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Jack Anderson THE TIMES RECORDER 4-A SAT. JUNE 18, 1983 fl JWK SMEOHE high mm I I 1983 CafUr llm Seme Editorial Page From The City Desk National Parks Hit By Crime Nothing much can happen without people, and this has been a special people week. The lady of the week and especially of this weekend is Shirley Gardner, general chairman of the Zane's Trace Commemoration. The very special coupld of the weekend are Carl and Mary Vaihtl Jones Funk whose grand marshal duties for today's parade very nearly coincided with the announcement that the downtown bus station would be opened beginning with Greyhound bus service Jujyl. The reason the Funks were chosen as parade marshals was for their civic dedication with the donation of the Danker Building as a downtown bus terminal as an integral part of their service to this community.

It is imposible to list here all of the names of all of the people who are responsible for making this weekend a success. We appreciate their work and praise them for it. Tom Down and Dennis SteHey were honored this week as Sertomans of the Year by the Sertoma Club. Horoc. E.

Hamilton retired this week as principal of Roosevelt Junior High School, and Jim Rotkwoii retired as assistant principal at West Muskingum High School after 36 years as an educator. We thank them for their years of service in education. Paul R. Langland, assistant principal at Zanesville High School since 1968, will become principal at Roosevelt Aug. 1.

We congratulate Dnis Francis on her election as president of Transitions Shelter for Battered Women and Eld Spillmon on her election as president of the Zanesville High School Band Boosters. More very special people include Suion treasurer of United Plegics, and Woody Wickhom, president of that organization, who this week presented two $300 checks to the Kevin Miller Fund. John Mclntire Public Library recently presented reading certificates to Scott Moor, 7, and Dixit Moor, 9, children of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Moor of 437 Pine St.

We are encouraged that young people are interested and proficient in reading. This area owes a debt of gratitude to 19 Boy Scouts Of Newark Troop 33, led byRlch Young and co-sponsored by Dow for cleaning a 30-mile stretch of the Licking River above Dillon Reservoir. We may all breathe easier because of Good Samaritan Medical Center's Better Breathing Club which is scheduling monthly meetings. Center staff members who are directing it are Condy Jago, Don Caldwell and Joan Kelly. Speaking of special people, we have a special person to lead instruction at Starlight School.

Nancy Luiz of Military Road is assuming the position of principal there. Zanesville's young people are not only readers they are artists. First place winners in McDonald's "Your Pioneer Heritage" art coloring contest are Kelley Moody, Amy Mortimer, Stephoni Bridwell, Fred Curry, Paul Addis and Brion Dunlap. Our congratulations go to Mr. and Mrs.

Elmer s. Young who celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary tomorrow. Last, but definitely not least, are Beulah Hague, Muskingum County Humane Officer, and Don James, Muskingum County Dog Warden, who investigated the abuse of a number of animals in East Fultonham. We applaud them for the firm stand they are taking against abuse of innocent animals. Birthday congratulations this week go to Dbbi Hutmir.

office manager of The Times Recorder's New Lexington Bureau, June 18; Bill Laird of our press room, June 19; Norris Schneider, recently retired Zanesville and Muskingum County Historian and writer for The Times Recorder, June 20 and Shrry Dinon, TR sports editor, June 24. AlFSX ff CUP FUah.VE. ON SPE CP Tun iun ing narcotics problem in their reports to Watt. The secretary immediately promised to set up a special narcotics task force for the national parks. The trouble with that response is that the members of the task force will be drawn from the ranks of the understaffed Park Police force.

This will leave even fewer officers to patrol the parks. And it will do nothing to solve what Park Police sources see as the underlying problem: Park Service Director Russell Dickenson and top Interior Department aides are "uncomfortable" having cops in their organization and favor the ill-trained rangers over the police. In fact, Dickenson has reportedly given his regional directors the option of dropping from their offices the Park Police captains assigned to them the only professional crime fighters who now ride herd on the park rangers attempts to keep criminals from infesting our national parks. Footnote: A National Park Service spokesman maintained that the narcotics task force "is sufficient." Nor does his agency prefer rangers over Park Police, he added "That's absolute bunk. The U.S.

Park Police is the law enforcement farm of the National Park Service," he said. headlines and footnotes: More than $500,000 in overdue student loans is owed by 789 active and reserve military officers, and the Department of Health and Human Services is using "gentle persuasion" in its collection efforts. The funds are needed for recycling into new student loans, which are in snort supply due to budget cuts. Although wild animals have been known to bite the hand that feeds them, the wild-animal keepers at the National Zoo know better. They recently threw a free picnic barbecued chicken, beef kebabs, beer and other food and drink for staffers of the Senate and House Approbations committees and their families.

The lavish affair for 250 people included in elephant training demonstration and dinner at the Panda House's rooftop cafe. Officials insisted that the party was paid for out of privately donated funds. President Reagan has confided privately to friends that he has been drunk only once in his life when he was a young man out with the boys one night. He said he knew what he was doing, but couldn't control himself and it made him feel foolish. He hasn't been pie-eyed since.

watch on waste: Energy Department employees, possibly fearful that their agency will be abolished and leave them with unused sick leave, are claiming illnesses at a higher rate than they used to from an average of 7.1 days a year per employee in 1978 to 9.1 days in 1981. An internal audit states that supervisors "frequently granted and advanced sick leave without requiring employees to support the need for the leave. The sick-leave epidemic cost the taxpayers about $2.8 million more for 1981 over 1978. (c), 1983, United Feature Syndicate Inc. Bill Murchison ciiPES to Sand Mining team and coaches for unsportsman-like conduct and verbal abuse they inflicted upon Horner Harrison as they warmed up recently.

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If you don't want to do that I'll send you to a camp where they only speak Spanish. It will be great for you to learn a second language." Rotten Attitude "I don't want to go to a camp where you have to learn something." "That's a rotten attitude. Let's go through the ads in the back of the Sunday magazine section. This one sounds interesting, an astronaut camp. You go through the same program the astronauts do and even simulate a space lab voyage." "I don't want to be an astronaut camper." "All right then, what about a theater camp? You put on your own plays and musical productions and build your own scenery.

"What kind of a camp did you go to when you were a kid, Dad?" "CampWakhan." "What did they specialize in?" "They didn't specialize in anything. In my day we didn't have the opportunities you kids have of perfecting your soccer game, or learning how to build a robot, or studying the Going Isn 't Books Repulsive WASHINGTON As the vacation season opens, our national parks are being hit bv an epidemic of muggings, rapes and drug trafficking. It's getting to the point that vacationing families could nave as much to fear in the picturesque national parklands as they do in the seamier sections of major U.S. cities. 1 1 1 41 lint iirVllAlt 'Of probably has more law enforcement person nel oi various Kinds man any place in uie iree world, visitors are not Immune from criminal elements who look on the federal parks as happy hunting grounds: drug nuchorc fnr incranpA U.S.

Park Police routinely find dozens of syringes littering a scenic Potomac River outlook in nearby Virginia; it's the firt reasonably secluded spot where a heroin user can shoot up on his way out of the District of Columbia. On April 21, a Park Police detective and an alleged dope pusher had a shootout at the Washington Monument after a busload of South Carolina high school students had been harassed on their sightseeing tour. The suspect was killed; the officer was wounded. The National Park Service's response to this mounting evidence of crime has been curious. Instead of beefing up the 535-member Park Police, officials have been letting it wither away through attrition and are relying instead on park rangers with little or no crime-fighting experience.

According to congressional testimony, no Park Police officers have been hired since 1980, and some 60 vacancies have gone unfilled. Rather than admit the need for more professional police officers, Interior Department officials have for years minimized the threat to public safety. They were afraid that reports of crimes in national parks would scare the public away. To fool the press and public, my sources say, many actual crimes were downgraded to less serious offenses. "The rangers believe if you don't have a reporting system, you don't have a crime problem, one disgusted Park Police officer told my reporters Dale Van Atta and Leslie Adler.

Comploinl To Copitol The April 21 incident at the Washington Monument finally convinced the understaffed, overworked Park Police officers that they should take their complaint to Capitol Hill, where they found a receptive audience in Rep. Stan Parris, R-Va. They unloaded one horror story after another. Parris asked Interior Secretary James Watt to confer with him and Rep. Manuel Lu-ian a member of the House Interior Committee.

They got together on May 17, and Parris began to read from 100 Park. Police officers' reports. Watt seemed shocked by the accounts. After hearing only a half-dozen of the reports, he said that was enough; he was convinced. "We have a serious problem," he told the congressman.

In other words, Interior's top man believed the men in the ranks rather than their super- visors, who had been glossing over the grow No, no, a thousand times, no! Let there be rock groups, joggers, caffeine-free soft drinks and. if we must. Democratic presidential candidates. But from electronic books, good Lord deliver us. As it is, civilized humanity and the electronic book spin dizzily on collison course.

The American Booksellers Association was warned to this effect at its convention in Dallas. Warned? "Advised" is probably the better word. Book-selling is business, and successful businessmen roll with the punches. If there is a market for books to be perused on the computer screen, the television set, or wherever electronic digits dance, the market will be appeased. But may not one pray all the same for such a market never to emerge at all? The Book, as we know it in size and shape and texture, is hardly five centuries old: meaning that life before Gutenberg was not only plausible but fruitful.

How account otherwise for Homer, Virgil. Augustine and Chaucer? That truths should be set down is what matters most not that they should be set down between hard covers with eyecatching dust jackets. So much said, let it be said further that the home computer is the worse imaginable substitute for the book. How do you read a computer? Sitting down before a screen. How do you read a book? Sitting anywhere; and also standing, kneeling, crouching, lying on the stomach, walking, riding, flying, drinking, eating, bathing, every which way but loose.

Made To Be Carried The book is not made solely for looking at or it might as well be as illuminated manuscript. It is made for carrying around, so as to have on hand when wanted. Physically, the book liberates, the computer imprisons. The book, unless of doorstop dimensions, never gets truly in the way; besides, who would take a doorstop out of the house? While waiting recently to buy tickets for Return Of The Jedi, I passed the time with Rita Kramer's In Defense Of The Family. Once inside, I used the book itself to reserve one seat and the dust jacket to reserve another.

Anyone want to try that with a computer? This isn't even the whole of the matter. Books are made to be hefted and thumbed through yes, and smelled; particularly British books, with savorsome British glue, and old books, redolent of faded ink and dusty shelves. The joy of books consists, partly at least, in taking a book at random, leafing randomly through it; suddenly standing stock still; reading an arresting passage through to the end; slowly lowering the anatomy into a nearby chair: reading some more: looking up; rubbing the eyes; only gradually recalling the place ana occasion. How do you do this with an electronic book? How, on another level, do you decorate a luminous passage with exclamation points, or scrawl quarrelsome notes in the margin' How, without flyleaf to inscribe, do you deed to a new owner the gift of rew (or, alternatively, very old) wisdom? Electronic books will be peddled, no doubt, Electronic Highly Homemakers do not earn salaries, so they are not permitted to open Individual Retirement Accounts. They can only have spousal IRA accounts, which are limited to $250 a year.

The individual IRA account goes to $2,000 a year. This creates a contradiction. Women who earn salaries for caring for other people's children or cleaning other people houses can open individual IRA accounts. Women who raise their own children and keep their own house cannot. That is an unfortunate inequity.

The homemaker is a vital part of our society, the center of the and should not be treated as an inferior. Many women more than half have entered the work force. But some have chosen not to, even when raising children means postponing or sacrificing their careers. Raising a family should not mean reducing their security in retirement. In this era of high unemployment, many fathers have lost their jobs.

Their wives must support the family, leaving the man in the homemaker role. These men are eligible only for spousal IRA accounts until they become employed again. They are doubly punished for unemployment, today and in retirement. The amount deposited in an IRA account is deducted from taxable income. Interest earned on IRA accounts is not taxed until it is withdrawn when the individual retires.

Then he is not likely to be in a high income-tax bracket. mating habits of ciams. We didn't come back any smarter than when we went." "That's the kind of camp I want to go to." "I refuse to send vou to one like that You've got a good mind and I'm not going to aiiuw ii iu go ueaa in me summertime. Besides, what am I going to say to my friends when they ask me what Kind of camp you're specializing in?" "I don't care what you say. I just want to go to a place where you live in a cabin and cook marshmallows outside and have pillow fights at night." 'That's enough of that kind of talk.

Let's get serious. Here's a camp where you learn now to be a computer programmer in Basic, Cobol and Pascal languages. In the last week you can build your own microchip. Don't shake your head computer knowledge is essential to your generation. Okay, what about this one? It's an auto repair camp.

They supply all the tools and parts and you get a mechanic's certificate at the end of the summer. That doesn't appeal to you? What about a farm camp where you kill hogs and learn all about salting pork and making bacon?" 6 "I don't want to know how to make bacon." learn OI Earth "Here's one that should grab you. It's a geology camp. You gather rocks and learn the history of the earth from them." "Noway." "Do you know what it costs to send a kid away in the summer these days? It's almost as much as tuition to a private school. I'm not going to finance sending you to a camp unless it enriches your life." "Then forget it, I don't want to go to camp." "Wait a minute.

Here's a camp for kids who don't want to go to camp. "What does it specialize in?" "It doesn't say. All the ad says is that the camp director was a former Green Beret, who trained mountain tribes to shoot poison darts at anyone who tried to use the Ho Chi Minn Trail at night." (c), 1983, Los Angeles Times Syndicate has done everthing possible to bring forgiveness to you. How did He do this? He did it by sending His only Son into the world to die as a sacrifice for your sins. Now He offers you forgiveness and salvation as a free gift.

Imagine for a moment that someone offered you a very valuable gift. At first you might be skeptical, wondering if the offer was real or even if the person had the authority to offer you the gut But then you realized that your doubts were unfounded, and that the person had done everything possible to provide the gift for you even paying for if at great sacrifice. You could admire, it and be thankful for it, and say bow impressed you were with the gift out it would never really be yours untu you actually reached out and took it as your own. It is the same way with God's offer of salvation to us. Christ has done everything possible to bring it to us, even dying on the cross.

But we must reach out and accept Him. Do that right now, and then thank God for the wonderful gift of forgiveness in Christ. (c), 1983, Tribune Company Syndicate, Ine. MI The IRA is a good deal for the American worker: millions of people have put billions of dollars into IRA accounts. IRAs are good for banks and lending institutions, which have more reserves to loan to businesses and consumers.

IRAs are good for the economy, promoting savings and investments. dui me exclusion oi nomemaKers is a bad deal for the American family. It t0 an inferior retirement account for staying home and caring for children. It penalizes the wiemyiuyeu workers supported Dy ineir spouses. U.S.

News and World Report says that the White House is studying the possibility of extending the $2,000 IRA limit to homemakers. Ed Dale, spokesman for the Office of Management of the Budget, says: "There is some discussion ofliberaliza-tion of IRAs in the context of women. It has not yet been adopted as a policy. I don't know what the revenue loss would be. Our estimated loss of revenue for fiscal 1983 for IRA accounts was $3.2 billion." The estimated $200 billion budget deficit is a serious problem, threatening the fiscal future of our nation.

The lack of IRAs for homemakers is an inequity, threatening the future of a particular group. Resolving the budget deficit comes first. But giving homemakers equal IRA accounts must not come far behind. Today's mother must not be tomorrow's poor old lady, unable to support her own retirement. At least that is the theory expressed in a new book, "The Price of Power.

The author claims that Henry fed Nixon information on Humphrey and Humphrey information on Nixon. Henry says it's a slimy lie and he will never do it again. What is the price of power? Apparently, a two-headed com. Henry denied being duplicitous during a simultaneous interview on "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation." According to the author, if Humphrey had won in 1968, Kissinger would have been national security adviser. Just think the Vietnam war might not have ended until 1973.

Humphrey's foreign affairs adviser was (what's this?) Zbigniew Brzezinski! We know that Zbig and Henry were Rockefeller proteges. Look what's coming out of the woodwork why, it's those Trilateral Commission conspiracy buffs. (c), 1983, Los Angeles Times Syndicate against United Arab Republic infiltration if the United Nations refused. Secretary of State John Dulles reportedly approved of sending U.S. troops into that Jaycees won national honors for its civic improvement programs.

The local organization was best in the nation cities of 15,000 to 50,000 population. Mark Russell as tiny, shiny cassettes. They will be sheathed in plastic, titles on the top side, blurbs and plot summary on the bottom side. None Now Familiar Taken home, they will be laid upright on a shelf, where they will look like tiny, shiny, cassettes. No palisade of colors; red spine next to yellow next to blue and white, each one familiar from twelve feet away to the owner who has gazed on them, night after night.

No book-skylines, short volumes abutting tall ones abutting middle-sized ones. And everywhere the cold smell of plastic. What kind of world is this, anyway? The man who inserts an electronic book into his computer, then sits there and watches it unroll, is a man not to be trusted at a distance. He peruses with glassy stare: so much iron-hard information to be ingested quickly and assimilated thoroughly, then sent away deftly to electronic limbo, the gift of curiosity may be his, not so the gift of enjoyment. Maybe he is after all a figment of the book industry's imagination: a nightmare brought on by a stroll through a department store's cassette department.

No one would ever want to sit down and read, hour after hour, a home computer. Well, isn't that right? Isn't (c), 1983, Heritage Features Syndicate The Times Recorder Established as The Ohio Signal in 1864 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Seven Mornings A Week Second Class Postage Paid at 34 S. 4th Zanesville, Ohio 43701 TELEPHONE 452-4561 ROBERT W.CONROY Publisher and General Manager NANCY KEELEY Managing Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES in Newspaper Carrier Territory $1.75 per week Daily Sunday BY MAIL IN OHIO Dally Jaily 4 Sunday Sunday lYear 6Mos. SMose. $80.00 42.00 22.00 $101.00 52.00 27.00 24.00 13.00 OUTSIDE OHJO Dally Daily Sunday Sunday lYear 6Mos.

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They each walk like a duck and quack like a ducK therefore, both must be ducks. So, why is the one on the right a sacred cow? Isn't politics fascinating? Assassins are called friends, soldiers are called advisers, torture is called unavoidable and our commanding officer is called Mrs. Kirkpatrick. 1983, Los Angeles Times Syndicate In the 1968 campaign, was Henry Kissinger working for Richara Nixon or Hubert Humphrey The answer is yes. DEAR DR.

GRAHAM: Will you pray that the Lord will forgive me for some of the things that I have done? I know I have not been living the way I should and I want to get straightened out B.H. DEAR B.H.: Yes, I will pray that the Lord will help you and bring forgiveness to you. It would be tragic for you to throw your life and never discover the joy that can be yours through following Christ. But also want you to realize that it is not enough for you to ask others to pray for you. You can pray for yourself.

You also need to do something else and no one else can do it for you. Therefore my prayer for you is that you will have the desire ana the courage to do what you need to do. What do you need to do? You need personally to turn to God. You need to repent of your sins turn your back on them, and determine by God's grace and strength that you will leave them behind. And you need to turn in faith to Jesus Christ, trusting him for forgiveness and strength.

You see, we do not need to beg God for forgiveness, as if He were reluctant to grant it to us or even hated us. God loves us, and He In Years Gone By Down Memory Lane TWENTY -fIVE YEARS AGO The Senate passed a labor reform bill designed to crack down on racketeering among the ranks by safeguarding union funds, guaranteeing secret ballot elections and imposing other democratic announced it would ask the U.S. and Great Britain for military support to protect its borders.