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Show Warren Report in Dock Along With Clay Shaw DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH We Stand For he Constitution Of The United States As Having Been Divinely Inspired 12 A EDITORIAL PAGE , SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1969 By SID MOODY Associated Press Utah Stands Firm On Workable Liquor Law sick and tired of the sham and shame of our present situation. 2. They want no private profit from liquor sales. They know that when a man profits from liquor he will promote li- -' quor. They know that the great social costs of liquor fall on the public, and that the profits from liquoi sales should go to help meet those costs. 3. They want liquoi no more available than it is under the To any one who has labored through the report and its 26 supporting volumes of testimony and evidence, there was little new. Many of Garrison's witnesses a i to the events in Dallas were the commissions before him. Those who were not witnesses before the commission gave the Shaw trial the benefit of their opinions. But they produced few, if any. fresh facts. Since entering the assassination case two years ago, Garrison has made many statements in interviews, news conferences and court records that promised, if true, to make the report worth little more than the 56 pounds of paper per complete set it is printed on. Garrison has said, "There were several plots" to kill Kennedy; that Oswald never fired a shot"; that the President was killed by a precision guerrilla team of at least seven men"; that The involvement of high officials in the United Stales government in the affair becomes more and more apparent ; that a number of men who killed the President were former employes of the CIA involved in its activities in the New Orleans area. The CIA knows their identity. So do I. Garrison's office filed a document accusing Shaw of delivering money to Oswald and Jack Ruby, the night club owner ho shot Oswald, at Baton Rouge in the fall of 1963. There were actually two Oswalds. Garrison said, the second being a decoy used to throw suspicion on the first and authentic one. We believe, the district attorney said, we have discovered his identity. All these allegations point to conspiracy, whether or not Clay Shaw was involved. None of them figured in the prosecutions case. They remain what they were: allegations. Instead Garrison took two approaches to prove conspiracy. One was to establish that Shaw, a businessman, had been seen and heard talking with Oswald and David Ferrie, a bizarre airline pilot, now dead, who figures in the Warren report in that he once may have taught a boyhood friend of Oswalds in an air patrol course. not in the report Perry Russo testified that he heard the three discussing the murder of the President but also said it could have been nothing bull an inconsequential more than session." Russo said this had occurred at a party one night in the summer of 1963 at Ferrie's apartment. Oswald, he said, was unshaven. Oswalds widow, Marina, and repeated had told the commission it at Shaws trial that the only night her husband was away from home was the occasion when he was arrested for leaflets. No testidistributing mony before the commission ever mentioned Oswald as having been bearded. Other witnesses testified they had seen Oswald and Shaw together that one of them a drug addict summer who said he saw them just before he was but they about to give himself a fix were not directly connected to Garrisons second approach. This was to establish that the fata! shots were fired from the grassy knoll and not, as the commission found, the Texas School Book Depositoiy where Oswald's gun and three spent shells were discovered. Critics of the Warren Commission report. such as Mark Lane and Harold Weisberg, hae made the same claim. present law. 4. They want an end to taverns masquerading as private clubs. Senate Bills 144 and 145 as passed by both houses of the Legislature meet those standards. Probably no legislation in the states history has had so much study. Out of the intense legislative debate came a few helpful amendments. This is the way democratic government should work. The bills clearly establish concurrent state and local responsibility for enforcement of liquor laws. Moreover, both levels of government will have the tools to do the job the slate through a special liquor enforcement agency, the local governments through state funds provided on a matching basis specifically for enforcement. For the first time, too, the state can keep private clubs under control. The $7,500 bond required, plus the $500 license fee, will encourage by the clubs. More important, or club of revoking granting liquor licenses will be by the Liquor Control Commission rather than by a Secretary of State who may or may not care about liquor laws. The bills provision to allow state liquor stores to sell e bottles of liquor in certain restaurants meets the cry that the tourist cant buy a drink. But, contrary to some impressions, it does not represent any relaxation of present law. State stores can be established in restaurants now. The new bills would restrict size of bottles, hours of sale, and the number of outlets. The criticism that this program would cost the state vast sums of money is specious. The cost to the state of maintaining such an outlet at the Salt Lake Airport, for example, is $25 a month; costs of other outlets would be comparable. enforcement arm could be met by a Expenses of the 1 Vq percent increase in the cost of liquor and who will say that respecting and enforcing the law is not worth that? The bill has been criticized because it would not allow to restaurant waitresses to sell drinks or bring tables. But the present as well as proposed law puts the responsibility for seeing the law is enforced squarely on the operator of the liquor store, the vendor. It would be ridiculous to put this responsibility on all the various girls who may act as waitresses. The proposed law passed by the Legislature is not per fect; experience will suggest refinements. But it is an excellent foundation for building the kind of enforceable liquor control system Utah has so long lacked. self-polici- . 4 15-m- mini-bottl- for-'m- er 4 , For Better Voting ln two bills awaiting Senate actiou HB203 and 204 there is an opportunity for Utahns to have faster voting procedures as well as a more accurate vote counting. That modernization in both areas is needed is undeniable. Now only first class cities are allowed to use voting machines, and then only if they are lever type models. This outdated law takes into consideration neither the future growth of Utah, nor the development of electronic voting machines which often are improvements over the mechanical types. Such o machines will end the tedious job of hand counting ballots, which is subject to error because voter officials must work long hours. Voting machines make automatic counts. The bills would allow any city the use of voting machines, any type now made or to be manufactured in the future. Both proposals passed the House without dissent. Moreover, the bills are suppported by the Salt Lake County Voting Machine Advisory Committee, the Utah Association of County Clerks, and the Voter Law Revision Commission which was formed by Secy, of State Clyde L. Miller. With such support and the need to consider Utah's future growth, the Senate shouldn't let HB203 and 204 get lost in the rush. It's March 1st March 1st is the wind moaning a dreary tune under the overhanging coves, among the holes in the rock, and through the dead pinon pines near the Double Arch and the Windows . . , And it is the hyacinths poking their heads up in the dormant side yard marking the end of winter and the beginning of a new season spring , . . March 1st is the herald" of early spring the crocus that comes in every shade of blue, pastelse pure whites, myriads of yellows, pleasing soft grays, and handfuls of mauves and violets, but, curiously, never in red . . . March 1st is melting snow dripping from the branches of a juniper on the beautiful campus of the College of Southern Utah in Cedar City . . . And it is three ravens wheeling high in the air near the top of the grade south of Minersville, squawking at each other and at the dawn. March 1st is the sound of doorbells ringing as enterprising and very- young men atten.pt to sell pansy plants for some good cause. (These are the young men who will be around for a again in several months offering to cut the grass And March 1st is the sound of a restless little spring wind up in quiet Eden shuffling through last years crumbling leaves, playing with a bit of paper, and making the tall dead fence weeds not unlike a group of gossiping fourth grade young ... - J Dist. A tty.-- Jim Garrison and Garrison, for instance, called Mrs. Phillips Willis, a close eyewitness to the assassination, who told the Shaw trial she thought the fatal shot that hit the President's head t' rew his body backwards, but not proving or disprovsuggesting that the shot ing beyond argument came from in front of the motorcade the Knoll area and not the Depository to the rear. The prosecution also repeatedly showed the movie taken by amateur photographer Abraham Zapruder which shows Kennedy recoiling backwards and down after the shot that shattered his head. A pathologist, Dr. John M. Nichols of the University of Kansas, said after viewing the films the head wound could be compatible with a gunshot having been delivered from the front. That was an opinion, but the best evidence the of the autopsy photographs and dead President was not released by the Justice Department in time for presentation in Garrisons case although the district attorneys subpoena of them had been upheld by a Washington, D.C. judge. This would have been an important step in the controversy surrounding the report, for the commission itself with a few possible exceptions: statedid not view the films ments conflict and In contrast to Dr. Nichols was the prosecution testimony from Lyndal L. Shaneyfelt, an FBI photography analyst, who told the court as he had the commission that a study of the Zapruder film convinced him the shots came from behind the President. Shaneyfelt said his original examination did not take movements of the Presidents body into account. A number of conflicting theories have been advanced by the critics and supporters of the Warren report, but their adherents were not called by Garrison. Another witness called by the proseuc- was to establish that Kennedy ' n n a crossfire of assassins the knoll and the Depository was bert H. West, a surveyor for Dallas assassi-tion- . unty and an eyewitness of the He said he thought the .shots me frnm the northwest auadrant of light be-ee- in Tilings are jumping on a lot of campuses these days, and one such campus is that of Brigham Young University in JENKIN LLOYD JONES Provo, L.ah. The academic process is roaring in high gear. The library teems with stuthousand young people dents. Twenty-on- e hurry between classes. The field house is packed for basketball. And the able of the curator 1 e o n tological a p museum has hired a helicopter to fly him to a nearby mountain peak so that he may test out a tent of his no unwashed characters presenting ultimata and irreducible demands. And this is not accidental. It is by design. Last summer BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson sent a letter to the parents of a!! prospective students explaining that BYU is a very biased institution biased in favor of good conduct, fair play and hard work. He pointed out rather bluntly that nobody HAD to go to BYU and that people with other aims and standards wouldn't be happy during the very short period they would spend in its environment. We feel, he wrote, that to indulge irresponsible student conduct is to abdicate our role as educators, and we intend to be more exacting than ever to assure the maintenance ot law and order and the development o! Christian ladies and gentlemen on our campus. Then last Sept. 26 President Wilkinson made a speech to the student tody. The refusal of past and present students of BYU to yield to mob psychology and your ui the appearance of invention which he intends to use in Antarctica. , Mr. Jones Although it is contrary to Mormon morals to indulge m tobacco and liquor, or even tea and coffee, the dourness ends abruptly. Even the earliest saints loved to dance and pne of the first buildings thny put up in Salt Lake City was a theater. So at BYU the polished floor gleams in the ballroom. College theatricals are busy and the television laboratory is stuffed with skit writers and hopeful performers. There are, incidentally, no pickets at the gate. The presidents office s by the president, not an ad hoc oci.-aoe- In traveling around the USSR a MOSCOW tourist sometimes encounters shacks without run- ning water but with elaborate television aerials. One calls to mind American slums where automobiles and the same TV antennas are the ubiquitous trophies of Negro poverty. The automobile still has not become a mass item in the USSR but the television set has achieved this status. There are more than 30 million television sets in the country. About half the j population of 240 million live in areas served by television. And there are plans to use space satellites to provide the entire country with television. Yet, in spite of this massive achievement by Soviet TV, I have yet to meet a Soviet citizen who has a kind word to say about the quality of the TV programmng here. The Soviet press even carries letters and articles criticizing the TV content. In private conversations persons working for Soviet TV admit the truth of these criticisms. Ironically, the criticism raised here sometimes resembles the kind that one hears in Canada and the States. Too many old movies. Not enough creative programs. Too many sport programs. There are complaints about advertisingnot advertising of consumer goods (of which there is a serious shortage) but the advertising which is the dull political propaganda of the Soviet Communist Party. The low quality of Soviet TV was once , explained to me by a person v.i.o works for Soviet TV. He said, "It is not how we say it that is important. It is what we say. It is bluntly admitted here that TV is the tool of the state and the ruling Communist Party. Dissident and different views are not permitted. The real problem as far as TV is concerned is not the propaganda itself, but that the propagan- - . da is Incredibly boring due to the failure of party ideologists to make it palatable. From watering Soviet TV one often gets the impression that one is living in the twenties and thirties, something that is infuriating to Soviet young people who passionately want to live in the modern world. Some modicum of freedom is granted to the ' legitimate theater and occasionally the film industry is allowed to play with a mildly controversial idea. But the mass appeal of TV has made Soviet authorities very wary about granting similar bits of freedom to TV. Consequently things have always been tight with Soviet TV. and since the beginning of the Czech crisis the lid is on more tightly than at any time since the death of Stalin. TV news reporting is often so funny in its distortions that it is my impression that the announcers have a difficult time to prevent from bursting out laughing. Or maybe they always screw up their faces in that way. The format of TV news shows is much like that in the West Recently I saw a rather clumsy show , attempt to imitate the Huntley-Brinkle- y which would have been better suited for a Marx ,. Brothers skit.. There are attempts at dramatic productions but generally the content of the plays is not good (nothing controversial) and techniques' are still a problem. Childrens shows are generally good. The Budilnik show is popular. There is a version of Kookla, Fran and Ollie. The Good Night Children show puts the little ones to bed every nght. TV is also used to indoctrinate children with pa I . triotism, Educational TV has been developed L a limited extent. One can turn on the TV in the evening and get lectures in mathematics, the sciences and foreign languages, put of course the ideological clampdown interferes with historical presentations and programs dealing with sociology. Humor is almost although there was a flowering of it a couple of years ago. A humorist must have free rein to make fun of his society. Ibis is not possible here w'here everything is taken very seriously. It would be wrong to assume that Soviet TV is totally grim. Many people are quite used to it. Ive been watching it for nearly two years, and. I arc. particularly fascinated by the Stalinist movies (I still dont believe what I am seeing). The newscasts also have a certain fascination.' Sports fans get all they want. Then there are the unrehearsed amusing incidents. When Premier Alexei Kosygin spoke to the U.N. in 1967, his address was broadcast here via satellite and Intervision. Kosygin naturally at-- . tacked Israel. When Israel Foreign Minister Abba ' Eban delivered a rebuttal to Kosygin the screens across the USSR should have been silent. But someone goofed. For about five minutes Eban came across very clear. Finally music was used to drown out his voice and a test pattern came on the screen. In the case of the Eban speech, it took a technical error for Soviet citizens to be abie to get the other side of the story for at least a few minutes. This perhaps sums up the problem in a nut. 26-volu- Warren Report. Dealey Plaza, an area that includes both the knoll and the Depository. To argue that Oswald did not act alone. Garrison called Mrs. Carolyn Wal-thwho repeated the statement she had given the FBI after the assassination that she had seen two men in a window of the Depository, one of them holding a er gun. Should Shaws defense have chosen, r however, it could have asked Mrs. if she still was positive, as she had been in talking to the FBI, that the window where she saw the two men was not as high as the sixth floor, the level at which police found the rifle and shells. And the defense could have called Mrs. Pearl Spring, a friend of Mrs. Waltherss who had gone along with her that day to watch the motorcade and who told the commissions investigators that Mrs. Walther did not mention to her anything about seeing a man standing in a window of the Depository holding a rifle." And the defense could have called Mrs. Williss husband, a retired Air Force major who was standing near her that day and told the Warren Commission he felt certain the shots came from high up in the Depository. Garrison did draw testimony from as had the commission Roger Craig that he had seen a man run from the Depository shortly after the assassination and drive off in a station wagon with another man. Craig, then a deputy sheriff and now employed by an automobile dealer who was one of a group of businessmen who helped finance Garrison's investigation of Shaw, said he later identified the man as Oswald when he saw him in the office of Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz. Again, the defense could have called Fritz who denied central parts of Craig's testimony to the' commission. Indeed, Garrison could have called an almost endless number of witnesses to testify as to the many ambiguities and conflicts that lie inside the Warren report. He chose not to, whatever his reasons. Some day the Warren report may have an intensive hearing in court. It did not get it from Garrison in New Orleans. Wal-the- BYU Meets 'Crisis In Integrity te youngfadics , By AARON EINRANK Toronto Telegram News Service anti-Castr- o two-ounc- . Gets Boring 'K ,vS'a For if the jury had found Shaw guilty conspiring to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, instead of acquitting him unanimously, it would have found, by implication, that the report erred. The report declared that there was no conhe spiracy, that Lee Harvey Oswald alone murdered the President, November 22, 1963, in Dallas. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison did little to enlarge the work of the commission. The prosecutions trod over much the same ground that the reand the report itself ports critics have. two-to-on- ... ' Propaganda of Despite the opposing clamor of a small and un represents price.) ' I hey were invisible in the dock at the Clay Shaw courtroom. But they were on trial, too: the 26 volumes of the Warren Commission. tive minority, the Legislature has hammered out ard passed a h(uor control bill that should meet L tail's piessuig nceus hi this area. The legislators deserve the congratulations and thanks of Utahns for standing firm against heavy pressure to betray the vote of the people last fall. e In their vote against liquor by the drink, the ', of Utah declared people they want four things: 1. They want strong enforcement of liquor laws. They are last-minu- 4 Russian TV: committee. There aie e t this campus are qualities yourselves for which we si lute vcu. You are here to build, not de..yy. this university. He asked that all who agreed with tljl-- C sentiments please stand. Apparent for all ly everybody did. Then he who had contrary notions to y e, Nobody did. Nevertheless, a few weeks later six students who said they represented the Students for a Democratic Society appeared at Wilkinsons office and asked for official recognition. The protestations of the SDS that it favors democratic methods," he told them, stand in sharp contrast to repeated demonstrations where it tries to impose 'ts will oh the majority by riot, sabotage and disruption. Theres nothing in my contract that says I have to be stupid. Permission refused. I remember my own frustration at baloney courses fashioned out of doctoral theses and delivered by mummies. I can understand the anger that arises when the eminent professor, advertised in the catalog, never emerges from his laboratory while the course he should be teaching is presided over by a graduate assistant who is just two pages ahead of the class. But these frustrations 'are not the same as the effort to canonize pot or free love, to batter down admission standards, to prance naked in student shows oi to freeze on the payroll professors who counsel treason and race warfare. Brigham Young thought lie knew a tinner when he saw one. That may be why his namesake university is still hap-pl- l teaching school. ed long-dea- ( , , shell. Good night, Jvan. . d "And would you osk the student body the Dean con go for lunch now ..." if Tisry |