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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 20, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa It pleasant news partly Cloudy vol 92, no. 274 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening november 20, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain australian youth and the world Power balance Sydney Australia a the vocal Young in Australia Are like their counterparts in the United states they done to believe in International Russia red China maoist guerrillas a its All a a so what a business wheel they Are mentioned. Expression of this feeling is of course confined to the a a concerned and the a a involved members of the younger generation a presumably Small group among the two fifths of the population that is under 25. With a Denver Newspaperman i visited Sydney University a bit of Oxford architecturally speaking and the word quickly spread that there were a couple of foreign journalists who were willing to listen to the weal fringe. We might have been Back Home not in Berkeley or Cambridge but in some College town where dissent is mostly in the talk stage. The themes were what they might have been in University circles in West Germany or Peru in Oxford or in Paris allowing for the local variations. Robyn Tupman wanted to a Stop the War there was Quot no moral or political need for australian conscripts to be in South Vietnam. Ray Davy was disillusioned by the Mylai massacre stories he said that two and one half years ago he did no to object to the War but a now we Are polarized by the Alan Lowry thought there was a no feeling for the embodiment of spirit in the foreign policy of Canberra. Too several students stressed the need for Australia to begin thinking of itself not As a White outpost in the South Pacific but As a Southeast asian Power with corresponding need to maintain Friendly relations with Indonesia which would stand As the big protective Barrier to the North. A Friendly relations with Indonesia would of course require a modification of the White Australia policy and a coming to terms with Black Power in new Guinea. Peter Hartog whose father came out to Australia with general Douglas Macarthur staff did voice a contrary opinion about new Guinea he had been there and he Felt that the fact that the a a highlanders have the Power and the coastal people a the sophistication carried the potential of a murderous factionalism. It would be some time before Papua and new Guinea proper were ready for peaceful self Golem int. The students freely admitted that last year was the High tide of the Vietnam protests this year a the emphasis has shifted to local concerns of representation. The kids were proud that they had improved the a matriculation standards at their University by their protests too since i was there to listen i kept my own views out of the group interview. So interestingly enough did a Denver i visitor who happened to be on a or. And rest and rehabilitation in Sydney get Ting a few Days respite from frontline service in Vietnam. What impressed and mystified me was the Sublime Trust of the vocal Young people in the distance that separates Saigon from Sydney. Measuring it on the map As the Crow would go it takes As Long to Fly from Southeast Australia where 50 per cent of the 12,000,000 popu lation lives to Vietnam As it takes to Fly from London to the persian Gulf. But the Sydney University students had apparently forgotten that the distance Between Tokyo and Brisbane where the Austral ans in a moment of pre Mac Arthur pessimism proposed to Anchor Cross continent defense line against the japanese Back in 1942 is just about the same As the distance Between Sydney and Saigon if the indonesians within the protective shield of the americans and the australians in Vietnam Hadnot successfully cracked Down on the mists in their Island Empire would the Young Sydney University students be acting so Debonair a bout the indonesian a Barrier would they be so contemptuous of the a Domino theory moreover there is the phenomenon of soviet sea Power which has been expanding in the Indian Ocean australians a other South sea As both the British and the americans have reduced their naval a a presence in the South sea area the australian Navy would still need help from America and Britain in any Large scale War involving a super Power enemy. Too finally there is the new Jap anese australian Industrial Axis the tremendous new Iron Ore pro voters reject school Bond Issue voters of the Waco Community school1 District rejected a $1,256,000 Bond Issue for new building facilities for the second time in six months toy a wide margin of 736 Manson takes stand without jury present los Angeles up a Charles Manson took the witness stand outside the presence of the jury at the Tate murder trial today and said that society should realize the reason that a children came at them with knives Quot was because they had rejected their children. In a rambling account without any questions being asked or objections raised the 36-year-old hippie cult Leader launched into an exposition of his philosophy and that of the you people think with your mind but that a not the Way i do it a Manson said. A a in be spent my life in jail. In be stayed a child while you have grown up. I done to judge anyone i judge Only myself and in a Content with myself. You want to put me in a Penitentiary but that is nothing you kicked me out of the last one. I did no to want to go. I liked it a and then children come at you with knives. You told them what to do. I did no to Tell them. They re the children that you did no to want and i took them on my garbage too the sensational appearance of Manson in the Case came after the three Young women co defendants Susan Atkins Leslie Van Houten and Patricia Krenwinkel had informed the court they wished to take the stand and confess in detail to the seven Tate Labianca slayings. Superior court judge Charles h older ruled however that the three Young women would have to Tell their Story first outside of the presence of the jury so that could be determined whether it was Adissi Hie under the Law. Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel both insisted they wished to Tell their Story Only before a jury and at that Point Manson said he was prepared to testify under any circumstances. O o 9 dressed in Blue prison denims and speaking in a Calm Clear voice Manson began by saying he hoped he could clarify the things that had been said at the 19-week trial about the a a family and about a any conspiracy to commit he said he never killed anyone and had never ordered anyone else to kill someone. His attorney Irving Kanarek Rose sputtering to his feet to protest Manson a testifying. The slender defendant spoke into a hand microphone saying a sit Down 65% opposed to the measure to 403 voters 36% in favor. A vote of 60% in favor is required for passage and thursdays vote saw about 150 voters change their votes from a a yes to a a not As the May 18th vote recorded 48.2% in favor of the proposal. As in the first election the voting was divided with Olds and Crawfordsville strongly against the measure and the Wayland precinct voters in favor. The proposed site is located Between Olds and Wayland on Highway 78. The 57,500 Square feet of building facilities would have provided1 for grades 6th thru High school and also included a gymnasium administrative offices cafeteria and Library. The Waco Board of education has not announced future plans although two petitions Are on file calling for alternate building programs. The voting by precincts was As follows total yes % no % precinct i Wayland 484 4 298 62 % 182 38 % precinct ii Crawfordsville 282 2 38 13% 243 87% precinct Iii Olds 381 3 67 18% 311 82% 1148 9 408 35% 736 65% there was a total of 9 spoiled ballots. Bomb deals sgt. David Winn left and patrolman Don Hansen of san Francisco a bomb disposal unit defuse a stick of dynamite with timer and blasting Cap a on a sidewalk in the City a tenderloin District. The bomb sent from Washington was delivered to a stationery store on Jones Street and the proprietor got suspicious of a liquid swishing inside the wrappings. Trade Bill to meet Strong opposition three Hijack truck escape with $406,000 new York up a three men hijacked an armoured truck today i after pistol whipping two guards and escaped with an estimated $406,000, police reported. They said the armoured Carrier corp. Truck was parked outside a diner at 5 50 Arn. Two guards were inside the diner having Coffee while a third remained in the truck. When one guard left the diner and returned to the truck the three Holdup men appeared. Both guards were struck on the head with pistols. The Holdup men then sped off in the truck with the two guards leaving a third guard at the diner. A Short distance from the Holdup scene they rendezvoused with two automobiles switched the Money to the cars and escaped leaving the two abducted guards in the truck police said. The two guards suffered Only minor injuries. Bold theft of $450 at w Algren a Market two killed near Keota Keota up a two men were killed outright thursday in a Headon collision South of Keota on Iowa 92. The victims were identified As Michael p. Morihrity 25, of Cedar rapids and Arden Leo Heisdorffer 38, of Keota. Authorities said the Accident occurred As Morihrity was attempting to pass a tractor which was pulling a feed Mill. The Morihrity car clipped the feed Mill then crossed Over the Center line smashing Headon into the Heisdorffer car. Both men were alone in their cars. Auction of Western Australia has been heavily contracted for by the japanese steel companies. If with the american Hudson institutes Herman Kahn you believe that Japan is destined to become stronger industrially than the United states or soviet Russia by the year 2,000 which it will do if it retains its present growth rate of to per cent a Yea the australians will have a virtually permanent Market for their metals. But what if the australians with a steadily augmenting population of their own decide to build their own steel Industry any worries about relations with Japan then the students obviously had Lnu to considered this. Mrs. Thoresen found innocent Fresno Calif. Up a mrs. Louise Thoresen was found innocent of All charges today in the slaying of her millionaire gun collecting husband. The jury of seven men and five women deliberated to hours 55 i utes through most of the night before acquitting mrs. Thoresen 34, a Brunette. She sat perfectly still As the verdict was read to a Small group of hushed spectators but then ran Over to hug her parents across the courtroom rail. A mama mama. Daddy daddy a she murmured. A thank you so much for coming out Here to be with she is still being held on a new York firearms violation charge so she was led Back to her jail cell for a few hours sleep until a $1,000 Bond could be posted on her behalf later today. Her Mother mrs. Jessie Banich Chicago said of the verdict a god of thank god. A in a so Happy. A in be gone to mass every Day since we be been out the jury members refused to make any comment on the Case. Mrs. Thoresen pumped five bullets into her husband As he Lay nude in their bedroom last june to but asserted she did it out of fear for her life. A William Thoresen was a madman a defense attorney Kenneth Devaney asserted in his final summation thursday. A the was a sick Man a depraved Man. He was a deadly murderous he demonstrated the uses of a steel throwing knife and a Riding crop to show what he termed the a a hello mrs. Thoresen lived through before she took her husbands life. Washington up a a Liberal senator vowed today to do everything he can to kill the House passed Trade Bill in the Senate. He said its enactment would Cost the american Public $3.7 billion a year in higher prices and would touch off a Trade War. Sen. Fred Harris d-okla., said he would fight next week to kill the Bill in the Senate finance committee and if that Effort failed he would try to round up a majority vote in the Senate in favor of killing the measure. O o o the Bill a to impose import quotas on shoes and textiles and a vast array of other goods which compete with american made products a has drawn opposition from the Nixon administration and about 5,000 u. S. Economists. It was adopted by the House thursday on the strength of votes from congressmen from areas whose industries would be protected from import Competition. Too harris1 told a Capitol news conference that the great depression which followed the erection of Trade barriers in the 1930s was proof enough that quotas wind up hurting everyone. He said their use has been shown to be a a futile Way to try to protect american Harris said higher prices which would result from Banning some foreign shoes and textiles from this country would Cost american families at least $3.7 billion a year. Enactment of the Bill would re verse the free Trade policy this country has followed since world War ii. Too in the House six of Iowa a representatives voted against the Trade Bill. Rep. Wiley Mayner Iowa did not vote on the Bill which passed 215 to 165 on a Roll Call vote. The theft of $450 from a Cash drawer in the office near the front exit door of Walgren a Market late fund drive now at 36% the it. Pleasant Community Chest fund drive has reached approximately 36% of its goal of $28,610. Those who have not yet turned in their pledge cards Are requested to do so at their earliest convened. These can be returned to the person who canvassed your area or to Elmer frank., chairman at the Panther Rex Ali drug store. Bar red China from . For another year car collides with disc on county Road a car driven by Dorothy k. Smith it. Pleasant collided with a disc being pulled by a tractor driven by Larry e. Criswell it. Pleasant on a county Road eight Miles North of it. Pleasant thursday at 5 . The Accident happened near the Don Mccormick farm and the tractor and disc Are owned by Mccormick. Both vehicles were travelling South when the Accident occurred. The left front fender on the car was damaged an estimated $200. The disc was also damaged. Neither Driver was Hurt. Sheriff Van Crawford investigated. United nations up a the . General Assembly today barred communist China from the United nations for another year. A . Backed Resolution requiring a two thirds majority on the a important questions of who will take the China seat passed by a vote of 65 to 52 with seven abstentions. On the actual vote whether to seat peking or Taipei the vote for peking was 51, with 49 votes against and 25 abstentions a far Short of the two thirds necessary. Today was the first time communist China had achieved a majority vote in the general Assembly but the two thirds Rule barred peking once More. Last year communist China received 48 votes and nationalist China 56 votes. There were 21 a i tensions. Setback for Nixon welfare Reform Bill Washington up a the Senate finance committee voted 10-6 today to kill president Nixon a innovative welfare Reform Bill. The vote was a severe and possibly fatal setback to chances for changing the nations welfare system which has been characterized As a costly a a mess by the health education and welfare department. The committee agreed by a 10-3 vote on Only a limited one years test of the administration proposal along with five other approaches. The administration Bill proposed by president Nixon in a nationwide radio and television address in 1969, passed the House last april. It called for guaranteeing an income of $1,600 a year to every poor family in american whether the head of the household was employed or jobless. New Extension Council members to attend meeting bids on new truck for City the bids submitted on the new truck for the City cemetery at the City Council meeting wednesday night were As follows Shafer motors $2,595 Delzell motors $2,703.11 and sheets motors $2,694.68. The Low bid was accepted. The bids included a Trade in of a 1951 Model truck. Two of the amounts were Given incorrectly in the news article on the meeting. Newly elected members of the Henry co. Extension Council will meet with the 1970 Council wednesday dec. 2 at 7 00 . In the Lincoln room of the Harlan hotel reports Richard l. The Lima co. Extension director. New members will be guests of the 1970 Council and will have an Opportunity to learn More about the educational programs of Iowa state University Extension offered in Henry county through the Extension Council. New Council members who will serve from january i 1971 to dec 31, 1972 Are mrs. Dale Waters it. Pleasant Baltimore township mrs Orlo Moehle it. Pleasant Center township mrs. Cal Eichelberger Wayland Jefferson township Dale e. Swenson it. Pleasant it pleasant township mrs. Milton Curtis Salem Salem township mrs. John Bergren it. Pleasant Tippecanoe township and Roger Roth it. Pleasant Wayne township. Iowa state University Extension provides a wide variety of educational programs for All people through the Henry county Exten Sion Council. Examples Are Home improve ment training for All girls in 4-h leadership training for local 4-h club officers beef cow calf con Ference dec. 8 amp 15 management of capital investments for managers and engineers involved with new Plant and equipment decisions and analysis environmental health pollution control dec. 15 retire ment plans for self employed Jan la Modem farm leases Short course feb. 17 amp 24 Swine production school feb. 18 government by the people conference work shop March la. 18 amp 25 sewing carnival april 27 thursday afternoon was investigated by City police Friday morning. Police were notified at 4 60 pub. Thursday by Joe Casanova one of the owners of the store that some Money had been taken but it Wasny to known until later How much was taken. A Check revealed that $450 in five ten and Twenty Dollar Bills had been taken. No officer were sent to the store thursday night. Too a police officer went to the store Friday morning and was told that two men were seen near the office by Kathy Weigert a store cashier and a woman customer. The men were there about to or 15 minute and asked questions about merchandise. They appeared nervous police were told. The men were observed looking Over a partition into the office and miss Weigert notified Richard Lane another employee. When he went to the front of the store the men were gone. He found the Cash drawer partially open and notified Casanova at Home who called police. Injunction asked by town of Olds a petition has been filed in the clerks office at the courthouse by the town of Olds against Dennis Klopfenstein asking that a mandatory permanent injunction be issued ordering him to Abate a Nusi Ance. The petition states that the defendant has permitted a building in Olds to deteriorate and it constitutes a health Hazard to the residents of the town. One of the men was described a Between 20 and 26 years old Over six feet tall about 175 pounds with acne Marks on his face and neck and having Long dark straight hair. He was wearing a Blue Nylon jacket. The other Man was described a Between 40 and 45, having dark curly hair 5�?T10�?�, 180, Blocky and nervous. He was wearing a Tan Raincoat. The men possibly left in a pickup truck after leaving the store. And the two companies have non leaded bulk plants to keep the record straight it should be reported that at least two companies have non leaded gasoline available in bulk plants in Iowa. They Are Standard Oil and Shell the latter having a bulk Plant at Bettendorf. An ins Story quoting state Highway director Joseph Coupal relative to the use of non leaded gasoline by the Iowa High Carolyn Castore receives recognition from debate coach urge Williams. Recognition for Carolyn Castore Carolyn Castore mph senior re Williams and mph for a Strong Cei Ved a Rose Corsage from Roger and growing debate program. His Williams debate coach As special comments described the benefits of recognition for her outstanding de debate to Young people and asked Bate record and service to the de for continued support from parents Bate program. And school. Miss Castore has earned several following or. Kemp s remarks honors and awards in her four each guest attended one of four years of debating. For the re demonstration debates which ran minder of the 1970-71 school year simultaneously. Judges for the desire will serve As assistant coach to Bates were four senior University or. Williams. The first debaters parents j night was Well attended by school administrators and faculty school Board members parents and guests. Robert Kemp debate coach at of Iowa students. The four teams were composed of Paul Burrow Debbie Biggs Carolyn Castore and Mike Williams Marcia Kauffman Vicki Schnicker David Rose and Jane Tollefson Denise Rodd Roger Bentler Maureen Millard and Scott Mcallister the University of Iowa Iowa City Way commission vehicles mention j was the guest speaker for the Gen Steven Ford Brooke Baxter Steven de Only one. J eral meeting. He commended or. I Hodges and Stanley Ford. Thefts reported to local police at 6 21 . Thursday Don Anderson 304 s. Jefferson st., reported to police the theft of the following from a boat in his Back Yard a pair of water skis a 12 Volt Battery and four life preservers. The theft occurred since last saturday. It was reported at 4 15 . Thursday that three Blinker lights were taken from an excavation on North main Street near the College Chapel. B52s bomb Trail again Saigon up a american b52 Strat fortresses bombed the to Chi Minh Trail in Eastern Laos for the 44th consecutive Day Friday prolonging the heaviest air assault of the Indochina War to Cut the flow of communist supplies to South Vietnam and Cambodia. Military sources said the planes dropped 250 tons of bombs along the battered Trail Friday the average amount of the daily drop since the raids began. New farm Bill sent to White House Washington up a despite predictions of economic disaster for the Cotton Belt the Senate a sided with the Nixon administration and Given final Oungre atonal approval to a three year farm. We. The Senate approved the controversial measure 48 to 86 thursday Arati sent it to president Nixon. Passage was considered a Clear Cut legislative Victory for the White House. %. The Bill includes the first ceiling Ever imposed on Federal support subsidies for big farms a no one Farmer May get any More than $56,000 in annual payments for Cotton wheat and feed grains. It also includes a series of redesigned 1971-73 Price support program for grains and Cotton coupled with a flexible new administration a set aside system far holding Dawn overproduction Iowa sen. Harold e. Hughes and sen. Jack Miller voted on opposite sides. Hughes a Democrat voted against the measure while Miller a Republican favored the we. Firemen called to two locations firemen made two runs thursday. At 3 46 . They went to the mrs. Gladys Hills residence at 207 w. Madison Street where an electrical outlet from the Wall to a Kiln used for pottery in her Hobby shop in a converted garage overheated. No fire resulted. At 10 55 pm. Firemen went to the apartment of mrs. Paul Turner on due for appearance in court found dead Arcadia. Calif. Up a Clark Wiley 70, was found fatally shot today shortly before he was due for arraignment with his wife on charges they kept their 13-year-old daughter a prisoner for most of her life. Sheriffs deputies said Wiley apparently shot himself in the head with a .38-caliber revolver which was found by the body along with a suicide note addressed to his son who was living with his grand parents. Wiley and his estranged wife Irene 50, were arrested monday after welfare workers found the child. Susan in their Home. She was unable to walk wore diapers and had retarded muscle development. Authorities said the child had the mental capacity of a 12 to 18-month old infant. The West Side of the Square where material in a vent of a water Heater caught on fire. Thought they were getting enemy fire it. Benning a. Up a two infantrymen who made the my la assault with 1st it. William l. Galley testified Friday they initially thought their helicopters were flying into the Teeth of enemy fire and one said he later did hear the distinctive whine of a communist Rifle. The testimony came from David b. Hein 23, of Janesville wi., and Gene Oliver 24, of Cincinnati. Both said they were frightened during the Landing March 16, 1966 a the Day Galley is accused of wiling or ordering killed 102 unarmed. South vietnamese civilians. Oliver was the ninth government witness to testify he saw bodies along a Trail that bisect the Village of my Lai and he said a i believe i saw it. Galley around the Awa. He was the first witness who claimed any recollection of seeing Galley near the Boches and lie tempered is recollections under Cross examination by one of the defense attorney Richard a. Hay. He said he a could no to swear to ill when asked whether Galley was definitely in the area adding that he had Only a fleeting Impre Aioo of seeing him there

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