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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 3, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 130 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening june 3, 1970 Price to cents supervisor contest goes to convention Henry county republicans failed to select a nominee in the hotly contested four Way race for the Board of supervisors nomination in tuesdays primary and the selection will be made by delegates to the county Republican convention to be held on june 12. Candidate Cleo Johnston was High with 790 votes but this was 140 Short of the 35 per cent necessary for nomination. Johnston had Only four More votes than incumbent supervisor Clark Burns who had a total of 786 for second place. Carroll Crane was third with 615 votes and William r. Smith fourth with 465. Total some Veteran lawmakers / tossed out by up some Veteran lawmakers whose names have become As familiar As the Iowa legislature itself Are out of jobs today As a massive reapportionment plan and stiff primary opposition combined to insure a marked change in the 64th general Assembly. Among the most notable legislators to be Defeated in tuesdays primary were reps. Maurice Van Nostramo r Avoca James Caffey d Des Moines Tom Renda d Des Moines and William Hill r Marshalltown. On the Senate Side 18-year Veteran Ernest Kosek r Cedar rapids bowed to defeat at the hands of former sen. Tom Riley also of Cedar rapids. A it Van Nostrand who entered the primary fearing he had too much of an Urban image lost by about 650 votes to rep. Laverne Schroeder r Mcclelland. Both men had impressive legislative records but Van Nostrand was a highly regarded lawmaker and one of gov. Robert d. Rays chief liaisons. The Avoca Republican gained considerable publicity during the 1970 session for his sponsorship of vote of the four candidates was 2,656. Too in the Only other contest within the county Gary Wiegel was nominated for comity attorney Over incumbent James Morrison who had announced a few weeks before the election that he did not desire election to the office and asked voters not to vote for him. Wiegel received 1,755 votes and Morrison 794. Henry county Republican voters favored incumbent Richard l. Stephens for state senator Over Charles g. Mogged by 1,408 to i Iii. County Republican voters favored congressman Fred Schwengel Over David m. Stanley 1,520 to 1,234. In the uncontested nominations Arnold r. Lindeen received 2,418 for county treasurer Helen m. Virden 2,414 for county recorder and incumbent state representative Charles f. St Othman 1,500. Stroth Man was a candidate in Only part of the county in the new distracting and was a candidate in part of Jefferson county where he received 1,491 votes in eight precincts. In six North townships of Henry county incumbent state representative Herbert Campbell of Brighton was the candidate and received 675 votes. In Jefferson county he received 133 votes in five precincts. All of Washington county is in this District also. The Republican vote in Henry county for state candidates Allun opposed was Robert Ray governor 2,506 Roger w. Jepsen lieutenant governor 2,360 Melvin d. Syn Horst Secretary of state 2,342 Lloyd r. Smith auditor of state 2,312 Maurice e. Balinger treasurer of state 2,246 l. B. Liddy Secretary of agriculture 2,320 Richard c. Turner attorney general 2,254. To conduct drug abuse Survey in Iowa w Cedar Falls up a the social research Center at the University of Northern Iowa has received an affirmative nod from the governors office to conduct a drug abuse Survey in All of Iowa a 99 counties. The statewide Survey which is to begin immediately will be patterned after the Pilot study recently conducted in Cedar Falls. That study found that 9 per cent of those questioned were drug abusers. From 500 to 600 persons throughout the state will be involved in conducting the Survey which will be funded by either the Federal or state government or both. Paul Kramer director of the research Center and head of the Survey said the Survey has three parts it will conduct tests to determine How knowledgeable students Are concerning drugs and their usage it will attempt to determine the nature and event of drug abuse in Iowa and the Survey will develop a personal and social profile of the drug abuser in Iowa. Human error caused explosion space Center Houston up mounting evidence indicates human error resulted in undetected damage to an Apollo 13 oxygen tank More than two weeks before launch causing it to explode near the Moon. Edgar m. Cortright chairman of the review Board studying the explosion said tuesday it appears technicians applied too much voltage to a pair of Heater thermostat switches in the tank a ruining them a in trying to overcome problems draining the tanks after a practice countdown at Cape Kennedy. He said technicians thought the switches could stand 65 volts of direct current when actually they were designed for a maximum of 30 volts. Fulton wins close race for nomination Des Moines up a former i with Only one statewide race on lieutenant governor Robert Ful the ballot the voter turnout was a controversial measure to increase ton pulled out a hairs breadth vie sparse in most areas of the state the taxes paid by Banks. During i tory tuesday in Iowa a democratic the unofficial turnout was 227.105 gubernatorial primary and earned votes the smallest primary ballot the heated Battle Over the Bill which eventually passed Van Nostrand reportedly was put under such heavy financial pressure he nearly resigned. Caffrey and Renda both leaders in the democratic Camp were downed by political novices in Des Moines races. George Kinley a professional golfer beat Renda an assistant minority Leader by Only 114 votes while Samuel Anania beat Caffrey a Des Moines Union official by less than 200. Stephens wins Over Mogged state senator Richard Stephens Defeated state senator Charles g. Mogged of Fairfield in the contest for the Republican nomination for state senator from the newly formed senatorial District which includes Henry Washington and Jefferson counties. Stephens who won by 109 votes carried Washington and Henry counties and Mogged carried Jefferson county. The vote was Henry county Stephens Mogged Washington county Stephens Mogged Jefferson county Stephens Mogged the right to Challenge incumbent gov. Robert d. Ray in the november general election. Fulton 41, a Waterloo lawyer fought off a last minute rally to defeat state rep. William Gannon by a 2,000 vote margin. Gannon a 32-year-old Mingo Farmer had Cut Fulton s margin to 1,200 votes but the Waterloo attorney slipped Back out to a substantial Lead As late scattered precincts trickled in. With 99 per cent of the vote counted Fulton had 47,793 votes to Gannony a 45,647. The third candidate in the race Robert Nereim a Des Moines insurance Man collected 8,797 votes. Too Ray who is seeking his second term As the states chief executive was unopposed in the Republican ing in 25 years. Too former newsman Cole Mcmartin of Cedar rapids will Challenge democratic rep. John c. Culver in november. Mcmartin swept a 2nd District congressional Victory from a. James Aldrich also of Cedar rapids on the Republican ticket. Culver was unopposed. In the Only other contested congressional race Don Mahon of Des Moines clinched the 5th District Republican race Over opponents Virginia Lee Johnston of Des Moines and William Plymat of Urbandale. The win pits Mahon against incumbent Democrat rep. Neal Smith in the general election. Smith was unopposed. Other congressional candidates report five i Chw Silgel newsmen alive1 a Immis identified Winner phenom penh fun i a five of eight television newsmen missing in Cambodia were reported today to have been captured alive by the Viet Cong but the body of a sixth was found in a fresh grave near the burned out jeep in which he was Riding. The Columbia broadcasting by nearly 5,000 by up after a Campaign which a More Money More Effort system said in new York that the More articulation than Ever in the never easy to win a primary elec body of lbs correspondent George history of 1st Republic tion with an incumbent Quot said i after the results became Clear saw Stanley bowed to defeat and pledge and cd his support to Schwengel. A a it a honorary degree to supreme president of . Sisterhood Irene Kerr Center Cheyenne Wyo. President of supreme chapter . Sisterhood listens to citation accompanying her honorary doctor of science degree received monday during commencement ceremonies at Iowa Wesleyan College. Mildred Bensmiller left and Ruth Keraus inc professors assist in the presentation. The citation stated Irene Kerr native of Nebraska student at the University of Nebraska Colorado state collage and capital College of pharmacy teacher and registered pharmacist Leader in Hospital mental health Church and women a organizations official of the Wyoming commission on the status of women officer with Long service in Many positions in the . Sisterhood now president of the supreme chapter. One Hundred years since 1869 have been marked by close ties Between Iowa Wesleyan College and the . Sisterhood. As the first National president of the sisterhood in its second Century Iowa Wesleyan College welcomes you into its academic family. By the authority vested in me i Confer upon you the honorary degree of doctor of science and declare you entitled to All rights privileges and honors pertaining thereto. Syvertsen had been identified by another lbs correspondent. David Miller. Lbs said Miller its Bureau chief in Saigon who is now in Cambodia had identified Assy Vera Send a the clothes boots and other items on the body. Three other fresh Graves were found alongside that from which Syvertsen a body was recovered but the three bodies in them were not immediately identified. Three others travelling with Syvertsen when he disappeared sunday a lbs newsman Gerald Miller an american cameraman Ramnik Lek i an Indian and their cambodian Driver were missing. An Abc cameraman James sturdy vent. Said the unidentified bodies in the Graves appeared to be caucasian Indian and an asian. Cambodian troops who secured the area where All eight newsmen disappeared sunday said the jeep can Veteran lawmaker Fred congressman Schwengel sch primary and received 124,687 votes did not have primary opposition. A a doves win Victory for first time Washington up a the move to limit . Military operations in Cambodia survived a critical Senate test today As opponents of the War in Southeast Asia gained a legislative Victory for the first time since the conflict began. Drop bombs on Supply lines Saigon up a . B52 bombers dropped Over a million pounds of bombs today on North vietnamese Supply lines near a beleaguered base there South vietnamese defenders had to Call in Allied air strikes on their own positions to brat off communist attacks. Appeared to have been hit by a Wengel has claimed what he Calls rocket. The jeep was the Lead be the most significant Victory of his hide in three cars carrying lbs political life and National broadcasting co. Crew who disappeared sunday. Schwengel faced former state sen. David Stanley in a Campaign i which permeated every Crevice in the 1st District and left virtually no political Stone overturned. When the smoke cleared the 63-year-old Davenport Republican a who had been asked to Bow out of the race by the ambitious Stanley a built up a nearly 5,000 vote margin of Victory. Tolson beads be Iowa Cao Glenwood Tolson was elected june i to the position of president of the 4-county Board of the Southeastern Iowa Community action organization. This organization governs pro seniority was Schwengel s defense having served in Congress for All but two of the past 16 years. Grams of Headstall neighbourhood while Stanley 41. Countered with youth corp emergency food and creative campaigning and a nearly medical and Day care Over Des in exhaustible Supply of Energy. Moines Lee Henry and washing a this was by far the stiffest ton counties. Primary anybody had to face. This or. Tolson will assume duties at Victory is the most significant thing the first meeting in july for the in my political life a sad Schwen coming year. Gel. Flying above thick Monsoon Clouds and b52s dumped their bomb backers of stiff legislation to Cut Oats on communist positions with off funds for the cambodian Ven Ture after june 30 Defeated an in two Miles of the Tun tavern fire rapport base near the laotian Bor amendment they said would have or Gouth vietnamese a tenders crippled their proposal. Suffered their heaviest losses in six the amendment sponsored by months there in the communist As set. Robert Dole a kans a would a Ault tuesday which partially Over have allowed president Nixon to i of continue . Combat operations in county demos for Fulton Mezvinsky Henry county democrats favored Gressman for the 1st Robert d. Fulton for governor and Edward Mezvinsky for representative in Congress. Each was the party nominee. County democrats gave Fulton 282 votes Wiliam j. Gannon 187 and Robert l. Nereim 38, in the military sources said communist Cambodia As Long As a single pressure continued against the base american was held prisoner or was to Lav and 011 another Allied base missing in action there. J Cal by the vote was the first test of the i the sources said that one of the Antiwar measure brought to the predawn bombing strikes today. Three Way race for the nomination floor three weeks ago by Sens j touched off 50 secondary explosions for governor. Frank Church a Idaho and John Sherman Cooperr by. ,. The vote came in Advance of from a he laotian Border in South a crafts cast 291 for Mezvinsky 150 apparently from ammunition Stock in the three Way race for rep replies. The target arca is three Miles sedative in Congress county Dom president Nixon a televised state Vietnam a northernmost province ment on the cambodian situation and was described by the . Comat 8 . Cd. To fed As an area of a enemy activity of of i bunkers base Camps weapons Posi it was also the first time since tons storage and staging the War began that Senate a a doves have been Able to Muster a majority in the face of White House of Kin Resolution on aug. 7, 1964. Give of the 1st District an aggressive fall. The District includes North position. The Senate has not had ing the president almost limitless and meaningful Campaign a Cam townships in Henry county and in a real test of strength on the War authority to repel communist a pain that will bring Victory in Jefferson county and All of Wash since it approved the Gulf of ton i Gre Sion in Southeast Asia. I november and a responsive Conington county. For William Albrecht and 67 for William a. Strout. A the primary is Over a Mezvinsky said a but the big Job is still ahead. I ask for the help of Bill the new 89th District will be run and Blackie and their supporters Ning against rep. Herbert Camp so that we can carry to the people Bell in the general election this in the uncontested nominations county democrats voted As follows Minnette Doderer for lieutenant governor 445 Sharon r. Robinson Secretary of state 435 Donald e. Linduski auditor of state 430 William d. Palmer treasurer of state 432 Kenneth e. Owen Secretary of agriculture 438 Raymond t. Walton attorney general 429 William Stam Nerman state senator 409 and Thomas s. Slock Ett state representative 87. Stockett who is the candidate in Stanley who narrowly lost a 1968 bid for the u. S. Senate to then gov. Harold e. Hughes. A we knew when we began that it would be difficult and we almost did the Stanley who served la years in the Iowa legislature said he had no immediate plans and would not comment on future involvement in politics. Too in assessing his Victory. Schwengel said he thought some of Stanley a last minute Campaign gimmicks h i g h on the list of gimmicks that apparently backfired in the closing Days of campaigning Schwengel said was a controversial commercial which implied president Nixon endorsed Stanley. The Schwengel Headquarters in in arms Over the broadcast called the White House and obtained a Flat denial of any candidate preference from a spokesman for the president. Too Schwengel now will face another highly ambitious and eager political candidate Edward Mezvinsky who captured the three Way race for congressional nomination on the democratic ticket. Mezvinsky handily won Over William Albrecht a political Novice on leave from his Job As associate professor of economics at the University of Iowa and William a Blackie Quot Strout the Scott county sheriff. Mezvinsky said he was helped to Victory by his prominence As a state legislator and unceasing campaigns for Highway safety better health and sanitation standards for Iowa and an unsuccessful but vocal fight for full financial disclosure by legislative lobbyists. The 37-year-old Iowa City attorney faces a Tough Job in binding together the 1st District democrats As Well As gathering support against Schwengel. A i think this is going to be a Campaign that will show who can be the most responsive and who can be the most effective Quot said Mezvinsky. He said the primary a strengthened Quot the democratic party. Present plans. Mezvinsky said Call for full time campaigning with Hopes of discussions and debates Between the two victorious candidates. Unofficial tabulation of votes by precincts in Henry county 1,403 1411 1,705 819 489 1,558 collide on Square cars driven by mrs. Dorothy a. Griest it. Pleasant and William a. Francy new London route i collided on the East Side of the Square at 2 30 . Tuesday. Mrs. Griest stopped for a car ahead of her and the Francy car collided with her car from the rear according to the police report. Both cars were damaged some. Republican precincts governor Ray it. Gov. Jepsen rep. In Congress St. Senate St. Rep. Strothman i St. Rep. Campbell co. Treas. Lindeen i co. Rec. Virden co. Atty. Board of sup i six Stanley i Mogged Stephens 1 Morrison _ Wiegel Burns Crane _ i Johnston Smith Baltimore 38 37 26 20 21 18 35 33 40 19 20 18 8 4 la Canaan. 128 116 50 37 39 87 103 128 124 42 87 40 la 37 49 Center 126 120 81 60 59 75 109 123 117 23 107 33 41 23 40 Hillsboro. 54 51 39 17 27 26 51 53 54 23 28 12 30 9 4 Jackson. 40 36 36 8 22 17 36 39 40 8 35 Lull 7 12 Jefferson 104 96 49 60 46 53 82 77 96 40 56 40 23 21 16 Marion 76 74 41 43 27 56 69 75 76 la 71 ?4 la 42 9 it. P. Ward i 247 235 148 126 110 140 219 236 247 67 188 82 60 80 38 Ward ii 240 233 164 93 119 119 197 235 229 61 185 32 59 74 41 Ward Iii 130 122 88 58 58 69 115 130 122 35 99 35 54 30 25 Ward in 437 403 268 204 233 197 366 422 412 106 345 1.07 88 201 63 n l. Corp. 178 170 74 125 79 too 155 171 177 82 94 56 24 28 53 n l. Twp. 64 61 44 32 27 42 60 63 60 24 43 24 18 9 19 Rome 21 18 7 18 14 6 14 17 16 5 17 0 16 8 0 Salem 96 80 69 28 48 35 73 83 83 27 67 26 42 to 15 Scott. 209 203 108 127 72 141 190 208 206 95 112 93 43 64 29 Tipp. 73 68 60 24 43 34 65 71 67 15 64 14 37 9 25 Trenton a 55 48 43 19 la 43 43 58 52 20 36 26 18 7 la Wayne. 190 189 125 79 56 145 188 193 196 91 101 63 21 117 5 total. 2360 1520 1234 in 1403 1500 c75 2418 2414 794 1755 730 Cis 790 465 Democrat governor St. Senate Fulton Gannon a 2 if z Albrecht m of v a a Strout St. Senator j stammer Ray la 4 i 3 12 2 14 8 7 i 4 7 4 13 Lull i 7 12 4 17 7 4 0 2 7 i 9 4 4 i 4 4 0 7 8 8 3 4 13 3 16 3 6 0 5 7 3 la 48 24 4 23 44 8 59 22 14 3 12 27 2 33 la 22 3 7 20 6 24 29 19 i 13 ?7 9 35 52 19 to 33 47 5 73 7 16 i 8 13 2 23 3 4 0 2 5 0 6 la 2 3 2 9 5 9 18 9 2 4 19 6 25 7 7 i to 4 i la g 3 3 3 4 5 12 la 4 0 4 to i 12 282 187 33 150 291 67 409 Ca ii to a a .2 co 12 changeover at Denmark thursday june 4. Has been set As the changeover Date for the Alln w Telephone system in Denmark according to Ray Gisser District manager for the Iowa Telephone company. All Denmark Telephone numbers will be changed during that Day and Gisser cautioned customers to be patient. A we have to change the numbers one at a time Quot he said. Quot so people wont know which numbers to use a the old or new one. Perhaps the Best thing to do on june 4 would be to use the old numbers in the morning and the new numbers in the new directories have been mailed and customers should Start using them on june 4. This changeover will be a a a reconversion completing a $213,696 project which was initiated May i 1969. 16 la 24 12 12 87 Jefferson county nearly 2-1 for Schwengel Fairfield a Jefferson county republicans voted nearly two to one for congressman Fred Schwen Gol Over his challenger David Stan by. Schwengel received 1,366 and Stanley 674. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon the person who has poise is Tantrum proof he raises up his brows and not the roof

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