CAPT, JOHN A. HORTON, JR.
Commanding Officer
GDR. EDWARD A. TABER, JR.
Executive Officer
A DAK
SUN
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EDITING STAFF
GERALD W. ODOM JSRROLD DODSON
PHONE 4 3? PHONE 436
NEVER UNDERRATE THE V*LUE
OF HONORABLE DISCH ARGE
It's only a piece of paper—your dis
charge from the service. It doesn't weighj
much. Yet, if it's the wrong kind of dis—;
charge, it can hang heavy around your neck
the rest of your life. Or over your head.1
Don't fall for the.guardhouse (or sea
going) lawyer's line when he says it's a
cinch to get a dishonorable, bad conduct
or undesirable discharge changed once you'
re a civilian. The armed services do not
alter them .without sound reasons.
Rare is the employer or personnel mana
ger who is not interested in the service
record of a man looking for a job. A vet
eran with a discharge other than honorable
has. two strikes against him. It's common
sense to give preference to the man with a
clean record. . , .
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So long .'or»soins 6* threat to libe-.ty, NATO
| has o hb ■ o dc. Shwly o strong shield of freedom
! ho:, emerged.
Secore hefr'nd this shield, the people oi the Atlantic
j ccm.-nundy ore working together toward greater politi
i cat, 8t.owjmtc ond social well-being.
Spells Peace
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CORDER' father
doyle -
In’a recent speech, a'Jewish journalist.
Howard VJhitmon, told the Cincinnati Socis
Hygiene Society that traffic in filth put
lieations is a billion dollar business tt
day and growing bigger all the time. Id
warned that the merchants of smut are pr:^
marily interested in the youth market ai
said that about seventy-five percent of ti
published obscenity goes to teen-agers. I
added that mailing lists of high schoc
students are being marketed at high pric<
to smut distributors.
This information is not news to widL
awake parents. The nation is pretty we*
alerted to the smut danger. Too often, ho;
ever, the alarm of parents and others cha:,
god with responsibility for the young :
dissipated in merely criticizing, scoldii
or passing resolutions condemnatory ofmor;
filth. Just taking an attitude about tl
violations of decency accomplishes littli
Even passing laws and regulations to pr
tect the public against unscrupulous tr
;ders in obscenity is never sufficient. F'
.be legislated. (con* t page ;