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TODAY’S EDITORIAL A Weak Slick r PHE JOHNSON administration walks loudly while I carrying a weak stick with which to defend the NATO alliance. Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned the Soviets that any further assaults by the Kremlin in Europe “would create an international crisis with grave consequences.” Rusk seemed to be threatening Moscow with NATO retaliation if there should be a repeat of the Czech invasion. While the get-tough policy is admirable in one respect, that of trying to prevent more Soviet aggression, it could be disastrous from another point. NATO is foolish to be issuing bellicose statements when it doesn't have the force of arms to back them up. The few conventional divisions Western Europe has are no match for the Red Army which outnumbers the NATO forces by five or six to one. And a conventional war is the type that NATO contemplates fighting. Under strategy developed by the Johnson administration, any Soviet attack with conventional weapons would be responded to with non-nuclear arms. U.S. nuclear superiority would not be brought into battle unless the Communists used atomic arms first. One of the primary reasons that De Gaulle developed his own nuclear force was the fear that in a conventional assault by the Soviet Union Western Europe would be swamped by the Red hordes. He has been suspicious of an American sell-out to avoid a Soviet attack on the U.S. during a European war. The Johnson administration has pulled all nucleararmed missiles out of Western Europe, leaving NATO too weak to defend itself, let alone to defend countries behind the Iron Curtain, from Soviet rape. To speak from the current position of weakness is not a credible policy of deterrence and could invite aggression. The U.S. must act from a position of military superiority which means instant nuclear response if Western Europe is attacked. Supreme Court grants request of ‘Northern Lines’ merger

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, December 17, 1968

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court today granted the government’s request for a stay of the “Northern Lines" merger which would create the nation’s longest rail system. In a brief order without opinion, the court stayed the multi-billion-dollar rail merger “until further order of the court" to give it time to decide whether or not to hear the Justice Department’s appeal. The department has asked high court review of the Interstate Commerce Commission approval of the merger on grounds it is “seriously anticompetitive" and against nation, af policy. The proposed merger would join the Great Northern Railway Co., the Northern Pacific Railway Co., the Chicago, Burling, ton & Quincy Railroad Co., the Pacific Coast Railway Co. and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Co. The city of Auburn, Wash., joined in the appeal against two ICC orders of Nov. 30, 1967, and April 11, 1968, approving the merger. The proposed new system would rank only behind the Penn-Central system in assets. With 26,500 miles of track running from Chicago to Seattle and from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, it would be the longest single railroad in the nation. The Justice Department has also contended that the ICC acted illegally when it approved the merger after originally turning it down March 31, 1966. The department claims the regulatory agency is erroneous in interpreting national policy as meaning it should encourage consolidation of the nation’s railroads. A special three-judge court headed by Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the U.S. Court of

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Appeal for the District of Columbia dismissed the department’s appeal Nov. 20 and ordered the merger to take effeet Dec. 5 pending further appeal. Astronauts to take Christmas journey CAPE KENNEDY (UPI)— The three Apollo 8 astronauts today were pronounced fit and ready to go Saturday on man's most daring spaceflight — a Christmas journey around the moon. “Everything’s fine," said Dr. Charles Berry, the chief astronaut physician. “We don't see anything to cause us any concern." Frank Borman, 40, James Lovell, 40, and William Anders, 35, spent most of the morning undergoing their last major physical examinations before flight. They will get a brief check before they board their moonship Saturday. “We seem to have escaped any illnesses this time," Berry said. The three Apollo 7 astronauts came down with colds the day after their October launch. The Apollo 8 mission will be Lovell's third spaceflight, Borman’s second and Anders’ first. Promotion WASHINGTON (UPI) — Scandinavian Airlines System has agreed to underwrite $60.000 of the U.S. Travel Service’s promotional costs in Scandinavia in 1969, the Department of Commerce has reported. SAS’s contribution will be in addition to its already extensive campaign to attract more foreign visitors to the United States.

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Future prices show sharp decline during December

Future prices registered sharp declines for grains and soybeans during the first half of December, notes J. William Unrig, Purdue University agricultural economist. However, cash wheat, oat and soybean prices rose, while corn prices fell. Speculators sold grain and soybean contracts as December contracts expired and foreign buyers were reluctant to place orders for U. S. grains for shipment after Dec. 20, he explains. Negotiations are being carried on for a new labor contract with dockworkers. If contract negotiations fail, the Taft Hartley Act injunction will expire and the dockworkers will strike. This threatened strike, Uhrig points out, has hurt exports; the strike would affect Atlantic and Gulf ports. Corn exports are running 25 million bushels behind last year’s level for the marketing year starting Oct. 1; wheat exports are running more than 100 million bushels behind those a year earlier for the marketing year which began last July. Other factors causing weakness in the futures markets included uncertainty in the international monetary situation and increased efforts by France to move commodities into trade channels. Domestic corn sales increased as the harvest neared completion with cash prices declining to $1.15 a bushel in Chicago. Cash soybean prices increased four cents a bushel to $2.58 in Chicago at midDecember. Soybean exports were running about 15 million bushels above year earlier levels for the September to early December period. Soybean oil prices increased about one-half cent a pound in early December, while soybean meal declined about $1.50 a ton. Higher soybean prices and lower meal prices which were not offset by the higher oil prices led to a de-

cline in processors’ margins, the economist adds. Cash wheat prices remained firm at $1.37 a bushel at Kansas City as producers were reluctant to sell on price declines. Hog marketings fluctuated as much as 25 per cent from week-to-week at the 12 major Midwestern markets. Hog prices fell $1 per hundredweight as hog slaughter under Federal inspection reached the highest level in four years. As supplies slackened, prices recovered and at mid-December U.S. No. 1 & 2 grade barrows and gilts weighing 200-220 pounds sold in a range of $19.50 - $20.50 at Chicago.

Fed steer prices were mostly steady at Chicago, ranging from $27.50 - $30.25, during the first two weeks of December. Cow prices strengthened $1 to $1.50 per hundredweight. Wholesale steer carcasses increased $1 per hundredweight. Choice steer carcasses weighing 500 - 700 pounds traded in carlots in the Chicago wholesale meat trade for $45.50 — the highest price of the year. Egg prices declined four cents a dozen in early December, then rose by the same amount to register 46 1/2 cents a dozen at mid-month in Chicago. This was the same level as in late November.

St. Angelo urges Demos to give cooperation

ilndianapolis-Democratic State Chairman Gordon St. Angelo today dispatched a communication to all Democratic County Chairmen in the state requesting that they cooperate with Republicans on the local level “for the sake of effective state government" in making a smooth transition as Republicans move into governmental positions next month. St. Angelo informed the leaders that “I will be cooperating with Republican State Chairman Chaney, attempting to smooth out any difficulties that may arise. In 1960, this was not necessarily the case. Had cooperation between the two parties existed, many problems could have been avoided. For this reason, we want to do our very best to continue our service to Indiana citizens," the State Chairman added. In his letter, St. Angelo cited the examples set by President Johnson and Governor Branigin in doing their utmost to acquaint their successors with the duties of the office they

will assume. “Thus, in the true traditio n of the two-party system and following the standards set by our leaders on the federal and state levels, I feel we must make this effort. This is the ‘least’ we can do for our state and for our system of government,’’ St.Angelo concluded. The Democratic State Chairman left today on a business trip that will keep him out of the state until the middle of next week.

Greek Tourism ATHENS (UPI)—Plans for the construction of 248 new hotel units in anticipation of continued increase in Greek tourism have been approved by the National Tourist Organization of Greece. The National Statistical Service reports arrivals of foreigners in Greece in August totaled 175,054, compared with 162,632 in August, 1967, an increase of 7.6 per cent.

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Reservists appeal turned down by Supreme Court

WASHINGTON (UPI)-The Supreme Court refused today to review the government’s legal right to order reservists to active duty in an “undeclared war” such as Vietnam. The court, in a brief order, turned down an appeal by a group of 57 Army reservists who contend that when they enlisted they were given to understand that they would not be called to active duty “in the absence of a war declared by Congress or a national emergen, cy declared by Congress or the president." The decision was announced over a vigorous dissent by Justice William O. Douglas who reoeated his previous contentions that the constitutionality of the Vietnam War has never been resolved by the court. The question, he said, “is whether men may be sent abroad to fight in a war which has not been declared by Congress." The government contended that the law allows the president to ^prder any unit of the ready reserve of an armed force to active duty for a period of up to 24 months. Bob Hope tours U.S. Naval hospital YOKOSUKA, Japan (UPI)— When people talk about how comedian Bob Hope became the Christmas hero, a title second in rank only to Santa Claus, they tend to get a little blubbery. “Isn’t he just simply wonderful?" asked a middle-aged nurse in stiffly-starched whites as Hope toured a ward today at the U.S. Naval hospital here. Hope, moving briskly from patient to patient with that old familiar jaunty saunter and crooked smile, had a quip for everyone. The 65.year-old funnyman stopped to chat with a young Marine whose hands were encased in bandages as big as 16-ounce boxing gloves. The famous grin faded a little as the two chatted very quietly before Hope moved on to the next bed. And when he had gone the young Marine looked at a Polaroid photograph of himself and Hope. “Man, he has got to be a great cat,” said Pfc. Jim Cheffen, 20, the badly wounded young • man from Nashville, Tenn. And that is the way it went. The handshakes—when there were hands left to shake. A few quick quips. The photographs. And if everyone wasn’t a whole lot happier, maybe a few fellows felt just a little better than they did before Hope and the girls walked in. Hope and his troupe of 21 stars were in Japan to kick off his 18th annual Christmas tour to entertain American GI’s overseas. The troupe is on its way to South Vietnam and will also visit Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Okinawa, Guam and the Philippines.

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

The Bell Telephone System, which provides voice communication for a small fee, has deep trouble. Anonymous obscene phone calls are approaching the epidemic stage. Scores of thousands of women and children listen to a ringing phone and are afraid to lift the receiver off the hook. The phone company, of course, is not at fault. They provide the service, and they are spending a fortune trying to curtail the whispered threats, the vile suggestions, the quick click and dial tone on the other end of the line. The calls are instigated by the sexually inadequate, and the envious. Some are called “breathers." Your phone rings, you pick up the receiver and say hello, and all you get is heavy breathing. Most of them are placed in public telephone booths. The rest come from high school students, in the main, who try to frighten fellow students when parents are out for the evening. In spite of the disgusting character of calls from men, most of them are harmelss. The sexually timid male usually knows the identity of the woman he calls and, whether she is married or not, he has developed strong sexual feelings for her. Lacking the nerve ever to approach her in person with his desires, he hides unseen behind the long coil of copper wire between him and his object of love, and he finds himself able to sputter all the four-letter words he would never use in face-to-face conversation. From these calls, he derives gratification and satisfaction. In Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas, South, western Bell accepted more than 58.000 complaints last year. The number of such calls is far greater than the total number of subscribers who bring the matter to the attention of the telephone company. The percentage of arrests and convictions, until now, has been small. In 1965 only 365 persons were convicted; in 1966, the total was 788. Last year 1,105 were found guilty. It isn’t much, considering the scores of thousands of innocent persons who live in fear of the next ring of a telephone. The legislatures in all fifty states have passed laws making it a violation of law to place obscene, annoying, threatening or harass, ing calls. The interlocking telephone companies had a problem trying to trace such calls to their source. One area of the country required special training for 26.000 employees. Today , the phone system works on automatic relays. When a customer complains, the company assures the victim that it is grateful for the report, and a special tag is placed on the phone so that the company can monitor incoming calls. The records show that the anonymous and abusive caller seldom makes more than two attempts, unless the woman at home speaks in response to the filthy

language. In almost all cases, when the woman hung the phone up without a word of response, the caller quit the game. In other cases, the phone company asks the receiver of the calls to mark down the exact time of each call. If the company recommends monitoring the calls, permission must first be obtained from the victim. When the police are called in-- and some subscribers object to this.-they not only want to know if there is a pattern to such calls, but also to find the whereabouts of all members of the family and close friends at the time in question. Police have noted that most such calls are made at random, and the sick caller will dial anynumber in hopes of hearing a protest to his threats. If the woman is hysterically afraid, the phone company suggests changing the phone number at once, and not publishing it. Best of all, the phone company now has an automatic punch card recorder which will punch the number from which a call is being made. A comparison of the exact time the anonymous call was made will display the phone number where the call was placed. One woman noticed that the calls were always at night and, as the phone rang, her neighbor’s dog barked. The culprit was the man who owned the dog. Most obscene callers have no originality; they use the same words over and over. Sometimes one arrest clears up a hundred complaints. If you should ever receive such a call, the best thing you can do is to hang up at once, quietly, not violently. Wait ten seconds and dial the phone company business office. It is one phone call which should never be kept secret. . . Valparaiso University names new president VALPARAISO, Ind. (UPI) — Valparaiso University today announced the election of Dr. Albert G. Huegli, 55, as president. Huegli, who had served as acting head of the Lutheran institution since last July, was elected Saturday, but the announcement was made two days later by Paul Brandt, chairman of the university’s board of directors. Prior to becoming acting president, Huegli had served six years as Valparaiso’s vice president for academic affairs. Huegli is a consultant and examiner for the North Central Association and chairman of the board of higher education of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. He taught political science and history at St. John’s College in Kansas, at Northwestern and at Concordia Teachers College in Illinois before coming here.

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