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"MM' I ip THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1984 21 Forum The While House The deficit football punt By JAMES GERSTENZANG Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, facing politically unattractive choices on the federal budget deficit, is punting to a special commission. It's a script he has followed successfully in the past. On Central America, he punted to the Kissinger Commission to help him decide what to do. On Social Security, he punted to another panel to come up with politically palatable solutions to the retirement program's financial woes. Now, the question is, who decided to punt the deficit football first, the president or the Democrats in Congress? AP News Analysis Vice President George Bush argued Sunday that Reagan had not "refused to face up to the crisis" posed by the deficit.

Rather, the vice president said, "he has challenged the U.S. Congress, to come, up with a budget reducing scheme." At the same time, he acknowledged that "we are in a political year. We're in a fiercely political year," and the president has chosen the best way "to address ourselves to the immediacy of the economy." White House officials freely acknowledge that in his decision to negotiate with Congress to find the least contentious areas of the budget to cut quickly, Reagan was trying to move to the politically high ground. But, they say, he is only emulating the Democrats. Reagan embraced the idea of a negotiating group in his State of the Union address on Jan.

25. But his aides say that was only after the Democrats had first raised the possibility of joining representatives of the White House to sit down together and get to work. At issue is how to shave the looming $180 billion budget deficit of fiscal 1985. which begins Sept. 30.

With Reagan continuing to push for a growing Pentagon budget he would push it up 14.5 percent next year while refusing to support higher taxes. Out of the Past From the files of the Compiler, Star and Sentinel and The Gettysburg Times 25 YEARS AGO Stan Musiai signed another contract with the St. Louis Cardinals Monday and admitted that his time in major league baseball is running out. Musiai, seven times the batting champ in the National League, told reporters, "I would like to play another year for sure." He added quickly that he hoped to play two more years if possible. Musiai is 38 ytars old.

Borough council Monday decided to take a new look at proposals to improve the "White Way" in the center of town with the possibility that "something may be found that will be both decorative and efficient." A tornado cot a deadly path across the heart of St. Louis in the pre dawn today. Seventeen were known dead and 320 were injured. The 17 Gettysburg Joint School District directors who were able to get to the February meeting of the board Monday evening at the high school building learned that the new Eisenhower Elementary School build ing will not be finished I by the sche duled April 1, but it may be mid before the building is finished. Harry G.

Dea trick. 92. 112 Baltimore who was a former school teacher, storekeeper, postmaster at Hunters town, fruitgrower and for more than 40 years a funeral director, died this morning at 12:10 o'clock at the Pape Convalescent Home where he bad been a guest since last September. Gettysburg borough coancil, meeting at the engine house Monday evening, tentatively adopted a $140,000 budget for 1959 and set the tax rate at THE GETTYSBURG TIMES Published daily except Sundays and holidays by Times and News Publishing Co. 18 20 Carlisle P.O.

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The Gettysburg Times, founded in 1902, continues The Star and Sentinel U800). The Gettysburg Compiler (1818), The York Springs Comet (1873), The New Oxford Item 1879). and The East Berlin News 08) rlWMton.M0MMI... trrwnc PMpHJnM VxrAMkM NaMCBIgtan SecreuntMkmer OnNKUr Timer Lrtliii, E4r EAnrflCMM Umntlfarr the Democrats saw themselves in a position to make the deficit an issue in the presidential campaign. Economists argue that a high deficit forces the government into borrowing huge sums, limiting money available for others, driving interest rates up, and slowing economic expansion.

But the Democrats saw themselves moving into position on the deficit issue, the White House saw that possibility, too. While the Democrats balked last week at taking the president up on the idea of negotiations, Reagan's spokesman, Larry Speakes, said time after time that the president was more than willing to live with the budget request he sent to Congress on Feb. 1. Of course, that would have giVen the Democrats free reign to say that it was the president who was proposing the huge deficit, while Reagan could argue that Congress was refusing to go along with spending cuts he had recommended in years past. Before Reagan opted for the commission, said deputy White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater, several ideas were being kicked around within the administration: a "contingency" tax plan unveiled a year ago to permit tax increases based only on the performance of the economy; a standard tax, increase proposed by Reagan's chief economic adviser, Martin Feldstein, and adamantly opposed by the president, or a proposal by Treasury Secretary Donald T.

Regan for a 3 percent across the board cut in federal spending. "Out of that came a feeling that all of these proposals would be difficult to get through Congress in an election year," Fitzwater said. And out of that concern was born the idea that maybe the Democrats should share some of the political hot water. "The idea of a bipartisan group became appealing," he said. "It led to the classic political position of both sides trying to achieve the high ground," and trying to claim credit for the idea "while at the same time trying to get the most political advantage "If vou come ud with something that is politically unpalatable, you share the political risk," he said.

16 mills. The budget is an increase of $13,000 over 1958. The tax rate is an increase of three mills over last year. The chances that a land fill garbage disposal operation will be installed in Straban Township seemed very remote today and Gettysburg's solution to its garbage disposal problem faces a probable new delay. The Straban Twp.

supervisors published a legal advertisement in The Gettysburg Times today announcing their intention of holding a special meeting next Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock to take action on an ordinance which would prohibit the hauling of garbage into the township. 1 Springs Ave. will be roped for sledding beginning at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Burgess Wilbur Plank informed the Gettysburg Times this morning. Sledding will be permitted only on Springs Ave.

and not Hillcrest Place, ccoraing to Plank. Today In History By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Feb. 10. the 41st day of 1984. There are 325 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 10, 1962. the Soviet Union exchanged captured 2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for a Soviet spy held by the United States. On this date: In 1846, members of the Mormon faith began an exodus to the West from Illinois. In 1893.

comedian Jimmy Durante was born in New York City. In 1964, the House of Representatives passed the Civil Rights Act In 1967. the 25th Amendment, dealing with presidential disability and vacancies in the offices of president and vice president, was ratified. And in 1981. a fire at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel killed eight people and injured about 200.

Ten years ago: Chairman Peter Rodino said the House Judiciary Committee would be shirting its responsibility if itdidn'tcall President Richard Nixon to answer any questions it had about his conduct in office Fiveyearsago: Rival factions of the Iranian military fought in Tehran, as thousands of armed civilians roamed the streets of the Iranian capital calling for the ouster of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar One year ago: Leaders of the Independent Truckers Association announced that their 11 day old strike in protest of higher gasoline taxes and user fees was over. Today's birthdays: Actress Judith Anderson is 86 years old Opera singer Leoniyne Price is 57. Singer Roberta rtacx is 44. aim mympjc Mart Spitz is 34. GETTYSBURG J.

Knox Handsel stood in front of Wolfe's staring at the Hotel Gettysburg which is quietly observing its first anniversary this week as a ruins. For an hour he watched the traffic ooze around the eyebeams that jut into the street, a mild sclerosis to the traffic that flows through the heart of town. Then he went to a lunch counter up the street. J. Knox Handsel, restaurant counterman, was gathering material for his cause, a campaign against the "loose end." It has been his one great mission since he was rescued from what he called, "my pulpit passion'" a few years ago.

Harry the Greek, his rescuer and mentor from the Galaxy Restaurant in Upstate New York who could serve four glasses of water in each hand, fingers down, told him he could get all the religion, philosophy and great ideas just by working a counter. "Watch a good counterman. He says just enough to keep things lively, but he never Harry told Handsel. Countermen are a breed apart. Gettysburg drew him because of its rich tradition for countermen.

Harry told him, 'mjsanna be, a. good counterman? You gotta go to Gettysburg. They've got the best Harry gave him a list of names Kranias. Kargas, Faber, Meligakes, Lempesis. "Hey, these are the giants.

Cuz you know why? Cuz they are learned men. They read. They listen. They have the forum for the guys who can move and shake the town." "But, to have a forum, you gotta have an Harry said. The hotel ruins haunted Handsel as he settled behind a cup at a counter up the street.

He asked a silent, moody slurper next to him, 'Where did Fred Faber preside?" The slurper looked up. and leered. "You know where the burned out building is up here?" Handsel knew. "Right next to that is where Fred Faber worked and ran his restaurant. It in the comer there," said the slurper trying to get back to his stupor.

Handsel cringed when the slurper said "Fred Faber worked." Why argue with a moody slurper. Handsel thought. Real countermen Futurists attack 44 BETHESDA. Md. George Orwell's famous novel 1984 has turned out to be almost totally wrong as a forecast, scholars report in a special issue of "The Futurist" magazine.

Orwell's work has had a harmful influence on young people, the scholars add. because of its unrelieved pessimism about the future. 'The Futurist is published by the World Future Society, an international association of future oriented scientists, educators, government officials, and others. Based Bethesda. the Society has 30.000 members and subscribers worldwide.

"A funny thing happened to 1984 on its way to the future." says Edward Cornish, editor of 'The Futurist." If 1984 is viewed as a prediction, savs Cornish. "Orwell is so wrong as to be drummed out of the company of forecasters." There were no atomic wars in the 1950s, no Big Brother rules London, and telescreens do not spy on people in their homes. Orwell was "nearly a complete failure" as a scientific forecaster of things to come, agrees economist Bur nham P. Bcrkwith Some admirers praise Orwell as a perceptive futurist whose purpose was to warn his countrymen against the serious risks of certain social policies But Beckwith notes that not even these claims are justified, since Orwell was warning against the adoption of social policies akin to Stalinist communism that were never seriously considered in Great Britain. Another Orwcllian analyst, historian W.

Warren Wagar. concurs. "The real world of 1 984 bears little resemblance to Orwell's 1984," he says The erode Stalnnsm of the real 1940s and of Orwell's novel has not spread westward, nor has it survived hi the Soviet Union A tribute to the loose end offered By JIM KALBAUGH don't work, they preside," Harry always said. "How about Nick Meligakes' he asked. "Where's that "Again, you know where the hotel was.

all burned out up here? Right across the square from that." "When did the hotel burn down?" Handsel asked anvbody within earshot. "Couple years ago." another silent type on the other side of him said. "Naw, last summer. Wasn't it?" another guy chimed in. "It wasn't in the summer," said the waitress.

Because I remember them welding that steel you know that steel that's sticking into the street? And. they had to keep plowing snow so they could weld. It was last year, about this time I remember I had to work all night that night when no one else could get to work." 'We're on a roll," Handsel thought as the conversation picked up. and the stupor lifted. "What are they going to do with that burned out place Handsel asked around.

"Heard they was goin" to knock it down." said one customer. "Naw, they're goin' to put up another hotel, a fancy one." "Did I read that there was going to be a small mall?" No one seemed to know "What a loose end." said Handsel. He had to explain that to the waitress. Since he was on the stool side of the counter, he could preach a little. "The loose end is one of society's greatest cripplers.

Its the leaky faucet. It's the paralysis that blocks writers from putting down that first word of that first sentence It's the stained ceiling waiting for the cans of paint to defy gravity and flow out of the cellar and onto the walls. It dirty oil in the car. It pastors who resolve to 1984 99 Orwell's Inner Party, consisting of managers and technicians, could be his one harbinger of things to come, according to Wagar. "If his Big Brother is only a bogevman from the 1940s, the myriad little brothers in their gray flannel suits are real, and they're coming our way." he says.

Despite Orwell's failure to predict the real world of 1984. there is a popular myth that he accurately forecast modern events, the scholars admit. "We arc constantly exposed to people claiming that current conditions are 'just like 1984." says Cornish The pervasiveness ofOrwellian terminology double think." "thought police. and "Big Brother" reinforces the illusion that 1984 conditions prevail, adding to the despondency of many readers, especially students. Cornish calls on teachers to counterbalance Orwell's distortedly pessimistic view of the future with a more positive vision, such as B.

F. Skinner Walden Two. an ideal community that could actually be created Orwell's vision of a powerful bureaucracy prompts a warning from another analyst. Gary Gappert. director of the Institute for Futures Studies and Research at the University of Akron "The issue for the future." "says Gappert.

"is whether new technologies for misinformation, reduction of privacy', and the identification of dissent will reduce the effectiveness of previous constraints upon bureaucratic excess The World Future Society, publisher of "The Futurist" magazine, will hold a global conference next June to analyze today 's trends, make forecasts, and explore the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow The meeting. "WorJdView "84." to be held June 10 14 in Washington. will devote several sessions to the implications of George Orwell's vision make more house calls but can't because of committee work. It's pealing houses. It's mountains of paper on desks.

It's the Hotel Gettysburg ruins," Handsel said. "The ruins is like that stained ceiling, it gradually blends with the scenery," Handsel said. "The loose end is bigger than stained ceilings or writers' block, it also stalls statesmanship. Negotiations grind to a halt while innocent children, and people are being killed and their countries wither and then fail to thrive." he said. "As I see it, it a crisis of the spirit.

The questions raised by the battle at Gettysburg still nag the world. A problem that hasn't been addressed Handsel said the only way to deal with the loose end is to recognize it. Since human shortcomings war, floods, near nuclear melt downs are monumentalized all over the world, Handsel thinks the loose end should also be monumentalized. "The Hotel Gettysburg ruins would be a great monument to the loose end, the unfinished business of life. It's at the heart of town.

Out of the ashes a new attraction. A touchstone. "We could have a festival for the un oflife. To keep it up beat we could call it 'Fete We should hold it in February, a time of year when all the resolve of the New Year has waned Handsel proposed that everyone who has a loose end nagging him could come to the fete, pick a brick from the rubble and place it where it could do some good in what's left of the historic structure "Pick a brick and make it count." Handsel suggested as a slogan. "The plywood promenade." Handsel said, "can be replaced by a more durable and attractive brick structure.

The rusting buttresses flying in from the street could also be faced with bricks from the debris Handsel said the interior of the ruins could be a garden spot with patios, terraces, tables, and benches. "Leave the walls up and let the sunshine in. What I envision is a place to just contemplate or. be a forum for ideas, a place to deal with the loose ends of life, year round." he said. Have you heard any better ideas for that place?" he asked.

rStreet Have the Olympics gotten to be too political? ffT? Tim Cheryl Weissman, Gettysburg: "7 haven't noticed whether the Olympics have gotten loo political. 1 think the Olympics should remain an amateur system without government support CUkW nOMMflAUOM Carol Gcist Hcidcrsburg: Everything is too political I don't think that government support would afreet an athlete's amateur status Is your name Bollinger BOLLINGER has been used extensively as a surname for a number of centuries According to authorities, it is of German and Swiss origin and was applied, when surnames came into vogue, to newcomers to communities who came from BOLLINGER, place on Lake Zurich, Switzerland. According to "The Pennsylvania German Pioneers," published by the Pennsylvania German Society and listing the immigrant arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, CHRISTOPHER BOLLINGER arrived on the ship "Robert and Alice" on Sept. 3, 1739 and JACOB BOLLINGER came on the ship "Sandwich" on Nov. 30, 1750.

The first census of the United States, taken in 1970, has three listings of persons by the name of BOLLINGER who were residents of Pennsylvania and heads of families at that time. They were ABRAHAM, DANIEL and RUDY BOLLINGER, all of Cocalico Township, Lancaster County. Sixty years later, the Pennsylvania census records for the year 1850 contained 114 listings of persons by the name of BOLLINGER, four of whom lived in ADAMS County. The latter were JACOB BOLLINGER of CON EWAGO Township; MARGARET BOLLINGER of LIBERTY Township MARY BOLLINGER of MOUNTJOY Township; and JOHN BOLLINGER Of LITTLESTOWN. A.P.

BOLLINGER was one of the residents of Gettysburg who answered the first call for troops in 1861. JACOB M. BOLLINGER 1807 1886 was an early settler of ADAMS County. He started his business career as a miller and later also was a farmer, prospering in CONEWAGO Township and vicinity for 29 years. He was director of the almshouse in GETTYSBURG for three years and held numerous township offices.

He was a major in the Pennsylvania militia. He was married to Miss Nancy Sprenkle and they were the parents of six children, one of whom, EPHRAIM BOLLINGER, also achieved success as a miller in ADAMS County. JAMES WILLS BOLLINGER 1867 1951). an attorney of note, practiced his profession in Davenport, Iowa where, during his career, he served as judge, 7th District Court of Iowa for 13 years. JOHN GUSTAV BOLLINGER is professor of mechanical engineering.

University of Wisconsin at Madison. EDWARD HENRY BOLLINGER is known nationally for his accomplishments as a chemical engineer, B.F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio, a substantial manufacturer of tires and other rubber products. GILBERT A. BOLLINGER is professor of geophysics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute ami State University.

Quote for the day "To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue." French proverb. Talk By Paul Kuehnel Black, Biglervflle: don't think that the Olympics have gotten too political Athletes should be supported more by our government. I would like to see the games, especially the giant slalom. 1 Clair Robrbangk. New Oxford: "I'dlikeloseetlxOlympics.

but ldon'thave the time I don't think that every country judges each athlete objectively Some countries tend to fa or their own athletes cawxeesr ARCHIVE' EWSPAPE.