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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - January 27, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 22 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening january 27, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain Nixon so a environmentalists crusade president Richard Nixon certainly flummoxed the opposition in his state of the Union speech. The most impressive thing he did was to throw More Bridges Over the generation . He had already managed by his november a formula a to split the ranks of the Young on the War Issue. Since he is manifestly sincere about wanting to get the bigger Pant of our fighting forces Cut of Southeast Asia before the year is out and seems eager to move toward a voluntary army there Isnit much Point in calling for new marches on Washington to protest against realizing that they had been outflanked at least for the moment on Vietnam the Young had begun to Issue about cleaning up the Home environment stopping pollution Etc. But this was not an Issue which Nixon was disposed to let anyone Toke away from him not even governor Ronald Reagan of California. He set himself up in the state of the Union talk As the most devout conservationist of them All asking for ten billion dollars just to Stop water pollution. Too this to my mind is great stuff after All conservation and conservatism come from the same Root. What i want to see however is How the Young propose to work with Nixon in cleaning up the landscape. The issues Here Are largely technical but not wholly. For one thing there is litter a former College classmate of mine Allen seed has been running an organization for years called keep America Beautiful. He has school programs in Twenty states providing material for teachers to hand out to the Young and with the sudden growth of interest in his subject he has High Hopes of enlisting the College students in his crusade. One of the things he advocates is a litter walking a which combines healthful exercise with cleaning up the sidewalks in your Home neighbourhood. Al seed practices what he preaches on his Way from his Home in the East sixties in new York City to his office at 99 Park Avenue bending neatly from the Waist and ridding himself of his paunch As he goes. Too it is hardly to be expected that Busy adults will hurry to imitate or. Seed. But the College kids if they really mean business could clean up whole areas of our cities if they organized a litter walking on a grand scale. The Berkeley California contingent for example has the whole Bay area in which to operate. The Columbia University students in new York could make Harlem Winch is just Down the Hill from their Campus on Morningside Heights spotless by devoting three or four weekends to the task. The Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of technology students surely could find plenty of dirty streets in Cambridge and Boston to rid of the Winters debris and the Yale boys could clean up that Section of new Haven known As a the Tho students have manpower to put behind Nixon so environmentalism a and the Only question is their sincerity in proclaiming the anti pollution Campaign As their special 1970 project. Too for tile longer term there is the matter of careers. Since the control of pollution is largely an engineering matter we obviously need a whole new Breed of dedicated scientists to take hold Here. The study of a a recycling waste materials so that they can be used Over again in Industry or sold at a profit for scrap or fertilizer is in its infancy instead of Yelling at capitalists to a do something before next monday about pollution our prospective scientists should be studying such subjects As the control of fluoride emissions the use of scrubbing tanks Tho development of a a soft detergents the drainage of dirty lakes and the problems of making a Good Carburettor. There Are fortunes to be made in the a a recycling business and the Young have an Opportunity to get in Here on the ground floor. Too Money is needed for the control of pollution but even without Money a a Volun Tarista approach to keeping the landscape clean can go a vary Long Way. No one has to wait for a political appropriation to throw autumn leaves on a compost Heap instead of burning them or to add a coat of paint to a Fence or to pick up around the Public Library during the noon hour. If 200,000.000 people would Only a a vote president Nixon a Little personal responsibility he would be Well on his Way toward reaching some of the goals set Forth in the state of the Union discover caches of stockpiled arms Saigon up a the Allied command which has predicted a series of communist attacks before the feb. 6 tet new year announced today Allied ground forces have discovered caches of several tons of munitions apparently stockpiled for the attempt. The report came As authorities ordered 3,000 . Marines to the embarkation port of Danang for re approval for Wesleyan department receiving full accreditation last year by the select National Council for accreditation of teacher education Nate the Iowa Wesleyan department of teacher education has now been notified that its program has been re approved until 1974 by the Iowa department of Public instruction. The re approval is based on a review of the inc department by a five Man team from the department of Public instruction last May. The team evaluated the colleges curriculum staff facilities Library holdings and talked with education students and with teachers of cooperating schools in Southeast Iowa who Are involved in student teaching arrangements with inc. The Public instruction department reviews College teacher education programs every five years. Some 559 students Are in the teacher education curriculum at Wesleyan including 254 majoring in elementary education 245 working in secondary education and 60 in special education programs. Prof. Joseph l. Mauck Heads the inc teacher education department which is comprised of associate professors Gilbert w. Nichols and Hortense Crawford and assistant professor Kenneth l. Arbogast. Relatives of one accused Man testify Cleveland up a the wife and sister of one of three Cleveland men charged in the murders of mine Union Leader Joseph a. A a Jock Yablonski and his wife and daughter were the first witnesses called today before a Federal grand jury. Mrs. Annette Gilly wife of Paul e. Gilly 37, and Billie Gilly his sister went before the jury Impan eled to determine whether the were murdered by hired gunmen of prevent Yablonski from telling another grand jury about alleged irregularities in the United mine workers Union. Mrs. Gilly and her sister in Law were reported to have been questioned about Gillys words and actions in the presence of a third party. Federal prosecutors said a wife a testimony cannot be admitted against Lier husband unless a third party can testify about the same events. Charles Huddleston of Toledo Ohio a brother of mrs Gilly and his wife also appeared before the grand jury along with mrs. Helen Schmitt of Akron Ohio another sister of Gillys. Joseph e. Gold attorney for the Gilly family said he doubted whether the grand jury investigation would Lead to any indictments. A the purpose of this grand jury is to Aid in preparing the charges in Pennsylvania which is not the usual purpose of a Federal grand jury a Gold said. Transportation Back to the United states under president Nixon a plans to withdraw 50,000 More american troops from Vietnam. Too an Allied spokesman said the u. S. 25th infantry division found 1.5 tons of ammunition including rockets 40 Miles Northwest of Saigon. Us. 4 the infantry division troops near Plesku in the Central Highlands found another dump. And South vietnamese discovered a third Cache 75 Miles Northwest of Saigon. Allied commanders have reported tens of thousands of communists preparing attacks against Allied installations in Advance of the three Day tet lunar new year Holiday beginning Fob. 6. They said the attacks would not be on the scale of the major communist tet offensive of 1968. Too the latest . Withdrawal emphasized the . Military a expressed Confidence in the ability of South vietnamese troops to weather any new attacks especially in the Northern War zone where the marines Are stationed. Hits pickup stopped on 34 Paul Latore Cedar rapids escaped injury when the 19g8 Dodge he was driving collided with a pick up truck owned by Donna Ensminger Rome on Highway 34 about three Miles West of it. Pleasant at 5 30 . Monday. The eastbound pick up truck evidently stalled at the East end of the creeper Lane and the Driver left it parked there. Latore was driving East in the creeper Lane and his car struck the rear of the pick up knocking it off the Highway into the shallow drainage ditch. Latores car stopped crossway of the eastbound traffic Lane. The front end of the Dodge was damaged an estimated $1,500 and the pick up about $200. Deputy sheriff Cleo Johnston investigated and charged Donna Ensminger with stopping on the travelled portion of the Highway. Nixon tells Congress Why he vetoed Bill Jordan s Jalopy est israeli soldiers Are shown with guerrilla vehicles they captured in that raid across the Border into Jordan biggest since 1967 War. Scene is near the dead sea. Farmer killed by silage chopper Wadena up a Richard Wheeler 27, Rural Wadena was killed monday on his farm in Northeast Iowa when he fell in a silage chopper. Authorities said Wheeler was chopping silage with a tractor and Wagon when he fell off the Wagon. He was found by his wife. Survivors include the couples four children. Asian flu at Centerville Centerville up a an outbreak of asian flu has been confirmed in the Southern Iowa Community of Centerville. Or. William Hausler director of the state hygienic Laboratory in Iowa City said the flu virus was identified from specimens taken from Centerville High school students. Hausler said one Case of asian flu had also been confirmed in Iowa City. He said he did not believe the asian flu would reach epidemic proportions in the state. Hausler said the virus spread across Iowa last year and should not reach epidemic stages again this year. The Centerville outbreak he said reduced High school attendance by about 22 per cent last week. Three killed 35 i no ii red Iii train wreck Fairfax a. Up a three persons were killed and 54 others injured late monday night when five cars of a Florida to new York Seaboard coast line passenger train left the tracks in suburban Washington . The train the a Gulf coast special a was due in Washington a Union station at 12 50 . Est but left the tracks shortly before Midnight while travelling at a High Speed. Cause of the derailment which sent one car tumbling Down an embankment was not known. Some of the cars involved were Pullman sleepers and some of the injured were dozing when the Accident happened. Three passengers were dead on arrival at a Hospital and 54 other persons were treated for various injuries at two hospitals. The victims were not immediately identified. Too four coaches and two Pullman cars of the 10-car Richmond Fredericksburg so Potomac Railroad rumbled from the tracks on a a somewhat elevated Section a few minutes after Midnight Railroad spokesmen said. Railroad spokesmen said there were too to 125 passengers on the train. Using acetylene torches to Cut away twisted Metal Rescue workers had to Burn holes in the sides of some of the cars to free injured passengers traced inside. Huge spot lights were set up in the predawn darkness to Aid the workers. Stolen tires and wheels found Bonaparte a two tires and wheels stolen from tile wrecked automobile of the late Samuel Cupp following a fatal Accident november 15 Hay ? been found according to Van Buren county sheriff Orville Lee. Burch Boley of Bonaparte found the tires and wheels in a Culvert Ila Miles Northeast of Bonaparte. Boley called the sheriff who recovered the stolen property monday afternoon and notified relatives in Marcelline to. The theft of cured when the car was parked in a lot at the Hendricks garage in Bonaparte. Or. And mrs. Cupp of it. Madison were both killed in the Accident in which their two live on Snow after plane crash Jackson Calif. Up a Robert Starr 17, Hadnot eaten in two weeks. His Only drinking water had been sucked from fresh fallen Snow and captured in bags tied to Trees. Starr a first words after his Rescue monday were an offer to pay Hospital attendants $50 for a chocolate milk shake and a barbecued beef Sandwich. He got neither. Starr and Gene Ebell 33, were found near the wreckage of their Small plane which crashed 15 Days ago in the Sierra nevadas a Mother lode Gold country. They were in fair condition today suffering from malnutrition frostbite and exposure. Their companion died in the plane he piloted. A we had no food whatsoever a nothing a said Ebell a Fresno insurance Salesman and physical fitness Buff. A we drank Snow and collected water by timing bags to Trees and letting the water run Down. We heard aircraft All the time but they see us. I just Laid still and tried to keep warm. A we talked about food we talked about different things we played Starr also of Fresno was spotted first monday by a Rescue helicopter Pilot. The Pilot George Wurzburg of Reno nev., decided to Fly Over the densely forested rugged area because somebody had seen a Wisp of smoke in the Snow blanketed Region the evening before. Wurzburg figured the crash victims May have been trying to Start a signal fire. They weren to however and the origin of the smoke remains a mystery. A i saw this Young boy leaning against a dead tree waving his arms a the helicopter Pilot recalled. A i landed and he did everything but kiss me right on the the crash victim was identified As Donald Shaver 35, of Fresno. Two killed six injured Iii ins e Plo Sion Blakely a. Up a two persons were killed and six injured today in a butane explosion that knocked out virtually every window in the downtown area touched off a raging fire and Shook houses 14 Miles away. A it sounded like a Jet plane had crashed a said police chief Carl Gilbert. The explosion sent up a huge White mushroom Cha Ped Cloud and residents of Arlington ga., 14 Miles away said their houses shuddered. Too mayor Alex Howell asked the state patrol to Man an around the clock watch Over the downtown area to prevent looting. The blast happened in the Davenport motor co. Two blocks from the town Square. It touched off a fire which took firefighting units from four nearby towns several hours to control. Dead were Thomas Edward Deal 36, manager of the Empire co., and James Herman Clark 58, assistant manager of the motor company. Two seriously injured victims ditch with being the prime architect of the Saturn 5 rocket which boosted Apollo astronauts toward the Moon in flights which thus Fai have included two successful landings. In his new role von Braun will be a Deputy to or. Thomas o Paine director of the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa for planning of future manned flights. Washington a up a president Nixon told Congress today he vetoed a $19.7 billion Money Bill for health and education because it contained exc it. Ive increases in a time of a serious inflationary in a seven Page my ago to Congress outlining his reasons for vetoing the Bill monday night Nixon said $1.3 billion added to requests was largely for Low priority programs which because of the lateness in the fiscal year a cannot be used effectively in Many Nixon also objected to the Quot fact that he said 90 per cent of the increases were for mandatory programs Over which the exc Cutie Branch had a no discretion the Bill covering appropriation for the labor department and the department of health education and welfare is for the fiscal year \ Oil Braun transferring to Washington Washington up a or Wernher von Braun one of til great rocketeer of modern times is being transferred to Washington to help the space Agency plan fun tue explorations by Man of the solar system. Von Braun who became Germany a foremast authority on rockets in world War ii had been head of the billion Dollar Marshall spaceflight Center at Huntsville Ala. Since the United states decided a decade ago to land men on the Moon. Von Braun who came to tin United states after the War is Cre were admitted to hospitals. Four others were released after treatment. Too the blast knocked out major Telephone lines isolating the Community for several hours until emergency lines could be set up. The mayor said it also shattered nearly every window in the downtown area of this town of 5.000. Authorities said the explosion occurred while Deal and Clark were investigating a leak at the motor firm where two butane trucks were being repaired. The motor firms building was flattened along with a nearby grocery store and the company building. Editors note von Braun Popok it at an Iowa Wesleyan commencement a few years ago received Ai honorary degree and made Many friends Here. Two 111 from fumes editors note it. Pleasant schools Are having More than the j two children were injured Normal number of absences but the illnesses have not reached epidemic proportions. Pleasant Lawn was hit two weeks ago Van Allen last week and Lincoln this week. The number of patients at Henry county memorial Hospital is setting records and doctors Are having a Large number of office Calls. T e r s e v Erse by a. C. Gordon when we be made the final payment the last no balance due one then a the time to make arrangements for shopping for a new one. Message. Distributed Syndicate. By King features a no Knock Bill approved by Senate two employees of Kru tiler implement cp., North on old Highway i 218 became ill when they inhaled j i Carbon monoxide from the sex i Haust of a tractor they were using i to unload machinery from a truck j inside the warehouse about 9 30 a. I in. Tuesday. Edgar Smith. 304 popular mt.1 pleasant became unconscious from the fumes and was taken to memorial Hospital by ambulance where he was revived. Dallas Miller Olds became ill from inhaling the fumes but did no to lose const Ioune. S. He was taken to the Hospital by car. Both men Are in Good condition. Leo Lovett escapes from hotel fire Leo Lovett of it. Pleasant was one of the guests at the Conrad Hilton hotel Chicago who escaped Down the outside fire escape during the fire on sunday morning. His room is on the twelfth floor. Or. Lovett is in Chicago attending a Sand and gravel show at the Amphitheater. County conservation Board elects officers the Henry county conservation Board organized for the in w year at a meeting monday evening. John Swartzendruber Wayland was reelected president j. H. Mooter. Salem was elected vice president and h. F. Mccran it pleasant was elected Secretary. Other members of the Board Are de. N. Smith new London and Robert Linden Winfield. Washington up a the Senate voted today to Grant narcotics agents authority to Barge in unannounced on suspected provided they first got a special warrant. The controversial a no Knock authority was sought by the Nixon administration with chief opposition by sen. Sam j. Ervin d n.c., who said it would Lead America toward becoming a police state. Approval came in a series of three votes. In the first a motion to kill the provision lost 44 to 40. In the second senators rejected 50 to 35 an amendment to limit the effectiveness of the authority. The third vote approved the a no Knock plan. 70 to 15. An officer would first have to obtain a special warrant and would have to convince a magistrate that if he knocked on the door and announced his presence a a a Pusher would get rid of the drugs before opening the door. Pilc appoints three new directors Cedar rapids up a Iowa Power amp Light company has announced the appointment of three new members to its Board of directors. They Are John w. Norris presi Carswell bit aghast at racist reminder Wasington up a judge g. Senators a i am not racist. I have Han old Carswell said today he no notion a open secretive of holds no racist or White supremacy otherwise a of racial views and was a a Little bit aghast i to be reminded he Ever advocated Arswell also denied he Ever a such ideas. An a ice a or a director in any Carswell made the statement country club. Civil rights group under questioning by the Senate have charged Carswell was a i judiciary committee at the outset of hearings on his nomination to be an associate Justice of the supreme court. Too lie said he had forgotten about a speech he made in 1948 during a Georgia political Campaign say Dent of Lennox industries inc., of ing he believed in White supremacy. Marshalltown or James Van Al reporters in Florida and Georgia Len of Iowa City who discovered dug up the speech last week from the Van Allen radiation b its and old news accounts. Marshall president company. G. Hardesty the vice and treasurer of the armadillos Are mammals closely j rented to sloths and anteaters., a i really was a Little bit aghast i had made such a statement a he said. A i had to see it to believe i made he said he was not trying to Rector of a group that turned a Golf club in Tallahassee Fiat a into a private course to avoid into ration. He said that in 1956 or made a $100 contribution to rebuild a rundown Golf club House and was give one share of Stock in return but resigned from the club a Short time later and was refunded $75. Some years later the judge said. His son wanted to play Golf and the family rejoined the club but resigned again in 1966. He said he had nothing to do with any land transfers leases of operation of that b an last july i and ends on june 30. Too As democratic leaders in conure made plan to try to override the veto Nixon suggested As a Compromise that lawmakers remove from the Bill a requirement that All Grant funds be spent. This he said. Would leave it to the executive Branch to spend amounts that could a nimbly go into meaning jul programs. Nixon called for a Basic Reform of the a impacted area education pro ram by which Federal Money is funnelled into school districts serving areas in which Federal installations Are located. Too until agreement is reached on Baic Reform he said a i believe we lion id work out a temporary Solu tion which involves full funding for children whose parents live and work on i it citral installations and partial funding for children whose a Arent do not live on Federal but s nato democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said that Nixon hould have proposed a reduction if impacted area funds to wealthy Oun a instead of vetoing the Bill. A o o the message to a he House and Senate was a followup to a speech 0 the american people monday night on radio and television Durra which Nixon signed the veto no a Goring the Bill was inflationary. Containing too much Money it. The wrong time for the among things congressional action seeking to v ride the president begins wed a Day with no one certain of the outcome of the to of the first Mara r presidential veto in almost a off tide. Administration forces were banking primarily in the House to Stalin til Quot veto. Senate Leader in ii Scott Aid 125 to 130 House to publicans were ready to vote Vith the president. A maximum of a it needed to Block the two Inird of it necessary to override. Republicans predicted Congress could su1 the veto. Democrats were More guarded. The House will rate Weenie Day. If it does not vote override there will be no Senate Oil a two thirds vote in each Tot e is needed to overturn the veto tin last major veto was by pre sift t Dwight d Eisenhower who on Jun 30, 1960, rejected As inevitable 1 Bill to Raj e the pay of 1.5 million h Der ii employees by $750 million a ear. Doth the House and Senate o cd to override that veto the next Lay. Prominent Man to f debate i Wesleyan the Quot inc pre Man class will liar a debate wednesday Jan. 23 7 39 . In the Chapel Audi Tori urn betwixt n William rusher of the National review my Frank Bardacke a contributing of ramparts Magazine on he specific topic a what Are the a a Inis for revolution in Amer Ca today a ii do men Are known As excellent debater and this debate should a Rove i i scially interesting and Lively by cause of the timeliness of he topic. Tile Taff of tile freshman interim program regards this As a major it allege and Community event my cordially invites the Public to do and. The i a i co by has been reel v a for All interested town people. Deny lie made the speech but told the club. Alcohol related revocations increase i s Moines up a the Iowa department of Public safety report-,1 Moi Day that More Drivers licence were revoked for alcohol relat to of Fem is last year than Ever before in Iowa. For the year Public safety commissioner Jack m. Fulton said a total of 2,774 licenses were revoked for drunk driving while 553 were revoked under Iowa a complied consent Law

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