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THEBAYTC
Sun Editorials —^F^atures^Letters — Viewpoint
One Of Our Best
’Opportunities'
Baytown can get a firsthand look Sunday at one of
the community’s finest opportunities.
The Baytown Opportunity Center at 1507 Baker Road
is celebrating its 20th anniversary with open house
from 2 to 5 p.m. Whether you are an oldtimer or a new-
comer, it is a chance to see the fruition of what some
concerned Bay tonia ns saw as a necessity 20 years ago.
Alarmed at the lack of opportunity and the lonely
lives of mentally retarded children here, they achieved
what at first appeared to be impossible — estab-
lishment of a school, and later a workshop, where these
children could learn simple skills, have social contacts
and earn money in a protected environment.
Any list of Bay tonians who gave the precious gift of
time to this effort over the years runs the risk of
omitting some devoted servants. But it would be wrong
to celebrate a success without listing a few of those
whose names come to mind.
Let’s start with Jim and Sara Sheley, two leaders in
establishmentof a Parents Council in 1954 which ar-
ticulated the need, let’s continue with a vital link —
Dr. Julian Spring - who brought the need to the atten-
tion of Baytown Jaycees. This is the point where names
become too plentiful to' list them all, but one especially
« outstanding Jaycee comes to mind —Don Teter, who
continued to serve wtSpprtnntty Center's board
for 18 years. - . . . '.
There was Mrs. M. J. Coady, a parent who has main-
tained a scrapbook of pictures, news clippings and
paraphernalia which provides a vital historical record
ymthaCenter._____.• ”
Talented people like Ro Holzheuser, Gladys Milton
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Jack Anderson Says -
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House Panel Probes
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ITT Case Coverup
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The Truth, the Hole Truth.
Talented people like Ko Hoizneuser, Gladys Milton v - 7 - „ -—
nd Billy Wheaton gave their time to lift the spirit jof Sporadically - *
these youngsters with music and dance. \ 1 ..
Enid Harper was a tireless volunteer. Ocie Smitlkl y
and Avery Martin, Walter arid Betty Loflin, Bill
Knowles, DjrTS. f. McMurrey and Ted Williams lent
their special abilities to the cause. Tom Campbell,
John Sandhop, Polly Beavers, Alene Thomas and G. B. , '
Harper also contributed hours of work.
The Opportunity Center has a bright future ahead for
—the next 20 years. But we are confident that it will
... never forget the selfless contributions of those of the
past 20. L :
Broyles' Baytown Visit
A 'Sentimental Journey'
WASHINGTON - While the
tig gunrconcentfate their fire
on the Watergate coverup, a
House subcommittee is quietly
looking into the earlier ITT
coverup. For the. Watergate
crimes were but an elaboration
of the basic approach used
" during the ITT preliminaries.
Ex-White House counsel.
John Dean was the stage
manager for the ITT coverup,
just as he was for the later
Watergate coverup. Last year,
he was called behind closed,
doors to testify about his ITT
role. '
We have now obtained a
transcript of his secret testi-
mony. He calmly related to the
Special Subcommittee on
Investigations how his office
had collected for safekeeping
all White House documents
dealing with ITT. •
“One of the things they had
• done was collect '— I dtdr't do
/ IfpiraoHil^; another member
of my staff did - all the docu-
ments in the White Howtfany
documents dealing with ITT,” .
testified Dean.
“To the best of my recollec-
tion and knowledge,” he ad- __
ded, “those documents are still
/ in a file in my former office.
There were sensitive docu- :
mento among, those..." ,
^JffiS.klrid of politically
"sensitive documents are 70U
referring to?” asked chief
NOT UNTIL long after the
Senate ITT hearings i>ad ended
did we learn that suppressed
documents linked former Vice
President Spiro Agnew,
Treasury Secretary John Con-
nally, Attorney General John
Mitchell and even President
Nixon himself to the con-
troversial ITT settlement.
Manelli questioned Dean
about this. “There was a
column by Jack Anderson
some time back saying... Mr.
Mitchell, Mr. ConnaUy and, I
believe, Vice President Agnew
were involved in the politically
sensitive files. Does that at all
refresh your recollection?”
asked Manelli.
"It doesn’t,” said Dean who
was. unable to repall, any
specific documents.
In dozens of particulars —
from the shredding of in-
criminating documents to the
perjured testimony —live tac-
tics used by the White House
crowd to wriggle out of Water-
gate had been fully rehearsed
during the ITT siege.
This is significant, for it
shows that the conduct of the
presidency in Watergate was
not the spontaneous, makeshift
reaction of otherwise honor-
able. men trapped in a
The dirty work was left to
■•Liddy and Hunt. According to
the sworn testimony, Liddy
spirited ITT star witness Dita
Beard out of Washington be-
fore she could be subpenaed to
testify. When the FBI located
her in Denver, Hunt rushed off
to the Rockies to tell her what
to say. He wore a preposterous
CIA wig as a disguise.
Rep. Jake Pickle, D-Tex„
. tried to question' Dean about
this. "I have a copy of... a
UPI story, which reported that
you were responsible for
sending Mr. E. Howard Hunt to
Denver to meet with Dita
Beard,” recounted Pickle. "It
was suggested that the purpose
of this trip was to develop a
second Dita Beard memo
which would < contradict the
memo published by Jack
Anderson...”
"I can tell you that state-
ment*# ray sending Howard
Hunt to see Dita Beard is
totally inaccurate," said Dean.
“Did you send Mr. Liddy0"
asked Pickle.
“Nobody;” said Dean.
• “Do you know whether any-
one was sent to Denver?”'
“‘Yes I do,"rDean-replied.
But he refused to testify about
BETH BUNTIN shows off I
thodist Church art show sel
garten room. Students froif
and readiness program will
life year. Mrs. Frank May!
John Mabry, Mrs. Tom Herj
coordinating the show.
Officer It
Slated B\
, v Xi Gamma Chi chaptyj
Beta Sigma Phi will meel
7:30 p.m. Monday in I
home of Mrs. Dean All
New officers will be install
and the exemplar ritual [
THOUGHTS
“You did not choose me,
but I chose you and appoint-
ed you that you should go and
bear fruit and that your fruit
should abide: so that what-
ever you ask. the Father in
my name, he may give It to
you. This i command you, to
love one another.” - John
15:16.17. - -
The Lord utters his voice
before his army, for his host
is exceedingly great: he that
"Grant us brotherhood, not
only for this day but for all
our years - a brotherhood,
not of words but of acts and
deeds.” -Stephen Vincent
Benet, American poet.
I know that there is nothing
better for them than to be
happy and enjoy themselves
as long as they live; also that
It is God s girt to man that
every one should eat and
drink and take pleasure in
all his toil. - Eccl. 3:12,13.
DR LAWRENCE E. LAMB
Reader’s symptoms
of emotional distress
- -could get out of them? And.
ByALMELINGER
A few nights ago a sizable
collection of citizens jammed
the small auditorium in Sterl-
ing Municipal library to listen
to remarks by Bill Broyles who
has earned swift acclaim as
editor of the year-old Texas
Monthly. \
The words of the young edi-
. tor were the words of nostal-
gia. A dozen short years have
passed.since he was graduated
from Robert E. Lee but most of
those years have been passed
elsewhere - at Oxford, in
Vietnam, now in Austin.
Hardly 30 years of age, the
speaker was already afflicted
with shapeless longing for the
swiftly disappearing scenes of
boyhood. School boy haunts of
the SOs and 60s have been
supplanted by new and un-
familiar sights. Many of the
business firms which seemed
as durable as the Rock of
Gibraltar are gone, leaving
Monthly carried a story on
Arlington, a swiftly-growing
part of the Datlas-Fort Worth
megalopolis which has multi--
plied its citizenry manifold,
gained great entertainment
facilities, a major league base-
ball team and one of the
world’s great airports.
And, in the process, dost its
identity as a community,
commercial outlets fracturing
into an amorphous sprawl of
strip shopping centers serving
neighborhoods.
In the hometown Bill Broyles
remembers the high school
band marched down the main
drag and happy citizens lined
the sidewalks as the bare-
legged majorettes pranced by.
He could envision the Arling-
ton for Pasadena) syndrome
afflicting Baytown. It will take
serious coordinated measures
to preserve and restore the
central urban section. It will
payoff to landlords, to entre-
preneurs and to the tax collec-
tor is obvious. And to^com-
munity identity, the sense of
place that is ours is vital.
The perspective of young
Broyles, only a, dozen years
long, is short indeed, but it pro-
vides him with vision. It is a
vision not always shared by
some who have never left
town.
( ‘There were sensitive docu- j able men trapped in a ' the incident, because it might
dilemma, but rattier a stahd-|* jeopardize his legal rights Be-
ard operating procedure -—fore the grand jury,
developed and used with ;
growing success until cautious CHAIRMAN HARLEY Stag-
counsel Daniel Manelli. ----confidence became heedless gers, D-W. Va., extracted
"Just names of individuals arrogance. testimony from Dean fint
at the White House having Even the cast of characters
correspondence with various was the same: John Dean,
people at ITT,” replied Dean. Charles Colson, E. Howard
-"I can’t specifically tell you of Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy and
James McCord, not to mention
other faceless White House
aides. Dean directed the ITT
coverup, taking his instruc-
tions from H. R. Haldernan and
John Ehrlichman, who
remained behind the White
House scenes. 1
any one document right now,
but I can recall during the
hearings the man in the office
who. did collect them, Fred
Fielding, saying, 'B6y, you
ought to see the one we caught
today,’ and him relating what
it was.”
former SEC Chairman William
Casey had kept politically
sensitive ITT documents away
from the subcommittee by
delivering them to the Justice-
Department..
Bible Verse
SEEK YE the Lord while he
may be found, call ye upon him
while he is near. IsaiaH 55:6
Tally-ho!
Top Golf el
Announce)
Baywood Women Goll
played for most “one putl
Winners were Joan Will
championship flig|
.. jhelma Gorke, first;
Grimes, Ruth Frenchml
and Velina Coleman, seel
.* The nine-hole plaf
competed for best po
hand. Winner ~was
Bentch.
- This week, the goll
- played for.. "ones ’ 1 hi
Winners were ClaT
L Sewell, championship: 1
Atleman and Betty Dal
son, first: Shirley Scott,!
ond: Sabra McGee, til
The nine-hole 'flight plJ
for putts. Winner wasrB
Singleton.
lorene Ansell had a hnl
one on number 6. Plal
with her were Velda Beni
Betty Davidson and 1^
Miller.
' and ( think I'm going crazy .
Several days ago I stayed
home from school because I
felt sick The second dayj
was depressed, and I kept
listening for noises and
/ thought someone was sneak-
ing up on me to kill me. It was
the same way the third day.
Well, this scared the hell out
- -afdBfeans! i d pull the cams
up to my neck,
and shaking, tl
my arms in front of me and
ptill on the covers and about
tear them apart. This hap-
•• pened three or four times. I
caft't remember for sure.
~ ttafrrY—-
DEAR READER - Yes.
you are having trouble. You
have some rather, severe
symptoms of emotional-ill-
ness. And. thought of self-
destruction combined with
the difficulty in separating
dreams from reality is ah in-
dication you need some help.
bleak mouldering husks
abandoned buildings.
In an earlier issue the Texas
Tetters To. The
require the combined effort of
property owners, tenants and
the municipality.
It is not merely a sentimen-
tal journey. The financial
when I do get to sleep some-
one is always after me in my
dreams. They seem so real
it's hard to tell if it really
happened. < .
Since I'm depressed 1 want
to be by myself, and if some-
one comes into the bedroom
it makes me mad. And. if
someone says or does some-
thing I don't like I start grip-
ing. Usually I get along okay
and keep my mouth shut.
I'm not hungry either, so I
can get along on a glass of
juice for dinner and supper. I
lost five pounds‘in four days.
The only thing that bothers
me now is I'm nervous as
heck and hate the thought of
going to school where every-
one is. I forgot to mention,
suicide has entered my mind.
And, I have an urge to throw
mv arms through a window
arid cut them. 1 haven't done
it, but I've broken a light bulb
and taken the glass and put it
n my hands and squeezed it. I
less 1 hoped it would cut me
| it didn't, so I stepped on it
ended with the same
>.
. Vn I go back to school 1
“f/Speeches to say and it
“~“r,rthe hell out of me to
§ei UP front of the class. So,
d0 jou hink it’s possible 1
which is an illness. Emotional
illnesses need to be. and often
can be. treated just as much
as a physical illness, like a
broken arm.
.It is important that you get ■
professional help now.
best results usually follow
early treatment. You are a
youngwoman with a full life
before you. With medicine
and counseling a great deal
can be done to help you get
the best results. It could also
mean the end of those
frightening thoughts of some-
one slipping up on you to kill
you. 1 don't want you to delay
a single day. Go see your doc-
tor at once. If necessary, have
your mother arrange it for
you. but don't put it off.
DEAR DR.LAMB - 1 have
this mole on my chin and
hairs grow out of it. Is it safe
to pull these hairs or not?
DEAR READER - You
should avoid irritating a
mole. That means leave it
alone. You should simply cut
the hairs off with a pair of
scissors, not a blade. Moles in
locations where they are con-
stantly irritated from a belt,
a strap or where a person
shaves should be removed.
First Air Freight
The first air freight carried
by plane was a $1,000 bolt of
silk that weighed 80 pounds.
It was lashed to one wing of a
Wright biplane and flown 65
miles from Dayton, O., to Col-
umbus on Nov. 7,1910.
Editor, The. Sun
Dear Sir: <
“The distance between the
mouth and the heart is less
than 12 inches. Thisjs the dis-
tance which separates many of
us from God. We have God in
our mouths but not in our
hearts.” .........
Under these circumstances,
I say there is little we can do
about the evils that confront
us, and which we so heartily
condemm-from the pulpit —-
pornography, prostitution,
drug-addiction, alcoholism,
graft, corruption and so on —
without bringing the censure of
our colleagues and the wrath of
society.
Just how deep these evils
have penetrated society can be
measured by the Indifference
, by which we accept them. For
example, we buy a book or a
newspaper from the same
store that sells pornography; J
we walk around the drug ad-
dict-or alcoholic lying in the
street without a second look, or
that exhibit trash' and giVIUtr—
centuries-old profession of
Impeachment
President Nixon continues the
seemingly inexorable slide to
- impeachment, With many
Republicans concluding that it
itTdfSt bedene with before the e ^
..November elections.
‘By \E.A London Kconomisi \ctt»S#r\ice
President Nixon's fortunes have-slid still further downhill ment of President Nixon has to be got over well before
with the Republican election defeat in Michigan's eighth dis- November. ^
trict, where he had vainly put in a personal appearance At this stage the chief part in the impeacHment process
among what were thought to have been the faithful. ■“ belongs to ,the judiciary committee of the House of. Repre-
This was the fourth seat in the House of Representatives sentatives which showed its mood by its bipartisan vote to
that the Republicans have lost this year, as against one (in , demand the production of,evidence from the White House.
California) that they managed to retain; a sixth seat,in San. Perhaps about the middle of June the committee will s'end-a
Francisco, tomes up earlv in June. ; '■ ' ; ■■ report containing draft ^ctes of irnpeachment RHhe
The hastening of the process of impeachment now sCCm?“tfousrfrf-Repre«enUtivei
prostitution an ainjfrespec-------—*»Hflcreasing priority for the Republicans in Congress, in the Not long after Independence Dav. July 4, the ridfisrwttfr--
tiability; we accept graft and - hope of ending the Watergate business, one way or another, vote on the articles of impeachment and will, without much _
corruotion as a wav of life and before they have to face the electors in November. - doubt, decide by a substantial majority to send them to the
corruption as a way of life and
(when) ruled by crooked politi-
cians the best we can think of is
to pray for forgiveness.
Faced with these realities
one can only be amazed at so
cheap a compromise.
Ramon Tanguma
205 Ave.^J
Baytown'
before they have to face the electors in November.
Organized labor, which has put large funds and much
effort in,tO the Democratic by-election victories, is cam- ______...__________r_........J.........J| „!
pSigning for a "veto-proof’House of Representatives in the Congress have accustomed themselves to planning their
next Congress - a House with a built-in majority of two- calendars thisyear with a view to the impeaenment, the big-
thirds to override presidential vetoes, which on paper would gest piece of political business they will have to deal with in
decide by;
Senate for trial. - -•••-.
By now the leading men of both parties in both houses of
mean anything over 290 Democratic members instead of the
present 247.
Economist Commentary
ft) e paptoton &tm
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ilso may
loose
The figure may well be attainable, although it also
not mean much in a House where party discipline is
and the majority against a veto has to be assembled afresh calculations of political expediency will have only a mino
on each issue that arises. It may mean even less if, as seems effect. With the procedural decisions it will be different. Th
not unlikely, the next Congress nas to deal with a new Presi- . Republicans in Congress, in particular, will have to deter
their lives. Once the articles are before the Senate, Mr. Nix-
on’s lawyers can seek delays on various grounds — the need
to prepare the reasoned presidential argument or replica-
tion, th^ need-to assemble evidence for the defence, and so
on. Before that happens they will have had opportunities to
hold up the business of the judiciary committee and to drag
out the debate. **
Upon the ultimate decisions on the substance of the case,
against Mr. Nixon and upon the merits of his defense,
minor
not unlikely, the next Congress has to deal with a new Presi- . Republicans in Congress, in particular, will have to deter-
dent less quick lo use the veto than Mr: Nixon has been.c mine whether they'are prepared, or can afford, to go into the
The Republican mood today recalls that of Robert Ken- autumn campaign with such unresolved scandals overhang-
nedy in his last campaign, when he lost the Oregon primary ing them: . .. ...... .
election and, asked now he felt, quoted the words of the man If President Nixon is able to present a substantial defense
who was carried out of town tied to a steel rail: “If it hadn’t jjf his conduct in office, then that will be a different garni So
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been for the honor, I would sooner have passed it up.
« The national party bodies contributed unusually substan-
tial funds to the unsuccessful candidate in Michigan. Mr.
Nixon, who carried the district against Senator McGovern
by 64 to 38 per cent not two years ago, spent the day of April
10 campaigning, though to be sure he avoided the two in-
dustrial towns of Saginaw and Bay City and confined himself
- to three rural counties in what is called "the thumb" of
Michigan, counties that could not conceivably vote anything
but Republican. ’ »
41 Not only the Watergate seandals and the popular disgust
with President Nixon s performance as a taxpayer counted
against the Republicans, but the effects of the energy scare,
the recession in the car industry, and the price inflation, too.
far he has been relying on delays and subterfuges, coupled
with diversionary appeals to the public which usually
misrepresent, in a manner that can be examined and ex-
posed, what is really happening between the White House
and the prosecutors or betweenthe White House and the in-
vestigative bodies of Congress ’*
These tactics may be the only ones he has at his disposal.
Th%tr usefulness is, however, diminishing, and Congress has
it in its power to brush them aside and proceed directly, at a
time of its own choice, to the substance of the charges
against th&President upon which it not only may, but must,
pronounce. r' *
To the Rep
cumstances
f not otT
1 herein Rights of rtpubflcition of all C
publicans in Congress, who might in other cir-
, nave been the President’s natural friends and
Still, what the Republican party in Congress has to confront defenders, the message from the electorate now dictates im-
is the scandals, and it can only conclude that the impeach- patience, indeed intolerance, of delay.
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