The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana • Page 2

Seeks Support For Register For Peace Raffy By HAN'S I.ANGE It was billed as the Littlefield-Lowenstein fly-in, a bipartisan drive to muster support for next week's Register for Peace Rally in Indianapolis. But it took on the appearance of a mini-Democratic convention here Saturday at Kokomo Municipal Airport when the Indiana Rally Committee's chartered Cessna rolled up to the terminal building only a few minutes past the announced arrival time of 1 p.m. Perhaps it was the lack of advance notice, perhaps it was disinterest, but other than a handful of students, the only greeters at the airport were Democrats, including a mayoral hopeful and a defeated candidate for the Fifth District Congressional seat. Kokomo was the first stop on a seven-city tour in Indiana for Nick Littlefield, a member of the executive board of Concerned Lawyers against the War and 1962 campaign chairman for former Republican Governor Chafcc of Rhode Island (now Secretary of the Navy), and Allard K. Lowenstein, ex- Congressman from New York and chairman of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA).

The tour's purpose is to turn out young voters--those between 18 and 25 --and get them registered at a rally in Indianapolis. In a prepared statement, Littlefield said: "The success of massive voter registration drives, such as the one scheduled in Indianapolis is dependent upon the fact that the events remain non-partisan in nature. The 23 million young people between the ages of 18 and 25 deserve the chance to enter the ranks of the voting public, with open minds geared toward showing the people of this country the power of their votes in federal elections. "I believe they will register in unprecedented numbers. And if they do, President Nixon will have to deal with their massive new constituency.

He will have to end (he war, and change priorities or he will not be re-elected." The rally will be held on the State Office Building plaza at 2 p.m. Saturday. Scheduled speakers include Senator Fred Harris ex-senator Charles Goodell of New York, Bess Myerson', New York State's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs; Mrs. Barbara Cross, chairman of the Indiana Welfare Rights Organization; John Crandall, of Veterans Against the War and Lowenstein. Entertainment is to be provided by Phil Ochs and Peter Yarrow.

Littlefield said he hopes upwards of 5,000 young people can'be registered at the rally. He pointed out that as many as 600,000 new Voters will be eligible to go to the polls in the 1972 general election in the state. "When you consider that President Nixon enjoyed his largest plurality in Indiana in 1968 (about this is a significant figure, he said. Lowenstein, no stranger to the Hoosier state, said the voter drive in Indiana was of great national i i i a "There's no place in America more important as a weather vane in national politics than Indiana," he said. Lowenslein, who lost his seat in Congress last fall to Republican Norman K.

Lent, said he was gerrymandered out of his district. "It stretches to about five miles east of Indianapolis," he quipped. "The man who beat me was a state senator when the new districts were drawn up," he said. "He won by a small margin and with young people viting, I doubt that he can hold it in the next election." Incisive and quick-witted, Lowenstein also told of his experiences in Indiana. He said he spent a number of summers farming in the stale and was almost killed in an automobile crash near Lake Maxinkuckcc.

"I've probably dug more pestholes in Indiana than anyone else in this terminal," he said. He did his farming, he said, in Rush County. He ended his brief remarks by excusing himself and saying: "Let me go over and congratulate the mayor," rep- fcrring to John Peacock, who was suc- cessful in gaining the Democratic nomination for the top spot on the ticket in Kokomo for the fall elections. From Kokomo, the group flew to Fort Wayne. Other stops were planned in Elkhart, South Bend, Gary, Indianapolis and Evansville.

Others at the airport included Mrs. Kathleen Williams, who opposed Elwood H. Hillis in last year's Fifth District Congressional race; Howard County Prosecutor Ronald Smith and Rev. J. McFarlane Smith, Democratic candidate for one of three Kokomo councilman-at-large seats.

The Register for Peace rally, and its sponsor, claims to have the backing of 41 colleges and universities throughout the state, including Indiana State University, Indiana University, Ball State University and Purdue University. The Indiana Rally Committee has headquarters at 235 E. Ohio in downtown Indianapolis. 'Third Force' Conceived In Black Political Strategy WASHINGTON (AP) The 25 black politicians who met privately in Chicago May 7 represented the first step in creating a national black political strategy based on a "third force" concept for the 1972 elections, several who attended said this week. They agreed there will be more such meetings, involving many more people, before definite plans are madej including whether to push for a black presidential candidate.

Much of the discussion centered around the need for a third force on the political scene, but not necessarily a third party. "There was discussion about the fact that the Alabama Gov. George Wallace party was able to exact, if not cones- sions, at least veer the president more to the right said the Rev. Calvin Morris of Chicago. Morris is assistant to the Rev.

Jesse Jackson, who called the meeting, and who had been talking about a third force for some time. "A third force is a much more realistic thing," said Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, who chaired the meeting at the home of Dr. T. R. M.

Howard, a black physician who left Mississippi some years ago under pressure created by his civil rights activities. Sutton ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor of New York last year. "Realism rules out a third party," he said. "All of us watched a man by the name of Wallace try to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and he never had a maningful opportunity of being a major candidate by a third-party route." Morris said those present seemed to agree that "black people were much more politically aware and sensitive today," and that sensiitivity should not be lost at the national level. A spokesman for Cleveland Mayor Urge Recycling Waste We're faced today with a problem.

A giant problem. It's 9 feet long, 9 feet wide, 13 feel high and it weighs a ton. That's the mass of solid waste (or garbage as it is commonly called) generated every year by each man, woman and child in the United States. That's about 400 trillion pounds of garbage a year for all Americans. It would bury Manhattan Island to a depth of 13 feet.

The giant problem? How to get rid of this 400 trillion pounds of annual solid waste. Burn it? Dump it in the ocean? Pile it up somewhere and forget it? That's what's been done in the past. But it isn't much of a solution. Burning it or dumping it in the ocean pollutes our air and water. And in many places, there's simply no room left to bury it or pile it up.

Cities are running out of space. Chicago and Akron have already run out of landfill space. Miami, Cleveland, Toledo and Oklahoma City have only a year or two left. So you see getting rid of our solid waste is a national problem which should be twice as acute in 10 years. By 1980, the amount of garbage America generates should be double what it is today.

How can we avoid this potential disaster? What can we do about it? The answer has always been available in nature. The answer has even been utilized in our space program to keep the air in space capsules fresh and clean. The answer is recycling--instead of disposing of materials, re-use them over and over again. Most environmentalists feel recycling is the only solution to the solid waste crisis. --it eliminates disposal problems.

--it conserves natural resources, that we must conserve. But is recycling feasible'' Most emphatically, yes! Let's look at our nine by nine by 13 foot 'lower" of trash. It has a "negative" value. It costs $2.00 to $17.00 a ton just to get rid of it--that is, if you have a place and a way to dispose of it. But trash also has a potential "positive" value.

In other words, if solid waste components such as aluminum, paper, glass and steel could be efficiently sorted out of the solid waste stream, then (hey could be converted into saleable products. Other components of solid waste are fertilizers as well as energy products such as electric power or steam. What we need is a recycling process for sorting and separating out these materials so their potential value can be converted into real money. Recycling technology now exists in bits and pieces, here and there, to do just this. But if these bits and pieces of recycling technology could be assembled into a single full-scale operating facility, then we could actually have "garbage in and vtlue out." Tills operating facility would ingest solid waste at one end and pour out of the other aluminum, glass cullets, paper pellets and steel.

These products would be purchased back by the industries that made them in the first place. These reclaimed and recycled materials would be used to make new cans, bottles and paper. The Aluminum Association has already developed a concept for such a total recycling operation that is both feasible and economic. Everything that would go in would come out as either energy fuel, steam, or eleclicity, clean water or saleable products. There will be no air, water or land pollution.

Everything will be disposed of. Materials will be sorted, melted down and processed for re-use. Glass will be ground for use in a special kind of gravel or for use as new bottles. Potato peels, banana skins, coffee grounds and other household garbage will be burned for energy in a water-jacketed incinerator or they will be processed into fuel oils or gases and charcoal in a pyrolysis unit. Paper and plastics can also be burned for energy and paper can also be made into pellets for new paper.

This concept has been examined for technical feasibility by an independent consulting firm, Rust Engineering Company. The concept has been presented to the National Center for Solid Waste Disposal, 1625 I Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Data on the concept is available to any groups, private or governmental, interested in constructing an actual operating facility. We hope there will be a taker.

Carl Stokes said there was general discussion of "the nationalization of the black vote," meaning, he said, effective use of black power on a national level. Several participants said this would mean effective coalitions must be built with other groups. California State Sen. Mervyn Dymall said "I believe in the concept of a third force, not a third party. I think a third force made up of a colition is needed in the U.S.

to bring some relevance to the two-party system." Sutton said one of the ideas discussed was "a third force that would run delegates under the rules of each of the parties." Higher Funds For Education Being Sought WASHINGTON (AP) Some influential Democratic senators are organizing a drive to win much higher federal appropriations than President Nixon has proposed for education at all levels. Their objective is to get the Senate to vote funds for a wide variety of education programs much closer to the authorization levels than Nixon wants. In many cases, they say, his proposals are for one-third to one-half of the authorizations. In a number of instances, he is asking no money at all for programs passed by Congress. Yet, the Democrats say, funds in the budget defense and space exploration often are at 90 to 95 per cent of the authorized levels.

The first Senate test will come when an Appropriations subcommittee headed by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, D- makes its decisions either late this month or early in June on the billion education money bill passed in April by the House. Magnuson wants to get the bill passed before the new financial yyear begins next July 1, so that the recipients of the aid will know what to expect well before the school year begins in September. Sen.

Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Senate Education subcommittee, is a leader in the battle for increased allotments. He told the Magnuson subcommittee the goal should be full funding of all education programs. "Indeed, one could fully fund all authorized programs and still not all to meet this country's educational needs," he said. Pell said he could cite 10 education programs for which the President's budgets had provided no funds at all since they were enacted. Among these, he said, were public service education, international education projects, school nutrition and health services, and aid for cities with large concentrations of children in public housing projects.

Sen. Philip A. Hart, offered figures to show that the major federal aid to education program, the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is funded at less than 40 per cent of the authorization level in Nixon's budget for the next fiscal year. The funding for this act falls far short of what President Lyndon B. Johnson told educators would be available in a few years when he signed it into law.

UP Recognition Set For Monday The United Fund of Howard County will hold its annual recognition dinner Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Steelworkers Local 1054 headquarters, 920 Millbrook Lane. Carnpaign workers, other volunteer leaders, and supporting firms who contributed to the 1970 campaign will be honored. The program will include a presentation by a group from the music department of Valparaiso University. May Festivities A a i a a on the Indiana i i a Kokomo campus a a a operated a midway which was open to the public.

Girls a i a i boys i energies on bartering old cars. Also on the agenda were pitching booths, archery and BB gun galleries, and places to throw darts and toss nickels. Profits were turned over to the student foundation. (Tribune Photos by Ed Hubbard) LOCAL, NATIONAL, WORLD NEWS Try To Avoid Rail Strike THE KOKOMO TRIBUNE I Se Page 2 SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1971 GOP Senator Nixes Fed-Lockheed Loan Cify-Counfy Affairs Group Meets Monday The city-county affairs committee of the Kokomo Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Monday at 4:15 p.m. in the chamber office.

Harold A. Scott, chairman, said reports will be received concerning trash, environmental pollution, ambulance service and emergency alarm system. WASHINGTON (AP) A Republican senator declared his opposition Satuday to government plans to help Lockheed Aircraft Corp. A Democratic congressman said the Treasury is stepping up "giveaways" as the 1972 election approaches. Taking an unexpected stand, Sen.

Lowell Weicker said he is against White House plans to help ailing Lockheed with a S250-million loan guarantee. FTC Starts Probe On Energy Ties WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Trade Commission has begun a study of longstanding allegations that mergers among the nation's leading energy producers are being used to reduce competition, raise prices and increase profits unjustifiably. The FTC told key Senate Committee chairmen late last week it has completed preliminary planning and launched an investigation into concentration among corporate producers of oil, natural gas, coal and electricity which will last at least two years and absorb much of the commission's staff and time. The FTC chairman, Miles W. Kirkpatrick, said the investigation will include specifically an analysis of the effects of the merger of the Continental Oil Co.

and Consolidation Coal Co. That merger took place five years ago, at a time when Consolidation Coal accounted for a reported 11 per cent of all coal sold the the United States. In letters to Sen. Philip A. Hart, D- chairman of the Senate antitrust and monopoly subcommittee and William Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Kirkpatrick said the investigation will cover four special problems: --The determination of present market boundaries in the energy-producing field, a study Kirkpatrick said "is most important in terms of antitrust merger enforcement policy." --An analysis of trends of concentration in the field with the use of production and sales data.

--A study to learn if concentration causes profits to rise or fall. --An examination of the effects of concentration on new investment, research and development among the major energy producers. In addition, Kirkpatrick said a specific anti-trust investigation is well under way revolving around what he called the possibility of collusion and unlawful conduct involving natural gas reserves in southern Louisiana. Such help, he said, would be "repudiating our free enterprise system." In a separate statement, Rep. Henry S.

Reuss, said the Treasury Department is stepping up "tax giveaways, bail-outs and subsidies for the corporations, banks and wealthy Republican campaign contributors" as election time nears. Among the items Reuss mentioned were the Lockheed proposal, a proposed loan to the Penn Central railroad that Congress refused and proposed new liberalized tax depreciation rules for business. "One searches for a common thread in all these Treasury giveaways Reuss said. "In 1968 the political campaign contributions of the officers and directors of the 25 largest industrial corporations favored Republicans by a margin of six to one. Contributions from members of the prestigious Business Council favored Republicans three to one.

And contributions from 46 of the richest people in America in 1968 favored Republicans by a margin of nearly thirteen to one." Wiecker predicted that legislation introduced last week to aid Lockheed would run into a Senate filibuster. He said he would oppose guarantee even if they were made contingent on use of American-built engines in Lockheed's LI011 TriStar commercial liner. Lockheed claims it faces bankruptcy because of the collapse of Britain's Rolls-Royce which was making the TriStar engines. The British government has made assurances of Rolls' survival dependent on approval of the Lochkeed guarantees. Both General Electric and Pratt Whitney, who would like to produce a substitute engine, have numerous plants in Connecticut.

While at least two other Republicans with GE and Pratt Whitney plants have said they might support Lockheed guarantees if a. U.S. Company builds the engines, Weicker said these companies must succeed "on the basis of superior products and alert minds, not on government subsidies for Sens. Robert Taft, R-Ohio, and Edward M. Brooke, have said recently they didn't like the idea of loan guarantees for Lockheed, but would support them if the engine contracts were switched to a U.S.

company. Both have GE plants in their states. Butler University To Award Honors INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Butler University will award honorary doctorates June 6 to William D. Ruckelshaus, administrator of the federal environmental Protection Agency; Dr. Thaddeus Seymour, president of Wabash College; and Dr.

Donald E. Wood, an Indianapolis physician. Ruckelshaus will speak at the commencement, in which some 470 diplomas will be presented. WASHINGTON (AP) Rail operators and the signalmen's union met in negotiating sessions Saturday in an effort to avert a nationwide railroad strike Monday morning. The opposing parties were brought together by Asst.

Secretary of Labor J. W. Usery after the government had exhausted all means provided by law to prevent a tie-up of the country's rail traffic. C.J. Chamberlain, president of the AFL-CIO Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen, said before the start of several meetings Saturday that his union members are organized and ready to set up picket lines by the 6 a.m.

Monday strike deadline. The 13,000 signalmen represent a small fraction of the nation's railwork- ers, but their pickets at commuter and intercity rail terminals almost certainly, would be honored by other unions. The signalmen, without a contract since Jan. 1, were free to strike Saturday morning after time ran out on the 60-day cooling off period ordered by President Nixon. Only a court order or congressional action could head off a strike if negotiations fail.

Congress will not be in session until Monday, so far as the administration has avoided seeking court action to restrain the union. The signalmen are demanding a 54 per cent increase in their $3.78 hourly wage over 36 months and retroactive to the first of this yarr. The union has rejected a presidential emergency board's recommendation of a 43 per cent boost over 42 months, a pay hike formula followed in the contract settlement Thursday between rail operators and the 38,000 member Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Amtrak Trains Will Stop Twice In North Indiana WASHINGTON (AP) Amtrak passenger trains running between Buffalo, N.Y., and Chicago will make two stops daily in South Bend and Elkhart, Tuesday. One westbound train will stop to discharge passengers, and an eastbound train will pick up riders.

The trains will make their stops during the afternoon. The announcement was made to U.S.' Rep. John Brademas, by the National Railroad Passenger Corp. Brademas said he was told the service would be limited'because the state actually is not eligible for any stop on the newly added run. Brademas said the "exception was made after complaints were registered with Amtrak about its lack of service in the area." He added that "while this service falls far short of what we ultimately hope to restore" in that region, "it is a step in the right direction." INDEX Editorials 4 Stock List 5 Hospital Notes 3 Births 3 Deaths 3 Women's News n-16 Theaters 34 Television 36 Sunday Show 33 Sports 23.26 Classified Ads 37-13.