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Hanoi's Food Problems Rationing. But U.S. Doesn't Expect Starvation By JAMES CARY Copley News Service blockade of 7 orth Vietnam a IU UC iuuu rationing, but U.S. officials doubt there will be any widespread starvation there. This estimate is based laraoly on the fact that the 21 million North Vietnamese people have become experts at weathering food crises because they have lived for years at a subsistence level in a food deficit area.

They have been importing up to sreUiflO tons of gnr.uaiiv-more than GOO.OfK) tons plus from the Soviet Union and more than 150,000 tons from China--for a number of years. With Vietnam's oorts shut down and aerial bombing highly effective so far in curfa- ir.g overland supply movements, it is considered unlikely that any major portion of this can be diverted into North Vietnam by airlift or through a major new land supply effort. But even if it could, and belt tightening overcomes a there are. a new serious problem could arise in some area? because of an inabi- lity to distribute what food is on hand. The question of possible starvation in North Vietnam has production of about 1-5 milion tons annually.

This is supplemented by such fast-growing crops as corn and than their previous 10th month rice, but there are indications this is still experimental and not widely used. UIUL can iac.ui tut: Letter Father? Dav to the Bible the is the head of the home. No: ciii'ocra; but the head. He is ihe strength for he is the rr Don'- try to cc-t along without his advice, for vou could be wrong. In ii'-i it redus: 'Liiie as father pityit.h hi- children so the Lord pityith them that fear Him." are with your father should tec! rai proud to with him.

He might not be here next Father's Day. A fathers don'' live as as mothers. Hard work weakens their bodies. They have tendency to hold their grief in their hearts. It would be better if we fathers would shed more tears, but fathers just have time to shed tears often, only on a occasions.

Tht-y are too busy- making a living for i family Pa. Storv Too busy mending srmmd the ii'irih' an-i iw i i i i a for the long winter ahead. Many times his wife just doesn't know nist to do i i If she will have patience she will find out that he is a very wise Tell him this day really how- much you really love him. and I'm sure it win tickle his soft heart. He isn't that big roaring lion that you might i he is.

No. sometimes he purrs like a kitten. He is then soft and penile, especially when hv knows that every member UK- iamily ioves mm. Bin wnvii his children become disobedient. he then into a roarau lion.

It is then you must become good again, then father esain i his ov. sw-e self. Rev. Wilfred M. Kastner Pastor Jacobs Creek Baptist.

Church Nixon's early decision to mine North Vietnamese harbors and begin heavy bombing of its internal transportaion system io shut off the flow of supplies feeding Hanoi's new offensive in the south. Since the blockade cannot distinguish between food and wa- supplies, the estimated 50.000 tons of wheat, flour and o'her fondsUiffc brought in by sea from monthly--plus some overland shipments of rice from China--are cut off ah'ie with the supply of arms. If a major food crisis does d-vol'n in 'ho r.fv'.h it nrcsum- will not be until soring 'he north'-- will ird'er their greatest strain. Thi a ronv's fr'm 1 m-rc have V-th asvicul'ure for a years. brirg- in rice erors---a sprirg crop in Mav often th" niwr.n a I'-tn m'Hi'h rrcn i- Oc'o- bcr and Novomh-r.

The 3 in cron 1 million to 1.5 million tons of aH th" month million tons--an over-all Mier Appointment A I is unfor- a for nearly two months the State Senate has T-n fit to continue on i a i of the appointment of Prisadier Gonora! Harry .1. Jr as sinie a a gc-n- c-s! and head of the State Dep a of Military A a i Dilly-dallying over guberna- f-rinl a i requiring confirmation is not and certainly not unex- i i appointment of political bureau- e-a's to head the various and a i agencies--hut the head of the i i a establish- seemingly does, and cert a i should, fall into an entirely different category. In case of the state ad- a Genera! i'. isn't or should not he--a question of i i a among -nators to gain votes for con- rma'iion: rather the case in i instance shoviid res; soleiy on the i i a merits of the person in question, in this case Genera! Mier. who enjoys an exceptional and distinguished i a career.

In poking along over ihe con- i a i a forcing in front of the adjutant general i as has been necessary since early May when Gen-era! Mier was nominated for the post, the Senate, in effect has been downgrading both the Pennsylvania National Guard and the Department i i a Affairs--ironically, at the verv tartar The Weekly Courier Founded July 17, 1879 Daily Courier Founded November 10, 1902 Merged July 18, 1929 The Courier Co. Publisher; James M. Driscoll, President, General Manager, Editor; James G. Driscoll, Vice President, Advertising Director; Waller C. Driscoll, Secretary-Treasurer; Robert E.

Lind, Managing Lucile McGill, Wire Editor; Margaret Atkinson, Society Editor; Emilie A. Schuler, Office in the summer, and by summer harvests of fruits and vegetables. U.S. experts make a point of noting that there is only a five-month spread between the 5th and I0th month harvests. but a seven to eight-month separation between the 10th month harvest and the next year's 5'h month crop.

It is largely for this reason that they expect the most severe period of strain of the food suoolv to come just prior to the spring harvest, if the war and the blockade are still going on at that time. There other factors affaeuno this equation. The 'North Vietnamese are k-cwn to have developed a new higher yielding "spring" rice reclaim a third or more of the rice is now planted in thi- variety. In 1971. they claimed this ci'inui-iaiicn oi nee regular 5th month rice had the Mav-June harvest by to 500.000 tons.

They aiso claim io have developed a r.e\v strain of 10th month rice that matures more rapidly supply question--the reserves the North Vietnamese may or may not have accumulated to cany them through the present pericd of maximum military activity. Since they planned meticulously to have massive stores of war material available for the offensive, officials here are assuming the North Vietnamese were equally careful in planning for the food requirements of the civilian population and armed forces. For such reasons--the anticipated heavier yields cf the 5th month crop now being harvested, the very likelv existence of reserves of unknown quantity- end the relatively short five- month period between the 5th and MHh month harvests-- U.s. officials do not expect a major food p'-cblem to develop in the north before a new harvest can be brought in this fall. Summer fruits and vegetables and supplemental crops can help ease any strains that might W)pear.

And once the 10th month harvest is in there presumably will be sufficient supplies to carry the North Vietnamese on into 1573. time when legislative support fhouid br 1W per cent. iondiriS to make the seem a bit suspect both in the eyes of the National "iiiard in WashinHton and the Army itself. Pennsylvania's senators, in good conscience, oue it to thcm- tin' pood people of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania National Guard to on this non-political appointment when they session Is It Bus Or By the bus-loads hopefully and appropriately' coirventioneers unload at the Shcraton- Harrisburg Inn near here this weekend for the a a get-'o get her of the Pennsylvania Bus Association i PBA i and the Pennsylvania Bik- Association i A Speaking of busing that is i it may be appropriate here to "tli-ivo humr" the point a school buses put a lot of rubber on the Pennsylvania road during the 1970-7; school year, The yellow flivver; roiled up an niiii's transporting the kiddos between home and school. For example, the convention- host county of Lancaster up miles alone.

Top traveling honors, however, go to Allegheny County with 'i; million miles. In the rumble scat is Cameron County with 166.640 miles. So. although "busing" will the top convention issue, it will be of the non-controversial type, assures Executive Vice President Jack B. Brown.

A Smote A Earnest Blow" First there was the gentleman named Abe Lincoln who garnered the moniker of ihe ''rail Now comes Ernie Kline ('more properly known as Lieutenant Governor Ernest P. Kline, a i who did some splitting of his own the other day. But in the a case it wasn't a rail and he wasn't looking for a political nickname. With a mighty whack. Kline brought his Senate Presidential Gavel down io bring some sort of order to the then mumbling and milling State Senators.

"Crack" went the ancient gavel-and oops, it split in two. Following a brief recess, "gavel splitter" Kline returned with a shiny, white new gavel. TUe MARSHALL RAM, WE SOT Global Giant ilhin 10 By EDWARD NEILAN Copley News Service WASHINGTON--The People's Republic of China may in the tieV. decade or pin ihe i the Soviet 1'nion. nnd the European community in a "Pentagon of world powers.

Tha 1 the conclusion of a new Republic of An Economic 1 Assess- recently rv the Join! Economic Committee of Scoohr-. Kie committee staff, irom departments of State Commerce. Library of Congress the Centra! I i Agency contributed to the Sfc'-nage report which updates an earlier assessment, "Economic Profile of Mainland China." pushed by committee in February, 1967. China, the report summarizes, "has become an economically unified nation. Its capa- b.iity simultaneously to meet, rerjuiremen's of feedi-g its pipulatbn.

modernising iu military forces and expanding its civilian economic must now be assumed from its record to date." Moreover, the report says, "its expanding economy and military establishment provide power in consonance with its enormous a resources. Chinese influence may also felt both through direct use of economic and military aid and the indirect example of its of development. These elements could combine within the next 10 or 20 years tn nlaw China amontr tin rep'ir: notes a i 'China's gross national product remains behind that of the L'nited States and other major nations. Cr.ina's estimated for biiLon. compared to biilb" for the I'nited States and abotit billion Pilla, Mechanical Superintendent.

Served By United International Bureau of Advertising A.N.P.A. powers, tormmg a "Pentagon of world powers," the report concludes. Putting China's i gains in perspective, however, for Japan. On a per capita basis, the comparison is more striking: China's per capita income is only three per cent cf a in the United States and about i.i.x per cent of Japan's. The report raises doubts on whether such a relatively weak country economically can pose any serious military danger to the United States.

The report notes that past Western projections of Cfiineso performance have often seriously overstated or understated the actual future performance. "In times of i i a performance," the study notes. recuperative capabilities i society have, apparently, often been underestimated. Now, in a period encouraging favorable casts. it is well to be cautious." Tire report lists a number of problems that could arisa to disturb the development of currently favorable economic trends: 1.

calamities floods. a thquakes. draughts-- may play their roles as they have throughout Chinese history. 2. The food vs.

population balance may be disrupted, causing short or longer term economic retardation. 3. The military burden on the- economy may sharply rise in A pons costs in their nuclear programs. for expansion a modernization. 4.

Leadership struggles either to develop a better Maoist state or choose a successor to chairman Mao Tse-Hmg may disturb the current relative stability. 5. Institutional changes, as China evolves from a traditional to modern society, may strain the national fabric, contributing to periods of instability and disruption. Any assumption a the "search for a true Maoist mode!" has and that stability is at hand would seem premature at this point. The withdraws! of Soviet ai'i of the 1950s has hurt but China's abrupt turn to non-Communist sources has taken away much of the sting.

In the electronics industry, for example, the report describes the shift in Chinese dependence from Sonet products to those manufactured in Japan. West Germany. Britah, France and Switzerland. In 1970. more a four-fifths, or S2 ifl million worth, of technologically advanced electronic production eqtrpment a i from the non-Communist world.

The rc.oort nc.t?s that military programs presently command shout oi.e-t?r£h of China's gross a i a product and foreign aid p-ograms about one-third of one per cent of GNP or $400 million a-finally. "During the next rie-cacie. when the cost of series manufacture and large scale. drployment of modern weapons will rise sharply upward, the badership may face a much 'igh'er squeeze on resources for This fact, the study says, could cause policy strains in the leadership. The report puts forth the Unas to expand its foreign trade with non-Communist nations- including the United States--in order to acquire high-technology equipment and materials.

Editorials Those Tax Loopholes Tax incentives, tax exclusions and tax credits, along about this time in every political campaign, i 1 1 til i CilCJL ill rhetoric into a convenient package labeled "loopholes." The tag itself conjures up a vision of a millionaire adding to his hoard of tax savings gained at the expense of the overburdened, less affluent taxpayer. But legislation introduced in the House, calling for a review of those tax provisions that offer special treatment for particular income categories and expenditures, suggests that reform may be more painful to the middle income taxpayer than to the wealthy. The changes proposed by Rep. Wilbur D. Mills.

Arkansas Democrat, would be made effective over three years beginning Jan. 1. 1974. And they could add substantially to the income tax paid by suffering wage earners, home uwneis, parents and elderlv who have cheered most enthusiastically pledges that the loopholes will be plugged. The Mills bill wouid strike first from the Internal Revenue Code fnvi.cjnn? i i tax breaks to oil producers and some allowances initiated to stimulate business activity favorite targets of aspiring ri formers.

But the legislation sponsored by the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee destroys the myth that huge sums could be made available for daring social programs simply by toppling the tax- shelters available to business and the very rich. Middle America pays the bulk of the federal tax bill and if a significant reduction is to be made in the drain on the tax flow, it must be at Middle America's expense. In 1975. for instance, income tax deductions for in- terest and nonbusiness taxes woul. be eliminated mortgage interest and local property taxes included, check many home owners count on to meet Christmas bills.

Another leak would be sealed in the 1975 schedule with cancellation of the sick pay exclusion from gross income. The following year, the aged would feel the pinch of reform progress. Credits for retirement income would be erased. So would extra tax deductions allowed the elderly and blind. The home owner would get another jolt, indirectly, through application of income tax provisions to the interest earned on state and local bonds.

The consequent increase in the interest rate on such bond issues would be squeezed from the pocket of the Jucai taxpayer. And. finally, the accustomed deductions for working children limited income, for casualty losses, for church donations, for medical expense and for child care would be terminated. ith the other changes dc-ai- ing specifically with business and investment provisions, the "special interest'' drain of tax revenue v.ould be ended. This is not.

it's true, what most ol us have in mind when we discuss tax reform, which properly should affect only the other guy. And Mills concedes that his bill can and will be altered, stressing that he seeks only an orderly and systematic review and assurance that reform will be considered. But he has emphasized, unintentionally perhaps, that the difference between a justified tax allowance and a loophole is determined only by the angle from which iliev are viewed. Human Interest Go Ahead and Burn. Baby The race is on in the Fay-West Area.

The race we're talking about is the contest to see who can get the deepest ian the taste st. But ''Beware of noon in June!" as some dermatologists put it. There is more to overexpnsure than redness and blisters. ''Sunshine, like any form of radiation, is cumulative. It builds up through the years." says dermatologist Dr.

Robert C. Vanina. And the results can be as unhealthy as they are unattractive: brown patches, scaly patches, warty patches, wrinkles, skin cancers "While skin cancer is the least a a form of cancer, it is also the most common." Vania reported. To the skin doctor, a glorious golden tan is simply a "temporary protective mechanism." "Some people are so sensitive to light, they would have to spend their lives in a tunnel to avoid any degenerating skin effects," said Vanina. Others simply have to make the choice "between wrinkles in your 40s and 50s and the outdoor life." Although the dangers of overexposure have been common public knowledge for the last five to 10 years, fashion magazines and billboards still advertise suntans as ihe ultimate status symbol A white strap mark is something to complain about-- and to show off.

''The skin actually thickens and darkens as a brown pigment is produced by the bottom layer of the epidermis (outer skin) in order to protect the nerves and blood vessels of the dermis from radiation. "The trouble is, with most people, the tan doesn't protect the dermis enough. The elastic tissues degenerate--and leathery, wrinkled skin results. lo'ions which include para-amino benzoic acid derivatives as the most effective sunscreens from radiation. Old-fashioned remedies.

like cocoa butter and olive oil. do not offer this protection. And greasy lotions and creams are more beneficial than those with an alcohol base, "because they don't come off as easily in the swimming pool." "If you want to look your best in middle age. you should probably stay out of the sun completely." he said. OK.

go ahead now. Burn. baby. burn. Bat don't sav vou haven't been warned.

Out of the Past SIXTY YEARS AGO Dan Purdo, five of Vanderbilt, suffers the loss of three fingers on his right hand when a dynamite cap with which he is playing explodes. Miss Anna Ree Thompson is awarded a gold medal as winner of the typing contest conducted by the Remington Co. among typists in the high school. Her winning mark is 1,000 words in 25 minutes. FIFTY A AGO Mrs.

Alice Osborne of this city suffers a broken left ankle while visiting relatives in the country. The injury results when she is knocked over by a cow she is milking. Regis (Bucky) Lovvney, center on the Connellsville High School basketball team the past season, is elected captain of the 1922-23 team at a second annual banquet for the boy and girl varsities of the cage sport. FORTY YEARS AGO Albert J. Dial.

48, of Ursina is injured fatally and Fred Younkin of Confluence, section foreman at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, is seriously hurt as a result of a dynamite explosion at the end of the Benford tunnel near Confluence. THIRTY A AGO Percy Casbar, an employe of the Fayette County Gas becomes ill on Brimstone Corner and is admitted to Connellsville State Hospital. Football letters are presented by- Coach William U. Lohr to the following students of the Scoitdaie High School at the class day exercises in the Strand Theater: Carl Smith, Liberto DeRose. Aby Dayoob.

James Tallentier, James Nutter, Thomas McGlangis, Thomas Skemp. Claude Graczyk, Kenneth Long and Rhesa Shaw. The home of Isaac Prinkey, situated an a farm between Normalville and Indian Head is destroyed by fire. Robert M. Leiberger is appointed a member of the City Recreation Board for four years succeeding Douglas K.

McIlvaine. resigned, TWENTY A AGO Joseph R. Check. 26, of Perryopolis, is killed in an automobile accident on Route ol Vicar Sweeney's It is announced that American Pre- Fabs, which produces pre-fabricated homes, will open a plant at Perryopolis. TEN YEARS AGO The Rev.

John P. Hacala, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Nanty Glo and a native of Connellsville, observed the silver anniversary of his ordination. L. Dale Johnson of 1202 Race has been named lieutenant colonel of the U.

S. Army. He is presently in charge of the dental clinic at the Greater Pittsburgh Airport. PAGE SlXTtcN THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELLSVILLE, PA. FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1972.