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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - March 24, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 70 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening March 24, 1970 Price to cent these Days by John Chamberlain let educational Experiment prevail president Nixon after making the incontestable Point that the lavish expenditure of Money Hasni to provided the answers to educational improvement has called for the creation of a Federal body or foundation to make a study of educational methods. Any such organization of course would inevitably be manned by the very people who have already demonstrated their incompetence to solve our heterogeneous school problems. It is centralization As such that is the enemy a and a Federal institution would be just one More example of the modern rage for piling fallacy on fallacy in the vain attempt to arrive at truth. In saying this i done to think i am speaking sex Cathedra. More than ten years ago i spent a considerable amount of time investigating schools for a series of articles that ran in the Wall Street journal. It was a time when new experiments were in the making. There was a great Deal of dissatisfaction with the results of what was then called1 a progressive the a look say method of teaching Reading had produced a generation of chronic misspelled to say nothing of the so called a functional illiterates who despite their inability to put words together into written sentences managed to get High school diplomas. The revolt against the prevailing orthodoxies was spotty but where local school boards and worried parents were not forced to accept the nationally approved a a progressive pattern there were exciting new departures a and As it turned out considerable improvement. Too the Washington d.c., school system then under the supervision of an a bluffed educator named Carl Hansen was doing some very interesting things. Hansen believed in the a track system a which permitted the More capable students to go ahead at their own Pace. One particular Washington school the Amidon school applied the principles of a Basic education a meaning language instruction by Drill in phonics instead of a word recognition a and the results were startlingly Good. Spanish was taught in the third Grade in other Washington schools and there was a relaxation in the a a rules that forced prospective teachers to take dreary courses in educational a a methods at the expense of learning More about their educational subject matter. But Carl Hansen offended the masses by his concern for individual excellence. was forced out of his Job because the a track system was deemed too in the suburbs where the rage to use the schools to serve a sociological instead of an educational end was less compulsive the individual improvements of the Nineteen fifties have not been slowed under. But the chief reason the country has not been inundated by mediocrity is that Washington d.c., has not been Able to impose a a a National solution on our Many educational institutions. If Nixon wants to know How much Experiment we have already had he could easily find out by inviting Mortimer Smith the editor of the Council for Basic education bulletin to walk Over to the White House from the councils office on fifteenth Street which is hardly a stones throw away. I have been Reading Smiths publication for the past fourteen years it has offered acute critical analysis of just about every educational Survey or proposal that has been made. We have had endless controversies Between the a life adjusters and the a Basic educationists a the believers and non believers in compulsory grading the advocates of a or Igor and the champions of a a relaxation there is nothing that Hasni to been combed Over to a fare you Well. A centralized Federal foundation charged with a a studying educational methods would merely re peat the experiences of the fifties j and the sixties. Too whether a a Good or Quot bad would result from this would depend on the majority politics of the newly created National Academy of education. But the chances that the a a bad would reign supreme would be magnified a mistake by a centralized body could be a whopper for it would be backed by a terrifying amount of prestige. Nixon has said he wants to return government to the people. The Best Way to do this is to dismantle centralized Federal bodies and a foundations a not to create new ones. We need More variegated schools both private and Public and More tax credits for educational giving. And we definitely Nixon tells new goals for desegregation by Merriman Smith up White House reporter Washington up a president Nixon proposed today allocating $1.5 billion in Federal funds Over the next two years to ease problems of de segregating school in every sector of the country. In a comprehensive 10,000-word statement on the school racial Issue Nixon reasserted his opposition to forced busing of school children to achieve racial balance. Too he urged an end to segregated teaching staffs and said a Federal officials should not go beyond the requirements of Law in attempting to impose their own judgment on the local school Nixon took the Issue with democratic critics and others who he said have accused the administration As a backing away from the supreme courts 1954 school decision and have a therefore feared that the painstaking work of a decade and a half might be too a we Are not backing away a Nixon asserted. A the constitutional mandate will be a on the other hand a he added a several recent decisions toy lower courts have raised widespread fears that the nation might face a massive disruption of Public education that wholesale compulsory busing May be ordered and the neighbourhood school virtually doomed. A a comprehensive review of school desegregation cases indicates that these latter Are untypical de Casios and that the prevailing trend of judicial opinion is by no Means so too the president had described his statement in Advance As the a most comprehensive review of the school problem since the 1954 supreme court decision outlawing segregated schools. said the intent of his administration is to a seek solutions one of the arrested persons 23-year-old Darwin ambers formerly of it. Pleasant police said was arrested after Selling $500 Worth of heroin to an undercover agent. Matias said ambers probably could have gotten $3,000 for the narcotic if he had sold it on the streets. Ambers was being held on $20,000 Bond and charged on four counts of Selling heroin. Too All of the persons arrested were from Cedar rapids. They were identified As a Ned h. Kohl 22, charged with two counts of Selling heroin. A Kenneth Downs 24, charged with Sale of heroin. A Wilbur o Bannon 35, charged with Possession of heroin. A Kenneth Moore 24, charged with Possession of heroin. A Wencil l. Spinka 26, charged with violating the state narcotics act. A Michael l. Oakley 19, charged with conspiracy in the Sale of narcotics. A an unidentified 17 year old youth charged with Sale of narcotics. Coffee Days bring in $232 Twenty one restaurants were contacted in Henry county for Coffee Day March 20 and 21. Seventeen participated and the names in order Given had the highest amounts Harlan House vans Starlight inn Iris court Kozy cafe., Quinn in Rexall Winfield francs cafe Winfield sail inn Wayland 34 Grill it. Pleasant South Side cafe Wayland Olds cafe Olds Kyles drugs it. Pleasant Princess cafe it. Pleasant free will donation diary Sweet new London Geode cafe new London the diner it. Pleasant. The sum of $232.05 is to be presented to Iowa association of retarded children on behalf of restaurant association. This Money is used in their educational program to change attitudes and opinions of the society about mental retardation. Some easing in Wildcat postal strike arrest eight on charges of drug abuses cd Cedar rapids up a a six week investigation into drug abuses has led to the arrest of eight persons Here and promises of More arrests to come. The arrests made monday at different locations around the City were made under top Security conditions in which officers refused to state the Street addresses of the arrest Sites saying the same places might be raided again. That Are both realistic and approx police chief George Matias said several of the persons arrested sold in assessing action by localities in heroin and other drugs to under de segregating their schools Nixon cover agents indicating More a said the Federal government will rests will be made soon. Give primary weight a to the con a a we be been accumulating end i Side red judgment of local school Deuce and now we re pulling the boards a provided they act in Good in a he said. A the vice squad Guys 1 Faith and with constitutional Lim Are out looking for its a too on busing of students this was the presidents attitude a a a the neighbourhood school will be deemed the most appropriate base for such a system. A a a transportation of pupils beyond Normal geographic school zones for the purpose of achieving racial balance will not be too to attain the goals spelled out in the message the president said he wanted to earmark $500 million in the 1971 fiscal year beginning july i to carry out special programs to help integration succeed and $1 billion More in the 1972 fiscal year. said the Money would have to be diverted from other Federal Domestic spending. expressed Hope that his statement would a reduce the prevailing confusion and help place Public discussion of the Issue on a More rational and realistic level in All parts of the too the president repealed his opposition to arbitrary establishment of a racial balance in school districts by such devices As busing Black and White pupils away from their Home neighbourhoods. Furthermore he said de Facto racial separation resulting from housing patterns should not be cause for Federal enforcement action in the South or in the North. Too Nixon summarized a in All respects the Law should be applied equally North and South East and West. This is one nation. We Are one people. I feel strongly that As americans we must be done now and for All future time with the divisive notion that these problems Are the chief executive however conceded that the situation involving elementary and secondary schools attempting to Cope with desegregation had reached a Point where additional Federal help was needed. 300mph on air the department of transportation is spending $3 million on a design contract with Grumman aircraft Bethpage n.y., for this vehicle shown in Model form. It would link cities 250 Miles apart and run 300mph electrically on a tracked air Cushion. Conditional permit to Hill Oil tor nursing Home a a main Mii amazing org toastmasters club locally operation. Renewal of the License at the sex several persons met at the Starlight cafe on saturday morning to discuss the possibility of the organization of a toastmasters club in it. Pleasant. J. Delmar Ebersole associate governor of area 8, met with these Pira tion Date of August 27, 1970, interested business men to detail j will be conditioned upon the com a plan for the organization meet Cletion of correction of the following. The next step will be a Din ing items listed in the notice e of Ner meeting at the Harlan hotel denial As amended Tut not Coroll tuesday evening March 31. Reeled at the time of hearing re every person interested in More i placement of floor covering in information about toastmasters is bathrooms and repair of b it rooms permission for conditional of i ration of the Mitchell nursing Des Moines up the pow Home at new London operated by Erful Senate appropriations com Grace Mitchell has been ranted by Mittee opened the Way today for Arnold m. Reeves m. Do a m. P. H., floor debate on a Public employees commissioner of Public health. Ile collective bargaining Bill that some recently conducted a bearing Here lawmakers say will delay Addoum relative to the nursing Home in con ment of the Iowa legislature this notion with the notice of denial year. Of License dated september 5, 1939, the Bill was endorsed by these and amendments dated december hate human and Industrial re-23. As a result of the commission lotions committee several weeks Eros order dated March 20, Grace ago after in amendment prohibit a. Mitchell plans to continue the ing All strikes by Public employees was tacked on. This is expected to make the Bill More palatable for legislators who Are opposed to strikes by Public employees. The original Bill would have Only Iti the Wildcat strike of postal work it is that wreaked havoc with mail deliveries from coast to coast eased today when thousands of letter carriers returned to their jobs. The key to a Complete end to the first postal strike in the nations history was new York City where Federal troops acting under Prest i Dent Nixon s orders were Manning key Post offices and sorting mail i some new York business firms which Stilt their own representatives to the main Post offices were Able to pick up sacks of mail apparently soiled by the military sub-1 statutes. The Wildcat strike was triggered in new York on March 18 and j quickly spread to neighbouring states. At the Peak of the walkout postal workers wire on strike in 13 states from coast to coast. Following reports of the Back to work movement by the letter carriers was an announcement by the Post office department in Washington that the embargo on deliveries in the Chicago area Haci been lifted. 0 0 0 postmaster general Winton m. Blount said he was a very pleased with the return to work movement in some areas but that the administration a will not negotiate on grievance. With postal unions until the Wildcat strike ended. James h. Rademacher president of the letter carriers Union took the position that the unions and the strikers had showed Good Faith in responding to the administrations appeals. In. Lid if negotiations did not Start today Quot i cannot expect any other employees to return to work and if that what a going to happen. In a afraid the rest Are going to walk Rademacher and Blount were interviewed by lbs news. Rademacher also said when negotiations Are held that the Issue be limited to pay raises without postal Reform involved. In new York City military personnel resumed their attack on the Mountain of mail piled up at Post offices. The troops first were used to sort mail tuesday night just hours after president Nixon declared mat Ion 11 emergency and issued an executive order ordering Federal troops to new York City to get the mail moving. Tile government hoped the action would presage an end of the week old strike that had spread across the nation. A spokesman for the Post office department in Washington reported a a steady trend Back to work across the nation. Could use a a a vouchers system that would enable people to use tax Money to patronize the schools of their Choice. This Way a a education would save itself. The Nixon pro no color photos on Drivers licenses Des Moines up a the Iowa House monday by a substantial 83-35 vote knocked a provision for color photographs on Drivers licenses from a Bill designed As a Revenue measure for state government. The Bill originally called for a postal for an Academy will merely result in More platitudes stated. Coloured picture to be attached to All in impeccable a Reduca ionese a a Drivers licenses chiefly for Iden Lingo that has already wrecked the invited to attend this dinner. Call 385-2813 for information or to make your dinner reservation. Toastmasters clubs formed in a Community such As it. Pleasant become a member of toastmasters International which is a non profit non partisan non sectarian educational organization of toastmasters clubs throughout the free world. These clubs have a membership of 73,133. Persons attending the initial meeting were Dean Lamm Royce Roth Gary Swart Roger Thompson and Delmar Ebersole. Including Walls ceiling and Light prohibited strikes by Public employees engaged in a critical services a such As firemen and policemen. Tile Bill would permit officials of school districts City and county governments and state departments agrees to meet on postal pay increase to bargain collectively with their ins and repair of bedroom ceilings Oyes on wars hours a and and Walls. Evidence submitted at the hearing which was held on March 4, 1970, showed that the required number of nursing hours per week Are now provided. Also an inspection of March la 1970, showed compliance with fire rules regulations and standards for nursing Homes. Items of non compliance listed in the amendments to the notice of denial dated december 23. 1969 have been corrected with Tho sex working conditions. Will build and open new restaurant plans for construction of a new building and opening of a new caption of the failure to maintain Coffee shop and restaurant at the cambodians leadership outraged the nursing Home and All parts of it in Good repair. These items Are those listed above which have resulted in the permit being for conditional operation. East Edge of it. Pleasant were announced tuesday by John and William Baker. The new business will be located near the Fly in Gables Lodge where the Bakers have purchased a tract of land from Carl Barkey. Plans Call for a Coffee shop and for a dining area that will accommodate 90 persons. Construction is expected to Start next week and it is an a a Tolci rated that the building will be the Board of directors of South ready for occupancy by the first actions of . College boar Washington up a sen. Gale Mcgee chairman of the Senate Post office committee reversed his position today and agreed to meet with negotiators from the House on a postal pay raise. His decision spurred chances that co gees might quickly Clear a pay boost for mail workers a an Issue which provoked the series of a j Tio Nolde Wildcat postal strikes. Lait Hilly Mcgee had demanded president Niron give a Promise not to veto a Compromise pay Bill. Mcgee also objected to tying postal Reform to pay legislation. But rep. Thaddeus j. Dulski. D-n.y., who Heads the House Post office committee said Congress should approve a pay raise and then Tell Tho president a it s your dulse predicted that when the House and Senate conferees met they could reach agreement on a pay boost of about per cent. Mcgee did not indicate immediately whether he had received any Nixon assurances on his objections. Phenom. Penh up a cambodians new leadership reacted today with outraged indignation to Prince Norodom Sihanouk Scall for a com East Jowa Colic met March 23 at. Of june. Monist backed War of liberation the vocational technical build i Tho Bakers expect to discontinue to restore himself to Power. And received the following and took their re Grant opera on. The i Sihanouk a statement was Broad action As indicated hat on the South Side of the it. Cast by peking radio and beamed received a Resolution for con plea ant Square. By powerful transmitters to South Side ration at the next meeting a East Asia. It was clearly heard in stating the need for an activity fee phenom penh and reaction was to supplement the Rev Nae needed Swift. Premier Gen. Lon nol pushed a head with plans to purge the last of Sihanouk a supporters from positions of influence. The ruling Sangium the social for operation of the institution received copies of volume i of the educational specifications from the educational planning service of Greeley colo., for the Burlington Campus. Educational special Bourd approved by Iowa Senate Moines up it a the Iowa 1st party founded by the Prince 15 j specifications for the Keokuk Cam years ago held a hurriedly arrange pus will by forthcoming de conference today and elected a authorized the Busine s Man gear it get today approved it. Ion new party president and Central Ager to proceed with preparations committee to replace the men for a private audit at the rat of handpicked by Sihanouk to control the current fiscal year the party machinery. Prof. In Tam was named president of the million member political movement to replace Sihanouk. Another educator Trinh Hahn was named Secretary general. The remaining 13 members of the 15 Man Central committee were named from the ranks of the anti Sihanouk movement. Good Friday services at Trenton approved resignations of Mary Ellen Widick. Assistant bookkeeper at the Central office and Robert Weld the English instructor at Keokuk accepted with regret the resignation of president Wayne Carpenter from the Board of directors effective May i 1970, As he i moving from Burlington approved 67 adult education part time contracts approved a contract for mrs. Patricia Frazier As business office Secretary at the. Central office to establish a nine member Board to regulate the Sale and use of fertilizers and pesticides in the state. The Bill approved 57-1 and returned to the Houe is considered one of the most important anti pollution measures approved this session. The Senate rejected two attempts to reduce the a chemical technology review boards to seven members by eliminating the Farmer and manufacturing representatives on the Board. Fire damage at Blue Bird an undercoating room at the Blue Bird Midwest Plant Here and a school bus in it were damaged by fire which started about 1 40 pm. Monday. Tiu smoke from the fire filled most of the Plant and firemen used Large exhaust fans to Clear it. The Blaze started from welding Torch Sparks which ignited undercoating material in the room. Tile room was a mass of flames for a while. No one was injured. Workers at tile Plant used a Large fire Hose and a Small one and a he sprinkling system turned on automatically. When firemen arrived they poured More water into the room until the fire was out. The bus was badly damaged firemen returned to the station about 2 15 . Easter vacation dates in school teaching of the English language. Tif cation purposes at an annual Cost of about $700,000. I approved a contract for 1970-Good Friday services will be held 1971 Voith the department of Voca at the missionary Church in Tren tonal rehabilitation for counselling ton at 7 30 Friday evening with services Rev. Herb Cottrell speaking. There approved a contract for mrs. Schools will be dismissed for was will Ibe special music from Partick Betty Johnson As nursing i us True Ter vacation thursday afternoon at Tho it. Pleasant Community Pating churches come. You Are Wel Ter at Keokuk for 244 Days at a 3 o clock. There will be no school salary of $11,217. Friday nor the following monday. 83000 damage asked Iii suit a it title i has been filed at the clerks in the courthouse by Milton and Mary Helen Curtis of near Salem against Midwest pipe coating inc. And the Gulf Central pipeline co. Asking for damages of $3,090. The petition states the defendant acquired a lease of real estate and urges Quick action on pay raise Washington up a tile chairman of the House Post office committee urged his congressional colleagues today to approve a pay raise for postal workers quickly and Tell president Nixon a a it a his rep Thaddeus j. Dulski d-n.y., suggested that if Senate and House conferees got together on differing postal Bills each has passed a we could come out with a Bill of about 11 1 per that would be about Hie same As each Bill contains in pay boosts. Sen. Gale w. Mcgee d-wyo., Senate to. T office committee chairman has demanded that Nixon give a Promise not to veto a Compromise Bill before Congress works one out. Nixon let it be known previously that he Felt the Bills contained inflationary increases that he could not accept and also has insisted ural postal Reform be tied to the legislation. Dulski said. A a let a get something to tire president no matter what we think he will do with it. Then its his he was interviewed on Abc tvs a today show. There was some speculation that the administration might be prepared though reluctantly to yield on the question of pay and Reform if a satisfactory pay Bill alone could be sped through Congress. But a High official close to postmaster general Winton m. Blount said today a the administration position is to stand firm on a pay increase coupled with the president wants to reorganize the postal system turning its operation Over to a quasi govern ment corporation. House leaders Hare offered to forego the traditional congressional easter recess scheduled to Start thursday to expedite postal legislation. Senate leaders said they too were willing to scrub the vacation. Jacent to Hie Curtis property and installed a pipe cleaning station which generates dust and rust particles in the air which is a nuisance and a health Hazard. The plaintiffs ask that the part be declared a nuisance and that a permanent injunction directing the defendants to remove it be issued. The plaintiffs also ask that a tem Horary injunction be ordered

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