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Monday, July i7, 1972 Akron Beacon Journal A 5 Viewpoint Action Loneliness For Eleanor Worse Than Imagined Keeping O'Brien Comfortable Line Continued From Page A-l every day. Usually, he was accompanied by shapely young secretaries who sipped cocktails with him and sunned in bikinis. For nourishment, they munched on such delicacies as lobster thermidor. The evening before the Democratic telethon, O'Brien, his wife and the ACTION LINE tolvrs problems, cut red tape, geta answers, Invtstigkfc compUinto and itanda up for yoar rights. Call 375-8080 (rem 1 to 9 p.

m. Monday through Friday or write ACTION LINE, Bmon Journal, Akron, 0. MS appointment as a student minister at Diamond Lake, a resort and retirement community 30 miles northwest of Chicago. On the whole, though, church work seemed neither as pleasant nor as uplifting as it had appeared in the pages of Rauschenbusch's books. Diamond Lake was hardly the ideal setting for preaching of the social gospel.

Disillusionment does not ful 1 yi for half of the rrew's salary but refused to feed them. The yacht was arranged by Ron Beasley and Mike Doyle, two suave public relations specialists based in Miami. They had no comment. The Champ Anyone who doubts that Detroit has control of the Government auto safety program should watch a car safety conference in San Francisco this week. The conference, sponsored by the Transportation Department, plans to present an automobile safety award to Edward Cole, president of General Motors.

This isn't quite the same as giving an award for crime prevention to a Mafia lord. But, of all car makers, GM has the most scandalous safety record. It is responsible for the notorious Corvair, whose unsafely at any speed launched Ralph Nader to national prominence. General Motors also holds the world's record for cars recalled because of serious safety defects. In all, it has called back nearly seven million cars.

The latest episode involved the Chevrolet Vega, which GM once labeled "the finest car ever built in America at any price." The company just recalled a half million Vegas because their back wheels might come off. By JACK AXDERSOX WASHINGTON Larry O'Brien relaxed from the rigors of running the Democratic convention aboard a $200,000 pleasure boat provided by the giant Whittaker Corp. The party chairman's corporate hosts even wanted to name the luxury cruiser the "Larry in his honor. But O'Brien, not wishing to advertise his free yacht, modestly declined the gesture. In fact, he sought to avoid attention by sending his security men to board the boat separately.

Then, O'Brien and his guests would slip aboard in casual clothes. He found the yacht a particularly handy retreat to avoid the Rev. Ralph Abernathy and his "poor people" who were clamoring at his door. After one encounter with the poor, O'Brien fled to his floating lounge and cooled off with cocktails. THE BOAT came stocked with $100 worth of free booze, but the brands didn't suit his taste.

He 'frequently sent out for Beefeater's gin to make his favorite extra-dry martinis. A new Bertram 4G, the yacht was built by Bertram Yacht of Miami, a division of Whittaker. It's equipped with color television, stereo, carpeting, two staterooms with stand-up showers and teakwood paneling. For a week before the convention, O'Brien spent time aboard the yacht Friends in California say (hey can sne out-of-state com-panies in their Small Claims Court Is that true here? K. Akron.

In a surprisingly large number of cases, that is correct For example, a manufacturer of a brand-name appliance refuses to make good on a defective item. Write to Secretary of State Ted W. Brown, State House, Broad High Columbus, 43215. Ask for the name of the firm's statutory agent in Ohio. Brown has a card file of 140,000 statutory agents for firms incorporated or licensed to do business in Ohio.

If the firm has no agent, in some cases the Secretary of State is automatically his agent. You sue the firm via the agent. The Volkswagen Safari I saw in Acapulco Isn't sold here. Could I buy one in Mexico? D. Akron.

That is expensive game you are hunting, say U. S. Department of Transportation officials. The Safari does not meet current U. S.

safety and emission control standards. Jack Anderson staff celebrated his birthday aboard the yacht with a rack-of-lamb dinner. A DEMOCRATIC party spokesman told us the yacht was used "as a floating office." He said O'Brien prepared the final draft of his convention speech there. All food and liquor, said the spokesman, was paid for by O'Brien. But we have documentation that O'Brien paid only 'for the replenishments after the original stock of liquor had been consumed.

He also paid Is This Thing For Real? new course that Adams plotted to keep them away from the heaviest flak concentrations, they were losing altitude at the rate of a hundred feet a minute. Suddenly the tiny island of Vis appeared on the horizon. McGovern knew from his briefings that the British had built an emergency dirt strip for Spitfires on the island. At 2,200 feet in length, the runway hardly provided enough margin for a fighter, much less a four-engine bomber, but at that moment it was either Vis or the Adriatic. McGovern took dead aim and headed in.

"There was a mountain at the end of the landing strip," McGovern said later. "You either made it the first time or you were all through." As he glided in over the tip of the island, nestling in between the peaks that guarded its approaches on either side, McGovern could see the charred carcasses of other planes that had taken their shots and missed. He set the wheels of the Queen down on the very edge of the runway, and stood on the brakes. Tires smoking and brakes screaming, the Queen rolled to a halt a few feet away from the end of the strip. A FEW MONTHS later, 15th Army Air Force Headquarters announced that because of his "intrepid spirit, outstanding ability, and rare devotion to duty First Lieutenant George McGovern, 22, Mitchell, S.

had been awarded one of the nation's highest medals, the Distinguished Flying Cross. It was as a different man that came back to South Dakota. To friends he seemed, if it were possible, even more serious and mature than the college boy who had gone off to enlist in the great crusade. He was a family man now, with major responsibilities. To fulfill them he had to finish his education, which he could just barely afford to do, thanks to the GI Bill.

He enrolled almost immediately in Dakota Wesleyan's Summer term. McGovern resumed his studies in history, looking for answers there; then, under the influence of one of his professors, Don McAnich, he probed into philosophy and theology. McGovern gorged himself with the turn-of-the-century Baptist theologian's works. The more McGovern read, the more appealing the notion of spreading Walter Rau-schenbusch's social gospel became. Before his senior year was out, he announced to Eleanor that he planned to become a minister.

Meanwhile, George continued with his schoolwork and renewed his interest in speech and debate. McGOVERN GRADUATED the following June. A few months before, he had been accepted at Garrett Theological Seminary, across the street from Northwestern University in Evanston, 111. With his admission came an NEW $2,500 FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE SAFARI MODEL 181 has 53 horsepower and a 94.5-inch wheelbase You must, therefore, post a bond with U. S.

Customs equal to the value of the car before you bring it here. You will be released from the bond if you modify the car to meet U. S. standards within 90 days. Those modifications could cost $1,000 plus.

In February, 1971, I discovered my deceased parents had an unknown bank account. As administrator of their estates, I tried to get that money. But the state sends me confusing instructions. A. Akron.

We had Summit County Probate Court Referee Ralph Young and the attorney, who did your estate work earlier, help you file a "reopening of estate." This showed the Ohio Department of Commerce Unclaimed Fund Section that you' had a court OK to get the cash. You have the $125 plus $25 interest now and we hope all the heirs agree to give it to your sister, who is ill. ly describe McGovern's mood. He was depressed, as low as he would be during any point in his life. The professors in Northwestern's history department, where he had been taking several courses, were urging him to take up academic life.

The pressures continued all through the year, pulling him first one way and then the other. Finally, late in 1947, McGovern made up his mind. It was a decision McGovern never regretted. The thought of teaching had been in the front of his mind for nearly a decade. Only the emotional aftermath of the war had pushed it aside.

AMONG THE veterans, liberalism was riding high. At Northwestern a number of them dropped out to organize for the CIO. For many of them, the answer seemed to lie in the presidential candidacy of Henry Wallace. At Northwestern the Wallace candidacy attracted a small but determined following. McGovern's own feelings about Wallace are one of the few things he does not readily volunteer about his past.

McGovern's reluctance to advertise his political affiliation during the 1948 campaign is perhaps understandable. In every race he has run, especially the first two congressional campaigns, it has been the source of some of the most virulent red-baiting. McGovern's espousal of the Wallace campaign was more than ordinary political support. Intellectually, emotionally, politically, McGovern was committed to Wallace and to what he perceived as the cause he stood for. The great disillusionment set in when McGovern went to Philadelphia as a member of the Illinois delegation to the Progressive Party Convention.

The Communist influence, which doubters had perceived far earlier and which the faithful, McGovern included, had always dismissed as "smear," came more or less into the open at the convention. McGovern was disappointed and bewildered at the "fanaticism" of some of the people closest to Wallace. Communists or not, their rigidity put him off. McGovern returned to Northwestern subdued and a little sheepish from the experience. The lessons learned during the Wallace campaign did not sour McGovern on liberalism.

It did teach him, however, to be more selective about liberals. HE WENT BACK to Dakota Wesleyan. What he was seeking was some familiarity, while he tested the still uncertain terrain of college teaching. No other school in the country could offer him a hometown base, and a home considered President Nixon one of the lower forms of animal Yet that same George Meany is now threatening to insure Nixon's reelection by withholding active support from McGovern. There was the Democratic fund-raising telethon the other day: Well-heeled movie stars, who pay lawyers and accountants a bundle to find tax loopholes, were urging people to give money to the Democrats so McGovern can be elected President and raise taxes on middle-and upper-income Americans.

THE MOST surrealistic aspect of all, however, may prove to be the claim that McGovern represents a "coalition of the discontented." It is true that practically everybody is angry about something, but surely they are angry about different things. Is the college youth angry about the same things as the elderly resident of a retirement community? Is the fellow struggling to make ends meet on $16,000 a year angry about the same things as the welfare mother? Is the typical black American angry about the same things as the blue-collar white? Are they more angry at Nixon or at each other? Watching McGovern tune the orchestra and focus the picture should be one of the more interesting spectator sports of the year. which could jeopardize Nixon's chances for reelection. Then take the Chinese. They should be enchanted, one might think, by McGovern's promise to get out of Vietnam immediately, if not sooner, and to preside over a major withdrawal of U.

S. forces from Asia. But the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House of Representatives came out of China the other day with the impression that Premier Chou En-lai and other Peking leaders are worried about McGovern. TO QUOTE Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, the Democratic leader: "There was specific concern, rather emphatically, with regard to the possibility of continued Soviet armament and American disarmament." Rep.

Gerald Ford of Michigan, the GOP leader, added "Among high Chinese officials there was a great deal of interest shown in many questions about the sufficiency of our military capability They don't want the United States to withdraw from the Pacific or the world at any point." THE MIND-BOGGLING idea of Mao and Leonid Brezhnev sporting Nixon buttons is not the only bit of surrealism here. A few months ago AFL-CIO leader George Meany was talking as if he By ERNEST CONINE Beacon Journal-Los Angeles Times There is something wacky about the way the 1972 presidential contest is shaping up. It's like looking at a picture that is out of focus, or listening to an orchestra that plays out of tune. In the Republican corner we have Richard M. Nixon, the demon redbait-er of the 1940s and '50s, a man who has spent most of his political life as a bitter critic of the Soviet Union and all its works.

As President, he has taken to making journeys of peace to Peking and Moscow. But he remains convinced that the only way to deal with the Communists is from a position of strength. In the Democratic corner there is George McGovern, who in 1948 supported Henry Wallace. The McGovern of 1972, like the Wallace of 24 years ago, takes a benign view of Soviet intentions and, to prove it, is willing to cut the U. S.

defense budget by 40 pet. with or without Russian reciprocity. THIS MEANS the Russians must be hoping for a McGovern victory, right? Not according to Egyptian leaders who have been in touch with the Kremlin. They say the Soviet leaders are anxious to avoid stirring up trouble, in the Middle East or elsewhere, Our family is planning a trip to England next Where can we get some information about England? Mrs. M.

Cuyahoga Falls. Start with a look at "Britain, A Travel Guide" published by the British Tourist Authority. The illustrated booklet includes maps, travel tips, points of interest, easy day-trips, tours, a guide to planning a trip from the U. S. and details-on how to get more specific information.

ACTION LINE sent, you a copy. Other readers can get a free copy by writing: British Tourist Authority, 680 5th New York, N. Y. 10019., NASA's Whitewash Is Flaky My new home has a bushy tree out back with little greenish yellow fruit. My 2-year-old son puts everything in his mouth.

Will the fruit hurt him? Mrs. I. Akron. That fruit won't hurt your son. But we guarantee you if he tries it, he won't like it.

That fruit is a very sour quince, according to officials at the Summit County Cooperative Extension office. It can be made into jelly, glue and cosmetic lotions. THE QUINCE popular in Ohio there was nothing flighty or impromptu about the way the caper was carried out. ONCE SCOTT, Worden and Irwin were found out in an escapade that was unacceptable even by the low ethical standards of the space program, it was imperative that they be dealt with sternly. So NASA decided to reprimand the trio, one of whom will be out of the agency in less than three weeks, and to give "due consideration" to the poor judgment of the others in selecting them for future assignments.

There is nothing cooking for Scott and Worden anyway until about 1980; one can hardly criticize NASA for being over-harsh. Perhaps the most interesting thing to watch will be the disposition of 358 postal covers now impounded at Houston. The agency's lawyers are looking into the question of ownership, but how this can be uncertain is difficult to understand. Sixty of these covers were, by NASA's own account, "authorized" to be taken to the moon, and even if the other 298 were "unauthorized," there was nothing criminal in their inclusion on the flight, however reading the statement slowly over the phone to a reporter, sniggered when he came to those words. Like a well-designed bikini, a Government explanation of an embarrassing development is more interesting for what it conceals than for what it discloses.

It is not evident from the statement, for example, that astronaut Alfred M. Worden Jr. was apparently into a little side deal of his own, which may have involved up to worth of postal covers that nobody knew about until last Tuesday. BUT PERHAPS the most vacuous element of the statement was the effort of NASA's No. 2 man, George M.

Low, to exculpate Worden and his teammates, David R. Scott and James B. Irwin, all of whom had their hands in the cooky jar. "Astronauts are under extreme stress in the months preceding a flight to the moon, and their poor judgment in carrying the unauthorized covers must be considered in this light," Low as quoted as saying. Even from NASA this is hogwash.

Astronauts are supposedly selected and trained precisely for their good judgment under stress. Furthermore, By WILLIAM HINES Beacon Journal-Chicago Sun Times WASHINGTON The NASA's whitewash investigation of the great interplanetary smuggling plot raises as many questions as it answers and falls scandalously short of rehabilitating the tarnished astronaut image. We are asked to believe that the Apollo 15 crew's caper involving $150,000 worth of stamp collectors' treasures was just "poor judgment" that the astronauts themselves belatedly recognized and corrected. There was money involved, to be sure $21,000 but no avarice; the whole arrangement was born of parental solicitude of three fathers for their offspring. And then "on their own" (as NASA put it in a statement of the investigation) the astronauts came to realize the error of their ways and not only spurned the pelf but refused to be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses totaling $24 for postage stamps.

IN REFERRING to the use to which this money was intended to be put, NASA twice enclosed the phrase "trust funds" in quotation marks, as though to signify that not even the agency believed this story. Indeed, one NASA publicity man, Last January, I tried to apply at a physician's assistant school in Columbus. Why didn't the school reply? Miss P. Tallmadge. It closed after the State refused to give it a permanent license or renew its temporary license.

Some students were dissatisfied with the training. Also, Ohio law does not permit the licensing of PAs. But don't give up. The doctor shortage is increasing. PAs may be the answer.

Cuyahoga Community College has a PA program and Cleveland State University hopes to start one in 1973. Summit County Medical Society helps young people become assistants to local doctors. We sent you details on all three programs. You'll find helpful info in "Action Facts" for 1972. Get a copy for $1 at the Public Service Counter of the Beacon Journal or send $1.25 to ACTION LINE, Beacon Journal, Akron, 44328.

Repository, Guild Talks Are Resumed CANTON Negotiators for Local 1 were meeting today in an effort to further reduce issues in the 150-day newspaper walkout. The Guild was expected to report on its unanimous rejection Friday of the company's latest contract offer. Guilds-men voted on the package at the management's request. Jack Weir, executive secretary of the Guild, said the main issue blocking settlement is the company's insistence that not all strikers can be rehired. Weir said the Guild wants all of its members recalled.

Other issues of dispute include wages, the retroactive terms of a new contract and back-to-work agreement. i The strike at the Repository was initiated Feb. 19 by 135 members of the Guild, which represents newsroom, business office, circulation and maintenance employes. Let's Hear It The Weather roreign town base would be important if McGovern were ever to run for elective office on his own, something he had been considering since his final year in graduate school. The voting record of South Dakota's politicians, and Karl Mundt especially, appalled him, and if the chance arose to change it he thought he would take it.

But in 1951 the possibility seemed a remote one. He was coming back to Dakota, he assured his friends, for only one reason: To teach. Finally, and most improbably, there was the offer that Ward Clark, the state Democratic chairman, had made after the 1952 campaign. Clark wanted a full-time organizer to serve as executive secretary of the state party and put the pieces back together again. He had already approached several other possibilities, including Bruce Stoner, editor of the Mitchell Daily Republic, and had been turned down by all of them.

Then he noticed a series of newspaper articles extolling the Democratic Party, written by a young college professor at Dakota Wesleyan. He looked up the professor, who turned out to be George McGovern. Next: McGovern moves into national politics. Dtf from WCAIHM SERVICE NOAA. S.

Deal, ol Commerce rVj-wX i Til J7 An It I TO tn A V. Aberdeen-clear 59 Amsterdam-clear 66 Ankara-clear 70 Athens-clear 68 Berlin-clear 68 Birmingham-clear S4 Brussels-clear 68 Casablanca-cloudy 68 Cairo-clear 75 Copenhaqen-partly cloudy 67 Dublin-clear 59 Geneva-parlly cloudy ti Hong Kong-cloudy 8J London-clear 61 Manila-clear 14 Climatic Data TEMPERATURES: Sunday: High 79 at 3 p. m. Low 65 at 5:30 this morning. LAST YEAR: High 78, low 56.

RECORDS: 99 in 1931, 48 in 1939. PRECIPITATION Sunday 2.71, 6.42 for the month, 4.69 above normal. SUNSHINE FACTOR: Sunday was cloudy, making 82 cloudy, 65 partly cloduy, and 51 sunny days in 1972. SUNSET tonight 8:55, sunrise Tuesday: 6:09. EVENING stars tonight: Mercury, Jupiter.

SUNDAY'S QUESTION: Should merchants stop giving trading stamps? YES 34 pet. COMMENTS: "Get rid of the stamps and lower the prices" "It's just a gimmick aimed at gullible people especially women" "They tempt people to buy more" "They're just a bother to save." NO 6G pet. COMMENTS: "It doesn't cost any more to trade at the store that gives stamps" "That's how I get the things I can't get with money" "Some people depend on them" "Stores should just give stamps to those that want them." TODAY'S QUESTION: Do you want to see Bobby Fischer win the world chess championship? Call anytime today, tonight, or until 7 a. m. Tuesday.

YES 535-5139. NO 535-5107. Figurti Shew low Temperatures EipKteejJjjU1 Unlit Tuetdoy Morning Ohio Partly cloudy and mild tonight with lows in the 60s. Partly cloudy, warm and humid Tuesday with a chance of showers and thundershow-ers. Highs Tuesday in the mid to upper 80s to the low 90s extreme south.

li.iit.rf Prtciptfelion Nor Ineiloled Coniult Utai Foretell DIP STEEL wool into kerosene to restore rusted exterior metal fixtures. Want to sell something? Place a low-cost Classified Ad. Call 375-8222 and a friendly ad writer will help you. WARM AND HUMID over the eastern third of the nation. Cooler from the Plains to the Rockies.

Showers over much of the country from the Plains to the Atlantic. (AP).