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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 19, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 66mt. Pleasant Iowa thursday evening March 19, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain no tax exemptions for a fourth child behind and beyond the growing concern about pollution there is the swarming of people. The Young who Are rightly worried about the Quality of the world that will some Day be bequeathed to them Are going to have a most difficult time cleaning up after themselves for the simple reason that there Are so Many of them. Says a general electric environmental study a a wave of fifty eight million children aged 5-19 a nearly one third of our total population a was poised in 1966, to sweep Over our institutions in the moving into their twenties the a children of 1966 May Well be aghast at their own numbers and frightened at having Large families of their own. Talking with some of them you can see How depressed they Are when biologists such As or. Barry commoner of Washington University in St. Louis says it is touch and go whether Mankind choking in its own waste will survive the year 2,000. Too As a professional septic who has seen plenty of predictions turn out wrong i doubt that the ecologists really know How Many human beings the world can support. In the slums of new York City you easily succumb to the ecologists pessimism. But in nearby new England if you get away from the Boston to new York urbanized Quot corridor a you see vast acres of second growth Trees that have Only contributed to the population explosion of possums and raccoons. Whatever May be the possible human population optimum of the United states this country is not cultivated the Way a Swiss Mountainside is cultivated with Cherry Trees growing along the Steep funicular railways and with cow s clinging to slopes that would faze a hardened member of the Sierra club. We could do much More by Way of spreading out that we Are now doing. Teacher salaries set with base of $6,800 teacher and administrator Sal ers with a a degree up $400 from Aries and benefits for the 1970-71 69-70 a new variable 12 step i school year were approved by the Dex and teacher aides in the ele it. Pleasant Board of education at Centary school buildings not to a special meeting wednesday eve exceed two hours pier Day certified teachers will average a pay increase ranging from to to 12 ening. The estimated Cost of the package is $107,000 which includes a for beginning teach Perc it with a Tew Recel in substantially More to place them on the appropriate step on the salary schedule. Base of $6,800 six juveniles treated after ear Accident administrators salaries were increased an average of 12 percent Over the previous year. Insurance benefits will remain the same As the 69-70 school year with the school District paying for the employees Blue Cross and Blue six patients at the mental health shield and the employee paying for Institute All juveniles left the in other members of his family. Statute in a stolen car about 1 15 p. In. Wednesday and All suffered injuries when it rolled Over and landed in a ditch a Short distance South of it. Pleasant. They left the scene but were later taken into custody by officers. Linda Lafferty suffered a Back injury while Bob Steele Kathy Welsh Vicky Gilbert Lane Kep Hart and Miley Stryer received cuts and bruises. Miss Lafferty and Steele were taken to University hospitals in Iowa City for treatment but have since been returned to the Mhz. The others were treated at the Institute. Police received a report from the Institute at 1 15 p. In. That the six patients had taken a 1956 Chevrolet from a parking lot at the Mhz and headed South on 218. The car is registered to Robert Ensminger it. Pleasant and had been driven to the Southeast Iowa area Community College lab medical tech division at the Mhz by his daughter Teresea who attends the school. Police Highway patrolmen coun Council names Cook As manager of Pool the nig it disc tis it. P a in it ii Well he Busine of Mast Junior a Flay and oath Atas her % led to manage to this summer for he replaced Johr lie j a miming Pool a salary of $1,530. I Becker Saunders 111 Grade school i , who a. Pool manager the e last three years. All the Council men voted to hire Cook who Man aged the Pool in Pocahontas Befu a re coming to it. I pleasant except i. W. Van Winkle who was in Favori of i hiring Beck who in three bids on Alit i Ion ii according to a report from the Iowa state education association and the Iowa association of school boards of 186 schools which have set salary schedules for 1970-1971, the average . Base is $6,793. Too following adoption of the salary schedule for 1970-71 the Board met in executive session for further discussions on site acquisition. formal action was taken. Wednesday March 25th has been set As a special meeting Date to Confer with administrators for an evaluation of teachers before new contracts Are issued. Conducts inspection of local guard unit major Milton c. Borman second from right inspecting officer from fifth army is pictured above with a sgt. Lester to Hensiek army advisor a Apt. Larry Lam pc co. I it commander and major Walsh As he conducted inspection of the local guard unit. The inspection started on March 7 and concluded earlier this week. Legislature May provide More for Ochu fion control to skin lest clinic monday the Henry county tuberculosis and related diseases association will hold a tuberculin skin test clinic monday March 23, 1970 at new York postal workers strike spreads new York up a the Post workers in other parts of the coun office department said today the try. May cont Nile to use fluids in Oiler areas 0 0 i to officers and Mhz authorities be that As it May i understand participated in the search for the the feelings of Bob Packwood the patients. About 2 p. Rn., officer Junior us. Senator from the state Dan Welcher spotted the wrecked of Oregon who has aspirations to car in a ditch on the gravel Road become the Senate a voice on the a mile South of Forest Home Cem population explosion. Every but no one was around it. The Packwood comes from a Beautiful car was totally wrecked part of the world where people and Welcher summoned other author nature Are still in a Nice balance cities and a search was started in he and the governor of Oregon surrounding Fields for the patients Tom Mccall have vowed to keep who it was Learned later had the tides of pollution from inn walked West of where the Accident dating their Pacific Northwest occurred. They were spotted on Paradise. A Hill about a Quarter of a mile when Bob Packwood came East away and when they realized they had to take the seat of senator Wayne been seen started walking Back and Morse he could Well have expert were taken into custody by Welch ended the Mast intense sort of Cul or and sgt. Wilton Lewis of the Tural Shock. Washington do is patrol then turned Over to the no longer the rather sleepy South Mhz authorities. Pm town that it was in the then sgt. Lewis said that Kephart was ties and Northern Virginia and driving the car and that charges stretches of Maryland threaten to will be filed against him. Become one vast suburban head ache. If you Are an easterner used to the greater new York and Philadelphia areas Washington might Jnai Montc seem at least relatively Normal. But cur 111 pay melts to a sensitive Man who is used to looking up from the City streets of Portland to see Majestic mount Hood lording it Over the wilds it must seem terrible. 4 00 p. In. In the county House Drivers License examining room. Mrs. Wayne King r. N., local . Testing chairman stated the tests would be made available at no charge to Henry county school students and personnel that were absent during the regular testing program. Also eligible for the free skin test Are families of tuberculosis patients and families or close acquaintances of persons who have recently reacted to the tuberculin test. Wildcat strike by letter carriers a has worsened and spread to neighbouring states. There were Recourt i ports of dissension among postal postal workers As far away As Texas indicated support for the strike for higher wages but remained on the Job. In Cincinnati Ohio the letter carriers Union voted to Des Moines up a gov. Robert d. Ray strongly indicated today tile Iowa Highway Collun sum May never see a portion of it. Sales Tux receipts again. The governor who wed Lay proposed to take $10 million i rom the commissions primary Road use. Tax fund said in his opinion the Money could be indefinitely taken from the commission. In a statement issued at its meeting in Amethe Highway commission suggested that the state a a borrow the Money and pay Des Moi there stalk of the co Oss cd $7 lion control. Be a i Dative session was found lion Mig match in pose. But ii Federal a 1903, not no Ira fund Tupa a in Rotunda Varia Ting in Ater in the Cis could be to $5 5 Mil printed to a tins Pur 1 ii that the o july i. Loved so May be additional Gram the percent of any local support the strike if called upon to it Back in 1971. But Ray Aid he did do so by the Union s National president. Stanley urges Cut in payt to big farms so it is understandable that Packwood has taken the Lead in introducing a Bill that applies the principles of a a disincentives to the business of having children. His proposition is to allow a Federal income tax payer to take a $1,000 exemption for the first child a $750 exemption for the second $500 for the third a and nothing for any children thereafter. His Bill Hasni to yet been scheduled for hearings but a White House that is committed to a a environmentalism can hardly try to Block it. Pack Dave Stanley of Muscatine candidate for the Republican nomination for first District congressman thursday urged Congress to a Cut Down the big government payments to Large corporation farms Ani do More to help the family farm and feed the Stanley attended a luncheon Given in his Honor by Jim May of it. Pleasant. Later he went door to door asking citizens for their opinions on National problems and priorities. Stanley urged a a $29,000 limit on total farm program payments to any one farm or to any group of farms controlled by the same in March in Snow to protest Des Moines up a about 700 persons from across Iowa weathered a Damp and uncomfortable Snow storm to March to the Iowa statehouse today to protest what they called a deplorable conditions of the elderly and nursing Homes in Iowa. About 350 Damp and cold marchers walked up Locust Street about nine blocks to reach the Capitol. In addition a line of buses arrived at the Capitol about to a. In. And marchers poured out to make their Points known. Sporting signs ranging from a support the California grape Boycott i to a dignity for our ill and aged a the marchers were mainly Union members and those on Union pension plans. The protest was staged by the United Auto workers Union and its various locals across the state. Would limit county school tax support Des Moines up a taking a swing at the skyrocketing education costs the Iowa House today passed an amendment which would place a limit on the amount of taxes which could be levied to support a county school system and also limited administrative expenses. Land. The amendment would Force counties to Levy no More than 3 Mills to support a school system whether the system was composed of a single county or a number of counties in addition the House is virtually too per cent jul 11 11 s is 15jc overwhelmingly endorsed an we re n0 immediate reports amendment that would limit and from suburban areas but a mail ministrative expenses of the county .mebarg0 has , extended to school systems to to per cent of the suburbs in i Olla Island anti May budget. Have to be instituted As far North a a Ward As Connecticut. Wood also offers a Bill for legalizing i div dual or abortion in the District of Colum a last year five corporation farms which is under the jurisdiction each received More than $1 million of Congress. Too since the decision to have Chil in Federal payments a Stanley charged. A some Large landholders Joe Mcmillan Coffee Day chairman the Iowa restaurant association has again chosen the Iowa association for retarded children As re a Post office spokesman said More workers Here stayed off the Job than on wednesday despite a court order Banning the strike. The department said the strike was a virtually too per cent effective and was spreading. Richard in Lukstat a department spokesman who flew her Quot from Washington wednesday also acknowledged that the walkout by handlers clerks and Drivers had spread to Connecticut. New Jersey Westchester county and Long is Lukstat told up shortly before 7 . Est today that although he was still taking reports from stations around the City a the walkout not want to make any commitment to tile commission. A i am not in the bit Ines of playing games or calling a Transfer by any other name a he said. The governor said the Smie should evaluate its a Ceca Cadi year and decide where Money should Best be spent. He said the state has need for the Money now and that it would be a valid to continue taking tile com i Sion a Money and Lefiu Ray stressed however that the administration should evaluate needs priorities and Money on hand each year before shifting or fan Fen ring monies from one state Agency to another. Appeal hied Bien u t is ret 1967, As first i the extra state no n forthcoming to cover an 30 to 49communities. Under the present or government puts up 30 the costs for building sewage project. Bin th1, new act adopted by Congress permits Federal gov a rement to pay 55 percent of the costs if the Tate puts up 25 percent leavin Only to Jie reent of the project to be financed by Hie local government. Koop of lbs to speak at inc banquet Bomi r ease Jepsen announces Aren is an intimate personal mat am the every year. Why Ter that is often wrapped up with should a the taxpayers subsidize these a religious overview it would probably be a very Long time before any political Leader dares to suggest use their government payments to i pints of Coffee Day Friday and compulsory limitations on family size. We wont a a ration children in this generation. But the government which has no qualms about using the a a progressive income tax to encourage or discourage a thou Sand and one different Applina big operators a Stanley said this change would save about $300,000,000 each year. Actually senator Packwood is being rather gentle about it. A California biology professor Paul Ehrlich would eliminate ail tax deductions for All children. Moreover saturday March 20th and 21st. Joe Mcmillan of the Harlan hotel is chairman for Henry county along with or. And mrs. Lester Wilson r. 5, it. Pleasant. Each year the restaurants Over the state donate Coffee to the Public for a contribution for the retarded. In 1969, $12,500 was presented to the Iowa association for retarded children on behalf of the restaurant association. This Money is used in their educational program to change Atti Des Moines idea tenant governor Roger w. Jepsen Davenport Republican announced thursday that he will seek re elec a tion. Jepsen served on the Scott county Board of supervisors from 1963 to 1966 and was elected to the Senate in 1966. He is serving his first term As lieutenant governor. Jepsen said As lieutenant governor he is a a constantly working to bring together legislators administrators and other government officials to solve the problems which concern All of us in Iowa. A i strongly believe that the sense of responsibility the willingness to work and the common sense which we have in Iowa will enable us to do anything that needs to be done a he stated. The letter carriers angry Over failure to receive requested pay hikes defied the courts the government and their own National leadership today with their illegal strike which has paralysed mall delivery lieu in the metropolitan area. . Mill recognize new regime Webber a. Mitchell owner or Ator of the Mitchell nursing heme located at 401 South Jefferson Street it. Pleasant has filed a notice of Appeal at the Henry county clerks office. Mitchells Appeal asks the court to set a Ide the Derisi n of the Iowa state health department which suspended the Horn Quot from operating in their february 19, 1970 decision. In the suspension notice acing commis Ion r or. Ronald eco Koff said Mitchell could reapply for a after december 8, 1970, providing he submits a a psychiatric Rex it indicating competency to operate a nursing Home. Ions of Energy would be acting in Ehrlich adds that a luxury taxes a quite unexceptionable Way if it should be placed on diapers baby were to make a fourth or fifth bottles and baby now child a tax liability to a family. I there a a real Scrooge for you. He i tubes and opinions of the society european political leaders in the must have fed the late w. G. Fields about mental retardation $2,500 of s looking for a Good Supply of his line Quot a Man who hates children the Money was earmarked for pro Cannon fodder have tried to Force can to be All can to we even be Grams such As scholars ups cute Quot families by taxing bachelors allowed to cherish and to afford search and activity programs for big families of Wai a a Tho retard Ner there is no reason the principle to bring up be turned around. And the or three Devil take the father and Mother distributed of quintuplets. Syndicate a tax deductible two i the mentally retarded persons. J restaurants in Henry county help-features1 de in 1969 with contributions Over i $200. By King Lieut. Sloan completes 10-week Basic course Washington up a Tho United states said today it recognizes the new regime which ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk As the Legal government of Cambodia. The state department also said it has received a copy of a note sent to All foreign missions in Phonon penh in which the now cambodian government emphasized its determination to pursue a policy of a strict too Paris up a Tho North vietnamese and Viet Cong negotiators accused the United states today of trying to save itself from defeat in Vietnam by attempting to sex Fiji Rcd Iii one car mishap 2nd Lieut. Wray Sloan in the local National guard has completed an Engineer officers Basic course at pand the War to a 0f Indochina. It. Belvoir va., and has qualified for promotion. He finished on the a a commandants list top 20 per cent in the class of 127 who were graduated from the 10-week course. One other iowan a Keokuk Man was in the class. Lieut Sloan a family met him in it. Belvoir last week and they returned Home via a Scenic Southern route. He ii in charge of commercial printing in the it. Pleasant news Plant. George j. Marook jr., 23, Winfield route 2, received a broken nog and cuts when the 1961 Chevrolet he was driving went out of control on a Blacktop Road one mile North of Winfield at 11 30 . Wednesday and went into a ditch. Marook was charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol by the Highway patrol at memorial Hospital where Marook was brought by a Winfield ambulance he was released from the Hospital thursday morning and was to appear in Justice George mean.4- court Marook was going North when his car wont into a ditch on the East Side of the Road jumped Over a farm drive and ended up on one Side. The car was totally damage i. Sheriff Crawford investigate tile Accident. Theodore f. Ted Koop. Vice president of the Columbia broadcasting system lbs will to speaker at tile May 30 alumni banquet part of 1970 commencement weekend Aith Dies at Iowa Wesley an College or. Louis a. Hasel Mayer inc president announced today. Or. Koop is a native of Monticello Iowa and began a 50-year career in the communications Field As a 12-year-old reporter for the Monticello express. On graduation from Hie University of Iowa school of journalism in 1928. Or. Koop joined the associated press in Des Moines where he worked for three years. In 1948 following naval sender. He became director of news and Public affairs tor lbs news in Washington and held that position until 1961 when he was elected Vic president of lbs. Or. Koop retains ties with Iowa by sen ing As a director of . A society of former iowans who lice in the Washington area. May 30 is alumni Day at Wesleyan with class reunions scheduled for the classes of 1920, 1925, 1930, 1935 and 1940. There will be meetings of the alumni association and alumni association Board and an informal alumni get together following the 6 30 p. In. Alumni ban Quet. Other special 1970 commencement events announced by or. Hasel Mayer Are tile Board of associates Mary Harlan Lincoln club dinner May 29 baccalaureate May 31 and commencement june i. A new Fibre Glass overhead door for the fire station were read at the meeting and the contract was a taxied to the Low bidder the inti indent builder inc., of it. Pliant which submitted a bid of $1,020.74. I he other bids wore from the h. Fag be Smith construction co., 1.141 and Rich it pc Parks construction co., Wayland $1,211. The Council derided that the Cherry Street sewer Extension project of 275 feet will be extended an additional 300 feet no that the Cost of $6do a foot and the Don Whaley con auction co. Will do the work. Tin Whaley firm was awarded the on Mal contract earlier when he submitted the Low bid. Tho Council adopted a Resolution Nee. It my Hie sanitary Quot ewer lines i in Oakbrook and Linden Heights i subdivisions As part of the City sewer system. Max Burchard talked to the Council about the rezoning of the North Side of tile 500 Block of East Madison from r3 to r4 and was referred to the Board of adjustment which w ill Rule on his Appeal which was denied by the City plan commission earlier. Mrs. John Riley spoke against the rezoning of the area As she is in objection to Burchard having four apartments in his House Whit ii he is planning if the area is rezoned. She was also referred to the Board of adjustment which will have a hearing on his Appeal. Ray Lei us new London submitted a proposal to operate a sanitary Landfill for the City for $900 a month. He operates landfills for new London and Danville. action was taken at this time. Don Whaley and Richard Wiegert also told the Council they were also inn ted in operating landfills for the c Ity and were told to submit proposals. A Transfer of $2,500 from the municipal enterprises fund to the newly created municipal enterprises Airport fund was made. The Council granted a building permit to Jean Wiley a Carpenter representing the Home furniture store for remodelling. Council approval was necessary since the building is in Hie fire zone. A Walnut tree in the old City cemetery was sold by the City to an Ilic Trent Burlington who submitted High bid of $500. A bid of $250 was submitted by Wayne Noble of Wapello. Richard Mcallister Henry county civil defense director submitted his budget for the 1970-71 fiscal year Winch totals $2,800. Each town in the county appropriates Money for his budget out of which his salary of $100 a month is paid. He also requested a raise of $25 per month. action was taken. Mcallister also gave the Council information on emergency plans for towns fallout shelters disaster plans for schools and a Tornado jotting system. A letter from the chamber of i Commerce aviation committee was read and disused. The chamber committee has recommended the construction of aircraft Hanger facilities to replace the old West Hanger Ai un1 municipal Airport. Mayor Charles Hanna and councilman Mux beavers. Edward King and Henry Biggs members of the Council Public Mounds committee it ted the Washington and fair Laid municipal airports on sunday Man ii 15th with members of the chamber aviation committee. The la Iii Delta Theta fraternity at Iowa Wesleyan was Given permit Ion to hold an easter egg Hunt for children in Saunders Park March 22. Gannon criticizes new Iowa Booklet Des Moines up a House minority Leader William Gannon wednesday charged it. Gov. Roger Jepsen with turning a 6tate publication into Campaign material. In a House speech Gannon cited a recently released Booklet entitled a tile Golden dome Quot which includes a Iii tory of the state Capitol building. But Gannon said the Booklet contains a picture of Only one state official a Jepsen. Terse verse by a. Ltd. Gordon thase who claim they sleep like babies Are tile ones who have no babies

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