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IALS I Hie TENNESSEAN SILLIMAN EVANS SK. C'ahhsktr. SILLIMAN EVANS JR. (Publnh't, ifSS-iiil) AVON C. EVANS.

Execume Vue Trttident ind Tublither JOHN SEIGENTHAl LR, Editor LLOYD ARMOUR, Astociate Editor ALLEN PETTUS EDWARD FFEEM AN EUGENE WYATT Ait cant to the PjH her Managing Editor Sunday Fditor Tk nrs f.ar-ps shiU be ir and accurate and the editorial columns ihall be tctiet and tut in the retire inf'u4 cpin rn Silhiran Evans Sr. 'It's a Strange Disturbance They Have Every Four Years To Get a President' Fae 8 New Kind of Delegate Makes for Uncertainty Tuesday, July 11. 1972 Not Being Fired But Losing Jobs VO one is being fired Pcsi- tions are being eliminated," said Governor Winfield Dunn last week, but it is doubtful that his careful wording will make any of of the 434 Highway Department maintenance employes who are losing their jobs feel much better Apparently trying to head off efforts by Democrats to probe the statewide dismissals, the governor defended his administration's action as an attempt to "cut out the fat." lie denied that politics has anything to do with eliminating the positions. Mr. Dunn cited a study begun under the previous administration that indicated that too many highway maintenance employes were on the payroll and said he is "simply implementing the findings of this study." Rut the issue is somewhat clouded by the fact that county maintenance supervisors considered by many as political appointees-have a part in determining which employes are dismissed.

It is also curious that another study of state efficiency, the commission headed by GOP leader Mr. Maxey Jarman, was ignored in favor of the one cited by the governor. The Jarman Commission did not recommend a huge reduction in low-salaried workers, but rather urged that the 95 higher-paid supervisors be "phased out" because they were unnecessary. It appears Mr. Dunn chose between getting rid of chiefs or Indians and decided he wanted to keep his appointed chiefs.

Apology Due jl I II. J. R. LKFTWTCH, Lebanon i-'A correspondent for this newspaper, writes in the Letters to the Editor today that an editorial Saturday misquoted Mayor Willis H. Maddox as saying he favored an executive session of the Lebanon city council last week.

The newspaper regrets that Mr. Maddox' position was misstated on this important issue. Rut it is happy to set the record straight and place the mayor on the side of those who believe the people have a right to be present when their business is being conducted. Trying to tie down the uncommitted delegates is like roping a steer with a light piece of twine. Nobody is counting 'leaning' delegates without crossing their fingers.

The uncommitted are being buttonholed and bothered by supporters of all the candidates. Rut some of these already have learned the formula of: "promise them everything if they will go away." So this group of delegates is not only mercurial but unpredictable. The "Stop McGovern" coalition is one of diffuse groups held together largely by self-interest. Nobody is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice, and this self-interest helps make the coalition more vulnerable. Rut erosion of strength works both ways.

Some uncommitted delegates will start drifting toward McGovern on the first ballot. Ry the second, there could be even greater drift. Thus the anti-McGovern coalition will have tremendous difficulty in holding any kind of a solid front. Perhaps it can, but the only certainty before the roll call on the nomination is that nothing is absolutely certain. Like many conventions of the Democrats, the verbal sounds of battle and bitterness cover up a great deal of behind the scenes activity.

Rut the Democratic party is no stranger to convention dori-nybrooks, some of which did, indeed, cause intra-party bitterness and the losing chieftains to sulk in their tents. Rut the Democratic party is extraordinarily durable. It has managed to survive its worst quarrels and even to pluck victory from its worst nettles. The convention of 197'2 marks a historic turning place for the party in its effort to give wider participation from all segments of the people in the choosing of its nominee for President. How the convention will choose and who it will choose are questions yet to be answered.

Rut they will be in the coming days and only history can eventually pronounce the verdict on its actions. From Mm mi Beach ON THK OPKMNC. day of their convention in Miami Reach the Democrats were running true to form with bone-crushing rivalries and bone-wearying parliamentary tactics on the convention floor For two days and one long night, the name of the game for rivals of Sen. George McGovern has been "Stop McGovern," and a good many diverse factions have been playing it hard. From organized labor to Sen.

Henry Jackson, there has been an all-out propaganda attack, the theme of which is that Senator McGovern, il nominated, can't win in the fall. Labor's threat is that the AV-CIO, at least, might sit on its hands. The loyalists of Gov. George Wallace have been painting a bleak picture of McGovern' chances in the South. And the old professionals of the party who are in Miami Reach in diminished numbers are spreading the word that a McGovern candidacy would hurt Democratic prospects at every level, from the state houses to the Capitol The McGovern forces have counter-attacked with every weapon they have, while they fought tenaciously to reverse the California decision and to win back the delegates allocated to Sen.

Hubert Humphrey and Gov. George Wallace. Whether the anti-McGovern coalition is finally successful will be determined when the nomination balloting begins. This Democratic convention is even more unpredictable than most, since for the first time in history it has a pronounced change in make-up; with almost Wr of the delegates attending a national convention for the first time More than 35'? of the delegates are women; 2V'r are non-white, and 15rr are under 30 years of age. It is a fluid group, with many unknowns.

And the crucial 20'r of the delegates is the uncommitted group the most soueht-after and least-predictable of all. Chess Sponsor Too Busy To Watch or a well-played passage can be heard at once by a musician." Everyone from directors to doormen owns shares in his empire. He explains: "It makes them care more. It makes them dare more. They soon realize that calculated risk-taking is what business is all about." Like the chess masters he is bankrolling, he doesn't leave himself exposed if he can help it.

He has insured his life for about $25 million, and his five directors each for a tenth The Dying Still Goes on in Vietnam as much, to give his empire a cash boost if he and his lieutenants die. Slater lives in a modest mansion he built in his bachelor days. He's married now and has two sons and two daughters. He usually spends only three days a week in his office atop the skyscraper headquarters" of his empire, near St. Paul's Cathedral.

The son of a smalltime businessman who died when Slater was at school, the tycoon spends Fridays working at home just so he can be with his family. Weekends he plays golf, swims in the pool at his home or plays chess. He became hooked on the game when he was 11 and was soon playing against British champions. At 16, he stopped playing seriously to study accountancy. "The game was too time-consuming," he says.

He sponsors an annual international tournament at the coastal resort of Hastings. He has bankrolled next year's under-21 championships to encourage young players. Now he's paid a small fortune for the most expensive chess game in history, but lie won't be there to watch. He'll follow it in the papers. There's one thing even he can't afford the time.

By EI) BLANCHE LONDON (AlM-Jim Slater, the British financier who helped bankroll the Fischcr-Spassky chess championship duel, built up a worldwide business empire with the skill of a chess master whittling away an opponent's defenses. "Chess and investment both require the same mixture of science and art, intuition and analysis," he once said. Slater should know he's a chess fanatic who once was seen as a schoolboy champion. Checks pot the better of checkmate, but he still plays and gets his kicks subsidizing tournaments in Britain. He finds time to play on a chesboard in his office usually against himself while he plots his next million.

Slater, 43, put up pounds or $120,000 to lure Bobby Fischer, the temperamental American chess kin, to Reykjavik to play world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union after the challenger complained the stakes weren't high enough. The multimillionaire said he just wanted to see the controversial game of the century take place. That 50,000 pounds was the same amount of money Slater had when he quit his job as an auto corporation executive eight years ago. Within a ear, Slater had wheeled and dealed that slake into a half million pounds. Today, he masterminds an in- Behind the News vestment empire worth more than $500 million on the stock exchange.

He has a knack for spotting badly run companies with big potential, piling up strategic share holdings, taking them over and transforming them into profit-making concerns. So far, Slater has notched ahout 20 corporate scalps with almost casual ease and left old pros of London's financial district open-mouthed in wonder and waiting for a big fall. But soft-spoken Slater is not fazed by the prophecies of doom. "I mean to be around for a long time and make this company a great deal bigger and that won't take long to do," he said. He is able to pile up profits of more than $30 million a year through his ability to scan pages of complex figures and grasp crucial points in a matter of minutes.

"Looking at a page of figures is to me what listening to a concerto is to a musical Slater says. "A mistake, or an opportunity or an exciting situation jumps right out and hits me in the eye, just as a wrong note VLTHOUGH American ground troops have not been participating in the most recent fighting in Vietnam, U.S. forces have still been taking costly losses the last two months. Those who have taken the brunt of the fighting are the airmen who are being sent over the North on daily bombing raids. A total of 67 airmen have been listed as missing since President Nixon ordered resumption of the bombing April 6.

Fifty-eight American warplanes have been lost. The U.S. also lias lost, a considerable number of high ranking officers in the last few weeks, the latest being Brig. C.cn. Richard Tallman, the deputy American out of lndo-China, is being enlarged rather than reduced.

President Nixon has been removing infantry forces from the combat zones in Vietnam and claiming that the war is being wound down. But it is obvious that while the ground war has been wound down the air ar has been wound up. Americans are still dying and being taken prisoner in Vietnam. And it is no comfort to their families or to the rest of the nation that airmen instead of ground troops are victims of the war. It is hoped the resumption of the peace talks in Paris this week will see a renewed effort on the part of both sides to bring the conflict to an end.

commander and adviser for the Saigon Military Region. While each American life lost in Vietnam is equal cause for regret, the nation suffers an additional loss of leadership capability when a general is killed. Questions are bound to arise as to why a general was on an inspection tour in a fire zone if no American troops are participating in the fighting. There is no word of what happened to the 67 airmen lost over North Vietnam. No doubt many of them are dead, but it is likely that many more have been taken prisoner.

Thus, the prisoner of war issue, which Hanoi is using as a bargaining point to get U.S. troops Pl if fl I'd Bobby Fischer Stakes too low Letters to the Editor An award of $1 will be made for the best letter, designated by three stars. Letters to the editor must be signed and names and addresses will be printed except in unusual circumstances. Because of space limitations, letters must be 350 words or less, before they will be con-sidered for publication. Exceptions will be made to this rule only in special cases.

life can keep the lines open for communication about the large things. If the lines are not kept open, they break down, and this is when discipline breaks down. In far too many homes these lines of communication have never been established, and here comes the discipline problem. As a pre-schooler the child has been raised in a permissive way, and so on through life. This child makes it hard on the first grade teacher, and others to follow.

The parents had the child six years before the teacher gets him, his patterns of life have already boon formed. The teacher is busy teaching her subject to an overly large class and it should not be required of her to be a disciplinarian. Anyway, it is impossible tor her to change the pattern of lile formed before she ever got the child. Also, the child is in her room one hour a day, five days a week, there is not time to make an appreciable elfect of the child's life. OLIVER C.

CUNNINGHAM 113 Dorris Drive Hendersonville 37075. Fulton's Deeds Show Concern To The Editor: As I'm sitting here having my morning coffee a certain part of the paper caught my eye. How a preacher can get out and demonstrate is beyond me. In my opinion church and politics just don't mix. If there were truth in it mayhe it would be different.

It seems a dedicated preacher to his church and his members should be too busy to get out and domon-s a He says they demonstrate between the hours of 1-3 p.m. in order to be covered on 6 p.m. news and television. Demonstrating of all sorts is what's wrong with this world today. My family and I have had to call on Congressman Fulton several times in the past few years.

We were treated courteously and he did everything within his power to help us and it wasn't six months. Usually within three 'Permissive Age' Lacked Discipline To the Editor: Many years aco, before this younger generation was born a certain Dr. Spock wrote a book concerning children in which he advocated that punishment would hurt the personality of children. This was the beginning of the permissive age in which we are now living. Parents give their children everything they want, and then when they come up before the Juvenile Court the parent wails.

"Where have I The parent has failed because he has given the child "things," and nothing else. The child yearns for just a little part of the parent. Oh yes, the child is dazzled by "things" but in reality he would rather have less "things" and more of parents. A parent can give to the child more of self in communicating with the child, by setting up guidelines through which his conduct is controlled. Communicating in the wnall insignificant things of days our problems were solved.

I had the honor of meeting Congressman Fulton last year mid shaking his hand. I thanked him for the favors he has done us in the past and he said "Mrs. Roberts we are called on so much to help people but so seldom do people write or stop to thank you for helping." Tears were in this man's eyes. This touched me very deeply. He knows Tennessee's needs and does everything within his power to help the people of Tennessee.

He stands on the platform of truth, justice, integrity. Richard Fulton did not vote against the prayer in school. He is not an atheist and for a person to say he did is being very dishonest. I have followed Congressman Fulton's steps by newspaper since he has been in office and in my opinion never has there been a more dedicated, truthful and trustworthy man. So let's nil go to the polls and vote for Congressman Fulton, especially us older people for whom he has fought so hard to increase our social security earnings.

There's an old saying "A picture is worth a of control during a tense situation. JEFF MORRIS 6018 Bresslyn Rd. 37205 Maddox Favors Open Meetings To the Editor: The Tcnnessean erred in an editorial Saturday which stated Mayor Willis H. (Tex) Maddox endorsed an executive session of the Lebanon city council earlier in the week. Mr.

Maddox defends the right of the press and of the public to attend and when appropriate to participate in functions of city government. It was an unfortunate error which reversed his position as an advocate of open meetings and placed him in the embarrassing role of appearing to embrace closed sessions. It should also be stated that however misguided their decision to hold an executive sessions, it appears members of the council in this instance were motivated by nothing more sinister than a desire for sanctuary. J.B. LEFTWICH Lebanon Con pendent The Tennessee weeks, and especially the one that ended in the death of the two hijackers and one passenger.

It seems to me that while something must be done to stop this rash of air kidnapping, without further delay, what was done by the FBI was not the answer. When there is even the slightest, most remote possibility that there can be the death of an innocent bystander, the airlines should meet the demands and pray that all that will be lost is the money. The FBI men stated that they were in no way going to let that plane lake off and that they would step the hijackers in any way that they could seems to show a lack of responsibilities by both FBI and airline officials. Granted that the problems we are facing with this hijacking situation is a tough one, but there should be no question which is more important. I believe that there is nothing more valuable than a human life.

I think that the people responsible for the death of the passenger on that ill-fated plane should face court hearings for their apparent lack thousand words. Actions speak louder than And another, "Let him who is ith-out sin cast the first stone." In my opinion Congressman Fulton is beyond reproach. His past years in Congress speak for themselves. This man has had enough tragedy in his life the past few years so why people continue to add more hurt in lying is ridiculous. MRS.

LOR ETTA ROBERTS 2S0 33th No. 37209 Spencer Gave Fine Example To the Editor: When the headlines scream such items as hijacker killed or passengers wounded, a count of drug arrests among our youth, repeated and farfetched claims and promises of hopeful candidates, it is a heart-warming pleasure to read of the life of the late Maurice Spencer. So many of the Els of the day are supposedly due to an unhappy upbringing, but here is a man that stood tall sboe his lack of a loving home, and used the forty years in helping kids become more useful citizens. AH youth and old folks too should give Mr. Spencer a standing ovation in their hearts for this love for humanity and his concern for the less fortunate in our land.

It was sad to be taken away so early and he will be missed by many but what footprints he left for us to follow LAURIE DAWSON 2823 Bransford 37204 Fas.engers FYs; Priority Tn the Editor: I have been following the reports of the continued hijackings that have been so prominent in the past few I'.