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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - July 28, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news my my by is cd partly Cloudy Section one 2 sections vol 92, no. 176 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening july 28, 1970 Price to cents must every summer have its Woodstock Middlefield Conn. A As these words Are written this Yankee ski Center is hoping to Dodge the Fate of becoming americans second Woodstock. The town fathers Are used to the Winter crowds of the powder Hill ski area but skiers tend to be self enclosed individuals through their very concentration on learning an exacting personal skill and Are Seldom troublesome. In the a Lapres skin time they Are tired hell raising does no to go with Muscles that need relaxation. Middlefield has a heard different about the Rock and Roll Young there Are All those stories about getting stoned on drugs to the Point where the hospitals of a neighbourhood can to handle the de tripping of the drug trippers. So a if first selectman Arthur Meckley has his Way a an injunction will have been obtained by this time to prevent the Middleton arts International a Bridgeport Conn., corporation from staging the a second Wood Stock where they have been hammering together stage facilities on nearby powder Ridge. Too what Middlefield has Beeh fearing however is that injunction or no injunction the fat is already in the fire. Lured by the Promise that fifty thousand Rock tickets will be available the kids have been tumbling into the neighbourhood from places As far away As California and Wisconsin. If the festival goes the town wonders How the crowds Are going to carry on even minimal housekeeping functions. If it is called off will the kids vent their collective rage on the neighbourhood before leaving the Yankee View of the children of the a Woodstock nation is Apt to be Pithy. Connecticut is called the land of steady habits and some old timers take the characterization seriously. A just because they want to go Back to the twelfth Century a said one critic of the kids a is no reason to drag the rest of us if Yankee elders could find fancy words for their feelings they would probably Echo the dutch psychoanalyst Joost a. M. Meer Loo who says that Rock is a boredom and frustration concentrated into a rhythmic trance. While the mind is Meerloo defines modern Rock As a the Whin Ning and stammering for love and tenderness. A disguise for raging inner feelings of it is a full of baby sounds a seeking a a nirvana ice return to the womb. But and this May let the Wood stocks of our nation off the Hook Meerloo says the a a craze can help addicts to overcome frustrations and give a a vitalizing regression that makes them More tolerant to the world too so if its a a tolerance that we get from a Rock festival the property damage accruing to a Woodstock a or a Middlefield a could be a Small Price to pay for it. However this can hardly make the individual property owner feel better and he certainly has his rights. As a defender of individual rights i feel for the Middlefield people who filed for that injunction. But there is also the personal injunction that is Laid on one not to be smug. One must also sympathize with the kids who out of boredom roam the country seeking something anything to do. They Are having dismal Summers these Days and it is by no Means entirely their own fault. The biggest Gripe is the unavailability of summer jobs. Young people Arentt Worth a great Deal to employers for they have yet to develop marketable skills. In our vaunted elderly Wisdom we pass minimum wage Laws that make it difficult for anyone to hire adolescents. Meerloo has said that Rock a be numbs the but it Isnit Rock that has destroyed the sanity of our politicians who refuse to let apprentice age workers take jobs at apprentice pay. A o o o when i was a College Sophomore i worked in a summer hotel for a pittance. One of my bits of a a exploited labor was to make up an elaborate card Index system for the hotel manager. I induced his Secretary to teach me the touch system in typing which has come in Handy for a Long journalistic life. If there had been a minimum wage Law i have had a Job and i would have had to pay to learn typing. Another summer was spent going to Europe on a mule boat and returning in the Coffee pantry of the Leviathan. Today it would be impossible to go abroad and return Home by such Means for the seamen a unions have contract regulations that make it impossible for the Young vagrant to work his Way. The world has closed in on the Young because we seniors make the . Russell resigns As manager of rec Warner a. Russell manager of the s. E. Iowa cooperative electric association submitted his resignation from the position in a letter dated july 28th to Knight Hartley president of the Board of directors effective August 31st, 1970. Or. Russell has served As manager of tile cooperative since the organization was formed in 1939. Warner a. Russell he has guided the growth from a few Hundred members to More than 5,500 and has seen the assets Rise to More than $4.0 million at the end of 1969. In his letter to president Hartley or. Russell said he will reach his 66th birthday in August of this year and due to reasons of health a it is time for a younger Man to assume the responsibilities of this cooperative. Or. Russell has been hospitalized four times during recent months. He stated that net margins of $228,044 for the year 1969 and More than $152,000 for the first six months of 1970 have placed the cooperative in an excellent position for future Power line improvements and1 the amortization of Loans with the Rea. In 0 Hells a past president of the to. It t we by f a a a it Quot. Is Quot of Quot a Pitt a aft Hardin backs $55,000 limit Washington up a agriculture Secretary Clifford m. Hardin has announced his support of the proposed $55,000 per crop per year limit on Federal payments to Farmers apparently in an Effort to head off a move to lower it to $20,000. Hardin predicted a lower limit would drive some Cotton Farmers out of business. Hardin said in letters to All House members that he supported a without reservations a Bill extending current Price support and crop control programs for three years. As approved by the House agriculture committee no Farmer could collect More than $55,000 for any one crop. Harding a letter was seen As a move to head off an attempt by rep. Silvio o. Conte r-mass., to lower the limit to $20,000 per crop when the Bill is brought up for House action later this week. The limit is designed to prevent some Farmers from collecting huge amounts of Federal Money. In 1969 five big land holders received More than $1 million and one received More than $4 million. The three major crops involved Are Cotton wheat and feed grains. Agriculture department officials conceded a Farmer could collect up to $165,000 $55,000 for each crop a but they said they knew of Only two Farmers who would get that much. A rec managers association and served As the first chairman of the state rec safety and Job training committee. He is presently a member of the Public information and advertising committee of the Iowa association of electric cooperatives. Or. Russell and his wife Gladys live on their attractive farm known As a Indian Hills two Miles Southwest of it. Pleasant and specialize in Good Quality Angus cattle. He said a we both need More time to devote to our Home and family and will also plan on More extensive travel and to assist with Community activities. In a statement to the press or. Hartley said that the resignation will be brought before the Board of directors at the regular August Board meeting. These Iowa rec serves farms Rural Homes and industries across several be Iowa counties and had total electrical Power sales and other income in excess of $1.5 million in 1969. Or. Russells letter of resignation to president Hartley a within a few Days i will reach my 66th birthday and for More than thirty one years i have served As manager of the . Iowa cooperative electric association. It has been a pleasure to have had a part in bringing electric service to our extensive Rural area and the appreciation expressed by so Many of our members has been very Gratifying. A was you know i have in recent months had some health problems and As i the challenges ahead in our program to better meet the electrical needs of our Rural area i feel that these management responsibilities should be assumed by a younger Man. Thus it is my desire to submit my resignation As manager effective August 31, 1970. If i Oan be helpful in any Way during a transition period until a new manager is selected i will be pleased to cooperate. A during my years of service i have keenly Felt my obligations to Rea the Board of directors the cooperative membership and our employees. We have been proud of our staff and employees and they Well deserve much credit for the Success of our Enterprise. A to the entire membership and Community leaders who have been so dedicated to our Rural electrification efforts and to the members of the Board of directors i wish to express my most sincere thanks. A i wish for the s. E. Iowa cooperative electric association a great future of service and Success with accomplishments Well beyond our fondest dreams. A sincerely yours Warner a. Reserve police officer killed near Milton gop s new Home this is the building in Washington housing the Republican National committee As of mid july. The Dwight d. Eisenhower Republican Center its called. It also will House related Republican groups thus reducing expenses it is said. Recommend leasing plan for Christmas decorations at the regular monthly luncheon pleasant. At least 50 of the antique bomb warning from pay phone Camp Mccoy Wise. Up a officials said monday a Telephone Call received Here just before three explosions Early sunday apparently came from a pay Telephone. The blasts occurred at three widely separated locations in the pre Dawn hours knocking out electric Power for More than an hour meeting the retail committee of the chamber of Commerce voted to recommend to the Board that Christmas decorations be leased on a 3-year term instead of Purd hos no items each year As in the past. A committee consisting of Elmer Frank Richard Wittich and Gary have discussed the matter with firms in the leasing business and recommended this action. The Christmas decorations available under the lease plan will be completely new each three years and will be More than twice the Quantity and Quality As in the past. The lease is approximately $1,000 per year which is slightly More than the amount budgeted for annual purchases. Gary Williams reported on the fund drive to support the Central business District study and stated that to Date a total of $2,440 has been paid or pledged. An additional $1,300 is required to reach one half of the total Cost. The City Council has agreed to pay the balance. It is hoped that the drive win be completed before the next regular chamber Board meeting so final action can be taken. Al Kreuger reported on the ridiculous Day promotion and stated that merchants were pleased with the event. Neil Wikel reported on the chamber sports Day event held monday evening and stated that More than 70 merchants and business men played Golf prior to the evening dinner. He suggested that perhaps june or september would be better dates due to so Many on vacation during july and August. Chamber manager Don meth reminded the retail committee that August 4-5-6 will be the annual meeting dates for the National Austin Bantam car club in it. Cars will be driven in from across the United states and several Hundred people Are expected for the 3-Day event. Parades prizes and displays arc planned. Manager meth also reported that officials of the new cat station Are hoping that the station will be in operation by the end of the year. Members of the retail committee discussed various ways to promote the new monday night store opening in it. Pleasant which is effective August 3rd and among others the possibility of free cd parking. Gary presided As chairman at the meeting. Milton up a a Volunteer member of a Jefferson county sheriffs posse was shot to death monday night while searching for a stolen car in the Milton area. Authorities said the slain Deputy was William Sutherlin 48, of Fairfield a postal employee and a member of a Reserve police Force in the Fairfield area. Cash stolen at Cargill slogan Heusel reported a breaking at Cargill inc., at 7 00 Arn. Today tuesday. Approximately $114 was stolen from a Cash Box. Entrance was gained through the construction area in the West end of the warehouse. Glass was then broken to gain an entry to the office. The break in was reported to Russell Van Tuyl at the City police desk and was investigated by City police. Hitchhiker takes $8,000 Omaha neb. Up a an employee of the Holiday inn in Council Bluffs Iowa told Omaha police he was. Robbed of More than $8,000 monday afternoon by a Hitchhiker he thought to be a customer of the Motel. The car owned by the Motel also was taken. Dennis p. Marley of Council Bluffs said he was driving out of the Motel parking lot in route to make a Bank Deposit when he was flagged Down by a Man who told him he had to get to the Eppley Airfield in Omaha right away. Thinking the Man to be a Patron of the Motel Marley told him he would drive him. When they were a Short distance from the Airport Marley said his passenger produced a gun and told him to turn Down a Side Road. He then told Marley to Stop the car and get out. The Man drove off with the oar which contained a sack with the motels receipts amounting to $8,075.77 in Cash and checks. President to hold 10 . News conference san Clemente Calif. Up a president Nixon will hold a televised news conference in los Angeles at to pm. Cot thursday so the a people in the West have an Opportunity to the chief executive questioned during prime time evening hours. Accepting applications for Quot miss Sweet sixteen Quot contest applications Are now being received for the 1970 old Thresher a miss Sweet sixteen contest damaging a communications build 1 Young ladies must be 16 years of boys return from trip to Southern Missouri three local Young men reported missing sunday afternoon returned Home late monday evening. The boys Marion Shappell Craig Long and Ronald Yaley had borrowed the Shappell locker service White panel truck and drove to Southern Missouri. Due to a Lack of communication Between boys and parents a missing persons bulletin was issued by the county sheriffs office. Rules that destroy their chances of earning As they go. So they become mendicant escaping the Barber the tailor the laundress All of whom Cost Money. No wonder so Many of them want to return to the nirvana of the womb via the Rock festivals. Distributed by King features Syndicate ing housing the Telephone Exchange and causing Little damage at a water Reservoir. There were no injuries. The warning Call was received just before 4 am. By mrs. Alice Bowler Black River Falls one of two operators on duty in the Telephone Exchange. She told investigators heard an operator ask for Money before the Call went through. A bomb in building. Clear out. This is no joke a a Many a voice said. She said called the Post fire department and then evacuated the building with the other operator. About two minutes later the bomb went off. Life saving instruction set senior life saving instruction will be offered at the it. Pleasant municipal Pool two weeks starting on monday August 3. The instruction will be Given from to am. Until 12 noon monday through Friday each of the two weeks. Persons interested should Register at the Pool. Age having turned 16 Between old threshers 1969 and old threshers 1970. Those entering this years contest Are being asked to dig in the attic or make a dress in the fashion of the Pioneer Days. They will be judged1 in costume september 3rd, at 9 00 am. At the rec building in it. Pleasant with the Public cordially invited. Each contestant will be interviewed while a panel of judges scores her personality poise and costume. A miss Sweet sixteen will be crowned in front of the grandstand at la am. That Date. She will reign throughout the reunion As the new Queen. All participants Are being asked to assist with ushering parades and other related events. They will be serving in a number of Egypt cracks Down on aral guerrillas up Egypt cracked Down today on militant guerillas whose refusal to accept a temporary cease fire threatens the current Middle East peace efforts. In Amman the Al Fatah group warned of possible guerilla attacks on american interests in the Arab world. The egyptian government said it was a a temporarily shutting Down All guerilla stations broadcasting from Cairo because of the a attitude of some palestinian organizations Young rioters on rampage in Chicago Chicago up a Young rioters broke up a Rock concert late monday and went on a rampage of violence in downtown Chicago which left 132 persons injured. The violence spread from Grant Park to state Street and included looting of fashionable shops and the burning of automobiles. A total of 165 persons were arrested. At least 62 policemen were injured As they tried to control the mob and 24 of these were hospitalized. Much of the disturbance was on the same streets where police clashed with demonstrators during the 1968 democratic National convention. Too the Rock concert with no admission charge was one of a series which the Chicago Park District has planned for the band Shell in the huge Park. Some said the series was designed to Bridge any a generation Gap that May have developed. A crowd estimated at Between 50,000 and 75,000 filled the Park. Many were on hand to a group known As sly and the family Stone. Another ensemble known As fat water was on the stage when the chant rang out a we want then a gang of youths stormed the stage. Too a the first thing they attacked was the sound equipment a said Park Board president Daniel m. Shannon a former notre Dame football great. With no sound Shannon said the concert Spon sors were unable to explain that the sly group was on the Way. A it was All downhill from there a Shannon said. A thin line of police was augmented by a Force that eventually numbered 500 when the vandals began tearing apart everything they could reach. Too rocks bottles pieces of Concrete and scraps of Metal were hurled at the police. Police Drew revolvers. Some were fired. Three persons were wounded by bullets. But it Sutherlin was believed to have been shot after he encountered the stolen car suspect and was trapped at gunpoint. The officers body was found about 10 30 . Near his car. A Danville 111., Man was taken into custody after the slaying and charged with first degree murder by Van Buren county officers. Tile suspect was identified As Larry Parsons 22. Parsons was arraigned in Justice of the peace court and jailed in lieu of $50,000 Bond. The Chase for the stolen car suspect moved into in Buren county Early monday night and involved about �0 officers and a Highway patrol plane. The suspect reportedly eluded officers shortly before Sutherlin transmitted a radio report saying he was trapped at gunpoint. A Highway patrolman had put out a dispatch at 4 30 . That he was chasing a car and called on All Law men in the area. A Call came on the radio at 9 25 . From Sutherlin that a Man had a gun in him. That was the last word heard from Sutherlin. The slain Man had a shot gun my a hand gun in his Possession my the hand gun was found by his body. A shot gun and a hand in were found in a Field near where the suspect was picked up but the Man himself was not armed. The body is at the Ottumwa Hospital where an autopsy was performed tuesday morning. Towards Egypt a acceptance of the. Could not be determined who fired areas As Youthful hostesses during the five Days. A group variety show for the Medicine Wagon is also planned. All Young women who have previously participated in the miss Sweet sixteen contest during the past couple of years Are again being invited to join the fun and enjoy the pleasure of having a part in welcoming Many visitors to the reunion and serving As hostesses for this Large event. If interested they Are asked to Contact miss Mccormick if they have not already done so. Co chairmen for the contest Are Liz Mccormick of route 2, it. Pleasant and mrs. Richard garrote route i it. Pleasant. They ask that applications be returned to miss Mccormick by August 5th. Those girls who have not received an application in the mail Are invited to clip the following form Complete and mail to the address above american Al Fatah. One of the leading guerilla groups warned in its official newspaper of the same name that a american interests Are no them. A police spokesman said the wounds were made by Small Caliper bullets too Small to have come from police weapons. Shannon said the violence May longer Safe because they Are within j have been a a premeditated by per Licach of the sons who wanted to disrupt Tran it said the . Peace proposals Quality Between youth and official were an a attempt to liquidate the communists begin major new offensive Saigon Upit combined com nudist forces have begun a major a flew offensive on the Kir irom plateau in a move to seize cambodians Only ammunition factory military purees reported today in phenom penh. In other cambodian action the communists ambushed a refugee a hip captured the governments a my Cement Plant and brought in runs and reinforcements to angkor wat. Up correspondent Kenneth j. Braddick with cambodian government troops near Kir irom said 3.600 communists made up of North vietnamese Viet Cong Khmer Rouge and Patchet lao had begun he offensive to seize control of the strategic plateau and Highway 4, phenom Penhos lifeline to the sea. Up correspondent Robert Kaylor reported from phenom penh the communists had reinforced their rooms around the historic Temple ruins of angkor wat and brought in either artillery or anti aircraft weapons. The North vietnamese Ilso were reported recruiting local cambodian soldiers. Revolution from nation within the Arab name. Address. Phone no. Birth Date. School. Grade school and Community activities. Two drowning victims in Iowa up the body of a Memphis. Tenn., youth was recovered from the Mississippi River but authorities continued today to search for the body of a Des Moines boy who drowned in Lake a quasi near Indianola. Randy Davenport son of or. And mrs. Wayne Davenport Des Moines drowned monday in Lake a quasi while boating authorities said. They said the youth was in a boat when his hat blew off and he apparently Dove in the water after his hat and drowned when he suffered a leg cramp. The body of Jordan Hill 15, Memphis tenn., was recovered in about 18 feet of water in the Mississippi River. Authorities said Hill was swimming with friends when he apparently stepped into a Hole he said some of the concert goers brought weapons to the Park a chains and baseball bats do not necessarily go along with Good music a Shannon said. He indicated the concert series May be cancelled. Sly and his group never go to the Park. A spokesman said there had been a misunderstanding As to the time of their appearance. Some of those in the Park apparently had expected sly to begin entertaining much earlier than the scheduled time. Bloomfield Man to hied in acc ident his alarm clock ignited by lightning Cedar rapids up a Eugene Sands alarm clock was set on fire about 6 . Today when lightning struck an electric outlet on his House during a thunderstorm Here. Fire officials said the lightning strike apparently went into the House through the outlet setting the electric alarm clock on fire. Was confined to Sands Bloomfield up a a 76-year-old Rural Bloomfield Man was killed monday in the crash of a truck about two and one half Miles East of Here on a county Road. Authorities identified the victim As Bryan Bailor a passenger in a truck driven by his son George William Bailor 33, Rural Bloomfield. Authorities said both men were trapped in the wreckage of the truck which left the Road Ami crashed into a ditch. The younger Balor was pulled from the wreckage by a passerby before the trucks fuel tank exploded. Aud failed to surface. Hill was a member of a paint Damase Crew working in the Keokuk area i bedroom and the fire was put out during the summer. Before firemen arrived. Will Fly planes before buying them Sam Clemente Calif Uppa defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird following a conference with president Nixon said monday future defense contracts would be awarded on a step by step basis designed to eliminate costly overruns. A we will Fly planes before we buy a a Laird said

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