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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 24, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair vol. 92, no. 46mt. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening february 24, 1970 Price to a Jolt these Days by John Chamberlain lbs might explain it better poor Lyndon Johnson. He does no to explain his decisions on Vietnam very Well a or if he does it is wilfully misinterpreted by the Dove democrats who can to resist making a Case against him. An australian acquaintance of mine now living in this country says that any number of his countrymen can Tell Why it was necessary for lbs to go into South Vietnam in Force in 1965 and Why it did no particular harm for him to Stop the bombing of North Vietnam in 1968 in 1965, according to the australian explanation it was just Plain common sense to have the a Southern Point of we forget now that in 1965 the red chinese were emulating the japanese of 1941 and pushing toward the East indies. It looked then As if Indonesia would stay in the red Camp. The Moscow communists were competing with the maoists in supporting to Chi minho a southward drive. All too vividly the australians recalled general Douglas Macarthur world War ii decision to Stop the japanese enemy in new Guinea to the North of the australian continent. As Macarthur had put it rejecting a stand across the Middle of Australia a the Brisbane line is not just so it was strategically incumbent on both the . And Australia to Stop the red chinese and their allies somewhere in Southeastern Asia. If South Vietnam had collapsed while the communists were threatening Malaysia from Indonesia the australians a and the . Too a would have been in the Devil of a fix. Too As 1965 faded into the distance however. Peking was compelled to shift its ground. The a Northern Point of View came to the fore on the asian continent with Mao tse Tung eyeing Siberia Indonesia flopped out of the red orbit. The chaos of the a cultural revolution turned the maoists to isolation for a period. Meanwhile the split bet Wen red China and soviet Russia kept deepening. The dragon and the Bear faced each other along 4.000 Miles of inner Asia actually fighting Over islands in a River. In South Vietnam to Chi Minh. Despite the propaganda of the . Doves who talked of a . Defeat shot his wad in the disastrous tet offensive. True enough Moscow and peking continued to support the North vietnamese and the Viet Cong but the old Fervour had gone. So it was not necessarily 1968 presidential politics that caused Lyndon Johnson to soften his approach to the Vietnam War. If Dean Rusk not Clark Clifford caused Johnson to change his mind about the bombing and about going to the peace table it could have been because our state department had its own information about the development of the a Northern Point of View in red China. Too if he chose to do so Lyndon Johnson might give us a sound geopolitical reason for everything he did. After All if the communists in Asia shift Back to a More inflammatory Southern strategy we can always resume the bombing and slow Down the troop withdrawals meanwhile working at the victimization program anyway. Neither Johnson in his television series nor Nixon in his reports to the nation has seen fit to make Plain things Plain. It took an australian to clarify for me the quarrel Between the a Southern Point of View on the new York times As represented by its foreign affairs columnists Cyrus Sulzberger and the a Northern Point of View As represented by the times former Moscow correspondent Harrison Salisbury. Sulzberger Isnit talking very much these Days about the menace of to Chi minho a heirs but if the Moscow and peking communists were to make peace and turn their full attention to Southeast Asia everything would begin to look different again. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Workers Force Cut in Arab air service London up a ground Crews at Heathrow Airport announced today a total work stoppage against All eight Arab airlines operating in London and a partial stoppage against the israeli line Al Al. A we have decided on this because we fear inadequate Security a said a spokesman for the British overseas airways corp. Boac employees who voted for the action. He did not elaborate or disc Lase How Long the stoppages would last. Too the move could close Down completely the operations of the Arab lines for they depend almost entirely on Boac Crews for refuelling ground maintenance and engine give program for county gop event setback for local option on City taxes Des Moines up a a Bill which would allow Iowa a cities and towns to Levy local option taxes today suffered a setback in a House committee. When the measure came up for debate in the cities and towns committee rep. De Skinner d Altoona immediately moved to table a the Bill and All related although the tabling motion lost on an 8 12 vote representatives said they May have a hard time the annual Republican Lincoln heritage dinner will be held at the United methodist Church in it. Pleasant saturday evening feb. 28, at the first United methodist Church in it. Pleasant at 7 00 . There will be a social hour preceding the dinner beginning at 6 00 . The program for the evening is presiding a or. Frank v. Coles county chairman America a Donald e. Gartin organization chairman Leader pledge of allegiance a Calvin Crane state College or president invocation a Edna Michener county Federated Republican women president dinner introduction of distinguished guests Kay Rogers county vice chairman report a honorable Fred sch Wengel congressman first Iowa District introduction a Richard w. Cornice county executive committee address a honorable Roger Jep sen it. Governor state of Iowa god bless America adjournment a 9 30 . Vips attending the annual dinner and their hosts and hostesses Are hosts it. Governor Jepsen a or. And mrs. Frank v. Coles or. And mrs. Ken Rogers and or. And mrs. Jas. Morrison. Congressman Schwengel a supervisor and mrs. Wilbur Sater John Harris and Dee Mehaffy. National committeeman Charles Wittenmeyer a or. And mrs. Ben a. Galer or. And mrs. E. A. Hayes and or. And mrs. Gary Wiegel. National committee woman a Mary Louise Smith a rep. And mrs. Charles Strothman supervisor and mrs. Clark Burns and Harold Davis. State chairman a John Mcdonald a or. And mrs. Harold f. Mclean or. And mrs. David Mccoid and senator c. M. Vance. State vice chairman a Pat Pardun a miss Edna Michener mrs. Helen Virden and or. And mrs. Arnold Lindeen. District chairman a Dick Drake a or. And mrs. Richard w. Cor Nick and or. And mrs. Donald e. Gartin. District vice chairman a Willa Welden a or. And mrs. Robert Logan or. And mrs. Xen Earnest and mrs. Ruth Ogg. Senator Richard Stephens a senator and mrs. Harlan Foster and or. And mrs. Van Crawford. Committees for the dinner include arrangements a Ralph Carnahan and Donald e. Young. Ticket sales a Donald e. Gartin and David Mcc Oid. Finance . D. Linder Ralph Carnahan and Gary Wiegel. Punch bowl a mrs. Robert Lauer mrs. Ross Lane and mrs. Phillip Crawford. Hospitality a or. And mrs. Bernard Hultquist supervisor and mrs. Lester Meeker and or. And mrs. G. W. Mickey. Tickets May be procured from David Mccoid or Donald Gartin chairman or from the list previously published. Ering tasks while at Heathrow. Al Al has its own ground crows in London and will be Able to continue service. The Boac ban on work at Al Al covered Only the process of starting an aircraft a engines. Spokesmen for two of the Arab lines had no comment on the Boac employ yes action. A Boac spokesman said the company was trying to get them to lift the ban. Too the vote by the hundreds at ground Crew members was a direct offshoot of the crash of a Tel Aviv bound Swiss air plane with 47 persons aboard saturday believed to be the work of Arab guerrilla saboteurs. Representatives of 53 airlines with operations in London met for two hours today to discuss How to tighten Security measures against such sabotage but issued a statement saying they reached a no definite decision on action to be two airlines air France and Kim lifted their embargoes on mail and freight shipments to Israel this morning after putting new Security measures into effect. Eight of tire 16 lines serving Israel continued their embargoes. State phone Bill higher Avalanche buries 48 Reckinger Switzerland up another 19 persons were rescued a an Avalanche thundered Down Many of them badly crushed the slopes of an 11,000-foot Moun i Tain today swept away a Stone j Avalanche monday killed Lour Swiss army Barracks full of soldiers at St. Sigmund Austria and crushed a number of houses one two weeks ago killed 39 per six children five different schools mrs. Emily j. Rice manages a smile along with her six children in Lagrange ga., in spite of the fact that she will have to Hustle them off to five different schools beginning next september under the City a desegregation plan. They Range in age from 6 to 13. Al ski approval for third site Washington up a defense new England possibly in Massachi Secretary Melvin r. Laird asked setts. Congress today for approval of a no specific Sites were mentioned Pompidou welcomed Washington up a French president Georges Pompidou. Received a lavish Welcome today at burying 48 persons. Swiss authorities said rescuers had pulled five bodies out of the debris in this second Ava Lane in in two Days and that Hope was vanishing for 24 Persona still buried. Attempt to save laotian Airfield Vientiane. Laos up a . Fighter bombers aided by laotian t28 warplanes bombed and strafed the captured Road june ton of Muong Soui today in an Effort to save a nearby laotian Airfield laotian military sources reported. The laotian commander at the air base reported his position was third safeguard Sile site Force base to. Two Sites Pompidou who spent his first Des Moines states Telephone $61,266 last year. State auditor Lloyd idea a the Bill went up anti ballistic mis other than Warren fab. At Whiteman air the first task in the preparatory at Malstrom fab mont., and grand work is 1,0 look for government own night on his . Trip at Nixon a re Forks fab n.d., were approved last i de land in tie Are As and to seek treat in the Maryland mountains year. Amp ther property if no Federal proper Camp David arrived by helicopter to begin two Days of business talks the White House where he and surrounded with enemy shells put president Nixon exchanged express Ting the Field out of use. Sions of Friendship and pledges to work together toward common galls area and Southern War material southward r. Smith noting that $44,784 of this was for a local service and equipment a is suggesting the state Communia. ,. A or Hal. State Warren fab Wyo. The munitions director Check to see what ,.igan Ohio Border area the Wash Steps can be taken to reduce the e a _ Telephone equipment charge for tile j in6ton> d c state. A an increase of 24 percent in equipment charges demands a full Jav y g Jove explanation a Smith said in an a Dit report on the state executive Council. The total Telephone Bill for state agencies operating from Des Moines for the year ended last june 30 was $471,077. The report does not cover such agencies As the Highway commission nor the Board of regents institutions. Smith mentioned in his report that due to Telephone toll Calls the Bills to various state departments Are delayed. This creates a Large balance at All times in the accounts receivables. The state auditor said this could be eliminated by Billing the toll Calls one month later. This would result in the departments being billed at the end of the current month instead of two months later. Many errors Smith said were found in the past age accounts and he suggested that More attention be Given to this account. Laird also asked for funds for available Advance work on five More possible Laird testified at a joint meeting Sites without any commitment to cd Senate armed services com go ahead with deployment of Abms Niit be and the Senate defense a those five would be in the Tipper Northwest probably in Washington no privations subcommittee. The meeting was closed but the Pentagon Public portions of his prepared testimony. If the safeguard system is sex and exchanges with Nixon who visited France last february. A we will find that nothing fundamental will stand Between us a Pompidou said in colourful ceremonies under a Bright Sun on the White House grounds. In his opening remarks Nixon columns of smoke went up from fires started in the town seized earlier in tile Day by advancing North vietnamese troops. A Stream of refugees poured out into the Countryside ahead of the communists Iii an action reminiscent of Vici Loam. The communists brought the military air Field a mile South of sons in Val do Sere France too Miles away. The last big Avalanche in Switzerland was on aug. 30, 1965, when 88 workers were killed at a dam site. The worst on record was in 1720 when too persons were killed in the Village of Ruyeras. It was that year a hat files were first kept. Too thirty troops were asleep inside the Barracks when a Wall of Snow tumbled off the 11,070-foot Blin Menhorn sweeping the building 200 Yards and burying at least five two Story houses and a number of vacation chalets. Army officials said the soldiers were members of an antiaircraft unit doing its annual three week stint of Active duty. A second smaller slide blocked one of the Access roads to Reck Ingen and heavy snows compounded the problems of Rescue workers. Too the Snow measured 300 feet deep where the slide stopped an army spokesman said calling it a of unusually tremendous Reckinger at 4.000 feet. Is across the Goms Valley from the great Zermatt Mountain in southwestern Switzerland. Troops were summoned into the Rescue of their missing comrades victims of the second deadly Avalanche in Europe in As Many Days. Heavy Snow fell through the morning hampering the movement handed to the full 12 Sites original told Pompidou a we recognize that by envisioned it also would include i f Ranee is our oldest Friend our old emplacements in Central California rat ally in the world. As we discuss Southern California Central Texas Var old problems we know we shall and the Florida Georgia area. Work together toward the goals of Laird said the total cast of 12 20q years ago. Liberty and in assails attitude of Liberal newsmen Radnor a. Up a television news commentator Howard k. Smith said monday Lyndon b. Johnson was a politically assassinated by the negative attitude of Liberal newsmen and the same attempt Saigon up a North Vietnam is moving War material southward along the upper portion of the to Chi Minh Trail in Northern Laos at the highest level of the Vietnam War official sources said Day. Traffic is a tremendous a the sources said. There was no immediate explanation whether the men and mater Al Are for a new offensive in South Vietnam or to Back the North vietnamese offensive that overran the Plain of jars and then captured the town of Muong Soui today. . Military sources have predicted a Spring Campaign by communist troops would begin sometime next week. But the official sources said North vietnamese and i Viet Cong units in the South were incapable of launching a sustained offensive because of a Lack of manpower. Arrest Scop pcs at Gulfport Gulfport 111. Up a two of is being on president Nixon. I ii four trustees who escaped Early Smith said in a to guide Maga monday from the Iowa state Penitentiary at fort Madison were picked up Here monday afternoon. Sites estimated at $10.3 billion last Vear had grown to $11.9 billion. He dependence for All Pompidou spoke in French with attributed the increase to inflation jus remarks relayed to a Large crowd stretching out the time needed to of government workers and their Complete the program and to de families together with some Stu sign changes and better estimations j cent groups and tourists responded in terms warm of Friendship. After the ceremonial welcoming. Pompidou and Nixon retired to Nixon s office for their first business talks with French Sale of 110 Mirage jets to Libya expected to be a prime subject. Authorities said William Davis Zine interview he agreed with vice president Spiro t. Agnew that the news business was dominated by liberals and newsmen were not always objective in their reporting. The american broadcasting co. Commentator said liberals have become a a dogmatic and Liberal North of fort Madison and took his Senate votes free school lunches for needy Washington up a the Senate voted. 41 to 40, today to provide free school lunches for All needy children. Adopted was an amendment to the school lunch act to provide that children from a family of four with an income of less than $4,000 a year could get the free lunches. The amendment offered by a bipartisan group of senators also would provide that no child regardless of Means would have to pay More than 20 cents for the school lunch. The provision would replace another Section in legislation to expand my extend the school lunch act. The former part would have allowed a school principal to determine which child was needy enough to get a free school lunch. After the amendment was adopted a motion to reconsider the action was Defeated 41 to 39. The estimated Cost of the school the town under heavy rocket fire i of Rescue vehicles up the Road from and it was not certain american j Glur Ingen and making flight Haz and laotian Airpower could save ardous for the two Rescue Helicon the Field and its Large stocks of fuel ters that flew in. And ammunition. No planes were most of the soldiers trapped in Able to land or take off As of noon their Barracks were from the German speaking Swiss states of a North vietnamese Spring of Schwiz and of Walden. They be Feu Sive seized the strategic Plain longed to an antiaircraft unit. Of jars last saturday and drove 30 Miles to the West to capture Muong soul this morning. The Plain of jars controls North South and East West roads through Laas and Muong Soui is on East West Highway 7 which leads to the Royal capital of Luang Rabang 30 air Miles to the wrest. Uphold right to vary funds for schools newsmen display a a negative reflex action in several areas of the news including the 17, and Howard Lee Boughton 28, Inch program with the amendment offered no resistance. Officers said j included was i minion v hich the two had earlier tied up a farm would mean an increase of $419 Miler Austin Schroeder at his Faun Jjon Over current spending. The Over All Bill also would pro mustering the necessary 16 votes to get the Bill out of committee. The local option tax measure drafted by the six member Senate and House joint committee received no further discussion after the tabling motion lost. Asks for funds for Iowa oms College Des Moines up a a Bill which for the first time would put the state into the area of capital appropriations for private colleges has been introduced in the Iowa House. Sponsored by 20 representatives the Bill Calls for a $4 million appropriation to the Iowa College of Osteopath Medicine and surgery in Des Moines. The Bill says the $4 million is needed for the College to match an $8.5 million Federal Grant for construction of an expanded facility. However sponsors say there is virtually no Chance for the Bill to be passed considering the states limited budget for this biennium. Pickup truck to Gulfport across the vide free breakfasts for some poor Mississippi River from Burlington children a thanks to a Back Bench Owa i conference in the Senate. Davis was serving a term for Rob a bely and Boughton had been sen j tended to 30 years on charges of larceny of a motor vehicle and burglary. They were being held at the Henderson county jail for fort Madison authorities. The four trustees escaped from their dormitory outside the Walls of the prison. The other two men still at Large Are Delbert Tague 37. Serv i ing a sentence for breaking and i tearing and Dallas Birt 42, serving j a term for receiving stolen property. Power outage Here Early tuesday the electrical Power outage in it. Pleasant at 1 50 . Tuesday was caused by the failure of the Turbine drive boiler feed pump. The outage lasted about 20 minutes. Pair admits 42 breaking Grundy Center Livva up a two 19-year-old Iowa servicemen who escaped from the stockade at fort Leonard Wood mo., were being Here Here today in connection with a series of breaking in Northeast and North Central Iowa. John Cummings formerly of Parkersburg and Larry Bodecker of Appleton were arrested Here Day by authorities in connection terse verse with a breaking. By a. C. Gordon authorities said the two men living in the past or future later admitted to 42 breaking in la Isnit any fun by provides for Safe Board on pollution Des Moines up a on a vote of 101 7, the Iowa House passed and sent to the Senate monday a Bill which is regarded As one of the most important anti pollution measures to be considered by the 1970 legislature. The Bill establishes a fertilizer and pesticide review Board which has the authority to regulate the Sale a get or Dis use of the More than fertilizers and pesticides on the Market in Iowa. The measure Ako establishes a scientific oriented advisory committee which is to study and make recommendations concerning various brands and Trade name products on the Market. However the Rural dominated House added what May be a softening provision to tile review Board. After lengthy discussion representatives agreed to put both a farm-1 or and a representative from a firm manufacturing pesticides of fertilizers on the review Board. Therefore the proposed seven member Board was expanded and May give the farming interests in Iowa a controlling voice in the regulation of products they would i be using. The amendment passed on a 58-50 vote with sponsors of the Bill vocally protesting the move. Rep. George Pierson r Oskaloosa sponsored the amendment. He said the Farmers and manufacturers have far More information on pesticides and their effect than the state officials originally planned to be on the Board. Acts Iii two bunk matters Des Moines up a the state Bank of Prairie City at Prairie City has been ordered Clas Washington up a the supreme court upheld today for the second time the right of states to spend More Money on schools in Well off districts than on those in poorer ones. In a Brief order the court affirmed lower court dismissal of a Virginia suit that sought court ordered cd by Iowa superintendent of j Equality of educational facilities in banking. Collin Fritz. Fritz has school systems run by the state. Also ordered the removal of Melvin eleven families from the Western Witte president and director of Virginia county of Bath with Childre Security savings Bank at Wil Ren in schools brought the suit to Lia Irasburg. Force the state Board of education Fritz said monday that there was to increase the amount of Money no indication of fraud or embezzle Given the school District relative to ment at the Prairie City Bank but a that Given wealthier districts said he ordered the Bank closed Virginia educational Aid is disband turned Over to tile Federal de tribute under formulas indirectly posit insurance corp., because of allotting larger amounts to districts unsafe and unsound Busine prac that have higher revenues for times. Schools from local property taxes. He said the Bank had deposits of in a similar suit brought in ii-$3.8 million and Loans of $3.5 Mil Bunols the supreme court Une lion and All secondary reserves had Pete Day agreed with a lower fed been exhausted. Eral court last year that states have at Williamsburg Fritz said he i10 constitutional duty to equalize ordered the removal of Witte be educational facilities in their sys cause Witte had obtained credit tems through tile Bank for tile Benefit j Virginia petitioners contend of corporations in which Witte had de Ere was a difference in their a personal interest. Suit in merely that i lie banking superintendent said facilities be equal everywhere in the the actions in both cases were Tak i state in Only after numerous warnings a the m Lqis m ask Ltd thac plus heal Ings. J cools equally meet the a a needs of widely differing Pupil groups whether in Rich or poor districts. Will speak at rotary open Kharod m.d., will be the speaker at the rotary club meeting this tuesday evening. He is counties in the past several weeks. Try the present which combines director of the adolescent i nit and runaway boys found in Van Buren county Van Buren county authorities at Keosauqua Are holding two runaway boys from Cedar rapids for their parents. The boys gave their names As Danny Ryan and Allen Boyer both 15, both of Cedar rapids. The boys were found monday night after a search by the Iowa Highway patrol and local volunteers. They were first seen at the Junction of Iowa Highway 2 and 81 by the Highway patrol and fled into the Brush before they could be questioned. Three Farmington Young men. Tom Harmon Ross of Day and Dick Munford helped with the they were being held in lieu of $3,000 bods. J. The both of them in one. At the mental health Institute an search party and found one of the psychiatrist for the unit. Youths on the Highway

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