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Page 4-Friday, October 1, 1971-The Express, Lock Haven, Pa. editorial Washington merry-go-round on the right Meeting the needs Humane Society says Wild West rodeos torture horses, bulls, kill calves Clinton County has done pretty well in a six-year program, of highway development. Almost all the projects listed at the top of the order six years ago have been completed, are under way or will get under way shortly. When the original program was set up through the County Planning Commission, the Shortway had priority. That road has been completed through Clinton County.

The only work that remains to be done in the county is the erection of the buildings at the roadside rest stations on either side of the road. There will be two rests in the county one west of the Lamar interchange, and the other near the Jersey Shore interchange at the eastern county line. Two of the bridges across the Susquehanna River have been completed a new bridge connecting Renovo and South Renovo, and a bridge at McElhattan. The second Island bridge will be opened in a few weeks. Work is under wav on the extensive Red Hill project on Route 120 near North Bend.

Because of the complexity of the job and the necessity of maintaining traffic, the work there is still some months from completion. The first Lock Haven bypass- Appalachian Thruway contract is scheduled to be let in March, 1972. the second in June, the third in November, and the final contract, the Lock Haven connection, in April, 1973. A new six-year program will soon be set up. The County Planning Commission will, as before, coordinate the county's highway needs.

Planning commissions, municipal bodies, the Lock Haven Motor Club and others interested in highways should be thinking now of the county's future needs and should be preparing to establish the priorities. Old picture album By JACK ANDERSON WASHINGTON The Humane Society has called for federal action against rodeo promoters for misrepresenting their Wild West shows. The "wild" horses and bulls are really tame animals that are tormented to make them buck, alleges the society. Rodeos have become a multi-million- dollar business. The paid attendance is close to 25 million spectators a year more than watch pro football.

This huge public following, according to the society, is built upon the agony of horses, bulls, steers and calves. In a stirring appeal to the Federal Trade Commission, the society complains that even the Rodeo Cowboys Association's bucking bronco trademark is a deception. "It fails to indicate that the horse is in a state of fear, frenzy and torment, having been propelled from the chute with kicks and electric prods," charges the society. The horse allegedly is "forced to thrash and buck by means of a 'bucking strap' pulled tightly around his groin behind his rib cage in the area of his vital organs." The broncs are already broken and wouldn't buck without deceptive devices, says the society. "In the few instances where a horse has become truly mean and wild, it would be fair to compare him with a human who had been tormented beyond all endurance and had gone crazy." The Humane Society asks the FTC to serve rodeo promoters with a cease- and-desist order.

The society's complaint, not yet made public, is buttressed with copies of rodeo advertisements and tapes of rodeo announcers. Phony ferocity The fearsome Brahman bulls, continues the complaint, are actually the same breed that peacefully walk the streets of India. To make them wild, the promoters allegedly jab them with electric "hotshots," cruelly strap their flanks and tie a ball to their stomachs "to keep (them) bucking, thrashing and twisting." Calf roping often leaves the animals dead or dying while "the announcer or promoter assures the crowd that they have simply had the wind knocked out of them," charges the society. Rodeo animals are shocked and jabbed in their rectums and, according to one supporting society document, "we have actually seen a cowboy bite the ear of a horse hard enough to draw blood in a bucking contest." TROOP MEN IDENTIFIED Harry Pinge, who was one of the Troop men who left Lock Haven in 1916 for duty on the Mexican border, has recalled the names of many of the men who appeared in a picture published here earlier this week. As he remembers them, they were: bottom row Robert Rouddey and Robert Suiter; second row Mess Sgt.

Reeder, a Roadabaugh, Arthur Workman, Bill Kennelly, and Sgt. Jack Lutz; third row Robert Bryerton, Foster Smith, Robert Wagner, Thomas Eckle, Red O'Neal; fourth row Irvin Furlong, Blair Heckman, Russell Ludwig, Daddy Walls, Harvey Henry, Sam Herr, Norman Probst, Skipper Smith; fifth row Percy Lutz, Sam Kennelly, John Farley, a man named Bowes, Hogan Seasholtz, Larry Rennersy, Mickey Jamison, Lou Miller, Fred Walls, Hick Sanders, a man named Boyer and Edward Smith. All of this, in the opinion of the Humane Society, constitutes false advertising. For in the real Wild West, horses were never tormented to make them buck, and calves weren't roped in a way that would injure them. Footnote: A spokesman for the Rodeo Cowboys Association, largest of the rodeo groups, discussed the Humane Society's charges with us.

He grumbled that the society had been given access to all rodeo areas. The broncs are horses which have "gone sour," he insisted. There is some irritation, he acknowledged, but. no great pain from the prods and straps. Everything possible is done to protect all the animals from injury, he said.

Washington whirl Contaminated Ducks Duck hunters who eat their quarry may get an overdose of mercury. The first alarm went out last year after serious mercury contamination was found in the bodies of nine wild ducks shot on the shores of Lake St. Clair, the smallest of the Great Lakes. Thereafter, the carcasses of 307 wild ducks were examined in the laboratory. The unannounced results: 10 per cent had mercury levels considered unsafe for human consumption.

All 12 ducks bagged near Mobile Bay in Alabama, for instance, had twice more mercury residue than is safe. Some ducks had as much as eight times the save level. The Fish and Wildlife Service will issue a public report but won't restrict duck hunting. White House Apology The White House has mailed letters of apology to 47 congressional interns from Connecticut who heard a presidential aide call Rep. Bob Steele, a "liar" and a "moron." Brash, young Jeff Donfeld, who once worked for the Nixon law firm and paid court to Tricia Nixon, gave the interns a narcotics briefing.

One intern asked about Steele's findings that 10 per cent of the GIs in Vietnam were heavy heroin users. Donfeld, who had come back from his own Vietnam visit with lower figures, snapped that "Steele is a liar" who acted like "moron" in assembling his data. Steele. an experienced ex-CIA agent, was furious. His plaints swiftly reached the White House.

Although Donfelt originally told us he would stick to his charges, he finally was compelled to eat crow. The White House mailed out the letters of apology to placate Steele, then quietly promoted Donfelt to be assistant director of the President's Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention. Nixon's Recollections President Nixon has told friends why he changed from an economic passivist to an activist. The story goes back to the summer of 1960 when Artfiur Burns was President Eisenhower's chief economic adviser. Burns warned Nixon, who was preparing to make his first run for the presidency, that he would lose unless Ike took more positive action to overcome the recession.

Both Burns and Nixon tried, in vain, to persuade Ike to act. Eishnhower's failure to stimulate the economy, Nixon is convinced, was the chief factor in his defeat. same Arthur Burns, as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been urging President Nixon to take more positive economic action. Like Eisenhower, Nixon listened at first to the advice of his more cautious economists. But he remembered that Burns had been right in 1960 and, therefore, decided he had better take Burn's advice in the 1970s.

EXPRESSING- MS SINCERE- THOUGHTS ON BEAUTY OP A TRULY DEMOCRATIC it seems like yesterday All Red Cross activities in Lock Haven will be closed 70 years ago THE REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING of the Lock Haven School Board was held with the following members present: Adams, Achenbach, Baird, Brungard, McCormick, Cupper, Levan, Shaffer, Zimmerman and President Harris. City Superintendent Robb reported 1,293 pupils in attendance. St. Michael's Catholic Church at Loretto, erected by Charles M. Schwab, in memory of Prince Gallitzin, was dedicated.

Prince Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a young Russian nobleman who renounced his high position in his native land to enter the Catholic priesthood, formed the first congregation at Loretto in 1799 and was its pastor for 41 years. 60 years ago AMONG THOSE WHO PERISHED in the flood and fire that devastated the town of Austin, Pa. were the mother and sister of Prof. Nelson P. Benson of the Lock Haven Normal School faculty.

Avis was having a veritable epidemic of robberies. Five homes were visited by thieves one night. Italy declared war on Turkey. Attacks on Turkey followed with astounding speed. The National Baseball Commission set Oct.

13 as the date for opening the World Series. 50 years ago A DECISION TO CLOSE all Red Cross activities in Lock Haven was reached at a meeting of the Lock Haven chapter at the City Improvement Association offices. The work which formerly had been done by the Red Cross would be carried out after Oct. 1 by the City Improvement Association with Miss Netg White as a social service worker. The action followed some friction with the National Red Cross headquarters.

According to the State Department of Health, Lock Haven would have to either install a cholorinating plant on its water supply or fight the edict in court. 25 years 1946 THIRTY TWO YEARS OF SERVICE in the employ of Uncle Sam entitled Charles B. Herr to retire as postmaster of Salona. In order more definitely to judge the expected counter and newsstand sales, thereby limiting waste of newsprint in the daily press run, the counter and newsstand price of The Express would be five cents. 10 years A BUILDING PERMIT in the amount of $25,000 was issued to Max Conrad Aviation, 6 Fleming Lane, for completion of an expansion project already under way.

John Vincent, a Lock Haven man, widely famed as an artist, was one of the noted natives of Newfoundland invited to attend the opening ceremonies and the first convocation of the new university at St. John, Newfoundland. John Vincent, who had resided for the past few years at the home of his son, Gordon Vincent, received an invitation from Premier J.R. Smallwood of Newfoundland. 5 years ago THE HAMMERMILL PAPER CO.

had plans to spend $3.5 million to improve its facilities of the Lock Haven Division. Formal dedication and opening of the John Sloan Room at the Ross Library was set for Oct. 10. The Lock Haven YMCA Junior Rifle Club, under the leadership of Delmar Decker as instructor and advisor, held its first meeting of the season. U.N.

vote may oppose two Chinas By WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. Pity the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the talented and amiable Mr. George Bush.

On top of the intrinsic difficulties of serving in the United Nations, where the frictions range from the equality of Upper Volta, to the peace-loving imperatives of Soviet policy, Mr. Bush finds himself actively brokering, in behalf of the Nixon Administration, the so-called Two China policy. I.e., one seat (including the Security Council) for Red China, one seat (in the General Assembly) for Nationalist China. Mr. Bush faces many difficulties.

Among them is the emotional difficulty. Now, of course, Mr. Nixon having made the decision to recognize Red China, the psychic reorientation is necessary. Mr. Nixon found it easier than any amateur might have thought: resistance to his proposed trip to Red China has been slight.

The American people, who yearn for good news, and who continue to believe that Richard Nixon is simply not the kind of person who will make mistakes in his dealings with the enemy, rewarded him with a significant increase in the Gallup rating. It was left only to give flesh to Mr. Nixon's promise that nothing in his decision would suggest that he was engaged in betraying America's "old friends." Now there are two ways in which one betrays one's old friends in this particular context. To begin with, the old friend in question is easily identified as Nationalist China. As regards Nationalist China, we are in a position to prove constancy of our friendship in two ways, the one symbolic, the other substantive.

As regards the latter, what matters is the defense treaty of 1955. Any suggestion that that defense treaty, passed overwhelmingly in the United States Senate, is being rescinded, would amount to betrayal of the coarsest kind, and it is not anywhere suggested that President Nixon entertains any such intention. The other betrayal is symbolic. And the assignment has been given to George Bush to prevent its happening, namely the explusion of the Nationalist Chinese from the United Nations. There is no doubting the sincerity of Mr.

Bush's efforts to line up the necessary votes. And he has succeeded in getting a formidable co-sponsor, namely Japan, for the two-China resolution. On the other hand, the votes we need in the UN are not by any means out there waiting to be counted. The specialists, lining up the market situation, are frankly skeptical that when the vote comes, the United States will prevail. They are saying that it will be close, that it is altogether possible that the United Nations will expel the Nationalist Chinese in order to validate the Red Chinese claim to dominance over Taiwan.

These are the same people, one pauses to remark, who would run away from any proposal to deny to the present representatives the right to dispose of the votes of Hungary and Czechoslovakia; let alone Byelorussia or the Ukraine. The international mood in the UN is bent on appeasing Red China and embarrassing the United States. I tend to think that the latter is the stronger of the two impulses, for one simple reason, which I beg you not to dismiss. Although the Soviet Union, for reasons of abstract socialist solidarity, will argue in favor of jettisoning Taiwan, in fact the Soviet Union is not going to work hard to oblige the Red Chinese. Therefore, the anti-Taiwan vote will be, primarily, not a pro-Communist vote! but an anti-American vote, you wait and see.

So what is Mr. Bush to do? This depends, of course, on his instructions. Up until now one gathers that Mr. Nixon has told him to do what he can within the parliamentary situation. That may not prove enough: who knows, Upper Volta may decide that please turn to page 8 THB EXPRESS With TM Shon Eminf Km Publiihed Dally Except Sunday by the Lock Haven Express Printing 9-11 Main Lock Haven, Pa.

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