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II i Ogqdd DnuG II I II I fL'- The Gift of Reason And soChristmas, 1964, is at hand, a holiday of relative tranquility in a turbulent era, a time of love in a period of hate and a moment of reflection in a year of madness. Each year about this time I have, a few serious moments when I get to thinking how great it wdiild be if we lived in a time of reason on a national scale, when the quota of intelligence was not confined to the few, when hysteria didn't prevail, when the mob didn't have its new-found power, and when inanities weren't the trademark of the day. I "can "think of no "greater Christmas gift for-Americans. It would insure freedom, sweeten the future, preserve the noble heritage this country already has and undoubtedly, through reason, a purpose would be found again, a national purpose to guide the country and its morals and morale, and an individual purpose to guide the young who have developed none and the older, who may have lost theirs. The historians insist that societies evolve in such a way that history itself never does, actually, go full circle.

A country can never return to its old ways, simply because of technology and sophistication. You can visit small towns in Montana, perhaps, and find some semblance of the simple life of 40 years ago, but the metropolitan areas, where the bulk of people live and work and play, where patterns of behavior are set, are where you find also the so-called new sophistication. This is, unfortunately, a sophistication without purpose, all BILL FISET s. The high Sierra donned for a picture that looks as if it came straight off a Christmas card. Photograph was taken from the new Interstate 80 looking Tribunt photo by Bill Crouch toward Donner Summit in the background.

Old Highway 40 snakes in and out of the trees. Correction Notre Dame Wins Round In Battle Against Movie NEW YORK UP) -An appellate judge refused today to stay a temporary injunction forbidding distribution of the movie "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" and further publication of the novel on which the film is based. i The refusal was another victory for the University of Notre Dame, which objects to the way its football team is portrayed in the story. Presiding Justice Bernard Bo-tein of the Supreme Court appellate division denied the stay requested by a motion picture company, but scheduled a hearing by the five-man appelate bench for Jan. 5.

Fire Kills Patients In Nursing Home Denies Fluctuation Of Power CONCORD The Coleman electronic vote tabulation com-J pany's allegation that discrepan cies in the Nov. 3 general elections were caused in part by power fluctuations was denied by Henley Worthington, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. district manager and former Grand Jury foreman. Worthington declared: "Absolutely not. We installed a spe cial bank of transformers to service the building and to preclude any situation resulting in a power fluctuation or blackout." The installed a utility pole opposite the vote tally building especially for the Coleman equipment.

"We maintained voltage readings at all times and put meters on the circuits to know what the readings were," Worthington said. "They had far more power than they needed at all times." Worthington continued, "We were real proud of that installation. We took precautions to insure that it was an A-l operation. In fact, we got a letter from the Coleman company commending us for our fine operation. Brown Rapped Over China Trade Plan LOS ANGELES (UPI) Gov.

Edmund G. Brown yesterday drew criticism for his suggestion that the United States establish trade relations with Communist China from the president of the Citizens Committee of California. Dr. Bernard Tully, leader of the conservative organization, said Brown was "swimming upstream against a tide of public opinion in this country and should know better" Tully said Brown should "attend to the affairs of the State of California, and stop meddling with the U.S. Government role in international relations." too often a sick society whose guideposts are sex movies, James Bond novels (which I don't criticize except for their unreality), the Swim, and other dance steps, dirty sweatshirts, bad folk-singing which to music is like bad abstractions to art, and the horribly false connotation of heroics attached to anyone who defies law and order.

In short, America is suffering from a lack of national purpose. It lacks fathers who will be "square" enough to discipline their children and set firm standards; it lacks courts strong enough to do more than admonish the scion of a well-to-do family, and it lacks now what 40 years ago was the strongest force of all a church that is anything more than a social gathering place. oooo Just the other day a judge here was discussing the current uprisings at U.C. with his daughter, an articulate girl with a wide circle of friends in both high school and college. He asked what she and her friends thought of the course of events both in Berkeley and nationally and her answer shocked him very much.

She told her father her friends seemed depressed and without ambition, that they felt-there was no future and" she even said that although they were mostly teen-agers, they often discussed suicide and felt that ultimately their end would come by that means. "It makes you wonder," the judge said, "just what sort of society we're giving our kids, what sort of awful mess we've made of our morals -and our ay of life." It's easy to-explain away the lack of purpose. Some will tell you that while 40 years ago a man was kept busy simply providing food, clothing and shelter for his family, this is no longer the case. A boy in college can stepinto an immediate job with a corporation offering the best pension plan, sign a paper which will give him a new house, another for a new car and a third for appliances, and with job security he only has to plod unimaginatively through life making his monthly payments. But I doubt this explanation is valid.

The same judge said, unthinkable as it may be, Americans need a war. A war, despite its toll and hard: ship, unifies people into a cause. It gives national and individual purpose and crowds out the school of thought that would destroy freedom through abuse. That kind of war, of course, is a thing of the past. It may give purpose, but the price is too high anyway.

We are left, then, with little "internal wars in our own communities and our own lives the war of the hoodlum gangs against the police, of the hipsters against the squares, of the misguided students who misguide other students against the universities, of the Ad Hoc types against business and industry. In short, the wars of the newest weapon the mob, the weight of human beings to stop normal productivity. They would tell you this is a "revolution, 'V but revolutions are fought only when a government is to be changed. No majority wishes this, yet a devious minority wielding the weight of human flesh is endangering a government. Human flesh, in and of itself, cannot rule without orderly process, either at U.

or in any business or industry under threat by Ad Hoc groups. But under a faltering administration, such as at U.C. in recent weeks, orderly process has been threatened. Democracy doesn't imply that kind of freedom it implies freedom guaranteed by authority and law. This, then, could be the Christmas gift of 1964.

A national purpose could be to uphold what America has, to live and prosper under its laws, to filter and purify its morals, and to turn its back on mob rule. And individual purpose could be a partnership to this, born of an individual's qualifications and education. The individual can earn his education and qualification at a university if he can get to classes and that tax-supported university exists for that very purpose. Once he is qualified and able, the individual can take his place in society, in a job he enjoys and in a country to which he can contribute, regardless of race, creed or religion. Regardless, too, of his membership in any mobs incited and led by those unqualified for anything else.

SIERRA SPECTACULAR her winter best to pose Coleman Deal Hangs In Balance Continued from Page 1 Central Committee, and hand counted only two of them. Weidner concluded, "We had prepared to institute legal action if the grand jury hadn't taken the matter in hand." Jacques Welden, chairman of the county Republican Central Committee, said, "My observation election night was that the Coleman system didn't have adequate power, there were inadequate quarters (the old Penney store on Main Street), inadequate preparation and a lot of stupid errors and lack of com: mon sense." However, he added, his committee is waiting to learn the outcome of second supervisorial district candidate Leo Armstrong's petition to have a recount in his district. CLOSE VOTE Armstrong lost to Alfred Dias by only 726 votes, and the court is to rule on his recount pJ ution next Tuesday. "If there are wide discrepancies in the recount if it is granted then certainly we will take further action," Welden concluded. Associate superintendent of county schools Harold de Fraga said regarding the 1 per cent failure of a vote to unify the Acalanes schools, "We can't do anything at this time but wait and see.

The education code on elections is overruled by the elections code." The unification measure, which would have placed all the elementary schools within the Acalanes Union High School District into the would-be new Acalanes High School District, failed by less than 300 votes. Sen. Miller, who appeared before the grand jury Wednesday night, indicated he would take i no action before the state legislature. NOT IN CODE However, whether he would or not was one of the first questions asked by District Atty. John A.

Nejedly during a break of the grand jury meeting. There now is no provision in in the elections code for a countywide recount of ballots, and consensus in legal circles is that the county is stuck with the official Coleman tally, accurate or not. Speculation was that the county may attempt to have the code changed, retroactive to Nov. 3, so the ballots can be legally recounted and officially recorded. Coleman officials blamed lack of time and power fluctuations for any discrepancies, but maintained that disparities cited are only 1 per cent of the vote, whereas the usual discrepancy in a manual count is about 7 per cent.

Steel Union Wins Right To Unload PITTSBURG The task of unloading U. S. Steel Co. ships bringing partially finished steel billets to the Columbia Geneva Division plaint here has been assigned to steelworkers rather than the International Longshore Workers Union. The National Labor Relations Board ruled in Washington, D.C., today that the ILWU has no claim to the unloading jobs.

The ILWU had claimed juris diction and earlier this year set up pickets at the plant during periods when the' steel company's ship SS Columbia docked here. FROM EAST COAST The Columbia, and a sister ship, the SS Geneva which recently went into service, have been carrying steel billets from a U. S. Steel plant in Pennsylvania to the local plant, where the billets are formed into finished products. Longshoremen pickets halted production at the Pittsburg plant for 48 hours in May in the jurisdictional dispute.

Production and maintenance employes of the steel company, represented by United Steel-workers Union, Local 1440, unload the ships about once every three weeks. OVERRIDING FACTOR The NLRB ruled that the ILWU has no contract with U. S. Steel and added: "We find that there are overriding factors in support of U. S.

Steel's assignment of the disputed work to employes in its existing production and maintenance unit represented by the steelworkers." The NLRB ruling assigned the disputed work "to employes represented by the steelworkers, but not to that labor organization or its members." A U. S. Steel spokesman said the firm is happy to hear that the NLRB has agreed with its stand. The spokesman said details of the ruling could not be discussed since a copy of the document has not yet been received here. States.

Its main plant is at 2224 Market St. Christine; a son, Stanley; two 4niirrtitAic Hire Paloina Vrnnla of Oakland and Mrs. William Penn Atkinson of Danville; a sister, Mrs. Adeline Cardinet Lewis of New York and a brother, George H. Cardinet.

The Albert Brown Mortuary, 3476 Piedmont is in charge of funeral arrangements. On Monday, Dec. 7, and Tuesday, Dec. 8, The Tribune carried stories and photographs describing how Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio attempted to address a crowd of 15,000 immediately after a meeting called by University of California President Clark Kerr at U.C.'s Greek Theatre. In the late editions Dec.

7 a picture caption appeared on Page 15 which said "Police grab Mario Savio as he tries to take microphone from president Clark Kerr at Greek Theatre." On December 7 the page 1 news story correctly stated: "Savio attempted to speak after the meeting was declared closed." He was at first prevented from doing so by police, but later was allowed to make an an nouncement. Although Savio attempted to address the meeting initially without permission, he did not any time try to wrest the microDhone from Kerr, who had already left the podium. The Tribune regrets the error in the photo caption and wishes to correct it. 4 Facing Indictment As Cheats STATELINE, Nev. (UPI) Dist.

Atty. John Chrislaw said today he will seek grand jury indictments against four men accused of trying to cheat a Lake Tahoe casino of $25,000 at keno. Two casino dealers and two California men were arrested in November by sheriff's deputies when an official at Harrah's Tahoe Club reported a candid camera detected their rigged keno ticket. Chrislaw said he will ask the jry to indict them for bunco steering arid swindling. They were Robert W.

Schwart7, 33, of Los Angeles; Melvin W. Cain, 37, San Francisco, and dealers Faul Gornick, 25, and Alexander Harrison, 22, both State'ine. Deputies said Harrison, a keno writer, allegedly sold a blank ticket to the Californians, who waited until the game was finished before they would fill it out with the winning numbers. They would have been in line for the maximum $25,000 payoff, but deputies said they were caught by a hidden camera which photographed the ticket. 3 Months More for Cyprus U.N.

Force i UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. The U.N. Security Council approved unanimously today a recommendation from Secretary-General Thant to extend the life of the U.N. peace force in Cyprus for another three months. The producer had planned to present the $4 million movie at 23 theaters in the metropolitan area during the Christmas holidays.

State Supreme Court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg yesterday upheld the university's con tention that display of the 20th Century Fox film would be an illegal misappropriation of the name and prestige of Notre Dame and its football team. The ban applies also to the book on which the film was based. The university objected particularly to an Arabian harem scene showing the players feasting, drinking and watching scantily clad belly dancers. Heroic Efforts Bv Attendants Cut Death Toii FOUNT AINTOWN, Ind. (AP) Fire roared through a nurs ing home in bitter cold today in.

this central Indiana community, taking a heavy toll among the aged patients. Sixteen bodies were removed from the smouldering ruins of the two-story wooden and concrete-block structure. Two rescued inmates died. persons Heroic work of three attend-' ants at the McGraw Nursing Home saved 15 patients, one oft them burned critically. "None of them wanted to come out.

It was too cold," volunteer fireman Paul Whitting-ton said. i Ambulance driver Meredith Mahan told of patients huddling barefoot in night clothes in 4-above cold. The fire, cause unknown, burst out with little warning. "We smelled smoke," said nurse's aide Fanny Wicker. "Then Frances saw it and screamed, 'Oh God, Fanny, there's a fire! Mrs.

Wicker told of dragging1 out four of the infirm patients1 before firemen refused to let her re-enter the building. Myrtle Donahue, 56, another nurse's aide, was credited with taking out eight patients before she collapsed of smoke inhalation. Taken to Major Hospital in Shelbyville, she refused treatment until she had listed survivors who needed special treatment for diabetes or other illness. Husband Kills Sons And Self SAN JOSE UPi-A San Jose postal employe early today shot and killed two of his sons as they slept, critically wounded two others and then killed himself. Mario C.

Walker left a note saying the shootings were to punish his wife, Maria, who was in the county hospital. Police said she attempted suicide last week. Walker and the four children were found by police in the locked home. Walker's supervisors at the San Jose post office had called police to investigate, worried about Walker's mental condition in recent weeks. Officers found Walker's body on a bedroom floor and on the bed were the bodies of two children, Christopher, Vh years, and Narva Marie, Vh months old.

In two other bedrooms were the wounded sons, Carlos, 8, and Dominic, 3, both with gunshot wounds in the head. At county hospital, their conditions were so critical that doctors doubted they could live. Woman Gets Jail for ManSlaUCftlter I Pauline Goode, 35, was sen tenced to a term of one-to-10 years in prison today for killing Willie Howard 30, on the Fourth of July. Miss Goode, of 3381 Adeline was convicted of voluntary manslaughter Nov. 27.

Founder of Candy Firm, Emile H. Cardinet, Dies Emile H. Cardinet, founder and former president of the Cardinet Candy Co. of Oakland, died yesterday at 82. A native of California, Mr.

Cardinet headed the candy firm beaYing his name from 1904 until 1960, when other members of the family purchased control. The Cardinet line of products is distributed through thousands of outlets throughout 11 Western.