Society would Benefit from the whole process even though no Federal grand jury would get everything it needed to Start criminal prosecution. Thinking Back Over my own reportorial life i remember several instances where i received important information from people who by up seven persons were killed in traffic accidents this weekend in Iowa the latest a 65 year old Waterloo woman sunday afternoon. Mrs. Meryl Bertha Baird was killed in a three car collision at the Junction of u. S. G3 and Iowa 57 at the North Edge of Waterloo. She was a passenger in a car driven by her 69-year-old husband Clifton. Authorities said a car driven by Roger Kuhn to Ridgeway ran a Stop sign collided with the Baird a car and then struck another car. Kuhn was charged with failure to j Stop at a Stop sign. Helen Mae Schmidt 43, and Lillian Jones 72, both of Swea City were killed in a two car crash East of Swea City on Iowa 9 sunday afternoon. Larry d. Gladfelder 24, Moline 111., was killed when thrown from his car sunday morning when he lost control of it and it plunged Down an embankment six Miles West of Benton. Musical interludes Des Moines up a spirited debate on whether is an Idle pastime or an instrument of sin and corruption the Iowa # ii House today passed a measure which 01111110 Anfin Loov would take the constitutional prohibition off lotteries in Iowa. The proposal in the form of a constitutional amendment was passed 71-44. The 112-year-old Iowa Constitution currently forbids All lotteries in the state. A lottery is mint Burlington players work defined As a game of Chance. Shop cast. The the play will begin at 8 30 . In wednesday nights production of spoon River anthology will add musical interludes to Edgar Lee masters famous work. Guitarist Doug esty and Ginny Burrus will supple they said a . Patrol boat apparently trying to keep track of the infiltration strayed into Cambodia on the Mekong River thursday and j w As captured. Its five Man Crew i was arrested. Chicago up a the defense civilian irregular defense group. Fina in rested it9 Case and testimony cig mercenaries led by am ended today in the Marathon trial Crinan Green berets killed 15 com 0f seven men accused of conspiring a Quinist troops today in the renewed t0 incite Riols during the 1958 Washington a up the i grating on the Mekong Delta a democratic National convention. Economy is being slowed to combat Plain of Reeds near the cambodian in Hatton without the threat of a re Frontier cession in the View of three top j administration officials. Not so since fighting in the Region of wild marshes 60 Miles West of Sai after More than 20,000 pages of trial transcript and 193 witnesses the trial which began sept. 24 a a Lycra a Republican senator,"1111 h1�?orshes Miles West in Oai i geared to be Only a few Days away who warns the Economy May wind and a tax Miles from the can ibo from reaching the jury. Up with both. As originally proposed a a. The auditorium of the Iowa Wesley amendment would have Only allowed an Chapel building and is a Benefit for the heart fund. Delta Psi Bingo games to be conducted by charitable organizations or other House constitutional amendments 1 on of Phi Kappa Tau is sp��0�> committee recently amended the product la on. ,. ,., Edgar Lee masters had been a measure to allow future Legislatures 6 to set regulations on lotteries by fraternal or social groups. But the statute. That amendment passed by a voice vote. Dian Border began Friday night tile irregulars backed by heavy Allied air strikes have reported killing will discuss 117 North vietnamese soldiers. Military sources said the cig successful lawyer in Chicago for 24 years when his spoon River anthology appeared in 1915 and immedi irs e. Goodell r n. Y. Treasury Secretary David m. Kennedy said sunday the nation is expert icing an economic slowdown that Means a we will be Able to Stop this inflation without a re 0g 22 killed and 25 wounded in the cession. J actions. He won agreement from Paul w. _ Mccracken chairman of the coun j cil of economic advisers and Rob j Ert May budget Bureau director that a recession is not on the horizon. The optimistic assessment by government economic officials was challenged however by sen. Char Grain drying Community Chest annual meeting girl s Slacks Case settled lately rivalled Walt Whitman a leaves of grass As the most controversial volume in american literature. Masters wrote of a drunkards skin flints secret saints and private lecher dreamers and idealists he had known in his boyhood towns of Petersburg and Lewistown Arab states to liberate of espied areas a we just might find ourselves with rampant inflation at the end of this year and a full scale recession a he said. Decorah up a the Case of Illinois it 0n the spoon River. A ninth Grade student suspended could change basis for read work Cairo up a leaders of five states today ended their three Day a a War Council Quot with pledges to liberate israeli occupied territories. They blamed the United states for endangering peace in the Middle re we give operating tips Southeast Iowa Corn and soybean producers will meet thursday feb. 12th to hear i Arry Vanfossen Iowa state University Extension agr. Engineer discuss Corn and soybean drying and storage techniques according to Richard l. Thuma co. E tension director. The meeting will be held from 1 30 to 3 30 . In the Fellowship Hall of the it. Pleasant United methodist Church 309 no. Main Thuma reports. Or. Vanfossen will discuss How to avoid such problems As excess Kernel damage Over drying and spoilage of Corn and soybeans in the epitaph form which masters Des Goines up for multiple layer Batch in bin continuous flow and Batch drying of Corn and soybeans and will also Dis away Day in mind full cast rehearsals Start this week the principals of the cast Are already hard at work. Karen Owen choreographer for the show will be holding try outs for dancers on thursday at 430 ., in old main Iowa Wesleyan Campus. Professional training is not it a annual meeting of the it. A requirement for audition. Pleasant Community Chest will be a a Marne a joint production of held at 7 30 . Tuesday feb. To the Iowa Wesleyan opera work in the chamber of Commerce of were fully confident that i would i shop and the it. Pleasant com Hee. Them As sources. A Muity theatre draws on both col election of officers for the coming i lege and Community Talent for the year will be held and the regular Large cast of the Broadway smash business conducted at this quarterly East and the world. A Low keyed communique issued a Bill to after the final 30-minute session from North Winneshiek High school use in Revca no their secrets per i Gjyle Iowa commission. Urged All Arab nations to mobilize cuss factors to consider when sex for wearing Slacks to a wrestling Mit Tho dead men and women to Ltd j authority to construct or improve a All resources for the struggle against pending your Corn and soybean highways based upon economic Israel and attacked the United storage facilities Thuma announce nets sift rather than the highways states for its support of the jewish de today. Traffic count was approved today by stale the meeting is open to All Perth state Senate. The communique did not cover sons interested. There will be no the Bill passed 50. Was sent specific Points discussed by leaders registration fee or other charge. To the House for consideration. J of the so called a a frontline states the measure would allow the Egypt Jordan. Iraq Sudan and by from classes after the incident for interest in literary pursuits a been i Jwa devel it a m n. Commission to a. The meeting was called to co three Days but returned to school included on the out of town run of nuke to the ordinate military and political stint meet was dismissed today in District court and the school promised to revise its dress code. After a 10-minute hearing judge Joseph Keefe Decorah dismissed the Case of Edith Schnitzler 14, in nil Decorah. She was suspended hold by it. Pleasant because of it comment ironically on the words or symbols carved on their gravestones. The cast of the workshop has received outstanding commendations for their acting in spoon River an under a court order pending the the production the play was Kivon Highway commission on areas of egy Between the amb forces on the in Ottumwa saturday night and1 fort Madison will have it tonight. Tell preliminary plans for conference never name High official gave me information about Pearl Harbor that a year after i had received it and tipped publisher Henry Luce of time life off to it led my to governor Thomas Dewey of new York after a a Day. The governor who had been Defeated in 1914 by Franklin Roosevelt for the presidency corroborated the Story that an emissary from general George Marshall colonel Carter Clarke had effectively stopped his Mouth on the subject of Pearl Harbor during the political Campaign by telling him that the japanese code was involved. Marshall a Story to Dewey was that the japanese had never changed their code after we had broken it and that silence on the subject would remain a patriotic duty until after the War was Over. The Story i wrote for life just after a a Day was the first so far As i know to mention the code breaking. Maybe i helped Force the accurate writing of history. If he Man i got the information from in the first place had been worried about a possible subpoena he would never have said a Weld and i would never have known enough to ask Dewey about it. Reporters worried about the possible seizure of their notes could of course beat the rap by destroying them after using them As the basis for articles. But it is the effect of the subpoena on the person who is about to be interviewed that constitutes the biggest worry. Snowing that his identity might be hit. The cast in order of appearance includes Young Patrick Norman Bur Chard Agnes Gooch Becky Mccleary Vera Charles Anne Lee Scott Marne Dennis Kay Young Ralph Devine Ken Seibert m. Lindsay Woolley Jim Darling Ito Bob Hong Babcock Bob Eppard leading Man Andy Sconzo Madame bran Slowski Marilyn Mccoid Beauregard Burnside Richard Murphy Uncle Jeff Tom Owen Cousin fan Karen Mcfadden Sally Cato Ann Gaston Mother Burnside Marilyn Mahle Patrick grown Al Rodee Junior Babcock Terry Neil mrs. Upson Shirley Pence or. Upson Allan Johnson Gloria Upson Kini Mitchell Pegeen Mamie Baird Peter Dennis Danny Proctor Board meeting. Anyone who has contributed to the 1969 United fund drive is eligible and invited to attend and to 1 vote in the election. Hearing. At the hearing school Board officials announced the suspension had been rescinded and the part of the dress code pertaining to extracurricular activities under which the girl was suspended revoked. The officials also said they had asked the student body with the help of the students parents to formulate a new dress code. The girl is the daughter of or. And mrs. Milton Schnitzler Rural Decorah. The state where Highway repair or extern and Western fronts in the construction would promote a the Middle East. 1 comanic and social development of i the urgency of their task was in Washington do. A congressmen Fred Schwengel and the Continental acquires met Elpel of Bettendorf coins $40,000 Worth scattered in Street arraignment of . Official s son postponed Trenton . Up car cars damaged in collision on old 218 cars driven by Patricia e. But Raign ment was postponed today for f ing ton it. Pleasant and Deborah teenage son of new jerseys Selec d. Ingwerson Swedesburg collided Tive service director arrested Fri on old Highway 218 at the North Edge Day night in a drug raid. Of it. Pleasant at 6 15 . Sunday. J. L. Robb president of Superior Continental corporation Hickory n. C., has announced that its aleut company Continental Telephone corporation has acquired a majority interest in met Elpel inc. Of Bettendorf Iowa. Met Elpel is a reclaimer and processor of ferrous and non ferrous scrap Metal and a specialist in the mechanical separation of insulated wire and Cable scrap. Cd Erlind sunday by two israeli air John Kyi have released a tentative raids on Cairo a outskirts w hich rat schedule for the first and fourth William Avella 19, son of col. John Avella appeared in municipal court on charges of aiding and there were no injuries. Mrs. Buffington was headed North and attempted to turn in the Ross abetting a common nuisance. He j a aters drive when the northbound was among 18 persons Ai rested in a Ingwerson car collided with it. The raid on a $33,000 rented Home High. Rear of the Buffington 1967 where police said they confiscated Mercury was damaged an estimated marijuana hashish and pipes used $25q and the Leffy Side of the Inger japanese is spoken by 102 million persons. Disclosed to a Federal investigate smoke it. Avella who has been free on $100 Bond will be arraigned feb. 17. Reports photographic equipment missing son 1967 Dodge about $150. Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore investigated. Will admitted to probate Henry Goldstein Iowa Wesleyan professor notified police at 5 17 Little boy killed by Mother s dog St. Louis up a an 18-month-old boy was killed today when he was bitten by his mothers German Shepherd. Anthony Cliff was bitten in his crib at his Home in suburban Brentwood and was dead on arrival at St. Louis county Hospital police said he had been bitten about the face head and neck. The Mother Sharon told authorities that the dog went into Anthonys room after the door was mistakenly left open. Auburn mass. A up a several bags of coins a Worth More than $0,000�?emptied onto the Massachusetts Turnpike today when the Back door of a brinks armoured track opened Oil the superhighway. State police closed Down the eastbound Lane of the Turnpike and used Broom and Street cleaning machines to help recover the coins. Authorities $10,000 in coins was a a conservative a truck was disabled when it was hit in the Grill by a bag of coins As it fell from the armoured vehicle. Tied windows in their suburban Heliopolis meet inside and sent Shock Waves across the egyptian capital. Terse verse by a. Gordon by the time a lot of men Are skilled enough to break Par they have gotten much too old to follow the Ball that far. District Community officials conference to be held in Wasington do. On february 24th and 25th. Schwengel and Kyi said on tuesday february 24th. Representatives from the department of housing and Urban development will discuss water and sewer systems Urban renewal and Federal housing programs. Defer action again on l land i Purchase Iowa girl killed in snowmobile Accident tor or to a court the potential in photographic equipment valued at former would just Clam up. And $25 was taken from a basement everybody possibly including the room at the College Fri would be the poorer. Distributed by King features Syndicate the will of Dillon Bates has saturday that some of his j been admitted to probate at the courthouse and according to the suspend search for missing Iowa doctor spirit Lake up a a a 10 year old Spencer girl was killed sunday in a snowmobile Accident at the South end of we a Lake Okoboji. She was Man Beth Pearson daughter of or. And or Pearson. Authorities said the girl was would halt pull d into the engine of the Snow school Mobile she was operating after her Scarf became entangled in an engine Belt. Des Moines up a the log should not be construed As a a executive Council amidst a judgment of the Merit of an inst Cus Atanoos the legislature is trying tuition of higher Learned in Western to a pass the Buck a today deferred Low for the fourth time in a month to approve the Purchase of land in but four Western Iowa citizens Western Iowa for a fourth state including Republican reps. La University. I Verne Sci troeder of Mcclelland and on a unanimous vote the coun Lester Kuever of Atlantic said the Cit adopted a Resolution to defer the Council should approve the i it or Gerald land Purchase until the legislature Chase immediately. They said both acted on a pending Bill which the legislature and the Council establishment of the have had plenty of time to act already. Be the Battle of the Coral sea took t place May 7-8, 1942. Here. The coast guard said it had found a life jacket believed to have been the one or. William Armstrong said Audubon businessman Joseph Skelnar. Delray Beach Fla. Up terms his estate we As left to his the u. S. Coast guard said la e wife Ruth m. Bates who was saturday it was suspending the was wearing when the plane crash named executor search for a Marion Iowa Man tile will was drawn up june 24, missing since a private plane crash 1958. De in the Atlantic Friday night neared. And the straps were torn on the a hot. Armstrong was listed As presumed dead. The legislature last week. By a a the legislature appears to 1-1 margin adopted a Resolution trying to pass the Buck to you and asking the Council not to approve not go out on a Umb to kill the tile Purchase until funds were a thins All by itself Propri ated for construction of buildings for the school. Kuever making no Effort to the executive councils resold show his disgust Over the matter tion said the Council was merely said the Council and the legislature following the Legislatures directive have done a disservice to the town it also said its decision to further of Atlantic where the school would delay approval of the Purchase. Be located. _ j

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