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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 16, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant. News partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 141mt. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening june 16, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain a animal vegetable or Mineral a the kids used to play a game of identification called a animal vegetable or All three substances or resources Are necessary to human life. However in the development of the United states the a a Mineral category a and what comes out of it in our factories a has always had first place. Our ecologists Are now changing the rating. Not swiftly not overwhelmingly. But they Are getting More and More of a Public. For instance out in Idaho a proposed open pit molybdenum mining development in the White Clouds Mountain Region North of Sun Valley would threaten through its distribution of tailing wastes some of the finest Salmon spawning grounds in the Columbia River system. The ecologists Are claiming that we already have plenty of molybdenum which is used to Harden steel. But the Supply of Salmon is threatened from a Hundred different directions As we build More and More dams in the Rivers. So what will you take in the resource identification game animal Salmon or Mineral molybdenum ? the Salmon have a Chance of winning. The identification game is taking a new turn in South Carolina where the Badisch aniline and so a Fabrik company base of West Germany proposes to build a $200-million Dye and plastic Plant on the Colleton River near Beaufort. Since base would use naphtha an Oil derivative As a base for its production it qualifies roughly speaking As a a a Mineral user. For the purists let me say that i am quite aware that Oil in prehistoric Ages was once vegetable matter too the conservationists in South Carolina object that pollution from the base Plant would kill the shrimp and Oyster industries in the estuaries of the port Royal sound area. So which will you take in the resource identification game in South Carolina Mineral Oil and its plastic derivatives or animal shrimp and oysters ? the complication in South Carolina is that the Blacks of Beaufort county Are miserably poor and could use the jobs that a chemical Industry would provide. Save for a few Blacks who own a shrimp catching cooperative the poor citizens around Beaufort Are overwhelmingly in favor of the Saf Plant. So is South Carolinas governor Robert Mcnair. And if it comes Down to jobs the Oyster and shrimp fishermen a and the proprietors of the Beautiful recreational and retirement developments on Hilton head Island a Haven t a Chance. As one influential Black has said a if i got to put the Oyster Beds up against people the Oyster Beds have got to however in a Clever move the Hilton head real estate people the shrimp and Oyster fishermen and the embattled conservationists of the Audubon society the Sierra club and the friends of the Earth Are now firing Back with their own Job making proposition. They claim that the chemical Industry must inevitably pollute the Waters despite All the promises that liquid wastes will be purified and but recognizing that jobs of some kind Are needed in Beaufort county they suggest that an Industrial Park be set up on the base owned site on the Colleton River. They Are willing to buy the site for the Price that base paid for it with a proviso that they will resell it to the state in three years if they Haven to created the same number of jobs that base has figured on creating in a Dye and plastics Complex. Too the a a clean industries which the Hilton head proprietors and the conservationists have in mind include outboard motor manufacturing the making of baseball football Tennis and Golf equipment fishing tackle manufacture and the construction of Mobile living units bicycles and terrain vehicles. The claim of the conservationists is that such industries would not have to pump waste into the estuaries and that they would complement the growing recreational businesses of the port Royal sound area. They offer the big names of golfer Jack Nichlaus and football quarterback fran Tarkenton As sponsors of the proposed Industrial Park. Whether this will Settle the argument in South Carolina remains to be seen. But the ecologists Are now getting wily they have begun to recognize that Industrial jobs of some Type Are necessary to the a food chains of poor people. With prisoners escape from car in area it Madison up a two prisoners who were being taken to the Iowa state Penitentiary at it. Madison escaped in Southeast Iowa today after Over powering a Polk county Deputy sheriff. The two men were identified As Apollo 13 blast caused by a a mistakes space Center Houston up a the explosion that ruined the Apollo 13 Moon Mission was caused by a an unusual number of mistakes coupled with a a deficient design of Heater components in the space Craft says a space Agency investigating Board. Edgar m. Cortright chairman of the investigating Board blamed the National aeronautics and space administration Nasa and two of its contractors for allowing substandard Heater thermostat switches to be installed in the Apollo command ship. Cortright said monday these switches failed causing a Chain reaction of events that led to the april 13 explosion. He also said the failure of the switches during a practice countdown left Apollo 13 and its Saturn 5 rocket standing on the launch pad As a potential bomb for two weeks before the april la Blastoff. A it was found that the Accident was not the result of a Chance malfunction in a statistical sense but rather resulted from an unusual combination of mistakes coupled with a somewhat deficient and unforgiving the report said a 1962 directive outlined recommendations for improving the Heater switches and Saud the recommendations were not followed. He said the Accident would make future Apollo flights safer because of the procedures that will be followed in the Wake of the Apollo 13 explosion. However the modifications needed for Apollo 14 will make it almost impossible to begin the next lunar Landing Mission in december. Lynk buy Tweedy hybrid seed Corn co. Roger Tweedy owner of Tweedy hybrid seed Corn company has announced the Sale of his seed Corn business to Lynk Bros and Baird hybrid Corn company of Marshalltown effective july i 1970. Or. Tweedy has been in the seed Corn business for 21 years serving Farmers in be Iowa Northern Missouri and Eastern Illinois. He will continue to own and operate his extensive Grain and livestock farm Southeast of it. Pleasant and also distribute seed Corn for Lynks in this area. Lynks hybrids of Marshalltown have been in business since 1934 and distribute seed in a seven state area in the Middle West. Bob Vajgrt of Iowa City District representative for Lynks will service most of the Tweedy dealer organization. With the acquisition of the Tweedy dealers Lynks will now have Over Hoo dealers operating in the seven state sales area. David Arthur Green 25, East Moline 111., and Lewis Wheeler 26, Kansas City to. Green was to serve a 25-year sentence on a robbery with aggravation conviction and Wheeler was to serve a five year sentence for illegal Possession of drugs. O o o a Polk county sheriffs Deputy in Des Moines said the two prisoners a trustee Harold Todd Des Moines and a Deputy sheriff j. B. Runner left Des Moines about 5 . For it. Madison. Runner told Des Moines authorities he was not injured but one of the two men took his gun. Too the men were shackled in the backseat of the car when one of the men apparently grabbed runner and forced him to drive off the Road. During the scuffle one of the men forced him to remove the shackles. Runner said the men escaped in an Orange Iowa Highway commission pickup truck which was not occupied. An off duty policeman in it. Madison said he later spotted the two men but was not in a position to give Chase. Later the truck was found in the Green Bay area and the Hunt was concentrated in that area. Too editors note tile Highway patrol and county officers in it. Pleasant were alerted to assist in the search or watch for the men. Could expect blood Bath of 100,000 Washington up a captured a a blacklists indicate a blood Bath of at least 100,000 executions would follow communist takeover in South Vietnam the Pentagon has been told by a research group. The Rand corp. At Santa Monica calif., gathered the information for the defense departments advanced research projects Agency and the 241-Page report was written by Steven t. Hosmer. Rand is one of the oldest study groups receiving military support. A the role of the blacklist in the communist scheme of operations is Clear a the report says. A a Long Range purpose of the list is to provide a master roster so that once the Viet Cong gain control of an acre they can systematically seek out and Deal with individual targets a it said. A the number of executions alone not counting assassinations could Well total Many tens of thousands a Hosmer said. A one can Only guess at what the minimum would be but this author finds it difficult to believe that the number would be much less than 100,000.�?� about a month ago sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., said the United states already was involved in a blood Bath in Vietnam. He charged the administrations references to a blood Bath that might occur if the United states were to pull out were designed to draw attention away from the blood Bath that already is going on. Kennedy said several Hundred thousand civilians already have been killed in the Vietnam War. Kiwan ians turn painters Kiwan ians did a Good turn monday evening at their annual work night for the City by painting buildings at the municipal Airport and at Mcmillan Park. One group painted the Headquarters building at the Airport and some of the Board Fence. The other group painted most of the shelter House at Mcmillan Park. After the painting period the two groups joined for a Fried Chicken picnic supper at the shelter House. L. J. Hill supervised the painting projects and Joe Halferty headed the picnic supper committee. Perfect a a a average Joe Rowe wears his graduation Cap at the University of Texas Arlington with a Happy smile. A polio victim and paralysed since to was 5 years old Joe uses his toes for typing while out of his Iron lung. He got a perfect Quot a Quot average. 130 pupils in summer school program approximately 130 elementary pupils Are receiving Benefit of the summer school program the it. Pleasant Community schools Are sponsoring at the Van Allen building. Children in grades one through j ers in Iowa Illinois and Missouri five Are included with the primary Are invited emphasis placed on proficiency in. Christmas tree growers Field Day a Christmas tree growers Field Day will be held wednesday june 17, at 1 30 . Lee county Extension director Robert n. Dowling in announcing the event said that the site of this years Field Day is on the John Rowe tree farm 2�?Tl Miles up the Skunk River from Augusta on the Lee county Side. Interested Christmas tree grow ordered a to kill anything that moved Danang Vietnam up a take City Back from n v troops Kampong spec Cambodia said Viet Cong were killed. I said up a South vietnamese and his troops lost eight killed and 25 cambodian troops today reoccupied wounded with cambodian losses of Kampong spec driving the last at least 14 killed and 34 wounded. North vietnamese forces from the i said the operation was the City astride tile Highway connect South vietnamese army a deepest ing phenom penh and the nations penetration into Cambodia biggest seaport. J a a a cambodian forces reported South South vietnamese troops were vietnamese troops looted shops in reported to have ransacked shops the City a downtown Section. J of the City a commercial Section Brig. On. Dran Badi of the i loading the looted goods on bicycles South vietnamese 9th division is wild motorbikes. Some of the stolen to mated that 104 North vietnamese j foods were later Reeve red for shop i owners. The South vietnamese and cambodians reported capturing Large supplies of arms including 200 old weapons which i said the North vietnamese had earlier captured from the cambodian army. I said Tjie North vietnamese had planned to distribute the weapons to cambodian villagers to form a communist militia. They also captured a number of 275mm Reeo less antiaircraft guns he said. Corn plots infill to show differences Reading and mathematics. The funds for this program Are provided by the Federal government through the elementary and secondary education act. The it. Pleasant Community schools provide the facilities for the program. Two sessions Are held each Day with one group attending in the morning and another group in the afternoon. Students attending receive a great Deal of individual help from the instructors As the groups Range in size from ten to fifteen. Standardized tests Are administered at the beginning and close to determine areas of need and to evaluate growth. Teachers and aides have had three Days of preparation for the summer program. A visit to the area Xvi materials Library where the teachers Are Able to select books and films appropriate to their level and program was one of the highlights of the preparatory sessions. Three general meetings were also held and at one of these Gerald Knight explained the use of the various pieces of audio visual equipment which is available at another Marcia Cammack talked a bout summer school programs. The summer school staff includes first name is the teacher and second the aide first Grade Marlene Glanzman and Christie Bell. Second Grade Gertrude Miller and sue Townsend. The Stonehouse open House for Church Benefit about eleven Miles South the differences in a variety of j test plots on Corn production Are beginning to show in tile tract off 218 at the East Edge of it. Pleasant i North of the Railroad tracks i there Are 22 plots of one half j acre each which have a wide Vari Ety of applications of chemicals and fertilizers and different Type a of seed Corn. One plot was a Plant Marine prosecutor told a court cd Quot by sowing the Corn broadcast martial tuesday he would prove a Ever tile tract patrol shot 16 vietnamese civilians the objectives in the test plots without provocation feb. 19, but Are to show the results of different his first witness said the men be usage of chemicals for Weed con lived they were under orders Quot to tool the results of different fertilizer applications and the response of of different seed coms. Of the cooperators Standard Oil of Geigey and Cargill expect to a premeditated murder said the de Range Tours of the plots at a Date tense would contend the patrol i to be announced came under fire As it conducted its i kill anything that defense sources in the trial fat. Michael a. Schwarz 21, Weirton w. Va., on 16 counts night Mission. Another prosecution witness said his group came and i under sniper fire during a subset West of it. Pleasant is the Stonehouse an old historical place which was written about in the 1965 fall Issue of the iowan. Its construction seems to be dated the year of 1888 89, but architects and contractors say he hand Forg quent visit to tile site. Tickets going for opry the prosecutor capt. Franz Jevne 27, of Minneapolis minn., told the eight Man court of Marine officers that the five Man patrol which included Schwarzen de nails Home made Brick Antul tired Hamlet no. 4 of son thang pegged Woodwork Are typical of a Village 27 Miles South of Danang Muon in p pm r As n much older building. The Road in on tile night of feb. 19. Good according to Hetber Hub the patrol approached the association Secretary people who were in the hutches brought them outside and there the people were shot with no Provo j cation a Jevne said. The Sale of tickets for the grand Ole opry shows that will be offered to visitors three nights at the Midwest old settlers and threshers front of the House was once a stage coach Road. The foundation of the House is 33 inches thick at the basement level. It tapers As it goes up and the wide ledge around the outside Walls on the third floor is where or. Huh states that requests for tickets have come from Lima bar by and new Berlin 111., Luray mo., land Fairfield. Des Moines West Burlington North Liberty Monroe Jevne a first witness was sgt gods it pleasant and Winfield the Stone foundation ends and the Harvey l. Meyers 23, of Superior. Those wishing tickets for the kit roof begins. I wis., a noncommissioned officer in by Wells 8 p a performance thurs the House is built into a Hill so the Marine Rifle company that sent Day opening night the 5 . And the basement is ground level in out the patrol. 9 30 . Friday show featuring front but the second floor is Meyers said the patrol Leader a Ray Acuff and Tex Ritter and the ground level behind. To the rear of pvt. Randall d. Herrod 20. Of Cal sunday shows at 6 30 and 9 30 pm the House is a three level barn. To the East of the Stonehouse is the Bell House which has the original dinner Bell in its Turret. Because of the Courtesy of its infested que son owner Alice Savage the Stone j it was headed House and grounds in restored con a a Vin oak., told him before the a headlining Stonewall Jackson and tool left that a the six company Little Jimmie Dickens May Send commander told me to kill anything their requests to or. Huh at Routt that moved in the Viet Cong s. Tickets Are $2 each. Valley where the association Secretary also indicated that a number of the Survey i sheets mailed out earlier this month common sense on their Side they May begin to win important victories. Distributed by King features Syndicate Schwengel group briefed in in Saigon Vietnam a congressman Fred Schwengels fact finding team thursday was briefed in Vietnam by . Officials on the Vietnam Economy agriculture land Reform and activities of Volunteer agencies working in South Vietnam. Schwengel also met thursday with or. Do Van by former ambassador to the United states from Vietnam and or. Yes Carlos a French physician who has been in Vietnam for twelve years. Tomorrow the team will be briefed on Public health and education programs. They will meet with pacification chief Deputy ambassador William Colby and will be briefed on military activities at Mac Headquarters. On saturday the fact finding team will split up going to different parts of Vietnam to make a on the scene studies of the american and vietnamese efforts. Edition can be visited on sunday Jevne then called 1st it. Lloyd have been returned and the direct afternoon june 28th from four to Grant 22, Hebron conn., who led ors appreciate Hie interest being eight of clock. This tour is sponsor another patrol into the Hamlet the shown by tile membership in the third Grade Gloria Wilson and i de presbyterian Church and Day after the incident and disco future development of old thresh Karen Wick. J proceeds Wop go Tjie Organ ered the bodies. Grant identified ers. Fourth Grade Ruth Mcdowell Pund tickets Are available at coloured pictures of the slaying and Betty Raymond. Lammas Barber shop Tompkins scene and testified that he and his two i i 1 Fly Grade Anna von Seggen store and Taylors inc. As men found a Large Quantity of . I to cd lied i Well As from several of the pre shy .45-caliber pistol and m16 Rifle and Carolyn Dahms Secretary Juanita Griest. Bus Drivers Mae Smith Lansing and Sharon Hiatt. Custodian Trenton Johnson. Director o. C. Bunting. Dave Terian ladies. Shells near the bodies of the five women and la children. Puiul rain need Detas Selers Many wanting jobs Nixon to speak wednesday at la Washington up a presi Dent Nixon will Appeal to the Public wednesday to maintain Faith More Detas Selers Are still needed j in the nations Economy despite the according to Josh Swallow Rural highest unemployment in five years manpower representative of the the deepest business slump in a Iowa state employment service decade and the worst inflation in youth desiring to be Detas Selers 20 years. And did not sign up at the special the president plans to address trailer May make their applications with the Henry county common Agnew after Quot irrational dissenters la Detroit up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew monday bowled to keep speaking Quot forcefully factually and fearlessly about dissent tis. Outside about 400 demonstrators picketed Coho Hall taunting the nation Over radio and Televik police and shouting obscenities Sion at la . Cd to declare the aimed at Agnew Ity action program and Iowa state Economy basically Strong and to Agnew addressing 4,000 Republic employment service office in building 20 at . Youths should be at least 14 years old and 5 2�?� tall. Jobs for Hay hands Are also needed As Well As jobs of other natures. We have Many applicants wanting summer work. Do you need your Home cleaned or a Babysitter Call us and we will find your needs. Perhaps you Are looking for a Job. Come on out to building 20 or Call 385-8753. Someone will be waiting for you. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon its better to prepare and prevent then it is to repair and repent. Predict recent economic troubles cans at a $100-a-plate dinner said Are on their Way to solution. The parted company with the a air Nixon also is expected to Call on rational dissenters not rational business and labor to exert greater ones a restraint in their Price and wage before returning to Washington decisions to help Speed the end of Agnew made a statement to the the steepest inflation since the kor press calling for the resignation of Tan War. But he is certain to Stop Joseph Rhodes jr., a 22-year-old Well Short of proposing mandatory j Harvard student from the special controls. Presidential commission to investing White House announced Gate Campus unrest. Monday Nixon had requested time Agnew said Rhodes showed on radio networks for his speech Quot transparent Bias that will make the television networks said they him counterproductive to the work would also carry the address. Of the commission when he stated Nixon first disclosed his plans recently that one of the things he for the economic speech on april wished to investigate was a who gave 27. The address has been delayed what orders to Send police on Cam several times for a variety of Rea pus Kent state and were they sons especially developments in in thinking about a Campus bums when Sochina. I they pulled the by up the wind Rose at the Norfolk neb., weather station. Just be or la . Monday night the dials touched 92 Miles an hour. Then the Power went out. A few hours earlier Effingham 111, residents were paddling Canoe Down their streets past autos headlight deep in water. The City had five inches of rain in two hours with More failing. Tornadoes were reported at Arlington neb., and at several locations in Southeast South Dakota As violent weather spread across the upper Plains and into the Mississippi Valley states. The deluge at Effingham sent water in Lake Sarah on a two foot Rise in a 14 hour period. . 40 the main Cross state Highway was blocked in both directions by doomed Trees. The county clerk was kept hopping by water invading the basement of his office a storage place for records. Houses stores and a radio station newsroom also shipped water during the downpour. Several bams were blown from their foundations by tornadoes in South Dakota monday night. Hail which fell at Nunda sd., population 106, was measured at three inches in diameter. Two Inch Hail knocked out windows at most businesses in Ramona so. Strike again along canal by up israeli and egyptian warplanes carried out strikes along the Suez canal today and an israeli spokesman said in Tel Aviv one egyptian plane was set afire. Israel also reported Day and night strikes along the canal on monday. New trouble flared in Jordan and a guerrilla spokesman in Amman said jordanian troops had executed four guerrillas in the past two Days. Reports from Baghdad indicated More than 1.500 persons were killed or wounded in the fighting there last week. An egyptian military spokesman in Cairo said egyptian planes attacked israeli forces and military positions in the Northern sector of the canal after the israelis carried out a similar attack. The spokesman said the egyptian planes scored a direct hits and that ail planes returned safely. Forty freed As Ransom Algiers up a forty men my women freed As Ransom for kidnapped West German am Bossa for Ehrenfried Van Wolleben reached Asylum in Algiers Early today some displaying scars they said came from torture in brazilian prisons. One woman said she was crippled by torture and another showed Burn Marks the prisoners said were a aused by electric shocks. In Rio de Janeiro one terrorist group holding von Wolleben used government National radio to ask another guerrilla group for authorization to release their prisoner. The Reading of the communique Over National radio was seen As possibly the final step before the liberation of the Diplomat. Dynamite stolen at raid quarries near Burlington Burlington up a Des Moines county authorities said monday 12 Sticks of dynamite was stolen from the raid quarries Between Burlington and it. Madison. Authorities said the dynamite was taken from a shed at the Quarry. In addition about 40 electrified blasting Caps were reported missing. Officials throughout Southeast Iowa have been alerted to the theft which occurred sometime Over the weekend. Dean of Iowa fair secretaries Dies Eldon a Lyle w Hall. 86. Dean if Iowa pair secretaries and Secretary of Tho Wapello county fair since 1923, died saturday at St. Joseph Hospital in Ottumwa. Hall was an avid horse racing fan and held the position of Secretary of the Midwest racing circuit for Many years. He served in the Iowa legislature in 1929 from Wapello county As a state representative. He was a 50-year member of the masonic Lodge. Services were held tuesday afternoon and burial was in the Eldon i cemetery

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