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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 5, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair vol. 92, no. 106mt. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening May 5, 1970 Price to Cento these Days by John Chamberlain the Sweet lure of vagrancy signs of the times. As More and More people find themselves buttoned into a Security system with pension plans taking Cane of their old age and Union membership guaranteeing their purchasing Power with Cost of living escalator clauses there is a counter movement hundreds of americans Are opting for a More vagrant form of life preferring temporary employment that wont lock them into any system whether it is one sponsored by the big corporation or the big Union. There Are of course a Host of people in tile ghettos who though t hey Are on welfare Rolls want extra Money without having their supplementary income reported to the government. Once on the records As earned income recipients they Are liable for taxes social Security deductions and possible disqualification As Relief beneficiaries. In ghetto terms having the computerized a a Finger placed on them is something worse than death. So its a Job Here a Job there nothing solid enough to get into any organizations memory Bank. Too then there is the floating a a left the indeterminate hippie Yippie citizens of the a Woodstock nation who seem Able to raise the Cash to turn up wherever the action happens to be. Just who pays the bus fare of the thousands who flock to View a Bank burning in Santa Barbara. Calif., or a pro Black Panther demonstration in new Haven conn., is a mystery that eluded our social investigators. The Money May come from Cuba witness it he wanderings of the Ven Seremos a we shall conquer Cane cutters who come Home from Havana in time to participate in Cobblestone throwing on the most vulnerable College Campus. Or it could come from maoist sales of heroin or even from Russia direct Wilth love. But the temporary Job must account for most of the floating left a general passport to Freedom a and social licentiousness. The ghetto people and the floating left evade permanent employment because of their need for secrecy. A few cuts above them is a whole new class of quite respectable people who done to mind having their earnings reported to the internal Revenue service. There Are housewives who like supplementary jobs during the hours that their kids Are in school. There is the Man who is building a boat in Back Yard and Only wants to work at intervals when he is not indulging romanticism. There Are the ski addicts who wish to be free whenever there is Snow in the mountains there Are . Candidates taking a few months off from studies. There Are girls who like to hop from office to office until they find one that is full of available men. Just How Many thousands of such a instant people Are on tap is anybody a guess. But there Are enough of them to support such temporary Job mobilizes As manpower inc., the Kelly girls labor extras office temporaries and office extras to name a few of the More prominent companies that Are making a Good living out of supplying free floating flesh. Will vote May 18 on proposed new Waco Community school Israel will fight pilots if necessary by up israeli Premier Golda Meir reaffirmed to her country tonight the israeli air Force will fight russian pilots if necessary to hold the Suez canal front. Asserting anew that russian pilots Are flying operational missions Over Egypt mrs. Meir said in Jerusalem a we do not seek opportunities to engage russian pilots in combat but one thing we cannot forego and that is self defense. We shall have to do everything with no consideration or regard for who is Manning the planes when the need arises to protect our army and our lines and with All that is involved in this. Third crossing into Cambodia Saigon up a thousands Saigon had killed 2,414 communist More u. S. And South vietnamese troops captured 526 and seized troops plunged into the Mountain 4,313 weapons 540 tons of Rice and out Jungles of northeastern Cam other supplies and 61 trucks Bodia today in the third Border a a 0 crossing under president Nixon a South vietnamese losses in two plan to destroy communist Stancu operations were put at 170 killed Aries in Cambodia. The proposed new Waco Community school building for grades 6-12 a Wayland Crawfordsville and Olds. I. Size a 57,500 Square feet including 14 Doss rooms Kitchen 3 room science suite stage music room and practice rooms Ca Jet cd Shower Home economics wrestling room Art room health room rooms gymnasium Library and Media Center guidance and counselling office boiler and storage rooms administration offices 2. Location a on a 30 acre tract one mile East of the Quot a Quot curves on Highway 78. 3. Size of Bond Issue is $1,255,000. 4. Date of Bond election is monday May 18. Polls will be open 12 00 noon until 7 00 . 5. Architects for the proposed building is Louis c. Kingscott and associates Davenport Iowa. Arrest 51 in u of i protest Only recently the Board of education of new York City was faced with the problem of hiring a couple of thousand people to count amp certify the votes in the various school districts for candidates for the Community school Board. Mechanical voting machines could not be ined for the simple reason that proportional representation involves selecting candidates in order to preference on individual ballots which also permit write in votes. The Board of elections needed manpower for three Days Only. Turning to office extras it obtained a measly two thousand temporary helpers on Twenty four hours notice. The method of assembling the manpower followed by a recruiting Agency is to set up a a War room with a Battery of special phones supplied overnight by the Telephone company. In this instance office extras processed 4,-750 people in three Days of recruitment. The amazing thing is that More than double the number of a instant people a needed to do the Community school Board counting Job were a out there a just waiting to be hired for a Short term Only. Companies Are coming More and More to depend on a instant people because it enables them to do Rush a ribs without taking on extra Cradle to grave payroll and pension responsibilities. But the companies do not make the trend it is the people themselves. Despite what the politicians believe even our More res Iowa City Iowa up a Iowa City police report 51 persons were arrested Early today following a Rock throwing and rampaging demonstration through the heart of the downtown area. Most of those arrested were believed to be University of Iowa students. The total of arrests is the largest in any Campus disturbance since 108 persons were jailed following a november 1967, demonstration against military recruiters. Too police said All 51 were being held in City jail and would be arraigned later this morning. Charges against the protesters Range from disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace to unlawful Assembly. Authorities said about 80 City police officers Johnson Scott and Linn county deputies and Iowa Highway patrol officers were called in to quell the crowd of about 400 and patrol the streets. Officers were still on duty at Dawn and it was unknown whether classes would be held. Too the protest which students said was intended to be non violent broke up about 4 . When officers armed with shotguns and riot clubs moved in at full Force. At an Early morning news conference City manager Frank Smiley said he will go before the City Council today to get authority to request a court injunction against further demonstrations. Smileys move was expected to be aimed directly at the scheduled student strike on thursday to protest . Involvement in Cambodia. Smiley also said he will ask the Council to place a curfew on the Eastern Iowa Community. The curfew Smiley said would probably be in effect Between 8 . And Dawn. Conference set on drug abuse Des Moines up a to add some a grass roots organization to the confusion emotion and misunderstanding surrounding the problem of drug abuse in Iowa gov. Robert d. Ray today announced plans for a special conference on drug abuse on May 25-27 in Des Moines. The state been divided into 19 districts Ray said and questionnaires Are being mailed to All Corners of Iowa to gather information on the extent Content and Success of local treatment programs and the seriousness of local drug problems. No plans to Call National guard in Iowa herbicides stolen a at North English North English up a officials at the Rdzar agricultural Plant Here reported a substantial loss of herbicides in a breaking Early monday. The warehouse said 825 bags of at Rex herbicide each weighing five pounds and nine five gallon cans of a liquid herbicide were missing. Authorities said the firms front door had been forced open and thieves i University students shot and killed former Washington Man pulitzer prize Winner new York up a a former iowan Dallas Kinney monday received the pulitzer prize for feature photography. Kinney the son of or. And mrs. Clark Kinney of Iowa Falls received journalism a highest award for port Folio of pictures of migrant workers in Florida entitled a migration to the photographer now with the Palm Beach Post in Florida formerly worked for the Dubuque Telegraph Herald and the washing i ton Iowa journal. The new helicopter borne assault involved the u. S. 4th infantry division which two brigades totalling 9,000 men left after withdrawal of 4,500 men and the South vietnamese 22nd infantry division of 12,000 men. Too the new crossing was 50 Miles West of Plesku in the Central Highlands into an area where two to three divisions of North vietnamese troops have operated for months again u. S. Green Beret and other Border Points. It we As 160 Miles North of two other operations involving 30.000 other troops. Allied forces said today the earlier offensives in the parrots beak sector of Cambodia 36 Miles Northwest of Saigon and the fishhook sector 67 Miles Northwest of and 651 wounded. American losses were announced As 16 killed. No casualties were announced for today a operation. But communists Manning their elusive Central command Headquarters had slipped away into the Jungles leaving behind a Bunch of typewriters. The first organized resistance of the entire Campaign was reported today at memo Cambodia in the fishhook Section 70 Miles Northwest of Saigon an area of French rubber plantations and Beautiful stucco Homes Many reduced to rubble by the airstrikes and artillery. The North vietnamese attacked with rockets and mortars and then charged american positions near memo Only to be thrown Back with the loss of 14 killed. Five americans were wounded. Des Moines up a gov. Robert d. Ray today said lie no plans to Call out or Alert National guard troops for duty in Iowa City. The governor said he was a a shocked by mondays outbreak of violence which saw four Kent state were believed to have used a truck to Load the material. Accidentally backs car Over daughter Colwell up a a 20-month-old infant was killed Here monday night. Laura Lee medling was accidentally run1 Over by her 30-year-old father Paul. He is a minister of the United Church of Christ in the Floyd county town. Rev. Medling was backing car out of driveway when the Accident occurred. He apparently backed Over the child killing her. Investigate Start of Kent shooting by guard troops and prompted a Rock throwing rampage by University of Iowa students Early this morning. By the end of the demonstration. 51 persons a mostly students a had been jailed on various charges. Ray said he thought local officials and University administrators could adequately quell any potential outbreak of violence in Iowa City. He specifically endorsed the cities plans for a night time curfew and a court injunction against future student demonstrations. The governor again reiterated plans to attend Roto. Governors Day ceremonies in Iowa City this weekend and said the demonstrations in the past we Etc have not prompted any change in plans. Ray said a was of now there Are no plans to use National guard units to police the . Ceremonies either. Thelma Davis named assistant chief operator Thelma Davis been promoted to assistant chief operator for Iowa Telephone co., in it. Pleasant. In her new position she will be the chief operator in the evening and will supervise office procedures. Iowa Telephone company a subsidiary of Continental Telephone corporation serves 91 Iowa communities. To pull Back troops weeks in seven Washington up a president Nixon gave leaders of Congress today what was described As a a firm commitment that All us. Combat troops now in Cambodia would be pulled Back within seven weeks. Rep. E. Edward Herbert a la reported the a Promise on Capitol Hill following a White House meeting. Too Nixon defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird and Gen. Earle g. Wheeler briefed congressional leaders an hour on Nixon a decisions to Send combat troops into Cambodia and to allow Brief new air raids on North Vietnam. Too a they Are coming out in five. Six or seven weeks at the outside a Hebert said of Nixon a comments on the troops in Cambodia. A that was definitely a firm later today Nixon will Boid another session with members of the House foreign affairs committee. No opposition in committee to Blackmun Washington up a president Nixon a third nominee for a year Long supreme court vacancy. Judge Harry a. Blackmun was approved without opposition today by the Senate judiciary committee. Senate confirmation is certain but action was delayed again slightly by a request on the part of a committee member sen. Robert c. Byrd do. Va., for two additional Days to write own views. Chairman James o. Eastland d-miss., said the vote was 15 to 0 in the committee. Two members were absent but Eastland said they too would Likely ask to be recorded in favor of the Minnesota Federal appeals judge. Pee Lable citizens invented life. Distributed by Syndicate. Resist the Reg King features Kent Ohio up a authorities sought today to determine if National guardsmen acted in Blind panic in self defense or in response to a tragically misunderstood command when they opened fire killing four Kent state University students during a Campus Antiwar demonstration monday. Four students were slain and to wounded three critically in the three second Volley from the rifles of about 20 guardsmen who were retreating under a barrage of rocks thrown by demonstrators. Too two of the dead were girls and at least one of them a pretty 19-year-old Brunette freshman named Allison Krause was an innocent bystander who had telephoned her parents a Short time before to sex press disapproval of the demonstration on the 20,000-student Campus. A she was completely disgusted with the whole thing a said her father Arthur Krause of Pittsburgh. A and now she a dead. Why they have fired Blanks or tear Gas or something besides live ammunition a too in addition to miss Krause Sandra Lee Scheuer 20, a Junior of Youngstown Ohio Jeffery Miller 19, a freshman of Plainview n. Y. And William k. Schroeder 19, a Sophomore of Lorain Ohio died in the gunfire. John Cleary 19, a freshman of Scotia n. Y. Dean Kahler 20, a freshman of East Canton Ohio and Joseph Lewis 18, a freshman of Massillon Ohio were reported in critical condition at Robinson memorial Hospital in nearby Ravenna. A full investigation was ordered by gov. Janes a. Rhodes who sent guardsmen onto the Campus during a weekend of rioting triggered by president Nixon a thursday night broadcast announcing u. S. Troops had entered Cambodia. 22 Arab guerrillas killed or wounded up of. Pleasant Community school Calendar May 5 Art show 7 to 9. I Golf at Fairfield. May 6 Junior High school vocal concert 7 30, High school auditorium. Mav 7 9th Grade track at it. Pleasant. School Board meeting May 8 Art show 7 to 9. District track at Washington. May 9 Art show 7 to 9. Golf sectional at Burlington. May i i dual with Washington at it. Pleasant. Pea at 6 30, school Board guests. May 12 elementary sports and members of the House and i the latter Only monday accused. Senate armed services committees for about an hour and a half and then answered questions for half Nixon of waging a presidential War without congressional authorization in Indochina. Spring choral concert by seventh and eighth grades the week of May 3 through May to been proclaimed by the president and tile governor As Natl music week. This week in it. Pleasant three musical events Are taking place a namely the tri City band festival on monday the 7th and 8th Grade i bless this House. Bye Bye blues. Put a Little love in your heart. Junior misses dry Bones. Raindrops keep falling on my head. In a just a pow wayfaring choral program and the production stranger. Twenty two Arab guerrillas were Field Day to to 2 30. Kent tragedy should stand As warning Washington up a the tragedy at Kent state University according to president Nixon should stand As a warning against the consequences of violent dissent. Nixon issued the following statement after four students died in an Antiwar demonstration at the Ohio school monday a this should remind All once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy. It is my Hope that this tragic and unfortunate incident will strengthen the determination of All the country a campuses administrators faculty and students alike to stand firmly for the rights which exists in this country of peaceful dissent and just As strongly against the resort to violence As a Means of such White House press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said the president a shares the sadness of the parents of these Young people and the sadness All americans feel about these unnecessary vice president Spiro t. Agnew said he had been warning about the dangers of a the new politics of violence and confrontation and now a the powder Keg exploded resulting in tragedy that was predictable and i killed or wounded in a two Day Battle with an estimated 1.500 israeli troops in the Northern Jordan Valley which ended today the Arab guerrilla High command in Amman said. It said the israelis suffered a very High casualties. It was one of the longest and costliest Battles Ever reported by the guerrillas. May 14 thespian awards at 7 30 at the High school auditorium. 9th track at Burlington. May 15 7th and 8th Grade awards Assembly . Auditorium 2 to 3 30. May 16 or. High track Here. Golf District at Burlington. Of Marne at inc. The Sprng choral concert will feature the mixed chorus. Junior misses jul Moretter and the girls glee club. The program to be held in the High school auditorium is on wednesday May 6th at 7 30 pm it is hoped that a Large audience ship 90�?�. Of parents and friends will be in the 1 auditorium to hear these Young people. This is the 47th annual Observance of music week sponsored by the Natl federation of music dub. Tire theme is a music brings under ill see you again. Jul Moretter he. Cum Pari. Sunrise. Sunset from a fiddler on the roof god bless America. I am an american from a Friend mixed chorus soloists a Jan Anderson brie a. I Ender. Scott Mcallister Greg Owens. Kathy Voss. Accompanists a Mary Helen Bates piano Beverly Beattie piano. Becky Ferguson guitar Wwava the spiritual zing Force Frank melodies Sharon Klyn pm a music As it Bridges the barriers anniversary of first space trip Cape Kennedy up a nine years ago today a Little rocket called Redstone streaked into a Cloud flecked sky and Alan b. She it Ard jr., became americans first Man in space. He now is preparing to command the next voyage to the Moon May 19 or. High recital 7 of race and Creed is one of gods to 8 30, . Auditorium. It. Madison relays. May 21 or. High recital . Auditorium 7 to 8 30. May 23 or. Or. Prom. State track at Ames. State Golf at Iowa City. May 24 baccalaureate. May 28 commencement. Greatest gifts to humanity. Program i like the lad with the Golden hair. Nocturne. A merry round Lay. Four Strong winds High Hopes. Girls glee club off to dreamland. Ano Thea Oldt piano Debra Vance piano Kathy Voss melodic Julie Wiggins Tambourine. Marabelle Magnuson director and accompanist. A sat to Iii her. He Bah is place trash out tor clean up trucks this week this is clean up week in it. Pleasant and City trucks Are available to haul trash away free of charge. Most properties within the City Ore not and clean As a result of to tender Loving care. There Are a few like the above that need the labor and affection of a Good clean up. Eastbound Coal goes through Here several freight cars loaded with Coal have been reported coming from the West through it. Pleasant. Glen Stafford reported 66 cars travelling through Here sunday afternoon heading East. Reports from or. H. J. Barly depot attended indicated the Coal was probably that coming from Wyoming headed for a Chicago powerhouse that obtains the we Ern Coal because it reportedly is cleaner and helps Cut Down on pollution. Or. Early said several train loads varying from 60 to 65 cars had pre a piously gone through. Approximate weight per train is 7,000 tons. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon although the Dollar still can Tabt of this and such no longer does it have the a a Ceuta to Tell us much

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