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THE cSUty NEWS
Established 1908
TONY MADDOX, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Puhllshed every Thursday by the Forsyth Co
unty News Company. Second Class postage paid
at the Post Office in Cumming, Georgia under
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in Forsyth and adjoining counties, $3.09 including
state sales tax; elsewhere, $4.12 per year. Tele
phone 887-3127 during business hours or 887-4761
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The Editor’s Desk
We are glad to see that county vehicles have been lettered.
This was a campaign promise of L. B. Munda, and he has
delivered on that promise. ,
It’s also likely that paving will soon start on the Pilgrim
Mill Road and others which are in need of repair.
If all goes according to schedule, and weather permits,
work should be underway on Pilgrim Mill Road very soon.
From what we hear and observe Mr. Munda is working very
hard at the job of County Commission Chairman, and given
a few months, the results of that work should be more apparent.
Mr. Munda has also been involved in a complete audit of
county finances. He says this audit will be forthcoming within
the next few weeks and will give Forsyth Countians an accurate
look at the county’s financial picture.
We commend Mr. Munda on the hard work and long hours
he’s poured into his new job. We look forward to much pro
gress during his administration.
THERE IS A POINT beyond which we cannot be pushed. We
have very nearly reached that point. The violent and premeditated
North Korean attack on our unarmed reconnaissance plane is only
one of a series of aggressive actions taken against the United States
by hostile nations.
We have given in. We have compromised our integrity time and
again in the interest of world peace.
But there comes a time when integrity can no longer be sacri
ficed—when we can no longer tolerate such atrocities. We cannot
and must not permit this incident to become another Pueblo affair,
where we permitted North Korea to dictate the settlement and
regained the Pueblo's crew only by submitting our country to inter
national humiliation.
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THE FACTS OVER the past twenty years hear out the need for
immediate and strong action. In 1950. North Korea's invasion of
South Korea was branded an act of aggression by the United
Nations Security Council. Since the end of that war. North Korea
has consistently violated terms of the 1953 armistice. Even now
North Korea continues to hold as prisoners an undetermined num
ber of American servicemen. In 1968. North Korea forcibly pirated
the USS Pueblo, falsely claiming she had violated her territoriality.
Now North Korea has wilfully downed an unarmed American
plane and murdered thirty-one Americans. North Korea claims that
the plane was over her territory. This is utterly false. American,
Soviet, and North Korean radars all showed the plane a full 90
miles off the coast of North Korea when shot down, and that it
never came closer than 40 miles.
THE TIME HAS COME for the U. S. to serve notice on North
Korea and all the Communist nations, on the United Nations, and
on all the countries of the world, both large and small, that we do
not intend to idly stand by and watch our ships taken from the sea
and our planes from the air. that there is a limit to our patience
and endurance, and that we are fast approaching that limit.
We will not make aggressive war. Nor can we afford to neglect
the defense and safety of our ships, planes and men against violent
and irresponsible attacks bv two-bit countries like North Korea.
I urge strong and immediate action by the President and the Con
gress of the United States to insure this.
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REPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES SENATE
Thurman Sensing
Nowhere has the tragedy of
American higher education and
irresponsible and fearful lead
ership demonstrated itself
more clearly than in the case
of the Harvard Corporation,
which runs the university,
yielding to the demands of the
extremist leftwing Students for
A Democratic Society.
The Harvard Corporation ga
ve way in accepting a Harvard
University faculty proposal to
reduce the Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC) to an
extra-curricular activity. This
is precisely what the SDS ahd
demanded in seizing the uni
versity’s administration build
ing and sparking a student
strike.
The ROTC is an institution
that every college and univer
sity should be proud to have
on its campus. Without ROTC,
the United States would have
had an extremely difficult time
finding the officers necessary
to lead the countless formations
fielded in defense of American
freedom in World War 11, and
Korea, for instance. The ser
vice academies cannot begin to
supply the number of officers
needed in times of national
emergency.
The American people, view
ing the action of the Harvard
Corporation and faculty, have
no choice but to conclude that
love of country, faith in Amer
ican institutions -- patriotism,
in a word, has been terribly
eroded at Harvard. Who now
would want to send a son to
Harvard? What would he learn
there? Certainly, there is no
evidence that he would learn
love for this great Republic or
gain any understanding of the
importance of service to his
country.
Some of the radical involved
in protests at Harvard have
expressed resentment of defen
se studies conducted at the uni
versity and at other colleges.
Perhaps the time has come to
remove defense studies from
Harvard and other institutions
where patriotism seems to be
discounted and to transfer the
study programs to other insti
tutions where American values
are cherished and where ther
is an enviroment of faith in the
United States.
Indeed it may be time for
the Congress to consider strip
ping all federal aid from Har
vard and other institutions that
demonstrate they will not stand
by America in its hour of dan
ger.
It is unlikely that many pat
rotic citizens, reading of the
downgrading of the ROTC, will
want their tax dollars to be
channeled to Harvard for any
program whatsoever or under
any conditions. If Harvard
won’t treat the ROTC with the
dignity and respect it deserves,
then a good case can be made
that Harvard doesn’t deserve
a dollar in federal assistance.
Let other institutions, where
patroitism is cherished, have
the benefit of the federal act
ivities.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Dear Editor:
I agree with the lady in
the last issue about children
being cruel, but I say it is
worse yet when adults won’t
let one child help another be
cause they won’t profit by it.
I refer to an incident at one
lunch room, where one child
divided his lunch with another
(who didn’t have any money to
buy his). He was told straight
out he couldn’t do that because
they wouldn’t make any profit.
I don’t think they make any by
carrying what is left home with
them either. I say feed the
hungry first or not make them
watch while other eat. I say
if children want to help others
let them do it without fussing
them out and discouraging them.
Teach them to help one another
for someday your child may be
without and need help to.
To save embrassment to
children, school and the lady
involved I won’t mention any
names.
Name withheld.
Art Show Sat.
Area Girl Scouts will pre
sent an Art Show this Satur
day, May 3, on the Courthouse
Lawn beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Exhibits will also be in the
Lanier Room of the Bank of
Cumming, and the Show will
last until 4:00 p.m.
Approximately 125 girls are
involved in Area Girl Scouts,
and the Art Show should be in
teresting to the public.
Fortunately, the U.S. is not
without academic leaders who
are willing to condemn current
trends and developments at
Harvard. Dr. S.I. Hayakawa,
president of embattled San Fra
ncisco State College, has spoken
out against the Harvard faculty
for failing to support use of
the police against campus hood
lums. “A bunch of kids come
in,” eh said, “ and bodily carry
out the dean. They occupy the
building and start rifling secret
files. That’s the time and
place to call the cops.” He
pointed out, however, that the
faculty wouldn’t support use of
police. Dr. Hayakawa accused
the Harvard faculty of “deep
rooted prejudice” against pol
icemen.
It is tragic that university
trustees or faculty members
should condone violence by rad
ical students but instantly con
demn use of lawful force by
policemen. The trustees and
faculty members in effect up
hold the mob rule.
Something is very wrong with
an “intellectual” who adopts
such a double-standard, who has
such a distorted psychological
reaction. The Harvard decision
reflects a sick academic society
an appeasement of brutal and
irrational elements. Some
thing, obviously, must be wrong
with a Harvard “education” if
basic logic and basic values of
a law-abiding society are re
jected by professors and trust
ees.
Americans cannot overlook
the seriousness of the sickness
from which Harvard is suffer
in. It needs to be dealt with
before it reaches epidemic pro
portions.
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Local Postmaster Says
Postal Rate Hike Likely
An “inherited” postal deficit
of $1.2 billion is responsible
for the proposals to raise the
postage bill for residents of
Cumming, Postmaster Ray Ta
ylor said today.
Mr. Taylor said he had been
advised by Postmaster General
Winton M. Blount in Washing
ton, D. C. that the record $1.2
billion 1970 deficit compelled
President Nixon to seek post
age rate increases. Without
higher rates the department
will be left with a staggering
deficit that would become an
added public tax burden.
In addition to increasing let
ter mail from 6 to 7 cents,
as proposed by the Johnson
Administration, President Ni
xon also asked that second and
third-class mailers help reduce
the large postal deficit which
would otherwise be paid by tax
payers, the postmaster said.
For bulk third-class mail and
most magazines and news
papers, the rates would be in
creased 16 percent to 20 per
cent above today’s levels, he
noted, These precentages in
clude rate hikes already sched
uled by previous action of Con
gress.
The postmaster listed these
other details on the proposed
increases:
FIRST-CLASS MAIL: Let
ters and post cards would be
increased one cent, to 7 cents
an ounce and 6 cents a piece,
respectively, on July 1, 1969.
Airmail postage would remain
at 10 cents. This will yield
$557.2 million in new revenues.
SECOND-CLASS MAIL: A
handling charge of 3/lOth of a
cent per piece for circulation
outside home counties would
become effective July 1, 1969.
This would yield $15.3 million
annually and would represent
a 12 percent increase in add
ition to the 8 percent rise
scheduled to take effect Jan
uary 1, 1970.
THIRD-CLASS MAIL: For
single pieces, rates would be
increased one cent per piece.
This would yield $12.4 million.
For regular bulk third-class,
the minimum would be increas
ed to a uniformed rate of 4.2
cents January 1, 1970, as con
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