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The Ennis Daily News
—THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS-
Page One
President—Manager
Editor .......................
Associate Editor.....
Thursday, March 21, 1968
Founded in 1891
Charles E. Gentry
Floyd W. Casebolt
.........Fay Casebolt
En joyable Way to Help Civic Program
Our energetic and achieving Ennis Jay- siderable funding to promote an important
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support of their annual Variety Show ben- In service to the community, the Jaycees
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On The
POLITICAL
FRONT
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bids by Senators Robert F.
Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy
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to block renomination of Presi-
dent Johnson by the Democrats
is echoing more loudly on the
Texas political scene.
Two of the candidates vying
for the Democratic nomination
for Governor spoke up in sup-
port of their fellow Texan in the
White House, while groups back-
ing Johnson’s rivals got busy
in his home state.
An assistant professor at La-
mar Tech in Beaumont Ron
ed, meanwhile, at Waco. Its co-
chairman, David Copeland, labl-
ed the President’s war on pover-
ty "a gimmick to build a politi-
cal machine of high salaried di-
rectors while none of the funds
ever come close to those in
need.”
Among the gubernatorial can-
didates, Eugene Locke said at
Tyler, "I know that a vast ma-
jority of his fellow Texans do
. support the President’s Vietnam
P tt, said he had agreed to head policies, but we do not know
a campaign of an organization
named Texas Liberal Democrats
to drum up support for Kennedy.
He was asked to do so by the
New York Senator’s Washington
office.
Establishment of a central
AGE. TODAY at HESSER DRUG Texas chapter of Texas Derno-
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crats for McCarthy was disclos-
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of an East Texas tour, Waggoner
Carr declared, “I think Bobby
Kennedy is one of the most dan-
gerous men in national politics
today. His views are totally op-
posed to the majority of the
views in Texas.”
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stand up in public and express
TAIPEI, Formosa. March 21.
—In the strictest of secrecy, the
US is preparing to ask Chiang
Kai-shek to withdraw his troops
from the two offshore islands'—
Quemoy and Matsu—only three
and 12 miles off the Chinese
mainland. There are the two is-
lands—no farther away from the
mainland than Staten Island
from Manhattan, which almost
forced a showdown between the
US and Red China during the
Eisenhower administration.
Since then, Quemoy and Mat-
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my opinions.”
Lieutenant Governor Preston
Smith, in Fort Worth to open a
campaign headquarters, confi-
dently asserted, “we’re leading
| this race and bordering on a
victory without a runoff. The
people of Texas appreciate the
fact that I announced as a candi-
date last August without waiting
to see who else was going to get
into the contest.”
Smith said he proposes an
open door policy, adding: “I will
not be surrounded by a ring of
bureaucracy.”
Speaking at Arlington, John
Hill proposed the minimum age
for children to enter public
schools be lowered to five years
as part of a program to develop
brain power for attracting indus-
try-
Hill said, “every time we neg-
lect a young mind during its
formative stages, we pay for it
later—in dropouts, in a high
crime rate, in people who live on
welfare because we didn’t have
the foresight to provide educa-
tion.”
Edward Whittenburg, cam-
paigning at Muleshoe, said mak-
ing it legal to bet on horse races
in Texas, as some propose,
would increase the problem of
coping with crime.
“Our crime problem is serious
enough,” Whittenburg went on.
“without inviting organized
tions. Both are flanked by smal-
ler islands — such as Tung-yin(
Wu-chiu, Tung-ting and Lang-
toa—also held by crack Nation-
alist troops.
Together with the Peng-hu
Islands in the Formosa Straits,
the off-shore islands control the
Straits—plug Amoy and Foo-
chow harbors and disrupt com-
munist coastal shipping.
Chaing still dreams that some
day these islands could also be-
come springboards for an inva-
sion of the mainland. While
many Westerners don’t agree
with him, this threat at least
has tied up communist troops
across the Straits from Formosa
and has helped to deter Red Chi-
ha from intervening in the Viet-
nam War." -- - -------=
The US is firmly opposed to
any adventures on the mainland
but is officially committed to
helping Chiang defend the is-
lands—as proclaimed in a sec-
ret State Department national
policy paper—dated Sept. 11,
1964.
Today—however, our strate-
gists would like to change the
policy. They are compelled by
the demands of the Vietnam
to negotiate
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crime into our state through
parimutuel betting. Law enforce-
ment in Texas is not geared to
cope with the problems that
would accompany legalized pari-
mutuel betting.”
A platform made public at
Athens by Dolph Briscoe con-
tained provisions for more pay
and sick leave benefits for teach-
ers, more vocational and techni-
| cal education, steps to make
| highways safer, relief for traf-
fic congestion in cities, develop-
ment of state parks, solutions
to air and water pollution
troubles and increased efforts
to lure tourists and industry.
Briscoe likewise pledged him-
self “to take every action need-
ed to assist law enforcement
i agencies in making cities the saf-
est place in America."
War to put the squeeze on mili-
tary expenditures in other areas
and have decided that millions
colld be saved by pulling back
from the offshore islands.
This possibility first came up
at a secret strategy meeting in
Honolulu on January 11. Rob-
ert Barnett, speaking for the
State Department, complained
that the cost of defending the
islands was too great a drain.
"The problem," he said—“is
the offshore islands and our ra-
ther vague commitment to assist
in their defense.”
The secret minutes added:
“The meeting noted that the off
shore islands are not vital to the
defense of Taiwan (Formosa).”
SAVING MONEY
Samuel Berger, presiding
warned that “a major US policy
change is involved in view of
the heavy defense cuts.” He
suggested sending a team to
Formosa to give the Chiang gov-
ernment “a realistic picture of
the situation and our own plans
for adjusting to it."
Following up this meeting—
the Defense Department prepar-
ed a systems analysis on how to !
cut Chiang’s forces and save
money. The secret analysis—
which considered only the de-
fensive uses of the offshore is-
lands, concluded that they could
be written off without jeopard-’
ardizing the defense of Formo- |
sa.
“Several substantial reduc-!
(Chinese Peoples’ Republic) an
offshore island settlement,” the
anlaysis declared.
Naval savings alone — ac-
cording to the analysis—would
amount to $5.2 million in fiscal
years 1969-73. Eeven more
money could be saved in ground
and air forces .Chiang has five
of his best divisions, for exam-
ple—manning the underground
fortress at Quemoy. Another di-
vision is stationed on Matsu.
The two divisions on the Peng
bus in the Formosa Straits
could also be withdrawn, the
analysis suggested.
“The ability to land 5,000 Ma-
rines on the Peng-hus as rein-
forcements,” contended the sec- |
ret analysis—"would be more
than adequate for defense of
that area.” ;
The US “country team,” rep- j
resenting both the American |
Embassy and our military at Tai- |
pei—has taken vigorous excep-
tion to the analysis.
U. S. MILITARY
OPPOSITION
In a secert response /the coun- I
try team declared that "the
GRC will not ‘negotiate with the |
CPR’ for an offshore island set- ;
tlement. Removal of etstablish- |
ed personnel from Kinmen
(Quemoy) and Matsu would:
• Eliminate an invaluable!
source of intelligence on C P R|
coastal movements to and from |
the major ports of Amoy and
Foochow. ..
• Increase US'N patrol re-
quirements along mainland Chi-
na routes....
• Release several hundred
thousand CPR troops presently
positioned in the coastal area
immediately opposite Kinmen
and Matsu because of the GRC
presence on these islands.”
The country team also raised
the political and psychological
importance of the offshore is-
lands.
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1968, newspaper, March 21, 1968; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1650151/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.