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PAGE FOUR R. W. BAILES JR. Publisher Managing Editor Advertising Director STEVE MITCHELL RICHARD MOISIO STANLEY SCOTT Circulation Manager E. B. BRASWELL Publisher Emeritus Published every evening except Saturday and on Sunday Morning by Banner-Herald Publishing Company. Second class postage paid at Athens, Ga. Member Of The Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled exclusive- ly to the use for republication of all local news printed in this newspaper. Only a few days remain before the party pri- maries in which candidates will be chosen for mayor, five council positions, and the city re- corder. City-wide inerest has been somewhat cur- tailed because the mayor, city recorder, and two councilmen do not have opposition for the Democratic nominations or from the Republi- cans. But several interesting races have devel- oped, and the candidates have discussed a county consolidation, downtown revitalization, street paving, and public transportation. LET'S REVIEW the overall situation briefly. There will be three races in the Democratic Primary, Oct. 13. There will be no contests in the Republican Primary, Oct. 12, since only one candidate has offered. There will be one race in the general election. between that Republican and his opposite num- ber in the Democratic Party.. Mayor Julius Bishop, City Recorder L. Olin Price, and Councilmen Comer Whitehead of the Second Ward and Lee H. Guest of the Fifth Ward are unopposed. Incumbent Henry Morton is opposed by James A. (Dick) Roberts in the First Ward. Incumbent Walter N. Danner is opposed by the Rev. William James Hudson in the Third Would the people enjoy more efficient and more economical government if some or all of the separate governmental functions of Athens, Winterville, and Clarke County were com- bined? Experience here and in other areas indicates that they might, and various studies have been made to determine the feasibility of additional service mergers of full-scale consolidation. Health, school, and library facilities have been combined for some time, and close coop- eration has existed in the extension of service activities such as water, sewage disposal, and fire protection. Many persons believe full-scape con- solidation is logical because Clarke is geogra- phically small and because approximately 80 per cent of its citizens already live within the city of Athens. The cost of extra services in the county about offsets the expense city taxes. Upon recommendation of the grand jury a commission was formed in 1961 to explore the possibilities of merger. That group was ham- pered by politics, and despite further urging by the grand jury in 1963, was unable to come up with positive proposals. The grand jury in 1964 urged the consolida- tion of police forces in Athens and Clarke County, and that apparently revived interest in the whole question of city-county merger. During recent months both city and county ashington Keport Villagers Must Pay Tax To Viet Cong-- Or Else! BY RAY CROMLEY WASHINGTON (NEA) -A Vietnamese source has passed on the Viet Cong tax sched- ules for one South Viet Nam province. Communist guerrillas col- lect these taxes, called "con- tributions," in government- controlled and contested areas as in the hamlets and villages under V.C. control. Their take from Saigon, for example, is great. THE VIET CONG secure their collections by well-laid propaganda and by threats. They warn a Saigon busi- nessman his store will be de- stroyed. They tell a Hue pro- fessor that he or his wife or children will be kidnaped. They let a farmer or whole- saler know his goods will be hijacked on the way to mar- ket. They carry through on their threats. A bus line or restaurant that doesn't pay taxes is bombed. An "unco- operative," well-to-do man finds he must ransom his chil- dren. Many Vietnamese are so afraid of V.C. terrorism they don't dare refuse these re- quests, which are carefully tailored according to the size of the enterprise or the wealth of the man. THE STANDARD V.C. rate schedule in this province calls for all goods shipped out to Saigon and elsewhere to be taxed 5 per cent in cash. V.C. agents watch the roads, collect the tax in goods. if the former transporter doesn't have cash. If they think he's been trying to evade their collectors, he pays a penalty. This export tax applies acrosos the board to rice, cas- sava, taro, peanuts, water buffalo, oxen, pigs, chickens, ducks and fish. Imports from Saigon (beer, soft drinks, liquor, crackers, toilet soap, perfume, ciga- rettes and whatever) are taxed 5 per cent of the Saigon price. FARMERS PAY production taxes which range from 6 per cent of the crop to 28 per cent and up. Any family producing 120 bushels of rice pays a quarter of his output in tax. The only farmers who pay the low 6 per cent rate are those who produce less than 12 bushels. Transportation taxes of 10 to 50 per cent are levied on bus lines, barges, "motor- ized" boats, trucks. Note that rice shipped to Saigon, for example, is taxed four times-the production tax, the import (into Saigon) tax. That doesn't include the tax on the wholesaler who buys it from the farmer or the merchant who sells it in Sai- gon. INDUSTRIAL, business and commercial taxes range from 10 to 50 per cent, depending on the size of the firm. These tax- es apply to barbershops, den- tists, restaurants, stores, egg hatcheries, blacksmith shops and small neighborhood rice mills and boat yards as well as to larger businesses. Merchants who co-operate with the Viet Cong and act as their suppliers or transporters are given a tax reduction of 20 per cent. The Viet Cong also tax workers. Those who earn less than $24 a month are asked to "contribute" 5 per cent of their pay. Those who earn $47 are expected to turn over 8 per cent. A 10 per cent "con- tribution" is asked of those who earn $80. The V.C. have their own trained corps of tax collectors from hamlet to hamlet and to the cities. The taxes quoted above are basic rates in one province. In emergencies, the "contribu- tions" asked for may be dou- bled, tripled or even quadru- pled. Viet Cong taxes vary con- siderably from area to area. ATHENS BANNER-HERALD - ESTABLISHED 1832- City Primary Decisions Will Be Made This Week; Vote! City-County Merger Should Be Given Full Consideration Subscription Rates Daily and Sunday 1 Week 30 1.25 1 Month 3.50 3 Months 6 Months 7.00 14.00 12 Months Plus per cent Sales Tax within the state of Georgia. Su' scription on R.F.D. Routes within the Athens trading territory ten dollars per year. National Advertising Representative Ward- Griffith Company Inc., New York, Third Avenue. 757 Ward, and Incumbent Dwain Chambers is op- posed by S. Jack Thomas in the Fourth Ward. John L. (Jack) Curtis is unopposed in the Republican Primary in the Third Ward and will oppose the winner of the Danner Hudson. contest in the General Election. SINCE VOTERS CAN VOTE only on those council candidates in their wards, those living in the Second and Fifth Wards are not likely to get very excited about this election. But those living in the other wards, and es- pecially the Third, where there will be a con- test in both the Democratic primary and the general election, should be busy making their assessments of the candidates. Although interest has been curtailed by lack of opposition in several races, including the mayor's, there have been several good discus- sions of important issues facing the city. Candidates in contested races have ex- pressed themselves on several important mat- ters. They still have a day or two to make. their points. But soon it will be up to the vot- ers. We urge them to study the issues and the candidates and turn out in large numbers to elect the best men possible to help lead us in the challenging days ahead. governments have been studying the question, and a constitutional amendment to set up a charter commission likely will be introduced in the General Assembly in January. The people would have two voting opportuni- ties to express their views on the matter, if it is followed up. First, they would vote on the es- tablishment of a charter commission in next year's general election. Then if that were ap- proved, they would vote on the commission's proposal in the general election of 1968. THE BANNER-HERALD has supported the study of city-county consolidation since it was first advanced because we believe it offers the maximum potential for governmental services here. Certainly, the enabling legislation should be developed and approved so that a charter com- mission can make a detailed study and present a specific plan to the people. All the issues can be thoroughly explored by the commission and the people can be fully heard before it makes a specific recommenda- tion for approval. WE DO NOT BELIEVE that city-county con- solidation offers any panaceas. And we reserve the right to criticize specific proposals and to offer others. But we do believe that consolidation has great potential and should be explored. Let us take the necessary steps to activate the charter commission. THE ATHENS BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA The Door Mat CAMPUS LOUD MOUTHS ACADEMIC FREEDOM RAWFORD NEA Jenkin Lloyd Jones America Can Be Seen On Wabash Cannon Ball By JENKIN LLOYD JONES It occurred to me that if I ever wanted to ride The Wa- bash Cannon Ball I'd better get cracking, for the great old trains are dying like trail cat- tle at an alkali water hole.. The Texas Special, The Dixie Flyer, and most of the Rock- Island Rockets expired during the summer. The Frisco's Meteor made its last run in September. And this month The Missouri River Eagle is gathered to its fathers. So here I was, inhaling buckwheat cakes in the lounge-diner of The Cannon Ball as the train glided out of Detroit's old Fort Street Sta- tion and the sun came up like thunder out'er Canada 'cross the river. I felt a little foolish. It would be ten hours just to reach St. Louis, whereas if I had taken the through jet I could have been home in the office by noon. But I had a lot of necessary reading on the coach seat up ahead. And it would be good. to take a close look at mid- America, for in these days of travel at 30,000 feet the land is only a carpet, sometimes brokn and sometimes green. The new super-highways are tunnels of speed through which you pass mindless of the farm honies beyond the fence or the villages that cluster about the distant church steeples. BREAKFAST was hardly finished before The Cannon Ball halted interminably be- side a purling stream. At long last the reason for our de- lay showed up a roaring freight behind five diesels, its new super boxcars, auto racks and "Big John" hop- pers filling the air with dust and tumult. The fact that it was The Cannon Ball in the siding shows where the heart of modern railroad manage- ment lies. This was to happen twice more. The neatly-dressed colored lady in the smoking lounge was knitting her brow over note paper. She smiled sheep- ishly. "I'm trying to make a list of all the states, and I'm missing two," she said. So the retired farmer in the thick cataract glasses and I set forth on a trail that finally led us to Idaho and Maryland. "My late husband," said the state-lister, primly, "was a Pullman porter, and he said there were two ways to kill time-just sittin' or improving your mind. I do things like this. Most folks just sit." THE PRETTY BLONDE in the toreador pants came in, searched her purse, and final- ly asked for a match. I pricked up my ears. "English?" "Yes," she said, "I'm mar- ried to a staff sergeant in the Air Force. Met him last year at a fair in Lancashire near our farm. We only courted three weeks but he's very nice. He's been transferred to San Antonio, where I'm going. I'm afraid to fly." A white-haired gentlemen pulled out his watch and scowled. "I'm from Little Rock, and I'm trying to make the same connection. We've got an hour and we're almost that late now. It'll be tight." "How often do trains leave St. Louis for San Antonio?" asked the girl. "Once a day." She looked scared. WE WERE NOW in Indi- ana, paralleling the Wabash River. The corn was high, the hogs fat, the barn fresh-paint- ed and the old two-story, high- gabled farmhouses had given way in many places to ranch- styles. Fort Wayne was big, busy and grimly-industrial, but we passed through good little towns, too-Huntington Peru, Logansport and Delphi, each bearing the hallmark of Indiana, the huge old court- house set in the city square. This is Booth Tarkington, George Ade and James Whit- comb Riley country. It is not without its tragedies and dark secrets. Sherwood Anderson recounted the confessions of imaginary Winesburg, Ohio. Theodore Dreiser, an Indi- anian, wrote "An American Tragedy." And Edgar Lee Masters laid bare the heart of Spoon River in Illinois. But mostly it's optimistic, vigor- ous, friendly country. The Purdue kids who got on at Lafayette looked sharp, and so did the gabbling weeken- ders from the University of Illinois who came aboard from the Urbana bus at Tolo- no. AS THE CANNON BALL neared St. Louis, its muzzle velocity sadly reduced by the high-priority freights, the English girl was close to tears. "I can't remember the name of my husband's new base," she said. "He hadn't found an apartment yet, so I have no telephone number. If he meets the train in San An- tonio tomorrow and I'm not on it...." The situation was worse than she knew, for the Wa- bash approaches the St. Louis station idiotically from the west via Delmar Boulevard. But the conductor rose to the occasion. "I've wired for a cab at Granite City. It's just across the bridge." At Granite City the girl leaped off, followed by a Ne- gro mother lugging pales. The white haired gentleman from Little Rock was carry- ing her baby. They hurried to the taxi and everyone on the coach waved encouragingly. As we crossed the Missis- sippi I looked at my unread pile of books. Too much had been going on. You can de- scribe it in a word-America. Timely Quotes If poverty made outlaws there wouldn't be anything but outlaws in the Ozark Moun- tains where I grew up. Gov. Orval Faubus, of Arkan- sas. We're trying to get kids thinking in sophisticated ar- eas, trying to find ways to make kids use their heads. And it turns out kids like to use their heads. Dr. Jerrold R Zacharias, of MIT, on the revolution on the three R's. BERRY'S WORLD 1966S ARE HOP BUY NOW JimBry 1965 by NEA, Inc. "No thank you, young man I'll wait 'til next year, when they've worked the bugs out of 'em!" Railroad Schedules SEABOARD AIRLINE R. R. COMPANY Leave for Elbern, Raleigh, Richmond, Washington, New York. East No. 6 Local, 3:40 p. m. No. 34 Silver Comet, 8:10 p.m. West Leave for Atlanta, Birming No. 33 Silver Comet, 5:34 a.m. ham. No. 5 Local, 2:35 p. m. Allen And Scott Pope Behind U.S. In Vietnamese War D1 RUDERI S. ALLEN ANI PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON-Pope Paul VI gave his private blessing to U. S. efforts to defend South Viet Nam from Com- munist aggression during his New York meeting with Pres- ident Johnson. He assured the President, "I am in sympathy with your efforts in Vietnam." That's the confidential re- port that President Johnson made to his congressional guests aboard the presidential plane during the return flight to Washington following his historic conference with the Roman Catholic pontiff. He revealed that the Pope made the remarks during their country-by-country dis- cussion of the world's major trouble areas before the Holy Father addressed the United Nations. "IS HE SHARP!" claimed the President in giv- ing details of their more than an hour meeting. "The Pope is as well informed on what is going on in the world, espe- cially Viet Nam and the Dom- inican Republic, as I am. He told me that 'I am in sympa- thy with your efforts in Viet Nam.' He even knew all about the Great Society and what we are trying to accomplish." President Johnson said he went to great lengths in ex- plaining the position of the U. S. in Viet Nam, telling the Pope: "We are helping to defend South Viet Nam against Com- munist aggression because we gave that country our solemn commitment. If we fail to keep this pledge, the commitment we have with 50 other nations would be considered worthless." DURING THE PRESI- DENT'S private talks with the Pope in a thirty-fifth-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel, two of the most promi- nent lay Catholics in Congress paced the floor in an adjoin- ing room. When the precedent-setting conference continued for 40 minutes with no sign of break- ing up, represntative S. John J. Rooney, D-N. Y., turned to Speaker John McCormack, D- Mass., asking: "Who do you think ahead?" ex- is "I wouldn't know," replied the speaker with a big grin. "But I can tell you who isn't far behind-the President." MANAGING THE NEWS- The Soviet Embassy is using an old device-the planted story to try to improve Rus- sia's image and spread Com- munist propaganda in the U. S. Exclusive articles and sto- ries are being distributed to weekly magazines and news- papers and passed to U. S. re- porters on large daily papers by members of the Soviet Se cret Police who double as di- plomats and information spe cialists. In most instances, the arti cle are carefully prepared by a team of writers in the Kremlin and sent to Washing- ton by diplomatic pouch for distribution by a special branch of the KGB, the Soviet Secret Police. IN CHARGE OF THIS "news nianagement" opera- tion here is V. Bogachev, a member of the KGB's Depart- ment D-for "disinforma- tion." His cover title is "offi- cer" in the Soviet Embassy's press department. He recently sent a glowing article on life expectancy in the Soviet Union to a West Coast magazine publisher with a covering letter, stat- ing: "The Novosti Press Agency (APN), Moscow, USSR asked us to offer the enclosed ma- terial possible publication by you. We hope you will find it interesting. "It may be published as a whole or may be used in part, as best fits your need. The ar- ticle is exclusively for your publication. If you use the material, send up two copies of the issue in which it ap- pears." WORLD-WIDE OPERA- TION-The West Coast publish- er, in turning the letter and article over to U. S. authori- ties, reported that this was the second "exclusive" that Soviet authorities have tried to plant with his magazine within the past three months. A correspondent, who cov ers the State Department for one of Washington's largest daily newspapers, is known by U. S. security authorities to receive regular stories on U. S. -Soviet foreign policy sy official. This Russian diplo- mover from a Soviet Embas- mat also is constantly trying to plant stories with TV and radio correspondents in the capital. According to U. S. intelli- gence authorities, one of the current operations of the KGB's "Department "" is the circulation of the autobiogra- phy by the Russian Agent Gordon Lonsdale. Lonsdale, alias Konon Trofi- movich Molody, was tenced to 25 years in prison in 1961 for running a spy ring in Britain. He was later ex- changed for Greville Wynne, sen- a British businessman who the Russians arrested trumped up spy charges. (Distributed 1965, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) on Managing Your Money New Stock Buyers Should Seek Help BY C. LEE BUILER Dear Mr. Butler: For years and years my brother-in-law has been after me to start buying stocks. I never felt like I wanted to take the risk but in February of this year I decided I would experiment by pretending to buy certain stocks which I could have af- forded. I drew up a list by picking seven of the best known com- panies in what I considered the most important industries. I didn't bother to check any financial information because balance sheets and that sort of thing are completely for- eign to my interests. Well, be- lieve it or not, all except one of the stocks I picked went up. What scares me, though, is the thought of actually buy- ing these same stocks when I could have bought them much cheaper in February. I haven't told my brother- in-law because he would give me the horse laugh, but I do wart to invest in stocks. If you were me, would you pick the same ones for real that you did on paper? COMMENT: I question whether you could withstand the psychological torture of constantly reviewing your holdings from your double standing point-for real and for nothing. However, don't feel too ashamed about your method of picking winners. I'll wager that at least half of all the interiors in the coun- try could not intelligently dis- a financial statement. cuss Ana many who can are broke. But don't get me wrong. Ad- vice from qualified, knowl- edgeable people is still the best way to go. Why don't you try it-for real, not just on pa- per. Dear Mr. Butler: I didn't care very much for that ad- vice you gave that woman who had a little rental prop- erty and a son who wanted it in return for keeping her for the rest of her life. You made out like the son was some- thing of a scoundrel and that isn't true at all. I had the same situation in my family. My mother did not have enough money to live by herself and I was the only one who was willing to have her live with me. There was con- siderable expense involved for several years and I don't feel in the least bit guilty for hav- ing reimbursed myself from her funds. My brothers and sisters were all tears when she died but five dollars a year hey wouldn't spend on her. They got just what they deserved-nothing. COMMENT: You are con fusing two very different propositions. The voluntary gift or bequest of one's estate to the one child who cared enough to offer his home is one thing. Where a parent is forced to give what she has to a single child in return for a favor is something else. Des- pite what you say, it sounds as if your conscience hurts you. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1965
