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Show V Editsrfcl Pc-jTcsJ- urt" 40ootC. Viet Rural Peobl e Under Red Influence . tyvnanxsmte SAIGON UPI-- Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah : SUNDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1967 of hamlet hr - .fl that-th- e after seven bone-wea- ry limply years of hard, and generally bril- liant labor in a job second only to the presidency in it complex-it- y. " ? ' , I HUM vt tf w j ywyt BumDer6fcoTigTefsm U imTvaniinir flpnuTTiirfl - wuiuf from the Pentagon as proof of an m Ideological rift between him and the President and are fearful that it portends a sharp escalation of pogmm dominated er streefy by the Viet Corsg. ador Deputy. Ui. Robert W. Komer said Satuf day. He said a new 'computerized system showed 3,969 villages with II million inhabitant! live 'Under Viet Cong control. influenced . McNamara Shift: Hawks7 Gain Robert S. McNamara must be pleasantly surprised at the num- nf lvyster he has suddenly mrnuired on Canitol Hill by virtue of the announcement that he Is resigning as secretary of defense to become president of the World Bank. Washington is rife with speculation about the "real" reasons for his leaving. W- of the ntrel South , Vietnam per cent , M dispatched by frM&at Johftoa le take cfc? el fee pacification nfraa ander Gen. William C WeaunortlaM. commander of aS VS. farces in Vietnam. The paof jcatioa program seeks to provide security tor the hamlets agahut the Viet Cong and set up programs to win the loyalty of the people to the government. The envoy described at a news conference a computerized KagMT the war In Vietnam. McNamara, it is said, has grown increasingly doubtful and dis- turbed about the war. The remov of his moderating influence thus will constitute a victory for the hawkish advisers surrounding ' speculathe President, t say the ' Ankm years ago, on Dec 2, "the Italian navigator landed in -- the and found the natives friendly." , . New-Wor- id the In squash court-undstands of Stagg Field at the Uni versity of Chicago, with a pile ox-ei graphite blocks and uranium ide slugs, Enrico Fermi and' his colleagues had achieved the first chain reaction release of nucontrolled the first clear energy." Although, as Fermi was later to write, "the event was not spectacular, no fuses burned, no lights flashed," it was one of the most momentous events in history. It the way for the atomic er self-sustaini- ng Kved the hydrogen bomb, the You Ask a Silly Question - -- . . , - ... Mrs. t H . 7 Letters to the Editor t Freedom for the criminals, The misfits and insane. . These. .. Supreme Court rulings cause our nation's . pain. i Help y, : tWs JGreat Society- -- Has got to have its say; It's, turned many a youthful head Prematurely gray. High taxes and inflation Accompanied by , the nuclear-powere- 4 draft school safe to get the records big word It usually comes- - out ji.i -- l i j iri j i i paper: "A roaring twister last Wednesday carried off Jim Benson's house and furniture, and aH three of his children are missing. "Neighbors donated a new bed to give Jim and his wife a . iresh start."- - Parking Limit Editor Herald: 71 the main purpose of the to' th'downtown" district is to encourage people to spend more money there, I would like to pose a question: Who is going to spend more hurried shopper money, the the clock as she watching dashes in and out of stores in order to get everything done in an hour, or the relaxed shopper who can afford the time to browse among the counters, wait for a clerk, and try on Well, It won't be long now. Twenty more days and I can start my Christmas shopping. Paul Harvey ur - ROBERTSON VEALIA, Calif. -- 1 had to get out of threatening to kill himself because his Mapleton to realize just how boondocky wife was divorcing him. To cut it short, I had become. Dont misunderstand me: ' Felix arrived at the apartment of Oscar I am not about to register shock at the who was paying alimony and the two awful things I see in the land of the set up housekeepng together. Gentiles. To the contrary, I am rather Felix, as neat and housewifey as any pleased to see them openly acknowlwoman succeeded In bringing orderliedged with no apparent hypocrisy. I did see a few hippies around Provo, ness into the carefree apartment of and a few yokels making a feeble atOscar who liked things free and easy, and soon they were squabbling and tempt to imitate them, but down here they are so common that nobody turns pouting like fishwives. The action and around. It's not vanity that causes me the dialogue was hilarious, and the apto say that I get more attention than pearance of two girls who adopted Felix any hpples I've seen here. It's not flat- -' rather than the masculine Oscar was tering to have people look at you with another commentary on sex life of tothat, "What's that old duffer doing day. The six boys and two girls in the here?" look. They look at the hippies with more of an "What are we doing cast gave to these unskilled eyes what here?? expression, for the poorest hippy seemed a very professional performcan look as If he owned the earth. ance. It was sheer fun for everybody, and there was nothing dirty about Glen, who is lighting director for the From where I sat those kids looked like college theatricals here has been going out to rehearsals m the evening for adults, and they surely understood a quite some time and not unexpectedly play that had been written for adults. There is nothing horrifying about the I was Invited to the show. That's when I learned that we don't have such shows kids of today being wiser than were in the boondocks. too long it has been their. parents.-Fo- r The play was, "The Odd Couple." thought that ignorance was the best Glen prepared me- - for it by letting me protection for youth. Watching this play read an article about the play illustrat- as well as the audience convinced me ed by pictures of the two stars, Art Carthat people 'can still laugh if they can ney and Oscar Homulka, who appeared understand, and laughter is not quite a in the Broadway production. I knew it lost art was a modem sophisticated comedy In the audience were , prosperious, with overtones of homosexuality, and I d people of he valley, and .had. my private doubts about being there were bearded male beatniks, adequately treated in a junior college. female counGlen had warned me that the stage . terparts. All of them laughed together would be different It was a circular at the predicament of the two desperpit with the actors at the bottom and ate seekers after domestic bliss. About the audience surrounding them. It prothe only, solid fact established was that vided, he said, a sense of intimacy. it is something not easily found. It was . "You'll feel right at home," he said. symbolic of something that the slovenly "There'll be newspapers all over the Oscar wound up begging his friends not floor along with cigarette stubs, and to throw cigarets on the floor. Thus s' and beer bottles- - everywhere, do people change. I haven't wanted a cigaret since I just like It used, to be at our house." He was right. Of course the room had came down here until I went., outside ' to blmagined, but it didn't take much the theater during the intermission and jemind me..of homeIt beganwith found nearly everybody-smoking.-ala poker game which was held up be- most, but not quite, bummed a lady cause of assuasiqg number who was for a cigaret ' . ' POEM ON FREEDOM Stuart Kent Polzin, writer of the following, is the son of Mr.-anMrs. Kenneth S. Polzin of 474 N. Main, Springville. He wag stationed with the Marines at San Diego when he sent the poem home to his paren LAWFUL SIN? FREEDOM BERRY'S WORLD BY JAMES - " - I way. But freedom isn't freedom The way it used to be -- v Freedom's killing freedom The way it looks to me. Freedom for the pickets : And the demonstrators, . too. It's this type . . of freedom That's hurting you . . and you. . . served that purpose. You got water from the well and dectricity from the Delco generator. You were almost entirely But then you moved to town where it. was more convenient for you and your- neighbors to pipe water from a common well, bring power from a central source, dispose of waste in a common sewer. Because most of your neighbors wanted streets, lighted and paved, you voted for the civic leaders who promised to them. And better provide - 1N7iNU. "Pom dear-fi- ght offer sh married that Briton he was JmrnlmAI" '3P up. And yet, because the increasing costs can be obscured in campaign oratory, you continued to vote for the men who promised to provide "more im' serv"better provements," ; ices." Our generation accepted a political Ponzi promise that we could aH stand in a circle with our hands in each other's poc--' kets and somehow get rich " thereby. But a new generation of voters is upcoming. Today's healthier, stronger, taller, handsomer young mar rieds are smarter, too. Aware of the economic facts of life; the enlighted younger voter knows that government cannot "give us" anything without paying for It with our money. When we ask for some in--' creasing government service, we must pay for the service and the servant dffectiy or indirectly. This new awareness is apparent in the manner in which Texans have recently been voting to raise their municipal sales taxes. More than 25 cities, -- schoolsAnd as irf A hundred and fire protection and traffic cities will have so voted on ::this-writin- gr by regulation. January, This way, the rural people who come to town to shop will 'conveniences," promised and help pay a share of the streets delivered them. they use and the street lights, You were "sort1 of aware" and the parks and recreational that you'd have to pay for Jacilties and the comforts these increasing services with." that pavement, Increasing taxes, and, for a power and plumbing provide. while, you willingly did. It is unlikely mat the costs of But the increasing complexmaintaining and expanding and ity and sophistication of these improving cities will decrease. facilities began to cost more But the new breed of statesand more. A modern cloverleaf men will not double-tal- k the is astronomically costly com-- ; electorate about "something into a for nothing." He'll be able more H pared . tersection. honestly to campaign on more And with labor costs rising, legitimate issues. the men your city employs to it would have Historically been political suicide for replace,- - improve and maintain those power sources, water and hopeful mayors to ' systems and "sewers "wanted" insist that the people who use 1 and got higher salaries. public facilities and services Your taxes went up and must pay for them. Politicians, reflecting your appetite. for more and more fann-to-mark- et ' The opinion and statements expressed by Herald columnist are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this news paper. ; You made trouble for your-se- lf when you moved to town. A generation ago, down on the farm, when your garbage accumulated you dumped it in the compost pit. To protect your farmstead you had a dog at the gate and a shotgun oyer the mantle. . If the brush fire got away from you, you rang the big bell on the back porch or the little bell on the party line and summoned neighbors with buckets. You had no street lights because you bad no streets, no sewers because the septic tank police-protecti- (Only In America) The War's across tfaelea Or so the papers say; ' That's why our men must die, To pave great freedom's well-dresse- 0. BERRY a how about mat "Section T" The following item recently appeared in an Alabama news- Not a pretty picture. . Who says De Gaulle is clothes? Procedure in such establishdaft? The one-hois ments pretty stringemand parking limit The younger generation seems designed to combat the routinely carried out So Constantly rebel while my friend briskly attendimprovements. bother with morals? Why Mrs. Patricia B. Grey . ed to her business in the safe, heL Life's already another secretary carried out But then there are a few Toadstool Park near Crawthe procedure to close and lock With faith In this great same. ford, Neb., is so named because land rock formations resemble Margaret was pretty surprisacross the sea They're not but ed, dismayed. Actually,: Fighting in foreign sand.' the door doesnt lock from the Leaders of tomorrow Inside (do you suppose the inLie bleeding on the ventor was ever locked in a FORUM RULES ground solid safe?) so she merely " of will lie them Many flipped a lever and strolled ' Beneath an earthen mound. nw HrM wtKoiM Mtrt (rem back to the telephone. PIMM IMM ttWM rulM: While our leaders die MWl Unstti Hmit, 150 word. Slgitftura Upon due tonsideration, my come to rule, Rebels nd required. ddrtn Hewvr, H friend conceded that this is a Initial contributor requt( - only Causing more unrest with cortola V an in be to b 'safe' mod putxithtd pretty place As nations drool rival Includl Wt political mctptloru, emergency. Come to think of it, In ntturo or In which Kcuutlon or Our soldiers need your help. la audi caaaa, art mad chargo a safe might even be a pretty lull nama and addreu mmt b utad. This battle YOU must win. safe fallout shelter! Betty G. Ne unalgned (anonynwm) lattara home-Free- dom at The battle here dll ba consloared. Prafaranca will Spencer American Fork. bt glvan lettart which ara ahort and is lawful sin! The Herald rtwrvw typewritten. So let us be more careful the right te edit or reiect letter-- , SAGEBRUSH SAGE SAYS not In 9001 taster too which ere lone hi tilings we say and do. Killing time is murder in ottrttltlly liDtloutv or wnlch contain Forever! America tNttrnonti doraootory to ony roco the worst degree. roflglon or era, And God bless tt, tool Polzin Kent Stuart MARINE WRITES as the fire alarm rang out Chopping Block e And speaking of 'connotations' to the BYU Stadium? Questions The Wisdom of Hour Off the Beat . A. a i Maybe other Universities follow the same pattern, but I didn't know the BYU Stadium deliberately omitted "Section-- P and "Section-PP- " in their seating arrangements. The fellow at the ticket office says this was done because of the 'connotation'. . If my memory serves me right I believe there is a "Section P" In the BYU Fieldhoose. Which brings up the question, "Why indoors and not outdoors?" Maybe the reason goes back to the days of childhood when mothers gave specific Instructions on going indoors and not outdoors! . Herald Staff --. 1 nj - V j-- ash-tray- t. John not only gives information but is asked for advice. Like the woman that called him on a Monday night and asked If the movie had started. He told her that it had been running for about a half an hour. The woman caller then told him that she worked nights and that Mondays were her nights off. Know-ta- g that the movie was only going to play one more week, she asked John what she should do. Come to the show a half hour late or wait until next Monday to see it? ; I never did fM out what he told her. j ss so-call-ed it it m Calien 'What tun will It be ever?" An end run around the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam aimed at knocking out ' Communist artillery illegally emplaced there wouldn't constitute an invasion of North Vietnam, says Dwight Ei-- " it (Bye) JENSEN TleatffLT&tt mn.?- - DMZ Dilemma C ' Theaters "Good evening, Fbi Jbeater. Callen "HeDo, Is this the Fox Theater?1 Another example: Caller: "Klat tune do the show start?" Theater: "Elf p.m." Callerj How kng does It last?" wr,. By the end of this cenelectrical energy "the half tury, States will United the in produced be generated by nuclear plants. Eventually, nuclear engines will truly propel us into the Space Age. Still, we have hardly begun to move away from the shores of that New World discovered by the physicists. In 25 years we have -- pushed ahead, sometimes blindly, and have reached a small hill a little ways inland. From it we can see how far we have come and how much unknown territory remains to be explored. areas." . su medicine. By FRANK Cong dominated "cute." But let an aduK try it and ne immediately becomes "stupid". ' Admittedly, we adults do say some pretty-stu- pid thing- swhich I won't dwell on because I'm as guilty as the next guy. brings the subject to mind was the conversation I had $e lay with John Taylor, the manager of the Fox Theater In a were (uacuswim - lucpuune - lauia werorave m our ive businesss. Always thought the newspaper received "strange" calls, but now I'm convinced the theater business is at least an equal Here's an example of the calls he gets: " senhower.---'----:V'"----L-4- . When a small child tackles i .I ii uarwea-naoie-cu- can effectively replace mm- .McNamara has been the strong, est and most efficient secretary 01 aeiense in ine asu yearn uitt the office has existed. More than any of his predecessors, he mha " I. By B. j Drove or The rominir vear will the validity' of all this.. disprove eonrroi over inn;.. mmmrv. . - , . , me nation win oe iorcunaie indeed if a man with the same size shoes can be found to take hi place. that aa American or govern-- . meat representative cannot visit except when accompanied by an armed guard prepared for a ' ' '- 7 fight Komer said that hi October 66.1 per cent of the nation's the 3.5 populationincluding ' million uncity dwellers-liv-ed der secure conditions, 16.2 per cent were in contested areas and 171 per cent were in Viet - By - Line . tors. peaceful harnessing of the atom, and all that these things have meant and have yet to mean. By The Dec 2, 1942, is a marker separating. twn different epochs as ir-revocabiy as Oct 12, 1492, separated the medieval from the mod -,-. It would be a justified military era world. Man today holds in one' hand v operation "removing a thorn in SAFEST PLACE the power to destroy himself ut- our aides." Psssstl Do you want to know do how The trouble is, you keep the safest terly; in the other hand, the J place to be in a fire promise of enough energy to build the thorn from sprouting back? drill? How about a walk-i-n The only way to make sure safe! , any kind of Utopia he desires. : the would be to station U. S. troops In a mere quarter-centurOne of my friends, secretary destructive power of the atom permanently, in the DMZ, but. at the local high school, had has been developed to unimagin-.hl- a this would be illegal on our part, this very experience recently.nronortions. Yet 'while two And therethey would be subject It began innocently enough, as to attack from artillery farther she answered a long distance, halves of the world hold each othd north. er at missiles-poin- t, telephone call After determinWould this new thorn in our ing the needs of her caller, she ships sail the oceans. Elements irradiated in reactors per ' sides justify an even deeper put the telephone on "hold" form vital tasks in industry and "noninvasion" of North Vietnam? and stepped blithely into the Jo district advisers in the hamlets on fill out questionnaires conditions in the hamlets they visit. The computer rates the hamlets on a scale from A (little Viet Cong influence) to V (total Viet Cong domination). The largest single category Is the V designation containing 3,969 hamlets with a population of 2J million. He said the inhabitants of these hamlets are so far under Viet Cong control 1 Tho Atomic Ago Just 25 Years Old Twenty-fiv- e a system that categorizes the 12,600 hamlets in South Vietnam. The system, 14 months in the making, Judges each hamlet each month according to II criteria, nine concerning the security from Viet people' Cong attack and control and nine dealing with government economkf development, health, education and welfare efforts under way in the hamlets. Each month the 222 American , |