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'I1EH, IIEH, HEir i 1 SPRINGFIELD LEADER and PRESS I PUBLISHED BY SPRINGFIELD NEWSPAPERS, INC. ITN Parting Shots Attention has been called to the fact that sports seasons seems to go on forever. But how about the new dispensation under which rush-hour traffic lasts all day? The Supreme Court orders wiretaps on the telephones of some citizens removed. Now they're not only dissident but lonely. The man at the next desk is looking for some way to bell the mice because they keep sneaking up on his cat.

One of the few joys of no longer having little children around the place is that the jingling of the ice cream wagon can pass without major domestic disturbance. BILL VAUGHANT 651 Boonville Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65806 MPO Box 798 65801 Telephones, All Departments, 869-4411 Published Every tvening Except Sunday i I i I 1 The Leader and Tress stands for civic freedom and civic pride In city, state and nation, for the fewest and simplest laws vigorously enforced; honesty and economy in public affairs, for right principles, right men, right causes under whatever banner they appear. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 1 Mo. News or Leader and Press, Dally and Sunday J2.ll News or Leader and Press, Daily Only 1.8 Both News and Leader and Press, Daily and Sunday 1.70 ft 'News and Leader, Sunday Only l.H MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TV AmriiM Prw In Mftastveiy talllM DUraUM kll wwt dbpalrata ertAHt to ar Ml Ur-wtaa eMMitf la IU paper ud as la tocal atw pajjlbanl kercb. TW Leader umI Pnu aba remvM eeaptria tra repMta a( UaKt Prtcs lawruttMaL 1 12 June 27, 1972 SPRINGFIELD (Mo.) LEADER-PRESS -As We See it.

Bobby vs. Boris HE ATTENTION of some 25,000 Amer "Por American Men Slaves Earl Wilson NEW YORK We American icans who play tournament chess, plus a considerable number of amateurs who simply play for fun, will be focused on Reykjavik, Iceland, Sunday and for several days thereafter. That Is the day that Bobby Fischer, representing the United States and Russian Boris Spassky, the current world champion, begin a 24-game title match. At least, that's when they are supposed to start play. As of now, it may depend on whether Challenger Fischer's "hassle with tele-" vision crews over lighting arrangements can be resolved.

Fischer claims he can play only under fluorescent lights. The tv people say that kind of lighting won't produce good results for their color cameras. This may or' may not produce an impasse -probably not This isn't the first argument that has developed over the championship match. There was a considerable amount of wrangling over where the games would be played. Fischer preferred Belgrade; Spassky held out for Iceland's capital.

Spassky won. Fischer wanted rules which, would require playing to win; Spassky insisted on being allowed to force tie games, which would be to his advantage. Spassky prevailed. (For non-chess players, it is possible for an adroit Dlaver to maneuver men into seducing them and marrying them and then emasculate them, And now," she added angrily, "some women aren't even going to use men for making children but will go to sperm banks. "I think," she declared with great heat, "American men should be given credit for how great they really are." "Amen," I replied.

(In a very, very low whisper.) THE MIDNIGHT EARL that the cards are stacked against the American, but it doesn't appear that way to Bobby Fischer. He has repeatedly expressed supreme confidence in his ability to win the championship. And, despite his record in his previous games against Spassky, he is given a slightly better than even chance to win this match. If he does, he'll upset a long-standing tradition. Russians have monopolized the international title since organized competition began In 1948.

All challengers in the final rounds have been Russians. One reason for this may well be that chess is a top-ranking sport among Soviet citizens, about four million of whom regularly compete in tournaments. On the other hand, most Americans are inclined to regard the game as pretty dull stuff, strictly for the intellectuals. It does, of course, require a considerable amount of cerebration, but it also demands a great deal more brawn than a none-player might think. An experiment conducted at Temple University a couple of years ago showed that chess is as physically taxing as a strenuous session of boxing or football, For that matter, pro football players frequently play chess because, they say, it sharpens their mental, "ability on the field.

In any case, Fischer and presumably although he doesn't talk about it follows a strict physical training regi- men, including calisthenics, swimming, tennis and bowling. And Bobby says he is ready for the confrontation in Iceland which, incidentally, has for centuries been just about as interested in ibess as have the Russians. Ready, that is, if he can just get the right lighting. Porter 1 McGoverh AndRich-2 NEW YORK If Sen. McGovern were to become President of the U.

S. and if he could then put into effect programs he is supporting as of this date, what might it mean to YOU7 You, as a wealthy American with substantial earnings or investments carefully "sheltered" from taxes or both? Answer: A wallop in the pock-ctbook. 'V In fact, to the cliche, "you can't take it with you," McGovern in January was suggesting a version of "you can't leave it behind you, either." In-late May, though, he modified this startling concept. And that recent modification of one of his key tax proposals underhnes the importance of the. three basic points made in yesterday's column.

(1) McGovern is backtracking on many of his more radical economic positions. (2) Even if he were standing pat, it is inconceivable that the next Congress would pass some of his programs. (3) The South Dakota Senator has shown no stomach for continuing to promote programs that he is being warned could frighten business and the stock market into a disastrous slump. Yet, although McGovern has done much of his toning down in the realm of tax reform and although he has been almost embarrassingly candid about his expectations that Congress would -refuse to approve ideas it doesn't consider reasonable and sound, the fact is that McGovern has repeatedly proposed specific tax changes. The fact Is, too, that the Senator is co-sponsor of a revolutionary, tax reform bill that has actually been introduced into the Senate.

His fundamental views in this area must be taken seriously. If McGovern were President, he would fight for a "minimum income tax" that would be "truly effective" and almost certainly would boost your taxes. "One possible formula" would apply to all of you with total income in excess of $50,000 and would subject all your regardless of its sources, to "payment of taxes at a rate of 75 per cent of the current nominal rates at the rate that (you) would have to pay if there were no loopholes." Following, says the Research Institute of America, is how this minimum tax might work out for you a married executive earning 175,000 a year, receiving 913,000 in tax-exempt interest during the year and with exemptions, various deductions and credits on your tax return totaling $11,000. On your $64,000 taxable in- come, your regular tax would be $24,420. But under the possible minimum tax formula of McGovern's including the tax-exempt interest and excluding the deductions your minimum tax would be $28,485.

Your taxes would go up $4065. Gift and inheritance taxes on your wealth would be shifted from a tax on your estate or 68 you "to a lifetime cumulative tax on the recipient" of your wealth. Back in January, McGovern proposed that there be a 100 per cent tax to the recipients on gifts and inheritances above $500,000. You couldn't receive more than, $500,000. Last month he changed the 100 per cent to the current 77 per cent rate.

Following, according to the RIA, is how this cumulative recipient tax might work using the 77 per cent rate over $500,000 and excluding the first, $60,000 from consideration. You leave $1 million to your son. Under present law, your estate would pay a $325,700 estate tax, leaving your son with $674,300 net after estate tax. Un-dor McGovern's proposal, the recipient tax would come to $530,700, leaving your son. with $469,300 net after tax.

(This assumes no increases in present estate tax rates up to $500,000.) Or you and your spouse give your son gifts over the years totaling $1 million and at his grandfather's death, he inherits another $1 million. The recipient tax on the total of $2 million would be $1,300,700 leaving your son with an after-tax total of $699,300. (This too is based on present estate tax rates.) iZSkSJi mi Hal Itoyle His Help Comes Easy By BRENDAN RILET CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -Hiring help for the sprawling Nevada governor's mansion is easy for Gov. Mike O'Callaghan.

What's tough is explaining to guests that his butler and cook: are serving terms for murder. It is part of a state prison work-release program that allows 20 per cent of the 661 inmates to work outside during the day and return to the prison at night. "These are good people," says O'Callaghan of his unusual household staff. O'Callaghan and State Prison Warden Carl Hocker agree that giving an inmate a chance to work on the outside during his term is far better than simply turning him out at the end of a sentence with. $25, state-or-; dered amount.

"It saves the state a little money and it's therapy for the prisoners," says Hocker. "The gradual release lessens the trauma when a man is freed at the end of his term." All inmates in the work-re lease program are paid $1.25 each a day or about $27 a month for their work. There are few problems but "once in a while we have some' difficulty downtown," says Hocker, citing a recent incident where an inmate tried to smuggle drugs back into the prison and another incident a year ago when "one of the men went Into a bar and got drunk," Few sightseers visiting the silver-domed state capitol ever guess that some of the electricians, gardeners and maintenance men they see are actually prison inmates. Hocker screened the more than 120 men and two women who fight fires, repair state vehicles, keep up the capitol grounds and work in the governor's office, the attorney general's office, the state library and the Department of Education. "We're very careful about who we assign to work outside," says the warden, noting that no sex offenders are allowed and that all are studied to estimate the likelihood of an escape attempt.

Although the governor's butler and cook have been convicted of murder, most inmates participating in the program are serving time for less serious crimes. Hocker says the former "are classic first-timers. They have committed crimes of passion which are almost always a first-time thing. I would have taken them into my home." He said he strongly disagrees with some residents who view the program as potentially dangerous. "Aside from all else, people who spend a Ufetime working in these institutions develop a feeling, an intuition about people." KtBKOTHKIl LAVTRENCI.

Eva Gabor and husband Dick Brown will try another reconciliation in the Hamptons (Out Where the Money Begins) Palm Beach is talking about Greggl5odge's spectacular altercation with her husband Denny Moran. SECRET STUFF: A beautiful 1 former film star who needs the money, refused $50OO-a-week in summer stock. Fears live audiences. Rita Hayworth cancelled plans to come to NY from Hollywood to do extensive tv promotion for "The Wrath of God." She's scared of tv This year's Schlitz Circus Parade July 4 in Milwaukee will feature for the first time a 40-horse hitch pulling the historic Columbia through downtown streets i Some top politicos at the ami Beach convention will stay at the Jockey Club and go to the ball via "complimentary yacht." Oliver Reed, who's been having his battles in the cafes of Rome, "Fist-fighting keeps me in form" West Coast fad: "Divorce bands," rings worn by formerly-wed gals on the index fingers The Sam Klingers (singer Tina Robin) named the baby Paul. Jim Nabors (Corner Pylc), explained the location of his home i -town, Sylacauge, "You can't miss it it's right near Talladega and Weogufka" husbands are enslaved.

We're heroes and martyrs and we're not appreciated; 1 Singer Esther Tool told me so in a commanding voice. Having just obtained her citizenship and became an "American woman." Esther from Jerusulem now feels free to declare "American women are the most spoiled in the world." "It's American men who are slaves! Not the American women as the Women's Lib says. DO YOU AGREE?" she demanded sharply across a table at Joe's Pier 52. "I'm affffra-i-d to," I quaked, thinking of the B.W.'s reaction to me claiming I was a slave and she a slave driver. "A man struggles to work, battles all day, pushes home, is handed a TV dinner he's supposed to be grateful for.

A European husband would hit his wife in the face with a tv dinner. The American husband gives his wife diamonds, minks, laundromat, dishwashing machines. And she's like a "How's that?" As a farm boy, I knew several very nice cows personally. "A cow gives a bucket of milk and then kicks over the bucket;" Esther said. "Women are lazy, I know, being one.

They don't want to work hard. They manipulate a game so that a draw results.) Fischer must score 12 points to take the championship; Spassky can keep his title by scoring 12. (A win counts one point, a tie half a point.) Finally, Spassky has defeated Fischer in all five of their previous meetings. So, it may appear to a lot of observers "In. Thy presence is fulnett of joy." IWm From words of Brother Lawrence we Learn that if we will do these three All things are possible for us First, we must not be credulous Have Faith and in the Lord believe And that Ills aid we will receive Next, things are easier with Hope When we must with our problems cope And, lastly, things occur when Lighter but Stronger Love Controls us and we're conscious of The fiiet that Faith anil Hoix- and Trust Can help us do the tilings' we must.

jn.IEX C. TTYRH Schools and Court David Lawrence For the first time since the repeal of prohibition, it will be legal, as of Saturday, for distillers to market a new kind of American whisky, Sometime shortly after that historic day in 1933, for reasons which nobody seems to recall now, the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the U.S. Treasury Department decreed that whisky must be distilled at no more than 160 proof and aged in new barrels. Most whisky-drinkers in this country readily accepted the rich-tasting bourbons and blends which resulted from that order until after World War II. Then, more and more U.S.

citizens began developing a taste for the "lighter" Scotch and Canadian whiskys, vodka and gin until, as a recent Business Week listing showed, only three traditional American brands were among the 10 best sellers in 1971. The new rules permit the distilling ot whisky at 161 to 189 proof and aging in used barrels. It is the used-barrel aging which produces the so-called "lighter" taste. U.S. distillers, tired of battling the competition of the imports, had to fight for a long time to get the rules changed.

In IDffi, they were permitted to. begin distilling and storing the new product, and the storage inventory now stands at more than 190 million gallons about half the amount of "hard" liquor consumed in the U.S. in 1971. Sale of the new product will make drinkers who like the Ughter taste happy, ease the competition for the distillers, and be a bonanza for the advertising industry. Experts say it costs about million a year in advertising to launch a new brand of whisky and 16 new light whisky brands have already been announced.

real sense, the court, therefore, believed that the children residing in the small area would continue to be attending Negro schools and white schools. The effect of the withdrawal would not be dramatically different than that which could be- anticipated in the Emporia schools. The whole problem is one of creating a racial balance arti-fically, and apparently no governmental bodies are able to accomplish this in the schools. So, even if the purpose of the school board action in both cases was not to promote segregation, the Court said that this does not matter if the effect was to perpetuate segregation, cttcrs Rock by Day, Too THE G1KLS By Franklin Folgcr This is a letter to the radio stations in Springfield. There has been some comment made concerning the lack of good easy listening music on Springfield radios, but my complaint is about the complete lack of a good daytime rock station.

We are fortunate in having a good njght-time rock station that seems to be interested in its listeners, and not totally in its pocket- book. I am a 19-year-old SMS student and my views seem to be shared by most of the people I talk to, I am not exaggerating when I say a lot. too, am planning on being a disc jockey and I hope the ones who have already made it will read this WASHINGTON The struggle of school boards to desegregate their dual-school systems is resulting in many interesting rulings by the higher courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States. Last week a state statute in North Carolina authorizing the creation of a new'school district in a town which had been part of a larger county district that was in the process of dismantling a dual-school system encountered ati adverse decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. In another case involving desegregation plans in Emporia, an effort was made to prevent the local board from with- drawing children from the county schools.

The appeals court ruling was that a genuine effort had been made lo obtain a better racial balance in the schools. The federal district" court had -found that the proportion of whites in the county schools might drop as whites shifted to private academies, while some of trie pupils might move from the academies they previously attended to the city schools. Two previously all-white schools are in Emporia, while the schools in the surrounding county were formerly all-Negro. Emporia, therefore, had the right to establish a separate school system but didn't decide to do so until the court's order prevented the county from continuing its long-maintained segregated school system. The U.

S. Court of Appeals concluded that Emporia's primary purpose was "benign" and not a mere "cover-up" for racial discrimination, and reversed the lower court's decision. The Supreme Court in turn reversed the appeals court Its opinion was delivered by Justice Stewart, who was joined by Justices Douglas, Brennan, White and Marshall. Chief Justice Burger filed a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Blackmun, Powell and Rehnquist. So the problem of rearranging school districts has become more and more complicated, and the court orders are acting as a warning to many school boards that they must be careful about any redistricting process that results, in effect, in a continuance of segregation.

The Supreme Court in' its concluding paragraph in the Emporia case made this declaration: "We hold only that a new school district may not be created where its effect would be to impede the process of dismantling a dual system. And in making essentially factual determination in any particular case, we must of necessity rely 1 to a large extent, as this court has for more than 16 years, on the informed judgment of the district- courts in the first instance and on the courts of appeals. In this we believe that the district court did not abuse its discretion. For these reasons, the judgment of the court of appeals is reversed." In the North Carolina case, the appeals court also had reversed the district court. The Supreme Court, led by Justice Stewart, declared that the operation of a separate school system in Scotland Neck would "have the effect of impeding the disestablishment of the dual school system that existed in Halifax County." If separate schools were permitted to operate, more than 2200 of the nearly 3000 students in one sector would attend virtually all-Negro schools located just outside the corporate The schools within Scotland Neck would be predominantly white.

Further shifts could be anticipated. In a in the day bombards Its listeners with a commercial after almost every song; sometimes even three or four commercials. Many cities the size of Springfield have radio stations which are in- novative and interesting, not a bundle of! commercials. Rock fans be thankful that we have something to look forward to in the form of night-time radio, but the love of rock music lovers goes on day and night. The management of this so-called rock station needs to wake up and make some much needed changes, before some competition comes along and wins all the listeners.

ROCK LOv'ER Springfield letter with interest and concern. Springfield's only so-called rock station the smut, society Bv liruk man We Ne PAP AN 171 loi.9 Wo AND TINAT WA-STWAT- she'i 6-27 $tltfA "My granddaughter just phoned and guess what expecting too!".