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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - June 17, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 142mt. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening june 17, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the ignorant armies clash by night when i was in Switzerland last december i listened to some half joke neg half serious discussion of something called the Schwarzen Bach amendment. The brainchild of James Schwarzenbac a Zurich publisher this proposal if adopted in a referendum would have expelled 300,000 foreign workers from Swiss soil. Since Switzerland depends on 600,000 foreigners who do most of the unpleasant jobs in the country including the sweeping of the meticulously clean streets my friends thought the whole proposition quite mad. But to and behold when the referendum was held last week the Schwarzenbac proposal was Defeated by a close vote of 654,000 to 557,000. A 5 per cent shift in the referendum pattern would have resulted in the ruination of Swiss Industry leaving tile big Metal working establishments the Road and Tunnel building companies and the hotels and restaurants on which the Swiss Economy depends without the manpower necessary to keep them going. How could 46 per cent of the people in a progressive modern nation contemplate voting the bread out of their own Mouths Willi sch Lamm who left the . To take up residence in Lugano in the italian Section of Switzerland after a distinguished career in american journalism As an adviser to Henry Luce of time and life laughed when i asked him the question. The Swiss he said actually have very Little animus against foreign workers since their country is tri Lin Gual made up of German French and italian Stock the people of Switzerland Are used to differences. In Schlammes opinion the big turnout for the Schwarzenbac amendment represented nothing less nor More than a mounting disgust with the conditions of life in the modern world. Too Willi Schlamm has been visiting in the . After a prolonged absence. He thinks we Are in much worse shape it but the Swiss. A your country a he says a is on the verge of ten years of civil War. It will not be the class War that Marx envisaged. It will be the peo pet versus the like the Schwarzenbac hians in Switzerland the a silent majority in the . Is simply disgusted with where events have taken them. Willi has been talking with american labor leaders and he asked one of them if Walter Reuther would be missed in the automobile workers Union. He was surprised to hear from his presumably Well informed source that Reuther among the Blue Collar rank and file of the Auto workers was a tolerated rather than a revered figure. Reuther a utopianism so Willi was informed was something out of the Roosevelt decade an ideological hangover. The Blue Collar workers who have had a hard enough time moving upwards into a Middle class Range of life watch incredulously As College kids the sons and daughters of affluence make a mockery of everything they had hoped to achieve for their own children. They blame the kids but More than that they blame the faculties the College presidents the Deans the whole educational apparatus for letting things come to our present pass so Schlamm sees tile a hard hats As representing the Avant Garde of the anti intellectual rebellion a paint the permissive Rich the students and a big City Eastern orientated communications setup that has lost touch with a Middle american. The Black panthers who have a dedicated leadership might engage in a revolt that would parallel the student revolt says Willi and though they Are a distinct minority among negroes they might hold a number of Central City fortresses As hostages. However they would be Defeated. The outcome of the peo pee versus the intellectuals Battle is less certain. But says Willi it will be fought to a bitter finish. One is indebted to a foreign View for a certain clarity that one cannot achieve when one is immersed in a local situation. What Schlamm shocks me into seeing is that few people in the . Seem to be fighting for a cause that has any tangible objective. The College rebels know what they hate they do not have the ghost of an idea of what they would put in its place. Our unintelligent intellectuals have lost sight of the conditions that make for National preservation they Are willing to let our enemies encircle our friends and creep up to our frontiers. The concept of the balance of Power is no longer taught in history classes. Our capitalists done to believe in themselves Industry is no longer an adventure. So As House votes to franc High school stage band plays at Square affair in Central Park adding to the gaiety of the chapter a . Square affair in Central Park was the it. Pleasant High school stage Rand. Those musicians participating were front Row left to right Judy scar Steve Wettach Tom Padley Debby Cornick Jerry Tolson or. Keith Thomas director. Second Row Kevin Wiley Wendell Bare Carolyn Castore Kevin Frost. Third Row Jim Perron Tom Galer Marty Neu Bauer Yan Rommel and Susan Fowler. Rev. Carl Wilson named local pastor the Rev. Carl e. Wilson District superintendent at Perry has been assigned to first United methodist Church of it. Pleasant Bishop James Thomas announced at the Iowa conference session in Des Moines tuesday evening. Wilson succeeds the Rev. C. Den rapids. Dewitt Cecil a. Wells from Keokuk Trinity succeeds Donald l. Carver who goes to Cedar Falls St. Timothy a. Fort Madison first Paul d. Williamson from Corydon Millerton succeeds James h. Buikema by Garrett whose appointment As who goes to Coon rapids. District superintendent of the Perry District was announced a few weeks ago. Wilson is known to several it. Pleasant residents because of his former residency and pastorate at it. Madison for eight years starting in 1951. He served first at deep River Guernsey then at Marengo and Bloomfield before going to it. Madison. He later served As pastor at Knoxville before becoming superintendent of the Boone District in 1964. Later reorganization placed him As superintendent of what is known As the Perry District. Too a new pastor comes also to the it. Union Canaan charge a the Rev. Ralph d. Maddison from Mcgregor Giard Marquette. He succeeds the Rev. Richard t. Hohl who goes to Griswold Lewis. Also a new pastor comes to the Wayland Finley Chapel Trenton circuit a the Rev. Herbert j. Demello from Lacey Beacon. He succeeds Knofel Staton who will be teaching in Joplin to. Too among the Many other appointments there is special interest in the appointment of Dick d. Mills Paugh w to is completing work at Union theological Seminary As associate in first methodist in Des Moines appointment of David f. Barker who has been at Keota Bethel to Scranton Ralston How Ard f. Ball assistant chaplain a. L. Bowen children Scenter Harrisburg 111., has been on years sabbatical leave and living at Lewis Steven p. Melby neighbourhood ministry Central Hall London England. Muscatine District George a. Sheds Muscatine District superintendent. Bettendorf Asbury Everett h. Staats from Des Moines District superintendency succeeds Edwin c. Boulton who becomes Dubuque District superintendent. Burlington West Hill Carl e. Klein from Lamont Aurora sue needs Raymond g. Walker who goes to Dawson. Clinton first associate Clifford Isaacson from second presbyterian Church Keokuk succeeds Dean h. Fullerton who goes to Des Moines new Hope Davenport Christ Allen d. Call from Associateship at Marshalltown first succeeds Robert a. Crum who will be instructor in theology at St. Ambrose College Davenport. Davenport Grace r. Martin Miller from Cedar rapids St. Peters Central City succeeds Gordon n. Freeburg who goes to Sioux Keokuk Emmanuel Sandusky Nelson f. Grote from Griswold Lewis succeeds Edward l. Sullivan who goes to Rippey Fairview. Letts Cranston Raymond j. Bailey from Dows succeeds Richard l. Els who goes to Radcliffe Ellsworth Evergreen. It. Pleasant first Carl e. Wilson from Perry District superintendency succeeds c. Dendy Garrett who becomes Perry District superintendent it. Union Canaan Ralph d. Maddison from Mcgregor Giard Marquette succeeds Richard t. Hohl who goes to Griswold Lewis. Muscatine South Parish Island Misserville Gregory g. Caldwell from Associateship at Waterloo first succeeds t. Ray Crews who will be working with Vista in the Tama area. Oakville Kingston Kenneth h. Carlson from Iliff school of theology succeeds Samuel e. Bowser who is retiring. Wayland Finley Chapel Trenton Herbert j. Demello from la Cey Beacon succeeds Knofel Staton who will be teaching in Joplin Missouri. Wilton Junction Moscow Sher Man l. Tidball from Lohrville i Nard succeeds Irvin g. Wilkins who goes to state Center Minerva. Donnellson Embury new Boston charge and Associateship at Bettendorf Are delayed appointments Charles Mcneeley goes to Christian Church Martelle Herbert j. Barker will be chaplain intern at Mayo clinic Rochester Minn. 18-Vear Olds Washington up a the House today passed and sent to an Uncertain Fate in the White House a voting rights package giving 18-year-Olds suffrage and extending electoral safeguards for Southern negroes. Just before the vote the House rejected by a 224-183 Roll Call an attempt to separate the 18-Yt a old voting feature from tile proposal to extend for another five years voting rights safeguards in the South. Reports a Rifle markers gone two Marble monuments in the old City cemetery have disappeared recently the news has been informed. One was at the Wright Graves and the other at the Hite Graves to the Northeast. The fact that the markers had been taken was discovered sunday morning by Bertha Wright. She had gone to the cemetery to visit her parents Graves. Truck Marks in tile Vicinity indicated that the markers had been hauled away j City officials have been informed of the theft and Steps will be taken to try to locate the thieves and take proper Adon against them. Income High no controls says Nixon Washington up a highlights of president Nixon a speech on the Economy Over All picture a the american Economy is the strongest in the world. This year the number of americans who have jobs is the highest in our history. Quot even allowing for taxes and inflation the average real income of americans is higher than Ever before in part because of the increase in social Security benefits and the reduction of the tax surcharge which will end entirely this defense a defense spending is on the Way Down. For the first time in 20 years the Federal government is spending More on human resource programs than on National a your scheduled withdrawal of vital Road blocked again phenom penh up a new fighting broke out today Southwest of phenom penh again blocking the Highway from the capital to the coast. The vital Road had been reopened Only tuesday when the last communist troops were driven from Kom song spec. I a cambodian military spokesman a also said rail traffic Between phenom penh and Bangkok thai land was halted by fighting at Krang Lovea 40 Miles Northwest of the capital. The latest fighting was at Trape eng Traleng 45 Miles Southwest i of Highway 4 from phenom penh. The Road linking phenom penh and the oort of Kampong som had been reopened less than 24 hours earlier when South vietnamese and cambodian troops cleared the last North vietnamese forces from the key town of Kon Pong spec. 30 Miles Southwest of the capital. Forces from Cambodia by june 30 will be kept our scheduled transition from a wartime Economy to a peacetime consumer Economy will be kept As strategy a because we Are concerned with both prices and jobs we have put the brakes on inflation carefully and steadily. This did not mean that inflation could end without some slowdown in the Economy. But we were willing to make a Trade to sacrifice s red in ending inflation in order to keep the economic slowdown a a. Let me put it this Way it is a Little like bringing a boat into a Dock. You turn Down the Power Well before you get to the Dock and let the boat coast in. If you waited until you reached the Dock to turn Down the Power you d soon have to build yourself a new Dock or a new boat. A in the same Way we re heading for the Dock of Price stability. We have to ease up on the Power of our restraint and let our momentum carry us safely into Progress a we must face up to some difficult problems. Tile momentum of four years of inflation was stronger than had been anticipated. The effect on unemployment is greater than we foresaw the Pace of our Progress toward Price stability and High employment has not been Quick enough. A this does not mean we now should abandon our strategy. It five leave for Japan two students from Iowa Wesleyan College and three Iowa educators left tuesday for Japan on a month Long study trip sponsored by Iowa Wesleyan. The group hosted by or. Emma Layman chairman of in cd a social science division will visit historical Sites and study cultural aspects of Tokyo i to Katase Kyoto Nara Osaka and Nikko during its japanese stay which ends july 14. The does mean that we must pay heed five will spend a Day at expo 70 while in Osaka. Accompany avg or. Layman Are inc students Wayland Mclane Youngstown o. And Daniel plot Kin Brooklyn n. Y. And or. Albert Burrows of William Penn College Oskaloosa and Kenneth bar text of the Muscatine school system. The Iowa contingent will visit several Wesleyan alumni in the Tokyo and Kyoto areas. Or. Mitsuyasu Saito inc class of �?T57 miss Machiko Fukuhara �?T61 miss Akihiro Aoki �?T68 and Brian Hansen of it. Pleasant Wesleyan class to economic developments As we move along and adjust our tactics controls a i will not take this nation Down the Road of wage and Price controls however politically expedient they May seem. Wage and Price controls Only postpone a Day of reckoning and in so doing they Rob every american of an important part of his politics a the american people will see through any pattern it by anyone to play politics with their Cost of living. Whenever a member of i in hts la sch smiles help at . Square affair a smiles can sell a As miss Marti Hassenfritz left and mrs. Tom Ili Brant Well knew when they assisted at the arts and crafts Booth during the chapter d. . Square affair Jane 13 in Central Park. Featuring such Booths As the a Lily pad a trash to treasure and a studio for the artists of the Iris City Tiki project was Given instead of the annual . Ball. Ruling on co s to make Little difference Here nations new draft lottery on july i former local youth drowns word has been received Here of the death by drowning of Tim rid your 15, at Colorado Springs. His body was found tuesday. The youth lived Here with his parents or. And mrs. Walter rid your and his Brothers and Sisters for two years before the family moved to Colorado Springs. His sister Linda is married to Jerry woodsman and they live Here. They left tuesday night for Colorado Springs to attend the funeral. Of 67, stationed in Japan will Host Qon Greas displays the imagination the poet Matthew Arnold said a we Are Here As on a darkling Plain. Where ignorant armies dash by and we can to escape to Switzerland for Hie worlds malaise is there too. The supreme court ruling on conscientious objection to the draft this week change the situation in Henry county very much mrs. Darline Taylor draft Board clerk said wednesday. The local Board lists six Young men currently in the i -0 draft classification who Are eligible to be called for work duty in a Hospital or at other places. The 1-0 classification is that of cons who would refuse to Don a military uniform. Mrs Taylor said that two men in the 1-0 classification started their two year work duties. Three others in that classification Haven to been called for their physicals As yet As their draft lottery numbers Are i High. There Are a number of cons in the county who have already completed their work duty. Tile court ruled monday that a co status May be claimed regardless of religion. Mrs. Taylor said that she doubts if Many men in the county will seek such a classification for other reasons except for religious beliefs. Washington up a president Nixon has set july i for the nations second draft lottery following a supreme court ruling that could produce a flood of applications from Young men seeking conscientious objector status. Selective service director Curtis j w. Tarr at a news conference tuesday said the ruling which allows registrants to invoke the claim of conscientious objector on moral or ethical As Well As religious grounds will not apply retroactively. He said it will not apply to anyone who has been ordered to report for induction and also said it does not mean a youth can seek exemption As an objector to a this particular War a Vietnam. Too Tarr said guidelines were being sent out to local draft boards across the nation advising them How to handle objector applications in Light of the court s decision of two Days ago. Tarr conceded that local boards would have a Tough time with some applications. Nixon issued a proclamation tuesday formally setting july i for the new drawing for youths who become 19 this year. This will give even those who get lowest numbers at least half a year to get ready. The lottery held la get december set numbers based on birthrates for men who were already 19 to 25 years old. Too under the new lottery order All eligible males whose names begin with j and who were born in 1951 on whatever Day is drawn first would be among the first to be called regardless of where they lived. The alphabetical order of the lottery set in december a with j the first letter drawn will still apply. The next 14 letters in order Are g. A x. No it we by u. C and f. The december lottery applied within quotas assigned to individual draft boards and Nixon has asked Congress to eliminate local quotas in favor of a single National quota. Some local boards have had to dig deeper into their alphabetical and Date lists than others. That meant Young men born on different dates and with last names beginning with different letters were being called up at the same time. Searchers find boy asleep it was reported to the sheriffs office at 9 . Tuesday that Tim Mcdonald to son of or. And mrs Duane Mcdonald Winfield had run away from Home at 5 . After a search members of the Winfield Volunteer fire department found the boy asleep in a ditch South of Winfield at Midnight. Clark to implement Economy report the Layman group june 20 in Tokyo. Mrs. Fumi Majima Horie a 1965 inc Grad will meet the group in1 Kyoto july i the Japan trip is part of Wesleyan a International study program and offers up to six hours College credit for the participants three other inc students Are studying in France this summer As part of the International program. To introduce a Bill that Calls for More spending let him display the courage to introduce a Bill raising the taxes to pay for that confirm Hodgson As Secretary of labor Washington up a the Senate confirmed today by voice vote without audible dissent the nomination of James d. Hodgson to be new Secretary of labor. Hodgson was named by president Nixon to succeed George p. Shultz w to was chosen to head the new executive office of management and budget. Pleads guilty to charges new York up a Nathan m. Voloshen a Washington lobbyist who was charged along with House speaker John Mccormack a former administrative assistant with influence peddling pleaded guilty today to charges of perjury and conspiracy to defraud the government. He faces a possible maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and fines totalling $16,000. Mccormack a former aide Martin Sweig elected to stand trial. It. P. Board leases St. Alphonsus school the Board of education of the it. Pleasant school system took action on an administrative recommendation tuesday evening and authorized leasing of the St. Alphonsus elementary school building effective july i 1970. Des Moines up a state terms of the lease Are for three comptroller Marvin Selden today years at $12,000 per year with the appointed Hugh h. Clark of Belmond to follow up on implementing recommendations contained in governor Robert d. Rays Economy report. Selden said Clarks duties will be to work with elected officials legislators and commission and department Heads to develop plans for transforming the ideas presented by the governors Blue ribbon committee and to actual practice. In announcing the appointment Seldon pointed to Clarks experi-1 ence As a former business executive with specific responsibilities for i economic operations streamlining. School responsible for utilities min or maintenance Upkeep of grounds and custodial services. A Small office and Library on the East will continue to be utilized by St. Alphonsus As will the Kitchen facilities and dining Hall on a limited basis. Four elementary classes will be assigned to tile St. Alphonsus elementary building starting in september with emphasis on placing As Many children As possible from the Southwest Section of it. Pleasant. Superintendent Robert Formanek room is Large has indicated that the four class Many uses. Rooms at St. Alphonsus will be used for tile primary grades first second. And third with a double Section in one or the other. Too the St. Alphonsus parochial building financed by the Parish was built in 1961 and was a big step Forward in space and Type of construction Over the building which had been used for the school Over Many decades. Staffing and financial problems increased in the succeeding years however As they did in Many of the private schools in Iowa and elsewhere. Three years ago the staffing problem had become so acute in View of the state standards that classes were discontinued and the building has been used comparatively Little since. The four classrooms Are Modem and Well lighted. The All purpose and adaptable to

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