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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 24, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Pleasant warmer Price to cents it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening january 24, 1970�?~mac? sniper used Only baseball Bat space rocket race and awards two evening Senate passes Tough ant crime measure cub scout pack 28 will hold their a space rocket a race and a wards on two evenings next week. On monday evening at 7 30 p. Rn., the rocket races will be held at the National guard armory on South Walnut Street. Award presentations will be held at the methodist Church on tuesday evening january 27th at 7 30 of clock. The Public is cordially invited to attend both events. Found innocent of murder by reason of insanity Senate passes snowmobile Bill Ann Arbor Mich. Up a Ernest l. Bishop jr., 28, charged with i murdering a University of Michi j Gan coed during a series of killings that terrorized girls on two campuses has been found innocent of murder by reason of insanity. A Washtenaw county circuit court jury of nine women and three men reached the verdict Friday after to hours of deliberation Over two Days. The wiry sex convict faces psychiatric tests before a committal hearing next wednesday. Bishop was on parole from a rape conviction when he became acquainted with Margaret Phillips 25, a University of Michigan graduate student in sociology. Bishops attorney admitted that Bishop shot miss Phillips last july at her apartment but said he was insane at the time. Miss Phillips had apparently been trying to rehabilitate Bishop As a personal project. In a tape recording taken when Bishop was under the influence of truth serum he cried a i shot her i shot her. Why her Why her i just kept shooting and shooting. Why her she was always Sweet always an miss Phillips from Coopersville Mich., was killed during a series of seven murders of Young girls in the University of Michigan a Eastern Michigan University area. No evidence was presented at Bishops trial connecting him with the others. Declare Davis Winner in Lee misgivings about the Strong and a a dangerous Powers it gives Federal prosecutors and about the Bill a constitutionality led about a dozen liberals to fight for changes during fridays Senate debate. Particularly under attack were provisions a allowing a judge to impose a sentence of up to 30 years on a defendant he rules to be a a dangerous special offenders under a provision intended at hitting a a habitual or a a professional criminals. A nullifying a supreme court decision that can compel the government to make Public its transcripts of illegal bugs or wiretaps if the person whose conversations were overheard is later put on trial. Harts amendment striking this Section lost 53 to 20. Des Moines up a a Senate contest committee set up to review a state Senate election in Lee county last september Friday a declared Republican Wilson Davis of Keokuk the Winner of the disputed election. Once Over lightly sen. J. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., looks a bit discomfited on the speakers platform at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh he supported president Nixon a Vietnam policy and the students replied with a Shower of marshmallows. Davis who was seated in the Senate last week won the election last september by a three vote margin. The contest committee reaffirmed the election results without changing the vote count. Democratic candidate Gilbert Mccarty Keokuk contested the election on the ground that ballots marked disputed should be examined by the committee. His attorney George Phelan of fort Madison said a change in any four of the disputed ballots would make Mccarty the Winner. The Lee county auditor brought the ballots to Des Moines in sealed envelopes which the five member committee opened and examined. Committee chairman sen. Arthur Neu r Carroll said none of the disputed ballots should have been included in the election results because they were All illegally marked by the voters. Neu also complained about the Cost to the state for paying attorneys to represent Mccarty and Davis. Neu said there is no statutory requirement that the state should pay the fees but under Senate tradition this has always been done. A i done to see Why the Senate should have to pay the attorney fees a Neu said. A a it a always been done in the past and Well pay it Neu said he will recommend that the candidate contesting the election pay his own expenses and let the state pick up the Tab for the apparent Winner. Stephens Lens of activities in legislature music professor Burton p. Mahle is the new chairman of the faculty at Iowa Wesleyan College. Prof. Mahle head of the music department at inc succeeds or. Louis a. Haselmayer who becomes Wesleyan a president feb. I. Mahle was elected by the faculty thursday to serve out or Haselmayer a term which ends in june. The faculty also passed resolutions thanking or. Haselmayer for his work As first chairman of the faculty and giving congratulations on his selection As president of the College. Prof. Mahle joined the inc faculty in 1960. He taught formerly at Taylor University. Upland id he holds an a. B. Degree from Hamline and an m. A. From the University of Minnesota. Burlington a the addition to Salter school including three classrooms a Multi purpose room Kitchen kindergarten and toilet facilities is expected to be ready for occupancy in september. Bids on the addition were received by the Burlington school Board thursday totalling $202,201, about $10,000 less than the architects estimate. As we finish the second week of the current session of the legislature we find much work has already been done. Though most of them have been noncontroversial we surely have passed a Large number of Bills for so Early in the session. We will now begin to debate the More controversial issues and so the Progress will be slower. I expect that collective bargaining for government employees we ill be one of the hottest issues of the session. Particularly if government employees Are allowed to strike. Such strike action would mean a vast difference in government operation from the Way we have been proceeding in the past in our state. Much lobbying is already being done by the interested i groups. Elimination of All personal prop erty tax will also be debated. This tax would be shifted to income tax. The personal property tax is diff j cult to collect and does not fall equally on All people. Thus the agitation for a change. We have already passed the constitutional amendment allow i ing a four year term for elected state officers. This must pass another session of the legislature and then a voice of the people before it becomes Law. I Hope to report legislative activity regularly through this column. If you have any thoughts or comments about the legislature you May Contact me by Way of the state House Des Moines Iowa. Richard l. Stephens state senator another provision seeks to prevent the mafia from taking Over legitimate businesses and organizations including unions. The measure also gives courts the Power to imprison witnesses for up to 36 months without a jury trial if they refuse to testify even after being granted immunity from self incrimination. After every Liberal move to modify the Bill was Defeated sen. Lee Metcalf d mont., was the Only senator to vote against it. Quot sure in a aware of the political risks a he said later. A anybody that a for crime is in real trouble. But i feel this Bill takes away individual constitutional rights and will not contribute to the Law enforcement that we funds to cover the construction Are available in the 2.5 Mill Levy business manager Ken Park said. Low bidders were Francis Smith of it. Pleasant general contractor Burlington plumbing and heating mechanical and ramp a electric Burlington electrical. The addition is to be an Extension fronting Maple toward eighth. General contract bidders were Carl Nelson of Burlington $146,-836, r. L. Patton of Keokuk $144,-444, h. Eugene Smith of it. Pleasant $161,920 and Francis Smith $142,700. Smith said the work could be completed in 175 Days. Mechanical contract bidders were Burlington plumbing $44,729 and Linder of new London $49,849. Electrical bidders All of Burlington were Brunk $18,000, Keith $17,378, Koestner $15,786, Pohren $18,244 and ramp a $14,772. Rev. Lawson Brown asks some questions opens business decrease in receipts noted by democrats Rev. Lawson Brown began his Sermon Friday night at the Church of the Nazarene by asking some questions. A Why do people have to be sold on the idea of getting out of sin and getting sin out of them Why do people have to be sold on the idea of going to heaven or keeping out of hell a or. Brown Sang the song a the lifted me then he preached a powerful message from psalm 78 41. Pastor Carlton Easley reminded the people that the meeting would soon be closing and asked for a show of hands from those who would a Spray through concerning the meeting. Mrs. Cecil Foster recently opened Singer sales and service at 113 n. Jefferson in it. Pleasant. As manager and operator of the business she is Well qualified. She is familiar with All phases of sewing having been sewing instructor for two years at fashion first fabrics in i. Pleasant. To equalize Oak Grants to elderly according to a financial report filed with the Secretary of states office the democratic state Central committee took in just Over $120,000 in 1969, less than one half of their 1958 total of $263,854. Des Moines up a few the first time in history of old age assistance in Iowa the department of social services plans to equalize Grants of elderly recipients. Under plans announced Friday the department in March will Stop giving a $7.50 monthly deduction to persons with some source of in-1 come other than the state Grants. In addition the department Hopes to be Ables to increase the maximum monthly or int under the state Oak program to 1113. Commissioner James Gillman said at present the maximum Oak Grant is $105 a month. However he said the practice of a a disregarding a certain amount of income each month results in two separate Grant figures for old age assistance recipients. While persons with no other source of income but state Grant receive $105 a month persons re reviving social Security or other pension benefits in addition to state a Aid get $112 monthly. The report indicates that total income amounted to $120,424 87 with paid expenses of $121,098.59. The expenses compare with $263,854.07 spent in 1968. Commenting on the report Clark Rasmussen chairman of the democratic state Central committee said a income during the off elec tion year was less than one half of what it was in 1963 and resulted from the fact that it was not an election year and that the democratic party is no longer in control. Either in the state House or in Washington. The Fosters live four Miles West of it. Pleasant and Are the parents of two sons Eugene and Leon and two daughters Barbara and Sharon. The first Macadam hard surfaced roads West of the alleghenies were built in Central Kentucky in the Early 1800s. Would require lobbyists to Tell fees Des Moines up a twelve democrats in the Iowa Senate introduced a Bill Friday to require lobbyists in the legislature to disclose publicly their financial fees. Under the Bill the lobbyists would be required to report their a lobbying activities payments expenses and the names of the recipients. Failure to file the report or to falsify it would be a Misdemeanour. The average wind Speed in key West fla., is 11.5 Miles per hour. Measure for vote by 19-year-Olds has Long Road Des Moines up a a measure to give 19-year-Olds in Iowa full adult rights has started its tempestuous trip Down the Road to final approval. The Iowa House Friday passed 93-23 an amended version of a Senate passed Bill to allow a 19-year-old vote but added the stipulation that full Legal rights be included in the same constitutional amendment. Republicans asserted their majority muscle in the partisan Battle and the controversial amendment to the Bill passed on an 84-34 party line vote. The whole Bill As amended was then sent to the Senate for expected concurrence. The final vote on the Bill capped almost nine hours of debate which exploded into a heated political Battle on the House floor. House democrats charge that by combining the two issues republicans have virtually assured failure of the amendment when it comes to a vote of the people. Republicans on the other hand said voting without other Legal rights was not acceptable to the voters. Rep. Ray Fisherr grand Junction said the right to vote without other Legal rights was granting 19-year-Olds a Only half a although democrats voted against the constitutional change they pledged to wage a hard Battle to obtain approval of the whole package from Iowa voters. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon have you Ever fought to open up a Box and reached your wits end Only then to come across the spiteful words a open other end borrow nearly $1.5 million from feb association Gerald Denly finds Deer with locked Antlers legislating gets on a Pace faster in the West Virginia House of delegates in Charleston now that some of the solons Are using Walkie talkies instead of passing notes. This is Jody Smirl a Cabell my pollution airing Cleveland a Public hearing on air pollution Drew these placard carriers outside and Gas masked Bruce Cline inside plus about 1,500 Public hearers. The hearing had to be moved from City Council Chambers to the City a big music Hall to accommodate the plaintiffs. Anniversary no. In facing a microphone in the White House. Mrs. Pat Nixon tells reporters her first year As first lady has been Quot interesting rewarding and fun a Kurt ask India style shirts Worth $$267,000 were exported to France and the United states in 1968

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