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lawmakers representing West
ern North Carolina are pub
lished here for your con
venience.
U. S. Sen. Sam 1. Ervin, Jr,
(D), Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C. 80510; U.
S. Sen. B. Everett Jordan
(D), Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C. 20510; and
U. S. Rep. Roy A. Taylor (D),
Douse Office Building Wash
ington, D. C. 20515.
State Senators, Lamar
Gudger (D), 189 Kimberly
Ave., Asheville, 28804; L C.
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Crawford (D), 10 Hampshire
Cir., Asheville, 28804; Carl
D. Killian (O), CuUowhee
28723; Zeb D. Alley, (D), Way.
nesville 28786; Clyde M. Nor
ton (D), Box 477, Old Fort
28762; David T. Flaherty (R),
803 Hospital Avenue, Lenoir
28645.
State Representatives Her
schel S. Harkins (D), Box
7266, Asheville 28807; John
S. Stevens (D), 8 Pine Tree
Road, Asheville 28804; Claude
DeBruhl (D), Box 480, Cand
ler 28715; Charles H. Taylor
(R), Box 66, Brevard 28712;
Ijston B. Ramsey (D), Mar
shall 28753; Ernest B. Mes
ser (D), 15 Forest View Cir
cle, Canton 28716; Erwin W.
Patton (D), Wen Main
Street, Franklin 28734.
Also Reps. J. T. Mayfield
(R), Box 26, Flat Rock 28731;
Hugh Beam (D), 204 Crescent
Drive. Marion 28752; James
E. Holshouser, Jr. (R), West
|brook Extension, Boone
28607; R. A. Jones (D), 122
Woodland Ave., Forest City
28043; and William M. Ful
ton (R), 207 Myrtle Street,
Morganton 28655.
These Days
Or - Behind The News
From Washington
By -
John Chamberlain
Robert Finch, as Secretary,
couldn’t ride herd on the
106,M0 employees of the
sprawling Department of
Health, Education and Wel
fare, sometimes referred to as
the “anthill.” So, President
Nixon, to save his good
friend’s own health and wel
fare, and edncate him in the
bargain, moved him over to
the White House. The lob of
running HEW went to that
Boston aristocrat, Elliot Lee
Richardson, who had been
Secretary William Roger’s
right - hand man at the State
Department. Richardson was
hailed as “cool, tough and
deft,” a “rare combination of
intellectual subtlety and bu
reaucratic agility,” in the
headlines and captions of
1970. He may be all that, but
the “anthill” over which he
presides still goes Its own
This last month HEW seems
to have been the particular
prey of the way-out peace
movement. National Review
has come up with a calendar
of “HEW Peace Activities” for
three weeks in April. Every
Wednesday, according to the
calendar, Room 1137 — North
of HEW has given over to an
“Indochinese Film Festival”
during the noon hour. The first
of the films, “And Time Is
Running Out,” was billed as
presenting “the May Day Move
ment’s demand: ‘If the Gov
ernment won't stop the war—
we’ll stop the government.’ ”
The second film, titled ‘Peo
ple’s War,” depicted the “North
Vietnamese people under war
conditions organizing to defend
their country.” And the third
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BREVARD
Stephen Welton
Receives Honor
At Great Lakes
Navy Seaman Recruit Steph
en C. Welton, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward L. Welton of
Route 1, Penrose, was selected
“Honorman” for his graduating
recruit company at the Recruit
Training Command, Naval
Training Center, Great Lakes,
111.
He was chosen on the basis of
his high initiative, outstanding
leadership ability and fine ex
ample set for his fellow recruits
while undergoing recruit train
ing at the Center.
Welton is a graduate of Bre
vard Senior High School, Bre
vard.
and last film, “Struggle for
Life,” a production of the
National Liberation Front,
showed the “struggle for lib
eration in South Vietnam” and
“the health services provided
by the NLF.”
Meanwhile, at other times
during the three • week per
iod, Rennie Davis, the “Chi
cago Seven” character who is
the National coordinator of
the People’s Coalition for
Peace and Justice, was using
the HEW “North Auditor
ium” to speak on anti-war ac
tivities “and how HEW em.
plo.vees can become involv
ed.”
Now, there is no reason
employees of HEW can’t have
minds and opinions of their
own. The ordinary presump
tion, however, is that if you are
an employee of the Adminis
tration and differ with the
policies of that Administra
tion, you carry on your politi
cal activities on your own time
and without involving govern
ment facilities. It wasn’t so very
long ago that officious State
Department snoops were bad
gering Miss Frances Knight, di
rector of the Passport Office, be
cause it was suspected that she
had used office time, envelopes
and stamps to send Christmas
cards to friends and well-wish
ers. It turned out that she
hadn’t been guilty of any
transgression, for the cards had
been stamped and mailed at
her husband’s place of busi
ness. But if Miss Knight had
been using the taxpayers’ mon
ey to finance the mailing of a
private Christmas message, she
would have been vulnerable to
her many enemies in the gov
ernment.
It’s different, of course, if
you’re going with a popular
tide. Who cares in this be
nighted springtime if the
May Day Movement and the
People’s coalition for Peace
and Justice waste your money
and mine to carry out indoc
trination on government, prop
erty which we may happen
to reject as falsehood? The
only reason it can’t be called
treason is that the war in
South Vietnam is an unde
clared war.
Nixon fired Walter Hickel as
Secretary of the Interior be
cause he had lost confidence
in his willingness to support
Administration policies. Sec
retary Richardson was not in
volved in what his underlings
were doing to support Rennie
Davis’s attempt to undermine
Nixon’s graduated South Viet
nam withdrawl policy, so it is
not suggested here that Nixon
should apply the same yard
stick to Richardson that he
used in Hickcl’s case. But sure
ly Richardson should be asked
to chastise those among his em
ployees who have wasted your
substance and mine on extra
curricular activities.
Not so long ago a number
of dissident. New York writ
ers ostentatiously refused to
pay income taxes to support
the Vietnamese War. I have
never heard that any of them
went to jail. But I’d hate to
risk my own freedom on a
refusal to pay a tax to sup
port a Health, Education and
Welfare department whose
employees spend office time
listening to Rennie Davis.
Our double standards these
days are altogether too intri
cate, and, sad to spy, It is
safer to be on the tide of
those who love it.
P.S. HEW says Rennie Dav
is’s group did pay for “janitor
ial services.” That still doesn’t
make it right; Rennie has been
politicking against my concep
tion of patriotism ip a building
that belongs to me as one of
the people who have paid to
build it. It makes one doubly
angry when one realizes that
one’s anger won’t make the
slightest difference.
Sick Of Our Sickness
(Continued From Page Two)
family to a movie unless I want them ex
posed to nudity, homosexuality and the
glorification of narcotics.
I am sick of pot smoking entertainers
deluging me with their condemnation of my
moral standards on late night television.
I I am sick of riots, marches protests,
p demonstrations, confrontations, and the oth
[ er mob temper tantrums of people intellect
; ually incapable of working within the sys
tem.
1 I am sick of hearing the same phrases,
the same slick slogans, the pat patois of
people who must chant the same things like
zombies because they haven’t the capacity
for verbalizing thought.
I am sick of reading so-called modern
literature with its kinship to what I used to
read on the walls of public toilets.
I am sick of those who say I owe them
this or that because of the sins of my fore
fathers — when I have looked down both
ends of a gun barrel to defend their rights,
their liberties and their families.
I am sick of cynical attitudes toward
patriotism. I am sick of politicians with no
backbones.
I am sick of permissiveness.
I am sick of the dirty, the foul mouthed,
the unwashed.
I am sick of the decline in personal hon
esty, personal integrity and human sinceri
ty.
And most of all, I am sick of being told
I’m sick. And I’m sick of being told my
country is sick — when we have the great
est nation man has ever brought forth on
the face of the earth. And fully 50 per cent
of the people on the face of this earth
would willingly trade places with the most
deprived, the most underprivileged
amongst us.
Yes, I may be sick. But, if I am only
sick. I can get well. And, I can help my so
ciety get well. And, I can help my country
get Well.
Take note, you in high places. You will
not find me under a placard. You will not
see me take to the streets. You will not find
me throwing a rock or a bomb. You will
not find me ranting to wild eyed mobs.
But you will find me at work within
my community. You will find me expressing
my anger and indignation in letters to your
political office.
You will find me canceling my sub
scription to your periodical the next time it
condones criminal acts or advertises filth.
You will find me speaking out in sup
port of those people which contribute to the
elevation of society and not its destruction.
You will find me contributing my time and
my personal influence to help churches,
hospitals, charities and those other volu
teers backbones of America which have
shown the true spirit of this country’s de
termination to ease pain, eliminate hunger
and generate brotherhood.
But most of all, you’ll find me at the
polling place. There you’ll hear the thunder
of the common man. There, you’ll see us
cast our vote . . . for an America where peo
ple can walk the streets without fear . . . for
an America where our children will be edu
cated and not indoctrinated .... for an
ing . . . for an America no longer embar
America of brotherhood and understand
ing .. . for an America no longer embar
rassed to speak its motto “In God we
trust.”
Senator Sam Ervin
(Continued from Page Two)
enlighten their minds. The
Constitution, according to its
true intent and meaning does
not require this, and I do not
believe that such a policy ac
cords with sensible education
al practices. The longer we
travel this road of administer
ing the schools through Federal
edicts, now directed for the
most part against Southern
schools, the greater will be the
folly.
One almost marvels at how
ridiculous people can get when
they try to resort to all kinds
of methods to bring about com
pulsory integration under all
circumstances in the schools.
When this bill came to the Sen
ate floor, it contained language
that would not even permit lo
cal school administrators to
separate students in their class
es according to their mental
ability, or even to place dis
advantaged students in remedial
training classes. It was feared
that to give administrators this
authority would permit South
erners to racially segregate
classes even though there are
more than 20 provisions in the
bill to forbid that practice. Af
ter much debate, I was able to
get an amendment adopted to
allow for ability grouping in
elementary and secondary
schools for instructional pur
SAY I SAW IT IN THE TIMES
DUNN’S ROCK
LODGE NO. 267
A. F. & A. K.
:g;
Stated communication of the
Dunn’s Rock Masonic Lodge
will be held Thursday night at
8:00 o’clock p. m. in the Ma
sonic Temple, 211 - 215 East
Main street. All members are
uroed to attend and an invite,
tion is extended to visiting Ma.
sons.
poses.
The Senate debate has dem
onstrated anew that there are
enough votes to enact drastic
legislative nroposals aimed at
the South 1 it not at the North.
Fortunately, there are some
signs that this practice may not
continue much longer.
DID YOU KNOW?
Of all the teenagers in the world, the Americans (23 million of
them) are the most powerful. Reason: they have a fantastic pur
chasing power of $15 billion per year on their own and a direct in
fluence in spending an additional $35 billion of family funds.
1— Teenage boys—only 12 per cent of the male population, buy
more than 40 per cent of all male sportswear.
2— Teenage girls—11 per cent of the female population, buy
20 per cent of all women’s apparel.
3— Teenage girls account for 30 per cent of all cosmetic pur
chases, 25 per cent of all greeting cards, 50 per cent of all
record albums.
4— About 13 million teenagers play at least one musical instru
ment, 16 million own at least one camera. 19 million read
one to five books (not textbooks) a month.
5— Teenagers own 1 million TV sets, 100 million record players,
20 million radios, and one of every ten automobiles.
Who spends the rest — the adults — of course.
Mr. Merchant: If you want to reach the Teenagers in Transyl
vania, advertise each evening during WPNF’s Record Party. That’s
from 7:05 until 10:00 o’clock each night over
WPNF
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