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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 18, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 65 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening March 18 1970 Price to cents Snow these Days by John Chamberlain a Earth Day and the pollution problem on april 22 a a Earth Day As it has been named in Advance a students from some six Hundred colleges and 1,300 High schools will take part in teach ins devoted to cleaning up the environment. This could result in a far better commitment of Youthful Energy than the Vietnam War teach ins which have aided the communist drive to takeover the world and turn it into a Universal poorhouse or the destruction of Campus property and the burning of Banks which certainly make the environment look like a shambles. But if a Earth Day merely sputters out into a one shot fashionable a a in thing for 1970, to be forgotten when next years entirely different crusade comes along it will join goldfish swallowing As one of the More futile Campus endeavours. N. Y. Postal strike first in . History the Point is that the environment cannot be controlled by demonstrators. It will take specially scientists a and Many of them a to make even a Dent in our pollution problems. How much enc our strike of no striking Drivers and injunction new workup a . District judge Inzer b. Wyatt today issued a preliminary injunction against a letter carriers strike and ordered All striking Post office employees to return to work immediately. Too new York up a postal workers staged their first strike in american history today forcing the Post office department to suspend mail service to and from the nations largest City. A morning strike of letter carriers for higher wages and other benefits and a Wildcat sympathy clerks already had halted mail delivery in the City. Some 36,000 Post office employees were reported off their jobs. Too a was a result inbound mail to the new York City area has been embargoed a Harold r. Larsen director of the new York postal Region announced. A this Means that mail addressed to the new York City Schwengel formally announces area will not be accepted at other originating joints. All mail originating in the affected new York metropolitan areas have also been embargoed until further too Larsen said the department would apply for a court injunction against a illegal picketing and the work stoppage in All affected Post the strike was reported to be spreading to the Northern suburbs of the City Long Island and in new Jersey. In Paterson n. J., 600 postal workers walked off their jobs paralysing delivery in new jerseys third largest City. Embargo on mail to nyc the i. Pleasant Post office has been notified that mail to new York City is embargoed because of the postal employees strike there. Persons Are asked not to Send mail to the following zip code numbers 10000 to 10490 inclusive and 11000 to 11999 inclusive. Any such mailings received at the local Post office will be held at the Post office awaiting further orders from the postal department. Copilot killed wounded Pilot lands jetliner neighbors described Divivo a ninth Grade dropout who lived with Mother and sister As a a alone n Wolf they said he was shot in he head several years ago during an abortive Holdup attempt at Palisades amusement Park where he worked. The Bullet never was reborn his head authorities Zebra Board Quot a a Laboratory technician subjects an angled Section of experimental Glass to the a Zebra boards at pig industries Pittsburgh. Its an optical distortion test. Gement will scientists get on april 22? it will be interesting to see How much of the teach in program will be Given Over to the act of flogging dead horses such As mock funeral ceremonies for the internal combustion engine which is already being transformed into something safer and cleaner by dedicated scientists. Too if any group of students is seeking real a a relevancy in trying to Speed the development of an emission free automobile engine it should picket the antitrust division of the department of Justice. Anticipating the need to produce a smog proof internal combustion system the big automotive companies had started an Industry wide cooperative program under Washington . A first which they were sharing their District Republican congressman emission control discoveries Fred Schwengel has officially an whereupon the government which bounced his candidacy for Reno min can usually be counted on to act action and re election like Pooh the Bear of very Little Schwengel previously had made brain started anti Trust proceed Clear his intention to seek re elec Ings against the automobile Mak tion. Ers. Last fall the department of Hustle forced tit manufacturers in make is his announcement to accept a consent decree judg Schwengel said a was we begin this ment which effectively terminated Quot new decade it is important that sex. Stabl. Drive to solve per fenced and knowledgeable hands the Iowa state agricultural Stabi hold the reins of government. The libation and conservation ask privilege of serving the people of committee noted that reports the first District for fourteen years i covering similar time spans has placed me in the Best position to effectively represent the first District for the next two a Strong leadership certainly is needed. My record in areas such As congressional Reform water pollution soil conservation education and tax Reform is Clear. But great a joint Industry engine created lems. Pollution prob even without cooperation there has been great Progress in speeding the Day when the automobile engine will cease to pour hydrocarbons and Carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. One could Hope that the Dupont scientists will be asked to Tell an a Earth Day audience about the manifold reactor they challenges remain. I believe i can have developed we hich according contribute to help meeting these to the company a claim a can be fitted to present Auto engines and. K i another compelling reason for my candidacy is the need for a re Corn increase indicated for 70 83,609 Iowa farms were enrolled in the 1970 . Department of agriculture a 1970 feed Grain program with 2,585,138 acres to be diverted from com or Grain sorghum production according to official totals of Friday March 13, the end of the sixth week of the sign up period. Leon Werner chairman of in previous years showed 95,000 farms with 3.0 million acres diverted in 1969 and 123,555 farms with 3.8 million acres diverted in 1968. Deposed Sihanouk of Cambodia says War is inevitable Bangkok up a Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia was deposed today As chief of state by a a a right Wing military clique in phenom penh. Sihanouk warned in Moscow the action meant War with North Vietnam was inevitable. Sihanouk in a statement recorded in Moscow by Abc said he would form a government in exile in Moscow or peking if the two communist Powers do not recognize the new regime. He said if they do recognize the new rulers it would mean a the end Quot of him. Fifth plane loss in Laos publican Congress. President Nixon Saigon up a the is. Military command today reported the loss of a fifth american warplane to ground fire in Laos in a six Day will reduce if the manifold reactor is As Good As Dupont says it is there is no need to wait until All the old cars Are Oft the has a r0re�?ov� legislative period. Road in order to eliminate the smog spam he needs the help of those an air Force f105 Thain Kerchiel in places like the los Angeles Bas of unto due t0 0ur rippled by antiaircraft fire i n a it a v a n a aah it if am t a in offo Tfirn h i r. _. In it i u. A a. In. In newer car models general motors for instance has installed what it Calls a controlled combustion system which has reduced total hydrocarbon emission to some 240 Grams per Day per car. This represents a reduction of fifty eight per cent from the level of an old Model engine. Controlled combustion works by improved efficiency in the combustion chamber and in other engine components. Another system used in cars for Sale in California features an air pump which turns the exhaust manifold into an oxidizing afterburner. In California cars for 1970 there will be evaporative control systems that store gasoline Vapours when the engine Isnit running and then route them Back to the combustion Chambers for burning when the car is started again. This will Cut hydrocarbon emissions even further to 104 Grams per average car Day. Too general motors dramatizes its Progress by saying that it takes five 1970 California models to equal the hydrocarbon output of one 1960 car. In 1971 the new pm devices will be installed on a country wide basis. Denis Hayes a Stanford University graduate who Heads the a Earth Day coordinating committee has said that our problem a is no to technological it is a matter of changing the Way we Are this May not be total Bosh but it is hopelessly misleading. For the problem can Only be solved by technological application of Scien Tilc discoveries that Are already emerging from the laboratories. Government can demand that Industry hurry any possible changes but it is the Bright kid who goes to work for pm or Dupont not the Are in a position to be effective.1 a my responsibilities As your congressman will prevent me from campaigning full time. However hundreds of first District republicans have organized on my behalf. This tremendous outpouring of support for my candidacy has been Gratifying to mrs. Schwengel and Over Laos monday the announce ment said and its Pilot crashed it across the Border in Thailand escaping unharmed. Headquarters in Saigon began reporting the losses of us., planes Over Laos March to on orders from the White House. Monday they began disclosing the bombing missions themselves. Hints feb relaxing tight Money policy communications and transportation Between phenom penh and the outside world were out but phenom penh radio announced that Sihanouk was ousted by a vote of no Confidence by the National Assembly and by the Royal cambo Dian Council. The crisis arose Over the presence along cambodians Borders with South Vietnam and Laos of 40,000 North vietnamese and Viet Cong i troops. Premier Lon nol acting while Sihanouk was visiting Paris and then Moscow demanded they withdraw by last sunday. The communists ignored the demand. The phenom penh broadcast said National Assembly chairman Cheng Heng 50, a millionaire would serve As chief of state until National elections Are called. But Heng was reported to be Only a figurehead for a right Wing military clique which Sihanouk had warned about earlier. Informed observers said real Power in Cambodia Lay with nol an army general and with Prince sink Matak who has been described As the second1 most powerful Man in Cambodia after Sihanouk nol is considered militantly anticommunist. It was considered significant that police who Are under control of nol and Matak were conspicuously absent during anti communist rioting and that both leaders have wanted to increase cambodians army to Cope with the communist threat. Sihanouk said in Moscow that Premier Alexei n. Kosygin had offered him Aid but that he had not accepted it yet. He left Moscow today for peking. In a message to or. Mother made Public today Sihanouk said a the socialist Camp considers the latest events As being a direct menace to the balance of forces Between the United states and the United states worried by the Hijack of a u. S. Munitions ship to cambodian Waters apparently was a alight by Surprise by events in phenom penh and the state department was withholding comment pending the outcome. Home economist for two counties Judy freed 24, of Monmouth 111., has accepted the position of Des Moines and Henry county Extension service Home economist. Miss freed is presently participating in the in service training program affiliated with Iowa state University in Ames and her schedule Calls for working in Henry county two Days a week. She has just completed two weeks training in Louisa county and will be working in this area until mid april when she will go to two other counties for further training. She will make her Home in Burlington while in training Here. First Security Council veto by the . In United nations it up it a the United states used its Security 1 Council veto for Tho first time in the nearly 25-year history of the United nations tuesday night joining Britain to kill a Resolution calling for the use of Briti h Force to overthrow Rhodesia a White supremacy regime. The vote on the Resolution was 9-2, with Colombia Finland France and Nicaragua abstaining. Council rules require a Resolution must have the affirmative votes of nine of the 15 members including All five permanent members a the United states the soviet Union Britain France and nationalist China a for passage. Thus the United states and Britain were credited with vetoes. An abstention As registered by France is not considered a veto. The soviet Union voting a in yet for the first time on feb. In 1946, has used the veto 105 times. Britain and France each have vetoed four times nationalist China once. Either negative vote u. S. And Britain would have been sufficient to kill the Resolution but Yost explained the United states took this a most serious decision because it i could not support a measure calling on Britain to me Force against the rhodesian government which declared its Independence in 1965 and set itself up As an. Independent Republic March 2. Boston up a state police obtained a murder warrant today against a crazed gunman who shot to death the Copilot of a shuttle flight carrying 68 passengers from Newark. N j., to Boston. The Pilot and gunman were wounded in a cockpit scuffle. Capt. Robert w. Wilbur or. 35. moved i of fair Lawn nj., wounded in both said. Arms and holding the assailant at the aircraft shooting took place Bay with Oie it hand brought the Over Massachusetts officials said Eastern at lines dc9 jetliner to n when Divivo said he did no to have Safe Landing at Logan International enough Money to pay for his $15.75 Airport tuesday night about 15 ticket minutes afer the shooting. Copt. James e. Hartley 81, of fort i "0, n. J., his Copilot was dead i in the sea next to Wilbur As the air Force Veteran landed the plane. Officials stressed it did not appear to be a Hijack attempt but Divivo reportedly told Wilbur to Quot Fly East. I done to really have any place to go. Just Fly East until the state police said a warrant was plane runs out of sought a a list John Divivo. 27. Of one state trooper said Divivo was West new York. N j., who was in a incoherent and mumbling when fair cond it Ion at the Massachusetts he was taken into custody after a general Hospital. Smit i to face Stevenson Iii Illinois race struggle. State police said the .38 Caliper it Olive special found in the cockpit in the shooting was believed stolen in new Jersey. Senate banking committee Burns said a the downward interest rate adjustments that have taken place reflect primarily a recognition by Market participants that the econ Burns said rates already have be omy is slowing that inflation Eugun to Drod on big Money borrow be stations Are beginning to be re ing such As Treasury Bills Short placed by More sober judgments term securities of Federal agencies about the Outlook for prices and and so called commercial paper i that some easing in monetary policy Washington up a chairman Arthur f. Burns hinted today that the Federal Reserve Board has relaxed its a tight Money policy Clearing the Way for a decline in interest rates. Judy freed Jean Wick of w m i third team All St Ati unsecured borrowing by big corporations. Burns predicted that Home loan might soon take Burns testimony came amid increasing evidence that the Nixon seen be evidence yet that mortgage rates had declined. But he said they a a always follow the trends of the Money markets after a time lag. He declined to predict How much they would decline. In testimony prepared for the interest rates would decline slightly administration believes inflation has this year and would be Down a sub i been checked and that economic Stantis ally by 1972. He said he had policy now must be directed to prevent a recession. Too prior to Burns testimony Hud Secretary George w. Romney expressed hone that the fed would take action in the next couple of months to ease interest rates. Romney head of the department of housing and Urban develop congenital demonstrator who will ment said current interest rates Are change the Quality of the air we a exorbitant and in my opinion at breathe. Indefensible distributed by King features he was interviewed on Abc tvs Syndicate today show. Jean Wick High scoring Junior Forward on the Winfield it. Union girls basketball team was named to the Iowa daily press association All state third team. The selections were to have been released thursday but the Date was moved up to wednesday. Named to the first team were forwards Sandy Van Cleave Montezuma Kris Westphal Midland Brenda Moeller Wrapsie Valley and Pat Ashby Adel guards Barb Wischmeier Mediapolis Mary Minner Montezuma Lanae Al berts Allison Bristow and Meg Hennessey Manila. Guard Connie Maley of Eddyville made the second team. Forward Kathy Meissner Montezuma fourth team and Forward Marsha Carter Van Buren. Forward Jill Wick of a my and 1 Jeri Johnson of new London a guard were among those who made honorable mention. Indicate . Base taken by n. Y. W Vientiane Laos up a officials said confused reports from Sam thong indicated the u. S. Refugee and logistic base had fallen to the North vietnamese during the night but that two Battles were reported today on the Edge of the Camp. They said ammunition was flown to Sam thong today and that some casualties were taken out. Sam thong is 75 mites nor til of Vientiane and about 30 Miles Southeast of the Plain of jars. It is a main defense base for Long Cheng the big laotian base six Miles away. Official sources said radio Contact with Sam thong had been lost about noon today but there were reports of at least two engagements Between government troops and communist soldiers immediately East of the u. S Hospital at so thong. The Hospital was evacuated earlier. Bleeding profusely from wounds in both arms Wilbur. 35, of fair Lawn ., brought the dc9 m safely a at a High rate of As he taxied towards the terminal he radioed the terse message a my co Chicago up a Adlai e. Pilot is shot where do you want me Stevenson Iii heir to ail illustrious to put this thing a name in american politics laces according to police Divivo shot sen. Ralph Tyler Smith the stand Hartley. 31. Of fort Lee . To death in for another famous name in and fired two shots at Wilbur hit november for the Post of Junior Ting him in the arms. Wilbur then senator from Illinois. Struggled a it the Divivo and during thai was the major result of the fight Divivo was shot in the tuesdays Illinois primary. Smith Chest. With the powerful backing of re he told stewardess Christine pet publican gov. Richard b. Ogilvie Erson he did no to have enough Money who appointed him to the Senate for his fare and then pulled what last year won easily Over anti an Eastern spokesman said a map Ofuani action candidate William h. Pen red to be a weapon Quot from his Rentschler. Stevenson Illinois pocket and said he wanted to see state treasurer had no opposition Yie Captain. In the democratic primary. Juie stewardess and Divivo enter it was a Victory for two party de the cockpit and closed the door organizations a one new one old. She returned alone to the passenger Tho new organisation is that of compartment shortly after. Ogilvie. Who captured the Gover a about ?0 minutes later three or Norship from the democrats in four shots rang said Robert 1968 and last year named Smith. Wise a businessman from Wayne then the speaker of the Illinois u.j., one of the passengers. House to fill the unexpired Lerm live too ers met the plane at of the late sen. Everett m. Dirksen Tjie terminal and brought out Tho Ogilvie placed All his bets on struggling Divivo. Smith a politically seasoned Law yer from downstate Alton to beat Rentschler president Nixon a Illinois Campaign manager in 1968, by about 60 per cent. He won his bet. Moused to run for Senate Charles g. Mugged Fairfield Republican. Announced today that he will suck re election to the Iowa Senate. He will be a candidate for the new forty fifth senatorial District which includes Henry Jefferson and Washington counties. He is completing the second year of his four year term. Mugged serves As ranking member of the reapportionment and constitutional amendments committee and As a member of the appropriations Commerce and rules committee. He is also chairman of the enrolled Bills committee for the Iowa Senate and was appointed to the Capitol planning commission in 1969. Mogged resides in Fairfield and is owner of mugged real estate. Prior to establishing his own business in 1966, he served As District Extension economist for Iowa state University for eight years. Favor new . Facility the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce passed a Resolution unanimously at a special meeting tuesday evening in support of a new Post office facility for it. Plea Anil. The Resolution stated be it resolved on the 17th Day of March 1670 that the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce Board of directors hereby recommends that the appropriate u. S. Government officials be advised of cur Strong recommendation that serious consideration be Given to the construction of a new postal facility for it. Pleasant Iowa. That other appropriate officials be advised of this action for their information. And further that this Resolution supersedes the prior Resolution of this Board dated May 14. 1968.�?� in other business the Board heard reports from the aviation committee Central business District committee and others. Vetoed named chairman for Stanley Muscatine a former Republican state representative Keith Vetter of Washington was Nard today As District chairman in Dave Stanley a Campaign for . Congress. Making the announcement Stanley said a Keith Vetter is very highly thought of for his work in the legislature the Republican party and for his business civic and Church activities. In a proud that the Complete teams will be pub Keith has agreed to be my District listed Jean Wick delay conclusions on seniority system Washington up a House democrats agreed today to study the body a 60-year-cld seniority system but decided to put off any conclusions until after the fall elections. Liberals had wanted the findings in by june. The decision a which actually defers any substantive dealings in the Touchy area until next january a was reached at a closed but Well reported party caucus. C Harles g. Mugged terse verse by a. C. Gordon for saving face ifs generally supposed. The Best of ways is keep its lower half closed

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