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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 23, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair vol. 92, no. 45mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening february 23, 1970 Price to cent fire on american tourists kill one Tel Aviv up a Arab Ger woman As mrs. Barbara Ertle 31, Rillas machine gunned a Busload of 37 american tourists on the Northern outskirts of biblical Hebron today killing one american woman. Two other american women and an israeli male guide were wounded. Of Grandville Mich. They said her husband also on the tour is pastor Theodore Ertle of the Grandville Baptist Church. Too the spokesman for the group which has been staying in Jerusa a spokesman for the group on a lems mount Scopus hotel since it one week Bible land tour of Christian holy places identified the dead sees Little Chance of ending draft Washington up a defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird sees Little Chance of eliminating the draft and converting to an All Volunteer armed Force by mid-1971 As recommended by a presidential commission. Laird also said he could not see any expansion of the . Military role in Laos a was far As ground forces Are concerned a although he declined to Rule out greater use of air Power to Aid Royal laotian troops. The Pentagon chief basically endorsed the concept of volunteerism outlined in a report submitted sat urday to president Nixon by a 15-member panel headed by former defense Secretary Thomas s. Gates or. But Laird said u5. Military strength would have to drop to at least 2.5 million men before the draft could be scrapped a Good Deal below the 2.9 million level projected for july i 1971. Laird a View was similar to that expressed sunday by sen. John c. Stennis a miss a chairman of the Senate armed services committee. Sennis said he thought the Volunteer idea was a a desirable but that it probably could not be systematized a for a standby draft system would be needed for As Many As 15 years to encourage volunteers he said. Arrived three Days ago said most of the americans were from Michigan and Illinois. The spokesman for Jerusalem a Hadassah Hospital to which the injured were airlifted by israeli army helicopter identified the wounded As Lucille Draper 53, of Buffalo n.y., Tabea m. Damico of Atlantic City n.j., and Zvi Greenberg the tour guide. He said miss Draper the sister of the tour Leader a reverend Draper underwent surgery for removal of shrapnel and was in Good condition. Miss Damico suffered Only superficial injuries As did Greenberg the Hospital spokesman said. O p o an israeli tourism ministry official said the americans were among 37 american tourists who arrived in Israel on a cruise ship sunday for a one Day tour of the holy land. He said their bus the second of two tourist buses heading for Jerusalem was ambushed As it passed through the Arab Village of Hal hour on Hebron a Northern outskirts at 3 . Two critical of news Media Atlanta up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew and chief Justice Warren e. Burger criticized the new Media in separate weekend appearances. Agnew denounced the a a drivel of the Liberal press and Burger was angered by a a a disrespectful television camera Crew. Agnew spoke at a $100-a-plate dinner saturday night that raised $100,000 for the Georgia gop. He said he does not intend to heed the Call of the a Liberal news Media. To lower my Law abiding americans Agnew said a need a Strong voice to penetrate the cacophony of seditious drivel emanating from the Best publicized clowns of our society and from their fans in the fourth burgers argument with the lbs television came before his speech saturday night to the american bar association Aba convention. Burger said sunday he called lbs president Frank Stanton to complain about the conduct of the Crew. Burger said the Camerman were a a impertinent when he barred them from covering his speech. He said the Bright television lights Hurt his eyes and since the function was a nonpublic one he limited news coverage to non electronic journalists. Four escape from prison fort Madison up a authorities said the four men who escaped Early monday from a dormitory outside the Walls of the Iowa state Penitentiary Here brought to seven the number of men who have escaped this year and still Are at Large. All seven were trustees housed in the dormitory. Four were reported missing at 4 32 . This morning they were identified As Howard Boughten 28 Delbert Tague 37 William Davis 37 and Dallas Birt 42. No Home towns were available on the men. Boughten was serving three terms one for robbery a second for escaping from Anamosa and a third for larceny in the nighttime. Tague was serving a sentence for breaking and entering. Davis was imprisoned for robbery and Birt for receiving stolen property. Asks help to Stop attacks on jetliners Jerusalem up a prime minister Golda Meir asked the ambassadors of 16 nations today to help Stop attacks against Israel bound jetliners and to urge seven airlines to resume cargo flights to Tel Aviv. The mysterious 47-death crash of one Israel bound plane saturday and the nonfatal bombing of another carrying mail for tri Aviv prompted seven of the 12 airlines serving the jewish state to suspend temporarily or indefinitely shipments of freight or mail to Israel. Mrs. Meir called in the ambassadors after a speech to her Cabinet sunday night calling on a governments airlines and private organizations to take the necessary step i to put an end to the running amok of Arab terrorism throughout the she was reported to have repeated this Call in the hour Long meeting today and to have asked the Amba is adors to urge the seven airlines to resume taking cargo immediately. Win firsts in contest Jan and Ross Anderson received first ratings in the instrumental Solo contests held in new London saturday. The contests were sponsored by the Southeast Iowa bandmaster association. Jan is an 8th grader and plays flute. Ross is a 5th grader and plays trumpet. They Are the children of or. And mrs. Gene Anderson it. Pleasant. Complaints from Laos Vientiane up a com Muni i lao spokesman complained tonight that american b52s had struck targets Northeast of the Plain of jars and that a the american aggressors Are bombing and killing laotian the statement came from both Petrasy a Patchet lao representative in Vientiane at a soviet pm local Mitchell nursing Nome suspended easter Seal poster girl Lori Jean Bowen 3, born with a spinal defect is greeted at the White House by president Nixon. Lori Jean is the adopted daughter of or. And mrs. Eugene Bowen of Columbus Ohio. I $ water shut off in Sheaffer addition the Supply of water in Sheaffer addition will be shut off Between the hours of 9 . And 12 noon on tuesday february 24th. The shut Down is necessary to enable the water department Crew time to change a faulty hydrant in this area. A Courtesy and Friendship for Pompidou Washington up a Tho White House said today president Nixon expects his talks with French president Georges Pompidou to be Nance therapy treatments Reha easter seals mailed in area late this past week the 41st annual easter Seal society of Iowa a Campaign opened. Hundreds of sheets of White Blue and Green easter seals flooded the mails in the county in the past few Days. Contributions Are used to i conducted in an atmosphere of a Courtesy and a spokesman said this also was expected to Mark Pompidou a speech to a joint meeting of the House and Senate on wednesday. White House press Secretary Ron Bili tation training loan equipment services to Home bound handicapped and Camp Sunnyside. According to mrs. Arthur Spraker easter Seal chairman for Henry county the Campaign will run from feb. 23rd through easter sunday if two killed in Leon collision by up a double fatality near Leon saturday night brought the weekend traffic death toll for Iowa up to six with two children included in the total. Killed in the Headon crash on Iowa 2 one mile East of Leon were Allen Jack Owen 23, grand River the Driver and Only occupant of one car and Myrna Hamilton 18, Leon a passenger in the second car. The Iowa Highway patrol said the Owen vehicle crossed the Center line and collided with a car driven by Kenton Mcclaran 18, Leon. Two other passengers Randall Hines 18, Leon and Cinray Fisk 16, Des Moines were injured. Washington s birthday Quot on 15th next year Washington up a George Washington a birthday a Holiday for Many americans was observed today because the 22nd fell on sunday. The 22nd Falls on monday next year but it la be work As usual for Many of those who got today off. The reason is that beginning in 1971, by act of Congress Observance of Washington a birthday As a Holiday will fall each year on the third monday of february. So even though feb. 22 will be on monday in 1971, the Washington a birthday Celebration will be on the previous monday the 15th. The objective was to guarantee Federal employees at least five three Day weekends a year. Besides Washington a birthday on the third monday of february other changes starting next year Are Observance of memorial Day on the last monday in May instead of always on May 30 Columbus Day on the first monday in october a new Holiday for Federal employees and veterans Day the fourth monday in october instead of nov. 22. Observances for new years Day Independence Day labor Day. Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day were not changed. Will coordinate alumni activities or. Dale Garrels of it. Pleasant has been elected president of the University of Iowa dental alumni association for the year 1970, As reported in a previous Brief announcement. The other alumni officers Are or. Richard Evans vice president Britt or. Clifton Adams Secretary Iowa City. Or. Garrels duties will be comprised of coordinating dental alumni activities for the year at the University of Iowa and organization of Post graduate seminars in conjunction with Homecoming activities this next fall. Or. Garrels has served the past three years As Secretary for the Southeast dental District consisting of Oskaloosa Ottumwa Centerville Bloomfield Washington Fairfield Keokuk fort Madison and Burlington. He is a member of the Quad county dental society Iowa dental association. Academy of general Den is try flying dentist association and the american dental association. Or. And mrs. Garrels reside at 208 South Cherry with their three children Becky 15, Mike 14, and Ellen 12. They Are members of the first United methodist Church where or. Garrels has been Church Lay Leader the past two and one half years. He is also serving the Muscatine District As Lay representative to the state program Council of the Iowa conference United methodist Church. Ald Ziegler was asked whether in i March 29th. It climaxes months of Yon was concerned about possible preparations and planning to vol treatment of the French Leader while in this country. This was a specific reference to threatened demonstrations against Pompidou because of French policies unters throughout Iowa. Mrs. Spraker said a i urge All residents of Henry county to carefully read the letter when it comes and respond generously to the Apap two Small children in Alabama and letters it will remind others in the Mideast and the announced j peal. By using the seals on cards plans of some members of Congress to demonstrate their disapproval of the Pompidou Middle East stance by boycotting his appearance. Butler Ala. Up a two a beatnik Type men tied up a woman and kidnapped her two Young nieces from a trailer Home today telling the woman that the girls father owed a $4,000 gambling debt. Choctaw county sheriff Leon Clark said Tina Cain 3, and Tiffany Cain 2, were snatched by two men one wearing a Goatee and both sporting Long sideburns. Clark described them As a beatnik the sheriff said the two men broke into the trailer Home of or. And mrs. G. W. Rozzell the girls aunt and Uncle and took the children after tying mrs. Rozzell up. The sheriffs department Highway patrol and Fri launched a manhunt in Alabama a second kid Des Moines a state health authorities Friday suspended the License of Mitchell nursing Home at it. Pleasant until dec. 8, 1970 or. Ronald Eckoff acting Iowa health commissioner said owner we bar Mitchell May reapply for a License after dec. 8 providing he submits a a psychiatric report indicating competency to operate a nursing or. Eckoff modified an earlier state health dept order that had revoked the License. Fridays suspension was based on testimony Given in it. Pleasant last month during a three Day hearing requested by Mitchell. Or. Eckoff said testimony showed Mitchell had improved conditions in the Home Between May and november when department nurses made inspections. But he said housekeeping faults incomplete patient records and failure to provide adequate nursing service persisted. The commissioners order also cited testimony from witnesses who saw Mitchell intoxicated in the Home. The department has ordered re vocation of a License held by a second Mitchell nursing Home this one in new London. A hearing is scheduled for March 4 in Henry county courthouse. Operator of the new London Home is Mitchells estranged wife. Grace according to testimony in the january hearing. Bassy reception commemorating red army Day. The Patchet lao maintain a Mission Here although they Are no longer acting in the coalition government set up in 1954. A similar complaint came from the communist Patchet lao radio which said the laotian people would not be cowed by the b52 missions. The b52s were diverted from South Vietnam to strike at a major North vietnamese offensive which overran the Plain of jars. A government spokesman said North vietnamese troops used helicopters in their capture of the Plain of jars saturday. Most other military officials discounted the report As an attempt to offset the questionable Battlefield performance of laotian troops. Col. Thongphap knocks the defense ministry spokesman told laotian newsmen that the North vietnamese used As Many As 6,000 troops 18 tanks and three command helicopters to seize control of the Plain. The u. S. Command for the third time in the past week cancelled e52 strikes in Vietnam for More than 24 hours to Send the bombers against the North vietnamese takeover on the Plain of jars in Laos. Too the bombers resumed their strikes in Vietnam today with a Mission one mile South of the demilitarized zone it Doz near con Thien. Other sources said the North vietnamese offensive in neighbor no Laos was designed in part to believe the bombing pressure on the to Chi Minh Trail. It has had the effect so far of drawing b52s off the Trail three times for attacks in Laos. Allen expects to keep Job that handicapped people can be it Naping in less than a week. Last helped by easter 1 thursday tiny Shaun Yvette my a self addressed return envelope j Leroy was kidnapped from her Moth the plans arranged for Presl is provided for mailing of Contri ers car at an Ozark Ala. Grocery Dent Pompidou a state visit Are in j buttons. Residents who did not ii the baby was found Sale the next rumours up the next civil do rights Liberal to leave the Nixon and Washington up a or James e. Allen jr., . Education commissioner today strongly denied accordance with the Friendship that j chive a letter or the seals and does exist Between the two coun j would like to have some May Call tries a Ziegler said. A we receive him j mrs. Spraker or write to the with Courtesy and Friendship and i easter Seal committee Box 181, believe Congress will receive him it. Pleasant. Others wishing to with j make a contribution May also Send Pompidou left Paris on his special their contribution to this same French air Force jetliner at 7 23 .1 address. Mrs. Rozzell told authorities that ministration the two kidnappers mentioned that the girls father had run up a $4,000 gambling debt in Florida. She said the men left in a Cream coloured 1963 car bearing Texas License plates. Pleasant Jaycees to offer pick stump shooting education program trial jurors a i do not intend to run from a Tough he said. A if everybody ran when the tide was against them we would never get anything done in this Leon e. Panetta civil rights enforcement chief for health Educa Ion and welfare was forced from his Job last week because of his out spoken commitment to enforcing school desegregation in the South. Uhlenhopp appointed court Justice Des Moines up a Harvey h. Uhlenhopp of Hampton was today appointed to the Iowa supreme court by gov. Robert d. Ray Uhlenhopp 54, will replace jus ice Bruce m. Snell of Ida Grove Aho will retire March 4, after serving nine years on the High court. Uhlenhopp a term will expire dec. 31, 1973. Uhlenhopp has served As a District court judge since 1953 and currently is the senior judge of the Lith judicial District in Central Iowa. Ray had to choose Between Uhlenhopp and two other nominees Richard Cooper of storm Lake and David Harris of Jefferson. A Only one can be appointed to this highest court of our state a Ray said a and the decision was not easy because the qualifications of the other two nominees Are also outstanding. Break in at local station a break in at Ike a Sinclair station was discovered at 11 05 pm. Saturday and eight to ten Shock absorbers were reported stolen. Entrance was gained through a South window which was broken according to police. Leonard Greenfield reported at 10 55 Arn. Sunday that his 1970 License plates no. 6838, were taken from the front seat of his car. In the it. Pleasant Jaycees announce the adoption of a shooting education program part of a National Effort by Jaycees to teach Good gunman ship to youngsters Aero is the nation. The program is open to All boys and girls 7 to 14 years of age and instructs in All phases of Good gun usage and proper gun handling in a thirteen week by gun course. It concludes with a Jaycee shooting league in which boys and girls will participate in regulation team match Competition. Larry Marlow local Jaycee president said the program is the most comprehensive shooting program Ever provided for youngsters. A fall boys and girls a Marlow stressed a Are eligible and go through an extensive but interesting series of lessons on All phases of careful gun handling and the first of the 13 weekly lessons in the new shooting education program is scheduled for 2 ., March 14, at the newly acquired Jaycee Headquarters on the Northeast Corner of Henry and Jackson streets. Subsequent lessons will be held each saturday afternoon. Shooting is actually done with by guns making it possible to conduct the program either indoors or outdoors. No special shooting Range is necessary. The Basic course consists of 13 firearm nomenclature proper sighting and marksmanship training As Well As proper shooting positions and Range commands. At the conclusion of the 13 ses Des Moines up a the slow process of picking jurors to hear Ronald m. Stumps second trial for murder began today As stump began another phase of his Sions awards Are Given to tile Eluee Jor fre it com which has seen top shooters in each of the various one Mure Jer conviction overthrown age groups. Each participant also by an appe&1 coun receives a w Aliet size Caid and cd stump maintained his innocence Tif Cate showing that he has sue 0f the shooting of Michael Daly 21, Cess fully completed the course. Des Moines it All through his trial this program comes at an of Memder he wa3 convicted of Portune time in View of the second degree murder and sentence Sion in the Iowa legis Atule i a Vears prison in 1951 All 16-year Olds May be 1 equate of even years water after a series pass an extensive gun safety Pix it g circuit Gram before being a11 s apply t a St Louis Over. For a Hunting Iceil the s Jaycee threw the on the grounds sponsored shooting education pro. Fri his constitutional rights were de Gram could be developed in con Junction with the state officials to n e _ meet the requirements of such a Law. Kentucky teachers the local program will involve. Q in team Competition among the boys and girls participating and the Louisville by. Up a an teams will be sponsored by inter estimated 27.000 of Kentucky s ested local businessmen and people 1 33,000 Public school teachers went in the Community. I on strike today to Back demands the shooting education program for higher salaries. Most of the will be offered at no expense to the states 700.000 pupils received an participants. Anyone wishing to unscheduled Holiday know More about the program should Contact Don Proctor pro ret a committee t and a program i this evening John Fowler an a Ltd fan of wildlife will bring the kiwanis sponsored travel and adventure entertainment at the Iowa Wesleyan College Chapel this monday evening at 7 30. A the Alpine world a .A.�?� will be h is topic. This is a Story of Many a relation two accidents Are reported two accidents have been reported to City police. At 11 40 . Saturday cars driven by Marvin r. Elmore Fairfield and Zelpha Mae Lane it. Pleasant collided at the intersection of Washington and Walnut streets. Elmore was going East and the Lane car was headed North when the Accident occurred. The front end of the Lane Auto was damaged an estimated $300 and the right Side of the Elmore car was damaged. Police filed a charge of failure to yield the right of Way against mrs. Lane. At 6 55 am. Monday a 1969 Dodge driven by Connie r. Elmore West Burlington struck a Street sign and barricade on East Washington Street near the by Vee store when she was temporarily blinded by the Sun. There was considerable damage to the right front undercarriage of the car. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon or. Dale Garrels Jet chairman 385-3393. Or Larry Marlow 385-8667. Announcement i to meet tuesday will be made at a later Date As to a a _ when registration Blanks will be the retail committee of the it. To nature and wildlife in the sier so Many of us need one hour sessions these sessions available to local merchants pleasant chamber of Commerce Ras and the Rocky mountains much higher wages one hour sessions. These sessions a Auto Harlan hotel at throughout four seasons of the to pay the prices caused cover topics such As guns and am schools and boy scout and girl will meet at be Narian noun Ai munition proper firearm handling scout troops. Noon tuesday. I year. 4 is higher wages. I

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