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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 2, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. It. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening january 2, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain the Little Man gets his equalizing weapon in route in Europe the French according to an unofficial report re considering Selling fifty Mirage fighter planes and two Hundred armoured cars to Arab Libya. These Are defensive or offensive weapons depending on the strategies involved. But judging by what i saw in Belfast in Northern Ireland last week both planes and armoured cars a to say nothing of helicopters a Are going to be increasingly vulnerable military objects. Arabs might catch the israelis with the new weapons. But it is also possible Bhat they will be too late. Years ago a new York political philosopher James Henle who used to run the Vanguard press developed a theory that the future of democracy depended on the invention of a Rifle that could Stop a tank. The tank As he used the word was figurative he also meant that the Rifle must be Able to Stop any expensive instrument of War planes and helicopters included. To save democracy in a Small country particularly All that was needed was to make the individual Cit Izen Soldier the equal of a sophisticated machine carrying the most expensive weapons. Too what or. Henle was looking for is now being produced by a Belfast aircraft company Short Brothers and Harland whose factories adjoin the great Harland and Wolff shipyards. The weapon is something called a the blowpipe weighs Only thirty six pounds which Means that it can be carried by a single individual whether he happens to be a regular Soldier or a guerrilla. Its rocket charge is fired from the shoulder. The does no to have to be absolutely accurate for the rocket can be guided by a Small electronic device manipulated like a to set Remote control a single Man carrying a blowpipe will be Able to Knock out a tank or a helicopter or a plane from a distance of two Miles. What this can do to warfare May be imagined if one thinks Back to the nazi general Rommel a breakthrough to the French Atlantic coast in 1940. If a few French troops had been toting the equivalent of the Short Brothers and Harland new blowpipe the German tanks would have been knocked off like tenpin. Too just where the balance would lie in the Small wars that Are now being fought in such places As South Vietnam Laos Nigeria and the Middle East would naturally expecting fast Start in legislature by Harrison Weber Des Moines a idea a the Iowa legislature is expected to get off to a fast Start when it convenes monday Jan. 12. Governor Robert d. Ray May be called upon for his state of the state message on the opening Day or he May wait until tuesday Jan. 13, to deliver the message to a joint session of the legislature. Senate republicans perhaps House republicans As Well plan to caucus on sunday evening at hotel fort Des Moine just prior to the official opening. Some political observers Are predicting that Between 40 to 50 Bills most of them non controversial will be passed during the first week of the 1970 legislature. Too candidates several newsmen Are being mentioned As possible candidates for Congress. In the second District Cole Mcmartin Cedar rapids newscaster May become a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress. Other possibilities Are state rep. Ted Ellsworth of Dubuque and former state senator Tom Riley of Cedar rapids. In the fourth District Roger blobaum Creston is thinking of becoming a candidate for the democratic nomination for Congress. Blobaum who operates an agricultural consulting firm at Creston spent six years As a newsman with the associated press in Chicago and Madison wis. More recently blobaum has been a senior staff member of the House. Too fires state fire marshal Wilbur Johnson predicts Iowa a fire loss from an economic standpoint will be about the same for 1969 As was in 1968 when it was pegged at $21,2 million. Already he has received reports totalling $15 million and he knows of several million Dollar fires that have occurred but have not been officially reported to his office. Fire deaths Are expected to be considerably below the previous year. To Date Johnson knows of 80 fire deaths that occurred in Iowa in 1969. But some reports could still trickle into his office. In 1968, Iowa recorded 102 fire deaths. New London couple killed in Accident City clerk Rama Challen left gave the oath of office Friday morning to the new mayor diaries Hanna anti four new councilmen from left l. W. Van Winkle Darrel Donnolly Max beavers and Edward King. Ray Gisser who was reelected to a two year term was also sworn in. Henry Biggs who was also reelected was unable to attend the meeting. Irvin Harvey Hill 50 and i. Wife a i Evelyn Mary 49, of n w London is i were killed Early thursday morn a i ing in a one car crash which Ocea i curved three Miles South of was Ric i Clio on Highway 61. A1. Injured in the Accident were the Hills son. Rol it 20, n w i at my Don and his wife Barbara Jean 19. They were taken to Burlin Ion memorial Hospital and Are in serious condition. Both such red f in injuries. He also received a concus Sion and she a badly Cut leg and broken . Irvin Hill was driving the car which slammed into a Bridge a it i Merit. The Accident w As discovered i by an off duty Highway patrolman i about 2 15 . Am it. Madison and three. I. James it Esther Dixon tort mrs. Richard Hazel i in a Aport and mrs. Mau a a v Ellio Muscatine rur ii ii is Aho survived by Hermes. Mary Wear West five Sisters mrs. John Rob Rhon Muscatine Aid Virginia Hazel Endorf mrs. Reginald. Springfield to. Mrs. For i k Winifred Tusco. A Kathleen Martin Muscat me and three Brothers. Frankly. It. Calamus Francis weas Kan is City to. And Lyle weas Iowa City. 1 ii i a it mar j mrs. He e Lam it new mayor and new Council members take office mayor Charles Hanna and four new councilmen started their two year terms Friday and were sworn i office by City clerk Rama Chal Len at a Council meeting at the City Hall Friday morning. Hanna was elected As mayor in appointments r. Challen streets and alleys clerk Warren Fye treasurer Roger Galer attorney or. Harold c. Rankin health physician Werner Smith police chief William Alvine fire chief Earnest septer Sexton William Hayward superintendent november. He succeeds James j of streets and Parks Lenart Berg Green who did no to seek reelection Dahl building administrator and the new councilmen sworn in Are Earl Reynolds electrical inspector. Jepsen names 5 on committees Des Moines up a it. Gov. Roger w. Jepsen has announced depend on who managed to get a j the appointment of five state sen Edward King Ward i Darrel Donnolly Ward Iii l. W. Van Winkle Ward in and Max beavers at Large. Ray Gisser at Large who was reelected was also sworn in. Henry Biggs Ward ii who began his second term was not present. Too mayor Hanna made the following All the policemen and firemen were reappointed. Other routine matters were taken care of including the adoption of the appropriations ordinance. The mayor announced the lowing Council committees Fol Biggs beavers Van Winkle sanitation King Gisser Biggs ways Means and finance Van Winkle Gisser King police and fire Protection Gisser beavers Donnolly utilities Gisser Donnolly beavers Public grounds buildings amp Parks beavers Biggs King claims ordinances and printing Donnolly Van Winkle King personnel Biggs Van Winkle Donnolly drives car Down Steep slope after exceed one trillion collision on 34 predicting Gin p May Supply of blowpipe first. The weapon presumably favors the defensive provided the offensive Isnit using the biggest High flying Jet bombers or atomic missiles propelled from far away. But a guerrilla Type of offensive would find the blowpipe a Handy weapon used by the North vietnamese and the Viet Cong in South Vietnam the blowpipe might bring an abrupt end to the usefulness of the helicopter. In the Middle East it could be used by the egyptians or the jordanians to Stop future israeli thrusts. On the other hand the israelis would find the blowpipe a useful defensive weapon vis a vis the syrians at the Golan Heights or against the egyptians along the line of the Suez canal. Too since the British government owns 69.5 per cent of the Short Brothers and Harland company the marketing of the blowpipe must Bow to the exigencies of United kingdom statecraft. Short Brothers and Harland must sell the blowpipe in Quantity to make a real profit for the retail Price will be in the neighbourhood of a Mere $4,800 for a single rocket charge. This Price is in the pocket Book Range of Small countries that cannot afford Complex fighter and bomber jets. One can see the syrians the egyptians the jordanians the nigerians the peruvians and the uruguayans lining up to buy blowpipe As fast As they could be supplied. Luckily the British have a policy of refusing to sell weapons to communist nations which might us them to disturb the balance of Power preserved in Europe by nato. Then too the British army must be supplied before other customers get them. The sobering consideration however is the Short Brothers and Harland statement that the new weapon can be made by anyone who can build a to set. It is less expensive than the u. S. Redeye which a a Homes by heat seeking and so strikes at the tailpipe of a actors As ranking members of Senate committees. Jepsen appointed wednesday sen. Ralph w. Potter a Marion ranking member of the Senate cities and towns committee sen. Charles o. Laverty r Indianola the appropriations committee sen. George e. Of Malley a Des Moines social services committee sen. Marvin w. Smith a Paullina higher education committee and sen. Harold Thordsen a Daven port Commerce committee. Potter replaces former sen. Seeley Lodwick a Wever who resigned in 1969 to accept a Federal appointment. Laverty also replaces Lodwick on the appropriations committee. Of Malley replaces former sen. Vein Lisle a Clarinda who resigned due to business Smith replaces former sen. Joseph b. Flatt r Ankeny who resigned and Thordsen replaces sen. James w. Griffith r Council Bluffs who was named chairman when sen. Robert Rigler r new Hampton resigned his committee chairmanship to become Senate majority Leader. Washington up a two fiscal reports indicate that the u. S. Gross National product on which did not grow very much in 1969, will top $1 trillion in 1970. In an annual report the Commerce department said thursday David s. Thomas 44, Lockridge escaped injury at 7 . Friday when his 1964 Chevrolet went off Highway 34, two Miles West of it. Pleasant. Schini Hauser not candidate the u. S. Economy will grow at an annual rate of 7 per cent during the first half of the new decade and reach a on of $1.4 trillion by 1974. Thomas was travelling East on i the cup which measures the Way to work when his car was Dollar value of the nations total struck by a trailer that had come output of goods and services in Loose from a westbound 1966 pen police watch repairing of Iii jacked plane �?�7 Lima Peru up a dozens of peruvian police some armed with stood by help i Lessly today while mechanics from i several airlines worked to repair at Battery problem on a hijacked brazilian Airliner ordered to Cuba. The hijackers calmly conducted a news conference out the window of the plane which still had 21 passengers and six crewmen aboard. The plane a Caravelle Jet belonging to the brazilian company Cruzeiro do Sui was hijacked late thursday on a flight from Montevideo to Rio de Janeiro by six persons one of them a woman in her mid-20s. The plane landed in Lima about i . To take on fuel but was prevented from taking off two hours later when the Battery problem Developer. Police ringed the plane but remained several Yards away and did nothing when the flight Engineer was allowed to leave the plane to consult with mechanics. The kidnappers told newsmen they or. And mrs. Irvin Hill were the parents of four other children who survive mrs. Warren Barbara Garrett. It. Pleasant route 2 Dennis i. Hill it. Pleasant Rural mrs. Donald Mary Hamm new London and Donald Hill. New London. Or. Hill is also survived by his father Homer it. Plea ant route 2, four Brothers Lawrence j., Wayland Rural Richard Burlington Leo it. Pleasant route 5, and or. And mrs. Warren carrels t oilily Levi for California dec. 24 and attended the Rose bowl in thursday. They Haven to been but Are presumed to be on their Way Home. I ineral a rang Ennis for or. And or. Hill Are pending at Ehi Chap i in new London. Role it Hiu was critically injury it will he recalled in an Accident near Chariton a few years e o. He was hospitalized for Sev a1 a it eks after that Accident. Creased 85 per cent during the 1960s. Actual production volume excluding the effect of inflation a was up 50 per cent during the decade. Data resources inc., of Lexington mass., said its computerized fore one it. Pleasant Man were making a pilgrimage to Cuba rested by the Highway a in memory of cuban revolutionary charge of operating a Mot t inc driven by Vernon e. Peck of Che Gin Vara who was slain in Boft. Madison. The trailer shot across ii via. They said they would return was out the Road into the South Lane and later to another country in latin a town or the new y extend contract for county ambulance service working late wednesday after pin d at Midnight wednesday the 31 t. The new Extension for the it v \ a was in the total amount of $13.2 to an increase of $1,200 Over the previous agreement. Although Beatty a contract proud ambulance service for All of Henry county the supervisors Are reportedly working on subsidy pay a i. At i m mints with the Elliott shaped of new London Barona. On funeral Home of win i id and the Zehr funeral Home of Wayland. Any subsidy payments to the i firms for ambulance service would i a in addition to the $13,200 to be paid to Beatty. The it. Pleasant City Council rectally approved the expenditure of $3,poo p r year <5250.00 per month to by applied to the county am bul i subsidy. Noon december 31st the Henry county Board of supervisors Ltd tended the contract with Beatty Foster funeral Chapel for ambulance service within the county fur 1970. Beatty s contract for 1969 a a of s i Lase one Iii jury a i on. Vehicle while he intoxicated and personal injury there nearly hit another car before col America where their services were Day Blit a Side from there. Arts hoi in Thor die Ming with Thomas a Chevrolet. The Thomas car skidded went Between two heavy guard posts on the North Side at the West end of big Creek Iowa City up a former i cast put the nations on at $991 j Bridge Anuj gown a Steep embark congressman John Schmidhauser said today that he would not seek the office of congressman in 1970. Schmidhauser who Defeated rep. Fred Schwengel a Iowa in 1964, but was ousted by Schwengel in 1966, and Defeated in his 1968 Campaign said at present he must give More time to the a financial needs of my i wont make any Bones about he fact that id enjoy entering the fray in 1970,�?T�?T Schmidhauser said. A the Challenge of working to build a truly competitive two party system in Southeast Iowa during the past decade is a remarkable and exciting needed for the revolution. I foul n plane that has already passed. Too if the blowpipe sold to All Comers in future years by International arms brokers promises to Aid the unruly guerrilla against establishment forces which is an unsettling consideration its invention could also be part of Winston Churchill so Good news of for once it has become universally available its existence at a cheap Price must make War less attractive As an instrument of policy to the big Powers that now have a monopoly of the most eve pensive equipment. Who knows if the czechs had had blowpipe in 1968 the soviets might not have dared deploy their tanks through the carpathians. And the Hun tragedy strikes pleasure boat trip Manhattan Beach Calif. Up a Sunshine glinted on the Choppy Pacific when Albert Sexton 45, los Angeles took seven of his children and six other youngsters out in a borrowed boat for a new years Day Outing. Waves capsized the boat. By Nightfall divers had recovered the body j billion up $58 billion from one year earlier. But it said real growth was estimated at 1.5 per cent compared with 4.9 per cent in 1963. Too data resources also predicted there would be no recession in 1970, but a continued slowing of the Economy with a Rise in unemployment to an average of 4.4 per cent. A the benefits of growth were widespread a the Commerce department said. A expansion of the nonfarm industries generated nearly 17 million new jobs while the rising productivity of private Industry was reflected in an increase of almost 30 per cent in output per of 143 manufacturing industries covered in detail by the report 19 were expected to grow by to per cont or More 58 by 5 to to per cent and 66 by less than 5 per cent. Cholera quarantine for la comi ties ment and came to rest against a Woven wire Fence. The Thomas car was totally damaged and pecks trailer an estimated si00�?~ j Des Moines up a eleven skillful driving and a bit of Luck outbreaks of hog cholera a All since prevented what could have been a dec. 19 a have forced state and report things were Quie serious Accident with personal in i juries. _ gunners Shell . Outpost Federal officials to place 72 Iowa townships under hog cholera quark Antilles for a probably three to four. Weeks a or. E a. Butler state veterinarian said today. Tile quarantines were the first Ever placed in Iowa for hog cholera. I Butler said. In addition the state of Minne i sofa has placed an embargo on All hogs moving from Iowa into Minnesota which Butler said a Kwa James e. Sanderson 25, was arrested by Ibe patrol on Highway 34 Between to pleasant and new London at 2 42 . Thursday on Phomvi charge. He tested a $37 it Bond in Justice Joe Ruby a court and hearing is pending. I Ronald Smithburg Salem suffered multiple cuts and bruises Winn the car in which he was driving truck parked car in the 400 Block of South Jefferson Street at 1 42 am thursday. He was treated at memorial in septal and released. Paul d. Peppers it. Pleasant i route 4, was driving his 1967 Ford North when it went out of control i and collided with a 1964 Plymouth i owned by darn la Ellis. It. Pleasant. Smithburg was thrown into the Windshield breaking it. The Ellis car was totally damaged and the right rear of the peppers i it Saigon up i a communist gunners believed operating in the demilitarized zone it Emzi shelled j perfectly c 1 is damaged pol an american outpost today in Butler said the la outbreaks were 11 by 1 Quot it mime to i filleting Light casualties. Other adj traced Back o one auction mar Piui Cornel guerrilla soldiers attacked an Allied in Arkansas and came into Iowa bivouac near superstition Mountain fr0m three different dealers. He said and fought u. S. Troops Northwest the work of repopulating the hogs c the greatest anticipated percentage gains Are 19 per cent in Mobile Homes 17 per cent in Industrial trucks and 15 per cent in elevators and moving stairways. Some projected gains for 1970 chemicals up 6 per cent to $52.3 billion containers up 5 per cent to of Sexton a daughter Marla 18. And $20.5 billion electronic computing Sexton and five of the others were i equipment up 17 per cent to $4.9 missing and presumed drowned. Billion food products 70.5 per cent Albert Sexton or. Said he tried t0 $g6.5 billion household durable to grab pieces of Wood to stay afloat j goods 4 per cent to $12.7 billion but the water kept snatching them life insurance up 8 per cent to $36.4 i of Saigon. Vice president Spiro t. Agnew speaking to newsmen after his Quick trip to Vietnam said he expects another communist offensive in Vietnam either at the tet new year feb. 6 or possibly later. A your intelligence is that there still is great capability being developed by the enemy a he said on a flight to Taipei from Saigon. But he said the capability was not As at 2 45 . Wed esd Asher backed her 19 out of her driveway at 301 Buren and it collided Quot the rambler being driven a a. Carpenter on Henry. D suited. Emma Asher a a with failure to yield the Way. Ive his Aemma i cd Vrol f b or r and herds exposed to the disease should be completed by saturday. He said the quarantine areas a will Lee released As soon As it looks like the arca is Clear of hog cholera probably three to four weeks would be my butter said hoes May be shipped heart and Lunas from the quarantine areas to aug cum tion markets that will Send the animals directly to Slaughter. Tile value of the hogs which had to be slaughtered to prevent the Rainier to Iii duties As judge feb. I attorney Harlan w. Bainter recently appointed a judge in the in it judicial District will assume his duties As judge the Fust of i Briary according to the present sche Dale. Ii had previously expected to t. A the in a work on March J i at the iii1 no of the chief Justice c. Edwin Moore of Iowa will i. In the first of february. Bainie was appointed by gov. Rob it r y to succeed judge w l. He Kamp of kit Okuka whose resignation became effective january i. Information at Burlington earlier Iii the we k stated that judge e. O. Not Well in retirement might be c die Back to duty for a month or in it by h chief Justice. It is sex Pec d a hat this will be done. At Orney Bainter will be concluding his private practice this month and informing clients that i he will no longer be Able to handle their Legal matters. Bonus number in t and a series fail to save Man away. When he tried to grab the Hull of the boat the Waves picked billion Mobile Homes up 19 per cent to a record 475,000 units news great As it was two years ago a spread of the infectious virus is the communists launched their _ a a costly tet offensive. Said five rounds roughly $120,000. Butler said. A i thought i was going to be dead. I was fighting every Way i could. Everybody was screaming for help a he said. Missing were Sexton his daughters Alta to and Carla 3 his son Marians with blowpipe might have Leon 16 his granddaughter Jaime it up and hurried it Over on top of paper publishing up 5 per cent to Quot fam the Doz arrive from Australia $7 billion. Caused some injuries but no casual the Commerce department said _ a of Tho let rho in a Hott and her brother. Him. Sent Khrushchev scurrying out of Budapest faster than he came in. Hinton 7 and Marla a Boyfriend Pernell Washington 22. Ties among troops of the 1st Brig Abbott median family income is now about and amp the mechanized infantry i Kingsley of Blackburn so., austra $8,000 and a is headed toward $10, a Sion f0ur Miles South of the bord Jai near Melbourne arrived on dec. Transplant operation. A r. Pm new York up a 4 year old new Jersey Man who received the heart and both Lur. Of a woman Christmas Day died e Ray today despite attempts to Bowart rejection with an artificial lure. Edward Falk died at 1 45 Ani. At new York general Hospital where he undone at Tho multiple Ane to ave i meats Day Wesley Rue Populu a Nee -. M Nice r in a he series of kiwanis d a i venture entertain a be presented next Mon ring at 7 30 at the Iowa an Chapel. T Hun a w to has been a acre in previous appeared Brin a adventures in this is a Bonus number a added at no extra Cost to h by the kiwanis club lie sea in tickets had been too by the mid-�?~70s.�?� almost half of the asparagus grown in the United states is produced in California or. It was the first such incident 2b to visit in the Home of the Ralph said or body rejected the a w since dec 2. Taylors. They will remain until Jan lungs. The heart taken from a 5 the other fighting reported kill uary 6. Jill Abbott was a student at year old woman who cd d it of c de 32 Viet Cong against Light Allied Mph under a rotary program and brain have f be tie a Well l0sses# resided in the Taylor Home. J doctors said. I i it s f. V e use a v. C. Gordon m my let it pie count their calories As fast As they can see one a h re Quot on determination that a watched pot will not be one

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