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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 29, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa The it pleasant news fair Section one 3 sections vol. 92, no. 229 it. Pleasant Iowa tuesday evening september 29, 1970 Price to cents report last six hostages Are freed Geneva up a the International committee of the red Cross announced tonight the remaining six airline hostages held by Palestine guerrillas have been freed and Are All Safe. All Are americans. A red Cross statement said news of the release of the hostages was sent to Headquarters in Geneva by the International red Cross delegation in Amman. There were no immediate supplementary details. Shortage of fuel predicted for part of . Washington up a the Nixon administration said Tongay that a serious fuel shortage May occur in parts of the nation during the coming Winter and said no area was immune from the threat. A government study of the expected fuel needs in the Winter months showed a a potential shortage in the supplies of natural Gas residual fuel Oil and bituminous Coal a officials said in a statement. The administration said it was taking serval Steps toward alleviating the shortage including relaxation of quotas to allow doubling of Home heating Oil imports from Canada and other hemisphere neighbors during the first Quarter of next year to a rate of 80,000 barrels a Day. Changes in area vote some important changes in the vote on the three fourth flt property tax Levy for the area 16 con Unity College took place in the official Canvas made by the College Board of directors but the Issue carried 4.900 to 4,603, or by 51.6 per cent. A majority was All that was needed to pass the Issue. Greatest single change from the unofficial report previously published was in the it. Pleasant District where the Issue previously was reported As carrying 617 to 547. Actually the Issue lost in the District 617 to 647. The error probably was in arithmetic and reported As 547 a a not instead of 647. In Burlington District. 70 More a a not votes were added in the official Canvas and at Wapello the count was 237 a a yes and 270 a a not instead of 216 a a yes and 237 the official tabulation yes 1217 140 61 091 935 71 136 617 116 181 237 >43 Quot 55 4603 4900 c. D. Tomkins of Burlington was selected a member of the Board. He Sce ived 1211 votes. A special Board meeting will be do oct. 5 in Burlington at 7 30 a. Election of officers will take lace. No Burlington 673 Central Argyle 247 Danville 21 it Madison it 1216 Keokuk 933 Mediapolis 28 morning Sun a 48 it. Pleasant 647 new London 127 Waco 289 Wapello 270 West Burlington 69 Winfield it. Union 3& two thefts. Reported to police two thefts have been reported to City police. Richard Walgren reported that a tape player was stolen from a car owned by his son Ron sept. 19. Mark Fitzpatrick new London route i reported monday that a socket wrench set in a Green tool Box was taken out of his pick up truck while it was parked at the starlit cafe Between noon and i p.m., monday. Nearing continued the hearing of Robert j. Folker 25, Burlington on a charge of assault with intent to Rob has been continued in Justice William smarts court until wednesday at to . Folker is accused of beating and taking some Money from Randall Teiger 19, new London last thursday night on the Airport Road according to authorities. Senate refuses to put limit on debate Washington up a the Senate refused to halt Southern led debate today and left probably dead for this year a proposed constitutional amendment to provide direct popular election of the president. Up Agnew hits report on Campus unrest Sioux Falls sol up a vice president Spiro t. Agnew denounced the Scranton commission report on Campus unrest today As a More pablum for the said it a falsely accused the president unrealistically excused student violence and unjustly blamed critics of the campuses for student in to speech prepared for a South Dakota Republican luncheon at Sioux Falls Agnew also condemned sen. George s. Mcgovern d-s.d., As a Leader of a Radical liberalism and its chief fundraiser in his latest in a series of gop Campaign speeches Agnew said the Scranton commission was a a scapegoating by laying a responsibility for ending student disruptions at the Doorstep of the in urging president Nixon to exert moral leadership to Calm student unrest Agnew said the report was a unfair outrageous and unacceptable a because Nixon had a spoken out in defense of dissent a time and again spoke out in in equivocal1 Elf Hoh Lence and disorder wherever it county ask committee holds election de egletes to the convention consists of the chairman vice chairman and member of each township committee in the county met on saturday morning sept. 26th. They elected Orin Kepper Well known Winfield area Farmer for a three year term to the county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee. County committeemen Are elected by the township committeemen to serve three year staggered terms so that ordinarily one vacancy occurs each year. Gerald Anderson has one year to go on his three year term and Chester Mills has two years to go on his. After the third member of the committee was elected the delegates elected Gerald Anderson As chairman Orin Kepper As vice chairman and Chester Mills As member of the county committee. Everett Taylor and j. Herman Moehler were elected As first and second alternates respectively. Hie county ask committee is responsible for local administration of government farm programs such As acreage allotments and bases Price support for eligible crops conservation Cost sharing on agricultural lands the Wool incentive program and maintenance of acc storage structures and Grain. The vote was 53 to 34 in favor of shutting off debate a five votes Short of the two thirds majority necessary of those voting. The second consecutive defeat for supporters of the amendment was dealt by Dixie democrats and Small state republicans who combined to reject a motion for cloture a gag on debate. A Large number of absentees contributed to the outcome1 today. The amendment which the House of representatives overwhelmingly approved last year on a 339-70 vote appeared stalled for Good until next year. Cambodians Highway 4 closed again phenom penh up a Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops closed cambodians Highway 4 today for the first time in More than a month. The Road links phenom penh and the port of Kampong soon site of the country a Only Oil refinery. Tile cambodian command said roving Viet Cong patrols were carrying out constant harassment along Highway 4 and a endangering the lives of All persons travelling the government troops immediately began efforts to Clear the Highway of communist elements. The cambodian command also said Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops monday night killed 15 cambodians and wounded an unknown number in attacks at Kiri rom dam 56 Miles West South West of phenom Penis. Communiques from Saigon said helicopters of the . 101st airborne division attacked a patrol in mountains West of Danang and killed 29 communists. Study use of certain drugs for school children Washington up a House investigators open a Campaign today to determine How deeply the government is involved in controversial programs where grammar school children have been treated with drugs to overcome learning disabilities. Rep. Cornelius Gallagher d-n.j., chairman of a four month a privacy inquiry scheduled Public hearings beginning today on the use of amphetamines for elementary school children. Amphetamines called a a Speed by drug abusers because they pack such a kick Are used medically to threat hyperactive children and to some extent for weight reduction. Gallagher has expressed deep concern Over possible implications of the school drug programs specifically their Impact on the credibility of the National fight against narcotics abuse a and the potential for inducing conformity rather than creativity in the the subcommittee wants to know under what guidelines drugs Are prescribed for Young children and if there Are followup to determine the Long Range effect he said. Lucky numbers contest set for october 23-24-25 the chamber of Commerce remail committee will sponsor a a Lucky numbers contest for their fall promotion on october 23-24-25. Farrell Rodd chairman of the event explained the details to the retail committee at the monthly luncheon meeting tuesday which received unanimous approval from the members. It promises to be one of the most outstanding sales promotions of the year with hundreds of opportunities for shoppers to Purchase High Quality merchandise at fantastic savings. Dean Nebel chairman of the High school Homecoming event on oct. 9th, told the retail committee that students from the school Art department will decorate downtown terse verse by a. C. Gordon its often Best to postpone until another Day the tiling you re almost certain to Louse up Good today. Windows with the theme of a win panthers. Banners will also be available to merchants in the school colors to accent the displays. A Salute to Industry month in october was also discussed and billboards at the edges of it. Pleasant Are carrying the state theme. Other Means of recognizing the local industries and their contribution to the Community Are being planned by the chairman or. Pete Rankin. Gary Williams reported briefly on the recent sidewalk Day Sale and commented that the cooperative Weatherman helped make the City wide Sale a Success. The retail committee was fortunate to meet the Fiir guatemalan student leaders and their escort who were guests of the chamber at the noon luncheon. Two of the students Are studying Medicine one is in economics and the fourth is an engineering student. They Fly from Burlington this afternoon to san Francisco via St. Louis. Four guatemalan student leaders have been visiting in the it. Pleasant Community the past few Days and had particular interest at the Blue Bird Midwest manufacturing Plant since the company also has a bus body Plant in Guatemala. Those in the photo include l to r Don meth manager of the chamber of Commerce Exseo Rodriquez Marco Romero Luis Giron Franscisco Rodas Bill Bankston manager at Blue Bird and Fernando Aleman escort interpreter for the group. Students from Guatemala visit it. Pleasant it. Pleasant has been Host for a group of four guatemalan. University students leaders during the past four Days. The visit was arranged by the . Governmental affairs office in new York with tile objective of visiting cities and communities across the United states to observe american life and culture in general. The four students Are Francisco von Rodas Luis Flores Giron Marco Montroy Romero and Eliseo Osorio Rodriquez. Their escort interpreter from the . Govt office is Fernando Aleman. During their visit to it. Pleasant their official Host was the chamber of Commerce and Don meth manager of the chamber made the arrangements for Tours of Industrial agricultural and educational paints of interest. The group left tuesday afternoon for san Francisco. Egypt mourns Nasser death Vietnam peace in sight says sen. Scott Washington up a Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today a peace settlement in Vietnam was a in he predicted that president Nixon May announce a Speed up of . Troop withdrawals in a mid october address to the nation. Scott made Public excerpts of a speech he plans to make tonight in Harrisburg a. The excerpts did not contain a specific forecast of an end to the War but Scott a office in releasing portions of the speech said a Scott a predicted an honorable and final end to the conflict in Vietnam was a in a the press release said Scott also would predict that Nixon a could very possibly be announcing a further accelerated schedule of troop Scott said he had not consulted with the White House about the speech and was Basing it on a a personal Hunch a a personal Nixon sending delegation to rites three receive Burns at Keokuk Airport Keokuk up a Throe men were treated and released at a Keokuk Hospital after suffering third degree Burns in a two plane smash up Here Early today. Treated were the Airport manager Irwin Lindner 52, Warren Amos 27, of Montrose and Albert Graham 49, of Carthage 111. The planes were on the ground when tile pilots started the engines. Amos readied for a map on the seat of his plane and the Foo Brake slipped sending the plane into the one piloted by Lindner. The plane struck a fuel tank and resulted in an explosion and fire. Both planes were destroyed. Aboard the Saratoga up a president Nixon announced today he is sending a delegation of a distinguished americans led by Robert h. Finch one of his oldest friends and a close White House adviser to the funeral of president Gamal Abdel Nasser. After a full dress review of the u. S. 6th Fleet from aboard this giant aircraft Carrier Nixon told newsmen he could not attend the funeral thursday in Cairo because the United states and Egypt have pictures of Canoe trip shown at kiwanis meeting a picture Story of the recent Canoe trip of scouts of troop 28 and fathers of some of the boys with or. Robert wet Tach cub master of the troop As narrator was presented at the kiwanis meeting monday evening. Pictures included scenes of the Beautiful Lake country East of Ely minn., the boys and fathers in action paddling the canoes on the lakes carrying the canoes and equipment on portages preparing meals and resting in Camp. The pictures and narration made an enjoyable program. Or. Wettach a father a. M. Wet Tach introduced the program and a son scout David Wettach assisted with the presenting of the color slides. Special guests at the meeting were four students from Guatemala who spent four Days Here and their interpreter from the . State department. Pipes break from . Car damage Bridge Guttenberg up a Railroad traffic has been rerouted around a Milwaukee Road Railroad Bridge South of this Clayton county Community after the Bridge was severely damaged monday night. A 177-car train was passing Over the Bridge when steel bands holding several pipes apparently snapped. The pipes slipped off the car and into the Bridge damaging it extensively. However Crews were Able to remove the train from the Bridge. Authorities estimate it will be three weeks before the Bridge which spans the Turkey River will be usable. Sammy Davis jr., says lie s quitting Seattle Wash. Up a Sammy Davis jr., says hell quit show business for Good a except for possibly one live performance a year. Dvis hospitalized last month in Las vegas for pneumonia and exhaustion told an audience Here sunday he is going to leave the Field he has worked in for 41 of his 44 years a and put myself Back together. Mentally and physically Small part of Corn harvested by up less than to per cent of Iowa scorn crop has been harvested however the weekly crop report states that almost ail of the crop is mature and considered Safe from Frost. Rainy weather during the past week limited the Progress in Corn harvesting. The report said approximately 25 per cent of the Corn acreage in Iowa is affected by Southern Leaf blight and there has been Little change in the degree of infestation Over the last few weeks. Soybeans Are reported As being 95 per cent mature Safe from Frost compared with 45 per cent one year ago. But Harvest has been slow because of wet Fields. Not maintained diplomatic relations since the 1987 Arab israeli War. Other members of the u. S. Delegation were not immediately announced. Some officials said Secretary of state William p. Rogers might go but Nixon made it Clear he would not Lead the delegation. Too Nixon who conferred with Rogers and defense Secretary Melvin r. Laird this morning about the Likely effects of Nasser a death on the volatile Middle East situation refused to speculate on a possible successor to egyptian president. A we done to know who his successor will be a the president said a nor do we know whether it will be some kind of collective too Finch was Secretary of health education and welfare until Nixon made him a White House Counselor last Spring. A former lieutenant governor of California and Nixon Campaign adviser Finch was in Sacramento monday night for a Republican fund raising dinner. Nixon transferred by helicopter to the Cruiser Springfield flagship of the 6th Fleet to Confer with Fleet commanders and Middle East advisers about growing soviet naval strength in the Mediterranean. Later he goes to Naples for the night. With today a planned air and sea exercises cancelled the president stood on the decks on his huge Carrier off Naples and told the 25.000 officers and men of the naval Armada by radio that they were indispensable for peace in the Mediterranean. A Power for peace a Nixon declared. Too the jordanian crisis has eased he rioted and a the most important indispensable reason was the fact that we were a the fact that we did not have to use it is most the president made no mention of Nasser a death or the Uncertain Ity it had injected into the Complex Power struggle within the Are world which Cairo had stabilized so often under Nasser a moderating influence. Too after his Day Long visit with the Fleet Nixon was flying Back to Naples for conferences with Southern Europe nato commanders. U. S. Officials doubtless also were weighing possible soviet moves in the Mediterranean in the void left by Nassef s death. The Kremlin already has supplied 12,000 men tor Man advanced antiaircraft missiles and to Fly Mig Jet fighters held by Egypt. Cairo up a egyptians poured into Cairo today by train by bus and on foot to mourn president Gamal Abdel Nasser whose death from a heart attack monday threatened new chaos for a Middle East Uncertain of the present and fearful of the future. Nasser 52, Lay in state in the imposing Republican Palace in the heart of Cairo while hundreds of thousands milled about outside hopeful of a last look at the grading colonel who was the idol of the Arab masses and whose death could bring the Middle East once More to War. Too the soviet Union with More at stake in Egypt than perhaps any other nation announced it was sending Premier Alexei n. Kosygin to Cairo today for the thursday funeral. An official statement called Nasser a an outstanding son of the Arab people and a a great Friend of the soviet it said russian Aid would continue. Too president Nixon cancelled a Showoff orce exhibition by the . 6 Fleet to avoid rousing further anti american feelings in this nation caught up in an emotional upheaval. Egyptians were so wary of Israel that a maximum Alert was called by military leaders along the Suez canal cease fire line. How Nasser a death would affect the rest of Nixon a european trip was Uncertain but the yugoslav government announced that president Tito would remain in Belgrade to receive Nixon wednesday and that he would Send his closest aide Edvard Kardell to Cairo to attend the funeral. O o a the egyptian foreign ministry announced that Nixon was not attending the funeral but was sending Secretary of state William p. Gamal Abdal Namer Rogers now with Nixon on a visit to the . 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Egypt Syria and Jordan declared a 40-Day official period of mourning and the Arab world which had met Nasser so Many times in Summit conferences to discuss operations against Israel prepared to Send its Kings and presidents Back to Cairo for a final Farewell. Too vice president Anwar Al Sadat temporarily succeeded Nasser As president but a major Power struggle appeared certain to develop Over who will Rule Egypt in the future. There was no Clear Cut the Man who briefly unified a eth i tonally divided part of the a fld using the common hatred of Kriel As the focal Point to Weld the Arab nations together. Al Sadat a first action eve amp before going on Cairo radio to Tell Tike world Nasser 52, was dead was in proclaim a state of a a Maxim Umil Lerty on the Suez canal Ecksl halve line with Israel. Although no further details were Given the action implied Israel might take advantage of the vacuum left by Nasser a death to launch a military operation. Success and tragedies marked life of Nasser up Gamal Abdel Nasser the adored father of modern Egypt mesmerized millions with his unfulfilled dream of a unified Arab world that could destroy Israel. He died a peacemaker in his own ranks. Nasser the most powerful and controversial Arab Leader in modern history died of a heart attack monday in Cairo at 52. His triumphs were Many he broke a 5,000-year reign of egyptian Kings ousted British occupiers nationalized the Suez canal and wooed a willing soviet Union to Supply guns and butter when the United states would not. Too his tragedies were great the 1967 Middle East War was a disinter for to tent. It All but wiped out the slow but steady inroads his Arab Brand of socialism was making on the desert nations poverty. His dream of a United Arab Republic briefly materialized then collapsed with factional feuds overwhelmed Arab similarities. His total Reliance on soviet Aid to Challenge Israel put him forever in the Kremlin a debt he became an Arab world hero by defying the West in the 1950s when he turned to communist Czechoslovakia for arms and then refused to join an anti communist Alliance. Reminder to volunteers for head Start help reminding any interested persons a special meeting of Cap tonight at 7 30 at the armory for volunteers to help with head Start and with the Day care Center your attendance is needed to help make these Community action programs succeed. Waterloo school girl killed Waterloo up a a Waterloo girl Janet Hager was killed in a car pedestrian Accident this morning As she was on her Way to school. Authorities said the five year old daughter of the Andrew Hagers of Waterloo apparently darted out into the Street. The Driver of the car was mrs. Gene Makowsky of Evansdale. Nasser was a Blue eyed revolutionary with a Silver Tongue for fiery speeches. Ramrod straight moustached and grading at the temples he had a flashing smile. His English was fluent and supple. Like most egyptians he Savoured his Lively sense of humor. A devout moslem he did not drink. He was a heavy smoker of american cigarettes until doctors made him quit in 1968. He was a personally austere Asha was politically flamboyant he shunned the extravagant ways of the egyptian monarchs he deposed a Strong reason for his immense personal popularity. He and his wife Tahia me of the least known first ladies in the Western world whom he married in 1344, lived in a comfortable but in luxurious Cream painted Villa la suburban Cairo. It served As Nasser a office. They had five children. The son of a postal clerk Nasser was born in Alexandria Jan. 15, 1918. He led riots against British occupiers of Egypt As a Schoolboy fought the israelis in the 1948 Middle East War and overthrew Egypt a King Farouk in a 1952 military coup. He became Premier of Egypt in 1954 and two years later its president a the year he nationalized the Suez canal seized Britain a Suez base and led Egypt a seven Day defense against the subsequent Brit ish French israeli invasion. Uncertainty about Nasser successor Beirut up a within 60 Days Egypt will have a new president but at the moment not a single Arab politician can state with certainty who it will be. There was a substantial list of i hopefuls but such was the Charisma and overpowering prestige of president Gamal Abdel Nasser that no potential successor Ever has been Able to stake a secure claim to the Crown. Only one thing appears certain the egyptian army will have a say in who replaces Nasser who died of a heart attack monday at 52. In fact some observers believe it will be the deciding Factor. While there was no Lack of claimants for the vacant Crown an examination of possible heirs might categorize them As executives rather than leaders. Neither pro soviet sex Premier Aly Sabry and his Arab socialist Union Asu supporters on the left nor such a a moderate right wingers As Ala ram editor Mohamed Hassanein Heikal or philosopher politician Zakariah Muhieddin is thought to have the popular Appeal to make an imprint such As Nasser. The left wingers probably could get mobs onto the streets of Cairo for a few Days but Are unlikely to have the physical Means to impose their will. An army Clampdown might Well come first followed by the Man of consensus. Meanwhile observers believe the rest of the Arab world will bide its time ready to take its Cue when the new Man emerges

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