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Editorials Daily Leader, Pontiac, 111. Page 2 April 16, 77 Computer rip-offs The really clever crook doesn't physically break into an office or bank these days. He does it electronically. The growing problem of computer break- ins has drawn record attendance at recent computer industry conferences, where stories like the following are told: In New York City, a Neighborhood Youth Corps employe with access to the agency's computerized check-writing system had more than 900 unauthorized payroll checks printed for his friends, at a cost of $2.7 million to the taxpayers. In Washington, D.C., a swindler substituted his own magnetically marked checking account deposit slips for the blank ones a local bank kept on the counter.

His account accumulated $250,000 in four days from other people's deposits. He then made a hefty withdrawal and hasn't been seen since. In California, a young graduate student stole about $1 million worth of inventory from a utility company with the assistance of the company's own computer. He simply had the computer order equipment to various warehouses, where he picked it up in a disguised truck. He then sold the equipment through a dummy company.

Elsewhere, private computer files have been invaded by people adding huge amounts of money, in the form of personal credit, to charge accounts. To protect computer-stored files, many companies have devised systems as tight as Fort Knox, and a whole new industry has grown up in the field of computer security. For example, a company called Sycor, of. Ann Arbor, has come up with magnetic badges, key locks and even passwords to ensure that only legitimate personnel have access to specific file banks. Despite all the safeguards, an estimated $200 million will be stolen from business this year by means of computer manipulation -an electronic rip-off that will inevitably be passed on to honest consumers in the form of higher prices.

Is mom to blame If the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, as the old saying goes, it may also be responsible for the fact that it is still pretty much a man's world. According to a California psychiatirst who has treated male patients with problems in their relationships with women, mothers may be at least partly to blame for creating male chauvinists. Some women become unhappy when their husbands gave up their superior attitude and behavior, writes Dr. Sherwyn M. Woods, in the Archives of General reaction, they knowingly teach their sons that their fathers are not chauvinistic enough.

In treating his patients, he found that "it was most often their mothers who directly or indirectly taught or supported the idea that adequacy as a man meant dominance and superiority over the woman." By DON OAKLEY Rukevser says North Sea oil alone can't energize British economy By LOUIS RUKEYSER NEW YORK If the British economy didn't exist, surely we Americans would have to invent it. How else could we instantly have available, whenever we wished to peruse it, a horrible example of how not to proceed? It's not just that Britain's high-minded experiments with state planning and income redistribution have managed to transform, in three decades, Western Europe's second highest living standard into its second lowest. It's not even that Britain's postwar history offers such apt lessons on the tragic human effects of neglecting (investment), nationalizing (industries) and nurturing (inflation). Britain's relevancy is even more immediate than that. For a generation, Britain practiced what I described as "Mr.

Micawber economics" -after the Charles Dickens character who sailed through life on the blithe assumption that "something will turn up." Then, incredibly, something did: the North Sea oil. Suddenly, we were told, a new Britain was at hand: a land of "blue-eyed Arabs," once more rich and powerful, soon to be again near the top of the world instead of among its perennial doormats. And yet, astonishingly -according to information now before me Britain's Socialist leaders seem to have kicked away the bulk of their magnificent new opportunity even before the oil was on stream. (U.S. energy and economy planners, please note!) First, let me, as the traditional phrase goes in the British House of Commons, "declare my interest." In the last two decades, I have spent a total of close to six years in London as the chief of two different American news bureaus; like most who have lived there that long, I have a great fondness for the people and for many aspects of their culture--mixed with despair for their apparent will to economic and hope that they will stop in time.

(In recent months, leading members of both major parties have at least begun to recognize the problem.) But the inside story on the North Sea oil is not an encouraging one. First, the good news: the massive discovery could give Britain a balance of payments surplus next year and complete energy independence by 1980. Now, the bad: the find is by no means the economic panacea it has been ballyhooed to be, the revenues may be less than astronomical-- and the government has already more than mortgaged them to pay for its continued profligacy. John Moore, who combines being an opposition member of a i a with chairmanship of the London office of Dean i International, has done some careful research on the actual numbers involved. His findings may be something of a shocker.

For example, Britain's total expectable revenues from Letters to the Editor Back Trainor Editor, The Leader: As citizens of Pontiac, we are very much concerned about the future of our city. Under the capable leadership of our present Mayor, Joe Trainor, much progress has been accomplished. We strongly urge all voters to abide by that "old saw" do not change horses in the middle of the stream. Theresa and Francis Kneer 911 N. Main St.

Pontiac, m. For Campbell Editor, The Leader: I am interested and concerned in what goes on in city hall. The election on 18 is of very particular import not just whether Dale Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken alderman on a wide a i i -problems, will succeed Joseph iTrainor, three term mayor of Pontiac, but the very evident apathy I have long should be replaced civic concern, is evident by disturbingly limited number candidacy applicants. It is certainly no credit to our to go f.o the expense to 'decide on a mayor and who is to become the alderman in one of our five wards; the city clerk, city treasurer and all the other alderman sliding into office unopposed. For a number of years, I was a regular visiting citizen at council meetings.

I made favorable comments about some council actions, when deserved; but I was not reluctant to express criticism about things that might have been done better. For quite a long time Mayor Trainor has denied my requests, in writing, to speak-yet allowing others that privilege on short notice, verbal requests and some of their remarks made the "news." One of the chief differences between Dale Campbell and Joseph Trainor is that Dale listens and sometimes benefits from suggestions and criticism. I don't agree with everything either Mayor Trainor or Dale Campbell have done but in my estimation and that of a number of other reputable Pontiac citizens open mindedness and fairness to all persons are two of the qualities every citizen has a legal right to expect of our leadership in city hall and all the other tax-supported halls of government. No man is indispensible -and sometimes a change is healthy. Ralph S.

King 828 W.Washington St. Pontiac, HI. Nearly 10,000 see Tut exhibit CHICAGO (AP) Nearly 10,000 saw the "Treasures of Tutankhamun" as the Egyptian exhibition went on display for the first day at the Field Museum in Chicago. The opening-day line crowd Friday forced the museum to stop issuing tickets at 1:30 p.m. because the wait for persons who already had tickets was seven to eight hours long, a museum spokesman said.

The spokesman said from 8,000 to 10,000 persons attended the exhibit during the day. "On a normal Friday afternoon, not even half this many people would go through the museum," the spokesman said. The spokesman said 2,500 persons were lined up hours before the museum opened to see the art treasures found in 1922 in the tomb of Tutankhamun, a pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty to ruled ancient Egypt. The traveling collection of 55 pieces occupies 15,000 square feet on the second floor of the museum. The discovery of the tomb has been hailed as the greatest archeological find of the 20th Century.

The exhibition will be in Chicago for four months and officials estimate that more than one million persons will see it. In London and Washington, D.C., people stood in line up to five hours to see it. Visitors will be free to roam the Field Museum halls while waiting to enter the darkened passageway leading to the King Tut show. Waiting time is expected to average two hours. Visitors pay admission to the museum and are given a number for admission to the Tut- ankhamun exhibition, which is free.

Eighteen TV monitors throughout the museum indicate when a person's admission number comes up. The museum spokesman said many ticket holders had left the museum to wait outside or visited the Shedd Aquarium nearby. The spokesman said there had been no security problems, but added that 50 to 60 additional security guards were on duty. Hawbaker, Lindquist unopposed for city posts North Sea oil from 1977 through 1980 are under $10 billion -which happens to be less than Jimmy Carter has just added to the U.S. budget deficit for next year alone.

Or look at it this way: at current rates of exchange, the government's four-year oil revenues, including royalties and taxes, should approximate $9.35 billion. But: over the next four years, even if Britain's nationalized industries didn't borrow another pound, the interest on their present debt would come to $8.67 billion. Nor is that all: Britain has borrowed heavily from other governments in recent years, in a vain effort to keep the pound from sinking to its natural level. Central government debt interest repayments between now and 1980 will total more than $12 billion, while foreign currency repayments are scheduled to exceed a staggering $24 billion by 1985. In short, while the oil find is plainly (as Moore described it to me) "a major advantage" for Britain, it will not come close to solving the country's underlying problems.

These will require much more radical a i i disengaging the government's tentacles from massive areas of British economic life and easing a tax system that finds a married man with three children paying at a 50 per cent rate before he earns $15,000 a year. Moore's most hopeful belief is his conviction that Britain's course is still "reversible." With the same conviction about our own economy, my hope is that we can learn from Britain's experience without having to repeat it. Syndicate, Inc.) PONTIAC' LEADER PUBLISHING 'CO" Main Ponliac, Illinois617H Phone 842-1153 LIVINGSTON COUNTY'S MOST I A NEWSPAPER Jerome Pearre. Publisher John Plesko. General Manager Elizabeth Harris.

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Single copy 15c. Mail Subscriptions where there is carrier service, Daily i except Sunday i. Second-class postage paid at Pontiac. Illinois If you fail to receive your Leader call B-12-II51 before 7 daily and 6 p.m. Saturday We will carrier and SCP that you receive a paper Fairbuo residents phone Alice Hawbaker Two Republicans are running unopposed for city clerk and city treasurer in Tuesday's Pontiac city election.

Alice Hawbaker, incumbent city clerk, is seeking election to a second term in office. Victor Lindquist is seeking to succeed Evan Six, who decided against running for another term as treasurer. Mrs. Hawbaker, 43, 1200 N. Main was elected clerk four years ago without opposition.

Whitmore, who retired. From 1969 to 1973 she was the city's' assistant clerk. Mrs. Hawbaker said she is running for reelection because "the job is interesting. And I have several projects going I would like to Victor Lindquist A 10-year resident of Pontiac, she recently completed a college credit course that qualifed her for certification as an Illinois registered clerk.

Lindquist, 920 N. Main is seeking to reenter public life after resigning as Livingston County treasurer in 1976. was first elected county treasurer in 1970 and was reelected in 1974. He was the county's first treasurer to succeed himself in office, a step permitted under the state's 1970 constitution but prohibited before 1970. His background also includes 25 a in administration and 16 years as assistant or acting County Superintendent of Schools.

A native of Cornell, he attended Illinois State University. Super Guv visits "Jock CHICAGO (AP) Chicago disk jockey Larry Lujack has put his bid in to do his radio show from the lawn of the White House. Lujack got the request in a little early to Gov. James R. Thompson, who dropped in to visit the disk jockey on his Friday morning show.

Thompson announced to ra- dioland that Lujack, who bills himself as "Super Jock," was "as raunchy, dissipated and ugly as people Sporting jeans, sneakers and a Farrah Fawcett-Majors T- shirt, the governor informed Lujack that he needn't have avoided his Inauguration Day party in Springfield just be cause the Jock didn't want to dress formally. To emphasize his point, Thompson presented a letter that began "Dear Rock 'n Roll Scum" and was signed "Big Jim Thompson." Other gifts from the top executive included a black tie, a T-shirt with the Inaugural invitation printed on the front and a new pair of jeans. In return, Lujack gave the governor a belt (his jeans seemed to sag slightly at the waist) and offered a Farrah Fawcett poster. "Is it the one with the wet bathing suit? I've been looking for that one," Thompson parried. Then, in a grandiose display of magnitude despite the Inauguration jilt, Thompson agreed to send Lujack a snapshot of his dog's new home in Springfield.

Lujack was delighted, and queried, "When you become President will you remember me? Let me do a show on the White House lawn, maybe?" Stranger things may have happened, but that only history will tell. tween the By the Leader Staff STATUETTE OF A GODDESS This graceful figure, which may be seen in The King Tut exhibit in Chicago, portrays the goddess Selket, whose emblem, a scorpion, is placed on her head. She is one of four goddesses who stood outside the gilded wooden shrine that housed the chest containing the internal organs of Tutankhamun, the goddesses' outstretched arms spreading protection over their charges. Selket's divine role was not limited to funerary duties; also associated with childbirth and nursing, she was chiefly noted for her control of magic. THE KING TUT EXHIBIT Maybe all that gh'tters isn't gold in the exhibit of King Tut's tomb treasures at the Field Museum in Chicago.

-On the other hand, there is enough glittering gold to take your breath away. Being used to seeing gold in bits and pieces earrings, chains and pendants the viewer can't be prepared for the massive use of the precious metal in the tomb furnishings. Gold is used for items ranging from such "every-day" things as a ceremonial cane to the fabulous funerary mask. It is combined with precious and semi-precious stones; it is fashioned into bracelets, rings, collars, massive necklaces called pectorals, boxes, earrings; it is beaten into thin sheets and used as engraved coverings for shrines. The King Tut show came to Chicago from Washington, where it was seen by 800,000, and it will visit four other cities.

The Chicago museum is expecting as many as a million and a half visitors. More exhibition space has been made available for the show at the Field Museum than at any other on the schedule, and this should encourage persons who want to see it there. Officials say they can take care of 1,000 an hour, but the anticipation of huge crowds makes them uneasy. The show is installed in two big galleries on the second floor of the museum. When we attended a preview of the Tut show earlier this week, we entered the great main hall on the ground floor, bright with sunlight through the glass roof two stories above.

Two fountains were splashing, one at each end of the block-long room. Hundreds of pots of flowers were arranged around the hall and beside the fountains. With their teachers, children streamed across the hall on their way from one to another of the museum's regular exhibits. On the floor above was a child's chair made for King Tutankhamun when he might have been 9 or 10 years old. It would be a perfect fit for most of the children on the floor below.

The gap of 3,300 years between ancient Egypt and Chicago shrank with the size of the chair. PRE-RECORDED ANNOUNCEMENT -As awards shows go, it wasn't bad, but why did the "Television Critics' Circle Awards" have to-tell the winners they won 90 minutes before air time? Here were some of us innocents, watching actors, actresses, producers and directors accept their awards on the two-hour plus Monday night show on CBS, a number of them with a graciousness and sense of humor we assumed were spontaneous. Then, during the credits at show's end, we hear a voice-over say the winners had at least an hour and half to think up something memorable to say. Spontaneity would have been nicer. We might suggest a few awards to the show's participants.

To Mary Tyler Moore's TV boss, Ed Asner, an award for the most unaffected and good-humored acceptance speeches. To David Susskind and the restraint award for resisting his temptation to be preachy in his acceptance remarks. To Milton Berle, the poor judgment and egocentric award for thinking he was being funny in his presenter role when he was being merely boring. To Louise Lasser the birdbrain award for not being able to read the nominees' networks and having to start over. To Jane Alexander, best lead actress for her portrayal in "Eleanor and Franklin The White House Years," the nice touch award for giving Eleanor Roosevelt due credit for providing such a memorable person for her to portray.

AN AREA FIRST What's a track meet without a 440 or 880-yard relay? A metric meet, of course. Forrest-Strawn-Wing on Thursday was host for the Title IX Metric Relays, the first area outdoor track event where runners ran for meters, not yards. A yard is ,914 meters. Ten schools, including F-S-W, Cornell, Chatsworth, Flanagan and Saunemin, participated in the 10-event meet. The events included the 400-meter hurdles shuttle, and relays of 400, 800, 1600 and 3200 meters.

A BRIEF ENCOUNTER The year's first in-town deer sighting was reported Tuesday by Albert Koltveit, 601W. Water St. Koltveit said two small deer, one white and one brown, wandered up from the Vermilion River to West Water Street about 9 a.m. Monday. "I looked out my window and saw the two deer at a house in the 500 block of West Water Street," Koltveit said.

He and several neighbors went outdoors and watched from a distance as the two deer continued their explorations. "They went up Court Street and into Fell Park. They looked around quite a bit there," Koltveit said. After apparently deciding they were headed in the wrong direction, the two deer went back down Court Street, crossed Water Street and disappeared in a clump of trees next to the river, Koltveit said. WINE LIST Illinois ranks third in the United States in wine production, the U.S.

Treasury Department tells us. In fiscal year 1975 it produced 7,719,207 gallons of non-carbonated wine, far behind California's 367 million gallons and New York's 36.7 million, but considerably above fourth-place Virginia's 2.5 million. The Golden State produces 1.7 gallons of wine for every American and 87 per cent of the U.S. total. With New York it accounts for 96 per cent.

After Virginia in the top 10 list, and all producing less than 1.5 million gallons per year, come South Carolina, Michigan, Washington, New Jersey, Georgia and Arkansas. NEW CHIEF ELLINIWEK A new Chief Illiniwek for the University of Illinois at Urbana has been selected. Matt Gawne, from Oak Park, a freshman in communications, was selected from among seven candidates to succeed Mike Gonzalez of Jacksonville, who was the chief for three years. The chief performs at all home football games and most basketball games. Gawne will make his debut at the Fighting Illini's home opener against Michigan on Sept.

10. A high school gymnast, Gawne also was active in basketball and track. He learned the steps to Chief Illiniwek's traditional from Gonzalez, who learned them from his predecessor, John Bitzer. Gonzalez also taught the steps to other candidates who asked for his help. Principal outlaws Farrah T-shirts BROOKVILLE, Ohio (AP) -Farrah Fawcett-Majors has them taking their shirts off at Westbrook Elementary School.

sion. The shirts were causing a distraction." The withdrawal symptoms should begin any time now, es- "The photograph on the shirt is very revealing. It's too sexy," Eastridge said. Teachers were complaining. Principal Harry Eastridge, Students "were pinching and pecially for one Westbrook 8- saying it not personal, or- twisting at the shirts being year-old.

worn on the school playground by other students during recess," the principal said. "It was not just an arbitrary deci- dered shirts showing the star of TV's "Charlie's Angels" off the pupils' backs in this school near Dayton. "He wears it everywhere, even to bed and only takes it off when he takes a bath," reported the mother. WEED EATER SEE 'EM MH Service 1101 N.Aurora 844-7400 FACT (Not Fiction) My opponent states that the taxpayers money has been spent unwisely, if not foolishly, but he doesn't say by whom. The administrative body that votes on salaries, bills and projects is the City Council.

He has been a member of that Council, since 1969, until the present date. He assumed the Chairmanship of the Police Committee, in the spring of 1973, at my request, and he was ably assisted by committee members, Frank Panno and Tom Duffy. The Chairman, the Chief of Police, and myself discussed the Department's problems, in a lengthy conference session. It was decided to hire more men, pay better wages, and have officers exams and promotions conducted within the Department. The Police Department appropiation for fiscal year, 1972 was $119,700 and by 1976, it soared to $251,500, or an increase of $131,800.

I sincerely feit that this increase was fully justified, when you consider the amount and quality of police personnel, presently on the Department. This was a necessary expenditure, and I was there to defend it. The excellent calibre of men obtained, is a result of the Police and Fire Commission, who play such a large role in the selection or rejection of men for the department. They conduct the exams, written and- oral, and are the general governing body. This is a three man committee, who receive no pay whatsoever for their work.

The selection or dismissal of the men, is in the hands of this committee, by and with the approval of the City Council. Willis Harms-is the Chairman, with Joe Arthur and Francis Kneer completing the committee. These men do a terrific job and I personally commend them for their actions on this board. STATESMANSHIP IS NOT BUILT ON BLAMESMANSHIP Re-Elect JOE TRAINOR-Mayor This ad authorized and paid for by Joe Trainor, Candidate for Mayor TUESDAY APRIL 19th.