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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 23, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news Section oni 4 sections vol. 92, no. 224mr. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening september 23, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain the Faith of Richard Nixon is Richard Nixon a masochist or does he have a fatalistic belief in his Star the conservatives in Washington watching his behaviour about Bills that can Only Hurt him lean to the masochist theory. One of the big wonders on the conservatives part is Why he listens to the Ultra liberals of the Ripon society. The president has just taken Ripon advice about changeling All foreign Aid funds through the world Bank the United nations development program and other a a International agencies the idea being that it will help the . To maintain the a flow profile in foreign policy. Abstractly considered this May make some sense. But if the Rule is to be rigorously followed it Means that the . Will no longer be Able to use its financial Power in perhaps crucial moments to effectuate its chosen policies. Too then there is the question of the direct election of the president. Conservative analysts ranging from Jeff Beu of the american conservative Union to Kevin Phillips author of a the emerging Republican majority a have shown both ideologically and geographically that abolition of the states As voting units can Only Hurt the Republican party. As things stand now the More sparsely populated states of the West and South have a percentage Premium in the electoral College simply because the electoral vote of each state equals the total of its senators and representatives in Congress. Change to a popular vote would drastically favor the populous Northeast which is traditionally democratic. Yet Nixon who knows that new York Massachusetts Pennsylvania Connecticut and Michigan Are Likely to go against him did net fight the idea of abolishing the electoral College in favor of direct election. Too Nixon a behaviour about giving the vote to the 18-year-Olds is another thing that has mystified the conservatives. Insofar As the a under 21�?� potential voters Are vocal they regard Nixon As the enemy. Personally i can to understand Why the 2 los should feel this Way for Nixon has favored them by his commitment to end the military d-1�?� nevertheless the College consent seems to be that Nixon Isnit with the kids. Taking it As Likely that the Young voters Are out to Hurt the Nixon candidates the conservatives can to see Why the White House did no to put More heart into fighting congressional Extension of the franchise on the ground that it was unconstitutional. Another thing that has perplexed the conservatives is the White House commitment to the so called family assistance plan. Economists such As Henry Hazlitt have shown that its Cost would be highly inflationary. And it is extremely doubtful that the plan As constituted would really Force even the More Able people to get off the Relief Rolu and go to work. Yet Nixon clings to a he idea that family assistance on his terms would result in a new Day in the administration of Relief. Too the Southern conservatives Are bothered by what they think is an inconsistency Between Nixon a Campaign statements on school busing and the various court ordered school integration patterns that Are on the Agenda in North Carolina Mississippi Florida and elsewhere. The southerners insist that Nixon is making enemies of his friends by assenting to different standards on busing on the two sides of the Mason Dixon line. The ironical thing Here is that Nixon does no to really win the liberals by permitting the double Standard to exist. How does one explain the Nixon behaviour it can to be that the president wants to suffer at the polls. Masochism is too easy a word. Could a better explanation be that Nixon has some Confidence that by 1972, he will have the country in far better shape than it is now and that it wont make any difference whether the 18-year-Olds Are voting or that families Are receiving a High guaranteed annual income or that the presidential vote will go by raw number not by state unit voting in the electoral College the president must be a Man of Faith As biblically defined As the a substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not distribute by King features Syndicate. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon a Friend who a not in need is sure a Friend indeed. Henry county drive for Wesleyan opens the annual Henry county drive for funds to help support the operation of Iowa Wesleyan College began today. With operating costs at an All time High and educational needs expanding at the College the 1970 Campaign goal has been set at $60,000, nearly twice the support rendered by county residents in past years. Campaign chairman Lynn Byrne and a Host of co chairmen and i k i Lynn Byrne cambodian troops meet resistance phenom Penk up a Cambio. D Ian troops pushed to within 250 the Jhenry county drive is part Yards of the City of Tang Kauk to three major financial campaigns Day but heavy opposition by North to Raige the Leyel of Giying for the vietnamese infantrymen held them 70-71 operational budget. Other off cambodian military officers Campa Gas Are being planned on a workers located in every Henry county Community began canvassing today and will continue to Contact individuals businesses alumni and other friends of Wesleyan through oct. 14. Too co chairman Warren Fye. Dale Longwell Richard Voss and Paul Gugeler Are assisting or. Byrne in the it. Pleasant area while Stanley Meyer is drive co chairman for the Wayland Olds area and mrs. Marvin Krogmeier is co chairman in new London. Or. Maurice Strobbe head of the Wesleyan biology department will direct the drive a Mong the inc faculty. An Advance gifts committee headed by it. Pleasant druggist Joe Panther has been soliciting special gifts prior to the formal opening of the �?T70 Campaign and that committee is expected to Render a preliminary report tonight during the drive kick off dinner in the colleges student Union. All persons connected with the drive co chairmen captains committeemen workers and to area persons and businesses who have pledged special $1,000 Challenge gifts a have been invited to tonight a 6 p.m., dinner. With the increased goal for �?T70, the ten $1,000 Challenge gifts As listed tuesday were made to encourage new donations to the College and to get past donors to make increases Over previous gifts. The $10,000 will match Dollar for Dollar All new gifts and gift increases. Most of the Challenge gifts Are $1,000 increases Over last years donations by the to Challenge donors. Black panthers arsenals police patrolman Alex Vega of the new Orleans police crime Laboratory examines one of the pistols seized after 14 Black panthers were routed from their fortified Headquarters after a furious gun Battle. The panniers had been terrorizing the neighbourhood. Agree to end War Hussein said. Fresh cambodian units were committed to the Battle. In phenom penh the cambodian High command announced that More than 60,000 men fighting under communist banners had been killed in to 2 six months since the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk. My itary officers reporting deters of the action at Tang Kauk a \ Coe battalion of cambodian National basis in the areas of alumni and Parent giving and in All three a number of $1,000 Challenge gifts Are being sought. Wesleyan president Louis a. Has Elmayer issued the following state l ment on this opening Day of the Henry county Campaign a this is a crucial year in american higher education. Every College is facing the need for Addi u. S. May Start evacuation of 200 paratroopers closed to within 280, Fin Ancla support we Hope Yards of the City White a Franj def Wesley a that the alumni of Iowa Wesleyan College and the citizens of mount pleasant will respond More than Force to the East had reached a Point 1,250 Yards from it. As nigh fell Tang Kauk was ,. ,. A i generously this year As they have still reported in communist hands. 7 military spokesmen identified the 50 often in the a Sta successful communist tee cps in the City As Campaign in the local area is is elements of 275th regiment of the Anteal when the College seeks sup North vietnamese army about port from outside groups. Local 3,000 men. The cambodian Force support is the Cornerstone upon reinforced today by an additional j which All other fund solicitation is battalion totalled about 8,000 men. Built. There were no report on casual-1 a we Are grateful to the Challenge ties at Tang Kauk. Newsmen were donors who have provided wonder barred by cambodian head Quad Ful incentive. We Are grateful to Washington up a the United states is seriously considering an evacuation operation within the next 24 hours to bring up to 200 americans out of Jordan it was disclosed today. If a decision is made to undertake an evacuation the United states will rely principally on jordanian forces to guarantee Security and Safe passage of the evacuees from Amman. Airport informed sources said. Too . Military forces would not be used the sources said. Under the evacuation plans being urgently studied the United states probably would charter two commercial airliners a possibly from Middle East carriers. The United states has used such carriers in past years for other evacuations of . Personnel from troubled areas of the Middle East. A state department spokesman i Robert j. Mccloskey at a news conference could give reporters no details about a possible evacuation. Too Mccloskey said no evacuation had yet been ordered by officials in Washington nor by Dean Brown the . Ambassador in Amman. President Nixon met with the National Security Council for two hours this morning and press Sec-1 rotary Ronald l. Ziegler told reporters that the situation in Jor i Dan was still a very serious a with j syrians intention not Clear. Unformed sources said the Situa i tion at Amman was being studied very carefully before a decision to evacuate was made. Power shortages in Eastern . Cities ters. Wilson enters not guilty plea in Case Frank Edward Wilson 24, it. Pleasant entered a plea of not guilty in District court tuesday afternoon to a charge of second degree murder and trial has been set for october 26. The charge against Wilson Wras filed in the connection with the strangulation death of his wife or. Lynn Byrne All the co chairmen and every worker who Are donating time in a great Volunteer Effort to make this Campaign a Success. Without their dedicated labor and Energy we could not move Forward. A May i thank the citizens of mount pleasant in Advance for what i am sure will be a Hearty and generous response to this Challenge and this Hijack hostages in North Jordan by up fifty four Hijack hostages in Sharrine Kay 23, it. Pleasant. Her eluding 38 americans Are now be body was found lying partially sub ing held in the a liberated zone of merged in a Creek three Miles Northern Jordan. Palestine Ger Northwest of it. Pleasant the aft Rilla sources said today Vernoon of june 29. The hostages had been reported Wilson was indicted by the grand captives in secret hideaways in and jury. He underwent an examination around the jordanian capital of at the mental health Institute and was returned to the county jail. He is in jail in lieu of $40,000 Bond. Found guilty on be charge Kenneth e. Rude 24, it. Pleasant was found guilty of breaking and entering of the diner by a District court jury tuesday afternoon. The verdict was returned at 3 25, just Over two hours after the jury received the Case. Sentencing was set for sept. 30 at 3 30 pm. Rude was defended by guerrillas of the popular front for atty. Donald Gartin who was a the liberation of Palestine. The pointed by the court. Planes were subsequently blown up rude was arrested by police on after the passengers and Crew were july 19 As he was leaving the diner allowed to get out. All but 54 were Amman. King Hussein said a House to House search of Amman and the wahdat refugee Camp had failed to turn up any Trace of the hostages. Guerrilla sources said Only that the 54 persons including some women had been moved to a the liberated zone a that part of Northern Jordan which the guerrillas claim to control. The largest City in the area is Irbid. The sources said All of the hostages were believed to be Safe but he gave no guarantees. The hostages were taken from three jetliners which were hijacked earlier this month by extremist by up the Power shortage that has plagued much of the Eastern Seaboard for the past two Days today reached its a worst level in new York City with some sections blacked out. Utility companies made urgent appeals to Consumers to Cut Down on electrical usage and at the same time dropped voltages in at least five states. To conserve Power a Ball game scheduled for tonight in Baltimore Between the orioles and the Detroit tigers was postponed until thursday. The Power shortage also darkened part of Capitol Hill and affected thousands of Washington residents. Too new York mayor John v. Lindsay said a the Power crisis that has intermittently gripped our City this summer has reached its worst level today. A Power has been shut off completely in some areas of new York already a and the Peak demand period still lies ahead this Lindsay urged new yorkers net to use electrical appliances unnecessarily. First indication of trouble Ain and j sentenced of see Carne at 8 Arn. As temperatures again climbed toward the 90s when1 narcotic drugs the Perm Jersey Mary land Power interconnection announced it had dropped voltages by 5 per cent. The drop affected new Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland Deleware Virginia and the District of Columbia. Consolidated Edison the Utility serving much of the new York metropolitan area quickly followed suit with an 8 per cent drop. Trying to Avert rail strike tonight Washington up a Union and Railroad Industry negotiators facing a possible nationwide strike at Midnight continued intensive bargaining today on an 11-year dispute Over use of firemen on diesel locomotives. The chief mediator new York attorney Fred Livingston predicted the carriers and the United transportation Union would agree before Midnight. Labor department officials expressed the belief that the Union might not Call a strike even if no Accord was reached before the deadline. They said the talks which lasted for nearly 15 hours tuesday. Were going Well and appeared to Center on settlement of two or three issues which they declined to spell out. Petition for new school vote in Waco j the Waco Community school Board of education held their organizational meeting monday night sept. 21. William Bernau the newly elected member to the Board was Given the oath of office. Eugene Baker was elected president of the Board and Jim Meyer was elected vice president for the coming year. The Board of education was presented a petition bearing 139 signatures this is More than legally required from the voters instructing the Board to set a Date and hold a Bond election for the purpose of acquiring land and constructing a new school building to House grades 6-12. The petition states the amount of Bonds As $1,255,0c0 and the building is to be located on the site previously proposed in the May 18. 1970 election. The Board is allowed to Days before setting the Date for the election. It cannot be held earlier than six months after the last Bond election which was held May 18, 1970. Too the superintendent has announced that Fred w. Stone has been selected to appear in the 1970 edition of outstanding educators of America. Nominated earlier this year he was chosen for the awards publication on the basis of civic and professional achievements. The outstanding educators of America is an annual program designed to recognize and Honor those men and women who have distinguished themselves by exceptional service achievements and leadership in education. Each year Over 5,000 country a Foremost educators Are featured in this National volume. Beirut up a palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat in a broadcast monitored Here tonight rejected a peace agreement reached by other guerrillas and King Hussein and appealed to egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser to intervene. Too by up King Hussein said today the jordanian government and palestinian guerrillas had agreed to end their civil War after a decisive tank Battle in which invading syrian forces were driven Back into Syria. Hussein made the announcement in a joint statement with sudanese Premier Gaafar Al num eary one of a four Man mediating team sent to Amman by an Arab Summit meeting in Cairo. Shortly before the announcement Over Amman raft marshal Habes Almajali the jordanian gunman kills four others and himself in neighbouring new Jersey the states largest powder supplier began a a phase four Quot emergency asking selected Large Industrial users to Cut Down on their use of Power. The Potomac electric Power co. Declared a Power emergency and Davenport up a Carmichael Peters. 20, a student at St. Ambrose College Here was sentenced to two years in the Anamosa mens reformatory tuesday for Sale of narcotic drugs. Scott county District court judge Nathan Grant rendered the sentence after Peters was found guilty by a jury sept. 15. Goal line to meet at guard armory the goal line club will meet at a _. _ the new National guard armory on reduced voltage to its 340,000 South Walnut Street tonight at Washington area customers by 5 per cent. In Baltimore the orioles tigers game was called off and will be played thursday afternoon instead 7 30. The it. Pleasant High and Iowa Wesleyan football coaches will talk on their teams. Through a window. Permitted to leave Jordan. Company reduced Powter by 5 per the Baltimore Gas and elect Rte cent. Jurors drawn for Quarter clerk of the court Harold j. Davis announces the Nam is of the persons drawn for jury duty for the fourth Calendar Quarter. P70 of Henry county District court. Notices will be sent out from the Sher iffy a office giving notice of the Day specified for such jurors to report i for duty. Those drawn Donald Anderson Patricia Ball Man Mathena Barta Fern Barton. Frank Becker Jane Bontrager Marjory Brown. Meta Brown Opal Buck Jean Clark John Coleman. Robert Dean Davis Charles Dennis Leona Fitzpatrick Doris Ford. Eva Harlan Dorothy Helphrey mrs. Esther Hill Virginia Hillyard Winifred Hunting Linda Kaska Max Kerr Fred Klopfenstein Hazel Klopfenstein Pauline Kreutner Carol Krueger. Betsy Johnston Elmer Mathews. Arthur Murphy Frank Mcneil Clara Nelson Edith Oberman Kenneth Olson Dale Orr Neil Panther Reta Piatt Raymond Pickard Donna rebling Ronald Rice Dorothy Scott Helen Shepherd. Chas. Shuppy Ada Smithhart Mary Swaney Lillian Thornburg Dan Townsend. Leslie utter Margaret Williams Tom n. Zachmeyer Lloyd Zicke Foose. The jurors drawn and who served during the third Calendar Quarter of by Clay f. Richards Albany n. Y. Up a state worker returning from a months sick leave went berserk with a Rifle today killing four fellow employees All women in the labor department building on the states office building Campus. The gunman then killed himself with a Bullet in the head. The shootings occurred on the fourth and fifth floors of the building housing the administrative offices of the division of employment. Too authorities identified the gunman As Joseph w. White 25, of Albany a senior administrative analyst in the division of employment in the state labor department. The shootings occurred in the departments administrative offices a five Story building. Police said White brought the gun to work in a Box wrapped with Christmas paper and tied with a big red Bow. Too the four women victims were secretaries. They were identified As Sandra l. Peterson 24, of Amsterdam Linda d. Willis 21, of Waterford and Patricia Chromik 22, and Mary Ann Reinisch 27, both of Albany. Poce were dispatched to the scene by a male caller who reported a a there a Ben a shooting in the lab department a and he a still employees in the building about 3,070 in All were sent Home for the i Day after the shooting according to capital police. Too Arnold Proskin Albany county District attorney said White had j been on medical leave and was reporting Back to work for the first time in a month. A it was apparently the Many a first Day Back to work he had come in this morning after a month of sick leave a Proskin said. A it was some kind of stomach ailment. A the brought in a Box with him it was All wrapped up a Proskin said. A the opened the Box took out the Rifle and began shooting. Why did he do it the Man is dead its impossible to the weapon was described As a 30.06 Remington Rifle. Too Proskin said the Man shot three Young secretaries who worked in the same office with him on the fifth floor then went Down to the fourth floor where he shot the fourth victim and then shot himself to death in a stairwell on the second floor. Proskin said White was not related to any of the victims. District court were excused from j further service by judge Harlan Bainter and should collect their per diem and mileage at the office of clerk District court at the courthouse. Chief of staff said his forces had beaten Back the syrian invading forces from jordanian territory into Syria. Too Hussein a announcement came after seven Days of civil War which May have billed As Many As 15,000 persons and brought United states and Israel close to intervention. In a seven minute radio Brood cast Hussein said a the agreement Bas received the Blessing and approval of the current Middle East crisis began with the hijacking of Western planes to the jordanian desert by palestinian guerrillas two wades ago and flared1 into civil War i thursday sept. 17 when Hue min proclaimed a military government in Jordan. Too the syrian invasion starting last weekend worsened the situation but the United states and Britain asked Russia to Appeal to the by Rin regime to withdraw its forces from Jordan before the Mideast exploded. Earlier King Hussein after consultations with the Cairo mediators issued a four Point plan for ending the War. And As a Ooi cilia tory gesture he freed four guerrilla leaders captured by his men by fighting which devastated Amman and left thousands homeless and starving. Leaders of ten Arab nations gathered in Cairo for a Summit conference tuesday. They held a series of informal meetings while their peace Mission negotiated in Amman with Hussein and the guerrilla leaders. Skunk River moves higher Skunk River continued to Rise slowly tuesday night and wednesday morning and was lapping at the edges of the Road below the store at Oakland Mills. Lowlands were flooded in Many areas along tile River. Some of the smaller streams in the area were still at flood stage and were helping to boost the Skunk River level. Drizzling showers tuesday night and wednesday morning added about one half Inch to the rainfall and further soaked the already Over soaked soil. Improvement in the weather situation was predicted for thursday. Cost of living increases slightly Washington up a the Cost of living of americans Rose less in August than in any month since december 1968, providing the strongest evidence yet that the worst inflation in 20 years is being contained the government reported today. The Bureau of labor statistics bus said the consumer Price Index increased 0.2 per cent last month half the Advance recorded in May june and july and one third the april increase. Cattle in Yard on South Jackson police were notified by Dan j. Mccabe 713 South Jackson that some cattle got out of a pasture and were in his Yard and that he rounded them up and put them in a pasture near Yocum Lane. The cattle were believed to be owned by Jim Kitch and he was notified. They had wandered from another pasture nearby. Sale barn Burns Anamosa up a the 80 hot too foot Anamosa Sale Ham was gutted by fire Early today causing several thousand dollars to cult of damage. Sales Bam owner Ell Shade said All livestock in the Bam was Davtd he said he believed arson was to solved in the Blaze

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