Show k I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday April If Just to Sweeten the Pot 1972 Quick Hijack Action Needed vv An Indonesian pilot forced by a hijacker to land at Jogjakarta shot and killed the hijacker on one of the Two alleged American skyjackers were quickly captured One parachuted from a commandered airplane with half a million dollars ransom all except $30 being recovered Richard F McDoy Jr of Provo Utah was arrested and charged with the crime Nabbed in San Diego in an alleged copy-cattempt to collect parachutes and half a million dollars ransom Stanley H Speck of San Francisco was held without bail pending a sanity hearing April 21 And there have been others Air piracy whether for political purposes or extortion is a threat to the community at large and must be stopped Heroes like the Indonesian pilot and President J Floyd Andrews of Pacific Southwest Airlines who helped collar the alleged extortionist when he came down the ramp at San Diego to collect maps for a flight to Miami- deserve the thanks of every air at Joe Bell then proceeded to tell Ma how it is “Over There— whence our culture sprung “Take London where I speak the language hi a sort of haphazard nasal idiomatic way I had some business with a man there whan it was necessary to ran frequently Through aome Machiavellian fouling of the phone lines I would usually get the Agriculture Department when I dialed this man even though the numbers weren’t even remotely alike traveler Submission to extortion only invites more attempts Quick and deadly reaction will bring it's timely end Richard Wilson’s AGG Dislikes County Action Editor: It has been called to our attention that Cache County has advertised for bids for a gravel crusher We understand there are at least two or more crushers already owned by taxpaying contractors in the county The AGC the recognLed spokesman for the construction industry objects to the county purchasing this large piece of equipment which would cost in the neighborhood of 6100000 The intent of state law is that larger construction jobs will be done by the contract method In fact the state regulations for both B & C and Collector Roads places a limit of $25000 for any one job It appears therefore that it is the intent of Cache County to get further into the construction business We feel that the taxpayers money should not be used for the purchase of this magnitude when the work can be done through bidding and by the contract method The contract method has many advantages including: 1 They would take advantage of competition through bidding thus getting the lowest possible price 2 Materials and workmanship are guaranteed through plans and specifications 3 Completion date is established through a contract 4 The contractor is required by law to have a performance and payment bond We are therefore asking the Commission to refrain from purchasing this piece of equipment We ask you to do your construction work under the contract method and thus safeguard tax payers funds Very truly yours Associated General Contractors Horace J Gunn executive manager Utah Chapter command of seven languages told an NRA member in Oregon that only about 5 per cent of Russians are Communists When asked how only 5 per cent Interpretive Report of the people could control the rest the refugee replied -“THEY HAVE ALL THE GUNS" Don't say it can’t happen but become involved so that it won’t happen here One proposed bill will require total gun registration in the year 1971 Exercise your right of free speech until that's dissolved by writing your congressman to preserve your right to “Keep and Bear Arms” Also support the National Rifle Association (lie only powerful lobby against gun confiscation - they need your help as bad as you need theirs and the monthly publication is well worth the small investment Good Shooting Jon Gates Women Qualified Dear Sir: It is my desire to commend your newspaper staff for its interest in informing the public about the challenges that face Logan City government in the future I hope that The Herald Journal continues to research and report events about the conduct of government in the city and county In your edition of April 10 1971 a staff writer by the name of MC Naylor began a series of articles concerning the government and the forthcoming selection of a mayor for Logan I would like to quote two excerpts from his article entitled “Looking to the Future” 1 “First the task of the commissioners lies in choosing a new man to head the city (page one column two paragraph two) 1 “Consideration of these things and their effect upon the people of Logan City will take government” precedence in deciding the future direction of the city and how a man approaches these problems will determine his qualifications to fill the seat on the city commission which carries the title of mayor" (page 2 paragraph 4) It has been my experience while living in Logan to have met a number of intelligent and highly qualified women any one of whom would make an excellent or in any other mayor in town or city I regret very much the fact that The Herald Journal has chosen to reflect this type of bias in its otherwise notable efforts to inform the public Sincerely yours Ms Judith M Gappa FOA Explained Sir: The article appearing in The Herald Journal about the and animal umlnil meeting is rather hard fur those of us who were there that night to understand I was trying to get the board to understand what FOA is doing to help the population explosion in the animal world I certainly was not tryh-- to get every dog brought in spayed free of charge Friends of Animals is a fine organization and it is working with the vets and a fee is paid and an ample one to cwvr all costs Copies of the article have been sent to The Herald Journal commission and board members hoping this will clear up the Humane Society misunderstanding Thank you Mihted Wickel -NWASHINGTON DC published about the massacre at My I id compares in awfulness to a largely unnoted horror document prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee on the human cost of Communism in Vietnam This document released a few weeks ago has a current pertinency to events in Vietnam If the Communist attack is successful the Hanoi government will affect an occupation perhaps temporary of one or more of the northern provinces of South Vietnam in the name of a provisional government Some indication may therefore be forthcoming of what life for the South Vietnamese would be like under Communism Nothing like that may happen of course Military operations are in their early stages and may continue for weeks with the outcome in doubt There would certainly be less doubt of the othing without outcome American support as is now so graphically illustrated The present uncertainty underlines what may eventually happen in South Vietnam without American future support and in these circumstances it is illuminating to consider what the consequences of the withdrawal of that support might be American apologists for Hanoi have been poohpoohing fears of a bloodbath in South Vietnam following the collapse of a The government Saigon Communist record of the past has been ignored while horrified attention has been fixed on My Iai to burn the regrettable events there into the American consciousness as a livid scar of guilt for having intervened at all in Vietnam The Communist record in Vietnam is far far worse as documented in the Senate committee report My Lai is deplored by many who have never heard of the merciless Communist massacres in Dak Son or Due Due and have forgotten the slaughter at Hue of 5700 civilians as "wicked tyrants" owing “blood debts" to the people Something far heavier than My Iai is likely to lie upon the American conscience if the withdrawal finally results in a Communist takeover The estimates of credible authorities — not merely newspaper or senatorial polemicists pollyannas — range up to 3 million casualties behind the kind of blackout Communist societies can impose Such extreme estimates need not be accepted as credible to realize the risks and rigors awaiting the people of South Vietnam which are so easily dismissed by Hanoi's apologists The sanctified Ho Chi Minh caused his share of deaths variously estimated between 50000 and 100000 in a campaign of terror imposing land reform in North Vietnam after the French left Land reform is the foundation of Asian Communism and a major method of its imposition has been in short murder In Vietnam some respected authorities agree the monstrous land reform imposition was also used as a bloody reprisal against French collaborationists So when a senator or columnist dismisses predictions of a bloodbath as a "historical hobgoblin" he is compelled at the same time to dismiss the judgment and analysis of recognized experts on Vietnam as charlatanry Much of the rebuttal to the bloodbath prediction rests on the paucity of complaints in North Vietnam to the International Control Commission after 1954 An analysis by Anita Lauve Nutt a Rand Corporation consultant shows the folly of relying upon such “proof” that what others have called “Moody and vile reprisals" did not occur in large numbers The chilling pattern of Communist repression has ben tfrawn from captured enemy documents by Stephen T Hosmer for the Rand Corporation The Viet Gong having already killed 36000 civilians and kidnapped 54000 more in the systematic terror campaign to demoralize all phases of the civilian bureaucracy are prepared with “blacklists” of more thousands many “criminals" who will be held accountable Hosmer predicts tens of thousands of executions He finds it difficult to believe there would be less than 100000 Nor in Hosmer’s analysis is there much to be expected from the electoral process should that come about after a negotiated settlement following the present Communist drive Terror would go to the polls in spile of international supervision When critics say that the bombing should stop we should get out let the Communist offensive succeed if it can they are also saying that America has no “vital interest” in preventing the horrendous repression likely to follow The disturbed American conscience will rest no easier with the corpses of 50000 100000 - 1000000 more South Vietnamese joining the victims uf My Lai Rational analysis must include that possibility on the evidence of what is known to have happened in North Vietnam and South Vietnam and on the historical record of the frightful cost of Communism in Russia China and wherever else it has been imposed Paul Harvey I I jet there be music— again! After a generation of noisy Its president Richard evolution Wangerin says “We are witnessing a substantial upsurge of culture in this country More again listen symphonic orchestras more performances and more people jungle - music inevitable Now it’s classical music that’s packing them in There’s been an interesting generation gap at the home of the Paul Harveys: kind of inverted from the one most mentioned Young Paul is a concert pianist (By the way a short-haire-d concert pianist) And while my personal preference in music ranges between Burt Bacharach and George Gershwin young Paul's ranges from to Rachmaninoff I'm not complaining A home filled with music! I cherish ev en the tedious finger exercises And now took at all this evidence that “good lizst music" is enjoying a phenomenal renaissance! US News and Wurld Report recently called the roll and found recitals symphony concerts opera are performed frequently and regularly from Miami Fla to Fairbanks Alaska from Honolulu Hawaii to Barre Vt The American Symphony Orchestra league is a nationwide association of orchestras attending" The number of opera-goer- s has doubled in two decades Twenty-eigh- t principal symphony orchestras have doubled their budgets in one decade In the past two years rock music groups have begun recording their own "versions” of Bach Brahms and Beethoven including Brahms' Fourth Symphony and Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" was music Strauss psychedelicized for the movie “2001” “A Clockwork Orange" ' lion The called party wasn’t home J “I HUNG UP AND WATTED for the money to return” Joe continues “Nothing I groped for a return box found none and fa) panic tried to locate my operator again I got another instead who explained to me that British phones have no return-coi- n mechanism "So what happens to my money?” Joe asked the operator “You can place the call later or well mail you a check” Joe couldn’t cope with the prospect of a check going by freighter around the Cape of Good Hope to California so he asked them to try the call later e The operator took the number and told him to stand fay there in an hour pay-phon- THE AIRPORT WAS crowded and when Joe returned to the phone at the appointed time seven people were lined up to use tt It took him 25 minutes to work his way to the phone and another 10 to locate the right operator who told him cheerfully that his line had been busy After a couple more incidents of frustration Joe Bell abandoned his attempted phone call and flew to france Woodbura Chase Bert Kruse contends: Porcupines are armed with spines And polar bears with claws Sharks unsheath mean pointed teeth And crocodiles vast jaws ’ active plus 375 of which 300 conceivably strangle it Government's immediate remedy is $6 million cultural aid this fiscal year Antal Dorati of the National Uszt having studied the average age of attendees Symphony Orchestra says Washington - DC “Traditionally upper classes have been interested in symphonic music Now with adcomvances in education romanticism and matter classical music re back are munication and economics there are more people moving "in"-n- ow into the upper 4 HERE AND THERE— “We must accept the disciplines of democracy as well as its freedoms Discipline from without flourishes when discipline from within grows weak—Harry workshops many perform opera Ticket prices soar to accommodate increasing labor costs That could stifle the renaissance ! “COMPARED WITH FRANCE Inland runs its phone system with high efficienty: There is a certain bumbling grace in the way Uie British muck up your phone alls “You can’t say that for the French They not only don’t get your alls through they regard you as a troublemaker for ever ex-pecting they would “On one typical morning at a Paris post offia I spent four hours trying to make two phone calls to London— only one of which finally got through” So Joe Bell concludes in his letter to Ma Bell via The Christian Science Monitor: "So you see Ma things are a lot tougher Over There” There are now more than a thousand symphony orchestras in the United States— including the pros the amateurs and the college and community groups There are more than ! j Opera" opera companies - J “ long-distan- "I've just had an idea! Have you noticed ham publishers have put out books by all the different presidential “ candidates ? class" V I J Then there’s the matter of the telephone coinreturn bona in ' England Joe Bdl learned about them the hard way He made a call from a London airport putting countless large British coins into the box at the operator’s direc- - New Yak’s Philharmonic now season The (days a Palm Desert Calif symphony sellout is a In Seattle despite severe economic setbacks in recent years thousands of automobile bumper stickers slogan: “Bravo ticks to Beethoven Richard Buffum of the Los Angeles Tima came away from a two-da- y piano concert all convinced tliat the wave of the future is a revival of romanticism Which is the chicken and which is the egg doesn't really ! BUT JOE BELL TOLD her : “But I must get hold of this man It’s terribly important" "Well luv” she said “why don’t you just try it tomorrow" I've yet to see the weaponry However that has farung More pain to man (those married) than One angry woman's tongue! Let There Be Music ' J “I GOT RATHER WELL acquainted with a platant young Agriculture secretary who was always sympathetic” Joe Bdl continues in his public letter : “tki one of the more frustrating days— when it was necessary to reach my party to firm up a time quickly approaching— the secretary and I called the operator into the game "She was rather testy Implying by her tone of voice that we must be doing something terribly wrong When she tried the number three times however and got Agriculture each time she simply dismissed the whole problem as insoluble and therefore not worthy uf any more of her attention” Letters To The Editor Editor: It seems we’re living in an era of radicals when it comes to firearms ownership The second amendment of the Bill of Rights states ‘To Keep and Bear Arms" yet there are numerous proposals to require nationwide registration of all firearms nationwide licensing of gun owners and elimination of long gun or hand gun ownership by AM private citizens Blok of these sponsors are using a tactic or process called “creeping confiscation" Some go so far as to propose banning of the manufacture and sale of ALL firearms Let’s take a look at New York—an area where gun control is strict at least by our standards and certainly by the directives of the Bill of Rights In New York's five boroughs there are today about 400000 legally registered 11168 and shotguns But these guns the city's records show r are not the guns that kill people Since the registration of firearms began in February I960 “no legally owned rifle or shotgun has been involved in a homicide in New York City" Only when the loyal majority has been legally disarmed do we need fear the violence of the illegally armed dsloyal minority This is but simple arithmetic A refugee from communism with ' a doctor's degree and ' “FORGET ALL THAT I have it in a different frame of reference now You see I just got back from two months in Ewope And Ma I wan t to tel 1 you that you look very good to me I mean I Just pick iq a phone and dial the number and there they are on the other end— the people I caned" - Right To Own A Firearm ’ A MAN BY THE name of Joseph N Bell wrote a public letter to “Ma Bell"— (no blood relation to the writer) He said in effect how good it was to get back in the USA after being abroad here he can get Ms party (Hi the phone on the first dial "Ma Bell Bell Telephone System New York" his letter started “Dear Ma: Hold on now don’t throw this away I know the last few times I've written you I’ve come on pretty strong I mean the trouble I had getting my phone on vacation rate and the mixed-u- p listing in the book and those charges that weren't mine and that Information Operatorof yours who kept telling people trying to call methat I had apparently moved away—or just (topped out of sight ment piracy episodes |