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Show Page Two Land is Designated By Bureau for Multiple Use teachers and social workers and other democratic village leaders, the indiscriminate Red Viet Cong terror bombings in Saigon and elsewhere where civilian casualties have been high. It does little good to bemoan the untruths of such Communist shouting crowds. The Communist world is once propaganda ploys or to denounce again raising the threat that the Red treatment of our captured American fliers and prisoners. other prisoners of war may be The important thing is that put on formal trial for their something should be done about crimes against the North it, and the sooner the better. Vietnamese. The U.S. Information Service, And a sharp increase in pub- Voice of America, etc. should lic confessions by captured step up broadcasts about the U.S. war prisoners in North facts of Communists war crimes Vietnam has led to fears that and atrocities. The press should the Communists are carrying on prinf more shock photos of a systematic brainwashing Communist crimes. Every photo effort to wring should be filed with an imparpropaganda confessions from tial agency. the Americans, which would The U.S., South Vietnam or mean they are being subjected both should go before the U.N. to systematic torture and abuse. and ask that a formal, official It is one thing to be shocked War Crimes Commission be by such treatment of our troops established to compile a full, in violation of the 1949 Geneva impartial list of atrocities comConvention on the treatment of mitted by both sides in the war, prisoners of war, which North and that the U.N. should issue Vietnam signed in 1957. a warning that the guilty will It is quite another more ur- be tried when the war finally gent, more important matter to ends the same way the Nazi and do something about it. Japanese war criminals were Right now, the only body tried after World War II. Much more pressure should gaining worldwide attention for its concern over Vietnam War be put on the U.N., Red Cross, crimes and atrocities has been the Vatican, U.S. Allies, the the Soviet Union and everywhere tribunal staged by British possible for a formal prisoner philosopher Lord Bertrand Rus- of war exchange as occurred sell in Stockholm. during the .Korean War. This War Crimes Meantime, the U.S. and South Trial of the U.S. role in Viet- Vietnam should invite the nam has documented a long list United Nations, Red Cross or of alleged, real, phony and dis- any other impartial agency to torted atrocities the U.S. and supervise the South Vietnam are claimed to camps established for defecting have committed in carrying on Red Viet Cong troops and the war. pressure North Vietnam to agree Quite possibly, much of what to the same supervision of its this propaganda trial has docu- treatment of prisoners of war. mented is true. The U.S. has U.N. or Red Cross observers already admitted there have could be invited to accompany been regrettable civilian cas- major U.S. or South Vietnamese ualties in prosecuting the war, POW roundups or interrogatalthough we have denied ions. And thePentagon should ischarges that we have been systematically attacking civilians sue a directive permitting capor civilian targets. tured U.S. war prisoners to conU.S. napalm and chemical fess to any charges the Comweapons have caused civilian munists demand, to avoid torcasualties. But the U.S. has in- ture and so that mass POW consisted that these have been far fessions would lose their propafewer than anti-Wa- r propagan- ganda value. dists charge and an unavoidable Captured U.S. troops and consequence of carrying on the fliers should be assured they war in any case. will not be prosecuted for any The Pentagon has admitted Red propaganda confessions, that some individual U.S. and since we will have assumed in South Vietnamese troops have advance that they had been been guilty of atrocities and the made under duress. cruel and inhuman treatment of prisoners of war, as alleged. But both the U.S. and South Vietnam have tried and conWorld Book Lore victed their own troops found guilty of such charges. And Red Viet Cong troops, defecting in rising numbers, have found the treatment accorded them in South Vietnam. What the Russell tribunal has done is to take a small portion of war crimes committed by the U.S. and South Vietnam against Vietnamese civilians and prisoners of war and tried to present them as the whole picture. This had been expected, since the tribunal had been stacked against the U.S. and a pro-Re- d ploy from the beginning. fzaak Walton, author of the dassic And moreover, it ignores the aook on fishing, The Compleat greater number of crimes and Angler, said, If I might be the atrocities the North Vietnamese iudge, God never did make a more have committed against their :alm, quiet, innocent recreation Walton lived 90 own South Vietnamese country- than angling. went and (rears, fishing until he was men, the calculated slaughter of in his 80s. civilians in Vietnamese villages, the campaign of assassination of Souks: Would Bow Zkcyclokdu Americans are once again shocked by, and protesting the treatment, of captured U.S. pilots who have been paraded through the streets of Hanoi, capital of Communist North Vietnam, to the jeers of angry, pro-Commun- ist . pro-Communi- st, so-call- ed anti-America- n THE SALT LAKE TIMES FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1967 i Utah Rated Safest In Measles Fight Moss Asks for Study Of Freight Rates For Western Area Utah is now the safest place in so far as measles is America The first of several proposals Senator Frank E. Moss and to Dr. C. concerned, according U. S. the of Bureau Land nine other U. S. Senators from by Clark Welling, general chairman to area states TuesIntermountain Management designate blocks of Utahs Muzzle Measles of public lands in Utah for inday asked Transportation Sectensified multiple use manage- campaign just concluded. Alan Boyd for a comThe final tabulation showed retary ment was announced by Robert prehensive study of freight rate D. Nielson, BLM state director that 52,087 children were im- problems of the entire region. munized during the one-da- y for Utah. Senator Moss, who drafted The proposed classification ac- campaign, Saturday, May 13, by the letter, said that the study tions are being taken under doctors of the state who donated would be designed to produce services to end measles authority of the Clasification their which should be once and for all in Utah. Near- suggestions and Multiple Use Act passed by in beneficial determining the Congress September 19, 1964. ly 1,500 other people, nurses, affect of freight charges on That act directed the Secretary pharmacists, and laymen, par- commerce in the Intermountain of the Interior to determine ticipated with the doctors, all which of the lands administered volunteering their services and region. The study should include by BLM shall be disposed of or working together for a common not cause. only freight forwarders and retained and managed by the motor carriers, but rail, air The Utah Department of bureau under multiple use prinand other Health had estimated the total cargo, piggy-bac- k ciples. means Senaof transportation, The first proposed classifica- susceptibles in Utah at 56,000. tor Moss said. recomSpecific tions in Utah are for 579,300 By immunizing 52,087 the mendations could then be given acres of public land in the east- Muzzle Measles campaign to assure competitive rates in ern parts of Wayne and Garfield reached nearly 93 of the chilso the that our producers acres' in dren who could have become and region Counties, 1,910,000 can effectively suppliers Tooele County, and 198,180 victims of the disease. This is with other firms on the compete acres in southern Uintah and probably the highest record of West as an Coast, example. Duchesne Counties. Mr. Nielson immunization in the country, Moss Senator said that one of pointed out that all three pro- according to Dr. James W. posals are consistent with views Bowes, director of medical ser- the potential benefits of the new and recommendations of local vices for Pittman Moore Phar- Department of Transportation maceutical Company, who came will be the research it will procitizens and governing bodies. Public lands tentatively iden- to Utah to help with the pro- vide. The Department is presently conducting extensive surtified for possible disposition gram. The other statewide measles veys of transportation in the by BLM for community growth and development, agricultural, campaign conducted was in northeastern section of the residential, commercial and in- Rhode Island, where 70 of the country, Senator Moss said. dustrial uses have been excluded children between one and 12 This approach does not involve from the proposed classification. were reached in the program, the controversial question of In addition, the classifications far below the amazing Utah re- pricing policy for the national will allow all other forms of cord. Many other states are par- transportation system, but does appropriation (including the ticipating in the nationwide involve rate problems of this mining, mineral leasing and program on a city or county one region. It may be that legislation is not the answer, but material sales laws) except for campaign basis. a few small sites intended for One of the major factors in rather imaginative shipper-carrie- r distribution innovations. recreation developments. the success of this program was The proposed study might highMaps and details of the pro- the whole-hearte- d cooperation posed classifications are avail- of the home town papers, ac- light and stimulate such a reable from the BLM state office to Harold Bowman, sult. in the Federal Building, Salt cording The Senators signing the Moss executive director of the Utah Lake City, or BLM district of- Medical Association. letter include: Wallace F. BenTheir fices involved: the Price district Howard Cannon, support of this program was nett, office for the Frank Church, wonderful. and Robbers Roost areas of Len B. Jordan, Garfield and Wayne Counties; MexiSalt Lake district office, 1750 $5 cash awards will be presented Joseph Montoya, South Redwood Road, for the to first, second and third place co, Paul Fannin, Tooele County area; and the winners. General contest rules Gale W. McGee, Vernal district office for the apply to this contest, the only Mike Mansfield, and area south of Myton in Uintah light verse division. Lee Metcalf, and Duchesne Counties. Public hearings are scheduled as follows concerning the respective proposals: June 13 at 1 p.m. in the Tooele County h, Under-the-Ledg- es D-Ida- o, D-Ne- Courthouse, Tooele; June 15 at 7:30 p.m. in the Duchesne County Courthouse, Duchesne; and June 22 at 1 p.m. in Wayne High School, Bicknell. Written comments, suggestions or objectives may be submitted before July 15 to the respective district managers or to the state director, 8239 Federal Building, P. O. Box 11505, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. The BLM intends to classify additional areas within the next two years, Mr. Nielson added. This contest is limited to paid-umembers of the League of Utah Writers. Each member may submit one poem without a reading fee. Each additional entry must be accompanied by a 50c reading fee. Poems should be serious verse, limited to 50 lines. Any form or subject matter will be accepted, but poems must be unpublished. No manuscripts will be returned to the author by mail and those not claimed after the award presentation will be destroyed. A second special contest for paid-u- p members only is the Ann Hafen Light Verse Contest. Light verse must be limited to 20 lines and poems must be accompanied by a 50c reading fee. Each member may submit only one unpublished poem in the light verse contest. $15, $10 and w Gordons Vodka the only vodka with a patent on smoothness. p 80 PROOF. DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. CORDON'S DRY GIN CO.. LTD.. LINDEN, N. J. |