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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 20, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 16mt. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening january 20, 1970 Price to Cento these Days by John Chamberlain the appalling tragedy of Biafra ifs too late to do much about bin Ira beyond urging mercy toward the victims and pouring in food and medical Aid to save the starving and the wounded who have barely staggered through the most horrifying War of the sixties. But it Isnit too late to reappraise our own conduct in standing politely aside while two million ibos died mainly from starvation because British and soviet Power politics had decided that Nigeria must be preserved As a single Sovereign entity rather than become two countries. Too what has happened is that we have watched once More while our own kind have been done in. The ibos of Nigeria Are the christians and the enterprises of their part of West Africa they tried to secede and set up their own government when the moslem Hausa massacred some Twenty thousand ibos in something that was pretty close to an attempt at tribal genocide. But. As had happened before in the Congo when we sided with the heterogeneous in against Moise Tshombe a Good Friend of the West who wanted to proclaim the Independence of Katanga we let the abstraction of National sovereignty come Between us and our natural friends. The British were committed to the preservation of the nigerian status quo and our state department is never willing to risk the displeasure of London when it Corves to matters affecting the course of events in parts of the old British Empire. Too if the big Powers had kept out of the biafran War. The ibos might have made their Independence stick. They we rent Defeated until russian made artillery and russian bombers and fighter planes added to the steady flow of British weaponry cracked the last Biafra defences. It is perfectly True that if we had sent arms to Biafra it might have led to a confrontation with the soviets whom we Are trying to bring to the joint of accepting nuclear arms limitation and to harsh words with Harold Wilson a labor government in Britain. But we might have really tried to do something through the United nations. At one time Luis Kutner a Chicago Liberal lawyer and Lee Edwards the conservative Washington publicist had an agreement worked Cut with four african nations Gabon the Ivory Cost Tanzania and Zambia to go to tile in with an application for biafran membership. If Biafra Hod been accepted As a new Sovereign state within the world body the War in Nigeria would have automatically ceased to be a civil War and the in could h we tried to do something to Stop it. The soviets would have vetoed anything positive of course but at least they would have been branded before the world As hypocrites when they come talking of peace. American chinese contacts resumed Warsaw up a american and chinese communist diplomats resumed official contacts today in the chinese embassy Here today after a two year break. They sat at separate tables below a bust of Mao Tseung for exactly one hour and the americans said later the talks were useful. . Ambassador Walter j. Stoessel and chinese charge do affaires Lei Yang and their aides opened the 135th meeting at 1 01 ice has part in some local accidents two accidents monday and two tuesday morning were reported to it. Pleasant police As was one that occurred saturday. Too at 4 34 monday cars driven by Paul w. Swan and Frank Mckenzie collided at the intersection of White and Warren streets. Swan was going North on White and Mckenzie went on Warren when the Accident occurred. Police charged Swan with failure to yield the right of Way. The front end of the Swan car and the left Side of the Mckenzie car were damaged. Too at 8 15 . Monday a car driven by Walter w. Wilt skidded on North main Street near Orange turned around in the Street and struck the parked pick up truck of Kenneth Ellis. The left front fender and Grill on the Ellis pick up was damaged an estimated $76. Damage to the car was minor. Too at 7 30 . Tuesday Banks p. Swan going went on Maple Leaf drive was unable to Stop his car at the Stop sign due to the icy conditions and the car collided with a car driven by Jerry Norton. The Norton car was going South on Lincoln and was turning onto Maple Leaf drive. It was damaged some. Too at 8 30 . Tuesday cars driven by Mary Nau and Bruce c. Birch collided at the intersection of College and Orange. The Nau car was going East on Orange and Birch was driving South on College when the Accident occurred. The Accident was blamed on the icy conditions. Both cars were damaged. Too at 12 30 . Saturday Kenneth o. Hummell driving a Northern propane truck South on 218 attempted a turn right onto Winfield Avenue but make the turn and went on Forward. A car driven by Kenneth e. Madden Crawfordsville Slid into the rear of the truck and was damaged. . 8 01 . Est and ended them an hour later to the minute. They Are the Only official talks anywhere in the nations Between the two nations. Too in the past the meetings have lasted about two hours and it was believed today stalks were Shorter because they were the first of a virtually new series. As he emerged from the embassy Stoessel read a Short typed statement that said he an Lei talked for an hour a on a number of matters of Mutual they set no Date for their next meeting but agreed to a be in touch and at an Early Date to consider that question a the meeting was conducted in a Businesslike atmosphere a Stoessel said. A we Are pleased these talks have been renewed today and i believe today a meeting was rules regents can Issue Revenue Bonds Des Moines up a Polk Issue Revenue Bonds for Tihe con county Dis rot court judge Gibson struck Ion of academic bundling none to go from Here in draft in january Gerald e. Hendrickson 19, who was to leave Here for induction into the army wednesday has moved from new London to St. Louis mo., and will leave from there in february. He was to have filled Henry my a live in a they Cail it Massachusetts Institute of technology Provost Jerome b. Weisner right against Wall Speaks to the about 50 students who got into president Howard Johnson a office after the door was broken Down by a Metal pipe battering ram show but fails to make headway. Making free with the office equipment they said they will continue the a live in until the disciplinary committee is eliminated and disciplinary action against previous demonstrators revoked at the Cambridge mass., institution. Holliday today upheld the authority of the Iowa Board of regents to Brody Short on funds Lins his problems Carswell a confirmation is expected Washington up a both liberals and conservatives predict judge g. Harrold Carswell of Florida will win Senate confirmation to the supreme court with minimum resistance. President Nixon monday nominated Carswell 50, to the court county a january draft quota of seat vacated by Abe Fortas in May. Wind makes cold colder Ray wont Stop Quot add on one Man. His number in the draft lottery is 14.since he has transferred no one will leave from Here this month. Mrs. Darline Taylor draft Board clerk Here said that has received a Call for three men to leave feb. 16. Their lottery numbers Are 51, 64 and 82. She was allowed to go up to 90 in filling the february quota. The next eligible Man in the county has no. 91, so he is certain to go in March unless he should enlist before that. The Kutner Edwards proposition languished because no Strong nation could be found to sponsor it. And the ibos in their extremity were unable to mount a Good propaganda Campaign in the West for their cause. So the War dragged on for two and one half years to the end that was foreordained because of something that May have to do with British Oil politics in West Africa and to the soviet desire to get a sub Sah ran african foothold a and possibly a naval staging base to protect the ships they Send around the Cape of Good Hope to the Indian Ocean and the port of Haiphong in North Vietnam. Too the whole thing is a Triumph for cynicism. The soviets have actually had the Gall to Label the defeat of Biafra a a a fiasco for the Western Powers. Pravda in Moscow hailed the nigerian Victory As one Toh flip would help nigerians to a who is their enemy and who is a Friend. The soviet press accused British. Dutch and . Oil companies of encouraging Biafra which is about As far from the truth As could possible be imagined. The Oil companies while they kept quiet about things. I i kid much More to gain in a material sense from a nigerian Victory that would restore order throughout the whole country Biafra included. The real iniquity is that Bull ate the Netherlands and the . All combined to make a de Facto United front with the soviets in preferring a state of affairs in Nigeria that would keep th0 ibos from the self determination that Woodrow Wilson used to talk about so eloquently. Nixon puts limit on speech Washington up a president Nixon promised today that his state of the Union speech to Congress thursday will be a no laundry list of everything i will be submitting to Congress later it will be weighted primarily toward Domestic matters with particular emphasis on the budget and the problem of inflation he told reporters. Chatting with newsmen in his office a obviously in Good spirits on his first anniversary As president a Nixon said he would Send to Congress a special message Early next month on foreign affairs. He said this would avoid stretching the state of the Union into a a sleep should make c of c dinner reservations the 30th annual meeting and dinner of the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce will be held wednesday january 28, at 7 15 . At Iowa Wesleyan College student Union. A delicious Buffet style dinner is planned which will include chilled Tomato juice roast Baron of beef baked Ham shrimp Creole whipped or candied Sweet potatoes French Green bean casserole tossed salad frosted fruit salad relishes assorted dinner Rolls beverage Straw Berry Chiffon. Important items on the Agenda Are vote on change of the annual meeting Date and installation of new 1970 chamber president Gary Wiegel. Or. Chad a. Wymer director of the Iowa development commission the state Agency charged with promoting Iowa a Overall economic development is scheduled to give the main address. Prior to his appointment by governor Robert Ray to his present position with the development commission or. Wymer executive positions with Chambers of Commerce in Las Cruces new Mexico great Bend Olathe and Herington Kansas and Council Bluffs. Tickets for the dinner Are available at the chamber of Commerce office 124 South main. The Price is $3.50 per person and reservations should be made by Friday january 23. Anyone interested in the growth and Progress of it. Pleasant is not Only invited but urged to attend. That was the same month Carswell was confirmed by the Senate to a seat on the u. S. Fifth circuit court of appeals. He previously sat on the Northern Florida Federal District Bench for la years. Carswell was Nixon a second Choice for the vacancy. Fourth circuit judge Clement f. Hans Worth jr., of Greenville s. C., was rejected by the Senate after a 10-week controversy Over his off the Bench financial dealings and his judicial record on civil rights and labor. Sen. James o. Eastland d miss chairman of the judiciary committee scheduled hearings on the nomination for Jan. 27. He predicted confirmation with Little difficulty. New York up a Michael James Brody jr., who wanted to give away his $25 million Fortune bummed a ride from Washington to new York monday night when he find enough Pocky t Money for a ticket. A run in with police Early today further delayed his re i turn. Brody went to the White House re i monday to try to Tell the president 1-i #41 i la i a l about his plans to end the Vietnam a. Quot a s j. Solve the Middle East pro Blem. He talked to a succession of in a Friendly court Case brought by seven students Holliday held the regents had acted constitutionally in deciding to Issue Bonds. The decision affects the Fate of several Academe buildings scheduled for con traction Over the next to years on All three state University campuses. Tire 1969 legislature had granted Ixo Ndini authority to the regents and agreed to replace tuition funds pledged to pay off the Bonds. However before any such Bonds could be sold the regents needed a court Case to test the legality of the issuance. Des Moines up gov. Not too Many months ago one could probably hear someone saying a ifs not the heat its the according to the Iowa state University professor in charge of outlying experimental farms thermometers should not be the only1 year Olds be allowed to vote said gauge of human and animal com today he will not oppose extending fort this time of year either. Their rights to Purchase and drink police guards and secret service Robert d. Ray who More than a j agents but got no farther than the year ago recommended that 19 j Gas House to 1600 Pennsylvania a ii. L. Self says that Many newspaper and radio weather reports now publish a wind chill Index. The idea is that even a mild Winter can lower the actual temperature considerably. For example self reminds live stockmen that a 20 mile an hour wind can make a temperature of to degrees above Zero drop to a temperature equivalent of 25 degrees below Zero. A temperature of minus ten degrees has the effect of 33 degrees below Zero with a to mile an hour wind and a 20 mile wind can a a lower it to 53 degrees below Zero. Self suggests that livestock men re examine their feedlot shelters for ventilation keeping in mind that moist winds can cause a wind chill temperature much lower than the thermometer will show. Alcoholic beverages. Enue. Too Brody chartered a helicopter to Fly him from new York to washing Ray was questioned at a news ton but he didst have enough conference after republicans in Cash left Over to pay the cab Driver the House and Senate said monday to the we Ltd it mses they favor a constitutional Amend when it came time to mum to new ment to lowering the voting age to York he tried to borrow fare i t 19. Republican legislators also said him and his wife. Renee but t they favored giving 19-year-Olds meet with much Success among full adult Legal rights including members of the White House press bombers hit Mekong Delta Saigon up a u. S. B52s carried out their heaviest strikes in the Mekong Delta in a year monday night and today in the face of reports the communists have moved up to 12,000 troops into the Delta for attacks against South vietnamese troops. Military reports said the North vietnamese and Viet Cong hoped for a head on Battle with the South vietnamese. Too no american troops have been stationed in the Delta since the u. S. 9th infantry division was withdrawn from the War. Observers said a Headon confrontation Between the North and South vietnamese would be a critical test for both sides. Allied sources said the Viet Cong command had licked my Tho a City with 93,000 residents 34 Miles Southwest of Saigon As the prime target in a pending Campaign against population centers in the Delta. Upward trend in temperature Short lived Cor License soles go Over 4,000 a total of 4,167 car licenses and 1,212 truck licenses have been sold at the Auto department at the treasurers office in the courthouse by Early tuesday afternoon. The sales Are running about the same As a year ago. The last Day licenses can be purchased before a penalty goes into effect is Friday Jan. 30. The penalty will be five percent of the Cost of the License per month with nothing less than a $1 per month. The deadline for having 1970 plates on motor vehicles is usually the end of March. Well the milk is spilled. We never did criticize the British. Maybe they a government of Fidel Castro in Cuba for our continued disapproval of the the b52s concentrated their bomb loads on suspected communist positions in six raids monday and today within four Miles of the cambodian Border along infiltration lines around superstition Mountain separating Cambodia from the Border. What appeared to be a Start of a moderation in temperatures in the it. Pleasant area turned out to be Only a Winter Mirage tuesday morning. Temperatures appeared to be moving upward and from an Early five below went up to two below. Then came new cold blasts Riding in from Medicine hat on High winds that gave the chill an undesirable j plus Factor. Soon the temperature had dropped to seven below and by i to a. In. Was Down to nine below. At mid afternoon the Reading was seven below. These were unofficial readings that May have been a a warmer than the Federal weather thermometer was registering for the same hours. High winds were carrying the Snow across the Prairies of North and East Henry county until visibility was reduced and roads were filling. Cars were driving with lights on at mid morning. Because of the Drifting the Winfield it. Union schools were dismissed at 1 30 tuesday afternoon. Some of the Low temperatures in the Midwest Early tuesday were 31 below at Bemidji Minn., and 22 below at Minneapolis Minn. The right to drink Beer and liquor. In his inaugural address in 1969, Ray recommended lowering the voting age but did not advocate giving 19-year-Olds full adult rights and privileges. Ray said today that he Felt originally the move to extend full Legal rights to 19-year-Olds was for the purpose of defeating the proposed constitutional amendment. But he said he now feels there is an honest and sincere belief among legislators that if 19-year-Olds will be allowed to vote they also should be Given full adult responsibilities. A if this is the Way the legislature wishes to go i done to feel that at this time i should oppose it a Ray said. The governor said that the citizens of the state will still be Able to express their sentiment if the proposed constitutional amendment is approved this year and again by the 64th general Assem Bly next year. Corps. When a Young Man with a Black leather jacket offered to drive him to new York Brody accepted. Too they got As far As Newark n.j., . Iowa Board acts on buildings s. E Iowa area Community College at a special Board meeting monday evening heard a presentation of Charlton associates of Des Moines on two National Home Mobile classrooms which Are under consideration for lease Purchase by the College. The superintendent was authorized to prepare an agreement to be submitted for approval at the next regular Board meeting and to include the stipulation that approval must first be received from the state Board of Public instruction. Discussed tentative building plans submitted and explained by Stanley consultants of Muscatine and gave a tentative approval of the plans As submitted so far for sub phase one subject to general accept Des Moines up a the House constitutional amendments committee today approved 16-1, a measure to give 19-year-Olds in to undesirable a the right 10 vote but added the predicted stipulation to include All Legal rights. House minority Leader William Gannon of Mingo cast the sole dissenting vote. He said the right to vote should be dealt with in a constitutional amendment but other Legal rights should be covered by statute. Gannon said it was not a Good constitutional procedure Quot to cover both the voting and Legal rights question in the same amendment bulking at courts ruling terse verse by a. Gordon we need an a operation Finis a or something like that to end the silly a operation this and a operation red lights lose Flash when the state police pulled them Ance by the faculty. Stanley was in Over for failing to keep to the right strutted to proceed with refine on the new Jersey Turnpike. Tile ment of these plans. Driver of the Auto was Given a ticket a a then the officer noted there was a tear Gas pistol a an illegal weapon in new Jersey a on the car seat. Further search turned up a six or seven knives of varying sizes Quot police said. A fourth person in the car admitted the tear Gas pistol was his. The Driver Brody and his wife were released. A they headed for Newark Airport where Brody said he would try to get a taxi Back to new York a the police spokesman said. A there was no charge filed against democrats to elect new chairman Des Moines up a a special meeting of the Iowa democratic state Central committee will be held Here Jan. 28 to elect a new state chairman. The meeting will be held at 7 at the Savery hotel. The present chairman Clark Rasmussen of West Des Moines has announced his retirement effective feb. 15. The flashing red Stop lights City workers installed on top of the Stop signs at the intersection of highways 218 and 34 in East it. Pleasant last week have been disconnected. The City used overhead wiring for the lights and the Highway commission recommends underground Waring. A Highway commission official is to come Here from Fairfield to inspect the present set up which May be used on a temporary basis until Spring. But until the Highway commission infects the present installation the red lights wont be used at the intersection Only the regular Stop signs at the intersection at which traffic in All four directions must Stop. Atlanta up a parts of the official South Are beginning to balk on the supreme courts Mas Sive Public school desegregation program. Two governors say they will defy the Federal courts and a third is advocating classroom Boycotts. A Louisiana High school shut Down monday following fighting Between Whites and Black students. A North Carolina High school cautiously reopened after a week of intermittent racial battling Between students. Many Southern school districts the . Ing his daughter from classes nearly Are under Federal court orders to 1 desegregate school can to regulate length of hair High court rules Des Moines up District court in Des Moines Lilied a year ago. Monday that the Colfax comm in j officials suspended the girl Betty school District regulation limit cause her hair length did not coning the length of students hair was form to the rules of the school. A a violation of the due process in his decision judge Hanson clause of the 14th amendment and ordered that All school records in Union St Federal judge William c. Hanson said the school District was ordered to refrain from enforcing the controversial hair Rule in the future. Solving the suspension and any absence from school be stricken from the records. He also ordered statutory costs of the court action should j i be paid by the school District. By feb. I but gov. Claude Kirk of Florida told the supreme court monday such a deadline would create a financial chaos in his state. Kirk told the High court if it did no to extend the deadline to june 15, he would do it himself by executive order. Roger e. Thompson assistant manager of . Federal land Bank Roger e. Thompson began his new work As assistant manager of the it. Pleasant Federal land Bank the first of tile month vere Boshart manager announced this week. Thompson a 1967 graduate of Iowa state University Ames with a major in agriculture business Mhz doctor kiwanis speaker or. Uben Herod a native of India now on the staff at the it. Pleasant mental health Institute talked to the kiwanis club monday evening on his work As an adolescent psychiatrist at Mhz. His Effort primarily is to get information to people that they May better understand How to prevent mental illness. He feels that he can better serve by going out and talking with people about possible problems and How to curb them. In the question period there was discussion of How the Community can assist without any definite conclusions. The monthly birthday Observance of the club conducted by Sam blonde disclosed that ten members have birthdays in january. Chad Wymer the decision came Down in con a Section with Susan Sims a father Eric Sims against the school District for eject edit or a note the ruling Cool Deal new Delhi up a Kuwait has has ordered $266,000 Worth of drink with Susan Sims who Especial interest in it. Pleasant be ing water coolers from the India a Kim brought action cause of the recent controversy Over based american a Beard in the Case of Lee kochneff., Pany. Mayor Urban of . At Wesleyan Mayer Thomas Urban of Des Moines was scheduled to speak to the freshmen at Iowa Wesleyan this morning As part of the colleges interim plenary program. A the City in crisis was this weeks topic of concentration for was associated with the Federal freshmen who Are studying Quot Arni a land Bank at Dewitt for a utile lean identity in world perspective Over two years. He and his wife Beverly and their two children. Roger jr., and hum hic a a. Steven have rented a Rural Home Ger to inc was a keynote speaker refrigerator com East of it. Pleasant and Are now during a High school seminar at the residing in the Home. 1 College last Spring. During the Jan. 5 a feb. 19 interim session. The Des Moines mayor no Stran

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