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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 14, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The i pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 11 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening january 14, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain luring the drop outs Back to school As readers of this column know i do not share the fashionable animus against . Businessmen. They want to save the country More than most people. Every time i hear of a program that promises Success in training disadvantaged people for a productive life it turns out that business is at the Back of it. The businessman has a much better record Here than the professional do gooder. There is the Case of the Industrial arts department at new York City a Louis d. Brandeis High school on the upper West Side. The High school is some distance from Harlem so when Brandeis is described As a Quot Harlem school it is a bit perplexing. Through some quirk in the Law however Tony do Amico the chairman of the Brandeis Industrial arts department is permitted to enrol Harlem drop outs mainly negro and puerto rican in his courses. This makes it a a a Harlem school. This Tony d Amico is an earthy Man a crack tool maker who quit a Good Money making profession to get the necessary teacher training required in the new York Public school system. Despite the relatively poor pay he gets a compensatory kick out of teaching. What he wanted to do was to bring real a a relevance to kids who connect the Ordinary academic or Liberal arts courses with the amorphous but demanding thing called he worked out a Deal with the Shell Oil company which was already backing negroes As service station proprietors to com Bine a service station mechanics course with the final years of Ordinary High school education. Shell provided the mock up automobile engine and wiring systems the professional work books the testing equipment. It also promised some summer employment and the possibility of real jobs after graduation. And a nearby police precinct offered to let the student work on police cars that needed tune . Too the word was spread in Harlem and in the upper West Side and drop outs began to return to school. Since he was a professional tool maker used to Metal working of All kinds such things As engines and brakes were no mystery to Tony do Amico. But he had to Bone up on seme of the More mysterious electrical aspects of a cards innards. And he wanted the help of shells sales and accounting experts in shaping up his course. What the kids get at Brandeis is a thorough indoctrination in what it takes to become a trusted second Man in a service station. Tony do Amico conducts the course with a racy and irreverent realism. His students ranging from a sixty i. Q. Level up to a College material capabilities Are taught politeness in giving a Complete a Island services to the Motorist. But it is politeness with a utilitarian end in View. One of the kids going through the routine of luring a Motorist into buying a new set of Windshield wipers or a new Hose or fan Belt neglected in his class demonstration to Wash the Back window of a car that had come in for gasoline. A Why done to you do it for real Man a asked Tony. A you Wash that Back window. And you Tell me the student said something about courteous service. To which Tony added Quot you done to clean the Glass so he can see. You clean it to get his coming As they do from a hard knocks environment the Harlem kids laughed delightedly Tony do Amicon a enthusiasm has spread to the English and mathematics teachers who handle his students in the supporting Liberal arts courses. Seeking a relevant text mrs. Tina Houk and miss Anna Grabarits have had the aspiring mechanics Reading a Book called a John Leveron Auto it Wasny to written for school use but mrs. Houk and miss Grabarits have managed to jump the Reading skill level of some of the More backward students by a couple of years just by getting them interested in a Story. Too the mathematics teacher miss Marion Wagner found herself with students who had not yet mastered Decimals. She had to get it across to her neophyte service station operators that they would be Short plan construction of nursing Home Gen. Abrams has Praise for . Army Saigon up a Gen. Creighton w. Abrams commander of S. Troops in South Vietnam praised the South vietnamese army today and said its soldiers had come out of their latest test with communist forces a with tremendous Abrams said the South vietnamese army performed Well in a six week Campaign late last year in the Border province of Quang due Northeast of Saigon in defending the Green Beret special forces Camps of by Prang and due Lap. A i done to think there a any question but that the 23rd South vietnamese army divison the commanders the people who Are in it have come out of this with a tremendous Confidence and Pride in themselves a Abrams said. He made the comments in an interview with up correspondent Barney Seibert at ban me thou 157 Miles Northeast of Saigon where colourful ceremonies were held to Mark the successful defense of the two Border Camps. Communist losses in the Battles were listed at More than 1,500 dead. Construction of a 100-bed nursing Home in it. Pleasant is anticipated by Beverly enterprises of Pasadena calif., Robert m. Stol Mack Field consultant for the firm told the news wednesday. He said the company is exercising the option taken recently on three acres of ground from the tract owned by mrs. Ralph Ward on South main Street has the architect working on plans and Hopes to Start construction in april. The building will be one Story and will have a Brick veneer front. The company which maintains High standards in patient care provides space for the usual Type of nursing Home patient and in addition provides a separate Wing with separate lounge and recreation facilities for Long term senile care. Recreational occupational a n d physical therapies Are provided. Beverly enterprises has acquired land for ten new facilities in Iowa Stelmack said. The company which is listed on the american Stock Exchange has reached agreement a in principle to acquire and operate 53 facilities which will bring the number of Beds available for Beverly enterprises care to 5,901. Full desegregation by feb. I ordered Washington up the line. The states involved Are supreme court today ordered total Georgia. Florida Alabama Mir it desegregation of 14 school Mississippi and Louisiana. Tricks embracing 300,000 pupils in five states in the deep South by feb. I. The Brief order followed a temporary one dec. 15 in which the districts were told to make All preparations for complot unified school systems by the feb. I dead no fingerprints members of the same family hold up their hands to display Lack of fingerprints in Cazenovia n.y., a fact discovered by the state identification and intelligence system. Rear Chris Hale 15, mrs. Jennie Smith Gilbert Hale. Front Patricia Smith 14, and Judy Hale la. Judy and Chris Are children of Gilbert Hale. Mrs. Smith is Hales Mother. Patricia is Hales half sister and daughter of mrs. Smith. Experts the Odds against such a physical development Are area College Board acts on mailers the feb. I deadline had been sought by the a act Legal defence fund which appealed the Case to the supreme court along with the school boards involved. The school boards had sought to put the total de segregation off until september. The eight justices attached their views in three separate statement. Chief Justice Warren e. Burger and Justice Potter Stewart Cli it a need saying that the court should not have Quot peremptorily Rev used the 5th S circuit court i of appeals which decided to allow i the delay to september. A that court is far More familiar than we with the various situations of these several school districts sumo Large some Small a it ome Rural and some metropolitan Henry Cornil y Harsan resigns As publicans savings Bank Hillsboro mayor n Senate May squirm Burlington a tile Southeast Iowa Community College Board of directors meeting tuesday evening took actions As follows approved Bills and accounts for and has exhibited responsibility and $33,756.32 in the general fund. Fidelity to the objectives of our received report on portable holdings in school desegregation classroom examination. Cases a Burger and Stewart said. May change Iowa s abortion Law reject move to Lessen charges for juveniles Des Moines up a the Iowa House today rejected a move which would have removed Beer and malt liquor violations among juveniles from the jurisdiction of juvenile courts. The Bill was sponsored by rep. Donald Doyle r Sioux City who said the measure would relieve l. T. Harlan has announced that 1 he is resigning As mayor of Hillsboro. He writes from St. Petersburg fla., to the town Council of the annual stockholders meeting Hillsboro. Of the Henry county savings Bank annual meeting Des Moines up a the controversial Issue of liberalizing Iowa a Century old abortion Bill May burdens of the juvenile courts Iii be raised again in the Iowa sen Large towns and increase the num ate which last year rejected such Ber of persons fined for Beer Viola an attempt. Sen. W. Charlene Conklin a Waterloo introduced a Bill tuesday in the Senate which would allow Only a licensed qualified physician to terminate pregnancies. Tons. Rep. Joan Lipsky a Cedar rapids objected to the Bill and said it would a be a dangerous downgrading of our statutes dealing with Beer students majoring in French at inc include time in France All students majoring in French Institute de Touraine in the summer at Iowa Wesleyan College can not of 1968. Was held tuesday evening. The meeting had the unusual distinction of having All shares represented either in person or by stockholders in person. Members of the Board of directors were reelected and Are j. P. Budde e. A. Hayes William Hoagie b. E. Seeley and o. T. Wilson. At the meeting of the Board of directors j. P. Budde was reelected president William Hoaglin Vic president and Denis t. Jones cashier. Orville Allender formerly assistant vice president vice presi Dent and Robert Norris formerly assistant vice president executive vice president. The reports at the meeting showed Good Progress with footings in excess of $14 million. It was interesting to note that the figure has doubled since the Start of the sixties. Washington up a More than once during his first year in a please accept my resignation As of Floe it president Nixon made sen ence Center mayor of Hillsboro because of being absent from meetings and approved part time contract for Logan Hileman at Keokuk and six adult education instructors. Accepted retirement resignations of mrs. Viola Jacobson Counselor Vivian Strant mathematics teacher at the Burlington arts and Sci the Harlan Are spending Winter at St. Petersburg. The Only speak the language when they graduate but each has spent some time in France under a unique pro Gram instigated by or. Paulene j Aspel professor of French language and literature at Wesleyan. Inc first offered degrees in foreign languages in 1968 and since then or. Aspel has seen to it that her students a 15 in All a have lived and studied for a period of former student Debbie Boyd spent her Junior year at the universities of Grenoble and Rouen while Marilyn Ayres Iowa City who along with miss Boyd transferred recently to the Of Iowa was part of a student entourage which accompanied or Aspel to France last summer. Too arrangements Are being made time in France sometime during this year for juniors Sona Dadaian Bettendorf Iowa Chris Edgerly to Emir named to fill vacancy Wilbur Sater chairman of the Henry county Board of supervisors announced today the appointment of j. H. Moeller of Salem to the conservation Board. Moeller fills the vacancy left Fey the resignation of Harlan Barnier who reigned following his appointment to Judie of this judicial District. Promises no a Ose coition of ibo rebels Lagos Nigeria up a Gen. Yakubu gown the Federal nigerian Leader promised the world today there would be no prosecution of the ibo tribesmen who rebelled and formed the secessionist state of Biafra. He also said Nigeria had enough Relief supplies and needed no foreign a blood received report on court Case in area 14 relating to legality of Bond Issue for facility conduction. Received Survey of present insurance coverage. Set special meeting for 7 30 pm. Jan. 19 at the vocational tech ate republicans squirm on vital issues where he expected party loyalty. This year be squirming some More on voting rights and presidential election Reform among other things. The most painful test for Senate building in Burlington. Republicans in 1969 was Nixon a agreed to Confer with Char nomination of judge Clement f. Leton associates on two portable Haynsworth jr., to the supreme classrooms and review very Tenta court. The president lost on this live building plans with Stanley one because he could not exact consultants enough of party allegiance. The order in the current series of cases followed an abrupt a desegregate now order issued by the High court oct. 29 to 30 school districts in Mississippi. That mandate now has been carried through by the 5th Cir Cuit. School authorities parents my children have been coping with it since schools reopened after the Holiday recess. Nixon orders furl Lier cuts Iii budget now these same republicans mainly those classified As Liberal moderates face another Tough Loy Washington it up a president Nixon has ordered a further substantial cuts Quot in the budget for fiscal 1971 in an Effort to Curt Stead received expense analysis on Watts line Telephone system. Approved tax sheltered annuity for Ray Goeke Keokuk. Signed a contract with Stanley. Alty test involving that most Deli 1 consultants to develop plans for Fly Risin in cd a the House Cate of political issues civil rights. Sub phase 1 of Campus develop reported today. Last last year the House rep i men ated its own judiciary committee received final copies 700 to 800 and approved Nixon a proposal to series of Board policies totally revamp the 1965 voting their Sophomore Junior or senior years. Too seniors Marcia Mayhew Hillsboro ore., and Paula Rowland Seaton ii Are presently in Paris working on a special program in French civilization during the Jan. 5-29 inc interim plenary session. Alumni Jeffrey Bowers Long Island n.y., Peter Mann. Burlington Iowa and Dianne Chamberlin Evergreen Park ii were the first French majors to study a Broad. As juniors Bowers and Mann spent the 1967 summer session at the Institute de Touraine Cercle Francais do amerique in Tours while miss Chamberlin studied at the Institute for american universities in Aix in Provence. Too three 1969 graduates a Virginia Chrismer St. Louis Norman Malo Methven mass. And to sch Wanke Wheaton 111. A spent the Spring semester of 1968 working in a special advanced French program at Aix in Provence and Avignon Institute. Mary Ann Hicken Bottom Fairfield Iowa a 1969 Wesleyan graduate whose second major was French studied at the rights act. The voting rights act As conceived and carried out covered Only seven Southern states which the government found discriminated against negroes. Nixon s proposal would scuttle Many features of the 1965 Law and broaden the act to cover discrimination in All 50 states. Civil rights advocates fear that would follow a policy of equal broadening the act would severely enforcement because of thousands of biafran Soldier. Were reported surrendering to nigerian troops and gown asked his troops to show restraint. The government troops also captured the Jungle radio transmitter which operated As radio Biafra during the last months of the civil first quarterly report on i adult education program. Received copy of tentative budget for 1970-71 with a total projected Revenue of $1,777,740 and total expenses of $1,777,325. This does not reflect any salary increases other than those provided for in Normal increment salary schedules. Gown said in a broadcast niger la treatment for All and that there was no question of ibo tribesmen being treated As a second class would lol l de Moeller has served on the Henry Central City Iowa and Joe Shat county fair Board for a number of Fer Alliance Ohio to spend the years and is an avid sportsman and wish you All summer at the Institute de tour conservationist. The members of the conservation Board Are Harold Mcleran it. Pleasant Bob Linden Winfield de Smith new London and John Swartzendruber of Wayland. Aine and Mary spinning Birmingham mich., who was in France last summer expects to return to that country this summer for study at Tours. Miss spinning is an elementary education major with specialization in teaching French. Or. Aspel a French native and an inc faculty member since 1962, is amazed and pleased at the results of her overseas program. A in Many cases the students live with French families and All Are pledged to speak Only French Dur 9 monday it a car driven by ing ther stay in the country sex Lois l Stebbins backed from a four accidents reported to police four accidents have been report a cd to City police. A the War is Over a he said. A we he appealed to the i bos not to be taken in by a vicious and malicious propaganda a an apparent reference to fears expressed through the world of a Quot Slaughter of the ibos. Gown said in a broadcast tuesday night he had no need for the food Medicine and equipment offered by nations and Relief agencies around the world. Ile called it Quot blood despite nigerians insistence it dilute Lack of personnel to carry it out. W my but they Are Ever More concerned error in i a Over a Section of the Nistra j a Ion Bill which would require the Federal government to prove discrimination. Under the 1965 act the Burden of proof that they Are not baning Blacks from the polls is on the states and counties. For officials press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler said the president decided during a three hour meeting that More a sub Tan Tiala economies were needed to fight inflation. A the Start of the tuesday meeting the tentative budget for the new fiscal year according to Ziegler already was in balance with expectation of a some that meeting led to the president s decision to order even further reductions. The firs truly official picture of the extent of the new economies probably will be found in Nixon s state of the Union message to Congress Jan. 22. He will deliver the message at a joint session of Congress starting about 12 30 pm. Est. Des Moines up a the Senate county government committee following the Lead of the House tuesday approved a Bill today correcting legislation passed last year that gave some county officers pay increases. Tile House county government committee approved a similar measure to Correct the error made in the salaries for county auditor treasurer recorder and court clerks Day Long under the Senate proposal the on Corn door prize to Lucky Farmer it was reported tuesday that at could of cd the estimated 5 million refugees 1.2 million of them near starvation a roman Catholic Relief Plains Madame Aspel. Even the it driveway at 308 race Street and organization predicted a starvation worse than Ever seen and a swedish group called it deliberate genocide. Best students Are hesitant to speak j collided with the parked car of Joe the foreign language when they first arrive in France a she says a but when i see them again in six to ten weeks they have become completely fluent and so much More or. Aspers husband Alexander is a professor of French literature at the University of Iowa. Operations became Clear when miss Wagner started using service station daily work sheets which totalled gasoline sales Oil filter sales and cigarette and soft drink machine tallies As the basis for her course. Curiously or maybe not so curiously some of the drop outs who went Back to school to learn a practical skill at Brandeis have actually gone on to College. Tony d Amico tells of one of his kids who. After working at summer serv changing themselves if they were ice station jobs and completing his to confuse a Nickel with a fifty cent piece or a Dollar with a ten Dollar Bill. The mysteries of the Decimal Point vanished abruptly once this lesson had been driven Home. More Complex arithmetical Brandeis course got a four year scholarship at the University of Chicago. A a it a just a matter of restoring motivation a says Tony. Distributed by King features Syndicate Huddleston damaging the left front fender on it. At 2 30 . Tuesday a pick up truck driven by George Helt backed from a parking space in that a too Block on North main and collided with the car of Marie Campbell parked in the next stall. The Campbell car was damaged. At 6 . Tuesday a station Wagon driven by Sylvia Tolander Winfield route i backed into the parked car of Viola m. Van Dorin scuffle during Agnew s visit Sperry woman killed at ii r crossing Sperry up it a 20-year-old Sperry woman was killed tuesday when the car in which she was a passenger was struck by a locomotive at a Chicago Burlington amp Quincy crossing Here. She was identified As Lynn Paula Gardner a passenger in a car driven by Kathy Hassman 18, burling original pay Bill the of a j facials were to get $4,000 raises m when Corn and soybean Farmers from several counties around it. Pleasant attend the ideas program it the National guard armory Friday Jan. 16. One of them will go Home that afternoon with a profit building education plus. The education will come from a flow of top profit ideas and soybean production pay increases would be made Retro and marketing Active to july i 1969 As legislators for the plus he will have a intended when they passed the Bill hotpoint automatic portable dish last year. Washer to show for his time at the meeting. It also would prevent the county door prize drawings will take officials from receiving High i place a 35 pm finish of the than intended pay increases. Days presentations. Registration because of an error in the word from q 3q g3q . Canberra up a a crowd dem-1 Hospital. Ton. Authorities said the vehicle was carried about 400 feet from the site of the Accident. Miss Hassman was listed in fair condition at Burlington memorial eight found guilty of breaking regulations Iowa City. Iowa up of 300 jeering anti american on stators fought with police and . Secret service men today Dur in the parking lot at buds super ing vice president Spiro t. A Valu. The left front fender of the news two Day visit to Australia. Van Dorin car was damaged an is the scuffle aroused a police con timoted $97. Troverso whether the americans at 10 30 . Tuesday a car caused the fight. Driven by Day t h Mer student was going North on Lin american Security men infiltrated a Quot a c a Coin and when he attempted to my a tors and tried to arrest some of the guilty tuesday of breaking univer la5t july. Hecklers. He said the hecklers regulations in connection with turned on the americans and a fought with them until australian j last december.rr4-ti Rev a f a a Al police came to the Rescue and Arr had shouted such slogans As Home Cia. Stead of $2,000 As originally intended. An opinion was issued last july by attorney general Richard Turner which held that the increases could not go into effect until january 1970. However by that time some county officials had already received the Large increases while a few others had not. Under the Senate Bill bother change in time of zephyrs a change in the time of the westbound evening passenger train the California Zephyr will become effective on january 18. The train now due Here at 6 24 . Will be due at 6 43 . Persons using the Denver Zephyr u.,u . Mesa a a Cai eau in me gum. Eight members of the University of would be corrected and the of out of Burlington should also take by David l. Station College one policeman said about 50 a. Unis de Corr Anu h9nm in the time of the american Security men infiltrated Iowa chapter of the students for finals would now receive the raises of changes in the time of the too anti Vietnam War Demontra a democratic society were found m the Owr level retroactively to Denver Sephyr which Dona atop turn West on Broad his car Slid into a mail drop Box causing damage. Police charged him with failure to have his car under control. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon Money cannot buy health or Good cheer nor the things it bought Only last year. Disturbance on the Iowa Campus in it. Pleasant. The eastbound Zephyr will leave Burlington at 6 11 a in. And the westbound at 8 10 pun., effective january 18. The the Senate committee also assigned to a subcommittee a Bill the eight students appeared be that would increase tax levies by Pew itry the demonstrators who fore the University a committee on one Mill in Iowa s smaller counties q0 student life a faculty committee the counties covered under the three to four Mills. Under headed by Allen Widis of the col Bill would have a population up to proposal the Mill limit would be a senior Dolice spokesman Deni lege of Law. After finding the Stu 35.000. Increased by one Mill to help fled la a the americans actually dents guilty the committee and the present Mill Levy limit for Hance the counties general opera precipitated the disorders. Jour cd without further action. \ most of Iowa a counties vary from my expenses

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