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1 Monday, Janmry 17. 1972 THE CONTROL PANEL THB Editorial Comment Electronic Surveillance Credit for the increase in the of syndicate gangsters, a lucrative branch of organized crime, is given by FBI Director J. Hoover to evidence ob- by "bugs" or electronic surveillance. Most of the 1,200 arrests made under the organized crime act were made due to bugs' 2 penetrating the complex, tightly" knit conspiracies which exercised their own intricate- concealment precautions-Hoover said in his annual report. In addition to 468 convictions secured in 1970 and.

650 in Hoover said cases against 2,200 other gambling and racketeering figures were in various stages of prosecution. They include seven against national syndicate leaders and their lieutenants. The driVe on organized crime is the highlight of a report of continued achievement by the FBI, including' monitoring organizatibns bent on upsetting the government by protecting civil rights, rescuing, the kidnapped, and the usual hunt' for those fleeing criminal prosecution, which last netted 14,000 convictions of 35,000 found, and fines of $510 million, a return of $1.61 for every dollar appropriated for FBI investigations. Life in this country would truly be horrendous without the FBI Muskie Looks Good In New Hampshire Clean Engines Possible By 75 The Committee of Motor Vehicle Emissions of the National Academy of Sciences concludes that the rate of progress in developing, a clean automobile engine makes it the major rfiamffacturers-wifl be able to meet the 1975 deadline to introduce them in their models that year, but at a very high price. The committee suggests that a year's extension should enable the auto makers to improve, the performance and reliability of the cars that meet the in 1976.

Optimistic as -the reports was that the technology will be available by 1975, it pointed eiit that it would cost the. consumer $200 over the price, of the 1973 models. Also, there be a "three to twelve, per cent" increase in the fuel, consumption well as an increase in the-maintenance cost because of a loss in acceleration, with additional stalling; as well as a deterioration in the drivability of the car. Furthermore, the committee said that the .1975. emission standards could not be met unless regular, periodic maintenance of the emission control system is required of the owner.

This would require widespread amendment of state laws on vehicle inspection. All of which require more time for, testing, improving and cost-reduction. 'Certainly, we don t'want higher prices and inefficient cars, but if this is takes to dispose of the massive number of deaths and sickness from car pollution, we must grit pur teeth andputup with inconvenience or not drive. The year 1975 is too far away as it is to wait for pelief. -X 1 th'e" car manufacturers- want to beat their competitors to something new, they pull all the stops and ruch radical changes on (heir engines or bodies or both, the industry does not need three years to test and render efficient their already functioning working models.

The emergency is great. The manufacturers should be required pool their researches and to Iraw on the knowledge of top physicists and engineers of the nation. They can cut the year needed to produce the satisfactory -results ne'eded at a reasonable price. BEITS 1W.O 1972 bf NO. I "My wfe the idea for decorating, the Hying room this way from some airline ad!" THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE ft PRESS Reporter established 1889 Tribune established ,1907 By BRUCE BIOSSAT MANCHESTER, N.H.

(NEA)-Sen. Edmund Muskie's stock has gone up in New Hampshire since his state organizers made a smashing success.here of his first nf ''the election Muskie's people-rustlers drummed out a rally crowd which some seasoned onlookers think was tbre6 times as big as reasonable expectations. On a near-zero evening, many hundreds (some say 2,000) wedged into a steamy hotel ballroom to 'hear neighbor Ed from One veteran Democratic professional says: "I was just flabbergasted bv that turnout If I were a Muskie manager. I wouldn't have have dared to. try they did that night." The argument is that New Hampshire voters having already looked at a parade of Democrats in 1971, are supposed to be and hard to get out and turn on.

The skin-to-skin crowd, heavily on the young, side, was indeed "on" at the rally. Muskie', down to his gaily striped shirt and wearing green and red confetti in his hair, had his listeners in his palm for a good while. Then he talked too long, and the glow of the occasion faded some. But the rally, in fact Muskie's whole opening day on the road, goes down as a -huge plus. detached professionals They have been saying Ms.

New Hampshire organization was good but untested. They wondered whether he might not be waiting unnecessarily long (mid-February) to measure his workers' ability to canvass voters and identify his potential supporters for the March 7 primary. They have to be found before they can be fired up and spurred to vote. Polls; of course, have given Muskie a crushing advantage. The question had to be whether that could be translated into votes.

My sources now think the answer is yes, that the rally success means the vital canvassing almost surely will go well. This is not, however, the full range of the In The Past Ms. Steinem, You Reach Too Far By DON OAKLEY Women who defy the nation's male- dominated society can expect to be treated as "something of a dirty claims women's liberationist Gloria Stein em, writing in the new feminist magazine which she edits. (Ms." is an abbreviation of a nonexistent word pronounced "miz" use before the name of a female who may not be married but marital status is nobody's business and anyway has nothing to do with her basic value as a human being.) -mere seems to be no punishment inside the white male that quite equals the ridicule and personal viciousness reserved for women who rebel," says Ms. Steinem.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status QUO win treat her as something of a dirty joke." Now if Ms. Steinmen literally means "club" and is referring to the attempted forced sexual integration of male-only facilities, she is probably quite right. But if by "club" she means the business of professional world, she is quite wrong. There is prejucice and discrimination against women. But it has been a number or years since anything like ridicule or viciousness greeted the woman who was determined to succeed in a man's world.

If proof of that is needed, it is found in abundance in the obituary of Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, mother of the family made famous by the book and movie, "Cheaper by the Dozen," who died recently at the age of 93. While raising six sons and six daughters, Dr. Gilbreth earned several college degrees, became a brilliant industrial engineer and management consultant and a pioneer with her husband in the field of time and motion study, continuing with the business after the death of her husband- all during the post-Victorian years of the early part of the century and, to repeat, all while rearing a dozen children.

For a fact, there's the difference between Dr. Gilbreth and Ms. Steinem, or between many other successful career women and the latter-day libbers- children. Or even a is, life partner. Dr.

Gilbreth did, however, detest cooking. Howard, We All Feel AAis-Hughesed senator's difficulties in New Hampshire. He has pesky Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angeles to worry about. Since the mayor isn't making any headway as. a presidential prospect.

anywhere It ought to be easy to undercut his credibility as a condidate in the Hampshire test. But it Says one "We operate in 'Alice in Wonderland' here. Arguments that work against candidates in other places may not in New Hampshire. ''Yorty is (Manchester publisher) William. Loeb's candidate, and Loeb is gooil at selling his 'creations' to our voters," There is guessing that Yorty could get maybe 20 per cent of a Democratic primary vote some think will run between 75 000 and 80,000 this year.

The 1968 vote total came to around 60,000 of some 100,000 registrants. Besides, independents can be party voters briefly, under new law. Some 40 per cent of the state's "Democratic in Loeb-land, Yorty is figured to do well with conservatives and some moderates who otherwise might be for Muskie. If Muskie really soars, he will squeeze down Yorty. In the process he may, oddly, help liberal Sen.

George McGovern salvage second place. Right now, McGovern faces a double peril -running behind Yprty-and getting less than 15 per. cent of the primary vote. Either outcome would just about finish him off nationally. And he's in a jut.

Muskie; neighbor or no, really can be held to some artificially proclaimed high percentage goal. But he does need at least 50 per cent. fiarbs BY RALPH NOVAK The tension is mountine. Is Howard or dead? Did he or did he not authorize an autobiography? Will he or will he not make a public appearance? It is all at least as excitine and nearly as significant as the current crises among Joanne, Tony and Sam on "Search for Tomorrow." With all the talk about the mystery surrounding the ultimately nongregarious billionaire, nobody seems to be examining the biggest mystery of all: why everybody is so concerned about Hughes in the first place; There are, after all, those of us who have managed to muddle through the last 15 years even though Hughes has been in hiding and we may be excused for wondering why anyone cares if-where-how he is. If Hughes appeared on the tonight show or deigned to let Time interview him.

it would not really solve any ecological problems, end the war or remedy our economic problems. Yet we find journalists representing most of the nation's largest and most powerful news-gathering organizations solemly sitting around listening to a disembodied voice purported to be that of Hughes as if they were being connected on a direct line to God. Where are you when we need you, Mr. Agnew? Here we see the Great Eastern Liberal Press Establishment at its worst, scurrying about trying to gather information that is basically meaningless, exerting its considerable resources in a trivial rause, proving itself adept at making mountains out of mole hills. There are a lot of other people other than Howard Hughes who want to avoid publicity, and most of them have better reasons.

There are the people who are involved in organized crime, for instance. There are plenty of government officials who are even more hung up on secrecy diat Hughes. There are businesses and labor organizations insisting that they nave a particular right to be exempted from wage and price restrictions that apply to everyone else. It is one thing to climb a mountain because it's there. It is another thing entirely to build the mountain yourself and then climb it because it is there.

Tidbits You Shouldn't Miss By the time Christmas Eve gets here, there'll be a lot of jangled belles behind the counters. We have the only artificial tree in town that sheds needles like the live ones One Year Ago Charles E. Bennett, Rt. 5, city, Cass County Sealer of Weights and Measures during the past 15 years, has announced his resignation, due to poor health since he was injured in an accident at his farm last July. The Rev.

Donald Ruhl, pastor of Main Street United Methodist Church, has been elected president of Cass County Churches United. arid Melvin Greensfelder have been elected co-chairmen of the Cass County Heart Fund campaign for the 14th consecutive year. -Ten Years Ago County residents will have an opportunity to praise or protest a newly revised plan for county school reorganization Jan. 29 and 30. Jack Berlet, W.

Ronald Chambers, William Farrer, Herbert Hanna and Joseph Spitznogle have been nominated for the Outstanding Young Farmer award in Cass County. Twenty Years Ago An additional appropriation of $88,000 was allocated to the Logansport State Hospital for food when the state budget committee met late yesterday. Cass County will receive $40,980 as its share of the January distribution of motor vehicle funds. Fifty Years Ago The board of police commissioners reuled that all children under 16 years of age, boys and girls alike, must be in their homes unless accompained by an adult person by 9 p.m. each night.

The weather, and the fact the fire engine did not function properly, proved enemies of small boys who wished to skate Riverside Park yesterday. NEW YORK gossip and fascinating trivia, for your Book of Nostaliga Mitchell cont'd her anti-anything telephonic onslaughts, including blasting the media and the U.S. Supreme Court. Her critics line up in partisan separation: GOPs and con. servatives find Martha fun, liberals lose their senses of humor and in solemn-ass style see threats to everything in global sight Papa Doc Duvalier, vicious ruler of Haiti, died at M.

leavinff his business of dictatorship to his incompetent-looking son, who has held on Papa Doc-style Dino Martin, precocious 19-year-old son of Dean, wed the movies' "Juliet," Olivia Hussey, 20. Judy Garland's ex-husband (father of Liza) Vincente Minnelli was divorced from Denise, who then wed Prentice Hale, department store millionaire Alexis became the Toast of Bdwy. as star of the magnificently modern musical "Follies" at the Winter Garden. Dick Cavett made all magazine covers, was the- most cerebral of TV talk show probably explained his running steadily in 3rd place behind J. Carson and M.

Griffin; but hardly explains his retention of the midnight airwaves while Merv Griffin has been cancelled; that's show biz Joe Frazier's heavyweight championship hardly was paralelled in his ambitious rock-group's path: they flopped internationally, from Neveada to Europe Helen Hayes retired from acting. Again. Seven -foot-one Wilt Chamberlain spent more than a million building a H'wood home to his stiltish doorways, 45-ft. fireplace, nine-foot bed, 14-feet-deep pool, 14-feet ceilings Jackie Kennedy, hardly a women's lib loyalist, was photographed wearing a thin transparent T-shirt at Portofino and (tho she and Audrey Hepburn aren't famous for it) plainly adhered to the Libbers' no-bra edict Time mag did an extensive study of people who are late for everything and' cited senators Humphrey and Teddy Kennedy (eight hours late at Chappaquiddick), Marilyn Monroe (early to die), Henry Kissinger (late for dates with ladies), Poet Dylan Thomas (delayed by booze) etc. TelAviv headlines stated "Daughter of Charles Chaplin Says: My is by Brickman payable tained.

Pharos established 1844 Jornoi established Logontport Press Established 1921 Published dally except Saturday and holidays by logansport Newspapers, Inc. 517 East Broad- W0 Logonsport. Indiana, 46947, Second class postage paid at Logansport, under the act ot 1H79 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAUOF CIRCULATION but we all knew he was The Italian divorce law finally freed Maria Callas, Vittorio de Sica and Catherine Spaak from long-wed legal frustrations "Lolita" Sue Lyon wed a black photographer. Roland Harrison Bank heister Willie Sutton (stole $2,000,000 in his kife, claims he's broke) was writing his autobiog and was offered for TV com- merials The Russians took Term. Williams' "Streetcar" play without permission or royalties and were adding a happy ending TV, like was importing the better items on its schedules: The Forsyth Saga, the Six Wives of Henry VIII; the First Churchills; coming form Canada: the "Jalna" TV series.

Not until December did Bdwy. get a hit musical: "Two Gentlemen of Verona." Prince Charles did a airplane bailout at 120 mph in appropriate costume (formal wet suit, royal crash helmet, goggles, princely butterflies in tummy) into the channel, surrounded by enough Navy craft to invade England Vida Blue was tapped best baseball pitcher, lowest paid such ever: his 25-game year. Spring Byington, more than 40 years a cinematic mother by trade and TV's "September Bride" for generations, died at 84 Duke Ellington toured Russia, triumphantly Muhammad Ali's dreary cliche "most whites are bad" speech made headlines in Peru, but not at the Stage Delly, where he's more circumspect among whites as he eats his daily Jewish- style breakfast whenever he's in N.Y. Raffaele Minichiello, who hijacked a TWA jet to Rome, emerged from Italian jail and got a job in a suburban Rome restaurant (I Fontanone) as a waiter "I'm very shy and this is good for me," he dead panned. Beverly Sills, from Brooklyn, was proclaimed "finest female operatic vioce in the world" Sicily was proua ui Sicilian-ancestored Frank Sinatra, and planted flowers in Catania in his controversial honor U.S.

Author Leon Uns in Australia snarled to reporters: "American girls are makeup, hair down to here, because they're doing their thing. It is the age of dirty old men in America 24 or 25 every girl is looking for a middle-aged dirty old it was pointed out Uris is 47, his current third wile. 24. Pope Paul ordered an investigation of his predecessor Pope John's qualifications for sainthood The late Joseph P. Kennedy once told us Pope John's predecessor, Pope Pius, was in his hardly humble opinion, "a true saint." Britain's Prime Minister Heath conducted the London Symphony, most respectably, even Labor Party critics admitted Liz Taylor attended the splashiest party of the hetset world's year lai uuy oe rtotncnua's tTencn cnateau; wearing more than in diamonds and emeralds, and to cries of vulgarity from the Out-Set came the age-old reply: "If you got 'em, you wear 'em.".