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4JL jfcW, IWWW'i i if ts tsy va fOC Vi Editorial Jtitnial Sunday, March 13, 1966 Dutchess Need? a State Senator It is fortunate that Republican and Democratic leaders in Dutches County are in agreement that it is essential that the county retain representation in the Stat Senate. The Poughkeepsie Journal concurs with the position of the two party chairmen that it is "of paramount importance" that a county man he elected to the seat being vacated at the end of this year by R. Watson Pomeroy, Was aic. While Democrats year after year have thrown their strongest candidates against Mr. Pomeroy, even their leaders concede he has been a faithful and conscientious representative in his 19 years in the Legislature.

In his service in Albany he has carried on a tradition of outstanding service to his district in the pattern of Franklin D. Roosevelt, J. Griswold Webb, Frederic H. Bontecou, Allan A. 'Ryan and Ernest I.

Hatfield, all Dutchess residents and all former senators from the Dutchess Putnam Columbia district, which has been intact since the turn of the century. Reapportionment probably will result in' district change, either putting Dutches; in with Ulster or adding Greene to the present three county setup. Regardless of the outcome of the Albany reapportionment dispute it appears certain trict in which it is placed. By sheer weight Dutchess will be the largest county in any dis of numbers the two major paTties should be able to nominate senatorial candidates, even if they have to go to a primary contest to accomplish that end. They should not hesitate to take that step if necessary.

If the leaders of the two parties make it clear they are determined to have a Dutchess senatorial candidate, and then pick' outstanding men, it is reasonable to presume their decisions will prevail. Conflicts within the county organizations, that is more one Dutchess County candidate seeking his party's nomination, could be equivalent to handing the nomination, and possibly the senatorshlp, to some other county in the district. Dutchess is reasonably sure of one assemblyman under any reapportionment plan. Major responsibility for seeing that its interests are guarded by a senator rests with the leadership of the two political parties. Progress Toward a County Charter "When the structure of government no longer fulfills the purposes for which it was designed it must be changed.

In order to make the best use of the time and energy of die dedicated citizens who constitute our government! we must provide them with a structure which can aid, not handicap them, in their efforts." The foregoing quotation is from one of a series of educational statements prepared by the Dutchess County Charter Commission, a body made up of nine citizen members, two supervisors and the county attorney. Work of the commission to date indicates that it is striving to. provide a governmental structure which will be streamlined but still "serve the people as well or better as the present one has in the past." Indicative of the spirit in which the commission is going about its work is this additional quotation from its release: "It should be apparent to all that the county is far different from what it was 50 years ago. It is no longer a remote, slumbering rural community, but a bustling urban complex. Industry and commerce, not agriculture are the major sources of wealth and we have not reached the limits of our urbani zation.

The commission is operating on the theory that me new charter must give the county government the power as well as the ability, to coordinate long range, comprehensive planning and the authority to execute these plans. It js reassuring to see that the commission is emphasizing that ours is a government of citizens rather than professionals, that a citizen government has served the county well. There is no doubt that the county government needs streamlining with administrative authority centered in a manager or executive. But the commission would be wise to leave policy making decisions in the hands of its citizens representatives whether such body is a Board of Supervisors or a county legislature. Any other course could result in rejection of die "charter by the voters.

Eight Village Elections Residents of Dutchess County's eight villages will kick off the 1966 elections Tuesday when they elect trustees and, in one instance, a mayor. The stag is set, it would appear, for a substantial turnout of voters and they should respond in numbers if for no other reason than to demonstrate to their village boards an interest in community affairs. Too many people do not bother with local elections, and that goes for school districts, too, unless there is a financial or personal issue involved. According to the 1 960 federal census, the ejght villages represent a combined population of more than 14,500 persons. A large percentage of these residents is entitled to vote Tuesday and it is to be hoped most of them will.

Effective government participation should begin at the grass toots. Worthy Appointment in Hyde Park It is fitting that the Hyde Park Board of Education selected Ray.F. Bamum to serve on the board to fill a vacancy. He previously served on the board for six years, including three as president. During that tenure he gained Considerable Roy Wilkins Column stature by his handling of school matters, especially in the merger of th Hyde Park and Staatsburg This consolidation made the district stronger add helped to provide a higher level of education for children of both districts.

Mr. Barnum's experience strengthens the School Board. Negroes Seek Police Protection In Launching Own War on Crime There are signs that the Negro community may at last be ready to act against crime in Us midst. Heretofore in Negro neighborhoods in the big cities and small towns, there was a widespread feeling that, regardless of the nature of the crime, no aid should be given "white law." Negro law violators enjoyed a sort'of racial brotherhood status, not because all other. Negroes were criminally inclined, but because black men have had such a "hard way to go" that other black men nearly always gave them a break against law officers.

Last in New York's Harlem, the grumblings came out loud and clear. For the first time the complaints were not "at the big far from "the man," but right up on the man's front porch. Shopkeepers Militant Harlem's small shopkeepers barbers, luncheonette owners, cigar and newsstand operators, beauty parlor owners, flower shop people are up in arms on 135th and 145th streets over the repeated robberies. Instead of talking to themselves they yelled to the newspapers that the police have failed to protect them. In the 135th street block this was an irony of ironies because the 32nd precinct police station is smack in the middle of the block.

The real story here Is not that a woman living next door to the police station was robbed of $890 of ber luncheonette money held out to pay her hills. It is not even that a private policemanrhas been tired by the small business people to patrol their one block nightly. The real news that a part of the Negro community is now ready to blow the whistle on the muggers and knife men. It 'still works in many places (even in Harlem), nut apparently the days ol the black, skin distress signal are numbered. Crime control becomes a real possibility as soon as the law 1 abiding Negro citizens, always in the vast majority, take an active, rather than a passive, role against crime and criminals.

During the Harlem riot of 1964, most Negro residents trembled in their homes in deadly fear of the small groups of mobile rioters. Most Americans forgot that only about 1,000 persons out of more than 350,000 in Harjcm were active that night. These solid people have moved, now, to denudation of criminal activity and to picas for police aid. Soon, it is to be hoped, the crazy spectacle of little mobs trying to prevent policemen from arresting suspects 'will be no more. It is be hoped, also, that while every single case of brutality by policemen is pressed vigorously, the practice 'of yelling "brutality" every a cop subdues a bad actor will die away.

Big, strong, often drunk and often armed bad guys cannot be prayed into custody. It takes something a little stronger than a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale to get them to the station. Small Beginning The small beginnings in Harlem indicate that the business just as they have in the white population, are taking the lead. In the hard, common sense, business language of a woman beauty parlor operator; "This place is becoming a jungle. I mean it, a Jungle.

I'm losing business because everybody's afraid to ctynw around here." Sociologists and headline commentators long ago called' it a jungle. Their label put the Harlems on a defensive kick and gave the rabble rousers a field day. But with Harlem women calling it a jungle, the punks had better begin to detour. Never underestimate the power of a woman, especially the hard working one who has been robbed of her cash. (Released by the Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1966) William S.

White CIA Enters Life in U.S. WASHINGTON The highly Secret Central Intelligence Agency is broadening its communication with Congress, with private American scientists and with Ameriearwindustry. Almost indeed, it might be said that CIA is for the first time gingerly entering ordinary American life or as much of that ordinary life as its unavoidably clandestine basic cast can possibly permit. This most sensitive instrumentality of the American government in the cold war has not, of course, dropped and cannot "drop its inherent cloak and dagger covering from some operations. Within the limits' of bedrock and unalterable security precautions, however.

Admiral W. R. Ra bocn, its director, has reorganized its whole inner structure and approach to make use of outside skills and talents and information never before so widely available to CIA. The production of scientific and technical intelligence, in consequence, has been immensely increased. This has resulted principally through the 'cooperation of world famous American men.

of science who have been brought in as cleared consultants. Some American industrial concerns have made large direct contributions of their own. That Raborn, though a professional admiral, has become the chief of the CIA in order to liquidate some "of its old passion for extreme apartness is not without its irony. When he took over "the agency" there was much expressed fear that with a "military mind" at its head it would more and more tend to operate in darker and darker alleys. The simple truth is that this has not happened.

Nor has Raborn put in some G.I. system requiring endless saluting of the boss. He has gone to the reverse. CIA was never so far from being a one man operation as it is now. The admiral has given to the professional operative who is his deputy, Richard Helms, a degree of authority never before held by an man other than the director himself.

Helms, in truth, actually conducts the day by day operations of the agency. He sits as the CIA representative on' the United States Combined Intelligence Board. He, as well as Raborn, briefs members of Congress. The admiral, in short, cheerfully acknowledges Helms' superior savvy as a career intelligence operative. Ra born's simple purpose has been to merge his own executive and managerial experience with the intelligence expertise of Rich hard Helms.

Closed Community The intelligence community is a small and at heart a closed community and the introduction into CIA of a seadog outsider un doubtedlydid not sit well at first within the ranks. But the best information available now is that professional morale is high. This, at any rate, is the estimate of men not involved in the agency but who have certain supervisory powers it. The admiral seems to have found a way of running a taut ship without making it also a martial one and a ship, moreover, which can take on purely civilian passengers occasionally with no harm to them or the professional crew. One other fact is perhaps worth Not once in Raborn's regime has CIA been caught napping in any major outbreak of trouble for us around the world.

One of his creations, a new form of special intelligence task force for "special needs," involving, senior operations officers from all arms of American intelligence, is on 24 hour hour watch in every critical area of the earth. The busiest at the moment is Task Force Viet Nam but Task Force Viet Nam is not alone. These 'special forces serve with far more coldly objective minds as does the CIA collectively than is commonly thought by eager critics. Stillxnobody is so naive as to supposethat the best possible work will totally free CIA of the instinctive skepticism and sometimes outright hostility of a public which has a healthy suspicion of secret establishments and an immense appetitte for melodramatic spy fiction. One of Raborn's central efforts is to reduce this skepticism, this hostility, by what in CIA language would be called the optimum possible.

(Copyright, 1966, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Cutting Back Drtw Pearson GHOST" liV K.v 'f, A I' Jisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssh 'TBXtt; TOM LITTLE, NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN Mel Htimtr Nathan's to Note 50 Years, Serve 200 Millionth Hot Dog NEW YORK Things one New Yorker thinks about: A couple of New York birthdays are coming up that should be greeted with hosannas: Chez Vito and Nathan's. I make obeisance to Nathan's, the celebrated Coney Island hotdog dispensary, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, which will take place this summer (at the same time it will distribute its 200 millionth frankfurter). Now run by Murray Handwerker, son of the original, Nathan's serves 8,000,000 grilled dogs annually, along with two. million 200,000 pounds of shrimp, two and a half million pounds of French fried potatoes, etc. One of its early counter girls, incidentally, was an Italian teen ager from Brooklynwho later changed her name to Clara Bow.

Nathan's publicist, with a straight face, reports that President Johnson has been Invited to a testimonial for Nathan in April, and all I can say is that if LBJ doesn't come, he'll miss some of the best hot dogs in America. Chez Vito, a real plush deadfall in East 60th Street, is a comparative newcomerj in a few days it'll celebrate its 12th birthday as a monument to romance. Studded with strolling musicians, (who declare gravely that male horse hair is'better than female horse hair for bows, in romantic violin music), the place reeks of amour and is, or has been, a hangout for such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, former Mayor and Mrs. Bob Wagner, Thomas Dewey and Richard Nixon (what IS it they have in common?) and Werner von Braun, the space research father. An energetic press agent swears that in 12 years, the 'fiddlers have played 745,607 songs, used up 33,138 violin strings and have walked 7,289 miles.

Chez 'Vito's all time "hit parade," incidentally, is headed by music from "La Boheme" and "Madame Butterfly." Those of us who aren't Tennessee Williams fans had, I suppose, a morbid pleasure in the reaction to his new one act play, "Slapstick Tragedy," at the Longacre. Most everyone jumped 'up and down on it and wrote wistfully that the little round man was writing from memory I am stunned today at the news that the world's entire crop of jumping beans comes from Alamos, New Mexico Morocco, the belly dancer, Is going to cut a record next month and will somebody tell me how you can record a quiver? Bud Palmer, the, new "Grover the Greeter" for New York City, is not only a onetime basketball great from Princeton; he also, is a top flight squash racquets player. There must be a moral to this somewhere, but I can't quite work it out: four thousand violently enthusiastic and sentimental members of the Transport Workers Union attended a memorial the other day for Mike Quill the same day when fewer than 100 persons attended a "commemorative march" for Malcolm through the streets of Harlem Can Edye Gorme be the most underrated of ballad singers? Her new one, "What Did I Have I Don't Have is as good as they come, llasdn S. Pearson H. J.

T. Robin Heralds Spring For Most in Countryside Passing Thoughts Some thoughts that pass as times marches by: The world's best magicians are the distraught housewives in television commercials who pluck bottles or boxes out of thin air to save the day. A farmer we know once went down to Yankee Stadium to get away from it all and found him self next to the bull pen. Why don't we take all of those sleeping pills and ship them to the Viet Cong? At this time of the year, particularly, the thermometer represents the poor man's stock market. What does the Northern Dutchess Development Committee think about that circulated map showing no Kingston Rhineclff Bridge? Laundrymats have some women talking to themselves.

Like the one who put, in six men's socks and took out seven. There is a scarcity of doctors. Maybe the citizens have been eating too many apples. On The Home Front The War on Poverty, So we are told. Leave some of the people Rather cold, There ought to be a monument built in tribute to the unselfish efforts of members of the New York State Bridge Authority.

None of them claim expenses to which they are entitled in their jobs which carry no compensation. Dr. John L. Edwards, the dedicated chairman, for instance has run up annual costs of hundreds of dollars without putting in a bill to the taxpayers. The Big Day We suppose that the city in observation of St.

Patrick's Day might turn all of traffictraffic signals on green and leave them there for the duration. This would guarantee a real go go day. In addition, it would serve as a reminder to a lot of impatient drivers that, traffic lights are not entirely a nuisance. Besides, there really hasn't been a robust excitement since years back when a lad now a county official took some paint and converted' a detective captain's dog into' a mobile green. 3 in Scandal Seek Office WASHINGTON Out in Minnesota, one qualification to run for high office seems to be getting indicted for conspiracy in an insurance scandal.

Hubert Humphrey's home state is now witnessing the amazing fact that both David Kroman and Cyrus Magnusson, indicted in the failure of U.S. Mutual and American Allied Insurance, are novT running for governor and attorney general. A third man, Lit. Gov. A.

M. Keith, who served as vice president of U.S. Mutual, a director and its general counsel, is also running for governor. All three are Democratic Farmer Labor iles. About the only top 'running for high office who hasn't been mixed up in an insurance scandal is Gov.

Karl Rolvaag, who is running for re election. Some political wags say that it's because he kept out of the insurance mess that he row faces a revolt in the Democratic farmer Labor party. Behind this unusual political story are two Chicagoans, Phillip Kitzer, Junior and Senior, who went to St. Paul in early 1963, acquired title to a defunct Insurance company got into high risk auto insurance. They were permitted by the then Insurance Commissioner Magnusson to transfer funds from one bank to another in a manner later exposed by the Senate Antimonopoly Committee as questionable.

Insurance Commissioner Magnusson let them get away with it. Result: They lost close to $6,000,000. Rolvaag Cracks' Down Last Spring Gov. Rolvaag moved in with a thorough investigation and liquidated the companies. U.S.

Attorney Miles Lord indicted 17 for alleged conspiracy. Among them were David Kroman, president of U.S. Mutual, and Magnusson, the insurance commissioner who had overlooked the unsound bank transfers. Magnusson and Kroman have not only slapped back by running for governor and attorney general but both have vowed to block a federal judgeship for Miles Lord, the U.S. attorney who Indicted them.

They have written to the Senate Judiciary Committee protesting Lord's appointment. Also running for governor is Lt. Gov. Keith, who sat on the board of U.S. Mutual, also as vice president, general counsel and a member of the executive committee.

claims he didn't know what was going on. If he didn't, some people say he isn't smart enough to be governor. Meanwhile, the man Keith and Magnusson are running against. Gov. Rolvaag, has chalked up an excellent record in establishing new junior colleges, new steps for helping the mentally retarded, and especially a program for dei veloping taconite on the rundown Minnesota iron range.

As a result. U.S. Steel has Invested $100,000,000, Ford $60,000, 000, while Hanna. National Steely Erie and other 'mining companies have come back. As a result Upper Minnesota, which suffered over 30 per cent unemployment in March, 1963, is now to only 5 or 6 per cent.

criticism of Gov Rolvaag is that he's gnarled and earthy, wouldn't make a good TV appearance. Lone Senate Fanner With Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, biggest apple grower in the world exiting from the Senate, only one "orchardist" remains. He is George Aiken, Vermont most of his life made a living raising fruit trees In the last 25 years Aiken has been trying to nurture not trees but human relations in the US Senate; Both Democrats and Republicans agree that he has done an outstanding job. (Copyright, 1966, Bill McCIure Syndicate) Barbs The first batch of 1966 fiction is being distributed seed ceta logues.

The chap who's a big wheel in business is seldom a rounder. Dad hopes tomorrow never comes or at least stays away until he has cleared up today's problems. A Thought "When the trumpet sounds, says He smells the battle from afar, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting." Job 39.25. War is man made it is not natural; it never settles anything. Henry Ford, American natural ist.

Each person has his favorite sign 'of Some judge by the pussy willows, some by the rising of the sap, and some by the retrum of the wild geese. But spring arrives for many on that March day when they hear the first carols of the robins from the old orchard behind the barn. There is a heartiness in the clear song an optimisrrt that strikes a responsive chord in the heart. Our robin is not a robin. The true robin redbreast is a native of the Ok World, a bird about the size of 'a.

bluebird. This is the robin one meets so frequently in European Literature. Our robin is a thrush, but the English pioneers named it the robin in remembrance of the bird that was common on the English Probably robin redbreast is the best known of all our birds. It is a bird that prefers an environment around homes and farmsteads. Most of them 0 south in winter but lt is not uncommon (or them to spend the cold period in the northland, feeding on berries and 'weed seeds.

The nest has a base of mud, lined with grass. The, eggs are a pale bluish green. One of the appealing sights on the lawn is to watch a mother, followed by three or four awkward, fluffy feathered young, for the worm that the mother pulls from the soil. Through sunny March days the robins sound their clear, far carrying carols. Sugar snow may whiten the land and rough winds bludgeon the fields and hillsides, 'but the robins take it in stride.

Soon nest building will begin, but for an interlude the redbreasts spend time making music while they hunt for food, True spring is still a distance away, but when the carols sound in the warming air, the countryman knows that spring cannot be far behind. Somehow, a fellow doesn't anticipate changes in fashion as milady does, but someone in the men's wear world points fingers too. This fact was encountered anew recently by "a friend who went in search of a brown suit and found almost all blue shades on the racks. He said this was a direct reversal of what happened the last time he went suit He was in the "market for a blue one and almost all of them at hand were brown. It's surprising that some furniture dealer doesn't promote this: "Don't forget the piece you buy today, will be an antique in 2066." Both M.

Nicholas Sinacora, district engineer of the State Public Works Department, and Edgar' M. Petrovits, county highway superintendent, seem to keep in tip top 'shape. We always heard that road work wai good, for a fellow. Congress is now in session In Washington. If you desire to telegraph or write to your representative in Congress, you may address your communications this way: U.S.

Senator Robert F. Kennedy Senate Office Building, Washington, D. 20510 pear Senator Kennedy; U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits Senate Office Building, Washington, 'D.

20510 Dear, Senator Javifs: Representative Joseph Y. Resnick 'House Office Bui'dln. vvasningion, u. 20515 Dear Congressman Resnick; The New York State Legislature is in session in Albany. You may address your communications to your state legislators this way: Senator R.

Watson Pomeroy, Senate Chambers, State Capitol Albany, Y. 12224 Dear Senator Pomeroy; Assemblyman Willis H. Stephens Assembly Chamber, State Capitol Albany, N. Y. 12224 tDear Assemblyman Stephens: Assemblyman Victor Waryas Assembly Chamber, State Capitol Albany.

JY. Y. X2224 Dear Assemblyman Waryasi ft Ms.