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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION For 103 Years the South'i Standard Xetcspaper i- 71 Ucrj Murphy Talkin9 for The Folks 31 fell REG MURPHY, Editor JACK TARVER, President I I I 111, .1 There's something about old South Georgia boys certain speech patterns, certain philosophical viewpoints that makes PAGE 4-A, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1971 1 Structuring the City them both inter, esling and electable. Dawson Mathis, for instance. When he got electedto Congress, he conceded he hadnt visited Washington since he went there with a high school senior class. I II I 1 .4 v.V.v. JC II ll ii: II II 1 1 i Scenario few change: The sanitation chiefs from all the towns, cities and counties in metropolitan At-; lanta sat down at a polished conference table in a neutral conference Iroom.

I "What are we doing here?" asks a man more accustomed to recruiting garbage collectors than to planning. "Talking about getting together," answers a man who knows more about landfills and incinerators than about regional concepts. I Slowly the conversation moves to the joint problems: What to do about recycling waste. How to pay for rising 1 labor costs. When to begin planning for new disposal systems.

Wf i Then he asked the President and Congress to extend the repeal of the excise tax from pickup trucks. He said: "Mr. Speaker, the administration seems to be saying, if you can afford a new Cadillac you're chopping high cotton, but if you are only a dirt farmer you've got a hard row to hoe." Exactly. Why should suburban cars be exempted from the tax while farmers keep having to pay up to $200 in excise taxes just because they drive farm trucks? If You Need Any Help Boys, My Door Is Always Open! Hal Gulliver for merging the city and county prisons. Again, the idea sounds feasible He said the public works departments should be joined.

The idea of having road-patchers, working in one consolidated group is worthwhile. Massell also asked for a city department of human resources to handle the functions now being carried out by a wide range of agencies. We are more skeptical of that idea. It has been the experience of governmental -bodies that when governments try to work together on a single goal, the programs are profitably merged, but when they are consolidated into larger bureaucracies trying to handle a wide range of programs they founder. Example: the federal Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Massell is to be commended without reservation for thinking through the problems of governmental structure in the area. Most of his ideas sound good to us. Jekyll Island An island Is more than a piece of land surrounded by a body of water. It is a timeless concept of loneliness and a sense of Independence. Lose that magic, and although the wild sea may rage and the wind blow, nothing remains to differentiate it from any other piece of land or place in time.

Quite wisely the state has moved to stop this from happening to Jekyll Is-, land. The Jekyll Island Authority is insisting on a comprehensive plan of development that will retain the wilderness flavor of the golden isle. We applaud this foresightedness. Industrial Nation Without TV There are many people all over the world who believe television is evil. This is not confined to South Africa.

Dr. Jan Schutte JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Back during the recent moon walk, 1 Convinced they have the same problems, the same Interests, the same goals, the sanitation chiefs draw up an agreement for a new metro-wide system. That meeting hasn't happened. It may not because of the jealousies and fears of the men Involved and the constituencies they represent. But it would be the best way for consolidation of services to begin and saving of tax money to commence.

Mayor Sam Massell had something like that in mind mis week when he asked the 31-member Charter Commission to look into regional approaches to handling specific problems in the metro area. His recommendations should be studied very carefully. They contain much that Is very valuable for the future. He suggested, for instance, that the Atlanta and Fulton County school systems be merged. That is an excellent step, and a practical one.

He called there were advertisements here urging people to Fly to England in order to watch the American astronauts walk on the moon via live television. Not many folk did, apparently. But such ads nnint nn a small LkJ I lt fascinating a And take ol Bobby Pafford. The public utilities despise him. The language purists despise turn.

But the son-of-agun says what people think. He made a speech the other day say-ing that only the son of a millionaire had much of a chance getting appointed to the Senate when Sen. Richard Russell died. That would have happened regardless of whether Jimmy Carter or Cad Sanders got elected governor and thus became the appointed The governor was highly indignant. He wrote Pafford asking exactly what he meant by that, and invited him to say that he was misquoted (the hoariest of excuses used by politicians).

01' Bobby said the account was basically true: "I referred to the amount of money put into yours and Sanders' campaigns by these two families of extreme wealth and speculated as to what they sought to gain. "I also mentioned that sons of average Georgians in my opinion also had abilities and leadership qualities but never had a chance. I feel they should." Right on, there, men. That just says it like folks folks is the opposite of enfranchised freeholders, you know like folks think. Between them, Mathis and Pafford aren't likely to accomplish a great deal in their current political maneu- vers.

They serve one useful purpose, however. They speak the sentiments of the folks who elected them In the first place. The ability to do so always has been key to success in politics, particularly Georgia politics. Pafford and Mathis know it. In fact, some of the people who once talked that way have started chopping high cotton.

They had more appeal when they were just folks struggling to communicate with other folks. that South Africa years studying European broadcasting. "Geography makes it difficult, but we would like to introduce at the same time a television system for the whole country," said Schutte. Not just geography but language. The initial television channel will be half in English, half in Afrikaans, the two official languages of the country.

Then, next, comes a strictly native black African TV channel, initially in Zulu and Xhosa. Opening of the SABC-TV network is probably four years away, Schutte says, but it will be ultra-modern in equipment when it opens. Plans call for as much local South African programming as possible, though many films and syndicated series may be purchased in Europe and the United States. There was some considerable debate here about whether South Africa ought to join the television nations of the world at all. One South African said he thought the American moon shots had a lot to do with the shift of opinion in favor of television.

"I watched grown men, fairly tough Afrikaaners, shed tears when they watched the film of the first men walking on the moon. Not the live. television, the film, days later. That made a difference," he said. Schutte is not so certain this had a decisive effect, but he says there was indeed a good deal of opposition to television here from people who believed it n'corruptive." The reason for that belief? Primarily articles about television in America, said Schutte.

to further his own political ambitions. The good lady, a Mrs. Middleton, went to see that bad fellow. Her obvious innocence, good will, and purity, were of little avail. "I've never yet met an honest woman," he said, clearly not a man to be lightly hoodwinked.

"I'm too old to start now." There's a good deal of good music, often good lectures, on the three major radio channels operated by the South African Broadcast Corporation, SABC, (modeled after the British Broadcasting Corporation). There are frequent dramatizations of novels, even dramatizations of news events in ways you wouldn't believe. A few moments ago, I heard the alleged voice of James Reston, New York Times ambassador-columnist to the world, most recently to Red China, talking in some pain to the Chinese nurse who was putting gold and steel needles into him to ease other pains following an operation. You believe that was really Scotty Reston? I don't. Just five months ago, the South African government gave the green light for the SABC, after many studies, to get underway with a television network for South Africa.

It's a mammoth undertaking, when you consider there literally isn't a tele- vision set, let alone a TV station or studio, in this wide sprawling country. Dr. Jan Schutte, SABC director for programs and planning, is the man currently trying to plan out the future of South African television. Schutte has been with broadcasting for a good 20 years, since college, including four Pushers Hitting is one of the few modern industrial countries of the world (perhaps the only) not yet enjoying-or suffering the blessings of television. Radio is very big here.

Much like radio in the United States in pre-television days, in some ways. There are any number of what one South African called "creaking door" dramas. The Green Hornet and Shadow (The Shadow knows) would know the territory out here. They'd feel right at home. One afternoon I heard a segment, too confused in story line for me to sort out completely, about an obviously bad-guy district attorney who was going to smear some nice lady's good name in a murder trial in order are not merely the addict's problem; they are a serious problem for the whole community.

It has always seemed to us that the key to eliminating the drug problem is to eliminate the pushers those who sell hard drugs like heroin, and in seeking new customers, increase the addict population and the overall problem. Mayor Massell says the reward program is geared to nailing the pushers, not the users. That's good. That's getting to the heart of the matter. There is some validity in the current argument that police efforts are directed too much toward minor drug offenders instead of the really dangerous criminals.

The numerous marijuana busts and even arrests of heroin users don't necessarily mean the traffic in drugs is being brought under control. The pushers are the real target. If Atlanta can be made too hot for their comfort, we'll all be better off. And while we don't see a reward program as answer, it is certainly a step in the right directions. And a narcotics squad with its eye on the right target can be even more valuable.

The city's efforts plus the efforts of the state in treating addicts give us all reason to hope the drug problem can eventually be licked. The concern is there and intelligent efforts are being made. The drug problem In Atlanta is so menacing that we are inclined to welcome any suggestion that might be helpful, even if only temporarily. Mayor Sam Massell has outlined plans for a $50,000 reward program for information leading to the conviction of heroin pushers. Although that is probably not the final answer to Atlanta's drug problem, we'd say the mayor has acted wisely In using the city's $50,000 cut from the Mohammad Ali-Jerry Quarry fight for that purpose.

"We mean 'the mayor said. "We plan to diminish the source of heroin in our community." A 20-man drug squad in the police department has also been formed. The mayor intends to attack the drug problem with these two weapons, plus an education program in schools, churches and homes, and the channeling of federal funds into Gov. Jimmy Carter's methadone treatment program. To restate once again briefly the situation, Atlanta's alarming increase in drug addiction is intimately related to an increase in crime.

Addicts, forced to support hard drug habits that can cost from $50 to $100 a day, turn to crime burglary, robbery and worse to get the money. Drugs, therefore, Bill Hedgepeth The Decline and Fall of Look Leo Aihman These things happen abruptly, like -deaths. I am sitting here at my huge walnut roll-top desk (which I am told is somewhere -around 85 years nA vriino this We Must Trap Them On Way Gen. Bill Potter, vice president of Disney World, came to town this week as advance agent for Florida's fantas A v.ur, 'o and, in the process, realizing in a personal way what I have officially known for a few days: That something I was very much a part of has now ended. tic tourist attrac 1 Jacli Anderson y.f tion, which will open shortly.

Asked about the impact of Disney World on Georgia, the general ad- Alaskan Pipeline seems odd to bemoan the passing of a the loss of an outlet for a variety of ideas, as well as the loss of a forum for people who, essentially, wanted to share honest perceptions and feelings with others. And from a personal standpoint it means (quite apart from the fact that I am now unemployed and would therefore be grateful for an interview with you at your earliest convenience) the disbanding and dispersal of those close friends who, to most people, existed only as by-lines. There is considerable evidence to support the belief that the general interest mass magazine is a moribund form an institution with a shriveling base or sense of place in America like circuses, passenger trains, outdoor Sunday concerts, soda fountains and restaurants that feature a "blue plate special." The trend of the times is toward specialized, single-interest magazines: You go and buy and read about your own specialty, and to hell with anything else. Eventually this can't help but become a narrowing influence on people's minds. Imagine, for example, what the Constitution would be like if it were devoted, say, exclusively to politics.

This kind of thing lends itself to u- WASHINGTON A secret Canadian study flatly disputes the Nixon Administration's claim that the cleanest, cheapest way -to transport Alas- JX' i id ter keep 'em an I extra day on the I way down. It I I won't do much good on the way back." a i nn aaa kan oil to the U.S. is across Alaska. dent's own environmental advisers have warned that the 800-mile trans-Alaska pipeline would menace the tundra, streams turistic speculation: Will ours become a word of cold white tunnels in which each has his own small alcove of special interest? Will people grow so intellectually fragmented that society as a whole becomes a disconnected state of enlightened apathy? Will Little Orphan Annie ever find Daddy Warbucks? I don't mean to be harsh toward specialized publications, for they are threatened, too. In fact, if all of Nixon's proposed postal rate increase is allowed to pass it will spell, in one swell foop, the instant extinction of more magazines than I could hope to list here.

And neither do I mean to moan solely about Look. This is not an eulogy for a publication but for a type of publication and the era it represented a time when people shared more interests, cared about things in common and showed more human concern for one another. It just shouldn't be allowed to pass without at least a little wake or a miscellaneous mourner. Look, which first saw the light of print in 1937, now joins the roll-call of defunct Americana which includes Colliers, Liberty, the American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Vanity Fair, The Saturday Evening Post, The Reporter, Show and Life (that is, the original Life Magazine although insofar as its future health is concerned, the present-day Life has a chance for survival about as precari-oius as a possum crossing an interstate Highway). Of course, reprints of The Saturday Evening Post and Liberty have recently been re-issued to satisfy the nation's new longing for nostalgia.

(And along that same line, some have suggested that Nixon, throughout most of his Administration at least, has been trying to revive a nostalgic fondness for the Great Depression.) All of these events just evoke the reality of passing time and a sense of the ends of things. So anyway, here I sit writing this by hand at my old roll-top. I haven't the vaguest idea, nor any way of knowing, who or how many may have written at this desk before. It's a humbling sensation that puts you in perspective. And somehow, right now as I sit here surrounded by these vertical drawers slots side panels I am 85 years ago.

big magazine like Look, since large national institutions of this sort are supposed to be viewed with objective detachment. And I suppose it appears peculiar, too, that someone here should sense any closeness toward a publication based in the latter-day Gomorrah of New York City (and on Madison Avenue, no even though that publication had a vast circulation in Georgia. However, I can't help but think that the passing of Look makes a difference. Obviously it makes a difference to me since I've been a senior editor for the past five years; but there's lots more than that involved here. On Thursday morning, September 16, Gardner Cowles, chairman of the board, announced that Look would cease publication as of the October 19th issue.

Blam, like that. Editor Bill Arthur, in fact, had been informed only the night before. Look is closing not, Lord knows, because of any loss of subscribers nor lack of quality nor public anger, disinterest, nor anything else concerning the magazine itself other than its newly-boosted postal rates, along with a sudden recession-inspired drop in ad revenues. Yet the point here is not why this happened but what it means, what it bodes. I believe that the death of this (or any) mass magazine conveys a sense of diminishment.

From the public's point of view, it represents the loss of a publication which whether or not you were a regular reader was a known quantity that was always available, and that also (every now and then at least) scored a few good licks. Professionally speaking, It means hoe Bay across Canada to Chicago would "offer the lowest cost transportation of Arctic crude oil to potential markets." The report estimates that the pipeline through the Canadian wilds would cost about $2 billion, although we understand the final report will revise this figure upward to about $2.5 billion. The cost estimates for the Alaskan route, Including the sea transportation, range between $3 and $5 billion. A director of the consortium of Canadian oil companies, which sponsored the study, told us it wouldn't be in final form until January. But President Nixon is under powerful pressure to approve the Alaskan route immediately.

For the great U.S. oil firms, which planned it, are losing $100,000 a day while awaiting the go-ahead. These oil giants have been Nixon's best friends at election time. Footnote: Critics of the Canadian plan, such as Rep. Nicholas Begich, D-Alaska.

point out that the trans-Alaska pipeline can be completed faster and would avoid the problem of running U.S. oil across a foreign, if friendly, country. President Nixon has served notice on Republican congressional leaders that he will fight Democratic attempts to amend his new economic program. At a secret White House strategy session, he called on the GOP leadership to hold the line against revisions. "Attempts to cut out parts of the program," he said tersely, "can only be construed as opposition to the President's program." Management interviewed young people for employment on the Disney complex.

They hired 7,000. If a young man applying for work had excessively long hair, like down to' the shoulders, he was asked, "Is all the hair an essential part of your character?" If he said yes, he was thanked kindly and sent on his way. If he said no, and he was otherwise eligible, he was told to shape up to the area in which he would work. OF ALL THINGS: Joe Bransby says, "Show me an adult who can smile through a rock and roll concert and I'll show you a hearing aid with a weak battery. Hal Schuman reports on the dad he told his son he walked five miles to school as a youngster, all uphill, both ways.

This is Mickey Rooney's 49th birthday. According to Dean Hudson, he and his wife go 50-50 on everything. He tells her what to do and she tells him where to go. Johnny Raudonis reports receiving in the mail the offer of a quarter off on a product which just three years ago cost 25 cents. COLOR CHART: The white collar worker now wears a blue shirt.

The blue collar worker wears a white shirt. And the guy in the plaid slacks and! paisley shirt is the boss's son-in-law. Louis E. Gholson, Magnolia Manor, Americus. ferns! and wildlife along the route.

The seashore might also be fouled with oil spillage and dumpage from the tankers that would haul the oil on the last leg down the coast. Up to now, the conservationists have managed to hold up construction of the controversial pipeline. A group of Congressmen, led by Rep. Les Aspin, has urged the President to consider a Canadian route as an alternate way to bring the oil down from the north. But the Administration has insisted a Canada pipeline would be too costly.

Interior Secretary Rogers Morton told the Senate Interior Committee: "The cost of the (Canadian route) was twice the cost of bringing the oil" across Alaska to the sea and by ship to Puget Sound. This statement flies directly in the face of the exhaustive Canadian study. We have obtained a copy of the secret "Preliminary Report," which states categorically that a pipeline from Prud- 'Have you heard? Vm on the Awk! Choke! PilllV A.