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DESERET NEWS, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 21 1973 A3 oar is a doer and a digger neuv profile OUR READERS' ACTION LINE i Dal 364 8626 or wnte to Do It Man. Bo 1 257. Salt Lake City, Utah United Press Internationa! John Doar, who calmed a crowd of angry demonstrators in Jackson, in 1965, faces an assignment as tough if not as physically dangerous in the House Judiciary Committee's presidential impeachment inquiry. Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, D-N picked Doar Thursday to supervise the investigation.

He was the best fact man I ever knew, said Deputy Assistant Attorney General Frank Dunbar, who worked under Doar in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. He turned to others for legal theories. John would go out and dig up the facts." Dunbar recalled Dears disregard for traditional working hours and insistence on being on the scene instead of buried in law books. He would be out interviewing people before breakfast and long after dark, Dunbar said. He taught us to go into court houses and go through the records and dig up the facts.

He worked our tails off. Doar worked on voting rights cases after Company pursuing joining the division in the summer i960 he was an of GOP President Dwight D. Eisenhower and had them in full swing when the John F. Kennedy administration began in January, 1961. Dunbar recalled that Attorney General Robert F.

Kennedy asked Doar to follow up action v.ith a defense lawyer for cotton gin operators in Lake Providence, who were refusing the cotton of a black farmer because he had testified at a New Orleans hearing or the Civil Rights Commission. The casa had attracted Kennedy's personal attention. Dunbar said Kennedy reached agreement by telephone with Louisiana Gov. Jimmy Davis and gave Doar his travel orders at about 8:00 p.m. Instead of waiting until the next morning to make an airline reservation, Doar took a night flight to New Orleans and chartered a plane to Lake Providence.

UFi Teteoboto John Doar, impeachment counsel. step-by-step solution In Jane, 1978, 1 bought auto insurance from Sanborn's Mexican Insurance Service In McAllen, Tex. The contract called for premiums on a per day basis with a refund to be gfien for any period of time paid for but unused. I notified them of the unused time In several letters but have received neither money nor a reply. 1 should have about $20 back.

Can you help? M.G.L., Salt Lake City. Apparently youll have to accept a solution in steps first a letter and then (hopefully) some money. We did get a letter from Sanborns. They dont deny you have a refund, but say its difficult to determine how much because its been such a long time. They are attempting to reconstruct things so you can get the money.

They say theyll pursue it. We take it this means theyll let you know, and us too, about the next step. Excuses, then refund I ordered a karate book from Martial Arts Supply Los Angeles, in September and after waiting two months they sent me a packing slip. I waited another two weeks thinking the book was coming under separate cover. I wrote to them and never received an answer.

I want either the book or a refund. Can you help? P.W., Salt' Lake City. Their letter of response emphasized in numbered paragraphs tiiat the packing slip represented receipt of the order and that the book was back ordered. They stressed they were behind in their orders and correspondence. They pointed out that the book was still out of stock.

Why they bothered with such lengthy excuses we dont know, because they closed their letter with the statement that you were receiving a refund check and they were canceling your order. Would you paint a great hero sitting fourth from the left I -4 -1 He was waiting at the lawyer's door the next morning, Dunbar sail. "That kind of action made Kennedy feel Doar should stay around." Doar was appointed head of the Civil Rights Division in 1965. He was in the thick of Justice Department action on events involving racial violence in the South. He was at the freedom rides in Montgomery, and the desegregation of the University of Alabama in 1963.

In June, 1963, he walked alone into a crowd of angry demonstrators in Jackson, following the funeral of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers and persuaded the crowd to disperse. In 1963 Doar received the Presidents Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service. He left the Justice Department in 1967 and has most recently been with the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. in New York City. He was bom in Minneapolis, on Dec.

3, 1921. served as a second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps 1944-56, graduated from Princeton University in 1946 and the University of California law school in 1949, and was in private law practice in New Richmond, Wise. 1950-60. Doar said today it might not be necessary to show President Nixon had committed criminal offenses as a prerequisite to impeaching him. Rodino added he hoped for a preliminary report from Doar when Congress reconvenes Jan.

21. Rodino set a target date of late March or early April to complete committee hearings. Doar. appearing with Rodino on the NBC-TY Today Show, said he had not made up his mind whether it would be necessary to show Nixon had committed criminal acts, but "a considerable body of (legal) authority says it does not have to be a criminal offense to justify impeachment An impeachment proceeding, he said, is not a criminal trial although many of the elements of fairness" of a trial have to have a place in impeachment and the judiciary committee will see that they do have a place." The appointment of Doar advanced the pace of the House impeachment procedure. House Republican Leader John Rhodes.

said that if the House voted for impeachment, Nixon should consider resigning rather than face trial by the Senate. Rhodes told a grouj) of reporters Thursday he felt it was likely the Judiciary Committee, with its Democratic majority, would call for impeachment. Vice President Gerald R. Ford indigated he would lobby with his former House colleagues against impeachment although he said he saw a tremendous falling oft in public pressure for either Nixons impeachment or his resignation. SORRY, NO SHREDDER: The House Administration Committee, keeper of House supplies, has told the Judiciary Committee it cannot have a Destroyit Superspeed paper shredder for its impeachment inquiry.

Rep. Wayne L. Hays, D-Ohio, chairman of the administration panel, turned down a request for the machine from Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter W. Rodino. He said: "Reference is made to your request of Dec.

14, 1973, to purchase a Destroyit Superspeed series 52AM paper shredder for use by your committee. I have been under the impression that, your committee was going to investigate paper shredding and possibly other activities hiding public business for the public rather than to obtain a shredder and shredding on its own. The request is not approved. jrnmm Mini do-its Spencer Gifts, Atlantic City, N.J., is processing a replacement order for H.G., Salt Lake City. The U.S.

Government Printing office has informed G.H., Salt Lake City, that his booklet on FCC rules will be delayed because the office is swamped with orders. D.A., Brigham City, has received a form to fill out from Foster House, Peoria, 111., so they can make an adjustment on a chair sent back; for exchange. M.M., Salt Lake City, is receiving a refund check from Martial Arts Supplies, Los Angeles, for part of an order placed in August and never received. The Capi- talist Reporter, New York, has informed E.G., Salt Lake City, that a book he ordered in October will not be delivered until January and may get a refund at that time if he is not satisified with the book. Conley News Sendee WASHINGTON CROSSING STATE PARK, Bucks County, Pa.

Upwards of 13,000 people leave their Christmas celebrations and warm hemes each year to watch the annual reenactment on Christmas Day of the crossing of the Delaware by George Washington to defeat the sleeping Hessian mercenaries of the British army. This year will be the 197th anniversary of the crossing and the 21st successive time that St. John Terrell has played the role of Washington, sailing the river with two boatloads of costumed local people. The crossing reenactment promises to be one of the highlights of the bicentennial celebration when Terrell hopes to lead a march of 2,000 youngsters from the Jersey side of the Delaware to the barracks Washington captured in Trenton, New Jerseys capital. Although he is George Washington only for one hour a year, from 2 p.m.

to 3 every Christmas Day, the portrayal has grafted itself into his daily life. Hanging on the walls of Terrells home are pictures and real signatures of the great man, and of some of the famous patriots who rowed with Washington across the and demanded, What are you going to do, Dad? Realizing the hazard if someone fell in the freezing Delaware, Terrell cheerfully said, Merry Christmas, and the redcoats let him pass. Since then, Washington State Park Commission officials have had a patrol boat to thwart any ambushes, and lots of police on hand. Terrell feels that the reenactment and exhibition of Leutzes painting at Washington Crossing have helped reestablish the canvas as a genuine work of art at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it was once kept in the basement. The Metropolitan demanded it back in 1970 after loaning it to the state park for many years, and a copy had to be made.

The critics used to say it was bad art; that the sun was in the wrong place; that Washington wouldnt have stood up in the boat. Also, the stars and stripes Li the picture werent adopted until a year after the crossing. Another criticism was that youd never see ice that big in the Delaware. (Leutze actually painted the picture in Germany and used the Rhine for inspiration.) But Ive seen ice like that when weve made a crossing. In any case, the people like it He is six feet one and 180 pounds, compared to Washingtons six feet three inches and 220 pounds.

Terrell acts the part the way that Emanuel Leutze painted it, standing heroically up in the boat despite historical doubters of the stance with bent knee forward, a foot braced on a seat, and eyes fixed intensely on the horizon of destiny. How else would you paint a great folk hero? he reasons. If he were sat down among the others in the boat, you would have to say he is fourth from the left. Terrell has had a taste of the suspense that Washington must have felt, a fear that something might go wrong during the crossing. One time he had car trouble and nearly missed the boat.

Once the boat froze in the ice. We finally got it loose and there was a big roar of applause from the crowd. Our most hair-raising experience was an occasion when the boat started leaking badly. Our knees were wet and we were bailing as fast as we could. We were supposed to land at a special place for a reception on the Jersey side, but I told them to land anywhere as quickly as possible.

And there was the time when four boatloads of teenagers dressed as redcoats sailed up to Terrells boat in HAMM. tthm: Editor's Note: We're sorry the volume of colls ond moil moke it impossible to answer every Question. Please, no medical or lego! Question. Answers con only be given in this column. Give vour ncme, address and-, telephone number (not for publication) to help Oo-lt-Mon help you.

OUR MAN JOHES St. John Terrell is George Washington in reenactment. 0 ,0 tf midstream, fired a carbide cannon and challenged, God save the king. Terrells son, Bart, who was. seated beside him, looked up By Harry Jones Deseret News staff writer Note to Weber County people: Please pay your auto taxes to my friend Bruce Jenkins, your county as- sessor.

He will see that it gets into the nght till. Jack Anderson The foul-ups go on and on The reason I mention it at all is on account of the in- structions that went out. For the first time, Weber County people can get their plates by mail. The county folks copied the forms from the one used down here in our valley. Salt Lake County has been W- fering the service for some time.

They did a fair job of conversion of the forms with one minor exeption. I think its minor. The part that says to mail your check to the Salt Lake County Assessors office. 1 Thats wrong. You mail it to Eruce Jenkins, the Weber County Assessors office.

Repeat mail it to the Weber; County office! ED KNUTTIS MOM, who lives with him up on Second South, spent several months crocheting something for the- people in Sunlite Manor nursing home. Everyone of the patients got a handmade gift. Mrs. Knutti walked over there with the gifts last night. Thats not the item.

The item is that Mrs. Knutti will be 94 years old soon! GOT A CARD FROM MY FRIEND D. L. an old friend from Cedar City. Hes led an interesting and likes to look back.

He reports that news of Amtrac pos-1 sibly running from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles reminded him of some ancient history. TTie first line was the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, or the SP, LA, SL RR. Or, the Siow Pull, Loose Action and So Late Railroad. der signal, which is a little like a blind man losing his seeing-eye dog. Desperately, the Pentagon hotshots aimed their radio beams back on the old Model satellites, which may not have been fancy but which at least worked.

Unhappily, the internal clock also worked and began cutting off the signals. The silencing mechanism, which should have been controlled from the ground, automatically caused the satellites to go mute. Humiliated, the Pentagon people are now obliged to use NATO satellites until a third system is ready for launching. Our sources say the next satellites may also be scientific monstrosities which, out of sheer complexity, could easily go on tlie blink. This fascination with aloft a family of sturdy, if primitive, communications satellites.

These provided the military with an alternate channel for vital messages. Built into the satellite system was an internal clock, which was set to silence the signals after more sophisticated satellites would be ready to replace the old models. The purpose of the silencing mechanism was to prevent excessive space static. The new satellites, with their intricate workings, were scientific wonders. They were blasted, with pride and precision, into space.

The only trouble was that they didnt work right. One staggered in space like a holiday drunk while the Pentagon signalmen frantically tried to fix their antennae on it. Another lost its transpon WASHINGTON The government has wasted millions on sophisticated communications equipment that has failed and the responsible officials have swept their mistakes under the secrecy stamp. Last February, we broke through the tight security and exposed some of the costly communications goofs. These failings contributed to such disasters as the sinking of the spy ship Liberty by the Israelis in 1967 and the capture of the spy ship Pueblo by the North Koreans in 1968.

Now here is another fascinating installment. Like our first story, this gives away no legitimate secrets but merely exposes mistakes the government has tried to hide. About eight years ago, for example, the Pentagon sent delicate equipment also fouled up our secret communications during the Vietnam war. Security no longer restricts us from telling about the two Autodin, written-message communications systems, which the Pentagon established in Vietnam. Each Autodin required total air conditioning, a dust-tight building and protection from both the power surges that bum out circuits and the power lapses that give its computers amnesia.

These Autodin systems simply werent designed for Vietnams rugged climate and combat conditions. Result: It took the Defense Department nine months to set them up and to get them working right, instead of the few hours that a proper strategic system should require. Although $5 million was spent on the delicate workings, failures sometimes blocked important CIA messages and the frustrated spies were compelled to use nonsecure telephone lines. When U.S. forces withdrew from Vietnam, they didnt want to leave the two autodinosaurs behind.

They were both too complicated and too secret be entrusted to the South Vietnamese. So the secret orders went out to cannibalize one for parts and to ship out the other intact. This operation cost far more, say our sources, than the equipment is worth. Wed have done better to blow them1 up, one Pentagon cost expert told my associate Les Whitten. (C) 1973, United Fee tyre Svndtceie Inc Ecology movement losing ground IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR: Travelers Insurance Company in San Francisco mailed out a calender to a poli- cy holder here in our beautiful state.

It was returned the I other day with a notation from the Post Office, Sendee unknown. Thats not the item either. The item is, and Im in trouble with Lie Postal people again, that the calendar was a 1940 job and was mailed in November of 1939. MARY JOHNSON, who lives up north of Ogden-was in Mexico recently for a sunny vacation. It was before the energy crisis was making the big news.

She saw some beautiful furniture made by Indian carpenters and wanted to purchase six for her dining 'room; First she priced one chair. Then she priced six chairs. She did some quick figuring in her head. The six; chairs cost more than if she bought them individually. In Utah, if you buy more than one, they are much cheaper, she said to the craftsman.

I If I make more than one, I must charge more. It is so dull making six chairs alike, he said. Mary reminds me of the joke that is dated back tot vaudeville. My furniture goes back to Louis the 14th. And, the answer, Thats nothing.

Mine goes bade tot Sears on the 16th. Whats given you the idea that its been a long day? WITS END: Within 26 years, aO oar energy will come from the snn. Wouldnt you know It. The Arabians have! more son than we do! In Congress, the fight for cleaner air has lost ground. Since coal is more plentiful than oil, the government is allowing plants to reconvert to coal from oil or delay planned conversions to oil, meaning the air will be dirtier.

-Strip miring, a glaring example of land exploitation, is now getting support as the quickest, best way to expand coal production and ease the oil shortage. The need for changes is not argued by environmentalists; the matter of degree is. WASHINGTON (UPI) The energy crisis is threatening to stall, if not stop, the environmental movement even before it has gained any appreciable momentum. One after another, hard-won gains of environmentalists are being gutted, or shunted aside, ecologists claim. The Alaska pipeline has been given the go-ahead.

-The Interior Department is reported ready to allow more oil drilling in the canta Barbara, channel, site of one of the nations more dramatic examples of the damage caused by an oil spill. UHl Teieoftoto Windy City where else? Chicago's off icial Christmas tree in the Civic Center Plaid oppears to be wavering in the breeze. The trick effect was achieved by moving the camera from side to side while panning the subject from top to bottom with the traveling lease of special camera..