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big race." M. HARP JAMIt M. KHURZ DAVID C. ILLICIT (Eslibllihed 1173) EDITOR ASSOCIATE EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR "The battle is to decide who gets to ride me in the 4 THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MD. July 10, 1972 Dr.

George C. Thosteson Parkinsonism described New headquarters Some months ago Mayor Herman L. Mills indicated that the municipal parking lot on the north side of West Church Street opposite City Market would make a suitable site for a new police headquarters. Since then neither Chief of Police Grason Doarnberger nor the public have been made aware of plans for the building to replace 4th floor headquarters at City Hall, if any exist. In the city hall that stood on the site of the present building, police headquarters and the lockup were on the first floor of the building.

That set-up was convenient for the police as well as the public. When the present building was erected 34 years ago, the police department and courtrooms were moved to the fourth floor. Since then the police force has been considerably expanded' and more room is needed for the District Court which replaced the magistrate system. There's no disputing the need for a new headquarters and the parking lot site is convenient to the business district. Chief Doarnberger and the public would be happy to see the project get underway.

Lethargy broken cV Surprise! The United Nations Security Council is capable of taking quick action on an urgent matter when it has been sufficiently prodded. It proved this by approving unanimously a declaration against hijacking within a day after pilots staged a strike to bring the current state of affairs dramatically to world attention. Whether the declaration will have any substance behind it will require further time to test. Greater muscle against airline hijackers may be gained by the action of the International Civil Aviation Organization. That organization, with representatives from 124 countries, voted the day of the pilots' walkout to instruct its legal committee to take sanctions against any country which cooperates with hijackers.

The resolution did not specify what sane- tions would be imposed, but support was indicated for stopping traffic to and from airports of defaulting countries. Apparently the pilots started something which could lead to more effective action against hijackers, with their 24-hour, only partially successful strike. If the flurry of activity does not cease as rapidly as it emerged, the security of an air trip to a scheduled destination may be enhanced. All because the pilots proved the world needs them more than they need hijackers. Do von remember? 15 A AGO The Town and Country Church Development Program for the Middle Atlantic Area, open to all denominations, cited the Hancock Methodist Church as the "Rural Church of the Year for the Hagerstown District of the Baltimore Conference." The cement industry strike, which was keeping the Security factory closed along with many others throughout the nation, was beginning to threaten major construction projects in Maryland The county 4-H Livestock Club scheduled an all day judging practice session at three farms: David Cushwa, Hopewell Road, beef; H.

W. McEhvec, Sharpsburg Pike, swine; and Clarence Leo. Emmert Road, sheep. 30 A AGO The Rev. E.

T. Plitt, former Reformed Church pastor at Cavetosvn, wrote to F. C. Gardiner, Smithsburg, that China was being overrun by the Japanese. The Plitt family were engaged in mission work in Yuanling Manager T.

W. Martin, Jr. announced the closing of Berkeley Hotel in Berkeley Springs because of curtailed travel. It was one of the oldest hotels in West Virginia's panhandle Mr. and Mrs.

C.A. Brenner, Fairground Avenue, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. 45 A AGO Rev. Conrad H. Goodwin, rector for seven years at Zion Episcopal Church, Charles Town, resigned to accept a call from a church in Helena, Ark.

George L. Newcomer was appointed first carrier for mail in Williamsport, Mrs. L. M. Miller, postmistress, announced R.

S. Dillon, Hancock, bought the orchard on Round Top Mountain from R. L. Henderson. 65 A AGO A thunderstorm of near-cyclone proportions swept over Washington County.

Lightning killed Charlton Working, who was employed on the Delamere "Farm owned by D. Staley at Breathedsville. a barns were unroofed Samuel Strilc. 70, died at his home on Broadway He was a county commissioner, of tlie orphans court, justice of the peace and operated a mill near Lcitersburg Lutlier Miller, veteran stage driver from. Leilersburg, succeeded in locating water on the Good a by use of a peach Letters to the editor Dtir Dr.

Thoiteion: havt friend who rus a littlt trembling in her hands. were told it could Parkinson's disease. What is it, what causes It, can it be cured? T.Y. Dear I a i disease hereditary? Are strokes involved? B.J. Parkinson's disease Parkinsonism (once called paralysis agiaans) is' a disorder of the nervous system that affects 1 or 2 per cent of people over 50.

It involves a combination of shakiness and a rigidity of the muscles the hands shake, the fingers characteristically make a is called a "pin-rolling" motion. Gait becomes awkward, the patient tends to lean forward and posture becomes stooped. The face may develop a masklike expression. Drooling sometimes occurs. The cause isn't always clear, but it isn't heredity.

Some of the known causes, however, are encephalitis (brain inflammation), head injuries, carbon monoxide or manganese poisoning, and some known drugs if overdosed or the person has undue sensitivity. Evidently there are other causes, not identified. The thought was once held that hardening of the arteries of the brain was the cause, but that idea has been discarded. Strokes don't cause the tremor, either, although it would be possible for a person have Parkinsonisni and a stroke Richard Wilson since that's the general age bracket. One possible clue was the discovery that Parkinson patients had less than the normal amount ot a substance called dopamine.

This led to a drug called L-dopa, in 1959, and after extensive testing and learning how to use it, it is now in general use. Reports are that from 70 to 80 per cent of patients are helped to varying degrees -sometimes markedly as in the case of carpenters, unable to work, going back to their jobs. Prior to L-dopa; drugs of the atropine family were used but had the disadvantages of dryness of the mouth and visual disturbances. Brain surgery, cutting certain nerve patterns, has been tried; this reduced the tremor but not the muscle rigidity. For patients who aren't helped by L-dopa, another drug, Symmetrol, may help.

Discovery of the newer methods a i Parkinsonism is a blessing to a great many people the disease is an annoying and sometimes disabling one, but not fatal. Studies are coplinu- ing to try to make L-dopa even more effective than it Dear Dr. Thosteson: My husband has used drugs for five years that I know of. He is how in a drug abuse a and is using methadone (for the last 10 months). If I should get pregnant, would his use of methadone have any effect on the baby? I have never used any hard H.H, On the basis of 'current reports, there is no danger to the baby because the father uses such drugs.

(It's a different matter if the mother does.) However, I think your question involved more than a medical problem. Remember that methadone, while preferable to heroin, slill in an addictive drug. What do you think of asking your bus- band if it wouldn't be a good idea for him to fight one more battle and break the methadone addiction, too? Dear Dr. Thosteion: I am 25 and two years age underwent surgery for an undescended testicle. Should this lead to sterility? Would it interfere with an active sex life? T.D.

No to both questions. Can Stop Sinus Trouble!" is the title of Dr. Thosteson's newly revised booklet explaining what sinui trouble really is and encouraging sinus sufferers to do something about it. For a copy write to him in care of this newspaper, enclosing a long, self-addressed (use zip code), stamped envelope and 25 cents in coin to cover cost of printing and handling. Dr.

Thosteson is happy to receive readers' questions, and whenever possible uses them in his column. However, due to the great volume of mail received daily, he regrets he cannot answer letters individually. Fair pay I've read the big argument between the teachers and County Commissioners over pay in Washington County. A county teacher's starting pay is quoted at $6,900 a year. At 188-days a year, 6V4 hours a day, it figures out at $5.64 cents an hour to start.

The major portion of lax dollars goes to education, Where will it all end? I'm for anyone making a good living but as a starting point I believe this is better than fair. J.B. Wlioopiiig it up Thanks to the Supreme Court, now the murderers, rapists and hijackers in prison can whoop it up. Chester J. Gembski, Chambersburg Readers are invited'to express their views in the Letters to the Editor column.

Letters of 200 words or less are preferable, and all letters are subject to careful condensation. The Morning Herald reserves the right to accept or reject any letter for publication. All letters must include the name and address of the writer, but a pen name may be substituted for publication if requested. Preference will be given to letters whose writers permit publication of their names. Welcome, raceway Welcome, Washington International Raceway! As members of Washington County's home-based sports car club, Hub'City Sports Car.

Sydney J. Harris Doubt and disbelief The other day I dealt with the paradox, "The icher we get, the shoddier our goods." Today I'd like to throw another paradox your way: "The more we know, the less we know." We live in the Age of Information; it has superseded the Age of Production. Information systems, beginning with the computer, have opened a new era of cybernetics, introducing a qualitative change into our whole social and economic order. formation to spark a revolt. The issue was clear and simple, and any farmer could weigh the alternatives and make a rational decision to remain loyal to the Crown or to join the band of revolutionaries.

What rational decisions can we, as an electorate, make today? Take the recent Dap over the Navy's project to install an electrical grid under a major portion of northern Wisconsin, not too far from my home. The proposal, called Project Club, we extend our thanks and welcome to W.I.R. Such a track will offer many benefits to those who enjoy and participate in motoring events. The future scope and plans for W.I.R. shall go a long way in promoting the enjoyment and safe use of automobiles in everyday use, as well as in competitive events.

W.I.R. will stimulate new interest, in what we feel, is a safe and enjoyable form of sport and recreation, that of motoring as a hobby, as well as necessity. As a club, we have always upheld the safety aspects of driving and the sane and wise use of automobiles. W.I.R. will offer a safe place for those wish to race and do not use public highways for this purpose.

Auto racing is a fast growing sport and W.I.R. will offer a well designed facility to race and enjoy the sport for drivers and spectators alike. We feel, as a club, that it 1 is necessary for W.I.R. lo be built for safe racing and lo meet the ever growing demand of those interested in the sport for such places. We are very happy that W.I.R.

shall be located in oirr area. We shall make use of W.I.R. in our capacity as a motoring club. We will also continue to strive for the further development of safe driving and for the proper facilities for safe race driving. Robert Barnhart, president David Pierce, vice-pres.

Terry Karn, treasurer Donna Conway, secretary Few party revolts succeed I JlllCK fTIll forces of ourselves nature, we find i a i transmit low-frequency radio waves to misslc-carrying submarines. This wpuld give Our Founding Fathers knew very little about anything, compared to what even a school bo knows today. Yet when the British Parliament passed the' nefarious In tolerable Acts, the American colonists had enough in- THEY'LL DO IT EVERYTIME by Jimmy Hatlo VERWN SPEAKERS TO SWEET-TALK MS RASTCXJ HE SLEEPS IN HIS HAPPENS TO DROP IN ON NEIGHBORHOOD A SEASON'S BADGE COSTS 2O BUCKS, VERM VWJLPU'T RS-YTHAT BEACH-FRONT BONSAUOV, WHAT GAME ARE YOO LISTENING TO? DO YOU ROOT FOR? weapon system. Now three University of Wisconsin i i sponsored by the state Cbm- mitlee for Environmental Information, have completed a study that totally refutes the Navy's claim. They insist that the project is unworkable, inadequate, and unnecessary for its purpose.

Also, the U.S. Forestry Service has issued a report disputing the Navy's environmental view of the impact of the project on the territory. Whom are we to believe? Is the ifavy merely mistaken, or lying lo us? Do we need to spend these countless millions? Will the system really work, or turn out to be an expensive fluke: providing more money for contractors and more realms of authority for Naval bureaucrats? Is the Wisconsin Com mittee foi Envornmcntal Information a reliable group, or just a coterie of extremists and alarmists and anti- militarists? How do I know? How do you know? Before we can find out, Ihe money will be spent which mighl be wasted -or tlie project will be dropped which might weaken our defenses. In this age of proliferating information, we are privy to none of the basic facts, and our discontent is roolcd in our sense of frustration, doubt a disbelief. 0--In baseball, what is the ruling when a batter with two strikes on him bunts 'foul? A--The foul bunt is a third strike.

Q--In the Islamic faith, Is Moses regarded as a prophet? A--Moses, Abraham a Jesus are all considered prophets in the Islamic faith. Q--What animal appears to have three feet? A--The seal has two separate flippers in front, but its two rear flippers are joined together, giving it the appearance of a three-footed animal. Q--Who was the nation's only bachelor president? A--James Buchanan, 15th president. Q--Why did a setect Friday as the Sabbath or Holy Day in Islam? A--It was the traditional day of the week on which Adam was created. GRAFFITI MIAMI BEACH, FLA.

-Attendance at a 19th consecutive national political convention sets no record, but it does induce reflections on windy a i whirling around Democratic Convention Hall here. By most accounts, this convention is to be a fascinating spectacle of the newly democratized Democratic party at work. A great upsurge of the young, the black and the female has revolutionized the party, kicked out the old hacks and is now proceeding to nominate a long sideburn candidate of the new era. The old election-winning Roosevelt coalition of labor, the blacks, ethnic groups, and the intellectual elite is coming down in the reckless adventurism of war haling liberals, disaffected young, liberated women, militant blacks and aU other elements which are disgusted with the establishment and don't like the way things are going in general. A great deal of this is simply media-type build-up, another part is bunk, and some of it is true but in far less vivid terms.

In any case, the McGovern revolution does not represent an uncontrollable upsurge of the new Democratic left. Women are not represented in proportion to population by a long shot. Blacks fare belter but still fall below their quota delegates. Labor is not rep- presented in the strength it has had before. Many of the old bosses are out, and old faces familiar for two generations are seen no more.

Elected officials from the South and North feel alienated and are not overwhelmed but merely horrified by a national convention in which abortion, marijuana and homosexuality are deemed to have political content along with sharing the wealth. The very young are notable only because some of them are actually here and able to vote. Otherwise the convention is a familiar replay of an old theme which has been heard before in both political parties, most often recently in the Republican party. Wendell L. Willkie, Thomas E.

Dewey, Harold E. Stasspn successively represented a revolt against the old guard in the Republican party over a period of some 20 years. They and their associates beat the old guard in battle after battle by attracting younger elements and women by advocating new ideas foreign to the old conservatism, and, in short, by fighting the establishment. They did not shatter the Republican party hut rien- vigorated it and, in the end, forced the nomination of a sure winner, wight D. Eisenhower, with a young running mate, Richard M.

Nixon, who himself later became president. These champions of the new Republicanism, Eisenhower excepted, were younger than the present leading contender for the Democratic nomination, who is 49. Dewey was 42 when nominated, He was first a candidate at 38. Willkie was 48. Nixon was a mere 39 when first nominated for vice-president and 47 when nominated for president the first lime.

At 43, John F. Kennedy captivated the old leadership of the Democratic party in a pro-convention blitz no less dazzling than McGovcrn's and only slightly less laden with predictions of sure defeat because Kennedy was I Catholic. Throughout this long process there were always dire predictions that the spurned would "sit on their hands" in the election campaign or bolt the party, or form a new parly, or switch to the opposite party. But in fact, no new party of any consequence was formed. Wholesale defections, although on both the left and right, did not beat Harry S.

Truman, or elect eilher George C. or Henry A. Wallace. A Democratic revolt against a i Roosevelt's third term did not elect Wendell Willkie. In shorl, both major parties survived intact to fight again a i a a i notwithstanding such disasters as Senator Goldwater's defeat.

In the longer context, therefore, doubt must attach to the idep. lhat the Democratic party will be wrecked if McGovern is nominated, and if he is not. If he is nnt, the frustration level will rise very high, but will the frustrated wish to be parlies to Nixon's election? If McGovern is nominated, will labor wish to risk creating a landslide that would sweep away not only the presidency but Democratic control of Congress? When the heat of battle has subsided in political conventions, the contending factions, however angry, usually find their common foe in the opposite party. Art Buchwald Chess champ for president WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next.

This is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read it here. It is the fourth day of Ihe convention and Ihe Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. Almost every a delegation a sitting in every chair. No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his scat.

When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction. Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the party, has the podium ringed with the National Guard so no one can grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson anil Muskic. There have been no demon- Elralions for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up a marches they won't let him back in his section again. On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,509 he needed.

The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. The second and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all-night session, the convention was hopelessly deadlocked. stale a i caucused right on the floor, trying to get people to change their minds. But it was impossible.

On NBC, John Chancellor and David Brinkley became short-tempered and refused to talk to each other. Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to each other, and on CBS, Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to himself. It was obvious lo everyone in and out of the convention hall that a compromise candidate had to be found one who a not already been nominated. But who? The Democratic Party leaders cull a recess behind the podium.

They argue and thrash it out for several hours. The only man whose name li proposed as the compromise candidate Is a very fanrous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He has announced many times lhal he is nol a candidate for the Presidency or the Vice-Presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft. Yet, the leaders argue he is the one person who can save the party. This young a whose name has been with a very embarrassing incident, is a household word now.

Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November. The compromise candidate is not at the convention. He has purposely stayed away so people would believe he wai not interested in the nomination. O'Brien puts in a call to him. Everyone, in turn, geU on the phone and lells him he has lo be the candidale.

The compromise candidate speaks lo George McGovern, Muskie a Wallace. They urge him to run. The candidale finally agrees to a draft and says he will lake the next plane to i a i And that's how Bobby Fischer, the U.S. chess champion, became the Democratic -presidential 1972..