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Show Page Ten The Springville Herald July 26, 1973, r Looking i Ahead bv Di. George S. Benson President NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM C H.Lm oeauy, rtinaiiaaa j THE NEWS COVERUP In the midst of sensational revelations in the Democratic Party's Baker scandal of 1964, Walter W. Jenkins, who held highest security clearances as President Lyndon Johnson's most intimate political and K;rsonal friend on the White ouse staff, was arrested for alleged homosexual acts. The arrest came on October 7, 1964, a month before the Presidential election in which Mr. Johnson was the incumbent Democratic candidate. At the time Jenkins also was a major figure in the Baker case disclosures. News of the arrest (and the long-suppressed long-suppressed fact that there had been a previous arrest on the same charge) would have been a blow to the Johnson campaign. cam-paign. Major elements of the national news media suppressed sup-pressed news of the arrest for several days. During this period the details became common knowledge in the National Press Club in Washington, whose membership mem-bership included the whole Washington press corps. Yet the news was totally suppressed until October IS. Suppressing the Facts On October 14, a full week after the arrest, when many newsmen "sitting" on the sensational news began to grow nervous for fear somebody would "break" the story, two close personal and political friends of President Johnson paid a call to the Washington Post, the Washington Daily News, and the Washington Evening Star. They left with the belief that none of the papers would "break" the news story. They were Abe Fortas, lawyer, who later was to be appointed to the Supreme Court by President Johnson; and Clark Clifford, lawyer, who later was to be appointed Secretary of Defense in the Johnson cabinet. Subsequently, Newbold Noyes, Editor of the Star, said: "They made what I would regard as a plea to have us not break the story. I agreed to go along at the time." John T. O'Rourke, Editor of the Daily News, made a similar statement. J. R. Wiggins, Editor of the Post, reported the same facts about the visit, but he said he made no promise to Fortas and Clifford who were asking that the news be suppressed. Security Jeopardized One of my closest friends is a former Washington and New York newsman. 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The Long Lines Department of AT&T is working on a 230-mile Baker-Johnson-Jenkins--McCloskey Democratic scandal. He said that it was common knowledge that its ramifications were far-reaching far-reaching but that none of the major media in Washington and New York chose to set their investigative reporters at work on it. Known facts in the Jenkins affair indicated that national security had been in jeopardy for at least the duration of Mr. Johnson's administration of the Presidency. It was confirmed, after the efforts of Clark Clifford and Abe Fortas to suppress the Jenkins story had been disclosed, that Solice reporters on the Washington newspapers had been given details of the Jenkins arrest by the Police Department on Monday, Oct. 12. It was known also that Jenkins had extremely sensitive sen-sitive "Q" security clearance and "knew everything the President knew" of a classified secret nature. 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It has already been laid from Boston, Mass. to Brigham City, and is being extended ex-tended around the northern end of the Great Salt Lake into Nevada this year. Two other sections are currently under construction between Dinner Station, Nev. and Dunnigan, California. Next year it will be two blocks from the White House in January 1959. Both times he was permitted to post "appearance bonds which were forfeited. Leads Not Pursued Publication of the sensational news came into the open on December 15, when the UPI Washington bureau broke the story on orders from its New York headquarters office. The rest of the press then published the news. Between October 7, the day of the arrest, and October 15, the White House had reported the absence of Jenkins from his White House office as due to "nervous exhaustion" requiring hospitalization. The Washington press knew this was not true. In time' an FBI investigation "cleared" Jenkins of any suggestion he might have participated in any security break. But there were many unpursued leads in the case, as there were in the Democrat's Baker scandal in which Jenkins was allegedly involved. The major Washington-New York news media were apathetic compared com-pared to their day after day energetic pursuit and investigative in-vestigative momentum in exploring Watergate over a period of many months. The giant panda weighs over 300 pounds and eats bamboo 10 to 12 hours a day. hew extiiiny ruuimw I Classes start Aug. 20 n ..J.I.L-JTT.TUTnjIVLJUVljrUVUIUWJ-UT-. .-U-r.L-l-- r II M Fire damages won't effect veteran benefits Any damage to service records in the July 12 fire at the Military Records Center in St. Louis, will have no impact on the 13-million veterans and dependents currently receiving Veterans Administration benefits. This assurance was given today by Donald E. Johnson, Administrator of Veterans Affairs. VA records for those now receiving benefits are maintained main-tained mostly at the agency's 57 regional offices throughout the nation, and also at VA's 169 hospitals and two insurance centers. VA does operate its own records processing center in the St. Louis area, but this is located about 10 miles from the fire-damaged fire-damaged military records unit. This VA Center serves as a repository for records of older veterans and beneficiaries no longer receiving VA payments or benefits. The VA, Johnson said, also maintains other backup files containing essential, though not complete, military service in-' formation which would prove helpful in processing any new applications for benefits from veterans whose military records might have been destroyed in the fire. completed to Oakland, California. A sideleg cable route between. Salt Lake City and Brigham City connects Mountain Bell long distance equipment to the main transcontinental cable. Mountain Bell District Manager W. Merrial Hymas, said the majority of long distance calls originating in this area are switched through Salt Lake City on their way to other areas of the U.S. "The sideleg route into Salt Lake will provide more long distance circuits for all Utah telephone customers to call cross-country or around the world," Hymas said. Long Lines, the Bell System unit responsible for interstate and international communications com-munications services, is pioneering a new method of burying the coaxial cable in Utah that is faster and has a minimal impact on the environment. en-vironment. Two large bulldozers combine to plow four-inch corrugated plastic tubing, then settles back in place over the buried tube. The topsoil remains on top and few rocks are brought to the surface, telephone cable is later pulled into the tubing. In some areas where cable plowing is impossible or where blasting is necessary to break through rocks, the alternate trenching method must be used. This cable burying method requires a four-foot deep trench and extensive backfilling operations. It also requires about twice the amount of working area as the newer plowing method and greater restoral efforts. . Manholes have been placed at one-mile intervals to house repeater equipment for amplifying am-plifying voice and data signals traveling the transcontinental route. ' Clean up crews are following the cable placing operations and are restoring the land as nearly as possible to its original contour. con-tour. Later this year restoration crews will restore the right of wav to its original condition by removing excess rock unearthed in cable laying and reseeding to reestablish vegetation. There'll a whole lemon in safe aulo travel a family can learn from Dad's wise move to have the car fully prepared before vacation: "take care of your car and it will take care of you." This auto mechanic adds a lesson in dependability install good spark plugs. HOW HIGH'S THE WATER? Two 82d Airborne Division medics test-drive the Army's Gamma Goat, an all-terrain vehicle. Sp4 Robert G. D'Aleussio of Pascoagh, R.I., and Pfc William E. Lynch of Platteville, Colo., are training with the vehicle in Mott Lake at Ft. Bragg, N.C. (U.S. Army photo by First Lt. Phillip M. Kabealo) Since 1968, the VA Data Processing Center at Austin, Texas, has kept computer master records on some 3-million 3-million Vietnam Era Veterans discharged since that date. Computerized master index records are also maintained by the VA in Washington on more than 32-million veterans living and dead. These backup records contain information on dates and branch of service, character of discharge and other information necessary for VA to adjudicate DHOW higher mies on savings at First Security Bank INTEREST PAID 4 TIMES A YEAH ON ALL CERTIFICATES AD new certificates of deposit will be issued at the following per annua rates: First Security has always been first to pay its savings customers the maximum rates permitted by law. And we will continue to lead the way. Open your account now for new higher rates. Each depositor's account insured to $20,000. Poirsft SecifliTDtty Ekmnik Pint First First p Ife III " ' f IT lie I I 1 V: Vb ,1...... J. ? zn - j 1 Jr l claims for such benefits as GI Bill Training, GI Loans, VA Pensions and VA Medical and Hospital care. Veterans primarily affected would be those applying in the future for VA service-connected disability compensation whose military medical records may have been destroyed in the fire. 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Wyoming First Security State Bank of Suringvllle First Security State Bank F.D.l.C. Utah fruit crop listed best in forty years Utah has the best fruit crop produced in the last forty years. That's what the fruit forecast released this week by the Utah Department of Agriculture says. The sour cherry crop is described as the largest ever and apples will be the largest since 1925 the report states. Sweet cherries and apricots are the second largest crops in more than ten years and pears ranks third. Only peaches are rated below the 162-71 average as a result of heavy winter freeze damage, particularly in Box Elder County. Apple production this year is expected to total 55.0 million pounds. This is a little more than the large 1969 crop, more than double 1971, and many times the near failure of 1972. Sweet cherries are estimated at 6,000 tons, second only to the 7,700 ton crop in 1968. Sour cherry crops are generally very heavy, with a forecast of 8,500 tons, much above the previous record of 7,100 tons. Apricot production is expected to total 4,000 tons, much above the previous record of 7,100 tons. Apricot production is expected to total 4,000 tons, less than the large 1969 crop, but larger than all other recent years. A pear crop of 6,000 tons is expected, which is above that of most recent years, although below the 6,300 tons recorded for 1968. The peach harvest is forecast at 10.0 million pounds, which is above last year's near failure, but below all other years since 1967 by three to six million pounds. Northern fur seals breed near the Bering Sea and stray as far south as central Mexico and central Japan during winter migrations. Expert Eye Care by Dr. G. H. 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