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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 19, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Them pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 15 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening january 19, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain tue advantages of private profit sharing the welfare state is undoubtedly Here to stay for a while no matter what philosophical objections May be urged against it. But there is a Point where the welfare state must begin to consume itself like a Snake attempting to live by eating its own Tail and if the Ever Busy social Security a expansionist school has its Way we could reach this Point even under the relatively conservation Nixon administration. Fortunately the a expansionist so have not yet taken Over in the department of health education and welfare. Robert j. Myers the chief actuary of the social Security administration warns that the direct effect of a eliminating most private sector efforts in the economic Security Fields would have a disastrous Impact on the ability of the Economy to expand and would therefore tend to dry up the very sources of taxation that Are needed to support state welf arism of any sort. Too by limiting government old age assistance and social Security payments to a a floor dimensions the government now encourages the growth of private pension plans and deferred profit sharing. These in 1969, had assets of More than $100 billion most of which was invested in our going productive system. If private pension and deferred profit sharing systems were to be killed by government Assumption of the responsibility for pensions Complete medical care costs a a Kidd care and so on there would be a distinct shortage of investment funds for private Industry. One Hopes therefore that the Nixon administration will hold to the a a floor concept of social Security keeping it at a Point where it will not menace the expansion of the economic base that is needed to support the government in the style to which unfortunately it has become accustomed. The Snake has already swallowed As much of its own Tail As it can without stopping the vital processes that keep it alive. As a matter of record the u. S. Is doing very Well under the present system of private Assumption of Many social Security obligations. The Council of profit sharing industries which represents 1,500 firms including such Pond Erable concerns As Sears Roebuck the r. J. Reynolds tobacco company and the Continental Illinois National Bank reports that five out of every six persons employed in u. S. Business today Are creating their own retirement funds As a supplement to government social Security. Two out of every three workers Are now covered by private pension funds. And one out of ten a which comes to a total of six million employees a is covered by a profit sharing plan. Too the number of firms belonging to the Council of profit sharing industries is actually Only a very Small part of the 77,000 companies which have deferred profit sharing programs. Profit sharing Trust funds now dispose of some $20 billion capital which is invested in companies that add to the private payrolls of America and generate More profits to be shared. The private nor insured pension funds of America account for $81 billion covering More than forty three million employees. These billions have also helped to create new factories and new services w hich in turn have expanded the Economy whose taxes support the Washington bureaucracy. Too bion b. Howard a professor of finance at the graduate school of management Northwestern University and Peter o. Dietz an associate professor of finance at the University of Oregon school of business administration recently completed a study of the financial performance of profit sharing companies. The Council of profit sharing industries which reports on their findings says that the Money making record of profit sharing companies is a clearly Superior to non profit whether there is a cause and effect relationship Here can hardly be determined with any certainty it could be that the Good companies can afford to share their profits simply because they Are naturally efficient Money makers whereas the poor companies might find it difficult to go in for profit sharing simply because they can t make profits under existing Market conditions. But it stands to reason that profit sharing is Good for employee morale and therefore Good for a company a unit productivity to Appeal ruling on item veto Des Moines up a a District court ruling that questioned the governors item veto Power in a Case involving the state Highway commission will be appealed to the Iowa supreme court. The decision was made today by the state executive Council. Highway commission attorney Robert e. Mannheimer of Des Moines told the Council that the supreme court should be Given the Opportunity to Rule on the veto Power of the governor involving item measures in appropriation Bills. Polk county District judge Gibson Holliday last week ruled in favor of attorney general Richard Turner who brought the suit against the Highway commission. The ruling prevents the commission from moving resident engineers offices and also torpedoes gov. Robert d. Rays attempt to veto a Section of an appropriation Bill dealing with the engineers offices. Mannheimer said he would continue to handle the Case and that the expense to the state would not be any greater because of the lawsuit already being in District court. A it would be poor economics not to Appeal the decision to the supreme court a Mannheimer said. Maurice Baringer state treasurer said a there will never be a More Clear Cut Opportunity to Appeal and set the record Secretary of state Melvin syn Horst said the present Case should be appealed to alleviate the possibility of a similar Appeal at a later Date. . Youth fatally injured in collision Thomas n. Martin 16, it. Pleas ant route 2, died in University hospitals in Iowa City sunday i afternoon of injuries received in a two car crash on Highway 34 two Miles wast of it. Pleasant at 2 45 . Sunday. He was the son of or. And mrs. Merlin Martin and was a j Sophomore at it. Pleasant High school. Thomas Martin Thomas n. Martin 16, it. Pleasant route 2, died of injuries suffered when this 1964 Falcon collided with a station Wagon on Highway 34 two Miles West of it. Pleasant sunday afternoon. The rear end of the ear was badly smashed As shown. The ear damage was t ital. Thant believes ibo tribesmen treated Well Lagos Nigeria up a Secretary general Thant conferred with Gen. Yakubu gown for two hours today and said afterwards he was satisfied Defeated ibo tribesmen were being treated Well by Federal soldiers. Thant who passed up a trip to visit a refugee Camp flew to new York shortly after concluding his talks with gown. The burmese Diplomat planned a Brief Stop in Paris on his Way Back to new York. Despite the fact Thant declined to visit anywhere near the biafran War front he said he was a convinced that the process of reconciliation has started he gave no reason for cancelling his trip to the War zone. In their talks gown reassured Thant on the safety of All nigerians including the ibo tribesmen who had formed the secessionist Republic of Biafra. Thant said that his conversations with Henrick Beer head of the red Cross league had also convinced him there had been no mistreatment of ibos. Temperature slides to 16 below most deep freezes operate at Zero but not this weather one. The controls were set lower for it. Pleasant a official Reading was 16 degrees below according to the Federal weather Bureau thermometer kept by g. S. Cantwell. This was too cold for Many cars and even some persons had difficulty in getting under Way monday morning in the sub Zero temperatures. Many persons had Home heating difficulties and in some Homes water pipes were Frozen. The 16 below followed by some 24 hours a Reading of la below Early sunday. The Day continued very cold and the High was four below. Saturdays High was five above. Looking Back to Friday the temperatures bordered on a heat wave with a High of 34. The temperature at 2 30 monday unofficially was Zero. If you experienced discomfort you can take some Solace in tile report that Bemidji minn., had a Low of 38 degrees monday morning and Waterloo Iowa 26 below. The Outlook for Southeast Iowa is a not so cold but still some 8 to 13 degrees below Zero. Two inches of Fluffy Snow fell sunday night. Four other persons were injured in the Accident and two of them Are still in memorial Hospital they Are James William Schadt 18, it. Pleasant the Driver of one of the East of the Bridge cars in the Accident and Wendell j skidded backwards Smith 18, it. Pleasant route 4. Schadt a member of tile Mph wrestling teams suffered a concussion fractured Vertebra in his Back cuts and bruises. Smith received a broken jaw concussion and lacerations. Martin was taken to the Hospital Here by ambulance then rushed to Iowa City where he died of severe head injuries shortly after arriving at the Hospital there. 39, West Branch. The collision occurred 200 As he Falcon that far into the front of the station Wagon. Both vehicles were totally damaged. They stayed on the Highway which was blocked for awhile. Vapor on roof looked like smoke City firemen responded to a Call at the Leo Hoelscher residence at 411 e. Madison at 1 25 . Monday. A neighbor saw moisture vaporizing off the South roof which looked like smoke and called in the alarm. The Strong Sunshine and Zero temperatures caused heavy moisture vaporizing All Day monday particularly on Snow covered roofs with a South exposure. 29 persons killed Belo Horizone Brazil up Twenty nine persons were killed sunday in a collision of a bus and truck 50 Miles from Rio de Janeiro police reported today. Sees men leave in his car Robert Boese Lockridge reported to police at 1 13 . Saturday that his 1966 Ford had been stolen from near the High school. Boese told police he saw two men get into the car and leave. Paul Smith of it. Pleasant heard about the theft Over the radio and about the same time saw two men get out of a car near his residence at 205 e. Henry and run North. He reported this to police and they the Highway patrol county authorities and members of the Henry county Rescue squad searched for the men. Harvey e. Carpenter a mental health patient was taken into custody near Wapello and turned Over to Burlington police then returned to Mhz. He told authorities he and another patient Rodney Nylin walked away and stole the car. Nylin was later picked up at Beardstown 111., at 7 . Sunday and committed to an Illinois mental health Institute. The 1969 Ford station Wagon w High was driven by Rev. Edward English West Branch in the Fata i Accident West of it. Pleasant sunday was demolished. Martin was Riding in a 1964 Ford Falcon with Schadt and Smith. The car travelling East skidded on the icy big Creek Bridge spun around and went backwards into a westbound 1969 Ford station Wagon driven by Rev. Edward m. English Rev. English a former Parsons professor who formerly lived in Lockridge received abrasions and bruises. He was treated and released. wife Nancy 35, suffered bruises and a sprained Back and we As released from the Hospital monday afternoon. Their son Andre about 8, Wasny to injured. The Accident was investigated by the Highway patrol and Deputy Cleo Johnston and City police were also at Ole scene. It was the second fatal Accident West of it. Pleasant in three Days. Three Young men were killed in a one car Accident on old Highway 34 near the Skunk River Bridge Friday. Too Thomas Martin age 16. Of route 2 it pleasant died at the University hospitals in Iowa City on sunday at 7 15 . He was born at it. Madison on August 20, 1953. He was a Sophomore at the it. Plea ant High school. Surviving Are his parents Merlin and Louise Boecker Martin two Brothers Bernard John Martin and James Craig Martin four Sisters Gloria Elaine Martin and Yvonne Myrlen Martin mrs. Donald Linda Messer and mrs. Doyle Patricia Dunn All of it. Pleasant grandmother mrs. John Martin of Lowell. Funeral services will be held at 2 p in. Wednesday from the first United methodist Church with or. C Dendy Garrett pastor of the Church officiating. Interment in the pleasant Hill cemetery. The family will receive friends tuesday evening from 7 to 8 30 . At Beatty Foster funeral Chapel in it. Pleasant. Contributions to a memorial fund in the memory of Tom May be left at the funeral Chapel. Can t use draft reclassification As punishment Washington up a the supreme court ruled today that draft officials have no authority to declare a registrant delinquent and order his induction because he violated selective service Laws. Information essential to the determination of whether he qualifies for. Exemption or reclassification and Early Induc a tion of draft resisters was stepped cars Roll Over report president in 2 accidents in 4 a. Ii i o appoint Larswell the court held that youths who j up after selective service director Tures of the House tax Bill which would have soaked the beneficiaries of deferred profit sharing were killed. The politicos who would Force the government to assume All responsibility for old age social Security payments have not yet had their Way. But beware the government social Security a expansionist so never sleep. They wont be Happy until that Snake has swallowed itself up to the midsection and died of torpor. Distributed by King features luckily the More extreme Fea a Syndicate tells school districts to tighten belts Des Moines up a a Republican representative has called on Iowa a school districts to tighten their belts and Stop expecting huge amounts of staite Aid to finance extravagant spending. Rep. William Huff a Des Moines said today the states programs providing massive amounts of Aid to local districts have been met not by the anticipated local property tax Relief but rather by a further increase in property tax levies. Defy the military service act Are subject to criminal prosecution by the courts a but not to reclassification or other punishment decreed simply by a local boards finding he was delinquent in complying with the Law. The decision came in a criminal Case involving David Earl gut Knecht of Taylor minn., who claimed his induction was seeded up because he dropped his draft card at the feet of a u. S. Marshal on the Steps of the Federal building in Minneapolis. Too Gutknecht also was prosecuted for refusing to cooperate with induction officials and sentenced to four years in jail. A if Federal or state Laws ars violated by registrants they can be prosecuted a the court hold. A if induction is to be substituted for these prosecutions a vast rewriting of the act is needed. A standards would be needed by which the legality of a declaration of a delinquency could be the court said it had searched the 1967 selective service Law a in vain for any clues that Congress desired the act to have punitive sanctions apart from the criminal prosecutions specifically a nor do we read it a the opinion added a was granting personal privileges which May be forfeited for transgressions which affront the local too the court vote on the key Issue of selective service Board a delinquency regulations was 6 to 2 with chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Potter Stewart dissenting on technical grounds. The two agreed Gutknecht should not have been prosecuted but for different reasons. Stewart and Burger did not Deal a 1965 Mustang convertible driven by William Duncan 25, Washington hit a Patch of ice on Highway 218 two Miles North of it. Pleasant at 5 p. In. Saturday went out of control and rolled Over into the East ditch. Duncan complained of a Back injury and was treated by a doctor. sister Susan was with him and escaped injury. The car was damaged an estimated $250. Deputy sheriff Cleo Johnston investigated. Too at 3 . Friday a 1968 Volkswagen driven by Theodore k Hull 27, it. Pleasant missed a curve on a gravel Road four Miles Southeast of it. Pleasant and rolled Over. The car was totally damaged. Hull and two passengers mrs. De Wilson and mrs. Robert Gholson escaped injury. They Are employed at metro mail and Hull was taking the two women Home from work when the Accident occurred. Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore investigated. Lewis e. Hershey in 19g7 sent local boards a memorandum suggesting that they Call up registrants who had engaged in illegal or disruptive Vietnam protests. Too defending the regulations the Justice department told the court the purpose was not to punish delinquents but to cure their improper conduct. The department said it would refuse to stand be Hind any Board which abused its i a i 14 i i it discretion on reclassification. President Nixon relieved Hershey i a a a i d i Druid As draft chief effective feb. 16. I Ehi is Vii at schoolyard w Saigon up a a 16-year-old boy today hurled a grenade into a school Yard near Danang and killed four children who were playing volleyball with a group of . 91st Congress cranked up a poli marines. Eleven other children and tidally charged second session to-1 six of the 12 marines present were Day gearing for immediate tests wounded. With president Nixon on school Aid it was the second terrorist attack and inflation and subsequent of the Day. Communist troops using struggles on welfare Reform the a Claymore Type mine which Hurles draft and what to do about crime.1 steel pellets Over a wide area ambushed a South vietnamese officer Congress Back Iii session Washington up a the Washington up a the White House has informed Federal circuit judge g. Harold Carswell of Tallahassee. Fla., he w ill be appointed to the supreme court up was told today. Carswell has been prominently mentioned for the vacancy created when Abe Fortas resigned last May Kramer appears to be regaining consciousness the condition of Thomas Kramer 23, of Salem was reported As improving by officials at veterans Hospital in Iowa City. Kramer was critically injured in a two car Accident at the intersection of Highway 34 West and the Salem Blacktop on december 20th. Kramer suffered neck and head inti lies and remained unconscious until this weekend when officials stated that he had periods of consciousness and a generally improved condition. Wendell Kitch Fairfield Driver of the other car was treated for bruises at tile time of the Accident and released. The House and Senate were gave led to order at noon for an initial flurry of speeches to be followed in the Senate by a prompt showdown on a $19.7 billion school and health Money Bill that Nixon has threatened to veto As inflationary. Candidate company at the Edge of Saigon killing 18 vietnamese and wounding 35. Up correspondent Barney Seibert reported from Danang that the terrorist who threw the grenade into the Tanh quit Hamlet school 20 deck s condition is satisfactory the condition of Harris Gene deck 25, of my. Pleasant was reported in satisfactory condition by officials of veterans Hospital monday. It was previously reported he was in University hospitals which was not Correct. Deck survived a one car crash last Friday noon which took the lives of Frank Fuller. It. Pleasant Albert Laverne Barrett Rural Salem and Kenneth Watson of Rural Stockport. Deck received multiple cuts and bruises and several fractured ribs. Miles South of Danang was recon after a pre session meeting of a died a boy from a near it Village. Tile Senate democratic policy he escaped and policemen were committee democratic Leader searching for him. Mike Mansfield set the Senate vote the vietnamese loss in the Clay for later today or tuesday giving More mine explosion was the head Nixon time to act on the Bill before Leat loss in a single action since nov. He comes to Capitol Hill at 12 30 18 when the Viet Cong killed 55 Ini Washington up a presi-. Thursday to deliver his first one Battle. In other actions Viet Nixon has completed his Fis Nixon a budget proposal ready under fire for his financial association with financier Louis Wolfson convicted of Selling unregistered securities. Too a White House aide telephoned Carswell 50, several Days ago to inform him he had been picked up was told. A the was told just to sit tight and make no statement about the nomination a a source said. Carswell did just that telling reporters in Tallahassee that a it would be highly inappropriate for me to make any comment of any nature Quot on reports of the appointment. Nixon named Carswell a former Federal District judge to the 5th circuit court of appeals seven months ago. The court handles cases in Florida Georgia Alabama Mississippi and Texas. Too the Senate last year rejected Nixon a first Choice for the Fortas seat chief judge Clement f. Haynsworth of the 4th circuit. Opponents attacked Haynew Orth a Bench record on civil rights and his financial holdings in companies involved in litigation before his court. A Carswell appointment would Bear out earlier prediction that Nixon would turn to Dixie for a supreme court appointment following his Rebuff on Haynsworth who lives in Greenville s. C. School custodian killed by explosion Grafton up a the custodian at a Northeast Iowa school was killed sunday afternoon when the boiler of the school exploded. The Worth county medical examiner said Alvin Buechele 63, Grafton was killed when the Iron door of the boiler hit his head As it was blown out. State of the Union address. Cong and North vietnamese gunners shelled 30 Allied posts across the in the House the ways and coun by during the nigh wounding with the question whether Congress Means committee went into closed americans. Had authorized the delinquency session to Start drafting its version a regulations because even under the of Nixon a plan to overhaul the $5 regulations they said Gutknecht a i billion a year welfare program conviction could not stand. Too Harlan agreed with the majority opinion in a concurring statement but observed a was i see it nothing in the courts opinion prevents a selective service Board under the present and existing regulations from classifying Asia a registrant who fails to provide his Board with with fresh emphasis on Job training and we Ork. Chairman Wilbur d. Mills d -ark., predicted the drafting session might take six weeks. A key part of the Nixon plan a a minimum annual income for poor working families a by All accounts faced an Uphill fight because of its big extra costs. Albrecht names two co chairmen William Albrecht candidate for the democratic nomination for first District congressman today announced the appointment of the co chairmen of his Campaign. Serving in this capacity will be Ralph Beal of Davenport and Karl Larsen i of Iowa City. Cal 1971 budget proposal Ute White House said today. A spokesman said it would show a surplus a and no new excise taxes. Press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler said the president finished work on the massive document during the weekend. Ziegler said it would be sent to Congress a a probably on Jan. 30. Ziegler declined to Supply specific figures but said a additional substantial cuts were achieved As Nixon directed last week. He said tills meant in the neighbourhood of $1 billion 01 mole. Auditions for a Marne soon auditions will be january 23, 7-9 . And january 24, 1-3 pm. In room 35, old main now a Wesleyan Campus for the May 5-9 opera worship Community theatre production of a a Marne. Copies of Hie script and music and a recording of the Broadway production wit be available for use in the audio visual department of the Wesleyan Library beginning wednesday of this week. Larry Cullison producer and musical director invites interested persons to bring other music they May have prepared in order to audition also. Auditions will be a a painless according to or. Cullison and he emphasizes that previous experience and show appearances Are not necessary. Accompanists will be available at auditions. Mrs. Etta k oath. Stage director and Karen Owen choreographer will also be interviewing and auditioning those interested Iii speaking parts Crew work or dancing. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon though the takers in this world May eat a Little better still the givers have a Way of sleeping much the better

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