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2 PAMPA DAILY NtWS Pampa, Texas 68th Year Wednesday. Oct. 2, 1074 Che flampa Daily Neurs A Watchful Newspaper EVER STRIVING FOR THE TOP O' TEXAS TO BE AN EVEN BETTER PLACE TO LIVE Our Capsule Policy The Pampa is dedicated to furnishing information to our renders so that they can better promote and preserve their own freedom and encourage others to see its blessing. Only when man is free to control himself and all he produces can he develop to his utmost capability. The News believes each and every person would get more satisfaction in the long run if he were permitted to spend what he earns on a volunteer basis rather than having part of it distributed involuntarily.

Great Sugar Mystery With the price of sugar bouncing around from $1.00 to $2 for a five pound bag, Fidel Castro has the best thing going for him since the Bay of Pigs. Cuba is estimated to have 1.5 milion to 2 million tons of sugar for the world market. At $600 a ton, Castro can rake in $1 billion to $,1 billion That's a lot of sugar. will finance a lot of imports Writing for North American Newspaper Alliance, Virginia Prewetl notes that the Cuban regime is now in a position to bid for Venezuelan oil. Ironically, Castro's first and strongest subversive drive in the early 1960s was against Venezuela.

Having the means to obtain oil from that nearby source will relieve a major drain on Russian oil supplies and Soviet shipping. The price of sugar, of course, is related to the Cyclamate cancer scare of 1969. The artificial sweetner was becoming popular and was under heavy attack from Ihe Washington sugar lobby. Americans consume an average of 125 pounds of sugar per person per year. Multiply that by the 200 million population, and it figures out to 25 billion pounds or 12.5 million tons.

At $600 a ton, the total annual consumption reaches $7.5 billion. One pound of cyclamate is the equivalent in sweetness of 30 pounds of sugar. At the lime it was banned, the price was 60cents a pound. The removal order was issued by then Secretary of Health. Kducation and Welfare Robert Finch At that time, Finch said, "In the strongest possible term that we have no evidence at this point thai Cyclamles have indeed caused cancer to humans In 1972, Sen Mark Hatfield, Ore pointed out that the scientific tests conducted on Cyclamate were flimsy "The adverse findings in laboratory animals showed that ill effects, on an equivalent basis, in hurnans would require the consumption of about 875 bottles of dietetic drink per day." Subsequently, the inventor of cyclamate.

Dr. Michael Sveda, said that the tests conducted by the National Academy of Sciences were defective. Re examination of the evidence had revealed the testing laboratory had not fed Cyclamate exclusively to the rats, but in combination with saccharine and another substance. However, according to Sveda, the tests were not designed for cancer but were a long range check for toxicity. Here we see a chain of events that illustrate how questionable evidence of a scientific character, quickly accepted as the basis for law by a government agency, catered to a private interest and reacted contrary to this country's interest.

Good Cause To Steal? For years, various citizens have charged thai the Federal Reserve System is a method for siphoning buying power from earners, lo share holder owned banks. So far as the public is concerned, Ihe case is hard to make because monetization is an obscure art form, rarely a topic in salon or saloon. The general idea is that the government trades paper bonds to a Federal Reserve bank For paper dollars that the bank bought from the government for less than a cent each. The bank then draws bond interest from the taxpayers while the government spends the paper dollars in the marketplace. In other words, ordinary individuals have to work for their dollars, but the governmenl and Federal Reserve banks merely manipulate paper.

The shuffle is dazzling. If you don't understand it the first time around, don't blame yourself. Few do understand it. But here is an item from the Federal Reserve System that is closer to home pennies With silver coins vanished from circulation, people are looking for some degree of reality to their money, so they are saving pennies. As a consequence many businesses are hard put to make change.

More than 30 billion pennies have dropped from sight. To get them back, Ihe Federal Reserve banks are attempting to organize a movement among schoolchildren to turn in their parents' coins. The propaganda is an eye opener. Issued from the Los Angeles branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Franciso. the publicity release begins: "If your kids burgle their piggy banks or embezzle pennies from the family sugar bowl this week, don't feel you're getting short changed It's thievery for a good cause, according to te Federal Reserve Bank of San Franciso Hal the insistence of FRS.

children are induced to take up "thievery for a good cause" and if a child turns in $5 or more in pennies, he will receive an individually inscribed certificate signed by the Secretary of the Treasury and the director of the S. That's the gist of the system stealing for a good cause and trading paper fur melal of intrinsic worth. DUNAGIN'S PEOPLE I JUST 6AIP 'PARPON ME, MR HE HE UJOUIP HAVE TO TrtlKJK. IT 'People Who Live In Glass, By VIC GOLD WASHINGTON If Sen. Robert Byrd is really as concerned about conflicts of interest in government as he indicated during his righteous inquisition of Vice President designate Nelson Rockefeller, why doesn't the Democratic gentleman from West Virginia lake a good look around the glass house in which he works? Meaning, the United States Congress, both branches.

Our lawmakers, you see. are not obliged to divest themselves of outside holdings or put their stocks inlo blind trusts on taking office Far from it. As a result, Capitol Hill is Ihe site of an inlreprencurial phenomenon known as the Tuesday to Thursday Club. Those are the shutlle riding Senators and Congressmen who can be found in their Washington offices only during midwceks. They spend Mondays and Fridays tending to private law practices and businesses in their home states and districts.

Having heard Sen. Byrd's opinion on the question of potential conflicts of inlerest involving Vice Presidents and other executive branch appointees, you'd think this sort of thing, occurring right under his nose, would have been ferreted and stamped out long since. After all, Byrd, as we know, is one of Catitol Hill's strongest advocates of equal application of laws lo all men, regardless of stalus. Indeed, only a few weeks ago, following President Ford's signing of the Nixon pardon, the West Virginia Senator was among the most vociferous critics deploring a double standard of justice, even in the case of ex Presidents. The same zealous egalitarian spirit manifested itself when Byrd and other members of the Senate Rules Committee questioned Rockefeller last week.

The West Virginian kept bearing down on the possibility thai the Vice President designate's large financial holdings might influence his approach to public policy decisions. In other words. Byrd implied, if Vice President Rockefeller had to choose between enhancing his own personal financial interest or the larger national interest, how could he guarantee he wouldn't come down on the side of lining his own pockets? A degrading question to ask a man four times elected to the governorship of one of the country's biggest states? Some might think so. But post Watergate, that kind of inquisition is considered de rigucur by many Capitol Hill Democrats It's nasty, but necessary to protect the integrity of our political system, they say. That being the case, however, why shouldn't the same standard be applied across the board to all branches of federal Which is why I'm hopeful now that as a single standard public servant Sen.

Byrd will use his power and influence on the Hill to push the following modest proposal: That we extend our conflict of interest laws, which now cover members of the executive branch and judges, to include Senators nad Congressmen. In oiher words, let Ihe same standards apply to the people who make our laws as govern those who execute and judge them. A modest proposal, as I say Not really too much to ask of single standard lawmakers But you know something'' For all the verbal posturing of recent weeks. I have serious doubts that anything like it would ever get through Congress Call it skepticism if you will But modest as the proposal is. 1 wouldn't even if 1 had what Nelson Rockefeller has bet any money that Robert Byrd and his colleagues will see the need of a single standard conflict of interest law applied to themselves any time soon Potomac Fever A Senate panel voted 7-0 to reject Ford's request to defer federal raises That honeymoon already needs a marriage counselor.

OUTRIDER The Forgiveness Binge "Whatta dey expect? Ya gotta steal twice as much to get by these days!" INSIDE LABOR Just Who Is Cesar Chavez? By VICTOR RIESEL NEW YORK-Who is this Cesar Chavez whose people picket brotherhood? Who is ths Cesar Chavez whose people invaded a banquet of the National Conference of Christians and Jews peacefully gathered to honor a man who has labored in these concrete vineyards for fraternity among the races and amity among the many religions? Who is the Cesar Chavez, criticism of whom brings down upon the critic tidal waves of intellectual terror and some physical pushing around as well? Sure he is president of the AFL-ClO's United Farm Workers. But is he more equal than the rest of us? The farm workers and their allies are on the attack. They are assailing the big Teamsters union, charging it with having illegally siezed field pickers' contracts covering some 50,000 California workers (Chicanos, Portuguese and Arabs as well as some blacks and whites) from the UFW. The forces of the slim, open collared, charismatic Chavez who are now being intensely trained for the revived campaign for the boycott of table grapes, lettuce and Gallo wines are spreading out across the land in front of the big retail chain outlets. They have the support of big unions such as Al Shanker's teachers.

Now their subsidies come mostly from the $10,000 a week donated by Leonard Woodcock's auto workers. Chavez's organizers are fanning out across Western Europe, sucessfully winning the support from powerful transport unions and laborite municipal and naitonal governments. Chavez has tackled the U.S. government, charging a conspiracy between the Immigration and Naturalization (INS) and the Teamsters has resulted in the illegal inflow of alien Mexican workers into the U.S. to take jobs from his members, break his strike and smash his boycott.

This has been sharply rejected and denied by INS commissioner Leonard Chapman. And of course by the Teamsters. But why picket the Conference of Christians and Jews as Chavez's people did the other night? Because the crusading conference was honoring Robert F. Longacre, president of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, Inc. that's why.

Its stores sell "double horse" lettuce the symbol is the traditional Teamsters Crossword By Eugene Sheffer ACROSS 1 Entrance 5 The law thing 8 Shark 12 Banter 14 European river 15 British lift 16 Russian communities 17 Harvest goddess 18 Goober 20 Stone pillar (var.) 23 Inclination 24 Fairy 25 Religious singers 28 Donkey 29 Dull finish 30 One of the Caroline islands 32 Spanish gentlemen 34 Rail bird 35 Greek letters 36 Rich fabric 37 Maintenance 40 Daughter of Loki 41 Await settlement 42 Found the mean of 47 To the sheltered side 48 Great misfortune 49 Germ 50 Tree 51 fixe Avg. solution DOWN 1 Honest one 2 Any split pulse 3 Fish 4 Game like bagatelle 5 Rodents 6 Self 7 Large snakes 8 Love apple 9 War god 10 City in Indiana 11 Formerly (archaic) 13 California city time: 23 min. Answer to yesterday's puzzle. 19 Grafted (Her.) 20 Resort 21 Hardy heroine 22 Scottish Gaelic 23 Diminishes 25 Turtle's upper shell 26 Peasant (India) 27 Hindu garment 29 Speck 31 Greek god 33 Required 34 Sausage 36 Antitoxins 37 Javanese tree 38 Goddess of volcanoes 39 Joint 40 Steering apparatus 43 Lace 44 Disease of sheep 45 Summer in France 46 Stain 20 41 47 32 38 22 17 13 29 25 48 so 23 18 19 8 14 51 10 44 lo 27 45 II union trademark. The pickets, run by the Women For Action, some carrying United Farm Workers signs, were shouting against "scab" lettuce, demanding the salad greens and grapes carry the black Aztec eagle emblem of Cesar Chavez's farm workers.

Last Tuesday I was alongside Ihe noisy pickets' circle outside the Hotel Americana here and heard them heap imprecations and vituperation not only upon the man receiving a Brotherhood award, but upon his enterprises, the food they sell the whole thing. Well, that's their privilege. This is a free country. Freedom of speech is inherent. But it goes two ways.

Towards the end of the evening, a group peeled off the picket line, invaded the big banquet hall unrolled a banner rushed up to the speakers dais, pushed dog food and other objects upon the table al Mr. Longacre's place. Does free speech depend upon the decisions of the picket caplain's whimsies? Chavez may say he cannot be everywhere. Well, some of his top California lieutenants have been in this metropolitan area for a while and are teaching social picket action to his young organizers. Chavez is racing after far wider horizons at the moment.

He was in London the other day. There he won the support of militant Jack Jones, chief of the powerful Transport and General Workers, the United Kingdom's biggest union proportionately the free world's largest. Chavez wants the and to boycott Teamster picked lettuce, grapes, and Gallo wines. Jones. England's most influential labor leader, agreed.

And was pleased when Chavez said that the boycott was succeeding so well in the U.S. and Canada, that only Western Europe was left as a market for California grape growers. From London Chavez headed for Ihe continent. His itinerary calls for conferences with labor leaders especially in transport in Belgium, France, West Germany and Italy, for starters. It could create considerable counteraction by the Teamsters in the U.S.

They could refuse to handle or transport imports into America, coming directly from Sweden or via Canada. There are reports of such counteraction planned to offset boycotts by foreign transport unions, the leaders of which idolize Chavez. His concept is daring. If successful Chavez will have organized the first all Europe, all Scandinavian transport boycott of an American product Undoubtedly this strategy will be followed by other labor chiefs in the future. There's no doubt of the world significance of Cesar Chavez's attack on the Teamsters.

But let il not infringe on the rights of others to free speech, free assembly and the privilege of honoring their own crusaders. (All Rights Reserved) By GARV WILLS We have a heavy market in forgiveness now complicated by the fad that those who are most in favor of forgiveness still think there is nothing much to forgive. We are not only supposed to forgive wrongdoing, but pretned that it did not exist, and actually reward it. Mr. Nixon, for instance, had no normal presidential transition, but an abrupt departure.

Yet he was not only given his own full transition fee, along with his pension, and his staff expenses, and the Secret Service all those minimal payments he was guaranteed by skipping out of the White House ahead of the impeachers. No, more than that, Mr. Ford has kept Nixon's highly paid flunkies on the White House payroll Ron Ziegler and Rose Mary Woods and Manuel Sanchez. And the President tried to give Mr. Nixon the equivalent of Ford's own half of the transition fee.

Plus a private library specially built to keep the Nixon papers in convenient reach papers which should be government property in the first place. Plus huge extra travel fees, presumably to get him from his Atlantic palace (Key Biscayne) to his Pacific palace (San Clemenle). Both of these mansions were acquired during Mr. Nixon's presidency, and costly improved at the taxpayers' expense. Now, since Mr.

Nixon has had to pay back some of the taxes he tried to avoid, he is having trouble meeting the payments on hisdouble mansions. This financial hardship in a man being paid several hundred thousands of dollars a year by the government is called new grounds for charity: since he went broke trying to bilk the government, the government should bail him out. Well, no one is against mercy, considered in iUelf, but it is time to remember how Mr. Nixon and his minions tried to vilify and destroy John Dean for telling the truth about Watergate yet Dean has no goverment pension, no library being prepared for him, no mansions being kept up for him, no $40,000 a year aides waiting on him. Dean is in jail, where Ford finds it unthinkable that Nixon should go.

Perhaps it is worth remembering Mark Twain's reaction to the far less seriouss scandals of the Grant administration. President Grant was not involved in those, as Nixon was in the Watergate coverup. Twain said the hope of America lay in its determination to end the scandals with harsh judgment and repudiation of their perpetrators: "Our improvement has already begun. Mr. Tweed, after laughing at our laws and courts for a good while, has at last been sentenced to 13 year's imprisonment, with hard labor.

It is simply bliss to think of it. It will be at least two years before any governor would dare to pardon him out, loo. great New York Judge, who continued a vile, a sham less career, season after season, defying the legislature and sneering at the news papers, was brought low at last, stripped of his dignities, and by public sentence debarred from ever again holding any office of honor or profit in the state. Harsh judgement but not as cruel as the scheming of men at the pinnacle of power to use the government's entire resources to destroy an Ellsberg or a Dean. Mercy sits oddly in their mouths.

(Copyright, 1974) Three yodels for the Swiss By Abigail Van Buren 1974 by The Chicago Tribune DEAR ABBY: I understand that a few years back, you had a letter in your column from someone who asked why the Swiss were such an arrogant people. The writer stated that a Swiss will let you know five minutes after you meet him that he is not German, French or Italian-but SWISS. My ancestors came from Berne, Switzerland. Therefore, I am interested in the way you answered that. WISCONSINITE DEAR WIS: First, the Swiss are not "arrogant." They are a proud people who have much about which to be proud.

They have fresh air and clean government. (Their president serves for one year only, and cannot be re-elected.) They produce the world's finest chocolate, cheeses, watches and precision instruments. Their people are honest, industrious and well-mannered. Their skiing is unbeatable und their banks unbreakable. And if that's not something to yodel about, I don't know what is! DEAR ABBY: I am a 5l)-year-old widower.

I have a nice home, a responsible position, good health and an adequate income. Some time ago, I met an attractive widow and we've been seeing a lot of each other. She's pretty, has a good figure and is a fine cook and housekeeper. We have the same tastes in music, the theatre, sports and literature. We couldn't be better matched had we been selected for each other by computer.

We want to get married, but we have a problem. I have a dog who has been my constant companion for eight years. Never having had children, King was a great comfort to us during my wife's terminal illness. He was like a member of my family. Unfortunately the lady has a dog and cat to whom she is equally attached.

We've tried Lo bring these animals together without success. Both dogs are big and they fight to the point of trying to kill each other. If 1 bring King to the lady's apartment, he intimidates her cat, and she snarls and hisses and runs up the curtain. We've discussed our problem with our friends and they're no help. Frankly, they think we're nuts.

Is there a solution that will work? WANTS TO MARRY DEAR WANTS: The widow has the advantage, two pets to one. Why not find a good home for King? Or flip a coin to see which dog goes. If King "wins," the eat remains a problem the two can adjust. (If you two "perfectly-matched" humans can't overcome the animal barrier between you, you are indeed DEAR ABBY: A Florida wife gripes because the bug spray her husband uses on their property makes him passionate. This is a problem? Is it possible to find out what brand of bug spray her husband uses? And if the brand name isn't available, could you please ask her to send her husband? COULD USE HIM IN OMAHA Everyone has a problem.

What's yours? For a personal reply, write to ABBY: Box No. 69700, L.A., Calif. 80069. Enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope, please. Hate to write letters? Send $1 to Abigail Van Buren, 132 Lasfcy Beverly Hills, Calif.

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