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THE MARION STAR Daily Except Sunday by Member of Associated Press Thomson-Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. Established October 8, 1877 Saturday, July 8, 1972 Page 4 What Security Steps? The bold move by FBI agents in shooting down airplane hijackers i in a gun battle in a full plane is certain to bring reaction. There are those who will hail the move with a "that will show them" response. Others will fear for their own lives since one passenger was killed and two others injured in the exchange of shots. a THERE IS NO DOUBT that something needs to be done to curb the rising number of incidents but risking the lives of passengers seems a bit brash unless there was clearcut reason to believe the danger was less in a shootout than in the actual hijacking.

We don't fly that often but did last week and must report that there was not one preventive step taken that we could either in Columbus or Washington, D.C. We carried a small Hats Off Dept. A long-time Marion County farmer will be inducted, posthumously, into the Ohio Agricultural Hall of Fame next month. This is an honor worth of salute. LeRoy A.

Demorest was 83 when he died in 1968 and still active in farming. "the Waldo area farmer was a leader in many phases of agricultural operations and certainly is due enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. piece of luggage and even with our bushy sesqui appearance there was no sign of question. Nor did we observe anyone else being challenged. We didn't think about it then but in view of the number of hijackings there was a risk to all passengers due to the laxness.

WE CAN REPORT the security is good at the Capitol and the House and Senate office buildings and it has been ever since the bombing at the Capitol. The hijackers pose a serious problem but at this point we must say there appear to be many security steps that can be taken before a shootout becomes the common deterrent. Holiday Lament Two things were missed around here on the Fourth of July. Both are appealing to the young, but also have their fans among the older. The first was the annual display of fireworks which was rained out.

That was rescheduled and thus was salvageable. Second, also "rained out," is some of the area corn crop. Surely, much of it yet will spring up and be harvested but the rains of the spring have held it back. The corn that makes those delicious roasting ears 1 is supposed to be knee high by the Fourth and in much of the area, it wasn't. Letters to the Editor of The Star Terrie Says 'Totsiens' to Her Friends Here TO THE EDITOR: There are just not sufficient words with which I could even begin to express by gratitude to this community for the wonderful year I have spent with you.

This most adventurous year of my life has been an experience that will linger long with me. I have visited some prized parts of this country; but of all my joys, I cherish most the knowledge that I belong to a very wonderful American family, and have formed everlasting friendships, binding two nations across the sea. Now, my year as an American Field Service student has ended, and my path leads me back to Vereeniging, in the Transvaal. In South Africa, we never say "Goodbye" that is too final. Instead, we say "Totsiens," which means, "Until we see each other again." However, in saying it, it means much more; it means "I've had a wonderful time, thank you for all your kindness, and we WILL meet again!" And so, my dear Mom and Dad Lane, Ginny and Beth, and dear friends, I bid you not farewell, but "'Totsiens," until the next time I come "home." MISS TERRIE TURNBULL 74 Smuts Ave.

Vereeniging, Transvaal South Africa Forefathers Would Have Appreciated Parade TO THE EDITOR: The forefathers and pioneers of Marion and Marion County would have been proud of the Marion sesquicentennial parade on July 4. It had all the flavor of an old-time 4th-humor, patriotism, ingenuity, music, nostalgia and fun. Where else could the young children see for the first time and the older people see again, an old Huber tractor, an early 1900 Cadillac, a Ford rumbleseat, an old buckboard, a woman churning butter, a fife and drum corps and in contrast, the Marion Cadets, a hydro jet boat, the impressive new Marion fire truck (and the list is endless)? On Delaware Avenue two little girls i in long dresses, playing tag invoked visions of the past. The spirit of the parade must have enveloped the people on their way home. Courteous driving was very much in evidence with no impatient horn honking and the traffic was well directed by the police.

All in all it was a beautiful and memorable day. If this is an indication of the rest of the sesquicentennial activities, Marion countians must see at least one event. RITA JEAN SALYER Waldo News of Other Years 75 YEARS AGO Local coal dealers assured their customers that they had a large supply of the fuel on hand to sustain them through several weeks of a coal strike inaugurated July 4. And if worst came to worst, they said, a plentiful supply of wood would see the city through a crisis. However, large consumers, such as the railroads, already were expressing fear that the strike would hamper their operations.

James P. Prendergast, general manager of the Prendergast large coal dealer in Marion, said many railroads were confiscating coal along their lines through a sort of unwritten law that permitted them to do this. J. T. Matthews of the Marion Lumber and Coal Co.

and J. Bruen Fisher of the Marion Gaslight and Coke were other coal dealers interviewed about the strike and assured citizens they had large supplies on hand. The Marion Electric Light and Power Co. was said to be the largest local user of coal and its general manager Charles W. Leffler said he always had ten carloads, or about a month's supply, on the sidetracks here to be used in an emergency.

It was announced that there was a strong probability Marion would have a street fair and merchants' carnival. Planners of the event said the first week in August probably would be set aside for the purpose. Announcement was made that as soon as the Street Railway Company could arrange with the railroads to build a crossing on W. Center Steet the track would be extended to Davids Street. 50 YEARS AGO--Theologians were interpreting Bible prophecy to read that there would be another great war.

The 1914-18 war, they said, changed the whole face of Europe and the Near East and had altered the politics of the world. That war, the religious historians claimed, was only a preparation for tremendous developments. They foretold two leagues of nations and that the Jewish people would play a great part in the politics of the world. "The Jewish question," they said, "will be at the bottom of all world unrest and will eventually lead to the last great war." 25 YEARS AGO An open safety pin was removed from the throat of 10-month-old Marti Strzelecki of near Brush Ridge in an operation at Children's Hospital, Columbus. The youngster, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Strzelecki, was rushed to the hospital after his mother investigated his screams. America's "flying saucer" jag reeled on. Stiff necks and goggle eyes were the order of the day. Sky watching was a new profession.

Two more Marion County residents reported they had witnessed the phenomenon over this area. J. W. Campbell, president of Campbell National Bank at LaRue, and his assistant, Orville Boblenz, saw the saucers, they said. 10 YEARS AGO A $760.000 bond issue to finance construction of a high school in the Pleasant School District would be placed on November election ballots.

The Pleasant Board of Education voted unanimously in a special session to follow the course favored by most school district residents in a five-choice survey distributed the month before. Berry's World "Martha, why don't you just call ME, instead of those newspaper people?" 1972 by NEA, Inc. Jill and the Beanstalk HOUSEWIVES PRICE COMMISSION PRICE FOLD Business in the Doghouse By Jenkin Lloyd Jones Fewer Americans are friendly to American if impractical or confiscatory theories become business. More and more think businessmen law, and these disaffected young people will are callous to public welfare, dishonest and greedy. A rising percentage believes industry could lower prices, pay higher wages, contribute more taxes, increase quality and still make plenty of money.

The money matter is interesting. A cross section of 4,059 consumers, interviewed by Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, N.J., guessed the average manufacturer nets about 28 cents on his sales dollar after taxes. The consensus was that 10 cents would be plenty. Last year the average industrial profit was 4.2 per cent on sales, down from 5.6 per cent six years ago.

The 500 largest corporations netted 4.5 per cent. The same survey showed that 81 per cent of those interviewed thought that polluting plants should be closed down. But only 22 per cent said they would be willing to pay higher prices for goods made in plants that installed expensive pollution controls. The rest either didn't know or felt that the difference should come out of profits. MOST ALIENATED are the young, many of whom believe that business is grubby, and who yearn for a life of "public service," generally on some government payroll.

Where a large part of the tax wherewithal comes to make that payroll hasn't seemed to occur to them. But "the young" is an imprecise term. Those who only get as far as high school seem as anxious as their fathers and grandfathers were to just get good jobs, and jobs in private business are fine. There is little antibusiness feeling among business school graduates from the universities, possibly because they have been exposed in their classrooms to the genuine difficulties of making an honest profit. Nor are graduate engineers, being pragmatic types, "turned off" by private enterprise.

Most of the flak which business receives comes from liberal arts students via their professors. As one professor at the University of Iowa told me not long ago: "You have no conception of the economic illiteracy prevalent in our letters and science faculties." SUCH PROFESSORS find the competitive system abhorrent, as demonstrated by their fondness for rigid tenure guarantees which freeze them into lifetime teaching jobs. They also doubt if business competition really acts to protect the consumer and they generally favor strict government controls if not government ownership as the only feasible means of saving the public from robbery. It is not surprising that their students would reflect this. But it would be a great mistake if businessmen assumed that these attitudes would be a passing phase, like acne.

Many of the young detractors of the American business system, whatever their misconceptions, are natively smart, articulate and evangelical. Immense damage can be done to incentive, research, profits, prices and foreign trade The soon be making law. SO THE time has come: 1 For business and industry to respond positively to legitimate consumer gripes, particularly those involving false advertising, deceptive packaging, design deficiencies and' so on. 2 To go over to the offenseive where the rebuttal is solid. For example, many youths are convinced that automobile recalls are evidence of the worst engineering and workmanship ever.

It should be pointed out that the bugfilled autos of a generation ago were never recalled, nor does the car-buyer in any Communist country have such protection today. 3 To throw out those public relations departments which imagine that their chief function is to keep reporters away from the boss. In these parlous times of slipping public confidence, the executive who refuses to answer questions of legitimate public interest is not doing the job for his stockholders. 4 To use business' secret weapon-the periodic, informative and factual ad describing just how the company is doing. In stock companies it's all in the annual report, anyway-or should be.

Business news is hot. Peopie read it. But most institutional ads are slick, meatless and bland. AN ANNUAL full page, heavy with text written so that the average man can understand it, and laced with photographs and charts would have high readership. It might go far to counter the wild swings of Ralph Nader and bum dope put out by some unions and the New Populists.

American business has proved that it can sell its products marvelously. But if it wants to stay out of the straitjacket it had better start selling itself. Facts in Brief President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to set foot on foreign soil when he visited Panama, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. American labor won its first closed shop in 1794.

It was won in Philadelpia by the shoemakers. Phillip is a Greek name which means "lover of horses." Copper is the oldest metal known to man. It costs U.S. taxpayers $500 million annually to pick up the litter dumped on streets, beaches, parks and other public property. Elysee Palace is the name of the residence of the president of France.

A man's heart weighs about 11 ounces; a woman's about nine ounces. Corduroy was originally called "corde du roi," meaning "the king's cloth." The Scenario for the Convention By Art Buchwald let him back in his section again. On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,509 he needed. The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. The second and third ballot found no one budging.

By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all-night session, the convention was hopelessly deadlocked. THE STATE delegations caucused right on the floor, trying to get people to change their minds. But it was impossible. On NBC, John Chancellor and David Brinkley became short-tempered and refused to talk to each other. Howard K.

Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to each other, and' on CBS, Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to himself. It was obvious to everyone in and out of the The Marion Star 150 Court Marion, Ohio 43302 Phone 382-1101 Subscription rates: 15 cents single copy. Home delivery 70 cents per week. All carriers. dealers and distributors are independent contractors, keeping their own accounts free from control; therefore The Marion Star them, is not their responsible for advance representatives.

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We have reached the trail's end. is a road, in my own view, we ought not to travel again. The present system of presidential primaries contains some good features, but it offers much less good than ill. By 1976 a better system must be found. This year saw the Democratic candidates struggle James through 23 primary elections.

Advocates of the system insist that it benefits both the voter and the candidate. The voter has a chance to observe the contenders under conditions of stress, and to judge how they stand up under fire. The candidate, for his part, has a road-show chance to try out his company before taking the play to Broadway. BOTH POINTS are valid. In retrospect, it seems evident that Edmund Muskie's campaign was doomed long before he denounced the Wallace voters in Florida or shed those famous tears in New Hampshire, but the emotional outbursts were fatal.

If he could not keep his cool under SO little heat what would he do in the White House? As for campaign organization, we saw in the McGovern operation the benefits of staff experience. His top people got the fumbles out of their system in Florida; thereafter they played like the Cowboys. Nobody else was in the same league. Yet the drawbacks far outweigh the tages. Any primary system is bound to be physically exhausting, but the helter skelter.

scheme that now obtains is needlessly exhausting. Campaigns are bound to cost money; they ought not to cost a fortune. At the very least, party primaries should be just that--they should produce a nominee who is the first choice of his own party, but crossover voting makes a travesty of this objective. A single national, primary late in August, under the plan proposed by Sen. Mike Mansfield, is not the answer.

Such a system would undermine our federal structure, and assuming a runoff election in September, it would demand three national convulsions in less than three months. A SYSTEM of five regional primaries, advocated by Oregon's Sen. Robert Packwood, offers a better solution. His plan would preserve the role of the states; it would retain the ultimate party conventions; it would eliminate wasteful travel, and it would provide abundant time, over a five-month period, to examine the candidates' minds as well as their stamina. Meanwhile, we are stuck with what we have; and the trail has had its memorable moments.

One of the highlights for me came in Jacksonville on a balmy night in March, when George Wallace turned up at a TV station to be interviewed by four regional newsmen. The governor is the best base-running shortstop in politics; he gloves everything that comes his way, and he can hook-slide around a question with consummate skill. No one ever lays a tag on him. This particular night saw all the usual questions neatly fielded. Then a reporter asked Wallace how he would deal with the Allende government in Chile.

I happened to be sitting behind his lovely wife, who was in the front row, and saw her grow tense. The governor never flinched. "The problem," he said in effect, "cannot be separated from larger problems of foreign aid. Now let me. tell you where I stand on foreign aid." That was last of the Allende government.

AFTER THE broadcast, Mrs. Wallace mitted herself a small sigh of relief and pleasure. "I like to died," she confided, "when that man asked George about Chile. I thought, what does George know about Chile? But you saw, didn't you?" Her wifely pride bubbled over. "He knew all about The same kind of story could be told of the others--Hubert Humphrey in the snows of Milwaukee, Henry Jackson doggedly appealing to barefoot collegians, McGovern at his best in California.

It has been a long trail-typewriters and telephones, planes in the night, tears and laughter, violent shock. We ought not, I say, to travel this particular Barnum Bailey route again, but if the primary campaign of '72 proves to be the last such parade, it provided an unforgettable show. WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read it here.

It is the fourth day of the convention and the Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were Art Buchwald ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. ALMOST EVERY state delegation has two people sitting in every chair. No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab the seat. When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction.

Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the party, has the podium ringed with the National Guard so no one can grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated-McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson and Muskie. There have been no demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up and marches they won't convention hall that a compromise candidate had to be found-one who had not already been nominated. But who? The Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium. They argue and thrash it out for several hours.

The 'only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He has announced many times that he is not a candidate for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft. Yet, the leaders argue he is the one person who can save the party. THIS YOUNG MAN, whose name had been associated with a very embarrassing incident, is a household word now. Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November.

The compromise candidate is not at the convention. He has purposely stayed away so people would believe he was not interested in the nomination. O'Brien puts in a call to him. Everyone, in turn, gets on the phone and tells him he has to be the candidate. The compromise candidate speaks to George McGovern, Humphrey, Muskie and Wallace.

They urge him to run. The candidate finally agrees to a draft and says he will take the next plane to Miami. And that's how Bobby Fischer, the U.S. chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1972..