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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 6 June 11, 197 DITORDA Use Of Govt Vehicles The need for limiting the use of government-owne- d motor vehicles to the support of official functions has been emphasized repeatedly in a wide variety of directives and tmiflFIlaa regulations. The requirement involves more than mere compliance; there is an attendant need for exercising common sense. Government-owne- d motor vehicles must not only be used as authorized, but every effort must be made to insure that the authorized use of such vehicles is not misunderstood or misinterpreted. As noted in a recent message to all major commanders from Gen. William, V. McBride, Air Force vice chief of staff, discretion must be exercised when government vehicles are used to attend official functions held off base. According to General McBride, this is essential to avoid the "appearance of excess, mismanagement or inappropriateness from a public point of view." Misunderstandings about the legal and authorized use of government motor vehicles are of particular concern in geographical areas where there is a relatively high concentration of Air Force personnel. In these areas, where many commanders and senior representatives are frequently invited to attend the same e function, common sense must be exercised to insure that the number of official vehicles utilized is kept within the bounds of public acceptance. General McBride has asked the senior Air Force commanders within each locality to take the lead in setting an example for prudent use of official vehicles. Gen. F. Michael Rogers, commander of Air Force Logistics Command (AFLC), has echoed General McBride's concern for the proper use of government a? off-bas- O f he significance of the flag, and the deep emotional I I iL feelings it of in be arouses a large part our citizenry, cannot fully expressed in the two dimensions of a lawyer's brief or of a judicial opinion. But if the government may create private proprietary interests in a written work and in musical and theatrical performances by virtue of copyright laws, I see no reason why it may not, for all of the reasons mentioned, create a similar governmental interest in the flag by prohibiting even those who have purchased the physical object from impairing its physical integrity. For what they have purchased is not merely cloth dyed red, white and blue, but also the one visible manifestation of two hundred years of nationhood a history compiled by generations of our forebears and contributed to by streams of immigrants from the four comers of the globe, which has travelled a course since the time of this country's origin that could not have been "foreseen by the most gifted of its begetters vehicles. Accordingly, he has advised AFLC personnel that he expects them to cooperate fully to minimize the number of government vehicles used to attend local activities. Each deputate and staff office must be alert to those occasions which require a number of senior officers to attend the same e function. Tenant organizations and other military service personnel should also be considered in transportation arrangements as a means to minimize the number of vehicles used. With the adoption of this common sense approach by both headquarters and field elements, AFLC can set the L example for the rest of the Air Force. ( LOGNEWS ) off-bas- Associate Justice William A. Rehnquist. U.S. Supreme Court White Stars, Blue Field Show New Constellation Although the 200th anniversary of our national flag is not until next year, this year's celebration of Flag Day on June 14 will take on added significance because it is the Nation's Bicentennial. The history of the Nation and its flag are intertwined. One of the earliest of this Nation's battle banners during the American Revolution was the Bedford Flag carried by the from Bedford, Minutemen Mass., when they faced the British regulars on the Concord Green. It featured a steel-claarm reaching from a cloud. In the hand is a sword, and surrounding the hand and sword on three sides is a golden scroll bearing the inscription Vince Aut Morire (Conquer on the channel leading to Charleston, S.C. The design of this fortifications surrounding S.C Charleston, During the engagement the first distinctive American flag to be displayed in the South appeared over the ramparts of Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, which lies in The brilliant Henry Ward Beecher, father of Harriet blue flag with a white crescent in the upper corner next to the staff was suggested by the blue uniforms of the garrison, and the silver crescents and words, "Liberty or Death," that the men wore on their caps. symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag, the govern- ment, the principles, the truths, the history that belong to the nation that sets it forth. The American flag has been a symbol of Liberty and men Beecher Stowe who gave us that mighty anthem, 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic," said: "A thoughtful mind when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself. And whatever may be its rejoiced in it." GRAND UNION " was raised by General George Washington in January 1776 at Mass. The standard of the Continental Army, it was also carried by the Marines when they made an expedition to the Bahamas Islands in March 1776. As the flag of the American Revolution, it was used on many occasions before June 1777, when Continental the Congress authorized the creation of the Stars and Stripes. The Grand Union flag had a canton, with crosses of St. George and St. our Andrew, indicating Nation's relationship with England. The Stars and Stripes with its white stars in a blue field indicated our new Cambridge, FORT MOULTRIE The Stars and Stripes that we know today was authorized by the Continental Congress one year later in June of 1 777. The resolution read in part: "That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation." With no prescribed arrangement some of the early flags flown by the U.S. Army had the stars arranged in circles and some in rows. Predecessor of the Stars and for purchase use or Everything advertised in this publication must be made available sex of the purchaser, or to the national race, creed, color, origin patronage without regard user, or patron. A confirmed violation or rejection of this policy of equal opportunities by an advertiser will ' .. (H , , " "'" " ii JbC.,. d Die). Two hundred years ago on June 28, 1776, a British fleet opened fire on American Stripes, the Grand Union Flag ( " 'SVZZZZI v UJ? fcJ fl.i 1 Betsy Ross uses a sewing machine to make the U.S. flag in a New Jersey factory. Gaining an additional star as each new state joined the Union, the Stars and Stripes is esd in a Philasentially the same flag which was first home. delphia A MODERN-DA- Y hand-stitche- in the refusal to print advertising from that source. 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