Show it— im nenri jenmi Ufn ui iwinwv a an Take Greater Interest In Government’ ‘All Should especially the Washington By IF NEA Senior Editor (Fifth in a Five-Pa- rt WASHINGTON - Series) (NEA) -- There are perhaps heroes in the Watergate scandal who will remain forever mysterious or moot They range from men like James McCord whose motives are questionable to men in the Federal Bureau of Investigation who may always be anonymous though Important footnotes in history FBI men leaked information including that about the close unethical ties Blitical andWhite House and the former Acting Director Patrick Gray proached L a relationship which reached its nadir when Gray admitted burning impor- tant files upon urging of frightened White House aides Some FBI men brought up on the axioms of fidelity bravery and keeping one s trap shut were shaken by this butchering of separation of powers Some probably in the domestic intelligence division were also appalled by the illegal bugging and espionage going on under White House An underground auspices network was formed between these men and some members of the media including and nigh-rankin- selves and Jinaliy responded to a "higher law" one in which they put their principles above the letter of the law These men did in fact break both a federal regulation and a bureau regulation against leaking information Perhaps though they did not appreciate Gray who besides his buckling to White House dictates also fired or e FBI staldemoted warts radically began reshaping the FBI image by approving the wearing of colored shirts and long hair and hiring women as field agents The motives of James also an informer in Watergate but a much more visible one than the FBI men are in question Did he give lengthy testimony solely in hopes of receiving a lighter sentence for his part in the espionage and burglary of Watergate? Or was he a man of conscience who saw a new light? Daniel Ells berg believes the latter Ellsberg the Defense Department consultant who gave the Pentagon Papers to rd MONTGOMERY Ala (UPI) An attorney for two young girls who were sterilized under supervision of a federally funded agency said they were treated "like a farmer would treat his cattle" with no feeling for their right to bear children Morris Dees who represented Minnie Re if 14 and her sister 12 in a Mary Alice Relf federal court suit said Wednes- day that the Montgomery Community Action Committee Inc was "guilty of fraud" if it tried to Justify the sterilization Dees has asked a federal grant relief to the two Montgomery girls by awarding them fl million and ordering that the sterilization be reversed in a delicate operation that he said was only available in New York and Sweden He also sought a federal court ruling that would prohibit the sterilization of other blacks under similar circumstances The Relf suit claimed that the girls’ mother was illiterate and thought her daughters were ping to be given birth control shots when she made her “X" on the authorization form "These people were treated like a farmer would treat his cattle" Dees charged "They simply were castrated with no thought to human decency and the right of these girls to bear court to g Ma-gnid- er offi- campaign conscience personally I be- lieve I did tne right things — but I feel lousy" He reflected on the past five years in the White House: "There was no independent sense of morality there I mean if you worked for someone he was God and whatever the orders were you did it It was all so narrow so closed" The ugly uncoverings of Watergate disturbed otners Barry Goldwater senator old-tim- from Arizona and previously a staunch supporter of Nixon's was the first Republican to appeal to the President to come out in the open on the Watergate matter and clear the air He doubted the veracity of some of the President's statements ("I have to think he knew this coverup a good deal before his April 30 speech") At the time it was a courageous thing for a partisan senator to say conis The New York Times that they perjured themThere were others after the sidered an ideological hero by selves truth and others taking risks some in this country because He broke the case wide Such as the prosecutor in of his willingness to go to Jail open for a larger interest — that is "I felt a sense of injustice Florida a Nixon appointee A about the whole business" who went after Donald Segret-t- i revealing to the nation The prosecutor risked his said McCord through those documents the job A man like G Gordon Lid-d- y lies and deceptions of the And certain elements of the convicted as the ringleadKennedy and Johnson administrations relating to the Vieter of the bugging group is press still being maligned by nam War To President Nixon unlike McCord remaining the administration continued however Ellsberg is hardly a mum as he begins to serve a to energetically dig toward hero "We have to stop makeight-mont- h the bottom of what sometimes minimum six-yeseems a bottomless pit This ing heroes out of those who prison sentence steal secrets and publish them of course includes The Wash"In wartime" wrote Stewhe said rein newspapers art Alsop in a recent issue of ington Post particularly their Newsweek "G Gordon Liddy cently young local crime reporters belief that the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernwould have been festooned "I believe" said Ellsberg word was the lawpresident's At a cerstein than with rather decorations (known in the city room who attended the early Ervin tain in discovmy life I point as either "Woodstein" or committee hearings in which ered that that was a misslapped into jail As so often "The Katzen jammer Kids") in wartime his stubborn siMcCord testified "that Mctake" lence did no good" Cord is an honest man I There was Walter Cronkite McCord's career has been Another wno began work in who devoted two recognize my own past in one of federal service: 19 the administration with lofty him I like McCord spent all segments to the importance of in the Central Intelli- - idealism and then years life under the grew disenmy professional Watergate during the presiand four as an dential campaign A gutsy fence AgencyHe is also a re- chanted with internal operaagent tions quit in silent protest He tired Air Force colonel is Hugn W Sloan Jr He resigned abruptly as He disclosed in a letter to SEATTLE Wash (UPI) -treasurer of the Committee to Judge John J Sirica that poPaul Elliot said Tuesday he litical the President last pressure was being received a card from the White exerted on him and the six July less than a month after House signed "Dick and Pat other Watergate defendants to the Watergate arrests AcDavid and Julie and Eddie and plead guilty by the adminis- - cording to Sloan he was apTricia" bearing the presidential seal and a picture of the Nixon family thanking him “with our deep appreciation for helping make our victory on Nov 7 1971" Elliott 21 who was Washington State youth coordinator for Sen George McGovern said "I know we weren't able to carry the state but I didn't realize we were that ineffective" thing to do because (a) it was not really so powerful an Issue back then and (b) Cronkite and the Columbia Broadcasting System predictably incurred the wrath of the administration during the next several months and was branded "shabby" and "irre- sponsible" Judge Sirica believes that much of the political scandal of Watergate and other scan- dals on local levels would diminish if citizens took greater interest in government — asking more questions being more aware of their candidates voting for the best people available "We do too much spectating” he said He believes in the uncommon man the man with vision who can determine his own fate He agrees it seems with John F Kennedy who wrote in his book “Profiles in Cour- age": "To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications no magic formula no special comoination of time place and circumstance It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all Politics merely furnishes one arena which imposes special tests of courage "In whatever arena of life one may meet the challenge of courage whatever maybe the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends his fortune his contentment even the esteem of his fellow man — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow Each man must look into his own soul” (End of Series) SALT LAKE CITY - LISBON - MADRID - PARIS - LONDON ROUND TRIP $62863 Watergate: Challenge of ar "I know the mother signed the request" Conklin said He also said a notary public questioned her to see if she understood what permission she and he said had given apparently the mother assured the notary public she was aware of what was about to happen to the girls Dees said however that Mrs Relf who he said had no formal education did not even “tubular comprehend what sterilization" meant The suit backed by the Southern Poverty law Center headed by Georgia Rep Julian Bond alleged that on June 13 a nurse from the agency visited the welfare mother and tried to explain what had to be done because "boys were hanging around the girls" The suit said the agency must have “felt the most convenient method for the agency to prevent pregnancy was sterilization" TRAVEL SERVICE 7SM544 1 32 Church Avr Logan Utah Thick Layer m Re-ele- ct o§ iMaw® ®tp nt M-t- ©fl w Q 0 Wi( (ffl OWATHROUGHFJULYi (KJUKKSEB? VAOtiUft MM KlC'N IClSURPilJ 0(3130® children "They were totally insen- sitive" he said "If these people try to blame their gross misconduct on the girls' parents then they are guilty of lil3Uk!iwr® iJiluagu SfiSMlfiV fraud" Howard Phillips director of the Office of Economic Opportunity was named one of the defendants The Community Action Committee had received federal funds from the OEO until last March when It came under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health Education and Welfare but still was federally subsidized Another defendant Joseph Conklin director of the Community Action Committee said he did not think the agency was guilty of any wrongdoing Conklin said the girls' mother Mrs Minnie Relf fully understood the immediate and effects of the tubular sterilization No Successor Found Yet For Wurden SALT LAKE CITY I UPI) -Utah Prison Warden John Turn- er one-ye- ar past retirement age continues to serve over the state's facility while the slow search for a successor goes on Gov Calvin L Hampton said "The warden is Wednesday continuing to serve at the state prison because 1 have asked him to remain until we can find an adequate successor "His retirement is not imminent but it is a fact of life we are going to have to face" Hampton said the Division of Corrections is looking fur candidates with the help of a federal team "but we will take our time We want to get the right man" Turner has been at the state prison since 1942 and has been warden for 15 years :nsn n C33"t ftgfla (nflmmuoa 'Onw ordohqkb)) M&K0& N Courage Sterilization Is Protested By Girls black Jeb Stuart cers and asked to give false testimony before a federal grand jury "I didn t want to be a party to it” said Sloan in a recent interview "1 have a clear not entirely clear Perhaps they were torn within them- Mc-Cu- by and Fred LaRue two Post and Jack Anderson These informants did risk their careers and their reputations in getting this information out Yet their motives are '(SB) nj" iohcbbs© '(DltH1 0 ifQ)i up coy dffliroOSaoKQffiaSEBfr wan ifnu latglRaii irtpaffgA ifflBi flQt onaewaffip MMtfO 8900" ffltnfinEirfi isnm tgooiQj) aBBKSUSS) QiXUt3Xul4)icCQ) & nf) UM 1D(IW HS3 LOGAN HARDWARE CO 45 North Main In Logan I 1 A |