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TUESDAY, JANUARY 4,1672 THE RECOftD-ABGUS PAGE NINE China Offering Substance To Nixon Expressed Hope For Normalized Relations By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent If Peking's propaganda is a guide, Communist ChiftaVi ers have conjured up a bad dream for themselves and have concluded that if two foreign devils haunt them the one closer at hand is by far the more ominous. What Peking is saying seems to lend substance to President Nixon's expressed hope for better relations with mainland China. He 9 aid Sunday night he did not expect anything approaching re-iumed diplomatic relations, but he did hope, that his February visit to Peking would produce "normalization in terms of setting up some method of communication better than we currently have." Communists, living in their own world of double talk, do in-ot always say what they mean, but Peking seems agitated about Soviet intentions as it reads them. This involves like a huge Soviet noose looped about much of that so-called third world of "medium-sized and small nations" in.

and Afnica for which Peking now claims to As Red China puts it, the Russians are reverting to type, acting Like the czars of old trying to establish "a world empire." Peking insists that Soviet activity in the Asian subcontinent is connected with a (Scheme to build "a sealane arch" that would extend from the Mediterranean and Black seas in a southward-dropping semicircle through the Red 'Sea, the Arabian Sea, the In-i dian Ocean, the Bay of around Southeast Asia and up to the Sea of Japan. That, said a recent article carried by the official Red Chinese news agency, is why Moscow is so deeply involved in arms aid to India why the Soviet fleet has shown the flag all along the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. "To turn India into an important base for its expansion in the Indian Ocean, Soviet revisionism has been vigorously bolstering up the Indian reactionaries for years," said the article. Moscow, it said, regarded the Indian-Pakistani War as a good chance to step up Soviet expansion in the Indian Ocean and "fuirther its control of India." Clearly, the suggestion in all this was that China regarded Russia as the major threat. If the Russian appetite was what Peking seemed to think it was, China alone would be in a poor position to challenge Soviet aims in South and Southeast Asia.

But China with communication open to the United States would be better off if only because of an enormous implicit American potential to tip the balance politically or militarily. There could be dividends for the Americans, too, in easing China's two decades of implacable hostility toward the United States. President Nixon said his adviser, Henry Kissinger, in his trips to Peking to arrange for the presidential visit, had raised with Premier Chou En- lai tire question of American war prisoners in North Vietnam. The President said he, too, intended to raise the question next month. This issue can well be the major logjam in the way of an Indochina settlement.

If China in fact sees the Soviet Union straining for domination of all Asia, it would seem logical for Peking to establish more meaningful communication with Washington. One way of doing this could be to act as broker between the Americans and the North Vietnamese. Television Radio News By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP Television-Radio Writer NEW YORK (AP) "The Doris Day Show" on CBS has been radically remodeled annually for four years now and Miss Day refers to network executives ordering the finally gotten TV's Doris Martin into a character identical to those the actress played in all those Light film comedies. Miss Day now plays a bachelor girl who is a star reporter on a San Francisco-based magazine. She is bright, optimistic, winsome and even occasionally spite of the show's scripts.

A few weeks ago, Doris was a happy kidnap victim in some revolutionary Balkan state. This Monday night she was pretending to be a nurse in order to worm out of a stricken billionaire some story about economics. Her boss this season, played by John Dehner, is a boisterous tyrant with a temper and bellow almost equally that of Gale Gordon, Lucy's boss on the preceding program. Miss Day's comedy style is quieter and more would be if she had better material. "Here's Lucy" had Helen Hayes as a guest star.

The distinguished actress seemed miscast as a little old lady staying with Lucille Ball as a house guest for a week. There was some far-fetched nonsense about a seance, mostly to give Lucy and Gale a chance to dressup as the ghosts of Josephine and Napoleon. In spite of tlhe talents of Miss Hayes and Miss Ball, the' half hour was definitely lesser Lucy. Dean Martin is now officially among television's superstars: He has his own pro-am golf tournament, the Dean Martin Tucson Open, which NBC will televise the weekend of Jan 22. Martin joins the select company that includes Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Glen Campbell, Andy Williams, Danny Thomas and Jackie Gleason.

Each sponsors a charily benefit tournament. The device of naming a tournament for a well-known star works well for all concerned. The big star is honored and gives ihc tournament some clout in persuading other celebrities to play. The presence of celebrities attracts television coverage and larger galleries. Seek Venue Change WASHINGTON, Pa.

(AP) Lawyers for Paul Gilly, one of five persons charged in the Yablonski family murders, were expected to ask Washington County court today for a change of location for their client's trial. Samuel L. Rodgers and Wray G. Zelt say they would claim Gilly couldn't get a fair trial in Washington County. His trial is scheduled for Jan.

17. Believe 7t CI369. AN HAIWN AUTHOR, FOR THE LAST 60 VEARS OP HIS LIFE COULD NOT FALL ASLEEP UNLESS HE WAS CLUTCHINS A MADE fSYTHi YAKOMA TRIBESMEN OF AFRICA HAVE SUCH A VARIETY OF PKL6N THAT NO SALOMON VULPIUS THE FIRST PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER. IN STiSUTftA SUBURB OF BEE'tH (3ERMANX WAS ALSO A TAILORED FROM 1720 TO 1740 HE TAUGHT SCHOOL WHILE LEGGEP ON A TAILOR'S TABLE YOUNGEST nation's youngest mayor, 19-year- old Jody Smith of Ayrshire, Iowa, was sworn into office yesterday and received both a telephone call and a telegram from President Richard Nixon. Smith is shown at his inaugural ball attended by friends, relatives and dignitaries.

(UPI). A Treat for Dauphin Tourists Sternwheeler Ferryboats Ply Susquehanna Waters By ROSLYN BARBAROSH Associated Press Writer MILLERSBURG, Pa. (AP) Rolling on the river near Millersburg means watching a family of five white.swans glide majestically by, hearing the honk of the Canadian geese and sipping Russian tea brewed on the wood stove in the cabin of the Roaring Bull. It's listening to the chug of the sternwheeler and its sister Sternwheeler ferryboat, the Falcon, making the one-mile down the Susquehanna River, just as it has since the turn of the century. Fourteen miles south and 26 miles north, two bridges span the Susquehanna, but many prefer the ferryboat ride.

"You can get across the river faster on the bridges, but you see more beauty with me," of the two ferryboats. "The river is wide, unspoiled, and surrounded by mountains. It's just the place to be, especially for anybody who likes to take boat rides, which I like to do all day long," says Dillman. Once the Susquehanna River was dotted with ferryboats, some only a mile or two apart. Today, the Roaring Bull and the Falcon are the last ferries on the Susquehanna.

The ferries cross the river about four times a day during the fall at a top speed of 4 miles an hour. On weekends and during the summer they make about 12 roundtrips each. The sternwheelers are actually two boats in one. Each consists of a paddlewheel tugboat with a barge attached on the right side. Both accommodate four cars and about 25 passengers, although the Roaring Bull is slightly larger.

"I love the river in the winter," Dillman, a retired chief petty officer in the Navy, turning white with the snow. The wood burning stove in the cabin." The two ferries recently were hauled out of the water for the winter. Operations will resume in mid-March. Joe Clauser, a mail carrier for the Pennsylvania Power Light who rides the ferry every day, occasionally helped Dillman push away from shore, and assisted on the ferry during his summer vacation. "I'm really attached to them.

I'd hate to see them go out of business," says Clauser. "This ferry is unlike the cable ones," says Dillman. "It goes where I go. Of course I have to go to Millersburg and Crows Landing, but how I go is up to me. "In the spring, when the water is good and high, I drop the flat -and go for a spin up the river." "I kinda get that Huck Finn feeling," he said.

The owners, Robert and Ed Wallis and James Zeiders also operate a campsite at Crows Landing. "The campers enjoy not only riding, hut watching the ferryboat go in and out," Ed Wsllis said. "Some say they can spend the whole week watching the boats." Wallis said that if it wasn't for Pillman, the ferries would not be working now, "He just loves those ferryboats," Wallis said. The Roaring Bull is Dillman's favorite ferry. He worked on the ferry for three years before he joined the Navy.

After serving 20 years on aircraft carriers, including the nuclear carrier Enterprise, Dillman returned to the Roaring Bull three years ago when he retired from the Navy. Both ferries retain pieces of the two gas-powered paddle- wheelers that plied the river since the 1920s. They have been rebuilt several times. Last January, the state declared the Millersburg ferry a state historic site. Inflation hasn't hit the ferry too badly.

In 1918 it cost 25 cents for a round trip. A car and all its passengers could cross for 75 cents. Today the car crosses for $1.50 and foot passengers cross for 25 cents one way. Month-Long Art Show To Be Held at Thiel A. month-long student art exhibit will open Thursday at the Thiel College art gallery.

The showing Which is part of the January interim program wiitl feature paintings, ceramics, sculpture, weaving, etchings, jewelry and drawings by students enrolled in the Thiel Ant Department. Faculty members who have assisted include Richard L. Hayes, associate professor of art and department chairman, and Alvin S. Dunkle and Ronald A. Pivovar, assistant professors of art.

The Thiel gallery, located in the Howard Miller Student Center, is opened from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m. Mondays through Fridays and 1 to 4 m. Sundays. DeMolay Chapter Sets Officer Installations Michael Lee Mehr, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harold Mehr, 259 East will be installed as master councilor at an open induction of new officers of the Greenville chapter, Order of De Molay, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Masonic Hall. James Bates, son of Mrs. Marian Bates, Jamestown, will be installed as senior councilor, and Dale Seger, son of Mr.

and Mrs. H. M. Seger, Fredonia will be installed as junior councilor. Rabbi to Lecture Rabbi Sidney M.

Berkowitz of Congregation Rodef Sholom in Youngstown will represent the Jewish Chautauqua Society at Thiel College on Thursday, Jan. 13. The rabbi will lecture on the subjects "The Hebrew Theology of Death" and "The Hebrew Concept of God." Trooper Takes LITTLE ROCK (AP) An Arkansas state trooper for 25 years has given up his revolver for a Bible. Lt. Guy J.

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