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PACE 2 CENTRAL POINT TIMES Published w eekly eveiy Thursday by CENTRAL POINT TIMES, INC. p. O. Box 840 2iO t . Pine St. Central Point, Ore Entered as second class m ail matter at the post office at Central Point, Ore. 97S01, under act of Congress Mar. 3, 1897/ Subscription $3.00 per year in Jackson C o ., $3. 50 W A S H IN G T O N By C. W I L S O N P U B L IS H E R S A S S O C IA T IO N EDITORIALS r i, L F D n By Paul Hornbeck AUTHORITIES PLEAD FOR MURDER "We want more murders, bigger crim es— more lawbreaking of every kind. " That is the backhanded plea which has for years issued from our foremost governmental authorities and most in fluential citizens. The latest payoff was the system atic murder of 8 nurse train ees in Chicago by a 24-year-old expert who should still have been locked up in the penitentiary at Huntsville, Texas. Com panion lawlessness and evidence of freedom from all moral and leg a l restraint appears in the race riot in Chicago, the thieving, looting, mugging, robbery, raping, kidnapping, pernicious van dalism and every other brand of crim e in every city from Boston to San Francisco end Houston to Minneapolis, which is intended to include Washington, D .C ., M iam i, Atlanta, Seattle, Med ford and Central Point. The President of the United States makes speeches and says, "We are against c r im e ," but sits supinely by w hile the Supreme Court and most of the lower courts in the country are busv turn ing crim inals loose so they can repeat. The courts are Joined by mos- of the editors of the country, the foremost writers, the lead ing clerics of the church (masquerading them selves as Christian m inisters), university presidents and other leading educationists, vast social-betterm ent organizations, and many other categories of individuals and co llec tiv e bleeding hearts. All these have been prating for years about rights of the poor criminal, spending vast tax money to "rehabilitate" him , while unm ercifully down grading every law enforcem ent agency in the country, presenting the most horrible picture possible of "police brutality." Last week 3, COO Illinois National Guardsmen were ca lled into Chicago to queH the so-called rioting, looting, anon, etc . Af ter a couple of days of it the commanding officer reported that the crim inal actions were incited, the young Negro and white hoodlums trained and agitated by imported insurrectionists. The FBI, CIA and Congressional investigating com m ittees have y ea n and mountains of invincible proof that Communist subversives have been m ixed up in these instigation activities a ll over the United States; but the above mentioned individuals and organiza tions of the previous paragraph say it isn't so. They and the President are afraid that such charges made out loud would of fend the Krem lin. We have no such qualms and the Kremlin is plenty w elcom e if they choose to be offended when we say they are the biggest rotters on the face of the earth. The Illinois National Guardsmen have guns, as do a ll other law enforcem ent officers. But the guardsmen were given im pli cit orders not to shoot unless shot at. In other words, If they saw a "rioter" looting a store or setting fire to a building or assaulting a citizen, they were there to arrest and ja il him . "If the crim i nal resists arrest or attempts to escape, don't use your gun unless he shoots at you fir st." In other words, "Give the crim inal a fair chance to k ill you before you shoot at him . He is more v al uable than you are." Shades of Matt D illon. DISARM The goings-on noted above give emphasis to the matter of disarmament. During the last few y ea n there has been mote than enough agitation from the mentioned bleeding-heart indi viduals and organizations to strip all law enforcement o ffic en of their sidearms. The same idea has carried over to the national lev el and backs the great McNamara and Statesman Rusk in their effort to strip the United States of its armament power. It is much more bloodless to turn ourselves over to Communism or other world despotism through negotiation or through the United Nations. The United Nations organization could be an influence for world am ity. But it isn’t . Instead of accepting die bland advice of our beloved American in telligentsia, it riiould be the self survival interest cf every intelligent American to investigate, without bias, the present makeup, policies, objectives and po- tentials of the UN. Who controls it? Who constitutes the Secur ity C ouncil, and how w ill it be affected when Red China fr eventually admitted. Who gives up and pays and pays and pays with blood and money? You might even be surprised at the fear» which began to congeal in the mind of Adlai Stevenson be fore his death. Nor is he the only one. Outlaws, individual or international, cannot be made law-abiding sim ply by agreem ent upon the part of those who are law -abiding. Force— gunpowder force— is the only thing they w ill respect. PROBING CONSENSUS; A NFEDLESS, SENSELESS ACTIVITY Had you ever thought about how foolish it b for lawmakers, national or Mate, to be running home all the tim e to "find out the consensus of the grass roots?" In our opinion, the elected representative who deem s it necessary to do this and who propos es to let hb voting on considered measures be guided by what he interprets as the day-to-day consensus of hb constituents, b not worthy of the office to which he has been elected . Now we are not saying that the elected representative has no business knowing what hb constituents are thinking. But when he b elected he should know that thinking fairly w ell and the theory b that he and the majority are in something of the same mind when they have selected Mm. The theory o f representative gov- emment then requires that he b obligated to act upon the various particular lame« which confront him by exercising the best Judg ment of HIS mind towards what is right as opposed to what is wrong. In following that course, without regard for a ll outside influences, he w ill be representing the interests of Ms constitu ents to the best o f Ms ab ility, morally and in tellectu a lly . We have representative government because it would be im possible for a ll the people to Judge all the merits of a ll the ls- m es that arise, and even if they could, the process of expressing thorn Judgments would be too cumbersome and In effective. That fa r rn o u g h so th a t the« w o u ld l>e w a y below th e s u p p o rt le v - e l. Ih r lo an le v e l, so th a t w e c o u lil l l i r r e b j get c o m p lia n c e tb> fa rm e r s in th e feed g ra in c o n tro l p r o g r a m i. T h a i w as th e w h o le In te n t an d p u rp ose and th ru s i of th e p ro g ra m ." • a a This Is e v id e n c e d in the W est w h e re L a b o r S e c re ta ry W illa r d W lr ta . w o rk in g h a n d In glo ve w Ith th e la b o r bosses, an d a id e d by th e big c ity so c io lo g i ca lly m in d e d d i earners w h o n e v e r p la n te d a c ro p In th e ir liv es, a re s e ekin g to d e s tro y d o m e s tic a g ric u ltu r e . C o n g r e s s m a n G ro s s then pointed out that ri-eently the C h a irm a n of the Council of Economic A dvisers appeared on television to say. "I m en tioned the tact that incrcuses m tile supplies of pork depend on the d iffe re n c e betw een the price of hogs and the price of corn, and w e re try in g to hold dow n th» price o f c o rn " a a a Senator George M u rp h y. C a l ifo rn ia. is «in record w ith w e ll docum ented evidence that th«* big farm operators w ho have the resources. are m oving to Mexico, leaving the sm aller farm ers holding th«' bag a a a In o th e r w o rd s , t l i r p ro g ra m s w h ic h fa rm e rs so ug ht at one lim e a re now being used t s -ti . « to .u i. a a a Anil this points up the p ro b lem Ihe A m erican fa rm e r faces. Ih e uninfo rm ed big city mass es are p olitical reservoirs w hich must l>e curried no m a tte r w hat happens to the fa rm e r r in . i r p o to>: M u - it ... 1» why a fully dem ocratic government could not operate »uccets- fuQy, and so we have a republican form of government. But again, we are not saying that individuals have no business ex pressing their w izhes to their representative» at to how they want them to v o te. However, we do »ay that a constituent hits no right to demand that hi» representaive vote »uch and such a way just because he so desires it. His desires may be w holly selfish and his convictions biased beyond reason. He has every right to request his representative to measure his convictions against the constituents's lo g ic a l reasoning, based upon what he honestly considers the right and wrong aspects of the issue. The represen tative has no obligation to yield to the constituent's thinking, un less he is convinced that right would be better served thereby. "You w on't get my vote unless you vote such-and-such-a-w ay" . is just as much a bribe as ten thousand dollars, and w ill be dis dained by every honest p olitician. Having said the» things, it should be seen that we have more than a little basis for asserting that it is indeed an immoral pol ic y which has prompted President Johnson and Ms coterie of State Department aides to seek out the consensus of opinion not only in America, but in a hundred nations of the world as to what he diould do in V ietnam . The consensus has been sought not in an effort to determine right or wrong in the issues Involved, but purely and sim ply an attempt to find out what policy cr degree of policy or lack thereof would secure the most votes and p oliti ca l support for the administration. Regardless of what Moscow and Peking say, w e know and the world knows that U. S . involvem ent in V ietnam b neither ag gressive nor im perialistic. All honest Americans, which should include the P resid ed , know that the Communist nations and their satellites are not capable of honorable negotiation. It is therefore im m oral to ask for such presumed negotiation. The only possible position of right for the President to take b to de termine what b the right and just course for the United States to take— and then take it, regardless of what American factions may think or the Russians oPthe British or Nasser cr de Gaulle or anybody c b e may think. If the President o f the United States would follow that course, the V ietnam war would be over in short order and the spilling of American blood over there would be quickly reduced to a trick 1. — and w e could get back to minding our own business, which would by no means be lsolationbm , regardless o f what d ie smart boys say. " W hy is it im portant to prevent litte r and safe guard beauty? L itter is not only a health and safety menace, but is expensive to clean up. Some $ 5 0 0 m illio n in tax money is spent each year to de-litter highways, city streets, parks, beaches and other pub lic areas, according to Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Conversely, a clean well-kept community gener ates citizen pride, indicates stability and property values hold up. Then what can the average person do about it? A great deal. In fact, he is the only one who can stop it because he is largely responsible fo r it. Here are some specific do’s and don’ts: Keep a neat litter- free home and back yard. T S your children not to litte r and most imports. all set a good ex ample by not littering yourself. A good example w ill ru b o f f on y o u r c h ild re n ; also on your neighbors. Always carry a litterbag in your car and be sure to use it. Encourage local youth groups to sponsor anti-litter projects. Use your influence as a taxpayer VOter tO m ,^e »l>re local anti-littering ordi- nanceB ,re «"forced. Remember, only people are litterbug«. And peo ple’s habits can be changed. As reported in The Wall Street Journal; "Though some people appear to forget It, the government's outlays give It both the right and the duty to oversee the money's u se .... Pin. ECONOMY MARKET Cenl'11 Po1"’ HARDER A liltlc o ver .10 years ago. in a g ain st th em . T h e p ric e d e f la .1 pei’itsl of evonomiv stress. the tio n p o w e rs e x e rc is e d by g o v n a t i o n 's f o r m e r s turned to e rn m e n t th ro u g h sto red s u r W ashington for a solution to pluses Is e n o rm o u s. a a a th e ir then existing problem • • • Thus, w hen g o v e rn m e n t-p ro in fla tio n a ry pressures N o w t h e i r c h i c k e n s h » v e m oted cause a rise in the price o f co m e ho m e Io roust. • • • pork chops, the p olitical reper T h e e n t i r e s i t u a t i o n w a s cussions of ang ry consumers in the big cities blows up a storm placed III l»'i •■ B ’" Hence. In m o llify the irate s p e r in e r e - » housewife, the pressure is put I» > K on the farm er. Congressm an B a a a H H G r « s » T h e A ra b s h a v e long w a r n e d of low a whi»F ag ain st p e r m ittin g th e c a m e l s ta le d th a t to g e l his nose In th e te n t. T h e last y tmi thv A m e ric a n fa r m e r Is now le a r n S t'C ivtaiy of in g th e m e r it of th is p ro v e rb . Atf l ieu 11 u i c I I . > i a a a b la n d lx e x For not only is governm ent, p lained Io ihe ■■M & gá 1 once hailed as the saviour of H o u s e a g |i- C W Hsidei c u ltu re com m ittee why the gov the fu im e r. now set king to ernm ent sold m illions of bush m an ipu late th«’ price he shall els of surplus corn on the open get for his products, blit it is also seeking to dictate to h im m arket * • • w hat labor he shall have, and " W e p u rp o s e K so ld." h r said. w hal he shall pay for it a a a " In o rd e r to m o v e p rice s «low n NEW SPAPER r d A a L i A A Y V 420 E AND -"SM ALL BUSINESS” in the State of Oregon and $ 4 .0C outside the state. T n > t c t r THURSDAY, JULY 21, 196« C E N TR A L P O IN T T IM E S No matter how openhanded and unquestioning the government may say it is, sooner or later its hand is likely to become the firm fist of federal con trol.” 8 to 9 DAILY LETTERS EDITOR D e a r Editor: Mental Pain . . . T h is Is the sleep er In the Civil Rights Act of 1966, and if the Bill is passed with this clause . . . it will close the iip.s and pen of every Patriot. There is not any defense against a claim of causing "MENTAL PAIN", and any Politician, Communist. Anti- Christ or other person who is out to destroy you . . . will be able to use this clause in doing so. If the "MENTAL PAIN" clause Is retained in this BUI, every Patriotic Organization and Publication will have to fold up. The " M E N T A L PAIN" clause is what the Adminis tration wants most of all; they wiU give up on Open Housing, providing they can get ihc ‘ MENTAL PAIN" clause . . . because this will give them complete control over what you may say, write or print. The Communists have for years been trying to get this law on the books; however, in order to do so, they had to in clude It in a Bill that would be so controversial that this "M EN TA L PAIN" clause would slip through without be ing noticed. If Gus Hall, leader cf the Communist Party In the L.S.A. OR Martin L. King claimed that you had made a remark about Mm causing Mm Mental Pain . . . what would your de fense be??? Remember the U.S. Attorney General would be on the side of the Prosecu tion, and could also sue you. TM s is one of the most abominable clauses ever In serted In a Bill presented to Congress. Wake up and do something about it III R.W. Walworth Georgetown, C ecil Gounty Maryland COMPLETE BEVERAGE LINE FRUITS & PRODUCE DELICATESSEN mocracy Is a frail, fragli In strument made of hope, prav- er, and Yankee ingenuity. Ira held together by Ith of July flag waving patriotism and we’ve almost exhausted our supply of It. Try tMs test. Lift your eyes to a flag then sing out as loud as you can that old antique freedom hymn you learned as a child. For purple mountain m ajesties above the fruited plain, America, America, Cod shed his grace on thee. Now if you feel a little pride well ing up Inside of you, if you feel a little m ist In your eyes, then thank God for you Mis ter, you’re still an American. Sincerely, Sue Robinson Recreation News APPLEGATE RANGER STATION Trails: All trails in the Oregon portion are open and main tained. The trails in the Cal ifornia portion are all open except Dutch Creek and some high country portions of other trails still blocked by snow. Middle Fork frail is open but rough. Roads: All roads are open and maintained except Glade Creek. Logging traffic is light on Elliott Creek roads Monday through Friday. Campgrounds and picnic area: All are open. Swimming Is good. Wildflowers: Abundant at higher elevations. Fishing: Poor to fair in easily accessible areas. Generally good in areas away from the roads. Summer o ffice hours: 8:00 a .m to 5:00 p. m . , seven days a w eek . To the Editori Central Point Times: In the June 30 issue of the Central Point Tim es, Norma- Jean mentioned the recording "Day of D ecblon" which has becom e so popular with dbk jockies and the public nation w ide. I too think it's about tim e w e awakrnded to the fact that patriotism is NOT dead. I a m enclosing the words to the recording for the benefit of those who have not yet heard the record on the radio. DAY FOR DECISION lb **♦**. £ ASHLAND RANGER DISTRICT Snow Elevation: Few drifts on north slopes at 7, 000 feet. Trails: D aley Creek, Hepsie Mountain, Skyline and Brown Mountain are a ll open. Campgrounds: Fish Lake, Nor th Fork, Beaver Dam, D aley Creek, Bull Cap are open. Fishing: Fair at Fish Lake and in the streams. Wildflowers: To be found are shooting »Ur, Indian paint brush, asters and lupine. BERRIES: Blackberries are not yet ripe. Sum me- O ffice Hours: 8:00 i ” , to 4:30 p .m . Monday through Friday. The other day I heard som e one say, you know America Is in real trouble. It's true, Old Glory has never fallen so BUTTE FALLS RANGER close to earth. The blood of American soldiers Is soaking DISTRICT foreign soil In nam eless, why- Lakes: A ll lakes are open. less conflict. Men are dying Trails: Construction under way for Ideals we so -ca lled Amer icans have abandoned. on Blue Canyon trail from America’s r e a l trouble Peak Lake to Island Lake, doesn't lie In the rice paddles also in the v icin ity of Frog of Viet Nam or in the over whelming ’ m asses of Red Lake on the 7-Lakes T rail. China. I?s here. TMs Is the Campgrounds and Picnic age of the American cynic. grounds: The year of the unbeliever. The day of doubt. Love of God, Parker Meadows still closed country, and family have been but a ll others are open. thrown to the Junk heap. We Fishing: Good in Blue Can stare at our shoelaces when they play the National Anthem. yon and Willow Lake. Has We change channels when a been poor in 7-Lakes. political discussion com es on. Summer O ffice Hours; 8:00 We wouldn’t be caught with our eyes closed during public a .m . to 5:00 p. m , , seven prayers. days a w eek. We've decided that elections and politicians are bought and sold like cattle. Patriotisn% PROSPECT RANGER STATION the old hand over the heart, Snow Elevation: No snow. flag waving, marching, singing Trails: Sugar Pine, Abbott patriotism has been condemn ed. Somewhere back there in Prairie, Varmint Crack, Ginko our rush for progress and Creek, Golden Stair, South power we've changed, we have, Bessie Rock and Cold Spring» you and me. Our enem ies know it. They've seen new sreels of trails are open. Work is in t h e discontented marching around the capltoL The draft progress on Mudjekeewis. card burning. They've driven Storms in the mountain« caus steel wedges in our wall of ed the work to go at a slower solidarity. The new idea is why attack America, it will p ace. eventually fall under the Roads: A ll roads are open »« h weight of its own corruption. And did you know it's working. passable with heavy logging TMs deadly complacency traffic on Jim Creek, Flat once stamped beneath the Creek and the Woodruff a cc bloody feet of a tattered Con tinental army in 1776 once ess road. The bridge over Mill drowned with U.S.S, Arizona Creek on Red Blanket and in Pearl Harbor Bay has risen M il Road f 3247 w Ul ba out ain. This sneering let orge do it attitude.This bet o f order for six weeks starting ter red than dead cancer is July 18. more feared by the American Campgrounds: Boundary p ic soldier than all the Commu nic arsa and A bbott Craak nist bullets. It kills the vitali ty and spirit of America. Dq-, Campground are sp an . S 1 9 to 9 SU NDA Y - "The Snitching Posts" 1 T h e " a n lt chin« poat," Back In the 1930’ s when the firs t parking m eters were in tr o - duced, the nickname giver to them had by no means an af fectionate tune. A lit t le more than 30 years ago C .C . Magee, then editor of the Oklahoma News of Ok lahoma C ity, was having pro blem s. Serving an the local tra ffic com m ittee, he was one of the men called upon to re solve tlie Increasing ikiwntown parking problem . Parking was creating headaches a ll around. T h a t Is , until Magee had a brainstorm . Why not lim it the length of tim e a m otorist could spend at any one park ing spot? Why not In s tall coin-operated m eters to reg ulate that time? And so the "snitching post" was born. In 1935 the firs t m eters in the nation appeared an the streets of Oklahoma Q t y . Objections im m ediately arose from every q uarter. C i tizens w ere disgusted. M o to r- lets w ere outraged. Parking meters w ere an infringement of the rights of freedom, they claim ed. And with that, law suits sprang up. But I t dltbi't take the local merchant» long to re a liz e the potential of parking m eters. Business began to pick up sharply. No longer were Just one o r two cars parked out side th e ir stores fo r an en tire day. With the turnover in tra ffic came a turnover in Farm or Fish? In a recent House address Rep. Frank T. Bow i R. Ohio) said he received a photocopy of a postcard which read as fo l low s: "Do you w aul to work all summ er, w hile your n eigh bor is fish ing? If not rent your corn and cotton to the Gov ernm ent. Final date fot- sig n ing up in thè fo o d 'g ra in and cotton- program s is April* 1, 1966. So hurry." He added that the postcard w as se n t to th e fa rm s o f C hester County, Tenn., h.v the local A gricultural and S ta b ili z a tio n office in H en d erso n , Tenn. P ostage fees were paid by the Departm ent o f A gri culture. “ T his must corr.e as a shock to farm ers," Rep Bow con business. M o to ris ts, too, discovered that the "snitching post*?} wasn't so objectionable after a ll. At least one could be sura of finding a parking place somewhere with the new sys tem . Soon packing meters began to ap|>ear In nearly e v l ary city in the United States, and slowly they became a p a rt of the modern street Beene, T h e Idea of inserting coins in meters became acceptable but m otorists didn't always feed the m eters Am erican coinage. Washers Jangled down th e ir throats, transit tokens choked, th e ir C urrency from a ll around the world a p |*a re d In t)ie m eters, from the coins used In Rus sia’ s pre-C om m unist days to m ins presently In use In the Philippines. But even that Is changing now. M ete r manu facturers are constantly Im proving the efficiency of me te r mechanisms and today It’ s not so easy to outsmart a me te r. Parking m eters now belong to o ur tra ffic picture, and It looks as i f they're here to stay, at least until a better innovation comae along. In the meantime they're proving beneficial, fo r not only do they provide everyone with an equal chance to find a park ing spot but, with today's high coat of living, ttiey^re ana of the few rem aining b ar gains. sloag. tinued. For generation* we have lauded them in s,Mrt?h«»«t poems and songs for their Ini'd work, diligence, p erso n era nt'« despite hardship, drought and floods. And now their <»<■••«>-rn m ent is u rgin g them to JUopf " L a z y b o n e s” fo r a th e m e song." "And 1 m ight add,” he eon e lu d e d / " th a t no m a ile r- how successful th is appeal may be in sig n in g up farm ers.loc their corn and cotton program s, it has the p ossib ility of produc ing a dungernus boomerang effect on c ity folk. If t h e y get the idea that their tax dqllurs are being used for a farm pro gram that encourages farm ers to fishing, the farm program may be in real trouble." 90 th Anniversary Saie! CRATER LAKE MOTORS, INC. See at WAGON TOWN C SC EN TR AL POINTI 2nd & E. 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