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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 13, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news two sections vol. 92, no. 113 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening May 13, 1970 Price to cents showers these Days by John Chamberlain a the dictatorship of the Vassar girls what do women want Here we have the new York state attorney general Louis j. Lefkowitz charging that the time inc., publishing Empire practices a sex according to the complaint which is evidently backed by a Hundred female staffers on time life Fortune and sports illustrates women can to Rise to important posts in the kingdom created by the late Henry Luce. As an alumnus of time inc., i can Only say that the honorable Louis Lefkowitz confuses the Shadow with the substance. I think Back to the time when Eliot Janeway now a respected economic pundit walked the corridors of the time life building muttering about the a dictatorship of the Vassar the women under the Luce system always had the last word about a fact if they As researchers failed to put a Dot Over any matter of record in a piece of copy the Story be cleared. The women did most of the interviewing and the travelling which Means that they had the fun. I wrote articles about Hawaii the Philippines Venezuela and Brazil without Ever stirring from Rockefeller Center from notes sent Home by miss Florence Horn. One particular article titled a Hawaii Tho sugar coated fort a annoyed or. Luce no end possibly because i said some rather Strong things about his planter and business friends in the islands. He exploded about miss horns a Stu Gwillian an allusion to Rexford g. Tugwell prominent new dealer All i could say was that miss Horn had the facts. The Story went As written. Too the complaints of the male writers were generally unavailing for it was the girls who could produce Back up stuff to convince the editors. Sometimes a Strong minded editor would try to override a stray fact or two. Russell Davenport the Fortune managing editor who actually made Wendell Willkie As a political figure by writing articles and platforms for him was As Brave As they come. One summer he kept a pet lion cub that seemed All too ready to go Over the verge into adulthood and the writers who visited the Davenport Home for conferences trembled As a a Kitty looked Over their shoulders. But Russell Davenport blanched one Day when a whole Phalanx of female researchers descended on his office to complain about the treatment of some political subject. The women in Short ruled the Roost. As the chief of research on Fortune Magazine Patricia Divver a delightful Gal who could be very feminine when buying a hat or snowing a general motors tycoon certainly had As much actual Power a the Fortune managing editors who deferred to her As they never deferred to Harry Luce. When i did a bad Story Pat would inform me that it was a i did More than one a a Turkey Over again to please her and the articles were invariably the better because of her criticism. Explosion do police rocks station Des Moines up a damage has been estimated at More than $500,000 in an Early morning dynamite explosion that rocked the Des Moines police station. From tion sustained minor cuts flying Glass. Des Moines municipal court judge Luther Clanton working in his office said he was knocked out the blast which occurred at the Chahy by the explosion. The Force of the blast ripped a Large Southwest Corner of the station demolished 15 private cars a most owned by officers on duty at the time a and sprayed their parts More than too feet. In addition the entire communication system of the station was wiped out for More than two hours. Following the communications blackout Power was restored to the station by use of emergency generators moved to the scene by the Des Moines fire department. Too the dynamite went off about 4 35 am., and the explosion wag heard by residents in a four mile radius of the station located just East of the Des Moines River in the downtown area. Only one injury was reported. Willie Wells a janitor at the Sta Over half sign to leave school Al in Hole in the South Corner of the Concrete building and knocked out nearly every window in the Block Long Structure. Too officers on duty said they heard a loud Boom saw flashes of Light and then spurts of fire. One policeman said everything went pitch Black immediately after the explosion and officers had difficulty locating other workers in the building. Prisoners from the City jail none of whom were injured were transferred to the nearby Polk county jail. Police said they did not know whether this mornings bombing incident was connected to the recent theft of about 1.000 Sticks of dynamite from the Quick Supply co. In Des Moines. Gov. Robert d. Ray said today he has called in a special team of army demolition experts to determine what Type of explosive and the amount used in the Early morning blast at the Des Moines police station. Requests made at Wesleyan windows Are broken later Iowa City Iowa up a More than half the students enrolled this semester at the University of Iowa have optioned to leave school Early University registrars figures show. The figures showed that 11,796 students signed options by the 5 . Deadline tuesday that would allow them to leave school without taking final examinations. The school has an enrolment this semester of about 18 900 students. University president Willard Boyd announced sunday that students who wished to leave school could do so without penalty. He gave the students one of three options accept a Grade on the w \ i a a Sun a i tree foils through Section of roof the severe winds Early wednesday morning up rooted this Large soft Maple tree which fell through the Southwest roof Section of the Waters implement company. Workmen were Busy with Chain saws cleaning the debris and roofing Crews were expected to be on the Job by noon wednesday. Three Large windows in the student Union on the Iowa Wesleyan 1 Campus were broken out and a number of windows in old Pioneer North of the Union were broken in i the Early morning hours wednesday. A report was made to City i police at 1.53 a in a group of students milled a i round near the Union from la to i a rn., reports stated. Two windows on the second Story i of the Union on the West Side w Ere broken out and a ground floor window on the North Side shattered. Too about 200 students met on the i Campus at 7 30 . And Donald semester. Or. Ziegler told them that the faculty will have to vote on the request and it takes 24 hrs to Call a faculty meeting. Such a meeting will be held thin Clay at 4 . My St of the students left after the meeting but a roup gathered about la pm. The window breaking occurred after that. Dean Ziegler said a the trouble last night stemmed from a Small group of students impatient with the administrative procedures that must be followed in evaluating and acting on requests of the these students requested imme contrast in guard moves demonstrations i rom Owa postal Reform Compromise Bill prepared i Ziegler vice president for Academe Diate action. Or. Ziegler said that in affairs at Wesleyan was there there had been it stations to the ton request of the students. It was Campus by outsiders the week. He a discussion Type meeting. Also said that a a precautionary the students asked that the col measure against in Able files lege give them three options i to without any direct evidence at All take their mid term grades and the fire departments of of. Pleas leave the Campus 2. Call classes ant and new London had been a off now and give them the final alerted As to the situation examinations 3. Take an income or. Louis Haselmayer president plete Grade and make it up next of the College was out of town. Describes How pickup truck was lifted Lubbock Tex. Up a Pablo Flores was sitting in his pickup truck on a service station grease rack when the Tornado struck. A when i Felt the pickup truck being lifted up i grabbed the steer ing wheel hard because i knew we were going somewhere a he said. A then the building cracked and disappeared and we dropped Back to the the debris nearly burled Flores basis of work up to May 3 accept alive. Four hours after the deadly a pass fail Grade or accept a twister ravaged Lubbock he withdrawal Grade. I scratched and clawed and dug his students who elect to leave the Way to Moines up a the 350 Ames up a in contrast to Iowa National guardsmen who demonstrations against the War in have been camping outside Iowa Southeast Asia an estimated 600 City since Early saturday morning persons marched in downtown began moving out of the area to Ames tuesday in support of pres evident Richard Nixon a policies in gov Robert d. Ray said the cd fit announced a Compromise postal South Vietnam and Cambodia. Relative Calm on the University of Reform Bill designed to take the i Iowa Campus was responsible for Post office out of politics and to two ready mix Concrete trucks the decision to Send the guard free Congress of having to set Washington up a Senate Post office committee leaders to carrying flags and signs led marchers Down main Street. The University before the semester ends May 26 must vacate student housing facilities within 24 hours. About 4,000 of the 4.750 students who live in the University facilities were a Mong those who exercised the option to leave school Early. Meanwhile the University a faculty Senate voted late tuesday afternoon to recommend to Boyd and the state Board of regents that the schools Roth program be removed from the Campus. The latest official count from the Tornado that skipped Down out of a Spring thunderstorm monday night was 20 dead. But there was a possibility More bodies would be dug out of the rubble. As Many As 500 were injured 10,000 of the City a 161,000 were homeless and damage May exceed $100 million. The 20-Story Glass and Brick great great Plains life insurance co. Building teeters on the verge of collapse. West Point May have two new doctors within few months West Point a All indications ing and equipment was $18,000. The Point to two new doctors for i Community club will make the Christmas for West Point the Cul payments on the building until the among the signs carried by the marchers several said a god bless America a and a we re behind you . the March was organized by two Iowa state University students Kathy Meyer 22, Sac City and Debra Pappas 19, Ames and As the Parade progressed through the City onlookers decided to join in. Earlier in the Day police arrested 15 persons including an assistant professor of English at Iowa state who mingled around a bus that took draftees to Des Moines for pre induction physicals. Back Home. Mailing rates. Ray had placed the 34th . J measure also would continue battalion from Des Moines Knox a Jaq per Cen Federal subsidy for Ville and Marshalltown on Standb Postai operations. Sens. Gale w. Mcgee d-wyo., committee chairman and Hiram l. Close Southern Illinois univ. On life the researchers were bossed by Marian Macphail daughter of the new York Yankees Larry Macphail. She was Pat Divver All Over again in a picture setting. And it Wasny to True that no girl in time inc., could aspire to become a writer. Ray Ham Mim wrote Fortune articles for years and they were very Good. Carol Loomis came on As a writer after Kay Hammill left. And was Clare Boothe Luce Ever turned Down when she had a Story idea or Margaret Bourke White for a picture sequence Maggie Bourke White had even extracted Harry Luce a Promise to Send her to the Moon. Does the modern a a women a lib Breed at time inc., really want to surrender its Basic Power for the Mere trappings of office or is this business of the Louis Lefkowitz complaint just a hoax if it turns out to be for real i tremble for the future of the Luce Empire. What male would dare take a Job As researcher for a a a women a lib writer he might have the facts but it would be a contradiction of the natural order if he dared argue the Primacy of the fact As against a women a lib opinion. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Mina tion of a Long Campaign by the Community whose Only physician or. F. L. Poepsel is in sem retirement. The West Point Community club has purchased or. Poepsel a building and equipment for tile two women doctors who will establish a practice there about november i. The Purchase Price for the build terse verse by a. C. Gordon what the world needs most of All. No counter manding is a peace that pass eth All misunderstanding. Alert late Friday afternoon and later moved the troops to Iowa City for fear of student violence. The governor said his intelligence reports indicated the guard could be taken off standby Alert without fear of further violence at the demonstration torn Iowa Campus. However some 200 Iowa Highway patrol officers also assigned to Iowa City to support local Law enforcement officers will remain in Iowa City at least until the guard is completely withdrawn. Ray said the Highway patrolmen will be moved out soon a but Only when it is deemed the head of the patrol col. Howard Miller said he hoped his officers Fong a Hawaii. The committees ranking Republican predicted the measure would be approved by the committee this week and perhaps passed by the Senate next week. The House Post office committee has approved a differing proposal. Mcgee called hts Compromise with the Nixon administration a a Bill the postmaster general believes he can stand on and live Mcgee had been at Odds with postmaster general Winton general killed in helicopter crash Saigon up a maj. Gen. A Ter with d a lard died in the crash. B. Dillard commander of . A there was one survivor. My engineers in Vietnam was kill . Officiate said Dillard was Kil de tuesday when his helicopter led about 3 pm tuesday when his was shot Down in the Central High uh1 Huey helicopter was hit by lands the . Military command ground lire and crashed to Miles announced today. Southwest of Plesku Ami 120 Miles Dillard. 50. Was the sixth Ameri Northwest of Balcon can general killed in the Vietnam his widow and three children live conflict. Two South vietnamese in Las Angeles generals have died in the nine years of fighting. Nine other persons in the Helicon Good reports on Buck night Don Gartin and William smart m. Blount for months on terms of co chairmen of the a Buck night postal Reform. Fund drive in Henry county sax Mcgee and Fong said the com that on basis of first returns the would be Quot Alt tote ave Quot Iowa City Promise would put the Post office a Buck night this year is enc our by up National guardsmen and police fought students tuesday night at the University of South Carolina. Southern Illinois University was ordered closed after 20 per cent of the student body marched on the Home of the schools president. Turmoil hit the University of South Carolina after a meeting Between student protesters and gov. Robert Mcnair. Half an hour after a curfew took effect some 500 students gathered a Block from the Campus and stoned police and guardsmen. Two Hundred troops bayonets fixed dispersed the student gatherings As others fired tear Gas i pictured canisters from Shotgun launchers. Police chased Down the scattering students arrested those they caught. Most of the students fled at the first Volley of Gas. Between 4,000 and 6,000 of Southern Illinois University a students marched on the Home of president Delyte Morris. Others occupied his nearby office. A witness said the crowd stretched a was far As the Eye could Chancellor Robert w. Macvicar announced the closing. Police said the decision was greeted with students were reportedly dancing up and Down in the business District some in the nude. Michigan gov. William g. Milliken declared a state of emergency Early today in Ypsilanti where students staged a second night of protests. The declaration allowed state police to enforce a to . Curfew which Many students had ignored. Very soon because the recent Campus disorders have severely Handi capped the Normal actions of the patrol. Nearly half of the 410 patrolmen have been on duty in Iowa City since last week. Bill Merschman doctors feel that they can take Over the payments. The women doctors from the Philippines Are Generosa f. Lucas and Elizabeth la Rosa. They will live in an apartment above the medical office. Through efforts of the Community club and its doctor committee chairman Bill Merschman of West Point and area residents the . Citizenship proceedings were seeded up. Merschman says that he appreciates the interest of West Point Community in their showing of mailing Over 200 letters to our representatives to indicate they want these doctors Here. A Cdr. And mrs. Poepsel have also been very cooperative a he added. Too or. Lucas and or. Larosa have to take their education Council of foreign medical graduates test in september and then the Iowa Basic science test. The women doctors had their . Visa and obtained their Canadian citizenship on nov. 28, 1969. Both Are graduates of Manila Central University with a doctor of Medicine Jan. 15, 1959 in Manila Philippines. They took their rotating internship at Iowa lutheran Hospital Des Moines from sept. 2, 1959 to dec. 31, 1960. Doctors Lucas and Larosa Are pathologists and had fellow residencies in pathology in Cook Hiroshima Japan up a a county Hospital Chicago. Follow police Sharpshooter today shot and ing their fellow term they continue killed a Young robbery suspect who de working in pathology there and had hijacked a ferry and forced it later worked in general Hospital on a wandering 17-hour voyage on St. Johns Newfoundland Canada. Japans Inland sea. Winds sweep across area Strong winds swept across Henry county around 2 15 wednesday morning. The winds especially Strong in the it. Pleasant area broke a few limbs and upturned a tree at the Waters implement As under a nine member Board of governors which in turn would pick a postmaster general. Saigon up a teen age North vietnamese soldiers launched the first counterattack of the cambodian Campaign against a . Artillery position today but were thrown Back with heavy losses. On Highway i a South vietnamese Relief Force was carving out a land route to phenom penh. The new South vietnamese offensive carried them and their american advisers from Svay Rieng 25 Miles Westward to Kampong Trabeck 15 Miles from the Mekong River ferry Point of Neak Luong seized by waterborne troops last weekend. South vietnamese marines also were reported engaged in heavy Booby rap device gets a victim Nancy France up Denis 37, rigged up an anti burglar Booby rap in his garage consisting of a trip wire and a double barrelled Shotgun loaded with Rabbit shot. Today entering the garage to get his car for work he shot himself in aging. With Large areas to cover there will still be Calls made tile remainder of this week or. Gartin states fighting in the area below Kam the Rural areas will be longer Pong trat Etc when a North Viet i Rince in most instances they Are us namese Liea quarters w As believed ing the Quot Chain envelope method defended by 2,500 troops. The a Jules for coverage and they a launched Quot Rimes were flown into the area their part of the Campaign May tuesday by an Armada of . 12th, so it will be some time before helicopters All reports Are in. Military sources said the South two it. Pleasant wards hav vietnamese operating without been mostly completed with Only cambodian help hoped to open a a few Call backs. Land route to phenom penh to Speed precinct committee women and the flow of arms to the cambodian the stomach. Doctors said his con committeemen serve As the com diction was not serious. Nit tee each year for a Buck night. Residents reported a roaring noise preceding the wind and there were unverified reports that a fun supt. Formanek to continue As head of it. P. Schools government. It also would Speed the evacuation of vietnamese nationals Nowr by my removed by riverboats. The it. Pleasant Board of Educa Nel Cloud was sighted to the West tion met in executive session to. Discuss personnel following their minor damage occurred at the ,. I special meeting tuesday evening farms of John Davey it Union i. I and Ralph Pennebaker new Lon after the executive meeting the Don Rural. Board passed a motion issuing a rainfall was less than one half statement which stated. A in Accord Inch. Ance with Section 279.13 of the code 0 0 0 of Iowa Robert v. Formanek will1 the winds in Burlington and continue to serve As superintendent Ottumwa a were described As a tor of the school system for the <0-7i Nado like by City officials. In year based in the terms of his 1969 j Burlington 67-mile an hour winds 7 contract. Knocked Down Trees and Power Section 219.13 of the code deals wires and damaged buildings the continuing o a contract across the River at Gulfport 111., a my Uthal of termination. In roof was Tom off a building. I co 1. The secondary curriculum Rector or. Williams i in operation with the elementary curriculum director or. Don Young and principals in respective areas will plan the curriculum for the school system. 2. The appointment of department Heads in the areas of social studies mathematics science and business education. 3 the Extension to ten months the contracts of Larry Brenizer and Tom Paine in the Industrial arts department. 4 the employment of. A teacher aide in the 7th and 8th Grade for approximately 4 hours per Day. Three leave for induction three in try county men left Here wednesday afternoon by bus tor Des Moines for induction into the army and will be sent to fort Leavenworth kan., for Basic training. They Are Ltd Stoner. 19, son of or. And mrs. Harold Stoner it. Pleasant Robert of Neil. 19. Nev London and Dennis Dickey 19, son a1 or. And mrs. Elvin Dickey new London. Gary Burk. 25. Centerville son of or. And mrs. William Burk. It. Pleasant Rural will report to Des Moines thursday morning for induction the four make up the county a May draft Call. Dickey a lottery number 119. Is the highest reached. I v by the Board at the thursday. May ratified letter in the county so far. County men 7th meeting. In addition the boai.1 v _., a is discussing the ways and Means to provide additional classroom space for the High school English depart with lottery numbers of up to 14 it were eligible to be called. Kill Young ferry Hijacker and the method of termination effect a contract continues in about an hour earlier winds of Force until it is terminated by my at least 58 Miles an hour pelted a Taal agreement or until it is Ter a approved four Block Section of downtown urinated by written notification of t j Ottumwa. Authorities said win termination by a eel Dows were a sucked out of nine mailed not later than the tenth Day area buildings including the office 0f april. Of the . Census which was just supt. Formanek contacted wed getting ready to close. Mesday morning said he had no Ament and additional elementary a a i w. Comment to make at this time rela some census material was re Adion facilities. Ported scattered in Ottumwa Lve e 0 0 the appointments of the and streets by the High winds. In a recommendations for the 1970 coition Al department Heads subject new York up a mayor City Park about six Miles from the school Vear submitted by Rich to the final recommendations of John v. Lindsay announced tues downtown area High winds were Roger Williams and superintendent Formanek. Day he will ask tile City Council to not even Felt. Richard Mcbeth were approved by a curriculum organizational j raise the fare on the Staten Island the Iowa Highway patrol said it the Board of education at the spec Chart and Job descriptions for de ferry from five to 25 cents sighted twisters in the Southwest Tai meeting tuesday evening. Part men. Heads were also approved for a mrs the ride on the for area of the state during Early in general the recommendation. I As a part of the Over All recon by has been Nickel Quot the Best morning hours. Include inundations. I value in town. Asks fare hike

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