Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 10

IN OUR OPINION Treat it the same I 'I'M NOT AT ALL SURE I LIKE THE WAY YOU'VE PUT THIS TOGETHER BUT William Buckley Jr The cases of the doubters Ken at JOURNAL AND COURIER EDITORIAL BOARD Our environment Two way containers O( he LETTERS to the 'I I 1 A 1 of voice Out of the past on i Lafayette RD the on down more or at ROBERT KRIEBEl Metro Editor Make US trustee of i the Sinai desert cata: The answered question To begin to doubt everything is often less a quest for truth than an act of vanity or a venture in iconoclasm Most recently we heard the Rev Jesse Jackson say that he was no longer con vinced that Dr Martin Luther King was shot down by James Earl Ray By whom then? Brace yourself: By the CIA and the BI If this were true it would undoubt edly be unique in history as an act in which the CI A and the BI actually man aged to coordinate In fact of course there is no more evi dence that the CIA shot down Martin Lu ther King than that Jesse Jackson did Jackson as a matter of fact was stand ing next to Dr King when the fatal bullet was fired The budget has been trimmed in the years since detente began but one cannot suppose that if the CIA was engaged in shooting down black civil rights leaders have begrudged themselves some extra bullets to polish off Dr Jackson while they were at it 1 Jesse charge coming from a man of considerable intellect and re straint is foolish and prejudicial to seri ous revisionist inquiry by persuading the public at large that' the protesters are ideologists on the historical make Which brings us to the assassination of Sen Robert Kennedy Allard Lowenstein the lawyer politician author and refor mer who is given to turning the pages of progress from right to left has'' emerged as the leader of the movement to reexam ine the question whether Sirhan Sirhan actually killed Robert Kennedy He was asked recently: much: difference actually does it make? What if it happens that some other person fired the lethal shot? Since no one doubts that Letters' are selected for general interest and lack of duplication of points made in other letters They must be signed and of no more than 350 words They are subjectto Condensation or rejection and signa tures will be published in all but the most unusual cases Preference will be given ito short letters TWENTY YEAiZS on nn Justice bf the "Peace Ji Porter i II i Parkway it should not be difficult to establish the needs for the Tse center In fact it is likely that this very experience already has been applied to decide the proposed five accesses If it has not been it ought to be I This need not be the insidious I andsinister matter it is being i made out to be by some and it probably is not There are regular procedures for determinipg the ex tent and probability of devel i opmental plans and highway' needs Usually the formulae do not i please either developers or their i opponents entirely arid that often is the proof of their justice Since the access plan for the i Tse center approximates those at what may be a similar place at the south end of the parkway we would assume that the Highway Department has made its usual de terminations in its usual way All that is required is to treat the people on the west end of Sagamore Parkway the same way the people on the south end were treated i Sirhan Sirhan was there firing nedy and attempting his assassination is there more at stake in reopening the in quiry than merely identifying the other Yes says Lowenstein that i other assassin quite apart from our de sire to find him and punish him even if doing so would not substantially diminish sentence could reveal a network of backers who planned Robert assassination If such a body of men ex ists capable of frustrating American democracy and getting away with it it is the sovereign responsibility of the Repub lie to find it 1 Such is fantasy But it happens that Lowenstein reviewing the work of addi I tionaf skeptics has detected anomalies in i the case These are not in my off hand opinion the stuff on the basis of which one reverses judgment But what is singular about them is that the mere firing of one bullet from gun could conceivably put them to rest The Los Angeles'prosecutor declines to fire the gun on the grounds that the bal listics experts could then still be dis agreed about the fatal proven ance leaving the personal guilt of Sirhan as though it was attached to perpetual historical ambiguity Lowenstein replies that on the con trary at least by firing the gun the police might rescue their case from where it now sits precisely in perpetual doubt Myiown feeling is that advo cacy of the double gun theory alone makes it serious and worth examining He lis a responsible man distinctly of another breed trom tne Mark Lanes 1 nope will prevail in Los Angeles! all this fuss over the I number of accesses the state High way Department will allow Dr? John Tse on US 52 for his Hilton Hotel Henrici Restaurant shop ping mall and Normandy arms housing development near the State Police Post? i It should be simple to determine how many accesses the shopping mall should need depending upon its size compared to Tippecanoe Mall at the south and opposite eud of Sagamore Parkway US 52 If the Tse mall is to resemble the Tippecanoe Mall Mart com plex in size it obviously will need at least as many accesses as these i did If is to be smaller it will need proportionately fewer larg i er more Accesses at Tippecanoe Mall Mart are working out well i without dangerous backup on the I parkway or undue slowing of high way traffic Comparable situations for motel and residential traffic also can be found With the experience the state Highway Department has had at the south end of the Sagamore HAP ftf AxllfTWlT TAX feTtlfZN TO Waste no time in filling vacancy 1 X' The League of Women Voters of Great er Lafayette considers the completion of a Comprehensive Land Use Plan for Tip pecanoe County to be a compelling goal We are concerned that the Area Plan De partment is faced with a total break in continuity atp time when our community needs a concentrated effort in land use planning i The League supports open decisions governmental bodies with adequate op portunities for citizen input We feel that events preceding and including the March 31 Special Session of the Area Plan Com mission to determine the status of the then Director) moved with a swiftness that precluded adequate public airing of die issue if We believe that efficient and economic al government requires competent person nel and the clear assignment of responsi 5 bility as well as adequate financing and coordination among the different agencies and levels of government We feel certain that the citizens of Tip pecanoe County support sound com prehensive planning and the enforcement of codes and ordinances' It is our belief that the common overall good of the com munity demands that no time be wasted in hiring a fully qualified Area Plan Di rector ana a start ot proressionai person nel adequate in numbers and quali fication Xi JOYCE SOMERVILLE President League of Women Voters of Greater Lafayette (which consumes more energy and sources) is preferable to a system 4 reuse suffers accordingly If this were not persuasive enough New York state Task orce Critical Problems last month released a study that showed a mandatory deposit i bill in effect for three yeras would pro duce annual energy savings of 20 trillion i BTUs The study was based on 90 per cent of the containers in circulation in New York being retumable reusables i King utilizes another popular industry shibboleth by warning that an all retur I nable system will mean higher prices for the consumer In fact the average selling price of beverages in Oregon is no higher now than it 'was three years ago when the i state enacted the first one way container ban The New York state study using in dustry data projected that there would a actually be a slight decrease in prices to the public And a few brewers have even admitted this trend would occur King raises the Ispecter of increased i unemployment but again statistics con found his pessimism In the New York study for example tabulations show that while 1200 jobs would be eliminated ap proximately 5 jobs would be 'j created This would represent an annual I payroll increase in New York state of $35 million i In Oegon sales have not declined since the throwaway ban and more than 90 per cent of those polled in the state have ex i pressed their approval of the law I King says that the cleanup qf benefits of a one way container ban are exagger 1 ated 1 I Yet again in Oregon which is the sizable long term laboratory the nation has the law has fulfilled litter reduction expectations Beverage container litter is down 60 to 70 per cent in the state since the inception of the ban These days on the college circuit you are asked with great regularity you believe that the Warren Commission has been We have all heard this before The skepticism appears to come in and reach a very full tide about every three years The tide was thoroughly out last year when David Belin who was a very young lawyer with the Warren Commission pub lished a book abo lishing every sig nificant doubt that had been raised about Lee Harvey sole re sponsibility for the a1 ueaui ui juiih ncu Buckley nedy What provides the doubt this time was the showing of the Zapruder film On teler vision I have riot seen it but everyone i who has done so will tell you with great conviction that the impact of the lethal i bullet on the head of the President came unequivocably from ahead of him So that we are back Grassy Knoll the most wanted killer i I To the questioners' who accost me I reply: The Warren Commission was com posed of a panelof eight men When one of them! steps forward to say that in the i light! of new evidence he is convinced that the Commission should be reconstituted my ears will flare up and I shall spend i whatever time a conscientious) citizen i should spend looking into the question i Why not now? Because there is something i wholesome in the notion of res adjudi 10 YEARS AGO TODAY (In th Lcfoyett Journal ond (ouner) John Korty a native son of Lafayette 8 I Was nominated for an academy Award for his short film the an animated cartoon created for the Ameri cnan Canqer Society as an anti smoking i film Korty 38 was bom in Lafayette to Mr and Mrs Richard Korty who are now residents of Avon Lake Ohio Korty fa 1 ther was in the gas furnace business and i his mother was a nurse at Home Hospi i i tai John attended Highland School and i i Jefferson High School 50 YEARS AGO TODAY I (In lh Lcfoyom Journal Coumr) In a statement issued in reply to the Lafayette Motor Club and the Association against of mo I torists said: I is ouite clear' from the breakdown the i Kissinger mission in the middle east that Egypt under Sadat i has no intention of reaching any type of agreement with Israel which would in any way graht any sort of recognition to Israel All Egypt is interested in is a type of military agree ment which has no political overtones In fact when Sadat talks of peace all he means is that he start a war as ing and must be suffering Until better long as Israel is returning the Sinai but aiLtJr Ulai lie Hiaiwa iiv yaw according to Sadat does not include mu tual trade tourism embassies normal movement of goods and people normali zation of relations No this is to be leftfor future generations Perhaps the true intent of Egyptian foreign policy can be learned from an interview which Ash I 1 thejUS gave to the Argentine periodical i Marchar in which he said ex i termination of Judaism in the Middle East is the point of departure of any pro cess for the liberation of the In light of these facts it seems to me that a sensible solution of the Middle East conflict could be the turning over of the Sinai by Israel to the US as a per manent base Sinai has not always be longed to Egypt" In fact as recently as af ter i the first wona war xsritain ruieu Sinai as a separate administrative unit at the isame time that she ruled Egypt and Palestine Sinai has just about no popu lation and would serve perfectly as a nav al air and army base for the US in a very strategic part of the world US oc cupation of the Sinai as a base would make the Arabs think twice before impos ing another oil embargo It would also al lqwi us more freedom of movement in the Greek Turkish argument since we wouldno longer need their bases And it would also serve as a buffer between Egypt and Israel and would prevent a further war between them I think that this would be a preferable solution to piece meal metnoas wmen wiunoi prevent a war but which will only postpone it for a year or two i JOSEPH RADINSKY Lafayette GREGORY DELIYANNE Publisher BERNARD LYONS PAUL JANES GEORGE LAMB Editor Associate Editor Editorial Page Editor editor 4 4 1 i and Courieif A 10 Thurs April 17 1975 Lafayette Indiana By JE STANSBURY And EDWARD LATT AU I Gannett News Service I Despite the increasing evidence that re turnable bottles are a superior alternative to throwaway beverage containers in this age of resource shortages industry for the most part continues to argue other Tyical is a recent letter to The Wash ington Post form Henry King presi dent of the US Brewers Association King marshals all the last ditch argu ments being used to discredit a ban on throwaway containers The desperation of these' arguments is reflected in their failure to coincide with the facts! King disputes the claim that two way containers will save far more energy than throwaways He says that returnable? are heavier and larger than their one way i counterparts thereby necessitating more trucks (and more gasoline consumption) on delivery routes He also says the washing of retumables requires additional energy use that fur i ther nullifies andy energy savings The Brewers Association executive is apparently unaware of recent Environ mental Protection Agency (E PA) studies that factor container weight and the washing process into the equations and still conclude that throwaways average i 4198 more British Thermal units (BTUs) of energy use per unit than a l(Mrip re turnable glass container A total switch to glass returnableswould save an estimated 225 trillion BTUs the eouivalent of enough gasoline to supply nearly 25 million cars fora year urthermore the potential energy saving from the steel aluminum and glass that would not have to be Recycled i would come to about 90 trillion BTUs an nually argument that recycling wish it understood that this office 1 stands for enforcement of the law There has not and will riot be any unjust arrest We want to break up camping and i i parking along 100 YEARS AGO TODAY (In the Daily Journal) Local Miscellany: 1 The Street Commissioner informs us I that more dirt and filfh were hauled awdy from the alleys within foursquares of the courthouse than in all the rest of the city put together This speak well for the residents and occupants of that part of the city Every well regulated college has a col lege paper or magazine and the Purdue boys are now as good as any of them I They have just issued a very neat looking magazine which bears the name of the university monthly hereafter regularly while the school is im session i Couldn't consider displacing 400 families Have our politicians learned inothing from Watergate? it about time our dected representatives listened to us the voters and taxpayers? And We want the Wildcat Creek Reservoir Apparently only those who hope to gain or who have gained already monetarily are supporting this project Any serious compassionate human being couki not possibly consider displacing over 400 families from their homes Any concerned citizen could not consid er burdening the taxpayers" of this area and this state in this unconscionable man ner If for no other reason the loss of valu i able farmland and irreplaceable wilder ness would make this project intolerable This project must be stopped now PHYLLIS BRQWN rankfort RD Postage stamp cages are' out of style I i After reading the article about Colum bian Park zoo i reel it is time to my opinion on this matter I believe the zoo shouldbe torn as soon as possible and a larger modem zoo constructed in its place Cl I1VW iwuuvilt 6 The zoo is too small to accommodate the number and species of animals housed there These animals are in pitiful hous a a 1 1 'conditions can be obtained some of the animals should be sold Then the zoo should perhaps enlarge the cages for the i remaining animals 1 I I believe the time of keeping animals in stamp collectors cages is drawing to an end It would be extremely beneficial to 4kAAmMimihr if an rkfWMl habitat vnn WAR LUC WUIUJU1ULJ VJZVzAl AAMVAVM i constructed! Several persons have been raf Ghorbal the Egyptian Ambassador to trying to get one builtBut I realize nances are a major problem if more concerned citizens were to speak out the Park Board and other city officials would see something was done about this serious problem MISS LESLIE KIMMEL Lafayette Taxed for ithian entitled to representation May I respond to the recent article by Larry Schumpert concerning representa five government? i Mr Schumpert instructs us that Mr ithian is not to be considered our repre sentative but that we pay him $4250000 per year to make decisions I was under the impression that Mr ithian asked for the job of representative and that he made certain promises which hwoiild perform if elected I expect the elected representative to truly represent his con stituents since that is the only reason for his office 7 Since Mrf! Schumpert has gone back into history to fipd a defense for Mr ithian I wonder if I might remind him of another incident that happened about 200 years some citizens of Boston staged a tea party to protest without We are being Xtaxed to pay Mr ithian so I think we are entitled to be represented Concerning the proposed reservoir Mr? ithian is using the full weight of his of fice to bring the awesome power of the federal government down on this commu riity The price of this will be a terrible burden on this area i OKA LE MASTER iXX i 1 1 I 1 1 iniiiiirR i X4 4 i tix i 1 i II 1 A i vi 1 1 4 J' St S' I' S' X' ir xx I 4 1 i 1 A i 1 7J A I A 'v' '4 lx xx 'xx CKxy xxsx'x! jft lz.