Show 4' i (fott 4A OGDEN itatthrh-iExattrat- rr UTAH TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 19 HOLMES ALEXANDER 1974 EDITORIALS New Book Relates Tales Of Political Asylum Bids Chopper Flight: Threat to White House The bizarre flight of a stolen Army helicopter Sunday — with the threat it posed to the White House — shows a glaring gap in our nation’s capital security measures Pfc Robert K Preston 20 a disgruntled Army chopper mechanic was in the air more than two hours before making an abrupt landing on the White House lawn Pfc Preston who admitted he was disturbed by flunking out of flight school is now in a military hospital for psychiatric tests before facing official charges The alarming thing is that during those two hours the only officials to oppose his erratic piloting of the whirlybird : were the Maryland State Police They dispatched two of their own helicopters after the Army machine One : was forced down when Preston headed directly for it The other remained aloft t but had trouble following the stolen chopper It did catch up in time to land on : the White House lawn too in a position to prevent a new takeoff At one time the would-bArmy aviator took his UH-1“Huey” aircraft at low altitude over the Washington Mall between the Capitol building and the Washington Monument This is closed e B on any government — does with Nov 23 1970 the Lithuanian other countries’ nationals who seaman Simas Kudirka literally flee from tyranny In the introduction to this jumped his Russian fishing ship of book the practical argument is and floundered to the deck the Russian and the US Coast Guard cutter offered “If Vigilant— to political asylum auxiliary armies are ever sent to invade the free world he thought well will The story was publicized they trust us?” The advice at the time and is the opening is that we should cleave to the forced scene in the new book policy exhibited by “Operation Keelhaul” by Julius repatriation as Epstein After 10 hours of Mr Truman and enunciated by Kudirka freedom gory and Mr Nixon so that the Red was captive of a leaders “will be powerless to frantic Russian press gang and back use the armed forces against victim of us aboard his prison-shi- p I wouldn't want to bet on that an ongoing American policy bent on conquest on the law in Leaders no standing though it has hand or on putting down one or treaty and was subsequently denounced as “outrageous” by foreign despots on the other their to hose President Nixon manage with 1945 some populations Then back in June propaganda 200 Soviet nationals but traitors which arouses hate and fear of and refugees who wTere captured the enemy and is an essential in Nazi uniform were rounded factor in every war up by US Army units at Fort SERVe WHOLE NATION d Dix NJ They were The largerc practicality in the and dosed with barbiturates in some instances and hustled diplomacy of repatriation is how to deal with a Russian ship for unliappily individuals but how to unlucky repatriation serve the w'hole nation In POWS REBELLED President War II World But in contrast during April Roosevelt felt obliged to avoid Stalin Today 1952 President Truman forced President Nixon avoids doing what would annoy Brezhnev and Mao It is the universal misfortune of the world’s individuals that they must be subject to the greater national as perceived by their good WASHINGTON airspace and no traffic is permitted in that area What if Pfc Preston had — as one of the Maryland police pilots feared — flown directly into the White House? Or the Capitol? Or Washington Monument? It would have caused the private’s death a suicide But the damage to these national treasures would potentially have been enormous There also could have been considerable loss of life President Nixon wasn’t in the White House at the time He was in Florida with his daughter Tricia while his wife was in Indianapolis at the hospital bedside of — Back against their other daughter Julie Had Mr Nixon been “at home” could he have been protected from injury had the troubled Army mechanic decided to ram the presidential residence? Secret Service agents did fire shotguns at the helicopter as it neared the White House and riddled it with buckshot Still it flew on until landing on the lawn Pfc Preston was only slightly tear-gase- not-aboar- d displeasing wounded It is fortunate the incident was no more serious than it was However steps should be taken immediately to preclude a more disastrous repeat rulers gling sounds of “acid rock” music should be pleased to know that “dancing cheek to cheek” is returning to popularity among the young people We can report this on the authority of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology A class in “social dancing” was of- Green Thumb Returns It’s good news for Utah that the tal- ented Green Thumbers will return to work this summer These are the oldsters — over 55 with a rural background and low income — who have made so many contributions to our state in recent years Their 1973 Instructors estiproject of repairing the battered but fered at colorful stone wall in Ogden Canyon was mated “maybe” 20 to 30 students would a prime example enroll Instead 109 registered to learn John Zupko Green Thumb manpower the basic steps of the waltz fox trot and program director for the sponsoring Utah tango Farmers Union reports that the ’74 work “The students like this kind of dancwill be financed by a $165000 federal ing” explained instructor Harry Grauser grant The crews will work on several “because it gives them contact with each projects including expansion of roadside other For many of them it’s the first parks in Northern Utah time they’ve been able to relate to someSome of the Green Thumb workmen one they’re dancing with” are in their 90s with many in their 80s Debbie Brandstater Twenty-year-oland 70s Their continuing activity should commented that “it’s really team work and to men shame those put You have to go along with someone else women who are content to receive welnot just stand there all alone and move fare checks and do nothing in return around like you do with rock music” Another student summed up cheek to cheek dancing in modern terms: “It’s a Utahns who are tired of the mind-bogas!” mid-semest- -- S able-bodie- d Dancing Cheek to Cheek g - WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUN- D Year of Europe Lies In Tangled Shambles JOSEPH ALSOP Energy Crisis Shows West LETTERS Want Trophies Back Has Accelerated Decline - After the world energy conference here in Washington it is probably too late to ask whether the decline of the West has begun Instead the real questions now appear to be how far the West’s decline has advanced already and Whether that decline can be halted or reversed I This way of stating the case extreme and sound may WASHINGTON to secure because they are in a sellers’ market however the Unfortunately economic immense growth of the industrial nations has had another feature that is now of The significance economies of all these nations are intricately dependent not only on freely available oil but on oil at relatively also great reasonable prices This dependency of the great Yet only consider the hard facts of the case You industrial economies is at least then conclude that extreme halfway to our own dependency on the oxygen in the air we language is amply justified To begin with the great in- breathe So much has become dustrial nations of the non- - more and more clear as the Communist part of the world bankers and economists of the ‘have met in conclave The United States Western Europe meeting was called to consider and Japan have begun asking a common problem so vast and themselves how their respective 'urgent that it can lead to countries are going to pay for common ruin Yet the leaders of the oil they need at the new the West have been unable to prices unite HUGE DEFICIT - To go on with there is the The answer that Jeremiah-lik- e is they intractable character of the cannot to hope pay for it even common problem The immense if oil prices drift downward a growth in productivity of these bit Thus you have the forecast same industrial nations has no later than the end of the that 'required corresponding growth present year higher oil prices in their energy consumption will leave every major inRADICAL CHANGE dustrial nation with a huge In the end— in fact well over a deficit in its balance of year ago long before the Yom payments That is just another Kippur war—the vast increase way of saying that these nations in energy consumption produced will have been unable to pay for a radical change in the supply-deman- d their much more expensive oil position imports In consequence they nations thus will be incurring mountainous The found themselves in a strong debts As noted in the last report in sellers’ market The result has been what we call the “energy this space no past experience The phrase is offers about the guidance the real for essence misleading consequences of such a of the crisis is not the fuel situation The leading industrial shortages that everyone talks nations are also the leading about Instead the true essence banking nations In effect they of the crisis is the enormous largely own the world’s rise in the price of oil which financial system There has never been a case the oii producers have been able crisis” was ir simultaneously going into debt I to the tune of billions of dollars nrnminentPnew?well other per annum Thus no one can and television stations quite predict the ' effect on the aftS discovered world’s financial system But it fn our finTrLmd ballot must be perfectly clear to any The error was not discovered roilTv person that the financial system will be in the gravest danger when all the nations that largely own the system are in deep trouble together That is not the end of the problem either the As anyone can see mountainous debts incurred by the leading industrial nations will take the form of transfers of mountainous capital sums from these nations to the nations But what then’ will the nations do with the tens upon tens of billions of capital which they thus acquire? The fashionable answer is that the oil producers will then right matters by investing their new wealth in the industrial common-sens- e nations until after the awards assem- bly so Skyline High School of Salt Lake took the trophies home after ‘being awarded them in the assembly We were told by the tournament officials that they would get the trophies from Skyline and bring them to Logan the next day No trophies have arrived at Logan yet and we have found that we are never going to get those trophies We are very up- set about the turn of events and find it hard to believe that Skyline would not relinquish the trophies after the tournament officials announced us as the winners Skyline admits that we won the meet but since the trophies were awarded to them they think they should keep them con- We feel sportsman-lik- e duct be exhibited at debate meets as well as athletic events and wonder why Skyline who exhibits such great sportsman- ship at the state tournaments should all of a sudden decide to keep trophies they haven’t even won What kind of an ex- - But if anyone should be able to judge this kind of problem that man is the head of the Bank in fact the leader of the US financial greatest single Rockefeller David stronghold And David Rockefeller is known to have told a recent meeting of the Council on Foreign We feel Skyline has been too Relations that the financial rash in their decision to keep system will not even be strong the and hope they enough to stand the pressure of come trophies soon to senses their the tens upon tens of billions of Gloria Wennergren oil producers’ dollars in search Blair Daines of investment Logan High UNIVERSAL PLUNGE In short you have here a situation that is an obvious This is my first attempt at recipe for the kind of universal into to the editor but I felt misfortune the that letters plunge industrial nations experienced on this issue I could not remain in the Great Depression The fashion in this town meanwhile I refer to your printed article is to blame the Western allies about the Pleasant View may- for the failure to unite against or “urging the area council of this common danger governments to petition for a But the larger fashion in this state law amendment and per- town is also to talk of nothing mit highway troopers to cite but the Watergate mess And alleged offenders into the Jus- with such dangers hanging over tice of the Peace Courts of the us we may well blame our- community where the arrests selves for our failure to move to were made” other topics From my own personal ex- Chase-Manhatt- an system’s ' JL London-Washingt- TO the prolonged Korean War rather than turn these men back to their merciless rulers Whether or not the American policy of asylum is now fixed and inviolable would be hard to say There is evidence that is one standard in dealing Prime British versations Heath has there g with and powers Minister Edward right-win- g with another to that as so powers far say g0ne who was bom in and that Castro is handled more Kissinger Europe doesn’t understand its sternly than some of his dining British-America- Saturday Feb 9 Logan was officially named win- in the past when every one of High ner of the 38th annual Leland nations President stay home Kissinger still has credibility with EuroDean leaders who indeed regard him as a miracle worker But he has neglected feel they Europe In private con-- solutely appalled at the scandals of which been have swirling Europe which Secretary of around President Nixon He has State Henry Kissinger had been so weakened by Watergate 1973 lies in that he has lost his influence politics for promised shambles It is more likely to go with his Atlantic partners DISLIKE STYLE down in history as the year the Privately they hope he won’t diplomatic United States lost its European come to Europe in April to Kissinger’s allies celebrate NATO’s 25th an-w ne e i g ' Tupv For the Atlantic Alliance niversary They are not at all t r e moTJ appears to be breaking apart eager to be pictured wining and m’ mat ne trea t s Its cornerstone the historic the scandal-scarre- d like subordinates than partners n partnership is Nixon One prominent British British leaders who for the diplomat quietly encouraged me sake of diplomatic niceties crumbling abto publish a hint that the leaders are European asked not to be named told us the that special By JACK ANDERSON LONDON — The Year On these I WEEK er d NO! NO rebelled against retur- to the Communist homeland because the eyes of the world were on that spec- tacle and because Mr Truman THE left-win- fascist-typ- e terparts tic little-know- ’ u ipumam iuauuno does not figure prominently in in- -' ternational affairs Regretfully practicality is more likely to decide what our government as usual morality on relationship is VIRGINIA They attribute EDITOR coun- But the glory of the individual is that he can be unconquerable even when his country is not Another new book “The Hungry Journey” by Gordon Allred tells the obscure story of the Dutchman Johan Overdiek During the Nazi occupation he went out to bring back food to his family in starving sterdam The endurance of the human body and spirit would be past belief if we did not have so much testimony on the subject Just the other night a hotel banquet room was filled with persons from countries overrun by Nazi and Communist vasions and the occasion was a n testimonial dinner to a man David Martin who had helped bring them to America Put not your trust in princes to do any more than the occasion demands But the unconquerable individual is his own best proof of freedom breaking down this to the inability of Kissinger perience I can say these “jus- - and Heath to get or the same tices” are nothing more than wavelength Kissinger also has trouble Kangaroo Court justices We should try to improve our ju- dicial system not tear it down I Doil Home that ta ?ese sTa(U At the ambassadorial level our municipalities communication has been limited in fnoAreated to routine messages Court largely °L Kissinger always made his overtures over the ?lieStofteon0iaSSalSrsV blow diplomatic S?head of the recently departed and that is why they have t avoided sending an offender to OfSe Foreign A these so called “justices” It is Cromer J°reiga source Kissinger- my conviction that our state as ® r relationship 01? troopers are on our roads to prevent accidents and remove decidedly chnly LAUGHING STOCK unsafe drivers It is also my But far more damaging to the conviction that the prime purn pose of small municipal traffic partnership officers is to make monev has been the behavior of US We should have more “stale Ambassador Walter Annenberg troopers to patrol our roads and who has made himself the less officers and justice of the laughing stock of London by peaces who are not of the curtseying instead of bowing to caliber we need the queen and by using pain-Evan Murray fully pretentious phrases in her West Point Utah presence - itish British-America- ONLY YESTERDAY PAYETTE Good Things Laughs Come Out of Crisis Bartenders are getting more you look hard enough' you' can business too One psychiatrist discover a lot of good things and even a few laughs —mixed explains it this way: “Many in with the inconveniences of people tear around their cars our “new just to ease tensions Now they cherish them They may be cant so their anxiety wiU in crease and tney will turn to things that will get us alcohol for release Se through the next few years (I always thought &ey turned there’s hardly to alcohol and THEN tore anything good about finding yourself out of a job But maybe around m their car si Nevernew this will cheer you up: As of theless the approach may The streets mixed be a 1 blessing be fatter you’ll July getting The will be safer without all those unemployment checks President has budgeted $61 drunk drivers tearing around for unemployment but alcohousm is already one of benefits which is a big jump the country s biggest health Problems I hat s one surplus we from this year’s $47 billion Here’s something else: It may cost you more to live these days but dying is practically a The dwindling fuel supply The National may even make our cities bet- Association of Funeral Directors ter looking No more glass-bo- x reports that while the cost of skyscrapers (praise be) Arming has gone up 413 per cent chitects have discovered that in the last 10 years burial costs the way these mile-hig- h only 321 per cent wall windows gobble up energy (Feel better already don’t makes the Cookie Monster’s you?) Now manners look refined about PESKY SHORTAGE they’re talking designing look like that buildings buildings The gasoline shortage pesky a 11101116111 as is may prove the biggest soon 10 suiu mt) blessing of all If it goes on long l0° You dont see as many old enough (and if the needle on cokers along the side of the your gas gauge is like mine road any more either Scrap anything more than an hour and "" a half is too long) it just might metai’s car-pous into the precious get groove - life-styl- Granted billion bargain wall-to-increas- ed 20 YEARS AGO Ken Hammon of West Point was elected captain of the Davis county Sheriff’s Mounted Posse at the annual election banquet at Ma’s and Pa’s in Roy Clyde Adams of Layton was elected 50 YEARS AGO The Malad presented the High four-a- ct School comedy Long Legs” at opera house In- ciucied jn the cast of characters were George McKay Kenneth Thomas Reed Zundel Walter Hughes Lucile Anderson Mary first lieutenant ‘ Evans Fay Briggs Lorraine Harvey F Cahill prominent Hanson and Lila Burnett member of St Joseph’s Catholic f'ama “Day rank of Knight of St Gregory Ogden Exchange Club weekly luncheon at the Weber Club by His Holiness Pope Pius XII Evans vice president He was recommended for the Joseph K the absence of in presided honor in recognition or ms President J F Fowles service to the parish Oaths of the officers of the Six Ogden High School seniors Marion Hotel Inc were filed had entered a national contest with the county clerk David Mattson sponsored by Thom McAn and follows: OB Madsen vice Scholastic ROTC national high president Blanche A Mattson president school magazine by writing a secretary and treasurer who’ Allen formed the essay The six were: with Dale Felix Michael Davis Kent directorate Berg Waldo Price Tommy J e 1 ly was made by ac winters jones housewives of Ogden and Weber Five Ogden students were on County to restore the flagging the staff of Student Life appetites of disabled war campus newspaper at Utah veterans was the object of a State Agricultural College They drive announced by the Ogden were: Eleanor Knowles Janet Chapter of the Service Star Knowles Shirley Kesinger Legion Mrs A A Green and Tomlinson and Mrs Thomas Bradley were in Bernadean Joanne Tucker charge of the collection 300-wo- rd cw ol anybody’s ever invented to save money One company figures that employes who drive round trip's to work every ’day n in a car pool would K’s n crank up a asy chuckle out of the gasoline shortage but how about this: For his wife’s birthday last New That's almost showed with man a a five-ca- n up en011§b to cover the hike in your of gas — gift electric bill gallon And while the oil crisis And you know what? She was saove J so be happy for the ovojoyd he dldn t eyen SlUIPP he hadnt tucked a aiind chimney sweepsaboutThey’re diamond bracelet in the spout ?leaning up (sorry that) in the national surge to fight the shortage with fire In the family fireplace of course Trouble is many of those fireplaces haven’t been used for years And in the beginning a Olympic Games lot of amateur Boy Scouts inaugurated in Athens ’ Greece5’ brought forth everything BUT jn jggg heat: bird’s nests squirrel skeleton family jewelry and old an Clyde W Tombaugh love letters That’s when they American discovered the planet found out chimney sweeps Pluto in 1930 30-mi- le four-perso- 7 o bad) r u |