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4 DAILY NEWS, Red Bluff, Ca. Friday, August 6, 1971 IMBbff ML JBT Ti-fiaiMCtatiitu DAILV NEVIS ESTABLISHED IN 1885 DONALD REYNOLDS Publisher EARL JOHNSON General Manager Bill Mauldln OPAL TUCKER Advertising Director LOU WALTHER Editor DAN HALL Circulation Manager Published daily except Sunday. Second class postage paid at Red Bluff. Subscription rates: Home delivery oy carrier boy, $2.25 per month, or $27 per year. Mail $27.00, auto $27, one year in advance, or $2.25 per month.

Single copies 10 cents. LOCALLY OPERATED jgfj DONREY MEDIA GROUP If's Nof Just A Matter of Chavez There seems to be a tendency in some quarters to lay the blame for all of agriculture's labor problems and, as a consequence, a large part of agriculture's financial problems on Cesar Chavez. That is a dangerous over simplification of a deep-seated difficulty. In essence, the farm labor problem is not different from the labor problem generally in a highly industrialized society. However, agriculture is the last great section of the nation's economy to be mechanized and converted to mass production, and the process is not yet complete.

More than most other enterprises, it remains a way of life, a pattern of family living to many persons more than a true business enterprise. Nevertheless, more and more agriculture takes its place along with logging, mining, manufacturing, merchandising and other parts of the economy, and many of its problems are the same Farmers complain that the wage demands of Chavez' United Workers Organizing Committee place them in an unfair competitive position, and they do. The situation is very similar to that of the American steel companies, however. News from Gary, Indiana, and elsewhere in the past few days is that a wage increase has been followed by widespread layoffs. Part of that is caused by big stockpiles, but competition from foreign sources, where labor is cheaper, is also a factor.

The automobile industry and the textile industry are other areas of tough competition in which difference of wage levels are a threat. Unless some other system of labor-employer relations is introduced into industry generally, there seems no expectation that agriculture will escape unionization. And if farm workers are to be represented by a union, or unions, is it likely tnat farmers would actually fare much better dealing with someone other than Chavez and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee? Somewhat, possibly. But the only other union in the field at present, the Teamsters, is hardly noted for easy going ways and sweetheart contracts. Right now, the Teamsters have stopped highway projects and other construction in the San Francisco Bay area because they object to independent dump truck operators.

"We're through fooling around," Teamster representative Morris Less is quoted as saying. "If we don't get overtures we undoubtedly will expand the strike." Is there any reason to believe the Teamsters wouldn't shut down farm produce hauling operations if they were in that field and didn't get what they wanted? Farmers object to the no secret ballot system used by the Chevez union. It certainly is against the American tradition. But as far as the farm employers are concerned, does it make much difference? Again, some, maybe. But other employers have found that their workers voted to organize, even when the ballot was secret.

The boycott, as employed by the Chavez union, is bitterly denounced by farmers. Perhaps it can be regulated by law at least somewhat. But there is no reason to believe that Chavez would be the only organizer in the field who would employ it, given the opportunity. Buy union label campaigns, which are really forms of boycott of non-union produced goods, are as old as unions. All of this is not to say that farmers are not facing trouble.

They are facing trouble. But it is not just a matter of Chavez and the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. And it is not uniquely just farm trouble. The entire labor-management system calls for revising. Called 'Woefully Inadequate 1 Benefits for survivors of men retired from the United States Armed Forces were called 'woefully inadequate and in some cases completely non-existent' by Congressman Harold Johnson a statement to the House of Representatives Committee on Survivor Benefits.

He pointed out that the family of a retired serviceman receives little or no protection if he dies shortly after leaving active service. THE SENATOR TAKES A DICTATORIAL STAND Senator Birch Bayh, Indiana Democrat, says if he were President, he would give the nation's business and labor leaders just 90 days to produce voluntary anti-inflation controls "If they didn't make it work after that time, I would come down hard with mandatory wage and price controls," he told reporters at a news conference. DAILY ACROSS 1. Celerity 6. Irish county 11.

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Angered 19 Recent 21 23 26 27 Heroic narrative Lichen Flight maneuver Companion Rivei of Charon 29. Indefinite number 33. Gay songs 35. Vaudeville features 36. French city 37 Sicilian volcano PE RIABA I MEIM A I ME A 39 Florida county 41 Young sheep --de 42 43 guerre Magnoii Kind of party 52" FrontPage In London Letter To The Editor Procedure Explained Washington Merry-Go-Round Tried To Back Bofh By JACK ANDERSON LAS VEGAS The private papers of phantom billionaire Howard Hughes reveal how he attempted to manipulate both presidential candidates in 1968.

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 "get 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 had 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 National Chairman during the 1968 campaign. Humphrey acknowledges the offer was made, and O'Brien confirms he was sounded out by Naheu in 1968 But both insist O'Brien never drew a dime from the Hughes interests during the campaign Several months later, however, he was retained by Hughes for a "substantial sum." Humphrey's son, Robert, was also employed by a Hughes company as a sales representative.

MONEY ON NIXON 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 feel 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 Laxalt as our next candidate Hughes used his gambling profits from the Silver Slipper to make political contributions. He owned the casino as a personal holding, therefore the money didn't pass through his corporate books. We have evidence that Silver Slipper money was slipped to a number of Nevada and national politicians. In 1968, 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. "Bob," Hughes instructed Maheu, "There is one man who can accomplish our objective through (Lyndon) Johnson--and that man is H.H.H. "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 House if he will just take this one on for us?" ARIES 21 APR 19 9 27 32 42 '54 63 73 TAURUS APR 20 MAY 20 3 1 2 2 0 2 9 M9J2 82 87 GEMINI MAY 21 -V JUHC 20 5 3 5 9 6 6471 7990 CANCER JULY 8 10 1 3 3 4 I 46 57 LEO JULY 22 5 25 44 47 '55 69 84 8.

VIRGO 1 5 3 0 5 Your Daily Activity Guide According to the Stars. To develop message for Saturday, read words corresponding to numbers of your Zodiac birt 1 sign 1 You 31 Much 2 Keep 32 Seem 3 If 33 As 4 Good 34 You 5 Events 35 Public 6 Tidings 36 There; 7 To 37 Stand Find 38 Conscience 9 Some 39 Need 10 Out 40 To 1 1 Do 4 1 What 13 Where 14 Contacts 15 Can 16 A i With 18 What 19 Reveal 70 Wise 71 Gem ral 7 7 71 Pnva'e 74 Concerning Fnsc 6 77 Desires 78 Your 79 To 30 MoVe 61 Seems 62 Impressions 63 Of 64 Collect 65 Be 66 Something 67 Today 68 Tells 69 i 70 On 71 What's 42 Temporarily 72 You 73 Range 74 Jealous 75 Rewarding 76 To 77 You 78 Expected Owed 80 A 81 LIBRA SEPT 12 OCT 22 4 6 1 6 2 4 78 SCORPIO OCT 2J 21 36 39 40 43 16 76 80 891 DEC 19 22 23 58-61-74 GooJ ing 44 Yi ur 45 Should 46 And 47 Mind 48 Poss hie 49 50 Motu rs 51 A 52 Anything 53 Is 54 Out 55 Mot-e 56 od 57 Why 5B meone 59 On 60 nonces 83 Important 85 Worthwhile 86 People 87 Gronted 88 Do 8V Head 90 You i i SAGITTARIUS wof CAPRICORN DfC 22 JAN 19 1721 35 45 65 75 AQUARIUS JAH 20 FCB 11-182838 68 72 81 88 PISCES 19 2- 7 26 31 33 48 67 HUMPHREY HELPS HUGHES The billionaire's secret, hand- scrawled instructions indicate Humphrey's help had been secured. Hughes sought "an order from LBJ inspired by Humphries" to halt all Nevada testing or, at least, a 90-day 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. "Or 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.E.G.

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 had opposed the Nevada tests But he had taken this position, he said, before the approach from the Hughes people. LONDON--An obscenity prosectuion is front page news in London, where a few days ago a jury found ten to one against three defendants, all of them in their twenties, for putting out an issue of a magazine (Oz Number 28) which the jury agreed was in violation of the obscenities statutes. The case was interesting from several points of view. For one, the magazine was written and, one gathers, the cartoons drawn, all by school children-for schoolchildren.

The editors had discreetly inserted ads in other issues of the mag, inviting young pornographic talent (under 18) to contribute to issue number 28. When the thing appeared, it occurred to the prosecutor, whose actions against obscene publications have been erratic over the past few years, that here was a case that had to be prosecuted, or else there was risk that the House of Commons would be finally aroused. Even so, the outcome was in doubt, such are the pressures for permissiveness and the trial took an astounding (by English standards) 27 days. Several inferences are to be drawn. 1.

The notion that freely circulating pornography is something that can be kept from the hands of children is one of those liberal abstractions which are nicely shafted by OZ--28. We find here, among the very young kids, not only quite extraordinary conversance with the discipline, but a considerable precocity in handling it. 2. A leading opponent of free pornography in the House of Commons is a young M. John Selwyn Gummer, who tackles the subject with zest, and informs us that the successful prosecution will have the effect of keeping the pornographic merchandisers half- handicapped.

And that, he says, is about the way the House of Commons wants it. One extreme the Danish extreme is total permissiveness, a Times Square situation. The other is total repression. In between you have, he says, something like the London situation, where you can find the stuff if you want it, but where because tons of it are regularly dumped into the British Channel, and every now and then you have a successful prosecution, the printers aren't quite ready to go into high gear, and it has not become a mass- produced business. If the House of Commons should move against it ruthlessly, the speculation is that you have the wrong kind of backlash.

On the general subject, Lord Macaulay, himself rather straightlaced, wrote in reference to the bawdiness of Restoration Comedy. It was the result, he said, of a long period of British Puritanism. government which, not content with repressing the scandalous excesses, demands from its subjects fervent and austere piety, will soon discover that, while attempting to render an impossible service to the cause of virtue, it has in fact only promoted vice." 3. The British attitude is wonderfully pragmatic and, in a way, utterly un-American. Our position is: it goes, or it doesn't go.

If OZ--28 is pornographic, then half the pay lode of Manhattan newsstands is pornographic, to say the least. But, in London, the effect of the successful prosecution is other than to affront the logical sensibilities of the theorists. Everybody knows that there is worse stuff lying around, and yet many welcome a successful prosecution, the effect of which will be to keep the pornographers in a state of perpetual insecurity. That isn't the rule of law, but it is, in a subtle and fascinating way, the English way of doing things. 4.

In interesting contrast with our own procedures, the time between indictment and prosecution was relatively short The 27-day trial which resulted in the finding of guilty, saw the pornographers instantly remanded to jail, notwithstanding the usual displays of slogans and placards with which the imperturbable agents of British justice were menaced. One thinks, by contrast, of Mr. Ralph Ginzburg, who was found guilty in 1963 and roams about, free and querulous, noisy testimony not only to the immunity of the practice of pornography, but to the impotence of the law a piquant combination Dear Editor: To set the record clear and to amplify the procedures, the Welfare Department would like to make known the following: Before bringing fraud cases to the attention of the District Attorney, the Welfare Department first of all takes actions to prevent fraud; identifies cases in which there are reasonable grounds to suspect fraud, and then with the supporting documents establishing the existence of suspected fraud, refers the cases to the District Attorney's office for subsequent investigation of the cases. The determination as to whether a criminal complaint is to be made or a civil action for recovery is to be brought, is the responsibility of the District been no plan made District Attorney's Investigator independenUy to go through the welfare cases and make a determination and check out those which indicate possible fraud. Our department has always had special assigned staff available to investigate promptly and cases of suspected meligibihty.

We hope that the above clarifies the procedure under which fraud cases are referred for action. County welfare departments do not have police authority. Sincerely, Tehama County Department of Social Welfare Mrs. Paulyne Marlnoff, Director HI lim mm: -T- Red Bluff YesterdaysI i ffie of the Daily i Aug. 6, 1941 A recapitulation of travel statistics for Lassen Volcanic National Park at the end of July revealed that 33,080 visitors entered the park during last month to bring the total for the travel year to 62,969, it was announced today.

While the total travel is 6.2 per cent under last year to date, the month of July showed an increase of 1,141 persons and indicates that if the increased monthly travel continues this year's figures will not fall far behind last year's record. Aug. 6, 1871 GOOD MOVE We understand there is a movement on foot, to get up a first class celebration in Red Bluff, in honor of the completion of the Railroad to this point. The celebration is to come off on the day the first passenger train shall arrive, the proceeds of said celebration to be donated to the first Hook and Ladder, or Fire Company 'that shall be organized in Red Bluff. A meeting of the citizens will be called in due time to take the matter in hand, and we sincerely hope that our citizens will consider this matter and be prepared to act, as Red Bluff is greatly in need of an organized fire department.

SENTINEL Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED Today is Friday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 1971. There are 147 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1945, the atomic bomb was used for the first time in warfare--in the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.

On this date: In 1806, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1825, Bolivia gained independence from Peru. In 1914, the wife of President Woodrow Wilson died at the White House. Also, in 1914, the United States offered to serve as oeace mediator at the start of World War I. In 1920, U.S.

troops moved into Denver to put down disturbances caused by a trolley strike. In 1940, the World War II battle of Africa began as Italian forces invaded Brtiish Somaliland. Ten years agor The second Soviet astronaut, Maj.Gherman Titov, was launched into orbit. He stayed aloft for 25 hours and 18 minutes. Five years ago: Luci Baines Johnson, youngest daughter of President Johnson, was married to Patrick John Nugent in Washington.

One year ago: Russia and West Germany reached agreement on a treaty to foster peace in Europe. LESTER COLEMAN, M.D. feeding Via the Veins Dr. Coleman In fact, the quality of the debate on the subject is behind that in America, which has benefited in this year alone Berns' "Pornography vs. Democracy: the Case for Censorship" FATHER, after a severe operation, was kept alive by intravenous feeding; I have often wondered how this simple liquid could take the place of all the foods we normally eat Miss Ga.

Dear Miss Intravenous feeding- i a very complex device that is used after a severe illness or an operation, a patient is unable to take i i a i mouth i that is given slowly by vein contains nutrients, chemicals and minerals These ingredients are sufficient to maintain life for long periods of time if necessary The exact choice of fluid and the ingredients vary, depending on the need of the patient as it is reflected in ihe studies of his blood It a a tremendous amount of training for physicians to choose the kind of fluid, the amount of sodium, potassium, magnesium, vitamins, and sugars that go into intravenous feeding. Sometimes it is necessary to use fluid that will reduce fluid in the body tissues At other times, another type of fluid is chosen to increase fluids in the tissues. A very mtoiesting contribution by chemists in the knowledge that some types of peni- cillin can be made valueless if vitamin and vitamin arc combined in the same solution, if fed intravenously to the patient. This does not happen when these ingredients are taken by mouth I am terrified because I saw some blood in my urine You must have written a recent column just for me. You said that some people delay by months having an examination because they're sure they have a cancer.

This Is what I'm afraid of. Mr. S. R. I.

Dear Mr You remember, well the message, but seem to have neglected to apply it. There are many relatively unimportant reasons for blood in the urine To live in fear that you may have a cancer does you a great injustice. The chances are overwhelming in your favor that you do not have a cancer. A slight infection, an irritation in the bladder, or a small stone in the bladder are only some of the possible causes of blood in the urine. A simple examination by your doctor, with or without a cystoscope, will immediately find the cause and give you the reassurance you need.

Dr. Coleman welcomes letters from readers, and, while he cannot undertake to answer each one, he will questions his column whenever possible and when they are of general interest. Address your letters to Dr. Coleman in care of this newspaper. JEWS PA PER I nFWSPAPFRI.