Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 4

ALBtQUISQljpWeRNAL We Never Question Passengers Unless They Look Suspicious Elena Gallegos Grant Land Plan Is Still Alive MCRRCLL i (C. THOMftOD L-AJ0. An Independent Newspaper Published At Seventh St. and Silver Ave. SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico By The Journal Publishing Co.

Robert A. Brown, Editor SMSS Mir WL if Ms? i n.iS'rrft. 13 i i i 1 A-4 Delegate Denial The New Mexico Republican Party hierarchy is selfish in denying backers of U.S. Rep. Paul McCloskey a spot in the state's delegation to the national convention.

President Nixon won 13 delegate votes in the New Mexico preferential primary election and McCloskey won one, the only delegate vote for him in the nation. State law requires that the McCloskey vote be cast on the first ballot at the national convention. Backers of the Califorinia congressman wanted a McCloskey supporter named among the state's delegation. San Mateo-Old Officials of the State Highway IVpt. briefed the City Commission this week on the status of several pending projects in this area.

That portion of the briefing pertaining to the long-delayed widening of San Mateo was the same old, tired story of budget cutbacks and reduction of federal funds. Although a contract for the major part of the widening job was awarded last month, city officials were told, the total project from Interstate 40 to Gibson likely won't be under construction fur another three years. It is true that in recent years there have been reductions in federal highway funds reductions which the Journal has steadfastly opposed. But it is also true that the State Highway in the midst of these cutbacks, somehow was able to scrape up the money to build almost on a crash basis a new Interstate-2!) section and sideroad to serve a racing track. Phy I sicai i raining James J.

Kilpatrick Printed Word in Stress automobile accident on May 31. At that time Hanagan was running unopposed for reelection. Hanagan, a resident of Roswell, had maintained his main office there. Cathey, who has resigned as Carlsbad municipal judge to take the district post, has also accepted the resignations of at least two of his assistants Mike McCormick of Carlsbad and Bill Fleming of Roswell. THE FARMIXGTON Chamber of Commerce will be on hand in Santa Fe today to support the application of El Paso Natural Gas Co.

to the U.S. Department of Interior for an allotment of 30,000 acre feet of water from Navajo Reservoir. The water would be used in the operation of three multi-million dollar proposed coal gasification plants near; Farmington. The meeting today Involves the Interstate Streams Commission. The chamber noted that the proposed plants will not add to air pollution of the area, will require some 3000 construction workers for two and one half years, and will employ 783 people plus 270 coal miners upon completion.

Old Events 20 YEARS AGO The city commission has given final approval to the increase in bus fares. Th rate hikes are scheduled to go into effect next week. Increased rates for Los Alamos telephones subscribers will become effective with the July billing. The increase came from last year's approval by the New Mexico Corporation Commission of higher tariffs for Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph. Construction of the $1.7 million, four-lane, eight-mile stretch of divided highway tlirough Tijeras Canyon has been completed.

All but the center striping has been done. Installation of highway signs will follow. The administration won part of its battle to regain wage-price controls when the Senate-House conference yesterday abandoned total abolishment of controls. The conferees are now working on a compromise measure to extend some for controls for eight months to a year. 50 YEARS AGO J.

H. Hand, for many years the owner of the Ten Lakes land project at Los Alamos, 12 miles north of Las Vegas, died June 26 in Chicago. He came to New Mexico 20 years ago and purchased and developed the irrigation project bordering the Los Alamos lakes. Proposed plans for the enlargement and refinishing of the Armory, making provision for a stage and for more balcony room so that the place would be suitable for big conventons, were endorsed at a meeting of reprsentative city businessmen yesterday. Charles Andress, well known professional magician, will be present this evening at the Elk's meeting to relate some of his experiences as one of the oldest living members of the Elks.

long term result for the Communists would be extremely adverse militarily. Yet on Feb. 13, he was overheard (by telephone intercept) to tell Brezhnev (the Communist party chief) of a great possibility of achieving the aim, if the Vietnamese will understand the present situation that we have passed to them; and they will have to decide "IN A RESTROSPECTIVE discussion with Thompson (then the U.S. ambassador) in Moscow, Kosygin expressed a jaundiced view of the role of mediators, saying they either complicated the problem or pretended they were doing something when in fact they were not. "He had stepped into this uncomfortable spot in London because "the Vietnamese had for the first time stated they were ready to negotiate if the bombings were stopped unconditionally; this was the first time they had done so "How much the Russians had hoped in fact to accomplish during Kosygin's London trip is impossible to know.

They apparently harbored few expectations after his return. Kosygin complained to Thompson about the 'ultimatum implied in the final proposal he transmitted to Hanio from London, saying that he knew it was hopeless the minute he read it This incident illustrates how little influence the Kremlin had over the North Vietnamese. It was the beginning, however, of an increased Soviet interest in ending the Vietnam war. by Brickman AS LorlAsl'M Mcfl" By BOB BROWN The proposal that the forest sendee acquire the large chunk of the Elena Gallegos grant which runs up the Sandia Mountains to the crest is still alive and kicking. W.L.

Lloyd, forest supervisor of the Cibola National Forest, says that the land's owners trustees for the Boys Academy have provided him with a map showing the area that they consider for sale. The map was provided by Roger Cox, the real estate man. Lloyd said that the map does not cover all of the land which he believes should be included particularly some of the more level land up in the Bear and Pino Canyons, and "we plan to make a counter offer." He noted that up to this point the land owners "have thought that the land is more valuable than we have. We can only pay the appraised price." He said that in his opinion the government will never be able to meet the price sought and "the only way I can see for acquisition is a public subscription to make up the difference between what we can offer and what the agreed price is." But first, he said, "we must agree on what land is to be included in any package." HOW Mini money is being talked about remains up in the air. Lloyd said that the total price would vary, depending on how much flat land should be involved.

Some of the flat land, he pointed out, is "worth $4000 per acre undeveloped. And even some of the more rugged land is valuable because some people will pay a real price for solitude." The two canyons extend back into the mountains a considerable distance and would undoubtedly be choice spots for subdivisions at some future date. Lloyd said that the land which the forest service is looking at and which would make suitable national forest is that where the slope is 10 per cent and up. The canyons have big flat areas where the slope is less than 10 per cent, and Lloyd said some of this should be considered for acquisition in order to make realistic boundaries. He said that the "informal offer" made last was around $3-million dollars which he said probably averaged out at around $150 an acre.

Some of the high rugged land, as far as we could tell, is worth no more than $50 an acre but other portions is worth much more. We can only hope that negotiations can be continued. The large piece of mountainside must be added to the forest and the longer it takes the more potentially valuable the property becomes. A PHYSICAL change in the location of the district attorney's office for the fifth judicial court has followed the appointment of a new DA in that southeast New Mexico area. The new official, who was also named the Democratic candidate for the November general election, is J.

Ie Cathey. He is going to establish the office in Carlsbad. The office became vacant when former DA Patrick Hanagan was killed in an the Soviet role in the Vietnam negotiations. The Kremlin, after showing no interest in settling the war, suddenly adopted a different attitude in 1967. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin made the new attitude, known during a London visit.

"The British were first startled, then delighted to find Kosygin eager to play an active role as intermediary between the U.S. and Hanoi stales the papers. "There was definitely a sharp change from previous Soviet reluctance to play the middleman "What produced this change in Soviet attitudes? Were they acting on DRV (North Vietnamese I behest? Or were they now willing to put pressure on Hanoi in pursuit of interest of their ow n. "ONLY A LITTLE light is shed on these questions by the materials relating to Kosygin's stay in London. He as apparently willing to transmit proposals for DRV consideration more or less uncritically.

While he argued the general merits of the DRV's side of the war, he did not try to bargain or alter specifics of the proposals transmitted to him "What is more striking is that he did not react adversely to the substance of the principal de-escalatory proposal under discussion the termination of all DRV infiltration and supply into SVN in exchange for a U.S. halt in attacks on the North and in troop level augmentation. "Entirely apart from the sequence in which these steps would be taken, their the small society I IN UVe AMP Yet the situation is far from hopeless. The late Douglas Southall Freeman used to complain, in his meloncholy moments, that newspapermen write on sand. In a sense we do.

Yet this is belter than television, which writes tn wind. THE PRINTED word must always have this enormous advantage over TV that it is available to the reader at his convenience, to be absorbed in whole or in part, at any hour; to be clipped, filed, or mailed. Some of the products of our labor may be used to wrap the fish, but as a medium of communication, the printed word endures. It mast endure. In an editorial marking the first issue of his new World magazine Norman Cousins speaks for all of us who write and publish: "We are confident that print will not only endure but will continue to be a primary force in the life of the mind.

Nothing yet invented meets the intellectual needs of the human brain so fully as print. The ability of the mind to convert little markings on paper into meaning is one of the ways civilization receives its basic energy." That conversion process the conversion of those little markings on paper into meaning is peculiarly the joint responsibility of those who teach and those who publish. We are co-truslees, keepers of the tablets, and in the administration of that trust, we must not fail. iM-ir7i Wednesday, June 28, 1972 Selfish Instead the rules committee refused to approve a resolution which would have permitted the convention to elect a McCloskey delegate. Thus a Nixon supporter will cast the lone McCloskey vote.

Such high-handedness tends to alienate rank and file members of the party. The renomination of President Nixon is assured. Surely the New Mexico Republican hierarchy could have been magnanimous enough to permit McCloskey backers to chose their own delegate. Rathe than 'weakening the party such a concession would have helped strengthen it. Tired Alibis Met ropolitan Albuquerque generates more than a fair share of the state's taxes used to match federal highway funds but it doesn't seem to be getting a fair shake in the distribution of these monies.

Image Building Plan We're not so sure an image building scheme by an Illinois legislator is desirable. Rep. Bruce Douglas of Chicago noted a survey of 20 major oc-cupations revealed that politicians as a group rated 19th in public trust only ahead of used-car salesmen. He would establish -a committee of six representatives to meet with political and behavioral scientists. They would report back on ways in which members can enhance their image.

If politicians gain a more positive image, who will the nation use as scapegoats for all that's wrong in the world? for a less Science has proved, however, that Fischer isn't merely a health nut. A bio-kinetic experiment was conducted at Temple University to determine how much energy is actually expended by a chess player in a tournament game. Pulse, heartbeat and other physiological measurements were taken on 12 volunteers during play. The surprising result: Chess is as physically taxing as a strenuous session of boxing or football. Bobby seems to have the last laugh.

the crazies are as comfortable and as well-fed as possible. CITY OFFICIALS apparently feel that if millions of tax dollars are not spent to provide toilets, show lines, medical care and free marijuana, the weirdos will turn petulant and reduce Florica's bourgeois Xanadu to ruins. I suppose that's the way it was in another day when scouts for a European city reported that Attila was enroute ith his Huns. At any rate, there seems no doubt that tax monies will be spent in large quantities to accommodate these tourists. The city fearfully expects about 30,000 for the Democratic convention opening July 10 and upward to 100.000 for the Republican show in August.

If these estimates are accurate, the Miami Bench scene will make the Chicago of 1963 look like an assembly of the Kpworth League; only 5000 to 10,000 made it to Dick Daley's town. STEVE GUEENBERG is "worried as hell." Greenberg is director of Operation Switchboard, a Miami outfit that serves as a clearing house between the nuts and city officials. (I refuse to refer to the invaders as "underground "Let's face it," says Greenberg. "This could be the only scene to make this summer. There are no major rock concerts going on anywhere to siphon off some of this energy, and Miami is one of the major drug centers in the country.

we may be getting bikers, addicts, curiosity seekers and troublemakers." GEORGE MCGOVERN also should be worried as hell. So far, his youthful activists have behaved beautifully, but there could be trouble ahead. Most of the crazies are McGovern supporters, not because of any ideological rapport with the South Dakotan but because his platform is the nearest thing they can find to anti-cstablishmentarianism. If. as expected, they try to raze the town, the blame will not be borne by Ed Muskie or Rep.

Wilbur Mills, but, unfairly, by George McGovern. Many persons smirked when they read about Bobby Fischer's physical fitness program as he prepared for the world championship chess match against Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. Fischer's daily regimen includes morning calisthentics in front of his television set, followed by swimming, tennis and bowling. (Close-lipped Spassky won't disclose his own training program, although it is known he likes to play tennis.) All this for a game in which the opponents mostly sit, wait, cerebrate and occasionally move a pawn, bishop or queen11 Andrew Tully Anderson Papers Show Soviet Negotiating Role Miami Beach Braces Itself LOUISVILLE, Ky. For the past ten years, the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times have sponsored a lively and ambitious program known as "Newspaper in the Classroom." A number of other papers are engaged in the same effort and a keenly important effort it is.

The programs are intended to strengthen the ties that bind together the closely related worlds of teaching and newspapering. In Doth worlds, a primary purpose is simply to inform, to pass along what we hope and believe to be truth, and to cultivate an intellectual awarness in those we reach. Toward this end, the newspaper is a marvelously useful tool of classroom instruction, even at the kindergarten level. Over the long haul, the sponsoring newspapers believe their effort will be rewarded in a generation of adults who cherish the printed word. THE PRINTED WORD is in trouble these days.

On the surface, it might appear otherwise: Newspaper circulation is at a record high specialized magazines are generally healthy; sales of paperback books are soaring out of sight; journalism schools have to turn away applicants. Those of us who live by the printed word, and love it, are facing no immediate crisis. Yet things are happening, under the surface, that compel a mounting concern. Repeated polls tell us, however we may grumble at the findings, that most persons now regard television as tneir primary source of news. According to one study, children will have spent two to three thousand hours watching TV before they enter the first grade.

The trend, in this regard, is toward a nation of viewers, not of readers. The trend is potentially disastrous. With notable exceptions here and there, the educational system has not slowed this process, but rather spurred it along. The pernicious virus of "look-and-say," which long ago infected instruction" in elementary reading, still ravages many schools. MILLIONS OF children, deprived of punctuation, rules of grammar and phonetic discipline have grown up to be terrible readers.

No wonder they watch TV! It is dismaying to leam of the declining emphasis placed upon spelling, punctuation, rules of grammar and construction. Once courses in "lit. comp." were everywhere required; but written compositions have gone out of style. Meanwhile, the economics of periodical publishing tend to make bad matters worse. The Courier-Journal historically has trucked its morning editions 200 miles to Hazard and beyond, but the costs of serving distant subscribers have mounted out of hand.

For many magazines, the prospect of soaring postal rates is a grim prospect of ceasing publication. The costs of everything go up, and the printed word, in every form, is hard pressed. The Country Parson "What others think important as what vourself." of you isn't you think as of iilil WASHINGTON The custodians of government secrets are gnashing their teeth again over our access to the still-secret portions of the Pentagon Tapers. These show how Lyndon Johnson tried to bring pressure upon Hanoi to negotiate a Vietnam settlement bv orchestrating the air raids against the North. He would withhold the bombs for awhile, hoping this would encouage the North Vietnamese to negotiate.

Then he would let the bombs fly again when he thought they needed some prodding. Sometimes, he stepped up the bombing at crucial stages of the secret negotiations. Repeatedly, Hanoi would halt the talks because of the military pressure. AFTER His retirement. President Johnson published selective excerpts from the secret papers to demonstrate how right and reasonable he had been.

He omitted the portions that made him look wrong and unreasonable. President Nixon also released sensitive information, strictly for political reasons, about Henry Kissinger's secret Vietnam negotiations. The President used the information to to reply to his critics. The power to classify information must he recognized for what it is. It is nothing less than the absolute authority of the government to make a state secret of whatever it wishes.

This divine right to classify documents has been abused to a degree beyond toleration. NOT ONLY DOES the government sweep its bungles and blunders, its errors and embarrassments under the secrecy labels. But our entire foreign policy and defense posture remains secret except for what the federal establishment thinks is in its own interest to make public. The tragic, bitter lessons of Vietnam have shown the fateful consequences of allowing any President to exercise power in solendid isolation behind the double walls of executive privilege and official secrecy. We will continue, therefore, to publish information that the government seeks to hide from the public by classifying.

THE UNPUBLISHED a on Papers, for example, shed new light on WASHINGTON By now I expect the working man in, say, Kalamazoo, accepts as one of the facts of lunatic America that so-called "political demonstrators" at the Democratic and Republican conventions in Miami Beach will be permitted to fornicate in the streets and parks, destroy public and private nperty and otherwise do their thing. But that working nan must be at the very least bemused by the frantic efforts of Miami Beach officials to ensure that Potomac Fever McGovern's problem is unique lie has to get farther into the middle of the road in order not to be run over. The White House press corps has been accused of asking the President dumb questions. It's a mute point. Brezhnev's present to Nixon is a a hydrofoil boat.

Is that a subtle reminder of Soviet naval prowess? Howard Hughes appears to be suffering from a migrate headache. If Boston could have its way, it would probably ban abortion AND the right to life. John Mitchell said Nixon would not conduct an abrasive campaign, but even so, he'll have more scratch than the Democrats. It's believed that some of the heroin "factories" once centered in Marseilles have been shifted to Barcelona. Known as Operation Spanish Flee.

We'll know we have peace in our time when "mining a harbor" means some kid is diving for sunken treasure. In Uganda, President Idi Amin banned maxi skirts with a V-shaped split down the front. Kind of a hollow victory..