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TA PRESS 901 W 24th St Austin Multi copy service. Call 477-3641 SA TIE FIRST REPERTORY CEMFANY 110 Chichester Pl. San Antonio 78209 off N. Business 81 at Broadway Mar. 9-Apr. 1 Loot 8:15 p.m. Joe Orton’s zany mystery stars a coffin, a corpse & the craziest criminals ever! thurs: $2.50 .reg/$1.25 stu-mil El-E5 fri & sat: $4 reg/$2 stu-mil El-E5 Boi Office: 1-512-824-7438 1:30-5:30 pm, till 8:30 thurs-sat OPENING APRIL 27: Brecht & Weill’s THREEPENNY OPERA ,-.-,, 5.4,011,.. -++14*,,90.1.4#’ 14 The Texas Observer Some observations on the trial CLASSIFIED BOOKPLATES. Free catalog. Many beautiful designs. Special designing too. Address: BOOKPLATES, P.O. Box 28-I, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387. MARJORIE ANNE DELAFIELD TYPING SERVICE: Complete Typing Service and Editing. Binding, Mailing, Public Notary. Twenty years experience. Call 442-7008 or 442-0170, Austin. WE SELL THE BEST SOUND. Yamaha pianos, guitars; Moeck-Kung-Aulus recorders; harmonicas, kalimbas and other exotic instruments. Amster Music, 1624 Lavaca, Austin. 478-7331. THURSDAY DISCUSSION GROUP meets at noon weekly at the YMCA, 605 North Ervay in Dallas. No dues. Everyone welcome. CENTRAL TEXAS ACLU luncheon meeting. The Rennaissance, 801 Rio Grande. 2nd Monday of each month. From noon. All welcome. McGOVERN photo button: $1. Mobile: $2. Proceeds to campaign. McGovern Committee, P.O. Box 472, Vermillion, SD 57069. ARCHIE’S TYPING SERVICE theses … dissertations … mailings … multilith stencils … printing … binding … legal … other 327-2041, .474-1859 austin, leta levbarg write on … archie. JULIAN BOND, SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, ANDREW YOUNG and the Board of the Southern Elections Fund need your contributions to help elect Southern Blacks. Send to: Southern Elections Fund, Box 1382, Atlanta, Georgia 30303. OLD & NEW chair seats. Woven and recaned. Fair price. Bill. Phone 476-0173, Austin. Abilene I’d like to address myself to Matthew 5:44. I wandered back into the courtroom about 20 minutes after the verdict had been announced, about 15 after the judge had dismissed court for the day. Mutscher was sitting on a bench weeping quietly. So I wandered out again. Reporters not infrequently wind up standing around in the wake of someone else’s personal disaster. I don’t think any of us like the feeling. I got an incredible hate stare from Ms. Joe Shannon before I left. I wasn’t there when she called some reporters who remained in the courtroom “vultures,” but I thought it was an understandable reaction. That day the pencil press was probably as tactful as it ever gets no questions. But “the animals with the cameras,” as Art Wiese of The Houston Post calls them, did put on a bad show. “Allin the nature of the biz,” is their defense. While it is one thing to attack the press for a given instance of gross behavior, the events on the day the verdict was THE TEXAS OBSERVER on microfilm. The complete backfile, since the first issue in December 1954, will be available. For prices and other information contact: Microfilming Corporation Id America d subsidiary of THE NEW YORK TIMES 21 Harristown Road Glen Rock, N. J. 07452 201 447-3000 announced had nothing to do with the buckets of slop dumped on the press by the defendants, their lawyers and their wives both before and after the verdict came in. Miss America of 1964 harassed the press throughout the trial in niggling little ways. Mutscher did a credible imitation of a martyr in his post-sentencing press conference. Haynes went on at great length about “suggestions and innuendoes” and those of us who “pillory people in public office who have no opportunity to defend themselves.” A more specious argument I never heard. Public officials have, in fact, unbeatable access to the media to defend themselves ad nauseum. And they do it. Any time Gus Mutscher calls a press conference, reporters come and take down what he’s got to say. Unfortunately, it is not part of journalistic tradition to print [That is a lie] after each lie quoted. Haynes indulged in Dallas Morning News ratiocination twice in Abilene: once with the jury and once with the press. The News is much given to bemoaning that “the courts” have made this law or that law unconstitutional. But the courts don’t make the laws unconstitutional: the legislature makes them unconstitutional and the courts point it out, that being their job. The jury in Abilene didn’t make Gus Mutscher guilty. The press in this state didn’t make Gus Mutscher guilty. Gus Mutscher took the loans and passed the bills and made the profits. What he did makes him guilty, not what anyone else has done to him. AMORE subtle ramification in the case is the fact that Gus Mutscher Family Feed Store organically grown grains vegetables and beans macrobiotic cooking & lessons 118 Fry Denton, Texas