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Choppers Prove A
! Cop’s Best Friend
The helicopter, which first proved its value during the
Korean War as a means of evacuating wounded soldiers
/ from forward and often otherwise inaccessible positions, is
coming into its own in another kind of war.
As recently aM960, a total of only 21 helicopters were
operated by 10 law enforcement agencies in die United
States.
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Today, some 200 state, county and local law en-
forcement agencies in the 50 states operate more than 400
helicopters.
+ The Los Angeles Police Department, for example, has
a fleet of 14. Flying patrolmen on the ASTRO (Air Support
tp Regular Operations) beat maintain day and night cover-
age of 72 per cent of the city, 74 per cent of its population
and 75 per cent of the police department’s problem areas.
T Detroit his six helicopter patrol ships.equipped with
“instant daylight” lights that can illuminate a 50-foot circle
from an altitude of 500 feet.
+ And while not exactly in the area of crime prevention
or detection, Ohio State Highway Patrol helicopters
spotted 35,000 traffic violations in 1974 and were cracking
down On speeders at the rate of 2,500 a month in 1975.
One of the greatest benefits of the helicopter is its speedy
response time, which is critical not only in apprehending
lawbreakers but evacuating the injured from the scene of
highway accidents, heart attack victims and in other situa-
tions where minutes count.
Another advantage is that a helicopter pilot and his ob-
S server can see vastly more from the air than an officer on
the ground can.
Pioneer in the use of helicopters is the New York City
Police Department, which during a typical year responds
to boats in distress, searches for missing persons, rescues
bridge jumpers and recovers stolen cars, as well as per-
forming routine traffic surveillance.
There have even been real-life rescue missions as excit-
ing as any that entertain television viewers. During a flash
flood in Texas, one police helicopter retrieved 79 flood-
trapped victims from their rooftops in a two-hour period.
Combat Pay Next?
This is what editorial writers call a sorry commentary on
the state of society:
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio General Assem-
bly to permit local boards of education to grant “assault
leave” to teachers who are injured by a student in the per-
formance of duty.
Total number of “assault leave” days would depend
upon the seriousness of the injury, which would require
medical verification.
Under the present system, a teacher unable to perform
his or her duties as the result of an assault may take sick
leave. But since severance pay at retirement is based on
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Opinion
J. Edgar Often Brave,
Decent As FBI Chtef
WASHINGTON - In expos-
ing J. Edgar Hoover’s peccadil-
loes and his trespasses on con-
stitutional rights, it has been
easy to ignore his other side: ca-
pable, industrious and often
brave and decent.
To be sure, we have disclosed
many of the old FBI autocrat’s
wrongdoings. Long before
Hoover's death in 1972 made
him fair game for a timid me-
. dia,&ewPeajsonwas detailing
both his fine points and his foib-
les.
In 1934, for instance, Pearson
wrote of Hoover’s stubborn in-
sistence on being provided with
an armored Pierce-ArroW just
like the President's. But he also
told of Hoover's unstintint ef-
fort to mold his young agency
into a team of talented crime-
busters.
During World War H, Hoover
often cut comers with civil liber-
ties. But another yellowing file
which until now has been over-
looked tells of his lonely battle to
block the internment of 120,000
Japanese-Americans after Pearl
Harbor.
The shameful story of the in-
ternment itself is an oft-told tale.
Still, details from old, secret
files are worth reflecting on for
what they tell of Hoover at his
best.
Outraged that American citi- np R nR . MR
sens of any color would be lock Ut.An UM. LAMH -
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ercise code-narned “Operation
Bird-Dog” the agents listed the
license tags of the ringsiders
who flocked to Atlanta for the
match. Their hope was to catch
the boxing bunch living beyond
the means shown on their tax re-
turns.
In prose better suited to so-
ciety columns than IRS files, the
Atlanta officers told head-
quarters that ‘ ‘the roaring 2(b re-
turned to Atlanta on Oct. 24-28,
1970.
"The styles of the 20s pre-
vailed with males challenging
the females for the extreme in
dress and the brilliance of col-
wearing wide-brimmed
swankiest hotel, arrangements
wree made for the Atlanta Dis- —
trict to conduct some old-fash-
ioned bird-dogging.”
While the well-to-do cheered !
on Ah and Quarry, the gum-
shoes outside the auditorium
wefe compiling registration
numbers of cars costing up to
$25,000. The lists were for-
warded to IRS officers around
the country, and the owners’ in-
come tax forms were pulled.
It appears, however, that the
fight fans came by their wealth
more honestly than the federal
snoopers suspected. Of five ■
forms pulled in St. Louis, for ex-
ample, only one, belonging to a
professional wrestler, showed
hats, double-breasted jackets, signs of ‘inadequate taxable in-
two-piece suits with coats to the
knees and some with full-length
mink coats,” gushed the memo
The gaudy display led the IRS
memo-writer to report, “After
observing expensive custom-
built automobiles at the Regen-
cy Hyatt House, Atlanta's
Lamb
Stomach has
protective lining
ed up without even a suspicion
of disloyalty, Hoover dispatched
fiery memos of up to 10 pages to
then Atty. Gen. Francie Biddle.
Hoover cleverly argued that
German-Americans or Italian-
Americans might be just as dan-
gerous, knowing that the politi-
cally savvy Franklin Roosevelt
would never relocate the mil-
lions of these ethnic Americans.
Residents b<om the western
Axis countries, Hoover sugges-
ted, “present a problem equal to
that of Japanese aliens,"most of
whom wanted to become citi-
zens and viewed citizenship as
"a privilege to be appreciated. "
To keep pressure on the
Roosevelt administration, the
three times a week I take a
spoonful of Metamuci! and I
find if 1 don't wash the glass
and spoon right away it leaves
a slimy surface on the glass
and it takes hot water to get it
off I wonder if it could coat
my stomach and intestines so
I could not get the good from
my food. I don’t take any other
laxatives and the Metamucil
works fine.
DEAR READER - No. it
wen t hurt you a bit. Your en-
tire digestive system is con-
stantly forming secretions
that bathe its surface Your
stomach already has a layer
of thick mucus over its sur-
face which would make what
you are talking about on your
number of unused sick leave days a teacher has ac-
cumulated, this could be adding financial penalty to physi-
cal injury.
According to Ohio state Rep. Francine Panehal, author
of the legislation, the number of assaults on teachers by
students increased 77 per cent in the United States be-
l tween 1970 and 1973.
There are more than 70,000 instances of assaults against
teachers annually in the United States, says the Ohio
Federation of Teachers.
The accuracy of these figures may be open to question -
“assault” is a pretty loose term that could run the gamut
from a minor scuffle to actual physical attack — but there
is little doubt that teaching in some schools these days is a
job fully deserving of combat pay.
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“He §ays he likes my style and offered me a job."
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Ford Aides Believe Worst
Of Recession Has Passed
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Commercial Fires Hit
West Baytown In 1956
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I FEB. 5,1936
! Mr. and Mrs. "Ben Ferrill lose
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Today In
History
By The Associated Press
Today is Thursday, Feb. 5,
the 36th day of 1976. There are
330 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history:
On this date in 1917, Mexico
became a federated republic of
28 states.
On this date:
In 1782, the Spanish captured
the Mediterranean island of Mi-
norca from the British.
In 1937, a bitter controversy
began when President Franklin
Roosevelt proposed adding six
new justices to the Supreme
.Court.
In 1962, President Charles de
Gaulle of France called for in-
dependence for Algeria.
In 1971, U.S. Apollo 14 astro-
nauts Alan Shepard and Edgar
Mitchell landed on the moon.
Ten yean ago: President
Lyndon Johnson flew to Hawaii
for talks on the Vietnam war
with American and Vietnamese
officials.
Five years ago: Fog and rain
were slowing an American and
South Vietnamese military
campaign in northern South
Vietnam.
Bicentennial footnote: Two
hundred yean ago today, early
in the American Revolution, the
British made an agreement
with the reigning - count
their home, furnishings, food
and money in a fire early today
near Baytown. Mrs. Ferrill and
her nephew, Edgar Glass, are
burned in the fire. An explosion
occurred when kerosene was
used to start a fire in the stove.
Houston Lighting and Power
Co. announces plans to move
from its present location in the
Citizens State Bank building to
the Masonic Building at 207 W.
Texas.
City of La Porte applies for an
additional 83,500 in WPA (Works
Progress Administration) funds
to complete drainage im-
provements.
Baytown Booster Club maps
strategy for a "sports for all”
program, including baseball,
handball, tennis, golf and a
Negro ba&eball team. Working
on this committee are A. C.
Kraft, Blaise Alleman and T. S.
King.
FEB. 5,1946
Tri-Cities Veterans Service
Center will move to a new loca-
tion in Baytown from its
quarters in the Tri-Cities
Chamber of Commerce building.
R. M. Woolfolk is the Veterans
Administration field represen-
tative here while Hobart Enoch -
serves as clerk.
School trustees R. D. Martin
and Theo Wilburn ask the Goose
Creek City Commission to
provide sewer service for a teen
recreation center, the Quack
Shack, near Robert E. Lee. '•
Charles Zerwekh speaks on
atomic energy in a lecture spon-
sored by the Book Review Club
at the Baytown Community
House.
FEB. 5,1956
West BaytoWn has the third
commercial fire in two weeks
i Todd’s Garage is damaged
NEW YORK (AP) - Has the through a long and painful ill-
economy now reached the point ness and it still hasn’t regained
in its recovery where we can what it lost,
feel confident that the worst re- Are we recovering? Most as-
cession since the Great Dupres suredly. Are we back to the
sion of the 1930s is securely “tie- same health we enjoyed before
hind us? the illness? No, we are not. Is
President Ford’s economic further recovery assured?
aides seem to believe so. The Some improvement, almost cer-
Council of Economic Advisers tainly.
assures us in its annual report These are relatively easy
that recovery is under way and questions to answer, but cu-
that the outlook is for a contin- riously they are the ones to
uation of the trend. which we are most often given
Statistically you can make a answers. The unanswerable
strong case. Gross National question is this: How much can
Product is rising again. Unem- we improve on our prerecession
ployment has dropped below its condition?
peak. Retail sales are showing You will recall that in the
some vigor. Personal income is soaring 1960s the focus of
moving ahead of the rate of in- American ambition was on get-
flation. ting ahead. As bad times de-
Economic measurements of scended, Americans settled for
this sort are ejected from the cutting their losses. More
electronic computers with a recently they have been content
hypnotic rhythm that promises to hope recovery would contin-
more to come. The statistics ue.
are Indeed improving. A pile of So understandably concerned
computer cards says so. with recovery have we become
Less noticed are the discards, that any statistical improve-
the product of the computers ment is interpreted as an ad-
that shows we have indeed vance. The emphasis has been
come through the recession, on the direction, not the posi-
that we still have not regained tion, until the position is almost
our lost ground and that the forgotten,
route upward is less smooth Some American industries re-
than imagined. main, if not crippled, then pain-
Our rate of goods and serv- fully injured. Some workers
ices production, for example, cannot realistically hope to ob-
isn’t yet back to the level of tain jobs in their skills for an-
eariy 1973. The economy’s been other few months. The recovery
Paptoton &utt
Leon Brown....................................................Editor and Publisher
John Wadley.......................................................General Manager
Fred Hornberger............................................Assistant to Publisher
Fred Hartman.................................Editor and Publisher, 1950-1974
(Chairman of Board Southern Newspapers, Inc.)
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Preston Pendergrass..............................................Executive Editor
Jim Finley .......................................t,..................Managing Editor
Wanda Orton...,......................................Associate Managing Editor
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
Jerry Winton..........................................................Retail Manager
Pat Staples.....................................................Classified Manager
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good and sufficient reason. Please keep letters short. The Sun retenet the right to excerpt
shows many inconsistencies.
The construction industry
can't seen to develop strength.
Factory orders declined in De-
cember. Automobile sales, after
a December spurt, seem to
have settled back. TBe big in-
creases in December retail
sales have been revised down.
There is nothing exceptional
about this. An economy in the
recovery stage never is per-
fectly synchronized. It takes
time, and it takes smart coach-
ing and sensitive handling of
the players to make any team
function.
Meanwhile, we can take sat-
isfaction that the direction is
forward.
The debate in the British
House of Commons on Feb. 24,
1776 was dominated by the
speech of Lord Cavendish,
who deplored what he called
the “humiliation of depending
on mercenaries from petty
German states to fight our
battles.” Cavendish voted
flees for reports which he used
to back his views that Nisei resi-
dents should be locked up wily if
caught in illegal acts.
The sheafs of old documents
showed Hoover laboriously can-
vassed five cities, then arranged
the FBI reports to emphasize his
own views.
Most prominently displayed
was the report from his San
Francisco office which agreed
that "It is not believed that there
is a legitimate reason for the
mass evacuation.” Even the
most “pro-Japanese subjects,”
he quoted his agents as telling
him, "insist that this is also their
country and they would do noth-
ing to harm it.”
% contrast, a warning from
Portland about the Japanese-
Americans was cut to two para-
graphs, and a report critical of
the Nisei from Seattle was rele-
gated to the end of Hpover’s
lengthy memo.
Hoover's genuinely courage-
ous fight, in the fact of opposi-
tion from cabinet members and
others stronger than he, failed to
block the relocation. But history
proved him right, and among
Japanese-Americans and in Ja-
pan, where reports of his cam-
paign have trickeled out, Hoov-
er remains a folk hero.
OPERATION BIRD-dog: A
team of Internal Revenue agents
/ turned out for the Muhammad
AD-Jerry Quarry fight in 1970,
but their interest was in the
spectators rather than the spec-
tacle.
The Way
It Was
Feb. 5, 1631' — Roger Wil-
liams arrived in New Eng-
land.
the stomach cells for its own
acid digestive juice
The lining of your intestine
is shed and replaced as often
as every three days. The lin-
ing incidentally is digested
and absorbed for food for your
body so you don’t lose energy
or important proteins this
way.
Metamucil is a good bulk
expander and isn't harmful I
do hope, however, that you in-
clude in your diet enough bulk
and particularly cereal fiber
from whole wheat products. If
you use enough of that or bran
or bran buds you may not need
Metamucil to provide bulk for
you.
DEAR DR LAMB - l was
so delighted to have your arti-
cle stating that oysters do not
have a high cholesterol
count. I called a dietician at
the hospital where I had
been a patient and she said
come."
Footnote: Reps. Ben Rosen-
thal, D-N.Y., and Elliott Levi-
tas, D-Ga., are looking into this
and other IRS intelligence-gath-
erin operations. The IRS told us
that "Bird-Dog" was "not some-
thing we would routinely do,"
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lobsler and crab*I've no idea
where her information comes
from and I hope it's true,
although since you didn't men-
tion the other shellfish I'm
rather skeptical
There are two diets I 'm sup-
posed to follow, a low
cholesterol and low sugar or
starch diet because I'm
hypoglycemic However, the
cholesterol diet is of first
priority. Do you have any re-
cent information regarding
this particular diet’ I know
there must be a great number
of people who have this same
dietary problem
DEAR READER - You
should be skeptical. You can
eat almost any food if you
limit the amount depending on
what other items you include
low cholesterol intake
Oysters are relatively low-
fat. low-cholesterol foods bas-
ed on the most recent findings
which replace older values
that listed them as high-fat.
high-cholesterol foods A |
three and a half ounce serving ^ I
of raw oysters contains from
37 to 58 milligrams of
cholesterol, a similar amount
of shrimp is 150 milligrams,
lobster. 200 and crab 52 to 96
You can eat shrimp in
moderation, restrict your
lobster intake a little more
and need not be concerned
about crab any more than you
would any similar amount of
meat If you limit your
cholesterol intake to 300
milligrams a day. you can't
eat much shrimp and lobster
and still eat other cholesterol
containing foods you need for
a balanced diet.
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