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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - November 23, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news vol 92, no. 276mt. Pleasant Iowa monday evening november 23, 1970 Price to cents Cloudy these Days by John Chamberlain Australia and Japan the new partnership Melbourne Australia a one lands at Qantas airways new tul Lamarne Jetport Here with the idea that America has been substituted for Britain As the big supporter of australians Freedom in the South Pacific. And it is True that the australians count at least for the Short run on the u. S. Navy. But after talking with Industrial development people in Melbourne which remains the financial capital of the country one goes away with an entirely new perspective. The australian a. S. Axis if not dead is visibly dying. The new Power reality in the Pacific is the australian japanese economic Axis which has been growing in strength like the Bay tree even As the u. S. Is lowering its a a profile in Southeast Asia. The american a Futurist a Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute has recently predicted that Japan will be the number one world Power by 2,000 a. D. Robert Guillain the French correspondent for be Monde in Tokyo More or less concurs. But if Japan is to make it the close cultivation of the australian japanese Axis is necessary. Too item one the japanese have been building the Best steel plants in the world plants on a made land in the Inland sea with their a feet in the water so that they can bring in the raw materials the Iron Ore and the coking coals from abroad without Railroad transshipment. What feeds the new japanese steel Mills it is Iron Ore from the newly opened Western australian mines. In 1965 australian Iron production was a minuscule seven million tons of Ore most of which was used domestically. But in 1970 the new Western Australia mines at mount Tom Price mount Newman and mount Goldsworthy together with the older mines in South Australia and elsewhere produced fifty three million tons of Ore. Forty four million tons will have gone to Japan by the years end. And the coking Coal exports to Japan have kept Pace with the Iron Ore exports. Without their australian source of Ore and Coal there would be no japanese steel Boom. The fantastic outpouring of Toyota automobiles Sony electronic equipment and great merchant ships and Oil tankers would be impossible without the australian mines. Too but this Isnit All. Suddenly almost out of nowhere the australians have hit upon tremendous deposits of Bauxite the raw material for aluminium production. The australian Supply is reckoned at approximately 30 per cent of the worlds commercial Bauxite reserves. New refineries Are being built As fast As capital can be mobilized to put them up. Some Day the japanese will need their own atomic defences. This of course will require uranium. It so happens that the australians have made a huge uranium strike a fifty five thousand tons of proven Ore a in arnhem land a Bush country where the aborigines still Hunt kangaroos with Spears. The resident geologist who shows visitors to the arnhem land uranium site Happaney to be a japanese or. Shigeo Okuda of Tokyo. Uranium is necessary to provide the fuel for atomic Power which is what both Japan and Australia needs to make up for deficiencies in water Power. But it also spells safety in a Pacific world that will some Day be faced with the menace of red chinese nuclear missiles. Too Australia always did have Gold which is now diminishing. As the Gold Peters out the discoveries of Copper tin Tungsten Zinc manganese and rutile for titanium All of use to Japan As Well As Australia Are on the increase. Even More important to the australians Are the recent Oil strikes. The big offshore gushers in the Bass Strait South of Melbourne when added to the older Moonie Field near Brisbane will enable Australia to meet 67 per cent of its requirements of 520,000 barrels per Day by 1971 in Short Australia has become the treasure trove of the Pacific world. With Only 12.000,000 people it lacks a big Domestic Market. But until the population quadruples it can grow Rich on feeding the japanese Economy. Together the japanese and the australians can Rule the Pacific in peaceful embrace a strange irony when one thinks Back to 1941-2, when All of Australia was trembling lest the japanese come not As buyers but As conquerors. Guinea halts second attempt at invasion Abidjan Ivory coast up a the guinean government said it routed a second Landing attack by portuguese led mercenaries today and that several europeans including two West germans were a a assassinated during the fighting. Radio Conakry monitored Here gave no details on the identity of the european casualties in its news bulletin that followed a communique announcing the rout of the invaders. Too the broadcast said a the government of the guinean Republic is sorry to deplore the assassination of several european functionaries or experts including two citizens of the German Federal Republic in the course of the several hours of fighting that opposed the mercenaries to conservation commission asks increase Des Moines up a the Iowa conservation commission setting the Pace for other state departments today opened a seven Day schedule of budget hearings by asking for a $10 million increase in its 19711-73 legislative appropriations. The conservation commission was the first state department to appear before gov. Robert d. Ray and by the end of the budget hearings it is anticipated that state government will be faced with its first $1 billion a year operating appropriations request. Fred Priewert director of the commission told Ray the $14 million appropriations request is needed because Many recreation facilities in Iowa have deteriorated to a Point that usual repairs Are no longer feasible. Of the request $9 million is for capital compared to less than $500,000 appropriated for the capital programs during the 1969-71 biennium. Cold winds lash Midwest Strong icy Northwest winds lashed the Henry county area sunday and sunday night and continued on a lesser scale monday. Swinging Christmas decorations in the it. Pleasant business District were Given rough treatment by the gusts but most pieces withstood the Strain. A few limbs were broken from Trees. Temperatures dropped to seven above on the weather Bureau thermometer kept by Leo Turley. Because of the Strong winds the chill Factor was Many degrees below Zero. By up blustery Northwest winds of up to 47 Miles per hour pushed cold Canadian air through Iowa sunday and knocked out electrical Power in sections of three Iowa cities leaving Homes without heat and Light during the states first major cold wave of the Winter. More than 10,000 households in Northeast Des Moines were without heat or Light for about one hour when a 69,000 Volt feeder line suddenly went dead. In Cedar rapids about 300 Homes on the City a Southwest Side were without heat and Light for about one hour when a Large tree was knocked onto a transformer. In Valentine neb., the Mercury reached 61 degrees saturday before it Fen to 19 sunday. Winds off Lake Superior reached 75 to 92 Miles an hour sunday. Gusts of 50 Miles an hour were common throughout the Region. Guinean earlier the government operated radio said the government has sent congratulations to the Quot heroic forces that beat Back the invaders. But simultaneously the broadcast urged the guineans to a mobilize their forces and said the crushing of the reported invasion attempt has helped the marxist oriented government to a unmask Domestic too radio Conakry gave no details on the new round of fighting around this tropical african capital. It announced the rout of the invaders a few hours after reporting the attempted Landing. The broadcast said portuguese vessels still were anchored in Guinea territorial Waters. Conakry radio said about 350 european and african mercenaries landed Early sunday in a bid to overthrow the left Wing government of president Ahmed Sekou Toure but were repulsed and a number of them captured. There were no details of today a second invasion attempt. Toure who has led Guinea since its Independence from France in 1958, called on the United nations to Send airborne forces to help repel the invasion. But the . Security Council after a debate that lasted into Early today decided instead to Send a Mission to Guinea to investigate the charges. A moderate demos plan their strategy j Des Moines up a disgruntled democrats calling themselves the a moderate forces in the Iowa House met in Des Moines today to plan strategy to pull off a Victory in the selection of a new minority Leader. The Battle is Between rep. By Skinner a Altoona and rep. Dale Cochran a Eagle Grove. Skinners candidacy is being backed by the largely Liberal and younger democratic representatives while the moderate forces have rallied behind Cochran. The new minority leaders in both the House and Senate will be selected this evening in democratic caucuses. A number of the older More experienced democrats called the a up it of wow in Des Moines in an Effort to fight what they consider a growing tendency toward liberalism among the House leaders. The House fight is typical of a growing concern by Many democrats Over a split Between the old line moderates and the younger activist liberals. Viet Cong threaten reprisals for raids collect food for think Givin g distribution Over 30 youths ranging from grades 9 to 12 gathered sunday afternoon at the Home of Jim and Judy Miller to collect items of food for those of need in Henry county. Part of the group and the results of the collection Are shown. After one hour of collecting the total amount collected was Over 425 pounds. The food will be distributed by the Henry county Community action program for thanksgiving. After collecting the group All gathered for refreshments. The tonnage race was sponsored by the methodist youth Fellowship with other youth groups and interested students helping. Saigon up a the Viet Cong tonight threatened reprisals a ten times harsher than the initial offence a for the a bombing of North Vietnam dining the weekend. A communique broadcast by the Viet Cong from a transmitter hidden somewhere in the vietnamese Jungles condemned the american air raids saturday and sunday As an a extremely grave act of a the . Imperialists Are hereby Given the sternest warning that girl found wounded by gun Bullet a 17-year old girl Arlene Paris. Burlington was in fair condition monday afternoon at sacred heart Hospital it. Madison after she received a gunshot wound in the Chest from a 45 Caliper pistol. It was believed the shooting happened some time saturday night. She was found late sunday afternoon by Carl Kirchner who lives three Miles Southeast of Donnellson. Kirchner told Lee county officers that he had noticed a car parked along a country Lane about one fourth mile from his Home and when the car was still there late sunday afternoon he investigated. Officers said it was a Miracle the girl was still alive. Officers theorized that tile girl had fired the weapon. Nixon to hold press conference on dec. To Washington up a president Nixon will hold his first news conference since july 30 on dec. To the White House said monday. Press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler said Nixon a decision to hold a news conference then was based on his View that the lame Duck ses j Sion of the 91st Congress a would be moving along at that time. No time was set for the conference. Van and car in collision a 1963 Ford Van driven by David e. Williams new London and a car driven by Sereno Hoven new London collided on the new London Lowell Blacktop one mile North of Lowell saturday at 5 30 . Williams was driving North and was turning into the driveway of the Harry Boecker farm when the northbound Hovell car collided with it from the rear on the West Side of the Highway. Both machines were damaged. No injuries resulted. The Accident was investigated by Deputy sheriff Charles Droz. Three from Nebraska killed on 1-80 in Iowa Atlantic up a three persons from Nebraska City neb., were killed Early today when their car rammed into the rear of a parked semitrailer truck on interstate 80 near Atlantic. Killed were the Driver of the car Elmer r. Homer 65, and two passengers Larry d. Hardenberg 23, and Mabel speak can 80. The Iowa Highway patrol said the truck driven by Oscar i. Alderson jr., 22, Jacksonville fla., was parked on the shoulder of the interstate when the Horner vehicle slammed into the rear of it. The Accident occurred about two Miles West of . 71 on interstate 80. Estimate 670 to 770 deaths Over four Days Chicago up a from 670 to 770 americans will die in traffic accidents Over the 4-Day thanksgiving Holiday weekend the National safety Council has estimated. A Howard Pyle Csc president said last year 696 americans died on the nations highways during the thanksgiving Holiday. A Only the driving Public can prevent this carnage from being repeated this year a Pyle said. From 29,000 to 34,000 persons will be injured in Highway accidents Over the 102-hour weekend that begins at 6 . Wednesday and ends Midnight sunday the Council estimated. However Pyle said a traffic deaths thus far this year number about a thousand fewer than the total for the same period last t to explosions on Island Charlotte amalie St. Thomas up a two explosions rocked the carib. Gas co., Plant today sending flames 400 feet into the air and leaving an undetermined number of casualties. The first explosion which rocked virtually the entire Island occurred at 1 25 . It was immediately followed by another. Carib. Gas is located in an Industrial Complex along the waterfront some two and one half Miles from the Center of this popular tourist Colter. Supplies now7 moving to flood victims Dacca East Pakistan up a Jurg Vitta i Relief specialist of the league of red Cross societies said today earlier difficulties in getting Aid to East Pakistan flood victims had been overcome and operations Are in full swing. A according to our figures two and a half million persons were affected by the disaster and a half million of those need food Medicine and shelter immediately a he said. A assistance must reach them in the next to he said two aircraft flying from the port City of Chittagong have been air dropping 16 tons of food and supplies a Day and More goods Are moving South from Dacca on the River Ganges. He said from now on the red Cross will import supplies by sea. Testifies he saw Galley Iii Village it. Benning a. Up a for the first time since the trial began a witness testified today he saw 1st it. William l. Calley jr., in the Village of my Lai the Day Calley is accused of killing or ordering his men to kill 102 North vietnamese civilians. The statement came from Gary m. Garfolo 24, of Stockton calif., who also testified to seeing bodies strewn along a Trail in the Village March 16, 1968, the Day Calley led the alleged massacre. A previous witness said he a a possibly had seen Calley in the Village but when the question was put to Garfolo he replied a at one time i saw the former Soldier was not asked what Calley was doing when he saw him. Garfolo was the first witness of the second week of the trial. The initial week was taken up with jury selection and court will be held Only through wednesday of this week because of the thanksgiving Holiday. Mower stolen the theft of a cub Cadet Mower from in front of Hassenfritz inc. Was reported to City police at 12 20 . Sunday. The theft occurred sometime after closing time saturday. Find second of two known historic Indian Village Sites vacation in of. P. Schools students of the it. Pleasant Community schools will be dismissed at 3 00 wednesday nov. 25 for thanksgiving vacation. School will resume monday november 30. Fairfield up a the second of two known historic Indian Village Sites in Southeastern Iowa i has been located by a Parsons College student and confirmed by an assistant state archaeologist. The archaeologist Dean Straffin Fairfield a Parsons professor said last weekend one of his students Anton till came upon the site in an open Field by a a happenstance to Days ago about 20 Miles from Fairfield. Straffin said till returned with a Shoebox full of Bones including human remains and a gunflint. A a upon further investigation Straffin said a we decided this was proof positive that the Ioway Indian Village reported in literature around the 1800s really did Straffin labelled the discovery As a a rare archaeological a Straffin and his Parsons College students also have found other French and English gunflint mus Ket balls pieces of Clay trading pipes Glass beads and brass ornaments at the site. A not All of this dates Back to the Ioway tribe a Straffin said. A some of the findings Date Back to 1,000 a. A Only two historic Indian Village Sites Are known in Southeastern Iowa a Straffin said. A the first one is located near where the Iowa River flows into the Mississippi. People including several reputable archaeologists have been looking for our site for Many Many history books have related that the Sac and Fox tribes of near Rock Island 111., were engaged in a bitter feud with the Ioway tribe and that they ambushed Ioway warriors near the Village inflicting heavy casualties. Straffin said exact details of the find would be released by state officials today in Des Moines and urged souvenir Hunters that any attempt to locate the find would be a will advised at this squabble Over stopping slide in airline Industry Washington up a the nations airline Industry is in an economic decline and the paying passenger is caught in a gov emment Industry squabble Over How to Stop the slide. With the Busy Holiday travel season starting this week the Industry situation is simply profits Are Down. Traffic is Down. Employment is Down. And operating costs Are up. Stuart g. Tipton president of the air transport association a Trade organization representing the major airlines says it is not inconceivable that some airlines could go bankrupt. But Secor d. Browne chairman of the civil aeronautics Board cab whose Job it is to regulate the airline Industry is not so pessimistic. Browne feels part of the airline economic problem is due to Short term factors such As the turndown in the Economy and a financial squeeze caused by the need for the airlines to pay out huge sums of Money for new jetliners ordered late in the 1960�?Ts. But the airline Industry claims the cab does not understand the depth of the problem. Losses for the 12 major airlines Are expected to reach $50 million this year. Passenger growth soaring at an annual rate of 17 per cent Between 1963 and 1968, now has dropped to about 2 per cent. But operating expenses for the airlines jumped by 122 per cent in the same period powered by wage increases and inflation. Republicans select leaders in legislature Des Moines up a Republican forces holding a nearly unbeatable majority in both the Iowa House and Senate for the coming two years sunday met behind closed doors to select their new leaders. In an upset Victory sen. Clifton lamborn r Maquoketa won the Senate majority Post vacated by Robert Rigler of new Hampton Zambom 51, Defeated two other candidates for the Job but Only sen. Lucas Dekoster r Hull was considered a major threat. Too on the House Side rep. Andrew Varley r Stuart was elected to fill the Post vacated by Ralph Mccartney of Charles City. Varley 36, reportedly easily won the floor Leader position and encountered Little trouble from his opponent rep. Murray Lawson r Mason City. The Senate majority Leader race was extremely close and required numerous ballots before lamborn received the 19 votes necessary to win the Job. In addition to Dekoster lamborn faced opposition from sen. John Mowry r Marshalltown. Too both the House and Senate were required to select new floor leaders when the demands of annual legislative sessions prompted Rigler and Mccartney to decline bids for reelection. The caucuses also elected other legislative officers for the 1971 and 1972 sessions. Dekoster and sen. Charles Balloun of Toledo were selected the assistant majority leaders while sen. Vernon Kyhl a Parkersburg was elected As president pro tempore. Too rep. William Harbor a Henderson was reelected speaker of the House while Floyd Millen r Farmington was reelected speaker pro tempore. The House also will have two new assistant majority leaders rep. Robert Kreamer a Des Moines and rep. Richard Drake r Muscatine. Following the caucuses Varley and lamborn met with newsmen to spell out what they consider priorities for the 1971 Iowa legislature. Reapportionment and tax revision were Given the nod by both new leaders. Neither lamborn nor Varley gave any encouragement to plans by some legislators to seek a freeze on the property tax levies. Any of their criminal acts against North Vietnam will be determined by met with severe retaliatory punishment from the South vietnamese people which will be ten times harsher than the initial Waves of american planes attacked North vietnamese territory for 28% hours beginning Early saturday morning in raids described by the Pentagon As retaliation for the shooting Down of an unarmed american reconnaissance Dane nov. 13. Too Washington up a a sen. J. William Fulbright d ark., charged today that the Nixon administration had embarked on a a major escalation of the Vietnam War by weekend air raids in North Vietnam and ordered fresh hearings into u. S. Policy in Southeast Asia. Fulbright chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee said Secretary of state William p. Rogers and defense Secretary Mel Vin r. Laird would be asked to testify. He announced the reopening of hearings As the Pentagon continued to leave Many questions unanswered about the extent of the weekend raids. Laird had said they were or dered As a response to North vietnamese attacks on unarmed u. S. Reconnaissance planes. A defense department spokesman Jerry w. Friedheim did leave open the possibility that some of the attacks took place above the 19th parallel. Laird had insisted previously that All targets were below that although Hanoi has charged some raids took place much farther North some near Hanoi and Haiphong. Court refuses to review Case Washington up a Quot the supreme court refused today to review a Massachusetts court ruling that is no sexual activity is shown photographs of nude women a no matter How posed a cannot be held to be obscene. The court denied review of the Case on a 5-3 vote with Justice William o. Douglas not participating. Chief Justice Warren e. Burler and justices John m. Harlan Quot and Harry a. Blackmum said they would have reversed a lower Federal court judgment overturning a state court conviction. They asserted that state courts should be the ones to decide such issues. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon a bit of news is that which makes a woman say a for heaven Sakes a successful county Hospital Bazaar another very successful Holiday House Bazaar sponsored by the Henry county memorial Hospital auxiliary netted Over $2,000 Here on saturday. Mrs. Xen Earnest auxiliary president made the announcement late saturday that the $2,000 Mark had been achieved. Shoppers visited the Bazaar throughout the Day and found the abundance of Holiday and food items to their liking. Winners of the Beautiful afghan contributed by Beulah Hume was mrs. Dwight Messer route i Wayland. Diane Davis won the set of twin bed quilts made by the sewing group of the auxiliary. The auxiliary will sponsor a special Holiday open House at the Hospital gift shop on november 30 from to . To 4 . Guests Are invited to enjoy Coffee homemade Rolls and cookies with auxiliary members. The occasion Marks the first anniversary Date of the opening of the gift shop and Many of the left Over Bazaar items will be offered at special sate prices. Retail committee to discuss promotions the retail committee of the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce will meet at the Harlan hotel at noon tuesday. One of the items on the Agenda will be the retail promotion Calendar for 1971. Injuries fatal to former Albia police chief Ottumwa up a a former Albia police chief has died of injuries received in a traffic Accident earlier this month. Spokesmen said Glen Derby 63, had been hospitalized since his car smashed into the rear of a truck on . 34 in Ottumwa on nov i. Derby was from Albia. Receive degrees among the 733 students receiving degrees at the graduation ceremonies at Iowa state University allies saturday were John e. Baker 903 East Monroe it. Pleasant Bachelor of science in civil engineering and Thomas a. Pounds it. 2, Winfield Bachelor of science in history. Area men in u. S. Service the new address of dem Wiley who is taking Basic training in artillery is As follows Donald c. Wiley 479-60-9960 d company 4th in. 1st. Bio. Be. Fort Jackson South Carolina turn he is the son of or. And mrs. Jean Wiley. His wife and two children reside at the Kincaid to. Ct., route 4. About 40,000 loyalists moved to Canada after the american revolution

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