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-I MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1980 ID I), a amhl v. a Ill For the state song: Pennsylvania Polka The State General Assembly is in the process of choosing a state song. Which means that citizens must act now if they want their voices heard in the selection of the melody destined to become the official tune to be playedat state functions. From the ranks of the Pennsy's coalcrackers comes the suggestion, that the state tune ought to be one that's been familiar to generations of people all over the country since it first swept to the top of the popular music charts way back in the early '40s The Pennsylvania Polka. And why not? It's a happy, catchy tune as opposed to the solemn anthems such as The Star Spangled Banner and would help create an image of the commonwealth as a lively, cheerful place to be.

What better way to attract the favorable attention that Gov. Thornburgh says is needed to instill new lifein a state that's been slipping? After all, the coal crackers point out that the Pittsburgh Steelers have adopted the Pennsylvania Polka as their official song. And who has brought more fame to Pennsylvania that the Super Steelers? If you agree, don't waste any time telling your state legislators. Now's the time to start writing to: State Rep. James Goodman, Mahanoy City; State Rep.

Bill Klingaman, Tamaqua; State. Rep. Bill Hutchinson, Cressona; State Sen. Joe Gurzenda, McAdoo. In the era before the railroads, the principal method of transporting anthracite to the metropolitan markets was by canal.

The earliest such man-made waterway was the Lehigh Canal, which had its loading docks at Mauch Chunk, pictured above. The canal was in its waning era "when the photograph above was taken during the late 1800s, as the railroads had by then arrived. The Lehigh Valley and the Jersey Central tracks ran through the heart of Mauch Chunk, paralleling each other along opposite banks of the Lehigh River enroute from Allen-town to Wilkes-Barre. Unlike its sister canal in Schuylkill County, the Lehigh is still preserved in some sections, particularly in the Lehigh valley area below the coal region, by people with an appreciation for historic landmarks. 2 li Hop An Old Family Is Better Than None Reporter The Chrysler bailout: aid people not firms had to play the young, well-educated liberal.

There isn't much laughter in trying to explain people to themselves. And yet, he had this family sliding halfway -under the table. A Guilty Appetite The Old Days 30 years ago 1950 Frederick Szymaszek, 22, of 116 North Grant Streett Shenandoah, was killed instantly in an accident on the state road two miles north of Brandonville. He was driving a Peoples Ice Company truck toward Sheppton when the vehicle went off the right berm ond hit the guardrails, then veered across the highway and into a rock embankment. At this point, the driver was thrown from the cab and as the truck -drifted back onto the road, one of the wheels passed over his head.

Szymaszek was a navy veteran of WWII and is survived by his wife, Harriet Bowman, and two children, Richard, 19 months, and Sharon Ann, eight weeks This thank you makes me flinch. And yet, I owe it. "All in the Family" is off the air and I'm poorer for it. In the late afternoons, I watch some of the reruns for, the third time. I mouth the dialogue with Archie and Edith.

Television stations average 252 half-hour segments a week. Around that little screen the separate worlds of sports, entertainment and politics whirl. Sometimes I am sickened. Sometimes I want to blacken the opaque eye. Lately, I talk back to it.

I wish someone could uninvent it. And yet I doff a battered fedora to Mr. Archie Bunker and his family. What he did what they did is genius. The word is not extravagant.

The last time it was used honestly was when Charlie Chaplin was alive. It is time to assess "All in the Family" in the past tense. Think for a moment who else could play Bunker but Carroll O'Conner? Who could come close to Edith except Jean Stapleton? The hyperkinetic kid Sally Struthers, naturally. And Meathead Rob Reiner "owned" the part. The show forced as to see ourselves as we are, and to laugh at it.

There's a bit of Bunker in every family. He's a bigoted egocentric, less than meets the eye. He fought for his territorial rights his chair, his can of beer, his prerogative to answer the front door, his noisy toilet. Not a False Note The brilliance is not his alone. The others played off his lines like handball champions.

In fact, the writers of the show kept everybody in such ideal character that it was difficult to detect a false note. Toward the end, I began to like Archie. Underneath, the klutz believed he was a true patriot. He owned a piece of America a clapboard house in Queens. He carried an electric buzzer to Legion conventions.

He thought that Richad Nixon was the greatest president since Lyndon Johnson. Sometimes he made me choke. Like the time he took Edith to Atlantic City for their anniversary, and she came out of the bedroom in a blue silk robe and he handed the glass of champagne to her and kissed her, even though he was aware that such things could lead to s-e-x. Edith was everybody's good person. She was generous, helpful, charitable because her instincts told her to.

She was feminine, though not a feminist. When Archie growled: "Stifle!" Edith closed her mouth. She was born to that stiff -kneed trot and the gladness of eye and heart when her man came home. It was her life. All of it.

She was not bright. With that heart, who needs a head? And Sally Struthers there is no more animated face in the theater. She was a little vixen of a woman who could laugh, cry, pout, seduce, debate and suspect without a word. Anyone could see what she thought. Gloria little is a consummate ac- tress.

The cutaway shots to her face gave the spoken lines more impact. I thought it should have been Gloria, rather than Archie, who found Edith in the funeral parlor singing "Getting to Know You" to a dead aunt. Gloria understood her mother better than Archie could. Rob Reiner excites my admiration. Of all the parts, his was the most difficult.

He 60 years ago 1920 Ren Carlin of Mahanoy City has the distinction of knocking out an opponet out twice in the same bout. It happened at Charlton Hall in Pottsville when Ren's opponent was Young Shugrue. Both men wre fighting like whrilwinds until the fifth round when Carlin sent a straight left to Shugrue's chin. The latter probably would have been up with the count of seven but his second confused him by shouting to remain on the floor until nine, and he was jdust preparing to arise when the referee counted ten. Shugrue got up a moment later in a dazed condition and lurched against Carlin in the middle of the ring.

Ren backed away and landed another straight left on Shugrue's jaw, sending him back down to slumberland. He didn't realize that, in accepting Archie's hospitality, one must take the needles that go with it. He was afflicted, with a guilty appetite. And a sensual appreciation of his wife. He was also anti-God, anti-church, anti-defense, none of which will garner points in Archie Bunker's house.

But telling what I thought of the cast doesn't explain my admiration. The writers were more than great they kept that show on a plateau of laughter unmatched anywhere. They were superb for years. The directors, who are the catalysts of entertainment took that cast, those scripts," and laid out the camera angles and the emphasis so that scores of millions of faces contorted with amusement simultaneously. It is that rare combination of actors, script, writers and directors which, when blended compatibly, make an unforgettable series.

I've seen Carroll O'Connor on a couple of talk shows. He has more opinions than the court of appeals. He also fancies himself a writer. Have you seen the new show "Archie's I tried ft twice. If it is supposed to be a Cohen-and-Kelly comedy, it fails.

Martin Balsam is as funny as a funeral director on a welcome wagon. But then, when you've had the best, how. can anyone fairly judge the second-rate I'll stick with the Indeed, we're doing exactly that on a multi-billion dollar scale in the synthetic fuel industry. But let us not fool ourselves. If we follow these policies, we are going to expand the size, the tax burden and the inflationary effect of government even more than we have in the past.

And it is unlikely that out of this we are going to get a more efficient economy The profit and loss, make or fail economy of the market place does indeed hand us an occasional failure. Investors lose their money. Most tragic of all, workers lose their jobs. The price is high. But it's the price we pay for an efficient, free market system that with all its faults has served this nation well throughout the years.

And it is not heartless. We have an unemployment compensation program that saves job losers from the abject misery of unemployment in the Depression. Welfare's available as it never was in the Depression, Few lose their homes or cars. We have today more Americans at work in relation to the population than we have ever had in the history of the country. The Chrysler decision by the Congress poses two immediate threats that we must be prepared to deal with or they will surely materialize.

First, the Chrysler Corporation may not make it with the present $1.5 billion federal guarantee. They may be back for more within a few years. We must be prepared in that event to say "No." We should recognize how very difficult that is going to be and be prepared to make a vigorous fight to cut our losses. We must accept the Chrysler bailout as a lesson -that failing firms must be allowed to fail, regardless of their size or influence, that bankruptcy does not mean the end of the world and that, in the Chrysler case, for instance, no responsible and objective analyst argued that the Chrysler failure would have significant, let alone lasting effect on the economy. i Second, we must be prepared to say "No" to the next applicant whether it's a giant automobile firm, a steel company or a major city.

Third, we should not establish another depression agency like the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to bail out every loser they can find. This is not the Great Depression and nothing like it. Failing firms cannot blame the overwhelming, catastrophic failoff in demand, the grotesque deflation, that torpedoed even the most efficiently operated firms in the thirties. Fourth, we should not pour billions into a Japanese or German type program of subsidizing our high technology export industries. This is the United States, not Japan and not Germany.

We spend more on research and development than all the other nations in the world combined. We have more engineers and scientists than any other nation in relation to GNP, to population or on any other relevant basis. Our export industries especially the most promising and successful ones don't want this kind of government intrusion. And theyarejight. should recognize we don't need more federal government "help" to industry.

We need less. On the other hand, government assistance to laid-off workers of failing industry is vital. It is immensely expensive. But it is at the heart of any strategy to stop wholesale bailouts. The overwhelming justification for federal assistance is to save jobs.

The answer to saving jobs must go farther than unemployment compensation and half-hearted retraining or talk without action about moving workers to where the jobs are. It is ironic that a strategy that spares the workers the misery of unemployment when big firms fail can go a long way towards saving a free enterprise system embattled by threatened bailouts. But it is true. by U.S. SEN.

WILLIAM FULBRIGHT The time has come to think about the prospects of bailouts of American corporations. One of the final acts of the Congress the past year was to pass by far the most massive assistance to a single failing corporation in the history of this country Some of us saw this as a dangerous precedent that we should not repeat, and that if Chrysler needs more, we should say "No." Some viewed it as a signal that, like it or not, the government would have to play a far bigger role in the future in salvaging corporations in trouble and suggested a planned bailout program based on a revival of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation experience of the Great Depression. Some contend that the federal government should follow the policies of Germany and Japan with massive investment and promotion of firms in new and growing technologies. The purpose would be not to bail out losers but to promote the new dynamic industries of the future, give this, country a trade advantage in areas where other industrialized countries are now able to meet us and defeat us. Some suggest we just relax and continue as we have in the past, bailing out the occasional worthy applicant like Lockheed or Chrysler, but determining each case on its merits.

Presumably the merits would be considerably influenced by the capability of the firm to bring effective lobbying pressure on the Administration and the Congress. Therefore, the bigger the firm the more employees, the more suppliers, the more vigorous and politically aggressive the firm's union, and the more insistent the firm's banks and other creditors then the more willing the Congress and the Administration would be to consider the merits. Also such a plea would be more likely to win in an election year or on the verge of an election year especially a Presidential election year. In the absence of some clear-cut policy of the Congress and the Administration, the latter alternative that is, bailing out big firms with clout will be the federal policy. The gross injustice of such a policy is likely to be so apparent that the Congress may decide to delegate to some agency perhaps the Small Business Administration or a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation the authority to bail out firms that promise to try to become more efficient in the future.

Others will argue that we should temper the program with more aggressive assistance to winners as well as losers. After all, if you're going to bail out Chrysler and maybe Ford, shouldn't we provide comparable resources to General Motors? It is clear that whatever we do to. provide more federal guarantees, or loans or grants, or other concessions, the more intrusive and burdensome government is going to be. If we step back from this situation, we must recognize that the biggest economic protest of our time is not that there is too little government, but that there is too much government, not that government is too small and too reluctant to get involved in our lives, but too big, too pervasive, too expensive and too inflationary. If we recognize this, then we may be willing to say "No" to any of these interventionist policies.

This federal government is now half a trillion dollars a year in size. It is a massive, inefficient force that lumbers along without discipline and often without direction. Yet this stumbling giant can indeed soften the misery and heartbreak often suffered in the market place. Yes, we can establish another Reconstruction Finance Corporation. We can continue to bail out failing corporations and keep them, for a while at least, from failing.

Maybe we can even promote new technologies by force feeding them with loans and guarantees. Speaking of Your Lester L. Coleman, M.D. Hopeful News in Medicine 85 years ago 1895 Last April, Maggie Mehulsky of Turkey Run eloped with a boarder named Joe Stone and $400 owned by her husband Stanley. went to Pittsburgh but a short while afterward, Maggie wrote to Stanley and offered to return and be a good and true wife.

The bargain was made and Stanley borrowed money to fix up another house in Turkey Run where he and Maggie went to live. Stone also returned to town and, strange as it may seem, was again allowed to become a boarder with stanly and Maggie. Saturday night, Stanley, Maggie and Joe came to town and stopped at several drinking places. At one place, Stanley left for a moment and returned to find Maggie and Joe gone. He struck out for home and found Maggie there.

He upbraided her and he has. an ugly looking black eye as a memento.While the upbraiding was In progress, Joe the boarder broke in and inflicted a lump upon Stanley's head. On Sunday, the trio went before Justice Williams. Stanley charged Joe with assault and battery." Joe and Maggie made a smimikar charge against Stanley. Each' defendant was placef under $300 bail for trial.

Stanley also made a charge against Joe for telling one of his friends that he intended to do away with the husband so he could have Maggie. that the unit is light and unobtrusive and moves on casters for greater mobility Geriatrics says that additional information can be obtained from the John Bunn Company in Tonawanda, N.Y. A drug, propranolol, known as "Inderal," is widely prescribed for the relief of the pain of angina pectoris, for the treatment of high blood pressure and for the control of heart irregularity. During the course of its wide use, an interesting observation was made that the drug has value in the treatment and control of some cases of migraine. Although the exact mechanism of action of the drug Is not entirely clear, research workers believe that it is a significant contribution to migraine sufferers.

It is well established that, along wth migraine headache, there Is dilation and narrowing of blood vessels to the brain. It seems that propranolol can modify this process and thus reduce the severity of some types of migraine'. Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are frequently unable to carry on normal activity. Emphysema, chronic bronchitis and bronchiectasis are the major reasons for COPD. There are now on the market some excellent-compact air generators that can supply oxygen-enriched 'air to patients with these diseases.

One such compact and eonomical unit was recently brought to my attention in the journal, Geriatrics. They said A state-wide vaccination program for the elderly and for high-risk patients suggests that the new vaccine against pneumonia has great promise. Almost 14,000 people who were; vaccinated in 1978 gave definite evidence that the vaccine was effective in' reducing the severity and even the mortality normally associated with pneumococcal, pneumonia..