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Mount Pleasant News (Newspaper) - September 30, 1970, Mount Pleasant, Iowa Them pleasant news fair vol. 92, no. 230 it. Pleasant Iowa wednesday evening september 30, 1970 Price to cents these Days by John Chamberlain How bad is that Lead in your gasoline Charles f. Kettering a the fam out a Boss Ketz of general motors a was the Man to do things. He invented the self starter on order. He Wasny to a chemist but when the a a Knock from raw gasoline proved incompatible with the More sensitive motors he combined with another non chemist Thomas Gley in a a try anything attempt to come up with an additive that would keep pistons and cylinders in smooth working order. By trial and error the Kettering Midgley team finally hit upon Tetra Ethyl Lead a and millions of automobiles have gone millions of comfortable Miles on leaded gasoline since the Day of its commercial introduction some forty five years ago. Now Lead in gasoline has been named As one of the More nefarious pollutants. As a a toxic Metal it does no to deteriorate. If a chromium deficient rat swallows enough of it it reduces its life Span by 20 per cent which makes one wonder what breathing it would do to a chromium deficient human being. Query does anyone know the percentage of chromium deficient men and women the Nixon administration which is properly alive to the pollution Issue now wants to put a $4.25 per Pound tax on Lead in gasoline partly to encourage experiments on emission control devices that will work with non leaded fuel and partly to raise Money to wipe out an estimated Federal budget deficit of $1.3 billion. Unfortunately a Boss Ketz is no longer around to invent an engine that will work without doing damage to itself if it uses nothing but Lea free Gas. Too if it were merely a matter of paying a Little More for non leaded fuel and suffering from the resulting increased Wear and tear on the motor most of us would gladly do so in order to improve the Quality of the Circum ambient air. But there is More to this business of legislating for emission control standards than meets the Eye. It seems that the methods used for producing a Lead free usable fuel result in adding mysterious elements to the gasoline that could make the exhaust from the Tail pipe even More dangerous than it now r. I am not a chemist Ani i can Only pass on what a u. S. Birr fan of mines research report says on the subject. When a a aromatics Are increased in the gasoline in order to compensate for the Lack of Lead some mysterious substances called a Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons a or a a appear in the engine exhaust. According to the Bureau of mines this actually adds to the photo chemical a a smog of the los Angeles Eye irritating Type by As much As 25 per cent. Moreover the molecules have been found by Sloan Kettering Institute researchers to cause cancer in mice. This does no to necessarily mean that the molecules would remain in the atmosphere in sufficient Quantity to cause cancer in humans. But the possibility remains. So it could be a matter of jumping from the frying into the fire if senator Muskie succeeds in a legislating the Lead out of gasoline by 1975 or 1976. We live in a most mysterious world and if one Only increases the smog by trying to get rid of it then where Are we too i done town any Lead Stock and at the Behest of my pollution conscious 12-year-old son i frequently buy the new Amoco non leaded gasoline even though it is a bit More expensive. So i think i take off from a reasonably objective stance in trying to get to the Bottom of the big Lead versus no Lead controversy. The Lead interests will Tell you that a Federal tax on Lead will backfire by cutting off experiments on devices designed to trap Lead before it comes out of the exhaust. The Dupont company the Ethyl corporation and Mobil Oil All claim to have developed satisfactory emission control systems that operate on leaded fuels. The California air resources Board says the Dupont a manifold reactor system on a car using leaded gasoline a meets nearly All of the 1980 proposed Federal emission the Auto companies themselves however seem to have come Down on the Side of Lead free Gas for the further future assuming that their technologists and scientists will develop catalytic control systems that work efficiently with non leaded fuel. At least general motors president Edward n. Cole has been quoted in a Detroit newspaper As saying that unleaded gasoline will ultimately extend the life of emission control systems. So Between the theories you pays Yugoslavia greets Nixon Belgrade up a president Nixon grinning relaxed and waving to big Friendly crowds began a two Day visit today to Yugoslavia the first Ever paid to this communist country by an american president. Arriving from Middle East strategy talks in Naples Italy Nixon stepped from his Jet air Force one and Shook hands warmly with says East letting heroin slip into Midwest Des Moines up a police chief Wendell Nichols citing the rising heroin usage in Des Moines said tuesday Law enforcement authorities in the East Are doing Little to Stop the spread of herein into the Midwest. A most of the heroin coming into the Midwest comes from the East coast probably through Chicago a Nichols said a officials Arentt doing a Damn thing about it out there and when they do the Guys in the Long Black Robes judges undo it. A we had a pretty quiet Little cow town Here in the Midwest a Nichols continued a until the sins of the East coast started catching up with us. I think it shocked a few Nichols declined to say How much heroin usage had increased in the Des Moines area but added a a it a a the downtown and immediate surrounding areas Are the worst for the standpoint of pushers a Nichols said. A a they re Selling it for about $8 a capsule. We had two addicts in jail yesterday with a $1,500 a Day habit each. They Haven to started Selling it to the schools yet but that la be Yugoslavia a president Tito 18, who was at the foot of the Steps to Greet him. Their talks were expected to Center largely on peace prospects for the Middle East in Light of Nasser a death As Well As East West relations. Tito a self styled neutralise and now undisputed Leader of the nonaligned countries is considered an expert on both issues. Too the two Rode together in a 17-mile motorcade to the old Palace downtown to the cheers of Tito a fellow countrymen along the route. Flags flew at half staff in mourning for egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser a Tito Friend. After laying a Wreath at the yugoslav Tomb of the unknown Soldier Nixon will have his first extended meeting with Tito at a formal state dinner and reception tonight. Their main talks will come thursday morning when they have a three hour conference before Nixon visits Zagreb and Tito a Birthplace at Kum Ravec. Too Tito passed up a Chance to attend Nasser a funeral in Cairo so he could Confer with Nixon during a presidential visit Long sought and often promised by the United states. American relations with Yugoslavia have improved further since the soviet led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Tito visited Washington in october 1963, shortly before president John f. Kennedy was assassinated. Nixon ended a 22-hour morale boosting visit to the u. S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean with secret talks ashore in Naples with nato military leaders and u. S. Ambassadors on the Power vacuum left by Nasser a death. I the 75 minute meeting with i nato commanders entered around j the strategic capabilities of the Alliance which Nixon said a exists for the Power of there was no discussion of any specific troop. My. Pleasant Community school Calendar oct. In Ottumwa 9th Grade he e. Football. Oct. 2�?centerville, varsity there 7 30. Oct. 3�?Burlington band Day. Oct. 5�?s. E. Seven choral festival at Fairfield. Oct. 5�?waco 7th Grade Here at 4 30 . Football. Oct. 6�?keokuk 8th Grade Here football. Oct. 8�?boom night. Mid Prairie 7th Grade there and Burlington 9th Grade Here football. Oct. 9�?davis county varsity Here at 7 30. Homecoming. Oct. Ion state High school marching band contest. Oct. 12�?keokuk sophomores there. Football. Oct. 13�?school Board meeting at 8 . Ottumwa 3th Grade there and Keokuk 9th Grade there. Football. Oct. 14�?new London 7th Grade there. Football. Oct. 16�?keokuk varsity Here at 7 30. Parents night. Oct. 20�?Washington 8th Grade Here and Washington the Grade there. Football oct. 21�?waco 8th Quot a Quot. Oct. 22�?winfield 7th Here. Football. Oct. 23�?oskaloosa varsity Here at 7 30. Oct. 24�?psat High school band All state audition 9 . Oct. 26-31�?american education week. Oct. 26�?davis county sophomores Here. Football. Oct. 27�?Fairfield 9th Grade there at 7 . Football. Oct. 29�?Burlington 9th Grade there. Football oct. 30�?ft. Madison varsity there at 7 30 . Vetter named to committee Des Moines up a Keith l. Vetter Washington was today appointed to the school budget review committee by gov. Robert d. Ray. Vetter 52, fills the unexpired term of Earle g. Bellamy of Knoxville who resigned because he is taking a position outside the United states. Killed As car hits rear of truck Raymond up a Martin Uze 29, Dubuque was killed today when his car struck the rear of a truck causing the trucks Gas tank to explode and engulfing the Uze car in flames. Louis Nye 60, of Rural Jesup said he had just pulled on to Iowa 20 near Raymond when the station Wagon slammed into the rear of his truck. Nye was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Waterloo. Dressed fit to not be killed patrolman Joey Winslow of the Minneapolis police department bomb squad models one of three new suits of Armor purchased for the squad. These a a Mode ensembles Cost $590 each. Carryover draft numbers go for 3 months in 71 Washington up a draft registrants whose lottery numbers Are reached this year but who Are not inducted will be placed at the top of the Call up list for Only the first three months of 1971, it was announced wednesday. Selective service director Curtis w. Tarr said in a statement that he was taking the action in an Effort to assure that registrants were not subjected to either More or less than the 12 months of prime draft vulnerability provided under the new lottery system. Tarr said he expected the carryover group to be Small since it would consist of those who had deferments at the time their numbers were reached and those a exercising various procedural rights available under selective service Law. Fresh fighting in North Jordan dedication of armory oct. 17 preliminary announcement has been made of the plans for the dedication of the new National guard armory in it. Pleasant. The event will be held on saturday oct. 17, at the armory with congressman Fred Schwengel As the featured speaker. Further details will be announced later. By up fresh fighting Between Palestine Ian guerrillas and the jordanian army broke out to Irbid a commando stronghold in Northern Jor Dan the guerrillas said today. A spokesman for the Al Fatah guerrilla organization in Beirut said jordanian troops began attacking Irbid shortly after Dawn with mortars and machine guns and the fighting was continuing. The guerrillas were returning the fire the spokesman said. The Al Fatah claim came Only hours after the Arab league committee trying to keep peace in Jordan ordered both government troops and armed palestinian guerrillas to get out of Amman within 24 hours. Predicts Low voter turnout in Iowa Des Moines up a the lowest voter turnout in Iowa for a november general election in 24 years was predicted today by Secretary of state Melvin Synhorst. Synhorst estimated 790,000 to 810,000 persons would go to the polls nov. 3 in Iowa. The lowest voter turnout was in 1946, a non presidential election year when 631,581 persons voted. The reasons for the expected Low vote Synhorst said Are that 1970 is a non presidential year there will be no u. S. Senate candidates on the ballot and this years campaigns Are a classified As relatively too he said that historically in Iowa about 33 per cent fewer voters go to the polls in non presidential election years. The voter turnout at this years june primary election also was one of the lowest in Modem times in Iowa he said. A this indicates that the voters did not get stirred up at the time of the primary and Little has happened since then to generate a High level of interest a Synhorst said. There is no evidence that either party is spending Large sums of Money for their campaigns Synhorst said. Too he also pointed out the Iowa legislature has been reduced in size by 35 members which Means fewer local contests. Sheriffs county auditors and clerks of the District court will not run this year he said adding a they Are popular vote attracting voters in november will be electing seven Iowa congressmen a governor five constitutional officers and state House and Senate members. Synhorst said u. S. Department snipers Rifle explodes Load of dynamite Springfield to. Up a a the target of a teamsters strike Bullet from a snipers Rifle today since sept. 15. The Fri entered the exploded 42,000 pounds of dynamite labor dispute after several trucks Harrisburg pa., that an end to the Vietnam War was in sight. During a Brief session with reporters at the Capitol today he said., that by -1972 a a we la see the last of Commerce figures show about i. A a. A a .__-r4a, a of the combat troops leaving Viet 650,000 eligible voters in Iowa. Syn Horst estimated that 800,000 votes in the nov. 3 general election would mean about a 48 per cent voter turnout. Owned by the firm which specialises in hauling explosives and nuclear materials were fired upon. A. The truck was hauling its 21 tons of dynamite to a Lead mine at Bess to. The Missouri Highway patrol said a Box of Caps might have been on the truck. But another Driver said Only dynamite was aboard. Normally Caps Are needed to explode Dyna mite. If 0 0 9 two teamsters members travelling in a car behind the truck when it exploded were arrested. One woman apparently injured by the explosion surrendered at a farm House near Ash Grove to. Two men end another woman were arrested in nearby Woods. The truck was operated by to state trucking inc., the target of a teamsters strike which began sept. 15. The Fri entered the Case some time ago after several truck owned by the concern which specialises in hauling of explosives and nuclear materials were fired upon., poo the Driver of a tri state Trad travelling ahead of the vehicle which exploded reported seeing a muzzle Flash As he passed a Highway interchange. Moments later the blast a re election Campaign speech at occurred blowing a Crater 25 feet deep in the Highway and causing extensive damage to two fining stations and a Candy shop located at the interchange. Approximately Tiro hours earlier gunfire had hit the Radiator of another truck operated being hauled aboard a truck leased to a firm involved in a teamsters Union strike. Police arrested four men and two women. Shreds of clothing and flesh and scraps of Metal were All that remained of the Driver and his truck after the blast which blew a Crater 25 feet deep and too Weet wide in interstate 44. A the truck is just nowhere a said Ernest Decamp of Springfield. A it is too the truck was leased to tri state motor transit co. Of Joplin mo., expects last of . Troops out by summer Washington up a Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott said today that the last of american combat troops in Vietnam would a leaving by next summer As part of an accelerated withdrawal program he predicted president Nixon would announce soon. Scott said tuesday night during goal line club to meet tonight the goal line club will meet at the National guard armory tonight at 7 30. Films of the it. Pleasant Washington and Iowa Wesleyan Principia games will be shown. The coaches will report on their teams. Detroit up a the United Auto workers Union has begun paying $14 million a week in strike benefits. Salaries of its staff were Cut for the second time since the Start of a strike against general motors corp. More than two weeks ago. Would lift restrictions on printed sexual materials your Money and you takes your Choice. But you should be aware that no matter what you do you May still be polluting the air. Distributed by King features Syndicate Washington up a the commission oui obscenity and pornography recommended today the repeal of All Laws prohibiting the distribution of explicit sexual materials to consenting adults. In a Long awaited already controversial report the commission said it found no evidence that such matter played a significant role to causing crime deviancy or severe emotional disturbances among youths or adults. A there is no warrant for continued governmental interference with the full Freedom of adults to read obtain or View whatever such material they wish a the commission said. Too the Nixon administration disavowed the commissions findings in Advance based on portions that leaked. Three members of the commission a two clergymen and attorney Charles h. Keating jr., president Nixon a sole appointees filed a Strong dissenting report in which they called the recommendations a a Magna Carta for the the commission did recommend that states adopt Laws to prohibit commercial distribution of sexually oriented pictorial material to Young persons. The group did not suggest a prohibition on written material saying the risk of harm to juveniles from textual material did not warrant this. It said that there was not sufficient research yet on the effect such materials has on youth but said a a Large majority of americans believe that children should not be exposed to certain sexual too the commission called for a a massive sex education Effort among All segments of american society a adults As Well As children. Its main finding a and the most controversial a dealt with the effect of pornography upon society As a whole. Too the commission majority declared a executive empirical investigation both by the commission and by others provides no that exposure to or use of explicit sexual materials play a significant role in the causation of social or individual harms such As crime delinquency sexual or nonsexual deviancy or severe emotional disturbances. A this is not to say that exposure to explicit sexual materials has no effect upon human behaviour. A prominent effect of exposure to sexual materials is that persons tend to talk More about sex As a result of seeing such materials. A in addition Many persons become temporarily sexually aroused upon viewing explicit sexual materials and the frequency of their sexual activity May in consequence increase for Short period. Such behaviour however is the Type of sexual activity already established As usual activity for the particular the chairman of the commission which expires today is William l. Lockhart Dean of the Law school of the University of Minnesota. He and All other 17 members were chosen after Congress created the commission in 1967. Hits porch support at starlite Motel a 1969 Pontiac driven by James Van soc Indianola went across the Lawn at the starlite Motel on West Washington Street at 5 30 . Wednesday after he turned into the drive struck and damaged an ornamental porch support and struck a Post. Van soc then backed into a parked 1967 Pontiac owned by f. L. West Houston tex., damaging it an estimated $214. City police investigated and charged Van soc with reckless driving. Nam although he said . Air strikes probably would continue a was Long As we have support troops to be protected a a we re moving Back toward having Only advisers in Vietnam and then eventually i Hope we get the Heck out of there entirely a Scott said. Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said he had no information that peace prospects were brighter but a it would be a great thing if the end of the War is to Stop car making an investigation tractor on fire in Corn Field the Highway patrol stopped a car driven by Redrick d. Creighton. 17, Waterloo just South of it. Pleasant on Highway 218 at 7 . Wednesday. The car was listed As stolen when the patrol ran a License Check on it. The car is owned by Creighton a Bro her. Louis or. And Redrick Farmington a firemen were Creighton told authorities he had called to tha Boyd Woods farm one borrowed the car from his brother and a half Miles North of town investigation is continuing. Tuesday at 4 30 . To extinguish the youth was charged with not a fire in a tractor in a Corn Field. Having a Drivers License and was there was damage to the wiring sent enc a to two Days in the Cornland the Gas tank. I to jail by Justice William smart. Or. Crane to speak at opening of Republican Headquarters or. John b. Crane chairman of economics and business adminis Trail com Iowa Wie Iseo Sai cbltte0ff and Holder of the Musser endowed chair to economics will be the guest speaker for the formal opening of the Henry county Republican Headquarters 114 East Monroe it. Pleasant october 6th. The evening Giet to Gerber will Honor county officers of Henry county and county Republican candidates and will be a special a Salute to Clark Burns. Those included to the Courtesy will be supervisors Clark bums Wilbur Sater and Lester Meeker county treasurer Arnold Lindeen county attorney James Morrison and Gary Wiegel candidate for county attorney Helen m. Virden county recorder Ruth Ogg county auditor Van Crawford county sheriff and Harold j. Davis clerk of court. Or. John b. Crane is much to demand As a Public speaker. He brings a vast amount of experience and knowledge to his audiences of political and governmental knowhow. His talk will include the German perspective toward american politics and his study while on Sabba by tri state the sheriffs office said. Green county workshop on listening Here Pilot program Hospital personnel from Southeast Iowa and representatives of local industries attended a workshop at the Henry county memorial Hospital wednesday on How to listen effectively. About 75 were present for the sessions sponsored by tha Iowa Hospital association. The workshop of listening for personnel in Community hospitals is in effect a Pilot program As this was the first one to be held. Present to give information were mrs. Aurelia Kiltok professor in the department of adult business education at the University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls and three from health occupations education at the University of lows. Iowa City or. Lew Holloway mrs. Milferd Rosed Ahi and Richard Gamill and Lowell Hewitt of Southeastern Iowa College Burlington. Local industries represented Wert Vega Superior Cable Blue Bird Midwest and Emerson electric. Tical leave from february to june this year. At this time he made a study in developments in Germany a capital goods industries since world War ii with particular emphasis on the German steel Industry. Or. Crane lived 12 years abroad and to of these years were to Germany. He is considered an expert in this Field in America As Well As lecturing abroad on this subject. Jim May and Dave Mccoid serve As co chairmen for Republican Headquarters and their chairmen for the opening evening october 6 will be or. And mrs. W. Frank Wright . Linder and mrs. Frances Baba Ter Republican women under the chairmanship of Edna Michener will schedule the help and furnish the Coffee for the meetings. The Republican Headquarters will be opened daily except sunday and special evenings. So far meetings Are scheduled for the evening of october 12th, 19th, and 26t.h the Public is invited to attend any or All of the meetings at Republican headquarter of to my. Pleasant beginning october 6th. Troops take 3-Day Holiday phenom penh up a cambodian troops trying to reopen Highway 4 to cambodians Deepwater port of Kampong som have declared a unilateral cease fire during a three Day religious Holiday Field officers said today. A we will undertake no Clearing operations until the Holiday ends a Field officer said. Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops seized a three mile stretch of the Highway 56 Miles West South West of phenom penh tuesday the Road is phenom Penhos Only Overland route to the nations Only Deepwater port and Oil refinery. Although Highway 4 was Caf some motorists and trucks still Wert trying to get through. Up correspondent Barney Seibert reported two taxicabs and a bus made it past the Viet Cong Gauntlet but bad Bullet holes in them. Terse verse by a. C. Gordon a Drivers safer when the Road is dry the Road is Sater when the Driver s dip i j

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