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Journal THE JOURNAL-NEWS Hamilton, Ohio 45012 Phone 863-8200 TUCKER SUTHERLAND Publisher bnd Editor GEORGE NEUHART Mtntgtr IIM 6LOUNT Mins'glng Editor DAVE KRAMER Refill Adv. LARRY SIMISON Classified Adv. Mgr. JOE MENNINGER Clrculttlen mi FOX Composing Foreman ALVA POTTENGEK Fonmtfi NEIL BEHRENS Msnagtt JACK ANDERSON Wartime Nazi Editor, Pauco, Now Power On The Republican National Committee WASHINGTON A former Nazi editor, who was Adolf Hitler's leading propagandist in occupied Slovakia during the 1940s, has now become a power on the Republican National Committee. Hr is Dr.

Joseph Pauco, who trumpeted the Nazi line throughout Slovakia and hailed the Nazi (persecution of the Jews. As late as 1957, he defended his past Nazi activities as "the cause of great and sacred truth." Yet this notorious exNazi was invited by President Nixon to attend a White House prayer service on Sept. 12. While no other White House worshiper may have been more in need of prayer, it is ironical that Pauco should wind up at a Nixon devotional. For his mentor and mahatma, Joseph Tiso, the puppet dictator of Slovakia, was hanged as a war criminal.

Hitler ended his bloody conquest of Czechoslavakia by dividing the country and installing Tiso as the ruler of Slovakia. Pauco was named editor-in-chief of Tiso's official organ, Slovak, which became the strident voice of the Nazi regime. In effect, Pauco became Slovakia's Joseph Goebbels. One of Pauco's close associates in the Nazi hierarchy was Dr. J.

M. Kirschbaum, who has been accused by the Jewish Community Council in Praigue of sending Slovakia Jews to the gas chambers in Auschwitz and other murder camps. Kirschbaum denies the charge. But we have dug out. at least, an old newspaper picture of Kirschbaum in his Slovak SS uniform, his hand raised in the Hitler salute.

Pauco and Kirschbaum escaped Tiso's fate by fleeing to the West. Pauco reached the U.S. in 1950; Kirschbaum got only as far as Toronto. Eventually, Pauco took over the weekly newspaper, Slovak In Our Opinion Candidates For Boards Of Education Facing Many Critical Issues, Problems In Next Years Thirty-five persons are seeking election to 22 positions on boards of education in Butler County at the Nov. 2 election.

The successful candidates will be facing many critical decisions during their terms. Education in Ohio is at a crossroads. Taxpayers have opposed additional taxes. Legislators have not responded to educational money demands in the same manner this year. It appears the legislators have sensed the unhappiness of some taxpayers and, as a result, are reluctant to provide money for education.

The person in the middle is the local board member who must make the decisions which will allow the schools to continue operation. At the same time previous legislatures have mandated that local boards provide additional opportunities in vocational education. A 1974 deadline has been established; but the financing is at the discretion of local boards. In addition, there are problems and deficiencies within the individual districts which require board attention. The persons elected Nov.

2 will spend millions of tax dollars. More important, they will determine the quality of education our children will receive. The responsibilities are enormous. It is important that each voter weigh his vote and cast a ballot for persons qualified to meet such challenges. Here are the present board members and candidates in Butler County.

The Journal-News urges its readers to become familiar with the candidates and the issues facing them if they are elected. BUTLER COUNTY BOARD The terms of two members Butler County Board of Education will expire. They are Lunsford, 988 Symmes Road, Fairfield, and Ralph A. Brate, 4307 Mulhauser Road. Both men are seeking re-election.

Also running is Janet Y. Huff, 2604 Morgan-Ross Road, Hamilton. Members whose terms continue are Mrs. Martha Rahfuse, 3971 Princeton Pike, Hamilton; Homer Bolser, 6477 Rte. 127, Somerville; and Ralph Chamberlain, 244 E.

State Trenton. EDGEWOOD BOARD OF EDUCATION Two terms also will expire on the Edgewood Board of Education. They are Robert A. Hiltbrand Box 196, Taylor School Road, Seven Mile, and Stanley G. Till, 105 Brelsford Trenton.

Mr. Hiltbrand is seeking re-election. Also seeking a seat on the board is Raymond F. Martin, 1106 Four Mile Creek Road, Hamilton. Continuing on the board will be Robert D.

McIntyre, 100 Brelsford Trenton; Donald E. Schenck, 3001 Middletown-Eaton Road, Middletown; and Dr. John D. Burley, 409 N. Miami Trenton.

FAIRFIELD BOARD OF EDUCATION Two persons will be elected to terms on the Fairfield Board of Education. Members whose terms are expiring are Mrs. Margaret A. Lunsford, 988 Symmes Road, Fairfield, and Ralph Hodges, 48 Blue- Court. Mrs.

Lunsford is seeking re-election. Other candidates are Clarence Glen Reid, 1811 Harvard and Lois Snodgrass, 4886 Fairfield Ave. Other members of the board are Frank S. Kelly, 6980 Fairham Road; John G. Eaton, 5376 Dee Alva Prive; and James H.

Saylor, 1841 Wiltshire Blvd. HAMILTON BOARD OF EDUCATION The terms of Robert Rennie, 112 Craig'Drive, jjnd Frank Thompson, 26 N. Washington an the Hamilton Board of Education will expire. Mr, Rennie is one of five persons seeking the two seais. ptfcer candidates are Donna J.

Messacar, 3951 Arlington Adrian H. Siereveld, 781 Irnpala Place; Naomi Slack, 94 Lexington Drive; and Phyllis Vandeipool, 3880 Hammond Blvd. i A Members with two more years to serve are Dr. Ernest Davis, Carl Crane and Carl Morgenstern. LAKOTA BOARD OF EDUCATION Two persons are seeking election to the Lakota Board of Education.

The terms of Robert F. Howard, 6682 Cresthaven Drive, West Chester, and Lee Keehner, 7210 West Chester Road, West Chester, are expiring. Mr. Howard is seeking re-election. The other candidate is Wallace M.

Schulze, 6230 Allen Road, West who will continue on the board are Roy L. Maddox, 8008 Cox Road, West Chester; Robert R. Niederman, 5110 West Chester-LeSourdsville Road; and Robert C. Wasson, 8472 Brookridge Drive, West Chester. MADISON BOARD OF EDUCATION Three seats will be at stake on the Madison Board of Education Nov.

2. Terms expiring are those of Dr. E. C. Peck, 5779 Mosiman Road, Middletown; the Rev.

C. W. Hatfield, 8284 Keister Road, Middletown; and Gerald Cottongim, 8119 Keister Road, Middletown. Dr. Peck, the Rev.

Mr. Hatfield and Mr. Cottongim are candidates for re-election. Other candidates are Louis F. Cox, 7781 Franklin-Madison Road, Middletown; Joseph W.

Haines, 8241 Thomas Road, Middletown, Joan Marie Knutson, 6583 Lorraine Drive, Middletown; and Norman Sampson, 6366 West Alexandria Road, Middletown. Holdover members of the Board are Merle Stethem, 6099 Howe Road, and Homer Weikel, 6251 Trenton-Franklin Road, Middletown. NEW MIAMI BOARD OF EDUCATION Three membei-s will be elected to the New Miami board. Terms expiring are those of Donald Mitchell, Overpeck; Edwin Current, 161 Highland and John Davish, 59 Morris Ave. Mr.

Mitchell and Mr. Davish are seeking reelection. Other candidates are Ralph J. Philpot, 1677 Chippewa Drive; Mary K. Wells, 2066 Caldwell and Sam K.

Zeigler, 2147 Clark St. Continuing on the board are Kenner Cook, 410 Seven Mile and Howard Sharp, Overpeck. ROSS BOARD OF EDUCATION Voters will decide three positions on the Ross Board of Education. Terms expiring are those of Carl Solazzo, 2284 Millville Henry Robinson, 3681 Hamilton- New London Road; and Donald Thiem, 3175 Hamilton-Scipio Road. They are seeking re-election and are unopposed.

Other board members are William Smith 1900 Sky Meadow Drive, and Ronnie Lee Huff, 2604 Morgan-Ross Road. TALAWANDA BOARD OF EDUCATION Three persons will be elected to the Talawanda board. Members whose terms are expiring are Dr. John Trump, 1012 S. Locust Oxford; Mrs.

Miriam Steiniger, 208 Beechpoint Drive, Oxford; and Jack Tincher, Westgate Drive, Oxford. Mr. Tincher is the only member seeking re-election. Others seeking election are Jerry R. Coltharp, 6274 Timothy Lane, Oxford; Karl Mattox, 729 Melissa Drive, Oxford; Joseph B.

Postlewatt, 4980 Huston Road, Coljinsville; and Gordon Taggart, 1541 Millville-Oxford Road, Hamilton. Members continuing on the board are Jimmy Schwab, 1691 Bunker Hill-Woods Road, Oxford, and Mrs, Freda 1775 Old Oxford Road, Hamilton, CORRECTION The name of Herbert H. Hufford was omitted from the list of candidates seeking election to Hamilton City Council in yesterday's Opinion Page. Amerike, in Middletown, and named his old friend Kirschbaum as a adviser. The natty, charming Pauco was brought into the Republican Committee as chief Slovak American adviser by the former chairman, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton.

The present chairman, Kansa? Senator Bob Dole, appointed Pauco comptroller of the committee's ethnic council. Pauco is also serving as a Nixon appointee on the Small Business Administration advisory council. Not long ago, Pauco and Kirschbaum helped to establish the Slovak World Congress, and they held a meeting in Toronto in June. They were showered with greetings from Senators John Tower, Strom Thurmond, Roman Hruska, and others. Senators Robert Taft, R- Ohio, and Claiborne Pell, D- R.I., actually showed up in Toronto to address the meeting.

From the White House on down, these prominent Americans can be excused for being, unaware of the Nazi backgrounds of Pauco and Kirschbaum. But the official who is supposed to keep track of ex-Nazis, Assistant Att General Robert i a the Justice Department's internal security specialist, also attended the Toronto affair. Incredibly, Mardian told the ex-Nazis and their pals that he felt "especially akin to you and your organization." He declared stirringly: "It is a common heritage that binds us together here today." Then, with an oratorical flourish that must have caused Pauco and Kirschbaum to choke, Mardian added, "It matters not whether a dictatorship is communist, fascist or Nazi all dictatorships are without respect for liberty." Mardian might have picked up a clue to Pauco's Nazi past by reading his biography in Who's Who. For Pauco lists among his accomplishments the editorship of the old Slovak daily. If this was missed by Mardian, it was picked up by an amateur Nazi hunter and Democratic Party official, Bill Quinn, who identified the daily as a Nazi mouthpiece.

He tipped us off, and we have now traced Pauco's past in old Library of Congress records, books, newspapers. "There is only one alliance, and that alliance is with Germany," wrote Pauco in a signed editorial on Sept. 17, 1944. Again on Oct. 11, 1944, he printed: "The great German Reich, led by Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, proved to the Slovaks its benevolence." In a typical diatribe against the Jews, his Nazi newspaper declared on Sept.

3, 1944: "We all know about their moral decay and their murderous hatred of the Christian people." Is it possible that Pauco, now 57, has changed his views after 25 years? As late as August, while he was preparing to 1 pray with the President, he praised the war criminal Tiso as a "martyr." Footnote: My associate Les Whitten reached Pauco at Middletown. He denied that his wartime newspaper was a Nazi organ. "I ran a Slovak paper," he said. Asked about the paper's attack on the Jews, be said at first, "I can't rememjber," then declared: "We were friends of the Jews." He added heartily, "Anybody who says we were Nazis is full of baloney." The Republican National Com, mittee, he said, would verify his good name. Kirschbaum has an unlisted telephone in Toronto and couldn't be reached.

NO THAW ma In Their Opinion Financing Public Schools Huge National Problem (Washington Post) It is possible, without being absurdly romantic about it, to glimpse a rebirth of hope for the country's public schools in the meeting that took place at the White House between national education leaders and President Nixon. There was a fervent expression of that hope in a post conference comment by Kenneth E. Buhnmaster, president of the National School Boards Association, representing some 16,000 local boards of education around the country, that "we in the conference this morning really believe that the outlook for education is far better than it has been for a long, long period of time." Or, as another educator put it, "At least there was a meeting." There has been no previous meeting of this kind since Mr. Nixon moved into the White House. On the contrary, there has been a long winter of discontent on either side.

The President vetoed two appropriation bills for federal aid to education because he considered tihem excessively expensive. And'he has talked in extremely hostile terms about a need for major reforms in the organization and administration of the public schools and in teaching techniques as well before he will back federal aid on any expanded scale. He proposed two commissions on aid to education one to study financing, the other to recommend fresh approaches to the task of teaching. The trouble with educational study commissions is that school children keep growing up while the commissions study. They attend overcrowded, understaffed, inadequate schools; and a failure to educate them in the present can never be repaired in the future.

Educators who face this, failure look to the federal government as the only source from which help can come. They know that money is not the only answer; but they also know that it is one imperative So they have reacted to Mr. Nixon's rejection of their pleas with bitter resentment. U. S.

Commissioner of Education Sidney P. Marland Jr. arranged the meeting in an effort to bridge tjje' widening breach between the, President and lite men. Apparently i degree of rapprochement. Common concern about school financing was spurred by the recent decision of California's Supreme Court that reliance on local property taxes as the chief source of school funds resulted in a denial of the equal protection of the "laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.

If the local property tax is unconstitutional as well as alternative sources of revenue must be found. Mr. Buhrmaster of the National School Boards Association said after the meeting that the educators proposed an increase in the level of federal aid from the, present 7 per cent of the educational budget to about 40 per cent. No doubt it would take a considerable span of time to raise the federal contribution so dramatically. But in simple truth there is no other way to give the public schools the financing they so desperately need.

The division eventually ought to be in the -nature of 40 per cent from the federal government. 40 per cent from the state governments and 20 per cent from local communities. Increased federal funding can usefully be made a lever to bring about some much needed reform of state patterns in the apportionment of school funds, Federal funding should give the states an incentive to improve their own equalization formulas in the light of the California ruling- In bringing about the face to face meeting between the President and the educators, Commissioner Marland gave a demonstration of how useful the Office of Education can be. It is an agency that has an immensely important role to play in the modernization and development of the American school system. It ought, to be given significant new resources if it is to fulfill its proper role in promoting educational reform- is in the air and in the minds of the school authorities all over the country.

The President need have no fear on that spore. He needs to understand, however, that federal assistance is the key to reform, that adequate funding its indispensible lubricant. The public schools, fur so Jojng vital force in American are DOW them- selves in desperate need of revitalization. They deserve a high priority in I President's calculations. Phosphate Facts (Indianapolis News) The official turnabout the question of phosphates in, detergents provides somaj useful insight into the con-; tinuing debate over pollution.

That phosphates were a badj thing, to be eliminated as rapidly asl possible, was one of the items that was supposedly "known" about pollution, and it on the basis of this asserted' knowledge that the Indiana- Legislature moved 'to the use of phosphate detergents in our stated Hoosierland had the distinc- tion of being first in the effort to enact a really tough an- tiphospliate law. according to a joint statement issued the- Council on Environmental; Quality, the Department of; Education and Welfare, and the En-' vironmental Protection Agency, this action seem quite so knowledgable. These agencies say that; caustic substitutes for phosphates in detergents pose! serious health hazards, some cases possibly cancer. The agencies further state; that "qertain of the phosphate detergents now orit the market contain' ingredients that, if accidentally ingested, or introduced into the may be extremely injurious; to humans, particularly children. These particular) products utilize materials ail a substitute for phosphates that are highly caustic 'an'4 that clearly constitute a health i hazard, phosphates do not." On the basis these and; other findings, it appears thai' stringent antiphosphate may be counterproductive in.i terms of health and pollution efforts alike- Saturday, October The In every evuning.

by The Journal Court St. and Journal HajnUton, Ohio Tucker Sutherland publisher and editor. jHro iBteunV Mr managing editor. The Journal Co Is owned News Second clatf.