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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 5, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa A the it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 3 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening january 5, 1970 Price to cent colder these Days by John Chamberlain miss Devlins quarrel with her grandmother Zurich a when i left North Ireland Bernadette Devlin the 22-year-old member of the British House of commons from mid Ulster who has been the Leader of the struggle for civil rights for catholics was still in court charged with inciting the people of the bog Side area of Londonderry to riot last August. Since had admitted throwing stones at policemen in her recent Book a the Price of my Boul a it was hard to How her lawyer the eminent sir Dingle foot of great Britain was going to get her off. A unfortunately a bad said of her marksmanship a i can to throw straight and they now the news comes that the court has literally thrown her own Book at miss Devlin. She has been socked with a six month prison term. There is a great Deal of curiosity about Bernadette on the continent. She gets front Page headlines in the Swiss papers. In Switzerland where protestant followers of Zwingli and Calvin live in reason Able Amity with catholics the idea that christians should perpetually be at each others throats in North Ireland is a bit mystifying. Hence the idea that Bernadette is engaged in a religious War does no to quite go Down. The theory that is a student revolutionist a North Irish version of Danny a the red Cohn Bendit the French student incendiary is More acceptable after All there have been plenty of student riots in West Berlin in tsuris and in Rome. Too on the continent the student revolutionists Are now being subjected to a sceptical second look. Raymond Aron the a French Walter Lippman a has recently attacked them for failure to realize that we live for better or worse in a highly technological society. It takes expertise to build and run great machines to organize production and to carry through the processes of invention. A every Cook must learn to run the state a said Lenin but he did no to believe a word of it. Raymond Aron insists that the modern student revolutionaries Mississippi making changes in schools Jackson miss. Up a Mississippi for decades a bastion against racial change grudgingly began implementation today of a supreme court order to completely desegregate its Public schools. Teachers quit private schools opened and education officials Hur decrease in Road deaths in District 13 v t a a j f v i j forty four persons were killed in traffic accidents in Highway patrol District 13 in 1968, a drop of 22 from the 66 killed in 1969. There was a 50 percent drop in Henry county from 14 to seven. Every county in the District showed a decline in number of traffic deaths. Lee county tops the list with ten yet it is five less than a year ago. Louisa county had the fewest traffic deaths one compared to two a year ago. Following Are the number of Highway deaths in each of the eight counties in District 13 for 1968 and 1969. County Des Moines Henry f Jefferson i Keokuk Lee Louisa Van Buren Washington totals 1968 1969 12 9 14 7 7 6 9 7 15 to 2 i 3 2 4 2 66 44 Doz fire hits copter ried to finish up the overhauling of Public schools for the sweeping change As the deadline passed. Too registration and orientation procedures started today in nearly half the 30 Mississippi districts ordered by the supreme court to weeks ago to desegregate totally and completely. There was grave concern that the week would Send thousands of White children in makeshift private schools and the Public systems in several areas would become almost totally Black. No one will know the extent of White defections until later this week when classes Start. Doo private schools opened in several towns during the morning their rooms occupied by students who had been in Public schools prior to Christmas. Many of the private school teachers were in Public systems three weeks ago. A a we be had 15 or 16 teachers who have quit in our District a said Leake county schools superintendent Forrest Munday at Carthage. A some of them went to the private schools and some just quit teaching Munday like numerous other school officials was Busy supervising the physical overhaul of classrooms and facilities for the historic change. Sixty five school bus routes Are being altered in his District this week. I my candidate wife and daughter Are found dead Clarksville a. Up were found shot to death Joseph a. Yablonski 59, who lost a monday in their Home in this bitter Battle for the presidency of i Community about 35 Miles South of the United mine workers Union Pittsburgh. United states joint chiefs of staff members of the . Joint chiefs of staff pose at the Pentagon in Washington. They Are from left Gen. John d. Ryan air Force adm. Thomas h. Moorer Navy Gen. Earle g. Wheeler chairman Gen. William c. Westmoreland army and Gen. Leonard f. Chapman jr., Marine corps. Saigon up a ground fire from inside Tho demilitarized zone Doz damaged a . Helicopter wounding one crewman in the re to,0ljr�?~h North vietnamese violation the Euly nineteenth Century a reported to the past where anarchy could have an a peal simply because it was still possible for people to go Back to the land and live in primitive communes. This in the age of electronics Jet planes and huge populations that depend on intricate Industrial correlations is no longer possible. So Bernadette Devlin is herself an anachronism. Even her enemies in North Ireland give her credit for being a Spunky and Lucky girl but comes under the Raymond Aron ban for simple failure to make sense. North Ireland can to be run by a Catholic minority led by the revolutionary Young for this minority has not yet joined the technologically Able group that keeps complicated production going in the shipyards the air plane factories and the new electronics and plastics industries. Too a a matter of fair analysis Bernadette Devlin is really projecting her personal quarrel with her maternal grandmother Mary Jane Heany on the whole of society. This grandmother owned a pub in the Small Community of Cookstown in mid Ulster. Mrs. Heaney was the epitome of Small town class prejudice. She resented it because her daughter had chosen to marry the son of the Cookstown Road sweeper. The Young Bernadette suffered As a child not from religious persecution but from the big tries of a grandmother who had refused to accept her daughters marriage. Nobody would dare offend mrs. Heaney by renting a decent room to Bernadette a father and Mother. So when Bernadette Devlin complains that was a ubom into an unjust system a it was a system that operated from within her own racial and religious group. Actually the society run by the majority group of Ulster protestants treated Bernadette far better than her own grandmother treated her. The Ulster a a establishment at least enabled the girl to go to College in spite of her Lack of Money. Too say what you will about Bernadette however is not As objectionable As her opponent on the extreme right the reverend Ian Paisley who keeps North Ireland in turmoil by leading his congregation in virulent attacks on a Pap is tsp and singing a your fathers four Days. Military spokesmen said today that the number of a a incidents inside the zone since the bombing of North Vietnam stopped nov. I 1968, had surpassed 10,000 last week 221 of them involving exchanges of fire. Resigns As commissioner Des Moines up a Bernard Mercer has submitted his resignation from the Iowa Highway commission. Mercer a Des Moines insurance executive said he resigned because of personal reasons and increasing business pressures brought on by the death of his business associate. Gov. Robert d. Rays office said it did not know when a replacement for Mercer would be appointed. Mercer said he would stay on the commission until his successor is appointed. Mercer a 56-year-old Democrat was appointed by Ray last March. He is president of preferred risk insurance co. Of Des Moines. Cold wave sweeps state Southeast Iowa was the a warm spot monday morning in Iowa which generally had sub Zero readings. In the Early morning when the Northern part of the state was registering from 12 to 15 degrees below Zero the extreme Southeastern Iowa area had readings up to 12 above. It. Pleasant had five above. However the temperature dropped later and an unofficial Reading of two below was reported sub Zero readings Are predicted for tuesday night Over the state readings of 25 degrees below Are predicted for the Dakotas and Minnesota. Open secret inquest in Kopechne death Edgartown mass. Up a amid tight Security the secret inquest into the death of Mary to Kopechne began today shortly after the arrival of sen. Edward m. Kennedy As a witness. Kennedy who flew in from his Hyannis port Home on the Mainland said a a in a hopeful we can reach an end to what has become an extraordinary length of time. A a in a hopeful the record will be Complete and i can get to the business of devoting myself to the too Kennedy and nearly a dozen other subpoenaed witnesses a All accompanied by lawyers a walked into the heavily guarded courthouse in front of which milled about 200 persons mostly newsmen. District judge James a. Boyle presided Over the inquest ordered by District attorney Edmund s. Dims. Boyle arrived at the courthouse More than two hours before Kennedy. Altogether at least 20 persons have been subpoenaed to testify. Just As Kennedy and his wife Joan reached the Entrance to the courthouse the senator Wras asked by newsmen a Are you glad ifs finally under Way a Kennedy turned nodded and replied a yes i the hatless Massachusetts Democrat wore a dark Topcoat White shirt and dark tie. His wife whose blonde hair was ruffled by the cold Breeze wore a Blue coat with a White Belt and Large White buttons. A i testified for about an hour a the senator said when the inquest broke at i . Est for a one hour lunch. A Iii be Back this Kennedy seemed cheerful As he emerged from the court House a Long with five women and five men acquaintances who had attended a cookout party together the night miss Kopechne died in Kennedy a car after it plunged into a tidal Pond. Miss Dunn first baby of new year the first baby of the new year arriving at Henry county memorial Hospital is miss Traci Annette Dunn daughter of or. And mrs. Doyle Dunn r. I it. Pleasant. Her timely arrival at 1 15 Arn. Sunday Jan. 4, ahead of two others born Over the weekend entitles her parents to collect some valuable prizes in it. Pleasant to be placed at the baby a disposal or for her future use or for the parents or. Donald Ziegler arrives at inc Iowa Wesleyan a few vice president for academic affairs academic Deanor. Donald j. Ziegler began his new duties at the College monday. Or. Ziegler succeeds or. Howard w. Johnston who resigned last summer to take a staff and teaching position at it. Lewis College Durango Colo. The new Dean comes to inc from Carroll College Waukesha wise., where he was chairman of the department of history. He holds a . Degree from Doane College and . And . Degrees from the University of Nebraska. He was at Carroll College for 13 years. Early dismissal in schools Jan. 7 v. A a students in the it. Pleasant Community schools will be dismissed Early wednesday january 7, because of a teachers in service meeting. Classes will be dismissed As follows elementary schools a 2 15 . 7th and St grades a 2 25 . High school. 2 30 . Hunt for missing College students Weist Glacier Mont. Up reinforced Rescue units today mapped another assault on Glacier National Parks highest Mountain but Park officials feared time is running out for five College students missing on a climbing expedition the Montana students ranging in age from 18 to 22, started up 10,-448-foot it. Cleveland to Days ago knew the Rome of old and evil was i with food and supplies to last for its Bernadette is trying to j Jive or six Days it throw society Back to the Days of a nineteenth Century Street fighting but the Rev. Paisley is trying to repeat the whole bloody pattern of the seventeenth Century religious wars. He makes less sense than Bernadette Devlin. Distributed by King features Syndicate. The Way they talk about Kennedy and the inquest by h. D. Quigg up senior editor Edgartown mass. Up a talk about the Case has been a Winter sport. A a it a been turned Over every Day All Winter Long a said a merchant on main Street. A now people Are saying he let it go on too the Case is the july 18 drowning of Mary to Kopechne in the car that sen. Edward m. Kennedy says he was driving when it plunged off a wooden Bridge into a tidal Pond. Too the delay in question among local folks is that by Kennedy a lawyers who blocked the Start of an inquest sept. 3 and won a secret inquest starting today. A the should have got it Over weighed seven pounds 104 ounces and will be welcomed Home by a brother Curtis 5, and two Sisters Robin 6, and Michelle 3. The dunns reside on a farm along Highway 34, four Miles East of it. Pleasant. The prizes won All donated by it. Pleasant business firms include $5 in dry cleaning smitty a infant seat r. K. Crane furniture five Book Premium from regal stamp Premium Book by Vee two dozen Gauze diapers Penneys dress shirt for the forgotten father Williams clothing $5 in dry cleaning Ruby cleaners $10 gift certificate Benda appliance $10 in Crisp Bills insurance plan savings and loan association Tbone Steak dinner for the parents Iris last month and his wife and demonstrate during visit of Agnew Katmandu Nepal up a anti american demonstrations believed provoked by chinese communists broke out today in the suburbs of Katmandu during the of a facial visit of vice president Spiro t. Agnew. Smaller demonstrations broke out in the City itself. Police said 20 students were arrested in suburban Patan three Miles from the Center of the City and site of the major Demontra tion. Another to students were arrested in Katmandu where the students shouted anti american slogans in front of the . Library. A up cameraman was beaten unconscious. Another cameraman was beaten and robbed of his watch and ring. The demonstrations were timed to coincide with Agnew s conference with Premier Kirti Nidhi Bista. The students distributed anti Agnew leaflets sunday night then met today at a big rally in Patan and shouted such slogans As a go Back Agnew a a a Down with american imperialism a a americans withdraw from Vietnam and a Down with King Washington county Coroner Farrell Jackson said it was not determined immediately if All three were murder victims or if it was a Case of murder suicide. He said they had been dead about four Days. Telephone wires leading to the House were Cut state police said. The bodies of Yablonski his wife Margaret and their daughter Charlotte 28. Were found by a son Kenneth a Washington a attorney. The Yablonskiy have one other son Joseph an attorney in Washington d. C. Until two months ago the daughter Charlotte headed the office of economic Opportunity program at Morgantown w. A. More arrests Iii crackdown Detroit up a acting partly on information supplied by Jerome a a dizzy Dean Federal agents have arrested another four persons in a crackdown on an alleged $100,000-per-Day nationwide betting ring that May involve famous sports figures it was announced today. James e. Ritchie special assist quake rocks China area Hong Kono up a an earthquake of potentially disastrous proportions struck today along the i Borders of Southwest China and Burma in the Region where the old Burma Road carried supplies to China in the Early Days of world War ii. The English language newspaper China mail said the quake was believed to have levelled parts of Kunming which was Gen. Joseph Stilwell a Headquarters and a major base of the flying tigers whose supplies were flown Over the mountains known As a the the China mail said reports reaching Hong Kong said thousands of persons were made homeless. But there was As customary no reports from peking radio and the newspaper reports we Ere regarded As speculative. Flash flood toll reported at 30 Mendoza Argentina up a torrential Rains and rapidly melting Snow burst a number of dams in the Andes Foothills sunday and struck Mendoza with a Flash flood described by authorities As a Federal police said the death toll was known to be As High As 36. Unconfirmed reports from the scene said As Many As 50 persons died. A Buenos Aires newspaper estimated there were 70 deaths. Lock on gasoline pump found broken City police checked the Standard fertilizer Plant West of town at 5 10 a m. Monday and found that the lock on the gasoline pump had been broken off. About 8 it Gallons of gasoline had been taken. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon truth will often Transfer hands in daily diction Only once before it s changed into a fiction. The a Over there is the comparatively Little Island of Chappaquiddick reached by a two minute ferry run across 500 feet of Harbor from this big Island off Martha a Vineyard. The Accident took place there. Little a a Chappy Island a place of vacation Homes that in summer Are secluded from the Bustle of Edgartown shrinks in population in Winter. There Are now about 20 persons living within its 3-by-5 mile confines in eight households. Too standing at the Dock and watching the ferry operation was a wiry and weathered Man past Middle age and obviously an old timer in Edgartown. Of the inquest he said a and the reaction is typical of. Ant . Attorney said the arrest restaurant $5 in saving account., of Lam came in by Henry county savings Bank $5 in Durille the weekend. Crisp Bills United building Center 30-cup Percolator . Iowa cooperative electric association. Trial begins for four accused of Loans harking agents acted on information supplied by Dean a Hall of Fame baseball Pitcher with the St. Louis cardinals and Chicago cubs during the 1930s, and now a sportscaster. Dean is furnishing information that the government is a very pleas i de to get a James h. Brickley us. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan told reporters at a late morning news conference. Quot he a i pears to be very cooperative very with a have put it off a people you talk with in this Fash continued the merchant. Tugging lovable resort town at his coat Collar against a powder of blowing Snow he said a a in be been Here 38 years and everybody knows these things have been going on Over there All the time. Big Rich men a important people a have parties Over a what happened goes to prove its who you Are and what you Are that counts. As soon As they found it was Kennedy involved it was hush hush hush hush. If it had been one of the local boys there would have been a big Newark . Up a trial began in Federal court today for reputed mafia underpass Angelo a a Gyp Decarlo and three others accused of Loans harking operations against an insurance broker who reportedly put the Finger on racketeers a Day before he was poisoned. It was the first time since . I cd j attorney Frederick b. Lacey f 10111 Cuilty tied launched his massive crime War j three weeks ago that a reputed top county shed two Miles South of Cosa Nostra figure has gone on jew London on the Lowell Road trial de Carlo a Paunchy 67, is de it wag jn0 sometime Over the scribed As an unde Boss in the and some tools anti freeze underworld family of the late Vito anti cans of Heet were taken. Tools taken recreation classes for boys girls on saturdays the it. Pleasant Community schools will provide saturday recreation classes for boys and girls in grades 4 through 8 during january and february. Schedule boys grades 4 through 8 Cottrell gymnasium a 9 to 11 30 am. Girls grades 4. 5 and 6 Cottrell gymnasium a 2 00 to 3 30 . Girls grades 7 and 8 Ottrell gymnasium a 3 30 to 5 00 . Dates january to 17, 24, 31. February 7. 14. 21, 28. The girls classes will be under the direction of mrs. Ruth Mcdowell the boys classes will be directed by or. Dennis White. Sea attempting 12 traffic to recover loons fatalities Oil to certain parties Iowa Roa is Genovese. Decarlo and the other three Are charged with making extortionate Loans to Louis Saperstein and using threats of Force to collect them. Entrance was gained by breaking out a Glass in the door. The sheriffs office was notified by the county engineers office and Deputy roil Elmore investigated. Washington up a the Small business association revealed today it is attempting to recover Loans made in Chicago and new Orleans to firms suspected of a underworld administrator by up after a year in which a record Low number of traffic fatalities occurred on Iowa a roads the state _ got the new decade off to a grim Hilary Quot Quot Sandoval Start with at least 12 persons dead i last year to end in 1972. Now stretch or. Said the Sbars chief of finance As a result of accidents inside its j is into 1974 and contains one less a1 assistance in new Orleans j. B. Borders during the Holiday weekend lunar Landing Han originally plan Alexander has been ordered to a the most recent reported fatal Ned. Apollo Moon i Man stretches into 1974 space Center. Houston up a americans Apollo Moon exploration program scheduled until late prove no additional Loans pending completion of an investigation there. Sandoval told a news conference that both Loans were granted before he took office to months ago. He said a loan made by the new York sea office to a an alleged mafia related firm and leasing corp.,�?� has been fully recovered. Sandoval said there were no other current investigations of possible Loans to the underworld sex final Moon Low said sunday the new schedule Calls for four landings on the Moon with apollos 13-16 before the end of 1971. The interval Between each flight will be determined primarily by tile place on the Moon where the Mission is targeted because some places can be reached Only at certain times of the year he said. Ity was the death of Timothy j.1 cancellation of the Petersen to. Deloit who we As killed Landing Mission and the two veal instantly sunday in a two car Extension of the timetable for the the Lun collision on a Crawford county Road seven landings remaining in the a a am will inter. 5.5 Miles Southeast of Schleswig. Olio schedule were brought on by station flights the patrol said the car driven space Agency budget limitation. station wu1 a by mrs. Marcella Peterson 40, col circe of Deputy director of launched in july. 1972. It will be told about plane Cost his Job abolished Washington up a Ernest Fitzgerald 41, the civilian Cost expert to blew the whistle on skyrocketing costs of the c5a cargo plane ends his Bright but troubled career with tile air Force today. His Job As Deputy for management systems will become extinct at quitting time a the victim for the record at least of a defense department a a Economy drive he will hang out his Shingle a a private Industrial engineering consultant. Fitzgerald s $32.000-a-year Job i was abolished a year after he told Congress nov. 13, 1968, that the c5a worlds largest air plane would Cost the taxpayers $5 billion instead of tile $3.2 billion originally estimated. The Justice department is investigating his dismissal to determine if any Law prohibiting interference with a congressional witness have been violated. Project Star lessons at methodist Church lived at the Crest of a Hill one driven by Bradley Riessen 16, Schleswig. With cent for thase in new York. Chicago and new Orleans. A a the Agency said the Saturn 5 rocket visited by three Crews on separate project Star students who have Herbert originally assigned to the last lunar flights the first remaining up to been having lessons at the Baptist Landing willbe used to blast am a month and the other two staying Church we. Have lessons during Erica a first scientific space station up to eight weeks through March january and february at the first into Earth orbit 1973. Methodist Church. I

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