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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 6, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy two sections vol 92, no. 107 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening May 6, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain Nixon Sticks to the Guam doctrine not so Long ago a prominent conservative who knows the abcs of strategic thinking said of president. Nixon a the is not sore of himself. He can be pushed and pulled by conflicting pressures even to the Point of giving up a policy or course of action which he strongly believes i spare mention of th2 critics name for now after the courageous Nixon decision to give support to the South vietnamese army As it moves against the Vietcong just Over the Border in Cambodia i am sure he is happily eating his words. As a matter of fact the critic could not have been really surprised by the Nixon action for in the same statement he had paid respect to the presidents a almost instinctual appreciation of communism in All its aspects including its ultimate purpose and its general modes militarily speaking the a ultimate purpose Quot of the communists is to outflank the free world. The great trouble in the ., As 1s proved practically everyday by the senatorial doves is that our geographical distance fro what might be called the hinges of the world a Singapore Suez Gibraltar a inhibits our common sense. We have a philosophical interest in opposing communism anywhere but. Prudenti ally we can to take the marxists on in their own heartland areas. As Hitler and Napoleon both proved by failure Moscow is a out of but we can use oui Power preferably in an indirect Way to keep the communists from out flanking our own democratic heartland areas in Western Europe and the Western hemisphere. Douglas Macarthur knew this a and incidentally he was against committing us. Infantrymen on the asian landmass. Too Macarthur plan for a a second Inchon Quot behind the North korean and red chinese lines contemplated using two divisions of Marines but the bulk of the forces would have been 500,000 of Chiang Kai Shekus troops. The plan was disallowed but it would have been in the spirit of Nixon a decision to give the South vietnamese Quick help in cornering the Viet Cong and the North vietnamese Over the Border in Cambodia and then limiting our future help to advisory logistical and air support. Three new spearheads into Cambodia Saigon up a the United states and South Vietnam sent three More spearheads into Cambodia today in the biggest Allied offensive of the War. A total of 50,000 troops were reported involved in the attacks at seven Points along a 250 mile arc. The attacks were preceded by massive Aerial assaults using bombs and napalm and included tanks and armoured personnel carriers that drove into the Jungle covered Border areas and into the rubber plantations established by the French years ago. Too the three new drives crossed the Border in area ranging from 65 Miles Northwest to 95 Miles North of Saigon and were part of the offensive ordered by president Nixon to wipe out communist sanctuaries along the Border. The first major strike was in the parrots beak sector of Cambodia the senatorial doves a Church Aiken Fulbright and the rest a have the mistaken belief that All cats must grow up to be tigers and that every sapling is destined to be a Redwood tree. They see Nixon throwing 500,000 american troops into a Cambodia Laos ground action escalation just because Lyndon Johnson and Robert Mcnamara who knew considerably less about Good strategical thinking than any Good High school football blocking Back had committed that Many soldiers to South Vietnam. The sensible thing to have done Back at Tonkin Gulf time would have been to blockade North Vietnam blow the dikes of its chief River and threaten peking with Chiang Kai Shekus troops if it made a move to interfere it is precisely because Nixon knows the a general modes Operand in of the Moscow communists that he wont Send drafted Ground soldiers or a grunts a on any con tiring basis into Cambodia or i aes. Th2 russians themselves doll fight with direct manpower commitment. Where they done to have contiguous Borders with the nations they have marked out to hold for a a socialism Hungary Czechoslovakia they limit their Aid to armaments advisers and behind the line technicians. They get maximum yardage without shedding russian blood. Are we to suppose that Nixon who Learned about communist strategy and tactics from that most Learned of All teachers the late Whittaker Chambers is any less intelligent than Brezhnev if Nixon Ever does Send american ground troops into Cambodia or Laos in any kind of mass Iii eat my words in any Public place that senator George Aiken chooses. Too Nixon is going to take a terrifying amount of flak from the doves and the left in general for his decision to let the South vietnamese conduct their own War As part of it is important that his supporters try to explain the decision in terms that will be students in protests at Many places by up student demonstrations and strikes against Involvement in Cambodia and the killings of four Kent Ohio state University students by National guardsmen hit Many campuses across the nation today. National guard troops were used in demonstrations at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Ohio tuesday and the governors of Maryland Oklahoma and new Mexico ordered the guard to Alert or standby status. The president and mrs. Nixon cancelled travel plans for the week in an atmosphere of White House concern about Domestic problems and demonstrations. Too protests and strikes rocked prestigious West coast schools. Police came out in Force at Urcla and a spreading strike closed Down much activity at the University of California in Berkeley. A general strike continued at Stanford. A firebomb caused $300 damage to the inside of a Roto building at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Roto building at the Davis Campus of the University of California. Fire destroyed an air Force Roto building on the University of Kentucky Campus today. A 21-year-old coed was arrested for throwing a firebomb into the building. Too strikes or mourning periods were scheduled today at scores of schools including the University of notre Dame John Hopkins University the University of Illinois the University of Tennessee and Michigan state University. Boston University announced tuesday it was closing for the year because of a a massive expression of student Brown and Tufts universities announced termination of classes for the year and the students and faculty of Harvard Law school voted a a overwhelmingly to urge closing of classes for the rest of the year. That juts out to within 35 Miles of Saigon and was tile staging areas for the tet offensive on Saigon in 1968. Others were farther North in the fishhook and be san areas 67 and 230 Miles Northeast of Saigon. South vietnamese also penetrated Cambodia from the Mekong Delta area. Too i fighting also flared in the Northern portion of South Vietnam and 36 americans were killed 29 of them in a North vietnamese assault from the demilitarized zone in apparent reaction to the Allied drive into Cambodia. Two men were missing and 31 were wounded. It was the heaviest loss taken by a Unit in a single action in Vietnam in 20 months. Too the Little rubber Plantation Village of Sunol about 12 Miles inside Cambodia became the first major settlement wiped out by the Allied task forces. Air strikes levelled it tuesday after a Tank column ran into stiff resistance there. Solem woman one of victims two killed in collision near Stockport winners of the outstanding senior Letterman a award for this year at Mph Are William Kirk second from left and William Upton third from left. At left is coach Robert Evans who announced the award winners and Don Lamm Iowa City w est head football coach speaker at the senior Letterman a dinner Given by the it. Pleasant rotary club. Don Lorn in Speaks at rotary dinner senior Letterman of the it. Pleas-1 twelve years ago. From there he ant Community High school were j went to North English East Peoria honoured at a dinner tuesday eve 111., and Oskaloosa before moving ening Given by the it. Pleasant to to Iowa City. His Iowa City West tary club. I team will be playing in the Tough Don Lamm former it. Pleasant Mississippi Valley conference next High athlete and now head football year. Coach at Iowa City West High school coach Lamm told of some of his communists Boycott Paris in talks a week Stockport a two persons were killed tuesday afternoon when a car and an empty anhydrous ammonia truck collided at the Utica Junction of Iowa highways 269 and 16 three Miles South of Here the Accident happened shortly after 3 of clock. The dead were identified by officers As mrs. Lizabeth Dorothy Van Winkle 50, of Salem and Milton a. Newman 51, of Galva Iii. Too officers said mrs. Van Winkle was driving her car South on 269 when it apparently went through the Stop sign at the Junction. The Meier it Tau rant. The Many a name was found in a partially burned Billfold. The address listed was 809 Southeast first St., Galva 111. He was driving a 1963 White freight line outfit. The Tanker was marked Leaman tank. Lines inc. Newman a body was taken to the Burch funeral Home at Birmingham. The Iowa Highway patrol and Van Buren county sheriff Orville Lee investigated the Accident. Mrs. Van Winkle was born july 7, 1919 at St. Paul the daughter of Conrad and Mary Foecke pets Jas the speaker for the event. Robert Evans athletic director of up correspondent Leon Daniel 1 it. Pleasant High school speaking reported from the scene that the i in behalf of the school announced a new award to be presented annually. The award is Given for the outstanding senior Letterman of the year. Coach Evans announced two winners this year. They Are Troops found seven bodies four of them those of civilians in Sunol. The guerrilla troops who were there tuesday had fled along with approximately 2,000 villagers. Daniel said the american troopers went through the structures still the winners of the awards standing taking Beer soft drinks picked by the coaches. Experiences while coaching in the various schools. He said that in his opinion 99 percent of the Young people Are Good and that he thinks participation in athletics is an excellent Way to help them prepare for the future. Coaches attending the dinner to Evans were flashlight batteries shoes sunglasses mirrors clocks and even a motorcycle. The North vietnamese counterattack came Early today against a Outpost two Miles below the Border demilitarized zone Doz in Vietnam. Tire american command said 25 americans were killed and 32 wounded. This was seen As a direct Challenge to Secretary of defense Melvin r. Laird a warning last saturday that he would urge a resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam if communist troops attacked across the Doz to counter the Allied offensive into Cambodia. Military sources said the North vietnamese who attacked the 101st airborne division troops this morning had indeed come across the Buffer zone. Fifteen of their bodies were found. The new drives into Cambodia opened a 200-mile front along the Border encompassing the parrots beak Region West of Saigon and the fishhook sector 70 Miles North of the capital. William Kirk and William Upton. In addition arc Denny White Dave i using an i i Banks Swan. Other guests were William Walters Charles Taylor of coach Don Lamm son of or. And Canton 111., and Robert Lamm. Mrs. D. C. Bill Lamm started John m Dowell and Bill Lamm coaching at West Chester following were co chairmen for the event. His graduation from Iowa Wesleyan Tom Bell introduced the speakers. Students As group for draft protest leaves physicals it louder when a u. S. Navy Recruiter came out of the office got into his car and drove away. While waiting for the chartered bus to arrive from Burlington and pick up the five men who were going to Des Moines for their physicals the group Sang a fall we saying is give peace a Chance Paris up a the Viet Cong and North vietnamese boycotted today a scheduled 66th session of the Vietnam peace talks in protest against president Nixon s policies in Indochina. The meeting was cancelled. Both communist delegations said they would be Back at the bargaining table next thursday. North Vietnam a spokesman said the one week Boycott was motivated by what he called a a Nixon a determination to prolong the War in South Vietnam step up the War in Laos and lately by launching an open aggression against Cambodia.�?�. A your delegation and the delegation of the provisional revolutionary government have decided not to attend the 66th session today. May 6th and to put off the next meeting until May 14th,�?� the spokesman Nguyen Thanh be told a news conference. The talks usually held on thursdays had been set for wednesday this week because this thursday is a National French Holiday. Car struck the eastbound truck in the left front and spun around coming to a Stop heading East in the westbound Lane. The truck Jackknife into the ditch the trailer Over the tractor cab and caught fire. The body of the Man was burned beyond recognition. The Stockport and Keosauqua fire departments were called surviving Are her husband her Mother of West Point step daughter mrs. Robert Lola Triska of Salem Stepson Harold Van Winkle Davenport two Brothers Joe and George Peitzmeier of West Point two Sisters mrs. John Cathryn Doyle Argyle and mrs. Leonard Mary Merschman St. Paul. Funeral services will be held at to the scene to extinguish the fire. 2 pm. Friday from the Beatty Foster funeral Chapel in Salem. Mrs. Van Winkle was driving a 19c5 Buick Sedan registered to her husband t. W. Van Winkle. The Van Winkles operated the Liz restaurant in Salem. She reportedly was returning from Stockport where she bought meat for the res the Rosary will be said at 8 pm. Thursday at the funeral Chapel with father Omer Keifer of the St. James Catholic Church officiating. Interment will be in St. James Catholic cemetery at St. Paul. School cancelled at Keokuk after teachers strike Keokuk up a school was postal submitted by the mediator called off Here today by superintend from the department of Public indent Robert Leland after teachers Striction would not Cost any More called a strike the first work dollars than their boards proposal stoppage by Public school teachers and if it did we would make up songs of the sixties theme for Vei Shea Ames a vein head a 1970 Parade at Iowa state University will have As its theme Quot songs of the sixties and will feature 16 bands 32 floats and 29 special marching and Drill units. Parade time will be 9 50 saturday morning. May 9. A group of Iowa Wesleyan students about 50 in All marched from the Campus to the selective service office on West Monroe Street in the business District Here at 1 15 . Wednesday to protest the leaving of five men four of them Wesleyan students for Des Moines for their pre induction physical examinations. One of the students carried a White Flag with Blue markings on j stopped East of the City Hall on it bearing a sign for peace. Some Monroe headed East. The five men wore Black Ann bands and most of who had came out of the in Iowa s history. Fire destroys machine shed the difference by a reduction in our pay Check each month. The bus arrived at 1 45 and them gave the peace sign with their fingers and a few raised clinched fists in protest. Too the students started to chant a hell no we wont go while gathered on the sidewalk in front of the draft Board office stairway Entrance on West Monroe and yelled Board office stairway door several minutes before along with mrs. Darline Taylor selective service clerk walked across the Street to the bus with the protesting student following them and chant inc a hell no. We wont go loudly. The five men got on the bus along with mrs. Taylor. A f mall machine shed on the Are Miles Mulla ins farm 7 Miles North and East of it. Peasant was destroyed by Fin about 1 30 . Wednesday. A six Row rotary Hoe and a Small two wheel trailer were lost in the Blaze. A Ford tractor and Grain Drill were pulled from the building end saved the Philip Rich family lives in the farm Home and the it. Union Defier or d fire dept. Responded to the Call. Cause of the fire was not determined. The strike was called after the Keokuk education association Kea and the Keokuk school Board were unable to resolve differences on a new contract for the 1970 71 school year. Members of the Kea put up picket lines at All Public school buildings this morning and More pickets elation expressed its support for the Keokuk educators. Last week the school Board requested an injunction to prohibit the 196 teachers from striking however no injunction was issued and a hearing on the matter was scheduled for later today. Too the Iowa state education Asso were expected during various periods of the Day. Draft Kea president Tom Coffey a Junior High English teacher said the work stoppage was called because no further negotiating ses Ltd ions were scheduled by the school Board. A in our last ditch Effort we guaranteed the Board that the pro firemen called to Harlan hotel firemen were called to the Harlan hotel at 1 08 pm. Wednesday after a fall was received that either smoke or steam was seen rising from the roof. Firemen checked out the top Story of the building and no fire was found. At 10 17 . Wednesday firemen were called to the Jerry d. Miller residence where a Magazine in top of a stove caught on fire. Must be protected but without taking too much strength from our a Center a which Means the Home front. Strategy dictates Aid to the cambodians without committing masses of Troops. Incidentally this is what the understandable to a nation of Fot j Guam doctrine is about. Nixon is Ball fans who every sunday in the j consistent and he is sure of him fall watch the behemoths try to self. Turn a flank Here or go overhead distributed by King features there. The Southeast asian flank Syndicate. Not All people recognize Art Iowa Wesleyan College Art professor Stan Wiederspan is a bit puzzled at the summons he found this week dangling from a horse sculpture the Art department is displaying on the front Lawn of the . Building. The ticket directed Wiederspan to appear for littering. There is possibility too that City truck Drivers looking for litter in tips clean up week May pounce on a old Kenneth Wells Isea executive Secretary said a the Keokuk teachers association agreed along with the Board to turn the deadlocked negotiations Over to a mediator. The association then agreed to bide by the mediators decision which at Best must be called conservative. But the Board rejected the mediators 0 0 9 the mediation report drafted by or. William g Monahan a professor of education at the University of Iowa called for a 5.5 per cent salary increase including a a base pay of $6,775, an increase of $275. Monahan appointed to mediate the dispute by Paul Johnston. State Public instruction superintendent also recommended retention of the present salary Index schedule and eliminating the dependency allowance. A in Wells said a the Board adopted a proposal which destroys the present pay system puts approximately half the faculty off schedule and reduces Many other Josh Swallow Rural Man Power specialist for be Iowa was planning the summer youth employment program recently with i to _ r Jerry Tritley Jaycee chairman Terry Ross Jaycee president elect Charles Fitzgibbons of Mhz Gary see Jaycee co chairman and Dorothy Snyder nursing service director at Mhz. A 1965 Ferd driven by Betty a Seibert it. Pleasant and a i960 it. Pleasant Community sell it a bus driven by Richard in Stiles it. Pleasant collided at the intersection of Webster and Walnut Street at 3 . Wednesday. Stiles was headed North on Locust taking some students Back to Gram. The school from Mcmillan Park and paid $1.30 to $1.45 per hour for 40. Affiliation he was called to a Ltd it a from june 8th pleasant youths who Are on add a imitation be was Cayiea to 10th jobs that will or Are potential recipients of add general area to assist in the Emer interested in the gency. This was the first the protesting students crowded around the door and front of the bus and one said a a let Spray that they flunk Quot. Mrs. Taylor not off and the bus Driver started to n ill slowly away As students took their time getting out of the was. When the bus pulled out into the Street some students beat on the sides with their fists. The protest group then walked East on Monroe turned North on Jefferson and headed Back to the Campus. A few townspeople watched the demonstration. Car strikes Side of school bus offer employment to 20 youths pleasant youths be-1 a total of $10,500 has been Bud Calls about Iceland s volcanic eruption it. Twenty of tween the Ages of 14 and 18 will be a ted of which $8,400 will be paid by the state and Federal govern offered summer employment that balance wu1 raised through the Rural manpower pro under a fund drive Spon the Young people will be sorted by the it. Pleasant Jaycees. The purpose is to employ the Seibert car was going West on hours per Webster when the Accident occur through aug red. The front of the car snuck the be available include Park workers. Young people eruption in Smau and no one was Hurtt a medial tristan Quot a Quot i and put office of the Mhz or a Many decades the last Tim. Eftin the Accident was investigate by memory Hospital and vane City member of the it. Pleasant 1 police. Jobs Marshall Thayer who resides in Iceland called his Mother mrs. Pauline Thayer late tuesday night about the volcanic eruption that had taken place about 75 Miles from his Home City. Because of his Rescue organization the Cees

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