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Beotrice Doily Sun, Beatrice, June 9, 1975 DEA chief forced out began a series of columns last January exposing malfeasance, misfeasance and nonfeasance inside the Drug Enforcement Administration. We charged that internal dissension had crippled the agency and had weakened the war against narcotics. Our articles triggered a series of events which has culminated in the forced resignation of Administrator John Bartels. He was asked to resign by Deputy Atty. Gen.

Harold Tyler. Bartels resisted at first, saying he needed time "to sleep on it." He immediately got in touch with one of his predecessors, Myles Ambrose, now an influential Washington attorney, who phoned the White House in Bartels' behalf. But the White House refused to save Bartels. The next morning, he met again with Tyler and asked for still more time to decide. A few hours later, Tyler notified Bartels that his time was up.

Our sources say Bartels was bounced to take the sting out of hearings scheduled this week by Sen. Henry Jackson, Wash. His subcommittee has been investigating the charges we raised in our columns. We disclosed, for example, that: narcotics officials had been so busy investigating one another that they had little time to cope with the dope dealers. record high budgets, DEA had been unable to stem the flow of heroin into the country.

An estimated 125,000 new addicts, we reported, became hooked in the past year alone. handling of internal corruption cases was sloppy. We quoted from a confidential management study, which warned that the number of unresolved corruption cases leaves "the agency in an embarrassing situation." reported that corrupt DEA agents had been caught dealing in the drugs they were supposed to be suppressing. early as 1960, the drug enforcement apparatus maintained close ties with the Central Intelligence Agency. DEA has 64 former CIA employes on its payroll and another 13 narcotics agents were trained by the CIA at its supersecret counterespionage school, we reported.

we revealed that the drug agents maintained love traps for the CIA Jack Anderson Berry's World in New York City and San Francisco. Foreign diplomats were lured into these apartments by prostitutes in the pay of the CIA, which filmed the sexual adventure's through hidden one-way mirrors and later tried to blackmail the victims into becoming informants. We began our investigation of the DEA in November 1974, two months before we published the first story. Our associate, Bob Owens, confronted the DEA with charges that Bartels was covering up an investigation of an assistant, Vincent Promuto. Thereafter, DEA kept a sharp eye on us.

One internal memo warned that we were "familiar" with "the Promuto matter." Later, Bartels drafted a four- page, single-spaced response to one of our columns and ordered every DEA employe to read it. From Thailand to Turkey, DEA agents were also instructed to make sure Bartels' opus was published in the local newspapers. The DEA office in Thailand gave up, explaining in a memo that "none of the Bangkok newspapers subscribe to Jack Anderson's columns." But in most places, Bartels' orders were meticulously obeyed. Responding to our charges, it seemed, had priority over fighting the drug smugglers. The Seattle regional director assured Bartels that "all supervisors were held responsible to insure that each employe read and initialed" the four-page opus.

In Boston, the regional director "personally read Mr. Bartels' letter to all Boston regional office agents." In Detroit, the regional director boasted that he had submitted the letter to the Detroit Free Press under his own signature. And the chief of the New York drug task force wrote to Bartels: "We have read several articles by columnist Jack Anderson which have been less than complimentary to the Drug Enforcement Administration Your accomplishments and professionalism are deserving of accolades not criticism." The American people will be able to judge the DEA for themselves, however, after Sen. Jackson has concluded his hearings. Equality before the Draft Board By DON OAKLEY There is little chance that the recent ruling by a federal judge in Butte, that the military draft unfairly discriminates against men will be upheld by the U.S.

Supreme Court, should the question go that far. It could very well be a different matter, however, when the 27th, or Equal Rights, Amendment (ERA) is ratified by the necessary 38 states. Or perhaps one should say "if" it is ratified, since the momentum behind it seems to have stalled at the 34-state mark and opposition to it is mounting. The proposed amendment states so, some "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex." Should that become the law of the land, it would seem that a young man would have a good case if he resisted the draft on the ground that women are exempt. The question, of course, is moot right now, as the lawyers say, because there is no longer a draft.

But young men still have to register with their local boards at 18, and with the kind of world we live in it would be foolish to predict that the nation will never again have need of military conscription. Feminists have tended to pooh-pooh the idea that the ERA would send women into the trenches alongside men, while at the same time others have stated that they would welcome the opportunity to fulfill an equal obligation to their country. Anyway, they say, males themselves have never been universally draftable. Theology students, those overage, have always been exempted. It's pointed out that Israel drafts its women and they have far, sent into combat.

But then Israel does not have an Equal Rights Amendment. Nor is the argument that the United States has seen fit to prohibit discrimination based on race, so why not entirely persuasive. "Race" is inclusive of both sexes and neither the 13th, 14th or 15th Amendments, which dealt with citizenship rights, affected local laws or customs which recognized distinctions and differences between men and women, whatever their race. Not so the ERA, say the critics. Its broad language would obliterate all sexual distinctions, some of them quite necessary.

The feminists would be better advised to pursue the fight against unfair sexual discrimination through specific laws aimed at specific injustices. In any event, as the Montana ruling suggests, should the 27th Amendment become part of the Constitution, a future Supreme Court could be in for some interesting disputes. (NEA) More than her share Dear Ann Landers: I'm so rattled I can hardly write but I need advice, and fast. A friend whom I haven't seen in a month phoned to say her husband had surgery a few days ago and in her words, "It doesn't look as if Bernie will make it." I started to express my sympathy and she interrupted with, "Please ask Jim if he will serve as a pallbearer. The casket I'm considering is heavy and I'll need some strong men." I asked in as tactful a way as I could if her husband was still "with us." She replied, "Yes, Bernie is still alive, but as I told you, the doctor says it doesn't look good.

I want to get as many things as possible done ahead of time." I agreed to ask Jim if he would be a pallbearer and requested that she let us know "if and when the time comes." Just as I was about to ring off she wondered if I thought it would be all right if she wore a light-green, knit suit. She said, "I hate black and I look terrible in it." Then she added, "My green hat is brand new and I haven't had a chance to wear it yet." I told her the decision should be hers. I just got off the phone and don't know what to make of it. How can I ask my husband if he will be a pallbearer for a man who is still living? Is the woman batty? I need some In Steubenville Dear 8.: It sounds as if the poor thing bad more than her share of anxiety. Tell your husband about (he call, Inform your friend of bis decision, and request thai she keep you posted.

Pear Ann Landers: Please tell "Mind Of My Own" that she is lucky to have a i Ann Landers Mom and Dad who want to run her life. We gave in and allowed our beautiful 16-year- old daughter to go with a crazy, mixed-up, hippie freak. Now she is eight months pregnant and has dropped out of high school. I guess you might say our daughter proved she had a "mind of her own," but until she was 18 we should have insisted that she toe the line and do exactly as we said. Now, because we let her "run her own life" (as she insisted) we are suffering for her foolish mistakes.

Just sign In Logic Dear Lost: There is no way you could have insisted that your daughter "toe the line" if she was determined to defy you and continue to see (hat boy. Defiant and rebellious children will do as (hey please. You could have stood on your head and spit firecrackers and (he results would have been (he same. So stop beating yourselves. Dear Ann Landers: Saturday is the day my husband is supposed to spend with his five-year-old son by a former wife.

Every Saturday he has a golf game, plays cards, or goes fishing. I am the unpaid babysitter and I resent it. The youngster is undisciplined and I am exhausted after chasing him for seven hours. Any Dear Beat: Hire a si((er and get out ol the house. Also (ell your husband if he doesn't start spending some (line with thai boy soon (hey will have no relationship later.

In fact, it may be too late now. "I've always been high in 'candor and integrity' but since the Mayaguez thing, how do I stand in bein' the most wise and dynamic?" No death sentence for killer Adolph GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) City officials have ruled out capital punishment. They say Adolph, the killer swan, is going to be rehabilitated. The graceful murderer was taken into custody and placed in solitary confinement after his second spring rampage in a waterfowl-filled municipal pond.

Like most crime-world newcomers, Adolph began at the tender age of 9 with TV Log MONDAY 6:00 p. m. 3 4 6 10 13 News 7 Bonanza 12 The Lingering Heart 6:30 p.m. 3 13 Truth or Consequences 4 To Tell the Truth 6 Let's Make a Deal 10 All in the Family 12 SUN Accounting 7:00 p.m. 3 Baseball 4 7 The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau 6 10 13 Gunsmoke 12 Special: Young Filmmakers Festival 8:00 p.

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12 Firing Line secondrate misdemeanor offenses such as going berserk when the ducks, geese and swans were returned to the pond from their winter quarters. But it didn't take long for the 72-pound mute swan, now 11 years old, to make the big time. This spring he became a murderer, killing a whistling swan and injuring another in an apparent case of aggravated assault. Officials say they've pinpointed the root of Adolph's criminality: sex. The problems began when someone stole his mate two years ago, said Tom Sullivan, city parks and recreation director.

Sullivan said Adolph has been sentenced to an indefinite term at the Jumping Rainbow Ranch near Livingston, where he may get to select another mate from several young females. Mutes, the swan of Europe and western Asia, produce no loud notes and mate for life. But some authorities say mutes will mate again after 6-to 12- mateless months. In exchange for Adolph, the ranch has agreed to provide Great Falls with a young pair of royal mute swans, Sullivan said. He said Adolph may end up at a wildfowl ranch in Maryland as part of a round- robin swap.

"Our major quest right now is just to get him out of here," Sullivan said. American Indians taught early colonists how to make syrup and today it still is produced only in the United States or Canada. From 40 to 50 gallons of tree sap are boiled down to get one gallon of the rich syrup. Ouf of fhe Past Short 10 Years Ago The Beatrice School Board rejected all bids on the old Belvidere School property. The board p'inned to decide if and when it would make further efforts to dispose of the full block of ground.

Ray Witkowski, a local contractor made the final $15,100 bid. The Board felt that the property was worth considerably more. Government Crop Observers reported that winter wheat production prospects were much improved by recent rains, but farm work was slowed because of wet fields for most of a week. Rains during the past two weeks had brought precipitation totals for April and May above normal in nearly all portions of the state. 20 Years Ago At a meeting of persons interested in the celebration of Beatrice's Centennial, Directors were chosen.

Those elected to the Board of the Centennial Corporation were Virgil Macy, Edmund Harder, Mrs. Lee Bonham, Mrs. Sanford Rathbun, Allen Davison, Gib Switzer, Gordon L. Pollak, J. B.

Weston, W. H. Kilpatrick, Gloria Lang, Ned Maxwell, I. G. Christenson, Dr.

H. G. Penner and Ray Umphenour. 30 Years Ago Merle G. Jones was elected president and general manager of Store Kraft Manufacturing Company succeeding W.

B. Morton to the presidency. Mr. Morton was to continue as chairman of the board and treasurer. Marion Morton was elected vice president and continued secretary.

He left the sales division early in 1942 to assume responsibility for war production in the plant. 40 Years Ago Ten pounds of sugar per individual for summer home canning purposes was the maximum allowed in southeastern Nebraska. The Gage County War Price and Rationing Board had been informed. An additional 5 pounds each might be available later in the summer upon request. The opening of the Hotel Paddock Coffee Room was announced by landlord James Walsh of the Paddock.

The dining room had been divided to furnish quarters for the coffee room. Air conditioning equipment, the newest thing in home and business building, had been installed. Boy loses leg under freight SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) A young Sioux City boy lost his leg when he tried to hook a ride on a freight train, but slipped beneath the wheels, authorities report. They said Doug Curtis, 9, was playing with friends Saturday night when he apparently attempted to board a slow-moving freight train. However, he slipped and fell under the train and the wheels severed his right leg.

Curtis is hospitalized in Sioux City. By Frank O'Neal NOW WHA CALL A LEVEL Harris to run in state primary By ERIC KRAMER Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Former Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Saturday "A job should be a legally enforceable right in this country-" He delivered a "new populism" speech to a crowd of 100 gathered to hear him announce his intention to run in the Nebraska primary. Harris said no level of unemployment was acceptable.

He said he would obtain full employment by stimulating the economy and by setting up 2 million public service jobs. He said an individual should be able to walk into an employment office and demand a job. Harris hit President Ford's energy policy, saying it would cost families throughout the country $36.4 billion a year. He said Ford's plan to increase oil tariffs and remove price controls on domestic oil was a type of "Robin Hoodism in'reverse" which would give money to the large oil companies. He called for increased antitrust action and a public energy corporation to increase competition in the energy field.

He also called for a federal law requiring new cars to get gasoline mileage of at least 25 miles per gallon. Harris said "George Wallace neither will or should be the presidential or vice presidential nominee of the Democratic National Party." He said Wallace does not speak out against the corporations and the super rich and he cannot bring racially-troubled America together. Harris likened his new populism to Thomas Jefferson's ideal of democracy. He said he was not thinking of returning America into a rural agrarian society. But he said it would not hurt if some people wanted to leave the cities.

He said the new populism would be achieved through antitrust action and tax reform which would reduce the concentration of wealth and give individuals economic freedom. FREE CHOICE Youngsters on Point Roberts in Washington State frequently have dual citizenship. Point Roberts is cut off from the mainland by water and its women usually give birth to their babies at a hospital in Vancouver, B.C. When the children reach 21 they can choose to be citizens of either the United States or Canada. ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Gage County Board of Supervisors, Gage County, Nebraska, will receive sealed bids for construction of Asphalt Base Course and Asphallic Concrete Projects until COST, at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, County Courthouse, Beatrice, Nebraska, on the 30th day of June 1975, and at that time will be publicly opened and read.

The Contract Documents, including plans and specifications, are on file at the Office of the Gage County Highway Department. Each bid shall be accompanied, in a separate sealed envelope, by a certified check drawn on a solvent bank in an amount of not less that of the high Total Base Bid and shall be made payable to the order of Gage County, Nebraska, as security that the bidder to whom the contract may be awarded will enter intp a contract to build the improvement in accordance with this notice, and give bond in the sum as hereinafter provided for construction of the improvement. Checks accompanying bids not accepted will be returned to the bidders. Bid Bond will not be considered. No bid shall be withdrawn after opening the bids without the consent of the Gage County Board of Supervisors for a period of 30 days after the scheduled time for closing bids.

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