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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - May 19, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 118 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening May 19, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain a men have food chains As Well As fish Columbia . A if building a modern Oli Mical factory in the Carolina lowlands near Beaufort and the new vacations tsp Paradise on the Island of Hilton head would really pollute the local air and Waters the bands cite aniline and soda Fabrik company base should be denied a construction permit. But common sense tells you that the base project can be kept within the a parameters of ecological safety a to use the jargon of the conservationists. A visitor from the crowded Northeast looking at the empty land of the Carolina coast Miles of swamp Pine Forest and Moss festooned live Oasis absolutely flabbergasted to hear that the Hilton head developers whose sea Pines Plantation project is Nineteen Miles by Road from the proposed site of the base Plant Are worried about even the most Distant Industrial neighbors. A whole City almost the length of Manhattan Island could be built in the space Between the base site and the Hilton head Beach front. Contamination could of course be spread by the Drift of wind and the flow of tidal Waters. But it is the Contention of governor Robert Mcnair and his pollution control engineers that the stiff new South Carolina anti pollution legislation would protect the delicate nostrils of the Hilton head householders and visitors. Too if the governor is Correct in his estimates the Only worry about the new factory would come from dredging the bars in the Channel leading to port Victoria the base dockside property. A deep bite by the dredgers could theoretically at least disturb the underground flow of fresh water from the Mainland to Hilton head Wells. But the d ledgers could be held to certain limits. As for the argument that dredging disturbs the fish and shrimp industries let the executive director of the South Carolina water resources commission Clair p. Guess jr., have his say. Waco school Bond Defeated Issue voters in the Waco Community provided for grades sixth through school District turned Down a $1,256,000 Bond Issue in a special Bond election monday. The proposal lost by a wide margin of 51.8% against the Issue and 48.2% in favor of the proposal. A vote of 60% favourable is required for approval. The proposed site was located Between Wayland and Olds on Highway 78 and the 57,500 Square feet of building facilities would have twelve and also included a gymnasium administrative offices cafeteria and Library. Voting was divided with the Olds and Crawfordsville areas voting nearly 75 per cent against the Issue. The Wayland area reversed the trend and registered a 75 per cent favourable vote. Too the voting by precincts was As follows total yes no precinct i Wayland Iowa precinct ii 509 382 75 % 127 25 % Crawfordsville Iowa precinct Iii 290 83 28.6% 207 71.4% Olds Iowa 370 98 26.5% 272 73.5% total 1169 563 48.2% 600 51.8% egyptian commandos attack israeli armoured column close truce out 24 hour v Vietnam in Saigon up a us and civilian casualty report 456 Viet South vietnamese troops closed out died in terror attacks last their 24-hour truce in Vietnam and week the greatest number on went Back to offensive operations record. Today with military spokesmen re North Vietnam couple d the salvos porting i overnight guerrilla with a tall from Premier Phan Van shelling attacks during the stand Dong speaking in Hanoi on the Down an 11-Day High. Late to Chi Minh birthday for the salvos into towns and Camps new determination a to defeat Corn contributed to a rising civilian Petely the us. Imperialist a res casualty toll from guerrilla attacks sors and their henchmen through South Vietnam said in its weekly out Tho Indochina e Penin or. Guess is a Brilliant conservationist who is not intimidated by the contemporary cliches that pass currency for ecological Wisdom. An hours talk with him is an absolute revelation. He has a four part program for the state of South Carolina that would in his informed estimation keep pollution to a digestible minimum and still allow for balanced Industrial growth in the coastal Region. A men have food chains As Well As fish a he says. One he would have the coastal lands Between High and Low water Mark declared common to All the people. He would zone this common property to provide safety for Marine life. But he would accept human beings As Quot a viable part of ecology As much As the Birds the bees and the bugs a meaning that he would License some factory expansion where it would not Hurt fish shrimp or waterfowl. Two he would charge people and factories with a Quot water users the Money thus raised would be used for such things As flood control Safe sewage disposal and water storage projects. Three he would pass an act to provide tax credits As an offset to income tax liabilities to corporations making their contribution to the anti pollution fight. A they do this in Oklahoma a he said a and there is no reason Why we can to have a new pattern of Public manners in South four he would use the states recent tideland and Marshland studies to provide a a Baseline thinking for uniformly applied control of manufacturers of similar products giving them All tile same Breaks and the same penalties in the marketplace. Up Cairo said a Force of 90 egyptian commandos crossed the Suez canal and attacked an israeli armoured column Early today with deadly results but Israel said the egyptians were hurled Back at a Cost of seven dead. The incident touched off an israeli air raid and an artillery Duel. Fighting also flared on the Isra Eli Jordan front and a jordanian military spokesman in Amman said the two sides fought a 70-minute tank and mortar Battle across the Jordan River in the Al Jalba area in the North Jordan Valley. An egyptian military spokesman said the commando forces striking on a front several Miles wide in the Al shall Ufa area of the canals Southern sector destroyed two is Iaeli tanks and two Hal tracks killing All their occupants. Cairo said six egyptian raiders were wounded and that seven were reported missing Israel said the seven missing were killed when the egyptians were caught before Dawn and driven Back to the West Bank in a Hail of israeli gunfire. Almost immediately israeli warplanes swooped in for More strikes at Cairo a canal line hitting Egypt uan targets on the Southern and Central sectors of the canal for two hours. They followed strikes monday As far As 20 Miles into Egypt. The commando attack was the kith reported by Egypt since it unleashed its a Spring offensive a month ago. The Cairo spokesman said Israel threw warplanes and artillery fire against the commandos and that egyptian gunners opened counter fire in an Exchange that lasted for hours. Husband of Fairfield woman is killed in South Vietnam Fairfield a warrant officer Fredrick w. Sheffield 22, former Parsons College student and husband of the former Sally Rinehart of Fairfield was killed in action May 13 in South Vietnam. His death occurred on the same Day his daughter Laurel Ellen was born at the Jefferson county Hospital. Mrs. Sheffield daughter of or. And is. A. M. Rinehart 412 w. Carpenter was notified of her husbands death saturday evening. An army helicopter Pilot to Sheffield was a member of the 174th aviation company 16th aviation group americal division. His unit was stationed at due Pho South Vietnam. Information received by he family said he was serving As co Pilot when his helicopter gunship crashed while on a combat Mission. Sheffield was a student at Parsons College for two years enrolling in 1968. He played two years of varsity football under coach Cholo Huerta. Funeral services and burial Are tentatively planned in Alabama. To Sheffield was a member of the first United presbyterian Church of Fairfield. Students at Iowa Wesleyan prepare for wednesdays thieves Market Art Sale at the College. The e Public is invited to attend the 9 ., to 9 . Event. Looking Over the Sale pieces Are i to a Karyn Sheats Linda Chase and Dee Pertoli. Art Sale at inc wednesday a Sale of Art objects done by i several types of Art pieces inc Luri students at Iowa Wesleyan College ing ceramics paintings sculpture will be held in the inc Art gallery prints and drawings. Wednesday from 9 am. To 9 . The gallery is located in area residents Are invited to the . Memorial building annual a thieves Market to buy Campus. Arrest 132 at Mich. Stale Manson expected to be sole defense witness in trial los Angeles up a Charles Manson is expected to by the sole defense witness among those accused in the Sharon Tate Mur r sports from phenom p us said the cambodian capital heard the thump of artillery before Dawn for the first time in the War As gov a rement soldiers tried to drive away Viet Cong my North vietnamese a crops from the town of Tram Uhnar 25 Miles to the Southwest. The one sided Allied truce in Vietnam for Buddhas birthday ended at noon Marrer by 166 incident lot Fieh tin Quot that kilted one amen Ders sources close to the bizarre ran ant wounded la. 141 communist troops dead and saw to South vietnamese killed and 73 wounded. The on up police arrested 132 persons occupying the Michigan state University student Union building to Breaks silence of Ston up a the attorney stall construction of nuclear Power Plant near Cedar rapids Case said today. Manson and t Bree Young women a Susan Atkins Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie von Houten a Are scheduled to go to trial june 15. The women Are not expected to testify although it was miss Atkins statement to a grand jury i Over ease Clay. Forty six persons were Ai rest that brought their indictment de at Florida memorial College Anc a fourth Young member of the 37 were arrested at the University j a Manson family a Linda Kasabian of Alabama late monday. Amp reported prepared to appear for or one a he soldiers accused of Campus police moved into the the state regarding the killing of murder a be alleged my Lai Mas mus building after issuing repeat miss Tate and four others at the snare in Vietnam charged today the a warnings to occupying students actress Canyon estate aug. 9 and army is frustrating attempts by there w Ere no incidents and those the slayings of grocer Leno Label j defense lawyers to provide a fair arrested were booked on trespassing Anoa and his wife the next evening trial for the defendants and loitering charges. Although she was pictured in a there no Way in the world that the occupation began when Young miss Atkins grand jury account of these Guys can properly defend the plants proposed site is near persons attending a meeting to pro the slayings As never having enter themselves a said attorney Frame test police killings of Blacks in the cd either Home she was for a g. Mcgee jr., who is representing Washington up a citing Empting three applicant Powei possible deficiencies in financing companies in order to begin build and a Lack of experienced person Jing the foundation for the Plant. Be an atomic Energy commission Board monday stalled construction Palo about eight Miles the proposed $168 million nuclear of Cedar rapids in Iowa a Linn South stayed in the building after month a member of the family pee. I Lam. Power Plant near Cedar rapids county. It would be the Iowa first closing hours. And will be the key state witness in ton. Iowa. Nuclear Power Plant and the larg the dec atomic safety and Cit single construction project Ever licensing Board overruling recon undertaken by private business la emendations of the commissions re Iowa. Gul Atory staff ordered hearing on a a. T. ,. A a. The Iowa electric Light and the no sect be re opened. A a Tho Ward said the Dot and place c it in Poco a for Tho now hearings would to an a Ltd a Lam Quot Kef 10 $�?T37 2 a Quot Ilion toward the construction Cost bounced soon. I. A a ,. Blit the Board added its action Tol old a per c no of the would not Quot in Anywise modify of two Rural electric co opera affect the commissions order sex windows were broken in several trying to establish Manson was Mcgee to a up he decided to buildings near the East Lansing the Mastermind of a conspiracy to break his silence Over the Case be Campus monday night including kill out of hatred for the "square1 cause some of an off Campus building world the a army is stacking the deck Quot against the men accused in atty. General j t visits Jackson Jackson miss. Up a actor for his fundamentals or. Guess would control w Ater Runoff and sedimentation far upstream on the Carolina Rivers by reforestation and the use of Small upstream dams As opposed to big downstream dams. This would prevent the formation of bars at some of tile River Mouths. As for the Sand and muck a a spoil created by the dredgers he would not dump it indiscriminately As is the present habit. A the japanese a he said a use their dredging to create diked spoil areas. They make Ponds in which the salinity can be controlled and produce shrimp and oysters on a commercial scale with great Success. Water can be held by dikes to provide room for Duck feedings. This sort of thing is being done on an experimental basis in two and three acre Ponds at Wadalaw Island Between Charleston and the Edisto Estuary. And governor Claude Kirk has contracted with the japanese to do Neil Armstrong takes desk Job space Center Houston up a Neil a. Armstrong first Man to step on the Moon monday took a desk Job in Washington but he i Edmonson hinted he could return to manned space flights. Armstrong announced he had accepted the Post of Deputy associate Nasa administrator of aeronautics in the office of advanced research and technology at the a Washington Headquarters of Tetlie National aeronautics and space administration Nasa. Armstrong will be responsible for coordinating research and technological work on aeronautics Between the government and private Industry. He will succeed Charles w. Harper who is moving to or. Werner von Braun a office which is responsible for planning future space missions. Waters to head admissions Alfred a. Waters who has been head of the admissions department at Adrian College Adrian Mich., for four years has been named director of admissions at Iowa Wesleyan College or. Louis a. Hasel Mayer inc president announced today. Or. Waters will assume the inc Post july i. He succeeds Terry l. Who joined the admissions staff at Queens College Charlotte. N. C., last summer. Charles p. Cushman vice president for development at Wesleyan has been acting admissions director since or. Edmonson a departure. Or. Waters 32 joined the admissions department at Adrian College in 1964 As an admissions Counselor and became department head in 1966. He was a teacher and Par time Counselor at Bath Mich., High school for four years before joining the Adrian staff. A native of Pontiac Mich., or. Waters holds b s., and m a. Degrees in Industrial vocational education from Michigan state University. He is married and has five children. Tives a Central Iowa Power cooperative cipro and Corn Belt Power cooperative a expected to raise the balance. Each would own to per cent of the project. The Board in its order released monday said the cooperatives h id failed to furnish sufficient proof a hey could qualify for Federal Rural electrification administration Loans Ney general John Mitchell visited support their share of the con this deep South capital monday to of Recti a it a Fost express the a concern of the president and myself Over the slay. Ings of two negro students during # demonstrations at Jackson state Bill rejected College. Sen. Edward Brooke r-mass., Washington up a the the Only Black senator had plan House rejected monday a Bill the t nod to visit Jackson today but would let Federal judges retire at cancelled out at the last minute full pay at age 60 after 20 years on rep. Adam Clayton Powell. ,. The Bench. Said he would Lead an a had hoc rep. William l. Scott. R-va., of committee of congressional injected on grounds the Bill disc rain Vest gators into Jackson wednes mated against other Federal pm Day. I ploys who must attain a greater shortly before Mitchells arrival age and length of service to retire monday about 500 Black youths and then receive a maximum paraded to the governors mansion 0f go per cent of their salary. The to protest the gunfire from police i House voted Down the Bill 198 to and state trooper ranks Friday is. That killed two youths and injured tin Bill was sponsored by the in housing Industrial offices. Gather to Start March in Georgia Perry. A. Up a nearly 200 demonstrators gathered in this i Central Georgia town today to Start a 110-mile, five Day a March against death protesting last weeks killings of eight Black men in Augusta a. And Jackson. Miss. As they assembled gov. Lester Maddox told a news conference in Atlanta that he was asking the Southern Christian leadership conference Solo to Call off the demonstration. Maddox said the March was Quot supported by the communist enemies of Freedom and could cause violence and disorder. The March including two mule miss Atkins told the grand jury the incident which reportedly of miss Kasabian acted As a Lookout curved March 16, 1908, in my Lai 4, during the killings at both Home a Hamlet in South Vietnam. Hund und then accompanied the band in reds of civilians allegedly were their a a creepier crawlies Black j slaughtered by american Soldier clothing Back to the Spahn ranch seven other enlisted men and four the onetime Western movie set they used As a commune. Manson is not accused of actually committing any of the murders. He was not even present at the Tate residence and. According to miss Atkins he tied up the la Bianca but left the i to use and waited outside in a car while the two were killed. The whole Case against Manson therefore hinges on proving a conspiracy. Officers Are to Doherty. Charged in addition motorcycle damaged Hospital faces financial problems Des Moines up a the Osceola county Community Hospital at Sibley faces critical financial problems because no Federal funding will be allowed for a 12 room area set aside for nursing Home care two Lay members of the hospitals Board said monday. A we need financial assistance Ani an Accident which occurred on we need it soon a Harold Koopmann West Washington Street at 1 20 of Sibley testified before sen. Har . Monday has been reported to old e. Hughes. A Iowa at a Hearin a drawn wagons draped in Black had i City police. On the health problems of the aging been scheduled to Start at 9 30 A car driven by Marcia l. Ander Koopman said the Hospital will Edt. However its Leader Sulc son College student Here was go i have to borrow More than $20,000 regional vice president Hosea ing East in the outside Lane and to vis year to meet its payroll and Williams had yet to arrive by mid was making a left turn. A motor outstanding Bills. The Cycle Ridden by Max Willey was go he said 12 rooms in the Hospital ing East in the inside Lane at were designed also far nursing the same time and he had to i Home care to the elderly with the a play it Down on the pavement to i understanding that the Hospital avoid being hit. His hands were would receive medicare payments skinned some and the Cycle was for the areas operation damaged an estimated $91. A but now we find out that it was a �?-1 not allowed and that we now have Debbie Marberger Jay pack to medicare $27,883 Forth years 1967, 1968 and 1969,�?� Koop morning and his aides said demonstration probably get under Way till Early afternoon. Baby Dies in Cedar rapids fire killed was Cedar rapids up a a 7 15 others. Xon administration and endorsed by month o d girl died monday in daughter of mrs. Janice Marberger Mitchell met for two hours with the american Gar a sedation. An i a fire which heavily damaged two 27 mrs. Marberger was treated at Inan said. Mayor Russell Davis and or. John j u g judicial conference. It houses in Southeast Cedar rapids a Cedar rapids Hospital for smoke j Peoples president of Jackson state paste j the Senate. End left one person hospitalized. Inhalation and released. College a predominantly Black institution to get an account of the incident. Diked control work in Florida. Men can do a lot of constructive things if they will Only get up and the Clair guess attitude offers a Way out of the impasse Between the Hilton head developers and the base chemical company. The a act National Assn. For the advancement of coloured people Blacks in Beaufort county May still get their needed jobs and the Rich retired people of Hilton head do not necessarily have to worry about their real estate investments. The solution to the problem however demands a Retreat on All sides from the pernicious influence of a either or thinking. Governor Mcnair is betting that his Carolina citizens Are up to it. Distributed by King features Syndicate probe fire at judge Home Des Moines up a a fire monday night caused extensive damage to the residence of Des Moines municipal judge Luther t. Glanton and detectives from the City a arson squad were investigating. District chief Joe Loffredo estimated damage to the $55,000 House at $85,000. Loffredo said judge Glanton who was upstairs asleep when the fire broke out escaped safely with his wife and son. The fire which broke out in a stairway near the outside of the House was confined to the Kitchen. However Loffredo said a everything in the House was scorched because of the intense heat. Loffredo said the City fire marshals office and two detectives from the arson squad were seeking a cause of the fire which broke out shortly after to . Mayor defendant in court action a petition has been filed in the clerks office by Harry Lee Smith against Charles Hanna mayor of it. Pleasant in connection with a speeding charge. The plaintiff states that on feb. 5, 1970, he was charged with speeding Here did not enter a plea and posted what he thought was a $24 Bond. The petition states that the plaintiff later Learned that according to the mayors criminal docket it shows that on May 7 the plaintiff entered a plea of guilty arum was fined $20 and $4 costs. The plaintiff claims that this is in error and filed a motion to vacate tile judgment of feb. 7 and it was overruled by the defendant. The plaintiff claims that the defendant exceeded his jurisdiction and asks that the record of the Case be reviewed by the District court. Cleanest county in the nation must be Berkshire in Massachusetts after this Chiemo no in which Gardner l. Brown president of the first agricultural National Bank in Pittsfield is receiving and paying for discarded cans and bottles. The Bank offered i cent apiece and wound up paying out a tidy $11,800.43 for More than a million. Terse verse by a. Gordon harder much than breaking a Bael habit is to keep from telling How you did it

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