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EDITORIALS 'It's Post Art Buchwald Fischer Checkmates Self An Act Of God Mi? WASHINGTON The news that the United States has been secretly seeding clouds in Vietnam to increase and control the rainfall for military purposes has repercussions far beyond the war in 1 historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport. Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego. at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on Fischer's talent.

This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D. Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For Fischer's threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for Iceland whose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime.

Now, though, we have the confrontation. Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist. But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000. He was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely.

WE HAVE SEEN over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and-or pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed-smudged real world. Fischer's performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us. He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent.

He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right. The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody else's it is super-arrogant nonsense.

That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either MERRY'-GO-ROUND but we are doing everything to see that no civilian gets wet." "There is something wrong about this, Orlando," I said. "It seems to me that making rain in a war is a very serious thing." "Wouldn't you have us drop rain on the enemy rather than bombs?" he asked. "But you've been dropping both bombs and rain," I protested.

"Next question," Orlando said angrily. Suppose the Russians decide to seed clouds over the United States during the World Series? Would we consider this an act of war?" "The Russians wouldn't dare because we could seed clouds over Siberia. We could flood everything from Vladivostok to the Black Sea. They know it." "Well let me ask you this. This has been the worst year for rain in the history of the United States.

It coincides with the discovery that we are making rain in Indochina. Is it possible that some Air Force planes h. been practicing on us?" "That's absurd," Orlando said. "Our training flights have never used anything but dummy rain seeds. I can say unequivocally that the Pentagon is not responsible for any of the rain we've experienced in the United States." "Suppose someone else has been seeding the clouds around the United States let's say the French or the Canadians.

What can we do about it?" "We have no intelligence that any foreign power is behind this year's rainfall. Every story we checked out has been an act of God." "And in Indochina?" "In Indochina it's an Act of Congress." "An Act of Congress?" "Of course, stupid. Read the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution." ISriv For one thing, it opens up an entire new dimension in warfare and could cause all sorts of difficulties not covered by the Geneva Convention, the SALT talks or any treaties now in existence. I went to the Pentagon to find out what it all meant. No one was willing BUCHWALD to talk about the United States' rainmaking ability except my friend, Orlando.

He was very defensive about it. "I don't think there is anything wrong with dropping rain on the enemy. For years we've been raining bombs on them, and it didn't work. So now we've decided to bomb rain. If we can get them in a quagmire, we can win the war." "But what about the international repercussions of bombing rain on people? Surely the Soviets, and even the Chinese, have rainmaking machines which they could use against us." "We are not making rain against the Soviets and the Chinese.

We are on'y making rain against the North Vietnamese. They know that in Moscow and Peking." "But it could rain on Russian ships and Chinese advisers in Vietnam." "We are using smart rain bombs," Orlando countered. "They are programmed to hit only military targets. We have a laser beam that zeros in on a target, and then the rain is released. It's possible that an occasional civilian can be hit by the rain, In Washington ml- W'NIV if i (fold.

(Contribution! to Gripei and Kudos should ddriid to Tho Editor. TKo Tim Kocordor Ztnoivill, Ohio. All lottort mutt bo tignod but nmv, UI bo withhold roquort. Pit limit to 6 wordi) AVI mil Political Togetherness GRIPES TO "Concerned" who blamed police for not checking small stores for fireworks. If "Concerned" knew of a store doing this, he can go to the Safety Center and file charges himself.

It's easier to blame the police than to get yourself involved, and that's one of the big troubles in the country today. Mrs. R. S. Election Costs Rising LETTERS TO EDITOR Opposes School Busing Plan MIAMI BEACH the two parties bristle and brawl for the presidential campaign, they are cooperating secretly to make America's political processes work.

The Democrats, for example, quietly intervened to bring the homeless Republicans to Miami Beach when San Diego fell through as the GOP convention site. The Republicans in return, have scoured the countryside for office trailers at a rental rate the eL bankrupt Democrats can Anderson publicans have even helped the Democrats get ads for their convention program from GOP fat cats. Their unusual cooperation springs from an amazing friendship between two political arch-rivals. They are GOP Vice Chairman Dick Herman, a conservative Omaha trucker, and financier Robert Strass, the downt to-earth Democratic treasure. They have been confering closely since February when they cautiously came together at Ford Motor headquarters in Washington to discuss corporate ads in the convention programs.

At first, the two men circled each other like jungle cats, but gradually they relaxed. Then, suddenly, the impulsive Herman turned to their Ftrd hosts. "Say, have you got a private office we could borrow for a moment?" While the motor men blinked, the two political rivals ducked into a private conference room and shut the door. "Let's quit messing around, Bob," said Herman. Let's get together and do it!" "Fine," said Strauss.

"That's fine with me." Strauss thrust out his hand, and the two men shook. Strange Allies Their first accomplishment was a joint telegram from Democratic chairman Larry O'Brien and Republican chairman Bob Dole soliciting funds for the convention programs. The pair also brought together a dozen Democratic and Republican ad men for a secret lunch meeting at Washington's huge Hilton hotel. Over melon cup and baked chicken, the Democrats and Republicans compared notes. To the astonishment of all, the GOP representatives found themselves eagerly suggesting ways for the Democrats IN YEARS GONE BY ik i By Jack Anderson to meet their staggering convention deficits.

Herman and Strauss afterward put their staffs to work listing corporations to hit up for ads. Some outraged GOP hardliners thought the use of traditional GOP contributors by the Democrats was going too far. But the OOP's Bob Dole brushed aside their objections and the secret collaboration went on. The cooperation paid off for the (Republicans a few weeks later when the arrangements to hold their convention in San Diego began to sour. Strauss immediately phoned his GOP friend.

"Do you have any interest in Miami Seach?" Strauss asked. "I don't think so," said Herman uncertainly, "but don't count it out." "Well, you've got my standing offer to help," Strauss assured him Alter a mid-April meeting with San Diego representatives, Herman decided that problems with labor and the facilities made San Diego impossible as a convention site. The International Telephone and Telegraph subsidy offer also had tainted the San Diego site. Bipartisan Arrangements At seven o'clock the next morning Herman and his top aide, Jim Gale, were on the way to Miami Beach to meet with Mayor Chuck Hall whose elderly constituents were already less than enthusiastic about the Democratic convention, fearing a repetition of the 1968-style violence. The last thing they wanted was another political convention.

Worried by Hall's reaction, Herman hastily called Strass in Dallas where the financier was golfing. "You can play things like golf," said Herman with mock rue. "You've got a home." Herman explained this predicament, adding that he had his eye on Miami Beach. Strauss replied slyly: "We may have a home, but we don't have any money to pay for it. Let's get together and do some planning." Strauss was as good as his word.

He contacted his friend, Florida Governor Reubin Askew, who promised to offer Miami Beach police and other support for the Republicans. With Askew and Strauss behind him. Herman made a crucial presentation to 75 state and city leaders in Miami Beach. The Floridians balked but finally gavs the go-ahead on May 3. Barbour, presided at a meeting in Zanesville to organize a Model Railroad Club.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGo Charles Iive Jr. spoke on the theme "Where Is (rod" at Market Street Baptist Church Steels and rails were in the lead as prices pushed upward in the stock market boom William Morpeth, turnkey at Muskingum County jail, helped frustrate a jail get-a-way for the second time Atty. Herbert S. Duffy launched a secret investigation into the "affairs of the State Board of Pardons C. D.

Wolfe, manager of Zanesville District of Western and Southern Life Insurance Company, was honored at a banquet in recognition of 25 years service Four of the best semi-pro aggregations were scheduled to show their prowess in a Milk Fund Benefit program at Putnam Baseball Park. FIFTY YEARS AGO The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad removed three passenger trains from Zanesville service as the result of the strike of railway shopmen Thomas Presser, 19, sustained the loss of his left leg after it was badly mangled by a car which tried to "squeeze" between his motorcycle and a street car on Maysville avenue Members of the Berea Class of the Dresden Baptist Church met at the home of Miss Genevieve and Miss Mariara Reed of Dresden. the usual well-heeled but frequently publicly-shy sources in advance of the magic date. The President's press conference "no comment" is not, however, likely to be the last word on the subject. The Democrats can recognize a good needling issue when it is handed to them.

But does it really matter? Does the great mass of voters really care who contributes how much to Mr. Nixon's campaign, or to Senator McGovern's or Senator Humphrey's or Governor Wallace's? The American public has become so accustomed over so many years to the big buck as an integral part of. the political process that the question of where it comes from is usually of only incidental interest. New disclosure law or not, we can be sure at this point that the fund raisers will find the ways to set a new political spending record by November. Presidential elections always do.

The British, as with so many other aspects of our sympathetic but very different systems, provide a startling contrast to the American high cost of politics. In their last national election, June of 1971, Prime Minister Edward Heath spent a grand total of $2,704 on his campaign, according to the Home Office breakdown of expenses for all parliamentary candidates. That covered only the campaign expenses for his own seat from a London suburb. But even on a national scale British political spending is nickles and dimes or pence and farthings by American standards. For 1971, the grand total for all 1,837 parliamentary candidates of all parties was $3,518,252, which would freely see a major American presidential contender through a respectable primary.

Many indigenous factors contribute to the British situation, of course. Politics generally carry on in a much lower key than in the United States. Campaigns are much briefer a few weeks as compared to almost a year. Free TV time on the state-operated BBC is available to the major parties to state their versions of the issues. And a more homogenous, concentrated population makes a very low legal limit on campaign spending $3,150 more realistic than it would be in the continental-sized United States.

Nevertheless, the contrast with the extravagant American way is painful. Not so much however, that there is any real danger of our changing it. The Times Recorder Established as The Ohio Signal in 18fi4 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Seven Mornings A Week Second Class Postage Paid at 34 S. 4th Zanesville, Ohio 43701 TELEPHONE 452-4561 JACK VV. POWELL Publisher and General Manager BUD HARSH Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Newspaperboy Territory 80c per week Daily Sunday BY MAIL IN OHIO Daily Daily Sunday Sunday 1 Year $20.00 $30.00 $12 00 11.00 I6.00 6.00 3 6.00 9.00 OUTSIDE OHIO Daily Daily Sunday Sunday 1 $24.00 $34.00 $12.00 13.00 18.00 6.00 7.00....

10.00 Mall subscriptions not accepted in territory served by newspaperboys. By DON GRAFF WASHINGTON (NEA) Now that the $10-million question has gone all the way to the top the President himself and come back unanswered, we may very well have to go to the polls without knowing who were the big pre-April 1 contributors to Mr. Nixon's re-election fund. After April 1, the new federal campaign spending law requires publication of the names of political contributors and amounts of contributions. The President's money raisers had put considerable effort into raising the bulk of his campaign money from When Writing The Times Recorder welcome Letters to fho Editor.

Letters should not exceed 300 words; wa reserve the right to condense. Please Include your name, address and telephone number for verification. Pseudonyms ere not acceptable. Commendation To the Editor: I would like to commend a member of your citizenry, Robert P. Ludman, who came to our aid the night of June 15.

I was chaperon for a group of teenaged girls canoeing from Brinkhaven to Zanesville. We had many memorable experiences that week, but none meant as much as the concern of our plight shown by Mr. Ludman. We had stopped at a local marina to ask directions, drenched, cold, hungry and exhausted by canoeing 35 miles that day. Mr.

Ludman directed us to a place to stay farther down the river the Jaycee Park across from Armco. Knowing we had missed our provision stop at Dresden there are no neon signs along the river unfortunately he spent money of his own for food and supplies to start a fire and stayed around until he was certain that all would be right with us. Very rarely does one encounter such concern from strangers rather it is indifference and rejection one meets. He refused my offer to repay him. I felt you could indicate to him our gratefulness.

I think his conduct to us should be commended. Judith Ann Madden Fairview Park, Ohio Gems Of Thought For we share in Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end, while it is said, "Today, when you hear his voice do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion." Hebrews 3:14. 15. Confidence thrives only on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in -your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your when there is the log in your own eye?" Matthew 7:3, 4. They took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him. John 12:13.

Informal enthusiasm, on the streets, is not a new thing to Jesus. girl and they had double classes at that time and through the years up to the end of the last school term. The voters have voted almost all the money the schools had ever asked for over the past years and yet no action has been taken to correct this situation in all these years. 8. It takes money to buy buses and to operate them and pay bus drivers.

Even if they use state or federal funds to buy them, they are bought by taxes paid by the parents. This money might be used to better advantage to correct the problems in the schools that are inadequate. 9. Before the bond issue was voted on, I heard rumors the Norval Park School was unsafe and now the Board of Education says it passes safety standards but they are not allowed to build onto the school. Why could they not build separate buildings on the grounds such as I have seen with other schools? Since the plan to transfer Wilson and Norval Park children is against the will of the majority of parents, it would appear that this plan should be abandoned and a better solution found.

I would urge all the citizens of Zanesville to attend meetings of the newly formed group, The Concerned Citizens for the Betterment of Education. The meeting dates will be publicized. This organization will strive to see that our children will obtain a good education, protect the rights of a child to attend the school in the locality in which they live, and give consideration to the problems of the parents of the children. It will keep the public informed of the activities of the Board of Education and the views of future candidates for the Board of Education. It will urge and endorse capable persons to run for election for the Board of Education.

If more interest is not taken by voters in the future, they might wake up someday and have to say, "I can't believe they changed the whole thing." Mrs. Doris Bush 430 Echo avenue Democratic Convention ft. north of here. This Is jhall" To The Editor: As a citizen of Zanesville, Ohio, and as a taxpayer, I wish to voice my opinion on the transferring of students and busing them, between Norval Park and Wilson Schools. I believe it is unwise for the following reasons: This will have a bad psychological effect on these small children.

Even though my daughter is a well adjusted child and has always been an student, she is already very upset with the thought of not being able to go and come to school with her sister, because she was notified she would attend Norval Park School this year. I am afraid of the effect this might have on her if this comes about. 2. There is a chance of accidents for small children who ride school buses, as per an article in the January 1972 issue of Readers Digest, which states that more than 1,300 children suffer facial and dental injuries a year as a result of accidents on school buses. 3.

It will work a hardship on parents ho have to pick up their children that may become ill at school, and have no car to go after them. Last year I had to pick my daughters up on four occasions and it was no problem for me to walk to Wilson School, but at Norval Park School, it would present a great problem. 4. Some children refuse to eat cafeteria food, even if a cafeteria is available, therefore they should attend the school where they live, as they have a right to come home for their lunch. 5.

Property owners and taxpayers should have a right to expect their children to attend school in the area where they buy property. 6. At least 970 citizens in the Wilson School and Norval Park areas signed a petition that they were against the transfer of the children between the two schools. It has always been my opinion that our government operated on the principle that elected officials were to listen to the will of the majority. 7.

I attended Norval Park School as a BERRY'S WORLD ot the "Ho, no! Capo Xennerfy is convention III. ,1 Boivn Memory Lane TEN YEARS AGO Richard H. Custer, Zanesville's city manager, announced he was In line for an appointment to a similar position at West Hartford. Conn, although his selection was not definite as yet The State of Ohio filed four more land suits in Common Pleas Court here to obtain right-of-way for Interstate 70 east of Zanesville in Washington Township Robert T. McKowen was appointed industrial power engineer in the Ohio Power Company's Zanesville District County Commissioner Ray Thompson was scheduled to speak at an upcoming Jeffersonian Club meeting Philo Fire Department was holding its annual festival.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO In- spection of Zanesville Soap Box Derby racers liesan at the White Chevrolet Company The new Laundertoria opened at 133 North Maple avenue with Mrs. Sam Dennis as proprietor George G. Murrah Jr. joined the Shurtz Pharmacy, Main and Fifth as pharmacist Andrew Hyde, who sang the haritonp role in "The Prince i of I'llsen" with Wallace Beery, operated Stony Manor, a 127-year-old stone house at Old Washington, in Guernsey County. The old house served as a rooming house and duunS room had been built adjacent "lo Prosecuting Attorney Clark B.

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