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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 16, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol. 92, no. 116 it. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening ayj6, 1970___ Prce 10 cents military captured supplies from by key Biscayne Fla. Ufi a Allied forces have captured supplies capable of equipping 40 enemy battalions and have crippled North vietnamese operations in Cambodia for six to eight months White House officials reported today. Officials also asserted the United states will not favor any attempt on the of South vietnamese forces to remain in Cambodia after july 14 and would be prepared to enter into International arrangements that would guarantee cambodians neutrality. Too officials also restated president Nixon a intention to withdraw All u. S. Forces from Cambodia by june 30, and to keep the timetable of withdrawing 150,000 men from South Vietnam by next Spring. They said the . Will not be diverted from these pullout schedule. There is every reason to believe South vietnamese operations in Cambodia will end at the same time As the u. S. Pull out officials said. The United states already has supplied Cambodia with 7,200 m2 rifles and White House officials apparently intend to permit further shipment Only of such weapons As the cambodian army can handle at its current poor level of training. The United states also Hopes to encourage such asian neighbors As South Vietnam. Thailand and Indonesia to bolster cambodians defense equipment. Too White House officials conferring with president Nixon at his Florida vacation Home were expected to release More details today on what arms will go to cambodian forces they also Are expected to give a report on military hardware seized by u. S. And South vietnamese forces since they moved into cambodian territory to clean out communist sanctuaries. Since the operation began the administration twice has issued a comprehensive list of captured enemy supplies and War materials each time calling the haul a an enormous Nixon cheered in new York demonstration new York up a up to 5,000 construction workers longshoremen and White Collar workers marched through new York City a financial District Friday in a noisy demonstration in which cheers for Nixon administration policies mingled with shouted insults against mayor John v. Lindsay. Only scattered incidents were reported As thousands of policemen eyed the throng in the area where some 500 construction workers assaulted Antiwar protesters last Friday sparking an investigation of a police failure in controlling the mob. At least 70 were injured in the incident. Traffic was paralysed As the workers Many carrying signs and american flags marched Between the tall buildings on lower Broadway. About 4,000 construction and Dock workers held a demonstration at City Hall circling the building and chanting a Lindsay must mine detected cambodian soldiers carry a live mine Slung on a pole along with their rifles near Kampong phenom Village. It was found planted on Highway i. They Are taking it to be detonated by a demolitions Mart. Red troops launch major counterattack Saigon up a communist under siege 50 Miles Northeast of troops launched their second a phenom penh. Flood strands Texas town Jor counterattack against . Forces in Cambodia today killing five americans and wounding 14. They we Ere another demonstration by about reported to have broken into Cam stress use of Urban careful 2.4 d on lawns 1,000 construction and office workers was held at 42nd Street where labourers and students glowered at each other from behind police barricades. Besides hurling insults at the mayor the marchers also expressed their satisfaction and its policies. A big sign read a we love Nixon Agnew Mitchell his wife and Codias second Pong Cham. Largest City Kom instances of indiscriminate use of 2,4-d on Urban lawns have already been reported thus Spring. If homeowners continue to abuse this herbicide strict measures May be taken to Correct the situation. These observations come from f. P. A dutch Quot Sylwester Extension Weed control specialist at Iowa state University. A instances of Lawn spraying with High pressure equipment applying 2.4-d when it is Windy and using the wrong Type of 2,4-d have already come to our attention a Sylwester explained. He said the danger of Spray a a Drift can be eliminated by using a sprinkling can or a gallon Jug applicator for Home use. The Spray should be put on when there is no wind. A remember if you live in town when the wind is away from your sensitive plants it May be directly toward your neighbors susceptible plants a the specialist cautioned. Use the Amine form of 2,4-d to minimize the danger of fumes. Specialist at Iowa state University have consistently emphasized that Only the Amine forms of the chemical be used for Lawn spraying. However merchants continue to sell and homeowners keep on using the More volatile Ester form of 2,4-d.�?~ a they use the lame excuse that Amine formulations of 2,4-d Are no longer being manufactured this is not True. There Are plenty of them a Sylwester said. A continued disregard of the Saf qty rules can result in More stringent regulations. We can recommend a that 2,4-d use around the Home is restricted to application Only in the fall of the year or that Only Amine formulations be sold for Home use or that sales of 2,4-d for Home use be outlawed a Sylwester added. Inc choir and chorale in concert the Iowa Wesleyan College department of music will present the College choir and the Burt Mahle chorale in a program at first presbyterian Church sunday evening May 17, at eight of clock. Wolfgang amadeus Mozart a Coronation mass and Ralph Vaughan Williams mass in g minor will be presented. Soloists for the Coronation will be Betty Geary Soprano Shirley Lamb Alto Allen Chapman Tenor and David Scherer Bass. For the mass in g minor soloists the cambodian government issued a plea for arms and ammunition toll other asian and Pacific nations in Djakarta and sought immediate South vietnamese troop reinforcements for Kampong Cham Hughes keynotes opening session of demo convention Des Moines up a key noting the opening session of the state democratic convention Here sen. Harold Hughes today called on ail americans to Calm anxieties Cool tempers and once again believe in americans future. The Iowa Democrat said in Light of the Vietnam and cambodian War Effort the Issue of civil rights inflation and the recent onslaught of unrest on College campuses a this nation is More deeply divided today than at any time since the civil a we have a crisis of fear of the unsure future of Over reaction to Domestic problems that Are really not beyond solutions Anc of bitter these developments coincided with the . Military command s announcement that it had ended one american thrust into Cambodia into these san Region 230 Miles North of Saigon and pulled out an estimated 5 too troops leaving about 10,000 u. S. Soldiers still involved in the Cross Border offensive. About 202 North vietnamese this morning attacked some of those troops at an american artillery base in their second major assault since tile allies crossed the Border 13 Days ago. The attack at 2 45 . Came against Mallery base ranch of i Miles North of Saigon and a mile i from where communist troops in their first major counterattack two Days ago killed one american and wounded eight. Ranch was established Only Friday. By up tornadoes and violent thunderstorms lashed Indiana Ohio and Michigan Friday night and Early today. In Texas the san Marcos River sent Waters rampaging thru Homes and stores of san Marcos and then started receding to its Banks. Swirling Waters overturned a boat at san Marcos Friday and a 3-year-old boy and his sister 6, disappeared in the Muddy Waters As they were being taken to safety. $23,406 paid to Wool producers in Henry county Henry county Wool producers earned $23,40 1 under the 1969 Wool incentive program Gerald Anderson chairman of the Henry county ass committee said. This compares with $22,364 earned under the 1968 incentive program. On a National basis government incentive payments on 1969 Wool production will total about $9.6 million less than for 1968 marketing year. The lower payments for 1969 result from reduced marketing of this commodity and from substantially higher Market returns. The 1969 payment rate for Wool is based on the difference Between the incentive Price of 69c, which h is set by Law and the 1969 National average Market Price for Wool of 41.8 cents received by growers. Anderson also said the payment rate on Unshon lambs sold or slaughtered during the 1969 marketing year was $1.09 per Hundred weight. This compares with a 1968 rate of $1.06. The payment on live lambs that had been shorn at the time of Sale is based on the payment for shorn Wool the average weight of Wool per hundredweight of lambs and the value of lambs Wool relative to the value of shorn Wool. Claim troopers fired k. Jackson miss. Up a negro leaders angrily charged Friday thai a skirmish line of state troopers fired without justification into a crowded girls dormitory at Jackson state College killing two students. The Fri has been ordered to investigate the shootings. A spokesman said president Nixon who is spending the weekend in key Biscayne Fla., expects to receive a re narc ohcs operation is broken up two killed South of Bloomfield Bloomfield a two persons were killed and another injured As a result of a car pickup Accident near the Iowa Missouri Border shortly after la a in. Friday. Victims were identified As Larry the National guard patrolled the Johnson 23, of Rural Bloomfield area to keep out looters. Authorities said that at height of the storm the town was and Lloyd Manning 54, of la cast the or. To. Johnson a brother Dewayne s hospitalized at Davis county an Island Between Austin and san Hospital in Bloomfield. Hie extent Washington up a the Justice department said today that mexican and american agents have broken up a major narcotics smuggling operation that has been supplying illegal drugs to the United states for 15 years. The departments Bureau of narcotics and Dange Rous drug it called the operation a the most Sophi created and efficient of All Clandestine drug trafficking operations in u. S. Mexican channels it said the organization furnished j a a major portion of the illegal drugs shipped to the United states attorney general John n. Mitch i Ell said in a statement he had been informed by mexican attorney general Michael Rodriguez that it persons were arrested in Tijuana Friday night in connection with the operation including the alleged Leader of the ring. Mitchell said the arrests came after four weeks of surveillance by officers of a joint mexican Ameri can strike Force operating under i joint agreement Between the United states and Mexico to control illegal drug smuggling. Port of the Fri investigation but it is not known when the report will be ready. Authorities contend the troopers were aught in a a crossfire of sniper fire from the predominantly negro Campus Early Friday. No officers were hit in the gunfire which also wounded 15 students. Charles Evers the Black mayor of Fayette told a rally in the Mississippi capital Friday night that troopers should have withheld their fire de pit Rock throwing by students. The College of 4 557 students was closed until May 24 graduation exercises and the Campus was virtually deserted Friday night. Police and National guardsmen made quiet patrols. The violence which followed a demonstration wednesday night broke out when youths set fire to a dump truck and threw rocks at police and troopers. Antonio. A there were no roads available of his injuries Are unknown. Davis county sheriffs officers to get out of san Marcos a said a and the Iowa Highway patrol said police dispatcher. Quot the whole town the mishap occurred one mile West was Highway 63 near the state bord the weather Bureau in san mar or. Larry Johnson was driving the cos said 14 inches of rain fell and car and his brother the truck. To choose successor to Reuther Friday will be Becky Mccreary Soprano i Ness born of our Many frustrations Ann Gaston Alto Alan Johnson Tenor and Rick Sundin Bass. Burton Mahle will be conducting and Carl Moehlman will be organist. Robert Osborne to attend boys state Bain Hulme legion Post of Way land has named Robert Osborne son of or. And mrs. Ralph Osborne Delegate to boys state at Camp Dodge june 6-12. Robert is a Junior at Waco Community school and is an Active athlete. That move us to condemn whole j segments of citizens a such As Coll-1 Oge students a for the rash actions the of a few a Hughes said in prepared remarks. Order courts martial for four marines Danang Vietnam up a the . Marine corps today ordered courts martial for four Loath sex necks accused of murdering 16 vietnamese civilians feb. 19. A fifth suspect was freed. An announcement from the 1st Marine division said in addition the menus company commander 1st. It. Louis r Ambort 23, of Little Rock ark., had been reprimanded and finder $500 for making a false official statement concerning the alleged murders. The charges against the four enlisted men involve the killing of five women and la children by a sent the san Marcos and nearby Blanco Rivers storming out of their Banks. Meanwhile for the second night in a Row severe weather Ohio. Report two More Arab planes downed officers said the two victims were pinned inside the wreckage. Both Johnsons were sons of or. And mrs. Carl Johnson of route struck g Bloomfield. Arrangements for Johnson pending at the Wagler funeral Home in Bloomfield Manning a body was taken to the Norman funeral Home in Lancaster to. By up israeli pilots reported shooting Down two More soviet built miss of the egyptian air Force today in the third consecutive Day of dogfights Over the Suez canal. The action brought to to the number of Arab planes Israel claims to have downed this week. The dogfights Over the canal today came after a six hour raid by israeli warplanes against egyptian Burns fatal to Keokuk Man began Friday night and ended Early this morning. Ground fighting was reported along the israeli Jor Dan front. Marine night ambush patrol that j targets along the waterway that passed through Hamlet 4 of son thang Village 27 Miles South of Danang. Marine spokesmen identified the four accused men As pvt. Randal d. Herr of 20, of Calvin. Okla pvt. Michael a. Schwarz 21. Of Weirton w. A. Boyd jr., 19, of and pvt. Samuel Cleveland Ohio. Pfc. Thomas p. Evansville ind. G. Green 18, of the two ton killer whale Shamu looks a bit tuckered out As he arrives by plane in Cleveland for transport to nearby Aurora and the nations first Inland sea circus sea world. Shamu is from sea world in san Diego Calif. Billie Burke actress dead at 84 los Angeles up a actress Billie Burke former Broadway leading lady movie Star and widow of master showman Florenz Zieg Feld died thursday night at the age of 84. A family spokesman said Friday the actress died in her sleep at her Brentwood Home after a lengthy illness. Funeral services will be private the spokesman said. Miss Burke said her 18-year marriage to Ziegfeld was the most important role of her life a role that separated her two careers. Ziegfeld later named the red haired actress with a High pitched voice one of the to most Beautiful women of All time. At 23, miss Burke was famous before she met the legendary Ziegfeld. Her admirers included famed Tenor Enrico Caruso who had showered her with Flowers British novelist w. Somerset maugham and american authors Mark Twain and Booth Tarkington. Maugham who had asked her to Tea and dancing in fact was her escort at the party at which she met Ziegfeld. Three months later in april 1914, they were married quietly in Jersey City a j. Reports tool theft mrs. Charles Edgar hoi e. Henry reported to police at 8 40 porn. Friday that tools valued at $200 -$300 had been taken from a garage across the Street from her Home. Keokuk a Vinton Slater 38. Of Keokuk died of Burns Friday after an explosion and fire at the Best construction co. Office and warehouse on the South City limits of Keokuk. Or. Slater a Crane operator died in the emergency room at St. Josephus Hospital Here. He had suffered Burns Over most of his body. Bill severing of Keokuk a Foreman suffered Burns on his hands when he pulled or. Slater from the burning building. He was treated and released at a local . The explosion and fire occurred shortly before noon while or. Slater was reportedly welding in the Back part of the building. Survivors include his wife and i four children. Detroit up a the United Auto workers International executive Board will meet next Friday to select a successor to Walter p. Reuther to Lead the 1.8-million-member Union into crucial contract talks this summer with the big Are pm ree automobile manufacturers. Thousands of workers industrialists and politicians mourned the red Harocd Union Leader Friday in ceremonies on the production line on the highways and in a packed auditorium Here named Atter one of Reuther a organizing foes Auto Pioneer Henry Ford. After cremation ceremonies for Reuther 02, and his w Ife May 59 killed along with four other persons in a plane crash near Pellston. Mich., last saturday night the executive Board announced the president was dead a but the Union must go on. A with Brief pause the Union must reorganize its leadership to move ahead with the policies and programs fashioned under the leadership of Walter Reuther. The reorganized leadership will preserve the teamwork that always has characterized our Union and maintained the Solidarity of our ranks the statement from the 25-member Board said. But Friday was a time to mourn Reuther. President of the Law for 24 years As a Champion of the underdog and a fall no room Rote increase at Iowa Des Moines up a the state Board of regents decided Friday no matter How Large a deficit it must absorb next year in dormitory operations the University of Iowa cannot raise its Basic room rate. However to help counter the increasing operation Cost of the dormitories the regents agreed to Cut Hack some of the Basic services to students now covered in the $1,040 a year Board and room rate. The services such As clean sheets curtains and maid services will be available next year but Only if a student is willing to pay an additional $46. University of Iowa president Willard Boyd suggested the regents not Only delete the special services for the coming year but also increase the Standard rate by $40. If the regents had ratified the increase in room charges it would have been the fifth straight year that dormitory charges were hiked. The room rate increase lost on a tie vote of the Board with four of the members deciding the University would Only make dorms less attractive to students by using the rates again. Since More students Are expected to live elsewhere from now on the regents directed school officials to study the possibility of leasing excess space for administrative offices. Regent William Quarton of Cedar rapids suggested that any student receiving financial Aid from the University be required to live in j the dormitories. Boyd who stressed that the dormitory is an integral part of the academic atmosphere of the school said he is willing to study any suggestions. Iowa girl released on Bond to parents Chicago up a Linda sue Evans one of 12 persons indicted for destructive riots in Chicago last fall was released Friday to the custody of her parents who posted the necessary to per cent of her >75.000 Bond. I s Evans 23, fort Dodge Iowa was tin Only one of 12 member. Of the Weatherman Wing of the students for a democratic society in custody after All were charged i with conspiracy to riot. They were indicted by a Federal a Rand jury april 2 for their alleged participation in a property damage foray through Chicago Sloop and near North Side last oct. 8-11. Her father. John Evans came to Chicago with his wife to Post Hie Bond and u. S. District court judge Julius j. Hoffman ordered her released from Federal custody in the Cook county jail provided i she remain in the custody of her parents until she comes up for i trial. Thomas new superintendent at Pocahontas Byron Thomas former Waco i Community school superintendent has been hired As superintendent at Pocahontas. Oxygen operations the a a surgeons Are Nasa engineers and the a operation Quot is being performed on an oxygen tank like the one that blew up on the Apollo 13 near the Moon. The scene is at the Beechraft Plant in Boulder colo., where the nefarious oxygen tank was made. The engineers Are watching the making of another to see if they can detect what might have gone wrong on Apollo 13. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon one place there a no free speech in truth is inside a Telephone Booth

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