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Page 4-Friday, April 23, 1971-The Express, Lock Haven, Pa. editorial Washington merry-go-round hal boyle Clean-up day for city With spring easing into the West Branch Valley a bit belatedly, our fancies here turn to, among other things, the annual clean-up, paint-up, fix- up, season. Many area organizations are participating in renovative activities, some of which are concerned with an ecological spirit and improving the environment, and others a simpler, but equally welcome, sprucing up. Taking a stand as fearless as the endorsement of Flag Day, we support these group efforts throughout our area and urge that all our citizens take it upon themselves to participate individually in spring earth cleaning. It is interesting, at least to us.

that in Russia, there is celebrated "Subbotnik," a day each spring in which millions of Soviet citizens use their time to work without pay for the state. In Moscow, the work took the form of painting park benches, burning rubbish, clearing debris or working a regular shift on the job without pay. Apparently the day of work is voluntary, but there is heavy social pressure to take part in "Subbotnik," which was originally held in 1919, was revived in 1969 and has been held annually since. We recommend that the City of Lock Haven, through City Council, sponsor an annual clean-up Saturday in the spring. The city has granted one organization permission to clean up the river bank and is beginning its street sweeping schedule next week.

Why can't we initiate a concentrated effort on one specific day sort of Lock Haven's own Earth Day to clean up our town? If such a project could be launched, we're sure many of our neighboring communities would follow with similar efforts. THE EXPRESS WMi The Emnint Puhlished Daily Kxeept Sunday The l.uek Haven Kxpress Printing 9-11 W. Main Lock Haven. I'a. 17745 Telephone 17171 74H.B791 Jersey Shore office.

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Kstablished March 1. 1XX2 Our 9fllh Year Al Capp rushed from town in Alabama after making advances toward coeds By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON Al Capp, the famed cartoonist and caustic critic of college students, was shown out of town by University of Alabama police a few years ago after he allegedly made indecent advances toward several coeds. The incident, hushed up for three years by the university administration, is both ironic and significant. For Capp's scathing denunciations of college students and their morals have made him one of the most controversial commentators of the day. He now has a syndicated newspaper column and his broadcast commentaries are heard on some 200 radio stations.

He was even approached to run for the Senate. But his principal forum has been the campus where some of his biting remarks have become famous. In a widely quoted speech at Princeton, for example, Capp said: "Princeton has sunk to a moral level that a chimpanzee can live with, but only a chimpanzee. It has become a combination playpen and pigpen because it disregards the inferiority of the college student to every other class." "President Nixon," Capp siad, "showed angelic restraint when he called students bums." On another occasion, he said: "Colleges today are filled with Fagin professors who don't teach They just corrupt." Although Capp denies'any misconduct and says he cannot remember being asked to leave Tuscaloosa, we have confirmed the Alabama incident with a number of high-level university officials. They include Dean of Women Sarah Healy and University Security Director Col.

Beverly Lee. On instructions from them University President Dr. Frank Rose, Lee went to Capp's hotel, asked him to leave and followed his car to the town line. Capp on campus In addition, we have established the details of Capp's alleged encounters with the four young women involved. Two of them have given us notarized affidavits recounting their experiences.

Based on our interviews and affidavits, here is what occurred: Capp arrived in Tuscaloosa Sunday, Feb. 11, 1968, to make a speech as part of the university's annual arts festival. Late that afternoon, a coed, active in the arts program went to his room at the Stafford Hotel to deliver a university yearbook and other materials he had requested for his speech the next night. Capp told the young woman he was impressed with her and discussed the possibility of hiring her to help produce the "Capp on Campus" radio series, then in progress. He began making forceful advances toward her and exposing himself to her.

She tried to leave but found she could not get the door open. She finally broke free and locked herself in the bathroom until he agreed to let her go. Although she was not injured, she was sufficiently upset by the experience to be admitted a few days later to the university infirmary where she remained under sedation for several days. That evening, another coed, whose job it was to greet visiting speakers, went to see Capp at hotel. He exposed himself to her and made suggestive comments.

She, too, found she could not open the door, but he let her go when she threatened to open a window and scream. The next afternoon Capp was introduced in his room to another woman student who had just completed a taped interview with his staff for a planned broadcast called the "Now Morality." Capp exposed himself to her and made suggestive comments. She immediately left. Late that night, he brought another coed to his room where he said a party was planned. There was no party, however, and Capp made an unsuccessful pass at the girl.

Exodus from town By the next morning, reports of the four incidents had reached the university administration and Dr. Rose sent Col. Lee to Capp's room. "He was asked to get out and he did get out and went to Birmingham," Lee told us. Asked why no charges were preferred against Capp, Dean Healy explained: "The young women were not physically harmed and we felt that the publicity and notoriety should be avoided." Reached at his studio in Cambridge, Capp told my associate Brit Hume that the Alabama allegations made him sick and he neither confirm nor deny them.

Instead, he immediately boarded a plane and flew to Washington to discuss the matter with us. In our office, he repeatedly declined to discuss the episode, claiming it made him ill. All he would say was: "I have never become involved with any student." Pressed, he finally listened to a review of the allegations and, when questioned about them specifically, denied them. It gives us no pleasure to make these revelations about a man whose legendary "Li'l Abner" cartoon creations have amused millions of Americans for generations. But Al Capp today is much more than a gifted cartoonist and brilliant humorist.

He is a major public figure, whose views reach and influence millions. He even seriously considered running against Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Therefore, we believe the public has a right to any information which may bear on his qualifications to speak, particularly when the incident involved is so obviously relevant to the selfsame subjects on which he has been holding forth. NOW IF IT'LL JUST PICK UP A BIT OF it seems like yesterday Pa.

legislators defeat fees for hunting, auto licenses 70 years 1 907 THE FIRST GYPSIES to arrive this season were camping along Bald Eagle Creek A gentleman from New York State who visited Lock Haven recently stated to a representative of The Express that the Susquehanna River here offered splendid opportunity for operating big industrial or electric Old album COUNTRY MUSIC Anticipating the present popularity of country music by almost 40 years, this group from Swissdale, "The Green Valley Haymakers," played for festivals and dances in the late 1930's. In the front row, left to right, are Clair "Bud- right, Goodman, John Masden and Joseph dy" Helbley. In the back row, left to are Thelma Helbley Eggler, Ruth Weise Lucas, Jennie Probst Haagen and Myra Probst Weber. plants by water power, and wondered why the citizens here did not endeavor to have the power utilized. 79-year-' old John McCaughey, of Curwensville, was one of the oldest pilots on the river.

He brought a raft from Curwensville to this city on the recent flood. 60 years WHILE ON A FISHING TRIP on Lick Run, the Wilson brothers, of Wetham, were attacked by a large catamount during their sleep. The men awoke in time to defend themselves and killed the animal with two shots from a revolver. The catamount measured five feet in length. Hunters in this section were greatly pleased over the defeat of the hunters' license bill in the Senate by a vote of 25 to 13.

It was proposed to compel each hunter to take out a license paying $1 for the same. In the House, a bill providing a license tax on all automobile owners of one per cent of value where the car is less than two years old; three fourths of one per cent on cars between two and four years old, and one half of one per cent on cars over four years old was also killed. Hunters and automobile owners all over the state registered strong protests against the passage of those bills. 50 years SPRING BROUGHT A BUILDING BOOM in Upper Lockport. Jesse Brilhart was constructing an addition to his residence.

John Williams was adding a new back porch to his home. Mike Probst was turning his dwelling into a double house. Paul Bush was building a new garden house. Lewis Coffey and Irvin Blesh were building new homes at the end of the river bridge. Plans were under way for raising $3,000 for a James Eugene (Bill) Mahaffle Memorial Fund for Gettysburg College.

Local friends of this former Renovo young man were participating in the campaign to raise the money. 25 years ago 1946 LOCK HAVEN HIGH SCHOOL placed fifth among 15 high schools in a debating contest at Newark, N.J. The Red Cross nearly doubled its $7,100 quota in its annual drive, which netted $13,752. Mrs. Warren Ohl, outstanding bowler in the women's tournament, won singles, all-events and half of doubles, pairing with Beryl Kuntz.

457 Clinton County veterans were drawing readjustment allowance while awaiting jobs. 10 years THE RENOVO DAILY RECORD would change to weekly operation on May 8, according to an announcement by Bennett Shaffer, the Mrs. E. Ross Nevel 318 S. High became the first area woman ever installed as chaplain of the Pennsylvania Odd Fellows Anniversary Association.

Direct distance dialing would go into effect for local telephone customers May 7. 5 years CONGRESSMAN ALBERT W. JOHNSON, of Smethport, seeking reelection to the national House of Representatives from the district which now includes Clinton County, made his first campaign visit to the county. Plumbers on the Lock Haven State College construction projects went on strike asking for a 73- cent-an-hour raise. Lock Haven Hospital completed the 1965 Hospital Safety contest with a perfect record.

Daffynittons DISTANT RELATIVES: People who have sense enough to keep their distance. PIN MONEY: The profits of a bowling alley. GUERRILLA WARFARE: What happens when two countries start monkey business. By HAL BOYLE Associated Presi Writer NEW YORK (AP) Life has its good days and its bad days. Not all our hours are lit by wine and roses.

We are not always a bonfire or a bouquet.to ourselves. Sometimes a clinker in the eye obscures a rainbow. There are the bad days to keep even the largest ego humble. Such as when: Times were so bad that when you lost a tooth you woke up the next morning and found a nickel instead of a dime under your pillow. You asked her for a date and she told you frankly that she was going to be terribly, terribly busy for a long, long time.

It was the last hurdle in the race and you thought you were home ahead, but then your hind foot hit the hurdle and you landed on your elbow and when you got up your arm dangled oddly awry and you felt dizzy and sick at your stomach. She said she'd meet you there but she never showed up. The doctor said the bifocals would give you a different outlook, but when you put them on and stared at yourself in the mirror all you saw was another fat middle-aged man wearing bifocals. She said when you married her that you could have all your wishes, and how does that bear on the fact that now you do all the dishes? You never had acne in your life before, and then on the morning of the senior prom you awoke with a face that looked as if it had been bombarded by strawberries. Five years to the day after you told the boy you didn't want him as a son-in- law, he and your daughter took you and your wife to dinner and showed you a paycheck twice the size of your own.

And then there was the day that the third consecutive redhead in your life told you goodbye even before you had felt you had given her an adequate hello, and you realized that you were just one more of those guys doomed to be unloved by a red-haired girl. Yes, there are days on which the only reason to get up is so you can lie back down in bed again and count your wounds. Offers plan deterring A-warfare By FRANK CAREY AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon's chief science adviser has a new plan for deterring atomic warfare: The two superpowers would store all their nuclear missiles aboard submarines at sea so neither could destroy the other in a first strike. "It is only when both sides have a survivable force of agreed capability that stability can be assued," Dr. Edward E.

David chief of the White House Office of Science and Technology, said Wednesday night in an address to the Acoustical Society of America. David, an acoustics expert and former Bell Laboratory scientist, said: "It may well be that underwater sound and submarine warfare are going to become the key to national security and peace. "This will come about through a chain of possible events which begins with the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT). "The United States hopes to obtain from these talks limitations on both offensive and defense missile systems." But David added: "Should the Soviet Union agree to an enforceable limit the time may well come when a land-based retaliatory force, either missiles or aircraft, will not be able to survive a first strike by the opposing force. "The alternative to land basing, of course, is to send the missiles to sea, as we and the Soviets have already done in part," David said.

"It is the survivability of seabased missiles in submarines which could turn out to be the last refuge for a survivable force." The scientist then said: "Should sea-based submarine forces become the major deterrent to a nuclear war, underwater sound and submarine warfare will assume a much more important role in national and world security than presently. "Already we see increased research in this field and indeed acoustics have long been a vital part of navy," David said. Thus, the Acoustical Society of America is "in a prime position to contribute to world peace." (Joe cox, writer of Shore Lines, IS ill. His column will resume upon his return.).