The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 4

Friday Finishers On Divorces a Cave-Ins nd real gold in them thar hills still lies in recreation. WE'RE BEING VIRTUALLY ignored in the general spread of the population westward. Montana's population has gone up only 2.9 per cent since 1960, estimates the U.S. Census Bureau, while Wyoming's has decreased the same amount. Idaho is up 7V2 per cent.

The Pacific Coast states are up more than 10 per cent. Which may not be a disaster. While the rest of the nation is struggling with the problems of a rapidly increasing population we have time before our turn comes. But it will come. We had better plan on it.

THE REV. CARL Mc-INTIRE, the fundamentalist radio preacher, has demanded that the National Council of Churches pay $3 billion in "reparations" to ment and set national goals for health. It will probably end up in a report which only a bureaucrat can interpret, and then only to his own desires. Before they start may we suggest a goal which we always thought was the purpose of health care and which is suitable for everyone: "A healthy mind in a healthy body." WATER HAS UNDERCUT Virginia Lane at Parkhill Drive to the point where Alderman Don Baker says there could be a cave-in at any time. He has urged that the City Council authorize repairs and safety work at the intersection.

Billings streets have been problems for some time. But this will be the first chuckhole that could really swallow a car. Let's hope no one has to pitch in to get it fixed. He says the liberal social gospel of secular activism has robbed fundamentalism of its institutions. His request is for the same amount that James Forman asked from U.S.

churches as compensation for slavery. Which just goes to show that nothing is either all black, or all white. THE ONCE-DIVORCED governor of California Ronald Reagan, has signed a bill to simplify the state's divorce law. The new law does away with traditional grounds for divorce in favor of incurable insanity and ir-reconciliable differences. But perhaps the most far-seeing provision is that it does away with the necessity for blaming the man or the wife for the marriage's failure.

Montana might follow California's lead. Modern marriage is a complex tangle of needs and relationships far from those tradition The Bastille has once again fallen to an irate citizenry. The Bastille in this case was a government agency and the reason for its fall was the Pryor wild horse herd. Secretary of the Interior Walter J. Hickel has accepted recommendations of a special advisory committee, formed following citizen protests, to adopt management practices to maintain at least 100 of the horses on the range.

It is a great victory in the fight to save the last vestiges of the romantic Old West. Viva, Les Citoyens! AN INCREASED PRICE of gold hasn't done much for Montana's gold camps, says Uuno H. Sahinen, director of the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology in Butte. There just aren't enough deposits left rich enough to work, he says. Which may be to say that the ally associated with it.

Divorce, therefore, becomes enough of a tragedy without making it a battle over who is to blame. If two people cannot live together in the pressures of modern society, there is no reason they should have to create charges to separate. It's much easier on them, their children, friends and families, if they at least remain friends. THERE'S Anew movement on the campuses to increase "the conscious capacity of the mind." Meditation is being taught by the Students' International Meditation Society with headquarters near UCLA. It's a physical process geared to teach the mind to think.

Which we thought was the purpose of education all along. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, has called for a new National Health Policy to coordinate health functions of the govern Change Streets At Once Page of Opinion Ours Theirs Yours BETTER GET SOME STORY READY-HERE COMES OUR MILITANT WHITE CONGREGATION! Tale of Deceit In Tonkin Gulf The proposal of changing streets from two-way to one-way is to be done in phases. Phase 1 is to make 6th Avenue North one-way from the east city limits going west to 32nd Street and 4th Avenue North one-way going east from 33rd Street to the city limits. Phase 2 affects Grandview, Poly Drive and 30th Street North.

Phase 3 affects almost all downtown streets, every street being one-wav. Suppose phase 1 is passed and phases 2 or 3 never get passed. This is a disadvantage to anyone doing business on 6th or 4th now. We don't believe we have any traffic problem but the public as a whole may disagree. If the public convinces the City Councilmen of one-way streets we feel it is only fair for all downtown that the phases be done at once or not at all.

If we are to be hurt let us cry together or not at all. SINCE HEARING of these proposals we have made a point to ask many people how they feel about it and the biggest complaints are about Grand Avenue. Did you ever get behind someone making a left turn off Grand and you can turn left at any street? Since some do feel we have to move traffic, then they should also consider no left hand turns on Grand Avenue. We all spend a great deal of time worrying about traffic when the greatest complaint we hear are those of the condition of our streets. The people of Billings could save themselves a great deal of money if they would take time to check what it costs them for front end alignments, new shock absorbers, wheel balancing, mufflers, tires and fixing rattles caused by rough streets, bad curbs and gutters.

If we have money to spend, lets do first things first and spend it on fixing the streets before we look at one-way streets. Show your interest by writing the City Council or by attending the City Council meeting Sept. 22. Tom Cockrell 607 N. 30th St.

cams nr trfvA lo tssiti is Joy allegedly took place, but in all probability never did). "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there," the President privately admitted later, in one of the many astonishing revelations in this book. His administration did not produce a single member of the two ships' crews, including their commanders, who could testify that North Vietnam ships fired on the U.S. vessels that dark night of Aug. 4.

THE CLOSEST MOMENT of peril came when Seaman Patrick Park, the Maddox so-narman, was ordered to press a button that would have fired six five-inch guns into a supposed enemy target, which turned out to be the sister-ship. "Just before I pushed the trigger," Park said afterwards, "I suddenly realized, 'That's the Turner THIS LIVELY BOOK actually becomes tiresome in listing and exposing all the deceits of Johnson and the yes-men liars around him. The Maddox was not on a "routine patrol" but was an electronic spyship. The Communists had every reason for supposing it was a decoy for South Vietnam raids simultaneously being carried on in other ships supplied by the U.S. Navy.

The retaliation bombing of North Vietnam took place while Johnson was still frantically trying to get "proof" that the non-attacks on the Maddox and Turner Joy had been real attacks. It is a sorry story. It involves high-ranking Navy officers, as well as their commander-in-chief and Defense Secretary. It is a book that should have been written and published, for the sake of shameful truth. But I can't imagine how Senator Fulbright, writing on Foreign Relations Committee stationery and signing himself "chairman," could call it "fitting" reading for the Fourth of July.

By HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON, D.C.- For years our U.S. Navy has been in a streak of bad luck, and a just-published book about Tonkin Gulf indicates how remorselessly misfortune rides the waves. Worse, this book by Joseph Goulden, "Truth Is The First Casualty," has given inordinate delight to a couple of unilateral disarmament buffs, Senators Bill Fulbright and Frank Church. "It was a fitting book for me to read over the Fourth of July," says Fulbright in a mash-note to the publisher. "Thank you (Rand McNally and Mr.

Goulden," gurgled Church in a similar letter. WHY ANY AMERICAN should be happy over such terrible events, I just dunno. It's a book to make the angels weep. I think they must have begun sobbing for the Bay of Pigs (a Navy officer was President then), and kept right on moaning for the USS Liberty, the USS Pueblo, the Navy EC-121 and so much else that has gone wrong in the Stressful Sixties. Joe Goulden, the author, shudders, to do him credit, as he tells the wretched tale of what happened to the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy during the first week of August, 1964.

These two destroyers became a pair of pawns in one of the crookedest chess-games ever played on the international board. To begin with, President Johnson needed a pretext to get what was described as the "functional equivalent" of a declaration of war out of Congress. The document, later the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of Aug. 5, 1964, had been drafted by McGeorge Bundy back in June. It was quickly updated between Aug.

2 (after a flea-bit attack on the Maddox) and Aug. 4 (when attacks on the Maddox and the Turner Business Key to FTC Boss Sock It to 'Em Get Recreation Going By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON President Nixon is reported to be looking for another reluctant regulator to head the Federal Trade Commission, which is supposed to protect the consumers. The President apparently wants a chairman who will placate consumers without being too hard on corporations. As discreetly as possible, Nixon has been filling vacancies on the regulatory agencies with reluctant regulators who can be depended upon to keep his campaign promise to business- MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES TOOTHER AREAS THAN MONTANA, WYOMING NORTH DAKOTA With Without men to reduce government controls. Some, however, are becoming altogether too cozy with the businessmen they are supposed to regulate.

Result: A Windfall State is beginning to emerge in the place of the Welfare State that Republican regulars love to decry. Certain business leaders have been grumping lately about the Federal Trade Commission's crackdown on corporate mergers. One FTC target, for instance, is Litton Industries, whose Ash, happens to be chairman of a Presidential advisory committee. He is known to have expressed his annoyance with the FTC around the White House. The President, therefore, is trying to find a new chairman who will be acceptable to the business community.

Two prospects whose names have been recommended to the White House are Washington lawyer-lobbyist David Murchi-son and Gov. Ronald Reagan's consumer adviser, Kay Valory. The FTC's lone Republican commissioner, Mary Gardiner Jones, would seem to be in line for the chairmanship. But she has shown an inclination to protect the consumers and to overhaul the bureaucratic machinery, which makes businessmen uneasy. Before President Nixon was sworn in, Miss Jones wrote him a blunt letter, dated last Dec.

16, proposing some sweeping FTC reforms "to reverse the rising tide of criticism of its bureaucratic ineptitude." Miss Jones later talked to White House Aide John Ehr-lichman in more detail about her ideas for reforming the FTC. Her warnings have now been echoed by Commissioner Phil Elman in a report to Sen. Ted Kennedy and by an American Bar Association committee in a study for President Nixon. But being right, apparently, isn't enough. The new chairman must also be right for big business.

Sunday Sundav $24.00 $1200 1500 7.50 8.00 Sunday One Year 127.00 Six Months 17.00 Three Months 9.00 "County-City Commission the total amount of indebtedness not to exceed three per cent of the value of taxable property of the I believe those wrestling with the problem of parks, playgrounds, and recreation will recognize, had this bill become law, we could have taken the problem of acquiring recreational facilities and developing programs off dead center. I feel the recreational program for youth and adults for the state, counties, and cities, is too important to let stand stuck in the mud of antiquated state laws, and possibly should again be made a goal of the next legislative session. Herb Klindt Senator, Yellowstone County members would be selected from the various agencies of local government for the purpose of "acquire gifts, grants, purchase, lease, or condemnation, lands or facilities within or without the limits of corporate, municipalities for parks, playgrounds, recreational areas, swimming pools, athletic fields, skating rinks, museums, zoos, golf courses camps, multi-purpose buildings for civic centers, field houses, gymnasiums, youth center, libraries, reading and meeting rooms. "And to furnish and equip and to manage and control the same, including establishment by resolution of reasonable and uniform charge for the privilege of using This Bill further granted This bill was blocked by a Senator from Glasgow, its chief opponent, and defeated on Senate floor. HAVING WORKED in the physical education and recreational field for many years I have always felt that Montana is far behind in developing proper recreational programs for both youth and adults, and the programs now in existence are not effective because of lack of coor-dinationand duplication of effort by all agencies of both state and local agencies of government.

State laws often make it impossible to finance good programs and provide suitable facilities. Senate Bill No. 119 would have corrected this situation as it would have allowed each county to establish a Park and Recreation Commission, whose All agencies of local government are greatly handicapped by present state laws in providing and procuring recreational areas and conducting programs. This is clearly being heard by reports on surveys by Billings Park Board, and Mayor Hult-gren's statement of the possibility of "going to 60-mill all purpose levy next year." During the last session of the Legislature I drafted Senate Bill No. 119 to establish a state division of Recreation and Physical Education empowering a director to develop recreational programs for cities and towns, granting the establishment of County Boards of Park and Recreational Commissions, for the purpose of coordinating, developing, unifying, financing and supervising joint local government recreation.

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