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Our View On Equal Rights There has been much written recently on the equal rights movement now going strong here and across the nation. One comes out of Chicago. Male chauvinists win enjoy the story. Probably women's liberationists will not. Mrs.

Estelle Hoker has been a special agent for a large life insurance company for two and a half years. Last year she sold $2.4 million worth of insurance. As a reward she was named "Man of tiie of the Chicago agency. She received a silver trophy in the shape of a man carrying a briefcase. But this is not the only sales prize she has won.

She also has in her collection a man's two-suiter, three tie tacks and a pair of men's cuff links. Recently she was asked her shirt size. If she's lucky, she may win the company's jacket of the year, a red sport coat made by a top men's clothier. While the women's liberationists may not like all this, Mrs. Hoker doesn't feel badly about the nature of the awards.

After all, of the 2,000 persons who will sell $1 million worth of insurance this year, only about 45 will be women. For some time the women libbers have been trying to get the Equal Rights Amendment ratified by the states. They are having trouble. However, its principle is burning bright at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Recently Secretary Caspar Weinberger says schools and colleges getting federal aid, which means most of them, must hereafter give boys and girls equal access to athletic programs in all but "contact" sports.

This may be a triumph for sex equality. But what happens to sportsmanship if schools have to do away with separate athletic events for boys and girls? And what about campus romance? What does a guy do when the intramural baseball cup is at stake, the score is tied in the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and he's at bat--and the pitcher is the girl he has a date with for the senior prom? The Other Foot Still fresh in memory is the classic confrontation between Congress and former President Nixon on the power to subpoena tapes and documents from the White House in the Watergate investigation and impeachment proceedings. The White House resisted, unsuccessfully. Now both the Senate and House are fighting subpoenas seeking testimony and records about alleged abuses of free mailing privileges by members. The subpoenas were issued in connection with a lawsuit by Common Human Interest Cause seeking to end taxpayer-financed mass mailings by members of Congress.

The subpoenas were filed last September but neither Senate nor House replied by making available records of congressional panels assigned to police franking abuses. Many members of Congress spoke up firmly about White House refusal to abandon its position of "executive privilege." Where are these voices now that the shoe is on the other foot? Always Looking Up I am a very short person. I can't help it. I was bom short. My mother wanted it that way.

I never really hated being short until I was 4. That was the year the old cat grabbed me up by the scruff of the neck and took me off to a new hiding place. And then, of course, the local dogs began treeing me on the way home from school every day. I was ao short in grade school I only had to take half of the exams. It was so bad I never got into a school picture until the eighth grade.

That's when I learned to sit in the front row. On a box. The neighborhood children always kidded me a lot about being short and it usually ended in a fight After I punched a few of them in the kneecap they quit I had to use an inner tube in the bathtub until I learned to swim. I could never reach the bottom of the tub. If Ihad had a blowout in my inner tube I'd have been sunk.

I have always been a little short on everything money, brains, pant legs, length, height, tallness. Even my anklets turned out to be knee socks. Bobby socks were the big thing in my day. I hid to wear mine pinned to my shorts. I think that's where they got the idea for pantyhose.

I could always walk under a tall cow. I dont mind now but it was an udder calamity to a 9- year-old boy. It was a good thing and a bad thing so far as sports were concerned. I was always the one they sent into the 12- inch culverts to retrieve the baseball. But then, I had a three-inch strike zone so I got a lot of walks.

I pole-vaulted in high school, but the coach made me quit. The officials spent too much time digging me out of the sawdust. I was the only guy in my senior class at high school who wore his coat pockets under his armpits. When I wore a vest I'd have to leave the bottom three buttons undone to keep from stepping on the front of it I could never wear a watch chain with my zoot suit The thing kept winding around my ankles and got tangled up in my tie. When I was graduated from high school, the kids in manual arts training made me a set of stilts as a going-away present I wore them when I applied for my first job as a jockey.

The guy said I was too short. When I was in the Navy they issued me a top bunk and I had to wear a parachute in case I fell the ladder going up or down: It gets to be pretty embarrassing once in awhile. I was introduced to 12 belly buttons once when interviewing the Georgia Tech basketball team. Even when I learned they called my fr-foot-6 cousin "Shorty" it didn't help. And once during my fat nonsmoking days, and attired in colorful red sports outfit, I was mistaken for a fireplug by a very short dog.

But, being short isn't all that bad, I guess. Look at all the nice kids you get to meet Out Of The Post SIXTY TEARS AGO Carl Geary, eight, of BuUskin Township, is bitten by a copperhead snake while walking past Geary School. He is treated by Dr. A. J.

Colbom and although Ms leg swells considerably, he is considered out of danger. James P. Hogg Park, embracing about 10 acres of ground, now known as Connell Run, is formafly taken over by Council from the John T. Hogg estate, with but one stipula- tioo--that it be used for park purposes only, Mrs. Mary Bourn of Dunbar falls down the Daily Cuiirirr Tfce Weekly Courier Founded July 17,1879 Tbe Daily Covier November II, 1912 Merged Jtiy 18,192) He Coarier PiMisher; James M.

Drisctll, President, Geveral Mauger, Editor; James G. DriscoD, Vice President, Advertising Director; Walter C. DriscoU, Secretary-Treasurer; E. Lind, MwugiBg Editor; Edward L. Smith, Cir- criatiM Manger; George A.

Pffla, Produc- ttM Director. Served By totted Press International Bureau of Advertising A.N.P.A. cellar steps at her home and suffers a hip fracture. FIFTY YEARS AGO E. N.

Sidaway is reelected president of Fayette County Christian Endeavor Union at its annual convention at Fairchance. Mary Brickman of East Fairview Avenue teaches art at the summer session of the Somerset Branch of California State Normal at Somerset J. W. Dawson of Uniontown is elected president of Fayette County Sunday School Association, succeeding George B. Cougbenonr of Belle Vernon.

FORTY YEARS AGO Dwight Merle Skinner, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Skinner of Mill Run, enlists in the Navy. His father is supervising principal of Springfield Township schools. TEN YEARS AGO Lester F.

Patterson of 296 Wifls Road is elected to fin the unexpired term of the late Lawrence W. Weaver of the Connellsville School Board. Headline: "Castro's U.S. Hatred Revealed by Sister." A juvenile bicycle theft ring is broken up with the apprehension of one youngster who later implicates the others. Your View The Heavy, Fast Traffic on West Side Is Killing Us Editor: I read in The Courier about the Chamber of Conv merce giving awards for the beautification of Coo- Ill grant that a few, very few, store fronts have improved the image of the downtown section.

Bat the skyline of downtown and of toe city as a whole needs a face lifting. I believe more emphasis on private homes and streets would be of greater value to help entice more industry and people to oar community. We sure need them. I'm also very frustrated at the amount of traffic-heavy, heavy traffic on Kb Street, West Side, and on 9th Street I'm certain federal standards on noise pollution are severely strained here. It's impossible for our elderly and extremely dangerous for our very young to cross either of these streets.

You nave to run to keep from being runover by fast moving vehicles. The speed limit is 35 mph but many exceed that I doubt if any speeding citations have ever been passed out here. Getting a good night's sleep is virtually impossible. I wouM like to invite your representative, Mayor Shaw and some of our Chamber of Commerce people to sit on my porch any time of the day to get a first hand look at our agony. We need help to resolve this problem.

All of the traffic pouring along Rte. HSpasses our front door. A great deal of money has been promised to build a bypass between Rte. 119 and Rte. 51 on the north side of Uniontown.

Are we lesser citizens? Letters to the Editor Will we have to demonstrate by other means before our city, county and state officials pay any attention to this long agonizing problem? You ask for ctfgfn participation with letters to the editor on things good for the community. We need your James V.Perdew 150 S. 8th fit Connellsville Program Is Nuts Editor: I have to speak out about the new plan to winterize the homes of needy families in this program was announced in Friday's Courier. This is the most stupid program I ever heard of. Apparently the state is going to pay to put insulation in the attics and weatherstripping on the windows and doors of houses owned and used by "low-income The article said 1,300 to 1,400 houses in Fayette and Greene Counties wfll be treated.

The part of the article that got me was when the executive director of the Fayette County Redevelopment Authority said "no local tax money will be Baloney! Where does he think the money comes from? Everytime the state or federal government spends money on a stupid program like this the only place the money can come from is out of our pockets. State money and federal money is all taxpayers' money. There just isnt any Santa Claus or hasnt he heard. The director said it wffl cost about $125 per home. I think it will be a lot more than that However, using his own figures, this fiasco wuTcost we taxpayers $175,000 just for Fayette and Greene Counties.

Think how much this will be for the entire state. When in the world is all this foolishness going to stop? Please withhold my identity. I dont want a bunch of these government nuts knocking on my door. Frustrated Uncouth Article Editor: I would like to comment in the June 10 edition of The Daily Courier about "French Prostitutes Hold Fast to Demands." I found the article very uncouth. "We want prostitution legalized, we are human beings," said the 25-year old blond.

"We are respectable. We have a right to live in this society." We can only turn to the Bible and see that when Christ spared Mary from the men who rebukedher, He forgave her and told her not to sin any more. She became a saintly woman because she was sorry for her sins. Why should this evil be legalized when it is wrong in the first place? Two eyfls never did make a right. Sin can never be legalized properly.

Our own nation is suffering today from the terrible legalization of abortion, which is murder. God promises us peace on earth, but we must do His will. Mrs. Peter Bradish Greensburg Take a Lesson Editor: My husband and I recently made a trip to Virginia. We were very pleased with the roads there.

If you happened to run off the edge of the highway you didn't get in a deep drain. When and if Pennsylvania gets new roads, I hope we get the blueprints from Maryland or Virginia. I also hope Pennsylvania builds some rest stops along the highways as they have down South. Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Kimmel R.D.2 Mount Pleasant Editor's Note: We invite you to expressr your opinion in tills column. Just write to "Letters to the Editor. AH letters must be signed. However, If yon have a good reason, we wfll withhold your identity upon request. We wffl edit and condense your letters if needed.

Our Money Smitten By Taxpayer Rip-Off Syndrome By MASON DEN1SON HARRISBURG--Unintentionally perhaps the current hassle among Pennsylvania's legislative brethren over how the nearly $5 billion in Keystone State taxpayer donations is to be spent during the coming fiscal year illustrates almost to perfection the taxpayer rip-off syndrome that has smitten Pennsylvania in recent years. Democratic leaders running the show in the House of Representatives unsuccessfully last week tried to pound through then- own $4.5 billion version of what the state's spending boondoggle should be for the new fiscal year starting July They found their pat budgetary prospectus shattered when rank-and-ffle members of the House went along with a proposal to dip $120 million from the prospectus and in effect it in escrow for potential aid to non-public school parents. Wails of anguish immediately arose from the House budgetary generals such as that offered by House Majority leader K. Leroy Irvis, of Pittsburgh, who said: "We need that money for other programs. There's no Way in the world we can fill that $120 million hole." Afl of which brings up one of the "syndromes" that seemingly plagues present-day bureaucracy, namely: why must the hole be filled; why not reduce overall budgetary spending by $120 million? Of course, that isn't the way it's done today; you Mason Denison don't hold back programs to reduce spending (someone else's money).

In fact, you automatically bund in such factors as inflation, increased operating costs, increased personnel costs, just as Governor Shapp pointedly stated he "had to do" when he presented his own budgetary prospectus. Thus it becomes in the realm of bureaucratic lingo, to avoid increased taxpayer spending, let alone cutting back programs and the corresponding increased costs. Hence, under present bureaucratic if the $120 million budgetary clip-out holds firm, and as Democratic Floor Leader Irvis says, 'there is no way we can fin that $120 million hole," the only answer is--increase taxes (which have only increased by $2 bfllion in less than the past half-dozen years). (Pshaw--why quibble?) The point was underscored by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Stephen Wojadk of Philadelphia. When he saw the proponents of nonpublic school aid win their $120 million budgetary clip he wailed: "That money is necessary to balance this budget and avoid a tax increase." In other words, taxpayers can readily see where their "choice" lies.

A second syndrome illustrated in the current fiscal folderol was inadvertently illustrated by Representative Martin' Mullen (also of Philadelphia, by the way), the super-proponent of nonpublic school aid. He successfully led the fight to have the $120 million snipped from the budget and set aside. Mullen opined that if the money is set aside now, the Legislature can cut other programs and avoid a tax increase. It is ironical that the very'course Mullen proposes is one of the main reasons why lawmakers get absolutely nowhere in curtailing taxpayer spending, to wit: he would have "other" programs cut back to save his own. The Mullen incident can be multiplied by the horde of special interest programs Pennsylvania is underwriting today--thanks to the pressure efforts of those directly concerned and who stand to benefit either directly or indirectly from not only mere continuance of the costly programs but also from expansion as they ply their own special course.

How do you "fin the Perhaps the real question should be not "how" do you fill the hole-but rida Primary Askew's Walkout Seen As a Help to Wallace Campaign By DAVID S. BRODER NEW ORLEANS-During private buddies at the a i a Conference here this week, Democratic party leaders got two pieces of bad news from Florida Gov. Reubin Askew. Not only has Askew irrevocably removed himself from consideration for the party's presidential nomination, he has determined to maintain a role of strict neutrality in the key Florida primary next March. Had Askew been willing to put his enormous personal prestige and his effective political organization behind a moderate candidate, there might have been, some leaders believed, a chance to defeat George Wallace in Florida.

But with Askew on the sidelines, most observers--including the governor himself-- David Broder calculate that the odds wfll favor Wallace repeating his 1972 Florida primary victory over a large and scattered field. That is not what Askew wants, for his estimate of his neighboring governor's fitness to lead the party or the country is not a flattering one. But Askew is persuaded that the Democratic nomination wfll be settled in convention hau, and not before. And he wants to preserve his position of neutrality so that he can be of maximum usefulness in nego- tiating a compromise there that wfll reduce the dimensions of any third-party Wallace walkout Since Askew was the key figure in the last-minute compromise at the Kansas City mini-convention in December, which prevented a bolt by blacks and women delegates, his credentials as a potential peacemaker are very high. But the odd thing is that Askew's assumption of a brokered convention is one that is increasingly doubted by other party professionals who are equally dedicated to minimizing Wallace's potential for damage to the Democrats.

With the list of presidential primary states now wen past 30, they believe the nominee likely will come out of the primaries-whether it is Wallace or someone else. Thus, Wisconsin Gov. Patrick J. Lucey, who sees Wallace as a major threat in his state, is preparing a strategy exactly opposite Askew's, on the assumption that "someone" must be helped to beat Wallace in the primaries." Lucey wfll likely withhold an endorsement until dose to the April primary date, while having polls taken on the Wisconsin race. Then he wfll put his help behind whomever appears to be "the chosen instrument" with the best chance of beating Wallace-- assuming that person's positions are not too far removed from Lucey's own liberalism.

PAGE TWELVE THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELLSVILLE, PA. TUESDAY, JUNE 17,1975.

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