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— THOMAS JEFTERSON
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Clifton, Texas
Hiursdav, October 9. 1969
Congressman Poage Replies to
Last Week's Record Editorial
f uOn the way to the typewriter . . .
The Rovin’
. Reporter
by Ruth Reierson
Clifton Record Staff Reporter
You’d think one vould recog-1 Texas and resuming friendship
nitt a face from the past A of 24 years ago?
September 27, 1969
Hon. Sam Logan, Editor
The Clifton Record
Valley Mills Tribune
Dear Mr. Logan:
While I have not yet received my
copy of The Valley Mills Tribune for Sep-
tember 25,1 have received a copy of your
editorial entitled “Help Us Please, Con-
gress”.
This editorial relates to the decision
of the Court of Military Appeals in apply-
ing a previous Supreme Court decision
in the case of a certain Captain Stephen
J. Boryls, who had already served five
years of a thirty year sentence imposed
by a Court’s Martial in connection with
thirteen charges of rape, sodomy and bur-
glary. The court not only set aside the
sentence but restored the defendant to
his rank and gave him some $50,000 ac-
crued back pay.
This matter had not come to my at-
tention until I had returned to Washing-
ton from a tour of Texas by the Agricul-
ture Committee and a delay there on ac-
count of the illness of Mrs. Poage. Frank-
ly, I had laid the report of this matter
on my desk for further attention because
I felt as you do that this is but another
one in a long stretch of outrageous de-
cisions instigated by the Warren court.
This decision was actually not rend-
ered by the Supreme Court but is a de-
cision by the Court of Military Appeals,
based upon and required by a decision
of the Supreme Court in the O’Callahan
case decided on June 2, 1969 by the Su-
preme Court. The opinion in this case,
which laid down the principle that “since
petitioner’s crimes were not service-con-
nected. he could not be tried by Court’s
Martial” was written by Justice Douglas.
Three members of the court. Justices
Harlan, Stewart and White, dissented.
In my judgment there is no sound
legal basis for this decision, although it
must be recognized that in this particular
Boryls case the defendant had been tried
in and acquitted by a civil court. The
real question, therefore, must, as I see it,
be whether our military authorities have
the right to punish personnel for unlaw-
ful acts committed off of the military
post or by civilians on a military post.
It has always been my belief that
military authorities have the full right to
maintain order and respectability on the
part of all members of the military. In
other words, the military can punish for
actions “unbecoming of an officer”. If
such authority does not exist, I can see
no way whereby the military can main-
tain the respect for its officers, which is
absolutely essential to the maintenance
of discipline.
I have always understood that the
military had the right, and I think it
must have the right, to control the act-
ions of every member — officer or en-
listed — even when off the post I once
served as an enlisted man myself and I
never questioned, nor do I now question,
the fight of the military authorities to
declare objectionable institutions “off
limits” and to punish the men who enter
those places. Certainly I think that it is
absolutely essential for the maintenance
of any kind of security for the military
authorities to have the power to keep anv
person, whether he be a so-called “demon-
strator” or a suspected spy, off of a mili-
tary’ post. As a matter of fact, I have,
since I have been a Member of Congress,
been refused admission to certain parts
of Fort Hood, and I think the authorities
were correct.
Clearly a decision such as the one
in the O’Callahan case is calculated to
break down every vestige of control in
our military establishments, but I don’t
feel that this case is any more dangerous
than a number of others handed down
by the same court under the leadership
of Chief Justice Warren. I have hereto-
fore made reference to many of these
cases in my Newsletters.
In my opinion, one of the most dan-
Llke the soap operas, tune in
next week to this column, and
find out.
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Gift subscription* to Tho Clif-
ton Record during September
wore as follows:
To Missy Pierce. Stephens Cot-1
lege, Columbia. Mo., from—Mr. i
and Mrs. Fred Owens. Rt. 1,
Clifton.
To Janet Holder. S M. U.. Dal- i
W. T.
gentleman came iii the Record
office Monday afternoon, asked
for Mrs. Reierson. and was greet-
ed with ’ Can l hefp you?” He
said “I’m Cliff Olsen.”
Can you imagine the feeling
of seeing a friend for the first
time in 24 years? It’s a strange
sensation, believe me I Here was
this stranger. I should know, but
his face was not familiar, and
I’m sure mine was unbeknownst
to him since I was a mere slip _____
of a girl and blonde at that when j fes from—Dr and Mrs
we knew one another during the Holder Dallas
war .World War II. of course> T„ Mr and Mrs Ronny Thorn-
at Staten Island, New York. I Wj,co. from-Dr and Mrs.
never knew what happened to s s , Wi(cher cliflon
him flowing that summer ^ |S To witcher Baylor Uni-
945 when he ™s *erring in the versit Wac0- from_Dr. and
£ ‘ dn 11™* Mrs S. L Witcher, Clifton
that he would eventually become To j c Fort worth,
a Lmheran pastor and a ehapUun from_the r whites, Rt. 2.
at the Huntsville Prison in Tex- u»r^iaw
as no less To Bonnie Standefer. Hardin
Seems we both marned Tex- House Austin, from _ Mr and
ans. though the Referral have Mrs j L standefer, Clifton
been married urr^teen more jo ^ Ann Hutcheson. Tarle- j
years than the Obens. **' State College, StephenviUe, |
Olsen has a lovely w*. the f _ Mr and Mrs j. L
__ former Evelyn Zschtesche (pro- riihnn
gerous decisions Of this court has been its ; nounced Cheesy* of Hamilton “SJJJS gift to Mr and Mrs
repeated refusals to allow the Congress and two children. Mark. L! . Lee-Turner Grand Praine
age3Dd SUMn:- 386 I' We from - Mr. and Mrs Clyde Tur-
seemed "anciem with our Oifto_
daughter. Carolyn. 22. and son. I To ^ Bekkeiund. Rt. 1.
Kenneth 19. plus a son-in-law ± Te.as from _ Mr and
Dennis Kirk. There we were that Mrs Ceci, Bekkelund, Rt.. Ca-
dence in Cranfilis Gap — the 'on
to authorize State and Federal officials
to remove Communists or others dedicat-
ed to the destruction of our form of gov-
ernment from positions of responsibility
and its decision that we could not require,
as the Congress sought to require, a
pledge of lovalty on the part of those who Swede and a* Norwegian with
• - - - their wives of German descent
swapping family hist ones.
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. AND KEEPS THE WORLD IN FOCUS
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two Yanks meeting in
Twenty-Five
Attend Meeting
Past Matron and Past Patron
Club of District 3, Section 7.
roe? on Monday night. Sept 29
are instructing our children.
Of course, this same court has estab-
lished such a morass of red tape and regu- \ about
lation controlling the process of arrest, j-
trial and conviction of one accused of
crime that it has made it almost impossi-
ble to prevent major infractions of the
law. and it is this same court which, in
the guise of protecting religious freedom,
nas denied our citizens the right of pub- j
lie petition to the Almighty.
Certainly. I agreed with and applaud
IZ cn'kism of these actions I am de-
lighted to receive your support for the 25 in attendance Mrs .Arthur
very position which I have been urging Corley presided at the business
for so long. j session.
That vou mav realize that mv feel- j A chairman from each Chap-
ings in this matter are not something teTJ ?resent was appointed to
acouired overnight I enclose a number
of Newsletters and speeches which I have ' Committee Each was given in-
made over a period of the last four or 1 structions on how to function
and report results on Dec 28
a: the Christmas Sapper in
G»te*vflte.
A nominating committee com-
posed of Fannie Gent, Emma
McDonald and Graae Stovall, j
were appointed, being instruct-,
ed to report also at the Decern *
her meeting. jt *
Foliowing an impressive pro^ j
gram on “What Our Eastern
Star Stands For”, refreshments j
were served
Chapters represented were |
Hamilton No 215. Gatesville No
1005. Walnut Springs No. 401, :
Evant No. 392. Regina No. 283. ;
Copperas Cove No 1070, with
Walnut Springs carying home the
attendance banner.
To B E. McKinney. Rosen-
berg. from — Mr. and Mrs. Earl from—Mrs. George Arnold. Clif-
McKinney. toe.
t,__... ... To Flovd Spenrath. EasSe To Lk«vd Rampe. Bryan, from
How rod this naqra ^ Texas, from - A. L. Speo- -Oscar Hampe.
rath, Rt . Clifton. Te Gail Ringness. Dallas, from
To Gary Arnold. DalevOSe. .Ala.. —Glee Rirtgnesses.
To Mrs. Matt Williams. Mor-
gan. from—Mrs. J. H. Williams.
To H. L. Watson, Port Lavaca,
from—Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Tur-
Birthday
Oscar C. Prince, Las Vegas, Ne-
vada, from—Mr. and Mrs. War-
ren Prince, Clifton.
That's all for this week. Re-
member— “be kind to one an-
to Major (Ret.) other.”
five vears and from which you can see
that I have repeatedly sought to call the
Warren court to task, and that I have in-
troduced legislation seeking to reverse
some of these decisions — but. of course,
in the final analysis Congress cannot over-
ride the court, which is. under our Consti-
tution, one of the coordinate branches of
government.
However, when a vacancv occurs the
President can appoint members to the
court who will more sincerely reflect the
intent of the framers of our Constitu-
tion. President Nixon has had an oppor-
tunity to make two appointments. Of
course, we cannot know just what the
attitude of these members will be until
they have begun their service, but we can
hope, and I think with a great deal of
justification, that they will, at least to a
large degree, reverse the attitude of the
present court. The President will undoubt-
edly have opportunities for further ap-
pointments in the coming months.
Thanking you for your fine state-
ment, and with best wishes, I am
Your friend.
W. R. Poage, Congressman
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Babies born at the Goodall-
Witcher Hospital Foundation in
Clifton were as follows:
Donna L’Rae Tharpe, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Ray
Tharpe, of Morgan, was born
Sept. 27, 1969. She weighed 7
pounds 2 ounces. Paternal grand-
mother is Mrs. Pauline Webb of
Morgan. Maternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Faris Wheeler
of Kopperl.
Dalton Shay Boatman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Ray Boat-
man, of Clifton, was born Sept.
16, 1969. He weighed 7 pounds
2 ounces. Paternal grandmother
is Mrs. Mary Boatman of Little
Rock, Arkansas. Maternal grand-
parents are Mr. and. Mrs. Leon-
ard Lively of Clifton.
Andre James Jones, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James L. Jones Jr.,
of McGregor was born Sept. 18,
1969. He weighed 7 pounds 8
ounces. Paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. James L.
Jones Sr. of McGregor. Maternal
grandmother is Mrs. Lillie Sulli-
van of McGregor.
Mindy Kay Stringer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Rddie Stringer,
ol McGregor was torn Sept. 25,
1969. She weighed 8 pounds 14
ounces. Paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Bob McGee
of Garland. Maternal grandpar-
ents are Mr. and Mrs. Claude
Hooten of McGregor.
Mary Ann Loudermilk, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvis Ray
Loudermilk of Hico, was born
Sept. 26, 1969. She weighed 7
pounds 10 ounces. Paternal grand
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Henry
S. Loudermilk of Hico. Maternal
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Ouellette of Worster, Mass.
Jared Lee Wallace, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John L. Wallace, of
1 Rt. 1, McGregor, was born Sept.
29, 1969. He weighed 7 pounds
10 ounces. Maternal grandmother
i3 Mrs. Earline Faubion of Mc-
Gregor. Paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wallace
of Collinsville, 111.
Polled Hereford Show
And Sole Date Listed
Harry Dulick, president of the
Central Texas Polled Hereford j
Association, announced that the j
Clifton Polled Hereford Show and
Sale will be held Oct. 31 and
Nov. 1 this year. Dulick said that
the Clifton Sale has a reputa-
tion for always offering good big
Polled Hereford bulls for the
commercial breeders as well as
some top quality bulls and fe-
males for the registered breeders
and that this year he hopes they
will be better than ever.
Watch the classified ads in this
paper for more information and
where hf get a catalog of the
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