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Editorial page And now, some questions The second primary run-offs in local and county elections give us, and Washington County voters generally, an opportunity we did not have in the crowded first primary. We can find out in detail how the candidates stand on the major issues and how they intend to perform the duties of the offices they seek. The Delta Democrat-Times intends to help the process by asking the candidates to respond to a fairly comprehensive questionnaire. What we are not going to be interested in determining is which candidate has the most children, the widest smile, the biggest collection of banalities or the most dirt on his opponent. The fact that this candidate is heavily backed by politician while this candidate is backed by won't be considered particularly relevant either.

Where a candidate lives may be interesting for geographical or biographical reasons, but not for political ones. Generalized promises to "do my best for the people" are all very reassuring, but are worthless at the political bank. What we, and we expect the people of this area, are interested in learning are answers to questions such as the following: Sheriff's race--how do the candidates stand on the gambling which now flourishes in too many clubs? How do they stand on hiring black deputies? What kind of action do they envision taking to slow down or halt the drug traffic? What do they propose to do, if anything, about the trusty system? Will they police, or protect, the honky-tonks? Will they provide adequate protection to the southern end of the county? What kind of professionalism will they require of their deputies? State Senate race--what kind of ideas do the candidates have for meeting the state's most pressing needs? For instance, how do they stand on public education? On public tax support for private education? What steps do they think the state could take to increase employment opportunities for all citizens? Do they believe the state has a bigger role to play in protecting the environment? Would they support legislation designed to protect the consumer? What kind of such legislation? If they think additional highways, or improved highways, are needed, how would they finance them? Supervisors' races--how do the candidates view the need for city-county cooperation? Are they opposed to the use of county equipment on city projects, or in favor of it? What would they suggest to improve the county's tourist and recreation facilities? What ideas, if any, do they have for improving the county health department? For making the road department more efficient? For cutting county taxes, or adding to other county services? Are they committed to equal employment opportunities on county jobs for all citizens? These are sample questions. There are many other possibilities. What is important is that no candidate be elected to one of these offices without letting the voters know more than that he is a good guy, "one of us," a lodge brother, fellow church member, regular Democrat, family man or professional joiner.

Our problems are too real and the opportunities for constructive change too great to allow anyone to be elected who won't let the voters know how he stands on the matters which most concern them. How many voters actually voted Welcome to civilization If you know nothing of the Tasaday Manube, prepare for both envy and pity. The Tasaday Manube are a tribe of people living in Stone Age simplicity in the Philippines. They have been cut off from the outside world for hundreds of years, apparently, but recently two anthropologists tracked them down. Up until now, the 100 members of the tribe have had no knowledge of a metal technology, tobacco, agriculture, the sea or among many other things.

They were described by one of the anthropologists as "healthy looking" nonetheless, which is hardly surprising. Most of us would be considerably healthier looking and feeling if we had been cut off from most aspects of modern civilization for the past several hundred, or even thousand, years. But, alas or hooray, the Tasaday Manube will no longer live in isolated ignorance. They have been discovered and "generally show a willingness for more contact with civilization," according to the Associated Press. Soon they will be as lucky as we, stuffed with tobacco and pollution, enjoying all the mechanical marvels which the metal technology has produced.

Whether they will be quite as happy about civilization's benefits as they imagined is another matter, but that was Eve's problem too. Only yesterday 5 Years Ago--1966 Members of Shipley Do-Nuts Team, champions of the American Legion Traububg League, include Jimmy Laird, Steve Cleveland, Michael Barnes, Mike Maurin, John Maurin, Mike Moore, Billy Tubertini, Bobby Spears, Louis Phillips, Billy Cross, Ken Turfitt, Jack Laird, assistant coach, Willy Tubertini, coach, and Mac Maurin, assistant coach. Read R. Dunn Jr. of Greenville has been chosen chief administrative officer of the new International Cotton Institute.

The organization, officials said, was formed by leading cotton exporting countries to help sustain a "strong, healthy world trade" in cotton through research and promotion in raw cotton importing areas. Dunn, who was named executive director, is a native of Greenville and a one time manager of the Delta Council headquartered at Stoneville. He is on leave as foreign trade director of the National Cotton Council of America and is executive director of Cotton Council International. The institute was formed by six cotton exporting countries to promote the use of cotton over synthetic or man-made fibers. 15 Years Ago-- 195G The Greenville City Council is scheduled to adopt a resolution Tuesday.

approving a school board request to borrow $31,000 to finance additions to Em Boyd Elementary School, according to the official agenda released today. Construction work on the three additional classrooms already is underway and expected to be completed by the time school opens in September. Other matters on the council's agenda Tuesday include receiving the tax collectors report for July, hear recommendations from the city plan- ning commission, and hear any objections to re-zoning lots one, two, and 19 in the third addition. Friday afternoon the Leland Garden Club house was the setting for another of the series of parties of bridge and canasta given by the club during the summer months. Hostesses for the occasion were Mrs.

C. 0. Dean, Mrs. Joe Aldridge, Mrs. Martin Heard, and Mrs.

Bill Stanton. Mrs. Charles Dean entertained two tables of bridge honoring Mrs. William Penn of Alabama. Mrs.

Dean presented Mrs. Penn with a gift. High score was won by Mrs. Percy Lee Bell of Greenville and Mrs. Royal Branton.

Those attending were Mrs. Penn, Mrs. Percy Lee Bell, Mrs. Lewis Davis, all of Greenville, Mrs. Royal Branton, Mrs.

George Briesch, Mrs. John Aldridge, and Mrs. Dean Hebron. 25 Years Ago--1946 Open house held at the Greenville Country Club Saturday night was a delightful affair. Those who attended were Mr.

and Mrs. Ben Wilkes, Dr. and Mrs. 0. H.

Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Walsh, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Armstrong, Mr.

and Mrs. Granville Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. David Fey, Mr. and Mrs.

Leonard Rochelle, Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Boswell, Mr.

and Mrs. R. S. Withers, Mr. and Mrs.

Elton Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Fain, Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Plummer, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Frazier, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Guice, Mr.

and Mrs. Curtis Garmon, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Eubank, Mr. and Mrs.

Bill Lowry, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hodge, Mr.

and Mrs. F. 0. Batson, Mr. and Mrs.

David Gavin, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Russ Rudolph, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Brough, Mr. and Mrs. Carnel Warfield, Dr. Charles Berry, Jere Nash, Allen Crittenden, Bob Wing, and Tom Lundy.

First Primary Election Day has come and gone, and we would like to know the percentage of qualified voters who availed Ihemselves of the right to participate in the democratic process of the ballot-box. Such figures would be interesting because, al the last report, everybody aged 18 years and over was qualified to vote, provided they had registered, which they could do as late as Election Day itself, or perhaps the day before same. Such prerequisites as residency and a working knowledge of the Constitution being old-hat by now and in the discard. Which reminds us of an observation by some pundit or other, way back yonder in Ihe early days of the New Deal, circa '33, always thought we were living on a planet but, nowadays, I'm not so sure of Ihis. Maybe we're riding on a comet instead!" end quote.

Well, we managed to pick at least two winners the first time around, Mrs. Mae Berry and William Winter, and again our thanks to Helen Williams (Mrs. Shields) Spiars, who briefs us, every election-day, on Ihe intricacies of mechanized voting! And now we turn from post-mortem commentary to genealogy which is far safer ground, and something that's already brushing off onto our readers, like Charles or "Jingle Jackson of Leland and International Vegetable Oil Co. who celebrated his birthday last Saturday, July 31st, by driving all the way to Ackerman, in Choctaw County, to look up a long- lost cousin on the Jackson side of the family. (I.

V. office-manager, Mr. J. W. Edwards went along for the ride.) The last word Charles had had of his kinswoman was about twenty years ago, when someone told him that she and her husband were running the hotel in Ackerman.

Anyway the Messrs. Jackson and Edwards arrived there, and made their way to the hotel. A lady was sitting in the lobby of same and Charles, who is hesitant rather than brash by nature, apologized for troubling her then said that he was seeking a cousin by the name of Nell Ashford, whom he understood was connected with the management of the hotel. "I was Nell Ashford," she replied, "and I married a Sallis." Introductions were now in order, and Ihey discovered they were second-cousins, what with Mrs. Sallis being a first-cousin of Charles's late father, Mr.

Thomas Jefferson Jackson. Furthermore she is working on a Brodie Crump Jackson family-tree, which shows a Jackson ancestor who came from North Ireland to Ihis country in the 17th or 18th century. Therefore our old friend Hutch is Scotch- Irish and ought to be a Presbyterian instead of a Baptist with a Methodist flavor. And righl here, will Leon Curtis Davis recall the pulling he gave our leg when (so he said) we Iried to stake a claim to the Shenandoah Valley in its entirety for the disciples of Knox and Calvin? Maybe our arthritis dates from same. As for the Ashford name, there was a doclor by that name in Flora (Madison County) Miss.

We've heard our old friend Jesse Griffen (who grew up in Halifax Communily, near Bolton) speak of him often. And our class-mate at Miss. AM, Harry B. Greaves of Flora, Miss, and Okmulgee, Oklahoma, remembers Dr. Ashford well.

And as for Ihe Sallis name (it's also a town in Allala County) Harrylyn Graves married Dr. Charles Sallis who, like his lovely wife, is a member of the faculty at Millsaps College. In the meantime we've had sort of oldhome week this afternoon out here on Wetherbee Slreet, with a visit from Mrs. Burlon Truesdale of Rolling Fork. The former Carolyn Cook of Barnes, in Leake County, she grew up within "hollering distance', of her husband (he's Trudie Ashley's cousin) in Offahoma, which is also in Leake.

And Carolyn and Miss Mary went to school logelher at Barnes when the latter's daddy, Mr. Everett Adams, was principal of the school there. The Truesdales have two children, a son Roger who goes to Mississippi State and is working this summer for the Highway Department, and daughter Deborah, highschool age, who makes her own "pin- money" baby-sitting with guitar- accompaniment, and is doing so well that's she's considering starting an employment- agency for sitters on a commission basis. Come back, pretty Carolyn, and soon, and remember Old Stuff to the Jim Hands, Jim III and Kathleen Carter, also to Rebekkah Fields, Thadeus of Warsaw Jordan, the Baggelts and Donnie Carver Marshall. BC Letters to the Editor Rebuttal of a rebuttal To the editor: In regards to the Glen Allan Rebuttal presented by Mr: Guy N.

Storm. As he will recall, there are still no answers provided to me as he pretends. And all this.bull jive about not making anything public about teachers' contracts, I didn't tliat. will also recall' that he said I should teacher instead pf teachers because the public believes all teachers were fired. As for.

the letter to the board, well, I think this is all have I mean is that I just think they are presenting a letter and that's it. I don't believe they are discussing their or his or herconlract renewal and you've better believe it. Why should I answer any of his questions 'when he hasn't answered, my questions or anyone's. I don't release any answers to the public. I am like the board, you dig!" lie will also recall that he said there could be trouble.

What! Trouble is caused by what says how And-iTeave It isall a big lecture, rapping about nothing and a bunch of "junk" to get publicity. That is what I think of the "Glen Allan Peace America! A concerned student Arthur Crayton Jr. Glen Allan City government stinks To the editor: Vote out discrimination. Cut off the water at 1249 Belfast Street. Everything was all right at City Hall until my letter came out in the Delta Democrat-Times last week.

My water bill was $110.56. I had been paying $10 to $20 per month. Overnight, it suddenly became payable in full or it would be cut off and locked. A resident up the street got an adjustment on his water bill. Pat Dunne said no adjustment for me.

Pay up or else! The resident works for Councilman Sam Smith. People of Greenville, what do you think of our fine city government? I THINK IT STINKS. Johnlshee 1249 Belfast Greenville Symbol is anti-Christ To the editor: Many Americans are familiar with the "peace symbol." Some are even willing, to wear it. But, what most of them don't know, is that it is the sign of the broken cross or anti-Christ. As a peace symbol, it was first used by young radical marchers in England led by Lord Bertrand Russell in the late 1950's.

Current Biography states that Russell was an active anti-Christian and he and his wife were members of a secret fellowship of wealthy Marxists working towards international communism. Far from being a modern design, the symbol, which Russell adopted as the Communists' insignia for peace, dates back many centuries. A valuable source on this subject is Rodolf Koch's, The Book of Signs. Dr. Koch describes the symbol as, "the crow's foot or witch's foot," a symbol well known in the Middle Ages as an insignia of Satan.

This symbol is only one of the many ways the Communists are trying to capture the minds of our youth and destroy the will of all who resist their takeover. Today many ready-to-wear stores and countless other businesses advertise this symbol of the anti-Christ and sell it openly, perhaps even ignorantly to thoughtless people who do not know what they are buying or planning to wear. Every symbol of the broken cross, that is publicly displayed, is noted gleefully by the Godless Communists who can see how thoughtless and vulnerable the Americans really are. Hugh Putnam Jr. 1212 Lewis St.

Greenville For Urban Renewal To the editor: Sure, maybe survey and planning for urban renewal could not exist without our councilmen. Don't knock them. They represent us and we put them in office. Enough registered voting citizens--white and black--signed a petition asking that a referendum be held, and that's the way it is. There's going to be a referendum.

Come city election time, those of us (the swinging majority) that want the councilmen back in office will re-elect them--yes, re-elect them. If you're hung up about federal financial involvement, fine, but let it all hang out. Don't stop with urban renewal, include General Hospital in the phasing out of federal help (a very functional city, county, slate, federal cooperative effort). Oh, and break down that levee that federal money built so we all will "drown" while city taxes are being raised to build it back again. We're for the councilmen, we're far urban renewal, and we need some of our money back from the "feds." Name withheld by request Hughes went for presidential fix Page 4 Friday, August 6,1971 I lodding Carter, Publisher Hodding Carter III, Editor John Gibson, General Manager The Delta Democrat.Times published Monday through Friday and Sunday by: The Times Publishing Greenville, Miss.

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Although the papers are still under court seal in Nevada, we have had access to them. Here are the highlights: Hughes directed his former factotum, Robert Maheu, to help Richard Nixon win the presidency "under our sponsorship and supervision." Maheu allegedly siphoned off $100,000 from the Silver Slipper, a Hughes gambling emporium, for Nixon's campaign. The money. was delivered by Richard Danner, a Hughes exec, to Bebe Rebozo, a Nixon confidante. At the same time, Hughes suggested Maheu should "gel word to (Hubert Humphrey) on a basis of secrecy that is really, really reliable that we will give him immediately full, unlimited support for his campaign to enter the White House." An immediate $50,000 contribution was supposed to have been made.

Although Humphrey heard Maheu bad contributed to his campaign, there's no record the $50,000 was ever received. Hughes lieutenants also offered to subsidize Larry O'Brien so he could serve without pay as Democratic a i a Chairman (luring the 1968 campaign. Humphrey acknowledges the offer was made, and O'Brien confirms he was sounded out by Maheu in Iflfifi. But both InsistO'Bricn never drew a dime from the 1 lughcs interests during campaign. Several months Inter, Jack Anderson however, he was retained by Hughte for a "substantial sum." Humphrey's son, Robert, was also employed by a Hughes company as a sales representative.

Hughes' startling strategy was to help elect Nixon as President in 1968, then to groom Nevada's articulate and attractive Gov. Paul Laxalt for the White House. The fabulously rich recluse saw a Kennedy-like quality in Laxalt, who gave up the governorship this year. On March 14, 1968, Hughes instructed Maheu: "I want you to go to see Nixon as my special confidential emissary. I fed there is a really valid possibility of a Republican victory this year.

"If that could be realized under our sponsorship and supervision every inch of the way, then we would be ready to follow with Laxnlt as our next candidate." I lughcs used his gambling profits from the Slipper to make political contributions, lie owned the casino as a personal holding, therefore the money didn't pass through his corporate books. We hnvc evidence Hint Silver Slipper money wns slipped to a number of Nevada and nnlionnl politicians. In 1908, Maheu turned over $100,000 from the Silver Slipper to Danner, who delivered it to Nixon's close crony, Bebe Rebozo. The participants won't talk about the transaction. Responded Maheu tersely: "I have made it a matter of policy never to discuss political contributions on behalf of any client unless I have specific authorization in writing.

In this case, I doubt whether the authorization would be forthcoming." Danner, who now runs the Sands hotel- casino for Hughes, refused to comment. And Rebozo wouldn't take our calls. While Hughes was supporting Richard Nixon, he also courted Hubert Humphrey. The secretive billionaire hoped to use Humphrey, then Vice President, to stop nuclear testing in Nevada, "Hob," Hughes instructed Maheu, "there is one man who can accomplish our objective through (Lyndon) Johnson--and that man is 11.11.II. "Why don't we get word to him on a basis of secrecy that is really, really reliable that we will give him immediately full, unlimited support for his campaign to enter the White I louse if he will just take this one on for us?" The billionaire's secret, hand-scrawled instructions Indicate Humphrey's help had been secured.

Hughes sought "an order from LHJ inspired by Humphries" to halt all Nevada testing or, at least, a 90-dny delay to give him more time to prepare a case against the tests, "I concur completely," Hughes wrote Maheu on April 16, 1968, "with telling the V. P. that he is free to tell the people in Washington if they don't grant the 90-day delay, I am going to the public immediately." He threatened to make public scientific opinions that the tests may have triggered an earthquake. "Bob," Hughes added, "I leave this whole campaign in your hands. I am sure you should personally go to the White House after we have obtained the 90-day delay and endeavor to sell the President on a permanent policy.

I am sure H. H. H. would be glad to go with you and to set up the appointment." Maheu suggested a personal message from Hughes to the President would be more effective. Replied Hughes on April 24: "You know I am perfectly willing to write a short personal message to Johnson, which we could ask Humphries to deliver--hand deliver--to Johnson.

"Of if we feel it would be more prudent, I could ask to deliver it. In that way, it need not interfere with anything Humphries has going. "I feel we must start a negotiation with the A. K. C.

just as if we were negotiating a business deal. I think we can go through Humphries." Humphrey, whose last name the billionaire could never get straight, acknowledged to us that he hnd opposed the Nevada tests. But he had tnkcu this position, he said, before (he approach from the Hughes people..