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PAGE 4 THE LATROBE BULLETIN WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1972 Matter Of Fact I.ATROBF PRINTING PUBLISHING CO. INC Publisher of WORKING LINE AGAIN 1 rp- fcfje latrobe bulletin -g. Is It Democrat Death Wish? Thomas M. Whiteman President Vice Presiden' Secretary-Treasurer Editoi Managing Editor Advertising Director Hazel O. Whiteman Stephen Veres Vincent J.

Quatrini William T. Dymond A. William Korber Member Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers SUBSCRIPTION RATES At Newsstands 10c Week Home Delivery 75c MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS Payable in Advance Westmoreland County, Blairsville and R.F.D.'s and Servicemen Association, Pennsylvania Society of Newspaper Editors Audit Bureau of Circulations and Association Newspaper Classified Advertising Managers. By JOSEPH ALSOP MIAMI BEACH In the old days, Democrats used to like winning elections, whereas Republicans cared most about giving their ideologies a run in the yard. But that profound difference so useful to the Democrat party from the days of Franklin D.

Roosevelt to the death of John F. Kennedy-has now been turned upside down. George Meany has his operatives down here for a novel purpose. They are passing the grim word that if the convention chooses Sea McGovern, the Democrat candidate for the presidency will not even get a token endorsement from the AFL-CIO. George Meany means every word of it too.

In the days before the convention, Sen. McGovern was fairly fran-ticallv trvine ta see Meanv. in One month One year 2.50 Published Daily except Sundays and Holidays Entered as Second Class Mail at Post Office, Latrobe, Pa. OFFICE HOURS: Daily, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, 8 a.m. to Noon Closed Sunday and Holidays. Business Office: Bulletin Building, Ligonier Walnut Streets Latrobe, Penna. 15650 Bell Telephone: 537-3351 537-3352 537-3353 537-3354 Out -of -County Rates 2.75 $30.00 One month One year That is the main lesson of Littering In Latrobe the peculiar atmosphere of this feverish convention city. No one talks, at least in any serious, practical way, about how to defeat Richard M.

Nixon in November. But a great many people are talking pretty openly about taking walks if they do not get their own way here, both ideologically and otherwise. Sen, George McGovern and his cohorts have gone furthest in this regard. The senator's threat to lead a new left-wing Littering in Latrobe Borough is getting more and more attention. And it's about time.

For several months borough council has been talking about the filthy appearances of the streets, parking lots nnfl V. KINO rEATL'HSS SYNDIC ATS Today In World Affairs Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Without question it would be a difficult task, especially putting an added stress upon the police department. But something of a preventive nature must be instituted. Council is looking at the situation mostly from an "after the fact" posture, and this could become an expensive proposition.

In addition, without enforcement it is not discouraging the littering of the borough's public areas. If a few persons wera rapped with a $50 fine and that is the maximum permitted under law for littering it most certainly would deter others from engaging in this thoughtless practice. While there are adults who are lit-terbugs, we have to agree with Solicitor Gene McDonald who said that the young people are the worst offenders. And we say this win personal observation. They think nothing of tossing gum, candy, ice cream wrappers and otner litter onto the streets or anywhere else.

Making provisions for a more effective cleaning up of litter is commendable. However, this is only one aspect of the whole littering problem in the borough. Prevention and the cure, it appears to us, must go hand-in-hand. Otherwise the practicality of the solution to littering in the borough misses the target. Govts.

Must Cooperate To Prevent Hijackings But not until this week's monthly meeting of council was there any positive action taken to at least study the problem and come up with an eventual solution. Council President Edward (Buster) Shearer appointed the Streets and Police Committees to look into the possibility of reviving the "human street sweeper" to keep the borough clean. At the same time, the committees will consider eliminating the mechanical street sweeper. There is no question that Latrobe is suffering from an onslaught of lit-terbugs. There are few if any areas which are not unsightly from the debris and trash.

The "human street sweeper" sounds like a sensible idea. But. elimination of the mechanized street sweeper at 'this point doesn't appear to. be a practical move. They're both needed.

But what is needed more in the order to make peace. Meany coldly refused to find time for him. In this matter of refusing even a token endorsement of McGovern, Meany is furthermore supported by well over two-thirds of the unions composing the AFL-CIO's ruling council. Have Support Worse still, the union leaders are rather evidently supported by much of the blue-collar rank and file. A good cross-check on the feelings of rank-and-file workingmen is the new trend of the Catholic vote in the United States.

To this day, although the rule of the WASP'S is long over, Catholics compose a high proportion of the blue-collar population. At least since the Roosevelt years, the Catholic vote also has been another of the vital assets of the Democrats. A recent test by poller Lou Harris nonetheless showed 54 per cent American Catholics supporting President Nixon against 40 per cent for George McGovern with the rest undecided. This finding was further confirmed by the George Gallup organization in a slightly earlier poll only partially published. The Gallup test gave 40 per cent of the Catholics to the President, 36 per cent to McGovern and 18 per cent to Gov.

Wallace. If you make suitable allowances for transfers from the Wallace column, the two sets of figures are seen to be close to identical. Add the McGovern people's determination to wreak public vengeance on Mayor Richard Daley. Add the further prospect of heavy defections to President Nixon among Jewish voters. The sum cf it all appears to be a Demxxat death wish.

Presidential candidates rarely win elections, after all, by alienating end-or insulting great numbers of their natural supporters. Maybe this is an illusion, to be sure. Sen. McGovern has a lot of support from young people. He also has his unprecedented organization.

Yet the real McGovern logic is that somewhere in the political woodwork there is a "silent majority" that his zealous organizers can bring out Sen. Barry GoWwater's borough littering is enforcement of the anti-law as mandated by the party if he should not be nominated was no hot-blooded outburst It was not abruptly provoked by the credentials committee's vote on the McGovern delegation from California. Talk Third Party Sen. McGovern had earlier said exactly the same thing and in cold blood to Life's interviewers. Still more important, too, are the remarkable young leaders of the unprecedented McGovern organization.

They are freely talking about a third-party movement if their man is not nominated. One of them, Richard Stearns, has put it on the record. They can easily carry through on this, too, even if the convention ends by turning to Sen. Edward Kennedy by some strange and unforeseeable chapter of accidents. The McGovern organizers were, in the great majority, supporters of Sea Eugene McCarthy in 1968.

They by no means share the attachment to the name of Kennedy that is natural among some other leading figures in the McGovern camp, like the able Frank Mankiewicz. At the other end of the spectrum, meanwhile. Gov. George C. Wallace and his henchmen are talking very sweetly about how they still hope the convention will be able to see things their way.

There is almost zero-chance that the convention will do so. If Sen. McGovern is nominated, it is therefore an even bet, and maybe an odds-on bet, that Gov. Wallace will curse the nominee and find some way to support President Nixon. This is not all, either.

Since the Roosevelt era, organized labor has been one of the indispensable props of the Bally ho oing Chess against aircraft and their passengers. There is a belief that such crimes can be stopped and hijackers deterred. First of all, preventing the exit of a hijacker from a plane by parachute is possible. Certainly ways are also available to detect persons who board planes with bombs in their baggage or who are carrying dangerous weapons. Some of the public might object to thorough personal searches, but undoubtedly more foolproof devices can be installed which would reveal somehow or other the existence of guns or explosives.

Machines now in use already reveal metal weapons, and they are being improved all the time. Most important of all at the present time is to get governments to agree that no hijacker who arrives from another country is going to be safe from extradition or punishment. Thus if, therefore, someone orders a plane to fly to some distant point and is certain to go to jail when he gets there or be extradited, there would be no advantage to hijack any aircraft Cooperation of the governments of all countries, therefore, is essential to any plan for the prevention of further hijackings. To seize a plane and force it to fly from one country to another is a violation of international law from every international viewpoint If all nations would agree to apply By DAVID LA WHENCE WASHINGTON The effort to bring about tougher action against hijacking of airplanes has been supported by public opinion in lots of countries and really didn't need the grounding of many scheduled airline flights to dramatize the heed for anti-hijacking measures. It turned out that, while a small percentage of the air operations in the United States was discontinued, there was a greater stoppage of flights in other countries.

One wonders why it was necessary to stress the need for effective measures against hijacking this way. Hijacking has been condemned again and again, and there has been ample opportunity to do something about it. The International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal plans to work out a United States-Canadian proposal to strengthen treaties so as to deter hijacking and sabotage more effectively. The idea would be to have treaties that would apply airline boycotts against nations which fail to comply with existing agreements and rules to be adopted in the future. Expensive Move The shutdown of the airlines for one day several weeks ago in many countries was ex pensive, and the protest really could have been made by other means.

The United Nations is studying the best methods of curbing crimes Spasky was in there trying, but his nyet had little bite to it. He couldn't engage in yak-yak without asking Moscow's permission. The way he walked out of the first scheduled meeting resembled a poor road version of the act Andrei Gromykb used to stage so regularly in the United Nations. But the way the two were checking each other it seemed unlikely they would ever be mated. Compounding their cold war was that their chosen arena was Iceland.

Chess players are like that. Olympians choose places like Tokyo and Munich, regular tourist stops, but the chess federation only take Iceland when it cannot get Bulgaria. The self-effacement of the game may be summed up by the knowledge that the head of the international federation is a man named Euwe. It's quite possible that hate him as you will chess needs a Bobby Fischer and his emphasis on "Me!" Certainly it's received more attention this year than ever in memory. Fischer's hate could be bait.

After the months of moves by Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union over where, when and how to hold a chess match as well as the how much the match itself will be an anticlimax. If he has done nothing else, Bobby Fischer has done more for chess than any man since Lewis Carroll. Customarily a chess match raises as much popular interest in this country as the annual meeting of beekeepers or a seminar on the teaching of Esperanto to the; Incas. This time there is a difference, and mostly it's been Bobby. The Russians deserve some credit.

For-years the Soviets haven't just held the title; they've owned it. Until Bobby Fischer came along a world chess match was truly a case of Russian roulette. this time Fischer stole the headlines before the sedentary match god under way. Take his insistence on money. Americans have built a reputation for the crass, a brash love for cash.

That's what Bobby Fischer did. He acted so American. severe punishment to captured hijackers or to return them to the country of origin for such treatment, would-be hijackers throughout the world would not be so anxious to seize planes in view of the risks they would face. The crime of hijacking is one for which all countries should be interested in dealing out punishment Certainly the nations which have large airlines and immense scientific facilities ought to be able to develop methods of detecting those who may seek to hijack planes. The whole problem has not been worked out by airlines or governments.

As a consequence, hijacking has continued from year to year. Agreements Needed The one-day protest was spectacular, but it will be of no avail unless it is followed up by international agreements outlining punishments that will be imposed on all hijackers in the future. The various governments of the world and the airlines should be able to work out an effective plan which will be far less expensive than the cost of hijacking not only to the peoples of the different countries but to the airlines themselves. Sen. Warren Magnuson, Democrat of Washington, who is chairman of the Commerce Committee, has announced that he will propose hijacking legislation to his committee which he expects will be brought to a vote by the Senate.

His bill would prohibit airlines in this country from flying to any other nation which offers sanctuary to hijackers. The proposal is what the organizers of the one-day work stoppage by international pilots wanted. Sen. Magnuson's bill also would bar foreign airlines from landing in the United States if they continued to serve countries that offer sanctuary or protection to hijackers. He describes the proposal as "a total air transport boycott of nations which continue to jeopardize the lives of millions of air passengers." The senator asserted that be was offering his plan as an amendment to the anti-hijacking bill which is pending before the Commerce Com-' mittee.

people had the same theory. Democrat party. Yet tough old Lighfer Side Diplomatic Uplift Wall Street Chatter us that this could be a pretty good time to be buying stocks, especially if one can look to brighter days ahead." Egypt and its allies. But it may not be alone for long. The Sudan also has been making overtures to the U.S.

The Sudanese president recently went out of his way to praise the "extremely generous aid" received from the U.S." for the restoration of the southern part of his country. President Gaafar al-Nimiery also said he is considering the restoration of ties with Washington. Breaking the diplomatic logjam in the Mideast could restore more than the relations between countries. It could clear the air sufficiently to encourage settlement of some of the basic differences between Israel and the Arabs. Diplomatic surprises this summer are coming at a dizzying pace.

About the time North and South Korea were announcing an agreement to work toward more, amicable relations, Yemen announced its decision to resume diplomatic relations with the United States. Yemen is a small country which manages to evade public attention, even in the Mideast where it is situated. The importance of its new relations with the United States lies in the fact Yemen is an Arab country with previously strong ties to Egypt. Thus, Yemen becomes the first Arab state to break away from the self-imposed exile from the West adopted by NEW YORK (UPI)-Dean Witter and Co. points out that the business, financial and economic outlook is "more mixed than bad" and in spite of some- rather serious problems the economy in general and corporate profits in particular are still moving in a positive direction.

"Furthermore, the market's downward course in June was characterized by comparatively light, trading volume, indicating selling pressures aren't too great and that the downward drift could be reversed rather it added. "All of this suggests to A number of Wall Street analysts are standing by their convictions that the stock market is "in for a summer rally." Others, however, contend the market is on the verge of a "major collapse." But, not to be denied by either camp is the continuing economic' growth. Further heartening to some Wall Streeters are government reports of a major decrease in unemployment television cameras. Gavel Derived from the word "gravel." Originally, "convention chairman kept order by shouting, which made them hoarse, or "gravel-voiced." For this reason, the mallet they now bang instead of shouting is called a "gaveL" Humbug A nominating speech. Keynote-A note thanking the police chief of Miami Beach for not locking up delegates arrested for electioneering.

Loyalty oath A pledge to support the party's presidential ticket no matter how ludicrous. (See Nose What many delegates have to hold in order to support the party's presidential ticket. (See "Loyalty Ovation The cheer that goes up when the delegates realize the nominating speeches are finally over. Party unity A temporary cease fire that enables the combatants to rest up for the next fight Quibbling Consultations among party leaders regarding the selection of a vice presidential nominee. Running mate Someone whose political views don't matter as long as'he belongs to another church.

By DICK WEST WASHINGTON (UPI) As you watch the Democratic National Convention on television this week, you may find you are unfamiliar with some of the political terminology. Keep the following glossary handy and it will help you figure out what is going on: Bellwether A variant of the word "bellweather," which means it's a good day for playing a carillon. Politically, the term suggests that conditions are favorable for ringing victory bells. Caucus A variant of the word "raucous." When a delegation becomes obstreperous and refuses to follow the chairman's instructions, it is said to be 'caucusing." Delegate Literally means "entrance to a delicatessen." Conventioneers are called delegates because they tend to cluster around doorways. Electioneering Ridiculous or rowdy activity which is tolerated at a convention but which if you tried it back home would get out tossed into the calaboose.

Floor The place in the convention hall where delegates cluser around doorways, mill around the aisles and jostle each other trying to get in range of Sunset Sailor by Brickman the small society A 6EAT A MAM I WISH ALL wa run I H3c his sailboat around the world alone in 1967, he earned his knighthood and millions of admirers. But as the old sailor proved again in 1972, the power of the sea is a stronger tonic than the accolades of the crowds. Whether there are to be future sea adventures by this uncommon man only time will disclose, but the successes he has achieved at a time in life when most of his contemporaries have retired stand as a beacon for the young and old alike in whatever paths they may travel. All they need is a sail filled with courage. Sir Francis Chichester failed in his latest quest to conquer the seas in his sailboat, but he succeeded once again in proving the uncommon courage of an amazing man in a sea of lightweights.

Few persons knew when Sir Francis set sail from England with the bow of his Gipsy Moth pointed toward the United States that the 70-yaar-old sailor was suffering from a blood illness. It was that weakness and not lack of courage which caused the old man to turn back. Even then he insisted on bringing his boat home by himself. When Sir Francis Chichester sailed.