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The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
>1 TEX/W^B^RESS association
The Winkler County News
60LDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC. KERMIT, TEXAS
109 S. Poplar ZIP CODE 79745 TELEPHONE JU 6-2561
M. Donosky ................... Publisher
M9../rBeckhain * ’ ’ ..........* General Manager
Ei^Iin £XE,.................Managing Editor
Mgin Maikell .■..........Mechanical Superintendent
Betty Baird ............... Advertising Manager
Texas and West Texas Press Associations.
E®7lfat.ed t0 the, sPlrit of cVvic progress; to the unification
oi the townspeople in a common purpose for the betterment
of our community; to our churches, schools and homes, that
Kermit shall ever be a good place in which to live and rear
our children. And, above all, honesty, decency, Justice, tol*
erance, faith in Almighty God — These shall be our citadel.
HOW HIGH CAN THEY GO?
Monday, August 26, 1968
On World Opinion
Probably not one person who will read these lines sub*
scribes to “Paris Jour." Frankly, we don't read it either, and
normally we couldn't care less what it says. We are not as
concerned here with “ World Opinion" as Washington tends to be.
But before losing our temper in public again we'd like
to expose our readers to a quote from a recent edition of Paris
Jour. Believe it or not, the author lived in the United States for
some years. Here are her comments on the Robert Kennedy
assassination:
“The real secret was that, as the attorney general, Robert
Kennedy was the only one to know the truth about his brother's
assassination. He had kept silent in order not to cause horrible
convulsions in the United States. But people knew that he would
consider himself released from his oath if he had one day the
authority of a United states President. This is why, before the
murder, organs of the far right designated him as the man
to kill, using his positions on Vietnam as a pretext."
Has the man apprehended been associated with any “organ"
of the far right? On the contrary, no less than the Mayor of Los
Angeles, where the dread deed was done, has documented the
assassin's sympathies with the far left.
Was Oswald a tool of the far right?
One could fill an encyclopedia with quotes suggesting that
President Kennedy's assassin was a hate-filled right winger. In
the first hours after the death in Dallas the news media were
flooded with charges that the far right was responsible. Only
when the defector to the USSR was apprehended did the torrent
cease. But the guilt charges did not transfer to the Communist
conspiracy. Instead, we all became “guilty", and the far right
was guilty by implication because of the “atmosphere" in our
country.
Now, before the trial, the far right is being charged with
Robert Kennedy’s assassination in the European press. Such tor*
tured telling of the truth is a prize exhibit in our contention
that permitting “world opinion" to influence any decision in
Washington on any matter in the world is utter folly.
“World opinion" is molded by things like Paris Jour. That
publication is just as enlightened in its reporting on the Vietnam
war, for example.
Next time you hear some official worrying about “world
opinion," remember Paris Jour.
20 YEARS AGO
The marriage of Miss Eulala
Ratliff to D. Leon Nutt was sol*
emnlzed Sunday, Aug. 22, at the
home of the bride's parents, Mr.
and Mrs.H. H. Ratliff at Cabot
Camp. George True Baker, min*
ister of the Church of Christ,
officiated the double*ring cere*
mony.
Kermit Lions Club has voted
to have its five* man committee
continue efforts to secure addl*
tlonal doctors for Winkler Coun*
ty.
15 YEARS AGO
Judge W. E. Cook has been
ordered to Lowery Air Forces,
Base, Colo., for a 15*day short
tour of active duty with the Air
Force. Judge Cook is a mujv In
the Air Force Reserve.
• 10 YEARS AGO
Don Kaye Brown, Kermit High
School varsity line coach, re*
celved u Master of Business De-
gree during summer commence-
ment exercises at the University
of Oklahoma last week.
You Write It
Sometimes a news story is an eloquent eidtorial. A reader
has sent a clip from “The Register/* of Santa Anna, California,
which published a Copley News Service feature about Mrs. Rose
Bucher, wife of the commanding officer of the USS Pueblo.
The heroine of the story is Jean Hemphill. She is the wife
of Lt. Cmdr. Alan Hemphill, a close friend of Cmdr. Bucher
since 1962 when Bucher served as Hemphill’s executive officer
aboard a submarine.
The Hemphills took Mrs. Bucher into their home, for comfort
and companionship. At Mrs. Bucher’s request they sorted her
mail and monitored her phone calls. That brief background will
permit you to appreciate to the fullest what Mrs. Hemphill told
an audience recently:
“The State Department has announced that the President
wrote to Mrs. Bucher immediately,” she relates. “That is not
correct.
“After one month with no communication at all, Mrs. Bucher
initiated correspondence with the President, and received a letter
in return.
“In February it was announced that the captured men would
be tried as spies. Alarmed that this would mean execution,
Mrs, Bucher placed a phone call to the President. She could only
speak to A White House aide.
“In June, when Mrs. Bucher called the State Department for
information, a representative of the department said to her
’I don’t know why I am bothering with you! You are harassing
me!’
“That was the treatment given to the wife of a Navy Com-
mander, a woman almost out of her mind with shock and anxiety ...
“If a fifth-rate, outlaw nation can so humble our country,
the greatest on earth, then what nation cannot try to do the same?
What Navy ship can feel secure? ...
“Half of the captured men from the Pueblo are under 21
years of age. They are boys. Their parents and brothers and sis-
ters are suffering right along with Rose Bucher, and with me and
my husband ...”
Thus speaks Jean Hemphill. And the man at the State Depart*
ment says, “I don’t know why I am bothering with you! You are
harassing me.”
Your reaction to that is today’s editorial.
Steel Mills Raise Expenditures
For Cleaner Air and Water
The iron and steel industry
is putting more than $222,-
000,000 on the line for facili-
ties to provide cleaner air and
water.
A survey by American Iron
and Steel Institute disclosed
today that steel companies
have committed themselves to
capital costs of that magnitude
in the interest of improving
the quality of the nation’s en-
vironment.
Facilities to be placed in
operation during 1968 or later,
for which expenditures have
been authorized, include $120,-
000,000 for cleaner water and
$102,000,000 for air controls.
The survey also disclosed
that the industry’s expendi-
tures in 1967 for pollution
control facilities were up 67
percent—to $94,100,00 from
$56,500,000 in the preceding
year. Outlays included $54,-
700,000 spent for cleaner water
(vs. $18,800,000 in 1966) and
$39,400,000 for air pollution
control (vs. $37,700,000 in
1966). The figures do not in-
clude operating expenses, such
as maintenance and power
costs and operating labor costs.
From 1951 through 1967
the companies invested about
$600,000,000 to provide facili-
ties to control pollution. With
the addition of projects now
under way and authorized, the
total spent since 1951 will be
over $820,000,000.
Eighty-three companies, ac-
counting for nearly 98 percent
of raw steel production, parti-
cipated in the Institute survey.
Q — I’ve been audited sev-
eral times, but none of my friends
have been audited once. Am I
on a blacklist or something?
A — No, you are not. Com-
puters screen all returns and
Identify those with certain cha-
racteristics for examination.
When your return, or the re-
turns filed by your friends are
processed, the computers are
prepared to look for certain
characteristics. There is no
“blacklist” used by IRS to iden-
tify returns for examination.
Q —■ Can I have my tax with-
holding reduced when I reach
65?
A — Yes, persons 65 and
over may claim an additional
exemption for income tax with-
holding purposes. To do this
fill out a new Form W-4, Em-
ployees Withholding Exemption
Certificate, and give it to your
employer. He will tell you
when the change will go into
effect.
Q — Our apartment was rifled
by burglars while we were away
on vacation. Since we do not
have insurance, can we deduct
our losses for tax purposes?
A — Yes, a deduction for a
theft can be taken on your return.
However, only the loss in excess
of $100 can be deducted.
To establish a theft loss you
must be able to: (1) show the
date the theft was discovered;
(2) show the property was stolen
and not lost or mislaid; (3)
establish ownership; (4) show
evidence of the cost or other
basis of the property; (5) show
any amount taken or allowable
for depreciation; and (6) show the
amount of Insurance or other
compensation for the loss re-
ceived or recoverable.
Q — My mother gave me ti-
tle to her home as a present.
Will any tax be involved?
A — Gifts are not taxable to
the person receiving them. How-
ever, the person making the
gift may be liable for gift tax if
the value of the gifts to one
person is more than $3,000 in any
one year.
The gift tax law also allows
each person to make a total
of $30,000 in tax free gifts which
may be spread over a period
of years or used in any one
year In addition to the $3,000
annual exclusion. Your mother
may be entitled to use this pro-
vision of the law in the sit-
uation you describe.
Q — Do I have to do any-
thing with the stubs I receive
when I deposit income and so-
cial security taxes I take out
of my employees’ wages?
A — The stub you receive when
you make a deposit through the
Federal tax deposit system is
for your records only, it should
not be filed with your quarterly
Form 941 return.
Q — I took a second job
this summer and social security
tax is being taken out of my
pay. Can I stop this withholding
since the maximum will be taken
out for social security on my
regular job?
A — No. The law requires
each employer to withhold so-
cial security tax on the first
$7,800 in wages paid each em-
ployee. If more than the maxi-
mum has been withheld from your
combined salaries, then the
excess may be taken as a credit
on your income tax return.
Q — I’m attending a church
convention as a delegate this
summer. Can I take a chari-
table deduction for my expenses?
A — If you are attending as
an official delegate you may de-
duct as a charitable contribu-
tion your unreimbursed travel
expenses Including meals and
lodging, other personal ex-
penses should not be included
nor should the expenses of your
famly if they go with you.
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THE OBSCENITY LADIES AND ME
American workers are increasingly objecting to supporting
the nonworkers.
Congress flirts with various proposals for a guaranteed
annual wage for everybody, work or not.
Such congressmen are bidding with our money for 8 million
welfare votes but 76 million dues-paying Americans are getting
fed up.
Rep. Frank T. Bow of Ohio says a member of Congress can
hide from the world in those air-conditioned palaces along the
Potomac, that Washington, D.C,, is the worst place in the world
to learn what’s going on in the world.
Bow says members of Congress need to get out of that
artificial atmosphere and get back to the grass roots where
hinterland homefolks can help restore their perspective.
For those who presently cannot or will not go home, may I
relay two messages from home?
From Milwaukee: “As soon as Congress agrees to pay
everybody $3,000 a year whether he works or not, my husband
and I intend to take our savings, buy a small farm in the north
woods and declare ourselves poor farmers. My husband has
a Ph. D. in mathematics, but we can explain that academic
life is bad for his eyes, give up teaching and collect our $3,000
a year while we hunt and fish and go canoeing and have children.
By the time they are ready for college, the government will see
to that. Besides, we’ll probably get a bonus for having more
children. My husband and I, in our 20s now, look forward to
a lifetime of leisure.”
The writer admits that there is one problem. She and her
husband have an old-fashioned complication called “pride.” It
makes them feel unclean when they are sponging on others.
They may not be able to overcome this feeling, but they are
confident millions of others will.
Then, they wonder, who will pay the bill for all this guar-
anteed annual vote bait.
Another constituent heard from Reading, Pa:
“It’s a beautiful day outside bi^t I feel beat, tired, sad.
Our state has been marched on by a group called the ’Rights
for Welfare’ organization. The group is demanding—not asking,
demanding—more welfare money.
“One protestor says he has a bad back and can’t work,
but his back is strong enough to march a mile to the governor’s
office carrying a huge placard.
“He says he gets only $238 biweekly and can’t live on that.
“He is thus getting $6,188 a year for doing nothing which
is more than a beginning teacher gets for teaching. Also he
lives in a housing project, pays minimal rent of $48 a month,
no water, electric or gas bill.
“Dog-gonnit, Mr. Harvey, I have a wife and seven children
and diabetes and lots of mornings I don’t feel good at all. Should
I sell everything, put it in the childrens* names, take bankruptcy
and a pauper’s oath and live off welfare?”
But this writer, too, goes on to say that his pride and his
Pennsylvania Dutch wife will not allow him to become a beggar.
So he will go on working, raise his children to be taxpayers—
not tax burdens—and continue working and hoping and praying
that the next generation can be an improvement on this one.
Congress needs to spend more time with the disorganized
majority. Sam Rayburn once said, “If the next three Congresses
would convene January 5 and adjourn January 6 and leave the
country alone, we’d all be better off.”
I miss the obscene ladies who used to call
on me pretty regularly. No, that isn’t exactly
the way it was. They were anti-obscene type
ladies who wanted me to join them in a foray
against newsstands displaying Playboy maga-
zine and its scores of copycats. They were nice
ladies (still are, presumably) but they scared
hell out of me. They had a moist, hot fire in
their eyes which, I suspect, Lizzie Borden did
too when she gave her Ma 40 whacks.
I used to explain, patiently, that 1 had
nothing against lung magazines and that I
held sex in high esteem. I also said, rather
waspishly, that prurience lies in the eye of
the beholder. That never slowed ’em down a
bit.
The thing is, these obscenity ladies don’t
get into a flap no matter how hard you needle
them. They speak the most utter nonsense but
they say it with unfailing calm and give the
superficial appearance of being Reason itself.
I knew a Jesuit once who could do that. He
was an Air Force colonel and the brass loved
him but all the other padres hated his viscera.
But I digress.
The obscenity ladies used to explain to me
how the acne generation would come apart if
they weren’t spared these salacious mags and
the debilitating influence of the Holsteins and
Guernseys who prettied-up their pages. The
ladies smiled, never raising their voices or
their umbrellas and none of them ever kicked
me with her tennis shoes either. Really, a good
troupe.
But they used to get my goat. And the mad-
der I got the more sweet and reasonable they
became until I wanted to throw the old dolls
out. Then, somebody gave me a sign which said:
“The Bible Has Dirty Stories—Keep It Away
From Children.” T put it in my desk to show
the ladies, next time they showed up, but they
BY MAGGI
Young amateur musicians,
those up to the ages of 21, now
number approximately 17,100,-
000 in the United States,
whereas adult amateurs num-
ber 26,800,000. This was an
increase of more than 1V2 mil-
lion over the previous year
for the youngsters, and about
700,000 for the adults. Credit
is given to new methods and
philosophies in music teaching,
more leisure time for adults,
and the growing awareness
by parents and educators that
music belongs in the lives of
young people, and contributes
to their well-roundedness.
★ ★ . ★
At a press seminar on sports
and physical fitness attended
by high school newspaper re-
porters, a New York City der-
matologist advised that exer-
cise and sports are good for
the skin and for skin condi-
tions, such as acne. It seems
the profuse perspiration loos-
ens blackheads. However, the
dermatologist said the benefi-
cial effects of profuse perspit
ration are counteracted if the
individual doesn’t wash prop-
erly to remove dried perspira-
tion and superficial bacteria
which have accumulated on
★ ★ ★
Unless you are really an ex-
pert and determined shopper,
it is often wise to ignore the
end-of-the-season clothing
sales. It takes real willpower
not to settle for a color, size
or style that is not quite
right, when you find a terrific
mark down. Or you may come
home with a fantastic buy in
a raincoat when what you
really needed was a suit!
never did. Finally I gave the sign to a divinity
student who came in to sell me a book about
sacred prophecy.
The thing that always struck me about the
obscenity ladies is how shocked they were
when I suggested they form a council a^L is-
sue a monthly bulletin saying which pullca-
tions they had found to be dirty during the
past 30 days. I told them they obviously con-
sidered themselves experts on the subject and
must do a lot of reading for the purpose of
detecting pornography and the community
probably would accept their verdict.
They said they didn’t read trash but “every-
body knows what is salacious.” I said I didn’t.
I thought Esquire was the dullest magazine I
ever picked up in a barbershop and it used to
be considered pretty racy until recent develop-
ments made it look like the companion piece to
Good Housekeeping. I also told them I never
could figure out how anything could be at the
same time “disgusting” and “pornographic.”
Something which disgusts does not arouse any
passion except revulsion; and I sajd if Playboy
disgusts people they must leave it alone.
The ladies said I was twisting their words,
and maybe I was. They said they weren’t will-
ing to set themselves up as the arbiters of what
I should and should not be allowed to read—
in fact, the very idea shook them up. I asked
if they wanted the district attorney to be the
censor, or the Ministerial Alliance (one of the
Roman Catholic ladies in the group winced
visibly) or maybe the chief of police. They
just sighed and said they were 100% against
censorship of any kind, Mu . . .
1 talked to my own little 80-year-old mother
about this and she set down her martini glass
and said: “Son, you can never tell about dames.
Some of ’em have terrible problems.” A
Good old Mom!—American Way Features
WASHINGTON ANnSrHclL
Business
BY C. WILSON HARDER
Pax Americana?
Some of the leading candi-
dates for the presidency are
promising that if elected there
will be no more Vietnams.
* * *.
While of course, campaign
promises are not the most re-
liable declarations ever made,
there is good reason to believe
that such promises are finding
acceptance among the respon-
sible people of the nation.
* * *
For sentiment coming in from
the grass roots level all over
the nation appears to be ques-
tioning the validity of contin-
ued American military adven-
tures abroad.
* * *
Woodrow Wilson ran for re-
election on the promise to keep
the U. S. out of World War I.
Eventually the nation tipped the
balance and a victory was won,
but all of Russia was turned
over to communism.
* * *
World War I created the pres-
sures that created World War
II and again a victory was won.
But half or more of Europe
went communist and practical-
ly all of Asia.
* * *
Thus, there is a growing
question apparent in American
minds as to the value on mili-
tary undertakings in seeking
to solve the problems of the
entire world.
❖ * »:«
There is no question that
the American military might is
vast, if not kept under the
thumb of civilian control pur-
suing vague policies as has been
the case in Vietnam.
* * *
But warfare, especially mod-
ern warfare, extracts a terrible
(£) National Federation of Independent Business
toll on the lands over which
it is fought. After the victory,
there is need for restoration
of the lands and their econo-
mies in order that the chaos
of despair and misery does not
breed more communism.
* * *
Since the end of World War
II the American taxpayers have
paid out over 150 billions of
dollars to help the world get on
its feet, and judging from the
reports from most parts of the
world, except in a few instanc-
es, the world is not much bet-
ter off for it.
* * *
In the meantime, the Amgsl-
can economy has been seveapy
jeopardized. There is a substan-
tial question just where the
economy would be if it were
not for Vietnam.
* * *
While ’ this nation undoubt-
edly must always maintain a
strong defense establishment,
there is a question as to wheth-
er the nation can ever afford to
again engage in military opera-
tions primarily entered into to
resolve internal disputes in
other lands.
* * ❖
Enforcing the Pax Romano at
the end of some 300 years ended
Rome, but that was in the days
when the chief weapon was a
relatively inexpensive sword.
The Pax Brittanica enforced
by England lasted a shorter
time, but again weaponry was
relatively low in cost, and even
that effort brought England
to its knees. Now in an ma
when the sophisticated wea»P-
ry necessary makes cheap wars
impossible, any attempt to'en-
force a Pax America could M
of very short duration, inde&f.
This, is cause for concern.
IT'S amazing!
Read II Timothy 2:1-10
“The Lord is my helper, I
what can man do to me?” -
will not be afraid;
-Hebrews 13:6 (rsv)
C
OEVERAL years ago while in Berlin, I was asked to
interview the leader of the student Christian movement
in East Germany. At the time, it was considered a bit
of a risk to do this.
In the nighttime, a darkened taxi delivered me to a
certain tree, and I was told to stand there until someone
came to get me. In the lonely darkness, as I thought of
the situation, I hoped for myself that the right person
would come. Finally, I was led to the semidarkness of
a modest home. There I met one of the great Christians
in the world today.
His message to students that night had in it the fol-
lowing: Explore ways to know people and think with
them. God’s vocation points men to their fellowmen—
serve them. Mans inhumanity to man demands that
Christians become involved in changing society. The
church must risk everything for the sake of Christ and
His people. We must remain human to our fellow human
beings.
PRAYER: God our Father, there is cruelty in o» r world
today. Help us to be living witnesses of the living
Lord. May we not only relieve suffering but also work
as Christians to eliminate the causes of suffering. Grant
that we may risk everything for Christ and His people.
Amen.
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