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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 16, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 270 it. Pleasant Iowa monday evening november 16, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain so you re moving to Australia Sydney. Australia a if you were one of the 4,000 americans a year who Are pulling up stakes and emigrating to Australia what would you find would it be enough to make you want to stay the obvious thing to say is that this is America As it used to be. It is a wide open land with 12-million people occupying a Continental territory about equal in size to the Continental United states. It has that great Central desert area presumably uninhabitable save for the kangaroos the aborigines a the a a Bose a and the prospectors but the u. Once had its a great american desert a which characters As diverse As the mormons Brigham Young and Las vegas a Howard Hughes have managed to exploit. Newcomers to Australia done to have to worry about the fabled a out backs the coastal areas Are still sparsely settled by american standards. Melbourne is like Boston minus Bostons ethnic squabbles Canberra the capital is a beautifully planned City called a a Garden within a Garden a with Good Upland air and plenty of suburban room and free shrubs for new householders and As for Sydney it swings without the smog of los Angeles or the pollution of the Hudson River. Too the newcomer has probably heard heard a lot about Australia As a classless society a Workingman a Republic of mate Yness where everybody is called Tinkum aussie or Cobber. It May have been that once but the country now impresses the visitor As almost universally Middle class. The people who buy up the old slum property with the wrought Iron facades in Sydney a Paddington for renovation Are a upward mobiles a but they Are Busy ascending without the snobbish Ness that they detest when it comes out from Mother Britain with an Oxford accent. The pleasures of Australia Are like those of Middle class american sports beaches barbecues a Sloop anchored in one of the numerous coves around Sydney Harbor a trip to the great Barrier reef the local equivalent of the Caribbean or a weekend of skiing in the mountains Between Sydney and Melbourne. You come Here to find the Wool Market depressed but you be settling Down in Australia As a sheepherder anyway. Perhaps if you have the capital you would be coming As a cattleman texans have bought or leased huge acreage in Semi tropical Queensland or the Northern territory to run their Stock much to the disgust of old fashioned labor politicians who object to a Rural cannibalism a which is their word for foreign investment in the out Back open spaces. Or you might be coming Here to take advantage of the huge recent discoveries of Iron Ore deposits in Western Australia or the offshore Oil near Melbourne that will go far toward making Australia self sufficient in petrol or Copper in the Northern territory or Bauxite or Nickel or uranium. Once known for its Gold Australia has suddenly discovered that it is Rich in everything. Too so it is bound to develop a secondary Economy on top of its wheat and Wool and cattle and its extractive industries and this Means that with a Little capital a skill or merely a personality you could Start any one of a number of businesses that depend on an increasingly affluent White Collar society. The Man from Portland Oregon with the idea for a Chain of pizza palaces is the prototype of the shrewd newcomer if you done to have capital the help wanted pages of the Sydney morning Herald Are even More reassuring than their comparable pages in the new York times Australia is a full employment society with a vengeance much like West Germany. You wont make the Money that you can make in America and the taxes in the upper brackets Are High. But the food prices in the restaurants bring Back memories of the pre world War ii Days in America a Steak dinner with delicious Sydney Rock oysters some tiniest shuffled into the meat As a carpet bag Steak a costs about half of what it would Cost in new York or san Francisco. The smaller things in Australia come cheap. Taxis in Sydney Are Low like bus fares in America eighteen cents As a starter. It is the big things a a Home in the suburbs a big american car a washing machine a that would Hurt you on an austra Aura of a premiere As festival opens drive for Center by Billie Turley the one remaining a a Toby Jimmie Davis returned to it. Pleasant saturday evening to appear in the production a where is my Teddy written toy the late Neil Schaffner one of the greatest of the beloved a a Toby characters. The initial kick off Campaign was launched1 by the National society for the preservation of tent Folk and repertoire theatre to raise fund to build a museum research and opera House on the Midwest old settlers and threshers reunion grounds. The National society in cooperation with Iowa Wesleyan College staged a a repertoire americana festival a an occasion used to bring attention to the project to construct a museum and Center to preserve the Memorabilia and traditions of a fading segment of american theatre and an opera House which will be used to present repertoire theatre in the tradition of the turn of the Century. Too the whole festival took on the Aura of a a a premiere accented by the graciousness of mrs. Neil sch Affler the exciting exhibit of theatre Memorabilia created by prof. Stan Weiderspan head of the Art department of Iowa Wesleyan College and the enthusiasm of the Large group under the direction of Joe Mauck who made the festival possible. The Vintage Popcorn Wagon set mph debaters to have first Quot parents night la the it. Pleasant High school debate class and debate squad will have their first a a parents a night on wednesday nov. 18, in the High school Annex. The parents of the debate students secondary faculty and administration school Board members and the it. Pleasant bar association members will be guests of the event. Robert l. Kemp debate coach at the University of Iowa and four of his debaters will participate in the evening program. Four teams from the local debate squad will conduct demonstration debates for the parents and guests under the direction of their coach Roger Williams. The National High school debate Resolution for 1970 is a that the Federal government should establish finance and administer programs to control air and water the debate squad participated in the invitational tournament at Iowa City West High school on saturday. It. Pleasant debaters had one of the three undefeated four Man teams in the Novice division in the tournament. Vicki Schnicker with Denise Rodd on the affirmative and Jane toilet son with David Rose on the negative were undefeated during six rounds in the tournament. Lian salary. If you Are an accepted immigrant you can come out Here with a $335 assist from the government on your fare. And when your children Are school age you can take their education expenses off your income tax. Senator Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut who tried to put this Over in the u. S., should have a look at the australian system and have another go at his pet legislative innovation too writers such As Craig Mcgregor a profile of Australia of the Sydney morning Herald warn that the Placid surface of contemporary australian life can be deceptive or. Mcgregor says specifically that australians a Are Quick to assert their own rights and sometimes careless of the rights of others a and that the a murder rate is 17 per million people and climbing still but or. Mcgregor has not looked at America lately if he had he would not be running Australia Down. The comparison Between the problems of the two big Continental nations that used to Call themselves Anglo Saxon is interesting All Down the line. But that is still another column. Distributed by King features Syndicate the stage for the Surprise of the exhibit. The manikins of the famous Toby and Susie dressed in their own costumes which Are a part of the Memorabilia the decorative stage curtains and old wooden reels the pseudo dressing room with the a trouper so flavor Gas lights the old tent polls and trunks arranged under the artistic hand of prof. Weiderspan took on a life of its own. In the North end of the Large gallery the Art group had assisted in renovating the old Schaffner players billboard. The life sized French Paster portraits by a French artist were the focal Point of the whole Panorama. Sweet sixteen under the supervision of Cher members of the it. Pleasant business and professional women a club served Popcorn and lemonade As the special guests arrived. Too the festival started with a press conference under the direction of Martha Crane Carls and Billie Turley. The schedule called for one hour but the interest of the Large group interviewing the Davis and mrs. Neil Schaffner caused it to continue into the later scheduling. Seventy guests were served dinner in the adjoining Wing of the Campus Art gallery. Decorations carried out the theatre theme with a Large stage curtain completely dominating the East Wall billboard posters and architects drawings of the opera House projected on a screen elsewhere. Too the informal meeting included Brief remarks by mayor Charles Hanna president Louis Haselmayer of inc mrs. Neil Schaffner James v. Davis William Saber president of the Midwest old settlers and threshers and master of ceremonies Joe Mauck. Too the evening reached its Climax with the stage production of a where is my Teddy a play written by Neil Schaffner and completed while playing in it. Pleasant in 1926. The Story in a mild Way tries to say that discrimination because of race is wrong. The hero is a Gypsy boy played by Steve Wettach who Falls in love with the local schoolteacher Diana Walter. He encounters hostility with the banker Dick Isles and his son Erie played by Richard Hatfield because of his unfamiliar racial and cultural background. Toby plays a big if bumbling part in bringing about the Happy ending. Others contributing Fine performances in the production were David Bell a clerk in the open to Public the Art gallery in the . Memorial building at Iowa Wesleyan will be open to the Public for a two week period during which the Folk and tent theatre historical documents and artefacts will be on display. The hours will be from 9 . To 5 . Special arrangements can be made to View the exhibits in the evenings or on the weekends. Bank mrs. Marilyn Mccoid As the Mother of clerk Lloyd Juanita Davis As the country girl and or. George Lamore As Romera the father of the Gypsy boy. The Popcorn Wagon was moved to a new location at the door of the Chapel and welcomed the guests with fresh Popcorn. Young boys a hawked their wares in the Fash screwed into Skull a or. Yury Pelech 50, Brooklyn ., makes a Telephone Call in Toronto ont., As he recuperate from an operation to Correct spinal arthritis. His neck was broken deliberately As part of the surgery. Before the operation or. Pelech could not lift his head up and could not look straight ahead. The Halo like steel Frame was screwed into his Skull to hold his head erect while he recuperate. Ion of the old a a rep shows. Ushers were Sweet sixteen and or. Arad mrs. Robert Young handled the ticket sales. Too the music of Iowa Wesleyan College entered into the spirit of the evening. Professor Larry Cul Lison and duo exemplified their ability to present diversified entertainment opening the show with a presentation of repertoire a roaring twenties songs. Prof Gullason continued to furnish music for the entire production in the tradition of the old tent theatre. Professor Burton Moville and mrs. Maihle a rolled them in the aisles with their presentation of vaudeville at its Best. Their offering was an off key rendition of a selection from a student Prince with mrs. Mahle As soloist and or. Mahle As her accompanist. O o o the youngest performer was Brant Davis son of the stars of the show. Kindergarten occupies his learning process while he has appeared in As Many As 1,000 shows to Date. Jimmy Davis in a parody routine and Juanita with a Media of Early songs completed the in Between act presentations. Mrs. Darrell Rodd and Joe Mauck As assistant director and coordinator respectively were Given a round of applause for their contributions to the Success of the production. Because of the enthusiasm of the audience the Schaffner players broke tradition by having a a curtain too an unusual presentation of the dreams for the opera House took a theatrical flavor As a a Toby made his Appeal to the audience for support. He talked informally about the plans for the theatre Complex and suggested anyone seeking further information or wishing to lend their support of the project to preserve this segment of americana Contact officers of the society for the preservation of tent Folk and repertoire theatre president James v. Davis first vice president mrs. Neil Schaffner second vice president Joe Mauck treasurer Herbert Bult Secretary Helen Virden and Public relations chairman mrs. Leo Turley. $5,000 fund set up by inc parents five parents of Iowa Wesleyan College students have established a $5,000 Challenge fund As part of a $18,000 Wesleyan parents fund Campaign announced by Glenn Bostrom National chairman of the drive. The drive which will be among parents of both present and former Wesleyan students was kicked off during parents Day at the College saturday and will run through june 30, 1971. Similar campaigns Are being conducted among individuals and businesses in Henry county and among alumni. According to or. Bostrom president of the Bostrom management corporation Chicago and whose daughter Karin is a Wesleyan senior the parents putting up the $5,000 Challenge monies were impressed with the to area businesses and individuals who set up the Challenge fund in Henry county and the to alumni challengers. A these parents Are very anxious to follow suit to insure the parents drive is a big Success too a said Bostrom. Too under terms of the Challenge offer the five donors will contribute up to a total of $5,000 in excess of their gifts last year provided a like amount is contributed by other parents in new and increased gifts. Specifically the a a match will work this Way. 1. If a Parent did not contribute to the College during the 1969-70 year his entire gift will be matched by the a a challenges donors on a Dollar for Dollar basis 2. If a Parent did contribute last year any increase in this years gift will be matched Dollar for Dollar 3. If a Parent has Given to the College in some previous year but not last year his entire gift will be matched Dollar for Dollar. Drive plans Call for both mail and personal solicitation with funds collected going for general support of the College. As with the Henry county and alumni drives this years parents goal of $18,000 is considerably higher than in recent years As general educational costs Are at an All time High. Parents gifts totalled $3,800 last year. Commends Chest fund agencies Mary l. Kiesey and her husband Don owners of Home furniture have resided in it. Pleasant for the past seven years. Their three children Are Edward a senior at University of Iowa Dianna of Omaha nebr., and Kent attending the school of associated arts in St. Paul Minn. Mrs. Kiesey is actively associated in the store with her husband. Both Are aware of the Many advantages of a consolidated solicitation Campaign. In urging support of the it. Pleasant Community Chest mrs. Kiesey said a i have always been especially pleased about the free red Cross swimming lessons for the children of this area. Without the free lessons funded through the United Community Chest far fewer children would be Able to swim. And learn the principles of water safety. . Losses Over 44,000 phenom penh up a the War in Vietnam went into another Lull today but Battlefield deaths since last thursday pushed u. Losses for the War to 44,004. In Cambodia the communists renewed their attacks on government forces North and Northeast of phenom penh. . Spokesmen in Saigon had reported 43,959 americans dead As of thursday when the weekly casualty report is issued. Since then there have been 45 deaths including that of an american killed by a Booby trap sunday. Car hits one of three Deer a 1966 Ford driven by Thomas i. Rude 34, it. Pleasant struck one of three Deer which jumped out in front of his car on a county Road three Miles South of Oakland Mills about 5 50 . Sunday. The Deer which was struck a Large Doe Wasny to found after the Accident. Rude and four passengers in his northbound car were not Hurt. The left front fender Grill and Radiator on the car were damaged an estimated $300. Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore investigated. Mary l. Kiesey fleeing youth shot and killed Des Moines up a Clarence Jackson 14, was fatally wounded by police officers following a High Speed Auto Chase Here sunday night. Following a collision with the police car the three youths fled from the scene. Police officers William Hansen and William Trimble who were in the squad car jumped from their vehicle and began firing at the fleeing youth. Officers said Jackson was struck in the Back of the head and taken to Broa lawns Hospital where he died Early today. The two other youths who were unidentified escaped into a wooded area along the Des Moines River police said. Say Congress to take on leftover measures Washington up a Congress returned today for its first lame Duck session in 20 years to take on a list of legislative leftovers spiced by political animosity. At a democratic caucus preceding the opening of the Post election session Senate majority Leader Mike Mansfield called for a closing the wounds inflicted during the autumn but he scored the a political Slicks Erisma of the Republican Campaign. Too in an apparent reference to vice president Spiro t. Agnew mans Field said a it is to be regretted that More time was not spent in Washington by those who went up and Down and Back and Forth across the nation raw Arr Antly critic Dafang the Mansfield and others who no Congress have openly forecast More partisanship than statesmanship during a Post election session expected to last until Christmas. Mansfield said he would consult with Nixon and House leaders to i determine a a a Rock Bottom list of legislation that cannot wait until next year. He said he hoped the list would be a mercifully a no Quot to $20,000 a Clint Wescott a Happy bum sits on a Doorstep in los Angeles and reads in a newspaper about How a lawyer is trying to give him $20,-000, outgrowth of a 1953 foreclosure and How he wants no part of it. A i done to need the Money a he says. Wescott took to the Road in 1953 when a Bank foreclosed on a gasoline station he built in Burnt Hills Seek cause of plane crash killing 75 nominees for co. Extension Council named nominees for election to the Henry county Extension Council were released today by the Extension office. Nominees Are mrs. Dale Waters and mrs. Milo Mccabe for Baltimore township. Baltimore selection meeting is monday nov. 16th at 8 00 . At Milo Mccabe a. Nominees for Center township Are mrs. Orlo Moehle or. Orie Riepe and or. Robert Welander. Candidates in it. Pleasant township Are Bob Marshall and Dale Swenson and in Tippecanoe township John Frank and mrs. Barbara Bergren have been nominated. Center it. Pleasant and Tippecanoe townships will hold their election meeting tuesday nov. 17 at 8 00 . In the . Building on East Washington in it. Pleasant. Wednesday nov. 18th, Jefferson and Wayne townships will meet at the Olds legion Hall at 8 00 . To elect their Extension Council representatives. Their candidates Are Jefferson township mrs. Leroy Meyer and mrs. Cal Eichelberger. Wayne township Roger Roth and Allen Canby. Salem township will hold its election meeting thursday nov. 19th at 8 00 . In the Salem school. Salem township nominees Are Mary Helen Curtis and Hugh Breuer. All adults living in these townships Are urged to attend and help select their townships representative to the Henry county Extension Council. The Extension Council is the local governing body responsible for the educational programs of Iowa state University Extension offered in Henry county. Huntington w. A. Up a i a dc9 jetliner that slammed in i flames into a deep Valley in the appalachians killing 75 persons and j wiping out the Marshall University football team was flying a too Low for some reason and sheared off treetops Federal investigators said sunday. A 35-Man investigating team attempted today to determine Why the twin Jet Southern airways plane chartered to bring Marshall Back from a game at East Carolina state fell More than 300 feet below the Normal Airport approach Altitude before it crashed in rain and fog saturday night. There was no indication of any trouble aboard but All evidence showed the Craft could not have made it Over a final Hill to the runway. The plane skimmed two Small Hills its Jet engines apparently ingesting Wood from the Trees it sheared and plunged into a foggy wooded Ravine about one and one half Miles Short of the tri state Airport. It exploded on Impact burning a aboard beyond recognition. The victims 36 Marshall football players five coaches the team Trainer five airline crewmen and members of a a Booster club including wealthy townspeople were ending a 40-minute flight from Kinston n c. The team recently taken off a one year mid american conference suspension for illegal recruiting loft earlier in the Day to East Carolina 17-14. Firemen state police and National guardsmen worked for More than 12 hours removing bodies from the wreckage to a temporary morgue at the National guard armory at the Airport. White House denies report Washington up a the White House today denied a time Magazine report that president Nixon expects sen. Edward m. Kennedy to be his democratic opponent in 1972. A the president said he never said that a White House press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler told newsmen in response to an inquiry. Discuss Auto dealer management a unique method of presenting methods of improving Auto dealer management will be demonstrated for Southeast Iowa members of the Iowa automobile dealers association at a workshop today monday i at the country club Ottumwa said j i Ada director Lyman sheets sheets motors of it. Pleasant. Poet Marvin Bell to appear at inc Marvin Bell poet and director of the University of Iowa writers workshop will read his poetry and discuss his work at 7 30 ., wednesday in the International room of the Iowa Wesleyan College Library. I. Belles presentation is open to the Public and is free of charge. On the Sui writers workshop staff since 1965, his first collection of poems entitled things we dreamt we died for was published in 1966. His most recent collection probable volume of dreams now available at the Iowa Wesleyan College Bookstore won the 1969 Lamont poetry award which is Given by the Academy of american poets each year a for the discovery and encouragement of new poetic or. Bell has been the poetry editor of the North american review statements and at present is the poetry editor of the Iowa review. In addition to the Lamont award h Eis the Winner of the Bess Hokin award for 1969, Given by poetry mag Ainze where so far 48 of his poems have appeared and the Emily Clark Balch prize 2d for 1969, Given by the Virginia quarterly review. Khrushchev Calls memoirs fabrication Moscow up a former Premier Nikita s. Khrushchev today denounced the purported Khrushchev memoirs about to be published in the West As a a fabrication in the first Public statement he has made since his ouster in october 1964. Khrushchev a disavowal of the authenticity of the reminiscences was circulated by the official Tass news Agency an extraordinary departure from the official policy of ignoring the ousted leaders existence. Normally not even his name is mentioned in the soviet Prev. In new York time inc., vice president Donald m. Wilson said life Magazine would go ahead with serialization of the memoirs which will be published in Book form by Little Brown amp co. He said time life executives a Are not surprised in the slightest by this Holdup of Ainsworth jct. An attendant at the Standard service station at Ainsworth Junction 218 and 92 was held up at 2 40 . Sunday by a gunman described As White about 30 years old and 5�?T10�?� tall. He was driving a 1967 Chevrolet with possibly Minnesota plates on it. The Bandit who used a .38 calibre pistol took $170 in Cash. There was another car outside of the station and Washington county authorities who investigated indicated the Driver might have been a Lookout for the Bandit. Vocational association to meet at Ottumwa the Iowa vocational association District 3, will hold their annual convention at the Indian Hills Community College in Ottumwa on wednesday november 18 at 2 30 to 8 . The featured speaker will be of. Iliff leu t amp i instructor Fairfield. Whose topic will be a a what a in it for me a or. Leu is a past president of the Iva and is also affiliated with the National vocational association. There will also be a parliamentary procedure demonstration by an Fra parliamentary team. The group will have a tour of the new computer technology building during the afternoon. Iowa vocational members from Southeast Iowa will be in attendance. Marvin Bell terse verse by a. C. Gordon its very True that characters Are what some possess and others Are

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