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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 27, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Athe it pleasant news partly Cloudy Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 49mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening february 27, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain Plain talk from rur Itania i i /. The foreign minister of rur Ltan a was trying to understand some of Arfe gripes of Tho american Young. Quot they Tell me a he said Quot that adolescents in your country blame their parents for having let them Down. I must say that this underscores an irony that is downright cosmic in its comical dimensions. Quot the mothers and fathers of your College students a he continued Quot happen to be the first generation in world history that has chosen to live almost exclusively for its offspring. Its been everything for Little Bill or Little Mary. The modern Parent who had to worry about making a living in the depression decided Long ago that his kids should never have to encounter deprivation. Schooling should be made a free and easy Boon for everybody even up through the state University and on into pm. D. Circles if desired. The restraints of the old Puritan codes were for the Birds the Young were to be allowed to find their Way experimentally. If they wanted to try grass or one of the a non addictive drugs Okay what after All is the difference Between devoting saturday night to puffing marijuana and the older method of getting a a High on alcohol Quot so what has happened a the foreign minister asked Quot As a result of your permissiveness the Par ent who has let his children be completely free to define a relevance for themselves is accused of a a failure of the students who have been going in Ever increasing droves to the new schools and colleges the better to learn the subtleties of language the arts of persuasiveness and the use of logic have taken to smashing windows and Yelling obscenities to make themselves understood. The slogan is the new Art form the debate is out. Too Quot i done to want to be moralistic about it a said the foreign minister Quot but Wasny to it better when the parents did no to live so much for their children and there were limits on indulgence Wasny to it better when a child was expected to earn his right to a scholarship by hard work or a if he was a underprivileged a to put himself through College by waiting on Tible and other such a menial tasks Quot what gives me pause a the foreign minister mused a is that the Young whose parents have been living for them Are now going to try to make a Universal ethic of this business of living for someone else. Everywhere you hear it said that the new generation is loaded to the Gills with a social the Young reportedly done to want to go into business that would be a selfish preoccupation with making Money. They want to Quot Well in a for a certain amount of service and i would be the last to decry idealism but if everyone is going to live for everyone else How will anyone find time for a life of his own who would raise the crops or make the furniture or come up with new inventions who would write the novels who would earn the Money that pays the taxes a to help the truly helpless who would Ever become proficient in the Many self serving skills that paradoxically keep the wheels of civilization turning Quot what you need a said the foreign minister a a is a revival of a Little common sense. Its As simple and corny As that. The Parent who does no to like what his kid is doing in school might cause a real revolution in attitudes if he were to say a Okay Bill if you done to want to study then i guess you la have to go to Vork. In a not paying to have you learn How to smash and the College administration that would confront striking students with a strike of its own simply shutting up shop until the kids realized they were Gipping themselves by not attending the classes they had paid for might really Lay the ground rules for a new study of economics. Quot of i know in a being hard hearted and a Square a a said the foreign minister. A but you do admit you have a problem done to you Quot and one final thing a the foreign minister said in dismissing his american Friend. Quot its about this idea that marijuana is no different or no worse than alcohol. What May i ask is so Good about alcohol a distributed by King features Syndicate Nixon asks Power in labor disputes in transportation Washington up a president Nixon asked Congress today for Broad new Powers a including a compulsory settlement process a to Deal with labor disputes in the transportation Field such As the Many working at High school on a music Many dancers and singers practice in any available space set workers work on stage Crew members discuss problems costumes Are fitted directors shout cry whisper and encourage. And it All happens at the it. Pleasant High school auditorium As the Mph drama and music departments prepare for the March 6, 7, 13 Ani 14 productions of a the music nearly 175 High school and elementary students form the cast of Meredith Willsone a Broadway hit. Duel leads have been cast for the roles of prof. Harold Hill and miss Marlon paroo. Tom Galer and Janet Oldt take the leads March 7 and 13 while ted1 Boal and Marilyn Kra Bill share the spotlight March 6 and 14. Mrs. Marabelle Magnuson As vocal music director and mrs. Marilyn Vincent drama instructor will be sharing the directors chair. Or. Keith Thomas is in charge of instrumental music. Tickets have been sold rapidly to friends and family of the Large cast so get your ticket before All the seats Are gone. Tickets May be bought from any cast or Crew member for $1.25 and May be reserved at panthers Lexau drug store. Threatened stoppage of the nations railroads. Declaring present Laws covering labor disputes in the transportation Industry Are inadequate Nixon advocated what he described As a a final offer selection to break deadlocks. Too he asked Congress to extend the present 80-Day Cooling off period allowed the government for up to an additional 30 Days to permit the government to compel partial operation of struck transportation industries if needed and to impose the compulsory settlement machinery As a last resort. Under the last procedure each of the parties would be Given three Days to submit either one or two final offers to the labor Secretary. The parties would then be Given five Days to meet and bargain Over the final offers. If no agreement was reached a special group of three Neutral panellists would be set up by either the disputants or the president and the special group would choose one of the final offers As the final and binding settlement. Too Nixon said this procedure would be preferable to compulsory arbitration which rail unions have always opposed in the past because it would encourage both sides to Quot compete to make the most reasonable and most realistic final offer a one which will have the Best Chance to win the panels ask court to reconsider Iowa Wesleyan sociology students who have completed a three week practical experience course in social work at mental health Institute. Left to right Ellen Demianych Carol Campbell Ray l i Matteo Polly Kuhrt Linda Reschly and Linda Dietrich. Mrs. Wanita Burton Mhz social worker and instructor front Center. Barbara skin Ner also completed the course but is not in the picture Complete practical course in social work hearing denied in Mississippi murder cases Washington up a the supreme court today denied a hearing to seven men convicted in 1967 in Meridian miss., of taking part in a Kun flux klan plot to murder three Young civil rights workers. The Brief order clears the Way for the seven to Start serving jail sentences ranging from three to ten years. They have been free on their personal recognizance while the Case has been on Appeal. Too today a order rejected their Appeal from a ruling on july 17 by the 5th u. S. Circuit court of appeals affirming the convictions. The Federal government prosecuted the men under an 1870 civil rights Law after Mississippi authorities failed to arrest anyone for the 1964 murders of Michael Henry Schwerner James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman. The Fri discovered their bodies buried under an earthen dam in Rural Neshoba county. Too Sam h. Bowers jr., Laurel miss., identified As Imperial wizard of the White knights of the Kun flux klan and Alton Wayne Roberts a Meridian Mobile Home Salesman were sentenced to to years each. Cecil r. Price former chief Deputy sheriff of Neshoba county and Billy Wayne Posey a service station manager in the county were sentenced to six years. A Jimmy Arledge. A Meridian truck Driver Jimmie Snowden a Meridian laundry truck Driver and Horace d. Barnette a former Auto parts Salesman who was living in Plain dealing la., at the time of sentencing were sentenced to 3 years. To bargain on rail contract Washington up a leaders of four shop Craft unions agreed today after a meeting with Al Cio president George Meany to resume bargaining with Railroad representatives monday less than 12 hours before a court imposed order blocking a nationwide shutdown is to expire. A Union spokesman said that no specific agreement on the deadlocked contract was reached in the two hour meeting with Meany but that the Heads of the four unions would meet monday at 2 . Est. Federal court restraining orders prohibiting strikes by the unions or lock outs by the railroads expire at Midnight monday. . District judge Howard Corcoran was scheduled to Issue rulings before then on whether to Issue preliminary injunctions to extend the no strike no lock out period. Seven students from Iowa Wesleyan College have just completed a three week practical experience course in social work at mental health Institute. Participating were sociology students Ellen Demianych Carol Campbell Kay Dimatteo Polly Kuhrt Linda Reschly Linda Dietrich and Barbara Skinner. This course is a cooperative pogrom developed Between inc and Mhz and made available to students during the College interim period for which they May receive academic credit through participation in an actual working experience in the Field of their Choice. This particular course provided Quot on the jobs in the role and responsibilities of the social worker in a psychiatric setting. Or. Max Burchard sociology department inc and mrs. Wanita Burton social worker Mhz Are the coordinators of the program. Mrs. Burton instructed in the philosophy and responsibilities of the social worker As a member of the treatment team. Mrs. Burton pointed out to the student a a not Only is the social worker an important part of the treatment team in patient care he too must act As the trouble shooter for the team. He maintains continuous Contact Between the patient and the family he must help the family understand the nature of the patients illness and instruct them in How they can Best Aid the patients recovery. It is important that the family become a part of the treatment plan and of the discharge plan. During hospitalization each patient has his own supervising aftercare and rehabilitation following the orientation period under the supervision of mrs. Burton each of the students was assigned duties working with other members of the social service staff for a practical experience and exposure to individual social work functions such As approaches and techniques used in group therapy and casework and in interpersonal relationship techniques. Staff of the social service department of Mhz consists of the director miss Margaret Fannin nine social workers and four secretaries. Regarding the social workers responsibility miss Fannin stated Quot i feel strongly that it is the responsibility of the social worker to help the family recognize that Des Moines up a the state democratic Central committee today asked the Iowa supreme court to reconsider its Contro Ersial decision on an apportionment plan drawn up for the 1970 general election. In a petition filed by Dan Johnston a Des Moines attorney the democrats asked the High court to rehear the reapportionment Case. The supreme court on feb. To held the plan unconstitutional but decided to let it stand for the 1970 elections. Too in its derision the court said there was not enough time to adopt a constitutional plan before the deadline for finding nomination papers by candidates for Senate and House seats. The court said to adopt another plan a would disrupt the orderly processes of but the democrats contend that if the plan is in effect for the 1970 elections a it will result in an unconstitutional legislature in enacting apportionment for Iowa s u. S. Congressional districts and tire Iowa general Assembly for to too the democratic petition included suggestions for a new apportion ment plan which was drafted by Charles a. Hanson of Des Moines. Hanson a certified Public accountant was a member of the bipartisan commission which worked on reapportionment during the 1969 legislative session. Hanson a plan sets up 50 Iowa Senate districts which vary in population from 55,661 to 54,677. The disputed reapportionment plan has senatorial districts varying in population from 58,822 to 52 116. For the House Hanson a plan has the largest District with a population of 27,903 and the smallest 27,-239. The Legislatures plan sets up House districts which vary from 29,590 to 26,000. Closing City ahead of upheaval Pozzuoli. Italy up a aug a and a Hospital for the aged were thormities closed a roman Catholic closed earlier this week when in Church and another school today when new Earth movement was reported in Pozzuoli the Center of a geological upheaval baffling science. Mayor Nino Gentile appealed for Calm among the 70,000 inhabitants of the ancient roman seaport South of Naples then he flew to official measurements showed the City had risen 28 inches in less than seven months the steepest upward movement since 1538. Authorities barred parishioners today from St. Mary of the graces i Church and students from a Pri i vate school near the Harbor area. Social worker just As he has his people do not become mentally or r0me for urgent talks at the min j cracks were reported in the Walls of own doctor. After discharge the emotionally ill completely by them i is try of Public works social worker must continue to work i selves but in their interaction and with the patient and the family by i inter relationship with guerrilla gunners Shell 35 targets guard called into City Santa Barbara. Calif. Up a National guard troops moved into the Santa Barbara armory Early today following the third straight night of skirmishes Between youths and Law officers near the University of California at Santa Barbara. Maj. Donald j. Foley Public information officer for the guard said 300 troops were activated by orders of gov. Ronald Reagan following a request by Santa Barbara sheriff James Webster. The activating of the National guard climaxed the third night of violence in which a Man was shot and wounded following hit and run barrages of rocks and bottles by youths on officers. The highest Export volume in May take tests for census work or. Collins of the District census office in Ottumwa will be at the courthouse at to . On March 4 to give tests to anyone interested in helping with the 1970 National population census. Any citizen 18 years of age and Over is eligible to take the test for census work. The last of four escapees caught Sidney up a the last two of four prisoners who escaped last monday from the Iowa state Penitentiary at fort Madison have been captured. Delbert Tague and Dallas Birt both of Council Bluffs were apprehended thursday near the mis sour River town of Bartlett in Fremont county. They were being held in the Fremont county jail Here awaiting transport Back fort Madison today. The other two escapees William Davis and Harold Lee Boughten were arrested at Gulfport 111., monday afternoon. Saigon up a guerrilla gunners shelled 35 targets during the night inflicting the costliest american casualties since Early december in a wave of stepped up shellings that coincided with the most b52 raids in three months. The bombing Campaign and shellings intensified As seven . Marine units totalling 1,153 men left for Home today As part of president Nixon a third phase withdrawal of 50,000 men by april 15. Military spokesmen said nine americans were killed thursday in an explosion that destroyed a uh34d Navy Seahorse helicopter near the Mekong Delta City of Long Xuyen. Military spokesmen said the cause of the explosion was unknown. Too the guerrillas bombarded 35 bases and towns across South Vietnam with rockets and mortar rounds in the 24 hours ending at 8 . Today. The attacks killed six americans and wounded 23 others. It was the heaviest . Death toll in shellings since seven men were killed in a guerrilla offensive last dec. 2. Shells hit the . Army a Vietnam Headquarters at Long Binh i 18 Miles Northeast of Saigon and j the base Camp of the . 25th in Fantry divisions 1st brigade near in ring i Tya Ninh City 55 Miles Northwest j of the capital. Most of the Casu a allies were reported at Tay Ninh. Tax revolt in App noose Centerville a App noose county taxpayers have risen in revolt they turned out in Strong numbers tuesday night at the courthouse and voiced Public protest to the infliction of the highest property tax rate in county history and As a result of this meeting they made an unprecedented and surprising decision to withhold the first half of their taxes payable this the two buildings. Many of the Pozzuoli is the victim of a Nat townspeople were reported packing ural phenomenon known As a a a slow to leave the City earthquake or a in scientific scientists continued invest la language a Brar seism. Tons into the exact cause of the several schools private Homes i upheaval. Man killed near Gulfport Breck Plant coining to it. Madison Gulfport 111. Up a Raymond Lee Mccann 22, Burlington. Iowa was killed today in a one car Accident on . 34 about one fx3rt Madison up a Hie mile East of Gulfport. I fort Madison chamber of compese said Mccanns westbound Merce thursday said the City has car went off the shoulder ran Back acquired its fourth major Industry Driver faces two charges c7 Yasuhiro Shibata it. Pleasant faces two charges which were filed by City police after his car was involved in an Accident in the 300 Block of South Adams Street at 1 25 . Friday. Shibata was charged with leaving the scene of the Accident and violating the glasses restriction on the b52s dropped More than i 1,500 tons of Boms in to raids on a what were described As guerrilla troop concentrations bunkers and base Camps in the Northern Quarter. The Central Highlands and two provinces bordering Cambodia to the North of Saigon. Dc6 vanishing from scene san Francisco up a the venerable dc6, mainstay of the airlines during the late 1940s and Early 1950s. Is vanishing from the nations scheduled routes. The four engine prop driven air plane will take off for its final flight for United air lines saturday a flight that except for two dc6s in Alaska will Mark the planets demise on scheduled Domestic service. The aircraft is slated for a final run from san Francisco to Salt the Large crowd of both men and women filled every available seating space inside the court room and spilled Over into the 3rd floor lobby. The atmosphere fairly seethed with determination to do some thing about High taxes and to try to curb what is expected to be an even higher assessed valuation next year. The group appeared to be less concerned with the actual number of Mills involved than what the taxes Are being used for and specifically How the costs of government and schools can be Cut. App noose count ians became genuinely alarmed and downright angry last january when they received their individual property tax figure. Assessed valuation has risen sharply and it was Felt that percentage increases had not Only a hit the ceiling but had pushed right through it. So had tempers a group approached John Elliott Centerville businessman to act As their spokesman at the meeting until such a committee could be set up. Onto the Road crossed Over and went off the other shoulder and overturned. Mccann was thrown from the Auto police said. Gulfport is Aero the Mississippi River from Burlington. Williamsburg Ufi a John Victor Van Dyke 23, North eng in less than to years. Officials said american Cyan mid would build a Multi million Dollar Plant for the manufacture of Breck hair care products. The Plant scheduled to open Early in 1971, will eventually employ about 400 men and women. No Community financial contribution was involved. American Cyan Lish was fatally injured Early this mid said the products manufactured morning when he ran his car into would be distributed throughout tile the Back of a gasoline transport Midwest and West. Truck. A authorities said the Accident occurred around 4 . Midway Between Here and North English on Iowa 149. Bettendorf up a tal Magde Merrill 19. Bettendorf was killed late thursday afternoon when a pickup truck in which he was a passenger missed a turn and ran off a county Road Northeast of Here. The Driver of the truck 26-year-old Ronald Fosdyck of Bettendorf was not injured. Area aging meeting March la As spokesman Elliott stated that Des Moines a officials and charge student with putting parasites in food Montreal up a police hunted today for an american student charged with trying to kill his four Canadian College roommates by putting the larvae of a pig parasite in their food. Two of them nearly died. Authorities identified the suspect. Wanted on four attempted murder Cha Gesas Erie Krone formerly of the new York City suburb of Hempsted Long Island. Krone a roommates at Macdonald College told police they asked the 23-year-old student of Matisi ology in january to leave the House they All shared because he his Drivers License. He is to appear Lake City via Oakland actual purpose of the gathering Community leaders in the cities and was behind in his rent Money. In t11p t i Aye Utor morn Nane a inv i. A i Ai. I. A a 1. L Awn _ _ a a ten vis of to n according to police Shibata was going South in a 1963 Ford and it collided with the front end of a parked 1962 Ford owned by Arleen m. White knocking it backwards into the parked 1959 rambler of Harley b. Ott. In Justice George Means court j Arki e1y Nev t and then Back Here. The dc6 ushered in new concepts in airborne luxury and Speed following world War ii. Unlike its predecessors the dc6 had a level floor a spacious pressurized Cabin and air conditioning. Some even had berths like old style railway trains. Hong Kong recorded in a month. Test will be Given in the Drivers i was $180 million in october 1969. J Cense room in the courthouse. The circus world museum is located in Baraboo wis., Home of the Ringling Bros. Circus. Mrs. Whites husband. Harry heard the crash and saw Shibata leave police said. White ran to his car and followed the Shibata car to South on White and West on Webster managing to Block his Way and Stop him. Front tires on both cars went Flat during the Brief Chase. The cars were towed to a filling station. The front ends of the Shibata and Ott cars and the front and rear of the White car were dam i aged in the collision. Was to set up a committee one member from each of the 17 townships. This committee would then represent the group in taking any measures of protest to the right places. Towns of Des Moines Henry Lee. I Richard Davis 24, of Napanee and Louisa counties have been in ont., one of the four victims said cited to participate in a meeting thursday Kranz responded by cruising Speed was an unprecedented 320 Miles an hour and the planes had a nonstop flight capability of More than 4.000 Miles far greater than any previous Model. Depending on the Way seating was arranged the dc6 could carry Between 52 and 89 passengers. The Douglas aircraft company Mezvinsky to visit new London sunday state representative Edward Mezvinsky a Iowa Cit candidate for the first District democratic congressional nomination will be in new London on sunday March i. Mezvinsky will Campaign March la in Burlington to a stimulate additional activity in the Field of aging in the four county area the Iowa commission on the aging announced thursday. The meeting will be held at the Burlington Federal savings and loan building. The commission said it is hoped that representatives from the smallest to the largest communities in the area will attend. A threatening us. He said if we tried to kick him out head put some parasites in our now Mcdonnell Douglas made 705 to door on sunday afternoon. La-dc6s for airlines throughout the tor he will participate in a debate world. I in West Burlington. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon door hard knocks Are never quite so shocking As when its you who do the knocking. Calls crude Oil in River Quot real mess Quot Jacksonville Fla. Up a thousands of Gallons of crude Ott spilled from a wrecked Barge coated the usually Scenic St. Johns River i today and posed a threat to beaches along the nearby Atlantic Ocean. Quot this is a real said la gov. Ray Osborne who flew Over the River in a helicopter. Quot the River a looks like Black

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