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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - February 28, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The i pleasant news vol. 92, no. 50 it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening february 28, 1970 Price to cent Cloudy three killed 23 in bus injured Saratoga Springs n. Y. Up a three new Jersey residents were killed and 23 other persons injured late Friday night when a bus taking them on a ski Holiday skidded off interstate 87 during a snowstorm and overturned near the Eastern new York resort Community. The dead were identified As David Hughes 25, of Mountain lakes . Katherine l. Batynski 27, of Clifton n. J., and Linda g. Mabe 22, of Wood Ridge . They were in route from Wood Ridge to Lake Placid. Sixteen persons were admitted to Chicago Bank files suit against 12 Des Moines up a a Chicago Bank has filed suit in Federal District court in Des Moines against 12 defendants including the president and cashier of the defunct state Bank of Prairie City. The suit filed Friday by the National Boulevard Bank of Chicago seeks a $98,400 judgment against the defendants and charges nine of the defendants with a conspiracy that led to the closing of the Prairie City Bank last monday. The petition said the Chicago Bank loaned Money to the president of the Bank Harry f. Soults and the Bank a cashier Richard Graves knowing the Loans could not be repaid unless the Bank remained solvent. The petition said that Soults and Graves pledged shares in the Bank As Security for the Loans from the Chicago Bank. The Prairie City Bank was prohibited from opening last monday morning by the Iowa banking department. The Federal Deposit insurance corp. Began last thursday to pay off depositors whose accounts were insured up to $20,000. Saratoga Springs Hospital All in a a satisfactory condition. Another seven were treated and released. The Accident occurred less than six hours after another chartered bus overturned in the area. State police said the second bus skidded on the wet Slushy Road and overturned in the median strip. At least three persons had to be pulled from the overturned wreck although others were Able to crawl out through windows. Would Calif. Drop Washington gives old compressor to threshers Washington a a relic of the past will soon be moved from the City water works to a new Home in it. Pleasant. The Washington City Council recently decided to donate an air compressor which has been sitting Idle for nine years to the Midwest old settlers and threshers association. The compressor worked at least 40 years for the residents of Washington pumping water from Well no. 3 into the Reservoir. But nine years ago it was replaced by a Small quieter summer Gable pump. Since then it has been sitting Idle at the Plant. The old machine run by a 60 horsepower electric motor could pump too Gallons of water a minute at its Peak according to superintendent Marvin Glandon and made so much noise Plant employees would hardly hear themselves think. Plant employees Haven to let the eight ton compressor show its age even in retirement. They regularly dust and clean the machine and polish up its brass fittings so it almost looks like new. When it comes time to remove the relic a truck will be backed up to the North doors of the water works Plant and the machine will be moved out on rollers with that problem solved Glandon is trying to figure out what to do with the Hole it will leave in the floor. Agnew hits courtroom exhibition Pas Ltd Iff i a awakened by an alarm Rock mrs. Patricia Crane and daughter Lisa Are dwarfed by the giant Boulder that broke Loose from a Hillside and bounded against their trailer Home Awakening them from a sound sleep in Bridgeport Ohio. It hit at about 2 30 in wee hours. Zephy r notice has been posted at the local Burlington Railroad station of the railroads intention if permission is granted to drop the California Zephyr Chicago to Denver. The Railroad is also asking permission to change the operation of trains la and 12 to three Days a week and to extend their runs to Denver. They now operate Between Chicago and Omaha. Change in the status of the California Zephyr had been expected after permission had been Given to drop the Western Pacific Section from Salt Lake City and for the Denver and Rio Grande Section Between Denver and Salt Lake City to operate Only three Days a week. The change for trains la and 12 comes As a Surprise however. These trains would be upgraded in that they would have longer runs. They would be downgraded in that they would operate Only three Days a week a probably on sundays tuesdays and fridays. At present westbound no. La is due Here at 3 20 p. In. And eastbound no. 12 is due at 4 36 p. In. Under the present arrangement these would be the Only passenger trains stopping in it. Pleasant. The Denver Zephyr which is not mentioned in the changes does not Stop Here. On March 2, the changeover of the name of the Burlington line takes place As the result of the big merger recently announced and it becomes the Burlington Northern. The requested change in service is not a direct result of the merger however. This was anticipated even if the merger had not taken place. Ward Poore to have lie Detector tests fort Madison up a Ward Poore is to be taken to Des Moines wednesday from the state Penitentiary Here for a polygraph test in an Effort to Trace the $150,000 he is imprisoned for embezzling. Poore 56, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after the shortage was discovered in the Taylor county treasurers office in late octo Ber. He has maintained none of the Money is hidden but is vague about where he spent it. Youth Center meeting sunday a special meeting for anyone interested in the youth Center has been set for sunday March i at 2 30 ., at the youth Center House located three doors East of the High school. A this meeting reports will be Given to inform the students of the financial standing and tentative plans for the future of the House. An election of a group of High school students to serve As a Board of directors will be one of the main things on the Agenda. After the election the floor will be open for discussion and suggestions. Project Star string quartet to play concert defends policy at prison it. Madison up a despite the project Star faculty a rash of escapes recently Warden string quartet will play a concert Kyu Brewer of the Iowa state pen for children of Harlan and Saun i tertiary Here Friday defended Ders schools at Harlan school at the minimum custody policy in i 2 15 on tuesday March 3. Lorce at the prison. He also said there was an invest members of the quartet Are i gation underway to determine if Chad Ireland and Yasu Shibata drugs were involved in some of violinists Barbara Beisse violist recent incidents in which Pris Joan Wise cellist. The concert will owners housed in a minimum secur african group backs Egypt up thirty four members of the organization of african Unity today declared their and sympathy for Egypt be approximately 30 minutes in length and will include a performance with the quartet by twelve Ity facility outside the Walls of the Penitentiary had walked away. The most recent escape occur local project Star students. The red monday and shortly thereat Public is invited to attend subject or it a prisoner had to be Hospital to availability of space. Sized because 0f an apparent Over the quartet has played 40 con dose of nembutal and Codille certs for children in the project by wer said drugs were found in communities which include Bur the minimum Security area and the Ling ton Keokuk it. Pleasant prisons entire Stock was moved to Muscatine Waco and Washington. I a More secure place. It is estimated that Over 4,000 Chil a d0 not now at this time Dren have heard Thetje concerts what relation the drugs had to the which Are sponsored by and As part i escapes a Brewer said. Of the title Iii Grant for the is i defending the policy which Grad a total Solidarity to abolishment of string instruction rally gives prisoners More Freedom in its programs in the six communities. Brewer said he a found those locked Phoenix. Ariz. Up Aion has no place in the courtroom and when open rebellion sets in All j Hopes of Justice vanishes vue president Spiro t. Agnew said Friday. Addressing a Republican fund raising dinner Agnew said the. Trial of the Chicago seven Degon i rated into a a perverse display of arrogance vilification and childish the trial could have bet n a a a significant test Quot of the constitutionality of the Federal anti riot Law a he said. A was it happened the outrageous courtroom conduct totally obfuscated the constitutional the trial wits the nations first for violation of a Section of the 1968 civil rights act prohibiting the crossing of state lines to incite a riot. Citizens a May howl and yowl and tax our patience but when they move open rebellion into the courtroom they remove from our midst All Hope of Justice a Agnew said. He said the courts do not need a lectures from self appointed social critics. The antics of the guerrilla theater. And lawyers who confuse themselves with disciples of a new cult. A they do need skilled advocates to be catalysts to the cause of Justice and reporters who have not predetermined the guilt or innocence of the accused a he said. Speaking of the riots at Santa Barbara Calif., Agnew said a those who Burn Banks can Bank on being he said he meant the remark figuratively in the sense of court rules seven May go free on bail Chicago up a a Federal Rubin 31 a were jailed on the appeals court today ruled that All contempt charge before the jury members of the a Chicago Consplr-1 verdict was rendered. So were the Acyl group May be freed from jail on bail. Five it of Hie seven men brought to trial for conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 democratic National convention were convicted bust wok and sentenced to five years in prison. Those five and the other two plus their lawyers earlier had been lumped stiff sentences for contempt of court. Appeals were made of both the jury verdict and of the judge s contempt citations. I the five who were found guilty David t. Dellinger 52 Rennard Davis ,29 Thomas e. Hayden 29 Abbott Hoffman 32, and Jerry c. Measure May of feet Iowa eos mtg Homes x i. T a i i i up for the entire length of their confrontation with Israel. Seven Pnno a pvt. Which Are elven m i w v. C these concerts Union Are Given sentence Are More Likely to be hos members a Slaute. I in elementary schools in project tile it dangerous and a threat to e express on communities Are an important Community than those released Des Moines up a a comprehensive Bill revising Iowa a nursing Home standards swept through tile Iowa House a vote of 99-5, the House the Chicago trial. To capitulate to i approved the legislation which the mob he said endangers the fabric of society. Believe flu Over the Peak May throw the states system of county Homes into chaos. For the first time Iowa nursing Homes and custodial facilities would have to be licensed according to Tho degree of care they provide. At present the department of health issues operating licenses Ati Anta up ii the nation j Jor Only two Broad categories a1 communicable disease Center a cd reported an unexpected nursing or custodial Homes. The Bill would set up three class Mccormack relative attacked near Capitol Washington up a the great Nephew of House speaker John w. Mccormack was attacked near the Capitol Early today by three men. He was to undergo surgery for a Skull fracture. Edward j. Mccormack 21, a student at Georgetown University was leaving a restaurant with a companion and two girls when the three men began making derogatory remarks about the girls a spokesman for the speaker said. It was unclear what happened next but police said Young Mccormack told them one of the men hit him with the Blunt end of a Hatchet then the three men hailed a taxi and left. A spokesman said Mccormack was Quot pretty outraged about the incident. A there was no brain damage but he also suffered bruises of the kidneys when he was kicked after being knocked Down a the spokesman said. Mccormack is the son of former Massachusetts attorney general Edward j. Mccormack of Boston who is the speakers Nephew. Ca e rom in Aba phase or Bra Jec Star activities after progressing through the Var in addition to violin and cello in jobs Reveis 0f responsibility involve Striction for approximately 460 ing minimum children. Eighty children in it. In a ministers meeting in a Ethiopia addressed to egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nas ser. On the War front Israel reported its anti aircraft gunners show Down one of two egyptian mig17s attacking its positions along the Northern sector of the Suez canal today. It was the fifth Day of such raids. Successive i pleasant Are currently string instruction. The quartet concerts will be continued next year by title Iii funds in those communities which determine to continue project Star a he also said the minimum Custo receiving by prisoners form the manpower Pool for Community projects such As the Bloodmobile in which the prisoners participate. Overrules motion for directed verdict Des Moines up a Polk county District court judge a. B. Crouch Friday overruled a defense motion for a directed verdict in the murder Case of Donald m. Stump. Attorneys for stump who is charged in the 1961 love Triangle death of Michael Daly had asked the judge to order an acquittal on Lack of evidence. Defense lawyers took Over Friday following the testimony of the final state witness mrs. Leanna Skultety Rist. Mrs. Rist was engaged to Daly at the time of the shooting but had earlier been dating stump. Lose three helicopters Saigon up a the . Command announced today the losses of three More helicopters to guerrilla ground fire bringing the number of a copters shot Down in the Vietnam War to 1,500. Project Star director Beverly Mohatt of. Pleasant Community school Calendar March 4 8th Grade Orien in Saigon a 10-Man Viet Cong tation it 7 Cottrell gym. Unit attacked a suburban militia school pictures Salem at 8 45 to testing in 4 schools the Henry county tuberculosis and health association through the sponsoring of Christmas Seal sales will be holding their skin testing program the week of March 2 thru 3 in Waco Winfield it. Union and new London school systems. The readings will be Given on March 5 and 6. Jump in deaths for respiratory ail if cations for custodial Homes ments across the nation today but ranging from an adult Foster Home stuck to an earlier prediction that l one or two persons a Fuu the Hong Kong flue outbreak has peaked in most areas. After dropping for the two weeks the number of deaths caused by pneumonia influenza increased to 817 last week. Of this number 285 were attributed to Hong Kong flu. It was the eighth week that Vides help with daily living activities for a number of patients. It also specifies that no nursing services May be provided in a custodial Home. The problem for Iowa a county Homes enters the picture at this Point. More than 85 per cent of tile Homes Are licensed now As custodial Homes. But state health officials admit that Well Over 90 other two defendants a John r. Froines 30, and Lee Weiner 30. The lawyers William m. Mistier and Leonard Weinglass were told they did not have to begin serving contempt sentences for a few weeks. Too the . Appeals court ruling Means that each of the seven would be eligible for bail immediately. If the ruling stands up the lawyers May not have to go to jail at All. The appeals court said Dellinger Davis Hayden Hoffman and Rubin could go free on $25,000 bail each. Bail for Weiner and Froines was set at $15,000, As it was far use lawyers. Ten per cent of the Ball amount is necessary for the prisoners to go free. Presumably their supporters have the Money available. It was not immediately determined when the prisoners would be let out of jail. O a a the appeals court rejected a government Contention that releasing the prisoners would Quot prose a threat to the the government had called the appeals to this the appeals court said a we the appeals panel said there appeared to be a no risk of flight on the part of the defendants. Too the appeals court quoted a 1950 supreme court opinion in support of the decision to order bail for the men. Quot we Are not persuaded a the appeals court said a that existing i Laws Are inadequate to Deal with any danger which the Appe amp lamps might pose to the a spokesman at Cook county jail said the prisoners could be freed within five minutes after bail is pasted. Too the lawyers and supporters of the conspiracy group have been involved in fund raising activities for months. Mistier since the trial ended eight Days ago has made numerous appearances mostly on Campus to seek support for his clients. Friday Kunstler said that . Attorney Thomas a. Foran should ask for a reversal of the con vie pneumonia influence deaths reported from 122 cities in the United states has remained above the epidemic level he a cd said. But or. Allan Brod Tkv acting percent Are providing nurses care Lions because Foran had indicated and services. That Chicago police Quot got even if the Bill becomes Law Iowa a demonstrators during the county Homes will be forced to convention week disorders. Either reject All persons requiring nursing care or spend Money to bring their facilities in line with chief of the cd cd a respiratory disease unit stood by his prediction of last week that tile flu outbreak had reached its Peak in most regions. A tile mortality figures probably reflect the fact that there is generally a three week lag Between standards set out for skilled Nurs the time of incidence of the disease Homes. And the time of mortality a he said. Virginia and Mississippi have re Ewart Guinier to speak monday at Iowa Wesleyan outpost in the first ground assault in the City in four months. Five government defenders were wounded in throwing Back the probe killing two of the attackers Headquarters said seven americans were killed and six wounded in the losses of the three helicopters Friday. In addition to the 1,500 a copters shot Down 1,924 have Ben lost in shelling attacks or because of breakdowns spokesmen said. Double fourth Providence r. I. Up a Rhode islanders celebrate Independence Day twice a year May 4 and july 4. The state was the first to declare its Independence of great Britain a on May 4, 1776. Turner favors wiretapping Bill Des Moines up a Iowa attorney general Richard Turner Friday came out strongly in favor of a proposed wiretap and bugging Bill which has passed both legislative Chambers. In a letter to gov. Robert d. Ray Turner said the wiretap Bill is necessary to fight organized crime in Iowa effectively. Turner said the traffic in narcotics and addictive drugs has skyrocketed in the past few years but Law enforcement officers Are limited to Quot antiquated Means of combating this drug he urged the governor not to veto the Bill. Ray has said he could not accept the wire tap Bill unless a in. And Harlan at 10 45 . March 5 school pictures pleasant Lawn at 8 45 . And Van Allen at 10 45 . March 6 the music Man. School pictures Saunders 8 45 . And Lincoln 10 45. March 7 the music Man. March 9 , testing. . At 8 . Lincoln 10 45 Junior High 11 30 sounders 12 45 Harlan 1 45, and pleasant Lawn 2 45. March to . Testing Salem 8 45 . And Van Allen 10 15. School Board meeting. March 12 . Reading. March 13 and 14 the music Man. March 17 Junior High instrumental festival Here. Concert at 7 30 In the Cottrell gym. March 18 in service Day Early dismissal. March 20 and 21 state speech contest. March 25 Southeast seven conference science Day. March 27 easter vacation no school. March 30 easter vacation nursing Homes Are regarded As More technical facilities which reported widespread influenza Active quire stringent standards and Ity moving them into the epidemic classification. The four categories category along with four other for nursing Homes Range from a the it. Pleasant school grades states a Maine. Rhode Island Basic care facility to an extended University will be the speaker for i 5, 9 and 12, also personnel will Louisiana and North Carolina. Care facility. Be tested on March 9 and to and the Mantoux test read on March Ewart Guinier associate director of the Urban Center of Columbia 12 and 13. Mrs. Wayne King will be assisted by a state nurse the first week and mrs. De Chaney in the local school. Parents Are reminded to sign the child a permission slip so that it can be returned in time for the testing program. Second of Dionne quilts found dead in eighth grader suing school Board Miami up a Michael Hill an eighth Grade student at Park no answer at her door he called police. They entered through a rear window and found the body. Tile doctor reported that mrs. Houle had been taking prescribed pills in Correct dosages. He ruled out built provided adequate for individual rights. Protection no school. Montreal up a Marie Dionne Houle 35, one of the famed Dionne quintuplets was found dead in her apartment Friday night leaving three of the quilts still alive. Mrs. Houle who lived alone May have been dead since monday or fide As a possible Causse of death Early tuesday her doctor said. An autopsy Wras ordered. There was no suspicion of foul family of 14 Couldren six older and Way Junior High school is suing play or 0-.her unnatural cause of three younger the school Board and his principal death according to her brother in him in mrs for a game of marbles. Lave Germain Allard the Sisters Michael an Eagle scout and spokesman straight a Honor a student was mrs. Houle separated from be r suspended for five Days this husband Florian four years ago. Month along with eight other Btu their two children Emilie. 9. And dents for allegedly taking part in Monique 7, live in a Convent. A game of marbles during an Edu 0 a 3 National television class in the two of the surviving quilts an school auditorium. Michael claims Nette and Yvonne live in Montreal he was not involved in the game. Suburbs and the third Cecile re Michael a lawyer Tobias Simon sides in Quebec City. The fifth Sis has filed suit against the school j Ter Emilie died aug. 6, 1954. Board and the school principal or. Allard said mrs. Houle had lived a solitary life but talked to mrs. Iowa Wesleyan colleges cultural theological encounter monday at 7 30 pm in the Chapel auditorium. Or. Guinier will speak on a can the Blacks go it alone a and the Public is invited to the presentation. Educated at Harvard College City College and Columbia teachers College or. Guinier received a j. D. Degree from new York University Law school where he was a University scholar. Formerly new York regional director of the c. I. O. Public workers Union he was the american labor party Candith quintuplets were part of a Daur Manhattan Borough president in 1949. He has been chairman of the Queens Urban league a spearheading the creation of the Jamaica coordinating Council for the redevelopment of the Jamaica Eugene Kitching asking for a three judge panel to Rule on the Allard at least once a Day by Tele constitutionality of allowing a principal to suspend a student without a hearing. Phone and visited twice a month. Her daughters Dionne in Callander ont had a total weight of just Over to area a and executive director of pounds a week after their birth. Brownsville Community Cor or. Allan Roy Dafoe a local general ration a transforming it into a practitioner delivered the girls and wide ranging and successful anti was credited with keeping them poverty Agency alive in the first dangerous Days. With the late assemblyman Rob i Ert w. Justice he formed the har fears that the girls might be sex Lem affairs committee whose a plotted by promoters arose when Kivitis were instrumental in effect their world wide Appeal was real election of the first negro sized. This prompted the Ontario As Brough president of a amp Nhat government to pass legislation in 1935 making them w Ards of the province. Terse verse educated in their i by a. A Gordon some of the earliest books originated on egyptian papyrus Rolls. They were he said his wife became worried Home in Callender and attended what in t Worth the saying Friday after not hearing from be i College As a group. The five girls will before too Long sister since monday mrs. Houles were not separated until they were be written in a Book and doctor was called and w Hen lie got j 19, in november of 1953. popular in song

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