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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 14, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news jul _. Noire or partly Cloudy vol. 92 no. 164 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening july 14, 1970 Price to cents second degree murder charge by grand jury the grand jury for the third Quarter of District court monday returned an indictment against Frank Edward Wilson 24, it. Pleasant Rural charging him with murder in the second degree in connection with the strangulation his attorneys Donald Bell and Robert Hansen of new London made an application to the court for psychiatric examination prior to making a plea to the indictment. The court indicated the application would be approved and that death of his wife Sharrine Kay j the examination would be made at Wilson 23, on june 27. The mental health Institute soon. Wilson was formally arraigned in proceedings in the Case will be held District court tuesday morning and up until Wilson is examined. Wilson has been held in the county jail in lieu of $40,000 Bond after his arrest june 29. His wife a body was found at 12 45 . That Day lying partially submerged in a Creek along Brandywine Lane three Miles Northwest of it. Pleasant. Members of grand jury Are Elmer Garrels Foreman Carl Burka Pauline Maher Joyce Molander Roland Moureau Dale Piper and Dwight Smith. Firms to test new methods of teaching Washington up a the office of economic Opportunity Leo today chose six private companies for a one year test of new methods to improve Reading and mathematics teaching to poverty children in 18 school districts. The companies will be paid Only if they succeed in their efforts. Or. John Wilson assistant Leo director said $5.6 million had been committed to the project in 16 states. The is to raise the performance of students at least one Grade level. Milson said the companies will not actually profit unless they Are Able to Advance their students about 1.5 Grade Levels with a maximum pre mar be freighter sinks in Seaway nine missing Morrisburg ont. Up a 52, was found trapped in the the 349-foot Iron freighter East wheelhouse. Divers searched for Cash bequests made in will a number of Cash bequests were made in the will of R. Drewer which has been admitted to probate at the courthouse. The will provides that a residence in new London go to a sister Jennie Keltner a car and $8,-000 to a granddaughter Dixie Laipple a farm in Des Moines county livestock and farm machinery to a daughter Evelyn Joy mum payment for a learning in $5,000 to Helen g. Drewer $2,000 crease of 2.3 Grade Levels in the each to the following Brothers and two subjects. Gen. Groves head of a bomb project Dies Sisters Earl Dreiser Jennie Keltner Anna Ritchey and Nellie Holland and $12,000 and property in new London township and new London to Eleanor Mason a daughter. The rest of the property la was left to the Brothers and Sisters. Eleanor Mason was named expo Washington up Gen. Leslie r. Groves head of the Manhattan project which develop Ute a of the will which was drawn cd the atomic bomb during world up feb. 28, 1969. War ii died monday night. He was a 0 0 73 the will of Glen Donald was also Groves who was retired suffer admitted to probate and his estate de a Hart attack about to . Was left to his wife Margaret e., Edt. He was taken to Walter Reed Donald who was named executor. Army medical Center where he the will was dated nov. 2, 1965. Died about 11 15 . J a Groves an army Engineer took Over the Manhattan project the highly secret program to harness the atom in 1942. He headed it during the period late in world War ii when the United states exploded the first a bombs. Just before taking Over the Man list Row from left a Teri Long Sheryl Glover Lynn Zickefoose Debby Snavely Bonnie Beal Ramon Robinson Charles Swailes Kicky so a a How Nancy Kochneff it sue sieberts Barbar. Donnolly David dodd., Denise Snavely Barbar. Dodds Sally Breazeale Sharon Klyn Wendell Dodds _. 3rd Row Martha Mckim Brian Fry Kalon Judy Zinn Kalon Acarmen Lampe Pat Siemens 4th Row pastor Peter Siemens Beek Belcher Kalona Susie Smith Rodney Norton Janice beavers. Keith Zickefoose ted Beal ted Townsend mrs. Dale Irene Beal mrs. Wendell Shirley Dodds Joe Helton bus Driver Dale Emmert Danville also took the trip but left the bus in Ottumwa to be Counselor at Forest Lake Camp. Baptist youth group spends week working and sightseeing thirty four Young people amp Spon mens and Lynn Zickefoose scraped Idian museum on Campus and spoke. Iuta umut Ltd sors left for a weeks Mission to Bacone College Muskogee okla. Bacone College was opened in 1880 and is the nations Only Indian College it has an outstanding Scholastic the finest Art schools in the nation. It is an american Baptist related school. P.m., sunday july 5, after sharing a carry in dinner. We travelled by air conditioned chartered bus arriving at University Heights Baptist Church Springfield mo., to spend the night there. We arrived at Bacone in time for lunch and checked into our individually air conditioned rooms of a new girls dormitory Hunter Dean of the school of arts made possible by world Mission at Southern methodist University. Crusade funds. J a in the fall and Winter of 1838-1839 that evening monday we went a cherokees were driven from swimming in Greenleaf Lake state their Homes and pushed along a Park 20 Miles East of Muskogee. Dreary March Westward. Of sixteen we Rose at 5 30 . To have thousand who started that miser breakfast at 6 30 . In the dining Able journey More than four thou Hal about four blocks away. We j Sand died along the Way from a worked from 8 . Until noon Gease hunger and exposure. The tuesday through saturday. Cliffe Hall ran aground on rocks and Sank within minutes in the St. Lawrence Seaway Early today killing the Captain and apparently eight of the other 21 aboard. Twelve Crew members survived some of them blasted from the sinking ship through the engine i room skylight by the Force of air compressed within the ship by the onrushing Waters. The body of capt. Albert Gould i delay action on naming s e College the Southeast Iowa area Community College Board of directors took action on several matters at the monday evening meeting. The Board decided to table action on the institutional name change until the september meeting because the Board could not reach a decision on the names proposed by the selection committee. At that time the student body May be asked to become involved in the search c. C. Cantwell assistant Post for a new Shorter name master will retire from the local the Board will present to the monday we toured Bethel Christ Post office voters in merged area 16 at the re Ian Center and Central Baptist be Lar school election a request to Minary had lunch and left for or. Cantwell has served the Post 1 a 3/ to will v Home a office since september 16, 1937, sex tuesday afternoon we visited the we raised Money for the trip by Cep for military service in the . Tsa la i Cherokee Indian Village Detas seling Corn and stuffing in army from August 22, 1942 to no that evening we saw the Indian Delopes for metro mail. A Contri vember 3, 1945. Drama a Trail of tears a by Kermit buted by one of the group. And burned off old paint and re with president Garold d. Holstine. Painted the residence and garage of saturday afternoon we visited the director of religious life Rev. Fort Gibson a historical civil War fort of the 1800�?Ts. The fort is re Breazeale and Judy Zinn stored to its original condition. Fennix Sally and athletic record and has one of i stamped promotional material for sunday we worshipped in the col the office of Public relations. J lege Chapel. We left after lunch for mrs. Wendell Dodds Martha my Prairie Baptist Church Prairie Vil Kim Sheryl Glover Teri Long and Lage Kansas where Gary Wagner Barbara Donnolly vacuumed the formerly of Washington welcomed we left it. Pleasant about 1 20 carpet of the first floor 0f Barnett us with his teens to the Hall and washed windows. Afternoons and evenings were Given to sightseeing and recreation. C. C. Cantwell retiring As assistant pm overrun Village Saigon up a communist troops overran a Village in Southern i Attar. Project Groves directed wiled six american ois la the Pentagon South Vietnam and inflicted what construction of Headquarters of the defense department. Groves a native of Albany ., was a 1918 graduate of West Point. He retired from the army in 1948 and made his Home in Washington. New ambassador Washington up a president Nixon has chosen a foreign service career officer Emory c. Swank now Deputy assistant Secre tary of state for european affairs to be new . Ambassador to Cam airborne Bodia according to diplomatic sour West Southwest of Hue. The at were described As a fairly heavy losses on a cambodian unit in three attacks reported today. The laotian defense ministry announced in Vientiane Bothe the laotian defenders and North vietnamese attackers suffered heavy casualties monday in the Battle for the Village of Moula amok just above the cambodian Border. The town of 10,000 fell to the guerrillas. Spokesmen for the . Command in Saigon said communist soldiers killed six gis and wounded eight this morning in an attack on a 101st division Camp 24 Miles train hits car at Farmington continue the % Mill Plant fund Levy for another five years. The present Levy expires in december. 1971. The Board approved the budget estimate for the 1970-71 school year in the amount of $1,868,226 in the general fund and $989,049 in the Plant fund. The budget hearing will he started his Post office career As a substitute City Carrier was later promoted to regular clerk and on March i 1955, he was promoted be aug. 6 at 7 30 . In the carte assistant postmaster and has Eer educational Library. This will served in that position since. His be a special Board meeting in lieu of last Day of service was today july i the regular meeting scheduled for 14 after which he will Toke a aug. To Farmington a mrs. Virginia cation until his retirement july 31.1 the Board approved four console 52, of Pulaski it. I and her 197c his postal and military career tracts miss Carol Shaw practical grandson Jerry Webb 13. Of Pend-1 covers nearly 33 years. I nursing instructor in Burlington for we March lasted nearly a year and eve ind escaped with minor in $10,712 miss Marie Connors As were divided into 7 teams. Joe he or after it was known As the a Trail juries Wen car was struck by it is expected that a promotion soc ate degree nursing instructor ton our bus Dilver Dale Emmert where they a Rock i Saintc freight train at the will be made in the near future to in Keokuk for $9,422.95 mrs. Bar the other victims described by a Seaway official As four men two women and two children. Too Hall line officials said however they believed the passengers included Only one woman mrs. Jacqueline Demers wife of massing chief Engineer Willie Demers. The children were identified1 As the Demerse 3-year-old daughter and Alain Groux 16, son of the dead Captain. The officials said it was a quite Normal for officers to take relatives on Seaway voyages. Third Engineer John Scott of Montreal said the ship went Down a very very Quot How fast can a ship go Down a minute maybe a Scott said. A it just went Down awful Scott said he and second Engineer Marcel Gendron 42, of Braulea que., were in the engine room when the ship went Down. Air pressure compressed by water Rushing into the ship held the engine room doors fast when they tried to open them Scott said and then the compressed air rushed into the engine room and blew them through the Glass skylight into the River. Too Scott said the Captain a May have been knocked out in the wheelhouse by the Jar As the ship went aground a for anything could have happened to wheelman Patrick Tollins 32, of St catherines ont., told Ontario provincial police Opp that the Seaway cargo Carrier first hit a mud Bank off a Marina at Chrysler Park near Here but managed to free itself after some to minutes. A about 15 minutes later As we were proceeding upstream we went aground again a Tollins told pole. A we really hit hard. I Felt the ship going Forward As if we hit of Danville ted Townsend and Keith Zickefoose felled and rooted out three dead Elm Trees and filled the resulting holes. Two girls Janis beavers and Becky Belcher painted dividing stripes in the two parking with this opening the narrator crossing on Iowa Highway no. 2 at fill the vacancy sets the stage for an evening of in East Ece of Farmington j tense drama pageantry and dance Day afternoon the Canadian freighter Sank on the canadian1 Side of the Seaway about a mile Southwest of the Eisenhower lock and1 about eight Bara Georges acting coordinator for ones Southwest of Massena Mrs. Selle was westbound when the Accident occurred at 1 25. She which beautifully and professionally unfolds in the two hour production of a Trail of tears performed received leg injuries and Jerry had areas and painted yellow caution a the attractive new $400,000 Tsa a head and shoulder bruises. After stripes in the Road where intention la i amphitheatre. Examination by a Farmington Phy a1 humps of Asphalt had been put to 000 slow Down the students racing into wednesday we visited the five the Campus. Civilized tribes museum. Wendell Dodds had the largest j these civilized tribes were the ted Boal Rodney Norton Cherokee Chickasaw Choctaw Simian they were taken to Van Buren county memorial Hospital in Keosauqua where mrs. Selle was to have a rays. The Engineer of the southbound Susie Smith Sharon Klyn Ramon j Creek and Seminole. That evening of it was Darrell Dehn of Eldon Robinson Ricky Smith Charles we swam in Tenkiller Lake 35 Miles the conductor was Ronald Wil Crew air attacks reduce firing of missiles the associate nursing program in Keokuk for $13,556.60 and mrs. Freda Mckinnon medical assist ant program Par time instructor 1 in it. Pleasant for $2,100. Ces. Tackers left three bodies behind. Swailes and Bryan Fry. They painted ceilings Walls and floors in Mccoy an older boys dormitory. Mrs. Dale Boal rewired and painted screens with her tribe Carmen Lampe sue Seibert Nancy Koch Neff and Bonnie Boal. Pastor Siemens Debra and Denise Snavely David Dodds Pat Sie son of Indianola. By up israelis nonstop air attacks against soviet built missile Sites a Long the Suez canal have started number of says prominent donors financing Black panthers it is one of the narrowest sections of the waterway. Two of the survivors were admitted to Winchester memorial Hospital in Winchester ont., in Good i condition. A they said they had hit something very hard. They thought they Hod run aground a Hospital supervisor Mabel Ogden reported. East of Muskogee. A thursday afternoon we toured late Model car registered to cutting Down on the the City of Muskogee in 105 degree Emil Paul Gelle was considered a missile firings a senior israeli Mili weather and played softball with a j loss Iowa Highway Patary officer said today in Tel Aviv. Bacone girls fast pitching team of Rol investigated. Ter supper. Never mind the score j after the game we had ice Cream Washington up a Fri director j. Edgar Hoover says the Black Panther party a which he labelled the a most dangerous and violence together and talked. Friday we had a tour of the in Nixon meets with group of appalachian governors Louisville by. Up a president Nixon flew Here today to meet with 13 appalachian state governors and explore growing support for the use of Federal state partnerships to promote the nations economic development. The chief executive received a rousing Welcome from about 6,500 partisans and told the crowd his administration was working toward goals of a lasting peace High employment and a lower Cost of living. Too we re working for the kind of peace All americans want and we re going to get it i can assure you a Nixon said. A a we re working for a better life under which we can have High employment and Cut Down on the Cost of living. We re working for these Nixon was obviously pleased by the Welcome and quipped that his trip to Kentucky was a of course a non political but he added. A never time in be been on the ticket Kentucky has come through. The chief executive was to hold a lengthy closed session with the governors then go to Cincinnati to attend the major league All Star baseball game tonight. The governors representing states from the deep South to new York a favor expansion of the concept begun with formation of the appalachian regional commission to a nationwide scale As part of Nixon so new federalism program. The governors believe the Appal asian concept in its fifth year with surprisingly Little criticism has been an effective Antipoverty instrument in one of the poorest regions of the nation. White House sources said that the White House Domestic Council has been secretly exploring the suggestion a in which the president was said to be interested a to create More regional commissions in 1971 to funnel Federal Money into economic development programs. 300 million year old imprint found at Golden Valley the imprint of a 300 million year old giant club Moss was found recently in a Coal outcropping along a nature Trail at the Golden Valley United methodist Camp near Lockridge. The imprint is of a Section of a Branch or trunk of the Large prehistoric Trees of the Genus Lepido Dendron. The species has Long been extinct but the giant plants flourished in this area some 275 to 350 million years ago when the land was swampy. Over the Ages the vegetation died and fell into the swamp. Time has added layer upon layer of sediment which gradually compressed the Plant material through the process of carbonization forming the Coal irs which the print was found. The discovery was made by the Rev. Dennis Nicholson associate pastor of first United methodist Church in it. Pleasant and a member of the Golden Valley Camp management committee for the purpose of developing interpretive material for groups who use the Camp. Or. R. W. Poulter professor of biology at Iowa Wesleyan College made the identification. It is not unusual to find Evi boys injured in collision Douds a Bobbie Crist 15, son of the r. B. Crisis of Douds received facial injuries in a two car Dences of Lepido Dendron in roof Beds in this area As the Plant was quite prominent during the Coal forming or carboniferous period. The Lepido Dendron giants frequently grew too feet or More in height and were 3 feet or More in diameter at the Bose. Well preserved fossils of these giants Are found j 6 1 a near Pella where nearly whole trunks Are found intact. The print was found in the area believed to be near what is referred to As Indian Jim a Lead mine. The mine took ifs Nome from an Indian who used to bring out Lead Ore from the area by boat during the Early Days of White Many a settlement of the area. Few if anyone Ever knew the location of the source of Lead which Indian Jim is said to have taken from the area for processing. It is hoped that further exploration will reveal deposits of Lead Ore Galena which May have been the site of Indian Jim a Lead mine. The indians who once lived on the Golden Valley land Are known to have had a Lead Cross mounted on a tree where they worshipped under the leadership of a Jesuit priest. The priest is buried on the Golden Valley property. Eyes against the Sites erected 15 Miles behind the canal. The officer said the missile firings tapered off monday. Israel earlier this month reported construction of sam3 missile Sites 15 Miles behind the canal and said some of the missiles were fired a by russians and that russians were crash monday at 8.15 . On Iowa j Cid amp a a Vionett. A k Heldine egyptians fire the older Highway no. 16 two Miles North of wiping j sam2 missiles. Douds. He was taken to Van Buren county memorial Hospital in Keosauqua and was transferred today to University hospitals Iowa City for surgery. He suffered a crush Edward Cahill 19, of Farmington was treated at Van Buren memorial Hospital for head cuts and a bruised ankle. Babbie was a corrections in passenger in a car driven by Jerry or his re Lathrop 17, of Fairfield which Csiti it Lull Iti do is the Eisenhower lock near Massena is about 60 Miles Southeast of Ottawa and about 150 Miles Northeast of Syracuse The 2,140-ton vessel was in route up the Seaway with a Load of pig As of monday the Israel air Iane Iea Une my i Iron for Saginaw mich., when it Force using phantom and skyhawk violence prone of All extremist struck a Rock on Chrysler Shoal on lets had flown 53 consecutive Days 15 financed in the Canadian Side of the waterway part by prominent donors. Authorities said. He did not name the donors but j the ship owned by George Hall said their contributions Are sub corp. Of Montreal Sank with Only Stantial and have enabled party the top 15 feet of its Mast showing spokesman a to spread their Doc above the waterline Trine of hate and revolution and a Seaway spokesman said the further aggravate the volatile sit East Cliffe Hall was the fourth Hall nation on our line ship to go Down in the last six Hoover a de the comments in Yoars. The spokesman said the his annual report covering Fri sinking was the first in the inter operations during the fiscal year National Section of the Seaway. Ended june 30. In summarizing the running Between the United state despite loss of three phantom report the Justice department said and Canada. Israel stepped up the attacks an there was an Quot increased emphasis diplomats in Jerusalem called is it a terrorism by Many groups Dur Rae i efforts to Knock out the mis the period but the panthers silos a key Factor in current Mideast a continued to be the most dangerous and violence prone of All extremist Hoover also said the panthers have developed a close ties with Al Fatah the Arab guerrilla organization diplomatic activities. Pulled out of the Crist farm driveway into the path of the westbound car driven by Cahill. The Henry county selective service office has received the offi the East Cliffe Hall cleared Tho Eisenhower lock at 1 30 am. And at 3 . Radioed a passing ship the motor vessel Taron that it was aground. But the Pilot aboard the Taron capt. James Himm or Berger said the East Cliffe Hall did not indicate lie was in danger of sinking. The ship was reported to have a this relationship a Hoover said sunk at 4 10 am. A has influenced the panthers to a the survivors were found cling Point where they have issued a ing to life jackets and floating de flood of anti zionist and anti Bris. Vacationing campers along both cars were total losses. Lath Cial list of the drawings for the semitic propaganda and leaves no the shores of the Scenic waterway was charged with failure to draft As made recently. Doubt that they Are solidly behind joined in the search for tile mass a few errors appeared in the list a1 As previously published in the news rap Stop at an arterial Highway by Van Buren county sheriff Orville Lee and is to appear within the next and Are corrected As follows two Days before Justice of the Jan. I a 133, not 33 peace Bill Garter in Keosauqua. Ing and area fire departments and patient missing James Boulton 23, of Johnson comity was reported to police As missing from the mental health Institute since sunday afternoon. He they were is 59�?�, 164, Brown hair and Blue March 19 is 189. I mar. 27 is 254. Jan. 2 a Jan. 15 Jan. 19 Jan. 27 a feb. La also two 195, not 15 75, not 74 188, not 184 173, not 137 227, not 22 dates were a two vessel Hoover also commented on pro Rescue companies were called out., test activity saying the year saw in Montreal Hall corp. Official 1,785 demonstrations on College said 21 persons including campuses. He singled out the gusts a were aboard the Heathman faction of the students when it left Sorel que. For a democratic society As a a police said Ute body of the Cap principal Force guiding the country a violence prone Young Mili committed. I he said Weatherman police a continues to openly support the enemies of our Tain was located in the wheelhouse and was among the first to be recovered. Texas has 3.859,903 acres the tree farm system. In

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