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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 16, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa R the it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 39 these Days by John Chamberlain desperation tactics and the Viet Cong when Tran Quoc Buu the president of the vietnamese confederation of labor was in the u. S. At the end of 1969, he tried to get it across to some of our Dove senators that the communist Viet Cong had no intention of living peacefully in a a coalition with non communist elements of South vietnamese society. The vietnamese labor Leader who had been in a coalition movement with the communists Back in 1946 and had barely escaped with life had Little Success in endeavours to explain the obvious to the likes of senators Fulbright and Mcgovern so the latest communique from Tran Quoc Buuts office in Saigon which adds a footnote to the Story of the Viet congas total Lack of concern for Ordinary people would presumably have no effect on the Fulbright and the Mcgovern even if they could be brought to read it. Nevertheless Tran Quoc Buuts recent message to me from own fighting front in South Vietnam is Worth passing along. The vietnamese labor movement like the Al Cio in the ., is not an of the government. Its concern is with the 450,000 members it in textile Oil transport and tenant farm unions. The Viet Cong should sympathize with Tran Quoc Buuts which is to improve the lot of workers and peasants. But in spite of the a Tough tsp of the matter the Viet Cong seized the Opportunity during a Power failure on the night of january 16, 1970, to blow up the vietnamese confederation of labors office at a lat in Tuyen due province with the intention not Only of wrecking the Trade Union Center but also of killing the family of Vul Van Loi the Cut provincial representative who had an apartment in the upper Story of the building. It. Pleasant Iowa monday evening february 16, 1970 bn33l Price to cent . Council works Tow Ard fund drive nine take oath in local National guard unit nine men were sworn in As new members of the local National guard units during Tho weekend Drill saturday and sunday at the local guard armory. Pictured from left to right Leon Schau Stanley roller Harry Westfall Marl a Wilson Michael Roach Larry Herg Larry Unne Brink and Mike Schinstock. Captan Larry la in pc company commander is shown administering the oath. Harold Myers ninth member of the group was not present when the picture was taken. Committee backs Carswell Washington up a tile Senate judiciary committee today approved the nomination of judge g. Harrold Carswell to be a supreme court Justice. The committee voted 12 to 4 to Send president Nixon a second Selec tion for the High court vacancy to the floor where after also getting Public drug meeting tonight in . Gym those in charge Call attention again to the Pat sponsored Public meeting to discuss the local drug problem to be held this monday evening at eight o clock in Cottrell gym. Note that the place is the gym As first announced. A later announcement stated that the Tell plans for uniting nine churches up Church officials have made Public detailed plans for uniting nine Haynsworth was rejected last december. May pressure to hold wage Price line the dynamite no of tile Cut office injured two adults and five children. Naturally the senselessness of the outrage Hurt the Viet congas own cause in Tuyen due province. The local people know that the Cut maintained Complete Independence of political parties churches and governments it even endured persecutions at times rather than become a subservient Pawn of any organization. Just who was being a a liberated from what by the dynamite no is a question that must have left most of the people in Tuyen due scratching their Heads. The Cut s own theory is that the communists in South Vietnam Are gambling everything on keeping workers and peasants in a general state of poverty and ignorance so that they May be exploited More easily by Viet Cong agents. The willingness to carry a atrocity As strategy to such lengths As dynamite no a Trade Union building shows How desperate the Viet Cong a Econe too senator Mcgovern the one extreme Dove who seems concerned that a blood Bath might follow a communist take Over in South Vietnam proposed that anticommunist labor leaders such As Tran Quoc Buu should be helped to emigrate once a a coalition government been installed in Saigon. But Why a a coalition now that the Viet Cong been reduced to desperation tactics wily not turn this emigration business around Vicente Villamin a knowledgeable filipino journalist reports there Are proofs that a the Viet songs want or could be induced to emigrate to North Vietnam to live under the communist Senor Villamin puts proportion up to h. Ross Perot the Dallas Texas billionaire who wants to do something for american War prisoners in North Vietnam. It would Cost about $150 million to move and resettle 200,000 hard Core Viet Cong in places of their own choosing North of the demilitarized zone or Doz. This amount is just about equal to the Cost to the u. S. Of waging War in Vietnam for two Days. Washington up a chair Man Paul w. Mccracken of pres id ent Nixon a Council of economic advisers hinted today that the administration had decided to use some of its authority to a induced labor and management to hold Down wages and prices. Mccracken said in testimony before the House Semate joint economic committee that the governments anti inflation policies had already slowed the Pace of the Economy. He added a now that a marked change in Market conditions been brought about it becomes increasingly important to assure that business and labor respond to them in making Price and wage decisions. A we intend to watch this response closely and use what instruments the government possesses to encourage and induce the needed committee action on the nearly month old appointment had been delayed both by opposition forces seeking to establish that the 50-year-old Federal Jurist had showed racial Bias in decisions and by infighting Over proposed electoral Reform. Too voting against the Carswell nomination a either in person or by Telephone a were Sens. Philip a. Hart d-Mich., Edward m. Kennedy a mass a Birch Bayh. D-ind., and Joseph d. Tydings. Did. Voting for Carswell were Eastland Sens. John l. Mcclellan. Dark. Sam j. Ervin jr., . Thomas j Dodd a Conn. Quentin n. Burdick . Robert c. Byrd d-w.va., roman l. Hruska a neb. Hiram l. Fong a Hawaii Hugh Scott a a. Charles Mcc. Mathias jr., red. And Robert p. Griffin. A Mich. Sen. Marlowe e. Cook r-ky., abstained but obtained permission to vote later in the Day. Purposes this evening. Committee approval. Clement f. Meeting would be in the High school Protestant denominations i auditorium but the auditorium had a single Church representing been engaged previously for other More than 25 million members a third of american protestantism. The new Church which would become official if As few As two of the nine churches approve the plan after All have voted on it will be called a Church of Christ officials said the name was chosen to emphasize that although the proposed merger is the largest in history it is just the first step toward More far reaching Christian reunion. S. Vietnamese h a be Success Saigon up a South vietnamese forces closed out one of their most successful operations of the year monday killing a reported 260 enemy troops in five Days of fighting 350 Miles Northeast of Saigon. Two More Helicopters were shot Down elsewhere and one crewman was killed. Military sources reporting details of the five Day Battle near the City of Hao an near the South China sea coast said South vietnamese losses were eight men killed and 19 wounded. Hijacks plane carrying 104 to Cuba Miami up a a Man claiming to have a bomb hijacked an Eastern airlines flight with 104 persons aboard to Cuba today. The flight from Newark n.j., to Miami was interrupted by a terse radio message from the Pilot at 12 06 . The Federal aviation administration said the Pilot headed the Jet for Cuba from position 35,000 feet up and 150 Miles East of Jacksonville. It was the first us. Hijacking since dec. 26. The Pilot reported 96 passengers seven Crew members and one company employee aboard the Jet. Raid c. Jct. Legion Hall Columbus Junction up a the commander of the american legion Post Here was charged with Selling Beer on sunday and Possession of gambling equipment after state liquor control agents and local authorities raided the legion Hall sunday. Louisa county sheriff Ralph Mcdowell said office was called to assist in the raid which resulted in the arrest of Marvin l. Hamilton Columbus Junction. He was released on $5,000 Bond Mcdowell said. Mcdowell said several other persons were present in the legion Hall at the time of the raid but no other arrests were made. Injured in collision on Burlington Bridge Burlington a police investigated a head on collision on Macarthur Bridge at 11 44 . Friday. They said the vehicles driven by Ivan Laverne Bennett 25, Oquawka a 111., and Theodore Albert Schinstock 22, Salem it. I Houghton collided. Bennett was taken to Burlington memorial Hospital with face lacerations and a dislocated hip. Schinstock was examined and dismissed. Bennett was strapped in totally wrecked vehicle and had to be freed by persons on the scene. He was westbound on the Bridge police said and Schinstock was eastbound. The plan is the product of eight years of discussion and negotiation among official representatives of the United methodist Church episcopal Church United presbyterian Church United Church of Christ african methodist episcopal Church african methodist episcopal Zion Church Christian methodist episcopal Church the Christian Church of disciples and the Southern presbyterian Church. Too the plan of Union states that the new Church Quot will neither show nor permit discrimination of any kind on grounds of race. Although a wide variety of forms of worship will be permitted the entire Church will observe the sacraments of baptism and holy communion. Ordained ministers of the merging denominations will become ministers of the new Church automatically without re ordination. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon we should All Exchange our problems with the other Fellows everybody knows the answers to the other Fellows. Area citizens Over five and a half counties met thursday night and assumed Basic responsibility to form a consulting commission which will advise the Council Board regarding procedures for an impending capital fund Campaign. Edward w Dailey was appointed chairman of the group and James m Adams was selected As vice chairman. Both Are Burlington attorneys. The meeting was presided Over by mrs. Adams president of the Council who issued the Challenge to tile assembled group of men and women present to a give us your Best advice and mrs. Gary Smith vice president of tile Council gave a Brief explanation on a what is girl scouting a followed by the Story of Camp a Keeta in color slides presented by mrs. William Kuepper. E. A. Hicklin Wapello gave an explanation of the development program and needs including architects conceptions of the needed facilities on the site. Hicklin also reviewed the processes which had already been accomplished by the profits from girl scout cookie sales a but explained that it would take 25 years to provide these facilities at the present rate. The fund Raiser from the National staff of the girl scouts of the .a., j. C. Grimes explained the process it takes to have the citizenry properly prepared to conduct a capital fund drive of the proportions the Council assumes. I s. Adams announced that three committees would be immediately needed to continue the work of the commission. One committee will investigate possible professional fund raising firms another the possibilities of Large gifts from foundations and corporations and a third will prepare for a dinner of a newly formed citizens advisory group on May 14. Those who have accepted membership on the consulting commission Are e. A. Hayes it. Pleasant Logan Huiskamp Donald Baustian and Jenkins Kiedaisch Keokuk Gary Cameron Thomas c. Holmquist and or. Gene Egli Fairfield George Benner Donnell son Montrose Merlin Heilman Houghton Thomas Schulte and Kenneth Aspelmeier Mediapolis Paul Schmeiser Carman and Lyman fort Stronghurst for Hen Derson county e. A. Hicklin Wapello John Mccaulley Oakville Thomas Perry Columbus Junction Leroy k. Pierce morning Sun and the following persons from Burlington Edward Dailey Robert Baker Frederick Leopold James Adams Douglas Grin die. Chaplets l. Cooper Donald Allgood Raph Eklund Phillip Paule w. F. Swinger Whit Neihaus jr., Jack l. Archer William w. Hopkins w. D schnirring Donald Kahn Art Hazell Ronald larson., Walter Funck Robert Ahrold and William Kuepper Camp development committee chairman and Donald e. Chicken West Burlington. Hillsboro couple killed at crossing Edward e. Deao 66. Hillsboro and wife Lola were killed instantly at 11 10 . Monday when the car in which they were Riding was struck by an eastbound freight train at expect 350 at Junior High band festival it. Pleasant will be Hast to tile annual Junior High band festival to be held in the Cottrell gym tuesday March 17. The participating schools Are mid Prairie Washington and it. Pleasant. This is one of the oldest Junior High festivals in the state. The Parsonville Grade crossing six Miles East of Fairfield. The car a 1961 Falcon was headed South when the Accident occurred. Walter Johnson of Oquawka 111., Engineer o the c b amp q freight no. 684, said that mrs. Deao was driving and made no attempt to Stop. The train which was travelling 50 Miles per hour struck the car broadside and carried it about three fourths a mile Down the tracks rolling it into a Ball of twisted Metal. The Fairfield fire department was called and used their port a Power equipment to take the car apart piece by piece to take the bodies out. This took about an hour and it was necessary to hold up a westbound freight. Travel resumed at 12 22 . The bodies were taken to the Raymond funeral Home in Fairfield. Each year the festival is held at one of the three schools. Last year it was at mid Prairie the year prior to that Washington was Host. Thus it been three yearn since this Community experienced having approximately 350 musicians of the 7-8-9th grades As guests. Most of them will have time to be downtown and eat their evening meal in the local restaurants. The students rehearse Mast of the afternoon and then present a Public concert at night. Each band performs separately and then they All play together in the massed band. Each of the three directors the Opportunity of directing the massed band. Friendly Competition will be quite evident amongst the musicians of the three bands As each band attempts to present a better performance than the other two bands. The it. Pleasant band consists of 7th and 8th graders Only the other two bands have 9th graders included in their organizations. The Hast manager is Harold Dodd director of our 7th-8th Grade band. Will discuss eminent Domain at meeting changes in Iowa a eminent Domain Laws Are urgently needed to strengthen the property owners rights accreting to we Tolander president of Henry county farm Bureau it. Pleasant. At a meeting of the Board of directors on feb. To he reported Many government and private agencies Are using the right of eminent Domain. And the property Osiier often to spend considerable time and Money to defend rights and to secure fair settlements. Harold Anderson director of local affairs of the Iowa farm Bureau federation will be at a meeting about eminent Domain at the Henry county farm Bureau office in it. Pleasant on tuesday evening feb. 17, at 730. All interested persons Are Welcome to come and participate in the discussion. The farm Bureau Tolander said is urging a number of changes in the present eminent Domain Law and condemnation procedure for a More accurate assessment of total damages provide property owner Des Moines up a the appraisal information w Hen Nego Iowa House today overwhelmingly j cations begin require company to approved a Bill which would bar replace drainage system disturbed discrimination on the basis of sex in by underground installations under employment Public a commode j direction of drainage technician tons and housing. Selected by property owner. Approve Bill on Equality jetliner carrying 102 crashes into sea injured in 1-car mishap Public tends to pull Back from new commitments abroad h. Ross Perot could probably raise $150 million among friends. He could demand that the North vietnamese release the american War prisoners As part of in resettling the Viet the pastor of the Church the Rev. Bars members from Church Waterloo up a Black Hawk county attorney David j. Dutton said sunday office obtained a restraining order preventing members of the it. Calvary Baptist Church Here from attending services at the Church. Dutton said the action was done As a result of alleged threats of violence that have been imposed on Buck Heads olympic group morning in Van Buren county Santo Domingo up a a president Antonio Imbert Barreras Pital where he was taken following dominican airways dc9 jetliner j who helped plot the assassination a one car Accident at 2 a. In. Sun i with 102 persons lost Power in of dictator Rafeal Leonidas tru one engine and crashed into the Jillo Molina in 1961. The 13th Caribbean moments after Takeoff member of the puerto rican Volley sunday night. A Navy spokesman Ball team Carmine Rosa Sabater by Louis Harris with the wind Down of us. Military involvement in Vietnam the Central thrust of american Public opinion in the foreign policy area is to pull Back from new commitments abroad. Americans reject an isolationist a fortress american concept however and see this Farmington a Leroy my country a National Security depend Daniels 18, Keosauqua , upon a continuing if More was listed in Good condition this Roje International Al fairs. Survey results indicate a certain amount of ambivalence on the part the Deal Cong where they could live As communists without having to prey on South Vietnam a labor movement. Distributed by King features Syndicate Percy Burt. The Church membership split As a result of an internal squabble requested the restraining order Dutton said. He said about 48 Church members received the orders saturday said there appeared to be no sur to visors. New York up a Clifford h. Buck 69-year-old retired Denver business executive the big task of supervising the United states Effort for the 1972 olympic games in Munich Germany. Buck was elected president of the u. S. Olympic committee sunday at a meeting of the committee s Board of directors. As head of the organization he will oversee the Olympic program. Buck a former first vice president of the group succeeds Frank scores of ships and helicopters criss crossed the area where the Jet hit two Miles from the Airport of the americas. Only fragments of bodies and bits of debris were recovered. A it is presumed there Are no survivors a the naval spokesman said. The twin Jet dc9, in service escaped the Fate of her team members because she had gone to san Juan saturday to attend an olympic committee dinner where she age was done to the vehicle was cited As the outstanding female volleyball player in puerto Rico. Dominican airlines said North americans dominicans puerto Picans peruvians argentines and belgians were passengers. Day 3 Miles East of Farmington on Iowa Highway 2. J 0f the american Public. Dominant Lee county officers said Mcdan j ing the thinking of better than two gels was headed West on the High j of 0f three americans is the fee Way when he lost control of my that the Central Point of focus car on a curve went into a ditch and struck a driveway. Major dam fire damages Manly school for National priority is at Home rather than abroad. Majorities of world take care of itself a is rejected by a 50-41 percent margin. Substantial support for a policy which would see the us. Essentially withdraw from major world involvement behind a Wall of defensive armaments and a stance of Quot letting the rest of the world take care of itself exists chiefly in the South among older people and among the less Well educated. Opposition a and support for More internationalist policies or less dependence on arms a can be found among the Young. North of the Mason Dixon line and among the better educated segments of the Public. Too the division Over the test question on taking a More Active role in opposing South africans Apac he tween 50 and 60 percent can be Heid policy of strict racial Segre found at the same time for statements of an internationalist Point of View. However Only five years ago 84 percent answered affirmatively to the proportion about the Quot in being the Best Hope for peace a compared with Only 51 percent now. There is a sense that the Has Lin l. Orth who died last month. J 1 tic f. R an engine had failed and he was this Ca Tastrom tie Piane banked so Many useful lives of our two i my. The dominican government declared a two Day period of National Manly up a classes at mourning and president joaquin1 North Central Junior and senior not profited by giving foreign Aid to High school have been suspended assistance the gov. Luis a. Ferre of puerto Rico. For at least two Days in the v., a we Are profoundly moved by of a fire sunday night which dam that claimed aged the Central Core of the build Only one month faltered just after Takeoff on the 250-mile flight j Balaguer cabled condolences to san Juan puerto Rico Pilot radioed the control Tower that editors note Buck a it. Pleasant resident was graduated from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1923. Barring them from the Church. A the membership voted the min losing Power into a right turn and plunged into the sea. Among the 97 passengers five crewmen were ister out of office and the minister lightweight boxing Champion car refused to relinquish the Pul los Quot Teoy Cruz wife and two countries a Balaguer said. I present to your excellency testimony of the Solidarity of our government and and our Peoples to puerto rican former world families who have so sadly suffered by this terrible pit a Dutton said. He said the Church was established about year ago. Firemen from about a dozen communities fought the Blaze which started on the third floor of the three Story building and spread downward. They said it was confined to the older part of the build it was the worst civil aviation ing because firewalls separated two children a i an women a volleyball i the wife and daughter a 12-member puerto Ric disaster in dominican history and j wings housing a gymnasium team and recalled a 1943 plane crash in which cafeteria band room from of former 30 baseball players were Core. And the to neutralise countries and others who live been critical of this country a policies in Vietnam. Perhaps the Basic need is summed up by the 66-27 percent majority who say that a we should involve ourselves in International affairs Only to protect our National too it is equally significant however that the a fortress american concept _ of simply a building up our defences so that no one would dare attack us and let the lest of tile at Ion is along racial lines with Blacks 2 to i in favor of an Active american opposition but Whites almost 2 to i against any intervention. To a Large extent these results underscore the Basic stance of the Nixon administration to respect ongoing commitments but to avoid Over Extension of new american involvement especially where Troops might be involved. A majority of the Public does recognize that As a Majchr world super Power the United states cannot withdraw from global responsibilities and leadership. However the singular Mark of tile Vietnam experience clearly been for moist americans to adopt a posture of far greater caution in foreign policy and to examine new crises at arms length before becoming embroiled. Copyright 1970 by the Chicago Tribune

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