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Page NALGATt'CK NEWS (Coal.) Tinniay, September IS13 KICKBACK News Published Every Evening (Except Sundays and Holidays) by Jlijr Kaugalurk Neaa Carp. Water Street. Niiigatuck.CoHn. Telephone 729-2228, 729-2229 and 729-2220 All Department 2at Clan PaM at tke Patt Office in Naugaluck Connecticut Daily by Mail in 1st and 2nd Postal Zones One Year Six Months 40.00 20.00 One Month One Week 3.45 .80 Member: United Press-International: American Newspaper ME. Daily Newspaper Publishers' Conn.

Newspaper Publishers' Assn. Member of Audit Bureau ol Circulations More Of The Same One of the newest concepts of mass travel in the United States is something called Auto-Train, a venture launched less than two years ago by an enterpr ising young man from Florida. The idea is not new, really, since the Florida entrepreneur virtually lifted it bodily from Europe, where such a mode of travel has long been familiar. But it's new to the United. Slates of America, and it has caught on like the proverbial wildfire.

Auto-Train runs twice a day between Washington, D.C. and Florida in the winter months, and daily during the summer. Each train will handle 125 automobiles and their passengers. So successful has been -this enterprise that Amtrak, the federally subsidized national railway system, recently petitioned Congress for the right to negotiate similar trains on other routes. Congress gave the O.K.

and the wheels are already turning. Auto-Train currently reports it has a backlog waiting list for two months, and Amtrak hopes to move in on some of this surplus business which Auto-Train apparently cannot handle. Sounds like a good idea, considering that Amtrak was subsidized to the extent of $123 million last year, while Auto-Train turned in a net profit of $804,000 on a gross business of nearly $4 million. There's really no reason why a government- subsidized operation shouldn't earn a profit, is there? To be sure, we have no illusions that trains hauling people and their automobiles as well are going to solve this country's mass transportation problems. But the Auto-Train idea is, at the very least, a new and fresh' idea in transportation for the United States that can both ease the strain on the crowded interstate highways and give the harassed railroad industry a shot in the arm as well.

What we need are more ideas like it. Getting About In Italy By William F. Buckley Jr. PORTO ERCOLE, ITALY It is generally accepted as an acl of divine resolution that planetary order should have of Ihe universal chaos. It is no less a miracle thai one can travel in a mere seven hours the 200 miles from the Isle of Capri to Porto Frcole.

With changes in Naples and Rome. Bul (he odyssey is eventful, instructive, and expensive, and one concludes not only that in Italy every other laborer is a baggage porter, but that the porters are (he bedrock of the capitalist class. There were three of us. with eight bags, and it cost us $60 in lips. Al lhat we were left feeling misanthropic, the genius of Ihe Italian porter who sels out lo rob you.

You ask him how much for toling eight bags in his carl from one train lo another leaving an hour and a half laler. "Seven dollars is Ihe "he will tell you. Ihe final word pitched high the Kalians having learned Ihe art of aposiopesis from the Greeks two thousand years ago. II is rather as if cracking open the safe in Ihe bank, you lurn lo the manacled, gagged, manager and say to him reproachfully "do you realize that afler all Ihe trouble I have taken you have only one hundred thousand in chash?" The taxi driver at Naples was coaxed up lo Ihe quay where Ihc hydrofoil disgorged the passengers afler the 45 minule run from Capri. The native population separated from us as if we had the plague.

Quile. As we drove off, Ihe driver explained in an ebbulient English he had spent a month in Yonkers-New York as a drummer with a jazz band thai when he had been asked to come to shipside to pick us up because the lady had a "gamba mala," which was the nearest we could come in Italian to describing my wife's twisted knee, he inflected "mala" in such a way as to suggest to the milling crowd lhal he was proceeding lo pick up a lady with a debased leg; and since thedisease- du-joHT in Naples is cholera we found ourselves with the leper's right-of-way. The driver rejoiced owr his gentle duplicity tatting ifl the my, braking to sudden stops every few Mocks to wave at fellow drivers and friends, giving us a running narrative aboul Ihe Germans during the war, when he was a boy of 14, and arriving at the stalion, all bul embracing us goodbye. Unforlunalely il was the wrong stalion. Back went the hags, after lipping prodigiously Ihe three porters who look Ihe bags off Ihe taxi only lo put them back onto the laxi after telling us the train left from the other stalion.

The driver was enchanted at Ihe prospect of another few minutes with us and promised he would make the connection. There followed a len-minute drive lhal will remain in memory. When 1 say it was a drive that paralyzed my wife into silence, I mean such drives are truly paralyzing. My wife will complain of recklessness at Ihe wheel at 25 mph, but would be stoical perched on top of Saturn II during Ihe countdown. The driver recnacted the chase in The French Connection, hurtling through Naples around trucks and busses and applecarts, ricocheting through tunnels, and singing lustily the songs he learned at Yonkers- Ncw York, especially favoring "ILuffNoo Yohk Keen Choon" and we arrived with ten minutes lo spare.

Four porters grabbed two bags each and forced us to run as best we could keeping pace with one diseased leg, and we made it lo the baggage car. The four porters desired 2000 lira each, or $3.50 for the two minute run. Our traveling companion, whose day it was lo act as pursurer, resisted. Whereupon two other parties joined us, listened gravely to the con- lending parties, and rendered their judicious verdict lhal Ihe porters were correct in the price they requested. Al this point, the train about to pull away, we capitulated, and just then the laxi driver rematerialized.

He had forgotten lo give us his card. "You feela free to write me any time!" he said exultantly, and we said thanks, we certainly would, as the door closed on us and we could see Ihe porters cheerfully chatting unl il, Ihe train beginning to move, Ihey saw that we were looking at them whereupon their expressions changed, as if Arturo Toscanini himself had trained them, into a harmonized despondency over the human condition which our miserliness had jolted them into reconsidering. WHAT WILL happen to tkfe newspaper after you're through reading it? If you stack with others and take them to the Recycle Center on Rubber Avenue on Saturday, September 8 from 8:30 a.m. until p.m. you remove clutter from fie streets, you save the sanitation men some work and you even kelp to give the newspaper a new usefulness il seme other form.

Along with these obvious advantages it will earn Ihe Naugaluck Junior Woman's ton lor Ibe paper collected which (key in turn use for civic projects to benefit all the people of Naugaluck. Support the recycling program-Call Sally Jensen 729-7144 or Marilyn Han Ion 72S-5824 for paper pkk-up If you will be unable to deliver Ihe paper on Saturday. A REMINDER for the sisters of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Cristoforo Columbo society The opening meeting will be this coming Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the dubroom on South Main St. at board is asked to be there at 6:30 p.m....

DON'T FORGET FOLKS St. Michael's Village Green Fair opens will be many attractions for Ihe children along with the train is a good time to pick up those stocking stuffers even though it's a little difficult lo think of Christmas in all this will be refreshments and Ihe usual peach shortcake that makes a fair hard to keep away is always something for everyone so be sure to get down lo the green and don't forget Saturday at II a.m. Ihe auction takes Ella Grasso Gains Ground In 1974 Gubernatorial Race WE UNDERSTAND that Mrs. Morgan O'Brien of 24 Walnut Ter. had a bad fall recently but are happy to say she is feeling much All this talk about a woman becoming Governor is enough to make a guy wonder if this liberation business hasn't gone too far.

Democratic party male or senatorial nomination despite strong labor support, Mrs. Grasso went after the congressional seat then being vacated by Thomas J. Meskill in chauvinists, undaunted by the in- his bid for the governorship, in a ability of any of the guber- district carried overwhelmingly natorial hopefuls to move into a by Meskill two years earlier, commanding position, still, Mrs. Grasso stilt managed to win however, aren't taking the can- by 4000 votes while running didacy of Sixth District mates "Mim" D'addario and Joe Congresswoman Ella T. Grasso Duffey went quickly down the as seriously as they should.

drain in their respective bids for Four successive polls, the last governor and senator a fact of commissioned by the Committee political life not lost on Mrs. on Political Education of the Grasso. AFL-CIO, have established the 54-year-otd magna cum laude THE SIXTH Congressional graduate of Mt. Holyoke College, District, a geographic nightmare as the party's most popular that cuts across parts of four choice. counties and runs from Newtown Her 46-39 edge over incumbent to the Massachusetts state line.

Governor Thomas J. Meskill in the COPE poll came on the heels of victories in earlier surveys taken by the Hartford Times, Connecticut Magazine and lastly, the Republican State Central Committee, which, obviously is trying to determine its probable gubernatorial opponent. The GOP may be wasting its time because Democratic Party veterans like State Chairman John Bailey and New Haven Town Chairman Arthur T. Bar- hieri place more reliance on back-room maneuvering than on poll results. Bailey, slowed down BY RICK DIAMOND AND TOBY MOFFETT Robert Killian, while Barbieri, anxious to support his own candidate, has been encouraging ex- Conn President, Homer Babbidge, to make the race.

Mrs. Grasso has more going Mrs. Grasso pushed for emergency public works funds, for summer jobs, and for an extension of federal unemployment benefits. Ella got results jobs for her district and a gradual retreat from the high water mark that had seen the unemployment rate rise to nearly 20 per cent in Bristol, and to over 10 per cent in Torrington and New Britain, the three largest cities in the Sixth District. And the voters did not forget her efforts.

In her 1972 reelection bid the flood gates opened. Despite the Nixon sweep of the state and her district, Ella put together the greatest personal triumph in her 20-year political career a 47,000 victory margin. MRS. GRASSO'S congressional record may have some flaws. She put her District first, and voted against several attempts to trim an overripe Pentagon' defense budget.

But in areas like-consumer protection, veteran's rights, mandatory energy allocation measures, the alert, intense, second-term Congresswoman has been an indefatigable worker. Already some signs of support, or strong interest, are beginning to trickle in from such divergent party leaders as Nicholas Carbone, a Hartford Councilman; Thayer Bladwin, past president of the Caucus of Coalition Democrats, and Senate Minority leader Charles T. Alfano. Political supporters of Mrs. Grasso are hoping that the Congresswoman will drop the reluctant posture she adopted in 1970 and will seriously fight for MISS SANDRA Korowotny of Prospect Street began classes at Ihe University of Connecticut, Waterbury Branch of luck was valedictorian of Naugatuck High MR.

ERNEST SHEA of 34 Birch Lane is among GOO men and women who have enrolled in Ihe freshman class at Gettysburg IT SURE was quiet around the house yesterday with all the youngsters headed out to don't know about you. bul we would sure like to know where the summer went so only seems like yesterday was the Fourth of TICKETS FOR the Teslimoma! in honor of Bcrnie Ardry can still be obtained at the door tomorrow (Friday) night at the VFW Hall at 7:30 Bernie is to be married on Sept. 22 to Miss Jackie Keleman of CONGRATULATIONS to Mom, Eleanor Braziel. who will graduate tonight at Kaynor Technical Auditorium as an L.P.N. Love and happiness from youreighl children.

John, Denise. Michael. Charlotte, Loretta, Kevin. Irene and by ailing health, is reported to soon became the private domain still favor Attorney General of Ella Grasso. From her East Windsor home and headquarters she made her presence felt.

Her unwieldly district was cut down to size by the "Ellaphone," a no-toll 800 number, allowing constituents to call her office for her than the anytime free of charge. "Corn- astounding record as a vote- munications is a two way getter during her 12-year stint as she commented, as she the nomination. A determined ef- Secretary of State includes unofficially took on the role of fort may be just the convincer leading the entire Democratic "ombudsman" when over one some party leaders need, ticket, in the 1962 and 1966 hundred calls weekly poured into The Democrats cemented Dempsey campaigns. Detractors ber.office. Her newsletter, "The down ethnic bloc ties by being the who discount this achievement Week in Review," kept the news first party to nominate and elect (because Ihe voters are willing to media informed as to her posi- "non-Yankees" to major offices, concede the Secretary's job to a tion on pending and proposed They can break new ground by woman) fail, however, to legislation.

Dismayed by the unemployment that descended like a blight on her district in 1971, she rose to the occasion. Undeterred by her freshman congressional status, DICK AND WANDA Dinsmore of Irving St. were surprised last Saturday evening by some 60 friends, neighbors and relatives on the occasion of'their 25th wedding was a delightful, inform at, pleasant evening-tand there's no doubt 'whatever tha they were was silling out on the lawn wondering who was having a party as more and more cars parked along the street near their lo discover that she and Dick were having a party Ihey didn't even know to Inez Phf Ian and a lot of people who proved they could keep a Wall Street Chatter be awed by Ella Grasso's record in the last two congressional races. In 1970, talked out of actively seeking either Ihe gubernatorial being the first to endorse a woman gubernatorial candidate. The 164 question is whether the Party is willing to gamble on the electorate's readiness to break with tradition.

The Lighter Side By Dick West WASHINGTON (UPI) Federal law requires that before certain projects can be undertaken there must be an environmental study lo determine their impact on Ihe ecology. The U.S. Interior Department has published a number of environmenta; impact statements, most recently one on shale oil development. After looking over that ment, which runs to six urnes and covers 3,200 pages, I would now like to propose a follow-up study. What I have in mind is a to determine the environmental impact of environmental impact statements.

In calling for such a study, I do not mean to imply that the shale oil study was unneeded. It obviously will be put to good varieties of birds, including the ferruginous hawk, the flam- mulated owl, the long-billed dowitcher and the marbled godwit. It considers the mammals of the area, not overlooking Ihe western jumping mouse and the sagebrush vole. It takes into account piscatorial species (squawfish, humped-backed sucker, It regards the interests of the side-blotched lizard, the chorus frog and other reptiles. Nor is flora neglected.

One can consult the study and learn how shale oil development might effect myriad plants, among them seepweeds and serviceberry bushes. is apparent, however, that the very act of publishing a study is itself an environment factor. Among the ecological questions that arise are: many trees did it take to provide enough wood pulp to make the paper on which the use in setting up guidelines to stwry printed? protect the environment should Were There Advene Effects? the shale oil project proceed. CwM CMipUii And certainly no one could complain that it skimps on details. The study examines the potential impact on downs of the felling of so much timber have any adverse effects on squawfish, side- blotched lizards, flammulated owls, western jumping mice and other creatures of the forest? what extent will disposal of the documents, once they are no longer needed, add to Ihe pollution problem? much auto mileage was required to compile the information during a period of gasoline shortages.

The purpose of an environmental impact statement is lo help officials determine whether the ecological disadvantages of a project outweigh its economical advantages. That Ijs indeed a worthy- objective. But first they need to determine whether the environment can withstand the impact of environmental impact statements. WORKERS, LOOK IIP! NEW YORK (UPlt Problems of the workplace, ranging from worker dissatisfaction with dull, repetitive jobs to concern with the productivity of government workers, are Ihe focus of research for which four new Ford Foundation grants have been made. The grants went to Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, to George Washington University, to the National Manpower Policy Task Force and to the government of Nassau County, N.Y.

NEW YORK (UPI) Against a backdrop of confusing economic indicators, "corporate profits have stood out as a star performer," according to First National City Bank's Economic Week. Although corporate profits before taxes averaged an annual rale of growth of 50 per cent in Ihe first half of 1973, "Ihey owe much of their luster to an inflationary veneer," Ihe letter says. After subtracting gains stemming from price appreciation in inventory values, the increase in corporate profits for the first two quarters of this year is reduced by more than half, it adds. Despite the view of many economic soothsayers that the economy will tumble to zero growth in 1974 or enter a full- blown depression, Blyth Eastman Dillon says the economy and corporate profits will slow in keeping with the pace of inflation. The firm says "no The Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Sept.

6, Ihe 249th day of 1973 with 116 lo follow. The moon is between its first quarter and full phase. The morning stars are Mars and Saturn. The evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those bom on this date are under the sign of Virgo.

American social worker Jane Addams was born Sept. 6, 1860. On this day in history; In 1620, 149 Pilgrims set sail from England for the New World. In 1JOI, President William recession and no absolute decline in profits is likely for the year as a whole." It projects an annual growth in corporate profits of 8 per cenl after 1974 to match Ihe nominal growth in Gross National Product. In the face of soaring interest rates and the last dog days of August, "the market has been making a creditable showing," says Alexander Hamilton Institute, Business Conditions Weekly.

Although volume still is disturbingly light, "the market appears to be building a base for a strong upward move," it continues. The letter urges inveslors lo lake advantage of "some of the countless blue chips lhal are selling at distress prices." "The marked fall in the dollar's exchange rate earlier Ihis year has set into motion a dramatic improvement in the U.S. trade balance," says Townsend-Greenspan 4 Business Outlook. The letter says U.S. trade accounts should register a small surplus for Ihe third quarter and then reach a bulging $5 million annual surplus in 1974.

"Since foreign trade is based on orders placed three lo six months in advance, the lull effect of the exchange rate adjustments cannot be expected for six months to a year yet." it adds. MILK PRICES HARTFORD, Conn. (UPI) Prices of milk sold in schools in the state could rise by as much as 5 cents per half-pint if the milk subsidy program to schools is dropped. Nancy B. Perry, director of Ihe state's child nutri- McKinleywas shot and critical- i0 program said she is hopeful ly wounded Buffalo, N.Y.

He ihe milk subsidy program funding would continue after its received scheduled Sept. 30 end, making it possible to rescind Ihe increases later. Without the federal subsidy, children would be died eight days later. In 1909, word was that Adm. Robert Peary had discovered the North Pole five months earlier, on April 6,1909.

In IS6S, South African Prime charged the full amount by the" Minister Henrich Verwoerd was assassinated. school. A thought for the day: The Klondike area of Cana- French philosopher Blaise Pas- Yukon Territory has cal said, "We know the truth, yielded a quarter of a billion not wJy by the person, but by dollars in gold since the gold the heart." rush of int..