The Evening News from Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan • Page 4

THE EVENING NEWS, SAULT STE. MARIE, JULY 18, 1972 "Don't Moke Waves!" Changing Witk The Times Cities may differ. But by and large every community is a cross-section of tha American public. As a matter of fact, each community, such as those in eastern Upper Peninsula, are composed of a great many "publics," of groups, each with its community interests. Good community relations is 'a way of working and living together.

It is a program of building and developing the community with local good will. Community relations means being a friendly part of the community thus making it a more pleasant place in which to live and work. Efforts to meet the need of the people are increasing. City Manager George De- French's announcement last week was, no doubt, geared at providing a public service and giving citizens a chance to become solidly interwined into the fabric of life in the City of Sault Ste. Marie.

We're speaking of DeFrench's move to open the City-County Building during noon hour. We congratulate DeFrench for providing new ways to possible better service our citizens. A few month's test should certainly indicate if enough people really need the noon hour to transact city business. We were also delighted to learn that the Sault Area Chamber of Commerce joined St. Ignace and Mackinac Island in providing extended hours of service to visiting tourists.

DON OAKLEY 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 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 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 outragieously 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 5125,000 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 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 Incidentally, we are told that the new extended hours by the Sault Chamber were initiated the day before our editorial on tourist information was published.

Thus, we make no claim for the motivation impact of our editorial. However, it does point out again, that discussion of various subjects by our readers, by other publications and most certainly by The Evening News can focus attention on your needs and interests. This discussion leads us to the thought that perhaps we should review our own office hours. We feel that newspapers are semi-public institutions like banks, utilities, etc. Our office hours are 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Of course many of our staffers start earlier than 8 and many work later than the 5 p.m. We also have phone answering (by Agnes DeMott) to handle circulation telephone calls up to about 8 p.m. Monday through Friday.

If you have a suggestion on how we might better utilize our office hours to serve our friends, we would be pleased to hear your comments. Like any of the other organizations mentioned, the economics of extended hours must be considered, but we ere receptive to trying new approaches. The Evening News believes that success rests with serving our friends, neighbors and citizens. chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego. Maybe 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 5100,000.

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. Go, Boris. The Evening News SAULT NEWS PRINTING PUBLISHERS Cfiast S. Osbom (1M7-1W1) Frank Knox GEORGE A.

OSBORN Editor and Publisher (1912-1972) STANLEY R. PRATT-Publisher HERB LEVIN-GENERAL MANAGER Editorial Director RICHARD Manager 109 Arlington Street Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. Zip Code 49783 Port Office Box 10 nothing! I just mffftfkfrnf his railroad!" NEW YORK (AP) During the great economic expansion of the 1960s, millions of Americans for the first time bought stocks and mutual funds, and a good many thereby established as capitalists. Now in the '70s, many of same people are reluctant to risk their fortunes.

Rather than checking the prices of stocks each day they take out their bankbooks and smile at the big savings figures. The odd turn of events could hardly have been forecast, and a good many economists and others continue to believe that Americans will desert their conservative ways and become more daring again. So far, however, there is almost nothing to suggest that this will take place. Long lines of depositors are strung out before the tellers' cages while many a broker waits impatiently for the telephone to ring. Mutual funds have been especially hard hit, with redemptions exceeding sales in most recent months.

In the first quarter of the year, the liquidation rate was at an annual rate of close to S3 billion. Not only have jobs been lost in this once explosive growth but some funds have been forced to switch the no- load status, which means they have dropped not only salesmen but sales charges as well. Ironically, while many consumers apparently have the funds to risk, they desire instead to take the slower but safer route to wealth. One explanation for the high Quick Quiz is the source of moonlight? sun. Moonlight is reflected sunlight.

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savings has remained for many months close to 8 per cent of take-home pay compared with a more traditional 5.5 per said to be uncertainty or even fear. The main ingredient of this disposition appears to have been the high level of inflation, which now seems to be abating from a 6 to 7 per cent rate in 1969 and 1970 to a more acceptable 3.5 to 4 per cent. Curiously, many small investors originally entered the market because they believe stocks were a hedge against inflation. Stocks, they were told, floated on the wave of inflation while savings were swamped and diluted. However, the constant reminder that the economy was out of balance, and dangerously so, seemingly convinced them that while a savings account would build slowly if at all, it was preferable to the risks of equities.

The shenanigans on Wall Street in recent years probably added to this conviction. Investors were made aware every day of the dangerous financial position and practices of their brokers. PEANUTS Hodgepodge 1 Answer to Previous Puzzle ACROSS 1 Small grove (dial.) 5 Gained 8 Preposition 12 Peel, as aa apple 13 Mariner's direction. 14 Alleviate 15 Epochs 16 Stnch. 17 Crafts 38 Disputer 20 Newly made 21 Correlative of neither 22 Driving command 23 and groom 26 Foretell 30 Outer edge 31 Hindu robe 33 Craggy hill 34 Indonesian of Mindanao.

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currency something very special in the physical sense, using the sturdiest paper and most indelibla ink to guarantee durability and discouraga counterfeiting. The result is a currency uniquely resistant to wear and tear something very special indeed, as any traveler who has had the self- destruct bills of many other nations crumble in his hands knows from personal experience. Still, even the fiupertough greenbacks eventually wear out. Worn-out bills return whence they came, to the Federal Reserve, which in the past has disposed of them by the simple and efficient method of burning. Simple, that is, until the environmental movement began to have an effect on public policies.

With the wide-spread adoption of antipollutiou ordinances banning large-scale burning, the government is turning to other methods of disposing of its old money currently about 2,500 tons a year with a face value of some $12 billion. The Federal Reserve would like to join the current trend toward recycling, chopping up the tattered bills for reuse. Which raises a difficult question: What use? After going through the shredders, the fluff that once was money is still green since removing that superindelible ink would be a very difficult and expensive process. And turning it into paper again not good enough for new bills but suitable for top-quality stationery is ruled out as too tempting and convenient for counterfeiters. The government is looking into various industrial and construction possibilities, packing other purposes, but so far the market can absorb only a fraction of the supply available.

So, as it stands, the government faces a real and growing problem of how to dispose of money. Considering how budgets and deficits tend to run, who would ever have believed it possible? The warning has gone out to visitors to certain resort areas: Beware of crooks who have gone mobile. No longer waiting for suckers to come to them, card sharks are meeting arriving tourists at airports, luring them into cars and relieving them of vacation money in fixed games on the spot. Not Florida or the Bahamas, however, but at the Soviet Union's Black Sea vacation areas. The press, usually loathe to acknowledge that crime is a problem of any significance in Soviet society, lately has taken at the increase in one of the oldest free enterorise games on earth.

Some sun- seekers from the north were reported left without a kopeck in their pockets before so much as glimpsing a beach. Still a far cry from Miami's jewel heists and Caribbean casinos, maybe, but clearly the sucker business is tough all over. And ideology has nothing to do with it. (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) DAYS OF YORE 10 Years Ago JULY 18, 1962 The water temperature measured at the well at the Sault pumping station passed the 60-degree mark for the first time this year. Sault Ste.

Marie has been awarded a federal grant towards the cost of preparation of a professional city plan. The proposed boat ramp for the upper river area is still under study. According to City Manager W. M. Cotton, despite all the river frontage, finding a suitable site is proving difficult.

Eighty members of the Minnesota Historical Society were entertained yesterday on both sides of the St. Marys River as guests of the Sault, Ont. and the Chippewa County Historical Societies. 25 Years Ago JULY 18, 1947 Amvets and auxiliary members from every major community in Michigan were arriving in the Sault today for the opening of the third annual convention of the Michigan Department, American Veterans of World War II. L.

M. Stephens of Newport, Kentucky has taken over operation of the Sault tourist camp on East Portage Avenue. Two Detroit veterans en route to the state convention in the Sault escaped with superficial injuries when their small plane crashed in front of Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel. With more than 700 high school students and older folks the high school pool weekly, a change in the schedule has been made to accommodate the increasing numbers. 50 Years Ago JULY 18, 1922 Gladys Ward of this city is being advertised by the Detroit News as a member of its corps of musicians for the WWJ broadcasting station.

Miss Ward has given several piano selections in recent programs. Fred Burris has been procured as life guard at the municipal bathing beach at the end of East Portage Avenue. A. J. Shoemacher of 402 Cedar Street has been appointed local manager of the Fuller Brush Company branch office which has been opened here.

A regular branch office of Detroit Life insurance Co. will open here in few days with J. G. Marks as district manager..