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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 20, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant. News fair Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 169 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening july 20, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain labor May jump the traces this year Al Barkan the director of the Al Cion a committee on political education copies officially optimistic about his ability to elect pro labor democrats to the Senate and the House this autumn. A scope a he says a is in a helluva lot Batter shape in 1970 to do a helluva lot better Job. Than the experts no doubt Al Barkan is Well fixed for Money to promote his candidates and this perhaps explains his optimism. Nevertheless this could be the year that Money loses. With the hard hats lining up against the College radicals it takes no a a expert to see that Quot labor a in 1970, exhibits a split personality. On the one hand Al Barkans clientele is undoubtedly for All the goodies that labor traditionally wants better pay More fringe benefits a defense of what they used to Call in Roosevelt a Day a Al abort a so Why a Democrat Richard of Tiger or a Liberal Republican swinger Charles Goodell get the support of workers in new York state Why the reverend Joseph Duffey an americans for democratic action Democrat carry off his senatorial primary in Connecticut Why John Tunney the democratic challenger beat senator George Murphy in California too president George Meany of the Al Cio who is Al Barkans employer could provide an interesting answer to these questions if he Only would. For Meany a foreign policy a and by Extension the foreign policy stand of the Al Cio a is the Nixon policy. Meany is a simple old fashioned Patriot who wants us to wind up the War in Vietnam in an honorable fashion with no surrender to the communists. Many in his unions think the same Way. So the Union voter May find himself pulled in two directions when he enters the polling Booth next november. As a Union Man could he vote for a Republican a or a conservative perhaps not. But As a patriotic Follower of George Meany a foreign policy line could he vote for a Dove congressman even though the Dove goes right Down the line on bread and butter issues again perhaps not. But despite the Quot per lapses a _ the Union Man must make up his d Arcy advertising co., St. Louis mind somehow. And it wont be Al i and do Blair corp., new Yor. Barkan s Money that decides for which ski Quot and operated my him Donald a $500,000 sweepstakes for the men of company a 224 engineers As they marched past Ronald r. Woodin at Camp Mccoy in was a so the reviewing stand during the Parade before brigadier general Joseph b. Flatt and brigadier general ship abandoned by All 717 sinks Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canary islands up a the flame scarred norwegian ship Furia tipped Over on1 its Side and Sank today Mcmillan Park now Fairgrounds Mcmillan Park was transformed j was scheduled to Start late in the into a the Fairgrounds monday by afternoon. A wide variety of activities in preparation for the week Long Competition and entertainment. 4-h girls were Busy putting their exhibits in order and the judging Etc accuses Mcdonald a of false contest Washington up a the Federal Trade commission Etc today accused Mcdonald a corp., operator of a big drive in hamburger Chain of running a a false misleading and deceptive sweepstakes contest. Tile commission proposed that Mcdonald a pay out $487,000 in prizes which the Etc said were premised but not delivered. The action was a proposed consent order naming Mcdonald a a j subsidiary Mcdonald a systems inc. The firms advertising Agency in new York state we have already seen two sets of defection from the Al Barkan line. The uni Donald a $500,000 sweepstakes Mcdonald a. Under Etc procedures the companies May sign the consent order formed firefighters association i agreeing to follow its terms without which has 28,000 members put the i acknowledging guilt. If they do not matter of political endorsements up sign the Etc will Issue a formal to its rank and file in a june 21 meeting and a completely untre complaint and the Case will go before an Etc hearing examiner for cemented thing happened the fire an initial ruling. Fighters voted to endorse James Buckley the conservative party nominee for the . Senate. The firemen entirely overlooked the traditional matter of a Al abort a Michael May the president of the Union which happens to be Al Cio said his members just take the democratic nominees stand on Vietnam and As for voting for Goodell the Republican a the average fire fighter a in May a description a is an astute Reader and just does no to like a too a there Are a lot of korean War veterans among the fire fighters a says or. May of his Union a and they have sons in so the firemen did no to even ask Jim Buckley a stand on bread and butter matters they decided for him because they thought he would be a Good for the the patrolmen a benevolent association another Union of civil servants followed the firemen in due course. The contest in question was conducted through an advertising insert in 189 million copies of the june 1968, Issue of refers digest. The and said 15,610 prizes Worth $500,000 would be awarded the Etc said. Actually it said Only 227 prizes Worth about $13,000 were warded. Vietnam honors Stanley Ross or. And mrs. Russell Ross have received word from the office of the adjutant general department of the army that the government of the Republic of Vietnam has awarded posthumously to their son Stanley d. Ross the military Merit medal and the gallantry Cross with Palm. These awards Are to be delivered to or. And mrs. Ross in the meanwhile in new York state near future by a representative of the commanding general fifth United states army. The information was sent by a the Al Cio endorsed Nelson Rockefeller a Republican for a fourth term As governor. In doing this they turned thumbs Down on a a general Kenneth g. Wickham Democrat Arthur Goldberg the former Counselor of the steelworkers Al Cio. The new York hard hats Haven to spoken As yet. Nor have the longshoremen. But can anyone see them voting for Ottinger Goodell or Goldberg after their demonstrations for the Nixon foreign policy in Connecticut Liere Many in the unions Are a a ethnics with captive nations backgrounds will1 they support a Duffey As against an Independent Tom Dodd who May be running or a pro Nixon on Vietnam Republican such As Lowell Weicker or John Lupton can Vance Hartke a Dove count on the pro labor vote in Indiana copes Al Barkan May think his allotted Kitty of $850,000 will pull democratic pro labor doves through. But who knows maybe Meany himself will decide that some doves Arentt Worth electing even though they go Down the line missing Money found of dump a Winfield restaurant employee had some anxious moments recently after the garbage Man carted away not Only the garbage but $1,000 in a paper bag and some important papers in an envelope according to a Story from morning Sun. The items had been left momentarily near the can and the collector arrived in that Brief time. He took a everything in the Welcome inn employee soon discovered that the items were missing and a search at the dump turned up the missing valuables. Farm machinery was arriving on the grounds for the special exhibits by local dealers. The Murphy shows and rides arrived sunday and were readied for this phase of the entertainment. Commercial Booths and eating stands were being arranged for the event. Livestock entries Are to be made tuesday morning and judging is to get underway late in the Day. The 4-h and Fra horse and Pony show is scheduled for the evening. There is no admission charge tuesday. Arrested As he leaves through diner window Kenneth Lee rude 24, it. Pleasant was arrested by City police about 1 30 Arn. Sunday at the diner and was charged with breaking and entering. Police arrested him As he was leaving the restaurant through a rear window. Rude appeared in Justice William smart s court later sunday morning and Bond was set at $1,-000. Rude is in the county jail in lieu of the Bond. A Call was received at the police station at 1 23 . By a person who lives near the diner that she saw a Man enter the restaurant through a rear window. Police officers Gary Brobston and Buck Tamis went to the diner and saw a Man inside the place. The Man went to the rear of the building and was leaving the same Way he entered when he was arrested. Missing from the Cash Register was $77 and police said that $77 was found in rude a shirt pocket. But the 717 passengers Ami crewmen who had been aboard had Long since been picked up by a French ship. The 19,923 ton ship was being towed to port by tugs when she suddenly capsized and Sank 36 hours after a fire in the engine room forced the 270 Crew members and 447 passengers to abandon ship on sunday. The sinking was watched by the Fulvia a Captain c. B. Fasting and four of her other officers from a nearby tug. They had remained behind to oversee Salvage operations after everyone else had departed for Tenerife and a flight Back to Italy. The first of a five plane Airlift began ferrying the passengers and Crew to Milan and Genoa at 8 10 Arn. 4 10 am. Edt. Many of the victims were still wearing the clothes they were wearing when roused from their Beds Early sunday by the Clang of fire alarms throughout the ship. Space module coming to Iowa Des Moines up a iowans will have a special Opportunity to celebrate the first anniversary of the Apollo la Moon flight Landing and walk next weekend As the command module Columbia goes on display at the Iowa statehouse. Astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin went to the Moon and Back in the Columbia which is now part of a special exhibition. Gov. Robert d. Ray will formally open the display at 9 30 Arn. Friday and the exhibit will be open to the Public from to am. To 8 . Friday through monday. The spacecraft a Moon Rock brought Back by the astronauts and various items of equipment Are in Iowa As part of a tour of the 50 states. The men of Headquarters platoon of company a 224th engineers As they took part in the Parade Friday at Camp Mccoy before brigadier general Joseph b. Flatt and brigadier general Ronald r. Woodin. Long hours and hard work for guard at Camp Mccoy photos and Story by Neil Wikel of the it. Pleasant news it was a week of Long hours and hard work for the men and officers of company d of the 224 engineers co. And the separate detachment of the National guard As they finished their first of two weeks of training at Camp Mccoy Wise. The units arrived at Mccoy sunday at la Arn. And moved directly to the Field. Monday morning the main group of men trained on the construction of an aluminium foot Bridge and monday night in Complete blackout constructed the Bridge 135 Yards in length across a River. The project was completed at 3 00 Arn. Tuesday they engaged in demolition and Rifle squad tactics. Wednesday they installed a mine Field and then had to find the mines placed by another company. In the problem they recovered All 74 mines placed by the other company. On thursday they worked on three projects construction of roads Clearing firebreaks and repairing a Bridge. Friday the men moved Back to Camp where they took part in a dress Parade for visiting general officers. Starting monday the troops were to construct daily Bridges provide work site support and construct -4t6 floating Bridge. This Bridge is capable of holding up to 70 tons. Part of the unit is at work with heavy equipment in a shale Quarry. This group is using such heavy equipment As 22 Yard capacity scrappers Road graders cat pillars 2 i Yard capacity end loaders and dump trucks. This shale is hauled about 4 Miles to building Sites. The unit will leave for Home saturday morning. They will stay at Tipton overnight and arrive in it. Pleasant sunday morning. On All of labors favorite Domestic issues. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Search for missing plane Halifax n. S. Up a a . Coast guard vessel today joined aircraft probing patches of sea fog in search of a giant soviet cargo plane with 23, possibly 24, persons aboard which disappeared on a mercy flight to earthquake ravaged Peru. The .s. South wind retraced the iceberg pocked route which should have been followed by an Aeroflot four engine Turboprop Antonov-22, largest plane in the soviet cargo Fleet before it vanished saturday after refuelling at Kef la Vik Iceland in route to Halifax. Israeli planes Rake positions by up israeli planes raked military positions in Jordan today and struck egyptian positions along the Suez canal for the 61st consecutive Day. Cairo said its air defences shot Down a skyhawk and damaged another. Both the israeli and egyptian cabinets met this weekend to consider the latest . Peace proposals and the israeli afternoon newspaper Edioth Aharon oth said reports reaching Jerusalem were that Russia would support u. S. Calls for a cease fire along the canal for a restricted period and under International supervision. Mrs. Thomas e. Dewey Dies from cancer new York up a mrs. Thomas e. Dewey 67, wife of the two time Republican presidential candidate died sunday night at memorial Hospital of cancer after a Long illness. She was first lady of new York state from 1946 to 1954 when Dewey was elected governor after a Brilliant career As a special prosecutor of organized crime and District attorney for new York county. She made Long and rigorous Campaign trips with Dewey when he campaigned unsuccessfully against president Franklin d. Roosevelt in 1944 and president Harry s. Truman in 1948. She is survived by her husband and two sons Thomas e. Jr., and John my a two grandchildren and a brother or. Harold d. Hutt of Holly Mich. A funeral service will be held at St. James episcopal Church on wednesday at 2 . Edt. Satory to become president of Isea Des Moines up a Reynard Satory Lemars High school guidance Counselor will become the 117th president of the 37,000 a member Iowa state education association tuesday. Satory will take Over the reins of the Isea from outgoing president Jack l. Hudson of Davenport during a meeting of the groups executive Board in Des Moines. Satory 44, says he will make passage of a professional negotiation Law his top priority for the coming year. He also said a professional standards Board Law is needed in Iowa that would include educators on the Board who could develop standards for Entrance into the teaching profession. For the Bride new York up a the makers of Hollywood wings wrinkle fighting devices offer this idea for the bridal Shower season a give a Beauty package to the Bride to be. Fill a Small Basket with a gaily wrapped assortment of her favorite lotions colognes and Beauty aides and top the whole thing off with a huge pastel powder suit claims discrimination against women Washington up a the Federal government today filed its first suit charging sex discrimination in employment. Both Libbey Owens Ford co. And a Union accused of discriminating against women in five Glass plants in the Toledo Ohio area. Attorney general John n. Mitchell said the suit was filed in . District court in Toledo against the company and local 9 of the United Glass and Ceramic workers of North America Al Cio. The court was asked to order the company and the Union to make compensatory payments to Dis criminal oily rejected women Job applicants and discriminator ily assigned women employees who suffered economic loss As a result. New action by communists phenom penh up a communist troops overran a cambodian outpost Southwest of phenom penh and renewed the Battle for the Mountain resort at Kir irom in fighting reported today from each Side of the Highway linking the capital with Kampong som the nations Only Deepwater port. The Tempo of fighting increased in both Cambodia and South Vietnam during the weekend. Two 100-Pound rockets slammed into Saigon sunday night one Landing on the presidential Palace grounds and the second hitting an apartment building. No one was reported Hurt. Files suit for $3 million Indianapolis ind. Up a Lincoln Theodore Perry the step in fetch it of the movies More than a generation ago. Today filed a $3 million suit against four corporations charging his privacy was invaded and his integrity attacked by television series. Perry sued Columbia broadcasting systems inc., 20th Century Fox film corp., Xerox corp., and Indiana broadcasting corp. In u. S. District court. Television Star Billy Cosby was named As a co conspirator Addy named mediator in dispute at Ames Des Moines up a gov. Robert d. Ray announced today that he has appointed Jerry Addy state labor commissioner to act As mediator in a dispute Between the registered nurses at Mary Greeley Hospital in Ames and the City of Ames and its Hospital administrator. Free Folk singers to sing at Fern Cliff the free Folk singers will present a program of music at the Fern Cliff evangelical free Church Wayland on july 23, at 7 45 . The free Folk singers is a group of teenagers and Young adults who Are from the evangelical free Church is Muscatine. Using a piano a Bass guitar and nine voices they proclaim the message of the person and work of Jesus Christ in today a world. For the past two years they have been singing at churches rallies Camps banquets coffeehouses and on College and High school campuses telling Young people and old that the lord Jesus Christ is real and relevant to the problems of today. Their musical style ranges from contemporary gospel Folk music and Praise Ful hymns to Standard gospel songs. Using music and the spoken word the free Folk share what they have experienced through Jesus Christ so that others might know the one who makes life Complete. Rev. Herbert Cottrell pastor of the Fern Cliff evangelical free Church invites interested persons to attend. President to meet governors of 5 states Washington up a president Nixon will meet with governors of five Plains states in Fargo in Friday and then go to san Clemente calif., for a to Day working visit the White House announced today. Press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler said Nixon would meet with the governors of North Dakota South Dakota Minnesota Iowa and Nebraska to discuss Rural development and farm problems. The meeting will be similar to one Nixon held last week in Louisville ky., with governors of the 13-state appalachian regional Council and one last january in Chicago with governors of great lakes states. Ziegler said that at the Fargo meeting among other things ways to achieve a reverse migration of population Back to Rural areas. 3 arrests in police killing Chicago up a three suspects including a 14-year-old boy were held today and another was sought in connection with the murder of two policemen at a housing project Friday. Three of the four were reputed Street gang members. The Rev. Jesse Jackson National director of operation breadbasket patrolled the streets of the North Side housing project sunday charging a gun Happy and Mace Happy police were mistreating innocent residents in their search for the killers. A a in a out Here walking these streets because i done to want innocent men and women average Black people killed because somebody has to draw blood for revenge a Jackson said. The two policemen sgt. James Severin 38, and patrolman Anthony Rizzato 37, were Cut Down by High powered Rifle fire As they walked across a Grassy Field Friday afternoon police said. Both officers were part of the police departments a walk and talk program designed to improve Community police relations. They had organized a baseball game on the Field earlier in the Day police said. Armed Bandit kills 2 women Coral Gables Fla. Up a an armed Bandit killed two women hostages he took during a Daylight robbery today at a Western Union office. Police were led to a wooded area off the Tamami Trail by a third hostage a Man where the two women were found fatally wounded. Both died a Short time later. Officers said a tall Man weighing about 200 pounds and wearing glasses held up the Coral Gables Western Union Branch about 8 am. As the three employees were opening up. He forced them to open a Safe and took an undetermined amount of Money. A the then took the two women and the Man hostages and drove into a wooded area where he either beat them up or shot them a a police spokesman said. The Man managed to crawl to a Busy East West Highway where he flagged Down a Dade county police car. Collides with police car a City police car driven by officer Buck Tams and a 1963 Oldsmobile driven by Ralph Bouillion it. Pleasant collided at the intersection of Monroe and Van Buren streets at 6 . Saturday. Bouillion was charged with failure to yield the right of Way at a Stop sign. The police car Wasny to damaged. Damage to the Oldsmobile was Small. Some damage occurred at 7 . Friday on the South Side of the Square when a 1967 Ford driven by Ruth Wright it. Pleasant route three collided with the parked car of Royc. Hummell Salem. Radio License approved for my Washington a the Federal communications commission approved the application for a permit for an pm station in it. Pleasant Iowa. The Grant was Given to the pleasant broadcasting co., which is Licensee of mgr no pm Grinnell Iowa. The new station would operate on 105.5 Mega cycles. Also approved was an agreement in which it. Pleasant radio inc., which filed a competing application will be partially reimbursed of $8,500 in expenses incurred in reference to its application. Sustained needed for Community theatre ass n hoping to acquire funds enough to obtain temporary quarters for the it. Pleasant Community theatre association the Board members now have available sustaining memberships for Sale to interested persons of the Community. The memberships priced at $10, will entitle the Holder to admission to the productions of the 1970-71 season plus having his name appear on every program As a sustained or Patron of the theatre. Memberships May be purchased by contacting Robert Young or at the first production of the session Quot arsenic and old lace july 30, 31, and August i at the presbyterian Church. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon the silence some pursue is Nice to listen to

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