Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 4

ebaba JState journal Watergate lawsuit brought by the William Buckley Jr Princeton Educates America Hesitates On the Right the Bullet7 This has reduced assets to $1575394 just about the exact Warren Lerude Robert Nitsche Tyras Cobb rank Delaplane oster Church Executive Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor News Editor Editorial Page Editor Sources close to the negotiations say the trustees are willing to offer a $200000 settlement But their at torneys have now cautioned against dispersing any more funds If the courts uphold the $16 million tax liability this could put the trustees in jeopardy A $200000 payout to Oliver for example would leave them only $1375394 in CREEP money This would not be enough to meet the tax obligation and the trustees might be hit up for the dif ference Richard Schuster William Clemens Dean Smith Donn Wheeler John Oates unwelcome addition to gracious dining rodent hairs are usually safe to consume since they are sterilized right along with the food itself It is the man made enhancers in food which often are the real dangers such as flecks of paint dyes and chemical additives And particularly in baby foods the addition of salt done mainly to please solicitous parents can be unhealthy for infants Certainly all prefer to eliminate rodent hairs from our diet But the real dangers may be those human additives which no ampunt of boiling can render harmless with five years Nelson Kortland with three years and Andy Demetras with two years ex perience The four of them and Murphy as well are leaving as a result of a 1973 law effective July 1 which forced public attorneys to give up the income and professional but not to her She has collected $500 in honorariums for attending An unpublished study by the con servative Americans for Con stitutional Action shows that unions put $966951 into the 47 congressional districts they targeted in 1974 This helped to elect 21 pro labor Congressmen firm our story that hundreds of aging and ailing Cambodians who were driven out of the cities by the Com munists have died of malnutrition in the countryside West Germany may want to keep an eye on its new ambassador from Cuba Alberto Boza Replacements have been hired but only William Puzey arid Keith Rohrbough remain from the old a staff Dunseath has named Puzey his new chief deputy At a time when legal fees are increasing a well functioning office of public defender is Truckee Tomorrow Editor Nevada State Journal: Truckee Meadows Tomorrow a group of property owners and residents in Washoe County who have been very active in matters con cerning the preservation and protection of the integrity of the Truckee River areas would like to make several of its recommendations regarding the use of the two million dollar bond issue funds for river beautification known Our recommendations are as follows: 1 That at least 50 per cent of the two million dollar bond issue money be used to acquire as much river fron tage as possible for effective use by the general public in the very near future since land costs are rapidly rising 2 That none of the two million dollars be used to finance studies 3 That none of the two million dollars be used for reinforcing repairing or maintaining the down town bridges but we encourage some beautification of the bridges David Reese President Truckee Meadows Tomorrow itself or from the two CREEP of penditure Campaign committees unload only two million tons of grain ficiais John Mitchell and Maurice defender he will continue to devote himself principally to administration but one of his first duties will be to act as defense counsel in a major murder trial one that could be the first test of new capital punishment statute urthermore Dunseath will supervise a staff which is much less experienced than that which Murphy directed our of most ex perienced deputies are leaving or have left: They are Robison with three years experience Specchio Stans who authorized the improper spenaing The IRS has chosen to seek the money from CREEP which was taken over in 1974 by the Campaign Liquidation Trust The trustees inherited $35 million left over from the campaign They have drained off money to pay campaign debts and legal bills They have also settled for $775000 a Congress May Write Democratic Platform Commentary In the past he pointed out the senior members of Congress who are key persons in translating any program into actual legislation have participated incidentally or not at all in drafting the party platform The presidential candidate after his convention victory hurriedly expimds his own staff of speechwriters and idea men If he wins the election he assembles additional task forces made up of diverse experts who may or may not know one another and whose relationship with the President staff and with Congress varies non existent to the election the result of such a procedure is a delay of from six months in a year (in formulating' the new legislative program) and thi? President loses the advantage of his Speaker Albert observed To avoid tijese results in the event of a Democratic victory next year Albert has asked the committee chairmen to submit to him programs policies and proposed within each jurisdiction that could be enacted in the next Cbngress He asked for rough preliminary surveys by Oct 1 and final reports by late next spring He intends to submit these reports io next Diet of Rodent Hairs I Recently the Union announced that it had found insect parts and rodent hairs in about 25 per cent of commercial Baby foods tested The image of rats and mice tampering over dinner igas undoubtedly more vivid than another fact that was sandwiched iiito findings: That some samples from among varieties of baby food were contaminated by enamel paint qhips from the undersides of jar lids Actually the Union Routinely discovers rodent hairs bi the prepared food products it fests But aside from being an Democratic platform committee and to the presidential can didate as the basis for a united campaim 5 Since the individual commit tees should proceed in the same inteUectual context the Speaker appointed Dr Joseph McMurray a former president of Queens College as his special assistant todefine common economic assumptions regarding gross national prodyct employment and money supply A former New York State Housing Commissioner chairman of the Home Loan Bank board during the Kennedy Aitammstration Dr Mc Murray is an intellectual wise in the ways of Capitol Hui The endorsement byinfluential House Democrats of the Albert initiative has been remarkably and uniformly enthusiastic running the gamut from Representative George Mahon the fairiy conservative chairman of the Appropriations Committee to Representative Phillip Burton the decideifly liberal chairman of the Democratic Caucus It is the cheap fashion to deride the importance of party platforms But they are essential to the debate on issues A platform substantially written by the men and women who would be responsible for enacting it the following year would be a new departure in American politics and a significant gain for party responsibility The Albert plan is based on the recognition that our Government if it is to be effective has to be a Presidential government but one which Congress plays an active and creative role 7 It is also based on the shrewd political insight that while President ord is planning to run next year against Congress the puNic is weary of stalemate and Government by veto Instead the voters may respond to a Democratic candidate who promises to work with Congress and who runs on a platform that Congress will carry out because its majority party members wrote most Ofit 5 Jack Anderson with Les Whitten Nixon Committee aces Its Creditors Washington Meny Go Round ft Hj WASHINGTON Speaker Carl Albert is making headway with a plan 1 CJlflfinftfl that could significantly influence the 1976 campaign and if his party frlffwWfl vfiaillivii wins the formative months of a new Democratic administration Traditionally Democratic leaders in Congress have had little to do with national party affairs Holding safe seats themselves they have jogged aiong uieir own legpsiauve pains leaving ponucai initiatives to Gover nors and ambitious individual Senators Speaker Albert however is a liberal Democrat deeply committed to his success My judgment is that he would like to serve a final term as Speaker with a Democratic President in the White House in 1977 79 Legislative accomplishments then might redeem the frustrations he has encountered during four years as Speaker during the Nixon Ad ministration and despite the greatly increased Democratic majority in this Congress that have persisted during the ord Administration Ip his view it is next to impossible to arrive at agreement on bills that not only satisfy most Democrats but also because of the Presidential veto must please ord and the Republican minority With a Democrat in the White House the latter problem would disappear If unemployment is still at 8 per cent and inflation is undiminished in the fall of 1976 Albert believes that these will be the overriding Issues of the campaign He wants his party to have a credible program that it can present to the country It should not only be credible in its intellectual assumptions but also legislatively feasible What better way to prepare such a platform than to set the Democratic committee chairmen in the House and their staffs to work drafting it now? Writing to committee chairmen on June 19 the Speaker said aim should be to develop the basis for a platform that the members of Congress the Presidential candidate and the majority of our party can embrace to the greatest extent of center or far right The first figure by the time senior year comes along rises to 53 per Cent the second dips to 20 per cent As George Gallup puts it difference of six percentage points in favor of the far left thus becomes a lead of 33 per centage points in the senior By the way for those interested in useful constants on the order of Maine goes so goes the here is one The attitude towani capital punishment tends in almost every situation exactly to reflect the difference between liberal and conservative attitudes numerically expressed It is so in this poll College students as a whole oppose the death penalty 59 per cent to 35 per cent The students at Oklahoma Christian favor the death penalty 62 per cent to 36 per cent At Princeton students oppose the death penalty 80 per cent to 13 per cent Princeton is obviously going through a rather prolonged seizure of ideological eccentricity Once bitten by that kind of thing it becomes hard to shrug off A couple of elections back a faculty poll at Princeton showed that Dick Gregory 1 and Richard Nixon were neck and 1 neck in popularity for President (this is called donnish humor) Things do not appear to have changed There anybody at 1 Princeton who is real genuine hero The nearest you get to it is you guessed it Ralph 1 Nader with 45 per cent of the vote He is followed by Henry Kissinger and Justice William Douglas with 28 per cent and 24 per cent Then Teddy Nelson Rockefeller only just noses out idel PacfrA TKa mnet 1 CIA and shortly after the Pen tagon The institution most in tensively approved is and truly I this hurts: The United Nations When you think of it the story is 1 very very old Almost 25 years ago I i published a book about my own i experiences as an undergraduate at Yale University in which I remarked the paradox that sons of Christian conservatives were being inculcated in religious skepticism i and political collectivism response was never entirely con sistent On the one hand spokesmen for the university said that the young writer was vastly exaggerating the true nature of Yale education on the other hand they were saying that direction it The Princeton people one gathers attempt pretty much the same kind of thing irst they disparage as inaccurate such reports as They they op pose often by vicious tactics the work of the dissenters among the alumni in this instance the cerned Alumni of One of these days somebody is going to ask the question: Why why does private money support these breeding grounds of executioners? It is a settled convention that the state should pay the hangmen Or perhaps it must be so to justify the prophet Lenin who saith that when the time comes the capitalist will sell the hangman the rope Readers Voice Opinions The Journal orum NOTE: Leiters io the Editor of the Journal ore welcome but must be in good taste and MUST be signed by the writer On request the wriier's name will be withheld from publication but letters must bear bona fide signature letters should contain fewer than 300 words and are subject to condensation if longer Those not published will not be returned Benefits for Reno Editor Nevada State Journal: Your editorial entitled or rezoning oi lanu iwr a uiuunv home park is indeed food for thought It is gratifying to know there are interested people in Reno who recognize the fact that industrial and residential areas must be separated Actions of the nature of the proposed mobile home park are the very things that discourage industry from locating in the Reno area The industrial park (as it now exists) is well planned andadds many benefits to the Reno area We certainly agree with you in not nesuancy oi me city council to taxe a firm stand and deny the rezoning We hope that selfish interests and the political buddy system are not permitted to damage potential future industrial growth Paul Harrison Director of Personnel and Industrial Relations Lynch Communications Systems Although it is true that many pollsters are engaged in documenting that which anyone who gives the matter a little thought knows intuitively still they have their uses and are the tablet keepers of the American sociological religion Thus when George Gallup the papal voice of the pollsters declares one of his own polls to be of the most in his organization has ever done we should take notice and I proceed to do so It is a poll directed at determinino whit if ie fhf uul ue vasiro i ne most SLL intensely disliked institution is the vvvwuun UIC UHIU Wiey matriculate and the time they i graduate The technique is to ask students to use a by means of which they can 'check off on the affirmative side approval ranging up to the intensity of plus five down to plus one and on the negative side disapproval ranging from an in tensity of minus five to minus one After applying the poll in a number of colleges Gallup came up with Oklahoma Christian College as the most in student attitudes and as the most liberal Princeton University A few preliminaries College students are far more independent politically than college graduates uiey are registered two to one Democratic Now whereas it continues to be true that college students become more conservative after they leave college it is also true that while at college they become more liberal Indeed judging from the rate at which they do so one would guess that if the undergraduate course at Princeton was eight years instead of four years the majority of graduates would have views in distinguishable from graduates of the Lenin Institute Consider As freshmen 30 per cent of college students place themselves as left of center or far left compared to 24 per cent who place themselves as right A Speidel Newspaper Publisher Controller Advertising Director Production Manager Circulation Manager riday August 22 1975 Editorials the law In nne ranant Uuchao miwrlAt case for instance two nrivate printed Aug 7 1975 concerning case lor instance two private nino nf nrnnnqwj mobile defense attorneys charged the accused $25000 apiece In another the 'court appointed attorney who represented the defense said after the trial it would have cost his client that much or more for private representation and investigation Many low income persons cannot afford the legal fees that invariably result in a protracted criminal proceeding They have a right to competent understand the nawiinnov nr vna itv nnnnii rn rnirn legal representation and per sonnel of the public defender office should be at least as well trained carefully selected and highly paid as those of the district office Perhaps one reason for the sudden resignations from the public office is the disparity in pay scales between it and the district attorney office The pay scale for the public office including the chief ranges yearly from $17000 to $25000 The scale for deputy district attorneys ranges from $15000 to $27500 Building a competent legal assistance staff requires care and money We hope the public office is not being slighted Unseemly Haste Although we do not question the Qualifications of William Dun seath to become Washoe new chief public defender we have serious reservations about The manner by which he was Chosen The resignation of Dale Murphy which will be effective Oct 31 will create the vacancy Murphy announced his decision to resign only riday during a personnel session of Washoe County commissioners Dunseath was chosen to fill the post by the commissioners the same day at recommendation The choice is perfectly ap propriate and Dunseath should definitely have been among the contenders In a post such as public defender the com missioners are not required by law to take applications and select the most qualified candidate But for Washoe County chief variety of their private practices puonc defender they should have conducted a conscientious search to make certain the best possible person was chosen This is par ticularly true considering Murphy himself was appointed from among nine applicants to fill the new position in 1969 Such haste to fill so vital a essential to public confidence in position is certain to be viewed iyith suspicion by those with a low Opinion of the office Some believe the office is not aggressive enough in represen ting its clients and that it enjoys tioo cozy a relationship with the district office The public office under Murphy has enjoyed ex tremely cordial relations with the district attorney But Murphy represented his clients vigorously ahd hired fine determined at torneys such as Kent Robison Mike Specchio and Robert Nelson Kortland as denudes 'But the appointment of Dun seath before other applicants could be considered is certain to result in claims that the com missioners are not conducting a proper search to find the best man for the job will be particularly noted when it is considered that the office of the district attorney Which in criminal cases' often represents the state opposite the public defender acts as a legal adviser to the commission In his new position effective Nov 1 Dunseath has a for midable task before him As chief deputy public defender he has been chiefly involved in ad ministrative matters He has said publicly that as chief public WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service tentatively has Democratic National Committee decided to dun Richard Nixon fnrmpr ramnaion mmmiHAA thA JUOL auuui lUC UAdtl once mighty Committee to Re Elect figure that the IRS wants to collect in me rresiaent ivnttr) lor taxes on its improper expenditures The IRS has comoleted a preliminary audit which shows Spencer Oliver maar spent aoout million tor nonpolitical and illegal purposes The tax debt and interest on thjs would come to $16 million Under the law political candidates must pay taxes on any campaign contributions that they divert to their private use The Jaw clear however whether campaign com mittees are also liable 1 In this case none of the' misused money went into personal pocket The IRS nevertheless felt someone should pay taxes on the This left two possibilities: the IRS The outcome of this case could have could collect the taxes from CREEP a profound effect on political ex would have to consider each ex penditure carefully to make sure it is strictly legitimate Otherwise the committee may get a tax bill from the IRS ootnote: Our information came from sources wholly familiar with the facts We also sought formal comment from the three CREEP trustees and their attorneys Ex cept for one trustee who had only general knowledge of the IRS in tavps Rut unhannilv'fnr tha tnictaae thev vet resolved a S5 million bas asked the Soviets for advance gram purchases on the US market diplomat wiin me united nations in This advance information is 1969 the youthful Boza was caught by necessary the US explained to US intelligence officersspaying on prevent market dislocations Many American military faculties farmers are known to be holding back Another Pentagon bigwig Assistant grain from the market for example Air orce Secretary William in anticipation of additional sales to Woodruff has joined Hughes Aviation Russia as a vice president Earlier in his The Agriculture Department is carear he helped hold down defense eager to find out exactly how much spending as a Seriate Appropriations grain the Soviets intend to purchase Committee staff member Now he will They already made deals for 98 be trying to increase defense spen milliontons ding Nebraska Senator Carl Meanwhile a temporary hold has wife Mildred has been ser been placed on sales to Russia until ving quietly on the National Advisory the department can reassess the US Council on Educational Professions crop This is not expected to cause a Development Her efforts have been hardship for the Soviets who can largely worthless to the taxpayers per month anywav The best estimate is that the Soviets meetings won buy as much grain as the far mers are withholding This will force them to unload their grain at lower prices bad news for the farmers but good news for the consumers HEADLINES AND OOTNOTES: The latest intelligence reports con vestigation all the others were vacationing and be reached An IRS spokesman told us no comment is ever given on audits investigations or examinations SOVIET WHEAT DEAL: The US lllvj: llQVwlJ JfW ICwUlVCU a Illllllvli lawsuit brought by Watergate victim notification before they make future Hidalgo Gato When he was a Cuban I i 1.