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Show Editorial Page FeatuiV Reds May Press Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1969 Future Change at PHS Helm Provo High School will have a new principal as of July 1. The ap- d pointment of Ronald Last to Delbert V. Tregeagle is an event of considerable Interest, eince the school touches the lives of most families in the community. For Mr. Tregeagle, his retirement will cap a teaching career which began at Garfield in the Granite District, included six years at Farrer Junior High in Provo and five years as teacher at Provo High before being named principal. Assistant principal at PHS since 1967, Mr. Last served as principal at Dixon Junior High 1963-6- 7 and prior to that was principal of thu old Central Jnnior High 1961-6He had begun his teaching career In 1955 atTimpanogos Elementr y and his administrative career as principal of Maeser School in 1959. Appointed assistant principal to Mr. Last at Provo High was Dolan Condie, who came ere 16 years ago as basketball, baseball and tennis coach after coaching at Car bon High. Provo High was still located In the old building on Third West (now demolished) when Mr. Tregeagle began his principalship. The sue-cee- 35-ye- ar 3. school has grown uteadily during the more than two decades he has been at the helm, both in the old school and the present one. This year the growth wus especially substantial as a result of closedown of the former Brigham Young High School. SArGON (UPD-T- lie nationwide wave of Communist attacks almost certainly marks the start of a new Red offensive aimed at Saigon, U.S. Intel, ligence sources said today. The primary objective of the w idespread shellings and ground assaults apparently was to divert Allied forces while up to 40,000 Communist troops began closing in on the capital, they doctumenUi and statements by prisoners and detectors not only said Saigon was the goal but aliw gave the past-Te- t period as most likely time for attack. In addition, the Communists hae gradually raised their strength to about 65,000 troops 81 in maneuver battalions within a of radius About of 50 the Saigon. battalions are units which have aid. Allied bases along Infiltration corridors around the capital have been alerted to expect continued shellings and ground attacks as three Communist divisions move toward Saigon from the north, east and west. The sources said that all Indactors long have pointed to Saigon as the Reds' "ultimate objective." Numerous captured "When I Get to Paris, 111 Have a Few Questions for You, General!" Under his direction, PHS has recorded many significant "firsts" for the school in expanded faculty and curriculum, academic achievements, scholarships, and extracurricular activities. His longstanding interest in youth, especially in scouting, has been a plus factor in his relationships with the students under his jurisdiction. We are confident that students, former students, faculty, and the thousands of today's citizens who pot their start at Provo High during the past two decades would join the Herald in commending Mr. Tregeagle for his dedicated public service and wishing him well in the remainder of his tenure aiiiJ in his retirement when he locks his office door for the last time July 1. Our congratulations go to Mr. Last and Mr. Condie, two ni2n, along with best wishes for success during their tenure at the PUS helm. highly-deservi- Drive to Take Saigon All-O- ut . . ... ... . ..., v jm m ii rwm When they think about Turkey that vital nation a steadfast friend f the U.S. and the unshakable aouthern anchor of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Judging by current rumblings along the Dardanelles our State hasn't apparently Department been doing enough thinking of late about Turkey. So far the trouble has been mainly the usual protest outbursts by leftist Students against visits to Turkey by units of the American Sixth Fleet. But it would be a mistake for Washington to write off the incidents as so much youthful exuberance or mischief. They should be taken as a signal that Turks resent the smug assumption by our diplomats that Turkey is so securely in the fold it now merits only second class attention. , r. i rw j r it .. . . at There's nothing second-clas- s all about Turkey's strategic position, astride the Soviet Union's :' W ".. v i t, should be prescribed with the same care and certainty uses in prescrib-rprescription drugs. The key to success in exercise, as in drug therapy, lies in tailoring the regimen to the individual. Herbert A. Devies, Ph.D., of the University of Southern California. Computers don't think. They just think they think. Dr. Kenneth Colby, psychiatrist and computer scientist and director of Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Project. NEW YORK CITY At an electrical power convention here, we of the press heard speeches about conservation and Negro employment. Those subjects, and literally nothing else except shady jokes by the master of ceremonies. Newsworthy? Yes, btcause the selective subject matter, though not the joking, reg lates to the subtle of the Nixon White House. Nobody can satisfactorily explain how Queen Victoria influenced her subjects' thinking, writing, dressing and behavior and yet she did. Who can explain how Dwight Eisenhower restored usage of terms like father-imag- e and euphoria? But it happened and we lived for a while under leadership in a slight daze of all's well. Or why, exactly, did John Kennedy inspire the tinsel Camelot syndrome? Or why, with Richard Nixon only a few weeks in office, has there developed an era we might call obligational. We can speculate on but we don't understand it. Does the influence flow from Or is there a wishfulness in the people which is relected in the monarch, the premier, the president o fthe affected nation? An acceptable guess might be that, with the pressure of the Great Society removed, citizens feel morally obliged to look to their debts of honor, their I.O.U's to society. We've become more conservation-minde- d under Interior Secretary Hickel than under LBJ's aggressive Secretary Udall. We're more sympathetic toward Negro improvement than we were when Presidents Kenneay and Johnson were hectoring us. President Nixon, owing nothing to the Negro electorate, spoke fo rmfllions of us white folks when he style-settin- y, ruler-to-peopl- said: ; "I hope I can gain the respect, and I hope eventually the friendship, of black citizens." As an Irregular attendant at utility magnates' press conferences and banquet orations, I have heard much special pleading. As a believer in electrical-powe- r development, particularly in the .V V ..v.H.Av.v.-.v.v- ... public relations. Partly also it's for public obligation, and it's fully in consonance with the budding Nixon era. Then there was a talk on Negro employment, not by a sociologist, but by the personnel manager of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company. Are Negroes afraid to climb utility poles? Are householders timid about admitting Are Negroes un- and puncreliable about tuality? Are their "genes" incompatible with the ? of a These questions would have seemed grossly misplaced at a utilities convenwork-habi- ts profits-system- tion a short while back, but here they were raised and answered. Cleveland's riots, and corporate reaction to them, had caused this firm to go in big for training-schoolThe trend began under g Johnsonian It politics. continues with a different tenor under the new social persuasiveness of the Nixon White House. "Small, splendid efforts," the President called for in his inaugural address. And that's what he'll get in the payoff of many social I.O.U's which simply can't be collected by political force. arm-twistin- .. ut....w.-.uw- ....J.wJ. ....... .7!W. Should Have Come Sooner Editor Herald: Congiatulations Provo! I was happy to see you at last use a law that until now remained idle. I find it disgusting however that a show like Candy was permitted to run 15 days before action was taken. I also believe it is neglect upon the part of the court to have failed to send a competent per- obscene elsewhere. (Boston on the first night!) We owe it to our young people to screen this type of entertainment. If our adults wont to waste their time and money filling their minds with filth it is their choice to make. But let us not be guilty of throwing mora! degradation at our young people's heads. Wake up! Don't wait 15 days next time. MRS. KAREN BOULTER 275 N. 900 W. Provo, Utah Prelude to Better Times s, meter-reader- . . Says Crackdown on 'Candy' son (on opening night) to see Southern and Rocky Mountain States, I did not think it strange. Sure, the merchants of electricity put out public messages about private industry's need of access to falling water, about private enterprise's right to acquire more atomic reactors, about corporate excuses for urban brownouts and city and about the running fight against socialization. But up here at the St. Regis Hotel we had a talk and a film on oyster conservation in Long Island Sound. At other times it would have seemed & far-otopic for public relations director Arthur Herbert, Long Island Lighting Company. The Long Island oyster, once a choice marketing item, has been fast disappearing, and with it a prosperous industry. But the utility firms found that by returning heated water to the Sound, they could stimulate the shellfish breeding. Money and manhours of the utilities are going into "aquaculture." Partly it's for Negro Easmil'-.Baf- and judge a movie whicn has been branded as already Nixon Develops power-failure- " fl.,.- g .'I t Today g ...... Called Obligational J Era ' f ",l"3t" n 1 u Holmes Alexandei nfl i 'res'c'ent taken during Sunday's said his unit had orders out similar attacks for as long as 10 days. ship. So They Say that a physician prisoner fighting to carry possibly Sen. Edward Kennedy Is trying to operate as Demobut back bench cratic whip much as he did as a senator. He is using his weight and influence selectively in support of what he deems the most significant issue positions. At root the whip's post, second in command to majority leader Mike Mansfield's, is a job. But Kennedy is opposed to compelling Democratic senators to put their noses on the line every time an issue arises which by any stretch could appear to involve the party's interests. His first real commitment of the season was to the fight to restore $100,000 chopped from the year's working funds for Sen, George McGovern's Special Committee on Nutrition and Human Need by the Senate Rules Committee. Characteristically, Kennedy poured his full energies into the effort. As Indicated, there Is nothing fundamentally new in his approach. The Massachusetts senator Is not a battler for hopeless causes, is not interested In mere verbal posturing on Issues, scorns the idea of supporting all doctrinaire liberal proposals without regard to their individual merit. Sooner or later this pragmatic view of his new function Is going to get Kennedy into fresh trouble with the doctrinaire dissidents who, as other Washington observers have enterare already taking an prisingly discovered, attitude toward party leaders on the question of reform. Judging from their behavior, these dissidents of the Democratic left, like their predecessors in recent decades, prize above all the ardent public utterance, the symbol of pure dedication to principle rather than the achievement of attainable goals, the indiscriminate commitment to doctrinaire partisan- ng only water access to the Mediterranean. Moscow, we can be sure, will exploit even the smallest showing of discontent if it will help drive a wedge between Turkey and the U.S. That ought to be Washington's clue to seal up any crack and fast. Exercise n Things Get Done A Restive Ally Needs Attention at all, most Americans consider Vietnamese and Viet Cong divisions th 1st, 5th, 7th and 9th which have moved into Vietnam from Camtxiia and are expected to carry the main thrust of the attack. Sources believe the widespread attacks Sunday 141 of them in the Saigon region-w- ere in the first a series of diversionary raids to facilitate of the movement southward divisions. The ex10,000-nmlocal pected pattern is for Communist forces to open up routes enabling the larger units to close in on Saigon. Intelligence sources said a Bruce Biossat O v$r$i M, the reguiti The in four North By Sen. Kennedy 9Bk . operated In remainder arc long In Quality of Movies? Editor Herald: "The police have seized the film, "Candy," said the news at long last! report. Well Two or three weeks ago a person (who signed with initials) wrote a letter to The Her. aid decrying the fact that such a movie as this be allowed to be shown in a town like Provo. It was brought out in the let- ter, how, in Mississippi, this same film was closed immediately by the police. (That was previously reported in The Herald). Well, feeling like this person did because of reviews I had read about this film, I waited be allowed to be shown even once. Let's hope so. wasn't it enIncidentally, to see a big network couraging TV after one series a yank performance because it was plain dirty. After all, we don't have to buy tickets to these dirty movies and support them but unless someone has the guts to take one of these shows off we'd be afraid to let our children turn on TV in our own living room. Mrs. Vera M. Harding Lindon BERRY'S WORLD In self-style- d History The Almanac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Feb. 25, the 56th day of 1969 with 309 to follow. The moon is between its first quarter and new phase. stars The are morning Mars and Mercury, Jupiter. The evening stars are Venus and Saturn. On this day in histrtory: In 1804 a caucus of Republinominated cans unanimously Thomas Jefferson for President with George Clinton bf New York as his running mate. In 1901 J.P. Morgan founded the United States Steel Corp. in New Jersey , the first billion-doll- last August. Prior to that, his and his supporters' cries for reform, utter, ed in the heat of battle, were properly weighed as e since their purpose was less the sober consideration of change than the immediate convertibility of party changes into delegate votes for McCarthy at Chicago. Dissidents with the approach to to be or less conmore in time are bound, anyway, politics tinuously unhappy with Ted Kennedy as a Senate leader. He will be chided as timid, as lacking commitment, as being colleagues counted) on the issues the doctrinaire liberals Senate colleagues counted) on the issues the dctinaire liberals see as paramount. long-rang- Paul Harvey - j Of Your Tax Money enterprise. In 1919 Oregon became the first state to tax gasoline. The tax was one per cent. In 1967 American warships began shelling North Vietnam. A thought for the day: British clergyman Thomas Fuller said, "He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows." FORUM RULES n Htriia wtKODM MiNrt tram reaaers. Pimm not mu ruld: Ltnglh limit, 250 worth. Sfgnitur However, If nd iddreM required. contributor requeett, enlv Initial need be published - with certain exception!, including letters political In nature or In wtikti accueatlone or In tudi case charge are made full name and addreea must be used. No unsigned letter (anonymous) Preference will will be considered. be given letters which are (hort and Tr- Herald reetrve typewritten. the right Id edit or reeet Isttera which are too long, not In good taste, potentially libelous, or which contain ctatamenti derogatory to any reo religion or creed. BY IAMES O. BERRY to see how the public would rewatched to see how many letters to the editor would be written. I read all the letters for and against fluoridation, reports on the school situation, taxes, etc., but none of indignation at the showing of this film in a town that has a university where a high moral standard is said to be maintained. None, that is, except for Mr. Burnett's fine letter last week when the show-in- g was going into its third week, and Mr. Johnson's letter in the Sunday Herald. New York City has not grown 25 years; it has just sat there deteriorating morally, socially and economically. Now one in eight New Yorkers is on welfare, living off the taxes of the other seven. Now the governor of New York and the mayor of New York City want more of your money to help keep their Island afloat. Gov. Nelson Rockefeller has been in Washington lobbying for to consider disministration federal revenues to tributing state and local governments. a system called "federal tax sharing." It's a complicated concept in which he would increase your federal taxes and distribute these dollars to state and local govern- I am not unaware of big city problems. I headquarter in Chicago. Chicagoans of means are migrating to suburbs. Chicago proper is populated more and more with tax recipients rather than taxpayers. Yet better than a redistribution of everybody's dollars, it seems to me, would be a redistribution of these population concentrations. The drones who moved into New York City, encouraging the workers to move" out, went there to stay there because of the continuing handout. Are we curing the problem by and perpetuating Increasing that handout? Here we are not talking about widows and orphans and ailing and aged and other deserving needy. Here we are talking about the welfare rolls which are growir:g twice as fast as our population is increasing. And in an era when every metropolitan newspaper is bulging with jobs begging for people. California Gov. Ronald Reagan, it seems to me, offers a more traditionally American recommendation. He says, "Let's stop, at home and abroad, being our brother's keeper let's start really being his brother and let him keep himself!" in hard-press- ments. It sounds unlikely that Congress or the White House would penalize you and me for the mismanagement of New York City, but remember we once considered political reapportionment unlikely, too. Yet it came to pass that population concentrations were given more votes, so don't bet they won't get more money, too. in the Cabinet Rockefeller, Room of the White House, stood before charts and diagrams, insisting that it costs more to run a city than it used to but the tax dollars are not available locally to pay those costs. What he meant but did not say wa that there are too many freeloaders on the Big City's welfare rolls and he wants us to pay their upkeep. Under the Rockefeller plan, Big City politicians could continue to buy with welfare handouts the army of indigent would be encouraged to expand while the cost of all that welfare would be di- verted to Americans in Wisconsin and Colorado and Texas and Georgia and Arkansas. The concept of "federal tax sharing" is not new. Dr. Waller Heller advised the Kennedy Ad hard-worki- e "M h NIA, "You might liw- N. Y. Wants More ar act and But now the news says the film was seized. It took awhile but now it's gone. Well, maybe it's not too late maybe everyone didn't sec it. But I wonder- -Is this what is meant by "locking the barn after the horse is gone?" Or could this be a prelude to better times when, now that a precedent has been set, such films will never How this works in practice can be seen from an episode involved in the January fight Kennedy won over Sen. Russell Long for the whip's job. It centered on an unsuccessful effort by Kennedy men to gain Sen. Eugene McCarthy's vote. At one point, a McCarthy man, seeking to justify his senator's reluctance to back Kennedy, blurted: "Would Kennedy make a speech this afternoon supporting the reform of the Democratic party?" Implicit was the suggestion Kennedy might not be as eager for reform as the "reformers" would wish. The fact is that on this issue his commitment is total and has been firmly expressed both publicly and privately. In contrast, McCarthy, in whose name so many doctrinaires have shouted for reform, has done and said virtually nothing to advance this cause since he lost the presidential nomination I lac. U hovt hod a best seller on your nonrfs looked lik Jacqueline Zuantil" if you dues-payi- Defense Secretary Mel Laird, as a congressman, proposed that 5 percent of the federal tax take should be returned te the states. New York Sen. Charles Good-el-l, when a congressman, suggested thus diverting 3 percent to 5 percent of federal taxes to the states "on a population basis." - - The human heart beats an average of 100,000 times daily. James J. Corbett, thc boxer, was known as Gentleman Jim.' |