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PAGE TWO BRENHAM BANNER PRESS MONDAY JULY 5,1971
Paul Harvey-- , -
Not Doing Anything
About Drug Abuse
F GLOBAL VIEW
user can cost less than $1 day.
Under methadone treatment,
addicts are sufficiently stable
to be able to hold steady jobs.
A survey of 81 patients who’d
been on "H" an average of 14
years each are now on me-
thadone.
The number holding down
jobs has doubled.
Their applications for
welfare have declined.
By PAUL HARVEY
Banner Columnist
Two congressmen have
returned to report 10 per cent
to 15 per cent of our Vietnam
troops are hooked, on heroin.
• That’s 30,000 to 45,000 soldiers
who will bring home the habit-
if they live.
Last year alone, 26 of those
flag-draped coffins contained
GIs who’d been killed by a
Detente Demands
Clear U.S. Policy
By LEON DENNEN
NEW YORK (NEA)
Cautiously, but hopefully, President Nixon continues to
test the Communist powers for signs of genuine desire for
East-West detente. He takes political risksto advance the |
"era of negotiation and not confrontation.” 1
What, then, are the prospects for peace? --—1
The United States and NATO will not achieve a durable
needle. Arrests of addicts under-
But to all the other users: treatment are one-tenth what
Don’t give up. Rescue is on the they were.
way. Such is the success of this
An antidote for heroin did
not come a day too soon. Last
year in Chicago 277 died
mainlining "H.” Overdose,
reaction, hepatitis con-
tamination. Dead: 184
Philadelphians; 1,154 New
Yorkers. And who knows how
many others picked up a bullet
while stealing to support a
- habit. -____:_____1
There’s no other way when it, At Columbia University, a
costs $50 to $100 dollars a day. pilot program has unhooked
Already the drug disease is more than 2,000 New Yorkers,
epidemic, has multiplied 10
times in San Francisco, And
half of those who never came
home from a bad trip were
younger than 1 23 years old;
several were not yet 15.
Chairman Harold Hughes of
the Senate narcotics sub-
committee anticipates the
hideous pros pec t of heroin-
hooked vets using vicious
military skills they learned in
■ peace until the Russians are convinced that diplomatic
■ negotiations are a two-way street.. P
a The balance of forces between the United States and
■ Russia remains the decisive power relationship in the
E world today. Undeveloped Red China is still only a poten-
g tial threat. s
The West will not make a success of the jigsaw puzzle . -
of its negotiations with Moscow until it has a clear Rus-
: " sian policy. Such a policy should be based on:
St • A realistic assessment of the Kremlin’s ideology.
■ • A pragmatic view of Russia’s economic and political
..position. .
• Moscow’s claim to leadership of the Red world
Contrary to vocal “peace advocates” in and out of the
, Senate, the basic purpose of the United States should be
to foster the establishment of a viable international order
—a stable structure for peaceful development.
It is the Communists with their global aims and aggres-
sions who are the basic disturbers of peace. .
The Soviet leaders want the economic and diplomatic ,
benefits of a “nonaggression” treaty with West Germany.
Yet they will not honor their promise to Chancellor Willy
Brandt to settle the question of West Berlin._
A The Russians ostensibly seek peace in the Middle East
A n while expanding their Navy in the Mediterranean and
. 1 U 11CO - tightening their stranglehold on the Arab countries.
. To be sure, the Kremlin leaders want a European
civilians who are becoming to avoid the civlian draft. But security conference but their central objective remains
permanently embedded in they insisted that the number unaltered. This is the breaking up of the NAT 0 alliance,
thorei of draft doddare d a withdrawal of the United States behind the Atlantic and
traffic jams, mnnthiv of draft dodgers in uniform is a fragmentation of Western Europe, leaving Russia domi-
It was the largest monthly neglisble.____________________nant over all Eurasia.
Tiai ri v nuarre_______Above all, the Kremlin rulers, like their Chinese coun-
HIMELT QUUTES terparts, never abandoned the idea of the relentless prog-
ress of history toward a Communist future.
J The papers portray Presi- For strategic reasons they preach "peaceful-coexist-
dent Johnson, as wanting to ence” and detente from time to time. But they still stand
therapy that within the past
year 10,000 Americans have
thus unhooked themselves
from heroin.
Detroit has opened for public
dispensaries for methadone.
Washington D.C.’s Black
Mans’ Development Center- FACE LIFTING--The Santa Fe right of way along N.
federally funded-allows heroin Austin St. was given a good cleaning recently, eliminat-
addicts to withdraw on -------------------------------------
thadone-----------------21---------------------s________________.______
The Lighter Side-
San Francisco has given Military Pay Raise U
$120,000 to its Center for • •
Special Problems-to work with By DICK WEST in some cases, travel,
methadone. " WASHINGTON (UPI)-Un- I don’t know what this am-
It’s available, it’s cheap, you der the military pay scale re- ounts to in terms of total
can use it-and nobody knows cently approved by the Sen-income, but when you put
it. ate, recruits at the bottom them all together the adjective
I asked Dr Paul Cushman of would be raised to $5,328.43 in "buck private” begins to
Beth Israel. “Aren’t you just a year in pay and allowances, take on new significance.
getting users off one drug and plus such fringe benefits as At least it does to anyone the age of 30 to register for
onto another? What about long- free medical care, uniforms, old enough to remember the the civilian draft, , .. miiitarv - euce and uerente a vans v..^ w ....... ,— --.>, -----------
range effects? Might not - commissary discounts and, song “21 Dollars A Day Once The big increase undoubt- wage an for world revolution and the ultimate destruction of demo-
methadone users develop a ----------------------------a Month,” edly will be seized upon by
Supporters of the increase critics of the draft to support server of the man I saw him
said it would move the Army their contention that civilian anguish over the war. I saw E not thev^adYrom weakness and not from strength,
closer to volunteer status, and • life unfairly interrupts the him try to limit the bomb- The cost of their foreign policy-the two-front army in
I don t doubt that. If military military careers of young ser- ing, turn down the joint Europe and on the Chinese border, the bid for nuclear
pay went much higher, there vicemen and in many cases chief’s manpower requests superiority, the massive aid to Egypt, North Vietnam and
+** 5- 41424 -*- 44 causes financial hardships, and turn down bombing Hai- Cuba—has outrun their economy’s ability to pay. "__
In recent Senate debate on phong Harbor ... He wanted In fact, the dismal performance of Russia's economy is
extension of the draft, oppon- to end the war and get a one major reason why the Kremlin leaders now want a
ents called for termination of negotiated peace, breathing spelle
Selective Service coupledwith —Former Vice President' Equally important is Moscow’s declining position as
Hubert Humphrey, on the leader of world communism. Because of the Russian-Chi-
N.Y. Times printing of a nese ideological conflict, rival variants of the Marxist-
secret Pentagon-study oh Leninist doctrine now claim the attention’of radicals.
the origins of the Vietnam ' European and Latin American leftists accuse the Krem-
lin of blindly seeking to impose its own revolutionary
experience upon their countries. "
Communists in the undeveloped countries of Africa and -
Asia—especially in North Vietnam, North Korea, Laos
and Cambodia-now look to China and not to Moscow.
Russia’s problems must be assessed realistically in any
diplomatic negotiations with Moscow. Obviously there
must be continued contact between the United States and
Russia and agreements between the two great nuclear
powers are desirable on a whole series of problems.
But the West must have a clear Russian policy to
achieve a durable peace.” a :
ing heavy brush and vines along the railroad tracks.
quota since enactment last
year of the law requiring all
unmarried enlisted men under
Vietnam to upkeep their habits -----------------—r - ---------------------------
back here--------—tolerance, fall-back? ” - :
: But out of Beth Israel Me- He said, “Let’s toss toward Landscape
dical Center, Manhattan, the drowning man any life- ~
comes help for the helpless, saver we can get our hands on. * Natnc I don’t doubt that. If military' military careers of young ser-
The lifesaver is a drug the We’ll have time later for OLD.—
’ Nazi’s used during the Big War deliberation. He has no time." THE SCREWWORM might even be difficulty gett- causes financial hardships,
as a substitute painkiller. -------------’ SITUATION J ing enough people to volunteer In recent Senate debate on
The drug, methadone, is SHORTS Texas livestock- producers for civilian life.
itself addictive--but there’s less * f * recorded nine screwworm ca- Perhaps the following futur-
pain, less craving and no - 1 ses during the two-week re- istic news story will prove
danger. Largest Organ porting period of May 30 thr-
And enough to unhook the H- The Atlantic City Audi-, ough June 12,1971. A year ago, ....___________________
, ■ torium organ, Atlantic City, six of the livestock pest cases Service headquarters announ-
, . N.J., is the largest musical were confirmed in Texas and "ced today that 100,000
- instrument ever constructed, tour in Arizona during the cor- members of the armed forces
Thesorgan has two consoles, responding reporting period, will be drafted for civilian-life
112bis 8 stops and 33,- To date this year, no other next month. .
Pstates have recorded any Officials said the July call
- screwworm cases. In 1969, represented a 30 per cent in-
Business Success livestock pest cases numbered crease over the number of
COMPLETE
AUTOMOTIVE
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SERVICE
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CHEVROLET
fensive, and that's just not
true. I am a sensitive ob-
cratic society.
Nevertheless, the Russians must engage in diplomatic
negotiations because they are also vulnerable. More often
prophetic: : measures to make civilian
WASHINGTON - Selective life more attractive, thus put-
ting more volunteers in mufti.
With proper rewards and
incentives, civilian life, could
be made entirely voluntary, , .
. i cause of the frustration, anx-
they argued. .iety or whatever may be
According to draft officials, leading the young to give up
however, not nearly enough on the system and leads step
servicemen are voluntarily by Step into another world
servicemen inducted into civ- leaving the armed forces to which may seem better but
ilian life during June. ' meet civilian manpower needs which turns out worse?
They said the stepped-up, at this time. -—President Nixon, discuss-
draft rate was necessary to They conceded that some ing America’s drug prob-
replace the growing number of servicemen had fled to Canada lem with religious leaders.
war. - .
We have to get at the
President Warren G. Hard- 33 for the same reporting per-
ing established himself as a iod. _____________
business success with the NON-SCREWWORM CASES
Marion (Ohio) Star, which Samples of non-screwworm
he and a partner purchased larvae submitted to the U.S.
for $300 in 1884, according to Department of Agriculture’s
Encyclopaedia Britannica. Screwworm Laboratory at - - - - — x W -
FOOD CITY
"THE FRIENDLY STORE"
WHERE YOU SAVE MORE $$
Effective Mon., Tue., Wed, July 5, 6, & 7th, 1971
SMOKED
PICNICS L.
PAPER
PLATES
===== Wednesday Night Before The Full Moon
nosed. In 1970, livestock own- RATE
ers submitted 192 samples By NATH WINFIELD
during the same period. Two s Courtesy of
years ago, non-screwworm “The Texas Freemason”
samples totaled 266 for theChappell Hill in Washington
same reporting span County was laid out in 1847
CASE LOCATIONS by its founder, Jacob Hal-
Three Texas counties--Hi- ler. Since that time, dozens of
dalgo, Edwards and Kinney- religious, social, cultural and
each recordedtwoscrewworm fraternal organizations have
cases during the current re flourished and diedin the com-
porting period. Real and Re- munity. It is worthy of note,
fugio Counties each reported however that Hubert Masonic
one case. The ninth case Lodge 67 was the first to be
was submitted by an unknown organized and survives today,
livestock owner or handler, Without exception inChap-
who faced to include his name pell Hill, the pioneer men who
or address or any information rose to prominence as leaders
about the location of the case, of the community were Ma-
Therefore, the latter case sons. As a portion of Stephen
could not be treated. - ----------F. Austin’s colony, the area
STERILE FLY RELEASES was settled by families from
Sterile fly releases of June states in the South Institute had attended the ed- Hubert Lodge have in her it ed regiments on the western i-
first and second weeksofdime Lesarm oitn them to Texas ucational needs of boys ^ their ancestors’tastes for ontters of Arizona and New
ISO million per apek The tr Hubert Lodge 67 was gr - girls in Chappell HI1 since succulent food prepared and Mexico; th hide-and-seek en-
eated ties are being released anted a Dispensation January 1850. Soon, however, the trus- eaten on the river bank. Even gagements of the Texas Lan-
eateo/ieb 6 - - € tees began to question the ab- weicht watshare man* refuee ---*- - -1-— *-*
course, the town’s founder, pell Hill, the Lodge mem? and was accepted along with
The Lodge was named for bers attended as the corner- Travis. In 1851, who . could
Fletcher Watts Hubert, a stone was levelled for the foresee the mindless trag-
wealthy pioneer who came
from Mississippi in the mid-
1830‘s and who carved an Im-
mense estate out of the Brazos
River bottom land near Chap- becue was a festive occasion,
oell Hill. He died in 1848 and when the hand of fellowship
is buried in a private cemetery was,extended to the entire cou-
near where his home once nty. Yellowed memoranda tell
stood. His son, Frank H. Hu- of a great celebration in Dec- Although war seemed in-
bert, served as the first Sen- ember of 1851, when hungry credible in 1851, the follow-
ior Deacon of Hubert Lodge, Masons, their families and ing decade saw a hardening of
Chappell HUl Female College.' edy of war and the calculated
Those early-day Brethern evil of Reconstruction that
took their work seriously, but would leave his son's name
the annual St. John’s Daybar- high upon the list of Texas
desperados! Have you ever
heard of Wild Bull Longley,
hanged in Giddings with 32no-
tches on his guns?
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As Chappell Hill grew and
• prospered, the members of
Hubert Lodge often participat-
ed in ceremonies to level the
cornerstones, of public build-
ings.
The learned professors of
Chappell Hill Male and Female
friends gathered In a pecan
grove to feast upon "20 sh-
‘attitudes and, when Fort Sum-
ter fell, many of the younger
oats, 10 sheep, 1 beef, 5 kids,
12 hams, turkeys, chickens - were already under arms,
and all the bread that couldbe Gray-clad volunteers from
had,” They gorged to the mus- Chappell Hill engaged the en-
ic of a brass band, emy on many battle fronts.
Present-day members of In Sibley’s heat-oppressed
members of Huber
Lodge
eded the light of the full moon
to ride the winding roads
from outlying areas. We still
meet the Wednesday night
before the full moon. "________________
Our worn Bible falls open
with scant urging to its ap-
pointed place among yellow-
ed pages.
■ Our officers take up their
jewels, hand-hammered from
coins by a local silversmith
for those first charter mem-
bers. _
It is small wonder that a
sense of history sometimes
fills the empty chairs with
the presence of those Crafts-
men who have gone before. *
Old ways die hard at Chap-
pell Hill.
in Texas and in the buffer zone 23, 1850. In the fall of that
of Mexico, where the pro- year, it was holding monthly
tective artificial barrier is meetings. The Charter was
being maintained in an effort signed January 24, 1851. Ori-
to prevent re-infestation in the • ‘ginal members included at
ility of both sexes to acquire
an education while study-
ing under the same roof!
Accordingly, on a chill
weight-watchers can't refuse
"seconds” of fish or oysters,
deep-fried in an iron kettle.
cers in the shadowy Louisi-
United States,
least three veterans of the
November day in 1858, the me-
mbers of Hubert Lodge mar-
= Texas Revolution, two Texas chedin procession to at-
State Representatives, two
Texas State Senators, an In-
dian agent, a railroad presi-
dent, a former 'Republic of
—- Texas customs collector for
the Port of Galveston and, of
or crispy short ribs, pulled
from tender young shoat that
has been cooking whole since
daylight over the fragrant heat
of hardwood coals. This fel-
tend the cornerstone cere-
lowship has been a vital part
of our Masonry for more than
a century and we see no need
00000000
monies for Soule University,
a separate school for boys.
Two yearslater, while the to change.
Texas Methodist Conference The membership roll of this
was holding session in Chap- old Lodge has recorded its
share of heroes and some who
• ••••••••• were less than heroic. Charles
ana swamps; in the saddles of
the hard-riding Terry’s Texas
Rangers; among the grim
ranks of Hood’s dreaded Texas
Brigade; they fought for their
cause and died and lost.
They took their Masonry to.
war with them. Hubert Lodge
Today
In History
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Today is Monday, July 5, the
186th day of 1971.
The moon is between its first
quarter and full phase.
The morning stars are. Ve-
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• Edward Travis, ill-starred
a son of Alamo martyr William
X Barret Travis, petitioned the
• Lodge in 1851. Stating that he
• wished to travel, young Tra-
• vis received the three Degrees
_ at one meeting. Travel he did,
• until his tragic career ended
• in an unmarked grave beside
a his sister in the old Masonic
Cemetery at Chappell Hill:
2 - The stern and- upright
9 Campbell Longley petitioned
was privileged to recommend The evening stars are
the applications for two tra- Mercury and Jupiter.
veling military Lodges, which Those born on this day are
were approved by the Grand under the sign of Cancer.
Lodge of Texas.---‘
At its zenith, the member-
ship of Hubert Lodge swelled
almost beyond the abUitles of
American showman P. T.
Barnum was born July 5, 1810.
On this day in history:
In 1865 William Booth
founded the Salvation Army in.
London.
the officers to provide seat-
ing space for the Brethren.
Today, a handful of faithful
members keep the principles In 1935 President Franklin D.
of Free masonry active in Ch- Roosevelt signed the Wagner-
appell Hill. A old brass bell Conryery Bill, officially known
from a Brazos River steam- as the National Labor
boat still summons these few Relations Act. It guaranteed
to our monthly meetings. A labor’s rights to collective
century has not dulled its mel-
low tone.
Our great-grandfathers ne-
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liberation of the Philippines in
World War II. •
In 1965 President Charles de
Gaulle of France boycotted the
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