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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 9, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa R the it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol 92, no. 264 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening november 9, 1970 Price to cents Jeffrey Hart court not to Rule the findings on Kent state every possible Effort to now being made to turn the shootings at Kent state University Tost siting Toto a Campus Caius a celebre to create a Symbol and martyrs totally separated from the ragged reality and thus to cause trouble. At ground Aero itself Kent state University the student body president Craig Morgan called for a one Day class moratorium to protest the action of the Ohio grand jury which indicated 25 students and faculty members in connection with the events of May 1-4. N. B., Morgan was one of those indicated he for second degree riot instantly he was echoed to new Hampshire by the Una student body president Mesa wafers who called for a similar Boycott of classes. When the juices begin to flow in this Way it is always necessary to recover ones hold on reality. What actually happened at Kent state on that weekend and what did the Ohio grand jury actually do in the newspaper reports the theme was for the most part that the Rand jury and the Scranton commission on Campus unrest were in fundamental disagreement. This to just not True. I have studied in detail the special report of the Scranton commission on Kent state a a truly magnify sent document a and have Alco examined the grand jury findings. The news reports stressed that Only students and faculty members bad been criminally indicated a implying that the grand jury was therefore unfair. But the grand jury found that the National guardsmen had to face violated1 no Law. Too Here to How they put it a it should be made dear that we do not condone All of the activities of the National guard. We find however that they fired their weapons in the honest and sincere belief and under circumstances which would have logically caused them to believe that they would suffer serious bodily injury had they not done to. They Ane not therefore subject to criminal i myself agree with the Scranton commissions finding that the National guards firing Toto the crowd of students was a tragic error. And yet get this report from the government printing office and read it a 92 pages of text and so pages of Whit can Only be called Amarin photographs. What the report documents to a Long weekend of spiralling terror and anarchic menace commencing Friday evening May i and culminating in the military action on monday May 4. Friday evening there were riots in the Center of the town of Kent a Small town which employs ten policemen. Streets were blocked policemen stoned a fire was started to the main Street passing motorists were stopped and threatened. The next Day saturday there was a Large escalation of the violence and1 this process went Forward steadily. The Roto building was binned to the ground various arts of arson occurred University property was trashed. Local merchants were told to put anti War signs in their windows or risk the toes of their stores. When the National guard units a a finally arrived the townspeople breathed a sigh of a def. Some semblance of order would be restored. A a a no one oui task at the sequence of photographs to the Scranton report without sensing the Tacneav tog terror of this weekend. Some pertinent things do emerge when the details Are examined. Photograph 8, for example shows one victim Jeffrey Mailer of Plainview new York a student making an obscene gesture at the troops. Photograph 25 shows Miller to the Abt of heaving a teargas canister at them. All through the series of photographs the guardsmen Are surrounded by Massas of students Many of them to the act of throwing rocks or other missiles. Allison Krause another of the dead students was found to have fragments of Concrete and cinder Block in her pockets. On the evidence of the Scranton oct Morion report nothing to clearer than that the Ohio grand jury a findings Are Correct. Distributed by King features Syndicate on a illegal War Washington up a the supreme court by a vote of 8 to 3, refused today to Rule directly on a Massachusetts legislative move declaring the Vietnam War Begal. State authorities had asked the court to consider the controversial Cable cars moving san Francisco up a Cable care omit tool san Francisco Mila Between Market Street and the Northern waterfront at their usual nine Miles in hour today mowing the end of a 57-hour Wildcat strike. Injuries fatal to father of local Man Alfred h. Curly Schroeder 91, retired Farmer from Danville was fatally injured about 12 11 . Saturday when a limb fell on him during tree trimming work at his Home. Or. Schroeder was taken to memorial Hospital Burlington where he died about 4m� hours after the mishap. He was bom nov. 19, 1878 in Des Moines county the son of Henry and Hannah Weideman Schroeder. He was married on april 8, 1904 at Danville to Louise Margaret Holman who predeceased him on june a 1970. He was of the methodist Faith and was a director of the Danville state savings Bank for Many years. Is survived by two sons Orville it. Worth Texas and Erwin j. Of it. Pleasant three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren one brother and two Sisters. One daughter one granddaughter three Brothers and three Sisters Are deceased. Services for or. Schroeder win be held at 2 . Tuesday at the Elliott Chapel new London. Rev. James Seibert will officiate. Interment will be in Burlington memorial Park mausoleum. Neighbors crib Gholson Corn neighbors and friends gathered thursday nov. 8, at the Home of mrs. E. R. Pete Gholson to pick and crib 90 acres of com. Or. Gholson died recently. Farmers providing pickers and combines were Bill Prehm Elmer carrels Paul Campbell Warren carrels Wallace Riepe Tom Allen Russell Rich Dale Teberg Harold Lee Doyle Dunn and Ralph Penne Baker. Others lending a hand with the Harvest were Nile Buffington Bill Burk Brian Gray Keith Walters James Dunn Jack Riley Harold Van soc Russel Warth Herman Prehm Perry Martin Bob Godson Dave Jefferson Marvin Landis. Dean Allen Raymond Beattie Robert Manlove Dean Campbell Dale Campbell Tom Jefferson Ken Earnest Cecil Mcgohan Ralph Meshley Bill Wilson Quey Timmerman Larry Smith Paul Jester John a. Hunzinger g. W. Mickey Bob Lee and Bettajane Pennebaker. Ladies who served at noon were Ruth Dunn Laura Beattie Bonnie Hunzinger Martha Prelip Lucille Van soc Ruby mag Hojui Elva Jefferson Veneta Teberg Mabel Campbell Ethel Caldwel Ldonna Gray and Mary Gholson. Other neighbor ladies sent food. The primary Oil co. Furnished Gas add the new London cooperative elevator furnished trucks. Measure without going through lower court proceedings. The state legislation designed As a specific test Case challenged the legality of the War because there has been no formal declaration by Congress. Too it held that no Massachusetts residents need to serve outside the country in Sui undeclared War. Justices William o. Douglas Potter Stewart and John m. Harlan dissented from today a refusal to hear the Case directly. But the other six justices sided with the Justice department which urged that the direct state Appeal be rejected. The Law enacted last april 2, instructed the state s attorney general Robert h. Quinn to file suit Tai the supreme court against defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird. The legislation also authorized Quinn to initiate action at a lower court level if the supreme court turned Down his request for speedier consideration. Too in otho1 actions the court agreed to hear a Case from Florida involving the wide spread practice of Many states to apportion More tax Money to prosperous districts than they do in poor districts. A three judge Federal panel last May 8 struck Down a Florida state system authorizing such a distribution and state authorities appealed. Agreed to examine the constitutionality of a Rhode Island Law authorizing use of state funds for supplementing teachers salaries in roman Catholic schools. Refused to hear an Appeal by Abbie Hoffman one of the Chicago seven from his conviction of resisting arrest for disturbing the peace in a 1968 restaurant episode. Declines to consider a claim that an 1866 Law prohibiting racial discrimination in1 housing extends to similar practices in private employment. Began hearing arguments on two challenges to the Way juries impose the dearth penalty. The test cases involving the Fate of an estimated 550 men now held to death Row stemmed from California and Ohio. At Issue was whether trial judges should be required to set More specific yardsticks for imposing death and whether the same jury should decide the guilt of a person and then condemn him to execution. Apollo 14 and ship on launch pad a we shall not shoot first is israeli Premier Golda Meir sword on Extension of the cease fire with Egypt and Here israeli troops relax in a Bunker overlooking the Suez canal and wait to see if someone else does. Reports theft of Woven wire Carl Schenk of Winfield Rural reported to the sheriffs office at i . Saturday the theft of eight Rolls of Fence Woven wire valued at $331 from a Fence line near a Road which is under construction near his farm. Hie thief drove into the Field and Down the Fence line picking up the Rolls As he Armit tracks showed. Deputy Charles Droz went to the farm to investigate. School dismissal Early thursday Stock ebbs of chs Mil pleasant Community schools Wilt be dismissed Carty thursday Nev. 12, so that teachers May attend an in service Mort inc schools will be a Tonto a follows elementary 2 15 7th de 8th 2 26 High school 2 30 state witness in Tate trial admits lying los Angeles up a a chief state witness at the Tate murder trial admitted today that she lied under oath about her whereabouts during the time of the seven slayings in August 1089. Of came Lake 17, was confronted on the witness stand with the testimony which she gave before a grand jury in december 1969 saying that she was in the Inyo county area several Hundred Miles North of los Angeles at the tame of the slayings. Too miss Lake had testified last week that she was at the spatial ranch to August 1989 and that one of the defendants Leslie Van Houten came Home on Titre night of the killing of grocer Leno Labianca and his wife after staying out All night. She said miss Van Houten later admitted stabbing bodies after they were dead. Defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald produced the grand jury transcript and read from it miss lakes sworn testimony that she was in Inyo county during that time. A was that the truth or was it a lie a Fitzgerald asked. A it was a lie a the tiny miss Lake said quietly. A you bed under oath to the grand jury is that Correct a of at the beginning of the session Superior court judge Charles h. Drier refused to Issue an order to permit co defendant Charles Manson to sing in his jail cell. The Jurist said he found no regulation prohibiting Manson from singling except after lights were turned out and inmates were sleeping. Soldier shot in new Cairo disturbance Cairo 111. Up a a Black Soldier Home on leave was shot and critically injured and a suspicious fire destroyed a lumber company during the weekend in this City with a history of racial trouble. Police Early today said a everything is Willy Andersen 21, a Black Soldier Home on leave from the army installation at it. Leonard Wood mo., was in critical condition at the popular Bluff mo., veterans administration Hospital following surgery for five gunshot wounds. Police said they did not know How Andersen was wounded but the United front a militant Black organization said he was wounded by sniper fire into the Pyramid courts a Black housing project. The front also said the Rev. Walter Garrett 23, also was shot at a Hospital in Sikeston mo., and released. Police however said Garrett was Only injured in a fall. Arson was suspected in the fire which destroyed the Cairo lumber co. Saturday night. Fire chief a. C. Seawright said gasoline and kerosene were drenched on the firm before it was set afire. The company was owned by Bob Cunningham Leader of the White United citizens for Community action. During the past 20 months Cairo has had five police chiefs two mayors and two fire chiefs. Today a contingent of 24 state policemen is permanently stationed there by an order of gov. Richard b. Ogilvie to help keep order. Clothing pick up set for nov. 23 monday nov. 23, is the Date set for the next Church world service truck pick up in it. Pleasant. Clothing should be delivered to the first United methodist Church by saturday nov. 20. Emphasis this year is on All types of lugh weight clothing. Church world service ships the clothing to disaster victims and War refugees in More than 30 countries the majority of these countries Are located in to Oprial areas. There is a continuing need for blankets. They provide More than warmth. They also provide a tent like shelter for homeless persons. Sometimes they Are used to bundle up the few belongings that can be salvaged by a family in the aftermath of a disaster. Blankets Are a first aids whenever a disaster strikes. Cos officials state that at least 300,000 blankets must be secured this year to meet anticipated needs. Donations of Cash Are also needed. It costs to cents a Pound to and wounded. Garrett was treated process the clothing prepare it for shipment and to pay for insurance and port charges. Cos also suggests that a donation of $3 will buy a new Blanket for shipment overseas. For further information Call mrs. Logan Heusel at 385-3089. Convict releases two hostages Ionia Mich. Up a a convicted murderer who held his girl Friend and a 6-year-old girl hostage with a razor Blade for nine hours sunday at the Ionia state reformatory released the captives unharmed at Midnight. Officials said the inmate Eugene Tubbs 22, grand rapids gave himself up to prison officials and was taken to the Jackson psychiatric clinic of the Southern Michigan state prison in Jackson. Tubbs had been in the reformatory a visiting room sunday afternoon when he suddenly seized his girl Friend. Carol Taylor 19, grand rapids and Alicia Dupree 6. Detroit who was with another group of visitors. Tubbs took the hostages to a rec six Hijack iranian plane to Baghdad Tehran up a six iranian Petty criminals extradited from Dubai to Iran for trial overpowered three armed guards today and forced a twin eng me dc3 iranian Airliner to Fly to Baghdad airline officials said. The plane landed at Baghdad International Airport on its last drops of fuel and was surrounded by iraqi troops. The six hijackers who were not immediately identified and the three guards were detained by iraqi officials. Cape Kennedy up a the Apollo 14 rocket and its improved ship went to the launch pad today marking a key Milestone on communists in series of new attacks phenom penh up a communist forces launched a series of coordinated predawn attacks in the Kampong Cham province Early today. The attacks were continuing at midday with heavy ground fighting entered around the Airfield on the outskirts of the City of Kampong Cham. Reports from senior military officers said the communists hit at least four positions in or near Kampong Cham 50 Miles Northeast of phenom penh. The Garrison at the Airfield called in support from cambodian t23 fighters and South vietnamese Al sky raiders. They also asked for an Airdrop of ammunition. Too at Skourn 35 Miles Northeast of phenom penh and West of Kampong Cham on Highway 6, officers reported communist forces attacked the perimeter of a command Post during the night. Skourn is the rear support base of the 20,000-Man government task Force now operating from Tang Kauk 52 Miles North of phenom penh. Meanwhile american b52s moved into the second month of their saturation bombing Campaign against the to Chi Minh Trail. Military sources said there was no end in sight to operations that dump nearly 1,000 tons of bombs a Day on the communist Supply route through Laos. Too the u. S. Command in Saigon announced the biggest single troop withdrawal in six months. The number of american servicemen in Vietnam fell to 368,000 As of nov. 5, the lowest level since dec. To 1966, when there were 367,400 Here. The drop from the week ended oct. 29 was 6,000 men. That was the largest number to go Home in a week since april 9. When 10,200 men left the country. Confer about switch track for Industry in Don meth manager for the Henry county Industrial development corporation and the chamber of Commerce and attorney Alanson Elgar conferred with Burlington Northern Railroad officials in St. Paul minn., Friday relative to a Railroad connection for a new Industrial Plant in it. Pleasant. The Railroad officials indicated their willingness to cooperate in the installation of a Spur attaching to the Superior Cable switch track and leading to a nearby factory building which would be erected. The company interested in coming to it. Pleasant has indicated a willingness to locate in that Vicinity. Next Steps will be to compile figures on Cost of construction of the Railroad Spur and of the building. The company would employ a Small number at the Start but would be in a position to extend its operations and thus add to the number of employees. Rep. Dawson 84, oldest in Congress Dies the aircraft an air taxi chartered to Iran airways Hod been on a scheduled flight from Dubai to Bandar Abbas on Iran a persian Gulf coast. It was released by Iraq j four hours later. Air line officials reported the plane three Crew members and five passengers landed in Abadan on the iranian Border an hour later. Car a Joes into ditch damaged Chicago up r i is. Or a. William l. Dawson at 84 the oldest member of Congress died in veterans research Hospital today of pneumonia. Because of illness he had declined to run for renomination in 1970 to the House of representatives where he had represented the first District of Illinois since 1942. His place was taken by Alderman Ralph h. Metcalf like Dawson a Democrat. He had been chairman of the House committee on government operations the first negro to hold the chairmanship of a regular major congressional committee. Dawson once declined a Chance to become the first Black member of the Cabinet he turned Down a proposal by president Kennedy to become postmaster general. The projects Road to recovery from the aborted flight of Apollo 13. Too Apollo 14 astronauts Alan b. Shepard Stuart a. Roosa and Edgar d. Mitchell watched As their 383-foot space machine inched out of its Assembly building at Dawn. The three pilots Are scheduled to set out at 3 23 . Est Jan. 31 on the nations second try to land men in the Moons ancient Fra Mauro Hills. Besides starting the final 12 weeks of launch preparations today a move commemorates the third anniversary of the first test flight of the Saturn 5 Moon rocket. Too the oxygen tank explosion that nearly turned the flight of Apollo 13 into disaster in april delayed the launching of Apollo 14 by three months. To guard against another explosion the oxygen tanks in the Apollo 14 command ship have been modified extensively. All potential causes of fire have been eliminated from the High pressure spheres. Some welding difficulties delayed the delivery of the two new tanks to the Cape by about a month. They now Are expected sometime next week and will be installed at the launch pad. Too a third fireproof oxygen tank has been added to the command ships service module As insurance audit already has been installed. That tank along with an extra Battery and additional drinking water would enable the Apollo 14 crewmen to return to Earth under an Apollo 13-Type emergency without having to rely on their lunar module As a Lifeboat As did the Apollo 13 pilots. Iranian government officials said the six hijackers were smugglers and Petty Marc exists who had been arrested in Dubai. They said the prisoners were not political Crim a 1967 Chevrolet driven by John Clough 31, Norfolk neb., was damaged an estimated $400 on the right front when it swerved to miss p Grain truck and went into a ditch near the intersection of Highway 218 and Winfield Avenue sunday at new g raves Ite for Robert f. Kennedy Washington up a work was begun today on a permanent graveside for Robert e. Kennedy in an area about too feet from the grave of his brother the late president John f. Kennedy in Arlington National cemetery. The $747,000 project will include a Granite paved Walkway leading from the presidents grave to a semicircular Plaza paved with grail 1 Ite blocks. There will be a Small reflecting Pool and a Granite Wall carved with quotes from two of the senators speeches made in South Africa in 1966 and Indianapolis in 9 40 . Clough was going South and Lloyd 1968. Garmoe it. Pleasant had stopped the grave will be marked by the at the Stop sign headed West. A same Small White wooden Cross northbound car passed and Garmoe which has stood Over the temporary Camp in Street Rome up a fifty families from Rome shantytowns camped out on a downtown Street today to protest housing conditions. Ords room across the Hall from the j Inais Anco added the government visitors room and barricaded himself inside. He complained of headaches and demanded medical treatment. Officials said he did not demand his Freedom. Youths arrested in Sigourney store Sigourney up a three Iowa youths were arrested in the Sigourney coast to coast store sunday and were allegedly stacking merchandise in preparation for an apparent burglary. The youths Allen Rogers 19, Davenport Michael Miller 19. Of was pressing for their return to Iran. Earlier the airline officials said the hijackers seized the guards weapons and holding a gun at the head of australian Pilot Sidney Jordan forced him to divert the flight to Doha Qatar for refuelling before heading on to Baghdad. Pulled into 218. He saw Clough coming from the North and stopped. Clough swerved his car to miss the truck and it went into the West ditch. The Accident was investigated by Deputy sheriff Charles Droz. Grave in the same area. The fed eral government is paying up to $181,000 of the Cost with the Kennedy family providing the balance. Development group to visit California Des Moines up a Tate Iowa development comm torsion today revealed plans for a four Day a sell Iowa trip to the West Cost to Contact powerful business and financial leaders in California. Dick weeks of the development commission staff said More than too persons including gov. Robert d. Ray were expect to Board amp chartered Jet liner nov. 17 and Fly to san Francisco for an Industrial luncheon. Among those participating in the promotional trip wlm be seven of the la Iowa development commissioners and six members of the executive Taff. It will be the seventh promotional trip in the United states for the development commission and the second in country junket under rays administration. The state will absorb costs of $465 each for Iowa officials going on the trip while the numerous private business and financial leaders will pay their own Way. On tuesday the Trade Mission will have lunch in. San Francisco then follow up contracts on tuesday afternoon and wednesday morning. The group was scheduled to Fly to los Angeles late wednesday and Host a Bimala promotion luncheon with los Angeles business executives on thursday. The Mission will return to Iowa by chartered plane on Friday. Or. Eggert leaving m. H. Institute or. Delmar c. Eggert clinical director at the mental health inst Sioux City and Raymond Bruns 18, i Tut has recently submitted his res of Sigourney All charged with i ignation from that position breaking and entering were being held in the Keokuk jail today under $1,000 Bond each. Authorities said among the goods break ins at seven schools up seven Northeast Iowa schools were broken into Over the weekend and the Iowa Bureau of criminal investigation has been called in to investigate the matter. Authorities said less than $100 total was taken from the safes at the seven schools. Some of the or. Eggert came to it. Pleasant on the Mhz staff in August of 1966. Schools were also vandalized. His resignation is effective on no the schools involved were West vember 13th and or. Eggert and Union Junior High Clermont Jun the Trio was stacking in a pile in his family will move to Mankato tor High Postville elementary Post Competition eluded about $2,000 Worth of guns j minn., where he will establish a Ville High Postville Junior High i a footwear and a Large Quantity of ammunition. I private practice in psychiatry. I Monona High and Elkader High. From import 17 shoe plants halting operations Boston up a seventeen shoe plants employing 3.630 workers have halted operations in new England since january the new England footwear association reported monday. Ten Massachusetts factories closed affecting 2,185 employees five factories in new Hampshire with 1,200 workers shut Down and two plants closed in Maine putting 245 out of work. A in virtually every closing a said Maxwell Field president of the association a the Heads of these companies stated that the major Factor in their decision to cease opera to Call at Homes in fund drive members of the it. Pleasant kiwanis and rotary clubs will be out tuesday evening in their annual Quot housewives drive for the Community Chest fund. The rotary club will Canvas Ward in and the kiwanis club will Call on the Homes in Ward i. Individual contributions need to be More than in the past if the goal is to be reached. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon a Friend that a staunch and Loyal when All is spoke considers you a Good egg even when you re broke

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