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Pg4A THE NORTHSIDE SUN, JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI Thursday, April 10, 1980 As I See It Looking Back Readers' Forum Express your views: Write Readers' Forum, Box 16708, 39206 at this week Freedom said messy, dangerous, demanding facts or the accomplishment of any worthy purpose. They should be viewed against a background of the reputations of the organizations which made them, and in the opinion of the members of this dub those reputations are not good. Our city is fortunate in having an outstanding police department and chief. We must not allow their effectiveness to be hampered by demonstration or groundless charges. The Walter Scott Coffee Qui) Coffee club raps critics of police department By Sam Warren "SUN SPOTS" The Sun is available at an North Jackson ToM-Sum Stores.

Holiday Inn Medical. Holiday Inn Nortti. Mr. Quick. North Slate near Meadowbrook Rodehoute Rtitauranl, Rodeway Inn 5b North.

Jr. Food Mart. McWillie Drive. Paiiport Inn. 155 North Mimt seeking a cause for agitating in the hope of arresting the rapid decline in its membership and influence.

As for the ACLU it can be said positively that it has been cited by two state legislatures and three federal agencies as being pro-communist and subversive. For its 60 years of existence it has spent most of its efforts in attacking governmental authority of any kind, so that its position on the performance of the Jackson Police Department was more than predictable. And so let no one waste an idle thought that these attacks are either merited or spontaneous. They were planned for self-seeking purposes with little or no regard for Marl. McWillie Orive Sunflower, Maywood Mart.

Sunllosrer, Meadowbrook al State Sunflower. Cot onal Mart Handae Mart, Ridgeland Pak a Sak, Ridgeland. Primos Northflato, Jr. Food Marl, Madison Jr. Food Mart, North State at Robmhood Oibba 'Piiia Palaca, Canton Mart Oibbs Pilia Palace.

Old Canton. Brant'a Oruga. Woodland Hills Parkin's Pharmacy, tngiish Village LeFlaur'r. Presto Mart. North Stale Street Oavs Inn, I 55 North 2S YEARS AGO, 1955 With the surge in residential growth in the area, commercial building strived to keep pace.

New developments included: on North State Street, the Super Curb Food Store; anew Texaco Service Station, south of Ridgeland; Albriton's Jewelry Store and Anthony's Department Store, both in Nor-thwood Center; the Jackson-Hinds Bank Meadowbrook Branch; and Kolb's Cleaners drive-in branch in Fondren. Construction was underway on the $150,000 St James Episcopal Church. The Jackson Public School System announced that Howard J. Cleland, principal of Bailey Junior High, would become principal of the new Murrah High School, and Miss Bessie Will Gilliland, principal of Duling School, would assume the position as principal of McWillie Elementary School. 10 YEARS AGO, 1970 An estimated 119 additional classrooms at new and expanded private school facilities would open their doors in the fall for Northside's almost 11,000 students.

Construction was expected to be completed in the summer on a $150,000 Education Center east of St Andrews School on Old Canton Road. FIVE YEARS AGO, 1975 Marvin Cohen, Murl Davis, Harold Stevens, Lawrence Williams, E. J. Williams and Logan VanLeigh were featured in a '50's picture as members of the Jackson Jaycees which set up the first Babe Ruth baseball program for the youths of the City of Jackson. The program later was assumed by the Servian Club.

Installation services were held for the Rev. Roy L. King, as new minister of First Christian Church. Brien C. Blakeney, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Ken Blakeney of Fern Cove, served as a Page in the House of Representatives. ONE YEAR AGO, 1979 The waters of Pearl River drove thousands of Northsiders from their homes. Manhattan Academy students rallied to raise funds for their injured classmate, Don Burkes. Steve Kruse won first place in the Northside Sun's Easter Coloring Contest, and the brother-sister team of Rowland and Verby Hall earned second and third place honors.

Butcher Shop. Lakeland Drive. Jr. Food Mart, Beasley Road. Jr.

Food Mart, West Street; Country Club Village Shopping Center in front of Miller's Hardware. (The following is a guest column on the subject of the First Amendment) by Barbara Fiti Vromaa Freedom is messy. Any woman who has watched her baby pour orange juice in his hair and mash peas on his highchair tray can tell you how messy it is to allow the child to learn to eat on his own. Any totalitarian dictator will tell you how much easier it is to get rid of drug addicts, prostitutes and enemies of the state in a country where there are no First Amendment-type guarantees. In a totalitarian state, things can be done quickly and with order.

You would never have to put up with Nazis marching through Skokie. Freedom is dangerous. Many parents feel a certain sinking of the heart the first time they hand over the car keys to their 16-year-old. He or she could get killed in that traffic jungle out there. Totalitarian dictators understand well how dangerous freedom can be.

Free ideas can threaten the plans of the state, so the press must be controlled. Free assemblage must be curtailed for the same reason. Travel must be restricted, for citizens might try to escape the rigors imposed by the other curtailments or might bring back undesirable ideas. Freedom is demanding. tainty and terror of freedom.

The masses are promised an even slice of the communal pie whether their effort is shek or diligent. (Never mind that the diligent soon become so discouraged they too become slack, and the communal pie has to be sliced in thin slices.) What does the First Amendment mean to me? It means that I have the freedom from being forced to fit into someone else's preconceived plan of what I should do or be. It means that I have the freedom to explore my own avenues and enticements. The First Amendment gives me the freedom to enjoy the success of my efforts. It allows me the responsibility, as well, of facing my failures so that I may learn and grow from them.

The First Amendment protects ideas, and everything in the world -from the buttons on my blouse to Social Security -begins as an idea in somebody's head. When you hamper a man's ideas, or the expression of those ideas, you hamper his soul, the very essence of his being. By guaranteeing the free exchange of ideas, the First Amendment ensures that I will live in a society fermenting with change and innovation. The First Amendment is my guarantee of messy, demanding, dangerous, exhilerating, creative, productive freedom. And, as any parent can tell you, freedom is the only route to full development of human capacity.

Barbara Fitz Vroman, a freelance author and mother of four children, lives on a farm near Hancock. Wis. This column won first prize in the national essay contest on What the First Amendment Means to Me" sponsored by Newspaper Association Managers Inc. and the Ohio Newspaper Foundation. Life Insurance Got too much? Find out FREE Don E.

Perry 5846 Ridgewood Rd. Building 982-4832 Those Special Days Editor Northside Sun The Jackson Police Department, although it has an excellent record of performance in battling a nationwide crime wave, and is manned by well-trained and dedicated personnel, is under continuous attack by the NAACP and one or two other groups of racial agitators. In this attack it is being joined, not surprisingly, by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). The charges against the police are made up almost entirely of "police brutality," without any reference to specific cases. Only a few times has such a reference been made, and even then these have rarely been found, after thorough investigation, to have any foundation whatever.

Yet they keep shouting, like the bull frogs in a pond making a noise which is all out of proportion to the numbers who make it. They are demanding a police review board; continuous lowered entrance requirements; and almost anything else that will give black citizens preferential standing before law. To the extent that courts have adopted a permissive attitude, and leniency in sentencing for blacks, the results have been disastrous. Crime of all kinds, but particularly black crime, is rising at an accelerating rate, and on a population ratio, blacks are committing three times as many crimes as whites; and two thirds of black crimes are committed against other blacks. Close to home, our newspapers each day report several crimes of robbery, burglary, rape, or other major crimes.

The suspect's race is seldom given, but from his address it can be determined that in most instances he is black. In view of these circumstances it is plain that if the NAACP and the ACLU truly wish to improve police action they would cease screaming their worn out old cliche of "police brutality" and work on lessening "black brutality" which is black crime itself. But this is unlikely. The NAACP's worthy purpose, if it ever had one, has been accomplished to an extent it had little right to expect, and it is Lower 48 states. Gulf Interstate will provide the pipeline engineering work and Michael Baker will be responsible for the civil engineering phase of the multi-billion dollar project.

Phillip A. Koonce, executive vice president, southern operations, is Michael Baker Jr. chief operating officer. NATIONWIDE INSURANCE NatKxwcM is on you Side The "now" woman wants the dignity and benefits of equality. She finds she cannot have freedom without giving up dependency and a measure of safety.

Freedom demands risks and the assumption of responsibility. The totalitarian ruler knows how demanding freedom is. That is his trump card. He promises order, security and release from the uncer- The Voice of Business 7r lkM I Three questions HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Apr. 10.

Libba Love, Walter Boone. Apr. 11: Nadie Graves, Connie Delk. Apr. 12: Dr.

David Switzer. Apr. 13: Mike Berts. Apr. 14: Billy Mc-Cool, Sandy Harcharik, Jimmy Busby.

Apr. 15: Wanda Cross. Late birthday wishes to Janet Barnes in recital Friday Northsider Janet Lee Barnet, soprano, will be presented in graduating recital by Belhaven College Department of Music Friday, April 11 at 8: 15 p.m. in Barber Auditorium of Warren A. Hood Library on the Belhaven campus.

The (laughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Barnes, Miss Barnes is a graduate of Murrah High School. She is a student of Evelyn McCool and a member of lie Belhaven College Concert Choir. The public is invited to the recital and to a reception following.

for the candidates Herbert B. Ivison Jr. on Mar. 31. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: Apr.

11: Leo and Betty Mennelstein. Apr. 12: Bert and Maxine Winders. Apr. 15: MM Vince "Sandy" Jackson.

Apr. 16: Ann and Dale Minton. The Northside Sun would like to include your special days in this column, but has recently purged the listings to include only those who have re-registered their family's names and dates. If you have not registered in the last 15 months, please do so by calling 957-1122. 'Spring Sing' set tonight at Boyd school All parents and their preschool age children in the Boyd Elementary School district are invited to a "Spring Sing" tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 in the school's auditorium.

All Boyd students will perform popular songs. The Boyd Parent-Teacher Association (P-TA) will hold its annual Fun Day Friday, April 18, at 1 p.m. on the school's playgrounds. The Fun Day is like an old-fashioned field day and will feature games and races. In the event of rain, the alternate date is April 25 at 1 p.m.

Parents and children who live in the Boyd school district are invited. Mose Allison Cybill Shepherd Carl Fontana Bill Berry Jack Sheldon Mundell Lowe George Duvivier Lou Levy "Freddy Waits Tickets: learty advance) $7 SO $5 students ($12 SO sponsor) Concert 1 Friday Arp 18, 1980, 8 00 VkJeotapiig Jackson Munceel Auditorium Jackson. Mississippi Reserve Seats Box 16903. Jackson. Ms.

39206 Bebop Record Shops Jackson -Poets-ln the Quarter JO Televslon Series Premier July, 1980 baby boom will become the Twenty-First Century retirement boom. That, combined with our present low population growth, means the ratio of Social Security taxpayers to beneficaries will drop sharply, so a corresponding increase in payroll taxes will be needed. boggling Keep in mind that, although there is supposed to be a 50-50 workeremployer split to finance federal pensions, most federal employees currently pay only about 25 percent of the true cost of their retirement systems. The taxpayers pick up the rest of the bill because of the cost of living adjustments. So Question Number One for the presidential candidates is this: By what standard of fairness should taxpayers be expected to continue financing the greatest share of a government retirement system which is far more generous than they can afford for themselves? But that's just the beginning.

The nearly three million federal employees are exemp from paying Social Security taxes, even though a majority of them qualify (through spouse benefits, moonlighting or second careers) for Social Security benefits. Actually, many government workers receive more than benefits; they receive an outright windfall, and here is why: The Social Security benefits formula allows workers with low average career earnings to receive a higher return on their contributions than do workers with high earnings. This subsidy is obviously intended to WASHINGTON- The nation is totally preoccupied with inflation. Each of the presidential candidates has made the problem a top priority and has promised new leadership in trying to solve it To date, however, there has been very little discussion of one of the most generous and dangerously inflationary programs of all the federal retirement system. Consider: A hypothetical individual, John Doe, has worked for the federal 1 government for 30 years.

Having reached the age of 55, he is now eligible for retirement a good seven to 10 years before most individuals working in the private economy. John earns $19,000, which is about average for a federal employee, and which the government's own statistics show is approximately 40 percent higher than the average nongovernment salary. His starting pension will be almost $10,775. But since his pension is indexed to inflation, there is almost no limit to how high it could climb. Indeed, should the rate of inflation continue to increase by 14.2 percent for 10 more years, this merely average federal employee will be due an annual retirement of over $40,000.

The 20-year figure, should he live that long, and he probably will, is a mind- benefit workers with a lifetime of low wages. Unfortunately, it makes no distinction between these low income people and federal employees whose average private sector earnings are low only because they have worked so long in government employment. These unintended subsidies amount to millions of dollars each year. Thus, government employees can receive the same subsidy as low-wage workers in addition to their indexed pensions that insulate them from inflation. How sweet it is! Question Number Two for presidential candidates: By what standard of fairness should these nearly three million public employees-including members of Congress-be allowed to escape paying our second largest tax while they work in public service, when a majority of them qualify for Scoial Security benefits? Reforming these inequities in federal pensions and Social Security becomes doubly important in view of approaching economic problems.

Social Security, for example, is currently being propped up thanks only to a tremendous tax increase. But such tax increases eventually depress economic activity, and a severe recession could dangerously deplete the Social Security Trust funds. Also, starting in about 30 years, the post-World War Finally, unlike most private pensions, federal pensions and Social Security are not being kept actuarially cminH Tho. fiinHino Qvafom ia Local company CELEBRATE SPRING based on the infamous Ponzi fO n6lD QGSiCin scheme By some estimates, the long-term unfunded Alaskan pipeline obligations exceed several trillion dollars. Rogue gentleman' u.t.

in at iniu HABERDASHERY, Michael Baker Inc. of Jackson and Gulf Interstate Engineering Co. of Houston, Tex. have signed a joint venture contract to provide civil design and pipeline engineering services on the Alaska section of the Alaskan Natural Gas Transportation System (ANGTS). When completed, the 48-inch diameter pipeline will bring natural gas from Alaska's North Slope to the Final Question for presidential candidates: Left unreformed, the eventual financing of these two systems will require paralyzing tax increases andor an unrestrained inflationary expansion of the money supply.

What is your solution? The nation awaits your responses. We can no longer afford to ignore this issue. Don't Lose Valuable Dollars While Away From Your Phone Call USPS 598-7601 MEMBER: Mississippi. Press Association, National Newspaper Association, and Suburban Newspapers of America. SAM W.

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