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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Oct. 24, 1969 Deseret The DTC Sampler a tl h Mia M Car. Tat I M ulltilri FaUiaM da atttay mi Ml lata City mi Dmgmf Ttailag Caai da Tnariyi luMIr ia da arai mi all arid paaMrf Dapny, Ouh, aaijr ia aa mriMi at ariaaara by da ri da friria a arrioa limida. U aaaa artta ia M ri Pi i it Tat Cata Iftta k mat m KWIH Oafmmf, IM. tribal H IHinTiiiaiH ta - da AM pictaa Pry id piritlraar Ca, H Ntrtk Mala Trail, at pridita aal at Ito Tnaaript a PA la JM apba t' aOriri UJ. aal ariridad af daa k papaa ri wfcfcfc fca IMl Mat mi atdaadi tat, liar ri ti lalhMM writar aaakI.apari Any aapl daa jinalalM ti At Ptria.il af da Anqr aal EDITORIAL I Youth Are Dying (EDITOR'S NOTE; The following editorial was written by CPT Wallace P. Brown while he was serving in Vietnam. From April 19618 to April 1969, Brown was platoon leader with the 3rd Battalion of the 506th Infantry, 101st Airlwme Division. The editorial was printed in the Ft. Benning, Ga., newspaper THE BAYONET and reprinted in TALON, Ft. Sam Houston Medical Center.) has the question What Teenagers, the generation gap is happening to our youth? entered your mind recently? Books, movies, and authorities on youth have tried to give an answer. But for what it's worth, consider mine: I say our youth are dying not in laxly, but in mind. During the latter part of my tour in Vietnam I served with a replacement company. There I saw a great many young men entering and leaving the country. For the most part, they were required only to grit their teeth and accept the fact that they were a part of the war. They were no longer looking in from the outside. The young troopers' first reaction was that the war was Editorial ;-- t , Open Season On Health Benefits No Impossible Dreams President Richard M. Nixon has proclaimed todav, 24, as UNITED NATIONS DAY. For nearly a quarter of a century, the UN has struggled with the often thankless task of peacekeeping. There have lieen many differences among the great powers over the years Imt progress has lieen made. In a recent speech at the United Nations, Mr. Nixon outlined the broad dimensions he hoped the UN would follow in building a creative, dynamic peace in the 1970s. The President appealed to member nations to press toward a world of open doors, open hearts, open an open world minds a world open to the exchange of ideas and of peoa world open ple, and open to the reach of human spirit to search for truth, and unconcerned with the fate of old a world open at last to the light of dogmas and old isms justice and the light of reason, and to achievement of that true peace which the people of every land carry in their hearts and celebrate in their hopes. A survey of history might discourage those who seek peace. But, as Mr. Nixon pointed out to the 135 member naan age of first. tions we have entered a new age For the first time ever, we have truly liecome a single world community. . For tlie first time ever, technological advance has brought within reach what once was only a poignant dream freedom from hunger and freefor hundreds of million dom from want. For the first time ever, man has stepped lieyond this and revealed as to ourselves as riders on the Earth planet Oc-toli- er The next open season for the Federal Health Benefits Program has lieen scheduled for 1969. During this periixl eligible employees who are not enrolled in a health iienefits plan will lie permitted to enroll. Employees who are already enrolled in a plan will .be able to change to another plan or option. During this open season, annuitants who are enrolled also will lie permitted to change their enrollments. Eligible employees and annuitants will lie forwarded additional details by the appropriate Federal offices. 10-2- Branch receives NEW BARS 2LT Ellsworth Cragholm, Chief, Administrative Sen-ice1LT Bars from COL Charles M. Shadle, Dugway Proving Grounds Post Commander and Mrs. Myrna Kirk, 1LT Cragholms secretary. . s Stork . DTC Personalities Tliis week the SAMPLER salutes Staff Sergeant Roliert Peterson as Deseret Test Center's personality for his outstanding devotion to duty, and all those other qualities which makes an individual a special credit to Dugwav Proving Cround and Ft. Douglas. A native of Brunswick, Ca., and father of four SSCT Peterson lias lieen operations sergeant at Headquarters and Headquarters Company since February 1969. Married to the former Allierta Ligan of Brunswick, SSCT Petersons overseas assignments include Greenland, Germany and Korea. Sergeant Pete iu he is affectionately called works closelv with IlHCs commanding officer Richard L. Haley, executive officer together. Rememlier, countries are made up of people. Together these people build their societies societies built in a spirit which celebrates the infinite possibilities of man himself. Troopin The Line Mrs. I Oc toiler 8 Mrs. John jury Scpteinlier 23 well a lxiv. Sergeant birth to gave gave birth to a girl. Mr. Rolx-rworks in Civilian Person- - First Class Lowell works in ucl and the couple resides at 163 Range Instrumentation and the vouple resides at 5347 E West East 4lh Avenue. Mrs. Then- - Knight Avenue. Scpteinlier 24 dore Teske gave birth to a lxiy. tx.l)er 13 m Mrs. Maxwell Captain Teske works in tl.e CBK Waw c i)irth t( a Weapons Orientation Course and Wan. works Miilarv Per. the couple resides at 513 A Peak md w Hiple Avt'm,t'- 106 East 4th Avenue. Mrs. Donald Oetolier 7 Howard gave birth to a (X.((lwr ,fl J()lm loward ,s eia ist Fourth Cass t() jr with the ftrth NIP Plalixm and Lieutenant llauhy works in Ma- thc couple resides at 60 D East leriel Test and the couple reside I 2nd Avenue. at 515 A Peak Avenue. girl.-Spe- Fit Bruce Marriott has lieen pro- Stephen Hannah has lieen inoted to Specialist Five. Spec 5 pimnoted to Private First Class. Marriott is assigned to the Army PFC nanllai, is assigued to larv perfomlt.l. Cull Lumber $10 n. Per 100 not as they had imagined. They realized that fellow soldiers did not randomly kill civilians, their effort was of and for 'the people. ' Following this realization they needed little help in rf standing on their own feet. They were anxious the first few months, their eyes and ears always open. They accepted advice from those who had been in country longer than they. Their minds grew sharp and their muscles strong from the endless search for an elusive enemy and from the strapped on their backs. t: They managed somehow to outlast the heat of day, only 7 to shiver with the cold at night. They learned that the color of a mans skin does not affect his bravery or companionship. Who would question the color of hands carrying one to ruck-sac- i . ; safety? Sharing their food with Vietnamese children, they shed the learned and frustration of tears meaning of compaission. With pride in their hearts, they stood tall. As I watched the young mens transformation, my answer to the youth problem liecame clear; our youth are dying at an alarming rate, and are reborn men. Colonel Gordon R. Davis, recently a unit commander in the 101st Airlxime Division, took time to talk with the divisions young troopers: Yesterday I talked to a group of over a hundred re- placements. Standing in formation I could see their youth and could not help Wondering at their size, all standing nearly six feet tall. Today as I talk to you going home, it saddens me to see no youth among you. While some of you are not yet twenty, all I see is men. The blond, freckle-face- d skinny boys are dying, and from that mass of blood and flesh emerge men, proud and strong. Let there be no question of our youth. Whether or not they have had the opportunity to serve their country, they will carry our banner as high, if not higher, than the the old men who once themselves battled old men the charging enemy and gave their lives for freedom. Let us give thanks and lie proud of our youth, and criticize less. For our youth can stand as well as any man. (AFPS) Elecloral College Sinking At Last? lwttles that has lieen raging around our One of the long-tim- e nation's capital may xmn lie coniiug to a climax. The Ixattle involves every individual citizen in the United States and deals with of electoral reform reform that would see a complete the Electoral College procedures. This complete job for the college would eliminate the possibility of a president being elected by electoral votes when the individual voter's popular vole selected another candidate. A brief survey of the Electoral College reveals that it was in Article XII of the United States Constitution. At that time it was decided that each state would receive as many electoral votes as it had seats in Congress and that each voting elector would lie either elected or appointed by the individual state that he represents. Many times the electors are merely outstanding members of the party who have been honored by allowing them to serve in that position, while the average voter usually does not even realize that his vote does not directly support the presidential nominee he favors. While the Constitution prolialily intended to confer wide discretion on the electors in the chuice of a President, custom has decided that these officials act in a mechanical manner; that is, he automatically casts his liallot for the official nominee of the party. This procedure has liecome so standard that if an elector should ever vote for someone other than the official party nominee, he would prolialily lie sent to a psychiatrist or lie committed to a mental institution. Hie arguments against the Electoral College are as standard as Old Glory itself. It has lieen argued that the Constitution no longer fits the American way of life today, and that certain adjustments need to lie made to compensate fur the modem changes. Furthermore, it has liecoinc apparent to most voters that the Electoral College serves no definite purpose and is a formality ur tradition that could easily lx: eliminated; not to mention, of course, the haunting idea that a President inay someday lx; elected by the Electoral College and not the American voters! Every time that the Electoral College question arises, there are always numerous suggestions to liclp solve the problem. Some of the more popular suggestions are to abolish it completely. Into add new reforms which might clearify - or make its purpose more distinct, or completely reorganize the twelfth amendment roots and planting new young seeds that up the deep-se- t will reflect our modem society. On Scpteinlier 18, the House of Representatives took the first voyage into unchart ered reform realms when it passed ly a record vote of 339 yeas to 70 nays. Resolutiim N. 681, propos-inan amendment to the Constitution providing for the direct which in popular election of the President and turn would mean the complete elimination of the Electoral College. Whether or not the House's voyage ends in success nr a shipwreck depends upon whether the resolutiim continues unchanged through the Senate and chi to the President's desk. The direct travel of Resolution No. 681 may lx: shipwrecked however, when it takes a possible detour in the Senate. As id now, the Senate has yet to act upon the issue, lmt some Senate reports say that methixls other than the direct, popular elect ini plan have a stronger liacking in the Senate. Two other popular plans that are being tossed about m Washingtons storm tossed seas are known as the prupirti(iiia) plan and the district plan. Inder the proportion plan, tlx electoral vote of each slate is divided among each candidate is proportion to the popular vote that each received within the state. The district plan' is perhaps the must popular of all the sag. gcstiims. Under this plan, a presidential candidate would win one electoral vote for each congressional district that he carried, plus two for each state carried. Tliis plan would allow Congress to alter the existing amendment without deviating completely awa from the historical document and fouiidatiixi. The latter plan represents the least change from the Constitution that has served us well thnxighniit our nation's history. Hit primary idea liehiiid the historical pact is Federalism, which the Ixisic principle that Americans should vote in com. munities, by states, as a federatiim. Furthermore, the district plat would prolwbly lie favored by more of the state legislatures than some of the more radical and drastic plans lieing proposed. As our Congress attempts to adjust the steering lines that have successfully guided the U.S.S. America" fur almost 2(X) yean, each citizen must rcmciiilx:r that the knots of the Electoral College have affected the steering performance of the ship. If we want to continue sailing hopelessly with unsafe steering lilies, we can forget all Electoral College legislation and hopes of refnnx But, if we want to steer straight towards the Harlxir of Unix; we must realize that the time fur action is now; lxifore the I'.SA America" cradles and is destroyed by the antiquated Eleclmj Special - ..I-- . V 1IIIC EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Second Lieutenant Samuel N. Reed is the new executive officer of Headquarters and Headquarters Company. Lt. Reed, a native of Dyers-burTennessee, attended the U.S. Army Chemical Center and School at Ft. McClellan, Alabama before his assignment here at Dugway. Frank . lliitkc has lieen proWilliam . Saudt lias lieen moted In Private First Class. to Private First Class. promoted PFC liulke is assigned to the PFC Sandt is assigned to the U.S. Army Hospital. U.S. Army Hospital. College. (VMK) on lose-O- ut All Ceiling Tile As Low As peTtile SGT. PETE Samuel Reed, and First Sergeant Donald Clide in coordinating company activities. Starting with 6 a.m. formation Sgt Peterson initial task is that of n getting the word out to the tnxjps." From there his day consists of setting up company details, such as the funeral details, to answering a continually ringing telephone, to helping incoming personnel get rooms, process in, and baxiclv orientate them to I leadquartcrs and Headquarters Company. Details are usually a sticky assignment to handout hut Sgt Peterson has performed that assignment in such fairness that lie has won the praise of many a troop. As operation sergeant, Sgt Pete leads a very taxing job. Coupled with a conservative estimate 2(X) of over phone calls a day to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, the job of operations sergeant is not an envious one. Whether it is 6 in the morning or 4:30 p.m. though Sgt Peterson answers duty's call with a smile and a willingness to lie of service. Dale Karvus has i Donald Ceiidmu lias ln-epro- moled to Private First Class. PFC promoted to Private PVT Karyus is assigned to the MP Gcndron is assigned In Housing Platoon. Division. Thomas P. Kcarncv has icon promoted to Private FT Kearney is assigned to the Officers Ojam Mess. Broken Pieces of Sheet Rock Reg. 7 a sq. Now 3C ft. a sq. ft. Tooele 324 North Main 1 m E-- mOJUHlNG! g I Electrical Items & lumbing Vice-Preside- nt board feet PosHnventory Cjose0utjrterthandise Real Bargains RAMIFICATIONS ' Arrivals John Pleasant has promoted to Specialist Five. Sx-- 5 Pleasant is assigned to Militarv Personnel. 1 Ix-e- e HIGH SPEED DRYER i Ernest Singleton has promoted to Specialist 5. Sx-- 5 Singleton is assigned to the Material Test Division. High Speed ELECTRIC I Allx'rt Veldstra lias promoted to Specialist Five. Sxi- 5 Veldstra is assigned to the Motor Pcxil. Ih-c- DYER Prices Start - at George R. Bates has Five. promoted to SM'cialist Sec .5 Bates is assigned to Munitions. 19 Ix-e- Douglas A. Bold! Tooele't most experienced repair men back every sale has lieen Five. promoted to Sjivciulist Spec 5 Huldt is assigned to Munitions. i proDennis Kruse has moted to Private First Class. PFC Kruse is assigned to Welfare and Morale. Ik-ci- . ) |
