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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31

tive. His neighbor pressed the
point.
"But suppose we wouldn't
turn away and begged to get
in?"
ut would be too bad" John
said. you should have built a
shelter of your own. I've got to
look out for my own family"
But suppose we had built a
shelter of our own, yet were
caught by surprise, being out in
the open at the time of an at
tack, and we discovered that the
entrance to our shelter was COW
cred with rubble and we had no
place to turn except to you.
Would you still turn us back?"
The answer was still yes.
"But suppose l wouldn't go
away and kept trying to get in.
Would you shoot us?"
John said that If the only way
he could keep his friends out
would be by shooting her and
her baby. he would have to do
it.
In doing so, he could claim
spiritual sanction. He referred
to a recent issue of an impor-
tant religious journal which pre-
scented a code of ethics" of
Christian morality designed to
anticipate difficult questions
that might arise in shelters.
One point in the code advised
the Christians to "think twice
before they rashly give their
family shelter space to friends
and neighbors or to the passing
stranger" Finally, the Hartford
citizen could cite Civil Defense
Coordinator Keith Dryers pro
nouncement that there is moth
ing in the Christian ethic which
denies ones right to protect
oneself and ones family"
People speculate on the hor-
rors that would be let loose by
nuclear war. 1t is not necessary
to speculate on such horrors.
Some of the worst horrors are
already here. The transforma-
ton today of otherwise decent
people into misunderstanding
machines, the psychological pre-
conditioning for an age of can
nibalism, the wholesale premed-
itation of murder and the ac-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31

ceptable conditions thereof; the
moral insolence of those who
presume to prescribe the cir
cumstances under which it is
spiritually permissible to kill
ones neighbors; the desensitiza-
ton of human response to pain;
the acquiescenee in the inevita-
bility of disaster; the cheaper
ing of human personality with
its concomitant of irresponsible
fatalism-all these are part of
an already existing, fast-sweIl-
ing chamber of horrors.
1t win be said that shelters
and everything that goes with
them are basic facts of nuclear
war that do not disappear be-
cause we find them unpleasant.
But this assumes there is no al
tentative. 1t assumes that every
thing has been done to prevent
the holocaust from occurring in
the first place. 1t assumes that
we have no obligation to any
one except ourselves. Not until
the individual declares a mora
forum on the inconsequential
in his life and invests himself
fully in the effort to achieve a
just and enforceable peace, in
deed, not until the nation itself
commits its moral energy, in
telligence, and resources to a
massive attempt to bolster the
United Nations and give it ap-
propriate powers of world law.
however rigorous the opposition
not until these basic things
Continued on Page III
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
BY David Scull

follow the steps now being
taken in the case of "Tropic of
Cancer" Libraries and vendors
of printed material must be
kept under constant surveiI.
lance. Vigilant citizens and citi.
zen groups can assist by calling
questionable material to the at.
tention of local enforcement of.
ficials. Publicly elected local Of
ficials can be reasonably relied
upon to be aware of the thresh-
old of decency demanded bv
that particular local community.
It must be obvious that the
States Attorney in Hollywood,
California, because of the att.
tude of the people who live
there, would draw the line be-
tween obscenity and art at diff
ferent point that the compar.
able official in, say the Mormon
church dominated city of Salt
Lake, Utah. If a sales ban is
instituted in this way the COM
munity gains immediate and
reasonable protection for its i'm.
mature citizens, young or old.
At that point, the burden of
proof of decency falls where it
belongs, on the publisher. The
court will defend his right of
free speech provided he can
prove that what he has to say
does not damage the general
welfare or morals of the COM
munity. If his book is restored
Continued on Page III
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31

You deserve enthusiastic
concentrations for stimulating
and thoughtful quality of last
Saturdays October 21) Sen
tinel. No one should have
missed the penetrating analy.
sis contained in the reprint in
Wick Byron's Column" Of
Norman Cousins editorial,
Shelters, Survival, and Com
mon Sense" We were chal-
lenged to do some more think
ing on the same subject by
Kent Palmers "Question for
the Nuclear Age" Then there
was the indication that some
of your readers share some
of your concerns as indicated
in Mrs. William Shorts letter
I'm which she takes David Scull
to task for espousal Of a Sur
vival of the fittest" approach
to the moral questions arising
out of our faIl-out shelter cam
paign.
The sanity of your handling
Of this difficult problem is in.
dicative of the intelligent and
stimulating reading which we
hope viii become more and
more characteristic Of the Sen
tinel.
John w. Laney
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
'Tropic Of Cancer

must be realized that the ranks
of States Attorneys have al
ways been picked over by Gov
ernors in search of material for
judicial appointment II it is
contended that a jury trial will
find the right answer one has
only to examine these panels,
drawn by lot, to realize that the
odds are strongly against pro-
ducing a majority of artists"
or even particularly cultivated
individuals.
To suggest that a question
able piece of material must be
ruled as obscene in court before
IL can be banned from public
distribution is to guarantee
its mass distribution prior to
that decision. The publicity sur
rounding such a trial in itself
arouses prurient interest among
the immature, the very ones for
whom protection is sought, and
would guarantee a sell-Out. In
view Of an enormous tonnage Of
pulp and print in the "sex" field,
appearing every week, our
courts would have to abandon
their normal work load If they
were seriously to be expected to
act as censors in contemporary
society. Intended or not, the
suggestion that court cOnsidera-
ton precede the banning of
scurriIous literature leads quick
ly to an absurdity.
The most effective answer to
this community problem is to
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
Mr.. SeuII's Column

In the Thursday, October
18th, 1861 issue of the Sentinel
there is an editorial by David
Scull entitled "J.F.K. - Word
and Deed"
Quite obviously, Mr.. Scull
fancies himself as a shrewd,
thoughtful political analyst. I
would like to suggest that II
MIR. Soul expects any credence
to be accredited his writings
that it would behoove him to
be more careful in his plag-
iarising.
The report regarding Amer
lean Prestige" which Mr.. Scull
states appeared in the New
York Times on May II, 1861
appeared, in fact, on May z,
1861. The document which I
enclose, and from which Mr..
Soul obviously copied his col
umn, very clearly indicates
this fact.
j. e. Pole
Silver Spring, Md.
ED. Note: Mr.. SOULS col
umn was based on a pamphlet
published by the Republican
National Committee. A typo
caused the error in dates.)
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31

The banning of 'Tropic of
Cancer" from bookstore and IL
brary shelves in Montgomery
County has generated fresh
public interest in the oldest of
governmental problems. Name
ly, how to protect the general
public welfare against harmful
acts of the individual without
destroying individual h I'M n
freedom.
Few responsible critics of the
States Attorneys action in this
incident would deny that our
news stands are crowded with
filth or that there are books of
such salacious nature as to re-
quire banning. Most of them
direct their criticism to the me
chanics of Censorship" They
hold that an elected public off
cial is bound to be too oafish
and unlettered to be able to dis
tinguish between art" and OBJ
scenity. 1t is their contention
that this determination can only
be made by a court of law.
This contention that courts
should be the com m u nifty
censor" is pathetically naive
and is a manifestly inadequate
answer to a community problem
of major proportions. In the
first place what is there about
the process of political appoint
ment to judgeships that can
transform a mere "oaf" into a
cultured solon overnight? 1t
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
Letters
The Public Forum

termine whether it has any
'blighted areas"
Uncle Sam is to be begged
to laid" an area where the
estimated income per house
hold is $12,994 a year - that's
according to the latest market
ing studies made by the news
paper publishing and advertis-
ing industry where Federal
cash has built some of the
most imposing Government in
stallations in the country,
where Federal money in huge
amounts helps keep our Tim
pacted" schools going, and
where reside thousands of tai
ented, Woodworking Federal
employees who also happened
to be, incidentally, the highest
paid people on the payrolls in
Washington, D. c.
But our "spend, spend - tax,
tax" County Council wants the
Treasury to recognize that the
New Frontier" ought to be-
gin right here in Montgomery
County, right in the shadow
Of the Treasury Building, with
a short siphon line to the dol.
lar vaults.
No doubt with their New
Frontier" connections, the
Council will get the subsidy
cash and will make the usual
months-long, perhaps years.
long, planning study OF
"blight."
What will the study report
recommend? More free
public parking lots? More bic
real estate developments?
County Council apparently
has read of the bonanza In so
called urban renewal" money
they pried out of Washington
down into the little, beat UP
town of Wink, Texas (popula,
ton 1859.
In outright grants and loans,
Wink got ''its share" of Fed.
eral dollars amounting to
$560.00 per capita.
Under this formula of "shar.
ing" Montgomery County
ought to be entitled to $45
Million. If Wink, Texas, is get.
ting it, why not poverty-ridden
Montgomery County? And to
heck with the rest of the us.
taxpayers, let them get their
share on their own!
The fuzzy-thinking that
dominates this decision by the
Montgomery County Council,
this rush to grab Federal tax
dollars for purely local expen
ditures, this invitation for I'm
Gle Sam to come in with his
cash - and his controls - is
typical of the continuing blum
ders for which the New From
tiersmen" County Council will
be called to account at the polls
in 1862.
Robert H. Monkey
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
Drawing on Treasury

Now the heavy-taxing
Montgomery County Council
triumphantly almost glee.
fully - proclaims that it in
tends to draw upon the United
States Treasury for a basket.
load of subsidy dollars for ur-
ban renewal planning.
1t is shocking to learn that
the highest per capita income
county in the State of Mary
land, and perhaps the highest
in the Nation, is SO poverty.
stricken that 1t cannot afford
even to begin a search to de-
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31

In Las vegas, the head OF
the local civil defense agency re.
Gently called for a militia OF
5000 men to protect residents
in event of thermometer war.
Then men would be trained to
crush an expected invasion--not
from foreign shores but from
Southern California. It is be.
lieved that Los Angeles, as a
major city, would be under di,
rect attack. Survivors, warned
j. Carlton Adair, the Las Vegas
civilian defense official, would
come into Nevada like a swarm
of locusts." Obviously, they
would have to be repulsed.
In a less organized way, other
Americans are now preparing
to kill Americans. A Chicago
suburbanite, according to Time
magazine, intends to mount a
machine gun at the entrance to
his fallout shelter and blast
away at shelterless neighbors
who might try to get in out of
the radioactivity. Countless
other Americans may be max
ing no open declarations about
their intentions but they are
calmly going about the business
of equipping their shelters with
guns or tear-gas devices, just in
case desperate neighbors might
want to poach on their pre-
serves during or after an at.
tack. Some are now preparing
their children psychologically
to accept the murder of their
playmates. All this goes under
the heading of civil defense.
In Hartford, Conn.,, at a pri-
vate meeting of local residents
who had come together to con-
slider civil defense problems, one
citizen advised his neighbors
that firearms were standard
equipment for shelters, along
with stocks of food and medi-
cines. People who are wounded
or suffering from radiation will
run around like madmen trying
to find shelter, he warned. And,
since there will be only 50 much
water and food for ones own
family, the intruders will have
to be turned back even If it
means shooting them. A WON.
an who lived next door to the
citizen who had just given this
advice had a question.
"John," she said, "you and
your family have been our clos.
est friends for ten years. Do
you mean to say that If this city
was bombed and my baby and
l were caught In the open, and
we were hurt, and came to your
shelter you would turn us
away?"
John nodded in the affir1na.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
LEvELNG OFF

NEW YORK CUPID - TIL e
boom in real estate prices APP
pears to be leveling off in most
areas of the country with the
exception Of California and the
southwest, according to many
land developers. A Federal hous-
ing official contends that "the
US. is at the top of the land
cycle"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31
Byron's Column
Shelters, Survival, and Common Sense
Part iii
Part iii

Last ceeh reprinted editorial By Cousins
entitled Shelters SurvraI and Common Sense" This article
appeared in The Saturday Review opinion provided
much food for thought concerning vitGl subject
We are fully that IN county do not
1cih Mr. Cousins Rather, they lean towdrd the theory
expressed by coInist David Sc At any rate believe
worthwhile to reprint the second part Of Cousins article
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1961-10-31

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The Nome nugget., 1961-12-29

sion could select 1O2, $50, ,000 acres from public lands.
 ssThe proudly self-reliant Es- kimC hunters are sophisticated in their own culture, but their de- fenselessness in ours is almost be- yond belief" she said.
 The conquest of Alaska natives by the US. differed from that of Indian tribes only in method, she said.
 The Indians were conquered through battle, but the scattered aboriginal Eskimos, she pointed out, were changed from Russian to American by the stroke of the pen" ssss ";
 The Indians were established on reservations where fkay could hunt and fish according to their custom and on which shey could have full mineral rights. On the other hand, she enenhasized in the case of the Eslsinaos. there was no such reserviiag of land and it's minerals under federal protection.
 Miss Madigan concluded by pledging the Assoetation on Amer ican Indian Affsirs would stand beside the Eskmos until their rights were WOE.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-29
Castro Regime Plants
 Cactus Curtain" Around Guantanamo Navy Base

NEW YORK R The Castro Cuban administration yesterday was reported planting a .~aiIS of knife-sharp cactus plants, call- ed 'fbayonet grass" around the big United State Navy base al Guantanamo Bay.
 The report, from George Cliff ford of the Scripps- Howard news papers, was published in the New York World Telegram and Sun under a Guantanamo Bay date line. Said Clifford:
 ''The wall is 5-yard-wide hedge of bayonet grass cactus plant with long, sharp leaves that look like butcher knives and are almost as effective.
 "The hedge is being planted next to the bases 24-mile- -lone fence
 Americans stationed here call it sCastro's Cactus Curtain"
 Clifford quoted an unidentified American Marine sentry on the fence line as saying:
 1T think it is more to keep Cubans from trying to climb the fence to freedom than to keep us in"
 Clifford said that Cuban con struction crews were using big new Aanerican-made bulldozers marked with the symbol of Cuba's Agrarian Reform Institute, 24 hours day to clear strip around the base perimeter.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-29
Gov. Rockefeller Begins Campaign For Reelection

ALBANY, NY. M = Gov. Nell cen Rockefeller'is keeping a door open for a possible bid for the Republican nomination for Presi- dent in 1864.
 At the same time, he is be- ginning a formal campaign with a declaration that his sole object is reelection as governor of the state"
 From what he said at news conference Wednesday, Rocke- feller is entering his campaign for reelection on the premise that:
 l. Voters will rename him gov- ernor on the basis of his record. 2. They would have no objec- ton and would even encourage him if he later had an opportuni- ty to win the Presidential nomi- nation.
 3. A pledge to serve full, four year term is therefore unneces- sary to win next year. Republican State Chairman L. Judson Morhouse predicte d Rockefeller would win by "sub- stantially better plurality than his 573,000-vote edge in 1858. He |refeated Democrat Averell Harri- man 3,126,929 votes to 2,553, 1895.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-29
Miss Madigan
 Claims Eskinos In Alaska Have Been Brainwasl1edi


 FAIRBANKS lR = Miss La verne Madigan. executive director of the Association of American Indian Affairs, has recently charged that the Eskimos in Alas ka have been brainwashed by special interests.
 In an editorial in the December issue of the associations official publication and in an exclusive interview, Miss Madigan alleges the Eskimos in the forties were systematically "brainwashed'' long before the word was coined and that transformation is still cur rent in all Eskimo villages.
 The Inupiat or Point Barrow Conference on Native Rights, sponsored by the association in November, was only a beginning in 'liberating the Eskimos from lies." she says.
 The Eskimos have been er- roneously told they could not have rights as American citizens and retain their aboriginal rights, she charged.
 She claimed that the Eskimos were told if their villages and hunting areas were made into re- servations that they could not leave without 'ipasses'', could not sell their furs and handicrafts outside, could not vote, and could not invite investors in to develop resources of the land for the bene- f!t of the people.
 In short, Miss Madigan charged, the Eskimos had been told they must renounce, their heritage for American citizenship. -
 When Eskimo delegates. from the major villages from the Arctic to the lower Kuskokwim gathered at Point Barrow last month, she said they matched the falsehoods that they had been told. and were shocked.
 At the Inupiat. Miss Madigan continued, "rnost of them did not know that their aboriginal rights are perfectly compatible with their rights as citizens"
 She said the Eskinos were un- aware tfiat their aboriginal rights were clearly recognized by the US. Act of May IT, 1884, with the actual definition of the rights being left s'for future legisla- tion by Congress. 2
 They did not know the United States reaffirmed that recogni- ton in the Act of July 1sSc558 which made Alaska a state" she continued.
 She then cited the same act. the Statehood Act, as authorizing an invasion of the Eskimos' abor- ginal rights by providing the state within 25 years after atlmis-
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-29
PRAYER WEEK

PRAYER WEEK
 From Jan. thru Jan. 2 will be Prayer Week in the Covenant Church with meeting each eve ing in the church.
The Nome nugget., 1961-12-29

The average family spends $44 year on dental bills.
The Sidney herald., 1961-02-22
Commission Sets
Tentative 1861
Hunting Dates

Opening dates and area boun-
daries for Montana'S 1861 hunt
ing season were tentatively set
by the fish and game commission
this week. Copies of the proposed
regulations will be forwarded to
sportSmen's clubs, guides and out
filters, livestock organizations
and other interested groups for
reviewing. Any suggestions con-
corning opening dates and area
boundaries should be submitted
to the commission prior to final
action at the March meeting.
AS tentatively proposed, the
general deer and elk season will
open October Is. Cunning for the
prairie pronghorn possibly will
open as early as October / in a
majority of areas while some
areas in southeastern Montana
are slated to open October 8.
Areas bordering Canada would
open Nov. 5. Opening dates for
moose, sheep, and goats in most
cases will correspond with the
opening dates for deer and elk
in the same areas.
A pre-gun archery season for
deer and antelope is also being
considered which will be similar
to that of 1860 and will open
statewide Sept. II. Four special
elk areas also would open to
bOWmen.
In general, opening dates and
area boundaries are similar tC
1860 with only a few major chan
ges in area boundaries being con-
sidered to make better hunting
conditions.
The Sidney herald., 1961-02-22
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate of Claus Alfred Anderson. Also
Known as Alfred Anderson, Deceased
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, by the
undersigned, Paul H. CreSap, Ad-
min.Strator-W with the viii Annexed of
the estate of Claus Alfred Anderson,
also known as Alfred Anderson, de-
ceased. to the creditors of. and all
persons having claims against the said
deceased to exhibit them with the
necessary vouchers within four (4)
months after the first publication of
this notice TO the said Administrator
Observation-Disclosures at the office
of Paul H. CreSap at PIP Central Ave-
nue. South, Sidney. Montana, designat-
ed as the place for transaction of
the business of said estate.
Dated this LIST day of February, A.
D., 1861.
PAUL H. CRESAP
Administrator-with-th
Will-Annexed
PAUL H. CRESAP
Attorney for Administrator
P. o. Address: Box 953
Business Address:
212 Central Avenue South
Sidney, Montana
Publish Feb. 1. 8, is. 22)
The Sidney herald., 1961-02-22
TAKE WINS FROM
GLASGOW AND WILLIST0N

By staIling the last four minutes
of the game at Glasgow last Fri
dav night. the Eagles added an
other win to their conference
standings by defeating the Scots
on the Glasgow floor 65-52. Doug
Quilting was high scorer again
with Is points to tie Glasgow's
Hanson. Outstanding on the re-
bounds was Harper, and Hagen
played very effectively against a
press.
Score by quarters
The Sidney herald., 1961-02-22
CLASS { TOURNAMENT GAMES
THRILL "A CROWDS

In the consolation game prior
to the championship game, Brock
ton earned the right to challenge
second place Froid by defeating
the Richey Royals in a tight con-
test by a score of 1925. The
score was tied five times and the
lead changed three times. The
Royals had a big second quarter
when they held the Warriors to
a single field goal while thew
racked UP three from the field
and three from the line to lead
Is to 10 at half time. The score
was tied twice the first quarter,
once the third, and twice the
fourth. Leonard Big Horn was
high with IL points. even though
ne was out the third quarter
when he injured his leg.
Score by quarters
BrOCktOO 1.8 2.10 2.17 400