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Ministers attending tne 14th annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization in Bangkok agreed that the continuation of SEATO is essential for the peace and security of the region, "but just barely. Several weaknesses are in need, of correction if the organization is to satisfy the purpose for which it was created. One of the members, Pakistan, remained aloof from even the mild com- munique issued at the end of the meeting. France, another member, refused to participate at all. The meeting seemed to consist largely of ignoring the questions on a majority of the minds present.

Would the United States be prepared to defend Asia again after the Vietnam war ends? Can the other members have a larger say over U. policy matters in SEATO? Will the U. S. retain large numbers of troops in Thailand after the Vietnam ceasefire? Until the Vietnam war has come to a conclusion, perhaps the future of SEATO will remain clouded, but if the ministers want the organization to continue, they must learn to communicate. Issuing a statement which says merely that SEATO should be continued, but which leaves unanswered all the questions concerning the members, does not buttress confidence in its future.

Will Paper Bury Us? To those who measure the degree of progress of a civilization by the amount of paper it consumes and there are some who apparently measure industrialization by this yardstick the United States would win any contest handily. We sometimes wonder if the nation is not about to strangle itself in its own paper forms and records so called 'red tape'. An estimate of the American Paper Institute is that U. S. per capita consumption of paper last year was 536 pounds, up 100 pounds in the last nine years.

By comparison, the magazine Pulp and Paper has estimated the consumption of Japan at 194 pounds, Britain at 258, Canada at 348 and Russia at 52. In the United States, the paper problem has become acute. It is threatening to disrupt the postal system, banks, industry, Wall Street and even the individual billpayer. Paper usage may be a measure of something, but is it progress? Next Step: Man On Moon The success achieved thus far confirms the basic soundness of the mother ship-lunar module idea which, prior to the Apollo series, seemed to many to be too fantastic to be taken seriously. The dual concept has proved out to within the final test.

That will be to determine whether the lunar module can survive a landing with men and equipment sufficiently unimpaired to make a return takeoff. If all continues to go well, that will be the mission of Apollo 11 in July. Each accomplishment in space produces tribute to the technological genius that has been achieved. Amazing results have been achieved by the design engineers, the fabricators of instruments at once tinier and more durable than any ever produced, the astronauts, and then- colleagues at space headquarters. Inflation Hits Everyone Inflation, it is popularly thought, hurts the poor more than the affluent.

Not so, say two University of Wisconsin economists. It is the non-poor who pay the heaviest share of the "tax of inflation." Robinson G. Hollister and John L. Palmer base their surprising thesis on two points. First, their studies indicate the income of the poor tends to rise relatively faster than that of the non poor in times of inflation, and there are more jobs available.

Secondly, a "poor price index" they have devised indicates things for which the poor spend money go up in price more slowly than the general price index. This is an interesting theory, but one not likely to bring comfort to anyone regardless of his economic status. Inflation hurts everybody, rich or poor. Top 0'The Morning Big Beckley Booster In Moundsville By EMILE J. HODEL This past weekend we received a letter which is something of a delight.

It's a kind of letter that we would love to see coming in all the time the more the merrier, so to speak! The welcome epistle came from Robert B. Hunnell of Moundsville, which is home territory for our governor, Arch A. Moore Jr. For those of you who have not investigated the other areas of the Mountain State as well as you should have, Moundsville is a city of some 16,000 to 17,000 people along the Ohio River. It is the county seat of Marshall County, which forms the base of our Northern Panhandle and is about half the area of Raleigh County, yet is at least twice as big as any of the other panhandle counties that lie between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Marshall County has a population of just over 38,000. HunnelTs letter was merely addressed to the Beckley Post-Herald. It went like this: "Genjlemen: "Beckley! Beckley! Beckley' Man, what a place it must be! "You know, we have a few of your good people working up here in Moundsville, men like James L. Dodson. And let me say this, he is without a doubt the best 'Good will Ambassador' for Beckley who ever left that place.

"I understand that he is up here just temporarily. But he sure is proud of his Beckley. And, you know something else, he just about has me convinced that Beckley is the garden spot of the world! "Now he has started pushing 'Honey in the "I just wanted you to know he even brings the Beckley Post-Herald to us, which we will have to agree is a very outstanding paper. "All told, I believe we could all take a lesson from this fellow, James Dodson. When you speak of your home town, tell 'em about all those thousands of good things about that 'home If nothing else, the fellow you're telling will believe one thing, and that's 'what a fine guy he is to be saying "Highest regards for Beckley." The letter was signed, Bob Hunnell, manager of G.

C. Murphy's store in Moundsville, which is, incidentally, located at Jefferson and Third streets in the city which takes its name from the famous 900-foot wide, 69-foot high Mammoth Grave Creek Indian Mound located there. To prove his point. Hunnell enclosed a corner of a Post-Herald front page with the address of Dodson on the regular mailing address attached thereto. Unfortunately, he did not tell us in what capacity Beckley's champion booster is now residing and working the mound cify.

And though we have known Dodsons hereabouts, we cannot place James L. Dodson off hand. Probably the best thing we can do is to tiiank him (Dodson) for appreciating Beckley as too few of its residents have at times, and for letting his new friends and neighbors know about it. We must also thank Hunnell, of course, for letting us know about this fine state of affairs upstate. Taken For Granted? Probably, one of the troubles with some lack of real appreciation here is that too many of our people have not traveled widely elsewhere to see how poorly, by comparison, many cities do.

They take for granted the wonderful climate with which we are blessed, the cleanliness and the fine scenery which surrounds the city and abounds throughout the area. And they fail to realize that, witfa just a little more effort, co-operation, and unity of purpose, we could make Beckley more completely a heaven on earth! Actually, the co-operation of, and unity with the many residents of the outlying suburbs around Beckley would have gone a long way toward such betterment years ago! We really should bend every effort to live up to our full potential! All 35,000 or more of us in greater Beckley! And top of the morning to you! Keeping His Balance MY ANSWER by Why did all the early missionaries go in a westward direction? W. G. It is not entirely true that all of the missionaries went in a westward direction. It is true that the most outstanding missionary, the Apostle Paul, came out of Asia Minor and completed his missionary activities in Europe.

It is also true that in those countries the was enthusiastically received and they were the world's most aggressive people, thus making a marked impact for the Gospel upon all western cultures. It does not mean that European countries became completely Christian, but it does mean that they were so influenced by the Gospel that Christian standards and Christian ethics came to be recognized and became the basis for western culture and jurisprudence. But the Gospel did go eastward and good tradition tells us that it spread from southern India up through India and eastward. For some reason that, we cannot explain the orients! peoples did not accept thr Gospel v.ith the same degree of i a ftnd purpose as they did in the West. Drew Pearson-Jack Anderson-Nixon Set To Move Men From Vietnam WASHINGTON President i a i i a congressional leaders that he would like to be i withdrawing American troops from i a and replacing them with Vietnamese troops this a But he would like the proposal to come from Saigon.

"It would be better to let the idea come from i and Ky," he said, referring to South Viet- a n's president and vice president. anwhile the Rand Corporation and Hudson Institute, two of nation's biggest policy planners, a drafted detailed project i a A i a withdrawal. The Paris negotiators are dramatically close to a military settlement. The big obstacle, which may hold up a peace for months, will be a political settlement. The search for a political strategy, more than anything else, is what is bringing President Nixon and President Thieu to Midway Island for their June 8 mid-Pacific meeting.

THE PRESIDENT denied press reports that resistance from our South Vietnamese allies had precipitated the meeting. Relations between Washington and Saigon are better, he indicated, than at any time since the bombing halt. In fact, he said, the South Vietnamese not only are willing to discuss a political settlement but are secretly studying a constitutional amendment which would permit Communists to vote in a national election. President Thieu however, also like an amendment to extend his presidential term from four to seven years. Despite the optimistic outlook for a Vietnam settlement, Nixon repeated to GOP leaders that he is prepared for an about-face if the peace negotiations breakdown.

"It is important to note," he said sternly, "if we should be rebuffed we have other options." SPEAKING IN confidence, he told them that he had held up his peace proposals almost three weeks because of the Communist attacks a spellings of South Vietnamese cities. "The decision to make the speech," he said, "was made on 20." He didn't want to try for peace while South Vietnamese cities were under Communist fire. It might have made it appear that he was reacting to military pressure. White House national security adviser Henry i i boasted to the GOP leaders that, outside of the Communist bloc, the President's proposals had received a favorable response everywhere except in Sweden. "For the first time," he said, "the Japanese leaders supported United States position on Vietnam.

Even in Yugoslavia the reaction was moderately good." decisions are made. KISSINGER WARNED, however, that there will be no immediate response from Hanoi. "It to take the Communists two or three months to revise their strategy," he predicted. "Only then can we see whether conciliation is going to work." Hanoi is hard at work analyzing and discussing the Nixon offer. It takes "a long time" for Hanoi to change its policy directives, Kissinger added; even longer to carry out the new directives.

He explained that Hanoi prepares for weeks for a military offensive or withdrawal, because both men and materials have to be infiltrated in small units. Meanwhile Hanoi can be expected to repeat its routine demands for i i a military withdrawal until new THERE'S INTERESTING background to some of the trustees of the new Richard Nixon Foundation which the White House a recently. One of the trustees is Donald Kendall, president of Pepsico in New York City. Kendall has just written a letter to various fat cats on the stationery of his firm at 500 Park Avenue, soliciting funds for BIPAC. BIPAC, Business Political Action Committee, is an organization of big business moguls dedicated to electing a more conservative Congress in 1970.

To this end Nixon's trustee Donald Kendall wrote to fellow businessmen: "There will be a few special elections to fill vacant seats in Congress this year. Other than these, everything will 'seem to be quiet' on the national political front. However, the quiet is deceptive. Intensive plans are under way by political organizations involving next year's mid-term congressional elections, which can make or break a administration favorable to business. "BIPAC is also making its plans for 1970.

Its sights are set on protecting the gains made in the House and replacing enough senators to erase the liberal edge which has prevailed in the Senate since 1954. Its analysis of the outlook is very encouraging. "However, Senate contests usually require a lot of money, BIPAC is aiming at a political action fund of $1 million so that it will be able to provide enough campaign help where it counts most. Therefore it is imDortant for all BIPAC members to send in their annual dues this year as well as next, as all campaign support funds must come from individuals." Kendall concluded by asking that funds be sent to Paul W. Kayser, who is both executive director of the National Alliance for Business and vice president of Pepsico in charge of industrial relations.

Yesterday And Today- Grass Lick Was Triple Murder Scene By SHIRLEY DONNELLY In the constant rat-race 5n these feverish times one needs to take an occasional day off to get the cobwebs out of his mind. To do this there is nothing better than to a nowhere take a side road on the way. Last Friday, a life-long intention to visit the Grass Lick i a a erialized. It is less than a hour trip from where this is written but has long seemed a far way off. Grass Lick parallels 1-77 from Kenna to Fairplain.

served as pilot and guide. He lives on Grass Lick and has the history of the community on the tip of his tongue. On a knoll above where he lives is the isolated graveyard where John F. Morgan's victims are buried. We went to the spot which is located in the a of Roy Southall.

There on the rather imposing tombstone inscriptions were read: M. Pfost, Feb. 11, 1835-Jan. 18, 1873." He was the first husband of the mother Morgan murdered, "Chloe Pfost, April 14, 1836-Nov. 3, 1897." There rest Morgan's other two victims, "Matilda M.

Pfost, May 27, 1871-Nov. 3, 1897" and F. Greene, July 6, 1879-Nov. 3, 1897." This latter person was the son of Mrs. Chloe Greene by her last husband.

ONE PLACE VISITED was the old country store that John Clancey operated until he died at the age of almost 88 in March, 1932. At that store, now operated by Miss Mary a daughter of the man who died over 37 years ago, time seems to stand still. On the wall is a huge old clock that was a gift to the business by Sauer's Extracts more than 60 years ago. An advertisement of Sauer's products is painted on the glass of the clock's door. Running as well as ever, the ticklock of the venerable time piece seemed to say to us as stood looking at it, "Take your time, take you time!" whereas the alarm clock on the dresser at home seems always to be saying, "Giddy-up! Giddy- up!" IT IS CURIOUS that the ill- fated mother's given name is misspelled on the stone as "Cloah" and the name of "Pfost," her first husband, used rather than name of her last husband, Edward Greene, (1805-Dec.

18, 1895), who passed away at age 90 some two years before his wife and son were slain. ORIGINALLY, the Pfost family, according to Southall "owned a whole boundary at that time," when Morgan killed them, "400 or 500 acres." Charles Henry Southall, who will soon be 103 years old, remembers the Pfost-Greene tragedy like he was reading it from a book. He saw the vic- tlmes and later saw Sheriff Owen Shhin hang John Morgan on Dec. 16, 1897, for his crimes. That public hanging of Morgan is noted because it put an end to public executions in the state.

Morgan's scaffold was erected atop an Adena Mound near Ripley High School of today. A New York reporter wrote such a story about it that the next legislature voted to have all future executions carried out in the state penitentiary at Moundsville. Henry Deem was then publisher of The Jackson Herald at Ripley. His paper reprinted the story from the New York paper. Mention of Henry Deem recalls the fact that his son, Pete Deem, used to have a clothing store here in Beckley.

Pete Deern married the secretary of Bcckley's First Baptist Church. Mrs. Ollie Deem is still living and has a home at. Richwood where she and Pete were living when Pete Deem died some years ago. Andrew Tufty- Politicos Not To Let Post Office Go Easily WASHINGTON It would be inaccurate to suggest a Postmaster General i Blount's proposal for a "U.S.

Postal a i has replaced Mrs. Teddy Kennedy's wardrobe as the main topic of conversation i Washington's salons and saloons, but it is getting some a i on Capitol Hill That is to say, proposal is caus- i ns i a le a more blatantly a age- hungry members Congress, because it would take a giant step toward removing what passes for our mail service politics. Moreover, President Nixon has privately made it plain that he will support the Blount plan without reservations, and even in a Congress, dominated by opposition a President's to withhold juicy morsels from the national pork barrel is respected. Parenthetically, Nixon had better give Blount his all-out backing. During the 1968 campaign he kept telling the voters that "the Post Office Department needs to be run like a first-class business.

Now that he has the ball, we taxpaying louts expect him to run with it. lobbyists be in a position to twist congressional arms by the device of fat campaign contributions in the right places. a -pressed congressmen running for re-election will not be inclined to pass up a share of the cash distributed by their union pals. That cash comes in big packages. Official reports show that among the top 26 spenders in the community of Capitol Hill lobbyists, the AFL-CIO Postal Clerks Union was second only to the American Medical Association.

For example, the clerks filed a spending report for 1965 of the AFL-CIO Letter Carriers Union spent $66,487. And in 1967, it was disclosed that Kep. Thaddeus Dulski, banked $11,000 from a testimonial dinner heavily supported by the third-class mail lobby. Get the point? NIXON HAS A JOB on his hands, however. The Blount plan would set up a public corporation run by a general manager under policies set by nine directors seven appointed by the President from outside government, and the two named from inside the new corporation.

The snag from the congressional viewpoint is that the corporation would enjoy a considerable measure autonomy. Specifically, postal rates would be set not by Congress but by a five-member rate board, subject to a congressional veto. Proposed rate changes would take effect 60 days after their submission to Congress, unless the lawmakers acted to reject them. This is a considerable improvement over the present system, by which Congress sets the rates subject to enormous pressure from labor unions and lobbyists for the big junk mail interests. MORE TICKLISH politically, postal wage levels would be set through negotiations between the corporation and the unions involved.

No longer would labor IN SHORT, THE Blount plan's weakness, politically, is that it makes too much sense. The new U.S. Postal Corporation would take money from congressional campaign pockets because of the degree, of independence it would enjoy from Capitol Hill meddling. It would be permitted, in Nixon's campaign words, to "move toward more business practices, get private enterprise into it (the postal service) on a proper basis." Presumably, the corporation would use its autonomy to crack down on the inefficiency and anarchy that mark too many of our post especially in the big cities. Something perhaps would be done about sorters who make a grim joke of the official ukase which decrees that letters be sorted at a minimum rate of 39 a minute.

A recent check showed that few of them sort more than 20 in a 60-second period. Blount's corporation might even summon up the courage to call the cops against the more than 3,000 reported and unreported assaults on supervisors during the past five years. BUT THIS MAY be dreaming. The Blount plan, after all, is just a lot of words, since it can become a reality only if approved by Congress. Every indication is the proposal faces a hard fight on Capitol Hill.

Its passage this year seems unlikely, but chances are i somewhat better in election- year 1970. I suggest Richard Nixon can improve those chances considerably if he stops being polite and, privately, shows some of that White House muscle. Thurman Sensing 1 An Alliance For Anarchy The labor union movement, which has lost ground in recent years because of blue-collar disenchantment with i bosses and their political plans, is trying for a comeback by forming new alliances i street militants. i i ficant lopment in this con- i nection is thei stablishment of the Alii- a Labor Action, a i con- i 1 ate launched by the United Auto Workers and Teamsters Union. The ALA, a product of UAW President Walter Reutfter's mind, aims at harnessing the "new politics" of community action groups that flourish in the big cities.

The Alliance hopes to organize minority voters in so-called "ghetto" areas, pack them on the voter rolls, and apply direct pressure on city councils, school boards, and businessmen. To beef up its operation, the Alliance is fashioning links to the Southern i i a Leadership Conference, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy's street army organization that specializes in community disruption. Reuther already has made a substantial financial contribution to a combined union- SCLC effort to force unionization of public hospital workers in Charleston, S. C.

all Americans. It should be born in mind that the United Auto Workers has a long history of industrial strife. The UAW was at the heart of grave industrial disturbances in Detroit a generation ago, when the "sit- down" strikes threatned a form of industrial communism in America. The Teamsters, the other principal partner in the Alliance For Labor Action, is synono- mous with union corruption. Vast quantities of evidence have been produced before Congress and state investigating bodies, showing its infiltration by gangster types.

The last two presidents of the Teamsters Union have landed in prison. SOUTHERN STATES are likely to be the main targets of the first Alliance drives. Union strategists apparently believe that these states, many of them with right-to-work laws, represent a formidable obstacle. If they can be crushed by the Alliance, if their public services are virtually taken over by unions, then resistance in other states will rapidly crumple. Thus, in a very real sense, the southern states are the first line of defense against a new and dangerous form of unionism that threatens the liberties of the small society by Brickman GRASS UCK HAS Ions been noted for the John F.

Morgan murders the morning of Nov. i 3. J897. I Milady and I wore fortunate in running across William a Southall of Rt. Ripley, who THEREFORE, the prospect for U.

S. cities and states subjected to Alliance campaigns is not a pleasant one. It is rendered all the more unpleasant by the involvement of the SCLC in union organizing efforts. What SCLC can furnish the Alliance are the bully-boys of civil disobedience, the professional militants who abuse the right of assembly and create a climate of tension and strife while profession "peace" and "non-violence." Cities and states face tho danger of paralyzing disturbances that require the use of police and National Guardsmen on a large scale and at great expense. Even relatively small bands of marchers, protesters, and placard-waving i organizers can interrupt the normal life of a community.

Small i -operators of retail stores and manufacturing shops with a few employes --arc likely to feel considerable harassment from the Alliance. Merchants may be exposed to intimidation and to shake-downs for contributions. One trick may be a "request" that a merchant buy advertising in a special "strike" newspaper- issued by a union-street demonstrator organization. THE TIME TO DEAL with threats is before mushroom and get out of hand. Business groups would be well advised to carefully consider now what new laws will be needed to assure a wider measure of community peace and to handle the more subtle types of intimidation and economic blackmail.

State legislatures may find it useful to conduct in-depth investigations. A basic need is public understanding of the new plans being made to disrupt peaceful, progressive states. The ambitions of the Alliance For Labor Action could only hamper the orderly economic and industrial growth of America and retard the progress of our society, which is based on evolution rather than revolution. The Alliance is bad news for the American people..