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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 11, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Cool Section one 3 sections vol. 92, no. 214 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening Friday sept. 11, 1970 Price 10 cents these Days by John Chamberlain the cynics View of East West Trade Munich a in conservative Bavaria where distrust of the soviets has never abated to any significant extent there is More than a Little pres Simisim about Chancellor Willy Brandts attempts to build economic Bridges to the East. But the opposition to the Brandt policy is tempered by cynicism. It is freely admitted that if a Western consortium gives the russians a truck building Industry it will do More for the soviet armed forces than for the civilian population which might prefer Small cars and the Freedom to use them. Why then does the Bonn government Sanction the Industrial a turn to the East if it Only serves to increase soviet military mobility the cynics answer is that if West Germany does no to do it somebody else will so Why not Cash in on something that is bound to come anyway o o o sad enough to say the cynics have history on their Side. When the labor government was still in Power in Britain it followed a High minded policy of refusing to sell arms to South Africa. The theory was that London could not afford to offend sub saharan Black Africa. But the French whose ties to Black Africa Are almost As extensive As those of Britain went night on sending military equipment to the South africans. Moreover the former French colonies a the Ivory coast Gabon Madagascar a showed Little practical aversion to commercial dealings with the apostles of apartheid. Now the British Are proposing to reverse their old policy and sell a a defensive weapons to the South african government. This lapse from Quot idealism is at least in tune with general British Trade practice which found easy excuses to sell buses to Castro scuba despite the disapproval of Britain Sally the . As Lenin once said the bourgeoisie would end up by Selling the communists the rope that would eventually be used to hang every last capitalist to the nearest Lamppost. The cynics argument is that since the traffic in rope is inevitable one might As Well enjoy life on the proceeds of the rope sales while the executioner is Busy with other victims such As the israelis or the red chinese. 0 0 0 this is stating the cynics Case at an extreme. The More hopeful if still cynical View is that the russians even if they have a Mobile army must encounter such strains in dealing with their satellites that it wont matter what they Are enabled to buy in the West. The cynics Point out that a soviet West German economic rapprochement will do More than anything else to weaken the ties Between the East German government and its master in Moscow. The East germans have revived their Economy by Selling forges Road building equipment engines precision instruments optical goods computers and electronic equipment to the russians in great quantities. They also do a thriving Trade Ini machinery with the other East european satellites. But the East German Industrial goods while they Are Superior to anything made in Russia itself cannot compete in Quality with the produce of West German factories. This fact has not been lost on East Germany a Boss communist party chief Walter Ulbricht who has always opposed the development of Trade Between the soviets and the West germans. O o o it was t so Long ago that Herr Ulbricht was saying that a those who aspire to figure As travellers Between two worlds will sooner or later end up dependent on the world monopolies and to Weir Ulbricht wanted to see the come con bloc become a closed economic system with East Germany recognized As the senior Industrial partner. A in the bitter struggle Between socialism and imperialism a he said a the necessity is crystallizing for the Community of socialist countries to solve All scientific and technological defense economic and other problems with their own forces and Willy Brandt and Premier Kosygin have very effectively put Herr Ulbricht in his place. Whether this is Worth risking a Trade policy that win put the russian army on wheels is of course another question. Distributed by King features Syndicate arabs release 60 of 315 hostages by up Arab guerrillas today released 60 women and children held hostage in Amman but made no move to carry out an earlier Promise to Transfer a a immediately into the jordanian capital the 255 other hostages still aboard three hijacked airliners parked on a desert air strip. An International red Cross spokesman in Geneva said Arab guerrillas guarding the planes at the air strip Northeast of Amman had replaced dynamite aboard the three planes today and were still holding the passengers and Crew members aboard the aircraft at information about s. E. Iowa College a supplement with this Issue of the news gives information about the Southeast Iowa Community College at Burlington. Lowell Hewitt director of adult and continuing education at the College has pointed out some pertinent facts. A total of 4,800 to 5,000 people have been enrolled in night classes. The total of teachers full time and part time is about 355. Classes Are offered in three general areas 1. College credit 2. Career education courses former vocational technical courses 3. High school completion and general interest. There is also a possibility of adding courses not listed in the special Section of this Issue. Persons interested in getting a class established for a certain course May Call the office of adult education Southeastern Iowa Community College. The special Southeast Iowa Community College Section was prepared by the College personnel. Welcome to inc students in this Issue Iowa Wesleyan College freshmen arrived on the Campus this week and have been having a period of adjustment and orientation before the opening of classes next week. A special Section of the news gives much information about the College the new faculty members and events planned. Also students will find a special Welcome from administration and staff people from the Community and from Many local merchants. Bill Baxter Iowa Wesleyan Public relations director prepared material obtained the a Welcome messages and assembled the pictures for the special . A the planes can now be blown up at the push of a Button a said the red Cross spokesman Alain to Doux. A the maintenance of the status quo at the air strip is equivalent to mental and physical torture and this must be brought to the attention of Mondoux said the guerrillas also had ordered a red Cross medical team of three physicians and five nurses to leave the air strip and stopped trucks carrying medical and sanitary supplies before they reached the strip. The supplies were airlifted by the red Cross to Amman thursday. O o o in Amman the freed hostages left the inter Continental hotel in a cavalcade of taxis and private cars. A spokesman for the popular front for the liberation of Palestine help whose members hijacked the Twa Swissair and British overseas airways corp. Boac planes said the freed group was made up of 34 americans 17 indians 3 italians 2 turks 2 greeks and 2 yugoslavs. The group was scheduled to Fly to Nicosia capital of the Mediterranean Island of Cyprus on a chartered jordanian airlines plane later today. A i feel Fine except i Hope we done to get another Hijack a said one of the freed hostages Yvonne Addassia 8 of Hayward Calif. One unidentified Mother received her passport and permission to leave from the guerrillas but did not go with the other released hostages because the palestinians did not return the passport of her 5-year-old daughter. Earlier today the Palestine liberation organization Plo announced that the passengers and Crew members aboard the three planes parked at the air strip would be brought immediately to Amman while negotiations for their release continued. At first the help appeared to go along with the decision but they made no subsequent move to follow it up. Later a help guerrilla issued a statement at the air strip saying a the passengers on the planes will not be released until our demands Are terse verse by a. C. Gordon wrinkles on the face should All begin on the areas where smiles have been. Watson denied stay of extradition Washington up a supreme court Justice Hugo Black today denied a stay of the extradition of Charles d. Watson one of four persons indicted in the Tate Labiano murders from Texas to California. He took the action without comment. Watson 24, a former High school Honor student and Star athlete was accused of carrying out most of the killings under the direction of cult Leader Charles Manson with the Aid of three Young women members of the Nomad group. Watson is in jail in his Hometown of Mckinney Tex. Three arrested on drug charges Fairfield up a Fairfield police and state narcotics agents Friday arrested three persons including a 14-year-old boy on drug charges following a raid at a local residence. Charged with Possession of marijuana Are James Savage Donna Kline and the 14-year-old juvenile All of Fairfield. Savage and miss Kline were charged also with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Brouwer brings first t and a persons planning to attend the kiwanis sponsored travel and adventure series this season Are reminded that the first entertainment of the new series will be presented next monday evening sept. 14, at 7 30 at the Iowa Wesleyan Chapel. Robert Brouwer whose three screen productions have been a big attraction in past programs Here will give the first program a Quot Welcome to Brouwer by using three Large screens and dynamic stereo music obtains both depth and brilliance in his delightful program. In this picture he visits a state full of vacation fun. Quaint fishing villages the Mackinac Bridge climactic waterfalls and much More contribute to the spell of this a Winter water he gives the narration accompanying the picture. Kiwan ians have been Selling season tickets but Many have missed some of their regular purchasers As Well As new ones. Persons May still obtain tickets by contacting a Kewanian or by purchasing at the Henry county savings Bank it. Pleasant Bank and Trust Gem loan Davis paint store or insurance plan savings and loan. Season tickets also will be available at the door monday evening. Large crowd at school meeting Ife 7 by Sandy Williams approximately 250 residents of the it. Pleasant school District attended the school Board candidates meeting at the High school auditorium thurs. Evening. The meeting was organized by the it. Pleasant chapter of the league of women excess of $200,000 of Revenue for the College from the 3% county area Lee Des Moines Henry and the South half of Louisa. The College has purchased a 160 acre tract of land on Highway 406 near West Burlington and the first phase of $2.0 million in building Complex voters and sponsored jointly by the would be financed by Federal state Jaycees kiwanis club rotary club and Parent teachers association. Professor Joe Mauck of Iowa Wesleyan College served As Moderator for the informative meeting. The Tornado Tabeth away is the situation in Bridgeport w. Va., As cleanup Effort on this Baptist Church get underway. The twister also a roofed Homes. Prepared for counterattack Nixon orders guards for commercial flights fighting in Amman ends up phenom penh up a cambodian government troops who broke the 60-Day siege of Korn Pong Thom Are prepared for a counterattack by j communist forces a High com i Mand spokesman said today. J j he said the troops also have opened the Waterways to the South j go olr&Quot\7 West of the City without resistance and they now Are a completely se-1 the Lack of resistance prob Bably was because of High flood Waters which enabled the gunboats to reach the besieged City and to open the flooded area Between Kampong Thom and the Lake on tone sap 30 Miles to the Southwest. Intelligence reports indicated a an unknown percentage of the 2,000-Man communist attack earlier this week. Despite the Lack of resistance so far the spokesman said a we Are prepared for an attack in fact we Washington up a president Nixon today ordered armed guards placed on Many . Commercial airliners starting saturday in both overseas and Domestic flights to combat the menace of air piracy. In a strongly worked statement Nixon announced a series of moves to Cope with further hijackings and airline sabotage a including greatly increased use of sophisticated munits out so that we can kill u. S. Military spokesmen in Saigon said two american 4th infantry division troopers were killed and two wounded thursday morning in a bitter 20-minute firefight in the Central Highlands about 262 Miles Northeast of Saigon. The communists withdrew before reinforcements arrived and it was not known whether they suffered losses. A shaky truce brought to a stand equipment for surveillance of Pas still today 21 Days of bitter fighting gingers baggage and airports in Amman Between jordanian j troops and palestinian guerrillas. The government appealed to its citizens to return to their shops and businesses. In Washington two congressman raid thursday Israel presented its biggest a shopping list of military hardware to Date and for the first time requested credit terms. The request totalled $800 million and included f4 phantoms a4 sky Are trying to draw them the Coro Hawk missiles Robert Brouwer 4 inc student teachers in my Public schools the it. Pleasant Community schools Are hosting four Iowa Wesleyan College student teachers for the opening of the school year. This site Emter experience includes attending pre school workshop tanks bombs Redar and other electronic gear. Egyptian minister of National guidance Mohammed Hassanein Heikal said in Cairo american Middle East policy has designed to eliminate the soviet presence from the area to keep Israel Strong and the arabs weak and to cripple Egypt a role in the Region. Jordanian troops and palestinian guerrillas bolted their guns in adherence to the third peace pact called since sept. L when fighting erupted following the ninth attempted assassination of King Hussein. The president said he had instructed Secretary of state William p. Rogers to ask the Council of International civil aviation organization to Convene an emergency meeting for joint action to suspend airline service with countries that refuse to extradite or punish hijackers involved in what was described As International blackmail. Peter Flanigan a presidential assistant said that the airline pilots association and All of the u6. Airlines unanimously concurred in the anti Hijack Steps ordered by Nixon in the Wake of four hijackings in five Days by the palestinian guerrillas. Dean of Iowa Law school resigns Iowa City up a David h. Vernon Dean of the College of Law at the University of Iowa today meetings assisting in organizing submitted his resignation to the the rooms for the opening of Iowa Board of regents. School and some classroom work during the first few Days of school. Student teachers and the rooms and teachers where they Are serving include Harlan school Grade 4 Karol Stutzman Gertrude Miller Saunders school Grade 3 Joan Lorang Nadine Mccoy Van Allen school kindergarten Anita Hampton Bessie Metzger Grade 2 Barbara Scott Ailene Morris Vernon Dean of the College since 1066, gave no reason for the resignation which becomes effective aug. 31, 1971. He did say however he would assume a full time teaching the decision to use armed guards on Many flights of american airliners a the White House did not specify what routes would be involved either in International or Domestic flights a was announced after a White House meeting involving top administration and congressional leaders. Nixon also directed the transportation department to extend the use of electronic surveillance to All Domestic airports and a wherever possible a in other countries. A Large number of guards is already available and Are ready to begin their duties immediately officials said. They will be drawn from the secret service and will be supplemented by specially trained members of the armed forces who will serve until an adequate number of civilian guards have been trained. C. W. Callison superintendent of these Iowa area Community College spoke with regard to the % Mill property tax Levy which will be requested from voters to support the area 16 College building program near West Burlington. The ballot will be submitted to voters at the regular september 14th school election. Callison said that the % Mill tax is not actually a new Levy but rather a request to extend the present % Mill for an additional 5 years. The tax has been in effect the past 3 years and produces in Agnew starts Campaign trip Casper Wyo. Up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew pledging to a blow the Whistler from coast to coast on Ultra liberals in Congress launched a six Day Campaign trip thursday with attacks on a pusillanimous Pussy footing and trog Lod tic the vice president who sent reporters and audiences alike thumbing through dictionaries even coined a new word a a Radic Libs a As he spoke to crowds at Springfield 111., and at Casper to begin a sex state tour. It was at Springfield that Agnew assailed a pusillanimous pussyfoot Erst a leftists a a whimpering isolationism a a a Mullish obstructionism a and a Radic Libs a the latter an Agnew word combing Radical and Liberal. A there was a time when the liberalism of the old democratic elite was a venturesome and fighting philosophy a the Vanguard political Dogma of a Franklin Roosevelt a Harry Truman a John Kennedy a Agnew said. And local tax funds generated from the % Mill. According to Callison a simple majority of those voting across the 3vfe county area is required for passage of the property tax Levy. A a a or. Robert Wettach was introduced by professor Mauck and explained the proposal that wih be submitted to voters with reference to expanding the it. Pleasant school Board from 5 to 7 members. Or. Wettach served As chairman of the special study committee appointed by the Board to review Federal and state Laws on school boards and submit a recommendation to the Board. The recommendation As submitted by the committee was approved and endorsed by the Board and the measure will be submitted to voters on september 14th. If approved by a simple majority the five present director districts will remain As present and two additional board1 members will be elected at Large effective september 1071. Or. Wettach stated that the recommendation is probably not in exact accordance with the principle of a one Man one vote but that it appeared to be an acceptable and reasonable Compromise that would provide fair representation to both Urban and Rural residents. It is understood that the school Board favors the adoption of the proposal. O a o mrs. Mary Lou Myers Richard Cor Nick j. D. Schummel pfennig and Richard Roach candidates for three year terms As school directors were introduced by professor Mauck. Each gave a Brief statement of platform before submitting to questions from the audience. All candidates praised the present system but agreed that some improvement is needed. A Lack of communication Quot from the Bottom up was determined As a major weakness. In addition or. Schim help Fermi specified a a need to accelerate implementation of changes a and or. Comte room a Ultra liberalism today translates mended a 0f a steady pro into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy a Mullish obstructionism in Domestic policy and a pusillanimous Pussy footing on the critical Issue of Law and in Wyoming where he received1 sity of Quot relating to Gresso not one of a leaps and concerning their potential role As directors each agreed with mrs. Myers who emphasized the Neces and keeping crowd of More than 4.000, he pledged to a blow the Whistler on Radical liberals who now were a in a mad scramble to the Center. And researching position at the College next fall. An enthusiastic ovation from a Contact with the Public representing the constituency whenever possible. Space was named As the first priority by All candidates. Or. Sch imme Pfenning also asks for acceleration at the Junior High level so students Are offered an a exploratory experience. Other candidates mentioned an updated curriculum and More efficient use of existing facilities on their lists of priorities. Damage trial concerning collapse of building starts Fairfield a testimony began Thun Day in the court trial Roy Ridgeway roofing co., versus Robert Dunnuck. Hurricane Ella gathers steam Brownsville Tex. Up a Small but Swift Hurricane Ella swirled 90-mile-an-hour winds torrential rain and High tides today toward the coasts of Texas and Mexico. Thousands fled. The . Weather Bureau said the Summers fifth Hurricane would hit the Shoreline late today South of Brownsville. Ella picked up strength but slowed its unusually speedy course across the Gulf of Mexico during the morning. A the Center should move Inland near or a Little South of Brownsville before dark a the weather j Bureau said. I the South Texas coast had not j yet recovered from Hurricane Celia the most destructive storm in the states history. It raked the Shore and headed 250 Miles Inland 39 Days ago. I it. Pleasant Community school election when monday september 14 12 noon until 8 . Where voters have a Choice of five polling locations 1. High school gym North Entrance 2. Salem elementary building West Entrance 3. Trenton Community building 4. Green Mound Community building 5. Pleasant Lawn elementary building who All eligible voters Are entitled to vote on All issues and for the candidates seeking election to the Board what there Are three issues to resolve 1. To vote a a yes approval or a a not rejection on the question of continuing the a Mill property tax to finance the area 16 Community College building program. 2. To vote a a yes approval or a a not rejection on the question of increasing the it. Pleasant Board of education from 5 to 7 members by adding two More at Large. 3. To select two new members to the Board of education District 1 candidates Mary Lou Myers Richard Cornick District 4 candidates j. D. Schimmel pfennig Richard Roach note All voters Are eligible to vote on one candidate from each District since they Are elected by a majority of All votes cast within the total school District. An audience member asked a shall we build a new school and if so when a. In answer All candidates agreed on a need for further in depth study of existing facile the trial started wednesday in of Cir a a to educate the pub Jefferson county District court Lic taking definite action with the selection of a jury. A also agreed that work toward those selected to hear the trial1 new building should Start in a the include the following Mary Maxine near future with possible Reorg Langner Willa Mae Hickenbottom animation a necessary considers Leo Buch Lucille Giberson mrs. Tion. Most candidates Felt the Arthur Hutton Delores Peck to building should not wait for Reorg Zephine Sandell Mariam Vorhies animation because As or. Roach Betty Mcwhirter Charlotte Stoll Robert Miller Lucille Emmack with Ernest Zimmerman As alternate. The Case involves damages which resulted when a building under construction for Spurgeon a in it. Pleasant collapsed. The petition at the courthouse said the defendant signed a contract with Fred Grant to construct the building May 3, 1968. In turn Grant signed a contract with the plaintiff for roof work on the Structure. On sept. 22 1968 the unfinished j training. Stated a the need is now and because building costs Are rising. The building plans must a look to the future however and building and site must be considered with expansion in mind. A a need is the prime Factor stated by candidates concerning curriculum changes. Such need should be determined by administrative recommendation standardized testing to determine academic weaknesses and by studies of postgraduate work patterns to determine possible gaps in vocational building collapsed following a storm virtually destroying it. The petition states the defendant insisted work be done in accordance with his plans and specifications and that the defendant controlled various stages of the building Progress. Ridgeway says he has not received any pay for his work on the concerning other issues most candidates agreed on the merits of an ungraded elementary system More open Board meetings and a revision of the make up of the Board of directors. The candidates were questioned by a responsive interested audience on several related areas. Ail four declared themselves willing and building. He is suing for $3,514 plus anxious to wave the Public to pro interest costs and exemplary dam j Mote a the big issues a a better Ages in the amount of $15,000, school

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