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Line up, Big Sister is here It probably would dent it. But it wouild also throttle the most precious gift America can offer her citizens: individual freedom and privacy. The Knight nightmare is almost identical to the system now in vogue in Russia, whose citizens have had to carry domestic identification for most of the century. Somebody should tell Mrs. Knight that democracy is a system whereby the citizens control the government, not the reverse.

Her idea is repressive and probably impractical anyway. Most of all it is insidious. That it should be raised at this time reflects the political insensitivity of its originator. In the Watergate wash-up, we have been immersed in one spectacular revelation of privacy-invasion after another. The wholesale spying on American citizens, the late FBI Chief J.

Edgar portfolio of dossiers on the behavior habits of the famous, Ma Bell's massive phone taps, are just some ex amples of how our freedoms are being cut away. Most of us are appalled at this official snooping, even if it is dressed up under phony labels such as national security. The last thing we need is to add to this seedy record by demanding that every citizen be treated like a common criminal and outfitted with an ID tag. scrap this idea fast and send Mrs. Knight back to the business of providing Americans with passports to travel abroad.

The scapegoats HOUSE TRYING PAY Freshmen learn the tricks fast WASHINGTON Congressmen have set up machinery to give themselves their second secret pay raise in tour months. It's almost an instant replay ot the move they pulled oil last tall when they gave themselves a $4 million raise lor which they do not have to account lor or report The Star reported the story exclusively Iasi Nov. 9th. By ROGER LANGLEY That was the old Congress. Now the Star has learned that the so-called have greased the way for their own version of the secret pay raise.

A new rule was slipped in unnoticed as part oi their widely-acclaimed House "reform" package rammed through during the first days of the new Congress. The bright-eyed idealists hardly had their bags unpacked before they began thinking about ways to raise their pay. In lact. the deals were made by the Democrats before the Freshmen were even sworn in. Here's how they did it: During the reorganization when veteran committee chairmen were being toppled, only one veteran chairman While on this theme, consider another big hue and cry of the day: the subject of illegal aliens.

Nobody can argue that native Americans should go begging for jobs while illegal outsiders grab the milk and honey. But there is something about the near-hysterical campaign being waged against aliens that smacks of goatism. We have already endured one unhappy episode with Japanese- Americans at the outbreak of World War II. And Hitler liked to blame the Jews for pre-war problems. These are tough times in America today.

But no excuse for us to lose our heads, turn every American into a fingrprinted slave and pour fire on aliens attracted to this country for its freedoms and opportunities. IF Frances G. Knight gets her way in Washington, 220 million Americans will have to start lining up outside the Post Office to be fingerprinted, photographed, numbered, slotted and pigeon-holed in government files. Hail, Big Sister. You are nine years ahead of Big Brother.

Mrs. Knight, head of the State Passport Office, thinks that ID cards, mandatory for everybody, would slash the fraud and crime rate. By FRANK BOURKE LARAMIE, Wyo. A account of contact with beings from outer space and a kidnap voyage aboard a craft from another planet was termed this week by a University of Wyoming psychologist. Dr.

R. Leo Sprinkle, director of counseling and testing at the university, made this conclusion after a thorough evaluation of experiences recounted by Carl Higdon of Rawlins, Wyo. Higdon, 40, is a veteran oil driller for the AM Well Service Co. of Riverton, and his eerie counter with outer space occurred last Oct. 25 while hunting in a secluded area of nearby Medicine Bow National Forest.

Higdon gave the Star this account of that day: "Life has not been the same since I met that out in the woods. I wish the whole thing happened, but since it did, I think my duty to let folks know about it. "People may talk behind my back say going crazy but I swear telling the truth! "Around 4 p.m. I noticed a group of five elk huddled together at a distance of several hundred feet from me, in a clearing. Raising my Magnum rifle and getting one of the animals into my sight, I proceeded to pull the trigger.

"Normally the firing of this type of gun would cause quite a jolt. Therefore, you can imagine my surprise with what took place next. Life is not the same since I met that I NSTEAD of hitting one of the elk with terrific impact, as it should have, the bullet left my rifle very slowly, almost as if it were coming out in slow motion. addition the projectile dropped into the snow only 50 feet away. I thought to myself, can be going Higdon received his answer seconds later.

"Immediately, I sensed a peculiar tingle in the air, like you often feel before an electrical storm quickly, I spotted a standing behind me in the shadows. Gliding silently "At first, I thought he was just another hunter, until my eyes became accustomed to the glare of the bright sunlight on the freshly fallen glided noiselessly toward me. If he had been human, I would certainly have heard his footsteps on the dried twigs and branches which covered the snow. Standing all of six-foot-two, he was dressed in a snug-fitting back jumpsuit. which covered him from the region of the neck to his toes.

"Around his mid-section he wore a belt, in the center of which was a six- pointed star, and a mysterious "He had coarse hair that stood straight CARL I up like bristles on a They were spaced about a half-inch apart. Sticking out from the top of his head were two antenna-like rods. "His face was eerie, because he had no chin his head ran straight into his neck. His eyes were unusually small, and he had no eyebrows. And, while I was in his company for several hours, at no time during this period did I ever see his hands if he had them.

The sleeves of his one-piece garment were long, and in place of hands he seemed to have two tapered, rod-like appendages, which he would point in order to make things move. "It was as if hecould control the forceof gravity with these objects The possibility arises that they may have been part of his The being approached within several feet of where Higdon stood frozen in his tracks. "He asked me if I was hungry, and without waiting for a reply, tossed me a small envelope or packet containing four pills. I took them, although normally I like to take even an aspirin when I know coming down with'a cold. like I was being controlled made to take IGDON kidnaped by spacemen.

HE next thing Higdon remembers is being inside a craft, which moments later lifted from the ground and apparently transported him to another world, somewhere in the limitless void of outer space. "I recall noticing this transparent object presumably the ship in which my new friend had arrived resting on the ground a short distance from where we met. "All I know is that he pointed his at me and zap! before I knew what hit me, we were inside this strange contraption, with the five elk all paralyzed and off in a separate compartment. "Also on board were two additional beings. "Without any audible sound, we lifted off into the air.

I was told we were going to their home planet, some 163,000 light years distance. Together, the three of them placed a helmet upon my head, which had wires sticking out in all directions. "It was fastened to my head with a strap under the chin. They never explained what the purpose of doing this was. "Shortly thereafter my conception of.