The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 12

Thursday, May 5, 1966 Low Grade Gangsf An adolescent search for excitement, plus 'immature idea that excitement is found only through incessant activity and personal aggressiveness, seem to be sending some young people of this area into a round of sensation-seeking, which is making trouble for the community now and will almost surely make big individual trouble for the young people involved, in the future. An example of what is happening: A young man walking around the streets of Lock Haven a few nights ago, with another youth, stopped to talk with two girls, aged 14 and 16, from Antes Fort. While the four were talking at 2 a. a. car came along and stopped.

Out jumped a 17-year-old boy, it has been testified, who belligerently announced that he wanted to fight. Although the young man he accosted said he did not want to fight, the story goes, 'the youth struck him anyway. The upshot is thait a young married man lies in hospital at Williamsport with a serious depressed fracture of the skull, near an eye, facing a long and expensive course of hospital treatment and the prospect of permanent injury. The other youth faces charges of assault, and charges of supplying liquor to minors and of illegal possession and consumption of ailcohol beverages are being prepared against other young men involved in the case. Police say their investigations show that some of the young people involved in episode traveled across the state border into New York to buy Liquor, which itfaey are too young to purchase in Pennsylvania.

Such goings-on presents a problem which the police cannot solve unaided. The help they need must come from parents and others ki the community who realize what a bad start in Life it is for boys and girls to be prowling the streets in the early morning hours, drinking intoxicants, trading fisticuffs for no good reason, and picking fights merely because they are under the influence of botih liquor and youthful exuberance. There is too much emphasis these days, among fine young, especially, upon the rights of individuals and too little on the responsibilities of individuals. Perhaps young people have a "night" to stay up al night if feheir paremfcs give them money and cars and do not interfere wittih 'their peregrinations, but they do not have a right to assault others. Parents who think they do their sons and daughters a favor by giving them cars of their own, or letting them use the family car, without restrictions, should consider the temptations they create for their children.

The young person with a car immediately becomes surrounded by thrill- seekers of his own generation who may not have cars of their own, but want transportation for such adven'tares as trips to Corning, N. to buy alcoholic drinks, or jaunts to neighboring communiities to play dangerous games with the police. Young people who have the possession of automobiles are very easily exploited by others, who want the excitement of riding around all night, with none of the responsibility if Ss an accident or an incident. Young people who feel bored with life if itihey do not have the excitement of racing over 'tthe highways and cruising through the streets of bheir own or some other town, most of the night, are not on the threshold of an interesting and stirring career; they are, instead, on the threshold of low-grade gang- sterism, whioh can lead them into deeper trouble the longer they continue with it. Washington Merry-Go-Round Anybody ought to be able to meet expenses seem to be everywhere.

The Old Picture Public Will Finally See Reports on Auto Safety Studies Financed by Government WASHINGTON Dr. Philip Lee, a two-fisted physician who has brought new life to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as Assistant Secretary, is planning to shake off the dust and ruffle the papers of various reports inside his department which cost the taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars but have scarcely seen the light of day. ParticularJy he is planning to reform HEW's system of giving universities grants to investigate automobile safety and then permitting the reports to be hushed up. Last week this column reported that half a dozen or so reports on auto safety had been supressed by Leon Goldstein, chief of grants research in HEW's division of accident prevention. Dr.

Lee plans to specify that when a university or any individual gets a government research grant, the contract shall set a deadline for completion of the work and that its results shall be made public. In the past, various reports on auto safety were stalled. When researchers asked universities for the results of their work-results which cost the tax- payes several hundred thousand dollars-they were referred back to HEW. And when HEW was queied, the inquiries were referred back to the university. Dr.

Lee wants to end this merry-go-round. Legal Eagle The smartest thing the Detroit motor moguls did in the auto safety hearings was to hire Lloyd Cutler as their attorney. Cutler is a close friend of Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor, who will be entrusted with enforcing the safety standards if and when Congress writes them. Connor thought so highly of Cutler that he wanted to appoint him Under Secretary of Commerce.

However, there was too much opposition, due to his representation of powerful big business clients, particularly the drug industry and the Swiss Inter- handel cartel. It was Cutler's skillful maneuvering on behalf of the drug companies, including Merck and Company, which succeeded in pulling the teeth of the Kefauver drug bill. Secretary Connor at that time was head of Merck and Company, one of those who retained Cutler. Interhandel was the Swiss company which took over the assete of General Aniline and Film, the American counterpart of the Nazi cartel I.G. Farben.

The Justice Department in the past had branded Interhandel as a blind for the Nazis, but Cutler helped persuade Bobby Kennedy, then Attorney General to negotiate a deal which sent $100 million to the Swiss blind. Immediately after after the a mobile industry retained Cutler, its image began to improve in Washington. Working late at night over the weekend, Cutler persuaded the automobile industry to change its tactics and not oppose the administration's auto safety bill head-on. He advised an oblique attack instead. This was why the industry was By DREW PEARSON Copyright, 1966 hy the Bell Syndicate, Inc.

credited with a turn" in Court, then to the accepting federal safety stan- Court, then to the dards. Actually this was not the case. What happened was that Cutler got the motor moguls to agree to the idea of having Secretary of Corranerce-at the moment John Connor, a former General Motors tihe man who would enforce safety standards. But Cutler turned around and proposed so many amendments against loo much federal safety control that Connor, friendly as he is, will not have much authority. After all, Connor won't be in 'the job forever.

When? Here are the gimmicks which Cutler proposed for the auto safety bill: Amendment No. 1-was "delay." The automobile makers could appeal to the U.S. District Appeals Supreme Court, under Cutler's plan, if they don't like safety rullings by the Secretary of Commerce. Amendment No. proposed that the new auto safety law stretch the two-year limit for the auto industry to make design changes.

Amendment No. 3-Cutler has concocted a new formula for safety standards. In addition to reasonableness and practicality, he would add "cost" and whether the safety changes were "within present engineering and manufacturing art." Amendment No. 4-Cutler conceived the idea of changing the proposed fine of $1,000 per vehicle, to be assessed against the motor industry for safely failure, to a total of $100.000. This is a drastic reduction, since a fine of $1,000 per vehicle could run into millions of dollars.

Amendment No. 5- Cutler introduced the idea of safety participation by the states. The states have a very diverse and confusing system of enforcing automobile safety, with many states having no such machinery at all. To consult the states would definitely nullify federal attempts at automobile safety. Chief aim of the Cutler amendments is to create machinery for enforcing safety by the automobile industry, not by the U.S.

government. Connor delivered a recent speech lauding the automobile industry on safety, despite the fact that it has now called back thousands of cars to adjust defects, and despite that fact that General Motors hounded the young man who pointed to these defects, Ralph Nader, even placing a private detective on his trail. TOO MANY UNTRAINED TROOPS! The World Today Nader Winning His Fight By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) Ralph Nader, one of the greatest pains in the neck the automobile industry ever encountered, has put in years analyzing the problem of safety in American cars but not much time analyzing himself. As few ever have, this tall, gangling, unmarried, 32-year- old lawyer has helped light a fire under Congress and the automakers with his criticism of the latter and his crusade for safer cars. He has done it with his book, FOUR BUILDINGS la this picture, taken when Bellefonte Ave.

was called Clinton and carried a set of trolley tracks, are, left to right, the Heilman Furniture Store, the Kinsloe bookstore and wallpaper emporium, with newspaper plant in tie upper floors, and the Horn- ler store with the Lock Haven Bicycle Club, on the sec- ood floor, and tte Lock Haven Post Office at right, across Mill St. The furniture store if now the home of The Ex- press, which moved from the Kinsloe building In 1926, and the Kinsloe Building and the corner structure are now combined in the Pursley Building, unoccupied on the first floor since the Pursley Furniture store went out of business. The Lock Haven Bicycle Club is no more. The post office is now the home of Grossman's store, and the trolley car tracks have been gone for years. "Unsafe At Any Speed," which hasn't made him a forutne, and his statements before Congress and groups anxious to hear his attacks.

This year Congress may pass a law laying down federal safety standards and requirements such as have never been imposed on the industry. The automakers finally thought this might be worthwhile although a few weeks before they didn't. Nader is not only not a mechanic, he doesn't own a car. He has gathered his information from various sources, like studies and engineering reports. He often goes sleepless to do research and prepare his next day's statements.

The night before last, getting ready to appear before a congressional committee Wednesday he didn't sleep at all. And when he arrived he had such a bundle of material he needed both arms to carry it. Nader, a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School, gave up a law practice to devote himself full time to this cause. Why? What makes him tick? What's the motivation behind this use of his life for this crusade? Ask him. and he's a little blank.

He relishes the question. He grins and rubs his head and makes a hasty expedition back through his life to childhood in search of the answer. He can't be sure. He can only And his guess is vague. He thinks his parents, Lebanc.se with a restaurant in Winstcd, were an influence but he can't say how.

He knows he always fell people should do good for one another. He called it public service. Jt didn't involve making money. For some reason, trying to explain, he thought of the dignity of man and the time he was four years old in the Eastern Orthodox Church his family attended. He was in line with a lot of other boys, waiting to go up and kis the bishop's hand, and he didn't want to because he thought it was an indignity to him.

Beyond that he seemed at a loss for his motivation about safe cars. Except for this: He said "I have been interested in auto safety ever since my school days when I saw too much blood on the highway." The auto industry's reaction to him hasn't been exactly warm. Henry Ford II, head of the Ford Motor said that if Nader was a good engineer he could have a job at Ford but "Frankly, I don't think he knows very much about automobiles." And General Motors had private detectives investigate his life. Nader testified that after his book was published gumshoes followed him, quizzed his friends and old college acquaintances about his sex life, asking whether he was anti- Semitic and if he belonged to any left-wing groups. They found nothing against him.

And on an extraordinary day, James M. Roche, president of General Motors, apologized before a Senate committee for the sleuthing, explaining it was to find out if Nader had any connection with damage claims against GM. Nader had traveled a lot overseas, writing about problems he saw, and then came home to concentrate on automobiles, believing, he said, he couldn't solve foreign problems but might help solve some at home. He has other projects in mind when this Ls finished but won't disclose them. One friend said of him: "The good thing about what he i doing is that it shows the individual counts and can get things done.

The old saying about individual effort 'you can't fight city hall' didn't count in his case." About the only place you can start out at the top of the lad- det is climbing out of a burning building. and There Sign of Success, When Office Boys Copy Your Ways By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -Are you forging ahead in life's rat race? Or are you just a treadmill mouse that has fallen behind? Surprisingly, many people don't know for sure. It isn't always easy to tell. There are, however, certain symbols of status. Here are a few unmistakable signs: Your wife raises by at least $1 the amount she daily doles out to you as lunch money.

One of the two or three television sets in your home is a color set. Some of the officials at the bank where you keep your checking account recognize you when you enter. If your account is occasionally overdrawn, they don't make a federal case of it. At quitting time you don't have to tote home a briefcase scuffed with newspapers just to prove how hard you are working. Instead of talking about office problems, the boss likes to chat with you about his golf scores.

If you don't have an office of your own, at least your desk is by a window with a nice view. The senior vice president hates you and regards you as a conniving young whippersnapper. the other ambitious guys your age in the office secretly dislike you, too, although they try to be publicly palsy-walsy. Wihen you pause to compliment your pastor after his Sunday sermon, he pats you on the arm as he shakes hands. If the firm buys a table at a public dinner, you and your wife get your tickets weeks ahead of the the day before after some other executive decides he can't make it.

You have become so important that no one else in the organization any longer can steal your ideas without at least giving you credit for them. The boss's wife confides to your wife what an old meanie her husband Ls around the home. You feel free to have a martini at lunch w.ithout gulping three packages of mints afterward to kill your breath. Your wife realizes that you are so tired from making big decisions at the office all day that she doesn't mind going alone to P-TA meetings. You decide that the college you went to isn't good enough for your children.

It doesn't have quite the right standing. The new friends you make dress better than the old friends you now see less often, but every once in a while you wonder if you really like them as well or trust them as much. You get paid once a month instead of once a week like the office peons, and the office mails your check directly to your bank. If you wear bow ties, the office boys start wearing bow ties also. That's the best of all success signs.

When the office boys start imitating you, you know you're a winner. Shore Lines By Joseph Cox Local Skies Thursday, May 5 Sunset today 8:11 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:02 a.m. Moonrise tonight 9:26 p.m. Last Quarter May 12 The ecMpse of the Moon yesterday was one of the last of a series of eclipses that began about 785 years ago.

The next eclipse of the Moon, in October, will also be pen-umbral and invisible. The Indians had one way of marking how time went on in the West Branch Valley that brings back a feeling of pioneer days in the spring when we read of it in the journal kept by Colonel Burd at Fort Augusta. It appears in his entry for 209 years ago today, after a pair of opening paragraphs. "This day, Indian William Taylor informed me that the party that killed the two semtin-als had left two letters, the one from an English woman prisoner (whom he saw) the other from the French officer that commanded the party to me here." Meaning the party that marched from Fort Duquesne to scout Font Augusta and see how strong it was. Indian William Taylor and his wife and another Indian named Jamy Narrow had come from the Ohio, maybe from Old Sandusky Town, where white prisoners taken from Penn's Woods were kept.

"I sent a party directly to hunt for these letters, but they return inform me they could not find them." Now we have the natural calendar for here. "William Taylor further informs me that the French Indians are determined to come in a large body besiege Fort Augusta when the leaves is the size of a dolliar." When would that be? We have to follow the daily entries in the diary to find out. To make this easy to do, the colonial spelling of Colonel Burd has been modernized. "Friday, May 6th, day, at noon, Capt'n Hanbright, Capt'n Young, arrived here with 17 battoes. The Indians, William Taylor and Jamy Narrow and W'm Taylor's wife set out from hence with a canoe for John Harris'.

I sent John Carter in the canoe with orders to deliver the Indians to John Harris." John Harris' is now the state capital. The days went by with little activity other than work in the garden when the marigolds grew and other places around the fort. Then, warwhoops in the night. "Sunday, morning I was informed by the lower sentries of the palisades, that several Indian hallows were heard over the river. I detauchedf Capt'n Patterson, Lieuts.

Garraway Clayton and a party of -10 men over the river this morning at 8 a. m. after the enemy. Detauched Ensigns Brodhead Miles with a small reconniitering party of 12 men over the mountain by the spring, as I have some reason to suspect the enemy lurking there from my observation this night. "One of the soldiers of the bullock guard brought me in at 11 a.

m. three Indian spears they got by tree that supports the spout at the spring, and the tracks fresh. Ordered the bulLock guard in with the bullocks. I suppose these Indians, lying in wait for the sentries on the bullocks, observed the reconnoitering party and went off so precipitately they could not recover their spears. "Ordered the bullock guard under the command of Sergeant Major Falconer to march immediately to the top of the hill on the other side of the spring, and there lay with the party concealed, until he should hear Ensign Broadhead and then march immediately to his support.

"Ensign Broadhead returns with his party and reports that he came upon the Indians track fresh, and pursued, but could not overtake the enemy. At 3 p. m. Capt'n Patterson and Lieuts. Garraway Clayton returns with the party and Capt'n Patterson reports he saw a great many fresh Indians' tracks between this and Gabriell's place." This meant this place.

Gabriella's place was at the present site of Selinsgrove. "Capt'n Patterson then divided his party into three parts, under his own command, one under Lieut. Garraway and one under Lieut. Clayton, that under command of himself marching over the mountain, that under Lt. Garraway by the river, and that under Lieut.

Clayton, in the centre. "On the top of the mountain in this position they followed the tracks and came up with the enemy's fires at Gabriell's place, but the enemy had discovered them and fled before them. They saw several flats (boats) on the river, but having neither battoes or canoes they could not get at them. They ranged the woods round Gabriell's and march to Mahanoy and returned home." So leaves are large as a dollar on May 2. But we keep wondering about the English woman prisoner whose letter was never delivered.

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