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The Daily Banner. Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, November 18, 1968

TIME DRAINS AWAY

HOW’S THIS? Mrs. Hazen E. Smith, of the 677-circulation Taylor (Neb.) Clarion recently got in her “say” on the question of criticism of news media, as follows: “Our national pastime, criticism, is fast becoming a crutch for all the ills of the universe. If we don’t like what we read in the newspapers or hear on radio and television news casts, are we to cure the world of wars, crime, etc. by repeated denunciations of the news media?. .. “News informs , without regard to the reaction of the reader. If Mr. Jones murders his wife, should a reporter tell the story, or should he list the names of all men who did not murder their wife? Should newspapers publish death notices and obituaries, or a list of those who have not died ? Should news men tell of earthquakes or list all places untouched by them? Should news men report riots in the streets or lists of places where we didn’t riot?... “When newspaper headlines scream of war, crime, death and destruction, could it be a fairly accurate report and a word to the wise? Can we recognize urgency of the world situation, or shall we wait until the water reaches our chins? “One woman complained and campaigned until she saw the prayer ban decreed. Do we hope to ban Freedom of the Press by complaining and campaigning? The Press is not to blame for the earthquake in Iran, the war in Vietnam, street rioting, the Czech invasion, murders, accidents, etc. Reporting such is their duty. If the farmer’s barn burns to the ground, the reporter records the story of the fire, not how many barns did not burn. If the bank is robbed, the story is told of the robbery, not how many banks were not robbed. “News media do not have to agitate explosive situations to obtain material. More likely they have to close their eyes to corruption to avoid libel, bankruptcy or gangland violence, or (anonymous telephone threats). “No, don’t blame the news media for world conditions. Better’ to be thankful that you are privileged to read, see or hear relatively accurate news. Those who read Pravda are in water to their nostrils. What’s your depth?” Paris reports South Vietnam ready to drop boycott

By GEORGE SIBERA PARIS (UPI)—North Vietnamese Politbureau member Le Due Tho left Hanoi for Paris Friday night with “new instructions” amid reports in the French capital that South Vietnam was on the verge of dropping its boycott of an expanded Vietnam conference. Hanoi radio announced that Tho, adviser to the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris, had left Hanoi Friday after consultations with his govern, ment on the talks. Authoritative Communist sources in Paris said he would arrive in Paris early next week after stops in Peking and Moscow. They said he had “new instructions” from President Ho Chi Minh which could ease the way for expanded talks original, ly scheduled to have begun Nov. 6. Disclosure the key Hanoi Communist official was en route to Paris came after Saigon’s chief observer to the Paris talks, Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, conferred with his aides of President Charles de Gaulle to explain his government’s

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stand on the expanded negotia. tions. France, an official host to the Vietnam parley, is known to be anxious to have South Vietnam give up its boycott of the talks arising from scheduled atten. dance of a separate Viet Cong delegation. The Saigon boycott has forced postponment of the opening of expanded negotia. tions. The Ely see Palace meeting coincided with reports in allied chanceries that Saigon was on the point of giving up its boycott of the talks and announcing it would send a formal delegation to Paris. Some reports said Saigon might announce its decision within 24 hours. South Vietnamese diplomats said they could neither confirm nor deny reports that such an agreement had been reached in the latest Saigon meeting between U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. I n Washington President Johnson said the United States was doing everything possible to persuade South Vietnam to participate in the Paris talks but he refused to comment on the reports that Saigon might soon end its boycott.

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Thanksgiving is drawing near, along with plans for family gatherings, bountiful meals and appropriate pauses to acknowledge the blessings of the past year. Dr. John S. Pearson, president of the Indiana Heart Association suggests also that everyone look ahead this Thanksgiving to a new way of living that may reduce the entire family’s risk of heart attack, the nation’s Number One health problem. There are many risk factors that predispose individuals to heart attack. Most persons can take steps, however, to reduce the risk. And the homemaker in her kitchen is in the best position to help all members of the family, starting with the Thanksgiving meal. Scientists have implicated diets that are high in cholesterol and saturated fats as a prime con. tributor to heart attack. But here now also is growing evidence that controlling the intake of such foods may influence the progress of atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries which underlies most coronary heart disease. The American Heart Association has published two new booklets which can guide the homemaker in providing a family diet that is nutritionally adequate, will control weight, and regulate the amount of fats that are consumed. These are “The Way to a Man’s Heart”, and “Recipes for FatControlled, and Low Cholesterol Meals”, available as a public service of your local Heart Association. The diet plan outlined is mainly for adults from their twenties on who have a family history of heart disease, or who may have increased their risks through a regular diet high in saturated fat and cholesterol. Children and adolescents, especially from susceptible families, can also benefit from this meal plan by forming tastes for food early in life that may protect them from heart disease in adulthood. While diet is only one important risk factor associated with heart disease, some of the others can be controlled or corrected. A family risk reduction plan, therefore, should include: 1. A diet for everyone that is nutritionally adequate, maintains a desirable weight, and reduces in intake of cholesterol and saturated fats,and increases the intake of polyunsaturated fats. 2. An end to cigarette smoking by the parents. They should urge their children not to take up the habit. 3. Regular and moderate exercise for everyone. Your doctor can advise what exercise is best for you.

4. Medical attention if you have high blood pressure or diabetes. 5. A medical checkup for even healthy individuals on a regular basis so that any developing condition may be detected and

treated promptly.

LBJ, Nixon work together in foreign affairs

NEW YORK (UPI)—Pres-ident-elect Richard M. Nixon and President Johnson were working today in notably closer concert in the field of foreign affairs than political circles would have believed possible during the heat of the recent presidential campaign. The outstanding example of their cooperation was embodied in Nixon’s selection of retired diplomat Robert D. Murphy to represent the new administration during the transition period — and operate in the highest councils of government from a State Department office next door to Secretary Dean Rusk. Nixon announced the temporary assignment for the 74-year-old Murphy as the presidentelect prepared to leave for a brief south Florida holiday following a packed Friday schedule of meetings with ranking Americans from the fields of industry, labor, urban redevelopment and foreign Intelligence. Before taking off for Key Biscayne, Fla., in the early evening, Nixon had appointments with Frederick A. Kappel, former AT&T board chairman and currently head of a government task force studying all levels of federal compensation; AFL-CIO President George Meany; Whitney Young of the National Urban League and one of the country's more prominent Negro leaders, and Richard Helms, director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Confers with Hoover Nixon announced the Murphy assignment at an early afternoon news conference in his New York headquarters Thursday. Then he conferred for more than an hour with J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Hoover whose replacement has been demanded by a number of liberal political elements said after seeing Nixon that his own health was

LBJ will make his decisions

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

Under such a plan, this Thanksgiving can be the start of better heart protection for all ages, and future Thanksgivings may take on added meaning, Dr. Pearson

said.

fine and he felt up to continuing as FBI director if requested by Nixon. There has been some speculation that Helms might like to leave government at the end of this administration, but there has been no official confirmation. The purpose of his meeting with Nixon was similar to Hoover’s—a briefing on conditions within the CIA area of operations outside the country. Hoover reported on internal security matters. Murphy, who spent 39 years in career foreign service before his 1959 retirement to become board chairman of Corning Glass International, was designated by Nixon as “the president-elect’s personal representative in the field of foreign policy with the current administration.” Discusses New Assignment Nixon talked over the Murphy assignment, which will continue briefly into the new administration, with Johnson by telephone Thursday. The plan for a personal Nixon representative on the scene in Washington apparently grew out of the president-elect's White House meeting last Monday with Johnson, Rusk, Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford and other high administration officials. The way Nixon first described his arrangement with Johnson, it sounded as if the Republican might have veto power over major foreign policy decisions during the remaining 60 days before the new administration takes over. Nixon, however, scotched this idea, saying he merely was pointing out that of practical necessity, the new administration in the interests of continuity would have to be consulted in advance and agree to basic decisions such as those involving the Vietnam peace negotiations. Otherwise, the “other side” might stall in the hope of getting a better deal from the new government next year.

By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (UPI) —President Johnson called a news conference Friday to declare emphatically that he would make the nation’s foreign policy decisions until he relinquishes power to Richard M. Nixon Jan.

20.

“Of course, the decisions that will be made between now and Jan. 20 will be made by this President and by this secretary of state and by this secretary of defense.’Johnson said, stressing the word “this” in each case. He was asked to comment on President - elect Nixon’s announcement in New York Thursday that* “prior consultation” between himself and Johnson on foreign policy matters would take place to an unprecedented degree during the transition period. “That means that Mr. Nixon and I agreed that it will be desirable for him to have an observer, and he will have an observer,” Johnson said, “but I will make whatever decisions the president of the United States is called upon to make between now and Jan. 20th.” Johnson appeared to be irritated by the emphasis that news accounts had put on Nixon’s statement that Johnson had agreed to consult him first before making any new moves in the Paris peace talks and other sensitive areas. Johnson had a transcript of Nixon’s remarks at his side when he spoke to newsmen. Also at his side was Robert D. Murphy, the veteran diplomat designated by Nixon Thursday as his foreign policy liaison representative with the Johnson administration. Johnson said Murphy would consult with him and Secretary of State Dean Rusk about three days each week. But he stressed that Murphy held no official post and had not been confirmed in any office. He called Murphy an “observer.” Thus, Johnson said, he and his officials alone will be making the decisions until his term ends. Nixon had said that he had not only Johnson’s assurance but “his and my insistence” that Nixon would be consulted in advance of major administra. tion decisions. Nixon added: “And I think President Johnson is keenly aware of the fact that it would be very difficult for him to make any kind of an agreement on a major policy matter unless he could give assurance to the parties on the other side that it would be implemented by and respected by the next pres-

ident.”

Shortly after Nixon spoke

Thursday, the White House said that “nothing has diluted the President’s authority.” Johnson underscored that point at his

impromptu news conference.

Rhodes to be speaker at dinner honoring Branigin

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Ohio

Gov. James A. Rhodes will be among those paying tribute to Governor Branigin at a special recognition dinner sponsored by Branigin’s alma mater, Frank-

lin College, here tonight.

A newspaper bureau chief is a journalistic surgeon who never uses a nail file where an ax will do. Arthur Krock, until recently of the New York Times, has written his Memoirs (Funk & Wagnalls) with a captial M, and, even though he bills himself as “The intimate of Presidents from Theodore Roosevelt to LBJ”, he admits that some of them became decidedly unintimate, to judge by a few of his rainy day hatchet jobs. As a group, bureau chiefs would make better Presidents of the United States than the men we elect because these are the pundits who can tell you straight out what the President should have done, could have done, but didn’t. Often, their dispatches tell us what the President is thinking, even though, at times, the Chief Executive may appear to be devoid of thought. And yet there is a fascination in the job — especially for one like Arthur Krock, who has spent sixty years of his life trying to decipher where gutter politics leaves off and statesmanship begins. Krock’s power reposed, of course, in his paper. If the New York Times had fired him, as President Franklin D. Roosevelt suggested twice, Krock’s typewriter would have lost its power to frighten, to cajole, to ridicule and persuade. This is true of all newspapermen, but especially so of those who crouch on the twigs of the eagle’s nest in

the capital.

Mr. Krock wore his dignity afoot and in bed, as did Mark Sullivan, Turner Catledge, Walter Lippmann, and Frank R. Kent. Each of the last half dozen Presidents made the mistake of calling these men to the White House for an intimate and persausive chat on a matter dear to the heart of the Chief Executive and, as a result, each of them dumped the President on his constitutional

rights.

Few were good writers. Their forte was political interpretation and, if they guessed wrong now and then, only a copy editor would remember. Each exercised the human quality of personal bias. Some of the more insecure bureau chiefs were guilty of trying to read publishers’ minds before tapping key to ribbon. And yet I spent the late hours reading Mr. Krock because he filled in many chinks in my fortress of information. I did not know, for example, that Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. aspired to the Presidency. Krock was an intimate friend of the Kennedy family when Jack was in Harvard, Bobby was trying to win a fistfight with his older brothers, and Teddy was in a playpen. Joe Sr. and his tribe had been

rejected by the Boston Brahmins and he told Krock “For the Kennedys it’s the (outhouse) or the castle — nothing in between.” The author says that when the dream of the old man “to occupy the castle” faded, he draped the mantle of Presidential aspiration on each of his sons in turn. In tragedy, they died one by one and yet, as Krock points out, “the Kennedvs had come to think of Presidency as a personal fief.” If it was easy for the bureau chiefs to detect the venality and greed of Presidents, then it was just as simple for the Presidents to detect the cracks in the Krocks. Like spinsters, the pundits ached to be romanced, but they bristled at the male hand on the knee. For example, the author admits Lyndon Johnson accomplished a staggering amount of progressive legislation in his five years in office, but makes him look like a boob for inviting a Karachi camel driver to visit the United States. Krock writes:“Surprised and regretful that my feeble jests at him and the Administration had so obviously aroused the anger of a long-time friend and a frequent object of my admiration, I sent Johnson what I hoped was a good-humored letter. I wrote that I had given instructions that upon my demise a tablet be placed over my remains with the inscription: “Hie jacet Arthur Krock of Kentucky., Killed in a pistol duel with Lyndon Johnson of Texas; The deceased drew first.”

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Dr. Wesley Haines, president of the college, will host the dinner and he said Branigin, who leaves office Jan. 13, will be cited for his accomplishments in public office as well as service and contributions to Franklin College. Branigin resigned as chairman of the school’s board of trustees when he became chief executive of Indiana four years ago. Governor Rhodes, who will be introduced by former Indiana Governor Harold Handley, will deliver a tribute to Branigin on behalf of the nation while former Democratic National Committeeman Frank McHale will deliver a tribut on behalf of the people of the state. Haines said the “illustrious

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