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In either event, the cause of sound constitutional revision would have been poorly served. WITH LEGISLATIVE LEADERS now apparently agreeing with the Governor that this whole problem should be remitted to the regular session in January, some organized effort should be made to prepare for responsible action then. If the problem is simply put on the shelf until the legislators assemble in Charleston in January, the danger is that it will then get caught up in the confusions of budget-making with no better results than were achieved last winter. Under more favorable circumstances, an effort might be made to have the Legislature itself submit a limited package of con'stitutional amendments for a vote at the 1966 November general election a procedure favored by many longtime advocates of constitutional reform. But there is now so little agreement on what such a- package should contain that perhaps the better road to take is via the convention route provided the basis for a convention is properly laid.

WHEN AND IF THE PEOPLE are offered a chance to say whether they want a convention, their favorable response will depend to a considerable degree on what assurances can be given that only basic changes will be urged with no disturbance to those constitutional "protections" upon which they have come to put great reliance. Unfortunately we do not know who can give such assurances. They will have to come, we suppose, from the debates for and against calling a convention. Such debates should make it factually clear that a constitutional convention does not have to draft an entirely new document; it could limit itself to the same authority the Legislature has to submit specific amendments. Also more stress should be placed upon the present constitutional requirement that every proposal submitted by a convention must be put to a vote by the people, who will be free to take as many or as few of these proposals as they desire.

The Morgantown Post Record Remains Cloudy Developments in the war in Viet Nam and the India-Pakistan clash relegated the conflict in the Dominican Republic to the background during recent weeks. But the situation was brought back into prominence during the weekend when former Dominican President Juan Bosch returned to Santo Domingo. On his arrival, Bosch said he would demand that the United States pay the island republic SI billion compensation for acts which saw the U. S. use its troops to intervene in the Dominican rebellion.

Bosch also denounced statements by President Johnson and others that the rebellion was controlled by Communists. "The Dominican Communists themselves know that it was not and never was in the hands of the Communists," Bosch contended. The object of the rebel leaders was to bring Bosch back to power and his denunciation of the U. S. and other members of the Organization of American States who supported the U.

S. must be considered with this in mind. Nevertheless, the claims oj Bosch are a further reminder that the people of the United States still have not been given the full facts on just exactly what did happen during the summer in the Dominican Republic. MY ANSWER QUESTION: I want to see a sign from God to make me believe, but it has failed to show. C.T.S.

ANSWER: Jesus said. "A wicked and a perverse generation seek for a sign." The way of God is a way of faith. The Bible says. ''Without faith it is impossible to please If God revealed himself as some people would like for Him to be revealed, by irrefutable miracles, by signs in the sky. by mysterious visions, and in all sorts of fantastic ways, faith would not be needed.

The Bible says. "We are justified by faith." If God had given us any other condition for salvation, many would be ruled out. If He had said, "To every one that received a sign, they shall be saved." many would be ruled out. If He had said. "Everyone who is kind and generous by nature will be many would be ruled oui.

If He had said, "'Every one who is easily moved many be ruled out. But He said. "Without faith it is impossible to please We can believe what we will. We can believe if we will. We can believe in Christ, if we will.

Don't wait for a sign-it will probably never come, and if it does, it won't save you. Yesterday And Today- Nicholas County Site Of Famed Murders natives. BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. MONDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 19C5 Top 0' The Morning 'Coach' Reveals All In Taut Interview By DONALD F. FANiNIN Good morning.

This is Harry Horvath bringing you today's edition of the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air. Our guest today is Coach Rip Snortt of that great South State University team we saw in action for the first time last Saturday. Coach Snortt is going to analyze the fantastic play by his untried and untested chargers that brought about a thrilling 98 to 2 victory for good old SSU over a staunch Northeastern Tech eleven. Now, we'll return with more of the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air after this important message, (commercial) Hiya, fans! Here we are again with the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air and our guest today is Coach Rip Snortt of good old South State University. As you recall, the outmanned SSU squad brought home the old bacon in its first outing of the season last Saturday 98 to 2 over Northeastern Tech and Coach Snortt is going to fill us in on how it all came about.

We'll get to the coach for that first big question right after this important announcement. (commercial) And here we are again, right back on. the old Harry Horvath Sports Show of the air where we're giving a real old grilling this morning to that good sport, Coach Rip Snortt of your favorite school and mine, South State University. Coach Snortt is on the edge of the old Harry Horvath Sports Show the Air "Hot Seat" today to tell us all about good old SSU's battling, 98 to 2, opening game victory over Northeastern Tech Saturday. We're going to give good old Coach Snortt both barrels right after this very important message.

(commercial) Well, fans, this is the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air again. And I can tell you that good old Coach Rip Snortt of South State University is really squirming on the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air "Hot Seat" today. He's giving all you fans the real scoop on that dramatic 98 to 2 victory his gritty grid men ground out over Northeastern Tech last Saturday. Now, we don't want the genial, ever-popular Coach Snortt to give away all the SSU secrets especially in view of this Saturday's big test against T. C.

Tech but we do want the lowdown on last week's opening game strategy. And that's what we'll get here on the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air right after this special word, (commercial) And a hearty hello once more to all of you loyal fans of South State University and the always exciting Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air. I'm your host, Harry Horvath, and with me this morning is the crafty Rip Snortt, 23-year veteran SSU coach. Coach Snortt is in his usual spot on the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air "Hot Seat" today and he's giving us the inside dope on SSU's thrilling 98 to 2 conquest of Northeastern Tech last Saturday. The hard-fought battle forced Coach Snortt and his squad to summon forth that extra effort and I know you're as eager as I am to move along now to Coach Snortt's learned analysis of the turning point of Saturday's big encounter.

We'll let the coach wrestle with the answer to that toughie while we pause briefly for this important announcement. (commercial) Well, fans, it looks as though time Is about up for this edition of the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air. But we want to extend our humble thanks once more to the always surprising Coach Rip Snortt of good old South State University, our guest this morning on the Harry Horvath Sports Show of the Air "Hot Seat." Now, this is Harry Horvath, saying so long until the next time when we'll be back with more exciting interviews and glimpses into that big, big world of sports. Top of the morning. By SHIRLEY DONNELLY Discussion of Nicholas County would not be complete without reference to the days when Indians roamed the range.

In Nicholas occurred one of the last killings of white people by Indians in West Virginia On U. S. 19 at Lockwood, the historic marker states, of Massacre, 1792, of daughters of Henry Morris, early settler and son of first permanent settler of Great Kanawha Valley. Graves of Henry Morris and the Indian victims may be seen from the road." Nicholas county was traversed by the Indians over what was called the Pocahontas trail from the Greenbrier Valley into the vs-lcy of the Great Kanawha. On the courthouse grounds at Summersville stands an imDOs- ing monument to the Morris children.

The inscription reads: "Morris. Betsy, aged 14. Peggy, 12, Killed by Indians, 1792." Theirs is the first grave of white people in Nicholas County, which was settled about 1785. Summersville was established in 1820 and made the county seat of the then two-year-old county. On Dec.

1, 1792, year the two Morris girls were killed, their paternal grandfather, William Morris died in Kanawha. THE FULL NAMES of -the two Morris girls were Margaret and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was 14 and Margaret was about 12 when they were slain in May of 1792. Their father had "tomahawk title" to 600 acres of land on Peters Creek at the mouth of Line Creek. Where the Morris cabin stood, the path to the spring that 'furnished water to the family could still be traced until a few years ago.

The day the children were killed their father was out hunting. He had killed young bear and cut the animals up to feed it to his dogs. In a short while, the dogs came to their master with their bristles up, evidence that they had scented Indians. Since the day was far spent, Morris headed toward home because it soon would, be milking time. WHEN MORRIS REACHED home he put away his gun and went to the spring to get a fresh bucket of water.

Mrs. Morris asked her husband if he deemed it wise to let the two girls go to hunt the cows. In those days cows and other catile were turned out to browse like deer. Morris thought it was all and the girls left to search for the cows, going by way of the cabin of their neighbor, Conrad Young. No sooner were they out of sight until their screams were heard.

Morris grabbed his gun and went in the direction of the girls. A short distance away he came upon Peggy. She had been tomahawked and scalped. She managed to tell her father that, "A yellow man killed me!" Morris took the girl home and soon she died. Hurrying along to find Betsy, her body was soon located.

She had been scalped and tossed into a thicket of underbrush. Both children were buried in one grave in a hastily-constructed coffin, hence the "Double Grave" referred to by Nicholas SOME OF THE MEN of the area gathered to trail the savages but the Indians eluded them. Where Peggy was killed, Morris planted an apple tree, calling it the "Peggy Apple." For years the settlers obtained grafts from the tree and preserved the sad story. Where the girls were buried there was set out a flowering dogwood. It lived to great age.

Much speculation arose as the identity of the savage who killed the girls. Their father contended it was a Simon Girty. The story was that a stranger had appeared at the Morris cabin one fall and spent the winter with the family. HE HUNTED THAT winter with Morris. In the spring, so the story goes, Morris went down to Fort Clendennin, now Charleston.

There he told of his winter guest and described him. One who knew Simon Girty said the description fitted the "renegade, adding that Girty had a scar on his forehead which he kept covered with his forelock. On returning home, Morris accused the man of being Girty and ordered him away when he saw the forehead scar. i made the man angry, but he left, all the time denying he was Girty. Later the man returned and tried to take one of the family's dogs.

However, the girls held the dog. As he left again, the man threatened to kill the girls. Some years later, a drunk Indian showed up at Fort Clendennin with two red-haired scalps, believed to be those of the Morris girls. Legend holds that Morris followed the Indian and killed him. Jack Anderson-Draft Plan Becoming National Scandal Editor's Note: Drew Pearson is in Africa.

His column is written today by his associate, Jack Anderson. WASHINGTON-The need for patriotic young men to fight in Viet Nam has produced a rush, not to the recruiting centers" but in the opposite direction. Never have so many American boys tried so many ruses to get out of serving their country. Though no precise figures have been compiled. Selective Service oTfi- cials suspect that a i i worse now than at any time since the Civil War.

Not only are more men neglecting lo register, ignoring official correspondence, refusing to for their physicals, and tearing up their draft cards, but the threat of military service has scared thousands into premature marriages, unplanned schooling, and unwanted jobs. Congressmen have been bombarding local boards with requests for deferments. Prominent people have brought pressure on the boards to excmnt their sons. Employers have claimed that the most unlikely young workers are essential to the home front. Men of draft age, 19 to 26, simply don't seem to understand the necessity for manning the frontiers of freedom half a world away.

The Viet Nam War is either too remote or too abstruse to arouse their patriotism. Those who ask what they can do for their country often seek the answer ontisde of the armed forces. Those who must put on a uniform are more pitied than praised. service. The call probably will be increased in November and December.

The first married men wilhout children will be ordered to duty after Christmas. Selective Service will continue to defer college students, though some attending part time or making poor grades may be inducted. Medical standards for draftees may also be lowered in the months ahead. Yet only four out of ten militarily eligible youths are likely to be put into uniform, which means over half will escape service. This is bound to produce quizotic standards a cause injustices.

Selective Service operates somewhat like Russian roulette. As a young man stands on the threshold of his future, Uncle Sam hands him a revolver. Five chambers are marked "deferred." the sixth is loaded with a draft call. He spins the cylinder and takes his chance. YET THE ARMY, Navy.

Air Force and Marine Corps are demanding more men to keep South Viet Nam from falling to the Communists. Next month, 33,600 draftees will be pressed into THERE ARE MANY ways (o beat the draft; the ruses range from deliberately flunking tests to "instant" fatherhood. People with masters 1 degrees have miraculously failed their educational A more than one illegitimate child has been given a name because his father sought to duck the draft. A few desperate draft dodgers feeling the hot breath of the local board on their necks, have actually contrived to get arrested for minor crimes in order to be found morally unfit. The most common grounds for exemption are physical or mental unfitness.

Next are deferments for dependency. Then come school and job deferments. Comparatively few youths take their chances on violating the Selective Sen-ice laws outright, but the number is increasing at an alarming rate. Worst problem: 18-year-olds who fail to register. The local boards simply have no way of discovering a boy has turned 18 and hasn't registered, unless someone turns him in.

It is risky, however, to pull a fast one on Uncle Sam. Those who try it usually get caught. They are subject to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. But more often, their names are merely put at the head of the list, and they are the first to be hustled off to boot camp. Meanr.hile, the inequities in our Selective Service system and the failure to convince young people of their patriotic duty are creating a generation of draft dodgers.

DESPITE THE PUBLIC out cry over the lavish spending on the Sam Rayburn Building, House leaders have ordered a complete overhaul of the Clarence Cannon Building, oldest of the three House office buildings, beginning in November. They secretly plan to make it the most luxurious quarters of all. Almost certainly, this will reverse the great exodus of senior congressmen, who were lured from their old offices by the glitter of the Rayburn building. Like prodigal sons, they are expected to return after the renovations and to exercise their seniority to get their old offices back. This game of "musical offices," switching back and forth, will cost the taxpayers a small fortune apart from the elaborate and expensive renovations.

Sen. Phil Hart, will introduce legislation today to prevent doctors from peddling drugs, eye glasses, and other medical products on the He will point out that doctors who fill their own prescriptions may be tempted to think more of the profits than of their patients. Hart will also blast the American Medical Association for failing to police its own profession. The Army has swept under the secrecy label a great train scandal. Spurning competitive bids, the Army purchased 10 Plymouth locomotives for use in Thailand.

These developed so much trouble that only one could ever be put in services. So the Army simply scrapped Andrew Tully-Larcenists Seek Share Of Poverty War Cash WASHINGTON Hopefully, Uncle Sam has found a way to cause the nation's crooked storekeepers to toss fitfully in their beds. It is a Washington pilot project of the Federal Trade Commission called the Consumer Complaint Office, aimed at larcenous merchants who exploit the poor. The local office was set up last July 19, a adready more than 100 1 a ints have been received fr i i zens not named Rockefeller who have been victimized by fast-Talking gypsters peddling television sets, refrigerators, and the like. If the situation here reflects conditions nationwide and it probably does then the FTC shouM set up branch offices in every sizeable community as an adjunct to the poverty program.

IN WASHINGTON, the FTC has found that the crooks get around the usury laws by jacking up the base price of a piece of merchandise. Thus, in one case a couple paid $395, plus $108 in carrying charges, for a television set with a manufacturer's suggested retail list price of $115.94. Another customer bought a $415 freezer for $875. Since the poor often are illiterate to the point of ignorance, these gypsters also find an ally in contractual fine print. Several complainants noted that they had signed contracts for substantial purchases under the impression they were merely filling out a credit application.

Remodeling companies frequently have warned home owners that their homes will be torn down as part of an urban renewal program unless they are renovated. Then the owner is persuaded to sign a remodeling contract, sometimes under the impression he is merely ordering a survey of the needed repairs. THE LOCAL OFFICE was set up as the result of some shrewd investigating by Esther Peterson, special assistant to President Johnson for consumer affairs. Mrs. Peterson got to SeQ Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Com' merce Committee, and Magnuson demanded that the FTC get cracking.

The FTC arranged a liaison with the Neighborhood Legal Services project of the poverty program's United Planning Organization to establish a pipeline with the poor. As always, the poor are exploited because they are relatively unsophisticated and because their weak credit standing leads them to deal with the more unscrupulous stores. J. Robert Vendel, attorney in charge of the new FTC office, says it's "fantastic" the way the poor are being defrauded. "I AM ASTONISHED at of the tricks being played on these gullible people," says Vendel.

"I've been with the FTC 28 years, and I thought I had heard everything until I was assigned to this office." He hadn't, of course. One of the major weaknesses of the poverty program is the eagerness of the mercantile shyster to dip into the billions of taxpayers' dollars being poured into the program. This thief was always with us, but today he has a new golden goose to carve. It is nice to know that Mrs. Peterson has interested herself in the because only a female can strike the proper amount of terror in a shopkeeper's concrete heart.

Hal Humphrey-CBS, NBC May Have Aided Cause Of KKK HOLLYWoOD-The Ku Kiux Klan is getting almost as much exposure currently on television as Frank Sinatra and his clan, and neither organization really needs it. Sinatra is richer and more famous a ever, and the a (the Sputh's, Sinatra's) is branching out into Ohio and California with New Klaverns a chapters). Most of these television plugs for Sinatra and the KKK are, ironically, the result of feuding between CBS and NBC. When CBS learned that Sinatra was to sing and cut up on NBC's new "Dean Martin Show," it decided to make its first "Thursday Night Movie" a Sinatra production, "Manchurian Candidate." But NBC got even. On the Huntley-Brinkley news a week ago last Friday night, NBC's Richard.

Valerian! did the first of three brief segments on the KKK to beat out the "CBS Reports" full hour, "KKK-The Invisible Empire," aired last Tuesday night. AN NBC SPOKESMAN said with a straight face that opening up the KKK can of peas on Huntley-Brinkley (the third one fell last Tuesday, also) was just one of those happy coincidences. When I mentioned this to a CBS warrior, he let fly with an ungentlemanly expletive and added that NBC was doing this just to get back at CBS News president, Fred Friendly, who had said some unkind things publicly about NBC's recent and protracted coverage of the Gemini 5 space flight. Personally, I wish CBS and NBC could have settled their differences without throwing either the Klan or Sinatra at each other. A little of each goes a long way, and as mentioned earlier, both are doing very well without the impetus of all this extra television exposure.

DAVID LOWE, writer-pro ducer of the Klan documentarv on "CBS Reports," says that James Venafale. the Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the KKK, was not only happy to be interviewed but has asked Lowe for a print of the program. Venable even wanted to know if CBS would put on some spot commercials to plug the show. "Of course he hadn't seen the film, so he didn't know all of the things said in it about the 7 said Lowe, implying that Imperial Wizard Venable would discover it wasn't the kind of film he could use for recruitment purposes, as he no doubt intended. But I am not so sure that the "CBS Reports" on the Klan hasn't turnnl out to be a genuine plug for it.

Naturally CBS had men like Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and publisher Ralph McGill appearing to deplore the Klan and all it stands for, but people who will join the Klan know that such men are their sworn enemies the 10 Plymouth engines and ordered 10 General Electric locomotives, again not bothering to seek the lowest bidder. Upon inquiry, this column was told the whole deal was a deep, dark military secret. anyway. Meanwhile, the panoply of picnics, burning crosses, and hooded Klansmen at a secret initiation shown on the film will better serve the Klan as a recruitment film than any their limited funds and knowledge might produce--and it gets nation-wide distribution on a niajor television network. THIS, IN MY OPINION, is a case wherein the objectivity so cherished by newsmen of radio, and television has best served the very adversary whom producer Lowe and CBS believe they are exposing to 'a scrutinizing light of truth.

"People have to have knowledge of something like this to know if they are against it," said Lowe. A noble sentiment, but I preferred the manner in which the late Edward R. Murrow presented these documentaries when he was at CBS. After the knowledge was presented, Murrow Jet you know where he stood and why. A lot of knowledge doesn't do some people much good without some directions as to how to digest it.

CBS News, incidentally, is also preparing a documentary on Frank Sinatra and his life and Sood times, a film which probably will recruit as many mixed-up kids to the swinging today hil as its AivK. documentary will recruit to wearing bed sheets. Our Readers Speak-Save Money By Honesty 1 want to say that I read your Beckley Post-Herald every TM; and, what I like, you print both sides of the issue. I know many people who live incomes. Whv es? igger and better tax would for better lw this to say: "You the People, are the voice of eoorf and honest government." counted for what you Edward (Eddie) Cales Hmton You're Telling Me! WILLIAM RITT Com cs spare blanket.

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