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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 2, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Them pleasant news vol. 92, no. 51 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening March 2, 1970 Price 10 cent5 Cloudy amp showers these Days by John Chamberlain is a labor conservative Axis on the horizon done to look now but there May be a strange Axis in the making the Al Cio seems to be finding common cause with the american conservative Union in opposing president Richard Nixon a scheme to guarantee every american family of four a Basic income of $1,600. The motives for the opposition to be sure Are not precisely the same in both cases. The conservatives Are worried about the Cost of the Nixon program which according to Acu accountants will add 12 million people to welfare Rolls and $10 billion a or $276 a year in additional taxes per working family a to the current welfare Bill. The Al Cio in one of its mid Winter communiques from Miami Beach conference Headquarters fears that if welfare recipients were compelled to Register for jobs in order to get the new Basic income payments it would be a signal to the unscrupulous employer to offer substandard wages. The employer might figure that the government stood ready to subsidize part of the wage Bill. Whether the Acu and the Al Cio can get together on a Capitol Hill lobbying Effort to defeat the Nixon plan is debatable. But there have been stranger a United fronts in recent legislative history. Who a year ago would have believed that senator John Stennis of Mississippi and senator Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut would take the same legislative stand on a school integration Issue o o o the Al Cio whether it knows it or not is Basing its objections to the Nixon proposal on reasoning offered by the new capitalist class at the very Dawn of the Industrial revolution in England. The eighteenth Century English poor Law was very similar to the Nixon idea of the guaranteed family allowance. According to a Standard worked out by the magistrates of Spee Hamland in the agricultural county of Berkshire farm labourers were granted subsidies in Aid of wages any time the Price of bread exceeded a certain figure. The Spee Hamland scale was accepted Over most of England As the proper guarantee of the a right to naturally the land owners of the time used the Spee Hamland payments As an excuse to keep farm wages Down. But More significantly country Folk who could count on a minimum in their tra Dional surroundings had no incentive to take jobs at the new factories in Manchester. The Industrial revolution find a working class until the Spee Hamland Law was repealed. Theoretically if the eighteenth Century landowners had been compelled to pay a High minimum wage there would have been no need of Spee Hamland. But British Farmers on the margin would have gone out of business and this on the eve of the Napoleonic War Sand the Industrial revolution would still have had terrible growing pains. Who knows if the Spee Hamland system had been maintained or if an agricultural minimum wage had been substituted for it the Industrial revolution might have been Long delayed a and there might not be any Al Cio today. Iowa a travel Bill nearly $10 million by Harrison Weber Iowa daily press association Des Moines a idea a the state of Iowa a travel Bill is approaching $10 million a year. And if the present trend continues state auditor Lloyd r. Smith predicts the state will be spending nearly $11 million for both in state and out of state travel in 1971. Smith As a member of the state executive Council which must approve most out of state travel requests has been a Sharp critic of some travel requests that have come before the Council. With release monday of an audit by Smith on out of state travel the Council is expected to further tighten up purse strings on such trips. The audit shows out of state travel by state employees More than doubling in the past four years from $185,095 in fiscal 1966 to $501,303 in 1969. The audit does not cover in state travel which is expected to total about $9.5 million for the fiscal year ended last june 30. Smith said the costs of out of state travel for fiscal 1969, $501,303, does not include the Cost of the employees salaries which he said would exceed the Cost of travel for a total in excess of $1 million. In the fiscal year ended last june 15, 151 Days were spent outside the state or an equivalent of 58 full time employees Smith said. Smith in an audit report said out of state travel is frequently considered a fringe Benefit by employees and their families. He said there have been instances of employees staying longer than authorized by the executive Council. In Many instances Smith noted More than one employee from a state Agency is attending the same conference. The state auditor recommended that in View of the very tight fiscal position of the state Treasury that out of state travel be curtailed so As not to exceed the amount expended during fiscal 1968 which was $404,262. Smith said the $100,000 savings by limiting out of state travel should be used to increase the daily in state travel limit from $13 to $14 a Day. Its become increasingly difficult for state employees to get along on $13 a Day for both lodging and meals while staying in major cities in Iowa. N Ixon apologizes t o French president Washington up a the the visiting head of state. Whip Hou o Aid monday president press Secretary Ronald Ziegler in on personally apologized to president Georges Pompidou Lor u. S. Anti French demonstrations and h id decided to attend a new York dinner monday night honouring the Harlan fifth graders just completed a unit in social studies called a the founding of our they Learned How the Constitution planned for the government with three Bram lies. Much emphasis was placed on How a Bill becomes Law. It was decided that they write letters to our congressmen about Sohie problem of today. Several children wrote to representative Schwengel about our pollution problem. Knowing that congressman Schwengel was going to be in Vilt. Pleasant their teacher Felt that it would he much More meaningful for the children to present these letters in person. From left Schwengel Chris la More Billie Ford Lyndel Keuhnle and Betty Somermeyer teacher. Said that Nixon telephoned Pompidou in White Plains n. Y., sunday night and a personally and officially conveyed his apologies and regrets and those of the american he added that Nixon had decided to attend the new York dinner a to underline the deepening and improving relations Between France and the United the dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel is scheduled for 8 pm. Est Nixon was expected to leave Washington late in the afternoon and return to the White House immediately after the dinner. Pompidou talked with Nixon in Washington when he began his us. Touy last week and no further meetings Between the two Pneski i dents had been planned. However it was a rewarding Day for All that was before the French presi but two entries w ill Advance to Dent and Madame Pompidou were state. Those receiving division i greeted by demonstrators protest six my i is Yah Tuii students win i ratings on saturday february 28, eight pitch students and their instructor mrs. Marilyn Vincent went to Fairfield for the Iowa High school District speech contest a individual events. Large crowd hears dynamic speech by Jepsen a no one has a Corner on idealism nor does anyone hold a monopoly on practical realism. We need both the Energy of youth and the steady leadership of experience in this country a lieutenant governor Roger Jepsen told the Large crowd attending the annual Lincoln heritage dinner at the first United methodist Church in it. Pleasant saturday evening. The fact that the Acu and the Al Cio Are both against the Nixon guaranteed income payments though for entirely different reasons reveals some of the dangers of monkeying too extensively with the economic Buzzsaw. Does anyone really know what a guaranteed annual income divorced from the a a Market would entail if it were accompanied by a race in the current minimum wage from $1.60 to $2 an hour the acus fears that nobody would Rush to offer jobs to welfare workers under the Nixon plan of a work or else might All too easily come True. Instead of floating people off into a productive economic system the Nixon guarantees might have to be extended to an even greater number on welfare. On the other hand if the a work or else compulsion of the guaranteed income plan were enforced at a Low wage Standard the inflationary or High tax con sequences of the needed supplements might be All that the Acu predicts. A government dedicated to paying an important part of the total wage Bill would be in a bad Way for raising funds for other purposes. 0 0 0 the administration according to the Acu has promised that it a has no intention of using its welfare Reform program to create a cheap labor but the Acu adds that the a inescapable consequence is a a no Labory the Al Oil like that either it a the silent embezzlement of inflation As Well As the carping and fault finding concerns the quiet majority who pay the Bills Jepsen said As he pointed out that no other nation gives their citizens so Many comforts or exercises Freedom More a the United states is the Only country that guarantees twelve years of education. Yet the 33 colleges that have closed their doors and 300 colleges in the United states without presidents testifies that our people Only half understand that Freedom has a rigid parallel of the lieutenant governor presented a thoughtful analysis of the charged climate of our country and called for a thinking instead of threats and a return to patriotism. His dynamic remarks were Well received by the enthusiastic audience. O o o congressman Fred Schwengel received a standing ovation As he came to report on the nations Capitol and the Congress. A president Nixon has presented a Complete anti crime package to Congress. It has my Basic support As Well As that of most republicans but Democrat leadership has blocked it. Democrats leadership controls legislative scheduling not republicans. The congressman pointed out that a various sources make indiscriminate attacks on Congress that show a Lack of understanding of what really goes on in Washington . Those who make Blanket indictments of Congress demonstrate their Lack of awareness of the situation and unfairly malign Many hardworking and sincere members of Congress. I can speak for the Iowa delegation. They stick to business and their attendance record is above average. My own attendance record last year was 99%. O o o one of the highlights of the evening was the recognition Given Frank v. Coles m. D. Linder and Ralph Carnahan. Vice chairman Kay Rogers presented this part of the program. Letters of appreciation were read from governor Robert Ray expressing appreciation for their years of service. A standing ovation was accorded or. Frank v. Coles from 600 tourists Are stranded by snowstorm High court splits on draft refusal his fellow workers. Chairman Coles has indicated that he will be retiring at the close of his present term As chairman of the Republican Central committee. National committeeman Charles Wittenmeyer National com Mitte woman Mary Louise Smith state chairman John me Donald state vice chairman Pat Pardun District chairman Dick Drake and District vice chairman Willa Weldin All expressed their appreciation for the efficient and dedicated leadership of chairman Coles. State chairman John me Donald spoke briefly concerning the state wide meeting in Des Moines april 13th when vice president ted Agnew will be the guest speaker. Edna Michener president of the Henry county Council of Republican women gave the invocation. Chairman Coles expressed his appreciation for the decorating by the Council and congratulated them on their membership of More than 400 women. Don Gartin led the singing and Larry Cullison of inc was the pianist for the evening. Calvin Crane president of state Young republicans led in the pledge of j allegiance. O o o vice chairman Kay Rogers introduced the distinguished guests and Richard Cornick introduced the guest speaker Roger Jepsen. Ralph Carnahan and Donald e. Young took care of the arrangements for the dinner. Donald Gartin and David Mccoid were in charge of the ticket sales. M. D. Linder Ralph Carnahan and Gary Wiegel served As finance chairmen for the dinner. Mrs. Robert Lauer mrs. Ross Lane and mrs. Phillip Crawford served at the punch bowl during the social hour preceding the dinner. The dinner saturday night boasted More than 300 in attendance and has Only been surpassed in attendance once since the annual dinner was initiated. Washington up a a divided supreme court ruled today that a youth refusing to Register for the draft is subject to prosecution Only until his 23rd birthday. The 5-3 decision rejected a govern ment argument that the statute of Way into the grand Canyon Early Liml Tatlong run i until he is 31 today where nearly Coo tourists were snowbound by a massive storm grand Canyon Ariz. Up a Snow plows cleared the main High which blanketed the area up to 3 feet deep. Authorities said Snow continued to fall and chains were required to pass on the Highway. None of the tourists attempted to leave immediately according to Park Ranger. A a we la have plow s moving throughout the night and Well make sweeps in the morning of the roadways a said Dick Rayner management assistant for the grand Canyon National Park. Most of the stranded tourists were taken to the Bright Angel Lodge which was quickly filled to capacity. The Al Tovar hotel normally closed in the Winter was opened and 10 parties spent the night at the visitors Center we hich houses historical exhibits on the Canyon. Has pronounced in Miami Beach that a people cannot be forced into jobs that do not exist they can to take training programs that Arentt yet functioning or put their children in Day care centers that Haven to been with a a rights and a a left against it it could be a cold Day for the Nixon welfare plan. Distributed by King features Syndicate restraining order on rail strike expires at Midnight Washington up a . District judge Howard Corcoran withheld a ruling today on whether to continue blocking a nationwide rail shutdown pending outcome of an afternoon meeting Between management and Union negotiators. The bar gainers were meeting 10 hours before expiration of temporary restraining orders prohibiting four shop aft unions for striking and barring the railroads from Locking out employees in retaliation. The meeting was set for 2 . Est. The re strainers expire at Midnight March 2nd. Sources said Corcoran had reached a decision on whether to Issue preliminary injunctions that would extend the no strike no lockout period. But an aide of the judge said Corcoran we Ould withhold announcing the decision while waiting to see if the negotiating session produced an agreement. The majority opinion by Justice Hugo l. Black Drew a Strong dissent from three justices including chief Justice Warren e. Burger. From the Bench Justice Byron r. White declared in dissent that the decision a represents the kind of free Wheeling judicial authority that courts ought to but the five judge majority ruled that the statute of limitations begins w Hen a youth is 18 and required to Register and expires five years from that time. Black asserted this was the intent of Congress in including the limitation in the selective service Law. Take live grenade off an Airliner Kennedy Quot not a candidate for 1972" Dublin up a sen. Edward m. Kennedy told newsmen on his arrival in Ireland today he will not be a presidential candidate in 1972. About 300 persons lined the Airport balconies to get a glimpse of the senator and most clapped and cheered when they caught sight of him. Leftist students protested the visit two of them carrying signs that said a imperialist Kennedy get Kennedy accompanied by his wife Joan was beginning a two Day visit at the invitation of Dublin a Trinity College celebrating the bicentenary of its historical society. During a Brief Stopover at Shannon Airport Kennedy was asked whether he would be a candidate for his party a presidential nomination in 1972. A no a he said a i even consider Rome up a a Security guard found a live grenade and prevented it from exploding sunday night on an ethiopian airways Jet taking off for Addis Ababa with 40 persons aboard. He discovered the grenade its pin out in one of the planets lavatories clamped Down the grenades safety lever ordered the Pilot to Stop the Takeoff run leaped off the plane and threw the grenade away. It exploded harmlessly several Yards away As the passengers Slid Down the emergency exit Chute. The plane a Boeing 707, carried nine Crew members four Security guards and 27 passengers including foreign minister Jean Marine Bayoune of Gabon who was headed for the organization of african Unity foreign ministers meeting at Addis Ababa. Intense Security precautions ordered after two in flight explosions Over Europe last weekend failed to prevent a Saboteur from planting the grenade so that when the lava tory door opened a string tied to the Doorknob would pull out the pin. Chicago seven Are freed Chicago up a the a Chicago seven a a have been freed on bail by a u. S. Appeals court which did not think they Are a dangerous the seven were warned against making a a seditious speeches but they said they w Ould go on doing their thing. The a a seven were freed saturday 10 Days after a jury found five of them guilty of coming to Chicago in August of 1s68 to incite riots Dur ing the democratic National convention. The jury found the seven innocent of conspiring to incite riots and ruled two of them were innocent of All charges. However just As the jury began its four Days of deliberations u. S. District court judge Julius j. Hoffman jailed them for contempt of court for their behaviour in the nearly five month trial. When the verdicts came in he sentenced tin five to jail terms of five years and fined them $5,000 each and court costs. The conviction sentences and the contempt of court terms were to run concurrently. And Hoffman ruled he would not allow any of the defendants freed on bail because they All were a dangerous a we disagree a the five Man appeals court ruled in freeing the seven. Bail covered both the convictions and contempt terms. The bail total for the seven was $155,000, and attorneys handling the appeals posted 10 per cent�?$15,-500 a As required by Law. Slump testifies he did no to kill Milia of Dale Des Moines up a Ronald j stump today testified that la did not kill Michael Daly in Des Moines in june of 1961. Stump. 30, was called to testify during the second week of his murder trial. He is being retried for the 1961 murder of Daly after a Federal appeals court overruled the second degree murder conviction on the grounds that stumps constitutional rights had been Viola a it. Stump was asked if he shot the 21-year-old Daly on june 9, 1961. A i did not shoot him on that Date or any other Date a stump replied. Stump told the court he had worked until about 630 the evening of the murder and then drank a couple of Beers and decided to go to Ottumwa to visit his Cousin Don Murphy and Murphy s wife. He said not recollect the time he left Des Moines or tie actual time he arrived in Ottumwa but a Knoxville service station operator had previously testified that stump had stopped to ask directions Between 9 00 and 9 30 . That evening. Des Moines police said they received the Telephone Call reporting the Daly shooting at 8 34. And Knoxville is local a about 43 mile from Des Moines. Rating were Linda Meneeley and Carol Brombaugh dramatic acting Brenda Bratton and John Burrow interpretive poetry Wendy alter and Janet Oldt interpretive prose. John Burrow and Judy Logan w Ere entered in original oratory j but their selections will not Advance to state. It was a Happy group that returned to it. Pleasant saturday i afternoon to resume their respective positions for dress rehearsal of the music Man which will be presented in the Mph auditorium1 March 6, 7, 13, 14. The above students will to Mirete at the state contest at Williamsburg March 21. Ing Frances Sale of Jet fighters to Libya. Red frogman blow up 40 fool Bridge o Ray favors City sales amp income tax Des Moines up a gov. Robert d. Ray said today Iowa a cities and towns should be allowed to help themselves out of their financial problems but their inaction to decide what they wanted May have hindered legislative notion on a local option tax Bill. At a news conference pay said he still believes municipalities should have authority to exercise and use Home Rule by implementing taxes on sales and income. He said the local option tax Bill now pending in the legislature is a one More step in support of legislative Republican leaders said High school orientation for 8th graders set All eighth graders and their parents Are invited to attend the High school orientation wednesday March 4 at 7 . In Cottrell gym. The purpose of orientation is to explain High school and to relate the new student to it. Especially to be disc used this year is the new method of registration and the new handbook. It would be helpful to principal Van Tuyl and or. Roger Williams in their explanations if the students would briny their registration l handbooks w Ith them. Also on the evenings program is a description of the extracurricular activities by student body president Dennis Hinkle and of the guidance services by mrs. Stocks. Included is a guided tour of the j Frei Man classrooms Complete with teachers so the students and parents can be familiar with them. Saigon up a guerrilla frogman striking before Dawn today blew up a 40-foot Bridge on coastal Highway a cutting traffic southward from Danang and Hue. Hours later . Engineers restored Light traffic. The Bridge seven Miles South of Danang links the big coastal City with Marine units in the que son Valley one of the wars perennial hotshots. But engineers said they expected to have the Road reopened i to heavy traffic by tuesday morning. J the communist frogman blew up j the Bridge with 30-Pound explosive charges near the Village of Thanh quit. American b52s followed up a Day of raids in Laos with a series of strikes sunday night and Early today against the a Shau Valley Southwest of Hue. Where the to Chi Minh Trail enters South Vietnam from laotian territory. Nine flights of Strat fortresses dropped 1.350 tons of bombs on what were described at sanctuaries the guerrillas have maintained in mountains and Jungles near the Borders of Laos and Cambodia since their offensives of 1969. It was the largest number of b52 raids in South Vietnam since feb. 26 when 10 where reported. During the past three weeks. B52s have frequently been diverted to Laos to bomb North vietnamese troops on the offensive. U s. Forces fought five significant a engagements with Viet Cong and the 1970 Midwest old settlers North vietnamese troops sunday and threshers entertainment com killing 15 guerrillas and losing four Mittee members have held their killed and 30 wounded spokesmen old settlers hold planning meeting Fin a planning meeting with mrs. Harold King chairman and Are asking for suggestions from those who might have ideas for improving programming. It is the com Mitten a swish of course to keep the entertainment typical of the old Thresher show. Anyone wishing to submit any ideas to the entertainment committee is asked to Contact mrs. King by March 13th As that is the said. Meeting at the chamber of com i Merce office. Mks Elizabeth Mccormick who will be a 1970 graduate at it. Pleasant High school will serve As the 1970 a Sweet sixteen chairman according to mrs. King. Thefts reported to City police three persons have reported thefts to City police. At 9 20 . Saturday Mike Hileman of Burlington advised his car was parked behind 204 n. Harrison st., and the following items we Ere taken from it automatic radio 12 track stereo tape player. 16 tapes and cases also a 10,000 rpm disco tachometer. At 3 40 . Saturday Sharon Slyvester of 506 North Lee st., reported fuel Oil Haa been taken from her fuel barrel sometime during the night. At 9 59 . Sunday Wendell Summers of 811 Lincoln reported while his car was parked at Iris lanes Between 6 30 and 9 30 . The rear mat was taken out of his i car. Last week there appeared to be Little scheduled Date of the groups next enthusiasm for approving a local option tax Bill this session. The league of Iowa municipalities several weeks ago recommended that the legislature approve a local option tax Bill but favored the measure be approved without requiring the communities voters approving the plan. Ray said the states cities and towns should know Best it of they want to implement local taxes. He said he recommended passage of such a Bill in his state of the state address to the legislature in january. Two accidents reported to police census test on wednesday Henry county residents Are again reminded of the test for census work to be Given at the courthouse on wednesday March 4 at 10 . Anyone Over 18 and a resident of the county is eligible to take the test. Census work will pay on the average of $2 00 per hour for a 40 hour week and where necessary two accidents have been reported to City police. A 1967 Ford driven by Gary William Sammons of Mil pleasant collided with the rear of a 1969 Okis driven by Donald James Heiar of Cedar rapid at 1 45 sunday afternoon. There was reported damage to the Back bumper of the Heiar car and the front end of the Sammons car. At 4 40 . Friday a car driven by Larry Delong Washington backed into a car driven by veda Cornick it. Pleasant route 4, in the medical building parking lot at Clay and Harrison. Both cars were damaged. Delong was charged pot Nixon visits College campuses Lansing. Mich. Up a first lady Pat Nixon arrived today on the first leg of a five Day Cross country trip she Hopes will help make Volunteer work the a in things a to do on the nations College campuses. Mrs. Nixon we As greeted at the Lansing Capitol City Airport by gov. William g. Milliken and a crowd of about 200, most of them school children. I she left immediately for the first Stop of her Daylong tour of Volunteer projects in the Lansing area the Michigan school for the Blind where Michigan state University students Are helping Tutor Blind children. The first lady said she was a fall rested and ready to go. This is something i have wanted to do for a Long time a accentuating the a i think too Little is said about the College students who Are working in a constructive manner to change society a she said. Mrs. Nixon said she hoped her trip will help popularize Volunteer work by College students and help make it an a in things to do. Approximately 9 cents per mile with failure to yield the right of the National population census work will begin on april 1. Way and was lined $6 and costs by mayor Charles Hanna. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon pedestrians have the right of Way so say the Legal Powers but nothing in the Law provides for furnishing the Flowers

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