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Show Page 10 The Utah Independent June 12, 1975 THE SCOTT REPORT TAXPAYERS ASK PANEL TO by Paul Scott of this concern is the telegram from This week-en- d Washington: L. Bernadin. summit in Rome between Archbishop Joseph of the National President Ford and Pope Paul IV President Conference of Catholic Bishops, could turn out to be the most President Ford on the crucial meeting of the Presidents delivered to eve of his departure for Europe. current European tour. In the message, a copy of There are several compelling which was forwarded to Pope reasons for this. The First is the movement steady of the Portuguese government toward the Soviet Union. The second is his warning last month to several Church leaders from Europe and the U.S. The ominous warning of the Holy Father was that the clear and present danger to Portugal, a high-ranki- ng Catholic heavily country, comes directions Moscow elements within government. The Vaticans network of contacts, one of the most accurate intelligence the world, gathering systems uncovered the threat to Portugal several months ago and has taken steps to alert key members of the Catholic Church in Europe and the in U " The word went out from Rome that the faithful in Portugal should begin preparing themselves for one of the most crucial battles in that countrys long history. The Church leaders were frankly told that the Moscow directed push for a Communist takeover of Portugal, one of the most strategically located countries in the world, is designed to destroy the Church where its faith is the purest and strongest. How Pope Paul will handle issue this sensitive moral-politicwith President Ford is known only to his closest diplomatic and religious advisers. Sources close to the situation in Rome and Washington, however, . believe Pope Paul will detail the danger to all of Europe, including the strategic Mediterranean area, if Portugal is permitted to go red. Most to the disturbing Vatican is the way that the U.S. deserted the South Vietnamese and let that country, with the largest Catholic population in Asia, fall to the Communist North Vietnamese. Since the North Vietnamese started their victorious offensive earlier this year, more than 100.000 Catholics have been killed in South Vietnam in one of the worst bloodbaths in history. Among those already slain include two Catholic Bishops, several hundred nuns and priests, hundreds of Catholic lay leaders, and tens of thousands of rank and file Catholics. al THE MESSAGE Bernardin Paul. Archbishop called on the President to take immediate action to rescue the 42.000 refugees from Phu Quoc island, located off the coast of South Vietnam in the Gulf of Thailand. The refugees have been flooding the airways with MAY DAY messages seeking help to defend their island from the North Vietnamese or to be rescued from certain death if Hanoi is permitted to take the island. The concern among Church leaders in the Vatican and here is that if the Ford Administration abandons these refugees to Communism in Southeast Asia that the same tragedy will be repeated n Portugal, A hihl' confidential report circulating within the Vatican, and one 'hich PoPe Paul expected to raise with Ford, comes out of Fran- states that Secretary of State Kissinger is in volved with a deal with Soviet leaders that both South Vietnam and Portugal are to be permitted to go under Communist control before the end of 1975. At least half of that forecast already is a reality. Inside information reaching the Vatican on secret discussions that Secretary of State Kissinger recently held with Portugals Prime Minister Vasco Concalves. who is identified with the Portuguese Communist party. also closely has disturbed PP The taKs purportedly involved the role that the U.S. State Department and Central Intelligence Agency is to play in creating conditions so the Military Forces Association, the ruling junta of Portugal, can gradually move that country into the Soviet camp. Veteran government insiders here believe the manner in which Pope Paul raises the Portugal and Vietnamese refugee issues could have a tremendous impact on whether of State Secretary Kissinger stays or leaves the Cabinet. These arc a few of the inside reasons why one should examine carefully every word issued by President Ford and Pope Paul following this week-en- d summit in Rome. Note.. Another major subject to he taken up by President Ford and Pope Paul is the explosive BISHOP'S Middle East situation, including A graphic example the creation of a new' Palestine state. ex-felo- ns on Fifth Amendment. Opponents of stringent controls have argued that no criminal would be foolish enough to register his gun. The highcourt ruled that HE DOESNT HAVE TO AND CANT BE PROSECUTED for failing to do so. So now, if gun-registrati- on Stand by Virginia Taxpayers value." Association has demanded that Reviewing the effect of a new an "initiate exhaustive state law requiring localities to tax Congress of taxpayer-oriente- d investigation property at 100 percent the underlying forces, of appraised value while assessing organizations and persons who, in utilities at only 40 percent of such both Democrat and Republican value until 1986, the VTA urged administrations, brought about in Gov. Mills Godwin to "broaden Southeast Asia the most the scope of his appointed humilitating and costly disaster in Electricity Cost Commission to this nationss history." include study of all utilities which Bob Salter non-utili- ty The state taxpayer organization, meeting Saturday, May 3 in Charlottesville, added that "Americans will not tolerate another Warren Commission charade designed so that carefully chosen officials perpetrate a massive concealment of facts and bury essential evidence in the national archives. "If. before our country suffers further worse tragedies, we do not learn from past mistakes what is wrong with our foreign policy and why. the United States will end up in slavery and total economic Rightly or wrongly, collapse. many Americans believe the recent disaster in Vietnam was deliberately planned. If, having conducted inquiries into many lesser mishaps, our government does not now thoroughly investigate the causes of the worst failure we have ever American taxpayers suffered, will be convinced that the generally thesis of planned defeat is true." In another action, the taxpayer association warned that a federal budget deficit as high as $73.2 billion for fiscal 1976 may rise to $100 billion or more if unbridled spending continues. destroying our economy, the moral fibre of our nation, and paving the way for totalitarian revolution or conquest by a foreign power. The VTA called on the President and Congress to cut back on proposed spending, balance the budget and start paying off the national debt, and said that "until this objective is obtained there must be no increases in the pay of federal officials and employees, and social welfare programs must be eliminated or drastically reduced. The association added that the tax of inflation is the crudest will reap huge profits from such inequitable realty taxation. The association pointed out that applying an identical tax rate such differentially-assesse- d to SAYS: property "constitutes an obvious SALTER TO THE inequity which results in AN OPEN LETTER reduced property AMERICAN PARTY OF UTAH significantly by Bob Salter taxes for utility companies, estimated to be about 40 percent of You have moved faster and the previous 1974 amount, The state treasury of Virginia farther toward your stated has reaped windfall tax revenues objectives in a short period of time as utility users bills have sky- - than any group Ive known. You rocketed. Virginias tax take from are t0 I congratulated. Better to be n franchise tax (3.5 still, your leadership its percent of gross receipts) for congratulated! The Republicans are trying to VEPCO alone amounted to $23 million in 1974 $2 million in ignore you and the Democrats are excess of property taxes paid by outright paranoid about you. John Klas jumps ten feet whenever he VEPCO to all Virginia localities. The governors commission hears the name American, 1 am extremely flattered that 1 should determine the social and economic effects of the state policy have been asked to keynote your of continually shifting to localities the tax burden of paying for governmental services, particularly the overburdening of taxes on homeowners and farmers, and should work to reduce charges on it be helpful. utility customers by at least the ft s a known fact that when amount of the reduced property conservatives disagree on any one taxes levied on utilities." The VTA went on record as thing they separate and refuse to with each Qther on strongly opposing HR3510, a cooperate On the other hand, congressional bill giving the federal anything. on all but one government control of all public liberals can disagree Another thing and they will close ranks and and private land. resolution said that widespread march together on the one thing. efforts to control guns rather than Perhaps where we are idealists they criminals is of grave concern to are realists. After all, they are citizen-taxpayer- s. The winning, arent they? Yet. we arc prone to tolerate constitutional right to keep and bear arms must be protected. We some pretty questionable activities in our groups. Every movement also protest the back-dointo itself its own destruct approach to elimination of gun has built ownership by banning ammunition system. This system consists of people who are spoilers, and after a as a dangerous substance." Heading a visiting delegation movement is underway insist on of taxpayers from West Virginia, taking over. These are the Monday Roscoe E. Rauch, Jr., president of morning quarterbacks who could the West Virginia Taxpayers always have done better, to hear Association, reported his them talk, and are now ready to organization is opposing in that prove it. Steer clear of these people states supreme court a federal land or you will not only lose your use planning commission decision momentum but very likely your in Berkeley County. The West party. Stay with those people who Virginia and Virginia taxpayers have a track record. Remove those associations agreed to expand people who would be divisive, I dont know whether you can cooperative efforts in meeting this nation state save and or not. I common problems in the future. little-know- or particularly the poor and the aged, The primary cause of inflation is deficit government spending, which results in the piling up of public debt already totaling approximately $500 billion and the issuance of more and more paper money not backed by anything of THE PROOFS OF FREEDOM The very reports of open and active opposition against the government within South Vietnam are in themselves proof that a free society exists there; in contrast with the totalitarian North Vietnam where all opposition is verboten and identifiable dissenters are promptly and summarily disposed of. Criminals Exempted From Registering On January 29, 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the REGISTRATION OF ILLEGAL FIREARMS in the case of U.S. vs. Haynes. Simply stated, the court ruled that Haynes, the defendant, had the right to refuse to register a sawed-of- f shotgun. The reason being, Haynes had a criminal record. It to own such a weapon. Therefore, the was illegal for act of registration constituted a violation of his rights, denying him protection from guaranteed under the A SALTER SAYS Vietnam loss probe The THE ROME SUMMIT Pope's growing concern about the The Paper That Dares To Take Engulfs citizen would have to laws are passed, every register his weapon or face a fine andor imprisonment. But no one ever CONVICTED OF A FELONY would have to register his gun. Thus it appears the responsible citizens are the only ones who face gun control. citizens must counter the controlled news medias hysterical outcry for more gun laws with NO LAW-ABIDIN- G Law-abidi- ng COMPROMISE! letters and How Evil telegrams to their LEGISLATORS. Tell them you oppose any new gun legislation, and to avoid legislation by emotion, and demand they stand fast by the Second Amendment. - Valley Times Central Valley, California The Christians today are witnessing a terrific onslaught of Satan. First, people think that evil is not too bad. Second, they rationalize their involvement in it. Third, they deny that it is evil. And fourth, they twist everything around and call evil good. These are the steps downward, and this represents the great deception which Jesus said would manifest itself before His return. Men shall believe a lie. |