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campaign for establish one. in New York, The Daily Sikeston Standard C. L. BLANTON, Jr. Managing Editor, Entered at the Rost office of Sikeston, Scott County, Missouri as Second CUss Mall Matter according to Act of Congress March 3, 1679, Saturday, February 4th, 1960.

Saturday, November 5, 1512, Front de Bouef, France: Gilles de Rais accepts the position of Scoutmaster for Troop 29. see POOR CHARLIE SAYS! POLITICS AND THE POLICE Voters in New York City on Tuesday (Nov. 8) decide the fate of Mayor John V. Lindsay's new Civilian Complaint Review Board. NEXT TUESDAY'S REFERENDUM on the Civilian Complaint Review Board in New York will be watched in other cities across the nation where the relationship between the police and civilians is an issue.

Unfortunately, politics are overwhelming the facts. The idea of a civilian review board was conceived in politics. Every American city provides some mechanism for hearing complaints against police officers, but in nearly all cities the primary agency for review is within the police department. New York had such a Civilian Complaint Review Board for the past decade. Civil rights leaders contend that police boards tend to be partial to policemen.

In response to pressure from civil rights groups, Philadelphia created a Police Advisory Board, with civilian representation, eight years ago. Since that time, several other cities Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Rochester, Trenton established biracial citizens' boards. Creation of a board representing civilians became an issue in New York after the 1964 riots in Harlem and Brooklyn. John V. Lindsay pledged in his successful mayor last year that he would THE NEW BIRACIAL BOARD created rather gingerly by Lindsay last May 2, has four civilian and three police members, as against the old three-police board.

It drew the immediate criticism of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association and conservative organizations. Both the PBA and the Conservative Party succeeded in getting anti-board questions on the November ballot. (An attempt by the Conservatives to withdraw theirs was defeated in court.) The questions are too long and complicated to capsule here. Both are so worded that a supporter of the civilian (not the police) board must vote "No" and an opponent "Yes." New York newspapers have explained this contradiction painfully and at length. THE BOARD was spawned by the cry, "police brutality," and the campaign for and against the board since has waxed equally as emotional.

Both supporters and foes of the civilian board have hired high-powered advertising agencies. Both are' spending huge sums of money estimates run from $500,000 to million. The Independent Citizens Committee Against Civilian Review Boards warns in its ads: "If Mayor Lindsay's Civilian Review Board deters one officer from the performance of his it could mean your life." Safety in the streets is the real issue in the campaign, says ICC- ACR. Federal Associations for Impartial Review (FAIR) counters by linking opponents of the civilian board with the John Birch Society, the National Renaissance Party, George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party. FAIR of late has been concentrating on what it calls the "sleeper clause" in the PBA proposal which it alleges whould deny any sort of investigation of the police even by the Mayor by the police themselves.

In practice, of 113 complaints received so far by the new board, only three were referred to the Police Commissioner after what the N.Y. Times describes as diligent investigation. The Commissioner can ignore these recommendations or order departmental trials, which are conducted by policemen. Then he can approve or disapprove the results of the trials. Neither the current record nor the Commissioner's options seem to justify so much emotion.

Happiness is seeing the Jolly Green Giant step on the Doublemint singers. THE DATE BOOK: Nov. 6-12, American Education Week International Cat Week; Nov. 7, 1916 (50 years ago), Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress; Nov. 7, 1917 (49 years ago), Bolsheviks seized power in Russia; Nov.

8, Election Day; Nov. 11, Veteran's Day; Nov. 11, 1821 (145 years ago), Russian novelist, Fedor Dostoievski born. A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

JONES FOR CONGRESS Despite the lack of contests on the November 8 general election ballot, we trust Southeast Missourians will not overlook the opportunity to express their support of their Representative to Congress, Paul C. Jones. Representative Jones has a Republican opponent in next week's election, but by any standards it is nominal opposition if voters will exercise the kind of responsibility that they have always shown in returning this able legislator in the last nine Congressional elections. Few and there may well not be any Congressional districts in the nation have representation equal to that enjoyed by the residents of the Tenth district of Southeast Missouri. Most certainly no district in the nation has better representation than the Tenth.

Honest, experienced, conscientious and respected are but some of the adjectives that can be used in describing the Congressional public service of Paul Jones. Few, if any, members of Congress command the respect, either within their own districts or within the halls of Congress, as that accorded Paul Jones. Few, if any, have served their constituents with the same kind of loyalty and devotion. We not only endorse Paul C. Jones for another term in Congress we also urge that he receive the overwhelming vote of confidence from the voters of the Tenth district that he so richly deserves.

Daily Dunklin Democrat Have you made your will? Death often comes unexpectedly. It is a tribute to the county agent and what he has accomplished that he is disappearing from the scene. The University of Kentucky has made farm history by announcing that the state no longer will have county farm and home demonstration agents. The move will promote economy and efficiency and give farmers access to regional specialists. The county agent is a fellow who knows a little bit about everything connected with farming.

He has been a key figure in promoting the splendid agricultural progress for which this country is noted. Kentucky, which has moved ahead in new approaches in almost every field, has applied them with especial success in the field of farmer education. It is the first state to make a complete conversion to a system of regional farm specialists. Other states, such as Missouri, have supplemented county agents, called farm extension directors here, with area specialists. Some have gone to the area agent system in part following experimental patterns developed from a Kellogg Foundation experiment in Michigan.

Times have changed. Farming is no longer a small business. It is a big undertaking, one requiring capital, specialized education and skill that equals that of any business man or manufacturer in a city. Many successful farmers today have an education equaling that of the county agent, who won't go down in history unappreciated but as a courageous pioneer who exerted a powerful and constructive influence in scientific agriculture, the only kind that will pay off today and tomorrow. He is a part of the development associated with today's level of farm progress.

Area specialists are best equipped to deal with the larger problems that will affect agriculture in the future. It HOfi bAtii fitf rt4Ar! I i -n It is dangerous to fool with love. A Sikeston young man found himself engaged after sending a girl a valentine without noticing that it asked her to be his valentine forever and ever. I SURE AINT LIKE I USED TO BE! CAT WEEK INTERNATIONAL begins. Through 12th.

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New TOMORROW NOV. 6 SUNDAY AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK begins. Through 13th. By Presidential Proclamation ordinarily, purpose: focus public attention on the problems and achievements of the nation's schools and Sponsors: (1) National Education Association, Allen Dale Olson, Asst. Director, Publications Division, 1201 Sixteenth N.W., Washington, D.C.

20036, (2) National Congress of Parents and Teachers, (3) U.S. Office of Education, and (4) American Legion. WHEN WE WERE A BOY raising the budget at our church in Paris was a well planned in advance, always successful matter which required only a comparatively few minutes. Of course the church budget in those days wasn't anything to compare with the thousands of dollars it takes to operate a church these days, but the money then was mighty scarce. A committee of which our tether and Judge W.

W. Barnes were always members, would meet in advance of the day the budget was actually to be raised. Hiis committee would decide how much was needed and the pastor did not get as much as a hundred dollars a month. The budget day was not announced but something special would be added to a regular church program which was calculated to bring a large attendance. However, those depended upon to finance the Washington Merry Go Round By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON This column has just learned that a mysterious fire in the destroyed army papers that might have embarrassed Ronald Reagan, then adjutant of an army motion picture unit, now Republican candidate for governor of California.

As adjutant, Reagan directed the day-to-day operations of the first motion picture unit which produced military training and propaganda films during World War at the former Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, Calif. The unit came under the command of Maj. Gen. Lucas V. Beau, now retired, who sent an inspection team to look it over.

The team was headed by Col. G. M. Spurlock, also retired, who is now in the investment business in Riverside, Calif. Spurlock acknowledged to this column that he had found the unit one hell of a and had submitted a report to Gen.

Beau. Records had been falsified; production costs were exorbitant; government film had been sold to the movie studios; bootleg meat was sold in an had nothing to do with the illegal said Spurlock, he should have known what was going Gen. Beau, contacted by this column, recalled receiving Spurlock's report. Inspector General found some he said. Pentagon completed the investigation.

Two officers were sent to Other officers with knowledge of the case, who asked to remain anonymous, claimed the general had reprimanded Reagan. They also said the movie actor had refused to testify, taking the fifth amendment, during the preliminary hearing. don't remember the said Beau, it is Phillip Battaglia, state man of the Ronald Reagan for governor committee, has denied that his candidate was implicated in the mess. records said Battaglia, Reagan testified fully as to all the knowledge he had of the matter which involved an appointee on the However, Pentagon officers have made a careful search of the records, which curiously don't contain a single reference to the incident. The historical records of the first motion picture unit show only that Ronald Reagan (Serial No.

1357403) was called to active duty as a 2nd Lieutenant on April 19, 1942. He replaced Capt. Everett W. Cole as the unit's adjutant. The only reference to possible mismanagement was a single statement from the unit: regret to advise that our costs have shown a sharp This column has learned, however, that some records were destroyed in an unexplained fire.

files were Gen. Beau acknowledged. mysterious fire took place. destroyed the file cases and all they contained. How it started, nobody One report placed the fire in the Headquarters office, which Reagan ran.

But Beau thought the fire had occurred in the supply office. Whatever details the fire may have destroyed, officers acquainted with the case agree that the motion picture unit was an administrative mess. Now the man who was adjutant in charge wants to administer the government of California. CONGRESSIONAL MELTING POT Indicative of the melting pot that is Congress, there are 17 Italian-Americans in the House of Representatives and one Senator; 12 Polish-Americans; two members of the House of Japanese extraction; one Japanese-American Senator; one Chinese-American Senator, the latter four from Hawaii. But there is only one Greek- American, John Brademas of South Bend, hid.

This year, however five Greek-Americans are running for high office Spiro Agnew, Republican candidate for governor of Maryland; and Democrats Nick Galifianakis, running for Congress in North Carolina; John Plumides, also running for the House from North Carolina; and Charles Tsapat- saris, running for the House from Massachusetts. POLITICAL GO-ROUND may be poetic justice that Sen. John Sparkman, running for reelection in Alabama, is telling everyone that he's not for the LBJ program. Because back in 1952, when John was running for vice president on the Adlai Stevenson ticket, LBJ, then senator from Texas, was very skittish about supporting Adlai and John. Lyndon made only two perfunctory speeches for the Democratic ticket in Texas and seemed even loath to ride on the Stevenson Sparkman has been a good senator, deserves to be Sen.

John Sherman Cooper, Kentucky Republican, has been a tower of strength in urging a full investigation of Sen. conduct. He will be overwhelmingly moderate Republican senators who will easily get the nod include Margaret Chase Smith of Maine, the first to speak out against Sen. Joe McCarthy; Clifford Cass of New Jersey, who votes against the right Senator sure to be reelected Is Walter Mondale, the coming young Kefauver of the the voters of West Virginia and Louisiana will decide Tuesday whether to permit their governors to succeed themselves. Under the one-term rule, a governor barely gets a good grasp before he must bow out.

budget were rarely if ever absent on any Sunday morning. Come the day and the pastor would cut his sermon a bit short and let the congregation know that it was time to raise the next year's budget. First the total amount would be named. Then Judge Barnes would explain that he was calling for pledges of $150 and only that amount was expected for the moment. No one would speak up and the Judge would say, Brother Powers, we had you down for this Now Brother Powers was able to give that much and doubtless knew that every person present knew he could give it, and so he did without further delay.

Our tether would then add, Sister Buckner, we thought you would pledge that Sister Buckner did. When the budget committee had met, it had carefully figured how much the various members could give without being hurt, and as the calls for pledges dropped from $150 to $50, the good members of our church quickly got into the spirit of the occasion and didn't wait for any suggestions from the budget committee, but volunteered their pledges. Well, maybe the Judge and our tether did look some of them in the eye, but after a few had been appealed to in the beginning, the rest came easy. Tie budget was always raised at onetime, and as we said in the beginning, it usually took only a few minutes to do it. It is with regret we learn that our good church in Paris no longer asks for pleges.

It sets its budget and depends upon its tithers and Christian members to give what they think they should from Sunday to Sunday. However, we have never heard of the church at Paris ever 1 failing to finance its program and we would like to believe its success along these lines goes back to those good old days when JUdge Barnes and Jack Blanton let the brothers and sisters know their names had already been put down for a goodly sum to finance their church's Christian service. Blanton in the Shelbina Democrat. Several jostled in the thundering herd of New York's subway rush hour and a fragile young woman was finally crammed among the standees. Her sense of humor was not impaired, however.

She poked her face close to the ear of an adjoining male. she demanded tartly, rib-is it crushing your The trouble with people who boast about having an open mind is that they usually have a mouth to match. A QUESTION OF CLIMATE It is often argued that our income tax laws should be totally overhauled and simplified. One suggestion is that all income, from whatevery source, be treated exactly alike. There is certainly room for simplification.

But treating all income alike is another matter. There are certain highly important and essential enterprises which, because of peculiarities which are an inescapable part of their operation, present a special case and must be treated accordingly so far as taxation is concerned. Take, as a prime example of this, timber. The industry now works on what is known as a sustained yield basis. Tree farming sees to it that the yield equals or exceeds the cut.

Without tree farming, it would not be long until our forest resources were exhausted, which would be a national tragedy of the first dimension. But tree farming has unique attributes. Depending on variety and location, it takes 20, 50, 100 or even more years for trees to grow to marketable size. During all this time, the tree farmer must keep the trees protected from such enemies as insects, fire and disease. He must build roads and employ labor.

And he must pay taxes. But those taxes must be of such nature that the farmer can see the chance of a fair profit when he does market his timber. It's as simple as that. Our great timber products industry, which is a basic part of the American economy, is dependent on a reasonable and favorable tax climate. FRIENDSHIP with the world is emity with God.

It is a broad and pleasant road that leads to ruin, and many find it easily. A narrow and difficult way leads to God and eternal life, and not as many find it. It is by way of the cross of Christ, it is the way to usefulness and to Heaven. was quite pleased with himself until he learned that his green thumb was caused by an The Daily Sikeston Standard, Sikeston, Mo. Saturday, Nov.

5, 1966 Inside Labor By Victor Riesel Big Drive On To Unionize Police Forces Washington, D.C^ A police lot is not a happy one these days. To add to his problems in scores of cities, his department is being unionized. Everybody but the nation's police chiefs gasped the other day when some 60 cops in Pontiac, call, ed in sick after threatening to strike for more money. Many a commissioner merely sighed. It had to come.

They know what very few others do that there are at least 125 unionized police departments across the nation. And the drive, mostly by the American Federation of state. County and Municipal Employ, es (AFL-CIO), is just beginning. Everything is just beginning where Jerry Wurf, the comparatively new national president, is involved. Young, tousle-haired and daring, Wurf is a sort of oratorical short order cook.

He pushes himself like an ascending Saturn et still loaded with three stages. He is organizing everything in sight he believes is legiti. mately in his union's jurisdic. tion. And this includes the po.

lice. At the moment, he claims some 10,000 uniformed men. Some of these, says he, are in cities such as Detroit, land Duluth and in small, er communities from Maine to Oregon. For some reason he seems to be doing best with the constabulary in Connecticut, where his aides set up the Con. necticut Council of Police Unions 15.

men are doing pretty well in Michigan, too, but there is no evidence that he was behind the Pontiac cessation. against strikes, strike threats or sit-ins. Some of his people say that the Pontiac crisis real, ly goes back to the days" in Michigan. There, in 1944, the Teamsters moved into Lansing with Local 560 and tried to unionise the gendarmerie. They teUed.

But their national union, which has picked up some deputy sheriffs units along the way, still has hopes. Tie Teamsters Just frighten Jerry Wurf. They have no right in the field and should stay on the right side of the law, says he as he continues to organize. Typical is his activity in Baltimore. There he claims some 2,000 police for his union and actually has convinced some 650 cops to sign up publicly.

Last spring the City Council urged the Baltimore police commissioner recognize and deal a representative organization of policemen. Just what does recognition of a police union mean? Jerry Wurf, whose International Executive board has just adjourned a leadership conference, says first they, the cops, must know they cannot strike. have placed in the charter of every local police said Jerry, words: charter is issued with the understanding by the party hereto that it will be revoked immedi. ately if the members of the local who are employed as law enforcement, police, or penal officers call or participate in a strike or refuse in concert to perform their Then, why a police This is most clearly seen in the first pacts, recently signed by police unions in four Connecticut towns. All the agreements provide for voluntary checkoff, a multistep griev.

ance procedure ending in binding arbitration; allowance tor uniforms which range from $100 to $150 yearly, seniority rights and time tor union officials (still on the force) to tend to union business. There is another startling new police contract in Water. Me. It calls tor a union shop in the police department there. TWs means that once on the job, the cop must join the union.

It may get so the police missioners will organize a union of their own. I went to a bartender's school for two years but still can't get a job because I know how to fix a television set. TO prove the belief that music charms the savage beast, a noted violinist journeyed into the the heart of the African As he sat in a clearing, a gorilla, a boa constrictor and a mean bull elephant approached. The musician played on his violin, and all three stopped motionless to listen to the tunes. A snarling lion then crashed through the thicket, with one leap reached the violinist and tore him to shreds.

Speaking for his companions, the elephant remonstrated with the savage lion, demanding to know how come he had destroyed the man who played such sweet music. said the lion. The International Peace Garden, at the geographical center of North America, honors the many years of peace between Canada and the United States. It lies on top of a large plateau in the Turtle Mountains, on the boundary line between North Dakota and Manitoba. More Americans are moving than ever before.

year 38 million of one out of every five residence. than two- thirds of them only moved locally but some 6 million others moved out of state. Most of those leaving their native states are going West, which has been growing twice as fast as the rest of the United States. the past five years some five million Americans have gone the largest numbers emigrating from the South and North Central Three of the four most LK)C. Dll I1C a II MVS rapidly growing states are in the West Nevada, Arizona, tion as a whole, the bulk of the population growth continued to be registered in metropolitan areas across the country, where three out of five Americans now live.

addition, four metropolitan areas surged past the one million mark between 1960 and 1965, with Los Angeles replacing Chicago as the second largest metropolitan area. A gentleman feeling a bit fed UP with life decided to commit suicide by hanging himself. A friend came into the room and discovered him standing'with a rope round his waist, and he inquired what he was trying to do. The gentleman told him he was taking his own life. said his friend, have you the rope round your said the man, I tied it round my neck it was choking sister is the clever one boasted Mike.

pulled the wool over Uncle Sam's eyes. She got herself up like a man and joined the on protested Pat. have to dress with the boys and shower with them. Why' they'll catch her right you think so, do smirked Mike. who would be tellin' on her, A woman with a well-developed fashion sense knows that bare skin never clashes with anything she's wearing.

is running around with a gang with you stop It's only the Boy and California. other is Florida. new boom has shifted the population line-up of several states. most notable displacements were that of New York by California, which became the most populous state; the advance of Texas to fifth in rank, displacing Ohio, and the rise in the rank of all the southwestern states. the na- Si what ails bagfoot? Why you ask? Aint seen him down at the tavern lately.

Oh, that, he say he thinks he coincidently got one of them last trip in his beer, got in his car and took off at high rate, got flung in the Hoosegow, taxed a hundred bucks andthe trimmlns so's he's drinkin ice water now. An Editor's Outlook By Jenkin Lloyd Jones ONLY THE HAIRCUTS BANGKOK, Thailand -TheAir France jet climbs away from Saigon, bumps for a minute through the wet monsoon clouds, and levels off in the clear cold on the eastern reaches of Cambodia. Behind is Vietnam, a 25-year war, ar.d something over 300,000 men in American military uniforms. This is the generation that rocked and rolled, that Watusied and frugged, that packed the halls to see The Animals, that looks at Batman with the profane cynicism that overlies the still-youthful urge to believe. These are the kids who went to high schools where the parking lots were full.

There are among these young men many thousands who were denied parental direction because Mother had read too many books on child psychology and ather went from the office to the country club. Among them are the spawn of street gangs. We forget, of course, the hordes who milked the cows and peddled the papers and did their homework and took nice girls to the movies. Our eyes were caught by those who let their locks grow long in honor of the gyrating bawlers from the Liverpool waterfront. And, in truth, if there ever was a spoiled and undisciplined generation in America this is it.

How are these boys doing in the grim business of war? Well, you might say that the haircuts were only hair-deep. Or, to put it another way, that the rot didn't get under the bark. These kids are magnificent. You watch the operations on the carrier, Coral Sea. There'll be memorial services this afternoon for Commander Bill Stoddard.

Anti-aircraft fire got him this week on his 14th mission. Last year he had his canopy shot off. He'll leave a gaping hole in the squadron. But the Exec, who remembers World War says, never saw ready rooms like ours. They're full of caged Commander Terrill Beck, skipper of the destroyer John R.

Craig, says, tin can crews of World War were good, but they couldn't hack It here. We have so much sophisticated gear aboard that the level of training must be about 50 per cent greater. These sailors are Jim Lucas, veteran Scripps- Howard war correspondent who has covered every American involvement since his Pulitzer- prize-winning account of Tarawa, says, see no deterioration in any THE old complaint of Negro organizations was that the armed forces discriminated against Negroes by not recruiting them. NOw Martin Luther King is enraged because he says they are cannon fodder. But the Negro who feels he has competence can gain a position of dignity and authority quicker in the service than anywhere else.

You come in from Can Tho in a helicopter piloted by a very brown Captain Brown. He is neither servile nor cocky. He is only good. He drops the helicopter in a tiny parking place and turns around with mock seriousness to count his passengers. No Negro is promoted in the service just because his great grandfather chopped cotton without pay.

There is none of the reverse discrimination now being demanded by the Harlem radicals. But the old ghetto of cooks, bakers, labor troops and room boys has long since been dismantled. The record of the new Negro commissioned officers and noncoms is, perhaps, the proudest chapter in American Negro history. And many a behavior problem that has caused dozens of stateside social workers to despair has been cured in two minutes when a Negro first sergeant levels his gaze and says, up! You're hurting our R's a dirty war, a nervous war, and one unlike any we have fought before. It's as though there had been Yankees lurking along every patch in Georgia or Confederates concealed in every barn in Ohio.

The casualties have, so far, been light, but you never know when you will be hit. The bar stool in Saigon may be as deadly as the next turn of the jungle trail. But these kids go forth, even eagerly, on ambushes that require absolute motionless silence for hours on end. to the past year while Marines on the Third Amphibious Force have battled the Cong through mazes of bunkers and caves, they have also found time to give 775,000 free medical treatments, build or rebuild 39 schools, and hand out 200,000 pounds of clothes and 28,000 school kits. Swords have been beaten into plowshares before, but this is the first army that plowed while it fought.

Sergeant Major Frederick W. Tracey of the Second Brigade, Fourth Infantry Division, is something of a legend. He has been known to commit embarrassing mistakes, like yelling to a couple of sloppy new second lieutenants: your hands out of your and following quickly with, pardon me, sirs, I thought you were G.L’s” he says, hungry to be men. But, while some of them had a lot of indulgence at home, few of them had any challenges. Now they've got challenges.

been handed a big man's job, and they're loving it. They are smart, resourceful and brave. I think this is the finest fighting force the world ever.