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PAGE 5-A v /VjAcicAttotgaw Special Report from Washington HANOI WILL TAKE THIEU WASHINGTON—One of the stumbling blocks to a peace settlement in Vietnam may be removed soon. We have learned that Hanoi is secretly alerting its cadres that it may be necessary to accept President Thieu as leader of the Saigon regime during a cease-fire. In the past, the North Viet namese have stubbornly re fused even to consider a truce unless Thieu quits. But now increasing pressure from the Chinese and the Russians is causing Hanoi to re-evaluate its position on Thieu. It now appears that Hanoi will allow Thieu to remain as President of South Vietnam during a cease-fire—at least until a compromise coalition government pan be formed. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Command in Vietnam has in formed the Pentagon that is has now hit all but the off-limit targets in North Vietnam. Un disturbed, the Pentagon has ordered the air war to con tinue. Hit them all again, the Pentagon has told our pilots. American air attacks have taken a terrible toll, wiping out as many as 50 per cent of some North Vietnamese divi sions. But U.S. intelligence reports warn that Hanoi has replaced almost all the combat troops killed during the recent offensive. These reports also claim that the North Vietna mese divisions still have plen ty of supplies stockpiled in the south. In short, Hanoi has both the men and the material to keep the war going. As a result, the secret negotiations now going on in Paris continue to offer the only hope of settling the Vietnam conflict this year. McKay’s Lessons A few weeks ago, we re ported that President Nixon had attempted to save the taxpayers some money by Where To Go - To See - AUGUST 7- 4-H Horse Clinic - Stone Mountain 8- Concert, Band of Atlanta - Lenox Square, Atlanta 8-13 Theater of the Stars presents “The Odd Couple,” starring Tony Randall - Civic Center, Atlanta, 11-Combination Horse Show, Midway Saddle Club Arena - Gumming 11- Atlanta International Film Festival of 1972 - Memorial Arts Center, Atlanta. 12- Country Music Show, Lanierland Country Music Park, Gumming 12- Prater’s Mill Country Fair, Prater’s Mill- Dalton 12- “Stay and See Statesboro Y’all” Week - Statesboro 13- Snipe Fleet Sailing, Frederica River ■ St Simons Island 13- Auto Race, Forsyth County Speedway - Gumming 13 - Tri- State Motocross Race - Macon 13- Art Fair, Museum of Arts and Sciences - Macon 14- Fannin Country Fair- Blue Ridge 14-19 Forsyth County Fair, Fairgrounds - Gum ming 14- Town and Gown Players present “Fiddler on the Roof” - Community Theatre, Athens. 15- Concert, Band of Atlanta - Lenox Square, Atlanta 15-20 Theater of the Stars presents “The Lixa Minnelli Special” - Civic Center, Atlanta. 17- Georgia-Carolina Junior Tennis Tour nament, Augusta Tennis Center, Augusta 18- Square Dance Jamboree - Aquarama, Jekyll Island 18- Sidewalk Art Show - Town Square, LaGrange 19- Square Dance City Recreation Building, Brunswick. 19- Antique Auto Show - Bell Auditorium, Augusta 19- L & M Grand Prix - Road Atlanta, Gainesville 20- Auto Race, Forsyth County Speedway, Gumming, 20- Snipe Fleet Sailing, Frederica River - St Simons Island. 20-31 Exhibit - Making the City Observable - High Museum of Art, Atlanta. PERRY, GEORGIA,' THURSDAY, AUG. 3, 1972 ordering his lieutenants not to fly first-class. The order, how ever, has been blatantly ig nored. Every cabinet officer we have checked on —and most of their assistants—al ways use the comfortable, up front seats. But on Capitol Hill there is at least one public servant who always flies tourist. He is Congressman K. Gunn Mc- Kay, a moderate Democrat from Utah. McKay came to Washing ton without enough cash to buy a house, so he is renting. Once, his secretary was help ing him with his income tax and she asked if he had any outside investments. He pro duced a slip showing he had earned $24 interest on a credit union savings account. A few weeks ago, McKay invited me to lunch. We dined in his office on sandwiches and trimmings that had been pre pared by his wife and staff. Congressmen are permitted by law to go home 12 times a year at public expense. Most of them fly first-class. But not Gunn McKay. He sits in the back of the plane and saves the taxpayer $1,824 a year. The President's aides should take a lesson from Gunn McKay. Flood Damage The East Coast is still re covering from last month’s devastating floods which in Pennsylvania alone caused property damage estimated far over one billion dollars. One story in the tales of misery coming out of Pennsyl vania is the plight of the private colleges. Seventeen colleges suffered damages in Pennsylvania. Not one of them is eligible for federal money to pick up and start again. Worst hit was Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre. The school, which has an enroll ment of 2,600 students, suffer ed $lO million in damages. Wilkes’s president Francis Micheleni told us candidly, "I don’t see how we'll survive without substantial help from somewhere.” Wilkes lost everything from grand pianos in its music department to expensive lab equipment to 23,000 volumes of books. The library was so badly damaged that the school had to order a bulldozer inside the building to clean up the muck. “In most of the 58 buildings on campus, we re still ankle deep in mud,” Micheleni told us. "You’ve got to see it to believe it.” Pressure T actics Small minority businesses which get government con tracts are being pressured to support President Nixon for re-election. The heat is com ing, appropriately, from a fuel oil dealer acting with apparent encouragement from the Presi dent himself. Charles Wallace, who heads the firm of Wallace and Wal lace in New York, has sent hundreds of letters to other companies which have either gotten contracts with the help of the Small Business Admin istration or are trying to get them. Wallace encloses a letter President Nixon sent him thanking him for his sugges tions. Also enclosed is a ques tionnaire demanding to know if the company will work for President Nixon’s re-election. The letter extols the SBA’s assistance to minority busi nesses as "the most dynamic program that has ever been instituted for minorities.” Then comes the pitch. "I cannot tell you,” writes Wallace, “how important it is that we go out into the field and try to get the President re elected.” He stoutly denies it, but Wallace’s mailing suggests that he is acting in concert with the administration to use the minority business program for political purposes. This use of his corporate resources to promote a political cause is also an apparent violation of federal law. Washington Whirl High Road for Agnew?— President Nixon’s new campaign manager, Clark MacGregor, has been meeting privately with Nixon and Agnew urging the two to wage a dignified campaign this year. MacGregor specifically hopes to persuade Agnew not to take the same low road he Look in the 1970 congressional campaign. MacGregor warns that a rough, name-calling campaign could drive conser vative Democrats, sympathe tic to the President, into the McGovern camp. ITT and Taxes—Remember how embarrassed George McGovern looked earlier this summer when he incorrectly claimed that ITT had paid no federal taxes in three years? McGovern sheepishly retract ed his statement when he learned that several ITT sub sidiaries did pay their taxes. We can now report that Mc- Govern was not so off as ITT had claimed. ITT’s effective tax rate in 1971, we have learn ed, was less than five per cent of its income of $4lO millions. Classic Government Fence Sitting —The U.S. Depart ment of Transportation con tinues to hedge on Ralph Nader's favorite subject: the safety of the Corvair. The Department issued a report two weeks ago claiming the Corvair was as safe as many similar cars. Last week, the Department was hastily pre paring a letter to warn owners of the Corvair's potential dangers. Want Ads Get The Job Done CALL 9871823 }la\^^^^^^KUjl' ; i i tV>|| I • f ’ / jf Elentinn of a PrpsiHpnt A View From Dixie By Ted Oglesby Partisan politics in an election year has resulted in the American taxpayer being forced to continue to subsidize hippie communes and strikers who refuse to work. The story is told in the Food Stamp Debate as recorded in the Congressional Record of June 29. The Wells Fargo Bank in California is much like the C & S in Georgia- big with numerous branches. The bank’s food stamp depart ment confirms the following story and adds it is common practice. Swallow this; A hippie eligible for food stamps buys S2B worth for 50 * cents. Each week he buys exactly $27.51 of groceries and gets back 49 cents. This is the most change he is allowed to get. The next week, he adds a penny to the 49 cents and buys S2B more in food stamps. He repeats the process until the final week of the month. This time he sells the S2B in food stamps to friends or other chiselers for sls. What has he done? For an investment of 53 cents, he gets sll2 in food stamps. Using the stamps in the manner described, he gets $83.53 of food and $14.47 in cash. And we wonder how the hippies live! A commune of 15 or so of the longhairs can be well supported by us "If It Fitz ... " I'll tell you one thing, Buster. No one ever shot the star on fivesies by mail. You had to be there. I mean, how about that Bobby Fischer? He won a chess game and he wasn't even there. He wasn't even there sitting in his special chair flown from New York to Reykjavik because there wasn't a chair in Iceland that fit Bobby's rump right. Fischer wrote a chess move down on a sheet of paper flown from Sweden for the occasion. He put it in a sealed envelope and had it delivered to his opponent, Boris Spassky, at the chess arena where hundreds waited to watch the big match. Thousands more wanted to watch on TV. Spassky read the note, conceded defeat, and left. Fischer showed up an hour later to take a bow and drink some orange juice flown in from Florida. There was no one there except Gudmundur Arnlaugsson, deputy referee of the match. He taxpayers. Conress, over the ad ministration’s objections, continued the program whereby this can happen. But that’s not all. Striking union members enjoy sitting it out. It is more profitable to many of them, thanks to the taxpayer subsidy. Congressman Charles Teague of California cited specific examples. The take-home pay of one union worker before the strike was $91.35 per week after deductions. He went on strike, and guess what ap pened? ‘ He started drawing S4O per week tax-free in strike benefits from his union, and his family started drawing $282 per month in welfare payments. These two sources provided him sllO per week take home pay, but that wasn’t all. For $42 per month, he purchased $lO6 of food stamps -a further subsidy of $64 per month of another sl6 per week . This striker was taking home $126 per week when he was earning but $91.35 on the job. No wonder he wanted to stay on strike. Congressman Felly revealed the average striking worker in Michigan during the automobile strike of 1970 which shot car prices Jacks is my game was still trying to get his name spelled right on the official score sheet. Sort of reminds you of the time Ty Cobb mailed that stolen base to the New York Yankees, doesn't it? Or that time Arnold Palmer sent a birdie to the National Open via Western Union (of course it was never delivered because it was a weekend but that wasn't Arnie's fault). Jacks is my game. (The Birds is coming). My children always look a little ashamed when I tell them I was jacks champ of my block 35 years ago, edging Mary Margaret Moriarity in a showdown match that lasted 3 weeks and delayed the opening of the yo-yo season. My kids share the popular opinion that jacks is a girls' game. Which is nonsense. They should just ask Mary Margaret, if she has come out of seclusion yet. Championship jacks takes a lot of stamina and gut-level coolness. I'll never forget that battle with Mary Margaret. . . upward drew S4BB per month from public programs in addition to his union benefits. The cost to the taxpayer was about $353 million. How many actually went on strike? Just before the strike, there were 107,209 persons on welfare in Michigan. During the height of the strike, the welfare rolls had 431,122 persons. When it was over and during the month when unem ployment always is highest, the rolls had dropped to 163,657 persons. The administration tried to stop this practice but was defeated by the Democratic Congress. In the House, the amendment to stop such practices failed 199-180. Os the 199 votes against the reform amendment, 174 were cast by Democrats. Most of the 180 votes to stop these abuses were cast by Republicans. The few Democrats who did vote to put a stop to such foolishness were primarily from the South. Congressman Phil Landrum, for example, joined Flethcer Thompson in voting against continuing such programs while Congressman John Davis voted to keep it up. It’s one thing to hear our representatives talk about various programs, but the First there was a terrible argument about the playing field wood, concrete or Reynolds Linoleum? We finally compromised and played on our kitchen floor which had all 3 surfaces. The roll of the jacks determined how the ball would bounce and whether your knuckles were scraped, splintered or waxed. Then there was posture. I favored the kneeling position it allows greater reach. But Mary Margaret insisted that we sit on 1 buttock each, and play side saddle." We finally compromised by alternating the 2 positions during the first 2 weeks and sitting Indian style the 3rd week. It is terribly difficult to play jacks sitting Indian style, unless you don't have any knees. Mary Margaret wanted to use red jacks and a blue ball. This was spite. She knew I detested red and blue. I wanted green jacks and a white ball. Again, we settled the dispute by' alternating. But it wasn't easy. A Faith Is For Sharing ** Rev. Dick Reese Crossroads Methodist Church “...are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” (Matthew 11:3) Many discouraged persons appear upon the pages of the New Testament. In the scripture quoted above we find John the Baptist who has been placed in prison sending some of his disciples to ask Jesus if he is the long awaited Messiah, or should they begin to look for another. John, it seems, had become discouraged and disappointed. A sick woman pushed her way through the crowd to get to Jesus. She is trying one last time to find in him some healing and health for her body. She has been so discouraged and disap pointed many times before. A man lies by the pool at Bethesda. He seems to be feeing sorry for himself because he has been there for such a long time. He is discouraged that he has remained an invalid across the years. Peter tells Jesus of a long night of fishing when he has caught nothing, and he is discouraged. Who can forget the two discouraged men who walked along the road to Emmaus that day talking about their Lord who had been Crucified. All these people had a right to be discouraged. John the Baptist had spent his ministry preaching of the coming Messiah, the sick woman had no doubt spent all her money on remedies for her illness. Peter, the sick man and all the rest had expected something that never came true and they were disappointed and discouraged. Many in our day are discouraged and disap pointed. But discouragement in that day or this can be a very dangerous thing if it is not dealt with. Discouragement defeats us even before the battle is begun. In reality it hides from us the face of God. Jesus enables us to deal with discouragement. His methods are many. To some Congressional Record often reveals their votes are op posite to what they say. One continuing purpose of this column will be to reveal how our elected representatives actually vote. You’ve heard and read elsewhere what they said. he offers an explanation of why things are as they are. Through his teachings as found in the New Testament we can get a clearer insight into why things are as they are. But Jesus goes still another step and helps us see the mighty power of God that can bring about change in the world and replace our discouragement with hope. So often we depend on our own strength for survival. When our strength fails we become discouraged. We cannot change hearts, or control events, or bring about a new age - but God can! His is a power greater than that which we possess to replace discouragement with hope. To still other discouraged persons, Jesus gives something to do. In fact this is a need of most of us. Perhaps it is not something to do that we need as much as it is something different or something worthwhile to do. Idleness breeds discouragement; dis obedience causes it to grow. No matter how discouraged we become, Jc-sus can deal with our discouragement, because he deals with us. We can trust in him because he is the one sent from God to bring us again to God. Do not be discouraged. The truth is still truth, right is still right, and God remains. He is steadfast until the end. fho Houafoa Horn Journal The Houston Home Journal is published every Thursday by The Houston Home Journal, Inc. Entered at the Post Office at Perry, Oeorgia, as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1179. Second class postage is paid at Perry, Ga. The Houston Home Journal is located at 1010 Carroll St., P.O. Drawer M, Perry, Oa., 31009. The Houston Home Journal is the official legal organ of Houston County and Perry, Georgia. Subscription rates: Houston and adjoining counties SS.OO a year; 2 years 50.50; 3 years $11.50. Everywhere elseM.OOa year; 2 years $10.00; 3 years $14.00 Servicemen $2.00 anywhere; College students $2.00 lor 9 months. The Houston Home Journal is a member of The Georgia Press Association and The National Newspaper Association. A m' —By JimTitzgerald The arguing went on 15 weeks and finally went to binding arbitration by Johnny Miller who was deputy referee until 8 o'clock each night when his mother made him go to bed. Once the match began, Mary Margaret's dad started taking pictures with his Brownie while I; was doing eggs-in- the-basket. I walked out and didn't return until he agreed to crouch in the kitchen cupboard and shoot his pictures through an opening in the breadbox. That'll give you an idea of the strain I was under. But I won, mostly because Mary Margaret was no match for me in the impromptu, or free figure competition. She conceded defeat when I tossed the ball high, put all 5 jacks in my mouth, spit them into my shirt pocket one at a time, and then caught the ball before it hit the floor. I'd like to see Bobby Fischer mail that in. t