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On a hill far away
stood an old rugged cross,
The emblem of suffering and
shame;
And I love that old cross
where the dearest and best
For a world of lost sinners was
slain.
Refrain
So I’ll cherish the old rugged
cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay
down;
I will cling to the old rugged
cross,
And exchange it some day for
a crown. Amen.
0 that old rugged cross,
so despised by the world,
Has a wondrous attraction for
me;
For-the dear Lamb of God
left his glory above,
To bear it to dark Calvary.
In the old rugged cross,
stained with blood so divine,
A wondrous beauty I see,
For ’twas on that old cross
Jesus suffered and died,
To pardon and sanctify me.
To the old rugged cross
I will ever be true,
Its shame and reproach gladly
bear;
Then he’ll call me some day
to my home far away,
Where his glory forever I’ll
share.
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tomorrow 6:19, sunset
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
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CBS and 'The Selling of the Pentagon'
A Case of Rank Deception
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Every American interested in accurate word about his
government—and certainly everyone in the news busi
ness—is affected by the modest furor raging over the
authenticity of a CBS television documentary called “The
Selling of the Pentagon.”
Its purpose was to lay bare the Pentagon’s huge pub
lic relations machinery and show how it is used.
In the course of editing and compressing its inter
views and other materials, an always difficult task which
confronts reporters and editors in all parts of the media.
CBS seriously altered an interview it had with Assistant
Defense Secretary Daniel Henkin.
What it did, plainly and unmistakably, was to so re
arrange some of Henkin’s answering comment that when
he was asked, let’s say, question No. 3, the television
viewer saw and heard him reply with words which, in
fact, were part of his answer to another question en
tirely. This happened more than once in the body of this
interview.
In other words, when Henkin was seen to speak, he
was not always answering the question that had just been
asked. Yet the program unmistakably intended to give
the impression he WAS answering the immediate ques
tion.
When the Washington Post editorially criticized this
practice, first Richard Salant, president of CBS News,
and later others, including Reuven Frank, president of
NBC News, wrote letters of protest.
The essence of their argument was that CBS was being
wrongly assailed for exercising the normal necessities of
journalism—editing, condensing, rearranging to get the
story told as compactly as possible.
But their right to do this was never attacked. CBS was
being criticized very specifically for deliberately giving
| viewers a wrong impression, not for using its editorial
I judgment to reinforce a correct impression.
To compare the broadcast interview with the Henkin
text at critical points is to find proof of the doctoring. It
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HAMPSTEAD, N.C.—Four South Carolina men, their bodies
mangled beyond recognition, died on USI7 in the middle of
this village when their compact sports-type car rammed into
Measles reach
record levels
ATLANTA (UPI) - The out
break of measles across the na
tion reached its highest level in
four years during the four-week
period ending March 27, the
Center for Disease Control re
ports.
There were a total of 11,214
cases reported during the per
iod, the CDC said. It said the
“critical factor underlying the
spread of measles was inade
quate vaccination” of those sus
ceptible to the disease.
A total of 30,900 cases were
reported the past 24 weeks, an
increase of 175 per cent over
the same period a pear ago and
up 360 per cent over the identi
cal period in 1968-69. The north
eastern, mid-A tian tic and cen
tral states had the largest num
bers.
The CDC said the measles
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vaccine generally had been ef
fective with the only high rate
of failure noted among children
who had been vaccinated before
the age of one.
“Failure isn’t something that
happens to you — it’s simply
where you are when you quit
trying.”
is rank deception—of an order which those of us in the
news business are forever deploring when practiced by
others.
Salant’s answer, and Frank’s backup, are totally irrele
vant, having to do with issues which were not raised.
Unless we are supposed to believe that these two top
network officials are incredibly thick-headed, we have to
conclude they are weakly falling back on that old refuge
—“freedom of the press.”
In the light of what CBS actually did with the Henkin
interview, this amounts to demanding the right to distort
and deceive. The comments by Salant especially, as the
man in charge, represent one of the more cynical ex
ercises of recent years in the name of “press freedom.”
Frank of NBC writes that he finds the criticism of CBS
“frightening.” Far more frightening is the evidence that
two “responsible” network news executives either can’t
or won’t understand the argument made against the
CBS documentary.
Frank also suggests that public self-examination by
television or other media is “boring” stuff. A question
able point, at a time when many Americans are troubled
over the credibility of government, business and the
media, too.
Maybe the news business is too tough for these fellows.
Salant’s program, doctored and hence fictionalized, really
was show business. Perhaps he should just acknowledge
he is in the entertainment field.
Playwrights dealing in documentary materials often
present program notes explaining that they have "re
arranged actuality” for dramatic effects. That’s what
CBS did, without telling us.
The Henkin interview was really a bit of a play, with
actuality rearranged to suit the network’s program pur
poses.
In putting together this little entertainment package,
CBS may have told as much about its own dubious ways
as about the Pentagon’s.
the back of a loaded log truck at a speed judged to be at least
100 mph. Officers are still trying to determine Identification
of the victims. (UPI)
Jurenile officer tat les about it
Why do youngsters run away?
Juvenile Officer Homer
Williams attributes the recent
increase of juvenile runaways
to a breakdown of com
munication between parents
and their children.
Officer Williams said that
more young people between the
ages of 10 and 16 have run away
from home in the past six
months than in the nine years
since he joined the Griffin
Police Department.
Most of the teenagers are
back home within 24 hours and
have spent the night with
friends. A few of them don’t
come back and their parents
don’t seem to care, he said.
In most cases the child has
some problem and doesn’t feel
close enough to his parents to
talk it over. There has been a
breakdown of communication
between the two and the child
feels his parents don’t care or
understand.
Williams believes:
The parents usually are
shocked when their child runs
away and ask why. They say
they have given the child
everything he wanted—money,
clothes, a car. The young people
would be satisfied with having
their parents listening and
showing them some affection.
Officer Williams feels it is not
always the parents’ fault, but
they should get to know their
children better, know the
company they keep and know
where they are.
Officer Williams visits the
Pilchers
injured
in wreck
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Pilcher of
Route Five Griffin were in
jured early Friday evening in
an auto accident in Clayton
County.
Their daughter, Christy, who
was in the back seat was not
injured. The Pilchers’ six
month-old daughter, Kim, was
in Griffin with relatives.
Mrs. Pilcher, the former
Carol Dye, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jim Dye, suffered a
broken arm and leg and had
cuts and lacerations about her
face.
Chris suffered a slight con
cussion, cuts and bruises.
The Pilcher’s car was
demolished.
The Griffinites were treated
at South Fulton Hospital. Mrs.
Pilcher was transferred to the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital where
she is a patient. Mr. Pilcher was
treated and dismissed.
The Pilchers were on their
way to Atlanta to do some
Easter shopping.
Jesus is risen
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Religion Writer
The message of Easter is not past tense:
Once upon a time, Jesus rose from the
dead.
It is present tense: Jesus is risen.
The distinction is important.
Past tense statements about an event
which is believed to have occurred 2,000
years ago obviously are not susceptible of
hard-and-fast proof. The best that can be
done at this point so removed in time is to
show historical evidence for the actuality
of Jesus’ resurrection. This is more
persuasive, to anyone who examines it
with an open mind, than any alternative
explanation that can be offered for His
disciples’ unshakable conviction that He
had overcome death. It is very doubtful,
however, whether anyone has ever been
prompted to bet his life on Jesus simply
because the arguments for the historicity
of the resurrection seemed to him
plausible.
Infinitely more stirring is the present
tense assertion, Jesus is risen. For that
means Jesus lives. He lives now. He
confronts us today, not as a memory out of
the past, but as a present fact and a
present challenge.
His challenge is empirical: Try my way.
See for yourself whether it will lead you to
Vandals hit
pool, park
When the city finally got a
break on weather and some
construction under way on two
recreational projects this week,
vandals went to work.
They struck at the recreation
park being developed on Quilley
street and at the new city pool
construction site at city park.
Roy Inman, city manager,
U. S. copters rescue
officer from jungle
SAIGON (UPl)—Five rocket
firing American helicopters
swooped into Fire Support Base
No. 6 through intense Commu
nist ground fire today to rescue
a U.S. Army lieutenant who
eluded North Vietnamese cap
ture during 10 days in nearby
jungles.
North Vietnamese forces
launched a new attack early
schools often and gets
acquainted with a lot of
children. Many times parents
call him just to talk over
problems they are having.
One of the first questions he
asks is, “When is the last time
you’ve put your arms around
your child and said, ‘I love
you?”
Families with average in
comes have more runaways,
with the wealthier families
running second. Sometimes
those in the lower income
bracket don’t report their child
missing and seem glad to get rid
of him, he said.
Sometimes a girl will leave
home because the parents won’t
let her date a certain boy—or a
boy will leave home because he
said the vandalism will delay
completion of the projects.
Vandals tore down some
concrete blocks which had been
put into place at the Quilley
street park. It is being
developed as a community
project in cooperation with
Dundee Mills.
Some construction materials
which had been put in place at
today after surrounding the
embattled outpost 12 miles
from both the Laotian and
Cambodian borders.
Lt. Brian M. Thacker, 25, of
Hickam AFB, Hawaii, was
picked up and rushed to a
hospital at Pleiku where
military sources said he was in
“very weak condition.”
The helicopters that picked
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doesn’t like his step-father or
they think the parents just don’t
care about them, Williams
continued.
Many of the runaways have
no problems in school or
elsewhere. They keep things
bottled up inside when they are
away from home. Williams said
this is because the teacher or
friends show them attention.
One of the ways parents can
bridge the generation gap is by
changing their tone of voice
when talking with their
children, Officer Williams said.
“Try to keep a good attitude
and give the child plenty of
time, understanding and love.
These are far more valuable
than material possessions,” he
added.
the pool site were torn down,
too, Mr. Inman reported.
The pool is being constructed
next to the Griffin Health
Center and between Number
Six fairway on the Griffin golf
course.
Continued vandalism will
delay completion of these
projects, the city manager said.
up Thacker were the first to
get to the besieged hilltop
outpost in 24 hours. Communist
troops surrounding Base 6
threw up an intensive antiair
craft pattern as the five copters
swept quickly in then out of the
artillery base, Michael Jett, 21,
of Mendota, 111., told UPI
Correspondent Robert E. Sulli
van at Pleiku.