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THURSDAY, AUG. I I . 1966
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SAVE COMMUNISM, EVEN IF WE LOSE AMERICA
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the ruling thought in the
United States today. Does it seem strange only to this writer
and a few thousand other so-called extremists scattered over
free America--does it seem at all strange that our peerless lead­
ers must seek the opinions of the Communist czars about bomb­
ing in. Jtary installations and supplies in North Vietnam n order
to protect our fighting boys from maiming and death, and wher.
the Commies say thev are opposed to It, we tell the boys they
will just have to go on losing their legs and arms and getting
killed, because we can't afford to make the Russians and Chin­
ese Reds mad at us? And when Russia and her satellites can't
raise enough food tor themselves because they have to put all
their energies into arming North Vietnam and the Cong—does it
seem strange that we feel compassionately bound to send them
wheat and trade steel mills and implements and things so they
can continue to help kill our boys?
We could continue almost without end with such instances.
To-wit: how our dear UN Representative Goldberg is waiting
for a propitious moment to drop into the Congressional hopper
the bill that will turn over to the United N ation the right for
that body to reach into our country and grab any individual on a
trumped-up charge, try him in an international court and sen­
tence him to imprisonment or death. And who controls the UN?
Go to the record and s e e - s e e how Russia has vetoed over a hun­
dred measures— how we have done the Communists' fighting for
them against our friends in Africa. Yet we damn De Gaulle for
being friendly with them; maybe it's jealousy.
Is It at all strange to other Americans when this column and
J. Edgar Hoover and the police chief of Cleveland and many
other responsible men all over the nation point out how the
riots and burnings and lootings and marchings have been incited
and organized by Communist agents--is it at all strange that we
are immediately pounced upon by editors and news men and
liberal politicians and the President and high churchmen and
educators for even hinting that Communists are active in sub­
versive work in this country?
What in the world do we ewe the Communists that they
should be protected and feared and cherished above the interests
of America? Big, sophisticated AmeriSan Tilder^flp is’ so naive
that it pretends to believe the K H m h ifc m eo w in g, reftening.
The bulk of us legally sane Ameficans tinovTThat is not true—
that it is only a premeditated ruse to get more American favor.
Their way is miserably and dishonestly and despicably lower
than the American way and every American in the United
States KNOWS it.
When Billy Graham returned the other day after a month's
stay in England he said that the President could and should make
public the names oi those subversives who are working to tear
down our way of life: "Our leaders should not IGNORE this
threat any longer. "
Howard W. Smith, Democrat of Virginia, was not reelected.
He has served 35 years in Congress, the last 11 as chairman of
the House Rules Committee—certainly a highly responsible man
Speaking in the House of Representatives the other day,
Smith said, "I hate to leave you with the spirit that seems to
prevail and about which you are exhorted daily— 'Do this or the
Communists will get mad at you. Send millions of dollars to
other countries or somebody is going to get mad at you. .
iorget the American people's needs and wants and the great tax
burden that is upon them and give to this and give to that and
give to the other.' Out of fear; a tribute, if you please, to
other areas of the world in order to placate them, in order to
try to purchase their friendship. . . . Now we come here with
mobs in the streets, with further mob violence threatened, and
no word Is spoken of courage to defend the American way of
government. "
Maybe after all we are not so extreme in liking our Americar
heritage better than the way the Commies want to fence us in.
And so far as we arc concerned, the sophisticated smart boys
can just go hang with all their admiration for everything Com­
munist and disdain for everything American.
W A S H IN G T O N
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SMALL BUSINESS
B V C W IL S O N
The State of Nevada is the lo­
cale of one of the strangest
maneuvers yet concocted by
the National Labor Relations
Board
e e e
Recently la Reno • newly
formed anion carried on a drive
to organise the employees la
the gambling casino of one of
th e h e t - l a
T he
a n le a
c e r t i f i e d ««
th e N L R B
that they had
sufficient slg-
n a iu r e a
to
c a ll f o r anl
election.
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The casino’s
a tto rn ey filed |
C W H a rd e r
a subpoena
on N LR B records to ascertain
if this allegation w ere true The
legional office of N LR B s tr t
two attorneys into Reno, one to
oppose the subpoena, the other
to preside as hearing officer
It is not too d ifficu lt to see that
under such circumstances, the
subpoena was denied
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But w hile this may teem
guile strange. It la perhaps net
nearly as strange as the N LR B
claiming Jurisdiction In what
Is solely a state concern.
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As everyone knows. Nevada
stands alone in operating gam­
bling casinos. The element of
interstate commerce, that handy
tool often used for Federal in ­
terference in the affairs of a
state, is strangely missing. As
a matter of fact, since around
1946 the shipment of slot m a­
chines. a prominent item in
Nevada, across state lines is
forbidden by Federal law.
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H A ÍD ÍR
I gambling casinos even thouih
In any other stole the presence
I of »lot Machines. dice tobies
roalette wheels, et al. would
bring the law enforcement peo
pie swooping down in a hurry
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Now to make the m atter even
more strange. If such is pos
sible. is the fact that some time
ago the National Labor Rela­
tions Board ruled it did not
have any authority over em ­
ployer-employee relations at
race tracks, including restaur­
ant and food concessions.
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This is really positing, be
cause horse racing does cross
over stole lines. The bangtails
that race In New Jersey and
New York, a lts go by plane
train and truck to the m eet. In
Florida. Illinois. Washington.
California, other places.
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.lu t a Los Vegas or Reno crap
table does not move over the
state line, m ainly because if it
did. it would be confiscated, yet
this equipment, in the eyes of
the N L R B puts the casinos in
interstate commerce w hile gam­
bling that depends on nags that
roam over state lines and all
over the country going from
track to track does not put rare
tracks under the interstate com
merce classification
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Now. perhaps to a h on e, this
sort of thing makes horse sense.
B at to people, It Is jnst one
more Indication that bureau­
crat» are Inclined to setae all
the power they can. legally or
n o t In Nevada there seems no
question that the National L a ­
bor Relations Board is throw ­
ing down some loaded dice. In
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the old West, practitioners of
Vet. the N L R B claims ju ris­ loaded dice or marked decks
diction of the employee-em­ were not considered prime life
ployer relations In Nevada's insurance risks.
N a ll r>dl > »derail n f Independent B ull res-
wards came from an editor of the Portland Oregonian--not from
the Central Point Times.
TURN IN YOUR GUNS
It may be going a little too far to say that the President of
the United States is downright silly, but we just can't help It.
In the aftermath of the Austin carnage by the tower rifleman,
repulsive as it was to all of us, it seemed to us wane rh^w siUy
for a grown man, occupant of the White House, to react to the
ex clu sion that the dastardly death play pointed up first of all
the imrhediate need for restrictive legislation in the matter of
firearm distribution.
The gun with which Oswald killed Kennedy he bought from a
mail order house. Ergo, If there had been a law on the statute
books prohibiting purchase of guns from mail order houses, Whit­
man could not have shot his wife and some thirty other people at
the University of Texas. Sure, that is silly—we admit it. But
that is exactly what the President and Senator Dodd and the
whole kaboodle of others are saying when they argue for pend­
ing restrictive legislation against firearms.
Oh, they remind us that such laws would not keep responsible
people from getting f<- irms; and we readily agree. But why In
the name of common sense would it prevent irresponsible people
from getting them? The President also receutly gave quite a
tear-wringing speech about the carnage on our highways. But
he deliberately forgot to advise restrictive legislation against
the purchase of automobiles--the missle that brings pavement
death.
No, dears, there is a deeper motive behind this gun restric­
tion movement. The President and Senator Dodd and all other
great hearts know that if the restrictive gun legislation is passed
it will not prevent irresponsible people from getting guns. Then
after a bit they w ill insist on more legislation with a little more
restriction. And when that doesn't work, they w ill demand and
get MORE restriction. And when that doesn’t work, they w ill
legislate all your guns into a public armory, guarded by federal
troops. Then, not only will you not be able to hunt deer and
rabbits and ducks, but you will have to rely on the fireside
poker to defend yourselves against the robber or rapist or mob­
ster or murderer in your home. It w ill also make it easier for
People's Police Platoons to shut your mouth all hours of the day
or night.
Extremism? Yes, history records a day when such talk was
extremism in Germany and Russia.
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car prowl was reported at437
Ash Street the same day.
$400,00
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lodged in County Jail an
August 6 in Lieu of $150. 00
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Medford, Oregon
8 August 1966
T o the Editor:
Texas Governor John
b ail for driving while suspend
ed. The Ashland youth was
Connally state, that a gun
control law would not be
effective as such and Her-
^lock attempts to discred­
it and make fun of h im .
with his cartoon. It would
he my gueas that Nfr. C o n -'
nally has thought long and
hard on this subject but
Ms conclusion, are the
O » annual traffic death
•o il is terrific and is way
oat o f apportion from what
i t shoald be, Would r we
then stop making auto­
mobiles and go hack to
walking? Not hardly.
It w a rn 't the guns that
aim ed at the victims of the
Texas massacre, it was a
person._ There w ill have to
be something done with
people's hearts and minds.
Legislation alone w ill never
do the job. It is evident
that the recent Supreme
Court decisions have con­
sistently protected the crim ­
inal. The more that crim ­
inals are pampered the
worse they get and the more
they demand.
The Casey B ill, HR 11427,
which is supported by the
National JUfle Association
would put teeth In the law
and give a mandatory sen­
tence o f not lets than 10
years for anyone committing
a felony with > ¿rearm in
possession or award 25 yean
for the second or more offen­
ses of the same charge. Some
o f us feel that these same
provisions should be in­
corporated in a State b ill
and this then would be sub­
je c t to local control which
some o f us prefer.
Above a ll, never surrender
our Constitutional right to
keep and bear arms. I have
hunted deer only once In the
last ten yean but I reserve
Norbert Richard Schieber.
3451/2 N . 8th Street,
was arrested Friday
August 2, for driving while
under the Influence of
liquor. H e pleaded
g itilty and was fined
of the Holy Bible I f we have
sense enough to appreciate
the admonitions and co n u n .
dments resulting in a God-
directed standard, normal
way of life .
Sincerely,
Laurance E. Cuffel
also charged as a minor in *
possession of Intoxicating
tire .
liquor.
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Thomas Leroy Issaci of the
Jesse Albert Hofraclaw was
arrested on Sunday, August
tome addreas reported on
the tome day, August 6,
(he theft of a six volt
battery , tire tubes, car
7, charged w ith being
drunk in public.
Numerous reposts of
prowlers and thefts reached
police the tart few days.
A prowler was reported at
2 2 ^ C o rc o r*n J ¥ a jr. A
'JpHE SUPREME COURT’S decision
on the Sheppard case has already
stirred up a hornets' nest. In Chicago.
Richard B. Speck is accused of slaying
eight nurses and. although the police
are well aware of the Sheppard ruling,
we can read in the Chicago Tribune
that Police Supt. O. W. Wilson has
flatly said he (Speck) killed the nurses.
Meanwhile, out in Boulder. Colo., the
murder of coed Elaura Jacquette goes
unsolved and a complete news black­
out has been imposed by the police.
In the case of Speck, accused of what
will most likely become the "crime of
the century." we can observe the C hi­
cago Tribune doing everything in its
power to prove that the press may well
be irresponsible. Last Saturday's issue
contained an eight-page special sup­
plement. in color, covering every known
aspect of the gory crime. The state­
ment by Supt. Wilson is included.
Scenes of the rooms in which the girls
were
"slaughtered,"
the
surviving
nurse’s identification of Speck, the fu­
neral services, and vignettes of the
murdered nurses’ lives and plans are
included in the Tribune’s "murder spe­
cial.” How many attorneys will be able
to resist a challenge, on the grounds
that Speck has been pretried, prejudged
and preconvicted, is hard to foresee
If this turns out to be the case, the
Speck trial will be a classic, and the
Chicago Tribune will be largely re­
sponsible.
LEARNED
at a very young
age that any newspaper worth
the price of the paper it was printed on
was a newspaper which had opinions of
its own, and was a paper which made
these opinions
known
to the
public
through its editorials.
Any newspaper which publishes the
views of its editor, through the use of
editorials, would fast tell you that the
weekly or daily routine would be made
easier if its own opinions were
left
unsaid.
We know from years gone by that
by expressing our opinions, ideas and
thoughts through the use of an editorial,
and by speaking out in print we
do not always win friends and influence
people Many of the times our views
arc among the minority; quite frequent­
ly we find ourselves on the other side
of the fence from our friends and busi­
ness associates.
We expected that our editorial of last week "THE CHURCH
W MORAL INTEGRITY" would bring us posies of "ignorant,
extremist, uninformed" and of course it did. But approbation
came from the Sunday issue of the Oregonian, a source we have
often criticised. Executive Editor Robert C. Notson, writing
an editorial in which he says "Attempts to ban school prayers
contradict U.S. heritage", points out the strange paradox of
,igh churchmen contendtng against prayer and Bible reading in
our public schools.
But then, we didn’t enter this pro­
fession with the thought of winning a
popularity contest. We feel there is a
responsibility vested in us to set the
stage for an open forum about our
community. As one editor put it. "To
provide a marketplace for the exchange
of ideas.”
We have been told, among other
things, that we have guts, that nobody
in their right mind would go against
the grain of the majority, stick their
neck out in print (where it lives for­
ever). and then stay around to be sub­
jected to the repercussions which arc
sure to follow.
That i right, printer a ink . . . it's an old, family tradition . , / '
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pert! and paint.
About 1.M0 trip awards
the National 4-H Club ~
r r w is O ta M B wlU be as
ad this year to top boysdhr
girls in the $0 statan compk
lng the beat 4-H projects.
In Colorado, they’ve gone to the
opposite extreme. There is no public
knowledge that the police have any
evidence as to who might have killed
the University of Colorado student. If
the police have a clue they’re not tell­
ing anyone, least of all the press. Tb$
Colorado Press Assn, and newspapers
throughout the State are protesting this
"official muizlmg" of news. The argu-
ment is. that by police suppression of
the facts, law enforcement officers arc
depriving themselves of "tips" and the
"vital assistance of the public which
results from the people obtaining a
clear understanding of events, circum­
stances. and related witnesses."
The obvious parallel in these two
eases is that, if ihe Tribune hadn’t
published the evidence given the police
by the surviving nurse. D r Smith would
not have kiw»wn about the telltale tattoo.
And this certainly supports the con­
tention by the C PA that the police
are depriving themselves of vital assist­
ance But next, there comes the jack­
pot question of. “When does the press
stop serving the interests of society and
step across the fine line which may
provide an out— or years of litigation
— for the accused criminal?" We sus­
pect that the Tribune’s supplement will
end up before the Supreme Court
In sum. one could easily accuse the
< hicago police as well as the Boulder
police of acting stupidly at opposite
ends of the pole And the Chicago
Tribune?— git
The Price of Opinion
tunity presents itself.
In summary a ll die solut-
tions for life's problems can
be found within the pages
W illard Geae*St. Arnold .-
of 15 Amy Street reported
the lots by theft of mis­
cellaneous tools and a
The Press and the Police
that right when the oppor­
TT1TUD1 OF CHURCHMEN ASTONISHING
-AYS CR1GONIAN
Says he, " . . . the spectacle of religious representatives ap­
pearing before a Senate committee to oppose an amendment
which would make possible recitation of a simple voluntary
prayer in classroom, i, astonishing." Indeed, it is astonishing
that high churchmen in our country should follow the Commun­
ist line in an effort to outlaw God. If children arc to be taught
that it is unlawful to pray to God in public school, are they go­
ing to retain any respect for or belief in Cod?
We arc indebted to Mr. Notson for showing how ridiculous it
is for these men to try to mix up the matter of prayer and Bible
reading with the doctrine of separation of church and state.
There i, no relation in the constitution or in fact( the two con­
siderations are totally unrelated.
h*. Notson winds up with, "What has happened to the faith
of our fathers? What has happened to the teal and conviction
of our men of Cod? With such performances as these, perhaps
there is little wonder that the congregations arc shrinking and
the influence of the church growing w eaker." Remember, thoae
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ECONOMY market
Regardless of our mental evaluation
by others, that is exactly what happens
every time an editorial is published.
Sometimes the volume is turned to its
highest, and many times your family,
which had no hand in the writing, bc-
comes subjected to the little people who
thrive on ridicule.
We constantly run into the person
who waits for his supporters to sur­
round him. or until he is half beered-up
to take exception to something we
write, but when alone or sober, is ready
to forget the whole deal These people
fail to realize they have an editorial
column of their own right here in this
newspaper. It is called the "Letters to
the Editor column. It is always open,
with a standing invitation for our read­
ers to use it.
The only restriction, outside of using
language which can’t be sent through
the mail, or matters of a libelous nature,
is that your opinions carry your signa­
ture. That’s only cricket, for every
time an editorial appears you know whe
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the author is and where to find him,
There is hardly a week goes by that
we don t have someone or some group
suggesting editorial comment for our
use. When asked why they don’t write
it in a letter to the editor, 99 percent
of the answers boil down to just the
uK
one: "W e can’t afford to get people
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mad at us, we're in business, or we
have to live with those people ”
Let us say this: agreement on every
subject is not vital for intelligent discus­
sion. Rather, conflict of opinion on an
issue often brings forth truth, under­
standing. and action towards a better
community— if those involved have the
maturity to remain objective.
The editorials in the Herald remain
O U R ideas. They arc O U R thoughts.
We do not expect agreement on every­
thing wc write. But when you sec it in
print, it is there as a marketplace for
thought and discussion
But you can
bank on one thing— when you read it I
in an editorial— that's the way we fe-l. I
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