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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 14, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section one 2 sections vol 92, no. 242 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening october 14, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain by John Chamberlain the coming age of a instant mail some time ago i wrote a column speculating on the probability that if the Post office had been run by free enterprises instead of the government it would have come up with All sorts of electronic marvels in speeding mail communications i now discover that the requisite technologies Are already in being largely because of the free Enterprise drive of Western Union. Moreover postmaster general Winton Blount an old . Chamber of Commerce president is very much in favor of cooperating with Western Union to put some of the new communications delivery methods into widespread practice. The fact that the Post office is about to become a Public corporation should make things easier for red Blount to carry through some of the More important innovations. The problem is to break Down the Walls that separate the three technologies that have been represented by a the Telephone b the Telegraph and c the delivery of the written word. Western Union has already made a significant Start in this by its a email Grams program which exploits the need for something faster than mail but less expensive than a Telegram. The a email Grams works like this a company with a telex machine will Send its message by electronic transmission to a designated Post office thousands of Miles away. There the message will be put into an envelope for Quick local mail delivery. Too a a a letter sent by this method from new York to los Angeles or san Francisco could be delivered within hours. Currently Western Union in cooperation with the Post office is providing such service for subscribing companies in twelve u. S. Cities Boston Newark Washington Detroit Miami Seattle Charlotte n.c., Cincinnati Atlanta Dallas Denver and Kansas City to the Cost averages $1.10 for fifty words. 1 the a email Grams meets with postmaster general red blounts approval because the use of it might be expanded to get the Post office out of the costly special delivery Congress closing shop for few weeks Washington up a faced with its first a flame Duck session in 20 years Congress planned to close shop today until after the elections. Some members feared an a unmitigated disaster when it returns. In a parting gesture the Senate and House scheduled legislation for last minute action before the mass exodus. Left behind in the Rush to get Home and Campaign for re election was enough legislation to keep Congress occupied through Christmas new years and right up to the Start of the next session. Too looking ahead Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield pronounced the Prospect of a a flame Duck session a Senate gop Leader Hugh Scott went him one better and said it would be a an unmitigated besides the a flame Duck session will interfere with Post Congress overseas junkets for which congressmen winners and losers alike have a yen. Technically Congress Only would have to finish up leftover appropriations Bills when it returns nov. 16. But the big Post election Brawl probably will come on what sen. Russell b. Long chairman of the Senate finance committee has called a the last train out of the the final Choo Choo is a piece of legislation being fashioned by the finance committee which will probably include a to per cent increase and a $100 a month minimum in social Security benefits major changes in the medicare and medicaid programs Trade restriction legislation and a watered Down version of president Nixon a welfare Reform. Too the Bill might also include before the Senate gets through with it a new tax on plane tickets to finance anti hijacking guards extensions of excise taxes on cars and telephones a new tax on leaded gasoline and probably something no one has through it of. In fact the a a last train out of the station May get so loaded Down in the Rush to adjourn it May never pull out leaving social Security welfare Reform and Trade for another year. Men represent selves As rec electricians at farm Homes two a rough looking men were foiled in an attempt to present themselves As employees of these Iowa cooperative electric association on tuesday afternoon. The men were calling on farmsteads West of Trenton and attempting to gain Access to the Homes by stating a they were electricians from the rec sent out to Check the House due to their appearance they were not admitted to the first Home and the lady immediately called the rec office in it. Pleasant and was told that they did not have men working in the area. Within a few minutes the telephones in the area were buzzing As the fan Quot ladies called neighbors and the Alert about the phony service that now loses Money. To electricians. Make the a email Grams really Effer one 0f the men had entered one live the average letter writer would of Tho form Homes just As the Tel need Access to telex service without owning a machine on his own or going to a Western Union office with a typescript. However this a could be worked out by bringing the Telephone companies into the game of i too there is no reason that Joe Doakes in Portland Maine wanting to get a Quick letter off to Portland ore., Call a designated Telephone number dictate his message to a recording machine and then wait for the electronic circuits to work their magic. The Boon to a newspaper columnist trying to a a overhead a column from a Distant place to his Home office would be immeasurable As president Russell Mcfall of Western Union puts it its rather silly to a haul paper around in sacks on planes and trains when a combination of three technologies could so easily avoid the physical handling of mountainous quantities of mail Over Long distances. If you can Send Flowers and Candy in a few hours by electronics you can certainly deliver the typed out word by the same Mains. Telephonic communication could of course dispense with the recorded word entirely. But most businesses and people require records if Only to protect themselves against being misunderstood. The current objections to wedding the various technologies to guarantee a next Day physical delivery of mail almost anywhere in the us. A or for that matter the world a comes from the labor unions which Are worried a bout the Impact on the Job situation. But technological improvements always end by creating new jobs to replace the old. Moreover they Are usually jobs of a less menial nature and they consequently pay More Money. Too the use of the computer to handle switching and routing of electronic messages is expanding by leaps and Bounds. And Western Union is currently setting up six Large centralized Telephone recording bureaus in six locations around the us. All that remains to be done to bring on the new Day of communication is to get the Federal communications commission and the Post office both government bodies. To help eradicate a few institutional Walls and to explain to a few labor leaders in the postal unions the United Telegraph workers and the Ephone rang and the conversation caused him to make a Hasty Retreat. As he and his companion left the farmstead in their car they were Given Chase by another lady in her car in an attempt to obtain their License number. It was not known whether the men were intent on a con artist scheme robbery or a a casing the Homes for breaking and entering at a later Date. The alertness and cooperation of the farm ladies May have averted a sad and unpleasant experience. The Henry county sheriffs office is investigating the incident. A to to suggest school building plan in four parts Utility All steamed up claiming too much american Coal is being exported at Premium prices the american electric Power company has called on the Federal government to restrict Export of Coal to overseas markets while Domestic utilities Are facing a critical fuel shortage this Winter. The photo shows Hopper cars loaded with from 70 to 110 tons of Coal each awaiting shipment from Norfolk a. At the regular meeting of the it. Pleasant Board of education tuesday evening superintendent Robert Formanek explained the new requirement by the state legislature for a preliminary budget plan submitted by december i 1970 for the 1971-1972 school year. He stressed that this is to be merely an estimate and is not binding upon school officials or the Board. A special meeting to prepare this will be held at 7 30 on nov. 17. Supt. Formanek presented copies of the student handbooks distributed at the elementary 7th-8th, and 7 and 8. High school Levels last week. They i 3. Remodelling two school districts told to Cut budgets Des Moines up a the state total of $200,000 off their proposed budget Appeal Board today ordered budgets for the current school year two Iowa school districts to trim a three bands in half time show three bands will March at halftime ceremonies this Friday at the football game. The parents night half time show will feature the sixth Grade Cadet band under the it unanimous action the three-1 direction of or. Tony Kullmer. Treat for children on Square tonight children in kindergarten through 4th Grade Are reminded of the special treat night this evening wednesday at 7 30 on the North aide of the Central business District. The it. Pleasant Fine department will treat the youngsters with ice Cream bars and a Fine demonstration using High pressure hoses and a suspended barrel. Water shut off in two areas water will be shut off in two on threshold of vigorous upswing in . Williamsburg a. Up % president Nixon a chief economic j Pend iture budget of $3,240,896. Member Board composed of state treasurer Maurice Baringer comptroller Marvin Selden and auditor Lloyd Smith also sustained the proposed budgets for two other Iowa school districts. Too hardest hit by today a decision is the Lin mar District located just North of Marion in Eastern Iowa. School officials were ordered to Cut $125,000 from their general sex adviser Paul w. Mccracken said today the lagging us. Economy is a on the threshold of a vigorous upswing. A the next major move in the Economy almost certainly is going to be upward a said Mccracken chairman of the presidents Council of economic advisers. Mccracken offered his optimistic appraisal of the Economy at the 1970 up editors and publishers conference. Too pollster Louis Harris told the drum majorette for the cadets is Donna Wells. The 115 piece seventh and High the Grade band will follow the cadets and will present a special number entitled a do lord. This band is under the direction of Harold Dodd who is teaching full time at the it. Pleasant Junior High this year. Drum majorette is Lana Leuellen. The mph Panther band will present a portion of its 1970 contest routine to conclude the half irate taxpayers in the Linn mar i time festivities. District had asked for a $250,000 budget Cut. The Board ordered a $75,000 Cut in the budget of the Madrid Community school District in Central Iowa and suggested eliminating $25,000 in property tax assessments for the school House fund and $50,000 from the general fund expenditures. An attorney representing taxpayers had asked for a Cut of be Edi tors and publishers from across tween $75,000 and $100,000 in the North it. Pleasant on the nation in an earlier speech proposed 1970-71 budget of $794,668. Areas in thursday afternoon from 2 to 5 utilities manager James Ritter said wednesday. The Cut off will affect the area on Orange Street Between Broadway and main and the area on main Street Between Winfield Avenue and Pearl Street. Angela Davis arraigned new York up a Black militant Angela y. Davis was brought to the Federal courthouse under maximum Security today for arraignment on fugitive charges in connection with the murder and kidnapping of a California judge. A crowd of 300 persons witnessed her removal by Fri agents from the women a House of detention. Some chanted a free Angela Davis a but no untoward incidents were reported. Another 75 persons were on hand at the courthouse and took up the chant. Too a threat to a kill a cop every Day As Long As the 26-year-old former philosophy instructor is held was received by Telephone Early today by the new York times from an unidentified caller. The newspaper received another Call later in which a male voice said bomb had been placed in the Foley Square courthouse where miss Davis was to be arraigned. Miss Davis had been yield at the women a House of detention facility following her arrest tuesday in a times Square Motel room she was sharing with a Man. Too miss Davis who apparently had taken pains to disguise her appearance had no weapons and offered no resistance when captured according to the Fri. Her arrest ended a Cross country search that had included rumours she fled to Canada and Cuba and several reports that she had been seen in Birmingham ala., her Home. The arrest was con that a the economic Issue will work for the democrats and Hurt the republicans in. This years in his speech Mccracken acknowledged that a painful adjustments had taken place in the Economy As a result of Nixon administration policies but said they were a necessary to curb inflationary pressures that would have led to a far worse troubles if left unchecked. Communications workers of America that there is Gold in them thar Hills for the Union rank and filers As Well As for everybody else. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Ducted so quietly that residents and employees of the Motel were unaware of what had occurred. The Fri disclosed few other details of the arrest. David Rudolph Poindexter jr., 36, who had been staying with miss Davis in the to Tell room was taken into custody on a charge of harbouring a fugitive. The Fri described him As an heir to substantial wealth. Too the charge of murder and kidnapping says miss Davis purchased a pistol two carbines and Shotgun smuggled into a courtroom in san Rafael calif., aug. 7 in an apparent attempt to free two convicts by taking a Superior court judge a prosecutor and three woman jurors As hostages. The judge the teen Ager who brought the guns into court and the two convicts were killed in a shootout. Although miss Davis was not present during the kidnapping and murder California Law provides that an accomplice who purchases weapons is equally guilty of a capital crime. 40 o of miss Davis a strikingly attractive woman who has had a Brilliant academic career was named to the of big a list of a most wanted fugitives aug. 18. Photographs distributed by the Agency showed her with a bouffant afro hairstyle and wearing Small Metal rimmed eyeglasses. When she was led by agents from the of big a Headquarters Here tuesday night past a crowd of waiting reporters to a car however miss Davis wore swept Back hair and glasses with Large rectangular plastic frames. Her eyebrows were trim Ned and shaped she had on makeup and wore a dark Blue miniskirt and Blouse. Those who had seen her before the events of August said j Cross and la torte were she was scarcely recognizable. And Well. Kidnappers Are willing to negotiate Montreal up a the kidnappers of. A British Diplomat and a Quebec Cabinet minister today agreed to further negotiations aimed at saving the lives of their two hostages. Two front de liberation de Quebec it Fly cells in a joint communique received by a Montreal radio station said they had Given their spokesman lawyer Robert Lemieux a carte Blancey to speak for them in negotiations with the government. Too the communique bearing the gun toting habitant design used by the extreme separatist a a liberation cell which has been holding Diplomat James Cross was received by radio station Calm shortly after the to . Scheduled Start of negotiations today. Lemieux talks with government spokesman Robert Demers had verged on collapse late tuesday when Lemieux said he would have to withdraw unless he received new instructions from the kidnappers. Both the Prairie Community school District of Gowrie and the Keokuk Community school District in Lee county had their budgets sustained by the review Board. Keokuk taxpayers had made no specific Dollar reduction request in the $3,403,748 budget. The Gowrie taxpayers had asked a $18,250 Cut in the total budget of $1,054,117. All action was taken on an unanimous vote of the Board. Officials said the four budget appeals were the largest number in recent years. Last year Baringer said the budget review Board had Only one Appeal and the school districts spending proposals were upheld. Too today a decision Means the Linn mar and Madrid districts cannot officially or legally exceed the adjusted budgets for this school year. Each school District however will be Able to implement spending cuts in areas of its own discretion. Technically there is no Legal Sanction against a District that overspend however Francis Larue Secretary to the review Board said about the Only penalty a District that overspend would be subject to is criticism from the Public and in state audits. Before reaching their decision the review Board members conducted hearings in each of the four districts where both sides of the spending squabble testified. Senate rejects findings of group on obscenity Washington up a the Senate rejected the findings of the commission on obscenity and pornography tuesday charging the panel had a tailed to carry out the mandate of Congress and its statutory members approved 60 to 5, a Resolution by sen. John l. Mcclellan d-ark., accusing the commission of a unscientific testing and ignoring a the potential effects of Long term exposure to obscene and pornographic the commissions major findings a that Laws prohibiting the Sale of erotica to consenting adults should be repealed and that there is no evidence pornography causes criminal behave or were specifically rejected. High school level. Tills Section of the handbook will be taken up at a later time by the Board. Richard Mcbeth extended an invitation to the Board to visit the or. High building at any time. Roger Williams read a letter from the superintendents curriculum advisory committee recommending the following four Points within three years 1. A new High school building. 2. Remodelling of the present High school building for use by grades 6, of the present were approved by a majority of the Board with mrs. Myers voting against approval because of the clause pertaining to truancy at the International events1 continue at Iowa Wesleyan today is a China happening Day at Iowa Wesleyan a International festival that runs through thursday. Films music and displays Are being featured during 4 and 7 ., sessions in the Library a International Center and prof. Stan Wiederspan will discuss Oriental Art in a special presentation a the unfinished statement a at 7 45 tonight in the International Center. Continuing the China theme on thursday the Hon. Colin Jackson a Veteran member of British parliament will speak at 9 30 arn., in the shaped auditorium As part of a special cultural theological encounter i connection with the International festival. The world traveler writer broadcaster and foreign affairs expert will present a China challenges the world during his 9 30 lecture. Or. Jackson will participate in a discussion about China with inc prof. Emma Layman and Chris Huang of the College staff in a film talk Back session at 3 ., thursday in the International Center. It. Pleasant residents Are cited to these events. By in goal line notice the goal line club will meet at the National guard armory tonight wednesday at 7 30 Reports theft of gun shells Rollye Smith 713 Lincoln Street reported to City police at 7 32 . Wednesday that a .22 automatic Mossberg Rifle was stolen from a gun rack in the Back of his pick up truck. Some shells were also taken out of the Glove compartment. Dong Derscheid Planta Tijon apartments reported at noon tuesday that four 15 Inch hubcaps had been taken off his 1941 Ford pickup truck. 52 students die at or crossing the communique received today by Calm indicated the a liberation cell and the a a Cheniere cell a which abducted labor and immigration minister Pierre Laporte saturday a had met and reached an agreement on a joint position. The communique indicated that Seoul up a a school bus on an excursion to a shrine collided with a train today and burst into flames. Police said 52 High school students were killed in the Accident near on Yang 55 Miles Southwest of Here when the bus carrying 75 boys crossed a Railroad. Twenty three of the students were rescued authorities said but still alive &11 were undergoing treatment near the scene of the Accident. Will perform of game this week Nils group of 7-8th Grade girls will be performing at half time of the football game this Friday night at Mcmillan Park. Back Row l. To a Sally Biondo Barbara Mccormick and Monica Dean Baton twirlers. Front Row Dana Tackenberg assistant drum major and Annette Mickey twirling sergeant. These girls will be performing a special twirling routine originated by Annette Mickey while the band plays a very recent arrangement by Bill Moffitt of a do lord. Both Dana and Annette attended a summer music Camp at augustan College receiving instruction in their respective areas of Endeavor. The band of 155 members will be led on the Field by their drum major Lana Leuellen who will also conduct the band in its special presentation. The next Public appearance of the 7-8th Grade band will be october 31 in the inc Homecoming Parade. Their director is Dodd. Junior High building for use grades 4 and 5. 4. Use of the present elementary buildings for grades kindergarten through 3 Only. A special meeting to discuss curriculum development and buildings throughout the system will be held at 7 30 on nov. 3. Too plans for the Observance of american education week the lost week in october were presented and discussed. The elementary schools in it. Pleasant will have open houses on oct. 26. Those at Salon and pleasant Lawn will hold open House on oct. 27. High school and Junior High will hold open House on oct 28. The plans were approved As submitted. Too requests by mrs. Carleen Jerrel and mrs. Louva Forbes to Tutor thro nights a week at the mental health Institute were approved. A request by the elementary music teachers for a fall program instead of the a Spring sing was approved and the Date was aet for nov. 20. Gary Anderson was awarded a High school diploma. The resignation of Virgil Ayers As custodian at Lincoln school was accepted. The practice teacher agreement with Iowa Wesleyan College for this year was approved. The service agreement for the Safe in the superintendents office was approved. Requests for annuity deductions were approved for mrs. Ethel Virginia Calloway and mrs. Gloria Wilson. Too the following use of school facilities and professional meetings were approved Salem Multi purpose room a nov. 19th Township Extension Council election. Pleasant Lawn gym a nov. 3rd -8 00 . To 12 00 General election. H. S. Auditorium feb. 19 1 45-2 45 Southeast Iowa symphony youth concert grades 4, 5 and 6. Ava Waterman math conference Iowa City oct. 2nd. Charlotte Davis conservation workshop Luther Iowa oct. 2nd. Pauline Rosenberger drug educational workshop Des Moines oct. 7th. David Lansing basketball clinic Kansas City oct. 9th Lith. Joyce Pease Suzuki workshop Winnetka 111. Oct. 14-Lsth. Maynard Bittie regional National science teachers conference St. Paul Minn. Oct. 15-17tb. Mrs. Stocks or. Paar Counselor colloquy Oskaloosa la. Oct. 22nd. G. A. Knight audio visual meeting Des Moines oct. 23rd. Elementary principals and Don Young District meeting Washington Iowa oct. 29th. Virginia Ekstrand a f. T. A. Prospective teachers Day Cedar rapids nov. 4th. Keith Thomas Midwest band clinic Chicago. 111. Dec. 17-19. Robert v. Formanek american association school administrator a Atlantic City new Jersey feb. 17-24th. Beverly Sutton conference on school nurses Washington Iowa nov. 3rd. Too the Board went into executive session to discuss building Sites with the new Board members. Terse verse a. C. Gordon if you always manage to do the thing that Best Harold you will please some person and Dumound All the rest

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