The Daily Journal from Fergus Falls, Minnesota • Page 4

OPINION PAGE WEDNESDAY, OCT. 8, 1975 Ed lorHHuriflenby Undefwood lid KM Editorial FCC should concentrate on CB use by truckers The Federal Communications Commission, which is charged with regulating the activities of between six million and seven million U.S. Citizens' Band (uB.) two-way radios, recently revised the rules for them. Recognizing that the regulations had been so complicated as to fail massively, an FCC spokesman explained they are being eased and simplified "to get belter compliance." That makes a lot of sense. The principle that over- regulation leads inevitably either to strangulation or to creating a population of outlaws is one which bureaucrats the world over would benefit from ob- serving.

But Richard C. Everett, head of the FCC's division on amateur and citizens' broadcasting, went on. "The mam thing we are trying to enforce is what we consider to be the most significant violations," he said, 'failure to identify a station, a station out-of- band violation, an overpower violation, malicious interference and obscenity or profanity What Mr. Everett or the FCC itself seems to have failed to recognize is the most evident or notorious use to which citizens' band radio are devoted these days. The truckers use the two-way radios to warn each other of the presence of "Smokey Bear" meaning police speed traps and patrol cars.

When a fellow trucker tips him off via Citizens Band radio, the driver slows down to a decorous speed until he's safely past "Smokey then he zooms ahead again. The FCC would do well to concentrate on that. And to stamp it out. It would be serving the public better than gagging people for profanity whatever that is these days. SINCE Hfi WIFE ME gECOME King visits in New York North America's autumn is the best of seasons, unsurpassed on earth, states the National Geographic Society, with quotations by a number of poets to back up the statement.

And it would seem most Fergus Falls area residents appreciate their vantage point for the brilliance and color of autumn. NEW YORK (API in a The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry tribute to thefirst of his coV of bugles going by," wrote Bliss Carman. Helen Hunt to immigrate to the Jackson noted "October's bright blue weather and James Whitcomb Riley wrote about the "raspin 1 of the tangled leaves as golden as the morn." Then, there may be a few who concur with the words of William Cullen Bryant: "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year What others say WALL STREET JOURNAL THE STAMPOF PROGRESS compliments to the Farmers' Almanac for a partial victory on behalf of American culture. Thanks to the year-long lobbying of the Almanac's osvner, Ray Geiger, the U.S. Postal Service will restore town names to its postmarks.

This decision reverses a five-year policy of stamping letters only with the state abbreviation and half of the zip code. From now on, the town names of the 350 mail- processing centers, which do the postmarking for a region, will be included in the little circle. Glad as we are at this soft- ening of impersonal efficiency (or should we say, impersonal inefficiency), we still regret the thousands of small-town names that won't be restored. "Tulsa, improves on "U.S. Postal Service.

Ok 740;" but it's a far cry from the still-lost imprint of "Broken Arrow." And what about the music of Pennamaquan, Maine, the rhetoric of Free Soil, Michigan, or the incongruity of Steam- boat, Nevada? Or, for that matter, Hygiene, Colorado, I Jkely, California, and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico? That's a lot of American color to bury in a zip code. But at least it will live on In the return addresses. trymen to immigrate. United States, Norway's King Olav paid a visit to the Statue of Liberty as hundreds of Norwegian-Americans cheer- ed. The king, who is on a 2S-day good will tour of the United States, ferried out to Lady Lib- erty on Tuesday to dedicate a plaque commemorating the ar- rival of a group of 52 Norwe- gians here in 1825 aboard the sloop Restauraton.

More than 800,000 Nor- wegians followed in subsequent years. "Let this plaque, which is made of Norwegian granite, be the symbol of the solidness and durability of the friendship of all Americans of Norwegian heritage," the 72-year-old king said as he stood at the base of the copper landmark. Hundreds of spectators, many wearing Norwegian national costumes, surrounded the monarch, and the Sons of Norway drill team formed an arch of Norwegian flags. Letters to the Editor Passage of motion hard to understand To the Editor: Oct. 6 was the first council meeting I have attended and I will say it was an eye-opener forme.

resulted in: 1. A page-long list of questions and concerns (some of which I will share below). 2. The reaffirmation of how important it is for me as a citizen to be aware of what our council is voting onandto.prior to the actual voting, express said questions and concerns thereon. 3.

I am having a hard time would seem to me that the council would want the ex- pertise of the commission prior to determining the use of the land. The "main" street has "happened" (by Use) along a route other than as originally intended. Land values in the area involved have probably to some extent been determined by the past planning com- mission recommendations. The existing problem was brought to a head by Mr. Thorn seeking a building permit that Case of HHH aide appealed NEW YORK (AP) The conviction of Sen.

Hubert H. Humphrey's 1970 campaign manager in connection with an illegal corporate donation was appealed Tuesday before the U.S. Court of Appeals. There was no indication when the court would announce its decision. Jack Chestnut, 42, was sentenced June 28 to four months imprisonment and a $5,000 fine.

He is free pending the appeal. Chestnut was convicted of ar- ranging payment by Associated Milk Producers, Inc. (AMPI) of J12.000 billed to Humphrey's 1970 Senate campaign by an ad- vertising agency. An all-Republican, three- judge panel heard attorney Jack S. Nordby argue that Chestnut never saw the two checks from AMPI for $6,000.

Nordby argued further that the payment amounted to lawful "expenditures" and not illegal "contributions." The appeal was argued be- fore Judges James L. Oakes and Sterry R. Waterman, both of Vermont, and Thomas J. Meskill, former governor of Connecticut. Stlllwater breakdown announced STILLWATER, Minn.

(AP) State Prison officials kept nearly 300 inmates locked in their cells Monday because they disobeyed an order, a spokesman said. The prisoners were locked up when they refused to remove the curtains on their cells, which are installed for privacy. Prison officia Is had signed an order Sunday night directing removal of the curtains-appar- ently prompted by a report on the prison last week to a legis- lative committee. A prison ex- pert had said the prison admin- istrators had so little control over the institution they could not even enforce an order for removal of curtains on prison- ers' cells. Those who had no curtains or who did remove them were eat- ing Monday in the dining halls and went to their various jobs.

Those refusing were fed in their cells. Stillwater had a population of about 776 prisoners this week. ijumifi iuuu uiirc A uuuuuig permii mai understanding the passage of would result in a house being the "Beck motion." The "Beck constructed in the middle of the motion" was the motion to roadway as laid out originally authorize the building permit to Bruce Thorn. The background of this motion as 1 can gather is as follows. The council has not yet authorized the city planning commission to develop plans for the unplatted areas in- volved.

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(AP) Thirteen-year-old Lyn Kraft learned in health class how to give "the kiss of life" to a plas- tic doll. That same night she used what she had learned to revive her 50-year-old father at tor he suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing. Leonard Kraft is now recu- perating in the Atlantic City Medical Center, and Lyn is the toast of her eighth grade class at Ventnor Middle School in this Atlantic shore community. It was after midnight last Thursday when the pound Kraft suffered the sec- ond heart attack of his life. "He stopped breathing and turned a purple-gray color.

I i years ago 1 950 Truman, AAacArthur to meet (from the Daily Journal for Oct. President Truman announced today he will meet with General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific to discuss "the final phase of United Nations action in Korea." The White House withheld announcement of the place of the meeting but it was presumed to be somewhere west of Hawaii. Mr. Truman will take off from St. Louis Thursday in the White House plane, the Independence, for Hawaii, the first stop on the rip expected to take a week.

There had been no hint the trip was under consideration until about two hours before the announcement. Possibly one purpose of the meeting is a review of the whole Pacific situation before Mr. Truman gives a foreign policy address to the United Nations general assembly Oct. 24. The two men have disagreed over policy toward Formosa.

CITIZENS GIVE PINTS OF BLOOD Citizens of Fergus Falls gave 404 pints of Mood to the Red Cross Blood Bank Monday and Tuesday in the first collection in the county. Residents of Pelican Rapids, Perham and Battle Lake also are donating blood this week. FUNERA HOME TO BE BUILT Evan Glende of this city and Samuel Miller of Rothsay plan to erect a funeral chapel on Washington Avenue directly east of the Wright Memorial Hospital. The house on the lot which was owned by John Schrom will be removed. 0 RCH ESTR A OPENS FOURTH SEASON The Civic Orchestra under the direction of Frank Hedlund opened its fourth season Sun- day.

Kenneth Davenport, formerly of Fergus Falls, assistant principal in the string bass section of the Minneapolis Symphony, was the soloist. JHR ran and called the ambulance and woke up my daughter," Lyn's mother, Sandy, said. Lyn, a 5-fool, 89-pounder, said her mother was "very excited. "Isaid Iknewwhat to do, and she said to do it. I didn't have any time to pause.

I just did it right there. It was just a reaction." Lyn followed the method for eardiopulmonary respiration that school nurse Marie Paludi had been teaching in class for two weeks. She gave four quick breaths into her father's mouth holding his nose and leaning his head back to open the air passages. Then she gave 15 heart com- pressions, with palms down and fingertips up, in the middle of his chest, then two more deep breaths slowly, waiting (or the chest to deflate. ''My sister, Sindy, helped me.

She told me I was going too fast with the compressions," said Lyn, the youngest of four children. Sindy, 17, and Mrs. Kraft were the only other family members at home. Lyn continued the cycle of two breaths and 15 com- pressions for five minutes until an ambulance crew arrived and administered oxygen to her fa- ther, who was already breath- ing again. "His color came back" as soon as Lyn began to work, Mrs.

Kraft said. "I really be- lieve it saved his life." Prior to the "Beck motion" at the same meeting the council had unanimously agreed to send this whole matter to both the planning commission and the street committee for fur- ther study. It was pointed out that it would take these two bodies several months to arrive at a conclusion on the matter. Mr. Thorn pointed out that he needed the council to act at once if he was to start con- struction this fall.

He pointed out that the normal building permit issuing agency (the experts in this area) was leary of issuing the permit and therefore wanted the council's opinion. Subsequently in a very close vote it was decided in 10 minutes what would have taken the "experts" several months to do. My concern is that the majority of the council aborted the counsel of the planning commission when the "problem" arose. It is my opinion that time may prove that the right decision was made but what a high cost will be paid if in haste the wrong decision was made. I applaud Mr.

Stemsrud for indicating by voting "no" on the "Beck motion" that Fergus Falls cannot afford such a cost R.M.Wasilensky Arabs boycott 2,000 firms By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON Some 2,000 business, with special emphasis American firms, ranging from Ford Motors to small pet shops, have been blacklisted by the Arabs. The boycott list, Identifying allegedly pro-Zionist com- panies for economic retaliation, was prepared in Lebanon. It is considered more important than earlier lists, because a Lebanese heads the Arab boycott office in Damascus. A similar list, provided to the Commerce Department by firms that actually were ap- proached by the Arabs, is now the subject of a hot controversy on Capitol Hill. Commerce Secretary Rogers Morton has refused to surrender the list to Congress, contending that the firms were promised confidentiality.

Rep. John Moss, whose investigating committee has demanded the list, is con- sidering whether to cite Morton for contempt. The Lebanese list was ap- proved Dec. 6,1974, at a closed cabinet meeting in Beirut. Rep.

James Scheuer, managed to get a copy and showed it to us. Although this particular boycott list is treated with great gravity by Arab governments, it is curiously haphazard. For example, more than one in- significant pet store and a shoe repair firm are listed. Yet the United Jewish Appeal for the Film Industry has been removed from the list. Perhaps some Arab diplomet or petty sheikh didn't like the when he stopped to buy a canary or get his shoes heeled.

Some Arab countries, such as Syria and Saudi Arabia, treat the boycott list as if it were taken from the But in Morocco, say, it is virtually ignored. Some Arab officials, ac- cording to our sources, use the list 10 extort bribes. For a little "baksheesh," they can be persuaded to ignore the boycott. Such firms as General Electric, Miles Laboratories, Trans World Airlines and the Hilton hotel chain are active in Israel. Yet they still manage to do business in the Arab world.

The 2,000 blacklisted firms cover every facet of U.S. Personal Tourists turn into 'turkeys' By Sydney H. Harris This summer, for the first time, I heard tourists being referred to by natives as by Labor Day, I even glimpsed one young man wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a gobbler and the word "Turkey" proudly emblazoned upon it. What strikes me as stupidly about this designation is that all of us are turkeys the moment we venture off our home turf. A turkey is simply somebody doing whatever you would be doing if he were at home and you were visiting there.

Nobody behaves at home the way he does abroad; this is why the out-of-town convention was devised to allow people a release of inhibitions they would not da're to display in their own neighborhood. It is easy to get a distortedly bad impression of turkeys: their dress in sloppy, their voices loud and shrill, their public eating habits deplorable, their disregard for local customs contemptible. Yet they act no worse than most Americans do in Europe; or, for that matter, than many Europenas In America. At home, most of us feel rigidly restricted by the role we are forced to play--the responsib! citizen, the upright taxpayer, the spruce homeowner. But this persona secretly yearns for a safety-valve, to become at least a little disreputable, a trifle irresponsible, a shade sloppy This is the lure, of "going on communications companies.

Such firms as CBS, NBC, United Artists and Otto Preminger Films are on the list. A number of liquor com- panies, led by Calvert and Seagrams, are also listed, although Arabs supposedly don't drink and, therefore, should have no need to import liquor. The U.S. oil industry, predictably, has all but escaped the boycott. Other companies have been removed from the boycott list, including Kaiser Steel, General Paper, General Tire, Monsanto, RKO General and a Yugoslav sewing machine plant.

A few of the blacklisted organizations and products include: B'nai B'rith, Brush On Eye Shadow, Coca-Cola, Con- necticut Mutual Insurance, Hartz Mountain pet foods, Hertz, Knopf and Random House books, Moon Drops, a a Associates, Republic Steel, Allstate Insurance, Bergdoft Goodman, Honrico gold and white rum, Lazard Freres investments and Leeds Music. Also Minkus stamps, Motorola, Playtex, Pratt and Whitney, Republic Pictures, Topps Chewing Gum, Xerox, Zenith Radio, Aetna Casualty, American Doll and Toy, American Electric Power, Beaunit Mills, Botany Mills, Bulova watches, Fairbanks Morse, Golden Bear oil, Harry Winston jewelers, Helena Rubinstein (listed three times, with two misspellings), Israel Numismatic Service and Jewish War Veterans. Footnote: About 99 out of every 100 blacklisted firms are American. But companies were also boycotted in Britain, Taiwan, Tanzania, Turkey, Venezuela and Yugoslavia. MAIL BAG: We received a letter last week from Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, one of President Ford's would-be assassins.

She wanted to be put in touch with Dr. John Gofman, a noted nuclear physicist, whose warnings against nuclear power development we had published. Squeaky sought some information from- Dr. Gofman. "I would get it myself," she wrote, "but I am presently incarcerated in the Sacramento county jail." We reported last month that the FBI's computer center had been misused to hunt down non-criminals.

One of the Eric Staubes of Binghampton, N.Y.; wrote to us about his experience. He was confronted with a computer printout 14 feel long. Police grilled him for six hours. He was wanted in two states, they charged, on 14 counts of auto theft. They claimed he had 40 aliases.

It turned out that the supposedly foolproof computer system had fingered the wrong man. "Do you get the feeling Big Brother is watching?" Staubes asked us. A Denver man, who asked not to be identified, has sent us his correspondence with the Postal Service over a lost uu 'B OVI VILC native that appeals to so many money order. sober souls who finally decided to dream of Tahiti and Bali Bali. It is not the exotic they seek so much as the permissive en- vironment.

Much travel, file a class action suit and wrote the Justice Department for background information. The letter was returned to him, stamped "Unable to Locale," They'll Do It Every Time A JURY HITCH- Mexican women were given the right to vote in a presiden- tial election for the first time in 1954. THEN HOW PiD 60WSUV a ON THAT LISTS RcMEMBERHOW HE KEAVW ANPCrrYHALUTO OR WDWAN, WAS UtAPtlK IN TKttR tm HE'LL TELL A3CtTT Au. rue. 3'6 PARKIN6 TKXE-T TO HA4J6E 621 NW.

SB SEATTLE, WASH idiiicunvuicea, stamped "Unabl is less a desire to see something by the mailman, new, than to, temporarily, become somebody else- somebody who can stroll down a street without caring how he woks, or have a drink too many without incurring the disap- proval of neighbors. Taken at face value, the turkeys are pretty dreadful everywhere, in St. Peter's Square and the Pradu as much as in Cape Cod or Carlsbad Caverns. The natives (who depend on them economically wliich already creates resent- ment mixed with greed) exploit them, deride them, publicly welcome them, and breathe a deep sigh of relief when they leave. Then, a few months later, the more affluent natives fly down to Florida or Arizona and become' turkeys themselves, wholly oblivious of the ironic change of roles.

Travel is a psychic and social release, a crude but sometimes effective form of therapy (as many doctors recognize) for people whose communities do not permit them to express freely their own infantile or primitive drives. ft is hardly an accident that for decades the most raucous out-of-town conventions were those held by the American Legion: aging men who sought vainly to regain the boisterous camaraderie of their youth after years of rigid respec- tability and stifling domesticity. Or that it took the veteran Ulysses 10 years of traveling to return home from the Trojan War. Dredging project started BUFFALO, Wis. (AP) A project employing new methods of dredging in the upper Mississippi River and new methods of depositing the dredged sand and mud was to begin today at Buffalo.

The Great River Environ- mental Action Team (ORE AT), a federal-state group studying the river, said Tuesday the project is designed to dredge open a backwater channel at the small resort town, giving recreational boaters access to the town. Buffalo is about 15 miles up- stream and across the river from Winona, Minn. Shirley K. Hunt, a GREAT spokesman, said the group hopes the project will be a fore- runner of future dredging-man- agement techniques along the upper Mississippi. The dredged wastes will be pumped about one mile to a land site, where the sand and mud will be used to help build a flood-protection wall.

The U.S. Army Corps of En- gineers has beeen working closely with GREAT to find new ways of dredging the river and depositing the dredged ma- terials in an environmentally sound manner..