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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 21, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair vol. 92, no. 44 it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening february 21, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain the conspiracy to defame the courts to hear the new left Cater Waul about the contempt of court sentences handed out to the defendants and their lawyers in the Chicago conspiracy trial you might think that judge Julius Hoffman a a Julius the just a was the first Tough judge in american history. But before anyone had heard of judge Hoffman there was judge Harold r. Medina of new York and before Medina there was judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis of Chicago. They threw the Book As the phrase has it at the defendants in Federal cases and lived to be honoured for it. Judge Landis Back around 1907, fined the Standard Oil company of Indiana $29 million for alleged violation of the anti Trust Laws in a freight rebate Case. The decision failed to stand up when it was appealed to the supreme court but Landis had made his reputation As an honest and fearless Man. As every baseball fan knows his Reward came when he was made Czar of baseball after outfielder shoeless Joe Jackson a say it ainu to so Joe and other Chicago White sox players were banned for life from the sport for throwing the 1919 world series to the Cincinnati reds. Harold Medina a experience More closely paralleled that of judge Hoffman for in 1949 he had to endure a calculated Campaign of insult and defamation while he was presiding Over the Manhattan trial of eleven communists charged with conspiracy. Medina was called a rat a fascist and a Kun Kluwer. The communists knowing he had a fear of High places picketed his court with placards which read a Medina will fall like Forrestal a the allusion being to the fact that u. S. Secretary of defense James Forrestal had a month before the trial leaped to his death from a Hospital window. Setting a precedent for judge Hoffman Medina jailed five defendants for contempt. He threatened to Jug the defense lawyers after the trial was Over but a More forgiving Man than Hoffman he finally desisted from penalizing the lawyers even though they had tried to obstruct proceedings in the court. Too where Landis and Medina Are remembered As heroes judge Hoffman is having a tougher time in the present acre of permissiveness. A lot of people think the conspiracy Law under which David Dellinger Jerry Rubin Rennie Davis Abbie Hoffman Thomas Hayden John Froines and Lee Weiner were brought into judge Hoffman a court will ultimately be declared unconstitutional. Even so this does not justify the attempt on the part of the defendants a and their lawyers a to turn a Federal courtroom into a seven ring circus. Conspiracy since it involves a intent a May be a questionable matter under the first or free speech amendment to the Constitution but contempt of court is something else again. Under the u. S. Judicial system a trial is an attempt to arrive at truth and even the lawyers for the defense Are Honor bound As a officers of the court a to keep the proceedings from degenerating into a species of guerrilla warfare. However the defendants in Chicago were obviously Bent on discrediting the whole judicial process and their lawyers did not noticeably put in overtime trying to Calm them Down. The defendants even held a news conference on one occasion to announce plans for a country wide drive against a the american judicial system a timed to coincide with judge Hoffman a verdict. So whether a a conspiracies should be permitted or not we know from the words of some of the Chicago defendants that a conspiracy to discredit the american court system exists. In new York City even while judge Hoffman was meditating his contempt terms obstreperous spectators had to be evicted for trying to disrupt pretrial hearings for thirteen Black panthers accused of plotting to bomb Public places. The new left has been doing its damnedest to create an atmosphere in which no prosecution of cases against panthers hippies new leftists or ads ers can Hope to succeed. It is against this sort of a a conspiracy that judge Hoffman has struck a mighty blow. In a different age he would be acclaimed a hero. But if the new left has its Way hell end up As a bum a and our courts will do Down the Drain with him. Distributed by King features Syndicate bombers strike in Laos again Saigon up a the United states suspended its b52 strikes in Vietnam again today and. Sent the bombers against North vietnamese troops who captured the Plain of jars in Laos in an overnight Battle. Spokesmen for the u. S. Command said the last raid flown by the Strat forts in Vietnam was lat Friday against what were described As guerrilla troop concentrations 46 Miles Southeast of Saigon. Military sources reported that the eight engine bombers freed from Vietnam obligations headed into Laos for raids against the North vietnamese troops who seized the Plain of jars Early today. Vientiane up a North vietnamese troops captured the Plain of jars this morning with a lightning tank attack that Over ran the last major government outpost there the Xieng Phouang air Field. The attackers outnumbered the defenders four to one. The two hour Battle military sources reported the details a ended a 10-Day offensive by 16,000 communist soldiers. Officials had predicted a guerrilla Victory in perhaps two weeks not this soon. Field reports said an estimated two North vietnamese regiments with an undetermined number of tanks opened the attack against Xieng Phouang at 1 40 . And within two hours had overrun the Field. Two attempts earlier this week to take the base had been turned Back. The air or on the ground. A massive u. S. Bombing Campaign involving fighter bombers and b52s, had been mounted earlier to try at least to stall the guerrilla thrust. Military sources said the Xieng Phouang defenders broke up into Small groups and fled to a Valley two Miles South of the air Field but were attacked by the North vietnamese there and driven from the area altogether. A few stragglers were unaccounted for at Dawn. Too the capture of the 25 mile Long Plain 105 Miles Northeast of Vientiane opens new possibilities for the North vietnamese and Patchet lao giving them a base threatening the Royal capital at Luang Rabang and other government outposts. Intelligence officers in Vientiane believe their first move will be to consolidate their troops throughout the Plain and bring in More supplies from North Vietnam. Then the officials predict they will begin pushing Westward toward the air Field at Muong Soui 25 Miles away. End of draft supported by special group hijackers food being scarce in snowy Washington this Pigeon decided to help itself to a nut which was just about to be eaten by a Squirrel. The Hijacker got away with it too. The 1,500 government defenders were said to have suffered Light losses even though some stayed behind to Call in strikes on their own positions by government ac47 gunships. There were no reports of american involvement today either in cattle feeders meetingfeb.27 Henry county feeders and persons associated with the cattle feeding business Are urged to note the area cattle feeders meeting feb. 27 at the presbyterian Church 902 so. Locust it. Pleasant. The meeting is designed to keep cattle feeders up to Date on the latest developments. Richard l. Thurna Henry county Extension director Points out that the 9 45 . Meeting gets under Way with Bill Zmolek Iowa state University Extension livestock specialist conducting a slide tour of some of the Large feedlots in Northwest Iowa. Liquid supplements feed additives and farm processing of soybeans for feedlot cattle will be discussed by Nelson Gay Iowa state University Extension livestock specialist. Silage its place in beef feeding and its supplementation will be the topic of Ron Irvin area livestock specialist. The All Day meeting is sponsored by Iowa state University Extension service. Find kidnapped of girl in Field near Home Ozark Ala. Up a searchers found tiny Kidnap victim Shaun Yvette Mcleroy Friday night wrapped in a yellow Blanket and hidden in a clump of Sagebrush Airliner kills 47 our Eslingen Switzerland. Up a a Swissair Coronado Jet firebombs at 4-1�?Tlaces in new York new York up a firebombs exploded before Dawn today at a police station a Navy recruiting office and the Home of a judge conducting pretrial hearings for 13 Washington up a a special commission recommended to president Nixon today that the draft be eliminated by june 30, 1971, in favor of an All Volunteer Force which would Cost the government an extra $3.3 billion in its first year. A the draft has been an accepted feature of american life for a generation a the report to the president said. And its elimination will represent still another major change in a society much buffeted by change and alarmed by violent attacks on the established the 15-member commission headed by Thomas Gates former defense Secretary delivered the report at criticize Nixon s delay on Oil imports five years and $5,000 for Chicago five Chicago up a the five men convicted of crossing state lines with intent to incite riots during the 1968 democratic National convention have drawn five year prison terms and $5,000 fines. U. S. District court judge Julius j. Hoffman Friday also ordered that they pay an estimated $60,000 in court costs. A it ainu to whether you win or lose Julie its How you play the game a Yippie Leader Abbie Hoffman told the judge As he was led away. Too the judge refused Hail on the grounds that the convicted defendants a Are clearly dangerous they were returned to the Federal tier of the Cook county jail where they and two defendants found innocent Are serving contempt sentences. An eighth defendant named in the original indictment Black Panther Leader Bobby Seale was severed from the Case and is scheduled to be tried later. Hoffman ruled that the contempt sentences and those ordered Friday would run concurrently. Under terms of that order no defendant would serve More than five years. The prison terms were the maximum allowable under the Law. Fines could have ranged to $10,000 each. Too the sentencing came in a courtroom cleared of All spectators including the families of the defendants. Chief defense attorney William m. Kunstler protested the exclusion of spectators. Had right to eavesdrop judge rules Ohe apparently suffered no ill of liner carrying 47 persons 38 and a j Black panthers accused of a bomb facts from her 34 hour adventure. A mysterious note stuffed in the Mailbox of the four month old girls parents told them where to find her. A your baby is in the Woods on the Skipperville Road a Quarter mile outside the City limits a the note said. A helicopters Searchlight danced across the grass and Brush in a generally heavily wooded area some 45 minutes later and army to Doug Batson spotted the Little girl. 1 too concern had been intense at this army base City after the child was taken thursday from the parked car of her Mother who had run into a grocery store. Shaun Yvette suffers from a dangerous form of epilepsy and doctors had feared she would die if she did not receive medication. Smiling up at her rescuers despite cold hands and face the baby was rushed to a local Hospital where a physician said a preliminary examination showed her to be in a a Fine shape. Too then she was transferred to Lyster army Hospital at it. Rucker where the father to Dennis my Elroy is in helicopter flight training. A military doctor capt. John pollster also said the child appeared in Good condition. Holister said he did not believe the infant could have been where she was found for More than two hours. Police declined to comment on the note refusing to say How the note could have been placed in the Mailbox without anyone seeing it. Crew of nine crashed outside this Village today minutes after Takeoff from Zurich for Tel Aviv the airline said. All 47 were killed. Our Eslingen is about one hour by Road North of Zurich. A Swissair spokesman said he my conspiracy. Police said the widely separated incidents probably were related. Damage was minor and no injuries were reported. Police collected fragments of Glass from six shattered Molotov unusual situation for some senators could supp a no further immediate cocktail incendiaries at the Charles details on the crash. He said the four engine jetliner took off from Zurich at i . And crashed at 1 20 . Street station House in Greenwich Village the recruiting office in Brooklyn and the judges Home in upper Manhattan to see if the i same Type of Container was used. They said the time interval Between the bombings was Long enough that one Man or a Small group could have hit each of the a targets. Police said four firebombs were exploded at the Home of state supreme court Justice John m. Murtaghh a $60,000 Home in the Inwood Section at Manhattan a Northern tit. The words a Cong have won. Free the panthers were painted in red on the sidewalk. The Molotov cocktails were thrown at Murtaghh a car parked behind the House. Police said a woman who said she lived across the Street from Mur Tagh telephoned to report a several prowlers outside Jude Murtaghh a Home. A she paused and said a i hear a blast there a another and another a a police said. She Hung up without identifying herself. Washington up a new England congressmen from areas where fuel Oil costs Are High and Oil deposits Low have responded with Sharp criticism to president Nixon a delay in acting on a Cabinet task Force recommendation that Oil import quotas be scrapped. Sen. Thomas j. Mcintyre d -n.h., said Nixon a decision to order a new study was a a crushing blow to those of us who hoped that Relief was near at sen. Winston Prouty r vt., said he was a disappointed in the presidents action and urged that Nixon a provide immediate and permanent Relief to new England without waiting for another study to be completed. The problem he said a is not political but regional. The lines Are not drawn by party but by states. The Oil haves against the Oil have sen. Edward m. Kennedy d -mass., said Nixon so inaction is astounding not merely because of his recent anti inflation rhetoric but because he now has the Bene fit of a thorough report by the task Force. Chicag up a . District court judge Julius j. Hoffman in a precedent setting decision has ruled the Justice department had a Legal right to electronically eavesdrop on members of the a Chicago seven without prior court approval. Hoffman a decision affirmed a controversial policy statement made last summer by . Attorney general John n. Mitchell which proposed the department had a right to eavesdrop without court approval on organizations it believed to be seeking to a attack and subvert the the decision by Hoffman was read prior to the sentencing of five members of the Quot Chicago seven Friday. The five were convicted wednesday of crossing state lines with the intent of inciting riots during the 1968 democratic National convention. Highway reopened after truck Accident Castalia up a u. S. 52 outside Castalia was opened to traffic Friday after being closed for More than 14 hours when a truck carrying ammunition failed to Clear an overpass. Winneshiek county authorities said the truck carrying 9,000 boxes of ammunition struck the overpass thursday night. Authorities said the truck Driver Charles Block 46, Dubuque escaped injury but the ammunition was scattered along the Highway. An estimated $5000 damage was done to the truck and charges were pending against Block. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon now a the time to make our resolutions to resolve to keep our resolutions minutemen Leader draws 4-year term Kansas cit7., to. Up a minutemen Leader Robert Bolivar Depugh Drew a four year sentence Friday for jumping bail. The founder of the rightist organization was arrested in new f Mexico last july. Federal agents confiscated a Small Arsenal of weapons and ammunition at de Pugh a Remote hideaway near the City of truth or consequences. He was convicted of failing to appear in Federal court for trial on charges against which he posted a $5,000 Bond. He said he was not notified of the trial Date. Depugh is serving a sentence at Leavenworth kan., for conspiracy and violation of Federal firearm Laws. A amp new in raises St. Paul minn., up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew has dubbed the five men convicted of Cross ing state lines with intent of inciting riots in Chicago a anarchists and societal Agnew told 10,000 republicans at a $100-a-plate fund raising dinner Friday a the implications vilification and obscenities in the trial the posturing and the spectacular dramatics Only delayed but did not deter the administration of he praised . District court judge Julius j. Hoffman for sentencing each of the five to five years in prison and $5,000 in fines. The vice president also commended the jury who he said a stood firm and Resolute and saw through the disruptions and distractions of the trial. He said the jury a saw the defendants for the anarchists and social misfits they really too As Agnew praised the judge and the jury a longhaired Young Man ran from the Back of the auditorium shouting a a that a a he was quickly stopped by police one of whom grabbed him by his hair aus Ere hat Congress probably will and the crowd cheered. Agnew paused but gave no other indication that he had noticed the disturbance. Agnew also criticized leaders of the democratic party especially those who have taken exception to the outcome of the Chicago riot trial which entered on disturbances at the 1968 democratic National convention. A these party leaders show a weird desire to suck up the clinical support of organized dissidents by excusing and rationalizing the outrageous antics. A there is a curious Rush to accommodate left Wing extremism in the democratic party the vice president added. A the democrats assign a High moral cause and attempt to invoke Public passion for weirdos who they attempt to define As the Young the Black and tile poor. A tile average american is just not going to accept that nonsense a Agnew said. Says Congress May increase Pentagon budget Washington up a defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird says the Pentagon budget this year is so Tricia Nixon celebrates 24th Washington up a Tricia Nixon who still looks like a teenager celebrates her 24th birthday today at a quiet family get together. Tricia a sister and brother in Law Julie and David Eisenhower flew in from Northampton mass., for the increase it. Congressional critics of defense spending have something else in mind. A i still feel very strongly we can reduce military spending $10 billion below what Secretary Laird recommends a sen. William Proxmire d-wis., told newsmen Friday the Secretary emphasized he supported the budget but said he w Ould have no particular objection if Congress raises it. Proxmire told newsmen the implication that the russians could move ahead of the United states was a absurd a noting that the soviets have Only half As big an Economy As the United states and a much smaller defense budget. Quot for us to Rush ahead would be a serious Blunder and put us in the Middle of an arms race that would impose an unbearable inflation and tax Burden on the american people a he said. More important he added it could a a torpedo arms control talks. Proxmire said it would be a Mutual suicide for either country to attempt a nuclear strike on the other. Iowa daily press association Des Moines a idea a some iowans wont know until mid March whether they will he voting for a state senator in the june 2 primary. An unusual situation has developed As a result of the reapportionment plan adopted by the 1969 legislature. In reducing the membership of the Senate from 61 to 50, the plan allowed a senator who has two years remaining on his term to continue in office when thrown into a District with another senator whose term expires at the end of this year providing the second senator Steps aside. If the senator whose term expires at the end of 1970 decides to run he can Force an election. Under provisions of the reapportionment plan according to Secretary of state Melvin Synhorst 19 senators terms will continue until january of 1973. Senatorial elections will be necessary in at least 24 senatorial districts. At least two or More present senators reside in each of the remaining seven new senatorial districts. Statements of resignation or a decision not to seek re election must be filed in the Secretary of states office on or before March 15, Synhorst explained. Senators who will be directly affected by this Section of the reapportionment plan include a Charles Mogged r Fairfield and Richard l. Stephens r Crawfordsville. Mogged a term extends until 1973 while Stephens term i runs out in 1971. In addition a number of senators whose terms expire this year already Are pitted against one another if they choose to run. Because of the senatorial District realignments. Present senators in these districts Are a Chester o. Hougen r Cedar Falls and Francis l. Messerly r Cedar Falls. A Tom Frey a Neola and James f. Schaben d Dunlap. A mrs. Joan Orr d Grinnell and Eugene m. Hill d Newton. To the president this morning the White House. The Basic recommendation involved eliminating the draft while increasing pay for first term officers and men of All armed services plus increases in pay for reserves and for proficiency in service. The present selective service act expires june 30, 1971, and the commission said the draft except for standby provisions in event of a major International emergency should be allowed to die. A the nations interests will be better served by an All Volunteer Force supported by an effective standby draft than by a mixed Force of volunteers and conscripts a the 211-Page report said. A Steps should be taken promptly to move in this direction and. The first indispensable step is to remove the present inequity in the pay of men serving their first term in the armed the report conceded that a Volunteer Force would add to the military manpower budget but it said the True Cost of a Volunteer Force would be lower than an equivalent Force of conscripts and volunteers. One reason for the lower Cost would be reduced turnover. The commission also noted that part of the increased pay would return to the government in taxes. In the 1968 presidential Campaign Nixon came out in favor of an Al Volunteer army on grounds the draft was unfair. To charge tuition in California san Francisco up a breaking a Century old tradition the University of California Board of regents has decided to charge students tuition for the first time. The decision to impose tuition which the regents termed an a educational feel came in a 16-6 vote Friday. It was a personal and political Victory for gov. Ronald Reagan. The governor had urged ending the tuition free tradition at the 106,000-student, nine Campus University system Ever since the regents fired Clark Kerr As University president in 1967. At present California residents pay $300 a year in fees for medical and other non educational services but do not pay tuition the actual Cost of their education. The average Cost for All expenses is $2,400 a year. The regents established a tuition schedule requiring undergraduates to pay an extra $150 this autumn and an extra $300 in september 1971. Tuition for graduate students will be $180 this fall and $360 next year. The new Quot educational feel schedule will also apply to out of state students who unlike resident already pay tuition. Offices will be closed monday Henry county courthouse offices will be closed monday feb. 23rd in t Observance of Washington a birth party which the White House said Day. Federal offices will also be pared to shutdown in retaliation is closed. That evening. Rail shutdown again averted Washington up a the threat of a nationwide rail shutdown has been averted at least for another to Days through court action further extending a temporary restraining order imposed last month. U. S. District court judge Howard Corcoran in extending the order Friday until Midnight March 2, said he would decide then whether to take More permanent action. Quot i am not going to Rule on a Case of this importance now a Corcoran told lawyers for both sides. The temporary restraining order was first imposed Jan. 31 until Midnight Friday after four shop Craft unions struck the Union Pacific Railroad and All . Railroads pre Rev. Johnson will speak Rev. Stanton Johnson District superintendent of the Assembly of god Church will be the guest peaker for the it. Pleasant Church sunday night feb. 22. Services Are being held in the City Library. The pedal meeting will begin at 7 . The Rev. Johnson will be answering any questions about the Church its origin and so on. And also projecting future plans for this work in it. Pleasant. The Public is always Welcome. Anyone without Means of transportation Call 5-4300 or 5-8285. Fights fear with song new York up a songwriter Gladys Shelledy has a fear of flying but she has written a new song. A flying can be fun which has been adopted As a theme song of Fly without fear a group organized to help people who have a phobia about air travel. Nat Cott of Flushing. N. A a a founder of Fly without fear says about 80 per cent of americans have not been in an air plane primarily because of a fear of flying

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