The Town Talk from Alexandria, Louisiana • Page 6

'It's George McGovern's i i nlli of the oum By Adras LaBordo Si '111 Managing Editor Established on March 17, 1883 McCORMICK and Company, Proprietors Main ol Washington St. Telephone 442-1331 Alexandria. Louisiana 71301 Published each evening ond Sunday morning, except Christmas Day MRS. JANE WILSON SMITH President JOE D. SMITH, JR Publisher and General-Manager THOMAS JARREAU OQUIN TOM JARREAU HARDIN Secretary-Treasurer.

Business Manager ADRAS LABORDE Managing Editor FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1972 SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY (ALMOST) It's only "permissive" legislation, the man said. Moaning it's there if anybody wants to take advantage of it, but nobody is forced to do so. The legislation in question was a bill raising the number of days that police jurors can claim "per diem" of $41) from 7rt to 100. It was approved by the Louisiana Senate Monday by a vote of 25 to 9. The House had passed it earlier, so the final judgment is now up to Governor Edwards.

Let There Be Light lv-KA THEY. DON'T HAVE TO? No telling what police jurors do elsewhere, but the books at the courthouse in Rapides Parish show that "permissiveness" means nothing; everybody claims per diem for the full 76 days allowed by law. This means police jurors are now being paid $3,040 a year. If Mr. Edwards signs the 1972 bill, they will be paid $4,000 a year.

One of the proponents of the raise had the cheek during debate in the Senate to say that "this bill simply allows individual juries to meet up to 100 days a year; it does not mean they have to meet that many times." How naive. If they've got to meet 500 times to "earn" the maximum allowable per diem, chances are they will meet that many times. Messrs. Triche and Munson are absolutely right when they say the figures already are available. But Mr.

Bagert is not the only legislator who has had dif fi-, culty getting them. What is most important, however, is what legislators do with the reports when they receive them. If File 13 is to be the fate, the Division-of Administrations will be wasting per quarter in postage and other mailing costs. If the legislators check the figures and seek to make a conscientious appraisal, registering protests when there are aberrations, the mailing costs 'will turn out to be a good investment. It would help, additionally, were law-; makers to share some of the facts and figures with their constituencies.

"Unclassified" payrolls and dead-headism have contributed to the near-total distrust of government on the part of the rank-and-file. Regular reports by the Division of Administration, if proper use is made of them and the contents are given public dissemination, can serve a very useful purpose in the campaign to restore public confidence in Orchids to the 65 members of the Louisiana House of Representatives who voted, most appropriately on July the Fourth, to direct that the Division of Administration mail to legislators quarterly a list of the number of employes and total payroll cost for each state agency. It is difficult to rationalize the argument of Rep. Risley Triche, concurred in by Rep. Robert Munson of Cheneyville, that "it's just eyewash and will provide no meaningful information." Their contention is that the statistics are already available.

But one of their colleagues, Rep. Ben Bagert of New Orleans said he tried a few months ago to get such information "and you'd think I was trying to pull the governor's teeth." The argument of Rep. James Wilson of Vivian, author of the proposal, also was convincing: "We need to see how our payroll is the state is holding the line and how we're spending our money." Assuming final approval, whether Mr. Wilson's bill provides useful and-or meaningful information will depend upon the legislators who receive the quarterly reports from the Division of Administration. Paul Harvey What Next in U.S.

Race Relations? A black leader.savs black was edge of investments." for blacks. It lasted less than one decade. What had appeared to be vastly accelerated evolution had been a. "fad," instead a tem- AND FOR THE AVERAGE JOE? Let's get this straight: Some police jurors, perhaps majority of them, will earn every penny they are paid at $1000 a year. But it is just as logical to assume that a good' many of them don't even "earn" the $3040 they are now getting from the public till.

That's not the important point, however. What counts is that the "new" legislature, from which the rank-and-file expected so much for itself, has now gone full-cycle by including police jurors among the public officials given handsome increases in pay. If Mr. Edwards signs all the bills, the police jurors will join sheriffs, assessors, clerks of court and members of the legislature in this "something for kick. ii All of which may be quite proper except that the average Joe who has to read all the fine print to find something the legislature did for him as an individual doesn't think beautiful, now is going "out of What nc-Xt in our nat ion's race relations'? Many doors uero flung open porary social preoccupation.

A $50,000 Guaranteed Annual Income? for bUtck' Americans by the Su-The executive director of the promo Court decisitin oT FJ'4: National Urban League believes In the' yoars since many other We are changing fashions again. 'doors liav.e tjti'cn forced 'upon by Vernon Jordan, says that whites determined blacks with a iome- finflblacks Have wearied of the "from empathetic racial that another bold "social experiment is phas Meredith may be unduly impatient. The Black Expo in Chicago this past year filled the city's cavernous amphitheater with hundreds of black business elite. The Rev. Jesse Jackson in-tends this economic development to be spread nationwide.

While many blacks resent repeated reference to "black millionaires as proof anybody can," there are now more than 300 of those as opposed to none known a generation ago. So if black is becoming less fashionable as Mr. Jordan believes it is not less respectable. If our country's black 10 percent is no longer to benefit from our nation's fickle preoccupations, its potential acceptance from here on will be established on the more durable foundation of individual merit. v.

The: next" national convchtion of the Klks fraternal 6rganiva-tiori will heara rccommetldation that "that door" be opened now. Tiot'be: There is evidence the momentum which carried this minority through two decades of previously unimagined acceptance and advancement is waning now. History says we're like that. Immediately following the Uncivil War there was a great outpouring of public compassion ing out, He expects many of the 'Activists' gains of the lOGOs will be eroded in the 1970s. "To say it bluntly," says Mr.

Jordan, "idealism was a fad, a-temporary fashion. Black was beautiful. Now again black is going out of style." End quote. James Meredith, who opened the doors of the University of Mississippi for members of his race, now says his efforts to inspire economic self-help for them have failed because blacks "lack training for and knowl MORE Members of the legislature manifestly assume that courthouses and city halls are still the seats of political power. The masses who showed in the last batch of elections that they couldn't care less how the politicians leaned remain unimpressed.

The unimpression will grow perhaps when they learn where their police jurors will find the wherewithal to juice up their pay by $1000 a year per juror. Peanuts, perhaps. Even in a large parish like Rapides, with 18 police jurors, the boost is a piddling $18,000 a year. But we've gone that route before the route paved with so many peanuts that they would fill the largest room in the skyscraper Capitol. shire, New York, Com necticut, Pennsylvania and Massachu-j setts have authorized lotteries to raise public revenues.

The New York lottery, which began in June 1967, has turned over more than $160 million for education and awarded $150 million in prizes. Ralph executive director of the New Jersey Lottery Commission, says that the Garden. State's lottery collected almost $150 million in 1971. Around $69 million went for education, $66 million for prizes and the remainder for administrative expenses. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, in addition to their 50 cents-a-ticket weekly drawingsf' offer special million-dollar contests about once a month.

New York is the first state to offer a first prize of more than $1 million. While lottery advocates claim that this form of legalized gambling will cut into organized crime-controlled rackets, the primary impetus behind state lotteries is the need for additional sources of revenue. And as state expenses continue to spiral, more lotteries and super-lotteries probably will win approval. While Congress and the American people may be expected to debate the benefits and liabilities of a guaranteed annual income for some years to come, one lucky American soon will be paid $50,000 a year for the rest of his life. The recipient can be anyone from J.

Paul Getty to the infant son or daughter of a pauper. The only qualification is the purchase of a $3 ticket in the "summer special" New York State lottery "the richest lottery ever played in America." The New York State Lottery Commission estimates that a grand-prize winner between one and five years old could win a lifetime total of $3.5 million and an adult between 35 and 40 about $2 million. If the winner does not live long enough to collect $1 million, the remainder will go to his or her estate. There also will be nine second prizes of $25,000 a year for four years, 90 winners of $10,000 each, 900 prizes of $1,000 and 9,000 "consolation" prizes of $200. Tickets will be on sale from Wednesday July 12, to Sept.

5. The drawing will be held on Sept. 20. The winners, armed with lawyers and accountants, will then begin figuring out ways of easing their tax burdens. Since 1964, six states New Hamp The Readers Write Goings-On at Lounge Decried Editor, Town Talk: QUICK QUIZ QWhat animal can jump How Far Should the Bra Ads Go? QWhat horses started the breed we call A Byerly Turk, the famous Oriental stallion, along with the "Darley Arabian" and "Godolphin Arabian," were imported into England and started the breed.

What country was once called New Holland? A Australia. What form of matter has definite volume but no shape? A Liquid. QIn baseball, what is the ruling when a batter with two strikes on him bunts foid? A The foul bunt is a third strike. 50 feet or more, although it is only six inches long? A The Flying Squirrel. It glides on a "wing" of skin attached between its legs.

What are the religious symbols of Mohammedans, Christians and Jews? A The Mohammedans the crescent; Christians the cross; Jews the star. What famous organization incorporated "The Sons of Daniel Boone" and "The Woodcraft A The Boy Scouts of America. Q- In forestry, what is a pure stand? A A forest in which at least 80 per cent of the trees are of the same kind. they help sell brassieres. However, manufacturers are stymied in using this approach in North America.

They fear repercussions if such ads are tried because of what they call "the North American puritanical attitude" toward such public nudity in print, on the street or at the beach. So far is enough. Now nudity is not new to these shores.1 In fact, movies and certain Broadway, shows sucessfully sell nudity, too often in a semi-pornographic way. bare breasts in bra ads purportedly', would be done "not for shock value but be very descriptive and of aid to the woman buyer." The question is whether subscribers to the hometown newspaper want such titration with their local births, deaths, weddings and traffic news. Those Middle Americans who have been perturbed by the galloping sexual permissiveness in the public print and entertainment may not have seen anything yet.

There is a mini-revolution brewing in none other than the brassiere business. Leading manufacturers of ladies foundations feel they need to hypo their magazine and newspaper advertising. It seems that in print all bras look alike. Various firms have found an ideal solution in advertisements placed in European publications. This is the bared breast treatment.

For example, one ad shows three women of differing dimensions with uncovered bosoms and the same three wearing the garment most proper for them. Such ads have been appearing in foreign publications for more than two years and are highly effective. Meaning I hope you will publish this letter in The Town Talk; perhaps it may enlighten the parents of these almost out of the teen-age, both boys and girls. I am a mother and don't mean to brag but I feel that I was and still am a very good mother. I don't know why I am writing this letter to you unless the Lord laid it on my heart do do so.

A few nights ago I visTted" one Of the local lounges, as I. had no- ninth about the place, wauled to see for myself. I detest and- nnylhing that is indecent. Truly I was shocked when I walked in that place. There was a girl dressed only in a scant bra.

and a pair of very scant bikinis and bare foot up on the with the band. I have never in all my life seen such vulgar twisting and I (luu't 'know' what Ihe-dance is called but I will say this, if she were a daughter of mine "I vvo'nld 'disown I do -not drink or take any part in these night' spots fir beef joints' I spend" my evenings reading my Bible and talking with Cod. I pray that something can be dime about this. I am trying to. live the kind of life that when Cod calls me I Can join' him in heaven wearing a white robe.

I wonder if this girl thinks that she will make it to heaven in bra and bikini. My heart was very sad for all those boys and girls in their Info 1eens 'drinking and as they thought were having a good lime. I think all parents should ju walk in to these joints now and then- to -M'e jJis-t I saw. I only pray that something will open the eyes of all these people who leave their small children and j-o to ihese dives and get all (Irunked young folks who hang out there-just to see a- naked woman twist herself around' and fling tier head back and Ot course, Bobby is a professional who plays for money. Or is it, Doesn't-play for money? He has gotten the prize fund up to a quarter of a million dollars by not-playing.

I think he sold out too cheap. I would have not-played for at least two-million. Though I have lost a couple of fifty-cent games to my cousin Fred, I'm not a professional. Therefore, I have not-played for more money than Fischer has any day. I'm grateful to that British banker who put up the extra $125,000 in prize money.

Bobby hopped the next plane to Iceland, and it looks like he's going to disgrace the whole Chess Non-Playing fraternity and probably win the world championship. That will show his true colors. He isn't a non-player, after all. But maybe the Russians and the U. S.

Chess Federation know something we don't know. The cover of the June Issue of Chess Life Review, the official organ of the U. S. Chess is a drawing by a New York commercial artist. "The likenesses of Spassky, Kosygin, and Brezhnev have been magnificently captured," the Magazine says on its masthead.

I sure looks to me like Boris Spassky shows- a striking resemblance to Richard M. Nixon in the cartoon. Maybe that's a mistaken observation, but Mr. Nixon is already acknowledged as one of the world's greatest non-players of the ancient and mysterious game of chess. But the key is in the caption to the cover-cartoon.

While Brezhnev ponders, Kosygin is asking the Russian champion, "But, Boris, what if he doesn't play 1 P-K5?" Knowing his fearsome reputation as a non-player, the Russians are worried about what Fischer won't-play, not about what he will play. Now that the American contender is in Iceland, Spassky is catching on to the game. He says he will not-play, thereby establishing a serious claim for himself to the title of world champion chess non-player. It looks like we who have been faithful non-players for years are being upstaged by these upstarts like Spassky and Fischer. Something has got to be done.

Chess non-players of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your games. Tom Heston, Alexandria, La. 1 needed a 25 atr3 in tip AifXvtnMn Pnfia tEotottSnlK PCA made me a loan I could really live with. News highlights of July 7, 1347: Establishment of five new one-way streets and a heavy-truck route and extending one-way sections of Third and Second streets has been recommended by the Alexandria committee on oneway streets, Mayor Carl B. Close said today.

shake, did. and twist her naked body as this one 'A -Sad Mother'- -(Name Wilhhe'ld) Alexandria, La. nual state encampment here yesterday after electing officers, adopting several resolutions of public interest, and hearing an address by Maj. Gen. Leland S.

Hobbs, wartime commander of the Infantry Division. Semi-official circles in Prague said today Czecholavia, a member of the Slavic bloc, has decided to accept an invitation to the Paris conference on the Marshall Plan despite Soviet rejection of the implementation plan. A flying disc has been seen in Central Louisiana, state police said today. Louisiana Veterans of Foreign Wars "ttirjl thn nivilinnr flncor thpjj 7tn Tin. mm I NT By City Comer, Moior Corner ond Moil Boyce Marsha! Praised Editor, Town Talk: PCA I the go ahead people Talk To TED HAMMONDS your local PCA planner SUBSCRIPTION RATES wn 2H we had a break-in at First thurch of Cod on Highway 1 located World Chess Non-Championship Editor, Town Talk; It's true, the U.

S. Chess Federation didn't ask me when (hey were looking for someone to refuse to play Boris Spassky, the Russian who is world chess champion. I tut then, Hobby Fischer was already hiding out in New York City, or California, or somewhere in-bo-tween. So I uess they decided it was more convenient to let him no! play for the world championship of chess. But I think a serious mistake was made.

I have not played more game-, for Hie world championship Mian Fischer or anvhodv else ever read about. The fact that the news media didn't make headlines out of my not-plawug just showl that P.ihy is not the" V. S. chess non-champion. Win he refused to play, it was news.

Wlie'u I refused to play, who cared? I've been', not playing championship chess for years, and it 's riot even news when I don't-show. I feel that I havfc been cheated out of my right to not play. They didn't even give me a chance to refuse. about One Month Three Monthi One Year 2 50 7 50 30.00 ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Brinhtm-Moloni-y. Inc -One East acker Drive, Chicago.

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