The Daily News from Lebanon, Pennsylvania • 23

fUj "-ftrsiS- The Shafer Years Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Wednesday, January 20, 1971 Pago 23 Of Fate, Political Fickleness Puts Ray Shafer Low In Popularity about the conflicts and not the solid accomplishments of a highly interesting four years. Now, the income tax looms as the most likely priority of the incoming Democratic administration. But it wont be a Shafer tax. Shafer, along with friends and critics, agree that it may take a long time for a rational judgment of his administration in its true perspective. Shafers Democratic admirer put it rather succinctly in the letter from Washington: "I say that you have been a good governor despite a con trary emotion among many, and notwithstanding the disappointments you have experienced.

But I am convinced that when time permits emotion to be replaced by thoughtful analy sis, my own appraisal will become widely held for you as it has been, as an example, for Harry Truman. Report Boys Develop Larger Vocabularies LONDON (AP) Boys devel op larger vocabularies than girls because they have more freedom than girls, says a British schoolteacher. Girls read more than boys, but boys learn more words because of the wider variety of ex perience their freedom gives them, he says. Rothwell Bishop, who teaches at Slough, near London, wrote in the journal "Educational Research of a 12-year-old boy who made a 400-mile round trip in a day for "train spotting watching railroad locomotives. A girl would not have been al lowed to make such a trip, he said.

SILVERPLATE and IMPORTED CRYSTAL SALAD BOWL with silver plated forks You can have this beautiful complete set for the low, low price of only What about the now celebrated stop-gap appropriations that are currently keeping the Commonwealth fiscally afloat? Did you ever consider not signing the stop-gap appropriations? "I considered it, but the attitude of the legislature at that particular time was such that they probably would have come up with a worse hodge-podge than they did, and I thought that did not want to see government come to a grinding halt. This-would have happened without the money to pay the hospitals and other things. "I think they would have overridden my veto. They were in such a mood. They were not willing to face up to their basic responsibility of passing a full years budget.

In their hearts, they knew the only fair and equitable way to meet that need was through enactment of an income tax, and they had stuck their necks out so far against that, that if I had vetoed the stopgaps they would have overridden it. Two years ago, Gov. Shafer was hailed for his political courage in merely suggesting a state income tax, a horrid possibility to Pennsylvanians for gen erations. All that has faded. As Shafer contends, people only know 88 $4 CONVENIENT BUDGET TERMS! 10 South Eighth Ltbanoa The first night baseball game was played in Fort Wayne, in 1833.

Housewives can get left-handed egg beaters. Net Responsible For Typographicel rrers FRESH PORK ROASTS fresh Turkey Drumsticks By HARRY W. BALL Associated Press Writer HARRISBURG (AP) Perhaps no governor in this century ever yearned more intensely or tried harder for the love and approbation of his people than Raymond Philip Shafer. Yet the irony of fate and the fickleness of politics decreed that he leave office at the lowest ebb of his personal popularity, with Shafers vaunted "Commonwealth of Excellence tee tering on the edge of bankruptcy. There is no consensus about the Shafer years of Pennsylvania state government, Far from it.

Theres strident disagreement on almost any facet of his administration. Just when the public disenchantment set in, nobody seems able to pinpoint. But this brought with it the obvious frustrations of trying to administer high office in an atmosphere of partisan and intra-party antagonisms. The official verdict was written Nov. 3 when the electorate ended eight years of Republican rule and turned to the Demo crats by a landslide margin.

Analytical judgments also are hard to come by. You can talk to his friends and his enemies and to the man himself. You can stand off and survey the dismaying assortment of solid accomplishment piled indiscriminately with the trash of shattered political dreams. Concede Achievements Even Shafers most truculent critics concede the achievements of his administration in government reform, in the social services, human relations, education, highway construction Few people of goodwill seriously question the wisdom of some of his major programs, or doubt the sincerity of the man who presented them. "He just wasnt able to sell them, observes one professional.

"He was just never able to bring himself to do the little, perhaps menial but significant chores so necessary to making people feel important people who were in a position to help him. Gov. Shafer takes exception to this viewpoint. In a recent interview, he insisted that 99 per cent of his program was achieved, that the differences with the legislature were all related to the states financial problems and how to resolve them. "I think thats a fair criticism, that I did not play politics; that I was not thinking in terms of the day-to-day relationship with the local politician and the political individuals in the General Assembly.

I set my mind on accomplishing certain things for Pennsylvania. But the decision that I made was based on what I felt was best for the long run in Pennsylvania. You have to have long-range planning in order to have any lasting benefits. Was it in any way gratifying that Governor-elect Milton J. Shapp had plumped so wholeheartedly for so much of the Shafer program in its original form, like income taxes and higher salaries for cabinet officers? Personally Gratifying "Its personally gratifying that at long last Pennsylvania will be doing the things weve been fighting so hard for, Shafer says.

"I think its ironic that in times of campaigns and political rhetoric, the candidate for governor on the Democratic side said no it is not necessary to raise salaries; that Harrisburg has been living on steak and lobster for too long; they ought to be living on hamburger and fish. Now Shapp comes out and says we need higher salaries in order to get men to come into government. This was what we were saying earlier. Nobody mentions that. This is the great problem today in communications.

Shafer was talking about Mil-ton J. Shapp, the Democrat who ended eight years of Republican rule of Pennsylvanias state-house with a thumping majority of half a million votes last Nov 3. Shafer protests his great ad miration for outgoing Lt. Gov. Raymond J.

Broderick but insists that a Republican who would have run on the record of this administration could have won. Refused Advice Broderick, a Philadelphia lawyer, and Kenneth B. Lee, a key jfresh Turkey I Thighs lb. Republican representative in the House from rural Sullivan County, were two important Republicans who deserted the Shafer team months ago. Broderick was the Republican candidate who Shafer says refused to take his advice, and therefore lost the election to Shapp.

A prominent House Democrat is seeking: Actually, the Republican side was more vicious in its opposition to Shafer than the Democrats. The whole thing was an absolute lack of direction and leadership. Quick Needs As matters stand now, Pennsylvania will be in quick need of a billion-plus dollars soon after the Shapp administration takes over Jan. '19. Essential state services cant operate beyond March without more legislative appropriations.

The state is being operated on a hand-to-mouth basis with stop-gap appro, priations, without a budget ever having been enacted. Gov. Shafer: "I dont think thats an accurate appraisal of my relationship with the legislature. I had permanent contacts with leaders of the House and Senate. True we had battles, but our battles were over the things that I wanted to accomplish.

If you mean rapport; complete agree ment; of course, there wasnt that. While we did have frictions with the legislature, my relations were always proper. While we had disagreements over what we wanted to get done, I think it was primarily over the fiscal matter. The fact that we had disagreement over the fiscal matter tended to cloud the other matters that we did accomplish. Because it was a conflict, it tended to get all the attention from the press.

Four years ago, incoming Gov. Shafer was sounding an alarm about "government by crisis and the necessity for a more rational and relaxed approach to governance. How about now? Gov. Shafer: "I suppose as long as we have human beings, weU have crises What I was attempting to get the legislature to do was to not make the crisis the basis of action. I dont think that we should just get a bill passed when there is a crisis.

I think weve done that with 99 per cent of our program. But on fiscal matters, the legislature didnt move until there was a crisis. In the minds of friends, ene-mies, professionals and neutral observers, Shafer was obsessec with the ambition to be remembered as one of Pennsylvanias greatest governors. He overlooked the petty poll tical details in his deep concern with long-range planning for Commonwealth of Excellence. He has been branded an egotist by highly placed members of bis own party.

Praise From Demo Yet one of the highest ranking officials in the last Democratic administration of the late Gov. David Lawrence wrote an unsolicited letter from Washington last Oct. 30 to Gov. Shafer in which he said: "I have wanted for some time to drop you a line to express my belief that your governorship has been significantly innovative and productive, one in which you and your associates can have deserved pride. To put it plainly, you have been a helluva good governor one of Pennsylvanias very best.

Thin-Skinned Shafer critics long ago concluded he was too thin-skinned to be a successful politician. How do you account for a man able to claw his way to the very top, from a small town lawyer through the graduations of legislative service and a term as lieutenant governor, without learning about the onerous chores and the amenities that keep underlings and lesser lights feeling important? Gov. Shafer: "I perhaps was more idealistically inclined. I did not have any delusions about the omnipotence of being governor. Unquestionably I made mistakes.

I would perhaps do some things differently if given the opportunity. "I think if I were starting out on the same program, I would probably do it a little differently. I think that I wasted a lot of time trying to persuade individuals to work with me en certain programs when those Individuals had already made up their mind they werent going to do one thing to help. And if I had gone directly to the people earlier instead of trying to get people to follow the signals and waste effort in that regard, I think perhaps I would have been better off. Denies Moves Gov.

Shafer denies emphatical ly that he initiated any movement to fill an existing Supreme Court vacancy with a political maneuver that would put him on the bench and a candidate for that office in The 1971 elections He brands as an outright lie news reports that he tried to get rid of John J. Jordan as Republican state chairman. "Actually, I stood up for Jack iwhen others wanted him out, the governor says. emeiecei WINESAP APPLES 3 39 tern COOKING ONIONS FROSTY ACRES FORDHOOK UMA BEANS 39 tr SARA LEE i HO COCONUT CAKE 69c tr- HILLBERG BREADED VEAL STEAKS Tasty Wisconsin PORKSTEAKS 10,. 89, AKED AT MILLER'S MARKET COG a a eJhT C0C0ANUT CUSTARD PIES JJ ISLK GOLD MARGARINE 4 89c SHURFINE Diced a Halves A YELLOW CLING PEACHES -83 LAYER CAKE MIXES 69c DEL MONTE DRINK l00 SHUR-VALU RIO A A KIDNEY beans 49c TOTEM FOOD STORAGE BAGS 49c HKRSHIY CHOCOLATE SYRUP jas? 45c totem food SANDWICH BAGS CRISCQ OIL KRAFT MIOOET LONGHORN CHEESE 85c SUNSHINE HYDROX COOKIES 59c MAXWELL HOUSE instant coffee CHIFFON DISHWASHING LOTION r.rJ5'0ff It Wtumirnffito i I THIS COUPON WORTH ISO toward tha purchasa of CHIFFON DISHWASHING LOTION I pt.

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