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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - October 24, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news a Dirr in partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 251mt. Pleasant Iowa saturday evening october 24, 1970price to cents Jeffrey Hart football As religion football especially professional football is in the strictest anthropological sense the nearest thing Ivy have to a National religion. And therefore you May confidently expect football to come under politically implicated attack in the very near future. The attack has even Here and there already commenced. When i say that football is a National religion i mean that it gives Concrete form to and glorifies far More completely than any of the Ordinary religions a the actual ingredients of the american ethos the values that represent american life As it is actually lived. And i do not say this in any denier Active sense. For it is this dimension of football that explains Why president Nixon instinctively chose to be watching an Ohio state game last fall during one of those Radical marches on the White House and Why Spiro Agnew has associated himself so closely As admirer and Friend with the Baltimore Colts and Why Nixon again and As president took the odd1 step last year of officially unofficially declaring Texas the National Champion to the understandable dismay of Joe Paterno and Penn state listless this year As if still stunned by the judgment. But what is it that football As religion As ritual so powerfully expresses first and it has this in common with other Glamor sports it embodies much More purely than the rest of the society one of that society scentral beliefs that the poor boy with Talent can make Good in a big Way and do so regardless of color parental origin or Creed. Sports very intensely isolate and instantly Reward Merit thus distilling one of our fundamental beliefs. Too another aspect of this is that sports including football reenact the myth of Equality Joe Kapp John Unitas roman Gabriel Joe Namath Bill Bradley Wilt Chamberlain enter the Arena abstracted from the painful truths of history they Are in fact and not Only in aspiration equal at the starting line the Only place in the american actuality that this Ideal really does obtain. But football has mythical Potency beyond All the other sports. Item bodies the american Faith in organization represents it to an extreme degree approaches perfection it is like our civilization increasingly specialized. And like our civilization it is also violent. The individuals who can master All these aspects a and to do so takes mind will courage and discipline a Are again in the strict anthropological sense cultural heroes. Without anyone really noticing it football has acquired a meaning for american life that baseball a so much less intense so nineteenth Century and even Rural a game a once had but no longer does. And so Given our political fissures hatred of football will inevitably be evoked. At Dartmouth i have observed hints of this beginning to seep out acrid on the afternoon Breeze. The political Zed and radicalized fringes a to be sure without much real consciousness a Are fumbling for an Issue Here. They Are for example trying to stir up indignation Over the fact that football play ers get free meals at the training table during the season a Provis Ion indeed that has been common place since pre history. Another group is trying on grounds of ecology of All things a ecology has be come a Universal lever a to ban the Large Bonfire Long traditional on the night of the rally before d big game these Are microscopic things but symptomatic. Others Are the revolt of the negro players at Syracuse clearly aware in some sense of act ing against the myth the weakness of the army and Navy teams and the behaviour of Joe Namath that Abelard of the National religion in Short As the meaning of foot Ball rises into consciousness the sport because it is More than sport will become More and More a focus of conflict. Distributed by King features Syndicate. Gun Battle at Cairo police station Cairo 111. Up a squads of armed negro men drove up to the police station Here and opened fire three times in six hours late Friday and Early today. In the third attack hundreds rounds of gunfire ripped into the police station for 35 minutes. Police gunfire drove the men Back. The attack at 2 10 a. In. Today came after police repulsed two previous attacks Friday night. After the second attack City state and county police drove the attackers Back into an All Black housing project. There were no immediate arrests although police indicated they of Canada frees part of those rounded up Montreal up a Canadian authorities Are freeing Many of the hundreds of suspected Fly sympathizers rounded up in a Swift and politically sensitive crackdown that has fallen Short of its purpose a finding kidnapped British Diplomat James r. Cross. The manhunt for the handful of men perhaps As few As five of the liberation cell of the Quebec liberation front Pic continued but with diminishing results. Only to persons were arrested Friday. Too when Canadas Cabinet invoked the War emergency act a week ago Friday it permitted police and troops to arrest suspects without warrants or charges and hold them for seven Days with the Justice minister empowered to further detain them without charges for another 21 Days. The seven Day period has run out for the 227 seized in the first few hours. Police said today they have released 108 people and still held 233 earlier they said the total of those seized had reached a High of 373, but they said that figure was an the actual number they said was 341. Too Cross seized 20 Days ago from his Home by the Fly which seeks an Independent and socialist nation of Quebec and says violence is needed to attain it has not been heard from since sunday a Day after the strangled body of Quebec labor minister Pierre Laporte was found in an automobile trunk. Laporte kidnapped by a More militant Fly a cell a was abducted oct. To. Quebec provincial police issued warrants Friday for three More men sought in connection with la porters kidnapping. Would arrest a Man believed wounded slightly in the second attack. A we do not have racial troubles. We do not have civil rights activities. What we have had tonight in Cairo is open armed insurrection a mayor a. B. A Pete a Thomas said. Police gave this account of what happened about 7 p. In. Friday a grocery store owned by a White family across the Street from the Pyramid courts an All Black housing project was burned to the ground. Firemen could not get near the fire because of sniper fire from the courts. About 8 15 about 15 to 18 men dressed in fatigues and armed with rifles got out of several cars in front of police Headquarters and opened fire. No policemen were hit and the men were driven off. However a Block South an 18-year old White grocery delivery boy was grazed on the by a Bullet. Two hours later the Blacks returned and again opened fire on the police station. This time lawmen drove the men Back chasing them in a running gun Battle into the Pyramid courts. Too later a caller telephoned police and said a a we re coming out in a car with a wounded Man we want to take to the a car from Pyramid courts then was permitted passage at a state police Roadblock when the men inside said they wanted to go to Southeast Missouri Hospital across the Mississippi River in Cape Girardeau. A Man in the car reportedly needed treatment for a leg wound. Things were quiet for several hours until Early today when the third attack occurred. By Kab j 38i 5 j a y amp a a a a a a in 7/bl a ugh St. In in born a in \ or we in k 2% Fps Uhl h a St v a Quot by Quot a or �14? Irb Start withdrawing from Thailand base Saigon up a the United states has quietly begun its first withdrawal of aircraft from Thailand since the beginning of the Indochina War informed Allied sources said today. The unit is the 355th tactical fighter Wing to now based at Rakhli airbase 85 Miles North of Bangkok the sources said. About 60 of the outfits 80 f105 thunderchief Jet fighter bombers have begun returning to the United states and the others will be moved elsewhere in Thailand As the unit is activated. Watching a race riot huddled on the front floor of a car an unidentified Wotan fearfully watches a race riot at Central High school in Pontiac Mich. Rocks and bottles hurled by students had crashed through the windows of the car. Witnesses said four White students were shot by Black students igniting a Battle finally quelled by police. In 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 . Wednesday oct. 28-High school 7 00 9 30 pin. And 7th and 8th grades 8 00 9 30 . Can save by mailing Christmas packages Early postmaster Wendell t. Smith today issued a reminder that postal customers can save Money by mailing packages before november 14th. A any Christmas packages you mail before november 14th will save you 15 cents on every Dollar you spend for postage a or. Smith said. A in addition because your packages will be getting in the mail Stream ahead of the big Rush they will get to their destinations sooner surer safer and in better postmaster Smith also reminded customers that insuring parcels is the easiest cheapest Way to see packages make it Home for a merry Christmas. \ a by All Means a said or. Smith a put a slip of paper inside the package bearing the name and address of the addressee and your name and return address. We could out the loss of packages in half if mailers would use this simple method of Farmers Union assails farm income freeze Washington up a the National Farmers Union has accused the Nixon administration of trying to use Farmers to help Cool the nations Economy. Tony t. Dechant president of the 250,000-family Union the nations second largest organization of Farmers said the administration was doing that by proposing to freeze farm income a for a three year period while inflation continues galloping along at 6 per the Farmers Union has demanded the resignation of three of the past five secretaries of agriculture and today called for the resignation of Secretary Clifford m. Hardin. Hardin later issued a statement that did not mention dechants Call for his resignation but said a while farm income and prices Are not As High As they should and must be in relation to other parts of the american Economy or. Dechant spoke at a time when net income per farm is at the highest level in All history in spite of higher production Dechant told a news conference a every action he a Hardin had a Chance to take has been Nickling and diming Dechant was highly critical of Harding a pressures on congressional conferees who wrote a Compromise farm Bill last month. That Bill has passed the House and is scheduled for Early consideration when the Senate returns nov. 16. A if this Bill becomes Law and it appears that it might a it will Cost the Farmers of this nation at least $1.3 billion in real net income during the next three years a Dechant said. Services held for Ohta family Santa Cruz Calif. Up a Taura and Lark Ohta Only Sui living members of their family arrived at holy Cross Church just As a radio in a police car parked nearby broadcast the capture of the suspected Slayer of their parents and Brothers. Taura 18 and Lark 14, stood quietly outside the Church located on a Hill overlooking Santa Cruz until the first two caskets were taken inside. Then the Sisters went in the other two caskets following them. The High mass for or. Victor Ohta 45 his wife Virginia 43, and sons Richard Derrick 12, and Victor Taggart la was celebrated by three priests in White vestments. Or. Ohta smother also attended the rites. The Rev. William Scully asked the 800 mourners not to go to holy Cross cemetery to burial services which followed saying a let the final interment be their a after the mass the Ohta Sisters followed an altar boy carrying a. Single Candle out of the Church. Taura wearing a Black Mantilla sobbed in a friends arms for several moments before she was helped into a limousine. Four hearses carried the identical caskets to the cemetery. During the mass the Church was guarded by two dozen Santa Cruz policemen. The fifth victim Dorothy Cadwallader 38, or. Ohta a Secretary was buried the Day before. Nixon Speaks at Baltimore Baltimore up a president Nixon today invaded a traditional democratic preserve a the Union Hall a in search of Republican votes from Blue Collar workers disgruntled by Campus violence and Antiwar demonstrations. Returning to the Campaign trial after a three Day Layoff the president appeared at the United steelworkers Union Hall Here to speak out for rep. J. Glenn Beall and a Stanley Blair a former adviser to vice president Spiro t. Agnew. Beall is trying to oust sen. Joseph d. Tydings d-md., and Blair is bidding for gov. Marvin Mandela a Job. Maryland was the 12th state Nixon visited on a tour aimed primarily at defeating senators who have opposed him during the past year in a series of close votes on supreme court nominations the Indochina War and defense policy. Special music one highlight of inauguration Tanker spills Oil into Channel 27 killed in Bangkok Accident Bangkok up a Twenty seven persons were killed and 19 injured Friday when their chartered bus collided with a 10-wheel truck in is of Latacha province about 150 Miles South of Bangkok police said today. Police said the group was going to a Temple in Rayon province a bout 200 Miles South of Bangkok. Two Luther students accused of bomb threat Decorah up a two seniors at Luther College were arrested Friday on charges of making a threat to place an explosive device following an Early morning bomb threat at the College. Winneshiek county authorities arrested Mark Hogden 21, of Westby wis., and Robert Rechsteiner 21, of Melrose wis. Classes were cancelled at Luther and buildings were evacuated Friday morning after Decorah police received a Telephone Call warning that two bombs had been planted on the Campus. Later police were told the threat was a hoax. Alarm clock for ambassador new Delhi up a a member of the Indian parliament today had a broken american alarm clock delivered to . Ambassador Kenneth Keating who failed to see off prime minister Indira Gandhi when she flew to new York because he reportedly overslept. The oversight caused a stir in the Indian press. The clock gift was the brainchild of m. Sondhi a Leader of the right Wing Peoples party in parliament. He enclosed a critical letter in the gift package which was delivered to the . Embassy by a woman Vendor. Keating 70-year-old former . Senator from new York was not at the Airport last tuesday when mrs. Gandhi took off for new York to attend the commemorative session of the United nations general Assembly. Reports said he had overslept and was planning action against an embassy employee who failed to Wake him up on time. Cowes Isle of Wight up a the burning Tanker Pacific glory spilled hundreds of tons of blazing crude Oil into the English Channel today after colliding with another ship. British Navy officials said they had found the bodies of five of the 42,777-ton, liberian registered ships Crew. Another eight members of the 43-Man Crew Are missing and feared drowned they said. Thirty of the Crew were picked up by Rescue ships after the Pacific glory collided with the 46,402-ton Allegro five Miles Southeast of the Isle of Wight off Britain a South coast Friday night. Pacific glory owned by the Tokyo based Island Navia Gion corp., was in route to Rotterdam with 100,000 barrels of crude Oil in its hold. As Pacific glory burned the Oil seeped slowly into the sea. The sight evoked immediate fears of a repetition of the pollution disaster which followed the grounding of the Tanker Torrey Canyon off Cornwall three years ago. Radio reports from Rescue Craft said heat from the Blaze made it impossible to approach closer than 250 Yards from the burning Pacific glory. No casualties were reported aboard Allegro. Chilean Congress i elects Allende Santiago up a the chilean Congress today elected Salvador Allende president of this South american Republic making him the first freely chosen marxist chief of state in the Western hemisphere the vote came amid stringent Security measures and a state of martial Law declared last thurs Day when gunmen shot and wounded the nations army chief in a bold assassination attempt. The congressional vote ratifying a popular election held last month gave Allende 153 ballots and rightist Independent Jorge Allessandri 35. Seven ballots were Blank. Troops end police had sealed off a 36-Block area around Congress and a Security helicopter fluttered overhead in the Spring Sunshine As the votes were cast. Allende failed to receive a majority in the popular election last month thus requiring a vote of Congress acting As an electoral College. He watched the proceedings on television in the living room of his Home with his wife Hortensia. The 50 senators and 150 congressmen voted one by one in alphabetical order depositing sealed ballots in an urn at the front of the ornate honors chamber of the Congress. Allende 62, will be inaugurated nov. 3. A highlight of sundays inauguration of or. Louis Haselmayer at Iowa Wesleyan will be the special music performed during the ceremony. The academic the deum written in 1961 by or. Haselmayer and put to music by r. Evan Copley former head of music at inc will be musically performed by Organ brass choir and timpani and Sung by the 80-voice a Cappella choir and 60-voice of Burt Mahle chorale. Prof. Mahle head of the music department at Wesleyan will direct the academic the deum performance. It has been presented Only once before during commencement in the mid-60�?Ts. Carl b. Moehlman inc assistant professor of music and the College organist will perform the prelude and postlude and senior music major John Ellinger Ainsworth will play trumpet solos during the recessional and processional. Music will include a fantasy in f minor k.594�?� by Mozart and a soul adorn thyself with glad Ness by Bach for the prelude trumpet tune by Johnson and a trumpet voluntary by Purcell for the processional a trumpet tune will be played during the recessional and a now thank we All our god by Sigfrid Karg a Elert will be featured during the postlude. The Public is invited to the inauguration at 3 p. Rn., sunday in the Chapel and to the reception following the ceremony in the Stu Dent Union. According to the sources Rakhli eventually will be turned Over entirely to the thai air Force with the United states utilising five other airbases in Thailand Ubon Udom Nacho Thanong Korat and a Tapao. As part of the general american withdrawal from the Indochina theater of operations the United states this year has reduced its military strength in Thailand from 48,-000 to 42,000 men. Too Little Battlefield action was reported in communiques from Saigon and phenom penh today. U. 6. Military spokesmen in Saigon said one american was killed and another wounded this morning in a Brief firefight in Binh Duong province Northwest of the capital. One u. S. Serviceman died and two were wounded Friday evening in a Booby trap incident in Quang Nam province on the Northern coast officials reported. Power at Oakland Mills knocked out electrical current to the Lockridge and Oakland Mills communities was knocked out Early Friday morning when lightning knocked the top off a Utility pole. Officials at the Iowa electric Light and Power company office clocked the time at 8 05 . Linemen were still on the Job late this morning and it was hoped service would be restored before noon. The lightning struck the pole located along a private right of Way East of the Iga food store South of Fairfield. Company officials said 165 customers in the two communities were affected by the outage. Inauguration Issue published by inc courier South vietnamese military spokesmen said three civilians died wad 15 were wounded Friday when three 122mm rocket rounds struck the District town of due due about 342 Miles Northeast of Saigon. The spokesmen said earlier reports from the town that 13 persons had died subsequently proved erroneous. Turn clock Back before retiring tonight is the night. Turn your clock Back one hour before retiring and your time should be right sunday morning. Churches will be Back on Standard time sunday. Iowa Wesleyan events sunday will be on Standard time. Will speak at inc dinner James l. Robb vice president and member of the executive committee of Continental Telephone corp., will speak at the special pre inauguration dinner at Iowa Wesleyan College this saturday evening. Members of the Mary Harlan Lincoln club faculty staff. Wesleyan associates and trustees will attend the dinner. The special inauguration Issue of the Iowa Wesleyan courier is a comprehensive review of Many activities of or. Louis a. Haselmayer on the Campus and in it. Pleasant. This review was a com no time bomb on truck Load of explosives Marengo up a army demolition experts found no time bomb on Board an explosive Laded semitrailer truck which was ordered off interstate 80 after a report the cargo contained a detonating device. Two demolition experts from the u. S. Army ordnance depot at Savannah 111., combed the truck and trailer for about two hours Friday before Clearing the vehicle for further travel. The truck was ordered off the interstate near the Marengo interchange about 4 30 am. Friday and onto a lonely gravel Road about one mile North of the Highway. Too the track is owned by the tri state motor freight co. Of Joplin mo., and was Ai route from Seneca 111., where the trailer was picked up to a Navy weapons station in can Cord Calif., carrying an estimated 19,000 pounds of ground to air missiles. Tri state was the owner of a truck that was blown to bits near Springfield mo., three weeks ago. The Driver of the truck was killed and a gaping Hole was left in the Highway. The Iowa Highway patrol said it was notified by the Illinois state police and tri state company of. T facials that a Telephone threat of a polished by taking stories from the _. A it a. It. Nam detonating device aboard the truck had been received. Two Iowa officers intercepted the Burlington woman found innocent in husbands death Burlington up a a Des Moines county District court jury Friday declared Katherine Walker 28, innocent by reason of insanity in the aug. To shooting of her former husband a Burlington policeman. The jury deliberated for three hours following four Days of testimony. Among those testifying were two policemen who were called to the scene to investigate a reported family disturbance and who were allegedly at the House at the time of the shooting. She was accused of shooting her husband Lawrence Walker with his .38 Caliper service revolver. Walkers sex wife had apparently found him at the Home of a girl Friend and an argument ensued police said. The argument continued and Walker took his former wife Home where the shooting occurred. Iowa Wesleyan courier and its predecessor the Iowa Wesleyan Tiger Over the years he has been at Iowa Wesleyan. Headings of the articles Are an indication of the Content of the four Page Issue a View of l. A. H. To years ago or. Haselmayer listed in who a who Black studies proposed by president Haselmayer tapped for presidency president discusses town gown relations Haselmayer sponsors Sigma Tau Delta Koed interviews Haselmayer Haselmayer joins faculty Lambda Chis Honor president Haselmayer president faces Spring �?T70 crisis president Speaks at anniversary president writes Book reviews Haselmayer works with croaker l. A. H. Cast in drama or. Haselmayer As historian one full Page headed the creative Side of an administrator includes several of or. Hasey Mayer a poems and a tribute by Madame Paulene Aspel a of language and on the editorial Page Over the signatures of Marie Spinozzi editor and Choi Schoonover associate editor is the following statement a the editorial Board of the Iowa Wesleyan courier extends most sincere congratulations to or. Haselmayer on his inauguration. We thank him for the work he has done in the past and wish him the Best of Luck in the truck and ordered it off onto the Iowa county Road and then barricaded the Road and evacuated one family living in the Rural area. Law enforcement officers and sightseers were kept at least 800 Yards from the truck. Parsons student fatally injured Macon to. Up a a Parsons College student died shortly after a two car crash on . 63 three Miles North of Here Friday night. The Missouri Highway patrol said Bernard Rosenburg 19, Philadelphia pa., lived for about three hours in a Macon Hospital after a car in which he was Riding was struck broadside by a vehicle driven by Ernest Roub 21. Kirksville. The patrol said the car in which Rosenburg was driving driven by John Betrowski 18, of Passaic no was passing a series of cars on a curve when it spun out of control and was struck by Roubos oncoming vehicle. Betrowski was listed in serious condition in Macon with neck injuries. While Roub was treated and released. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon As troublemakers there Are few outlaws who even equal some of our inlays

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