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(Patre 2) QUIZ, Ord, Nebr., Thursday, Mar. 19, 1970
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OWd Quiz
xtrernists You Decide
Sonle weeks ago a' new organization .was formed in Ord.
he nlenllxrs called thenlselves the Valley County Alert Citizens
Fill11 Forum.
To date the organization has shown three films here in
Ord. It plans to show thlee more tonight (Thursday) and three
more a week from tonight.
The fact that sonle menlbers of the group are also nlernbers
of the John Birch Society will undoubtedly keep a nun+
bcr of citizens away. This will be inost unfortunate, if the upcoming
filnls are anqthing like the ones sho*n here previously.
The previous filnis naturally dealt with the Birch Society's
fa~orite topic: Communisn~. But there was not the wild, helierskclter
name-calling that solne have attributed to the Birchers.
For the nlost part, the filins let the Con~nluni_sts do their
o~bn talking. The first one, called "More Deadly Thaq/ War,"
was a lecture by G. Edward Griffin of the American Opinion
Speakers Bureau. Griffin documented practically everything he
said, quoting Conlnlunists or former Communists.
The second film, called "Con~munists on Campus" and produced
by Harding College at Searcey, Ark., was prim,irily a
se~ies of short news excerpts filnled at different locations around
the country. The producers merely assembled them and added
soiilc overall coordination.
By itself, the speech of a Rap Brown or a Ton1 Hayden
nlay sound like so niuCh garbage. But put together, as the
\+ere in that film, such spceches provide a frighte'ning yardi
stick of just how far the Coninlunists have conle in their atte~npts
to subvert' this country.
While awakening An~ericans to what is goin+ on around
them, the films did not brgk %veryone 16 ihsh but and la in
a stock of firearms. On the contrary, they pointed out 'i hat
violent retaliation is exactly what the Conlniunists are hoping
for, and they urged peaceful resistance.
No doubt many citizens will still disn~iss the conling filnls
as the product of some ri ht-wing extrenlist group. Again we
say: this will be most UI lf ortunate.
Dr. Otis Miller, chairman of the Valley County Alert Citizens
Film Forunl, says that the group's objective is to inforiu
and educate. The proof of a truly educated person does not
lie wholly in what he knows; instead, his willingness to consider
new and different points of view and to search constantly
for Inore information are equally as important.
Once a person has attended a session of the Valley County
Alert Citizens Filnl Forum, he may still brand the group as
extremists, witch-hunters, or any other name he chooses. But
we think it grossly unfair to do so without first seeing what the
group is and what it is, trying to do. '
Tonight's filnls will be shown in the Ord High School cafeteria
beginning at 8 p.m.
--A
Rhodesia, chapter 2
'The sequel to last ~veek's Quiz editorial deploring the closing
of the United States consulate in Rhodesia appeared in the
hlaf. 17 issue of Newsweek 9agazine. In its "PeriscopeL", c2lunln,
New,swkek told how James Holland will shortly becinle
the first U.S. anlbassador to Sweden in nearly two years.
"Neutral" Sweden has been a haven for deserters from the
U.S. nlilitary services for several years now. Her leaders have
becn openly hostile to U.S. policy in Vietnam-more so than,
cvcn sonle Conliliuilist countries. Her present prime minister,
Old£ Palme, once walked arm in arm down the streets of Stockholm
with a North Vietnanlese official during an anti-U.S. rally.
New~week, which is not noted for its conservative viewpoint,
nevertheless told a little about the current cliniate in Sqeden
\+lien it. stated:
"A good nlany Swedes, as well as Anicrica~l Black Yan-
tht.1~ now living in Sweden, already are calling the U.S. Embassy
in Stockholm 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' "
Strategically speaking, swede,^^ has little to offer the U.S.
She has no rare natural re;ources and no vital industrial pr6ducts
that this country needs.
And from the historic point of view, there's no particular
reason the United States should be currying Sweden's favor either.
During World War 11, while Hitler's arnlies ravaged and
plundered practically all of Europe, the Swedes sat by aloofly
in their neutrality and let others make all the sacrifices. They
hdd done the same in World War I.
This is the country with whom President Richard Nixon
now seems so bent on restoring anlicable relations. Meanwhile,
lie slan~s the door in the face of Khodesia, which has so nluch
to offer the U.S., by closing the American consulate there and
thus severing diplomatic relations.
'Il~is is the same Khodesia which has in:pressively repelled
every attempt at Comniunist infilt~ation fro111 neighboring Zambia
. . . the sanle Rhodesia which has offered to send a contingent
of troops to fight the Reds in Vietnam . . . the same
Khodesia which has vast stores of raw materials so vitally needcd
in the manufacture of U.S. defense weapons . . . the sanle
Jthodesid which \vould be so willing to sell those materials to
the United States and eliniiilate our dependence on the Soviet
Union for the~n.
Yet, because Great Britain-herself a stumbling, groping
sh~dow of a once great nation-asks us to boycott Khodesia,
we willingly do so. And what does Great Britain do in return
Well, for one thing she sent 74 ships to North Vietnam,
with whom son~e would say we are at war, during 1969. For
another, she allowed 50 of her ships to unload cargo in Cuba,
against who111 we supposedly have an tco~lonlic boycott.
One of the nation's most prestigious business forecasters is
i~o\v predicting that Kcpublical~ gains in this fall's House and
Sendte races hill be n~inimal. Six n~onths ago the obtlook had
btcn qi~ite rosy. Charades such as the one President Nixon is
]low allouing to be acted out with regard to Sweden and Rhoderil
are a prue reasbb,. _ - -A-, c
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When
You and 1
Were Young
10 Years Ago
Farm traffic was slowed to a
dead stop as King Winter piled
area roads and countryside with
eix to ei ht inches of new snow.
Mrs. ~fbert Anderson was honored
on her 83rd birthday w,hen
members of her fam~ly arroed
with a .covered-dish dinner.
Edith Jones, former fry cook
at the New Cafe, began work
as an attendant at the self-serv-
!ce laundry.
Mr. and Mrs. George Zikmund
announced the birth of them first
grandchild. Br~an Edward was
born Mar. 12 to Mr. and Mrs.
Dale Zikmund of ~incoln.
Sharon Hackett, granddaughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hackett,
topped a field of contestants
from 37 Colleges and universities
in six states to win sweepstake
honors at the Unibersity of .Nebraska's
annual Intercollegiate
speech and Debate Conference.
20 Years Ago
The number of cattle lost in a
one-day blizzard the week be-'
fore was larger than the number
lost during the entire winter
of 1948-49. Between 35 and 40
windmills were also re~orted destroyed.
Although doors were tightly
shut, drifting snow from the blizzard
managed to block planes inside
a hanger' at t Ord airport,
ti
making it im ossi e to remove
them .withoup many hours of
shovel~ng inside the hangar.
The first house in the Auble
Addition was under construction
by Charlie Kriewald.
Ord was all set for its second
annual Pancake Day, to be held
Mar. 22,
30 Years Ago
Fire destroyed the farm home
of Mr. and Mrs. William Cronk
Adam Dubas bought the Joe
Flakus pool hall in Burwell.
George Allen was guest of honor
at a dinner prepared by Mrs.
Allen on his birthday.
Kerry Leggett had the. chicken
pox and the children in his grade,
. the first, wrote letters to him.
Matt Keefe's car caught fire
when a rear tire blew out and
the auto went off the road. Spill-
-ed gasoline i nited, and the car
was a total jess. It was being
d hen by Keefe's son, Francis,
&en the mishap occurred.
40 Years Ago
A recipe on the QUIZ woman's
yge for chop suey called for
15 cents worth of round steak
and 20 cents worth of pork
steak."
A skating rink opened at the
Bohemian Hall. It was operated
by A. R. McGrew.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sevenker,
returned from a week of vacation,
said they had neker seen
so much plowing and seeding at
this time of year as was being
done around Dewitt.
,A minstrel show sponsored by
the Masonic Lodge cleared $225.
The mone was to be used to
help pay &r the temple erected
the previous >ear.
Dear Sir:
The television portrayal of coi-
, lege in the 1920s is .amusing. I€
rings so false. We did not wear
our skirts 10 inches above the
knees, but about one ~nch below.
We did mean to be very
daripg, however.
I doubt that the TV folks really
think that it was as they portray.
They hake to make us that
dumb. that awkward, and that
ridiculously oberdressed to make
~t funny enough.
Anyway, who could know the
difference after this m a n y
years They could, Don't their
grammas hale old pictures I'll
grant that those gunnysack-shaped,
skimpy dresses and skullcap
hats were unbecoming, but
there were those who uere graceful
even in that disguise.
But it's all in fun. We can
laugh heartily, too, Ulough froin
a different polnt of blew.
Margaret Bohy
Ord, Neb. 68862
(Editor's Note:, The following
was also submitted by Mrs.
Bohy.)
College Life
In the Twenties
When I was a sophomore, soine
boys'canie to serenade us at odr
dormitory. We crowded out on
the front balconies in our housecoats
and sliepers. Intr'cate latt~ce
made us practicaily ,invisible,
and when the boys were
leaving we sang them a chorus
about "Big Yellow Tulip."
As they left, our preceptress
snatched us down into the parlor
And shamed us about our imdodesty.
In an undress! singing
about 'caressing you, deayie!'
We listened polltely and said,
"Yes, m'am."
On our way back upstairs,
I bent to my room1na:e and san
softly, making it up, 8.
"The Boys came by the light
of the moon,
"And sang us a sweet little
tune.
"We hopped out of our beddies,
"And sang in our teddies,
"Which caused our preceptress
to swoon."
Roommate gave me a swift
kick, and I glanced back. The
preceptress was right behind us.
She just laughed; it struck her
funny too.
Dear Editor:
I'm a pretty happy inan now
that I'm an employee instead
of an employer.
I sold my business to my hired
man, and now if I get hurt on
the job I get my doctor bill
aid. I get paid for ttaqlng
onie while my finger gets %ell
and if business gets poor I get
paid $9 a day to sit hoiiie in
my chair or go fishing if ! like
to fish.
Of course, if I want lo fish
on Saturday or Sunday, I don t
get paid for that since I oniy
et paid fike days a week. Therefore,
Sm gonna fish on Wednesday.
The Scott Re~ort
Laos Must ~ave
BY Paul Scott
WASH~NG -
TON - More
t h a n massive
United States
air power will
beneededtu
stop the second
phase of North Vietnam's
spring offensive in Laos.
American bombing, including
further B-52 attacks, can slow
the Communist advance when
it starts again next month. But
such bombing cannot halt the advance;
only the intervention of
American or Thai1 ground forces
can do that.
This is the dark heart of a
blunt warning that U.S. military
officials in Laos included in their
most recent intelligence estimdte
of Hanoi's military intentions and
capabilities.
Their explosive estimate, now
being studied by President Richard
Nixon, confir~i~s reports that
the iliain body of the 65,000 North
Vietnanlese troops in Laos is regrou~in$
on the ~e+ttrn edge of
tba Eiao of JEIS for a ns:q of-
fensive dribe.
Im~nediate objectik e of the
coming Communist drive is beliebed
to be the 1961 cease-fire
line along the Like River, 50 miles
south of the point where North
Vietnamese troops are now re.
organizing.
Should this military goal be
reached, North Vietnam's advance
forces would be within 50
miles of Vientiane, the administrative
capital of Laos. It would
also put them in a positibn to cut
the main highway between Vien-
tiane and the Royal capital, Lunang
Prabang.
This military advance would
give North Vietnam's puppets,
the Pathet Lao, the trumD card
in any future negotiations with
the Laotian gocernment.
It would also provide them
with a big chunk of territory
formerly held by the old neutralist
faction in Laos. This would
put the Comniunists in a position
to demand more seats in the government
cabinet, and by extension
a coalition governmeht more
friendly to tbcm.
Strategic Objcctivo
By forcing Laotia11 Yrr!!lier
Sou~ianua Yhoua to accept mast
DAVE
L MARTIN
Vegas several weeks ago, several
people stopped and asked
me if it was ever recovered. This
week I received an -answer,
According to Chuck Saunders,
district manager of A~is' Mc-
Carran Alrport branch, Our car
was recovered the day after
(my) departure." The car was
found, according to Saunders' let-
ter to me, at the hotel lot. .
"Our car was" not damaged,"
Saunders wrte, and only a few
additiopal mlles were added, indicating
it was 'used' for a short
ride here (Las V&as) locally."
After writing the ,column, I
had clipped it and mailed it to
Avis. I thought - since I DID
have seine nice words to say
about them - they m~ght like to
read it. This prompted a resbonse
from Mr. Saunders
and also an opportunity that's in:
evitably present whenever you
do business with these larae - compaliies.
WlLL ube his card. But it oniy
pointed out to me the everincreasing
popularity of issuing
credit cards. All you have to do
is- look like you're a potential
customer. Whaln! You 4aye
creklit cards running out your
ears.
It brought to mind an interesting
item I heard on Arthur God-
The Ohioian told his wife -
after one encounter with her
about his ever-bulging billford
full of credit cards - that agyone
could get them. "They'd
eken issue them to a dog," he
remarked.
After thinking about his statement,
he wondered . . . WOULD
they issue a credit card to a dog
Being the curious tqpe, he
picked up an application for a
credit card the next opportunity
he had. After filling it out completely
and honest1 in his dog's
name, he submittel it. The dog
was named Terrytoan and that
was the way he filed the a pli
cation. After ,the question ottha
applicant's Income, he put,
"NONE." As age, he ga\e the
dog's actual age of two years
and nine months. Elerything he
could coinplete on the blank he
did.
Shortly - in the mail - a
If you haven'\ guessed it . . . credit'card came issued to Terrythe
next paragraph of my lett~~ town ...................... (whatever the
from Mr. Saunders stated: I master's last name was). And
have take'n the liberty of order- the dog imlnediately was placed
ing you an Avis Executive' on the mailing list and started
charge card and hope ,>ou will receiving regular mailings . .
use our service again.
statements . . . the whole works.
Now this was Very nice of Mr. So the Ohioian's suspicions
Saunders . . and I probably were confirmed. THEY WlLL is-
. SC'E A CREDIT CARD TO A
DOG!
This was enough . . . but the
story goes one step further. Recently
the dog received another
letter, probably because of n
good credit rating. Never having
made a purchase, the dog had
never been in arrears with, payments
on his account. Therefore
he was inforn~ed that he
was being placed on the Prefer.
red Customer list!
As Norm Schmidt used to tell
me, "These machines are okay.
But if they ever start reproducing
themselves we're in trouble!"
cause I hake to pay so !iluch
Smut Mail
for meat. But the joke IS on Spurred on by a concerned
him, 'cause I can buy my !neat President Nixon, the Post Office
each day hith the money he Department is scoring imprespals
me while I'm taking lny sive gains in the administrat~on's
coffee break.
battle against mail-order smut
I don't hale to worry ebout peddlers,-
frey's radio program recently.
my income tax since my boss Wprking closely with the As I recall, the subject was a
takes it out of my check each Justlce Department and local man in Troy, Ohio. His wife must
week, and what I neLer hara I law enforceinent agencies,,postal have been a lot l~ke mine -
cion't n~~ss. At the end of the inspectors have zeroed in on 20 each time he got a credit card
year he tells me how inuc;~ I of the nation's larger distributors, she'd ask, "U'here'd you get
paid, but I don't feel so bad n hose m a i 1 i n g s of sexually THAT one how!"
cause I neber had it anyway. oriented materials hake prompt-
I had a pretty good winter, ed about 90 percent of all public
since it was too cold to nork complaints. Of these, four hake
outdoors. I could therefore sit thus far been conbicted on obin
my chair and whistle a tune
Something Different
scenity c h a r g e s indictments
- didn't,get much flshing done, ha~e been obtained against the
though, cause I don't like to remainder.
chop holes in the ice just to In all, during the last four
catch those silly fish
months alone, there ha~e been
Spring and nice weather is 38 indictments and seven conkiccoining
now, so I think I'll 3bk tions of those aho traffic in mall- Up on !he Roof Tops
the boss for a raise. I hear they order pronography.
are paying real good wages i;l Many people in the 3rd Con-
New York.
gressional District habe sent me
Name Withheld by Reqrrsst pornographic material which AJIJIC, Mexico-Even life on the rooftops is different here,
P.S. I sure hope my boss can they have received, and I, in on these curved red tiles in Ajijic (say Ah-lice-HEEK').
nake a profit on his business turn, ha\e forwarded it to the
- th IS year
postmaster general.
By the way, did qou know these t~les were curved originally
by molding them over a woman's thight Your sex news for
today!
Geranium Joe
Only a few years ago the big old night watch ma^^ here stalked
along the rooftops to watch for prowlers, cloniying from one
roof to the next. All % roofs adjoin, after one fashion or an-
Rationing of Driving Time Proposed ther.
This posada (inn) is one-story, built onto time after til~e.
'' As Answer lo Nafion's Crowded Roads The only two-story roo111 is used for ~+ashing clothes and stringing
them up!
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
towns just so folks can have a
. Living on the roof are several cat families.
,I' I recollect a story they said place to park.
ade the rounds back when cars "Nobody will drive into big I don't mind when they puss~foot quietly around. BUT,
ere first being sold in this coun- cities when they ,can get ever- when they fight, chase one another, n1ak.e love, etc., I could do
thing they want in them towns
try
without their meuing and yo\*ling. Of course their footfalls are
t Some feller was watching a that have built up around paikvery
light, but only a tiny creak of the roof gives them away.
.@r owner try to crank his fliv- ing lots," were Felix's words.
'Ger a~d he allowed, "He'll neler John Paprocki agreed with Once in a while a mouse family nloves in overhead. As
et the fool thing to go." When Felix that cars have got a pox- the roofs are only reed mats laid on rafters with led tile atop
fh e driber got it started the fel- erful grip on the people and the
that, there are probably some lovely liking areas, froin a
1 r watched the car roll off in a economy of this country, but he
Joud of dust and then perdict,ed was of a mind that they're just mouse's point of view!
"He'll neber get the dern thing part of the picture.
Out lily south window is a big orchid tree with very few
stopped "
John said there are too !qany leaves but a nlultitude of pale lavender blooms. A snlall orange
Well, sir, the session at the folks trqing to get from one place
tree beside it procides a heady fragrance.
country store Saturday night was to another at the same time. IIe
i~ke that story, and it dealt with said he had studied the problem Out my big west windo\cs I see tall poinsettias offering
the same subject.
up one side and down the other, their last heaky double-red flowers. They lean over my head
and he had the answer.
" The fellers got started when
as I come out my door, and beside them are coffee trees nith
pelix Gregoroskl said he had What we got to do, allowed
their cranberry-like berries ready to shatter and crunch on the
heard some guy say on the radio John, is adopt the Alphebetical
that there uere fi~e times mole Assignment Transportation Plan. ground.
cars in this country than in the I-Ie is still working on the fine Kohs of azaleas are a foot high, though the bulbs are only
rest of the world put together, points of the plan, but he has got just planted. We spend tho years to get a head of big flowers;
and the only' way fer Americans it figured to where we can
group folks by the letter that but these will bloonl in, say, thlee necks from now, go~geously.
to hake enough room fer their
Cars was to park 'em oberseas. begins their last names and as- "F~slipoles" grow gracefully-very tall. Bamboo grows fast,
Felix allowed cars got this sign days fer them to t r a v e 1. and they use if for everything here.
country mo~ing;, and ~t looks l~ke That way, if we had four groups, Many flowers here are the same as ZIanaii has. 'There's
ey are going to run it ragged. then we would just have a fourth
of the people on the road every the big Cup of Gold tree, with its large creanly blossoills that
8= ars now are being blamed fer
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everything from air polution to day.
are fresh for onc day only. And the huge croton or "beefsteak"
~~ne~l~plo~inent. Felix said fro111 John would give everybody a pldnt is SO colorful. The tall tulip trees thick with red iloweis
listening to some politicians you few emergency travel days in grow e\qq\cht.re, dnd oleanders arc in flo\+cr. 13ougainvilled vincs
would think that all we need to a yFar fer cases of sickness and
are so bright and gdy and many colored. Geraniums get four
do to clean up this country is suct-~,
corne out yith a car that
or five fect tall and bloo~n like crday. And roscs and cdlld Illit's
gives Persollally, Mister Editor I
Off clean exhaust.
like John's plan. YOU hear they alc in blossom too.
~t is true, allowed Felix, that use it at ball games where there h2cxicLins love Ilu\+c~a, $tick onc in an)\chcrc.
we ain't bee11 able to get the car ain't room fer everlbody; and
-11 111a
stopped, and that autolnobilcs hospitals must use it cause a ~ OShave
choked the cities and ars pita1 with 100 beds and 120 paworking
on the country, Fer in- tients has got t~ have somebody
stance, we got theill bra;lcll up walking around all the time.
banks, branch- stores, and what
Yours truly,
looks like whole towns outside of
Geranium Joe
Ground Help To Repel Invasion,'U.S. Advisors Wgrn
,
of their terms for a new coali.
tion regime, Hanoi believes it
can obtain an important strategic
objective - the halt of U.S.
bombing along the Ho Chi Minh
Trail. The trail, a series of roads
in eastern Laos, is now North
Vietnam's main infiltration route
into South Vietnam.
Latest U.S. intelligence reports
show that the North Vietnamese
are hurting seriously f r o ln
around-the-clock American a i r
a saults against this vital suppfy
route.
A combination of improved intelligence,
electronic sensing devices,
and heavy B-52 attacks
with gro\+ing accuracy has made
the Ho Chi Minh Trail the most
dangerous road in the world.
% A halt of U.S. air attacks now ,
wbuld greatly endanger Presldent
Nixon's Vietnamization program,
since it would give the
North Vietnamese a new sanctuary
froin which to attack South
Vietnamese forces now tak~ng
over the defense of Saigon.
In s,izing up the prescnt military
situation 011 the ground in
Laos, the Joint Cfiicfs of Staff
have told the Pre6ident that the
6O.OUO-qdrr Rwpl Lagtian Ar wi
is not considered much of a deter- in the second phase of their iiiilitant pro-Arab stand in the
rent. spring offensive, will risk this Arab-Israeli conflict, but this is
. The government's most effec- confrontation with Thailand is a the first time that Pakistani pilive
fighting force - the 15,000- question now being debated by lots on any large scale have becn
man clandestine armv" under President Nixon's advisers. permitted to join in the active
Maj. Gen. Vang Pao, trained and
supported by the Central Intelligence
Agency - consisfs most1
of guer~illas and' is not intend.
ed to fisht a defensi~e war.
Yet it is precisely this force
which inans a major portion of
the current government defense
line in northern Laos, stretching
in an arc over 90 miles froill Sala
Phou Khoun located to the west
of Muong Soul, to Tha Thou,
southeast of the Plain of Jars.
Thailand Is Ready ,
President N i x o n, from all
available evidence, has decided
against co~nmitting American
ground forces to Laos. But Thailand
will, if asked to do so by
the Laotian gokernment.
The Thai government already
has lnoc ed se~ era1 Jlgousand
troops to near the Laot~an border.
This coinbat force is being
rcadicd to move into Laos on
reguest, or if North Vietndlil
trles to take the capital clty of
Vien!iane
Whether the North V~etgamece,
The possibilily has caused the
President to ask the Joint Chiefs
of Staff for their recommendations
on what lype of military
help the U.S. should give' Thai
forces if they become involved in
the Laotian conflict.
Pakistan's New Role
Pakistan is increasing its role
in the Middle East crisis.
Pakistani pilots being sent to
Jordan to train King Hussein's
air force are being given permission
to fly combat missions
against Israel. In addition, volunteers
for combat duty ,in Jordan
are now being recru~ted from
active service officers trained at
Pakistan's milltary academy in
Kakul and the Risalpur flying
school.
Although this arrangement
with Jordan is now informal, it
is expected to be formalitcd
whcn King IIusscin visits Pakistani
President Yahja I