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1 I 1 AN OPEN LETTER FROM JUDGE SERGIO GONZALEZ Not Sit Back To The Editor Del Rio News-Herald Dear Sir: Lately, the trend among some scholastics has been to discard all disciplinary policies in schools. The defenders and agitators that defend and admire these actions will say that to conform with standard disciplinary procedures is to infringe on rights and freedom of the non-conformists. Ours is a society of rules and regulations and if we forget this, soon we will revert to the jungle for unbridled freedom leads to anarchy and then chaos! What we instill in the fertile young minds of our students will be the harvest of our future. All of us parents, educators, citizens be committed to not only teach the "three but also RESPECT for RULES and REGULATIONS. As Judge of Var Verde County Juvenile Court, it bewails me to see so many.

kids come before my Court. It that somewhere down the line some of us have failed as parents as educators. This need not be so. To me, Friday week's incident was very deplorable. It was a bad mark on our past performance record of a harmonious and unified community.

At the onset of a great athletic future for our schools this had to occur. A small group of boys and girls are responsible. Boys and girls that you and I know belong to out-side-of -school semi-clandestine organizations. Investigations will reveal that adults are involved provoking these fracases. You, in conjunction school administrators juvenile judges, authorized by statute with and are to enforce discipline in our schools.

For that matter, all public officials should enforce law and order to the fullest extent. time has come when words will not solve the problems that we are confronted-with. The time is now to put an end once and for all to any and all incidents that will hinder the education and decay the moral standards of our community as a whole. The people of Del Rio must not sit back and watch bur schools crumble. To give in to the unjust demands of a few is literally handing over to them the future of bur community.

The voice of the schools is the parents. Will they remain. silent? Let us hope that they will speak and defend the civil rights of the hundreds of students who regardless of creed or color are dedicating themselves to the betterment of our community. It seems that these non-conformists believe that civil rights exist only for them. Together we must and will show that in Del Rio, civil rights exist for all.

Respectfully, SERGIO GONZALEZ JR. Judge of the Juvenile Court DEL RIO NEWS-HERALD EDITORIALS 4A-DEL RIO (TEXAS) NEWS-HERALD. Sunday. September 24. 1972 "Anybody Gotta Match?" Stand Up For Del Rio Del Rio has a tremendous future.

Let's not blow it. At this moment, Del Rio stands at the threshold of one of its most promising periods of progress. Already announced and soon to be announced are a number of developments, including big projects which, will send millions of dollars 'surging the local economy. Included are huge commercial, tourist, residential, communications and utilities projects, which will bring money pouring in from and into private and public sectors of the economy. It means more business, better jobs and improved standards of living, providing benefits blanketing the community.

But even as Del Rioans savor the thought of basking in the sunshine of progress, gathering storm clouds lurking in the vicinity fill many with a sense of uneasiness. Divisive forces are at work, for which Del Rio has been targeted by influences from outside. Seeds of fear and mistrust are being sown. Those who would divide naturally seek to take advantages of the problems and adjustments which face a city growing and developing toward greatness. WHAT OTHERS SAY A major focal point of the problem is in the schools.

What happened in the courts proved a big shock, to all. Many, people from both former districts have expressed their unhappiness. While many from both districts would gladly go back to what we had before, we cannot. It is impossible. The only thing left to do is for the people of Del Rio to get involved in attempting to create a school district dedicated to the primary purpose of educating the young, preparing them for rewarding lives.

When this effort, succeeds, Del Rio will be a better community for it. It is critical at this time that Del Rio not allow its attention to be diverted from the future. If Del Rio's children are to enjoy the greater tomorrow in prospect for them; the city must continue to move ahead today with meeting the needs of its growth. Building a greater Del Rio means things need to be done which cannot long be delayed. The support of a citizenry united in confidence in the city's bright future will be needed.

We can all share in a better community tomorrow only if we stand up for Del Rio today. Nixon Strong By BRUCE BIOSSAT NBA News Correspondent WASHINGTON-(NEA) NEA's first nationwide survey on the prospective electoral count for the 1972 presidential election shows President Nixon presently holding 462 to Sen. George McGovern's 27, with 49 in the doubtful list. It takes 270 to elect. The survey, conducted by telephone the judgments of political experts within the many states, is the first of three this year.

The last of the series will come late in the campaign. This first check gives Nixon nine of the 10 most populous states, with only heavily Democratic Massachusetts in McGovern's column. In the 1968 election, Nixon split the 10 evenly with Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Nixon here is given all ll of the Old South states.

Their total of 130 electoral votes is just five short of half of the-270 needed for victory. The McGovem forces believe they have a strong shot at the 26 in Texas, but observers in the state continue to question that judgment. Also, Arkansas has never gone Republican in modern times, but it is clearly tipped toward Nixon at this The President likewise is awarded all eight Mountain states, four of the five in the Plains tier and the five on the Pacific rim. California, with its prize of 45 votes, is BRUCE BIOSSAT Looks Bad for McGovern By BRUCE BIOSSAT NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA)-Buoyed by good crowds, Sen. George McGovern on road is cheerfully sayingje's "turned the corner" in his bawfie for the presidency.

But a check of about a third Check Texts Movies, they say, are better than ever. Do movie stars improve grammar school history texts? Mrs. Mel Gabler of who keeps up with texts offered Texas schools, has her doubts and made them plain at a hearing held by the Texas Education Agency in Austin the other day. How about a fifth-grade history text, she asked, that gives Marilyn Monroe.seven pages and a picture and limits George Washington to a dozen skittish lines? How about the same "Search for Freedom," likening Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez to Jesus Christ but omitting reference to Benjamin Franklin's call for prayer at the constitutional convention to use the words of the publisher's representative, that would be teaching religion? We don't'know any more than Mrs. Gabler what Chavez in the role of The Savior is supposed to teach, but like her we would have thought that Franklin's prayer was the.

historical fact and Chavez 1 new character a figment of modern historiography. As for Marilyn Monroe's historical significance, maybe there is something we don't know about this tragic beauty who died by her own hand after several marriages failed. But for setting historical examples for children, we would prefer Molly Pitcher if anybody is going to figure as Mother, of. Her Country. She was shojtsOn beauty, from all accounts, Aut quite a warrior in the Revolutionary ranks right alongside her husband: They say George Washington had a good word for her.

DALLAS MORNING NEWS Friday, Sept. 22. TIMELY QUOTES I like work. Work is my philosophy. Dr.

Harry H. Nathan, New York optometrist, still practicing at age 90. The choice in this election is not between radical change and no change. It is between change that works and change that won't work. President'Nixon.

The future is not represented in government, the nonexistent has no lobby and the unborn are powerless. Jonas, professor at the New School Social Research in New York, on the new ethical responsibilities imposed by modern technology. DON OAKLEY of the states produces absolutely dismal reports on his campaign. Some Democrats who have seen a flock of private polls covering, many individual states say they are devastating for McGovern worse in some cases than the 34-point spread shown in the public Gallup and Harris polls. An influential Republican with access to similar private GOP polls reports the same thing.

The margins for- President Nixon over McGovern are so crushing that party leaders find it hard to believe As an example, though the McGovern forces think they have a pretty good shot at Iowa, a responsible private poll there shows Mr. Nixon leading the Democratic nominee by a margin of 56 to 22. Nobody expects McGovern to take Oklahoma, which has been going Republican consistently in recent presidential elections. Yet a poll spread of 60 to 15 in favor of Mr. Nixon has to be put down as staggering.

When you run the U.S. map in a 'telephone survey as I have just done, you encounter comment just as astonishing as the poll figures. Said an Iowa politician: "This state should be declared a disaster area by McGovern." A Maryland Democrat thus describes the senator's campaign: "It's the damnedest mess I've ever seen. There are defections all over the place. McGovem's cry of 'Come home, America' isn't a theme or a slogan, it's a lament." This from a veteran in Georgia: "McGovern says Georgia is one of his battleground states in the South.

If it is, he's in terrible shape. His campaign here is the worst thing I've ever run into. Georgia is at least 2 to 1 Nixon." Texas is one of the big states the McGovern people consistently argue can be theirs. They count hopefully on a blend of support from blacks, Chicanos, urban liberals, union men spurred by vigorous labor organizations, populist-minded folk in East Texas and elsewhere. A fresh check there, however, does not produce support for this hope.

is considered to be strongly in the lead. The East Texans, who provided Gov, George Wallace with much of his third-party support in 1968, actually seem to be learning Mr. Nixon's way. In that area, the city of Beaumont favors the President and likes Vice President Agnew even better. Among the northern big states, only California at the moment appears to offer McGovern much promise.

By poll indication and other observation, Mr. Nixon is ahead in the state today. But California is notoriously volatile. Mr. Nixon's support is thought to be especially soft, and one practiced observer said, "I can see how he could lose it." At this writing I am still back-checking on the other big states.

Nevertheless, setting aside Massachusetts as characteristically Democratic, I found Mr. Nixon leading everywhere, including the other states Humphrey won in 1968 New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan. My survey suggests McGovern is still not well off in places where he ought to be, such as Minnesota (gaining but not yet good), Rhode Island (terrible), Hawaii (bad divisions), Wisconsin (McGovern overrated), Washington state (support weakening). If McGovern sees something brighter than all this around that comer he says he's turned, he must have infra-red vision. I can't find it.

Young Terrorists Taught, Not Born By DON OAKLEY NEA News Analyst WASHINGTON three surviving Olympic games terrorists in German police custody are aged 20, 21 and 22. As far as is the five dead Arabs were in the same age range. Thus none of them was even alive at the time of the partitioning of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. None of them had any personal memories of the mass exodus of Palestinian Arabs into refugee camps which, a quarter of a century later, stilt contain upwards of a million people. The Munich terrorists were made, not bom.

Carefully nursed on hatred for all of their young lives, they and their fellows in the various groups and factions making up the Palestinian gurriHa movement are the end products of 24 years of refusal by Arab governments in the Middle East to accept the reality of Israel. There is no 'excuse for the existence of refugee camps after this long a time, some of which have taken on the aspects of permanent cities. The refugees, the bulk of whose support has and continues to be paid by the United States through the agency of the 'United Nations, could have been resettled in the first generation, given a modicum of good will on the part of the Arab governments, chiefly Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. The. problem need not have arisen in the first place had not these governments, for their own political purposes, encouraged the flight of the refugees and fostered the cult the deadly myth revanchism.

Now, having reared a generation of terrorists who acknowledge no laws but their own, the Arabs have created a hydra-headed monster that could turn and devour them. As one observer notes, the Palestinian radicals consider anyone who is noFwith them totally to be against them totally. Saudi Arabia's King Faisal is as much an enemy to the guerrillas as Israel's Golda Meir. King Hussein of Jordan, who drove the guerrillas out of his country, is considered a traitor. The guerrillas, a political force who are both idolized and feared by millions of Arabs, reject out of hand any talk about peaceful solutions in the Middle East or accommodations wJth Israel.

"Our people 1 are determined," says one teen-aged inhabitant of a refugee camp, "to continue the armed struggle until victory." As that struggle continues, as new. guerrillas are manufactured, trained and armed, and as a strong Israel frustrates all attempts to attack it directly, the terror escalates and spreads. No nation is immune to bombings, kidnapings, hijackings and extortion attempts, Yet even after Munich, even after me massacre of innocent travelers at the Tel Aviv airport, certain governments of the world, for their own political purposes, refuse to speak out against terrorism. Pravada, the official Communist newspaper in Russia, abandoning common sense as well as common decency, claims that "Arab reactionaries and Israeli agents intentionally pushing the Palestinians to extremism so that the international public will regard them as fanatic terrorists." At the United Nations, China and the Soviet Union support an Arab move to condemn Israel for its reprisal raids against Lebanon while refusing to condemn the Munich killings. "We have been walking a very dangerous path by our silence on' terrorism," warned U.S.

Ambassador George Bush as he cast the second veto by the United States in the history of the U.N., to block the resolution. By our silence on the disaster in Munich, we are inviting more Munichs." But what are a few dozen or a few score lives in the great political scheme of things? considered a possible pickup for McGovern. He has strong cadres of dedicated workers there. It is a volatile state, and it went only narrowly for' Nixon in 1968. But it is widely agreed he' Is leading there today.

Oregon and Washington often are mentioned as McGovern prospects, but NEA's check did not produce supporting evidence. Hawaii, with just four votes, is supposed to be his, but reports from the state say Democrats are so badly divided it must at least be rated doubtful today. McGovern people think they might get Nevada (three votes) the Mountain group, yet word from there.is that the senator's proposed defense cuts, plus GOP claims that he would slash atomic energy outlays, are hurting him badly. Nowhere among the eastern and midwestern big states (excepting always Massachusetts) is McGovem ahead today. New York (41), Pennsylvania (27) and Michigan (21) have to be judged salvageable, since Humphrey won them all in 1968.

Right now, however, New York is bad news for McGovern, with even, parts of New York City described as "murderous" for him. The busing issue and a possible rightward shift make Michigan better Nixon territory than four years ago. Democrats in Pennsylvania are organizing well but McGovern needs a spark to make crucial gains. Wisconsin and' Minnesota often are claimed for McGovern, but my instate sources say he is seriously overrated in Wisconsin arid, though improving, is still too far behind in Minnesota, to be given that state now. Missouri is another rising McGovern prospect, but he doesn't have it yet.

1972 Election Countdown Electoral Votes NEW ENGLAND Maine (4) Vermont (3) New Hampshire (4) Massachusetts (14) Rhode Island (4) Connecticut (8) Total 37 MID. ATLANTIC New York (41) New Jersey (17) Pennsylvania (27) Delaware (3) Maryland (10) West Virginia (6) Dist. of Col. (3) Total 107 SOUTH Virginia (12) N. Carolina (13) S.

Carolina (8) Georgia- (12) Florida (17) Alabama (9) Mississippi (7) Louisiana 00) Tennessee (10) Arkansas (6) Texas (26) Total 130 MIDDLE WEST Kentucky (9) Ohio (25) Indiana (13) Illinois (26) Michigan (21) Wisconsin (11) Minnesota (10) Iowa (8) Missouri- (12) TOTAL 135 PLAINS North Dakota (3) South Dakota (4) Nebraska (5) Kansas (7) Oklahoma (8) TOTAL 27 MOUNTAIN Montana (4) Wyoming. (3) Colorado (7) New Mexico (4) Arizona (6) Utah (4) Nevada (3) Idaho (4) TOTAL 33 PACIFIC California (45) Oregon (6)j Washington (9) Alaska (3V Hawaii (4)' TOTAL 67 GRAND TOTAL $38 Nixon 4 3 4 11 41 17 27 3 10 98 12 13 8 12 17 9 7 to 10 6 26 130 9 25 13 26 21 8 102 3 5 7 8 23 4 3 7 4 6 4 4 35 45 6 9 3 63 462 McGov 14 14 6 3 9 0 0 4 4 0 0 27 Doubt 4 8 12 0 0 11 10 12 33 0 0 4 4 49 to Elect: 270.