The Holland Evening Sentinel from Holland, Michigan • Page 13

Republicans Didn't Fallow Up Lapses of Security By Lyle Wilson United Press International The national security aspect of the personal tragedy that overwhelmed presidential assistant Waiter W. Jenkins should remind Republican campaigners that they have been slow to follow up on alleged security lapses in the State Department. The story of these lapses is filed in U.S. newspaper offices under the name of Otto F. Otepka.

Otepka was chief of the evaluation division in the State Department's Office of Security. Secretary of State Dean Rusk ordered Otepka fired in 1963 for a variety of reasons but for a well-identified specific cause. The cause: Otepka had leaked to the U.S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee his fears that securtiy precautions in the State Department were going to pot. Otepka believed the State Department was going to pot.

Otepka believed the State Department was taking on persons for sensitive jobs without adequate or any security check. Otepka believed there was evidence of derogatory information against some of these em- ployes with access to sensitive areas. He wanted to tighten security checks. In tihe process of Otepka's rebellion against what he regarded as the lax security proceedings in the department as presided over by Rusk, Otepka passed information to the Senate subcommittee. On one or more occasions Otepka prepared questions for the committee counsel to ask Otepka's immediate superior when the latter testified.

Such won Otepka enemies in the State Depart- itiervt. He was proving himself to be a difficult fellow. So the Otepka case is all snarled up in numerous questions. One of them is whether a department can function with employes who are disloyal to the boss. Another question is whether loyalty to country can overshadow loyalty to a job and warrant an employe in leaking department secrets to a congressional committee.

Another question is whether State Department security procedures did go -to pot, as Otep- ka alleges, and whether the situation has gotten worse, been corrected or, whether it even has been noted ait all by the department brass. This is a question in which American citizens have the most urgent interest. The Republicans were hollering last summer about the Otepka case but it slipped away Allendale Those attending the Wesleyan Missionary Convention of zone 4 which was held in the Methodist Church of Clarksville last Tuesday were, Mrs. Leslie Taylor, Mrs. Theodore Wai wood, Mrs.

Don Stevens; Mrs. Lyle Stevens, Mrs. David Stevens, Mrs. Arnold Eaton, Mrs. Harold Sheridan, Mrs.

Darrell Sheridan, Mrs Howard McMullen and the Rev. and Mrs. Carl Coffey. Prayer services were held at F'irst i i a Reformed church on Wednesday evening. Gerrit Brower gave the prayer for the nation; Matthew Rozema for the world and the Rev.

F. Huizenga gave the prayer the church. Mrs. Nick Rozema has returned from Wyoming and is now staying with Mrs. John Gemmen.

A neighborhood coffee was given by Mrs. Gerome Visser recently. Jack Hoekstra, Warren Walcott and Bob Aldrink left Saturday for a sight seeing trip to California. Mrs. Ben Bosch, Mrs.

F. Huizenga, Mrs. Henry Aldrink Mrs. Herman Broene and Mrs. Cornell Gemmen called on the inmates of the Lament Rest Home last Tuesday.

A short program consisting of scripture reading poems, singing of several hymns and prayer was given. Dorcas Society was sponsor. The a Methodist Church Missionary society held their semi annual family night recently with a potluck dinner. Slides were shown of New Guinea during the evening. Mr.

and Mrs. Roger Marsman and family spent a few days in the Missaukee area returning on Saturday. from them as did so many other issues. About a year ago Sen. Thomas J.

Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, defended Otepka simply because he had testified honestly before the Senate subcommittee. Dodd recounted the department's campaign to get Otepka. They began to restrict Otep- ta's functions, Dodd said. They apped his telephone and began monitor his waste paper basket. Finally they locked Otepka out of his office, denied him access to his own files.

And Dodd added this barbed observation: "No one suspected of espionage or disloyalty has to my knowledge been subjected to such surveillance and humiliation. But Mr. Otepka was not suspected of disloyalty or espionage. He was suspected very imply of cooperating with the Senate subcommittee and of providing it with information that some of his superiors found embarrassing or objec tionable." Rusk Marvin H. Vanden Bosch submitted to surgery Friday morning at the Zeeland Hospital.

The Ladies Aid win have their annual sale on Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. in the church basement. Mrs. Clarence De Vries and Mrs.

Peter Wassenaar visited the sick and shut-ins from the congregation during the a week. Senior Seminarian John H. Boer was in charge of the worship services Sunday. Rev. Haan, pastor of the Rusk Christian Reformed Church, became ill and is unable to assume his pastoral work at Rusk.

Beginning Sunday the second Sunday worship service will be held in the afternoon at 2. On Friday evening Oct. 23, Ann Bice daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cleavs Gaskin of Nunica became the bride of Frank Allen Wiersma son of Mr.

a Mrs. Herman Wiersma. The double ring ceremony was performed at 7:45 by the Rev. Raymond Haan at the Rusk parsonage. A reception for the couple was held at the brides home following the ceremony.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wiersma will make their home in Zee- I land after a wedding trip to the I Smoky Mountains. Mr. and Mrs.

John Hirdes from North Blendon visited at the home of Mrs. Henry Martinie and Ron on Sunday evening. They also attended the evening worship services. Mrs. Harm Knoper, Evert Holstege and Mrs.

Peter Jeuiink visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Zerrip of Niekerk on Sunday afternoon. The Zeerips are both in ill health. Mr.

and Mrs. Marvin Bosch and family from Sunrise Holland, were Sunday evening guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gelmer Boetsma. Mrs.

Nancy Harper from Belmont spent the weekend with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Kuyers. Mr. and Mrs.

Stanley Harsevoort and sons were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Bruins and family from'North Blendon Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs.

William Niemeyer and family from Borculo visited the Harsevoorts. Cats, cattle, swine and horses, as well as dogs, have been known to suffer from rabies. Lodge Road To Be Opened LANSING (UPD-The final miles of the John C. Lodge Freeway will be opened in Detroit Thursday, pushing Michigan's freeway mileage past the 1,200 mark, the State Highway Department announced. Completion of the section of the Lodge Freeway will enable motorists to travel from the heart of Detroit's civic center area to Lake Michigan, or to the north-south U.S.-23 Freeway near Brighton, or to the Mackinac Bridge without a single stop except for gas.

The latest addition to Detroit's expanding highway network will bring the city's freeway mileage to 39 miles complete and open to traffic, according to State Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie. The $8,868,467 Lodge section extends from Greenfield Road, just south of Eight Mile Road in Detroit, north to near Nine Mile Road in the City of Southfield. The opening also signals completion of the 14-mile long, $44 million Southfiehl Freeway from its terminus at 1-94 (Edsel Ford Freeway) north to the Lodge- Nine Mile Road-Southfield Exchange. Work on the Lodge extension began four years ago.

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