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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 17, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news pair vol. 92, no. 271mt. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening november 17, 1970 Price to cents Jeffrey Hart running against Auschwitz once again this year As the past election Campaign was drawing to p. Close the Liberal candidates found themselves in a familiar combat. They were running mainly against the nazis and secondarily against the klan Mccarthy and All the other Domestic surrogates of the beast of Berlin. I have seen this happen so often now that i have come to expect it. As almost any Campaign draws to a close i say now Here is where they Start running against Hitler. Nevertheless it always comes with at least a Little bit of a Jolt. In 1968, for example when i was working As a part time speech writer for Richard Nixon there we were moving into october and i was turning out material on things like federalism Revenue sharing educational philosophy possible ways to Check the rising crime rate a that sort of mundane stuff when All of a sudden Hubert Humphrey reaches for the real Issue. Speaking in new York City he let the Public know the dimensions of the struggle he was in a if the British after Dunkirk Hadnot improvised Hitler would have had England. If the democrats after Chicago done to improvise Nixon will have what a splendid formulation. He did not actually come out and say that Nixon and Hitler were analogous figures he merely let the suggestion hang there unstated. Tricky Hubie. Now the Point is that Hubert Humphrey is very far from being the most demagogic Liberal on the scene in fact he is a decent enough fellow. If you really want to hear some Raunchy stuff read on. Too in the 1970 Campaign especially in new York the liberals disdained such Fig leaves As parallel sentence constructions. They came right out and said it. They were running against conspirators against fascists against the klan. One truly amazing example is a full Page and placed in the times and yes accepted by the times for november 2, the Day before the election. This and is a collectors item and i cherish my copy. In substance it claims that Nixon Rockefeller and Buckley Are engaged in a conspiracy a literally a to abolish Freedom. At the top of the Page in two Inch Type there is the word itself huge a conspiracy a then the text of the and and i quote explains a through All this one thought bothers us. Rockefeller stepped aside in 1960 and allowed Richard Nixon to run for president. In 1968, again Rockefeller for All purposes stepped aside for Nixon. Why is Rockefeller today so interested in quietly helping James Buckley get to the Senate what do these people plan As your future a then in bold Type a a different America perhaps one with less liberties for us. Stop the plot to defeat America prom within. Elect Goldberg Paterson Ottinger. The Only men who can too now this makes Robert Welches fancy that general Eisenhower was a communist look positively sober in comparison. The idea that Nelson Rockefeller twice stepped aside to Foster Richard Nixon a presidential ambitions is insanely delicious a formulation for connoisseurs. The fact is he was twice flattened by Nixon a Delegate gathering machine. He stepped aside As Julius Caesar stepped aside when he met Brutus on the Steps of the Capitol. But All this is Mere literalism. The Gold Berg Ottinger. And really is myth making really saying vote Republican and wait for the Knock upon the door. The and is Vintage but scarcely unique. Ottinger himself the candidate of the forces of enlightenment mildly observed in a speech in Cortland new York that a Buckley Victory would mean a intimidation of the press a hate Campaign against youth the shooting and Bay netting of lest anyone be in the dark about the meaning of the election the times courageous Laid it on the line Charles Goodell was a a Public official determined to keep Freedom from being assassinated by the ruthless night riders of the political a yes. The republicans and conservatives who supported Buckley were going about in bed sheets and pointy Caps and burning crosses in Rockefeller Plaza. Too or else they were nazis. Buckley said the times is Quot a Symbol of All the primitive forces that would turn Back the political clock encourage repression a and these Sage reflections were echoed by whole fear pakistani toll May reach million Dacca East Pakistan up a the known death toll in Bast pakistanis twin catastrophe of a Cyclone and tidal wave climbed steadily today and search teams unfolded new horrors of total devastation compounded by the rising threat of cholera from polluted water. The Pakistan times published pouring new Money into . Economy Washington up a the Federal Reserve is pouring new Money into the nations Economy to combat unemployment and to stimulate business despite concern by some members of its key committee that the policy will Lead to More inflation. The Independent Federal Reserve which sets the nations Basic credit policy and regulates the Supply of Money announced monday its open Market committee voted 6 to 3 to promote a greater growth in Money Over the months in another report monday the Commerce department said International pressure on the Dollar eased somewhat in the third Quarter of this year when the nations balance of payments deficit declined by $524 million to $897 million. The action by the open Market committee was taken aug. 18 but kept secret for 90 Days As required by committee rules. There is always a lag Between a monetary policy decision and its Impact on the Economy so the effect of the vote probably is just now beginning to be Felt. Although the decision marked a substantial change from the anti inflationary a tight Money policy followed by the Federal Reserve last year it stopped Well Short of ordering full economic stimulation. The policy Calls for growth of the Money Supply at a rate of about 5 per cent a year. The balance of payments figures showed that although the situation improved in the third Quarter the United states continued to Send More dollars abroad than it was Able to bring Home. In Lahore by the government press Trust said officials compiling the death toll feared the figure May reach one million after a precise Survey of the extent of devastation from the Cyclone tidal wave of last thursday and Friday. The times said the belief was reinforced1 by discovery of new areas hit by the double disaster. Official estimates put the known loss of life at about 53,000, but reports published locally said at least half a million died in the 2,400 Square mile death zone a Quarter of the 2.2 million1 living there. Bloated bodies that have floated in the streams and Rice paddies since last Friday were being tossed into communal Graves and sprinkled with Lime. The shroud called for by the moslem religion became a strip of thin White cloth a the Muslin that was invested in Dacca. Too the government flew in typhoid and cholera vaccines water purifiers and drinking water itself. But More than a million persons were faced with the famine and pestilence and the need was immediate. Deep Wells were ordered drilled but they will take time. Aid also poured in from throughout the world and the . Information Agency Here issued a statement by president Nixon saying the United states stood ready to give what assistance it could. The statement was broadcast throughout the stricken area. In the stricken town of Char Jab Ber the burials continued throughout the Day a the strip of cloth the Lime a few shovels of mud tossed on top. Calley accused of shooting in cold blood the Gay tones local Sweet Adeline quartet who reigned As the 1969 International Queens of Harmony will be making a Hospital tour to u. S. Military bases in the far East according to word received Here tvs week. Members of the quartet Are from the left Anna Lee Scott Jean Shook Sherri Martens and Margaret layer. Gay tones to make far East tour a the Gay tones International paid trip to u. S. Military bases Iwens of Harmony of it. Pleas flying to san Francisco where they ant have accepted an invitation to will join other members of the the Village he continued a Bunde it. Benning a. Up a it. William l. Calley or. Flushed Scarlet and scribbled notes onto a yellow pad today when an prosecutor accused him of a shooting Down dead in cold blood unarmed and Unre-1 sisting vietnamese civilians. The Stocky Little defendant who is accused of murdering or directing his platoon members to murder 102 civilians in the Village of my Lai 4, went on trial in a military court two years nine months and one Day after the alleged massacre. Capt. Aubrey m. Daniel Iii the prosecutor detailed in his opening statement to the court martial Board of one colonel three majors and two captains what he said eyewitnesses would testify about Calley. Too he began by saying that Calley a platoon landed by helicopter on the outskirts of the sub Hamlet without receiving enemy fire. They found in soviet puts 4 Moon Walker unit on Moon Moscow up a an eight wheeled soviet a Moon Walker Laden with flags Hammer and sickle emblems and a portrait of v i. Lenin landed today on the Moon and be mate a .o. Hospital tour to , . Troupe. The girls will spend military bases in the far East. Only part of tile time with the according to information receive troupe however and will be on cd by mrs. Allan Shook member of their own for the remainder. The Gay tones the quartet will be the trip was arranged by the unmaking the tour to Japan the Ter National managing director of Philippines Okinawa Guam and j Sweet Adeline. They will be a possibly a fifth country. They will leave the Middle of february companies on the far East tour by their International president Hel on the seventeen Day All expense j in Ryan of Decatur Illinois. Injuries fatal to . Woman Burlington up a a 24-year-old it. Madison woman Sandra Brakey died in memorial Hospital Here monday night of injuries she received in a one car Accident at 4 . Monday. Miss Brakey was a passenger in a car driven by mrs. Virginia Hig Gens 23, also of it. Madison. The car apparently went out of control and smashed into a piece of heavy Road equipment parked along u. S. 34 in Gulfport 111. At the East Side of Macarthur Bridge. Mrs. Higgens was listed in Good condition at a Hospital Here. Inc receives $2,500 Grant Iowa Wesleyan College has received a $2,500 Grant from the Esso education foundation a to underwrite the Cost of unbudgeted items or activities that inc believes will help further its educational objectives. The Wesleyan Grant was made under Essow a presidential contingency program in which 181 private institutions were Given funds totalling $505,000. Esso has allocated $3.1 million in education Grants for the 1970-71 school year. Shoals of Liberal columnists and commentators. Thus James Weinsier saw Agnew As the reincarnation of Mccarthy and we All know who Mccarthy was the reincarnation of. For the Liberal sensibility an american election Mist be almost too exciting to Bear. You Are not running against Republican assemblyman Livermore Creek Fiu. You Are running against Hitler himself. Think of it All that stands Between you and an impending Kristal nacht Are a couple of wards in Syracuse or Nyack. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Farm Survey to Start late in november Iowa Farmers will be asked to participate in special crop and livestock surveys to be conducted by the Iowa crop and livestock reporting service and the u. S. Department of agriculture in late november and Early december. The surveys Are part of the nationwide Effort to provide information needed to estimate livestock numbers. In Iowa about 1,000 farms will be visited across the country Survey workers will conduct some 75.000 interviews. Still More Farmers will be asked to return mail questionnaires. All the data gathered in these personal interviews plus mail reports returned to the state office by voluntary reporters will be summarized and forwarded to us a in Washington. Information from each state is computer processed and Analysed by members of the crop reporting Board. The Board issues crop and livestock estimates for the nation and each state. George m. Stanley of it. Pleasant will interview Farmers in Jefferson Van Buren Henry Lee Des Moines counties starting on november 23. He will be working under the supervision of the state statisticians office in Des Moines. Selling Iowa m i a Iii u n la Des Moines up a gov. Robert d. Ray and a delegation of 116 prominent business and financial leaders and state officials left this morning on a three Day a sell Iowa Trade Mission to the West coast. A chartered Twa jetliner left the Des Moines Airport shortly after 8 ., and the iowans were to arrive in san Francisco in time for an Industrial luncheon. A similar Stop in los Angeles is also scheduled. The West coast Mission is the third under rays administration with the most recent being a european junket the governor led last summer. Iowa development commission director Chad Wymer who organized the trip said the group plans to a Tell California business leaders what we have in e. A. Hayes it. Pleasant chairman of the Iowa development commission is with the group. Thompson favors six year term Des Moines a idea a the chairman of the Highway commission Derby Thompson thinks commission members should be appointed to six year terms instead of four and should be limited to two consecutive terms. The Burlington Republican who has served eight years on the commission says that a term of four years is too Short. It takes awhile for a commissioner to get acquainted with All of the commission s problems and its policies he explained. A commissioner who serves one four year term Thompson related probably wont be around Long enough to see major projects conceived during his tenure completed. . Troops Cross into Cambodia fire damage at spacecraft site in Florida Cape Kennedy up a a spacecraft a clean room under construction in a rocket Gantry was a virtually destroyed by fire today but workers in the area escaped injury. A everybody got out As far As we know a said a space Agency spokesman. A everybody is accounted the Blaze occurred at launch Complex 17b, used for unmanned satellite launching with Delta rockets. There was no rocket on the pad at the time. A space Agency spokesman said workers were in the process of rebuilding a Roo like compartment used to Check out spacecraft prior to launch when the fire started. Thick Black smoke poured from the top of the Gantry and the fire was visible for More than to Miles. The fire burned for about an hour and was reported under control at noon est. A preliminary look at the area showed the checkout room was a virtually destroyed a the spokesman said. A we done to know what caused it a he said. A a it a too hot to get the Kennedy space Center a two Delta launch pads and the second one was not damaged. The next Delta launch is scheduled for january when it is to orbit a military communications satellite for the North Atlantic treaty organization. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon when a Man and woman marry they become one often though the argument will follow a which one a approve Bond Issue for new school Manly up a voters in the North Central school District of Manly monday approved a $1,340,-000 Bond Issue to finance construction of a new High school Here. The Bond proposal which had been rejected five times in As Many years was approved by 68.7 per cent of the voters. Included in the school District Are Manly Plymouth and Hanlontown All located in Worth county. Fended and unarmed women children and old men in their a these people were taken in a group to the Southern Side of the Village and directed to be guarded by pvt. Paul Meadlo and pvt. James Dursi a Daniel said. A they were told to a take care of these a they started to guard the people. They did no to know what lieutenant Calley a intent was. A lieutenant Calley returned and asked a a a Why Haven to you taken care of these people a a they replied a we a a a i mean kill Mem a waste Mem a Calley told Daniel said Calley and Meadlo Calley using a Rifle a with full bursts of automatic fire shot these Saigon up a about 7,000i people these unarmed and unde South vietnamese troops backed by j fended men women and children tanks and helicopters crossed the Calley sitting at the defense to Border into Cambodia monday in ble at this Point broke into a Grin a two pronged attack on communist sanctuaries. They encountered Little resistance and today turned up a 254-ton Cache the South vietnamese forces pushing West and South from plei j Kun in two operations found the 254 tons of 85mm ammunition six Miles inside Cambodia. It was the largest Cache of artillery shells Ever found in the Indochina War military spokesmen said. Too shortly after the Cache was uncovered there was a Brief fight with communist forces in the area killing la while suffering no South vietnamese casualties. The Only other fight reported was a skirmish in these san River Valley in which five communists were killed with no government . Communists launched their biggest attack this year on the sprawling Bien Hoa air base 14 Miles Northeast of Saigon at Dawn today firing More than to chinese made 107mm rockets into the Complex selecting jury for Seale trial new Haven Conn. Up a selection of the jury which could Send Black Panther party chairman Bobby g. Seale to the electric chair on murder charges began today. It will take a weeks and weeks to pick the 12-member panel a defense lawyer said. A what we want is 12 Black jurors a said one defense source. So called a free Bobby demonstrations were absent but Fri agents were present As Seale 34, a native of Dallas secretly was transported 50 Miles from Montville prison to the 65-year-old greek columned Connecticut Superior court with its $73,000 bulletproof windows. Attorney. David n. Rosen sealers Youthful defense lawyer predict group votes cutback in medicaid help Washington up a a proposal which could deny millions of the nations poor and near poor some of the free medical services they now receive under medicaid has been approved by a Senate committee. Under pressure from state governments which have seen their medicaid costs Rise sharply the Senate finance committee voted 8 to 3 monday to allow the states to Cut Back on their medical services to poor families. It killed a provision in a House passed social Security Bill which said states could not Cut Down their medicaid programs if they wanted to continue to qualify for continued Federal support which pays $3.5 billion of medicaid a $6 billion total Cost. If the committees action passes the Senate and becomes Law states which now pay for the first 60 Days of hospitalization could As an example pay for Only the first 20 Days. Another state could eliminate free dental care or another might drop free eyeglasses. Under the committees new action states would be required to offer six Basic services to qualify for Federal support. The six Are Hospital services physician services Home health services skilled nursing Homes and diagnostic and a Ray services. But even among these the states would be permitted to narrow the scope of the services offered and still receive Federal Aid. The committees action May not be the final word. The Senate could reverse it or the House might balk at accepting the Senate a reduction. Spokesmen said three americans cd jury selection from a panel of and a vietnamese were killed and 25 other persons were wounded. Too another communist mortar attack also was reported on the Northern Headquarters of the 101st airborne division at Camp Evans out 500 predominantly a White Middle class working people from new Haven county a will take weeks and eight White prospective jurors of the 46 who appeared today including a Black immediately were sex Side Hue in the extreme North of used because they said they knew South Vietnam. The attack caused a very Light casualties spokesmen said. In phenom penh one person was killed and seven wounded today when terrorists tossed a grenade from an Auto at a group of military recruits returning from training a pedicab Driver was killed and two civilians and five of the recruits were injured. The attorneys involved. They were excused during a closed door briefing prior to the opening of court which w As delayed about 90 minutes. A about 35 youths in Long hair half of them Black sat Oil the Marble floor or stood Between rope barricades at the Entrance to the courtroom during the briefing. There were no incidents. Commends Chest fund agencies mrs. J. Barnes director of Public information for m.h.i., has been a resident of it. Pleasant the. Past four years. She and her Hus j band j. D., of the Highway patrol have one daughter and four grandchildren. Mrs. Barnes has served As publicity chairman of the Henry county cancer society is Secretary for the state association of Hospital Public relations directors and a member of the state mental health Assn. She is an enthusiastic Bowler and golfer. Why does she support Community Chest a have you seen the heart warming expression of a retarded child who has mastered a simple task a driven a Hundred Miles to watch a Little league game or red Cross swimming exhibition in which your grandchildren participated per Strong provides enjoyable program John Strong had done Good work in preparing and presenting an entertainment on a Bright Belgium As another of the kiwanis sponsored travel and adventure programs at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel monday evening. Canals beaches cities industries historical Sites and people were brought into the color film for an enjoyable evening. Paul Gugeler a vice president of the kiwanis club made the introduction. Pigs die in hog House fire came the first manmade object to propel itself across the lunar surface. Tass the soviet news Agency said Lun Khod i Moon Walker crawled Down a ramp from its lunar Lander and took up a position 20 Yards away and began sending Back television pictures of the lunar surface. Too it was carried to the Moon by Luna 17, an unmanned space vehicle that blasted off from Earth nov. 9 and soft landed on the Moon today in the area known As the sea of Rains. It was equipped with television devices to scoop up Rock samples and a vacuum cleaner for sucking up Moon dust. The accomplishment was a major Advance in the soviet program of unmanned space exploration by which the soviet Union Hopes to Legain some of the glory it lost in the race to put the first Man on the Moon. The Landing was about 1,000 mile Northwest of the sea of Lyans Sluty where Apollo la astronaut Nill Armstrong and Edwin e. Aldrin or. Made their historic Moonwalk in 1969. Too the Apollo 15 astronauts Landing site next july is on the Edge of the sea of Rains. The sea of Rains is a Large circular Basin believed created by the Impact of a huge meteoroid billions of years ago. Tass said ground controllers on Earth used television pictures Stilt Back by Lun Khod i to guide it on its Brief journey but it had Little to say on precisely what the machine will do. It did not describe its size or weight or say whether the Moon Walker or any part of Luna la will return to Earth its predecessor Luna in brought Back Moon Rocka. Too the United states is now building a four wheeled Moon car called a lunar Rover to carry two astronauts and their equipment for a total of about 40 Miles on the lunar surface. The first Rover is scheduled for launch july 25 on the Padlo 15 Mission of astronauts David r. Scott Alfred m. Worden and James b. Irwin. The american Moon car will carry a color television camera and will be Able to beam live telecasts of the lunar landscape directly bade to Earth. With the Rover astronauts will be Able to explore More scientifically interesting Moon features. Too the next . Moon flight Apollo 14 is scheduled for launch Jan. 31 when Alan b. Shepard and Edgar d. Mitchell Are to land in a Valley on the Moons Fra Mauro formation and study material believed excavated from deep beneath the lunar surface by ancient meteoroid Impact. There Are Only four landings left in the Apollo project with the final two apollos 16 and 17, scheduled for launch in 1972. There Are no . Plans for further Moon exploration manned or unmanned for the rest of the decade because of Sharp cuts in the space Agency a budget. Eight Small pigs died when a Doghouse on the Ralph Miller farm located just North of Highway 34 on the Trenton Blacktop caught on fire Early tuesday. It. Pleasant firemen received the Call at 6 16 am. The fire caused by an overturned heat lamp burned a Hole in the roof Ami was extinguished soon after firemen arrived. The Doghouse is a converted machine shed. Damage to the Doghouse was estimated at about $200. The Miller family was awakened by the Barking of their dog. The fire Call was the first received under the Rural Call numbering system. Accidental gunshot fatal to boy Dubuque up a Randal Reynolds 14, son of or. And mrs. Eugene Reynolds of Potosi wis., died overnight in a Dubuque Hospital from an accidental self inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities said Reynolds was assembling a Semi automatic .22 Cal shown Porc Uthe United Community fun Diber Rifle in the family Home Mon haps you Arent a grandparent that a reason enough to give my Day night when it discharged and tout some Day you Wall be and you la fair share says Bunny a a what a. The Bullet struck the youth in the be glad to know that you gave to yours a i Chest. Nixon discusses pressing measures before Congress Washington up a president Nixon met today with Republican congressional leaders for to minutes to discuss the Outlook for his a Rock Bottoms list of legislation in the lame Duck session. House Gap Leader Gerald r. Ford1 said a we had a very thorough discussion of the legislative situation in the lame dude session which some May categorize is the ruptured Duck Ford and Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott agreed that Ttoe most pressing business before Congress winds up is the passage of six appropriations Bills. A the Overall record so far is somewhat disappointing a Saki Ford. A i Hope in the remaining weeks we can Speed up As Hutch As is absolutely essential for the presidents Scott said the discussion today also entered on Bills that could be put Over to the next Congress. Earlier Scott Laid Down a a a Mutt legislative list Long enough to keep Congress Busy until Christmas

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