Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 14

Politics and Public Affairs 'Pl cm7 IsL bhgestEriemi es List Watergate' represents an' attitude toWard 3J Schnmnert Journal and Courier OCUS ON DADS IN THE KITCHEN 6 IN OUR OPINION Cake No Winner But It Was Good! Profit in Service ig into the third bver stacked the height took our pride and joy But zip and it was Photos by Laser Latest ThinglOut Keeping the aith I nation oriacross the Lyons rei of Technology per 1 I YA 0 GEORGE LAMB Editorial Page Editor By BERNARD LYONS Editor of the Journal and Courier 1 1 By BYRON PARVIS Staff Writer rule long enough to warn me that I should use a little shortening and flour on the pans Said something about the cake I tried it and by golly it worked ROBERT KRlEBEL' Metro Editor S'J1 The Boilermakers were quick to avenge their triple overtime loss to Iowa but I for my part decided just to roll with the punch just as well unless a pie con test some day That might just be more my style By LARRY SCHUMPERTStaff Political Writer i Back in 1935 the Associated Press launched its Wirephoto network a revolutionary devel opment of the day that 'permitted the trans mission of pictures' by wire Early thisv week the AP announced that it has awarded con tracts for manufacturing its new equally rev olutionary Laserphoto news picture system In the mid 30s long before television the idea of moving a pho tograph over miles of wires as Wirephot'o did was a radical one And4 the perfection of the system and its subsequent extension to all parts of the globe enabled news papers to publish pic tures that were truly NEWS pictures trans mitted in minutes from scene of newshappenings After World War II the equipment for ceiving' such Wirephotos in newspaper photo departments (where they had to be developed and printed much as regular photos did) was streamlined by replacing the wet darkroom process with facsimile Under the name Photofax these dry paper Wire photo receivers became standard in newspapers over the ensuing quarter century In recent years a higher quality pho to re ceiverwas introduced which delivered glossy' prints automatically from the Wirephoto net work but its wet chemical process required constant maintenance to avoid breakdowns The Associated Press meanwhile' pressed its search for a better method oftrans mitting and receiving better quality pictures Within the last year or so an AP devel opment team' in cooperation with scientists at Massachusetts Institute BERNARD LYONSEditor The fun part of the whole project of course was to be the decorating We decided to make an Indian totem pole with Cub Scout faces stacked up on it The pole was easy All we had to do was cut: out pieces of cake and stack them with out too much leaning It worked In fact that was one of the few things that did Now it 'was time for the icing which we colored with flashier effects on the kitchenthan on the cake At this point had to sign a pledge to the audience to clean up the kitchen before being allowed to proceed Along about this stage the first overtime started While my attention was occupied by that excitement my son picked up the cake decorating thing (it must have a name) and tried to make the' first face Gloop! i Back from having my ear pressed to the Undaunted I started to pour the batter into radio I decided to try my hand at it the cake pans My wife broke her hands off Again gloop! If Watergate' an' attitude toward politics that says either' with tis not worth then the approach has already shown up in Indiana politics It runs throughout the been blamed on Secre tary of State Larryt Conrad and his staff Had the people who wrote the master plan ever come into real power they wo 1 have drawn up an as long as the rankfort phone directory they said of the Demo cratic leadership Jn St Joseph County cut their throats after we win is they said of the mayor of Bend Jerry Miller he realize his And of former governor Matthew Welsh they concluded old man with little trans fer strength Bury him alongside There is another Watergate aspect to the reportwhich deals mostly: with Democrats and leaves few of them standing It is the in criminating references to? using of hce for political scheming as much as for the conduct of state business That part of the re port has Democratic leaders more upset jhhn the inside gossip I can and must keep ar least half our staff active in the political work that must be it says therest running the of fice The public could care a are inherent dangers in using state By now Purdue and Iowa were into the second overtime and I had succeeded in get ting one face on the jsole completed I stood back and decided it was the best we could do' I took on the second face just as the bas ketball game was goi time and finished the last by the time the i game was over I was getting faster if not better We had passable fa of the pole The next evening we to the contest Our cake win but when they were auctioned my son felt too strongly attached to our to! let anyone buy it So bought the cake' It was a little sad cutting it It was after all our masterpiece gone and not bad either Journal and Courier Lafayette Ind riday Man local of non I JUST AMAP A enough to realize he could be payroll funds' for political it says at another point will take these risks as basically the public expects 5 So mucji for tjieir view of public 'Thein view of a few important Democratic politi cians is almostPas cynical Most surprising of all is the hostile attitude toward Sen Birch Bayhj with whom Conrad once worked Who ever wrote the master plan last summer thought a Third term for was great innnorriv Un Ufnr libnlu by at least 50000' votes although no ohe at the time knew who opponent would be' Conrad they added be the only County Democrat survivor in 'Of more concern to them however was the worst we it reports on Sen i Vance Hartke who come up for one county chairman must protect He re election until 1976 i 4 is the bottom of the barrel but we have noth is the report says will never admit it ever win again but' can do a lot of damage to our The master planners figured out how to dispose of Hartke by the time they reached the end of their report They were concerned that Congressman Lee Hamilton woukbknock him off in the Democratic state convention leading a party split that would be In that event they said Hartke might run as an independent Lee Hamilton they feared bring out the worst in The inability to find a serious weakness in State Democratic Chairman Gor don St Angelo despite a valiant effort to do so has led some Democrats to suggest half jokingly that St Angelo was the man behind the master plan Angelo has taken at group of very av erage it says of the state central committee made them into an effective And at another point it perhaps is the most intelligent politician Indiana ing And under Tippecanoe County it reads Purdue liberals are "worth only peanuts to us and no use other than delegate and vo cal In the section on financial sources there is this entry for an Elkhart fund He can hardly speak English 4 but knows where the banks In Benton County there is be 4 And a Boone County man with) gam bling connections be our entree to that huge source of I Conrad himself has been almost silent since the report was disclosed last November On Thursday he said he! was trying to Mputfsdme thing in the way explanation and that there basic decisions to be including whether to run'again this year "We are not' responsible for he said of the master plan we know who Will he eventually have "something to say about the plan that has other Democrats trying to decide his political future? THE JOURNAL OUNDED 1829 but not smart our strongest opponent if he ran for governor himself He has many friends who were once i enemies of his None of us wint him in our group because he "would shortly be running No one however is treated more scornfully than local Democrats who were given an entry in the report Down to the precinct leaders they are shown only contempt! He was likely they said to lose must be continuously the master plan says to allow this low qual ity leadership to rub off on it says of i a Democrat in Carroll Not ours but know who owns The federal Highway Trust very name rings burglar alarms when peddle try to tap it for other purposes The money from the fed eral gasoline tax is collected and held in trust for road programs Yet heeds are pressing people in government to advocate diverting some of the money to build and improve public transit systems It seems to us that there are implied promises in collecting the? taxes arid putting therri in the trust' fund that cannot be violated? Any! dollars collected under the present understanding and held in the fund rightly bediverted without a serious breach of faith We strongly support the underwriting of public transit believing it to be increasingly necessary But we see no reason why that support can not be collected banked and spent openly under its own good If on a certain date Congress were to terminate the highway Trust und and supporting tax let it be exhausted and replace it with char ters for Highways AND Public Transit and a division and dedication of' the taxes to match both jobs could be done and the faith could be Kept I Journal anti Courier Member of the Gannett Newspaper Group THE COURIER OUNDED 1831 Merged Jan 2 1 920 EDITORIAL BOARD GREGORY DELIYANNE Publisher PAUL JANES Associate Editor I TH fected the Laserphoto Essentially the Laser newspapers within the) next two years at a photo system uses the laser to scan a photoi cost of $61 million for the equipment manu graph at the transmitting end of a Wirephoto facture plus substantial furtherjeosts in ship hookup translating various shades of light Jmg installation and technician training noss and darkness Tn the picture into sound levels that are transmitted on the wire At the receiving end a reverse process takes place But here the laser projects the various white gray and black 'values directly onto a ti it 4 North Central Airlines whose burgeoning business in cultivation of frequent service to varied points in its upper midwest service area oth er airlines have reason to envy is reporting growing profits from ren dering this service After reporting an outstanding year in 1973 with a $64 million net on a $127 million gross despite fuel shortages and rising costs 'and maintaining an almost undiminished service level North Central ap proached completion of a first quarter of 1974 with expectations of new record profits Business is up 7 to 9 against forecasts of only 35 growth This despfte the fact that the first quarter usually is a poor one for the airline and other larger airlines are reporting shrinking business and growing losses North Central president Bernard Sweet attributes his sue cess and prospects to the very circumstances in which other lines only see gloom: the pinch of the energy crisis He said his airline already is seeing sharp increases in airline use for the 100 to 250 mile trips that were made by car Reduced road speeds the fuel pinch and rising gasoline prices he thinks all are working for North Central That is of course because North Central is working for the people who live in these off trunk line cities and who need to make inter city (rips in their region as well as to be ferried to trunk points for major flights North Central has been working counter1 to the trend we have been seeing of reduction or elimination of shorter inter city flights substitu tion of only trunk service arid sharp reduction of numbers of flights and destinations But North profits are going one way and the profits of these other lines are going the other That is a sharp recommendation for restoration of frequent flights varied destinations and intensive regional service We need it And ac cording to North experience the airlines need it Our community can only hope that North experience of i profit from lots of good regional service rubs? off on others to local benefit The times the needs and the opportunities demand it Lineup of The' West Side team included Smith Jamison Cooper Wilsorf Howard 100 YEARS AGO TODAY (In the Lafayette Doily Journal) The Temperance meeting atThe Ninth Street Methodist Church Iqst The" object of the meeting iWasto form a tem perance league Rev Dr Godfrey was? called on and said: gospel does notreach the whis ky sellers and drinkers because they do not come under the influence of preachiug they are either in their saloons or sleeping off the effects of adebauch on Sunday and the only way to reach them is to car ry the gospel" to them 1 Trying to decorate a cake a Cub Scout father and son cake baking contest while lis tening to a triple overtime game involving the home team can be quite a hassle But that was the chaotic scene in our home recently irst of all not a baker That fact was i established early in thegame when I at tempted to mix the cake batter The instructions on the box said to sepa rate the whites of two5? eggs and a dd the whites to the mix' Thht sounded simple enpugh But my break ing two eggs into a bowl brought howls of 1 laughter from my Parvis wife who just stood by to make unkind comments tel Once all A photo members are equipped with the new Laserphpto machines AP will be able to change the( transmission method i sound levels to number valilds "again 'significantly enhancing photo quality This i i tone from black through all the grays to white transmitted by wire as a then reassembled at the' receiving end to provide a' copy with 100 per cent of the tones therefore the quality of the original photograph All this electronic and laser wizardry Js all 'very well and good you might say but what does thabmean to Simply 'that you as the reader will get better quality pictures in Tyour paper It means that advances in print ing quality outrun the means "bf dehv prino hpftpr analitv nhntne nfpvpntc AP timetable calls for replacing all the state' across the present Wirephoto equipment in member 1 T' OUT THE PAST Landgiebe ih'64: Governor Race 10 YEARS AGO TODAY (In the Lafayette Journal and Courw) i State Sen EarL Landgrebe Valpa 'raiso conceding" that he faces uphill fight announced he is going after the Re publican nomination for governor 50 YEARS AGO TODAY (In the lofoyetta Joumd and Cpuner) i 4 a V1 1 West Lafayette high hard tight ing clever basketball team won its first sectional basketball tournament in Me 1 morial gymnasium Saturday night by dev i feating Montmorenci 21 to 14 thereby' i completing a series of upsets which dotted the tournament play almost from the 'start i of the first game i sound levels to number valiids "again special dry photographic print paper means that a number jyaiue is assigned each a high quapty photoprint that needs no fur ther processing In the daily operation of Wirephoto net work which links AP newspaper with the Ar new lorn pnoiu uesK wmi men legiun al and state AP bureaus (and with each oth er) the new Laserphoto means that hundreds of Wirephotos will be delivered Cut stacked and ready for newspaper selection and use 4 I I fM 1 jsr jit i I ft: xlffiB'TTOr WTW I I I jo 4g li Ki hi Ml hl ir hr nil i ni WSSLLI Ilf ITMj JdWwiUV 44 XHUlll fei 2SA 4 '''S Lw 1.