Thursday, Decftmbr 26, 1968

Solving Of Case Deserves Praise

Law enforcement officerg deserve the highest praivse for solving the Mackle kidnapping case, re turning the young woman to her family unharmed, recovering most of the $500,000 ransom money and capturing the key figure in the startling and dramatic case.

Far too often law enforcement officers are the object of unjustified criticism when something beyond their control goes wrong in criminal cases. There was brief criticism even in this case when local Miami police inadvertently jumped the kidnappers after the first ransom pay-off. On the other hand, when the officers do an outstanding job, it is considered only routine and goes almost unnoticed.

That situation is true with the FBI in a case such as this which attracts national attention and it is true with local law enforcement agencies which deal less spectacular cases.

Law enforcement agencies which dally protect the lives and property of citizens are not perfect. Among the men who make up these agencies, there are a few who do not live up to the high ideals expected of lawmen. For the most part, however, the law enforcement agencies throughout this nation do a far better job !n handling their difficult assignment than they get credit for. They are made up of literally thousands of dedicated individuals who daily risk their lives in unnoticed tasks which the public and the agencies themselves call routine.

The Mackle case affords an opportunity for the public to say a well-earned Thank You to the officers who worked on that case and to all the

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other law enforcement agencies at every level who daily devote themselves to the protection of life and property and the preservation of law and order.

Scott Shows He Will Meet Financial Needs

Announcement that Governor-elect Bob Scott will not hesitate to recommend new taxes if the state needs them during the next biennium will be greeted with mixed emotions by the public and by the legislature.

On the one hand it is reassuring to know that the man who will head the state government for the next four years recognizes there comes a time when there are needs which must be met without further delays, even if it means a heavier tax burden on the people of the state. On the other hand, in an era when taxes already are high, and many questionable expenditures are being made at various levels of government, there is the hope that top officials may be inclined to resist further rises in the cost of an already costly government.

There is no doubt that requests for expenditures during the next biennium will far exceed the staters ability to provide all those things. It may even be that when the budget prepared by the Moore administration is revised by the new Scott administration, revenue from xisting tax sources will not be sufficient to meet those needs which are considered essential. If that is the case, the new governor would not be keeping faith with the people of the state if he did not recommend tax revisions which would enable the state to meet its essential needs.

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By TOM HOGE Asseetated Frees Writer

LA JUNTA, Colo. (AP) -Colorado Boys Ranch was started nearly eight years ago for youngsters wlth no place to go but into trmible.

The quotes are from Dist.

Judge Mitchel B. Johns of Denver, one of the founders of the facility in Southeastern Colorado that now is home to 75 boys.

WbM you handle domestic relations cases, you learn that many children have parents but no home, Judge Johns said. Their parents eilh* dont want them or simply cant provide them with a home.

These are the children with no pl^Bce to go but into trouble, ihey certainly tend to ba the ones who become deliimuent We felt th e r i shoula be some place for these boys on the verge of trouMe, a home base that could give them a chance to grow up 18 useful citizens.

The late Judge Hal Chapman of Rocky Ford, Colo., promotKl the idea of a boys ranch ao threleasly that the nearby dty of La Junta offered a 18-acrt site that had been an air base civilian hous I n g area during World War II.

Citizens of La Jimta collected $11,000 and gave freely of ,

time and labor liy|et the pro- 11 1 ject tinder way. Tie ranch is V-X frankly patterned after Cel Farleys Ranch near Amarillo, Tex. and Bays Town near Amarillo. Tex., and Boya Town near Omaha,

Neb. The first to arrive at the ranch north of La Junta was a ISwear-old with no father.

Now he is a junior at ths Un^ versity of Colorado.

Boys of 10 to 14 are accepted. They are assigned by age groups to dormitories, each

of which is supervised by a man and his wife.

Administrator Ray S. Steiff, a former Army Ueutenant colonel, says that only nine per cent of the boys coming to the ranch since it was opened in April IMl have bad to be transferred to other in* stitutions for special physical or emotional are. He said that only two per cent of the boys have had to be dropped for delinquency reason.s.

Boys riding through the big gate find they are coming to a real Western ranch. In ttie beginning the Colorado Cattlemens Association donated 40 cows to the ranch. Now it has 86 head of cattle, 30 horses, 90 hogs, 40 sheep and four goats. The boys raise all the beef and pork consumed at the ranch.

Each boy sent to the ranch must stay until he is 18 or has finished nigh school, although officials may release a boy to his parents before then if if they feel that his home conditions have improved.

The first six boys accepted at toe ranch mk ran away some vears back but soon retumedkeep their ties witn it although all are in college or at vocational schools. As <m 19-year-old said, This is my home.

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Prosperity is only an in-stnimcxit to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Celvin Coolidge.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Relations between toe Poitagons Clark Clifford and toe State Departments Dean Rusk have now reached a point of bitterness unsurpassed In modem Cabinets, with no easy resolution in sight.

In the twilight days of the Johnson edministrati(xi, the contrlst between toe Cabinets two key figures is dramatic. While Secretary of Defense Clifford wheels and eals toward a Vietnam settlement, Secretary of State Rusk sits in the shadows a lonely figure, brooding in his Foggy Bottom office.

As we reported one month ago, toe basic reason for the spUt is Cliffords high - voltage campaign to start troop-withdrawal talks with Hanoi immediately without waiting to resolve endless protocol battles over the shape of toe negotiations table.

But beneath this surface aspect is a fundaments dispute about toe intentions of Hanoi. Clifford, strongly backed by Averell Harriman, believes Hanoi really wants to negotiate a start of mutual tr o o p witodrafwals.

Rusk and his alii, which include White House national security chief Walt W. Ros-tow and the U. S. ambassador in Saigon, Ellswortfa Bunker, are far less certain. Moreover, they regard Cliffords repeated criticism of top Saigon politicos as highly destructive to U. S. Saigon relations and to toe stability of the Saigon regime.

Ibe fact that Rusk has said nothing publicly (as of this writing) to refute Clifford does not mean he accepts his line. To the contrary, Rusk has exerted iron self control to a point that has amazed his colleagues.

He is taking a longer look down toe road, retusina to do anything now that would jeopardize toe long - range goal: a stable Southeast Aria immune from Communist expansion. To Rusks way of tl^ king, Cliffords pul^ spanking of Saigon is going to make that road infinitely har

der.

Disdaining a public brawl with Clifford, Rusk has been quietly making his side of toe case to President Johnson but with no public results. Despite Rusks presumed preens inence in foreign policy, Cliffords virtual takeover as toe Administrations chief spokesman has brouitot no sign of a White House rebuke.

Some of Rurics intimates hint that. If this situation continued much longer and if toe Administratloo were not in its twilight days. Rusk would have to resign. No such dramatic step is even contemplated, however, at this late stage.

ITius what toe country Is witnessing is the general disintegration (unravelling, as (me official put it) of an Administration to its sunset hours, with the estrislished sources of authority no longer under total direction of the White House Ova! Ofticc. Makii^ this inevitable process worse is the fact that the new Administration will be Republican.

A Democratic Presidentelect could settle toe R u s k-CUfford policy dispute in a way Resident Johnson, a lame duck, cannot.

The Presidents attitude to the Rusk Clifford dispute is viewed by top aides of Ruric and Clifford in exactly opposite fashion. Rusk men are certain Mr. Johnson intends to hold to a hard line on the Paris talks, giving Saigon every chance to agree to toe shape of the negotiations table without undue pressure from Washington.

But Gifford men say the President wants nothing so much as quick agreement with Hanoi on muhiai troop withdrawal, hopefully before he leaves office. The hint: Gifford would not dream of spanking Saigon publ i c 1 y without White House approval.

Indeed, Clifford holds the high political cards. It was notable, for example, that Sen. Jo^ Stennis, a hawk (Hi Vietnam, privately informed the U. S. negotiating team on (Gontiniied On Page 5)

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HK Flu Also Good Force

WASHINGTDNThe Hong good as well as evil. While Kong flue can be a force for no one enjoys having the

Other Editors Say If Justice Is Confused

(Washington Dally News)

When the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme court. Hunt Park, says that toe United States Supreme Court has created uncertain-ity and confusi(m regarding toe death penalty in North Carolina, then we ask if toe state supreme court justices cannot interpret what the U.S. Supreme court means, how. can other judges, lawyers, and laymen possibly know what is meant.

The answer to our question is very simple, but the implications are rather complicated. Of course, under such circumstances no one can really say with clarity exactly what is meant.

The North C^olina Supreme court has granted two men on death row in our state a new trial. The new trial, if we under and correctly has been granted on the basis that when Joseph Spencer and Glenwood Williams were conficted in Guilfori County Superior court of killing a taxi driver, the Jury was incorrectly and unconstitutionally polled on the matter of opposition to toe death penalty.

The U.H. high court has held that a defenlant cannot be sent to his death for some crime if members of the trial jury have been asked whether or not they favcH* toe death penalty.

Spencer and Williams have been on death row a long time in North Carolina. Now they have been awarded a new trial in Guilford county. This time, if toe new trial does come about, no member of the jury can be asked do you favor the death penalty?

However, Spencer and Williams also have two other murders charged to them for which they have never been tried. They allegedly kil 1 ed two other Durham county men after they cscai^d from Dorothea Dix hospital.

One state justice has observed that toe correct thing to do is to said toe case back to Guilf<Hri County Superior court where toe men should be sentenced to a term of life in prison.

Supposedly, North' Caroling still has toe death penalty on the books. If it is meaningless, then it should be repealed. But if Spencer and Williams are guilty of three cases of murder, and from all accixints the three murtors were d(me in (xild blood, if they are aUowed to serve life sentences if guilty, North Cai> olina might as well throw up its han(tean dsay to ourselves we have no death penalty in out state.

Maybe this is toe wav a majority of our people want it. But toe fact remains that when terrible crimes are committed, such as toe death of the taxi driver for which Spencer and Williams were convicted, and the two other murders allegedly committed by these two men, toey do not seem qualified candidates to mingle with society ever again.

Justice ought to be clear to all. When we have confusion and uncertainty, in our opinion, we cannot possibly have justice too.

If justice is confused, and we believe it is, then it seems quite evident that the U.S. Supreme court is the source of that confusion.

Hong Kong flue, ev^one enjoys talkli^ about it, and it is in this area that you can use the HKF to your advantage.

There is probably no better time of year to have HKF or at least say that youvd got it, toan around toe holi-clay season. The first thing you can do is call up all

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your wifes relatives and tell them not to come for Christmas because youre com i n g down with it. Or if you were scheduled to go to their place, indicate lhat rat h e r than infect their family with toe virus youve selflessly decided to stay home.

The Itong Kong flu can be used as an excuse to stay home from work on toe M(m-day and Tuesday before Ghristmas so you can get your last - minute Giristmas 8h(^)ping done. It also can be used as an excuse to your mailman, garbage collector and grocoy delivery boy as a reason you were unable to tip them this year.

For pretty young ladies, HKF can be your Hrotection from drunken bosses at (hristmas office parties. As toe boss makes a grab for you, tell him, Not now. Wait until I get my flu shot next month.

You can use HKF to get out of Giristmas and New Years Eve parties you had no intention of going to. It can even be used as a reason for not going down to toe department store to see Santa Claus.

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By JOHN CNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - Economic advances sometimes cannot be appreciated by those involved, the producs and consumers, as President Johnson seems whistfully to have hinted at one time or another.

Ehiring toe past year this has been very true. CcHiflict, confusion and controversy seem to have thoroughly obscured any immediate sense of appreciation. But there is much to be toankful for.

American farms, factories and mines turned out more goods than ever bef(we. In November, an index kept by toe Federal Reserve Board showed that mine-factory outot was 66 per cent more than 10 years ago.

There were more j(tos too, and the 1968 percentage of unemployed reached a rate lower tham at any time in 17 years. Tlie jobless rate dropped to 3.3 per cent More than 76.6 million had jobs; 2.6 didnt Late in the year toe unern^-ployment rate among nixiwhites toirfc a sharp drop. It was Impossible to say if tls was anything Imt temporary, but it was an in^rovement evoi if, shockingly, it remained double toe white rate.

The housing industry, which had fallen into a depression all its own a couple of years ago, was able to recover in 1968 to the extoit that more homes were b^(un than at any time in fotff years.

Americans can be thankful also that the boom-bust cycle, in which a soaring economy plunges into the fdt of recession, remained tamed for the eighth straight year, a record. Although badly inflated, the economy confinues to expimd.

The dollar, under speculative attacks that might have forced devakiation and c(mfusi(m in w(vld tra(ie, was able to retain its strength throughout toe year, for which the whole world can be thankful.

At toe same time the stock market was t)le to withstand evm ignortfr-iiews so bad that it might have precipitated a sell-off in most otoer years. War, balance of payments troubles, urban unrest and assaaslnations were taken in stride.

Investors even ign(H*ed the chaotic condition of record keepiz^ in Wall Street, which some officials feared might lead to a loss of confidence by the investing public. More than just brokers are thankful to have gottm through 1968 witlunit nunre {Nroblems.

Americans can be toankful also that government revenues fix the first time in years seem likely to catch up or even surpass govermnent spending, although its anybodys guess how kmg this will continue.

The new spirit of co(6>eration between government and business seemed finally to show some inroads on the urban problems that have caused so much trouble and anquish and destruction.

'The National Alliance of Businessmen ran far ahead of its aims of finding 100,000 jobs by next June 30 for toe hard core unemployecL Major insurance companies committed millions of dollars to slum investments.

Throu^xjut the year toe American consumer complained about inflation, and with reason. The consuHMT price index rose more than 4 per cent, toe greatest erosion of money values since toe Korean war.

But there was another aspect of the fdcture. Incomes continued to rise faster than the rate of inflation and most Americans showed real increases in their standard of living.

Strength For Today

3irth Control Not Impecotive?

EXILE

When toe Jewish people went into exile 586 B. C. it seemed as if their national life and all the significance they had for the world had come to an end.

As a matter of fact, one of the greatest cirsumstances in their noble history was about to happo) to the Jewish people. They went into exile with toe deep knowledge of why toil calamity had c e me upon them. They had sinn e d. They were paying f(MP their sins. They had not served God in the way He indicated. He Wished to be saved. Therefore He would train In another way and bring them to a submission toat would mean renewal of their national life. They went into exile speaking one language (Hebrew) and they came back speaking a related language known as Ar

amaic. They had once been full of pride and arrogance. They came back humbl^ and with a new spirit of submission to the will of Ciod.

The lesson taught to the world is that sin is followed by exile. When we sin we separate ourselves from God and bis loving purpose. We experience the (fisdpline and suffering which disobedience to toe will of God involved. The >-called Northern Kingdom had forsaken their ri^ gion completely and when they were carried off into captivity by the Assyrians they were never heard of again. The Southern Kingdom, carried off more than a century later, came back to serve toe worM under the power of a renewed presence, namely, the presence of Gods will and guidance.

Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER A distinguished Stanf o r d University demographer has joined a handful cf Department of Agriculture, chemical industry and other scientists in declaring toat starvation is not imperiling toe world and that drastic birth control action is not imperative.

Prof. Dudley Kirk, delivering the Pascal K. WhelpU memorial lecture at the Scripps Foundation for Research in Population Problems at Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, declared that far from facing starvation, toe world has toe best food outlook in a generation. Even before this years bumper harvests, be said, UN Food and Agricultural Organization data showed food production has kept up with population and generally has done a little better. This, everyone agrees, is not good

enough, but it is scarcely Armageddon.

Hanger Always With Us

Hunger and malnutriti o n will always be with us, he said, but In contrast with the views of alarmists toe foot is, outride of war, famine has become rarer and rarer.

Hunger is not new, Dr. Kirk said. What It is is our awareness of it, our expressed concern and oiff expressed intention to do someto f n g about it.

As nations advance eixmo-mically, their birth rate usually declines, he pointed out.

Legal abortion, under proper medical conditions, he said, is one of the most effective measures a country can take to reduce its Mrth rste and, in my judgment, is a humane one as well.

No Problem Here He also made these points: The UaM Jttebvt wbfeft 4f

now expaiendng toe lowest birth rate in its history, should look to migration, not the birth rate, as the cause of urban congestion and the flight to the suburbs.

In more than half the area of toe U. S., the p(^ulation

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is decfliting. There are quite a few townships that have fewer people now than they had in 1790.

The deserted farm and village are as much a part of Ikf JmmAm u the

crowded freeway.

In 1900, the metropolitan area ol Loe Angeles had 189,-000 people. At the i.ational growth and birth rate, Los Angeles today would be a nice little smoglesa place of 500,000. It now has a population of seven milUoo. The dif-faeacB is the result of migra-tioa

An Independeel Ophdoe

This r^wrter, no demographer, has always held toat in six billion years, the population has never reached toe point where it pushed people off the edge of the eerth. The fecundity of the human race has been essential to its survival. It has been needed to offset the effects of wars, plagues, earttKpiakes and other destructive forces.

However, organisatfont dedicated to birm control de provide a lot of comforUble jca.