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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 18, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news or in a h Dirr in partly Cloudy vol. 92, no. 220 it. Pleasant Iowa Friday evening september 18, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the Young americans for Freedom Start a second decade Hartford youth organization called Young americans for Freedom formed to combat the forces of disintegration and collectivism oni us. Campuses has been holding some rather hopeful sessions at the University of Hartford to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The note of Hope As expressed by speakers As diverse As senator Barry Gold water political organizer cd if White congressman Buz Lukens and professor William Oliver Martin of the University of Rhode Island who dared to speak of the a death of liberalism a is ironic to say the least. For of anything seems Plain it is that conservatism on the Campus has during the last decade suffered an almost Complete collapse. The Only thing that has a a conquered our colleges has been disorder. For any single person who knows what Yak signifies there must be a thousand who know about ads or students for a democratic society. The ads has expressed itself in the mobbing of Deans the burning of , buildings the witless Phenomena of student strikes against the very education they have been paying for. Where have the Young americans far Freedom been while a this was going on they have been in there pitching but the juggernaut has rolled Over them. Too nevertheless the boys and girls of Yak Are justified in their note of Hope for they represent same thing structured. They have i to tvs go Artrip the new guard that pm ii has provocative and Well argued articles in defense of the madisonian Check and balance state the free economic order and a foreign policy designed to keep communism at Bay. They do not get confused in their philosophy of voluntarism. If the individual is to command his own soul he should be free not Only to Start a business or write a poem but to Volunteer his services to the armed forces Zafera who oppose the draft Hove gone to Vietnam As volunteers and they think others in the country would follow them to make a Success of the Nixon foreign policy this autumn the wafers plan to make full use of the Law in protecting their rights to education. Their argument is that uni vers. I., administrations that allow classrooms to be disrupted by strikes and demonstrations Are failing to fulfil their contractual obligations to provide teaching. So if you Are a student in a University that does no to keep school a you will be invited to make use of a Battery of Yak attorneys who stand ready to sue for delivery of what has been promised in the catalogues. Yak already had a dozen suits against College administrations pending it Hopes to increase them any time there is More trouble on the Campus. Golds Meir meets with pres. Nixon Washington up a israeli prime minister Golda Medr met with president Nixon today to discuss the deteriorating Middle East situation in general and to press her Appeal for More american weapons and economic assistance. The two leaders met in Nixon a Oval office with two aides each. No language problem existed because mrs. Medr who once lived in Milwaukee Speaks English without an accent. Mrs. Meir wearing a White and Tan dress with a Silver pin met first for almost two hours with Secretary of state William p. Rogers at the state department. Rogers did not accompany her to the White House. Rogers had met with Nixon before seeing mrs. Meir. At the White House mrs. Meir was flanked by the israeli ambassador to the United states Yitzhak Rabin and another diplomatic aide. Joseph j. Sisco assistant Secretary of state for Middle Eastern affairs and Brig. Gen. Alexander Haig a . National Security adviser also sat in on the meeting. Press Secretary Ronald l. Ziegler said Nixon and mrs. Meir were discussing the entire situation in the Middle East. High on the list of priorities in the White House View was getting Israel to rejoin peace talks under United nations auspices. Grand Lodge installs 3 from area two Henry county masons were elected to grand Lodge offices and a former resident of the county was named to an appointive office at the masonic grand Lodge sessions in Sioux City this week. George w. Craig 65, it. Pleasant was elected and installed As Junior grand Warden of the grand Lodge of Iowa James r. Troutman 38, Wayland was elected and installed grand treasurer and the Rev. Levi Winfrey formerly Baptist minister at Hillsboro was appointed grand chaplain. Craig has held the offices of Junior Steward Junior Deacon senior Deacon Junior Warden senior Warden and in 1952 he was elected worshipful master of his Lodge. He afro served his Lodge As marshal. Craig was senior grand Deacon a 1362-63 and served on the com Littee on division and reference in 3 8 3. He holds District lecturer certificate no. 1890. He is a member of Henry chapter no. 8, Royal Arch masons Damascus Connell no. 36, Royal and select masters and Jerusalem com Cannery no. 7, knights Templar All of it. Pleasant. He served As worthy Patron of Bethlehem chapter no. 38, order of Eastern Star. Mrs. Craig is a past grand officer of the Eastern Star. The Craigs reside at 206 s. Harrison Here. Name director of social services Here Doran l. Bollman acting director of the Henry county social service department the past year has submitted his resignation to the Board of supervisors. Bollman has served As Secretary of the Iowa Angus association a number of years and has accepted the position of Fieldman for the association in addition to his duties As Secretary. He will continue to reside South of it. Pleasant. Margaret e. Jones has been employed by the Board of supervisors As the new director of the social services department. She has been with the Blackhawk county office in Cedar Falls prior to accepting the position Here. Mrs. William Edna Ruth has been employed by the Board As clerk stenographer in the Henry county welfare department and replaces mrs. Alex Kochneff who has moved with her family to Idaho. Susan Tipton has also submitted her resignation As a social worker in the Henry county department. She has accepted a similar position As a social worker with the Ottumwa area Field office. A replacement has not been announced. Officials of the Burlington Northern Railroad have stated that the old wooden Bridge located about one mile East of Lockridge will be repaired in the near future. Collapse of the North Span was attributed to recent heavy Rains. Damion Feehan a resident near the site is standing in the background of the above photo. Rains contribute to collapse of Bridge Span . Adds Power in War area by up the United states dispatched a helicopter Carrier today with 1,500 marines to join 1,500 already with the u. S. 6th Fleet As Jordan a would return a i hostages the reason Yak has a future where the ads has Only a past is inherent to the nature of the so so a Niue Guam. The ads can command temporary numbers though it has an incurable urge to split. Its Weatherman faction May dynamite buildings or inadvertently blow itself up yet the violence must come to nothing ii the masses themselves fail to respond. The ads factions can still cause tremendous turmoil but the country has obviously turned against them. The politicians who played up to the Campus Rad Poi Are becoming isolated in their own parties. Teddy Kennedy has wisely concluded that it does no to make sense to depend on the Young radicals alone. So when the ads has burned itself out Yak will be still around to Benefit. The Bright promises of a decade ago when Many of the Young seemed ready to follow a responsible conservatism that was really the old madisonian liberalism May still be refurbished watch the elections this Fah watch the College administrations stiffen their spines As the tax mow donations fan off. Waggoner Cair a conservative Democrat who was formerly attorney general for Texas has been of in Reg. The world from a Yak Roe Tram to Hartford that the leftist in aft of american youth is unjustified. Regardless of whether he is right or wrong As of the moment Yak could yet make Carr a prop Het. Distributed by King features Syndicate terse verse by a. C. Gordon a cheerful losers admired to life. By every person except his wife. Troutman was graduated from Wayland High school and accepted a position with the state Bank and has been assistant cashier for the past ten years. He is also treasurer of the town of Wayland and has been school Board Secretary. He is assistant fire chief. He has been Lay Leader and is chairman of the Wayland United methodist Church Board a position he has held for 5 years. He served As Junior grand Deacon in the 1964-65 grand Lodge year under most worshipful brother Hoyt Woody past grand master. He served on the grand Lodge finance committee in 1968 and 1969, and was chairman this past year. He has been a District lecturer for nine years. Ted Zacharias was elected grand master a Clark Miller senior grand Warden and Charles Jackson was continued As grand Secretary. Orville Allender master of the it. Pleasant Lodge attended the grand Lodge sessions along with Craig. Troutman and Winfrey. The recent heavy Rains have contributed to the collapse of the North Span of the old wooden Bridge across the Burlington Northern Railroad tracks about one mile East of Lockridge. Weakness of the North abutment was first noted some weeks ago and the Henry county Road Crew placed barricades across the North and South approaches. Since then additional Rains have caused stuffing ment pinned Back and Bridge deck and erosion around the pile Tim i replaced. The South abutment was hers and abutment and caused the repaired in a similar manner 3 or 4 years ago. The Bridge provides Access to the Mobile Home of Damion Feehan collapse of the North Span. Robert Bunton chief maintenance supervisor of the Burlington Northern division in Ottumwa has told the news that plans Are being and other farm and livestock of made to repair the Bridge As soon evasions. Train service has not been As the weather improves. A few interrupted As a result new pile Bents will be driven abut j Bridge failure. Of the policeman killed in car Toledo Ohio up a a police possible link in bombings in two states Des Moines up a 19 killed today by a negro year old who was blown to bits in area College courses to Start Here Southeastern Iowa Community College will be starting classes in it. Pleasant at the Northwest building on the mental health Institute grounds next monday evening. Shorthand no. I or ii will be offered from 7 to to . Mondays with mrs. Barnes As the instructor. Typing i will be offered from 7 to to . Mondays also with mrs. Joe Mauck As instructor. Classes will meet on the third floor of the building. Total Cost for each course will be $22. Registration will be the first night sept. 21. Courses will continue for 12 weeks. For further information Call no. 385-8114. Too Basic education classes will be offered As follows monday and wednesday evenings 7 to 9, Mary Beth Young instructor. Monday and thursday evenings 7 to 9, sue Hufford instructor. These classes Are free of charge for adults 18 and Over who need improvement in Reading arithmetic writing English and spelling. They will meet on the second floor of the Northwest building at Mhz. Registration monday evening sept. 21, at 7 of clock. For further information Contact mrs. Stull 385-2310. Man was who shoved a pistol through a patrol car window and shot him in the face police said. Police immediately surrounded a nearby Black Panther Headquarters and riddled it with bullets. Patrolman William Miscannon 33, was shot in the head by the Man who walked up to his Cruiser. John Mcclellan 25, was later apprehended and charged with first degree murder. Patrolman Walter Shaw who was in the Cruiser with Miscannon said just before Che Man fired he said a they baby i got something for too police chief Anthony Bosch said a from the information i have received this was a cold blooded . May act alone to curb air piracy Montreal up a . Transportation Secretary John a. Volpe warned today the United states reserves the right to take a unilateral action if the International com police said the positive identify j Unity fails to act swiftly to curb cation of James w. Lawson or. Of piracy. Minneapolis As the victim of the Early september blast in a residential Section prompted some routine Beirut up a a spokesman for the popular front for the liberation of Palestine said today the front would return its 54 Hijack hostages even during the present Jordan fighting if Western governments agreed to release guerrillas they hold. A there will be no difficulty in getting these people to the Border or handing them Over to embassies if they meet our demands a the spokesman said. But he added a each moment the governments delay the chances grow worse for their safety. The indiscriminate jordanian attack threatens the lives of the hostages the same As it threatens the lives of All citizens in the spokesman refused to say where the hostages hijacked last week aboard three air planes and flown to Jordan were being detained. A recent Minneapolis minn., bomb explosion apparently was living in Des Moines during the time four dynamite blasts rocked Central Iowa checks. Through those checks police said they found Lawson had lived in Des Moines for six months and left the City in july. During that time four dynamite blasts caused millions of dollars of damage to three Des Moines buildings and one Ames building. The Iowa bombings started May 13 with a blast at the Des Moines police station and ended june 29 with an explosion at a science police said they were met by gun a we would Hope we can act in concert with other nations a Volpe told a news conference after calling on the International civil aviation organization Ciao to Institute an air Boycott on nations harbouring or failing to punish hijackers. A but we Are not foreclosing any j unilateral action on our part if we do not see any sign of finn action by the International Community. A we would like to Reserve All of our options if Ciao fails to act a and i mean any Type of option a a Olpe said firmly. He refused to indicate what line paratroopers break hold on 4,000 men building on the Drake University Mork Panther head i Campus in Des Moines. Fire from the Black knowledge that Law military or otherwise the United son was in the Central Iowa area states might seek. 1 at the time of the bombings Volpe said the United states a makes us believe the bombings at would feel free to take such a various cities Are definitely linked quarters in the City a area when they arrived on the scene Rifer the White patrolman was killed. A Black teen Ager armed with a Shotgun and a Bandolier of ammunition was wounded by police while standing on the sidewalk near the Panther building. About 40 policemen Laid siege to the Black Panther Headquarters for about five hours. When it became Light enough they rushed the build parts returned Friday ing but found no one inside. Most Welcome. Sunshine returns reception Good Sunshine a stranger tion if it did not see any sign of Concrete action by Ciao member nations on sept. 2a, will such actions taking effect within a maximum six month period. In these and was a it was t lie dry ingest Day since before old threshers was one comment and appeared to be Correct. 1 phenom penh up a elite cambodian paratroopers Riding in trucks blitzed their Way past cheering Security forces and engineers today and reached eight trapped infantry battalions breaking a five Day communist encirclement. The paratroopers were supported in their lightning drive by engineers who rapidly repaired four destroyed Bridges that previously had blocked Relief columns trying to reach the 4,000 men. The cambodian Force trapped in an area 49 Miles North of phenom penh had lost 24 dead and More than 120 wounded in five Days of communist shelling by mortars and rockets. Their ammunition was Low and they were running out of food. Up correspondent Kate Webb who travelled in a truck with the paratroopers said the Relief column met Only Light Viet Cong mortar fire and took no casualties. A burst of mortar fire struck just he fire Thev arrived but did not slow them Down. Civil War spread through six cities and Palestine commandos from Syria and Lebanon streamed into Jordan to Aid the guerrillas. Marshal Habes Almajali the jordanian commander in chief ordered a Brief lived cease fire in Amman to permit guerrillas who so desired to desert to the army 3ut fighting broke out again shortly afterwards and spread to the South of the City. G too the situation in Northern Jordan a proclaimed a a liberated area by the guerrillas a worsened steadily and fighting was reported on the cease fire line with Israel. Tel Aviv reports said the sound of Battle could be heard in Galilee. The state department said thursday u. S. Armed intervention in Jordan to save the lives of 3&0 americans and 54 Hijack hostage could not be ruled out. Tied go i troop movements were called a a precautionary measure. Military sources said it was difficult to assess the course of the Battle but that it appeared the army men were having the Best of it. Arab sources said the longer the guerrillas hold out the better their chances were for outside Arab help. An Arab correspondent who got a message out of Amman said a losses of lives Are increasing with astonishing Speed and the figure of wounded among Cilicia is is reaching the tens of the International red Cross sent to emergency medical supplies with doctors and nurses to treat the unattended wounded. Too Cairo newspapers said the death toll could soar As High As 20,000 to 30,000 with army tanks and artillery shelling guerrilla Headquarters and refugee Camps a and possibly some Camps were Hijack hostages were believed held. U. S. Officials in Washington said the helicopter Carrier Guam had been ordered to leave the Atlantic my join u. S. Naval forces in the Mediterranean with several other vessels to reinforce the 6th Fleet boosting to 3,000 the number of marines with the Fleet. George Craig says bombings Are work of organized groups Washington up a attorney general John n. Mitchell said thursday some recent bombings in cities and on campuses Are the work of organized groups conspiring to disrupt the nation. Mitchell met with reporters after conferring with officials from nine midwestern cities where bombings have occurred recently. The1 attorney general declined to identify any of the groups he said might be responsible for the activities. He said the Justice department instead seeks to prosecute individuals who commit acts of terrorism. The City officials who conferred with Mitchell sat in on his news conference and mayor William Dyke of Madison wis., said he Felt the recent bombings were a a National to. Y no to saves it Zuments on balloon it Falls Ore. Up a radio signals Are being sent out today in an Effort to release a package of scientific instruments from a runaway balloon a Federal aviation administration official said. The giant balloon was lost sept. 9 after a launch at Minneapolis and then sighted thursday by residents of a 100-mile stretch of Southern Oregon and North California near i he Pacific Ocean. Caught by a High level Westerly wind the 600-foot wide balloon drifted out Over the Ocean and then Back some feet in the air. Aboard is a 1.200 Pound package carrying instruments to measure cosmic rays in an attempt to determine the existence of a super heavy a elements created by exploding stars j or. Gary Reschly joins Hospital staff physicians medical Center of Mcminnville Ore., has announced or. Gary k. Reschly general tract loner joined the hospitals staff sept i. Wayne wether Hospital administrator said or. Reschly will make a total of eight doctors in the Cit Ole. Born in Wayland Iowa or. Reschly received has b. A. Degree to 1964 from the University of Iowa and graduated from tile University of Iowa medical school in 1968. He served his internship at by. Mary a Hospital in san Francisco and has just completed a year of surgical residency at Providence Hospital in Portland. Or. Reschly is a member of Atis Phi rho Sigma medical fraternity and the Yamhill county medical society. He joins two other new doctors added to the hospitals staff this summer. He and his wife sue have moved to 1424 e. 9th st., Mcminnville. Or. Reschly is the son of or. And mrs. Ralph Reschly it. Union Iowa. Liz Mccormick second in miss rec contest finalists in the miss Iowa rec contest stand behind the Warner Carol or and mrs Charles f. Haywood of Union. Standing from left Are Christine Lynne Patella la. Eim it m cult first runner up and Carol Ann Steadman. 18. Christie is a daughter of or Aud Beth Mcm 3 Rizali los a Dau Shofr of mrs. Deathy Mccormick route j. My pleasant and was the Winner of the s. E. Iowa cooperative contest and carols parents Are or. A mrs. Byron Steadman route i Brooks. .1 .1 i u l invest cites damage to Road signs Deputy sheriff Ron Elmore was called at 2 a m. Friday to investigate damage to Road signs North of Lake Geode and North of new London. Near Lake Geode a tractor was used to push Over some Road signs. Elmore found the tractor two Miles South of new London. North of new London several signs were damaged. It or. Gary Reschly

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