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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 19, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 42mt. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening february 19, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain do the Black panthers guess wrong in his revealing Story of his Days with the Black panthers a picking up the gun a Earl Anthony puts such things As the attempt on the part of Panther sympathizers to disrupt court proceedings in a real revolutionary perspective. The various efforts of the new left whether Black or White to discredit the a a conspiracy trials in Chicago and new York Are to be understood As the . Radical equivalent of Fidel Castro a abortive attack on fort Moncado in Cuba which first made Fidel a household word. The Cas troite theory is that a movement must prove its revolutionary commitment by attempting impossible a things that can Only end in immediate disaster. Thus martyrs Are created and symbols provided for the future. Too to be certain of Success however the would toe revolutionary who forms paramilitary organizations to carry on disruptive political. Warfare outside the established political system must have the gift of prophecy he must have a Correct intuitive feeling that his minority demands for today will be the demands of the majority tomorrow. When the Black panthers in the san Francisco Bay Region began to carry .45 calibre pistols and shotguns in Public and engaged in shoot outs with the a a pigs just who a set up whom for the violence May be arguable More than one person who had lived through the twenties and thirties made a mental note that this was something right out of the history of pre Hitler Germany. But the nazi Street fighters and Beer Hall puts lists were in tune with the future they could count on the ultimate acquiescence of a majority when economic depression made the restrictive terms of the Versailles treaty seem too onerous for the whole German nation to Bear. Too the pragmatic question that Eldridge Cleaver and Bobby Seale and other Panther leaders should be asking of themselves is whether they Are yet within a Hundred Light years of a real revolutionary situation in America. The panthers themselves Are a minority within a minority. Earl Anthony who was himself purged from the panthers tells of the difficulties which the panthers had in trying to cooperate with the a establishment left a and he complains that America a leaves so Many openings for Whites to move Back into coming from los Angeles he Speaks of a Westside College trained Blacks who do not a dig the Panther revolution and even detects quite against his will an a aspiring bourgeoisie among the a Eastside Black whatever May be happening in the Distant future the prospects for a majority revolutionary movement in the . Seem rather dim at the moment. Too instead of picking up strength for themselves by their premature efforts to stage the equivalent of Fidel Castro a attack on fort Moncado the panthers the ads weathermen and the other anti establishment extremists Only succeed in solidifying the opposition. We Are not As a nation suffering from a Batista As happened in Cuba or from a Versailles diktat As was the Case in Germany. If the majority in the . Have any feeling of menace it is an uneasy suspicion that the menace comes from the left. Too i can understand the negro novelist James Baldwin when he says that a to be Black in America is to be in a constant state of but rage is not conducive to sound analysis. A former Canadian supreme court Justice j. V. Dyne now an industrialist is closer to a fair evaluation of tomorrow when he tells a los Angeles audience that a inevitably the agent for. Change will be the a i am speaking a he says a of an establishment attuned to All the ideas of a rapidly changing age ready to seize on the Best the current ferment produces and to implement too or. Dyne remarks that the establishment is a subjected to More gratuitous insults than any other group i but the Point is that in the ., As presumably in or. Clynes own Canada the establishment is not a Monolith. It changes taking in new Talent Spiro Agnew is not Hubert Humphrey. What Black panthers such As Eldridge Cleaver and White weathermen such As Mark Rudd do not is the tremendous absorptive capacity of the despised Bourgeois system. Only if the us. Were to lose a big War would change come in the manner that school Board acts on Many matters the 1970-71 school Calendar was adopted by the it. Pleasant Community Board of education at their regular meeting wednesday evening. The first Day of school will be september 8, 1970 and the last Day of school will be june 9, 1971. The Complete Calendar is published elsewhere in this Issue of the news. Too in his report to the Board superintendent Robert Formanek recommended Board approval for a student teacher contract Between the school and Parsons College which was granted. The school also has a contract of this nature with Iowa Wesleyan College. Too the superintendent discussed educational literature and information available to students and faculty on drug abuse. A meeting on drug abuse sponsored by the state department of education will be held in Burlington next month and some staff members will attend. Too figures recently published by the state department indicated that the average Cost per student in All schools was $717 for the year 1968-69. The per student Cost in the it. Pleasant system was $550 for this period. O 0,0 James Brown director of instruction reported to the Board on a training and Industry program for senior students whereby the student attends classes half Days and works half Days. O of Gerald Knight administrative assistant reported to the Board on the status of transportation facile settlement stipulation in local Case in the report of the settlement of the suit of Robert a. Dunnuck against Fred Grant and Fred Grant construction company inc., it was stated that judgment was entered against Grant and his construction company. However the published report failed to give details stated in Section 4 of the stipulation. The news regrets that this was not included. The suit was in connection with the collapse of the building which was under construction for the new Spurgeon store at North main and Madison streets. Because the collapse of the building has been a matter of considerable local interest the settlement stipulation is Given Here in full too in consideration of the settlement of All claims and rights involved in this Case and of the Mutual covenants herein made it is agreed As follows i. Judgment shall be entered against Fred Grant and against Fred Grant construction co., ins. For $45,159.13 in favor of Robert a. Dunnuck. 2. Fred Grant is to assign and Transfer to Robert d. Dunnuck All rights of action which Fred Grant has against Auto owners Mutual insurance company arising from breach of duty negligence refusal to defend unreasonable failure to Settle and to perform its duties under Fred Grants contract of insurance with Auto owners Mutual insurance company dated March 21, 1968, reserving unto Fred Grant individually the right to pursue Auto owners for his personal Legal expenses paid and owed to Date in connection with the above captioned litigation. 3. All costs of any action brought against Auto owners Mutual insurance company shall be paid by Robert a. Dunnuck. 4. No Levy attachment garnishment or other collection process shall be issued against Fred Grant personally after the execution and delivery of such assignment and Transfer and Robert a. Dunnuck agrees to hold Fred Grant harmless from any efforts to collect such judgment from Fred Grant personally. 5. Each party shall pay his own attorneys fees and court costs shall be paid one half by each party reserving unto Fred Grant his right of recovery against Auto owners As set Forth in paragraph 2 above. The likes of Cleaver and Rudd predict. Distributed by King features x Syndicate ties and recommended the Purchase of three new buses for the 1970-71 school year. The Board authorized the calling for bids for two 54 passenger and one 60 passenger bus. Too Roger Williams reported on curriculum improvements that will be studied during the summer session. Several schools have made inquires into the Advance placement English program used Here As a possible addition to their curriculum. Too Richard Van Tuyl High school principal reported on plans to conduct pre registration for is students for the 70-71 year. Too Laurel Allender and Ann Wieland met with the Board and requested that a Victory Bell be installed on school property near the High school. Their request was approved. The Board established wednesday feb. 25th, at 7 00 . To meet with pea committees on salaries and professional relations. Too the Board discussed the adoption of project Star a program of instruction in string instruments. The project has been financed the past two years on a Federal Grant and continuation of the program was subject to school District financing. The Roll Call vote on the proposal was 3 to 2, with Rogers Hunting and Thomas voting no and Nesbitt and Wagler voting yes. Too the Board approved requests from mrs. Ava Waterman and mrs. Barbara Johnson to continue teaching in accordance with Board policy on pregnancy. Too resignations were submitted effective the end of school to the Board and were approved. They were from James Brown director of instruction mrs. Ruth Mcdowell 7th and 8th Grade English instructor and mrs. Don Lawrence High school science instructor. The Board expressed appreciation for their contribution to the school system. Too miss Mabel Stansbury school nurse submitted her resignation effective March i which was accepted by the Board with a special letter of commendation for her service to the system. Mrs. Waldo Sutton in. Was employed As school nurse for the balance of the school year at a salary of $1,980. Too in other action the Board approved a request from Glen Hummell that his children continue in the it. Pleasant school system. The Hummell a Are living temporarily in Burlington. Approved a three year insurance contract for fire and extended coverage to the Sowers insurance company for school buildings and property. Premium is $4,672 per year. Approved a request for annuities from John Becker and mrs. Anna von Seggen. Noted that a no violations were noted on the North Central association report for �?T69-70. Approved the following professional meetings and use of school facilities. Professional meetings mrs. Leah Smith Isea governmental affairs convention Des Moines Friday feb. 20th. Or. Banks Swan state wrestling tournament Des Moines or. Maynard Bittie National science teachers Cincinnati Ohio March 13 17th. Or. David Lansing state basketball tournament Des Moines March >18 22nd. Mrs. Marabelle Magnuson american choir directors Chicago Illinois March 20 21st. Or. G. A. Knight a audio visual convention Detroit Michigan april 27<th May 1st. Use of school facilities Lively lassies 4-h club Home dec. Sewing room Jan. 31st. Girls District basketball Cottrell gym High school athletic Union feb. 24, 27 and 28th. I. W. C. Cottrell gym . Basketball playoff March 2nd. Too the Board met briefly in executive session to discuss proposed building Sites. No action was taken. M we amp j Ipp v terse verse by a. C. Gordon children know for sure a constant sniffle works much better than a handkerchief la. Senate rejects ban on student a busing Washington up Nate today rejected a proposed ban on federally ordered a a busing of students to integrate schools. Federal Law already prohibits Federal agencies from ordering busing kidnapped girl needs medication speaking of Loose Oil Here is a 100,000-gallon tank of it going Down the Kennebec River at Gardiner Maine. Ice and rising Waters Tore the tank from its moorings near that Bridge. Contract let for Short sewer line adopt 70-71 school Calendar House takes Strong stand on child labor Hie be in order to overcome a racial imbalance. The amendment by sen. Sam j. Ervin d-n.c., would have gone further by barring Federal courts and agencies from requiring busing a from one school District to another school District to alter the racial composition of the student body at any Public the vote was 49 to 36. Ervin a defeat was anticipated by both sides despite a Southern Victory wednesday on another Descg negation amendment. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott however predicted that amendment would be Elim waited from the school Bill by ii on be sen Ozark Ala. Up a a four month old girl who requires Oon ate conferees Stant medical attention was kidnapped from a car in a grocery parking lot today. State police said Little Shaun Mcelroy suffered from epilepsy and Liat would be in danger of having a seizure if did not receive a shot by noon Cost. They threw up roadblocks around the shopping Center and began broadcasting appeals. A medical source said that a1 Ion forces May drop amendment Washington up a Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott predicted today that a Southern backed not be fatal in itself there is a at the regular february Board of education meeting the it. Pleasant Community school District Calendar for 1970-71 was adopted As two bids on a sewer Extension follows Des Moines up a the Iowa of Over 500 feet from Cherry Street september i 2, 3, 4, a teachers j House today took a Strong stand or. To the new lutheran Church site report labor standards for migrant children were opened and read at the City september 8�?first Day of school pm allowing Only 12-year-Olds and Council meeting wednesday night and the Low bidder Donald e. Whaley was awarded the contract. The Whaley bid was $1,962.50 and the bid of Darrell Kinney was december 23 january Christmas holidays children and for children employed t. January 22 a end of first be i after the kidnapping. Mester january 25 a teacher workday february 26 in service Day at the no a a a rated Day Lons debate the though a seizure probably would amendment on enforcement cd school desegregation would be Elim $2,049.65. Both Are local contractors. The Council discussed the Selling of a parcel of land 60 feet in Width Between Green and Webster Street near Locust and feel that the four adjoining property owners should have the first Chance of buying the land. The matter was referred to the Street committee which will Contact the four property owners. Too the Council was shown preliminary plans of a proposed sewer project for the East and North parts of it. Pleasant by William Hayward. The project will also include the new Park area in Southeast it. Pleasant. The Donald e. French co. Of Fairfield prepared the plans. Too the City treasurer was authorized to reinvest certificates of time deposits from various funds. Too the use of the grandstand at Mcmillan Park and other Park area not including the football Field on May 2, was granted to the boy scouts of this District for an exposition. To o o the appointment of Howard col Latt to tile City fire department was approved by the Council. The Force is now at top strength. Too the Council also discussed the City a insurance coverage and the parking situation. November 26, 27 thanksgiving i older to work in the Fields. Holiday on a 51-66 vote the House de i der0 m Hor 2 _ Parent teacher w them that Shaun required a shot be Coiner -2 rare in Tacner heated an amendment which would 1 ,. Conference every four hours or became. Have eliminated the discrepancy be seriously m the next shot had rect the Federal government to in tween age requirements tor migrant been due at my about fun Hou. Terse desegregation of senors equal definite possibility of strangulation in Al a from a Jar schoo Al a in a child of Shaun s age. J Bill by House Senate conferees. Scott told reporters that the proposal by sen. John c. Stennis d-miss., adopted by the Senate wednesday would prove to be unconstitutional it worst and unenforceable at Best. The Stennis amendment would i the Little girl was Clad in a Blue gown and wrapped in a yellow Blanket. Her Mother had left her in the car while ran into the grocery. Authorities said the Mother told in various Street trades. In the first major floor Battle of Ottumwa Iowa association of classroom teacher Mobile unit april 9-12 a easter Holiday april 19 a . District meeting no school april 28 a Parent teacher conference May 31 a memorial Day no school june 9 a last Day of school House apparently decided to agree with the committee recommendations on age limits. The suggested Bill would place a 10-year-old age limit for children employed in various Street trades. New probe of Asphalt Casely in both the North and the South a whether it was the result of Laws 01 neighbourhood patterns. A it is impossible to accept and will be knocked out in conference Quot Scott said. He talked to newsmen As the Senate turned attention to another Southern amendment by sen. Sam Sioux City up a Iowa a j j. Ervin or. D-n.c., to ban fed such As newspaper carriers and a i Asphalt controversy of the late rally ordered a a busing to integrate 12-year-old limit for migratory la 1950s and Early 1960s is under new schools. Borers. Investigation by the Federal gov the Stennis amendment was at the current Iowa Law uses a to eminent. Cached to the school Aid Bill which june to a last teacher contract year old limit for migrants but is Day regarded As a widely abused and unenforced statute. The Bill includes Evan Hultman of Sioux City the House passed previously without us. Attorney for Northern Iowa the provision. This Means there said wednesday new information ultimately will be a conference of named to position at Knoxville by Vee Robert Messer who has been associates with the local by Vee a stipulation which would make All the Case has come to his Atten j House and Senate members to re persons under age 16 file for a work permit from the state labor department before being eligible for employment. On another close vote the House Defeated a move to exempt child to on since he took office last aug solve differences before the Mea store since 1962, has been named Ren working in cities or towns with head Baker in the by Vee store at less than 10.000 population from Knoxville. He began his new work filing for the work permits. Monday. I when the measure first came up Messer had been serving As Sec for a vote it was approved 54-53, Ond Baker in the it. Pleasant store but the acting House speaker called since lfg8. Previous to that he another vote following trouble with was employed full time in the Gro tile House Roll Call machine. Very department. On the second vote the measure his wife Sharon and their two lost 55-61, after representatives i children will be moving to Knox yoked a Rule requiring All present in Ville with him soon. The chamber to vote. Ust. Sure is voted on again and sent to president Nixon. Arrest 18 at Ann Arbor co. Officials get 4backpay�?T four of the Henry county officials in the courthouse and their Washington birthday bargains two Days Ann Arbor. Mich up a clashes Between police and demonstrators led by the militant Weatherman faction of the students for deputies received Back pay along a democratic society ended today with their regular paychecks for the with 18 persons arrested dozens of month of january. The Back pay injuries and scores of broken win was Money that the legislature Dows. Originally thought they should have violence broke out wednesday j starting last year but due to con night after More than i 500 persons flicks in the wording in the Law gathered for a rally on the uni they could not receive. The present varsity of Michigan Campus to pro session of the legislature made the test the split verdict in the a Chicago seven Quot conspiracy trial and the presence of Industrial recruiters on the Campus. Big i ask to get ready for census necessary corrections and authorized the payment of the Back amount. For the county auditor clerk recorder and treasurer the Back pay amounted to $1,000 before taxes. The deputies received 80 percent of that amount. Washington up a if you think it a bother to fill out a census questionnaire or to give a stranger a lot of personal facts about yourself consider what the government must do to carry out the National headcount set for april. Recruit 160.000 census takers within one month. Hire and train 12,000 a Crew leaders who will be responsible for Givis and preparation needed to perform their tasks. Philippine government apologizes to . The Job would be even greater if the 1960 count and knows it will rate does not attract too Many men the census Bureau had to Send an miss some people again this year particularly in big cities. As a result j enumerator to every american res but it is shooting for a 75 per cent most of the enumerators tend to be Tience As it did before 1950. Because i rate of return on mail question women who Are looking for part of the big increase in population Aires and expects to round up most time and temporary employment. The Bureau has relied increasingly of the voters through the personal the government also is making a on the mails since then. Contacts As Well As Telephone Calls greater Effort this year to interest Coo i 000 retired persons in applying for the the actual Job of taking the Cen i jobs. Sus will not get under Way until o. A april i. But the Bureau already has shortly after they Are hired the j in chances started hiring clerical workers and census takers Are taken to a nearby the not apr la by signed by enumerators the information i quire to fill in the answers and a Crew leaders Quot needed to get the Public building hedren Tolyan a j operation in gear. Emen tary school or firehouse those employees like the 160.000 where they Are Given two or three a worsted protest by us. Amassa enu iterators who will be hired next Days of classroom training. The in take on 13.000 special clerical personnel to handle voluminous paperwork in the census bureaus regional offices. Administer a test to each Job applicant to make sure that every person employed is Able to follow i Abe it 60 per cent of american households a All in Urban and suburban areas a will be sent a questionnaire this year. They Are re mail it Back. The remaining 40 per cent mostly Manila up a the philippine government aiding teed to the United states thursday for the mob attack on the . Embassy but 6aid the demonstrators May have been expressing a legitimate Dor Henry a. Byroade who Corn in Rural or lightly populated areas. Month must pass a 30-minute sex Striction sessions Are conducted by j a a a Ltd will receive the form in the mail nomination involving a variety of a Crew Leader with the help of a action of a with instructions to Complete it but simple verbal and Quanti manual prepared by the census to hold on to it until a census rep native exercises. The resent Tive comes around. Under this system enumerators offered jobs first a working in Rural areas a will hit achieving the highest scores will be Des Moines up the applicants Bureau. J refuse to Transfer before the training period ends. The enumerators take turns inter funds Joaa. X 1 a w email la. Up Nain no. Viewing each other. This is designed sections adequately and to do Sim j an average of 1,200 Homes. Their in Small towns inc census my ,.8 ,7 ,. H Frint off inc usually is Able to Sive them Confidence and a solid pie arithmetic. Main Job will be to that the eau distr. Vilice usual is provide an average of two Days of forms have been answered com to find All the people it needs. Of r c m to 1 House social services committee classroom instruction for each in Petely and correctly. Sometimes officials say they have they Are working. Wednesday refused to approve the numerator hired. 03 had to accept almost anyone who in All cases the enumerators Are Transfer of construction funds from 000 in metropolitan areas Numera could pass the qualifying Examina forbidden by Law to reveal an it of j one project to finance Cowras old once the groundwork is Laid the Torso Job will be to visit residences tion. Certainly the pay does not the information they gather. Each age assistance program Oak. Government must move quickly to where occupants have either mailed create any great clamor for the citizen is required by Law to answer organize this massive mostly part Back forms with incorrect or income jobs. Every question asked. Persons Refus time work Force into a cohesive in plete information or have failed to enumerators Are paid Between $2 ing to respond Are subject to a Max $3.2 million appropriated to con j it that is capable of gathering in return them at All. And $2.50 an hour on the average mum $100 Fine or 60 Days in jail struck the Eagle Ridge min Muhi about three weeks All the data need the census Bureau admits that with salary keyed to the number of although no one has Ever been in j Security facility at Anamosa to Thede in every 10-year census. I it missed about 5 million persons in questionnaires handled. That pay prisoner for a violation deficit Ridden Oak. _ i. _ a a j on an 18-20 vote the committee Defeated a Bill to shift More than

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