The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 36, Ed. 1 Monday, July 18, 1977 Page: 10 of 12
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Page Ten
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Monday, July 18,1977
The Winkler County News
GOLDEN WEST FREE PRESS, INC.
109 S. Poplar
KERMIT, TEXAS
Telephone 586-2561
Zip Code 79745-
Second Class Postage Paid at
Kermit. Texas 79745
M. M. Donosky........ ...................Publisher
Bill J. Beckham ..........Vice-Pres. and General Manager
Bert Brewer........................ .Managing Editor
Terry Parson................Mechanical Superintendent
Bobby Clark.....................Press Superintendent
Jane Inskeep ......................Advertising Manager
Marie Butts.......................Circulation Manager
Th’is newspaper is dedicated to the spirit of civic progress; to
the unification of the townspeople in a common, purpose for
the betterment of our community; to our churches, schools,
and homes that Kermit shall ever be a good place in which to
live and rear our children. And, above all, honesty, decency,
justice, tolerance, faith in Almighty God — These shall be our
citadel.
member 1977 ASSOCIATION
THE LONG HOT SUMMER \
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Americans, Federally
Controlled,
Are Not Free
There are no such things as “federal funds”, since they are
all those dollars that are deducted out of our pay checks.
But there is federal control, the federals controlling our
funds; controlling how much shall be deducted, and
controlling to whom and for what our funds will be spent.
We are not free when the federal government takes so much
of our earnings that we cannot get along on what’s left; and
we’re controlled when we must submit to federal dictation for
any of those funds taken to come back to us or to our local
governments.
But First We
Must Choose
We can either prosper business and all enjoy increasing
prosperity, and with it the security and plenty that results, or
we can rely increasingly upon government to provide our
support, and suffer the resulting inflation, taxation, insecurity,
and impoverishment.
Not uniil we make that choice can we know how to go, who
and what to vote for and to support.
Subversion By
Environmentalism-
Ecologism
Foreigners couldn’t care less whether or not we have clean
air and water, protected environment; particularly those who
are hostile towards us anyways.
But they do like the costliness of our environmental and
anti-pollution measures that are pricing American products out
of world markets and that are making us ever more dependent
upon foreign suppliers.
Copper is but one case in point, where our environmental
requirements have added over 16 cents a pound for U.S.
producers, and threatens to close smelting plants in Arizona,
Nevada, and Washington, as we are being priced out of world
markets. Foreign imports are replacing domestic copper.
Foreign oil suppliers, too, have supported environmentalists
who oppose the expansions of our domestic production and
refining operations.
Our other industries are suffering too, since we fail to
consider economic impact, before imposing ecological and
environmental requirements upon ourselves and our industries.
Far From What
Americanism
Was All About
Americanism was all about independence, the freedom of
individuals from government.
Now all we’ve got are people dependent upon government,
people controlled by government. Nearly half of the earnings
of Americans are taken from them and spent as government
(and not they) decrees. Americans are ever less free, as
government increasingly dictates and meddles in the lives and
affairs of the people.
As time passes, the Bicentennial appears ever more as the
first of our memorials to what once was Americanism. By
1989, the bicentennial of The Constitution that actually
established the U.S". government, it would appear that there
will be few if any limitations on that government, and nothing
but limitations upon Americans.
As America was built upon the foundation of the then
self-evident Eternal Truths of an Almighty God, relying on the
protection of a Divine Providence, it can never be rebuilt on
any other foundation. Divine disobedience, separating men in
and out of government from God, is leading us into a tyranny
that will leave us stripped of morality, liberty and even the
right to life.
-J. Kesner Kahn
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AN AMERICANIST VIEWPOINT
GRACE HAMILTON
From an essay on
Laetrile, Time magazine,
page 54, June 20, 1977: “In
fact, Laetrilemania seems to
be only one facet of a
broader rebellion. The signs
of revolt are everywhere —
from the refusal of
motorists to buckle their
seat belts to the fascination
of occult healing. Vastly
different ideologies may be
at play, but these grievances
express a common
discontent with officially
proclaimed wisdom about
public health.”
Of all the many current
reams of publicity in
magazines, newspapers and
even television, Time hit the
nail on the head. Newsweek,
People and Time are all
looking at Laetrile, along
with Jack Anderson. The
three magazines carried very
fair articles, but not Jack
Anderson. ABC’s Good
Morning, America has had
some fairly good interviews,
but not so with NBC. Ten
minutes at the very end of a
two-hour program is hardly
enough time to develop any
information, which might
shed light on a very
controversial subject. So, we
give ten demerits to NBC,
and ten to Jack Anderson.
Meanwhile, back where
the action is, which is
shaking the establishment
from coast to coast, so far
eleven state legislatures have
approved freedom of choice
in cancer therapy. The
opposition is falling apart
like dominoes. The FDA is
the only real antagonist left
battling the vast majority of
the people, who are sick in
more ways than one. Why is
the FDA still fighting a
losing battle? You can bet it
isn’t, because Laetrile is
useful or worthless. The
FDA must protect it’s
power, no matter what the
people want. Time’s essay
pointed to the real problem
- Freedom of Choice has
welded together vast
numbers on the “Right”
and the “left.” For the first
time, agreement on a key
issue is pointing toward the
very basic problem behind
the scenes...too much
government. The
is- |
bureaucracy is scared to
death, as it should be. Its
days are numbered.
-American Way Features
Readers’ comments and
questions are welcome.
Please write us at “The
American Way Features”,
P.O. Box 990, Pigeon Forge,
Tennessee 37863.
U.S. Supreme Court Landmark
By a vote of 8-0 the
Supreme Court held that a
taxpayer has the right to
claim the 5th Amendment
right against self-in crimin-
ation on a tax return. The
case was Roy D. Garner vs.
United States of America
number 74-100.
But unless one claims the
right against self-incrimin-
ation at the time of making
the tax return, he is
assumed to have waived the
right - all the information
then volunteered on the
return can be used against
him in a criminal
prosecution.
If a taxpayer claims the
right against self-in crimin-
ation (5th Amendment) on
his tax return the IRS is
pretty well beat. The Court
says: The IRS would have
to decide:
(a) whether to offer
“immunity” to the taxpayer
in order to get the desired
information (this would be
silly because what is the use
of getting information,
when you have already
promised not to use it) and,
(b) whether to bring charges
of “wilful failure to file.”
That alternative would be
ridiculous too because the
taxpayer would have filed
under the protection of the
5th Amendment. And that
cannot be a crime because it
never is a crime to exercise a
constitutional right.
However, the 9th Circuit
Court of Appeals pointed
out that the claim of “Full
Privilege” had to be taken in
answer to specific questions,
and not as a “blanket”
refusal to all questions.
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I want to walk by the
side of the man who has
suffered, and seen, and
knows;
Who has measured his
pace on the battle line, and
given and taken blows;
Who has never whined
when the scheme went
wrong, nor scoffed at the
failing plan-
But taken his dose with a
heart of trust, and the faith
of a gentleman ;
Who has parried and
stuck and sought and given,
and, scarred with a
thousand spears,
Can lift his head -to the
stars of heaven, and isn’t
afraid of his tears. .
“The sweetest music isn’t
in oratorios, but in kind
words.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I’d rather lose in a cause
that will one day win than
win in a cause that will
someday lose.”
-Woodrow Wilson
I want to grasp the hand
of the man who has been
through it all, and seen,
Who has walked with the
night of an unseen dread,
and stuck to the
world-machine;
Who has beaten his breast
to the winds of dawn, and
thirsted, and starved, and
felt
The sting and the bite of
the bitter blasts that the
mouths of the foul have
dealt;
Who was tempted and
fell, and rose again, and has
gone on trusty and true
With God supreme in his
manly heart, and his courage
burning anew.
“Youth, though it may
lack knowledge is certainly
not devoid of intelligence: it
sees through shams with
sharp and terrible eyes.”
-Henry L. Mencken
***
“The only true happiness
comes from squandering
ourselves for a purpose.”
-John Mason Brown
VIRGINIA PAYETTE
Why Is Union Violence A Crime We Tolerate?
My mail is usually an assort-
ment of pleas for money to help
fight cancer, multiple sclerosis,
epilepsy, hunger on Indian
resrvations and legal persecu-
tion of FBI agents who violate
civil rights.
But today a new target pop-
ped up. For the first time, I’ve
been asked to help stamp out
murder and violence. The ap-
peal was startling because
most of us figure this sort of
thing is up to the Justice Dept.
It was long and it wasn’t
pretty.
It came from the National
Right to Work Foundation,
which plans to set up a Task
Force on Violence to protect
non-union workers from the
goon squads of organized labor.
But isn’t this already against
the law? Sort of, according to
legal information director
Carter Clews. But not exactly.
“Unfortunately for the vic-
tims,’’ he writes, “there’s little
recourse but to suffer in
silence. Law enforcement offi-
cials, long accustomed to
bloodshed in labor disputes,
tend to treat it lightly.
“The courts, claiming limited
jurisdiction, grant unions legal
immunities afforded no other
sector of the populace.
“Furthermore, elected offi-
cials are often afraid to risk po-
litical retaliation bv offending
union agents.”
The 12-page brochure tells
the stories of three men vic-
timized by union violence,
adding that what happened to
them “happens annually to
thousands of others caught bet-
wen a union greedy for power
and an employer either in-
different to their plight or
powerless to help"
Joe Hooper. 26, was mur-
dered in Lake Charles, La..
Iieeause he joint'd the wrong
union. He chose the American
Federation of Unions, an inde-
pendent union that, in contrast
to the AFL-CIO’s “one skill, one
job” restriction, allows its
members to work at any job on
the site.
It was Hooper’s first day on
the job. He was in the office
trailer signing papers when he
noticed 100 members of the
AFL-CIO local gathering
across the road.
The next thing he knew, a
giant yellow forklift crashed
through the gate. Right behind
it, waving shotguns, carbines
and pistols, came the mob.
A company official tried to
call the police. The lines had
been cut.
Minutes later, blades of the
forklift cut through the end of
the trailer. A barrage of bullets
pierced the office -and Joe
Hooper.
One union member was
charged with murder - and
acquitted. A union business
manager, indicted for con-
spiracy, was found dead in bed,
a single bullet in his head.
It has been four years since
Joe Hooper died, but 14 others
have yet to come to trial.
Dale Richardson quit the
Communications Workers of
America, Local 7495 in Omaha,
Neb., because he suspected its
officers of hanky-panky with
union funds. On his 27th birth-
day, a fellow worker greeted
him with, “You’d better enjoy
it, because you’re not going to
see another one.”
The entire union retaliated
by punching him and spitting
on him during the day and
harassing him at night. They
slashed his tires, made obscene
calls and threatened to bomb
his home and kill his wife and
three small children.
Richardson stuck it out for
six months, until he was fired.
Then he sued the union all the
way to the Supreme Court It
took 10 years, but he collected
$96,000 and set a major legal
precedent against union
harassment.
Union thugs surrounded
Sammy Kirkland on Marco Is-
land, Fla., when he tried to
work without joining Operat-
ing Engineers Local No. 675.
They told him they would cut
off his hands and stuff them in
his pockets if he stuck around.
Kirkland left, but returned
the next day with three sheriff s
deputies for protection. Within
an hour they were called away
on a traffic accident (non-exis-
tent, as it turned out) and a
gang of 100 members went
after Kirkland.
“They hit my head with a
wrench, poured steel shavings
in my face and I lost my vision
for a time,” he testified in court.
“They kicked me and beat me
and pulled out a knife to cut off
my hands.”
A returning deputy saved his
life (and was beaten up him-
self, but Kirkland suffered
permanent brain damage.
Four union members were sen-
tenced to prison for five years
each. And, four years later, the
National Right to Work Foun-
dation helped Kirkland win a
$165,000 settlement from the
union. For an attack, accord-
ing to a trial judge, “that
means his life is virtually
ruined.”
This, say founders of the
Task Force on Violence, is the
objective of their fund drive: to
make it too expensive for
unions to use threats and
violence to force reluctant
workers to join up.
Do you suppose they have
George Meany on their mailing
list*?
THE AMERICAN WAY
Food, clothes, work — in
til esc matters Americans
prefer individual choice.
Many Americans exercise
their choice only in personal
matters. They enjoy the
rights and ignore the duties
of citizenship. Our
government is the people’s
household and workshop.
Because of its democratic
nature, we, the people, must
exercise our choice in
material, political, and’
cultural fare. Those who fail
to vote because it is “too
much trouble” must be
shown that votes largely
decide how we shall live and
work. Let us vote — but let
us think first. By our
ballots, let us strive to
insure for our children The
American Way.
“There is as much dignity in tilling a field as in
writing a poem.”
-Booker T. Washington
Paul Harvey
News
Plants And Human Health
Letter To
The Editor
Dear Sir:
I keep reading about our
County Commissioners
keeping up the Golf Course —
Tennis Courts and other
recreation facilities which
serve a small percent of the
people in Winkler Co. I dont
object to these things, I love
the Golfers and Tennis players
— but when we had a bowling
alley the percentage of people
who bowl would double the
numbers who take part in
these two projects. Most of
these people bowled also. The
school taught bowling as one
of their programs.
Older people as myself who
can’t take part in Golf and
Tennis can bowl. There are
men and women as old as 90
yrs. bowling, and as young as 4
and 5 yrs. It takes in all ages.
The Dr’s in New Orleans put
me to bowling for my health in
1962 and I don’t believe I’d be
alive today, had I not started. I
weighed 95 lbs. at that time. I
just thank God that we had a
bowling alley then. Now those
of us who do bowl have to
drive to Monahans. What
better use, could the building
in Wink serve more people
than to put a Bowling Alley in
it. If we can’t have one in
Kermit.
Please people just give this
some consideration.
Very truly,
Vivian Bollinger
Grandma C.C. Sheldon of Columbus, Neb., a hundred years
young last month, was reminiscing.
“As a young girl I used to gather hemp seeds out back of the
house to feed to my pet canary. It was almost a hundred years
later that I learned what we called ‘hemp’ is ‘marijuana’...
“But my how that canary would sing! ”
On the other hand - some of the fold medicine of Grandma
Sheldon’s day - some of the plants and herbs then considered
healthful — have since been proved healthful Let’s examine a
few.
Husband and wife bioligists at Washington University, St.
Louis, the Professors Lewis, have compiled a “Medical
Botany” which includes our best present knowledge
concerning how plants affect human health. Some plants
injure, some heal, some nourish. And some of them alter the
conscious mind.
It is ironic that our first cosmopolitan tranquilizer — the
drug which has done most toward emptying our mental
hospitals — is derived from Rauwdfia.
It was in use in ancient India - though we did not accept it
for general use until 1952.
Similarly, cromylyn, the “new wonder drug” for treating
asthma, is not new at all. It was part of Bedouin folk medicine
for centuries.
One problem is that few medical scientists today are trained
in botany. Doctors willingly acclaim chemical remedies
without an awareness that nature is still mankind’s greatest
chemist.
Our lack of botanical — chemical knowledge has led us to
decorate with house plants that are poisonous.
Apple seeds contain cyanide which can be lethal in large
doses.
From your English Yew, an alkaloid can be absorbed
which can cause sudden death.
The leaves are twigs of a most common hedge — boxwood —
produce another alkaloid which can kill.
Eating the green and sprouting leaves of potato plants may
poison.
Also potentially poisonous are such common plants as
oleanders, caladiums, philodendrons.
Even health food products can be dangerous if you are
allergic. Camomile tea, for example, if you are allergic to
ragweed pollen.
Pokeberry, cooked is good — uncooked is poison.
Don’t handle mature poke weed without gloves.
Now on the sunshine side of the ledger are plants that are
good for you:
Madagascaran annual periwinkle has produced a compound
for treating Hodgkin’s disease, some leukemia, some cancerous
tumors.
The olive tree provides a natural aid to digestion, a mild
laxative.
Some three million heart patients are now staying alive by
taking an extract from the foxglove plant.
Glaucoma is responding to treatment with alkaloids from
the calabar bean of Nigeria.
Pumpkin seeds, brewed as a tea, tend to rid pets and people
of intestinal worms.
The root from which licorice candy is made is useful in
treating peptic ulcers.
This is not “folk medicine.” These and scores more are the
proved conclusions of two respected scientists in the new
biology textbook called “Medical Botany.”
One thing more: Ginseng root may not live up to all the
claims for it — but it does tend to relieve stress.
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