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editorials Page 4 Garden rii Thursday, Mi. 2f, Expecting Too Much? A statesman will stand up in public. But our lawmakers apparently are politicians first. The decisions which might embarrass them wit'i voters are made in secret behind closed doors. Fair housing has been whipped in a committee of the Kansas Legislature by a cowardly secret ballot.

Other controversial issues such as Sunday closing: and liquor-by-the-drink have been dealt with in the same manner. To those who oppose a fair housing law or Sunday closing legislation, the secret vote is acceptable. But it shouldn't be regardless of how we feel about the particular legislation or whether or not the proposed measure is a worthy one. Our representatives in Topeka need to stand up and be counted on these issues. While they have the prerogative to vote as they deem best for this state, they also have an obligation to Kansas citizens to let them know how they voted.

But perhaps this is expecting too much. Ours is fast becoming a society of adult pansies, who, for various reasons, want to be liked by all. Some may be cultivating votes, others want to protect their business, and still others want to sell themselves as well as their product. The result is apathy. It turns religion, which should be a dynamic force, into a mild sedative.

It takes the representation out a representative government. It makes mice of men. It's great to have friends. But it's far greater to have respect both of self and from others. d.

k. YOUNG FELLOW out in our neighborhood says he had a heck of a time convincing his bride that it wasn't unpatriotic to stay away from the George Washington Day clearance sales. HAVING THE wash water drain out oh the kitchen floor may not do much for a woman's disposition but it surely helj)s get some far corners scrubbed out. IT WAS FROM the column written by Ann Landers' sister, Abby, that we learned that a well known foundation manufacturer calls its padded girdles "the Living End." IN A NEARBY CITY, the newspaper advertised an "over 28" dance. Is that called separating the men from the boys? WE READ this week that two new names at Hollywood night places are Joni Carson and Josie Bishop.

They are ecdysiasts. (We've had that word here before. Remember? An ecdysiast is a stripper.) ON THE SUBJECT of dancing and performers, many local folks in the "over 28" set are renewing or obtaining Community Concert memberships because of the booking of Guy Lombardo. "Lots of memories there," mused one of the sentimental journey crowd. WE HAVE AN anonymous communication from a reader who says "Now that your typing is electrified, how about some shocking items?" NOT.

Our life is so insulated. THERE IS A current rumor, albout a mother who was so mad at modern math she burned her PTA membership card. Hal Boyle Says: Advice to a Leap Year Loser Whining? Of Course We're Winning! But-Say, We'll a Few Thousand More Troops and a Few Billion More Dollars to Get Back in the. Game" Draw PftartQn Reports: Landing at Khe Sanh Is Perilous, Fast Operation NEW YORK (AP) Dear Pavement Plato: So far I am a Leap Year loser. I have a target Melvin, tho bachelor of my choice.

I feel he loves me. This week twice in a row at Indian hand he deliberately let me beat him wrestling, and last summer when our crowd went on picnics I was the only girl he'd let help him look for four-leaf clovers. But when I speak of marriage, Melvin just gets a faraway look and pretends he doesn't know what I am talking about. What can I do to win him as a husband? Rosemary for Remembrance Dear Rosemary: To begin with, don't lose your cool. There are a lot of girls in your plight, each of whom believes that just because this is Leap Year s.ho'11 be able to sweep her own particular Melvin off his feet.

A majority of them will probably miss their goal because of one Since they.realize that there is a 366-day open season on them this year, any other hunted doubly shy. Before you can. catch Melvin you first must court him. Hew should a modern girl go about courting a modern bachelor? The same way that porcupines court- -cautiously. Don't pounce on him as if he were a mouse.

Creep up on him as if he were a mouse. Worm your into Melvin's life gradually until he will finally decide himself that you are to his happiness. As most bachelors today are coking for security above ev- erything else, do everything in your power to bolster Melviu's self-confidence. If you go bowling or play pool together, let him win two times out of three, even though you have to play left-handed to do so. Don't take him to your apartment to show him how well you can cook.

Every bachelor prides himself on his culinary skill. Let him take you to his apartment and rustle up a meal. No matter how it tastes, praise every bitter bite. No man wants to spend his life with a woman who doesn't appreciate his cooking. Assist him in every possible way.

Sew on a button for him now and then. Help him write letters to his congressman or his draft 'board. When you find Melvin turns to you in every emergency, it is time to wind up the campaign. Do it in style. Have him over to your apartment end again let him cook the meal.

Ply him afterward with champagne, cuddle next to him on the love seat and tell him you're doing so well on the job that you soon expect to be named the first lady vice president in the history of your firm. Then open your bank book, let him have a good long look at it and say: "Melvin, dear why don't you help me spend this forever and ever and ever and ever?" One last tip: When you leave for Niagara Falls on your honeymoon, you pay for the tickets. A mature musk ox weighs almost hall a ton. DA NANG Sgt James Milonas's instructions were terse. "We'll be on the ground at Khe Sanh less than two minutes," he said.

"As soon as the cargo is dumped, pile out of the plane and run like hell for the nearest bunker." Our C-123 assault transport was loaded with anti-tank ammo for beleaguered Khe Sanh, which the North Vietnamese hope to turn into an American Dien Bien Phu. The ammunition was packed in boxes, which were lashed to a roller bed. After we hit the runway at Khe Sanh, the rear ramp would be lowered, and the load would roll out the tail as we taxied down the field. The deplaning passengers were suppose to follow After the cargo on the double. The reason for the haste was that communist mortars, artillery and rockets were zeroed in on the air strip.

As long as our giant transport plane remained on the strip it would be a dead duck in a communist shooting gallery. The record turn-around for unloading a plane at Khe Sanh, Sergeant Milonas said, had been 43 seconds. No transport plane, however, stayed on the ground longer than two minutes. Even that was long enough for most planes to pick up shrapnel. Two had even been destroyed on the runway.

The rain forests on the lower slopes around Khe Sanh are teeming with North Vietnamese. Their exact strength and location are hidden beneath a canopy of dense green foliage. Weeks ago they overran the small village of Khe Sanh. But the Marines still hold the highlands. Their main bastion forms an irregular rectangle about one mile long and half a mile wide on a shell-pocked plateau.

The Marines also occupy the mountaintops hills 861, 881, and 950 looking down on the plateau. These heights dominate one of the main infiltration routes into South Vietnam. The Marines, more accustomed to assault than defense, have been ordered to cling to the high ground. Anxiously, the Joint Chiefs in Washington have asked Gen. William Westmoreland in Saigon whether he can hold the Khe Sanh bastion against the massing North Vietnamese.

The Pentagon brass have suggested it might be better to pull back, thus upsetting meticulously rigid enemy planning that is characteristic of the North Vietnamese. Westmoreland assured the Joint Chiefs that he welcomed a showdown with Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the conqueror of Dien Bien Pbu, now the enemy commander at Khe Sanh. Marine officers told me that any defensive position, including Khe Sanh, can be if enough manpower and firepower are thrown into the battle. However, they promised that the Marines would make the North Vietnamese pay terribly for every foot of ground they take.

Meanwhile, our plane was winging toward the airstrip which has become the lifeline of Khe Sanh. Inside our cavernous C-123 the shriek of the twin motors was deafening. Communication was restricted to lip reading and pantomime. As we neared the mountain stronghold, the grizzled Milonas offered almost inaudible advice about the bunkers where we were to seek shelter. He couldn't give their exact location.

As load master, he had always been too occupid disgorging the cargo to take inventory of the human If the mortar rounds started falling too fast and close, however, he suggested the most convenient refuge might be drainage pipe alongside the airstrip. Sgt John Evans, the crew chief, finally signalled that we were over Khe Sanh, I strained for a glimpse, but the ground was blotted out by a thick, white cloud bank. Evans swooped his hand in a downward glide to indicate that we were descending. I buckled up my steel-plated flak jacket and clamped on the heavy steel helmet. But no opening appeared in the white vapor that had swallowed vs.

Evans rotated his finger hi the air; we would circle for for awhile. For nearly two hours, we circled over Khe Sanh, watching for a break in the fog. Once we dipped dangerously near the mountaintop level. But Evans formed a circle with his thumb and forefinger it was ceiling zero. At last the aircraft commander, Capt.

Carvel Harley, a heavy, hooknosed man, reached for a cardboard computer. He twirled the dials and eluded that the gas was running low. Back to Da Nang we flew. The weather forecast for Khe Sanh was heavy overcast for the next three days. It was the kind of weather the enemy likes.

Cpl, Harry Johnson of East Jacksonville. has hit upon a unique scheme for defusing Viet Cong booby traps around the Quang Tri Marine Base. He has offered the local Vietnamese boys a trade of C-rations for explosives. Result: they have rustled up explosives that the Viet Cong had planted or intended to plant South Korean Marines, who have turned out to be some of the toughest fighters in Vietnam, are having trouble getting air and artillery support. Radio operators and helicopter pilots were suspicious of the oriental accent of the South Koreans.

They feared Viet Cong agents trying to spring a trap. To solve the problem, the Korean and U.S Marines here have set up gun fire laison companies. Americans with acceptable accents now accompany the Koreans into action The press camp at Da Nang was on red alert during my second night here. Intelliegence agents had picked up a report that the Viet Cong were planning an attack in the vicinity of the press only attack came from mosqmtoes My biggest surprise has been the weather. Here in monsoon country it is cool during the day and nippy at night.

I had thought South Vietnam was always steaming hot. The George Washington won a war, married a rich widow and had the nation's capital named after him but, ironically, he's best remembered for having staged the first chop-in. In those early days there weren't many ways for juveniles to express themselves because picketing had not yet been invented. Washington's portrait is famous today as the one that calls for one-cent postage due. Garden City Telegram Published Daily Emopt SuMay rV.

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