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J. HODEi LONG-TIME MEMBER MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated is entitled to the use for republicction of all the local news printed in jievvspepef, as well at AP news dispatches. National Advertising Representative WARD GRIFFITH COMPANY, INC. New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Son Francisco, Los Angeles ONE BIG REASON other states have better roads and schools than West Virginia is that they pay for them. For instance, fllinols's real estate taxes are about six times that of the Mountain State.

Here nearly three-quarters of them are paid by out-of-state or absentee landowners. Blackouts Unendurable Electric power distribution in the United States needs a thorough investigation by a combined industry-government, body, in light of the serious disruptions of power which have taken place in the last year or two. Two major interruptions of power occurred in the Northeast in the last two years, involving interconnecting grids in a number of states. Other smaller but still serious prolong' ed disruptions have occurred in sections of the East, South, Midwest and South- What has caused the widespread effect of these power failures is the interconnecting grid system and an apparent lack of sufficient safety devices prevent interrelated power stations in an entire region of the nation from collapsing like a row of dominoes. Lee G.

chairman of the Federal Power Commission, has proposed that the industry and the FPC get together to develop "planning and operating standards to enhance power reliability." In a related action, his agency has submitted to Congress a proposed bill which, -among other safeguards, would provide for more and stronger interconnecting links for "bulk power -between power companies. Also included in the. proposed Electric Power Reliability Act are provisions for the federal government consult with local, state and federal involved, in problems of-land -use, and require the FPC to defer to the wishes "of these other groups whenever it can. do so without jeopardizing the provisions of the bill. Certainly provision for natural resources is a worthy but the FPC is open to criticism by reacting to the massive -power failures by seeking still more interconnecting links.

There is at least an outside chance that an impartial reviewer would conclude the basic concept of interdependence be- tween power stations is the primary reason for the blackouts. Preconceived -notions seldom con- to of problems as complex; as the nation's -electrical energy' distribution' system. An im: partial review.of representatives of the FPC and industry designed to explore all possibilities would be 'more to the point Irresponsible Drivers A veteran state police officer recently told the News that'of all factors contributing to the highway accident death toll, one of the most difficult to eliminate is irresponsible driver, the motorist who racks up a string of citations and convictions, and causing prop: erty damage and injuries, if not death. Laws dealing with the careless driver have not proved adequate to deal with the problem, we were informed. The reluctance of judges and magistrates to revoke licenses is one reason, especially if the livelihood of the defendant is involved.

And, in many cases offenders knowingly risk the danger of another arrest by driving while their licenses are under suspension or revocation. How far should we go in failing to identify the guilty driver to the rest of society? If the careless driver can't be removed from the highway, shouldn't society at least know who he is, asks R. G. Chilcott, vice-president of an surance firm? He suggests that a warning plate reading LIMITED USE RESTRICTED be placed on the license plate of the irresponsible driver, thus labeling them as habitual offenders. The placing of these plates on a car would be the final warning before the license is revoked.

The, plates would mean what they say, the driver could use the car for a few essential purposes, such as driving to work or to a doctor or hospital, but the motorist would be in violation if the vehicle is used for any other purpose. There is the objection, of course, that limited use of plates would be unfair, to other members of the family. Why should a man's wife or children bear the stigma of the man's offense? Chilcott admits it is a good question and he has a ready answer. the husband or father would under these threatening consequences be more apt to obey the traffic laws. A man who knows that his entire family would be penalized for his misdeeds may become a safe driver.

He may realize that the posting of a bond which he usually forfeits, would not close the case. i --Parkersburg News Top The Morning Forthcoming Plays Attract Interest By EMILE J. HODEL The picnic was enjoyable, as usual. The kids were a little less noisy than usual which is to say that they went off to more remote corners to make their racket. There was only one very brief shower a sprinkling of huge, heavy raindrops and the sun managed to shine almost as much as it was hidden.

This accompanied a cool breeze which made for a delightful day. The food department was more than sufficient, also as usual. The eating started about 2 p.m. and continued almost without interruption until about 7 p.m. We managed to get in a little swimming to work off a few of the calories of the intake and to tone the muscles a bit.

What more could anyone ask of a Fourth of July picnic? -0- It certainly appears that the forthcoming performances of "Cara- elot" at the Cliffside Amphitheatre in Grandview State Park are likely to be a resounding success, provided the weather is truly co-operative. Reservations for the two performances of the famous musical on July 15 and 16 are beginning to pour into the "Honey in the Rock" offices. It is not common to have orders come in for blocks of 200 seats but that has already happened for "Camelot" and, no doubt, will also take place for "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying." That particular block of seats was ordered from Montgomery. This makes it obvious that there is a lot of appeal for Kanawha Valley residents in the cool, clear nights they are likely'to encounter here on the plateau. This should also apply to all the mid-Ohio Valley people except that they are a little farther away, of course.

Anne Frank 9 Tonight While, we are on the subject of plays and reservations and such, tonight "The Diary of Anne Frank" opens at The Te'nt as the season's second show of the Greenbrier Repertory Theatre. This is one play which we have never seen. Neither did we see the motion picture that was made. But we did read the book with an arid fascination. We could not put it down even though we knew what the out-come of it was before starting to read it.

Thus, we are looking forward to seeing this particular production. As a matter of fact, we have hopes of getting over for tonight's opening show. Just in case you haven't made it to The Tent yet and are interested, it is located about a mile up the Green- River on the west side off of U. S. 60 at North CaldwelL.

Oh, yes, curtain time is always 8:30 p.m., too'. Another Greenbrier Theatre play that has us-curious is the next, or third, production. It's to be "Arsenic and Old Lace," a classic. We saw the original Broadwsy cast do the show, with Boris Karloff doing a fine job. Since then we-have seen it on film and perhaps on television, too.

Just treatment John Benjamin Dale Wilson will give it is piquing our curiosity, of The tent production will present a few problems, too. There is a stairway and landing or balcony ahove the livihgroom setting for the play which is rather important to the story A screwball brother of the sweet old ladies must go charging up the stairs from time to time. -0- There was also a doonvay. that opened onto a stairway into the basement in the play. It was down those stairs that "tie Panama Canal" was being dug and a body was seen in silhouette being carried downstairs at one point No doubt, these problems wfll be ingeniously overcome by the Greenbrier Repertory players in their usual clever fashion.

Meanwhile, all we can do is wait and speculate. Top of the morning! My Answer By BDLLY GRAHAM I find myself dwelling on me and my problems more and more. Hovv can I get away from myself? M. F. Fenelon once said: "Never let us be discouraged with ourselves.

It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are the moat wicked: on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light; and let us remember for our consolation that we never perceive our sins until we begin to cure them." Self-examination is all right if we do it constructively, instead of negatively. If you dwell on your problems, your weaknesses, you only compound your misery and plight. But if we think of what we might become by the grace of God, and set out to make improvement, contemplation can be a profitable exercise. A sure sign of self-improvement is when you begin to think of others.

A man said to me one. day: "When I begin to feel sorry for myself, I hurry, down across the tracks and try to bring a ray of sunshine to those who are much worse off than I. When I share myself, my goods, and my love with the poor and discouraged, I find my heart blessed and filled with gratitude to God." A good prayer to pray is: "Lord, help me to live from day to day, In such a self-forgetful way, That all I do, and all I say, Must needs be done for others." The person who learns to live outside himself has found his real self. Music Only To LBJ Yesterday And Today-1884 Fayette Coal Co. Mail Salvaged By SHIRLEY DONNELLY When the old coal companies operating along New River early mining days closed down, their business papers frequently were given to the whirlwind and gale.

Office files were simply over the river a Fishermen often came upon piles oi those old pa- ers. Many such bundles a been brought to me for possible use in this daily column. Most of the papers are soiled but many are clearly legible. It is interesting to browse through notes from the fine hand of the coal company office penman. ON MY DESK now is a sheaf of 1834.papers from the Fayette Coal and Coke Stone Cliff.

This operation was but a few miles upstream from Thurmond and not far from McKendrce. One of the letters is an order for two cars of coal to'be shipped as promptly as possible to Backbone, AUeghany Virginia. In it, the iron concern superintendent, John S. Ham, complained that "The last coal ssnt 'has given us trouble by forming cinder on the grate bars so very tough it cannot be removed until cold. Please select a better quality." THEY HAD a crude sense of humor in 1884, as witness the closing of the following letter to the same Stone Cliff mine.

It was from Hileman, Waring and manufacturers of pig iron, Callie Furnace, and a Clifton Forge post office address. The letter, with "Gentlemen" as salutation, reads, "We today instructed our agent to wire you to resume coke shipments. Please do not load over 30 jimmies weekly; do not allow the average shipments to run over that number for this month, as our railroad is still out of shape and we do not care to be crowded with work for the balance of this month. This is our valentine." word "jimmies" isn't a familiar one in these parts now and I'm wondering what old time coke maker might know the meaning of it. POWERS, BLAIR grocer and commission merchants and dealers in grain bags.

12 Pearl Richmond, wrote to Stone Cliff that "The advance in meats has been so great that we thought we had best only send you a part of the quantity ordered, which we hope you will approve, but if you wish us to balance, please write us by return mail." Return mail probably meant the next train from Stone Cliff to Richmond. The same grocery concern stated in another letter that "the barrel of mackerel we put in your bill to ship the next day, as we have shipped it and regret the delay. Your favors shall always have our best attention." IN FEBRUARY of 1884, Stone Cliff coal was considered "too high in price," according to letters from George Appold Sons, tanners in Texas," and Oak Slaughter Sole Leather, commission merchants in hides and leathers, Baltimore, Md. The letters came from the company's "hide house" at Grsen Forest, Va. One letter to the Stone Cliff people came from the Cleveland office of the Dean Cooperage maker of barrels and kegs, but the letterhead shows it having factories at Hinton, W.

and Portsmouth, Ohio. ONE BUSINESS communication to Stone Cliff came from Rodes Co. of Ronceverte. This firm dealt in queensware, woodenware, sack and barrel salt, boots and shoes, hats and caps, gum goods, hardware and groceries. The firm asked, "Can you handle a good article of country flour put up in 100-poucd sacks and what price can you pay for it? It is the best flour.that water make.

It is a'very rich article but not as bright as the patent process. We can furnish you 5 to 10 thousand pounds." A typewritten letter, dated July 30, 1884, was sent to the Fayette Coal and Coke Co. from B. F. Goodrich Akron Rubber Works in Ohio, asking the coal company "to notice a new kind of coke hose which we are now supplying large coke manufacturers in Pennsylvania and elsewhere." A later letter from Stone Cliff to Akron expresses liking for the coke hose the Fayette Coal and Coke Co.

ordered and was using. Drew Pearson-Jack Anderson- Negro May Become Mayor Of Cleveland WASHINGTON Whether the first major city in the United States, Cleveland, will be governed by a Negro mayor will probably be decided today. 1 eland has been governed by some famous ors, a ing Tom Johnson, a Socialist, to Newton D. Baker, later of war in the Woodrow Wilson Cabinet. Various ethnic groups have had day in Cleveland.

Frank Lausche, of Yugoslav descent, was elected mayor by the heavy Slovene vote, and later went on to become governor of Ohio and a U.S. senator. The Italians elected Tony Celebrezze, who served as mayor longer than any other man in Cleveland, then went on to become secretary of HEW and a U.S. Court of Appeals judge. Today, with the city 39 per cent Negro, it may well be that Cleveland will be the first major city in America to elect a Negro mayor.

If so, he will be Carl Stokes, an attorney, who came within 2,100 votes, or of a percentage point, of winning in 1965. BEHIND ALL THIS is some significant history. Until a year ago, Cleveland was promoted by its Chamber of Commerce as "the best location in the nation." Eighth largest city in the USA, located on Lake Erie, midway between Minnesota ore and Pennsylvania coal, it is also the machine tool capital of America. But the industry that made Cleveland prosperous a pumped so much waste into Lake Erie and the expanding population has pumped in so much sewage that some scientists now describe that once beautiful body of water as a swamp. And as Lake Erie has become polluted, so also the city of Cleveland has decayed.

People who can afford to do so have fled to the suburbs. Industry has been jittery. Business growth has tapered off. Business leaders feel insecure about investments in the core of the city and are beginning to withdraw them. SIMULTANEOUSLY, Negro restlessness has been growing, partly because of unemployment, partly over what Negroes describe as a hostile police force and an indifferent mayor.

Of the policemen in Cleveland, only 133 are Negroes and of these only two are sergeants. During the Columbus; Ohio, crime hearings, Cleveland Police Chief Wagner testified: "We need capital punishment in order to keep the Negro in line." Mayor Ralph Locher, Democrat who narrowly squeaked in ahead of Stokes in the last election, treads a precarious path between the white and Negro population. "Any time Ralph throws even 3 crumb to the east side," says one of his aides referring to the Negro area, "the whites on the west side scream." Perhaps this would be the model city for his Southern Christian Leadership Conference project this summer, Locher denounced King as an extremist THE CLIMBING unemployment rate is the most critical issue. There were 24,000 job layoffs between Jan. and March 30.

Coupled, with this is Cleveland's lagging urban renewal program. When the federal gov- erment offered to pay two-thirds of the bill for urban renewal 10 years ago, Cleveland was in the lead in applying for federal subsidies. A total of 6,035 acres was laid out for these programs but today only, one of seven reclamation projects has been completed. As a result, HUD Secretary Robert Weaver, exasperated, cut off $10 million of Cleveland's renewal funds. Chief victim of this ineptitude and this decay is the highly publicized Negro ghetto, the Hough area.

Here the unemployment rate is 15.7 per cent, highest in the country. Merchants can not get insurance for their stores; so few stores are left. Slum landlords refuse to improve their houses and the mayor does not keep his door open to hear complaints. WHEN A GROUP of com- cerned citizens requested an audience with Mayor Locher in regard to police treatment of Negroes, he declined. "This is not my problem," he said.

"This is the chief of police's prob- lem." A number of Negro ministers who tried to get in to see the mayor were arrested and jailed temporarily for trespassing at the city hall. It is in this very hot summer setting that the crucial race for mayor of Cleveland officially starts today-as the candidates file their petitions for ihe primary elections Oct. 5. Because of Cleveland's election law, July 5 is almost as important as election day itself for the candidates must then file as Democrats, Republicans or Independents. IN THE OPEN field primary, with Stokes running as a Democrat against a lot of other Democrats, he, as a Negro, would be fairly sure to win He would get the solid Negro vote, plus some support from white voters who figure it's time to give Negroes the responsibility for solving their own problems.

Other Democratic candidates for mayor are Frank Celeste, who had a fine record as mayor of Lakewood, a Cleveland suburb with a mixed white and Negro population; Jim Stanton, young president of the Cleveland City Council; Frank Celebrezze, nephew of ex-mayor now judge, Tony Celebrezze: and finally Mayor Locher himself. If the white Democrats get together and put one candidate in the field, he can defeat Stokes. Otherwise Stokes is likely to win the primary and in the final election will face Seth Taft, nephew of the late Sen. Bob Taft, and a member of Ohio's No. 1 Republican family.

Andrew Tully-- Top Spot As Moderate WASHINGTON A year, before the Republican convention, two things are as certain as anything can be in politics. One is that California's Gov. Ronnie Reagan is running for the Republican nomination for president, and the other is-that he will run as a moderate. In the hoary tradition, Reagan continues to deny any national ambitions, but that unim portant. What matters is that he is acting like a candidate 'for i Faced i the urgency of a e's i ss in Sacramento, a non-candidate could beg off the" political sawdust trail, but Reagan is making it a point to be seen and heard.

By late fall, he will have appeared in Nebraska, Montana Wisconsin, Illinois, Wyoming' New York and Illinois. A half- dozen other states probably will be added to his summer-fall schedule, including Pennsylvania and Texas. IN ADDITION, he also has a built-in Reagan-for-President organization. Both Gladys O'Donnell of California, head of the National Federation of Republican Women, and Jack McDonald of Tennessee, chairman of the Young Republicans, are in the Reagan bag. So is Texas' Sen.

John Tower, who. is the liaison man for big Texas money. Conservative moneybags in the East, who fear Dick Nixon is a congenital loser, are lining up for the actor, who became an instant statesmen when he clobbered Pat Brown last November. Yet, although all these supporters are conservatives, Reagan will not run under their banner, and they accept his decision as a necessary facing up to the facts of life. Those facts state unequivocally that the Republicans cannot elect a conservative in 1968.

Although some Young Republicans and members of the Federation of Republican Women refuse to face these facts their existence remains unchallenged. They were not invented by Lyndon Johnson or some newspaper BASIC these facts is that the Republicans are a minority party. They cannot win a'national election without siphoning off Democratic and independent votes from Lyndon Johnson. Since a majority of both Democrats and independ- ents are middle-of-the-roaders, they are not likely to switch from Johnson to a conservative. For that matter, it is doubtful that a conservative could poll a majority of Republican votes.

The latest Lou Harris Poll shows that the moderates and liberals in the GOP outnumber the conservatives by 53 to 47 per cent. Only a revival of the lunacy of 1964, therefore, would induce the Republicans to nominate a Goldwater by another name in 1968. In trimming His'conservative sails, Reagan is taking c'ogniz- of all this, and of the fact that the moderates are now the dominant voting bloc in the country. The moderates have gained strength among both Democrats and independents since 1964. They now represent 49.

per cent of the Democrats against only 36 per cent three years ago, and 56 per cent of the independents, compared with .48 per cent in 1964. Significant, too, is the drop in those Democratic and independent voters who count themselves as liberals. Among Democrats, they have dwindled from 30 per cent in 1964 to 23 per cent today; among independents from 19 to 11 per cent. SINCE REAGAN proved in beating Pat Brown that he is no fool, he will spend the next 12 months burnishing his image as a middle-of-the-roader with incidental conservative support. His recent utterances have stressed his common ground with the big moderate bloc which is indignant over draft card burners, student rioters and crime in the streets and baffled by the inconclusiveness of the war in Vietnam.

He gave the picture of. a reasonable and rational man- in his confrontation European. students ou an' international satellite television interview program with Bobby Kennedy. Indeed, Reagan appeared to have done his homework better than Bobby on this one; he had facts and figures at-his fingertips, and he delivered them with a devastating blandness. Reagan may still be open to the charge of superficiality leveled by some critics, but he has shown in recent months a new flexibility' of thinking snd a new awareness of the complexities, of the American system of government.

He has discovered that there are grays between black and white and this is always the first' sign that politician is reaching for maturity. Hal Humphrey- oone, Andy Williams Dropped For Next Season HOLLYWOOD Dsan Martin with his lecherous and half-inebriated gria spoiling television viewers for the clean-cut and square likes of a Pat Boone? NBC dropped the a ytime a Show last week at virt a 11 the same time it announced a year, S34-mil- lion deal with Dean. A decade ago, it was Pat who was the toast of nighttime television for three seasons (on ABC), and Martin was just setting off on a movie career after splitting as straightman from Jerry Lewis. Pat really doesn't think it's a case of virtue versus vagrancy. He believes there is room in television's spectrum for all types of personalities, but that they must be allowed to be themselves more when appearing on the home screens.

"With Dean and his show, it's the spontaneity that the people go for. It has that 'live' look about it, and the viewers feel anything can happen. Andy Williams is a great singer, but his show is all rehearsed. The viewers sense this, so there isn't the excitement about it," says Pat. Andy Williams won't be back next season except for a couple of specials.

from Hollywood. "People have always thought of me as the square college boy- type and don't know this sense of humor of mine. I substituted for Johnny Carson twice and have a two-week commitment to do the same this year. The reaction was very good those first two times. I broke everybody up the time I switched-some candy cigarets in that box Johnny has on his desk and began eating one instead of smokui? recalls Pat.

AS FOR PAT'S just-folded daytime show, he says it was getting there and the cancellation came as a surprise to him. His rating was up -with those of NBC's Concentration and Hollywood Squares, the two shows on either side of Pat's, but not until after the network had decided to drop him. Pat is holding himself in readiness because he feels he'll be back on television by next spring. He'd even like to try a late-night show if CBS decides to compete with NBC's Johnny Carson and ABC's Joey Bishop and would let him originate one HIS CHURCH-GOING background and supposed naivete give him an advantage over the swmgy Dean Martin, Pat heves he can get away with more on an innocent basis. "I still have to be careful though, because I wouldn't say anything, or have anything said on my show, that I would not say to my family," he adds To prove that it isn't just Dean Martin playing the sophisticated rake for whom go, Pat points to the Smothers brothers, whose new comedy hour on CBS this year pressed Bonanza in the Sunday c'ght rating race, "Now they're certainly kind of nokey and corny, but their show doesn't have that rehearsed look, the way they work it he says.

"Look at Andy Griffith, whose reruns, by the way, were on against my morning -NBC show. He certainly isn't sophisticated. PAT, INCIDENTALLY, was approached by the now-bankrupt Lnited Network to take over the Bill Dana Show from Las Vegas before it folded, but he saw it as too much of a gamble even after being offered a piece of the network. The fact asked him was flattering and would seem to spike any contention, too, that corn and wholesomeness aren't holding their cwn with lechery and rascality I love the type of thirlg Steve Allen does, and I believe I sort of like him," Pat e'ab- orates. the small society byBrickmah.