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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 10, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 8 it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening january to 1970 Price to cent Cloudy these Days by John Chamberlain the Swiss scene Zurich my Friend Jurg keeps his Rifle hanging in his apartment. He also has several rounds of ammunition Handy. Strangely he is not a Hunter nor does he care particularly for target practice. He keeps his Rifle in condition solely because he is required to do so by Swiss Law. Every Swiss Man of military age must think of himself As an armed citizen Soldier. The practically Universal dispersal of guns throughout Switzerland has so one is told no effect whatsoever on the crime rate. Possession of a Rifle in fact induces responsibility it is a sobering reminder that the Swiss citizen must be on guard. The american Rifle association which has been accused of being a terrible lobby might make something of the Swiss example. If this Little country is any criterion it would be wrong to take the american citizens Rifle away from him. A Law designed to make Possession of a gun illegal would Only serve to disarm the honest people the gangster not caring for the Law in any Case would not scruple to keep his Arsenal intact. If the Swiss attitude toward the Possession of rifles seems highly commonsensical it does not necessarily follow that every Swiss practice should be imitated. My Friend Jurgus wife who comes from West Germany is very critical of the Swiss attitude toward political rights for women. In some of the More enlightened communities and cantons women Are allowed to vote for local candidates and on local issues. But women in Switzerland have never been allowed to take part in a Federal election or a Federal referendum. There is a Prospect now that the Issue will come before the parliament in Berne but the feeling against women s rights is still Strong. Too Jurgus wife has a Good historical explanation for the Swiss backwardness in the matter of a votes for the Swiss managed by virtue of their mountainous country and those rifles hanging in Swiss Homes to escape embroil ment in two devastating world wars. So the Swiss Hausfrau has never had to take charge in the Home Community in the absence of the male population. Never having been thrown into the a forcing House of War the average Swiss woman of the older generation has never Felt compelled to study political questions. It is hardly a Good Omen for a Frauen Stimm Recht a or women a rights that the statistical participation in voting has actually gone Down in the cantons that allow women to take part in local elections. The question is How Many Swiss worn in really care about the vote. Too in any Case the Swiss attitude toward Federal leadership does not make for countrywide political campaigns on the american order. Who outside of Switzerland Actu ally knows the name of the Swiss president the president of the moment happens to be or. Hans Peter Tschudi a social Democrat from Basel. But his Job is a purely ceremonial one and his term of office lasts for Only a year. He is one of a seven Man executive and merely a Primus inter pares a or first among equals. By a Conven tion two members of the executive come from French Switzerland and one from the italian speaking area of the Ticino the remaining two can be from anywhere. The executive departments do their jobs in accordance with instructions from the legislature it is As though president Nixon were merely the equal of Secretary of housing and Urban development George Romney in his actual Power. The Swiss arrangement would certainly please senator Bill Ful Bright. It would effectively Force the u. S. To become a Porcupine country a raising its bristles against possible invaders those rifles in the houses but taking no great part in world affairs. If every nation would agree to become the equivalent of a Switzerland a or better a Swiss Canton a it would no doubt be a wonderful thing. But try and Tell that to the czechs and the hungarians they know it wont happen in this generation no matter what Bill Fulbright says and does. Distributed by King features Syndicate arrest five in kidnapping Texarkana Tex. Up a while police surrounded a Motel on the Texas Arkansas Border Friday night a kidnapper went in and talked an accomplice into freeing unharmed a 16-year-old girl who has been held 27 hours for $40,000 Ransom. The girl Karen Vickers a Junior at a Texarkana ark., High school walked from room 7 at the Motel. The Ransom was not paid and she was not harmed though her kidnappers had threatened to kill her if police intervened. In a statement released through the Arkansas state police Fri director j. Edgar Hoover announced the arrest of five persons including one woman. One of those arrested was Hugh Malzac Smith 26, of Texarkana. Police seized him Friday afternoon and he told them where Karen was being held. Police took Smith to the Motel that night. Settle Asphalt suppliers Case for $250,000 Des Moines up a the 14 Asphalt suppliers who were charged with Price fixing have agreed to $250,000 out of court settlement ending the three year Law suit filed by the state of Iowa attorney general Richard Turner said Friday. The Iowa executive Council which held a closed door session Friday morning to discuss the Case gave formal approval to the a stipulation for dismissal of the Case on Turners advice. Turner told the Council that he and his staff Felt that the Compromise settlement was a no doubt in the Best interests of the state. Too the lawsuit against the Asphalt suppliers which numbered 22 when the suit originally was filed dec 6, 1906, was opened monday in Des Moines before Federal judge William g. Hanson. A in the past few Days a Turner told the Council a there have been several rulings of the court nearly every one of which has been Adverse to the interests of the state of too Turner said his staff attempted to Amend the states complaint against the defendants a in order to avoid the statute of limitations however he said a there is every indication that the ourt will not permit us to do the $250,000 settlement is to be paid on or before feb. I 1970. When the original suit was filed the amount of damages that would be sought was estimated at around $1 million. However Turner said this figure was a purely speculative and there was no basis to assume that the figure was Correct. Second Day of fighting for Mountain Saigon up a u. S. Infantrymen battled North vietnamese and Viet Cong in a second Day of heavy fighting on Black Virgin Mountain military spokesmen said today. Communist gunners inflicted the heaviest american losses in almost five months in shelling attacks. . Troops of the 25th a Tropic lightning infantry division killed 47 communist troops in an eight hour Battle Friday. With the 62 killed on the Mountain thursday and 45 others killed in fighting nearby it brought to 154 the number of North vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in two Days. Two americans were killed and six wounded on thursdays action on the Mountain. . Losses Friday were listed As four wounded. Overnight shellings of Allied bases by the Viet Cong and the North vietnamese killed four americans and wounded 79 others. It was the heaviest one Day toll from shellings since aug. 12 last year when la americans were killed and 122 were wounded. Terse vers by a. C. Gordon when the truth is stretched too thin people see right through within. E $ % 21 deaths in nursing Home fire Marietta Ohio Nui a Twenty one persons were killed and 23 others injured Friday night As fire gutted a nursing Home in this Southeastern Ohio Community. Police at first set the death toll at 36, but it later was revised downward when authorities Learned that several persons feared dead Only suffered from smoke inhalation. Or. Kenneth Owen the Washington county Coroner confirmed 21 dead Early saturday. Most of the dead were women Between 85 and 94 years old Many of them were confined to Beds with raised Iron railings on the sides. Still others were strapped in their Beds or in wheelchairs. William Veigel an Ohio official said the four year old Harmer House nursing Home a one Story Brick Structure located atop one of Ohio s highest Hills was a one of the better Homes in the a it was better staffed better equipped and met All the standards a Veigel said. Indict six on drug charges be Mars up a a Plymouth county grand jury Friday indicted six men on 14 drug charges and a seventh was being held in the Case. All seven were arrested in december Here. The six indicted were Jay Clark Christensen 22, Moneta William m. Slawson jr., 24, Everly John Bruno 18, Younkers n. Y. Leon k. Vanderlaan 21, Orange City Michael Michalosky 20, Merrill and David Chapman 19, Spencer. The six Are to be arraigned tuesday in District court. Thomas Krekow 19, Sheldon was being held in the of Brien county jail on $10,000 Bond pending grand jury action on a charge of illegal Sale of drugs against him. A hat of ice Over his fireman headgear ice caked in his eyebrows and the rest of us in the North Are complaining about the cold. He a fireman Larry Waldemar in Minneapolis minn., after fighting a four alarm fire in 14-below temperature. Loss of lives in cursing Home fires by up within the past Century the worst nursing Home fire in the United states occurred feb. 17, 1957, at Warrenton to. Where 72 persons died. On nov. 23. 1963, a rest Home 1 fire in Fitchville Ohio claimed the lives of 63 persons. In 1931, 48 persons perished in nursing Home fire at Pitts j Burgh pa., and 35 died March 29,1 Mph executive Council acts in support of administration the executive Council of the it. Pleasant High school student Council has taken action supporting the administrations decision in the a situation regarding students rights and wishes versus those of the the following Resolution was adopted by the executive Council under Date of january 8 we the executive Council of the student Council of it. Pleasant High school with the authority invested in us by the Constitution do hereby Issue this statement. In View of the present situation regarding students rights and wishes versus those of the administration we support the administrations decision. Two accidents Are investigated occurred by City firemen called firemen were called to the Hod-5on-Mckim motors on East Washington Street at 11 06 . Friday where a junked car was being burned out. A passerby saw the fire and reported it. Two accidents which Friday were investigated police. At 11 30 a. In. A 1968 Chevrolet driven by Vivian Patrick it. Pleasant backed into the 1967 Chevrolet of William Wilson Salem on the drive of the Texaco station on West Washington Street. The right rear of the Wilson car was damaged an estimated $248. The Patrick car Wasny to damaged. At 12 14 p. In. A 1967 Ford driven by Dorothy l. Boyd it. Pleasant was travelling West on East Wash near the do station. When she attempted to pull from the Center Lane to the right Lane her car collided with the left Side of a 1955 Chevrolet driven by Michael Jeffery Danville route 2, also going West. The Boyd car was damaged an estimated $208. Damage to the Jeffery car was minor. Influencing our decision was the definite possibility of Long Range repercussions upon the lives of students involved and the possibility of endangering the achievements we of the Council have made concerning dress policies thus far. The executive Council Brenda Bratton president Dennis Hinkle vice president Wendy alter Secretary Allan Woline treasurer Laurel Allender or. Class Vic president Steve Roth or. Class vice president Steve Nichols soph class Vic president Debby Biggs freshman class Vic president labor department must decide which is True auditor Points to use of consultants Washington up a the labor department must decide which of these statements is True 1. A it is our conviction this election was one of the most honest in labor history. An election with the highest degree of integrity and 2. A a. Tens of thousands of pensioned and working miners were intimidated or bullied into giving up their statutory rights to vote by secret ballot. Vote stealing was a crude affair. Reliable reports of election Day fraud have been pouring into my too the first statement comes from Edward l. Carey general counsel for the United mine workers of America Jmwa. It was made i when he offered to allow the labor department to investigate the election by which w. A. A a Tony Boyle Union president Defeated Joseph a. A a Jock Yablonski the candidate who was murdered with his wife and daughter about to Days ago. Too the second statement is Yablonskiy a. As Long ago As last july Yablonski was charging in court suits a compel the Union to distribute his literature to the unions 193,000 members a win reinstatement in his $23, 000 Union Job from which he was fired As soon As he announced his candidacy. A restrain Union Headquarters from using the Union newspaper a was a Campaign instrument to promote Boyless a Force the Union to allow him to j have poll watchers. 1 Yablonski won the first three suits the Union dropped its i opposition and allowed him to shave poll watchers after the fourth Case was initiated. . To give 18storfightersto nationalist China Washington up a the United states will give nationalist China a Squadron of 18 f-104 Star fighter jets the state department said today. The jets Are considered surplus air Force Stock. The stat fighters will be nationalist China s most modern aircraft. Taiwan has claimed that it needs modern aircraft to counter the threat from communist China a Mig-21 Jet fighters. Officials said the Transfer of the fighters will be made at no Cost to nationalist China except for packaging and handling. The decision was made in no vember. Its disclosure today came at a time when the Senate and the House Are deadlocked Over whether to give Taiwan a Squadron of 50 of the More advanced phantom Jet fighter bombers. The amendment to the foreign Aid Bill would appropriate $54 million to give Taiwan the squad Ron of phantoms. The Nixon administration has opposed the inclusion of the phantom Squadron because they were not considered necessary. It now appears the administration late last year decided to Ward off pressure from Taiwan by giving the Island country the f-104 Star fighters. There were 46 patients in the Home when the fire broke out. The cause of the fire was not known. A the Home went up like cardboard a said John bum Worth mayor of this Ohio River City of 15,000. A there is a terrible mess at the scene. In be never seen so Many dead people on the floor like they had at the too Charles Brown who lives across the Street from the nursing Home said he Quot see the Home for the Quot there was plenty of screaming a 1953 at Largo pm la. Twenty persons i Brown said. A a people were crying. Died in a nursing Home fire dec. 18, 1964 at Fountaintown ind. The worst fire in a building within the past Century in the United states occurred dec. 30, 1903, when 602 persons died at the Iroquois theater in Chicago. The Coconut Grove fire in Boston nov. 28, 1942, claimed the lives of 491 persons. On dec. 2, 1969, a nursing Home fire at notre Dame do Lac que., killed 38 persons. Will give apples in defense of pesticides Des Moines up a state auditor Lloyd Smith criticizing the wide spread use of consultant ing firms by state agencies recommended today that the Iowa legislature take action to put technical consultants under tighter control. Smiths legislative recommendations came in a state audit report of the office of planning and programming Opp which was established by former governor Harold e. Hughes in november of 1966. The audit was for the year ending june 1968. Smith said that the Opp Agency spent $127,759 for technical consultants during that year out of the total expenditures of $195,598. How Ever Smith estimated that a total of $4 million was spent each year in consultant fees by All state agencies and departments. Too Smith said a i am convinced that there Are scattered throughout the statehouse reports costing Over $500,000 that have never been used by the agencies which ordered from a Check of the Opp contracts with the various consultant ing firms Smith said a it appears. That there was considerable overlapping of duties and responsibilities in the various he said a Agency officials had explained this As being a review of the work which had been done and not a duplication of single out cutbacks in civilian jobs Washington up a the army Navy and air Force have singled out the first civilian jobs to be eliminated in an Economy cutback designed to end 76,700 nonmilitary jobs by june 30. A Union Leader charged the work was being turned Over to draftees at a peasant Des Moines Gap a a the Iowa fertilizer and chemical association plans to set up a Booth in the Rotunda of the state Capitol monday to hand out apples to legislators. The idea said a spokesman for mormon Church keeps position on negroes Salt Lake City up a the mormon Church has reaffirmed its position that negroes cannot enter its Priesthood but it has called for a equal opportunities Quot for All races in affairs of state. These positions were taken in a paper distributed by Church president David o. Mckay and his Counselor to lower Echelon officers dec. 15, 1989. The paper was not officially authorized to be released to the Public until today. The 139-year-old Church has 2.8 million members. Too issued to clarify a confusion that has Arisen since last Falls cancellation of intercollegiate activities Between Stanford and Brigham Young universities the 1,200-word statement restated traditional teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter Day saints. It said Church presidents since Joseph Smith a have taught that negroes while spirit children of a common father and the progeny of our earthly parents Adam and eve were not yet to receive the Priesthood for reasons which we believe Are known to god but which he has not made fully known to of my god help i helped carry some people out. I took some people to the Hospital in my car. Two women were burned so badly i done to believe they Larry Steinel of radio station Moa in Marietta said one of his reporters. Mike Weber carried out to dead persons himself. Too it was the worst disaster at a nursing Home in Ohio since 1963 when a Blaze at the Fitchville nursing Hoime near Sandusky in North Central Ohio killed 63 persons. Or. Sam Howe vice chief of staff at Selby Hospital said a every ambulance from communities up to 14 Miles away was pressed into service transporting victims from the scene. A i can t say much this is a real Shock to the Community a Howe said. A it was a Fine Home. They were All local people. It is a real too Joseph s. Stubbs director of mar Etta memorial Hospital said six of the patients hospitalized were in critical condition the rest were in poor to fair condition. One fireman also suffered smoke inhalation and another fireman was injured while fighting the Blaze. The death toll was announced by or. Kenneth Owen the Washington county Coroner. The mormon Church teaches that the group is that apples Are a shining example of How pesticides have contributed to the Good Mankind. Its a rarity to find a worm or marking in an Apple purchased at a grocery store he said negroes can be baptized but cannot enjoy Church offices necessary for of the highest rewards in the next life. Joseph Smith discovered the churches doctrine in some egyptian papyrus scrolls which he in the 7,310 civilian jobs ended Fri 400 Jonathan apples raised in Iowa and letters asking labor Secretary Weie mostly at the a Al ship is part of a Pilot program one in the promotion to distribute some Ter pretend and published As a the George p. Shultz to supervise the election that the Boyle forces were trying to Rig the election. About 13 Days before his slaying Yablonski submitted a letter to the tellers of the International Union begging them to vacate the election results which showed Boyle the Winner 85,000 votes to 41,000. A tellers a he wrote a stand up before its too late. I too once submitted to the discipline of Tony Boyle. But i shall die an honest Man because i finally rejected that too Yablonski needed the labor departments intervention to get his Yard in Philadelphia the Navy ammunition depot in Mcalester okla., and Wright Patterson air Force base in Ohio. Which the fertilizer and chemical people plan to speak out in defense of pesticides. A mormon Pella druggist found innocent on charge Pella up a a Pella druggist was found innocent late Friday of illegal Sale of stimulant drugs without a prescription. A Marion county District court jury found Kenneth Vanderlinden innocent of the charges which were brought by state narcotics name on the ballot and he had to 1 agents in an incident last novem initiate four lawsuits to i Ber. Iowa fourth in number of farms Pearl of great Price Book of scripture. Changes in Church doctrine must be made through the 96-year-old Mckay who said earlier a in com percent tonight ments issued today a sometime in sunday. Gods eternal plan the negro will be Given the right to hold the up 27 degrees in temperature the temperature in the mount pleasant Vicinity moved up 27 degrees by noon saturday from it Low of nine below Zero sometime Friday night. The climb from the sub Zero Reading began during the night and by 5 30 am. Was up to one above on the Federal weather Bureau thermometer kept by g. S. Cantwell. The break in the cold wave was occurring throughout the Midwest. Temperatures were higher along the Missouri River in the Early morning hours than along the Mississippi As the warmer weather moved in from the West. Meanwhile extreme Southeast u. S. Prepared for another cold night. Florida Citrus growers prepared for the third night of below freezing temperatures far Down into the state. Along with the higher readings in the Midwest Snow is forecast. Chances of Snow Are placed at 30 and 40 percent Washington up a Iowa ranks fourth in the nation in the number of farms per state the agriculture department said today. A department report issued today estimated Iowa will have 140,000 farms in 1970 for fourth place. Texas is estimated to be first with 187,000 North Carolina Sec Ond with 157,000 Missouri third with gated congregations 126,000. I said. Liberal mormons who want an immediate change in Church policy were reminded that the Priesthood is a a Blessing from god not of and no changes will come a until god reveals his will in this officials pointed out that the Church has followers of All races. A we have no racially Segre a spokesman medical self help course announced the Henry county Muni Cipfl civil defense Agency will have it medical self help first Aid course at the National guard armory commencing Jan. 20 at 7 30 p. In. The course is free of charge and anyone is Welcome to attend. Further information May be obtained by calling 385-2484

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