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The Pennsylvania Story Children's Letters To God Election Campaign Trail Flurry By MASON DENISON With little more than a week remaining before the Nov. 5 general election, Republican and Democratic presidential trails criss-crossed in the Keystone State this week, underscoring once more the critical view with which Pennsylvania is held in this election year 1968. GOPrcsidcntial hopeful Richard M. Nixon made his sixth foray into the wilds of Pennsylvania yesterday when he chugged through eastern sections of the State. Meanwhile the of the Democratic ticket, vice presidential hopeful Edmund S.

Muskie also zipped through the eastern part of the State in a a (Wednesday and Tuesday) jog that took him through more than 30 communities. Illustrative perhaps of the last minute tempo of the campaign, in this State at least, is the fact that Messrs. Muskie and Nixon nearly ran into (or over) each other (there were suggestions of a joint rally) in the little community of McAdoo (population 3560) in Schuylkill county Thursday as their campaign trails crossed. For the folks of little McAdoo it was a busy day of popping in and out of their homes as the two opposing caravans ambled through their nominally, peaceful, out-of-the-way village. And while Mr.

Muskie arrived at the Wilkes Barre- Scranton Airport late Wednesday afternoon. 24 hours later it was Nixon departing from the same airstrip. The Fabled Money Tree One thing that cannot be denied Governor Shafer: he seems to enjoy a near-miraculous talent for money unquestionably an admirable trait no matter how you look at it. Remember last Winter when he insisted the state had no money for teacher salary raises. Well, come Spring and the time when plants (and trees) come to life, in this instance assisted by a march on Capitol Hill by some 20.000 school teachers, His Excellency S28 million to aid the teachers.

At that time he insisted the amount was all that was available but, by jove, after the Legislature raised the amount to go to teachers to nearly $45 million. His Excellency found that too. Then in late July Governor Shafer vetoed a $13,500 appropriation for the Reacon Lodge Camp for the Blind, operated by the Lions clubs of Pennsylvania, on the grounds that it was appropriation that was not included in the 1908-69 In September this column brought into the open and pointed out that this minor item was being used in the campaign by such Democratic members of the House of Representatives as Sam Frank, Allentown; Lou Sherman, Philadelphia, and Brady Hetrick. Lewistown all of whom were pledging to get the appropriation restored. Now it seems His Excellency has peeked a little further (in this last month before the election) and only last week announced that the money had been and would indeed be given to Beacon Lodge after all! Unemployment Ups and Downs Much has been said in recent years (and during the current campaign) as to whether employment in the State has been good, bad or indifferent with most of what has been said attributsible to political windbags.

Under the circumstances, statistics of the State Burlau of Employment Security on the rate of unemployment in the Keystone State during the past 20 years, as compared with the national rate, may be of more than passing interest. For example, with the exception of all but four years during that 20-year span, the rate of unemployment in Pennsylvania is higher than the national rate. When were those four years when rate of unemployment dropped below the rate for the United States as a whole? The first year was 1965, then 1966, 1967 and now (at least during the first eight months) 1968. The present rate is 3.3 percent for Pennsylvania versus 3.9 for the United States. WNuUifHifiii Pottstoicn Mcrcury Friday, October 25, 1968 Page 3 Oe-cur (foes.

We, a rtl! in )noust- So vj rr Teddy Village Idiot Lets Success Co to Head Don MacLean Rep. Bob Wilson Calif.) has a story he sometimes uses when talking about people and-or bureaucrats who get carried away by success. It concerns a village idiot who, in a philantropic move by the town fathers, was hired to polish the cannon in front of the courthouse. For years he polished the town cannon industriously, for the sum of $25 a week. Everyone praised him for his efforts and it was a fine arrangement all around.

One day someone noticed that he been seen polishing the cannon for some time and an official went by the house to find out why. he said, was such a success at polishing the town cannon that I saved my money and bought my own cannon. Now in business for The Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife has a Spanish version of its book for hunters called, at a In case interested, in Spanish, duks go Admiral Hyman L. explanation of why the Soviet sub-building program is more successful than ours: make studies they build I know how much interest you're paying privately, but your share of the interest on the national debt comes to $76 per year. (And that's just the interest: doubtful if the principal will ever be paid.) A joke left over from the baseball season comes our way from Rep.

Eligio de la Garza Texas). It's about a young man who went to see his psychiatrist and said, my problem is that all I ever dream about is The doctor said that was most unusual and asked, you ever dream about The young man said, And lo.se my turn at The Women's National Democratic club recently staged in Washington an original musical farce which it billed as being from the Chicago I know how it went over here but in Chicago it was a riot. A pointed observation from Rep. Jamie L. Whitten costs have gotten to the point where to start a farm takes almost as much money as it takes to start a it takes as much nerve as it requires to rob After neglecting to give George Wallace a certificate of appreciation after last summer's speech at the National Press club, the club made up for it by giving him one after a more recent address.

remark: once planned to tell you what you could do with your certificate but now you can't because knocked the Postoffice department occasionally, but we must admit that frequently it does an amazing job getting improperly addressed mail to the rright parties. The folks at the Encyclopaedia Britannica will bear witness to that. Anne Granett of the sales office in Hollywood, says oddly addressed envelopes are delivered daily. Some of them: A through 2. 3.

and Velocipedia Sometimes the police use their heads. When George Wallace spoke at the staid, old Army-Navy club the other day police outside told noon-hour passersby to moving, keep Since no crowd, to my knowledge, has ever gathered in front of the Army- Navy club, people immediately stopped to see why it was they were being told to keep moving. If the police had just remained quiet, nobody would have known Wallace was there and there have been a crowd of curious onlookers, when he emerged. Talk about valor beyond the call of duty! Mary Maescher, who works at the Republican National headquarters here, has the job of listening to tapes of all of Hubert speeches and transcribing them into written form! Try and Stop Me Helen Help Us! Today Young People Deserve More Respect By BENNETT CERF major role in his first campaign for a congressonal seat. Hanzel is just a as big a Great Dane as they come and, brother, BIG.

Little children, not to mention other dogs, ran for the storm cellars when Hanzel loped into view. When Goodell thanked the folks in his neighborhood for electing him to his Washington post, many of them told him frankly. We were dctermned to get rid of that damn tfci My favorite new confides Col. Francis Duffy, is the one just pulling out of a parking space 1 want. As for my own car.

after my wife has parked her biggest problem is which of the three parking meters she should drop her quarter H. Allen Smith recalls the time a relorm mayor of Gotham initiated a big clean-up campaign. Oue of his stmts was to set up a special trash can in Times Square and wire it for sound. A transmitter- reeeiver was hidden in the can, with an operator with a mike stationed in a window overlooking the square. Several intrigued reporters were watching when a lady threw an old newspaper on the sidewalk.

The trash can admonished her. not the way to keep New York clean, lady. your The lady shot one startled look at the can, then snapped, don't talk to trash and strode away. Every Day is Halloween Jack O'Brian: The Voice of Broadway Today Show Holds Back on Scoop By HELEN BOTTKL Dear Helen: Reading the letters from of and who showed how young people were shoved around in stores. I thought let you know what has happened to our kids.

We try to teach our children respect for their elders, but after seeing how they are treated, I wonder. Consider this: Our kids were in lino at a hamburger stand. Adults kept ahead of them. Finally 1 took a straight pin out of my purse and gave our daughter instructions to stick the next person who pushed them out of line. I made sure everyone in the line heard what I said! It worked, but when they got to the window, the waitress ignored them and actually asked the man behind them for his order! I reported her, but the manager couldn't care less and said so.

At the delicatessen I came up behind young girls who had been waiting there quite a while. The clerk jumped right to my order, and 1 told her the were first. She said, want anything, they're just hanging The girls told me they even been asked what they wanted. So the clerk grudgingly fixed their order, and then refused to wait on me. It even happens at the postoflice.

Children, taught politeness, stand back, and adults take advantage. Teenagers and young adults control the spending of about 76 percent of the circulated money in the United States. It's high time businesses woke up to the fact and treated them with the respect due intelligent, 1 and well-behaved customers. They deserve the same rights and courtesy as so called adults MRS. K.

Dear Helen: Please print this for who wants to show relatives and friends that her handicapped child should be treated normally and not be over-protected. When I was a baby I got polio and it left my legs crippled. My parents never babied me. Instead I was treated just as any other norm .1 child. I was never allowed to get out of doing something because of my handicap.

If I fell down, my folks didn't come running. They would say. careful the next and let me get up by myself. This may sound mean, but believe me. I am very glad they treated me so.

Thougl. I still wear a brace, I never let it bother me. I live exactly as anyone else. If someone says, I ignore them and do everything in my power to prove how wrong they are. a difference between love and pity.

My parents were very wise. sure will continue to be. in spitt of Ice Barbara Walters of NBC's telecasts had the absolute solid scoop on the Jackie Onassis wedding and couldn't 4 et her NBC bosses to air it; so she the news a. week in advance io the women along the lecture tour she takes frequently A former society columnist also the straight inside two days hi advance without a paper to wrap it in Louis Armstrong still is the hospital, regaining weight and should be out hi about three weeks His manager Joe Glaser canceled all Saleh's high fee dates through Dec 18. Mitlon Belie, Martha Itaye, Kooscvelt Greer and Mary Beth Hughes all had their cash heisted from dressing rooms while they the Hollywood Palace show Neiman- Marcus annually offers ex pensive Ills and Yule gifts (matched camels, a brace of airplanes, etc.) and this year the Dallas showstore has His and Hers Jaguars: hers is a $5975 Brazilian Juaguar coat, his, a $5559 Jaguar car NM biy chic wallop though is something Ari might stufl stocking.

"Jewels by the a dozen gifts totaling $273,950. The tv networked the managed to sandwich in 43 commercials newest and most luxurious hotel (perhaps 650 rooms) i.s about due for announcement. We wondered if Felt hot dogs still were being sold and Nathan Handworker of Nathan's Coney Island Bed Hot fame reported, we think sorrowfully, no He fully credits Charles Feltman with inventing the hot dog. cites literary research for proof and credits it to the moment 1H97 when Charles Feltman (who then had only one pie wagon) quick had to do something to compete with other merchants serving hot sandwiches: he simply took sausages as he knew from his Bavarian background, heated them a kettle and added his own historical gust atonal touch the soft white roll and the modern hot dog barked Into being adjustment to the once-Felt man competition a red hot for a nickel Felt dime The rest is history, with a burp. Should anyone wonder at our fascination with hot dog- simply our favorite food: pasta comes next, then caviar So our peasant taste takes precedence over our later enthusiasm Fascinating battle over luslak real banking millions starts Nov.

in Jersey City Superior court; opponents are 80-year-old I Kislak and his son David, for control Among other peripheral explosions may be one that's marital. NY. GOP boss Vincent Albano gets the VFW annual achievement a a (prior winners were Avorell Harriman, Jim Farley) Nov. 2 at the Waldorf Sid Caesar sold his Loim Island estate and moves to Hollywood Picketer at City Hall was the daughter of a Mayor Lindsay aide and IMippa is purple Famous divorced dress son ran away to live with papa, also rewed This White House race will cost more than all prior to World War 11 combined Dina rainy-day outfit was beautifully 23-skidoo at Michel she wore a yaller slicker. Liz Smith abandoned her Jackie Kennedy biography in the face of had-tastc pressure but now that Mrs.

Aristotle Socrates Onassis and the open season and the being polished Stripper Candy unveiling her no doubt on the college lecture circuit Actor Henry Hull is very ill California. Owner Ben Novack of Miami Fontainebleau's newest acquisition will be bridal: June the gal The Tokyo version of is having trouble getting actors for the total strip; good Japanese actors won't but that shouldn't be a problem after considering the abject cases in the N.Y. troupe Peter Law ford (on the film set) announced he i.s out of politics until or '76 when Ted Kennedy runs for president; fine, but we had no notion he ever was in politics, except relatively. Saks Fifth Avenue beauty salons' boss Jane Duncan is sporting a 16 karat engagement rock Copa singer Errol Dante's gal is Audrey McGee, who loft Jessel waiting at the chupa Shirley MacLaine bought vs Terence Netter paintings at the Kehn Gallery for her new Beekman Place pad; one abstraction is titled for a Cathedral on and the other, and Welch, who erupted headlines for herself when she announced she was the new glint in George eye (he said he hardly knew her) i.s recording a song titled (what else?) James novel Times- Bad isn't due until next month but Warners already has bought it for the son of oldtime film stars Lila Lee and James Kirkwood and a former chic-saloon comedian (Blue Angel, Ruban Bleu, etc.) There really any more chic clubs in Manhattan any more; except private. Playwright Marcel Pagnol gave a 12-word speech on his 73d birthday should emulate: God my plays have not aged as much as I Copa producer Doug Coudy lost his been Rudolph stand-in a lifetime ago Songsmith Joe Meyer is in his 70s but the kids dig past pieces: his is zooming on the charts via The Happenings' hot cake.

Bob Crane of (who subbed for Johnnie Carson on and not too well) reports Carson "ill quit the show for the same reason Jack Paar gave: will have said everything 1 want to say Crane looked rather like Paar but the resemblance halted at his mouth Dorothy Lamour will get just a cameo role in Bing a NBC special i a return to Paramount for another movie) But Lamour rates better than a cameo. Prints Charming I THINK YOU GUYS ARE THREE SHEETS TO Till Soliloquy FIRST IT WAS DETROIT VS. GT LOUIS. ALL I HEAR IS NIXON V6. HUMPHREY.

A retired and distinguished professor of English history has gone into the hotel business in his old age. His attractive establishment, in the New England resort area where be was born, is directly astride a state line, and this means that each month he gets bills for electricity, and so forth, from two different utility corporations. When he adds them up he has conniption fits. getting me he explains bitterly, the charge of the light Charles Goodell, recently named junior senator from New York, distinguished himself previously for several years in the House of Representatives. He likes to credit his Great Dane, for playing a by Hugo WISH THEY'D HURRY WITH THE PLAYOFFS!.