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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunda^August IS, 1*71
^Editorials •
Myths Surround
Teenage Voters
There are many myths about the 18-, 19- and 20-year-
old voter.
A not-yet-published book by two young politcians
with no respect for traditional political preconceptions,
goes a long way toward destroying a number of widely
, held beliefs about what the new young voters will do.
Dr Joel Fisher is a political scientist formerly on the
White House staff. Bill Treadwell ran for Congress
when he was in his late 20s and now is assistant U.S.
district attorney in New Jersey.'
It has been widely held that the 18-to-20-year-olds will
not vote in large numbers. This assumption is based on
experience in five states which previously en-,
franchised the under-21s.
But Fisher and Treadwell found in visits to France,
West Germany and Great Britain, in spot checks in a
number of the 29 other countries which allow 18-year-
olds to vote and in studies on recent voting in selected
spots in the United States, that youth do indeed vote —
at times with surprising strength. * t
... Some analysts have predicted the youth vote will be
liberal. Others with equal conviction have asserted
that when the votes are tallied, conservative youth
voters will be found to heavily outnumber the liberal -
voters expected from college campuses.
Fisher and Treadwell found that in Germany in a
recent election, the majority of youths apparently
threw their weight toward "left-leaning” candidates.
But in England, voting for the first time in national
elections, the effect was quite different. The con-
servative candidates, by and large, benefited from the
new youth constituency.
The Fisher-Treadwell conclusion: Youths are by
nature neither conservative nor liberal. You have to
ask: What youth, when and where do they vote and
what are the issues1 These authors are convinced
youths will vote for the issues, not the party.
There have been forecasts that young people will
vole like thfcir parents. This concept was advanced
strongly for a period by certain specialists at the White
House.
Fisher and Treadwell have found that when tested on __
specific issues, there is a wide difference between what"
the average youth believes and what oldsters believe
on a range of crucial issues. That difference extends to
how seriously they take these issues in voting. This
doesn’t mean all youths will vote the same way on
these topics or on candidates — but that a candidate’s
view on pollution, poverty or Vietnam may normally
be more important to the average young voter than to
the average oldster.
Another apparent myth is that regardless of how
many or how few of the youths vote, their number will
be so small in the total electorate that they won’t
seriously affect congressional or national elections,
especially since the youth vote may be divided.
Fisher and Treadwell say that because so many
college youths are bunched in a. handful of towns,_______
frequently in key states and congressional districts,
they can "have a very important effect indeed in some
close congressional and presidential elections.
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From The News Desk
Take Me to the Bank!"
Jack Anderson Says - ■
U.S. Considers Drastic ~
Moves In Narcotics War
WASHINGTON - In the sec-
ret war against narcotics, the
U.S. may send Mission: Impos-
sible operatives, possibly
criminals, to destroy opium
Young Shocked - -
JFK War Move
Disappointing
By PAUL HARVEY
It sounded good. A U.S. sena-
tor pounded his desk and it
sounded good.
Recent rap sessions with
school-agers in several states
reveal ed to me that to them the
real shocker in the Pentagon
Papers was the revelation that
JFK secretly increased our in-
volvement in Vietnam.
In a generation of fuddy-
duddy Establishment-types, he
had seemed an exception. Now,
without him to believe in, for
many there is nobody. _
The day the TV cameras
caught Montana's Sen. Mike
Mansfield, red-faced, angry
•and pounding his desk and
bruising some egos left and
rights it- sounded reassuring.
President Nixon moved into
office appealing for a 'lower-
ing of voices:" Maybe bed rest
is what the patient needed,
theif. But frustration demands
ventilation in one form or an-
other. There are some snafus
worth getting angry about.
So it’s kinda good to be going
into another election year, an-
other campaign time, when the
ins and the outs can take the
kid gloves off and go at it.
Better an unequivocal Wal-
lace to tell it as he sees it than
all these equivocating fence-
stfaddlers timidly sidestepping
every conceivable sensitivity.
That’s why Mike Mansfield's
bipartisan outburst was inspir-
- ing. He was giving a public
voice to tfur festering private
grievances.
“I’m no economist," he said.
“Pm just a common guy who
has his worries and they are
big worries.”
He said, "I'm afraid Ameri-
ca has run out of luck and faces
an economic upheaval beyond
our capacity to obsorb.”
He said both parties must
share the blame for our per-
sistent and simultaneous infla-
tion and unemployment and
the congressional leaders of
both parties Should get their
heads together now and do
something.
No, Montana Mike admitted,
he did not know what they
should do but “do something!"
"Just once," he said, “I
would hope that we could get
together and forget the politics
of it and try to do something for
the common good!"
Mansfield synopsized the
history of pur Vietnam involve-
ment where our country “has
experienced frustration fed by
promises and followed only by
a plague of failures and fa-
tigues." *
And we "cannot afford to let
our economy end up in a sim-
ilar morass of bipartisan: mis-
management!”
Mansfield says we are stum-
bling forward and about to fall
and if the experts can’t come
up with a better suggestion, he
urges an immediate wage-
price-profit freeze until we re-
cover our balance.
What was it about Mans-
field’s righteous wrath which
sounded reassuring? He of-
fered no panacea.
How is it that Vice President
Agnp, raising his voice, is
shouted down; Mansfield, rais-
ing his, is almost unanimously
applauded?
Or the U.S. may undercut the
smugglers by flooding the
market with harmless heroin
substitutes or may simply out-
bid them in bribing high for-
eign officials who protect the
drug trade.
These despqjpte measures
were taken up at a secret stra-
tegy conference called by the
State Department last April in
Bangkok. Foreign service offi-
cers, military representatives
and narcotics agents slipped
into Bangkok quietly from
.Hong Kong, Honolulu, Manila,
Phnom Penh, Rangoon, Saigon
and Vientiane.
They agreed that extralegal
action may be needed to com-
bat the narcotics menace. A
classified, 18-page summary of
their discussions suggests
these unorthodox remedies:
“Flooding markets with
harmless or aggravating hero-
in substitutes to destroy the
trade's credibility With abus-
ers; destruction of factories
through use of criminal or at
least non-official elements;
pay-offs of corrupted officials
as an income, substitute; and
defoliation. •
“Any extralegal action isof-
course highly problematical,"
stresses the summary, “but
the urgency of the problem
suggests that unusual steps
should not be rejected out of
hand . . . Several of the pre-
ceding areas would depend on
Washington support or could be
better implemented with
Washington involvement.”
The conferees also agreed at
Bangkok .that Asian narcotics
are reaching the U:S. through
three “systems":
"OKINAWA SYSTEM” -
GIs and ex-GIs, “allied with a
few local Okinawans,” get
heroin from Bangkok and
transship it to the U.S.
"THAILAND SYSTEM” -
“Retired U.S. servicemen"
and “camp followers,” who op-
erate gambling rings and other
rackets in Thailand, have now
built up a thriving narcotics
business. GIs on active duty
help the gang smuggle “large
quantities of heroin to the Uni-
ted Stages '*
“PHILIPPINES SYSTEM”
— Filipinos are recruited to
"body-pack” nearly pure hero-
in from Hong Kong to the U.S.,
sometimes 8y way of Europe.
FOOTNOTE: While the stra-
suggested using CIA agents,
now marking time because of
the cutbacks in Southeast.Asia,
to circulate among the Meos
and other tribesmen they helpj
nists. But the new CIA mission
would be to persuade or pay the
hill people to stop growing
opium. . ,
HOUSE HOLD OFF - Last
year Congress enacted only ,
half of the 14 basic appropria-
tions bills by the November
elections. The new House lead-
ers started off this year deter-
mined to introduce more effi-
ciency to the House. I<ouisi-
ana's Hale Boggs, the new-
Democratic leader, broke all
precedents by calling for ses-
sions on Fridays. This upset
the Tuesday-to-Thursday Club,
which likes long weekends. Af-
ter only two Friday sessions’in
June, Boggs gave up. House
members, now taking a recess
until Sept. 8, are talking about
winding up their work in Octo-
ber. This time, they’ll complete
all the appropriations bills. But
iLmi opfln’f lilrnlxr tn nocc
shop. The barbers, who are
paid $8,000 a year by the tax-
payers, were supposed to show
their gratitude by giving Con-
gressmen 75-cent haircuts. But
rs were
charging $2 and pocketing the;
extra.
Conscience of Senate — Sen.
John Stennis, D-Miss„ known
as the Conscience of the Sen-
ate, presides over the Ethics
Committee which regulates
Senate conduct. Yet is has been
whispered that he made off
with furnishings from the ori-
ginal Senate chamber, includ-
ing a grand chandelier which
once hung in the historic old
room. We investigated and
found the whispers highly inac-
curate. All Stennis got were
some bargain antiques.
The bidding
esl North
has been:
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3 ¥ Pass
5 4 Pass
6 4 *Pass
South, hold:
West North East South
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What do you <jo now?
A—Pass. Your partner has
jumped to six but his bidding
has shown he doesn't hold the
diamond ace.
TODAY'S QUESTION
Instead of bidding six spades
-your partner has bid six dia—
monds over your five hearts.
What do you do now?
Answer Monday
How s Your Vocabulary?
Answer to Previous funic
tegists in Bangkok were con-
sidering drastic means to curb
the drug traffic, Administra-
tion thiifk-tank men in Wash-
ington came tip with another
unusual proposal. They have
they aren’t likely to pass much
vital legislation.
NIXON’S LAW FIRM —
Rep. Moe Udall, D-Ariz., paid a
quiet visit to Wall Street this
week to snoop under the plush
rugs of the bonding firms. Bond
underwriting has become the
“ special preserve of a few attor-
neys and underwriters with an
inside track.
Udall is trying to find out how
big their rake-off has been
from the government and whe-
ther the government has gotten
its money’s worth. He is parti-
cularly suspicious over the se-
lection of President Nixon’s
former law firm to handle the
legal formalities for the $250
million postal bond issue.
At the customary one per
cent fee, the Nixon firm (now
Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and
Alexander) will wind up with a
$2.5 million windfall. Inciden-
tally, bond work used to be the
specialty of Atty. Gen. John
Mitchell, who was one of
- Nixon’s partngjs in the, firm.
House Cleaning — The law-
and-order that has been
preached so loudly in the House
hasn’t made much impression
on some employes. House Ad-
ministration Chairman Wayne
Hays, D-Ohio, caught a few
employes stealing from the
House restaurants. One ca-
shier,-kept under observation
for three days, was siphoning
off $80 to $100 a day. Alarmed,
Hays wrote to all House mem-
bers urging them “to make
certain that, when you pay for
your meal, the cashier rings up
the sale and gives you a re-
ceipt.”
Hays also uncovered a little
larceny in the House barber-
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By PRESTON PENDERGRASS
liy Oswald & James Jacob'
The purpose of defensive
conventions is to exchange
information in an effort to
i educe the advantage held
by the declarer who is plav-
irig two hands as a unit
, When you believe that it
won't hurt to fool vour part-
ner you can afford to try to
fool declarer.
West was rather surprised
to hear a three no-trump
opening against his 12 high-
card points and realized that
it would be up te him to take
any tricks for his side
Therefore, he opened his
fifth best diamond instead of
the normal fourth best lead
The misinformation con-
veyed didn't hurt his partner
but it caused South to relax
and throw away the rubber.
What mistake did South
make?
He won that first trick.
Then he led a low spade to-
‘ ward dummy. West happed
right up with the ace and
played his queen of dia-
monds. This set up the rest
of the suit since West held
the ace of hearts and ,the
defense wound up with hve
tricks..
South was bitter. West had
five diamonds and both aces
and had led the wrong card—
at trick one. North was even
more bitter. He felt that
South should have ducked
the first diamond and in-'
sured the rubber.
I had a pleasant visit the
other day with a former Harris
County sheriff, who was elect-
ed a year before 1 was born.
T. Binford, now past 90, was
elected sheriff In 1918 and ser-
ved continouily until 1937,
when he decided to return to
what he described as "my first
love" — the cattle business.
Binford’s given name is
Thomas, but nobody knows
him by that one. Everybody
calls him "T."
Binford calls the Plaza Hotel
in Houston home. He came to
Baytown with Harris County
Deputy George Scott to attend
the opening of the Crosby Fair
and Rodeo.
He is in excellent health, in
full possession of his faculties
and likes to talk up a storm.
Mostly he reminisces about his
nine consecutive two-year
terms as sheriff, but digresses
now and then for caustic com-
ment on the difference in being
a lawman in the 20s and 30s and
now.
"You can’t even question a
man nowadays," says-Binford.
“If you have a warrant for a
man and try to serve it, he will
tell you he’s on his way to work
and hasn't time to fool with
you. And if you try to push the
issue you'll wind up in court.
The fellow probably doesn't
even hav»«-job."
He is also critical of ways in
which he claims the courts
have hamstrung law enforce-
ment officers. “If I were sher-
iff now," he says with a half-
smile, “I probably would al-
ready have been in the pen."
Binford remembers when
Harris County had fewer than
500 vehicles. Only the Houston
police chief and fire chief had
cars, he recalls. The Sheriff’s
department operated on horse-
back.
“No,” he said with a wide
smile when asked about ^shoot-
ing at criminals fleeing in high-
speed cars, “we didn't do any
of that. We didn’t have any
cars.”
The former sheriff is witty
and tart and saucy. He's quick
to smile and quick to glower,
and has no trouble with
memory. The only problem he
has Is with his eyesight, which
it dimmed by recurring catar-
acts, but he can see well
enough to get around.
It bothers him that he can't
recognize his old friends, some
of whom come to visit him
"That's bad,” he says, "but 1
could still shoot a squirrel off a
limb, although somebody
would have to show me where
it hit the ground." He can see
fairly well at a distance but not
close up.
Binford makes frequent trips
to Baytown to visit old friends
His friend. Deputy Scott,
brings him to Baytown and
takes him back. Binford gave
Scott his first job in law en-
forcement in 1928.
Asked if he recalled how he
ran in Goose Creek in his first
race. "Oh, yes, f carried it," he
replied, "but I never did as
well down here after that first
race."
He remembered there was
one box in the county that he
carried "100 per cent" in the
first race. It was at Huffman
However, he said he never did
that well again out there in the
next eight races. ^
"The sheriff was elected for
a two-year term back then,"
Binford said, "I didn't have
time to finish the job I had to do
until it was time to run again."
He talked a little about hiring
and firing in the sheriff's de-
partment.
“I always asked a man if he
drank. Of epurse, none of them
ever did. I would tell him I did
all the drinking in the sheriff's
department and that if he
drank I couldn't use him. If he
lied to me, I usually found out.
“Oh, I had some problems
with men who drank but not
many. I never did take some-
body else’s word when they
told me one of my men did thus
and so. I never fired a man un- ’
til I caught him doing whatever
it was he had been accused of."
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(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN:)
"Before Henry shows you the pictures of our vocation,
let me say, don't expect too much. They're not nearly os
good as the ones they got on the moon."
f£f)e Paptoton g>un
Fred Hartman ........................Editor and Publisher
John Wadley.............................business Manager
Ann B. Pritchett............................Office Manager
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Preston Pendergrass..................... Executive Editor
i"1 j'inJf y................................Managing Editor
Wanda Orton................... Associate Managing Editor
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
Paul Putman.........................Advertising Director
Dwight Moody..............................Retail Manager
^°,n ®rown ........*••••'................Classified Manager
R. J. Grimes.........,..................Promotion Manager
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