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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 6, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa It pleasant news Quot mire in partly Cloudy vol 92, no. 157mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening july 6, 1970price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain How trustworthy is a most Politiko Bonn West German politics lives in a world of ambiguities. The governing Power is in the hands of a coalition of the left Willy Brandts social democrats and the traditional nineteenth Century style liberals in the free democratic party who hold a very narrow balance in the bundestag. We have what amounts to a left right device for Hemming in the Christian democrats and the bavarian Christian social Union who Are the parties of the Center. Since the free democrats recently took a drubbing in local elections in three heavily populated German states the question is whether they Are in the wrong coalition at the wrong time. Why does no to the party pull out of its present coalition and form a new Alliance with the Christian demo crate the answer would seem to be that the Ftp prefers a Bird in the hand1 important Cabinet of floes to the risk of having to maintain its parliamentary represent in a new election. The free democrats Walter Scheel As foreign minister is charged with executing Chancellor Brandts out pot talk or move to the East which gives the party a crucial political position for the next three years too it is the Contention of or. Ernst Achenbach who is the of Dpi a for Elan policy expert that the poker game with the Eastern communist nations must be played out and though he did not exactly put it that Way in an interview it is obvious that he considers it his bust Ness to keep Brandt from losing his shirt in dealings with Moscow or. Cheri Bash who incidentally married a Portland Ore., girl and is a cultural Westerner if there Ever was one is emphatic in saying a negotiations yes capitulation never. If the russians ask too much we simply pull inasmuch As the free democrats were the first to suggest the is Potik they turned to Brandt for a coalition because he seemed a More wiring instrument than the Christian democrats who have been dubious All along about dealing with the communists. Saigon up a the . Command said today american troop Levels in South Vietnam have dropped to their lowest Point in More than 40 months. The announcement came As officers met to plan a further 150,000 reduction ordered by president Nixon the command said the number of . Troops in the War zone dropped last week by 3,200 from 417,100 to 413,900. It was the fewest american troops in Vietnam since feb. Troop Levels in so lowest in 40 months Many want Honor America Day annually or. Achenbach wants to get something Cut of the East without sacrificing any of the values of the Western Alliance. He justifies his stand in the name of realism and says he is doing something that is quite consonant with Nixon a feeling that the Era of confrontation is yielding to the Era of negotiation. The a third period of Post world War ii history began he says with John f. Kennedy a response to the cuban crisis when the americans promised to let Castro retain unmolested Power in Havana in Exchange for getting the soviet missiles out of Cuba. Eva since the cuban missile crisis the West in or. Achenbach a estimation has been engaged in a poker game with Moscow and the West germans must play their hand with the Best skill they can Muster. Washington up a the organizer of saturdays a Honor America Day rally in Washington says although he has received suggestions from across the nation the event should be turned into an annual affair he has no plans along that line. J. Willard Marriot a hotel and restaurant executive said favourable reaction to the Independence Day Observance included a Call from president Nixon in California who told him it was the Celebration which Drew a crowd estimated As High As 350,000 for the evening fireworks display and entertainment gala was financed with funds raised by the Honor american Day committee which Marriott headed As chairman of the executive committee. He estimated its Cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars but said it was less than $1 million. Thousands of tourists who remained in the capital sunday after the Celebration jammed the streets and walkways at the nations shrines and monuments. For the most part saturdays entertainment amounted to a a Good old fashioned fourth of july Complete with Honor guards patriotic speeches Flag waving a grand fireworks display and performances by a Galaxy of stars including the Strong and confident singing of a god bless american by Kite Smith. Ii 1967 when there were 412,000 americans in Vietnam. Too in Honolulu monday a Board of officers assembled to draft details for withdrawal of 50,000 More . Troops by oct. 16, 1970 As the first of 150,000 men to be out of Vietnam by the Spring of 1971. The 150,000-Man reduction is expected to Cut american combat strength in the War zone to two divisions military sources said. Too on Vietnam fighting fronts Allied communiques reported Light action sunday. American forces killed 21 Viet Cong and North vietnamese in four scattered engagements. Spokesmen said . Casualties were one. Killed and 22 wounded. The cambodian High command said today new Waves of communist Patchet lao guerrillas had entered Cambodia to join Viet Cong and North vietnamese in an expected attack against the City of Kampong Thorn. If it were left to or. Achenbach a and the free democrats foreign minister scheely it is quite possible that nato and the West in general would not have to worry about the new German Ostopo Witik. Or. Achenbach is a lawyer by profession and he understands the Art of negotiation in which you ask for a lot in order to collect a Little. But Willy Brandt and his social democratic mentors Are not lawyer types nor do they Hove wives from Portland Ore. What is dismaying to Ani american is that both Brandt himself and his advisers Are culturally speaking All a men of the East in terms of their ideological origins. The Boss figure in the social democratic party Herbert Wehner was once a communist. It is not to be doubted that Wehner in breaking with the communists in the Stalin period made a sincere shift. But there could be a Shade of difference Between what a Wehner would want to concede to Moscow and the sort of accommodation without appeasement that the free democrats or. Achenbach would countenance. The same Shade of difference might crop up if Leo Bauer another sex communist in Brandts entourage has the influence on policy that is credited to him. Moreover there Are the Young social democrats who crib Rikae their party elders for a a Bourgeois tendencies. They want a More socialism a just Uke that. O o o these who worry about Brandt May be seeing things under the it bed. Yet one can Only shed a tear that or. Achenbach and the free democrats prefer present Power to trying for a new coalition and 17 die on Iowa roads by up seventeen persons died on Iowa roads during the july 4 weekend including a 79 year old California woman who died sunday night of injuries received in two car crash which claimed three other lives. The woman mrs. Margaret Avery of Laverne calif., died in Iowa methodist Hospital in Des Moines after being injured Friday night. Also killed in the crash hear Nevada were her husband Lloyd Avery 79 Bernard Arneson 57, Roland and his wife Myrtle 54. Describes Canadian jetliner tragedy they be oot you coming and going on this Street in Pittsburgh. Highway toll slightly below prediction up americans celebrating the fourth of Judy weekend kept the Long Holiday relatively Safe with the traffic toll ending below expectations however 540 persons were killed on streets and highways Between 6 pm. Thursday and 1�?~159 sunday United press International compilation showed. The National safety Council had estimated 560 persons would be killed to traffic. The safety experts did not have an immediate analysis As to Why the toe was below the estimate. The up breakdown of accidental deaths traffic a 540 drownings a 167 planes a 9 miscellaneous a 82 total a 818 California led the nation in traffic fatalities�?50. Texas had 35, new York 31, Pennsylvania 24, Ohio 23, Georgia 21 and Tennessee 20. No traffic deaths were reported during the Holiday period to Alaska Delaware Utah and Washington . Slate officials disturbed at demands of some employees by Harrison Weber Des Moines idea a top state officials Are visibly disturbed at demands being made by some state employees for an immediate salary increase. They feel these employees Are either being purposely misled or that they done to understand the state salary procedure. With the Advent of a Merit pay system it was necessary to classify All Job positions. After considerable delay this Job classification system states general fund and was not a trucks rolling in Chicago area Chicago up a trucks idled for 12 weeks by a strike lockout in direct appropriation to cover an the Chicago area rolled again to increase in salaries for Highway Day. Toronto up a the windows rattled noisily in the modest farmhouse near Toronto Airport. Mrs. Mary Day preparing to feed her five month old child breakfast rushed to a window and saw the doomed jetliner a coming almost at our a it was All led and White with fire a she said. A i picked up the baby and called the dog and ran into the Fields. I ran like a Madwoman. Quot it was All in flames As it passed Over us. Then it came Down and exploded just the worst bang and noise in be Ever too the air Canada dc8, streaming fire and shedding two engines and its wings splattered sunday in Small pieces of silvered Metal in the Barley Field too Yards from mrs. Days Home. All 99 passengers and nine Crew members perished in Canadas second worst air tragedy. Included among the victims were 26 americans All from Southern California and 16 employed of air Canada and their families Riding on company passes. Too the Montreal to los Angeles jetliner was attempting to land at Toronto Airport when Pieta of the Craft mysteriously began falling off. The outer engine on the right Wing snapped off and smashed into the grass alongside the runway and flames spurted from around the plane. The dc8, which either had just touched the runway or w As inches away from a Landing suddenly climbed Back into the sky. At less than 2,000 feet it barrelled toward the Barley Field. The last major Canadian air crash the worst on record was nov. 29, 1963 when another dc8 belonging to trans Canada airlines air Canadas former name crashed near Ste. Therese que., killing All 118 aboard. Rites for 112 in Spain patrolmen. Members of the teamsters Union representing 40,000 workers Baringer said the figure of 26 per and the Chicago truck Drivers cent was erroneous. The increase Union representing 10,000, climbed across the Board for the average into their an it i began de Highway patrolman was 17 per jeering millions of dollars of Mer cent this however does not include retirement benefits. When the amount for the police officers retirement fund is added the increase averages 20 per cent. Members of the Council also a Chandise stored during the tie up. _ including pay ranges a was appeared t0 be very Cool to a proposal proved by the state executive coun by Lartius that the primary Road Echeverria Rolls up 12-1 cil and 1969. Became effective july be used As a source for fund. A of of 9 tog pay raises for the 4,000 Highway Ujj jul Calco commission employees. It also was apparent in the discussion that the employment picture May be changing that its becoming an a a employer a Arbucias Spain up a a Blanket of Flowers wilted slowly beneath the hot Spanish Sun. A ashes to ashes. Dust to dust a the priest intoned. His feet crunched softly into the fresh dirt of the Moss grave of 112 victims of the British Jet Airliner that crashed near the Village at dusk Friday. Fifty villagers Hod volunteered to dig and cover the six Square Yard grave in the picturesque Little cemetery. They stood among the 150 other persons attending the last rites. They included British and Spanish officials Rescue workers priests and the curious. The Comet Jet carried 105 British tourists and seven Crew Mem Johnson county pays most of interest charge about half of the states 30,000 employees Are covered by the Merit system the Board of regents is the largest group excluded. As the Merit plan was implemented Many employees especially new ones were told they Woald be entitled to a a a Merit raise in six months or one year. Many of these Merit increases dependent upon the department having sufficient funds already have been granted and More Are being put into effect this month. There appears to be a growing feeling on the part of some legislators and state officials however that these increases have become a automatic a and Are not truly based on a a Merit As intended. These Merit increases were budgeted and approved by the legislature. Mexico City up Luis Echeverria 48, a former Interior Secretary rolled up a better than 12-1 unofficial Victory margin today in to Barcelona for a 12-Day vacation on Spain a Costa Breva. Hie plane smashed into the okie of a Mountain. A it was horrible horrible a a Rod Cross worker said. A i have never seen anything officials were still trying to determine the cause of the crash. Even As the funeral service was in Progress they searched the widely scattered wreckage for clues. A consular official said it was doubtful any requests by relatives for the remains to be returned to England for individual burial would be honoured. A it was impossible to recognise individual passengers a he said. A there were no Complete bodies bears from Manchester England just pieces. Or state auditor Lloyd Smith was amp mexican election marked by of insistent that the Council take a look at its policy of allowing Only $13 a Day for travel meals hotel Etc by state employees inside Iowa. Smith feels that this policy is a really hurting the Little Guy who position charges of kidnapping and fraud. Unofficial returns gave Echeverria an overwhelming Triumph Over Lone opponent Efrain gon must travel for the state. He is sales Morfin whose National ache tion party pan accused eche Jacques left a will jeans recommending the allowance raised to $15 per Day. The state presently spends about $165 million annually in salaries on its employees. Verriar a party of revolutionary institutions Pri of wholesale illegality at the polls. Says Aba should put own House in order Chicago up a special study committee of the american bar association has made a series of recommendations to end the a scandalous situation which exists in disciplining the nations lawyers. The committee headed by retired supreme court Justice Tom c. Clark said saturday unless the bar moves quickly to set its own House in order a the Public soon will insist on taking measures into its own the Aba committee for disciplinary enforcement after three years of study said present practices Are a failing to rid tile profession of a substantial number of to set on fire firemen were called to the Orval Morrison residence at 807 South Harrison Street at 7 5� am. Sunday where a television set was on fire. The fire was extinguished and the House cleared of smoke. A safer Ost politic with the Chris Tian democrats. The latter were the a party of the West when some of Brandts advisers were bitter enemies of everything that old or Adenauer the father of modern Germany represented. Des Moines a idea a Johnson county has been assessed $22,-000 in interest by the state for falling to make timely payment for the care of county patients in state mental health institutes. William Krahl assistant state comptroller said Johnson county was delinquent in paying about $400,000 in Bills primarily for debts occurring in 1969. The $400,000 for institutional Billing plus $20,000 in interest has been remitted to the state Krahl announced. He assumes the reason for the county paying Only $20,000, instead of $22,000, in interest is that a there Are a few disputed Iowa Law provides that the comptroller May assess a one per cent a month penalty for any account 60 Days in arrears. For years the state winked at this Law. Then about ten years ago when Marvin Selden was appointed comptroller the state s policy changed and counties were charged interest for late payments. In the last five or six years counties have been doing a Good Job in making timely payments and with Johnson county a remittance All counties presently Are current in their payments Krahl said. Two Republican candidates for Johnson county Are calling for a a full and prompt explanation of Why such As assessment was allowed to Donald Hoy candidate for county attorney and Steve Richardson candidate for the Board of supervisors say if a full and Complete statement is not made by the Board of supervisors and county auditor Dolores a. Rogers there should be an investigation by the grand jury. All three members of the Board of supervisors the county auditor and the county attorney Robert Jansen Are democrats. In an attempt to keep Pace with the rising Cost of living and to Check on Job fluctuations in the Market place the Merit employment commission undertook a new salary Survey mainly comparing what individuals in the private sector were receiving for comparable jobs. Several employee organizations have inferred that the results of the salary Survey would be implemented this month. But it would Cost $6.3 million to fully implement the salary Survey for the remainder of the biennium which ends june 30, 1971. Simply put the Money is not there. The states Treasury Borders on going into the red with state comptroller Marvin Selden holding tight to his prediction that the balance next june will be around $1 million which is mightly tight on a $1 billion budget members of the state executive Council became irate when Augustus Lartius president of the organization of Iowa Highway commission employees made a veiled threat to the Council last week. Lartius told the Council that if it did no to provide the salary increases ranging from five to 20 per cent As recommended in the report it would be difficult to say a what and How rational and considered a move some of the employees May make in their nearly Hall favor end to farm programs Washington up a Over 45 per cent responding to a questionnaire in Iowa a first District called for an end to farm programs while 13.5 per cent favored the proposal with Long term land retirement. Rep. Fred Schwengel r. Iowa said the percentage was figured from 14,000 questionnaires returned to his office following a Blanket mailing to All first District residents. He said 25 per cent called for continuation of the feed grains program. Schwengel said those returning the questionnaires favored tax sharing Felt violence and dire a Spect for the Law is the biggest Issue other than Vietnam. The majority of those returning the questionnaires said Schwengel approved of the new draft lottery system and favored Standard residence requirements for voting in presidential elections. He said Over 42 per cent of the respondents feel president Nixon is a doing the Best thing Quot in Vietnam. Only 8.4 per cent feel troops Are being withdrawn too quickly and almost 39 per cent feel troops should be withdrawn More quickly. Hot weather boosts swimming the hot weather last week boosted attendance at the swimming Pool with 4,443 admissions. The Pool closed saturday due to the Cool temperatures that Day. The total attendance to Date is 15.900. Gov. Robert Ray and state treasurer Maurice Baringer also took exception to two Points made by Lartius. The official of the Highway employees association who is a Bridge designer said a while the employees of the Highway commission were not enthusiastic Over the reduction of primary Road funds by $10 million they Are glad that members of the Highway patrol were Able to enjoy an average wage increase of 26 per cent out of this Ray a a corrected Lartius saying the $10 million was placed in the Wilson hearing on wednesday the preliminary hearing on the open murder charge in the Case of Frank Edward Wilson in connection with the death of Sharrine Wilson will be held in Justice George Means court at the courthouse wednesday at i it was previously announced the hearing would be monday at i . Montreal up a Quot bicycle to Benoit Mallette a a boy sits on a jetliner bound for los Angeles and Disneyland. A a Jacques bicycle to Marcel bog Nier. Stuffed toys won at la Ronde amusement Park to 1967-68-69-70 to Danielle Mallette. A. Games monopoly and hockey game to Marcel Bonnier a a a. Souvenirs of expo �?T67, apart from the toys won. Jacques Belanger at 16, considered the wonder of flight. He considered too the Chance of not returning from such a flight. Jacques left a will sunday Chrid ing his possessions and those of his brother Jean 12, among their cousins and pals. Jacques Jean their Mother and father and their sister Rosanne to were among the 108 killed when their dc8 broke up and crashed near Toronto sunday. Belanger was a Mechanic for air Canada the airline on which they flew. The will was left with Jacques Best pal his Cousin Daniel Mallette. Jacques handed it to Daniel sunday morning before leaving for the plane. Wins $1 million Rebecca Beasley 27, is wheeled from court in Chicago by her parents after being awarded a record damage settlement 1 million by judge Joseph Wosik. Miss Beasley of Indianapolis ind., was paralysed from the hips Down in a North Central airlines plane crash at Chicago a of Hare airport�?27 persons were killed and 26 injured. Asks $20,000 in damage suit Burlington a $20,000 damage suit has been filed to District court by a it. Madison woman for injuries she suffered in a mar. 6, 1969, truck mishap on the Yaap grounds. A mrs. Velma Anderson filed the suit against mrs. Dorothy comte of Rural it. Pleasant. Mrs. Anderson said the Accident happened when she was attempting to get Toto the passengers Side of a pickup truck driven by mrs. Corn Lek and the truck began moving throwing her to the ground. Mrs. Anderson suffered neck Chest and shoulder injuries according to her suit and has not been Able to return to wort since the Accident. The suit asks $20,000 in Durn Ages for Mech cad expenses for permanent disability suffered by mrs. Anderson and because her earning capacity has been permanently impaired. Thieves take items from Home Indianola up a Warren county sheriffs officers today were investigating the breaking at a farm House near Here in which several thousands dollars in personal property was taken. Herman Tiffany who farms a bout nine Miles East of Indianola said he returned Home sunday from a fishing trip in Canada and discovered the items missing which included several firearms a color television a movie projector and a Diamond ring valued at $1,000. In addition about $200 in Cash was taken he said. Mrs. Tiffany said the House did not show signs of forced entry. Goes into ditch to ovoid collision a 1967 Chevrolet driven by Walter l. Berg 46. Florissant mo., went off Highway 218 and into the East ditch to avoid a head on collision with a car driven by Helen o. Kauffman 53, St. Louis to. Two Miles North of it. Pleasant monday at to . Berg and his wife Beverly 40, were shaken up. They were taken to memorial Hospital by a passing Motorist checked Over and released. The Kauffman car was headed North and pulled out to pass another car according to the Highway patrolman who investigated Berg s car was damaged an estimated $500. Helen Kauffman was charged with failure to yield the right of Way. Quiet fourth in Henry county no accidents occurred to it pleasant saturday and sunday of the fourth of july weekend. Two minor accidents which occurred Friday afternoon were reported. The sheriffs office did no to have any Accident Calls Over the weekend and the Highway patrol did no to have any Calls to the county. Prince Sihanouk sentenced to death phenom penh up prides Norodom Sihanouk was convicted of nine counts of treason and sentenced to death sunday by a military tribunal that tried him to absent a. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon children who Are wilful and out of hand need to be applauded a with either hand m if

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