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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 8, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 6 these Days by John Chamberlain pollution even in Paradise plums Switzerland from the top of the ski lift at prod Hamm where there Are no Trees one looks Clown across the Snow at the deep Blue Wale see one of the most unspoiled lakes of Switzerland. You Are assured that water pollution has not yet reached this part of the world which is Only a few Miles from the free principality of Liechtenstein with the austrian a Berg lying just beyond. So your vision of Switzerland As a. Refuge from the poisoned environment of the industrialized world stands up As you look at the pure Snow and the pure Lake and the dazzling sky. But alas it is Only for the moment. Your companions a Young Swiss and germans a Tell you of a worried parliament in Berne where a a or a water Protection a has become a compelling problem. There Are it seems no refuges left in the world. Too the generation of the thirty year Olds who Are the older Brothers and Sisters of the a swingers a Are very much concerned with their world. The drug problem has not yet reached Switzerland but it is already troubling West Germany where hashish has become an accepted thing even among the teenagers. The Rhine River which flows serenely through the Valley not far to the East from plums is not polluted near its Alpine source but in Germany the chemical factories have made the great waterway an open sewer inhospitable alike to swimmers and fish. Even at Basel which is in Western Switzerland the Rhine looks Gray and Greasy from the discharge of local factories. The Young Swiss see the problems of civilization descending upon them from the North. Too so the Swiss parliament begins to take action. News of an american Gallup poll freshest Switzerland telling of a new a a cause on the . College campuses the kids though they often look like polluted messes themselves and think very Little of polluting their bodies with Ltd and worse have decided on a countrywide series of april a teach inst to touch off a crusade against dirty water foul air and a littered and despoiled landscape. If the members of the . College generation Are really sincere about ending pollution and not just looking for a Rew kick for a single year they should be studying the legislation that is now being shaped up in Switzerland to Stop the insidious Advance of our manifold modern poisons. It. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening january 8, 1970 Price to cent conclude Kopechne inquest threshers and City discuss armory use the Midwest old threshers and Edgartown mass. Up a settlers association and the City the secret inquest into the death of it. Pleasant both want to of of Mary to Kopechne ended today Tain the old National guard armory new City Council in session the new it. Pleasant City Council held its first session with All members present wednesday evening. At the table clockwise Are councilmen Edward King Max beavers Raymond Gissur mayor Charles Hanna councilmen l. W. Van Winkle. Darrel Donnolly and Henry Biggs. Standing arc three appointive officers from left Rama Challen City clerk Roger Galor City attorney and Warren i be City treasurer. Four measures Are now being considered Here for rescuing the Swiss reputation for being he cleanest nation of Western Europe. The government is considering a new Law to cover what goes into detergents which have a propensity to get into the groundwater that flows into the lakes. A second Law would be directed at controlling the factory discharge of dirty water compelling new experimentation in the a a recycling of Industrial Cooling agents and taking harmful dyestuff and cosmetic residues out of what goes into the Rhine. A third Law would look to the Extension of modern sewage systems to All the cantons utilizing new systems of sewage treatment. And the fourth major proposition is to make industrialists personally responsible if things go wrong inside their plants even if the blame cannot be assigned to individual mistakes. The old Laws so the Swiss have discovered do not really work to prevent factory effluvia from ruining the Rivers and the atmosphere. One is told that there Are More than 3,000 communities in tiny Switzerland. Some of these Are so Small that they can depend on pure water from the mountains without any great worry. But Only 294 communal water cleaning plants Are in existence sixty four More Are being built and an additional seventy five Are being projected. These will serve a total of 761 communities with Basic biological and mechanical cleaning services. The full Cost of the 433 cleaning plants that have either been built or Wall be completed according to present plans will come to about 1.1 billion Swiss francs roughly a Quarter of a billion dollars. This does not count what will be levied on private householders for their own discharge pipe extensions. Too before the Swiss extend their water cleaning facilities to All the 3. Too communities in All the cantons the Price will be fairly staggering for a Small country. But the younger generation is insisting that the work must go ahead. The Swiss have the not to j press charges against men Washington up a the has informed Congress it lacks enough evidence to bring criminal charges against a group of sergeants accused of world wide swindles in the operation of servicemen a clubs. It was charged in Senate committee hearings that the alleged swindles netted the sergeants including highly decorated sgt. Maj. William Wooldridge hundreds of thousands of dollars. Disclosure that the will not press prosecution of the enlisted men came in a letter from the to sen. Sam Ervin jr., d.n.c., chairman of the constitutional rights sub committee. The charges created a sensation when aired last year by the Senate permanent investigating subcommittee in hearings headed by sen. Abraham Ribicoff a Conn. In addition to the enlisted mensa cases the subcommittee also publicized activities of maj. Gen. Carl c. Turner accused of using his office to acquire firearms confiscated in riots and then Selling them for his own profit. Tile has referred Turners Case to the department of Justice. Another sub Zero Day in Midwest add thursday to those sub Zero j continuing cold is in the for Days in which the temperature did cast not Rise above Zero. The Day had a dozens of cities in the Midwest threatened to shoot him if anything he has adamantly since the Acci Good Start towards that dubious goal and deep South got record Low happened to the 41 passengers and Dent a that he saw the Kennedy after four Days of testimony during which a witness contradicted a crucial time in sen. Edward m. Kennedy a account of the car Accident. District judge James a. Boyle concluded the inquest at 1 55 . Est. The judge will Issue a report on the inquest but it was not known when the report would be forthcoming. The final witnesses today were five girls who a along with Kennedy miss Kopechne and five other men a attended a party july 16. The night of the Accident. At least 25 witnesses testified during the i closed door proceedings. Of Christopher s. Look jr., an j Edgartown Deputy sheriff stuck to his guns wednesday during 45 i minutes of questioning and con j to radiated Kennedy s testimony. Look More than any other witness turned the investigation into a Battle of truth Between the glamorous senior senator from Massachusetts and a local fuel Oil dealer who has been a Dukes county Deputy since 1953. District attorney Edmund s. Dinis who ordered the inquest said Quot in a satisfied that we be put on hijacking attempt fails Zaragoza Spain up a Young Man s attempt to Hijack an record All of the witnesses that ail liner to Albania with a toy pistol have wanted ended in failure Early today when i o a he surrendered to police who had look maintained wednesday As with a 13 below Reading in the very Early morning on the Federal weather Bureau thermometer kept by g. S. Cantwell. Later the temperature went Down another degree unofficially. During the morning the temperature ranged Down to around six below and at mid afternoon was at three below. Wednesdays Low was ten below and the High for the Day was one below. Temperatures As freezing conditions hit 49 states. Dubuque had a record with a 20-below-Reading. The South also shivered. West Palm Beach fla., set a record w Ith a 34-degree Reading Jacksonville logged 21, Tampa 28 and Tallahassee had a tourist discouraging 14-degree record Low. Glasgowmont., had the dubious distinction of the nations lowest temperature�?26 below Zero. Reject . Proposal for peace talks Paris up a the United states asked the communists today White students stay away warrant out in slaying Cedar rapids Iowa up a a first degree murder warrant has been issued Here for the arrest of Lacy Laverne Kelly 18, in connection with the Shotgun slaying wed to go into closed session with a j mesday of Thomas John Noethe 19. Limited number of peace negotiators Noethe a service station attend on each Side to take the Vietnam ant was killed during the Early conference out of its sterile dead j morning hours in an apparent Rob lock. Obery. The to o leaders of the Viet Cong Cedar Rapecis police chief George and North vietnamese delegations Matias Sai i the warrant was issued boycotted today a session but their following a search of Kelly a belong deputies quickly rejected the Offut jugs mafias said evidence co nexus a four crewman. Collins miss. Up a w h i t e students of this Small Mississippi fruitless meeting held by Allied and ing Kelly with the Case was seized Hie rejection of the suggestion however he did not say what the came at the end of the years first j evidence included weekly negotiating session the 49th . Casualty Rale drops to 3-year Low Saigon up a the . Casualty rate dropped to a three year Low last week. American Headquarters reported thursday but the toll of 65 gis killed sent the total in More than nine years of Vietnam fighting Over the 40,000 Mark. The . Command said the toll of �,5 americans killed and 477 wounded in the seven Day period ended last saturday was the lowest weekly toll since the week ended dec. 17, 1966, when 88 were slain and 433 were wounded. Undecided on height of building i car with two and possibly three persons in it at 12 40 or 12 45 a.m., More than an hour after Kennedy said the Accident happened. Kennedy said he had been trying to j catch the last ferry which leaves at Midnight. I the Driver of the car whom look i could not identify appeared confused As the uniformed Deputy sheriff who was driving to his Chappaquiddick Home after work approached to offer help. Too when he was 20 or 30 feet away. Look said the car sped off Down the dirt Road toward the Bridge. He said he was certain it was the same car pulled from the Pond the following morning with miss Kopechne a body in it. Asked How he knew this look replied that he was certain that it was a Black Sedan with a Massachusetts registration plate beginning with Quot a Quot and containing the number "7�?�. Kennedy a car was a 1957 Black i Oldsmobile Sedan with registration i l78207. The Only other car at the i cottage that night was a rented White valiant. Building and the matter was discussed by the City Council wednes j Day night at its first regular meet ing of 1970. The armory is being turned Over a to the state department of social j services and it has been indicated i that bids will be taken on it. A new j armory was completed Here recent j in. O 9 9 the old threshers association 1 was represented at the meeting by i Herbert Hull and Lloyd Peterson. Hult told the Council the association i would like the armory building for storage and restoration during the Winter months and displays during the reunion. Helen Virden and Joe Mauck were also at the meeting in the interests of the society for the preservation of tent Folk and repertoire theatre. If the armory was obtain j de by old threshers the theatre j group would also be Able to use it for keeping valuable historical items. Too William Hayward superintendent of streets told the Council that he would like the City to obtain the building for use by his department As he needs More storage space for trucks heavy equipment Park benches Street signs and other items. The City a top priority on the building but Hult asked the Council to recommend to the state that it go to old threshers. Too the Council discussed the matter again later in the meeting and it was decided that the utilities Corn purchased Scarff produce amp fuel property near the Light Plant for additional storage space by the Street department. The committee will also Check into the possibility of erecting a new steel building for use by the Street department. If nothing can be worked out satisfactorily the City Likely will bid on the armory building. Too a Resolution was adopted in which the Council accepted the grandstand project at Mcmillan Park As completed in accordance with contract. The Stu Disteel co. Of Waco. Texas built the grandstand at a Cost of $104,000. A re Elution was adopted authorizing the Council to Issue a Levy to pay the principal and interest on $120,000 of general obligation construction Bonds recently sold by the City. At the request of fire chief William Alvine mayor Charles Hanna appointed five additional men to the fire department Warren Anderson Robert Roth Herbert Stone House Clarence Stearns and Guy wheele. One More is to be appointed. Provisions were made in the budget last year for six More firemen. City treasurer Warren Fye City Sexton Ernest septer and councilman Henry Biggs took the oath of office. The other councilmen mayor and other officials were sworn in Jan. 2. A liquor and Beer licenses for the eagles Lodge were renewed. There was discussion on proposed sewer and water line improvements and on a surface water problem in the Broad Broadway area. Convening As the Board of health Mittee of the Council meet with the the Council renewed Mobile Home utilities Board of trustees about permits for o. T. Wilson and miss the possibility of using the recently Joe Green. Nearly 200 attend county j Swine producers banquet Henry county Swine producers transacting business at their Arv and wives enjoyed a pork dinner Nual banquet held wednesday eve and entert aliment in addition to Ming at the first United Metho list Church. Approximately 200 men noted physicist Speaks at inc Ames up a the Iowa Highway commission wednesday tentatively approved a $2 million addition to its Central Headquarters in Ames but hit a Snag Over whether the building was to be a three Story or four Story Structure. Communist 18, 1969. Negotiators since Jan. Own stayed away from classes in Large numbers today in a spreading protest to the supreme courts a a desegregate now school decree. A group of about 25 parents mostly mothers gathered in front i. Of the three schools in this coving at Alcil Trolz Dies ton county Community and paraded with signs saying a give us Freedom of Choice a and child will be better off at Home. A daughter of Leader san Francisco up a the 12-year-old daughter of the Leader Farmers invited to ideas clinic at armory on Jan. 16 of the Indian invaders of Alcatraz an ideas clinic on Corn bran prodded today of head injuries suffered auction and marketing they will in a fall at the Island s old Federal be one of 55 such gatherings Robert w. Sarnoff named Ria chairman new York up a Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff resigned wednesday As chairman of the Board of Ria corp., ending 60 years As an executive of the giant communications company he helped launch in 1919. He was succeeded by his son Robert w. Sarnoff president since 1966 who will now serve As chairman and president. Ria corp., which recently Chang i edits name from radio corp. Of America accepted the 79-year-old Sarnoff a resignation a with regret and elected him the first honorary chairman in a can a history. Editors note Robert w. Sarnoff received an honorary doctorate degree from Iowa Wesleyan College in 1961 at the time of the dedication of the Hall of science. Penitentiary. Yvonne Oakes daughter of Richard Oakes who led the invaders on to the Island in late november ing practices of the Midwest Stop succumbed at a u. S. Public health Farmers plus research results of service Hospital five Days after the americans leading farm industries. Accident. 1 new ideas for production and Inar the girl suffered a fractured Skull j keying plus Money management and brain injuries last saturday i will keep Farmers interest at a when she fell three stories to a Peak throughout the program. Third Soldier faces charge it. Riley Kan. Up a the today charged a private from Chicago with murder and a indecent assault on a vietnamese female a bringing to three the number of american soldiers charged in the alleged my Lai massacre. When an expected crowd of Sci i chemical insect and Weed con j the Post information office at it. Eral Hundred Farmers get together j tool to boost yields and save trips Riley said pvt. Gerald a. Smith 22, across the Field. Stationed with the 24th infantry careful equipment maintenance division was charged with pre to Cut expenses and save Down time meditated murder. During critical operations dependent on the weather. Futures Market use to Nail Down a profitable Price Early in the year. On farm Grain drying and storage to bring top prices at the Knoxville Tenn. Up a Market. The Tennessee supreme court to fertilizer applications matched Fay denied a petition by James Earl to yield goals for maximum Effi Ray for a new trial in the slaying at the National guard armory in it. Pleasant on Friday Jan. 16. For in the Midwest this year. The Day Long session will feature reports on Corn and soybeans grow Ray s petition for new trial denied end women attended. The Vigo tones Barbershop quar-1 tet of Cedar rapids provided an outstanding program with their in que Brand of Harmony and humor. One of the country a leading p pm Westercamp of Winfield physicists or. Martin Peri is the presented trophies to Allen Moland featured speaker during thursday or or exhibiting the Champion maraud Friday sessions of the freshman Ket Barrow and j. T. Settles the interim plenary program at Iowa serve Champion Market Barrow in Wesleyan College. J the Market Barrows carcass show or. Peri on the staff of the Stan held in december and sponsored by Ford University linear accelerator the Henry co. Swine improvement Center spoke this morning to the association. Inc freshman on a scientists engineers and Washington who the trophies were provided by the makes the he will Dis veterinarians of Henry county. Or. Cuss a can technology be in har Westercamp also presented ribbons Mony with the natural world a the exhibitors of the top ten car the goals and tile political prob Cass Barrows in the Henry co. Mar lems Friday at 10 30 a. In. During Ket Barrow show 1st, Allen to his two Day visit or. Peri is also Lander. Crawfordsville 2nd, j. T. Meeting with interested students settles Winfield 3rd, Wilfred my and faculty in Small groups for in greedy Ainsworth 4th, Clyde formal discussion. Meeker Oakville 5th, Jack gip in addition to his work at Stan pie Columbus Junction 6th, Les Ford or. Peri Heads a National com Mcgohan. It. Pleasant 7th, Wil Mittee interested in getting the Fred Mccreedy Ainsworth 8th, country a scientists More involved in Jack Gipps Columbus Junction the decision making process in gov 9th, Carl by rum it. Union both Ern ment As it relates to technology Dale Thompson Riverside. Cal matters. Concrete staircase. Active planning for the Cliency and soil building. Good credit management that Jan. 16 i will permit necessary of or. Marlin Luther King or. In handing Down the unanimous purchases fight Page decision the court noted girls May Wear trousers when temperature Falls Carlin Nev. Up a schoolgirls sent Home for violating a policy against wearing trousers or Slacks won their Point wednesday on Appeal. The girls pointed out the usual miniskirts were a bit draft during current temperatures which hover As Low As 16 degrees below Zero. Session and others like it began last without backbreaking payment of August. During that month rep ligation resent Tives of the sponsoring companies met in five midwestern cities to discuss locations of the ideas programs and other details in the involved schedule. During the weeks following Halls in the selected town were evaluated and contracts were arranged for ideas sessions. Speakers at the ideas program will show How profits multiply with the use of such practices As these narrow Row planting Down to that Ray had knowingly pleaded guilty in criminal court in Memphis to the King slaying that he had been represented by competent and nationally prominent counsel and sponsors who will present the series of Well illustrated program segments on the above topics Are Allis Chalmers Champion spark that he had waived All right of a plug Elan co products Zeigy a in it a in terms her plea. Ricu Tural chemicals Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner amp Smith Keokuk Soldier Mobil Oil corporation Trojan seed county reception for Schwengels a reception honouring congressman and mrs. Fred Schwengel will be held from 7-9 . On cd t the Home of n. Main in it. Mesday Jan. 14 Aile Whaley 30. Pleasant. The reception is sponsored the Henry county Schwengel Congress committee. By for Adrian Overberg Secretary trea surer reported on last years Prica guessing contest. Glen Mccabe it. Pleasant received $5 for coming closest to estimating the local hog Market top of $25.25 on Jan 2, 1970. Allen Molander president of the Henry co. Swine improvement association. Announced the results of the judging contest held at the Market Barrow show. Dean boat. It. Pleasant received a Ham for placing first in this contest. New directors elected at the meeting were Myers Rossiter Winfield Bill Mcgohan it. Pleasant. Adrian overberg1 was re elected. Carryover directors Are Allen to All Henry county residents Are invited to attend and have a Coffee Lander r. C. Madden. Leroy Meyer with Fred and Ethel Quot according to Jerry Mabeus Roy Dustman and John Harris it. Pleasant Schwen Carl Byrum. Gel Campaign county. Chairman in Henry to preserve and if the Young in America can Ever match the Swiss Cury reads 15 degrees or below standards for a decent environment they will be doing something that will make them blessed for All time distributed by King school officials conceded trousers 20 inches on soybeans and 20 to 30 would be permissible when the Mer the new Mexico legislature comprises a Senate of 42 members and features a House of representatives of 70 most Beautiful country in the world j Syndicate. J members. Inches on Corn. Inoculated certified soybean seed and top Corn varieties. Big enough tractors and implements to get across the Fields in planting and Harvest seasons limited by weather. Corn company and Shell chemical killed in Vietnam company. _ ,. Doors to the armory will be of Keokuk it up a Earl Marlin Peers returning in at 9 00 a. Rn., with free Coffee t son of the Earl marlins sr., of. And doughnuts to be served until Keokuk has been reported killed in after my Lai visit the program starts at 9 30. Door Vietnam. The defense department prize drawings will be held at the listed Marlin As being killed tues end of the program with the end Day. Of the meeting scheduled for 3 15 Nineteen year old Marlin was a p. M. 1968 graduate of Keokuk High school. Farmers Are invited to bring Marlin entered the in Gebru their wives and neighbors to the Ary last year and had been station Ken Cole Iowa Swine producers told of some of the pork promotion activities of the state association. He said that research this past summer proved that promotion can change consumer attitudes towards pork. Program. Of in Vietnam since june. Saigon up a it. Gen. Wil Liam r Peers left for Tho United Tekse verse states today declining to say by a. C. Gordon whether his 10-Day on the spot in memory vesti gation had found evidence of any coverup in the alleged my helps to keep Lai massacre. 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