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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 7, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 5mt. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening january 7, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain the town that saved its Art Center Basel Switzerland you think you Are just going to the museum to look at paintings and you run into a Story of voluntary Community action that would shame hundreds of american towns that wont make a move to do anything for themselves about supporting Art without Aid from a state capital or from Washington. The Basel Art museum in the Center of this City on the great northward Bend of the Rhine where Switzerland France and West Germany meet is famous for two things its collection of classic Holbein and its room devoted to the Many faceted Pablo Picasso. For years the museum gloried in two of the More famous Early a a representational Picasso a the two Brothers a a Beautiful painting dated 1905 of a boy carrying his younger brother on his Back and a the sitting harlequin a done in 1923 when Picasso still maintained his interest in strolling players and circus Folk. Along with other paintings the Picasso were on a sort of permanent loan from the wealthy Stachelin family. The family had a Trust arrangement under which no member could sell any of its Art treasures without getting permission of the rest. So it looked As though Basel would enjoy the Picasso forever. Too unfortunately As the Story is told by Basel Art aficionados one of the More venturesome stache Lins was engaged in a charter air line business. He had a couple of cig planes which took parties to Kenya for game safaris to the Balearic islands and to the Orient. One of his planes was involved in a bad crash and the charter air business turned sour. Even before the crash the creditors were closing in and the air line was in dire need of Cash. The Stachelin family listening to the pleas of its straitened member voted permission to sell the Picasso. The louvre and american museums were reportedly interested. Basel s Art lovers were properly stunned when they heard what the Stachelin were asking for the Picasso. The figure was 8 5 million francs or some two million dollars. The museum authorities making extravagant demands on their patrons who included some of the big local chemical companies managed to get together six million francs. But there the drive sputtered out. Too the Story now turns to the Basel Community. Swiss artists painted special pictures and auctioned them off at High prices for the a Picasso City officials took turns As waiters in the restaurants and donated their tips. The Basel soccer club raised Money at benefits. One Man charged big sums to let people ride his ancient High wheel bicycle. And the children sold cookies cakes and Candy up and Down the streets. The whole Campaign As it is recalled by citizens with a taste for Homeric Story telling was Over in time to meet a two and one half week deadline with the necessary 2.5 million francs in hand. The foreign museums might have upped the Ante but the Stachelin impressed with the spirit of their town called off the bidding and told the museum they could have the Picasso. Counties to share in Federal pie Des Moines a id Pai a the Iowa conservation commission has split a half million Dollar Federal pie among the 99 counties. Iowa has been allotted $1,002,098 from the Federal land and water conservation fund for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1970. Approximately half of this amount $106,049, is apportioned to the 99 counties the rest goes to the state. In distributing the $496,049 to the counties the conservation com Mission a figures that 20 percent of the amount should be divided equally among the 99 counties. The remaining 80 percent is apportioned according to each county a proportionate share of the total state population. In order to qualify for the Aid All Public agencies in each county must submit a project proposal by dec. 31, 1970. Amounts allocated to counties included Des Moines $7,375 Henry. 3,395 Jefferson. 3.161 Keokuk 2,887 Lee. 7,011 Louisa. 2,279 Van Buren. 2,165 Washington. 3,557 or Multak "or1 a it. Interior of the Hunsaker truck terminal shop was badly charred and equipment was damaged in an explosion and fire that injured three men tuesday evening. Smoke and steam rolled out of the building but the fire was soon brought under control. Three suffer Burns in fire raid targets near Cairo increase in tuition and room rate at inc i tuition will be increased $125 and room rates will go up $10 in the Lull of 1970 at Iowa Wesleyan College or. Louis a. Haselmayer chairman of the inc interim administrative Board announced tuesday. Beginning in september tuition for both men and women will be j $1,575 for the year. While yearly room rates will total $350 for men and $310 for women with some accommodations lower. General and social fees totalling $170 and Board costs of $530 will remain the same. Or. Haselmayer reported the increases arc necessary to keep Pace with rising operating costs at the College and to maintain an adequate salary level to retain Wesleyan excellent faculty. A according to a Survey of i midwestern private colleges and universities by l. W. Van Winkle inc vice president for business affairs 48 Are planning tuition hikes for the 1970-71 academic year. The 48 institutions will raise tuition an average of $175, Board costs will be upped an average of $29 while room rent will be increased an average of $33. Anury Whites Iii Defiance in Mississippi higher luge levies in county property deeper to Henry con will have to die de it Der this year amounts ranging from 6 per cent to v staggering 17.7 per cent the largest millage increase and the largest total Levy is new London corporation. Total Levy in 1963 was 96.636 Mills and for 1969 pay a increase to 112 328 be 17.7 per cent. Ion township he a St increase from 8 up to 95.979 in stage increase of i. A. N to p i p. I \ ship 3 t i cd 3 de i 70018 68.518 83.563 82.063 77.487 75.987 89.626 88.126 nip uni 1970 inc Able Mills up so new Lei second Lar Mills in it 1969, a Lier 17%. The larg Cion Corporal in due in the to mate la no i ii tion of the be millage Inci tion of the it i up in the Are a it. Union Selv i and Waco soil Lleni i. 4 i in a while millage in mostly to the incr a crating school dast Rii co a substantial Mill state and county go state and county ie1 15.062 Mills and is u for 1969 payable in i age increase of Abc were sizable budget county welfare Sci part mint and the conservation Board. O 17.8? hit three men suffered Burns in an explosion and fire at the Hunsaker truck terminal on South main Street old Highway 218 tuesday evening. The fire caused considerable damage. Most seriously burned were Neil Hunsaker 34, it. Pleasant route 4, and Duane Jones about 34, new London. They Are in memorial Hospital. Also burned was Clyde Hunsaker 56, it. Pleasant route 4. Neil Hunsaker suffered Burns on his face neck wrist and hands. Jones was burned on the Back of his legs. Clyde Hunsaker Pital by Smith. Received a burned left hand while j the same Way helping put the fire out in Jones Hunsaker were clothing. Neil Hunsaker and Jones were putting air in a gasoline tank off a truck which was next to a Bat Tery Charger. The fumes evidential by came in Contact with the Charger and the tank exploded. The fire started quickly burning the men and setting their clothes on tire. They ran out separate doors. Clyde and his wife using Snow put out the fire in Jones clothes and Carl Hunsaker and de Smith who were also in the building helped Neil in Jones and Neil taken to the hos Clyde remained to help drive trucks out of the burning garage. He later went to the Hospital was treated and released. The fire was confined to the garage area. Grease Oil Many tools spare parts Power equipment and inner tubes were badly damaged or destroyed in the Blaze. There was water damage to the office. Firemen took three trucks to the scene when they received the Call at 5 . They returned to the station at 6 30 . Jackson miss. Up a angry White parents shouting a hell no we i wont go a defied the . Supreme i courts a instant desegregation a or j Der today and refused to Transfer j gets 18 Miles South of Cairo today air children to a previously Allback school. By up israeli jets raided military tar will discuss sex education Keokuk teacher James d. Lockett will discuss a sex education in the twentieth Century during a free Public presentation in the Iowa Wesleyan College Library at 7 30 p. Rn., thursday. The talk is being sponsored by Perm women physical education majors amp minors club and Sisera student Iowa state education association. Or. Lockett who was named Iowa teacher of the year in 1968, has been teaching in the Keokuk school system for the past 26 years and has taught marriage and family living and sex education there for 22 years. Over this period of time or. Lockett has gathered clinical evidence to prove that a positive sex education program can help Young people to make Wiser moral decisions. Youth music Here on National tour the Spurr lows Mobile music youth group will appear in concert tonight wednesday at 7 30 . A the first Baptist Church main and Webster it. Pleasant Irvin Muntz and their seven month during their whirlwind 40-state a old great grandson Scott escaped Yonai tour in the sub Zero temperature tues three escape from burning Rural la ome Farmington or. And mrs. Day night when fire destroyed their farm Home four Miles Southwest of Farmington. The closest strike to the egyptian capital since the june 1967 War military spokesmen reported in Cairo and Tel Aviv. The egyptian spokesman called the raids a a abortive and said the israelis were turned Back by the egyptian air defense and aircraft. Agnew arrives Iii Malaysia the Story does no tend there. For Picasso himself hearing of the towns exploits decided to make his own gift to Basel. He sent the museum two Fine examples of his 1967 Post impressionist Post every thing period which this columnist who frankly prefers the earlier Picasso Calls the a i can do anything better than you phase in the career of the great Spanish artist. The pictures a Venus and Amory and a the couple a a offer an measures to protect him from anti repertoire will Range from baroque Bach to the rolling Rock of a to Happy Day a in traditional revive a1 style. The 27 singers and instrumentalists from nearly As Many states Are renown nationally for their versatility. While their average age is Only 19, the Young trousers Are All bonafide musicians in their own right and have individually collected when he returned to the Many awards and scholarship. The Public is invited to this admission free concert which is presented to the Community As a Public service by the first Baptist Church. Kuala Bumpur up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew arrived today in Malaysia on the seventh Stop of his a nation asian Good partially covered by in will tour. Police took stringent j the family lost All of their furniture and clothes. The House burned to the ground. Mrs. Muntz said she and her husband were watching to in the living room when they thought they heard someone at the Back door. Muntz found the Back porch hazy with smoke. Living room he saw the upstairs was ablaze. They just had time to get the baby out of bed grab their Coats and run outdoors ahead of the fire. The Farmington Volunteer fire department called at 8 20, battled the Blaze until Midnight. Fire chief Gene Medaris said cause of the fire was not known. The Story and a half 5 room Frame House heated by a Wood burning stove was owned by Rollo White of Bonaparte. There was no 1 immediate estimate of the loss it was the first outward show of hostility in three Days As Mississippi officials continued implementation of the court order which affected 30 school districts. The outburst occurred in the Forrest co univ school District which he reported no Aerial dogfights and includes schools outside Hattiesburg made no mention of israeli losses. M Southeast Mississippi. The israelis who have destroyed 0 o o Jeff much of Egypt a radar warning the parents of 280 White children a systems South of the Suez canal jammed into the auditorium of Petal apparently streaked 70 Miles across juni0r High school beg in shouting the Eastern desert after crossing the As a school official attempted to exc anal. Plain the court order which would one target reported hit was an have transferred the pupils to Earl egyptian military installation at travillion school formerly All Black. Dah sur 18 Miles South of Cairo on a it say what you be got to say and the Nile River. Others were Tel ifs go Quot one parents yelled As sup-e1 Kebir 50 Miles Northeast of or intendant Milton Evans took the Cairo and Minsha 28 Miles North podium. East of Cairo. Evans began a the school Board the israeli spokesman called the has no Choice. And another Par raids part of a three pronged strike Cut yelled a we do though a that included egyptian a military a take your kids a shouted an objectives Quot at both ends of the Suez other Parent. Canal. Evans tried to explain again that there is nothing else we can do a this time a but the parents drowned him out with a chant of a hell no we won t go a and stormed out of the auditorium. It was Uncertain what the parents would do. Presumably Many would Send their children to All White private schools a course taken by a Large number of mississippians to get around the court order. Total assessed valuations cot Henry county experienced less thai a 2 per cent growth from 1968 to it 1969. Naluai ohs Lien used for in 3 409,008 to $44 166.655 due mostly it new Home and business con to in tion. One null then fore will product $44,166 for 1969 payable in 1970 the tax levies for 1959 were com rioted by Roomy auditor Ruth it it late in december. There is till sub slant Iai work to be completed Beton property tax can be paid into the county treasurer. Total levies by school District Mills 74.661 84.482 p de 3 39 .994 77 413 in ii i 68.494 75.913 80.343 94.296 Canoe township p. 70.091 77.604 r township i. 69 972 77.400 London township 82.012 95.979 p. 70.163 77.596 1 township a 70102 78.030 Armony comm. 80.239 84.563 id 1 to a Asru p. P. 69.913 77.346 More township comm. 81.362 95 779. P. 69.513 77.396 Madison comm. 74 161 77.283 corporation total levies 1968 1069. Pleasant 84 200 93 297 w London 96 636 113.328 held 100.590 110.851 Jylland 97.288 103 457 Lem 85.548 95.076 Allsboro 98.697 102 125 93.039 101.382. Union 91.528 101.732 Anc 75.534 82.132 in poem 92.812 98.371 a it Salt i valuations 1968 1969 on township it. P. Wayne township Waco it. P. Scott town hip Winfield it. Uni cd 2 Winfield it. In cd i Trenton township it. P. Fairfield comm. 82. 69. On 86.177 1968 1969 $13,666,915 $14,027,648 29.842,893 30,139.007 $43,409,808 $44,166,635 and county levies Mills 1968 1969 or neral 2 4 12 2.832 .951 i 237 ,s54 1.644 imitation 2.051 2.109 ital health .664 .713 Relief .097 .122 amp 4-h .116 .114 .851 1.000 co. Re lion .415 .906 by Road .599 .625 Arr. Extension .400 .396 assessor .639 .777 i maintenance .906 .996 i Oasis .828 1.048 i piers .582 .764 i emergency .945 .996 i Bonds and i 612 1.599 17.883 utter contrast to a the two Brothers a with its simple vertical lines stressing Youthful slim Ness against a Beautiful Rose background and a the sitting harlequin a with its costume of delicate mauve and blues and the Wistful countenance of the harlequin himself. Tastes Are personal however and it was quite apparent that the fantastic Grote queries of the later Picasso were favored by Many of the visitors to the Picasso room. Just As Lagniappe for an appreciative Community Picasso also threw in a preliminary sketch for his Quot Les Demoiselles do Avignon a dated 1907, Durance or. And mrs. Muntz and their granddaughter mrs. Carolyn Lin Agnew left Quot the Quot cold climate of i a a a Burger and her son Scott Are mountainous Afghanistan for this presently staying with the formers 400 dead. 2 37 i son Dale t. Muntz and family who j the Tam american demonstrations threatened by leftist groups Here Battle soul ii of Danang Saigon up a armoured units of the . American division killed 29 North vietnamese regulars today in a Battle near Tam by 40 Miles South of Danang adding another bloody chapter to the communists Winter Spring Campaign that already had Cost them More than cold weather stays around county issues 3 it building permits in y>9 so of. To close two High schools faced truck i lits car at Millsboro a 1969 Chevrolet pick up truck the cold weather which has held the Midwest in its grip the last two Days kept gripping wednesday. While not quite As cold Early wednesday As Early tuesday the wednesday chill was chillier Day Long than tuesdays. Or to put it another Wray the Low tuesday morning was la below after an Early to Reading and wednesdays was -8 it was -9 later unofficially. But the temperature did not Rise above Zero All Day wednesday. At driven by Allen Kirk 63, it. Pleas mid afternoon the Reading was -3. Ant Rou 4, collided with a parked Northern Iowa had lows of 17 and Chevrolet owned by Gen Van j 18 below wednesday morning. Patten. Hillsboro and shoved it in predictions for wednesday night of the Park eco 1959 Ford of Ira pick and thursday Are for More of the Ned Hillsboro on main Street in Hillsboro at 9 . Tuesday. The Piek up truck was damaged an estimated $1,000, the Chevrolet was totally damaged and damage to the Ford was minor. Sheriff Van Crawford investigated and charged Kirk with failure to remain at the scene of the Accident. A Kirk was fined $15 and costs in Hustle George mean s court. Tile super i Buddhi 1969, u Perm county business boards const in issued i a con issued recent 3 i built by up uth mounting financial two Iowa Catholic High Ive decided to ask per-1 close their doors at the school year. I h school in mar which 312 students Chis is in a building Only old announced tuesday 0 ask the Dubuque Dio Ard of education for Perth ii school in Ottumwa the Davenport Board to 1 similar request when it Day. Same. Man killed in c. R. Holdup 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1369 13 remove second implanted cars damaged in collision at intersection tropical country at 12 07 . Est. The flight was 3,000 Miles. Agnews 37-hour stay in Malaysia will include a visit to a National Monument and a rubber tree Grove a round of Golf and a state dinner with malaysian leaders. Cedar rapids up Cedar rapids service station attendant was killed from a Shotgun by Battle Cost the farm in the area. Mrs. Lunenburg americans five dead and in wound blast Early today during an apparel was not at Home w Hen the fire started. And a a Man woman and child a dated 1906, which added to other get it out of an appropriation and correction in times of saturday recreation the times for the it. Pleasant Community schools saturday Recto americans who when they think i creation program were listed incur of building an Art Center try to redly in tuesdays news. Know about modern Art. The Basel Story is recommended de raising to 19 the number of ent robbery. Americans killed in the two Days of police said the body of Thomas the red Campaign. The communists John Noethe 19, was found on the also shot Down five u. S. Helicopters wounding five american crewmen. The two Days of fighting ranged from firefights near the demilitarized zone it Doz it to the cambodian Border area Northwest of Saigon. Floor of the trax Oil co. Service station on the City a near South Side. Picasso which the museum itself has acquired to go with the Stachelin family gift makes Basel a a a must for anyone who presumes to Call in Roger the politicians. Distributed by Syndicate Stevens to handle the Correct times Are schedule boys grades 4 through 8 Cottrell gymnasium a 9 to 11 30 King features . Girls grades 4, 5 and 6 Cottrell gymnasium a 1 00 to 2 30 . Girls grades 7 and 8 Cottrell gymnasium a 2 30 to 4 00 . Dates january to 17, 24, 31. February 7, 14, 21, 28. Garage and car destroyed by fire a garage at the George Haushahn residence at 806 Broadway Here and a 1951 Plymouth in it were destroyed George Matias police chief said by fire night. A Cigar Box containing some Cash City police were driving a the and checks was found missing residence and noticed the fire and when police investigated. Turned in the alarm at 8 05 . The j the victims brother James garage was completely in flames Noethe said he had been at the when firemen arrived. They sex station until Midnight and then to anguished the fire and returned to left the station in charge of hts the station at 8 30 . Brother. A Noethe who worked the night Urban Noethe of Moneta. Which is shift was the son of or. And mrs., near Sioux City. A 1969 be Midwest a Swartzendru a 1969 Mer Erite l. A damaged in Section son sir w. T the of washing t w3.s going tempted i s the left i and the i bumper on the m aged. D was travelling we n and the Raster East when the drive a turn left onto Jeff Ide and front of the left front fender on y by police invest ated and cd the Kasten woman with fail yield the right of Way. Oklahoma City up a sur mov d a 12-year-old Texas i m boys remaining tuesday Hun h pc him dip of infect bin Gray a arms were ripped n los but in in a feed grinder aeon a i farm Home near Hen a t x a Quick thinking doctor cd d tic mrs to ice and rushed rent to c a Bahoma City where r re implanted the arms in an j on that had Little Chance of two Day later the left had o be Urpin ted because of circulars problems. Doctors hoped they o id s pc the right even when y c stove red infection dec. 18, it when brents temperature Rose Kin rems in the surgeons had to re tire firm was removed below the Bow leaving part of the re implant. Cd intact. T was and Oklahoma citizens r cd funds to help pay medical cos s and provide for the boys eds a More than $14,500 was raised in Henrietta

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