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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 20, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 43mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening february 20, 1970 Price to cents these Days bit John Chamberlain alliances yes a entanglement a no the Washington a birthday oratory will surely include More than one reference to our first president s warning against entangling alliances. The doves will enlarge on that theme but Richard Nixon with his a Guam doctrine a has already taken the High ground in anticipation of any attempt to use Washington a Farewell address for purposes of isolationist propaganda. Or. Nixon a statement to the world that we intend to help those on a your Side Short of sending in . Troops is an Assurance to our friends that we do not intend to desert them As Long As they Are willing to help themselves. At the same time it proclaims that we do not propose to be As a matter of Plain historical fact George Washington was very much aware of the value of alliances. Some of his biographers have portrayed him As a sort of provincial super guerrilla chieftain a Soldier schooled on the Frontier in the arts of taking Forest cover and carrying the enemy without attacking him frontally. As the Continental revolutionary commander in chief Washington was the Man who had Learned As a Young Soldier from general Braddock a mistakes in letting the indians fall without warning on the close formation eighteenth Century red coat regulars. To quote historian James Flexner Braddock in the French and Indian War had a let the wilderness explode in his from that Point on Washington resolved that if he were giving the orders he would always be part of the a a exploding wilderness. Too but for ail his guerrilla chief competence Washington still had the sense of world balance of Power politics that Marks the truly competent military strategist. Somehow when he was holed up in the Highlands of the Hudson he kept himself vividly aware of the global dimensions of the combined French dutch american War against Britain. He was troubled when a British Admiral captured the dutch Island of St. Eustacius in the West indies which effectively Cut the americans off from a prime source of munitions. But he cheered when the French and the dutch forced the British to fight a War of wide dispersion in the Indian Ocean and when the French count de Grasse slipped past the British with his Fleet into the Chesapeake Washington knew that if he could get his troops to Virginia in a hurry he would have the British general Cornwallis boxed at Yorktown Between French sea Power and the ragged american Continentals. Too at this Point Washington was no Mere guerrilla fighter he was a master of grand Alliance strategy on a world balance of Power scale. The British masters of the Globe had negligently let the world balance turn momentarily against them. Washington made a feint at new York City to keep the British there from going to the Relief of Cornwallis. Meanwhile by forced marches he hurried his main Force to Virginia and the siege of Yorktown. The War on the american Mainland was effectively ended with Cornwallis s surrender but British naval defeats at Minorca in the Mediterranean and in the West indies May have been More conclusive prods to King George Illus willingness to make peace. Our Dove senators who More and More seem to be moving to the position that alliances of any kind Are a entangling a might be asked to consider Washington a understanding of balance of Power realities As Well As his warning to stay Clear of a a foreign quarrels. The ., currently is the free worlds guarantee that the preponderance of global Power wont be permitted to shift to the communist nations and their satellites and the a Guam doctrine should be enough to sustain the guarantee. If we should nod in our vigilance and resolve however it would be equivalent to the British eighteenth Century mistake of letting the French the dutch and the americans get the Jun id on them. The British recovered their balancing position in the nineteenth Century maintaining it with a a Guam doctrine of their own which enabled them to get by with Money a St. Georges cavalry and diplomacy instead of conscript troops. But in the nuclear age if we were to be boxed in without allies by the communists it is doubtful that we would Ever recover. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Convicted a a seven members sentenced Chicago up a convicted members of the a Chicago seven denounced us. District judge Julius j. Hoffman and foresaw a coming a american revolution today before receiving sentences for crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 democratic National convention. Each of five convicted defendants was entitled to 15 minutes to say his piece before receiving punishment. The maximum penalty for each of them was five years in jail and a $10,000 Fine. The first to do so was David t. Dellinger 54, a self described a revolutionary pacifist who is the oldest of the defendants and was pictured by the prosecution As the a a architect of a the Dellinger compared Hoffman to a second King George Iii of England a trying to forestall a second american revolution which you will not succeed in but he paid the Tough Little judge a backhanded compliment a there is something Spunky about you that one must Admire however misguided and unjust you a sending us to prison punishing us cannot solve the problems of this country a he said. A we can be in prison but the movement of which we Are a Small part will too Over defense objections Hoffman ordered the courtroom cleared of the defendants relatives. A my life was threatened by on of these menus relatives a he told chief defense counsel William m. Kunstler. A she told me she would dance on my a Are you serious a Kunstler asked. A yes i am., sir a the judge said. Hoffman referred to an incident shortly before the five were found guilty wednesday. Anita Hoffman wife of defendant Abbie Hoffman screamed As she Wras ejected from the courtroom a Well dance on your grave the sentencing were the Windup to a Day of close Legal infighting in which Hoffman refused to let the defense examine evidence obtained by the government through wiretapping or to interview members of the jury which found five of the a Chicago seven guilty and two innocent. Demonstrators show their disapproval of a a seven verdict by in demonstrators took their disapproval of the a Chicago seven verdict to the nations streets thursday. Several Hundred police fought protesters and arrested 200 of them near the Washington Home of . Attorney general John n. Mitchell. In Boston 5,000 Young persons staged a peaceful March through the downtown area to protest the sentences. A splinter group of 1,000 persons engaged in Rock and bottle throwing on the Boston common. Two policemen were injured and several demonstrators were beaten As police charged the crowd twice. There were no arrests. Too one thousand persons marched near the Urcla Campus in Westwood Calif., gathered in front of the Bank of America broke windows and blocked traffic. Three students were arrested end one policeman was injured when he was knocked Down by protesters. An estimated 1,500 demonstrators broke windows threw rocks and fought police thursday night after a rally at Michigan state University in East Lansing. Three Hundred demonstrators marched from the University of North Carolina Campus to the Chapel Hill police station carrying signs waving Viet Cong flags and fighting with observers. A student was arrested after allegedly attacking a group of marchers. Sec. Laird gives annual defens review Wabington up a defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird cautioned Congress today that the soviet Union at its present rate of military development could downgrade the United states to a second rate Power by the mid-1970s. In the annual defense review presented to a joint session of the Senate armed services and appropriations committees Laird also predicted that the chinese communists would begin deploying medium Range nuclear missiles this year. He estimated they would have from 80 to too installed by the Middle of the decade. The defense Secretary said however that he intends to Cut the u. S. Military budget by 7 per cent this year. President Nixon a proposed budget for the fiscal year beginning july i Calls for $71.8 billion in defense spending compared to $77 billion for the current year ending june 30. The Pentagon has said publicly it expects Vietnam spending to drop below $1.5 billion a month by mid year. At times in the past it has run Well Over $1 billion a month. However Laird said on the basis of the trip he has concluded that the Vietnam nation program is proceeding a on schedule or ahead of schedule in All major depending on circumstances he told the senators a we can anticipate continuing troop redeployment and the return Home of additional thousands of . Military men during 1970.�?� Leary wife and son found guilty Santa Ana Calif. Up a or. Timothy Leary his wife and son were found guilty of charges of Possession of marijuana and Ltd late thursday after a six Man six woman jury deliberated for 13 hours. Leary 50, a former Harvard lecturer turned Ltd guru was found guilty of Possession of marijuana while his wife Rosemary 34, and son John 20, were convicted of Possession of marijuana and Ltd. Superior court judge Byron k. Mcmillan set sentencing for March 13. Leary a wife and son were allowed to remain free on bail but the judge ordered Leary a bail revoked and he was taken into custody. It was the second narcotics conviction for Leary in less than a month. In Laredo tex., he was found guilty Jan. 21 of smuggling three ounces of marijuana from Mexico in a Silver snuff Box his teen aged daughter had in her Possession. He was convicted on a similar charge March la 19g6, bul the u. S. Supreme court overturned the verdict and ordered a new trial. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon the one who leads a double life for naught has double Chance of really getting caught. Many guests expected for county dinner extend injunction Banning rail tie up Washington up a a fed-1 voluntarily by the two sides expires the animal Lincoln heritage rat judge today extended for to i at Midnight dinner sponsored by the Henry More Days a temporary injunction Corcoran said he would not de county republicans will have a Banning a nationwide Rad tie up. Cide now whether it would be Legal for the Union to strike or the nations railroads to shut Down their systems in retaliation. Alter hearing More than three Star studded list of guests for the . District court judge How event at the United methodist arc Corcoran ordered an Extension Church in it. Pleasant Fibre any 28th, at 7 00 p m. Of earlier directions prohibiting shop Craft unions from striking or in addition to greeting the guest. Railroad management from shutting hours of arguments from Union and Trail lawyers Corcoran said. A i am Extension agreed on not going to Rule on a Case of this importance Down. An Carli i speaker lieutenant governor Rog or w. Jespen and congressman Fred Schwengel the county Resi dents will have an Opportunity to i meet the newly elected state chairman of the Republican party John i Mcdonald and the state vice chairman Pat Pardun As Well As re the District chairman Dick i Drake senator Richard Stephens and wife and rep. Dias. Strot Liman and wife. Don Gartin and David Mccoid serve As the ticket chairmen and. Saigon up american tickets May be procured by calling i b52& returning from Makto in ijao8 them or any of the following com dropped qom tons of bombs thurs raid troops threatening Lien net lamp Mittee those who have tickets first named is Captain Gladys Burns Wilbur Sater Day night and today on guerrilla troop concentrations threatening the Ben Het Green Beret Camp on the cambodian Border. Another 400 Ruth Ogg Earl Zickefoose Edna Jug marines left for Home establishment of a fund for restoration of old main on the Iowa Wesleyan College Campus was initiated by chapter original a . Sisterhood at their meeting Here on february 18. The sisterhood was organized in what has become known As a founders room in a old main More than a Century ago. Preservation of the site can he realized Only through restoration of the entire building. Architectural and engineering studies for the renovation hive already been completed. . Votes to establish fund to restore a old main a move toward restoration of extensive engineering and Archi a old main on the Iowa Wesleyan textural studies have already been College Campus received new in made with regard to the feasibility Petus wednesday when chapter of the restoration project. Original a of the . Sisterhood Michener Lester Meeker Warren i Young Norman Moehle and mrs. John Dill Hulme. Ralph Carnahan George Elliott jr., Alice Benesh and Carl Register. Mrs. G. W. Mickey mrs. Phil Hixson or. And mrs. Robert Isley Arthur Davidson mrs. Victor Hesseltine sen. Harlan Foster Helen the Saratof Ort reuses flew six raids around Ben Het 275 Miles Northeast of Saigon and two along the Laos Border having earlier rescued their Vietnam missions after More than 40 hours of raids on the Plain of Jam in Laos. Military sources in Laos said Dent then ordered the 10-Day Extension of the agreement postponing both the strike and the lockout. But lie said he could make a decision before the 10-Day Extension expired which would be March 20. Spokesmen for the railroads told Corcoran a if they can take us one by one. They can destroy the spokesmen said a struck Railroad panics when los traffic is diverted to other railroads. Because of this tactic the Railroad agrees to a Quick settlement with the Union they argued then the unions go on to another Railroad. A the Only weapon the railroads have to counteract this tactic is a lockout Quot Railroad attorneys argued. Romkey mrs. Leslie Phinney and spite the us. Air attacks Patchet mrs. Edna Crouse. Lao and North vietnamese troops Richard to Ornick Clair Bishop were closing in on the Only gov Glen Mccabe Jim May Gary Ern ment Airport on the Plain. Doak or. D. L. Brinkmeyer Bob i bondage and Ralph Barnum. Don Gartin Bob Lamb Edwin on Vietnam Battlefront military spokesmen said South Vietnam Chrisinger Roberta Logan Doro Ese rangers and armoured troops voted is Tab aliment of a fund to restore the building preserve the founding sisterhood at their meeting on wednesday evening february 18. Chapter original a voted to Stabli h a original a a fund for preserving the past the fund is designed to preserve the founders room in old main on the Iowa Wesleyan College Campus where the sisterhood was organized in 1869 by the seven founding members the room can Only be preserved by the renovation and restoration of the entire building originally constructed in 1854. Chapter original a has pledged a minimum of three thousand dollars Over a period As the chapters contribution and As a Challenge to others to join them in the task. The trustees of Iowa Wesleyan College have indicated their the ire to restore old main if the necessary funds can be raised by friends of Iowa Wesleyan and members of the sisterhood interested in preserving their founding site members of peo. From across and thereby the nation visited the founders site of the room during the . Pilgrimage j to the Iowa Wesleyan Campus in october 1969, following their Centennial convention in Des Moines. Many Al that time expressed their concern that the building be restored to preserve the founding site and some through their chapters and individually have already made donations to the College i recently for this purpose. Chapter original a As the chapter of the seven founders has assumed leadership in the venture with the statement a we believe that the a original seven can depend on their own chapter original a to recognize the importance of our heritage and to take action to preserve the building in which they founded the .sisterhood�?�. The steering committee in charge of the a fund for preserving the past Are mrs. We. Megorden. Chairman mrs. W. mrs. Darrell Rodd mrs. Jack Cowen mrs. Fred Ekstrand mrs. Richard Garruls mrs. Eugene Mccoid mrs. Gilmore Swaney and mrs. Hall Weir. Thy Ernest diaries Burton Dale Garrels and mrs. Bill Alvine. M. D. Under or. And mrs. Wayne Moore Harold Tolander Ruth madams Arnold Lindeen George Means Ralph Eckey ted Huene and ted Eckey. David Mccoid and Bruce Harrison. Gary Wiegel mrs. Dan Mcallister Dave Heaton Bob Linden Van Crawford Dale Longwell Gary Williams and Warren Fye. Kay Rogers mrs. Milton Curtis mrs. Robert Lauer miss veda Cornic mrs. Ross Lane mrs. Milo Mckim or. And mrs. Phil Crawford and mrs. Darrell Rodd. Don Young Elmer Bencke Lyle Shellabarger Robert b. Young and Kenneth Burkey. Helen Harding Richard bums Mary Wright Harold Mcleran june Klopfenstein mrs. Dale Watts Helen m. Virden Gordon Glenn Dana Williams and Art Johnson. At Burlington i Louse and Senate Swap bit education Bills Man Dies after Bein bitten by Rattlesnake Burlington up a a 46 year old Man who spent Over half his life handling deadly snakes died Here thursday night the victim of an apparent bite from a five foot Rattlesnake. Taylor Pierson nukes died about 25 minutes after he walked into the killed 46 guerrillas in clashes thursday near hoi an 22 Miles South of Danang in the Northern War zone. Allied lasses were described As Light. Since their Campaign near Danang began nine Days ago the government regulars have reported killing 337 North vietnamese and Viet Cong. Military sources said the Saigon troops have lost 36 killed and 91 wounded. In Danang 400 american marines boarded two Navy troop ships for Home As part of president Nixon a third phase withdrawal of 50,000 . Troops by april 15, air War in canal area heats up by up israeli planes attacked egyptian military targets along tile Suez canal for two hours today following up an unusually heavy three hour attack thursday night in which one of the israeli raiders was shot Down. As usual Israel did not specify the exact targets or the results of today a raids but said All planes returned safely. The raids marked a heating up of the air War in the canal area with Egypt carrying out raids for three consecutive Days earlier this week. Israel reported four Arab guerrilla grenade attacks in the occupied Gaza strip but there were Only minor injuries. Washington birthday bargains two Days Washington up a the House and Senate swapped massive education Bills today a 011�?o an appreciations Bill that is nearly eight months late and the other an authorization that looks four years into the future a but Only after agonizing Over school desegregation. The Senate received a $19.4 billion appropriations Bill for the departments of labor and health education and welfare. The House passed it 315 to 81 thursday Over threats of a new presidential veto. The House in turn received a measure passed 80 to 0 by the Senate thursday to continue Aid to Grade and High schools for four years beyond june 30, 1970, with a total authorization of $35 billion. The House neat week in All likelihood will reject the Senate a Bill sending it to a conference of the two Chambers. The Senate about the came time Hopes to Start working on the appropriations Bill. Both Bills would order the department of health education and welfare not to used forced busing to achieve desegregation. The House Bill additionally would order hew not to interfere with parents free Dom to choose their children a school. The Senate Bill included a provision that desegregation guidelines must be applied nationally a North and South a without distinction Between the types of segregation involved. Too in a symbolic response both houses of Congress voted thursday to ban a abusing Quot in the desegregation plans the department of health education and welfare hew requires before granting Federal school Aid Money. Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said the amendments message was Quot if a neighbourhood is White you la have a White school Quot North or South. Glinik labor Law passes Iowa House Des Moines up it a a Battle scarred child labor Law a considerably softened by a barrage of amendments a passed the Iowa House today too 14. The Bill took about to hours of debate and was acted upon first thing this morning after being designed p special order of business for thursday. Today the House enacted two amendments which softened the Fine for violation of the act. As originally intended penalties for violating some sections of the Bill was a Fine of Between $50 and $500, but the House Cut that Fine to Between $20 and $100. Senate votes against fourth University j Des Moines up a the Iowa Senate voted Friday to kill the establishment of a fourth state University in Western Iowa after being assured that work would begin immediately to reimburse landowners for out of pocket expenses. The Bill to reimburse All action taken for establishment of the proposed school in Atlantic was approved on a 40 17 vote and sent to the House. The 1967 and 1969 Legislatures appropriated More than $800,000 tor a study and site selection. The measure would take what a left a about $700,000 a and Transfer it to the states general fund. Legislators opposed to the Bill wanted a provision written into the measure that would have compensated landowners in Atlantic for expenses incurred while negotiating to sell their property to the state. The sponsors of the amendment. Sen. James Schaben d Dunlap and san. Lee Gaudineer d Des Moines said the state should pay the landowners for the trouble they went to in Selling their land. A a we re responsible for those expenses and morally the state should pay Quot Gaudineer said. Several amendments were offered to take the $700,000 and allocate it to other specific state programs instead of returning it to the general fund but All were Defeated. Another Section of the Bill pro emergency room of a Hospital Here a Jed for a Jan a sent once of be. Tween 30 Days and one year for cer for treatment of a bite from the 22 Pound reptile. Nukes had been cleaning some cages when the Rattler broke Loose and struck. It was at least the 16th time he had been bitten in his 24-year career of trapping and milking poisonous snakes. Ironically the purpose of his milking snakes was for the venom to provide the raw material for Snake bite serums. An autopsy was scheduled on nukes body. A Deputy medical examiner said it appeared nukes died of a heart attack brought on by the snakes venom. Lain employment age violations. The jail sentence however was removed entirely and replaced by the $20 to $100 Fine. Too Many of the prime advocates of the child labor measure said there were so Many amendments that the Bill has lost much of the punch pay tribute to those who died on iwo Jima Washington up Twenty five years after the Day 60,000 . Marines swarmed ashore iwo Jima Marine commandant Leonard f. Chapman paid tribute to both the 18,000 japanese and 6,000 americans who died there. In a ceremony at Washington National Cathedral Chapman said of the 36 Dav Battle a iwo Jima was a japanese Island As surely As Virginia is one of the United states. To the men who defended it its raw volcanic Ash represented the holy Earth of Home. And there the bravery and determination of the japanese fight which was intended. By the time ing Man already proven in the a Erle Stanley Gardner in serious condition Post office to close monday the Post office will be closed monday for Washington a birthday. Debate ended Lake thursday afternoon legislators said the House was rapidly passing amendments which confused cluttered and in some cases a a gutted the Bill. In the morning the House cleared the major hurdle a that of setting age limits for workers. Under present Law Street occupations such As newspaper delivery and peddling Are restricted to persons 11-years-old or older. The new Law would lower that age limit to 10-years-old. Riverside. Calif. Up a Erie Stanley Gardner creator of the fictional attorney Perry Mason and the author of More than too detective and Western stories was in serious condition today at Riverside com two false alarms Unity Hospital. A Hospital spokesman said the author was admitted last nov. 4 Fol civic War. Was increased to an even greater Effort to Stop the americans. A americans and japanese met As enemies on iwo Jima and As ene. Mies they fought one another a yet As men they shared the agony and bravery of that Battle. Now 25 years later iwo Jima is again a japanese Island Aud again the Flag of Japan floats Over its Barren crusts. Lowing treatment at the Hospital in july. The Hospital refused to com the Box Section will be served and ment on what Gardner 80. Was be sped Al deliveries will be made.,. A a my treated for but his wife said he there will be no Rural or City de / was suffering from Lively. 12% Layoff at Collins radio Cedar rapids up Collins radio company announced Friday but it was a false alarm As Here thursday that they have been was the Call to Bluebird Midwest laying off personnel since last octo firemen were called to the Emeron electric Plant at 1 16 pm. The at 9 10 thursday. Ber in their Cedar rapids Plant. Water pressure at the plants the company confirmed Specula a number of dropped setting off the alarms at Tive reports about a Layoff in re minor ailments. The police station. I cent months at the Plant

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