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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 23, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 250mt. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening october 23, 1970price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the democrats dilemma for 1972 the democratic party so Spiro Agnew has been telling the nation is dominated by the Radical liberals or Radic Libs. What he should be saying is that the Radic lib democrats of yesteryear have become the me too proponents of Law and order. No matter who wins in various individual races on november 3, it will be a Victory for the conservative influence. Centrist politics must however favor the Republican party in the Long run. The republicans have set the trend and should continue to capitalize on it. The tip off is that More republicans feel comfortable in their party than is the Case with the democrats and their organization. Too you can laugh As my column Stic colleague John Roche does at pro Fessor John Kenneth Galbraith a declaration of War against the conservative Drift of the Humphreys and yes the ted Kennedy in the democratic party. But the so called new democrats taking their Cue from the new Galbraith Book a who needs the democrats a Are already Busy sowing the dragons Teeth that will As sure As sin disrupt the democratic convention of 1972 if the radicals in the party do not succeed in getting their Way. Too the new democrats Are gambling on the Youmg whom they see emerging from the colleges to spark the creation of a new coalition of the poor the Blacks the intellectuals and the a under thirty crowd of first time voters that is destined to grow larger As the baby Boom statistics of the Early past War years become politically Rel Evant. An extremely significant symposium engineered by the editors of the journal called the new Democrat they happen to be Stephen Schlesinger the son of Arthur Schlesinger jr., and Grier Raggio a mayor John Lindsay functionary in new York Cit shows what the democratic party faces. Addressing a letter to thirty prominent intellectuals the sch Lesinger Raggio team posed this question a do you believe the democratic party is still capable of aggressively reforming itself by the 1972 convention or do you believe that a fourth party is the Only conceivable Means of effecting change in 1972?�?� to this 18 intellectuals gave their answers and even those who do not favor going out into the wilderness to Start a fourth party look with complaisance on the idea of using such a party As a prod to Force a Radical platform and candidates on the existing democratic organization. Ronnie Dugger the editor of a the Texas observer a thinks a we must have a serious Challenge from a new political party or an Independent movement or both because nothing else has the catalytic Power to push the National democrats into serious consideration of our Basic economic Dugger says he Speaks for the a radically humanist Liberal democrats who would like to a a nationalized All corporations that do 75 percent or More of their business with the Pentagon. Too Jack Newfield the editor of the new York a Village voice a thinks a the peace movement. The suburban liberals the Blacks the kids and a lot of women will have the Energy to form a new leftist party if an a authoritarian situation prevails at the 1972 democratic convention. Frederick Dutton who helped shape up Robert Kennedy a Campaign in 1908, says a new leftist party in 1972 has a Good Chance of winning in a a four Way Paul of Dwyer the democratic candidate for senator from new York in 1968. Insists that his old party will have no Chance of winning unless it embraces the desires of a the Young the dissenter the Black the puerto rican and the Curtis Gans a manager of the Eugene Mccarthy Campaign wants to use the old democratic party vehicle to ride to Victory but says a Mccarthy Type candidate must hold the reins. Joseph Rauh jr., the Washington civil libertarian lawyer wants a a standby Liberal party that would be ready to run candidates if the democrats continue to move to the right. Professor James Macgregor bums who was John Kennedy a biographer Hopes to unite the Liberal and Radical elements to dominate the National democratic organization. Too the a new democrats a As represented by the a intellectuals Quot Are something far More solid than a Mere a a Galbraith party. If the older democrats persist in moving toward what Stephen Schlesinger tribute to local industries at dinner tribute was paid to local industries at a the first annual local dinner honouring the managers of the industries and their wives at the Iris thursday evening. As the speaker at the first such event locally or. Louis a. Hasel Maver president of Iowa Wesleyan told the group a i am head of a corporation which operates on an annual budget of $2,419,000 which has a yearly payroll of $1,675,000, and i must be responsible for an annual fund drive to obtain $272,000 from outside giving. Therefore i should not apologize for being the spokesman for local business to local too or. Haselmayer spoke humorously of his visits to All except one of the it. Pleasant industries and in a More serious comment said a the coming of these industries to it. Pleasant has swung this Small Urban Rural Community into the major currents of american life. They have provided us with the first hand experience of Industrial America they have brought us into Contact with other major centers of Industry they rave created a flow of persons into the Community with new ideas and motivation and above All they have provided a diversification of work at a time when Rural America is changing greatly and farm populations Are moving to the cities. A was they have grown and expanded the Community has been revived and it has expanded As Well. Certainly none of us could Ever dream of returning to a Way of life which existed before these industries became a part of our too it. Pleasant has responsibilities As it seeks and anticipates new industries he said a we must be certain that we provide for an expanding Community proper facilities for housing recreation education social life and cultural opportunities. We cannot expect new Industry and new population unless we provide those essentials which make for the Rich and Happy too Gary Weigel president of the it. Pleasant chamber of Commerce welcomed the group and made part of the introductions. Other introductions were made by or. Harold Rankin vice president of the c of c and chairman of the Salute to Industry committee. Those introduced included Gary Doak president of the it. Pleasant manufacturer association e. A. Hayes president of the Henry county Industrial development corporation and chairman of the Iowa development commission Don meth manager of c of c and representatives of the various industries. The dinner was sponsored by the it. Pleasant Bank and Trust company the Henry county savings Bank insurance plan savings and loan association Iowa Southern utilities Iowa Telephone company it. Pleasant news and s. E. Rural electric cooperative. Arrest made in slaying of five Santa Cruz Calif. Up a sheriffs deputies today arrested John Linley Frazier charged with the slaying of or. Victor m. Ohta and four others less than a mile from the scene of the mass murders at go tax a Mountaintop mansion. The suspect a 24-year-old Santa Cruz Mechanic who a dropped out and became a hippie was picked up at 7 30 . In a heavily wooded area staked out by officers since soon after the killings monday night. Too an hour later Santa Cruz county sheriffs assistant Lou Keller told newsmen the Man in custody was definitely Frazier. He was brought out of the mountainous heavily timbered terran and taken to the Santa Cruz county jail. Other investigators at the scene searched it for evidence particularly for any indication that anyone else was involved. When Frazier was charged in a warrant thursday prosecutors said the a present evidence indicated there were no others involved. Too a search of Frazier sold Cabin in the area turned up a pair of binoculars and some shoes that had not been there wednesday indicating someone had been in the Cabin during the night. The Hunt had turned to Frazier thursday after hippies in the area gave police information about him the suspect is an Auto Mechanic a who dropped out and entered the hippie style life a according to sheriffs deputies. The Fri joined the Hunt for him thursday. The suspect was seized shortly before funeral services were scheduled to be held for the Mohtas today. A of Peter Chang Santa. Cruz county District attorney announced late thursday that a warrant had been issued for Frazier. Chang declared that a on the present evidence we Are seeking one person in the killing of or. Victor Ohta his wife two sons and Secretary. Asked How one Man could have bound five persons blindfolded them and then shot them beside a swimming Pool Chang replied a it sounds ridiculous but ifs possible that it information leading to the warrant came from hippies in this wooded and Hilly Community Chang said. He explained the Fri was called on a warrant charging unlawful flight to escape prosecution. Frazier 24, had lived in a Cabin near the $300,000 Ohta mansion until two Days before the monday slayings. He has a criminal record and was released by the California youth authority in 1965. The suspect also known As Pascal his mothers present name was described As a a White male american with Brownish hair combed to one Side and reaching has James l. Robb to speak at inc dinner Nixon invites soviet to help on a new Road United nations up a president Nixon invited leaders of the soviet Union today to join him in building a a new Road to peace by ending the race and competing instead in leading the world to economic and social Progress. In a speech to the 25th anniversary session of the general Assembly of the United nations Nixon made this Appeal a i invite the leaders of the soviet Union to join us in taking that new Road to join in a peaceful completion not in the accumulation of but in the dissemination of Progress not in the building of missiles but in waging a winning War against hunger and disease and human misery in our own countries and around the Globe. A let us compete in elevating the human spirit in fostering respect for Law among nations and in promoting the works of peace. In this the switching hours its a seasonal Motif As Martha Daw of Zanesville Ohio reminds you to switch your clock Back to Standard time truck loaded with explosives ordered off 1-80 after Call Marengo up a a semitrailer truck loaded with 21,000 pounds of explosives was ordered off interstate 80 and onto an isolated Iowa county Road Early today after the Iowa Highway patrol was told there May be a timing device aboard the truck. The patrol barricaded the Road evacuated one family living in the and Gwen Raggio Call a Oneo Nixon ism a As they have been doing to meet the attacks of Spiro Agnew the Eugene Mccarthy the Joe duffels the Vietnam moratorium boys and old Kennedy ties such As Adam Walinsky and Richard Goodwin Are bound to cause real trouble in 1972. If the democrats done to go left they will As Walter Winchell used to say go a heft. Distributed by King features Syndicate James l. Robb a director vice president and member of the executive committee of Continental Telephone corp., will be guest speaker at the special pre inauguration dinner saturday evening at Iowa Wesleyan College. Members of Wesleyan a Mary Harlan Lincoln club faculty staff and the colleges boards of trustees and associates will attend the 7 ., dinner in the student Union on Campus. Martha Crane cans it. Pleasant will be master of ceremonies during the dinner program in which greetings will be brought to inc president Louis a. Haselmayer by e. A. Hayes it. Pleasant in behalf of the trustees Keith Kirkpatrick Des Moines for the associates mrs. Stanley Looker it. Pleasant for the Mary Harlan Lincoln club Alanson k. Elgar it. Pleasant for the Centurion club and student Michael Perel Man in behalf of the students. Or. Haselmayer will respond. Rev. Carl e. Wilson pastor of the it. Pleasant first United methodist Church will give the invocation. Too born in Buffalo n y., in 1920, or. Robb graduated from George Washington University in electrical engineering. He began his communications career with the new York Telephone company and later held the Post of assistant chief Engineer Rural electrification administration Washington . Robb joined Superior Cable corporation in 1954, where he has held the positions of chief Engineer vice president executive vice so in two pronged drive in North Saigon up a the South vietnamese has launched a two pro aged drive in the Northern sector that has killed 140 communists in two Days Well informed Allied sources said today. They called it the biggest government operation since the Cambodia offensive last Spring. The sweeps were into Quang Nam and Quang tin provinces just below the demilitarized zone where the . Command said troops of the . Americal division had violated a prohibition against use of the controversial chemical Orange to kill vegetation in the War zone. Too the command said the units used 5,500 Gallons of the chemical which was banned when it was found to cause cancer in rodents. It said appropriate disciplinary measures May be forthcoming. An investigation is underway. Allied sources said the Northern prong of the new offensive had killed 140 communists since it was launched in secrecy two Days ago but that the Southern prong had made Only Light Contact with the communists. Government losses were announced As eight killed and 21 wounded. A 90 communiques also reported the loss of two american helicopters to communist ground fire in Viet a and a Viet Cong ambush against a cambodian Convoy on a part of Highway 4 Southwest of phenom penh which the cambodian com Mand had declared Safe. Area and called an demolition Crew from Savanna 111. The truck belongs to the tri state freight co. Of Joplin mo., the same firm whose truck was blown to bits near Springfield mo., a few weeks ago. The Driver of the truck was killed and a gaping Hole was left in the Highway. The truck held near Marengo was in route from Seneca 111., to a Navy weapons station in Concord Calif., carrying mostly ground to air missiles. The Highway patrol said it received a Telephone Call from the Illinois state patrol and from the company a Headquarters in Joplin that a timing device to detonate the explosives might be aboard the truck. Seneca police said they received a Telephone Call from an unidentified person saying the timing device was aboard the truck. Company officials in Seneca said they reported earlier to police that intruders were on their property. The Lone family living in the Marengo area or. And mrs. D. J. Davies were the Only persons removed from the immediate area. Pilot crashes plane into filled Church county May Start Landfill Levy in 1971 double trouble All in one Day a report received by the news Friday stated that a it. Pleasant merchant experienced Cru buy trouble Friday. First his trousers split on the Golf course. Later his car rolled some 200 feet in the Garretson Timber and was saved by a tree from going into a Gully. The car damage was Small the trouser damage total. President and since 1959, As president. Superior Cable is now Superior Continental corporation. Robb is married has three sons and a daughter. He has visited it. Pleasant previously in connection with superiors operation Here. Orders unions to return to work new York up a a Federal court judge today ordered three unions that closed Down tile nation s largest commuter line with a Wildcat strike to return to work immediately. Judge Jack Weinstein signed the temporary restraining order at 10 35 ., six and a half hours after electricians turned off All electrical Power on the Long Island Railroad which carries 90,000 commuters daily to and from their jobs. Railroad spokesman Hank Boer Ner said no Union officials were present when Weinstein signed the court order. He said Railroad officials were attempting to serve the san Juan Tex. Up a a Small plane smashed into the shrine of san Juan Catholic Church at High noon Friday sending about too priests and worshippers fleeing from the crumbling burning ruins. The Pilot of the single engine Piper Cherokee called a nearby Airport demanding that All methodist and Catholic churches in South Texas be evacuated. Twenty seven minutes later he crashed the aircraft into the san Juan Church and died. Too police said the 60 priests and about 40 persons worshipping inside the White Stone Structure got out safely. A we were in the House of god and he protected us a the Rev. John Ward said. Charles Ward roup chief of the control Tower at the nearby Airport at Mcallen Tex., said the Pilot of the plane called at 11 33 . A the called on an emergency Fie Quency to advise fire departments to evacuate All methodist and Catholic churches from Weslaco to Mission and from Hidalgo to Edinburgh a Wardroup said. All Are towns in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. San Juan is six Miles across the Border from Mexico. Too a we queried the Pilot As to Why the churches should be evacuated a Wardrop said. A the said due to a serious a the crash and fire caved in tile Church roof which Rose too feet High. The Walls were left standing but the inside was gutted. Smoke could be seen five Miles away. When the plane hit about 60 priests a half the priests in the Brownsville diocese a were inside the Church. Besides the priests there were about 40 men women and children in the main Sanctuary. Children ran screaming from the building after the crash. The Henry county Board of supervisors has no funds available for Landfill operation at the present time chairman Wilbur Sater said Friday. Scheduled for inclusion in the 1971 budget is a one fourth Mill Levy on Rural property which should bring in about $7,200, he said. This will not be enough to operate a Large county Landfill or two or three smaller ones he pointed out. The Levy is being started looking Forward to a county operated Landfill or landfills. The deadline Date required by Law for the establishment of such is 1975. The $7,200 a year will not be sufficient to operate the landfills and a charge will have to be made or provision made by the state for additional funds he pointed out. One Landfill has been established North of Lowell which is being used by new London and some private operators. Winfield is using one near morning Sun. Wayland has been making inquiry about the possibility. As reported thursday it. Pleasant has made arrangements for Eton Whaley to operate the Landfill at the Southwest Edge of town. It will kind of Competition no one loses and everyone too in his second speech before the world organization since becoming president Nixon said there were Many sound reasons Why the United states and the soviet Union should seek a new course towards peaceful rivalry. Nixon cautioned against underestimating the a seriousness of the disagreements Between Moscow and Washington but cited four specific areas that he said provided a basis for us. Soviet cooperation. Of he listed these As avoiding a nuclear Exchange that would Cost the lives of tens of millions of people. Reducing a the enormous Cost of and redirecting resources toward Progress. Increasing Trade and Contact. Competing in the a global Challenge of economic and social Nixon did not refer specifically to a Hartline . Speech two Days ago by soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko but his reference was Clear when he remarked pointedly a i see to Point in responding in kind to traditional cold War rhetoric. The facts of the recent past speak for themselves. An Effort to score debating Points is not the Way to Advance the cause of be supported by it. Pleasant Register its concern about and by fees charged both town and. Treatment of prisoners 0 War Rural residents who use it. Order on the unions involved. The completely unexpected strike forced thousands of Long Island residents to seek other Means of transportation to work. Boerner said the Railroad was informed by the judge that personal service of the restraining order upon Union officials was not required to make the court order binding. The order is returnable at to . Next Friday before Federal judge John r. Bartels. The major thrust of the speech dealt with improvement of soviet american relations. There were no major surprises or explicit new offers in the address although Nixon stressed the need for the two super Powers to prevent War in the Middle East. He touched Only briefly on his recent Indochina peace plan which included a proposal for a standstill cease fire. Of americans role in the world Nixon said a we can with Complete honesty say that we maintain our strength to keep the peace Ami not to threaten the peace. The Power of the United states will be used to defend Freedom and never to destroy too in the Middle East he said the United states and Russia should work for a continuation of the ceasefire and the creation of Confidence in which peace efforts can go in mentioning his Vietnam peace proposals he urged the United a pre inauguration mass sunday at St. Michael s a pre inauguration mass for the Rev. Or. Louis a. Haselmayer will be held at St. Michael a episcopal Church on sunday october 25 at to . Or. Haselmayer will be the celebrant and the it. Rev. Russell t. Rauscher Bishop of Nebraska will pontificate and preach the Sermon. The Rev. Robert l. Matheus Rector of St. Michael a will be the Bishops chaplain and the Gosweler. A reception will be held in the Parish Hall following the service honouring both or. Haselmayer who will be installed As president of Iowa Wesleyan College that afternoon and also Bishop Rauscher who is a graduate of . And a former Rector of St. Michael a. The treatment of prisoners taken captive in the conflict. Open House schedule american education week monday oct. 26 elementary schools in it. Pleasant 7 00 -9 00 Tuesday oct. 27 Salem and pleasant Lawn elementary 7 00-9 00 Will launch Community Chest drive the 1970-71 Kickoff breakfast for the greater it. Pleasant Community Chest will be held at the Harlan hotel monday morning at 7 30. Kickoff speaker will be Joe Panther who will provide the enthusiasm and impetus for an energetic Campaign. All Board members division chairman and1 Community Chest workers Are urged to be present tor the Kickoff meeting. Incident at legion club City police tile Highway patrol county authorities and the Henry county Rescue squad and members of the fire department were called to the Vicinity of the american legion club thursday night following an incident in which some Iowa Wesleyan students were told to leave the club. The students and others gathered outside the legion and Law officers came to the scene talked wednesday oct. 28-High school with them and gave them a period 7 00 9 30 And 7th and 8th of time to disperse. The Rescue grades 8 00 9 30 Terse verse by a. C. Gordon All Laws enacted should like clothes with verve be made to fit the people they will serve. Squad gathered near the City Hall in Case it was needed to help keep order but was sent Hornet Adlet about 45 minutes had gone by. Tile students went Back to the dorms about 12 15 . And wet Given a police escort which eau of them had requested

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