Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 7 October 1964 — Page 11

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1984

Writer Describes A'Quasiesf Case By DICK WEST MM Fnn Internattoaal WASHINGTON (UPI) - The National Labor Relations Board frequently is described as a “quasi-judicial agency.” This means that ft handles a lot of judicial matters, some of which are pretty quasi. Tito quasiest case that I have run across recently came before the board byway of Aurora, Hl. / In what may be a landmark decision, the board quasi-judi-ciously upheld the right of an employe to refer to his boss in terms of equine anatomy. Specifically, ft ordered the reinstatement of a worker who was fired after alluding to a superior in an unflattering manner associated with the rearward portion of the equus caballus. A word of caution, however. Hie decision does not give everyone carte blanche for telling off the boss. Discussed Grievance In this particular instance, three members of the Machinists Union went to the office of their plant superintendent to discuss a grievance. The discussion, I gather from the NLRB examiner’s report, was not all sweetness and light. At one point, the superintendent invited one of the union men to ‘‘shut your (censored) mouth.” It was at this point that the meeting broke up. As the three men were leaving his office, the superintendent overheard one of them mutter something, of which he only caught the words “ ’- -.” Assuming that the phrase in question referred to him, the superintendent ran after the employe and fired him on the spot. . The NLRB examiner who heard the case said the superintendent’s assumption was “probably correct.” There was a question, however, as to whether the dismissal was valid. Firing Possible “Manifestly, under ordinary circumstances, (the superintendent) could fire an employe for making such a comment,” the examiner said. He said the point at issue was whether the employe was engaging in union activity at the time. Under the law, union activities are not grounds for dismissal. After due deliberation, the examiner concluded that the employe's comfaent “was sb’ directly related to the grievance meeting as to be, in effect, a part thereof?’ Furthermore, he said, the worker apparently didn’t intend for the boss to hear it. Besides that, he said, it is not uncommon for employes “to express uncomplimentary views concerning their employer’s behavior, and the phrase “- -- - -’- * is surety not unknown in such context.” If I interpret this bit of quasi adjudication correctly, the upshot is as follows: “It’s okay to call your employer the “sweet old boss,” but be careful when you use just the initials. 1 Plaster-as-Paris You can clean plaster-of-paris statuary and other such ornaments nicely if you’ll mix up a thick paste of starch and water, smear this over all the parts of the surface, wait until the paste has dried completely, then brush it off.

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■AWfISHINGTON Farmers Need Credit i By UJL BEN. GALE MeGEE (D-WyaJ There are two kinds of drought that can ruin a fanner. One is weather drought. The other is drought of available i farm credit. Os the two, lack of credit can be the more devastating. - I A farmer can survive a year of bad weather conditions — if he can find the credit to tide him over for another crop year. Even good weather and good prices are not enough in themselves to keep a fanner in business these days because of high operating costs, enormous investment demands in land and machinery, and the high level of competition in agriculture. So rapid was the mechanical revolution in agriculture after World War II that no \ o>toMcow one—government or private credit agencies I or even farmers themselves — anticipated 1 the enormous demand for farm credit For instance, since 1950, the average investment in an average family farm has increased from S6AM to more than $53,000 to 1960. Today the average dairy farmer in Wisconsin or New York State needs more than $10,700 a year in operating capital or credit A cash grain farmer in the midwest needs SIO,BOO a year. The cattle feeder in the West needs $27,000 a year. A cotton farmer in California needs $42,000 a year in operating credit Mechanization in agriculture not only sharply raised the operating costs and machinery and equipment investments for farmers, mechanization also demanded that farmers have more land to make efficient use of the new machinery. The demand for land raised land prices and this created an even higher demand for additional credit Tragically, for thousands of farmers, such cwdit was not made available and this drought of credit forced them off the land. I During the eight Republican years of 1953 to 1960, the administration dragged its feet Private credit sources were not encouraged to meet the new demands for farm credit and the lending authority for the Farmers Home Administration was constantly being threatened by Republicans. t By 1961 American farmers were in desperate need of a new recapitalization policy and from the new Democratic administration they got it i In 1964, the volume of credit supplied through the : Farmers Home Administration was two-and-a-half times as great as the 19M level. I. Prom January 1961 through June 1964, approximately $2.4 billion was advanced to family fanners. The economic j impact of these funds as they have been used and re-used in rural America has amounted to more than sl2 billion. j During 1964 some 320,000 rural families, 1,440,000 people, benefited from the agency’s credit services. During the three-and-a-half years of the Kennedy-Johnson Administration family farmers gained control of 4,326,000 ‘ acres through supervised credit. The $524,000,000 advanced in the rural housing and water systems programs provided 7,605 man-years of labor for carpenters, masons, electricians, and other construction workers. More than SOO,OOO loans were made to strengthen family farm operations. Some 580 rural communities are now more attractive places in which to live and earn a living because of FHA financed community water systems and recreation facilities.

|g. FATHER OF ROCKETS—The U.S. Post Office Department will issue an eight-cent air mail*commemorative honoring: Robert H. Goddard, father of modern rocketry. At the right: of the engraving of Goddard is an Atlas rocket blasting a Mercury capsule into orbit and a Cape Kennedy launch, lower. «

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WARREN REPORT

Jack Ruby Operated Alone In Slaying

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Countless Americans and others leaped to a conclusion on Sunday, Nov. 24, 1963, that Jack Ruby was on secret assignment from foreign powers or the U. S. underworld when he shot and killed Lee Han* vey Oswald. Ruby, now 53, is being held in Dallas pending appeal of his death sentence for the murder of Oswald, assassin of ; President John F. Kennedy. In conducting its investigation of the Kennedy claying, the Warren Commission naturally had to explore at some length Ruby’s background and his motives for killing Oswald. The commission sifted numerous reports that Oswald and Ruby were linked in the same plot. Rumors of a conspiratorial relationship between Oswald and Ruby also extended to others. They included policeman J. D. Tippit, who was slain by Oswald shortly after Kennedy’s assassination; Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, who was shot at by Oswald on April 10, 1963, and Bernard Weissman of the non-existen American factfinding committee who signed a large blank . bordered Dalia* newspaper advertisement denouncing Kennedy on the day the President was shot. Ruby, son of Polish immigrants, operated strip-tease and rock-and-roll joints in Dallas. He walked unimpeded in to the .basement of the Dallas police end courts building on Nov. 24 and shot Oswald who was walking with officers to a car which was to transfer him to the county jaiL The killing was seen on live television by millions. Many people came to the immediate conclusion that Ruby murdered Oswald to silence him. In fact, a group of Secret Service agents in Washington watching the jail tranfiser on a White House television set came up instantly with the same theory. One of the agents remarked-immed-iately, “that was the messenger.” Voluminous evidence led the Warren Commission to a firm conclusion: Jack Ruby was no “messenger.” Like Oswald, he was operating alone. He was a moody, unstable character. Bi was described by psychiatrists at the age of 11 as ‘egocentric,” a person with a strangely sadistic taste for settling arguments with his fists. He was a man who boasted that he could “hit harder than Joe Louis.” Quite aside from evidence, the commission attacked the OswaldRuby rumors from a point of logic. In its report, it observed: Reasons To Doubt “There are other reasons to doubt that Jack Ruby would have shot Oswald as he did if he had been involved in a conspiracy to carry out the assassination, or that he would have been delegated to perform the shooting of Oswald on behalf of others who were involved in the sloping of the President. “By striking in the city jail, Ruby was certain to be approhanded. An attempt to silence Oswald by having Ruby kill him would have presented exceptionally grave dangers to any other person involved in the scheme. If the attempt had failed, Oswald might have been moved to disclose his confederates to the authorities. If it succeeded as it did, tthe ‘additional killing might itself have produced a trail to them. Moreover, Ruby was regarded by most persons who knew him as moody and unstable — hardly one to have encouraged the confidence ot persons involved in a sensitive conspiracy.” The commission thereupon concluded: “Whatever the legal culpability of Jack Ruby for his act of Nov. 24, the evidence is persua- ■ sive that he acted independently in shooting Oswald.” No Political Orientation Prior to the assassination, he seemed to have no political orientation whatever. He was bitter and sometimes violent against those he regarded as anti-semitic. But his own rabbi said Ruby was too unsophisticated to grasp or have any significant interest in any political creed. Ruby, however, described himself as a Democrat He had been noticeably upset about signs in Dallas demanding, “impeach Earl Warren.” These referred to the chief justice of the United States who later headed the assassination investigation commission. Waren is unpopular in some areas for his participation in the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation. And when Ruby first heard of Kennedy’s assassination, he was visibly and audibly upset, according to many witnesses. He was in an office of the Dallas Morning News just after the tragedy and spoke at closing his night clubs immediately in respect for the fallen Chief Executive. He also was quoted as saying, “I’ll have to leave DallaS." --

One witness said he saw Ruby at Parkland Hospital shortly after Kennedy was pro* nounced dead Were, but this testimony has not been supported. The commission is inclined to believe that the witness confused the hospital with the police station where Ruby was seen late on the night of Nov. 22, the assassination day, when Oswald was taken before a press conference. Brought Police Food Why was Ruby at the police station then? He had offered to bring sandwiches and soft (kinks to officers on duty. A police official told him by telephone that the duty crew had just eaten, whereupon Ruby tried to present his sandwiches to radio and television men on duty. Ruby spoke later to interrogators of “the certain mood I was in.” Friends and co-work-ers described him as depressed and worried. On Sunday, Nov. 24, his roommate said Ruby was mumbling and jabbering in an incoherent manner. Ruby said he was upset by something he read in the morning papers—that Mrs. Kennedy would have to come back to Dallas for Oswald’s trial. In testimony taken by the commission concerning the murder of Oswald, Ruby said, “someone owed this debt to our beloved President to save her the ordeal at coming back.” Ruby obviously knew he would not get away with the shooting, for he put his wallet and keys in the trunk of his car when he parked near the police station Sunday morning. He carried with him only a 38 caliber revolver, $2,000 in cash and no form of identification. He entered the jail through an automobile ramp from Main

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Street, stood behind a front r an k of newsmen and officers awaiting Oswald's appearance. As Oswald passed him, headed for the police caravan, Ruby stepped forward swiftly and shot him. Acted Alone After exhaustive study of available evidence and extensive investigation on its own, the Warren Commission could find nothing to support stories that Ruby acted in consort with or in behalf of any other person or group. While there were

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many rumors to the contrary, the commission could find nothing to substantiate reports that Ruby and Oswald know each other. One popular rumor was that in the fraction of a second before Ruby’s bullet dropped him, Oswald flashed a look of recognition. The commission examtoed video tape and motion picture films of the jail shooting and found nothing to support this belief. In fact, the commission felt Oswald could not have seen Ruby because of the tele-

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vision Hfob and sanra flashes fa hte eyes as foe prteoner wafond through the basement. Born Jacob Rubenstein of a brawling, discontented and large Chicago famfor, Ruby fa away was staoMar to Oswald. They both hungered for acceptance and recognition of superiority which neither passes* ed They both see haunted by money problems, although Roby’s were cat a much larger scale. Above all, both men wanted the HmeMgfct.