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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 20, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair Section one 2 sections vol. 92, no. 67mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening March 20, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the flaw in the postal Reform Bill president Nix rms a blueprint for turning the mails Over to an Independent government corporation similar to the Tennessee Valley authority has been approved by the House of representatives Post office committee. So the postal Reform people a and this includes most of us a May very Well feel like giving three cheers. On second thought we had better limit ourselves to two cheers or maybe a cheer and a half. For while an efficient government owned but independently run postal corporation might do something to eliminate mail deficits the Bills As it goes to the rules committee of the House contains what has been called by the National right to work committee the a hidden menace a of compulsory unionism. Indeed the Bill would never have gotten past the formidable opposition of James Rademacher the Boss of the letter carriers Union if postmaster general Winton Blount a had not Given in on the Union shop question. If the Bill goes through As it is new shaped up it will be considered an unfair labor practice of the proposed new Independent postal corporation refuses to bargain Over the Union shop. This amounts to a 180-degree turnaround by president Richard Nixon. It was just about six months ago that the president reaffirmed the old John f. Kennedy principle that no Federal worker should be compelled to join a Union in order to hold his Job. But now this principle a of according non discrimination in hiring to u. S. Citizens is to be abandoned. Too True enough postmaster general Blount has a rationale which he offers As an excuse for surrendering to the Rademacher Union demands. By an ingenious quibble he argues that once the Post office is turned Over to an Independent body the postal workers will no longer be a a Federal employees. The Nixon executive order about a Federal Rig to to we Ork guarantee would favor tax break in pollution fight Des Moines up a the Lo-1 Ertly polluting the environment. Wra House narrowly approved today a Bill providing a tax break for industries in Iowa which Are pres makes Effort to end War in Laos Vientiane Laos up a a High ranking communist Patchet lao arrived in Vientiane tonight with peace proposals aimed at ending the War in Laos. But fighting the vote on the Bill 63-50, gave it the minimum number of affirmative votes necessary for approval. A motion to reconsider the legislation was expected. The measure would set up an exemption from the states 3 per cent sales tax for industries which install certified pollution control devices. The Iowa department of health would be charged with deciding whether the proposed control device was really necessary to Cut Down pollution. The chief sponsor of the Bill rep. William Winkelman a Lohr Ville said the Bill would not Only Speed up the installation of pollution control devices but would in postal workers strike across May go nation threatened to envelop the nation. Leaders of the militant National association of letter carriers the Union which triggered the illegal walkout in new York City met in nations heartland and Washington to decide Whit further _ action to take in their Battle for higher v Ages. Illy Iti with scores of towns and cities already without mail service the first strike in history against America s postal system spread today to the continued and North vietnamese troops were reported close to the i courage Industry to locate in the u. S. Laotian base at Long Cheng. The Patchet Laos Clandestine radio earlier broadcast peace proposals from red Prince soup Xanouvong a half brother of Premier Prince Souvanna Houma and Leader of the Patchet lao. He proposed a cease fire but called for an end to u. S. Bombing and withdrawal of americans. Too the emissary was col Pradit Thiengtham reputed to be a High member of the Patchet lao military leadership. He was met by Soth Petrasy the Patchet lao minister in Vientiane while a nervous Vientiane government looked on. State because of the tax exemption but opponents of the Bill charged it is a a bribe to Reward the people who Are polluting instead of requiring industries to comply with anti pollution regulations. Head Quot Farmers for Fred Quot group in Henry county Davenport a Norman Moehle of Rural Lockridge and Phil Crawford of Rural Winfield near Olds today were named co chairman of with communist troops Only 75 the Henry county Farmers for Fred Miles North of Vientiane a and some Small patrols reported in recent weeks Only five or six Miles away Security precautions at the a ounce Day Elmer Hamann of eld Wattay Airport were the heaviest in Ridge firs District chairman of several years As the emissary arrived from Hanoi. Too the communists were reported to have been driven out of the american support base at Sam thong six Miles from the threatened Long Cheng base but planes could not land there today because of a a sporadic fire in the area. Pollution control this Complex looking installation is turning trash into a harmless odourless Gas through a new process being tested in St. Louis by Monsanto a Environ chem systems inc. The process is pyrolysis a in this Case the burning of a substance in absence of oxygen and the returning of resulting gases. Thus solid wastes Are made to disappear. After Agnew suggests 19 americans greater emphasis no 32 injured in other areas committee. Their appointments were an the Farmers committee supporting the re election bid of congressman Fred Schwengel. Accepting the co chairmanship Moehle said a some candidates for Public office actually make proposals that harm Farmers and make it More difficult for us to make a living. Fred Schwengel was born and raised on an Iowa farm. He understands our problems and the Solu observers believed the coming therefore in blounts estimation Battle for Long Cheng could Well tl0ns that Are cease to be operative. And the la be the decisive Battle for control Bor Law of the land which permits of Northeast Laos bargaining Over the Union shop in St. Thomas Virgin islands up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew charged thursday night the to cover ground. Saigon up a a mine expo when it Complete its final run non thursday and a North victim the Zephyr May head for the scrap inese ground attack Early today Kil Heap or go piecemeal to museums led a total of 19 americana and a we Don t know what will Hap wounded 32 others on the Northern pen a said Barney Petersen a we coast. Changes in Iowa child labor Law Des Moines up nearly two Days of wrangling the news Inettia smear government of Lowa Senate approved a Bill facials with a tons of tons of in Day that would make the first Manue Ndosi published in Pursuit of Jor changes in Iowa a child labor pumper prizes while glossing Over Laws since the Early 1900s. A devils of supporters of the measure said citing u. S. Involvement in Laos the attack on the . 101st Amit would open up new Job oppor As an example Agnew asked 291 borne divisions artillery base bunnies for youngsters under in and Virgin islands republicans at a Flasher 18 Miles West of Hue killed provide them with Protection from too a plate fund raising dinner to americans and wounded 31 working in hazardous occupations. A How much do you see about the the heavies us losses in a month the measure was passed on a 57 North vietnamese who have 67.000 0 vote and sent Back to the House troops fighting against the Laos the american defenders levelled for concurrence on several Amend coalition government that merits. Agreed on a the Bill would allow youngsters 14 Agnew devoted five opening min military spokesmen said. None of and 15 years of age for the first utes 0f half hour speech to jest the attackers got past the barbed time to work in such places As res Init about his a rather singular restaurants Heaters grocery stores tin ship with the press and oth later no on or Amandous Lou siness to lion lie turned serious a your is Media a he said a would be Well and it also would set the minimum Vised to recognize a new dimension age for migrant workers at 12 in 0f their responsibility to critically in addition a Viet Cong mine Stead of the present to years of examine our enemies which have fashioned from a 250 Pound bomb last no for port of Calif. Zephyr san Francisco up matches up with Western pact ice a California Zephyr saturday just As it did with the covered Wagon and the Pony express. The Zephyr one of the last of the nation s transcontinental luxury passenger trains just does no to go fast enough for people who want Tho strike spread to the nations fourth largest City when picket lines were set up at most of Philadelphia a 41 Branch offices. A Post office spokesman said it a appears most Are respecting the picket to the same time the Post of time fice department in Washington extended to Connecticut a mail embargo already in Force in new York and new Jersey. The strike in violation of Federal Law and Defiance of a court order has virtually paralysed business activities in new York and other cities. The Wall Street financial District busiest in the world suffered major disruptions among banking brokerage houses Large corporations and the garment Industry. Even the possibility of closing Down the new York Stock Exchange has been raised but a definite decision has been postponed. Attending the crucial Union Thi i Miranda Zephyr was voted in Washington were the spokesman. A some of the cars have been spoken for but we just Don t know what will become of the their big guns and killed 16 of the attackers in seven hours of fighting a 1 a it inc basis. Out of existence by the interstate Commerce commission because people just Arentt Riding it anymore on the Vista dome trains Are scheduled to leave for the last time saturday one from Chicago for the West and the other from the san it we the costliest Battle since Francisco Bay area for he East. Wire Barrier around the base. 14 gis died in fighting near hang feb. 21. Do a it was Only a question of time a said Peter in. A Tho air plane and automobile have beat the railroads for carrying people All the non right to work Law states must hold for All non Federal workers under the equal rights provision of the Constitution. Such reasoning however is faulty on two counts. One is that it does not reckon with a logical inconsistency in the Bill itself. The proposed legislation contains a clause that would prohibit strikes against the new corporation. Well of the right to strike is to be denied surely the right to bargain for a Union shop could be prohibited. Crawford added a Congress will be considering major new farm legislation in the years ahead. Farmers Trust Fred Schwengel to make Wise decisions on these legislative proposals. Also important is the fact that Fred constantly seeks the advice of Farmers in regard to farm Moehle is a past president and another big turn out is expected voting Delegate of the Henry county May still enrol in Jaycees shooting education clinic this saturday morning at the Jay farm Bureau. He is the Tippecanoe Cee Headquarters As boys and girls township trustee. He and his wife Ages 7 years and up learn gun Safe Gladys have been Active in farm groups. Crawford is a past director of the county historical society and served More than ten years As an old threshers director. He is a former commander of the Olds american legion Post 626. He and his wife to and attempt to earn their Competition certificates in the third too. If or. Blounts stipulated week of the Jaycees shooting Edu a a principles can be ignored once it cation clinic. There is still time for can be ignored twice. J enrolment in the course and Regis 0 0 0 traction Blanks will be available at the More important Otoe Effion to door. The Blount rationale is that turn because of the tremendous res Viola Are the parents of four child a lug a government function Over to Ponse to his program the Jaycees Ren mrs David Heaton Mary j0 an a a Independent a corporation own have divided the course into two and de by the government does not a de separate age groups to enable j federalized it. The Hope is that a them to offer More individual at Tva like mail corporation will be Tention. Those in the age group 7 Able to operate in the Black. But t0 Jaq a Jujj meet from 9 00 . To what if it does no to what if it can to in 00 . And the age group la raise enough Money in the private Anco up Way meet from 10 30 . Charges filed Money Market to construct new offices and to its Bills the fed after Chase age but would allow youngsters to deliver newspapers at to. Jury a error in reduces term Algona up a because of a procedural error and a jury a confusion a Sauk Center minn., Man free press to criticize them. Went off beneath a . Armoured a pulitzer prizes Are not won by personnel Carrier 13 Miles Northwest exposing the evils of communism As of Tam by thursday killing nine rapidly As discrediting american americans and wounding one. Elective officials a Agnew said. A tons of tons of innuendos designed to smear officials Are printed every the vice president conceded a the Media Are not sol by responsible for the ills of this Agnew was delayed one hour and the eastbound Zephyr will be made up of four regular coaches four pullmans a baggage car a up i in an ohs or ration car and a diner. Actually the Zephyr is operated by three railroads a the Western Pacific it we it the Denver and Rio i ande Western Damp Row and the Burlington and Quincy a amp a which it was the sixth american plane is now the Burlington Northern. The command said an Ait Force fido super Saber fighter bomber crashed thursday in lower Panhandle of Laos. Its two crewmen were rescued. Presidents of the unions biggest locals and the presidents of its state associations. Too Post office Wor leers in East Lansing Dearborn Dearborn Heights and several other Michigan cities already have walked off their jobs. Postal officials in new York said the walkout had spread to the following cities during the night Milwaukee St. Paul minn., Akron Ohio Chester pa., Buffalo new Brunswick. N j., Berwin 111., Cleveland Philadelphia Hartford new Haven and Waterbury conn., fasting Lansing and Dearborn Mich. Others in Many parts of the country we Ere awaiting word from the Washington meeting on what action to take. 45 minutes for the dinner by a reported lost in Loas since the command started announcing such ins and a has escaped a first degree murder. Possible Deam Mcllan local allure m his Pla Quot a at ses to Days ago. Military spokesmen St. Croix. A second plane from the Roosevelt reads naval air station in puerto Rico shuttled his party to St. Themas in two Load. Conviction sentence. Ronald a. Kelsey 20, was found guilty thursday of robbery with aggravation by a Kossuth county District court jury in connection with the june 1969, robbing and slaying of Algona grocer Melvin Bay. But the jury had intended to convict Kelsey of first degree murder. Kelsey had been indicted on both charges but the jury returned its Hunt this sunday said . Planes thursday flew tac tical and strategic air strikes in Laos. U s. B52s also flew six missions in South Vietnam thursday night the Burlington Northern has applied for permission to make changes in its service. The Zephyr had its first run in March. 1949, and business was terrific for the first few years As passengers flocked aboard for a trip through the Spectra Oilar seen to 11 30 . This weeks program will include Erat government would have to proper nomenclature gun handling stand behind its obligations As the Anco zone of fire and will be con owner. If deficits should prove to quoted with the assistance of local toe chronic the taxpayer would be National Rifle association instruct called upon to satisfy the creditors. Tor Leon Shahan. The zone of fire thus it is specious reasoning to s especially important when Hunt say that the executive order shield ing government employees against ing with groups. Charges were filed by police Friday afternoon against three it. Pleasant youths who were reportedly in a car that two police cars chased at speeds up kit 90 Miles per hour East of it. Pleasant about 3 am. Friday. David Cornell 19, was charged compulsory unionism should not be children after the class can expect patents wishing to pick up their Wjt a speeding and illegal Possession a Orr in 1 guerrilla troop concentrations in the Mekong Delta anti along the cambodian Border North of Saigon. Ground fire downed two . An easter egg Hunt sponsored army helicopters thursday in an by Phi Delta Theta fraternity will urea 113 Miles Northeast of Saigon guilty verdict on the lesser charge be held in Saunders Park on Sun both were destroyed but there were because it was confused on the Day afternoon March 22, it 2 . No . Casualties. Scope of Iowa a robbery with Aggro children Ages 3 to 6 inclusive May vation Law said county attorney take part and will be Clig bile to Joseph Straub. J comp in for prizes and to receive Straub said the jury was confuse treats. This is one of several Community projects sponsored by the fraternity. And today dropping 900 tons of cry of the Feather River Canyon in bombs on what were described As the Sierra Nevada. Then the Rev Enue from sightseer off. I a picture Oil Tov countries de because the Law includes the phrase a maim or he said the jury noted those words on the robbery charge and took them to mean that Kelsey murdered Bay. It was Only after Foreman Char Les Schliefert had orally announced schools so Vinci lunch Money of rom Tolen Cash Box would inspect it was reported to police at 2 20 a toy countries by the topic of the travel and adventure entertainment to be presented next Mon. Evening at 7 30 at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel by Robin Williams. William. Has appeared Here pre p is master general Winton m Blount has stuck to his plan to try to persuade the postal workers to return to their jobs and then talk about wage hikes. Thus far no talks have been undertaken with the striking Union the first to strike against the Federal government and which May set a pattern for government labor relations. The striking mailman Are demanding higher wages. Current salaries now Start at $6,176 a year and increase to $3,442 after 21 years of service. They Are seeking a scale ranging from $8,500 to $11,700 yearly with top scale reached after five years. The strike touched the lives of citizens at All economic Levels especially the Noor who depend upon of Europe will mail delivery of welfare and pen tourists fell Sion checks. . Thursday by David Scherer piously on the kiwanis sponsored manager of Saga foods at Iowa tells need for la pc expansion applied1 to postal workers under the proposed new Law. A federally owned corporation must by definition have Federal employees. Too the White House is going All out to push the new postal authority toll through. And heavens knows it is time for postal Reform. An Independent mail carrying body whose ruling executive Council would be composed of two senators two members of the House seven presidential appointees and a director general and his Deputy would be an improvement on the present patronage Ridden organization. It would be even better if private Enterprise were permitted to compete with the new government body. But if we Are to continue with a National mail monopoly there is no excuse for saddling it with a Union shop which would deny employment to non Union taxpayers who Are after All part owners of anything that their government possesses. Distributed by King features Syndicate the schedule to be followed closely. Agree on school Aid measure Washington up a House and Senate negotiators have reached agreement on a $23 billion school Aid Bill. In the process they killed one Southern Effort to Stop the government Frim ordering busing to integrate schools and watered Down a second Southern provision aimed at attacking a de Factor school segregation in the North. The three year measure extending the program of Federal financial Aid to Grade and High schools was worked out by conferees thursday night to Iron out differences in measures previously passed by both houses. Rep. Carl Perkins Day. Called it a one of the greatest education Bills that has Ever been offered to the the Compromise must still be approved by both houses. Of Beer Bill Hoover 19, and Henry Hoover 17, with illegal Possession of Beer. According to police Cornell was seen in the Meh area by them and drove North to Monroe Street where four cans of Beer were Thooft out along the parking. The car was quite always ahead of the police and they did t follow it but waited in the area. Thirty minutes later Cornell came track after the Beer they said. One police car drove in behind him and the other ahead of him tout he was Able to drive away headed East. Police said they chased the car East on Monroe South on the Road past the Bowling Alley then East on Highway 34. The car turned South on a gravel Road went into a ditch and Back onto the Road losing the two police cars. The officers had the License number of the car and1 traced it to Cornell. Police said that the Hoover Brothers were with him at the time. The charges against the youths were filed in Justice George Means court. Kelsey had been found guilty and the jury was dismissed that the error in the written verdict was in error. A the jury feels just terrible about it a said Straub admitting that he also feels a a sick about it. Of crab Kelsey a attorneys and judge g. W. Stillman All agree that the verdict must stand be Desmo info up a the House appropriations committee thursday voted out a Bill for floor debate which would require All Public and private schools serving food to pass a state inspection and have a License. The Bill would apply to those schools which prepare and serve Washington up a a ser series and has been popular with Wesleyan that about $250 in Bills the audiences had teen taken from a Cash Box i his time he will being an All from the Kitchen office in Lite St. Color motion picture introducing vice for Rural electric co operatives Union miniature countries of the Leonti it a Illinois. Iowa and Wisconsin Scherer told police the Money nent which arc Rich in Glamour warned thursday Consumers soon was taken sometime Between 3 and Romance and history. Included arc will face inadequate Power supplies. Liechtenstein Andorra and Mona brownouts and possibly blackouts 7 . Wednesday. Co. Cause the us. Constitutions double f00d As Well As those which serve jeopardy provision protects a per meals prepared elsewhere. Each son from being tried twice for the s001 wow be charged $12.50 for inspection and an annual License. The Bill also raises the fees same crime. The maximum penalty that Kelsey can now receive is 25 years in charged by the state for inspection confirm Tan appointment Washington up a the prison. The sentence will be hand various eating Estah in. It it Gin i Senate today confirmed the Nom in de Down tuesday. Very stores hotels and motels. 18 die in hotel fire Seattle up a at least 18 several persons including a persons died today when an Early Man were injured morning fire raced through an old five Story hotel. Flames broke out in the lobby of the Ozark hotel and spread rapidly before toeing controlled 50 minutes later. Fire department officials said action of Curtis w. Tarr a world War la draftee As new director of selective service. Tarr was appointed by president Nixon to succeed it. Gen. Lewis b. Hershey who was retired last fire j month after almost 30 years As draft chief. Fire chief Gordon Vickery said the nomination was approved by the possibility of arson was being voice vote without dissent. Tarr investigated because a garbage con was strongly endorsed by chair Tainer near the hotel had been set Man John c Stennis d-miss., of afire about a half hour before the the Senate armed services com three alarm Blaze broke out. Mittee. If adequate loan funds Are not approved. John Sargent president of Adams electric cooperative Camp Point 111., and a representative of the three state Region on the National Rural electric cooperative associations legislative committee issued the warning. Sargent said co Ops in the Region xviii apply tor More than $87 million in Federal funds for the period ending in june 1971. He said $18.5 million is required for Illinois $51 million for Iowa a and $18.3 million for Wisconsin. Robin Williams terse verse by a. C. Gordon popularity Isnit such a beneficial Force look at what the rage in horsepower did i for the poor old horse

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