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Show Paul Harvey 8 Good Cops Shoot First By PAUL HARVEY The notion that lawmen should just stand there and let the lawbreakers shoot first is nonsen s e. We've been brainwas h e d by a generation of fiction writers. The fact is that our wild West was tamed the first Mr. Harvey time by lawmen who shot first. When Chicago Mayor Richard Daley recently issued a directive to his police to shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to cripple looters, he aroused a wail of righteous indignation. "Inhuman," the bleated. "Immoral," some clergymen protested. cried the professional protestors. The critics don't know what they're talking about. sub-siste- "Un-America- COMING May 17- - 18 THREE EXCITING PERFORMANCES Coincidentally, I visited to harness: Wyatt Earp, Ba Tombstone, Ariz., and Dodge Masterson. Even today a lawman i City, Kan., within the week that Mayor Daley stuck his their image, Marshall Ke neck out. I had an opportun- House, in a rolled-briStet ity to cull the old files of the son and wearing two Tombstone Epitaph and the patrols the now quiet streets morgue of the Dodge City of Dodge City streets named Globe and research how their for Masterson and Earp and early law enforcers enforced Doc Holliday. the law. churches in that Thirty-twNo place in those complete city of 15,000 helped the gooa archives do I find any refer- people keep faith, but the bad " ence to the or the guys didn't go to church. They controversy were disciplined by law guns which preoccupies the authors with a soft trigger and bv the if television fiction. hangman s tree in Horse' Let me tell you how the Thief Canyon. Those days, when the West was really won. was tipped to a bank A generation ago, when he was waiting for head was the rail jrebbery. Dodge City for the cattle drives, no place me Dans ruDocrs wnen uiuy was wilder, rougher or wick came out. There was no dilemma. eder. Today there are few places The lawman, usually from be or hind something, shot the bank quieter, tamer, gentler with much robbers dead then, perhaps, more crime than our he advised them of their less national average. How come? "rights." The practice distressed The lawless and the unlovek some gentle people but it disly, the buffalo hunters and the naugh- couraged most would-b- e bank ty ladies of the Long Branch robbers. saloon the drunken cowpokes Dodge City has preserved and renegade soldiers and its past in a museum on Boot were Hill. In that mirror you can professional outlaws see that the "good old days" tamed by tough cops. The names of Dodge City's were not really. You come crisis years lawmen became away mightily appreciative legend while they lived and for these good new days, for remain enshrined today in the the modern city out there in grateful city which they broke the sunlight, the streets where carefree children play and gentlewomen walk unmolested and you remember it was iron men with tin badges and drawn guns who taught manners to the and can again. May 9 mi By JOHN CORLETT Idaho Statesman Political Editor fcM tight rope, but his mar-sha- ll "who-draws-firs- t" law-abidin- g, per-capi- ta anything-for-a-buc- SOCIAL TRENTON Employees of p and the Trenton Feed met at POD 'n PUlS nnrtn in Preston Saturday evening for supper and bowling, ire-sewere Mr. and Mrs. Ray Minkler, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ward, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Buttars, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reeder, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Legrand Reeder, Mr. and Mrs. Oriel Kidman, Mr. and Mrs. Gary Goodsell, Mr. ana Mrs. uon Godfrey, Mr. and Mrs. David Lapray, Betty Spackman, Vonda Buttars, Vickie Merrill, Marvin Buttars and Johnny Tillotsen. FOR BRIDES FOR GUESTS STATE UNIVERSITY It's INTERCOLLEGIATE -- I 0 w OF PRESTON nmnvu oris mkim BRIDAL CACHE COUNTY At' REGISTRY Exclusive Gifts FAIRGROUNDS nt There is ferment these days in the Idaho Republican hierarchy. The battle lines are being drawn between the forces favoring Richard M. Nixon and those wanting Gov. Ronald Reagan for the party's presidential nomination. It is not just a matter of picking slates of delegates. Across the state in the party councils there runs a dialogue about whether the leadership of the party proper should not be changed. e effort to The not rock the boat and try to keep the top officer! of the party has been abandoned. This effort received its first setback when W. Grant Kilbourne of Poca-tellthe crony of Gov. Don Samuelson, decided h e wanted to be national committeeman. one-tim- o, extra-conservati- This opened the door to con troversy in the election of party officers. As a result a slate of new officers nas oeen advanced. The key personage in the new talkedabout slate is State Sen. Mary Brooks, vice chair man of the Republican Na tional Committee. Her friends are pouring on the heat asking that she be a candidate for national committeewoman in a confrontation with incumbent Mrs. Gwen Barnett. Mrs. Barnett is assumed to be closely associated with the leaders of the Friends of Reagan Committee. Secretary of State Pete Cenarrusa said the purpose of the committee was to make sure that "Reagan-oriented- " Idahoans were sent as delegates to the GOP National Convention in Miami. BRIEFS of Hyrum. nice Saturday evening PlpnHnn many Bair of Richmond was honored by members of his family at a birthday dinner in a Logan cafe. Covers were laid for Mrs. Bair, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Thomson of Ogden, Mr. and Mrs. Glade Bair, Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Ilyer of North Logn an, Mr. and Mrs. Norman of Bancroft, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Bair of Lewiston, Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Hansen of Smithfield, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bair of Salt Lake City and Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bair Mr. Bair received gifts. FOR Tol-ma- lteagan camps are beginning u select their own slates oi delegates. The assembly ought to be '"i lineresiiiig battleground. roll The name of Allen Lvnn Davis. Clifton, was on 'the Utah Stale University list of hnnur roll students in the Preston area. In order to be included on the honor roll, a student must be enrolled full time and have a grade point average of 3.5 or better (4.0 is straight A). For IM&r On Her Hay John- - niSK-nd- cnr sou, daughter of Mr. and Ms. Cly Johnson f Preston, will receive her pin on May 9 and her associate degree in Nursing on May 10 at Kicks College. MAY 12 SUNDAY, Fresh School Honors Flowers WE HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SELECTION Three Students Corsages Three students from this area have been placed on the scholastic honor roll at StevBACK FROM OHIO ens Henager College in Ogden. Clinton Kent, son of Mr. and The students are Mrs. Diane Mrs. Cecil Kent of Lewiston, R. Godfrey, 516 East 1st returned home Saturday from South, Preston, who achieved another five weeks of school a 3.86 grade point average; ing at the NCR training center Lynda Gamble, daughter of in Dayton, Ohio. His wife Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gamble, Glenda and son had stayed Route 2, Preston, who achievwith her parents, Mr. and ed a 3.88 grade point average; Mrs. Leo Nelson. They have and Jay Bergquist, son of Mr. now returned to their home and Mrs. Lee Bergquist, 78 west 1st South, Preston, who in Idaho Falls. achieved a 3.65 grade point average. LEWISTON BRIEFS Diane and Lynda are enMr. and Mrs. Sylmar G. rolled in a secretarial course Jessop of Logan visited in for college women at Stevens Lewiston Sunday with their Henager; and Jay is enrolled son Wiilard and his wife and in an accounting and business management course. Plants Cut Flowers - ALL WILL DELIGHT "MOM11 BEDDING PLANTS - High Quality Locally Grown In our own Nursery PETUNIAS ASTERS TOMATOES Full Dozen 60c GERANIUMS Large Now In Bloom TREES, SHRUBS, and EVERGREENS All Reasonably Priced family. Mrs. Harl Judd and daughSPORTS MANAGER ter Sharon of Cedar City were Sports manager for the Wodinner guests Friday of Mr. men's Intramural association and Mrs. George Pond in at Ricks College in softball is Each 50c EDWARDS FLORAL 74 E. 4th SO. PHONE D'Ann McGregor, Thatcher. F. Clifton White, the organizational genius who gathered in the delegates for Barry Goldwater in 1A64, is out with Reagan's blessing, seeking "grass roots" support for the prospective entry into the presidential sweepstakes this year of 1!56S. SEE Carlson's favor-l- ; is Reagan. The (Jul' state assembly is nnly six works awav. Tliere is evidence that the Nixon and o:i mimn RICHMOND CARPET Politically Speaking "fast-draw- "who-drew-firs- t" Co-o- May 17, 7:30 May 18, 1:30 and 7:30 Thursday. o ! CO-O- P RODEO .oAa CCHf VAllS six-gun- s, tree-line- d UTAH FSSraSWg 832-02- lat-tcr- 's Graduate to a new flameless Electric Range Electric Cooking Is His Favorite Too ! Happiness is better steaks, apple pies and baked potatoes for he-m- an appetites. You get them and much more with a modern electric range. flame-le- a Setjmtr tltdric dealer's bright new models now Became (ft etoctric, ifi better! & Light Co. Utah Power No Idahoan is closer to F. Clinton White than Mrs. Bar nett, who won control of the Central Idaho Republican Committee in 1964 to make sure that the Gem State dele gation was pledged for Gold water. The close friendship of Mrs. Pete Cenarrusa and Mrs. Bar nett is legendary in the Re publican hierarchy. Thus, although Mrs. Barnett said some months ago that she desired a fluid Idaho delega tion, it becomes difficult for her to disassociate herself from the Reagan camp. In any event, after the top party pros learned that Kilbourne wanted to defeat in cumbent National Committeeman Harley Markham, who is in charge of all arrange ments for the national con vention, the talk began that "maybe all the leaders ought to go." David Little of Emmett wasl urged to be a third candidate for national committeeman to try to assure Kilbourne's de feat. drm vifa hsrv k:i m mmv vmvu. wj?m is wrwak ia. mm, wml msmiJSBr wm m.- - nwm mm wans sn.&mawm. vumm mi im n w?wk immw w..a ts. miu tfKBs& vsesmew na ntraww h" " ss m m ra& ls6 ..kail""" in " rice- - mtA William S. Campbell, Nixon's Idaho coordinator, has been asked to become state chairman, succeeding Incumbent John 0. McMurray. It was suggested that perhaps McMurray could be national committeeman. At the George V. Hansen dinner in Boise a week ago, the slate most talk ed about was Campbell for chairman, Little for national committeeman and Mrs. Brooks for national commit teewoman. Also in the background are he many friends of Sen. Lent B. Jordan, who may be asked o "come to the aid of their party." The move now is stronger to select a delegation with Jordan as the favorite fund-raisin- g I I son. Jordan is rinse to Nixon and most of the Nixon workers are close to Jordan. Samuelson, for the public in record, says Idaho is its chnire hprwppn Nixon and Reagan. He tries to walk this au-a- u HcCUNE MOTOR COMPANY 40 Wast Oneida Preston. Idako wiiimm |