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Page 2 - THE T!MBER CRUISER, November, 1966 THE TIMBER CRUISER Official Newspaper of the Journalism Class of Alpena Col'l'.lmunity College Published Monthly - September through June at 666 Johnson Street, Alpena, Michigan EDITOR ____ ---- - - -- ---- - -- - - - -- --- JAMES R. ALLYN ASSISTANT EDITOR .. -- ---- ---- - - -- JIM HERMAN ORGANIZATION CO.EDITOR __ __ ____ TERRY L. SCHMOLDT . NEWS EDITOR ____ ____ ___ _ ____ -- .. ____ ,DONNA FROBERG REPORTERS . __ ____ ____ __ BOB ERl·CKSON, JIM MURPHY STEVE WESTROPE, DAVE SMITH, JIM 0'.NIELL, GARY JARMUZEWSKI ~ r-G RTS EDITOR . __________ ___ _ ____ ___ _ JIM, O'NIE.LL SPC:RTS REPORTER ___ __ ___ ____ __ ___ ___ JIM O'NIE.LL SOCIETY EDITOR ___ _ - - .. __ ______________ SUE DOYLE SOCIETY REPORTER ___ _ __ __ DOLORES KANNOWSKI ADVERTISING MANAGER __ __ ____ GERALD NEWHOUSE ADVERTISING STAFF ______ _______ __ _ . -~- JEFF BRASIE, GARY GRIFFITH, HARVEY DAVIS BUSINESS MANAGER ___ __ ______ _ -- . . ____ BETTY SMITH ' CIRCULATION MANAGER __ __ __ ___ __ __ __ _ DON KINDT .. CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER . · - __ ______ ___ ___ __ DON KINDT ~ .. Domestic Affairs By Ji.m, Herman ISOLATION The i·acial tensiion in America is a growmgu ragon with teeth digging into every aspect of modern liif e. Riots, illiteracy and unemployment are on program in slum areas such as Cleveland's Hough district, Chicago's Cicero section and the grand daddy, Watts, California. The negro population, 11 % of .America's population, is located ma~nly in urban areas. The negro population of Baltimore and New Orleans, for ~nstance, has risen to 41 %- Detr,oit 's urban popula.tion has grown to a 39% Are colleges grade.factories or institutions where a person may acquire an education? An indi. vidual trelllds to believe the for. mer because of the increase of comrietition among students and domestic pressures. A decade ago a person could go to the college of his choice without being subject to various entrance exams. It is now re. quired that a satisfactory gradie must be attained for entrance to a college. So the fight for a grade starts before the student is actually in college. Other factors to be taken into consideration are the S1elective Service Board Scholarship Loans and parental influence. The U.S. Draft Board' dictates an ultima. tum which states, "Keep a cer. tain grade.point average or for. felt your chan.ce for an educa. tion." The student loans require an even higher average for their continuation. Would this be dis- couraging education for the av. erage "C" student. who can not afford college? The parents also enter into the grade situation. Usually a parent through love for his off. spring is constantly inquiring about the grade - not the qual- ity of the education . 'It has been said e-that h"e eol. le•ge stud,ent has a tranquil and uncomplicated life. However, the pressure to get the grades is the basis for many mental break. downs and family arguments. So would it be beyond com. preh!ension to organize colleges tl_lat abolish the grading system, and will college administrators ever take heed of the need for students grades? · negro content. This 11 % of the Ameiican population, lis ~----------~ fighting, most rightfully, for reasons rang\ing from dis- crimination and ina,dequate educational faoi.lities to the pohtical slogan, "Hlack Power." This revolution is' not a giant perse, but it is a detr.iment to the American prin- cipals; the princtipals for which we are committed in Viet Nam. AU aspects ,of the Negro revolution are not gloomy. A problem in .Am.e1t.ca is the process of remolding Viet Nam and other foreign countries while N eg-ro gihet- NOTICE! Letters to the Editor; The Timber Cruiser will print any article submitted, regard. less of origin, if, in the esti. mation of the staff, it is of suf. ficien,t student interest. Submit articles to any member of the stiaff, ioes within ,our borders are begging fo the same treat- ------------~ ment. $1,000,000 is poured into Viet Nam daily 395,000 Amer!ican soldiers, are playing guinea pigs and pawns -------------i. of impel'!i.alism. Negroes from American poverty zones in Viet Nam may be heard to say, "I\fan, I w1ish they'd START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT show .as much interest at home as they do · rnre ! " E.~ fetched, perhaps, but nma.gine the impact of $365,000,000 .....,,. .... .,,.,,,. per year and 395,000 carpenters working constructively AT Firs Federa] within America! The fact is, we are ignoring the domestic problems in America to rebu'.ild an Asian country whose Chinese brothers threaten American destruction. The solution is s'imple, the reason is earnest. Rebui[d Amer.tea before claiming sentimental princliples; ibefore playing pol1itics and prestige with'"peace seeking" d:iiplo- mats. The Negroes and other :rnfui.ority groups of America deserve better trnatment 1:Jhan the South Vietnamese. They are a minority only in nmn'ber. Even so, they are A:rrt~tte'ans. Effective Immediately Savings Insured Up to $15,000 Ffrst Federal Savings andl Loan Association 115 N, FIRST 356.0630 Editorial James Allyn Follow truth too close at the heels and 'twill kick out your teeth, Fontenelle For many, the assassination of J .],.K. and the sub- sequent murders of off!icer J.D. Tippit and Lee Oswald are surrounded by clouds of doubt. Those who would know the whole story sent $76 to the Government Printing Office for the 26 viOiluJme report of the Warren Commis- s1ion. To serious students of the case, the report's inade- quacy is only rtoo olblviious. The result was uhe turning of more skeptical gazes to the accepted theory and an over- all rejuvenatforn of interest, culumina:ted by an alarming article in the controversial Ramparts. If one reads the ar'ticles li.n Ramparts with an open mind, one must come away wilth a feeling not unlike dread. If this omnipotent conspii.racy, of which only skeletal fra- gments have been uncovered, does, in fact, exist, it may well !i11clude Lyndon Johnson. No one could overestimate the strength of groups trying to suppress exposure of such a scheme. And yet, if only a third of the facts listed in Ramparts are true, their very self-evidence would demand re-opening of the inves- iigat~on. Ramparts obtained the gist o,f their argument from Penn Jones, wiho litves and publiishes a small paper in Midlothian, Texas. He is a staunch advocate of the con- spiracy theory. Jones has much to nurture h:is ideas; the foremost being the 14 deaths of individuals closely or re-• motely concerned with the Dallas. t ragedy. Ga.uses i-ncl-ude gan shot, hear t attack, strangulation, hangi'ng, auto accident, sNt throat and poisoni~1g. The significance be.ing ,that these deaths possib~y represent a purge of knowledgeable, and therefore, dangerous per- sons. 1.\fore help originates from the Warren Commission's discountenance of testimony contrary to the Oswald-lone- assassiin-and-cop-kil:ler theory and als:o its immovable ad- herence to the" superbullet theory", Here it is maintain- ed that " had pierced President Kennedy's neck from the rear 011 a downward trajectory, entered Connally's back, shattered the £iifth db~ emerged from his chest, broke his wrist into pteces, leaving frag1ments, and then f eH out somehow becoming wedged in a stretcher, whole and un- deformed, without a recognizable trace of blood or tissue on its surface". Unbe.ui.eveable f Governor OonnaHy and his wife both testified that they were positive that the governor was hi.t by a second short, and that the first and third shots had struck the President. The rejeot:ihn of their testimony 1i.s an example of the commisston 's abrtuseness. Time magazine published a rebuttal. It undertook the task of d'iscrediting1 both Ramparts and Jones. It would be very easy, affar finishing Time's story, to brush off the conspiracy theory as being p1~omoted by leftists, thus rendering it 1mworth:y: of recogn.ition. Ttime accuses Ramparts of "hint and run n reporting, ye s a es, an pal~ce suggested that homose:1.'llality may have been a motive." It labels Jones, "chief mythoilogist and drum- beater ", but excludes the fact that Jones won the 1963 P-aTiBh LoV,ejoy Award for courage !in journalism. vVhen reading1 of so . oilatile a is.sue one must separate fact from attriltude. Wi:th a pre,:pionderence of facts coming to light, it wiill be interesting to see what ensues. Who wiH arrest the cop and who will try the judge. NOTE : For those wishing to draw their own conclu- sions, the Editor has placed the pertinent is- . sues of Time and Ramparts on res.erve in the library.