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Fremont Tribune 4 Fremont Tribune July 10, 1972 Monday Congratulations! Youre a father! Soaking Sack Election night suspense gets vote because of the high cod of convention coverage. The 68 convention, he says, cost us about twice as much to cover as the64 convention, and this one would have cost twice as much again. We had to stop somewhere. The costs of everything have gone up not only personnel, but building equipment and everything and it just got too expensive. He says they began experimenting in 68 and' found they could do the same job with fewer people.

We dont need to leave four cameras in a candidates suite, he said. We can leave one camera and, if we need to, rush one or two mobile units there in a hurry. All the networks begin working on election night coverage the day after the previous national election. Its the biggest thing on a networks news agenda. Election night, Leonard says, is the most important event for a network news department' If I ever had to make a choice between giving up something, giving up coverage of the primaries or the convention or election night, I stick with election night.

By DICK KLEINER HOLLYWOOD. (NEA) -Every election year, 1 get mad al computers. The other three years, I can take them or leave -them alone, but in election years -1 -wish their- memory banks would get a short jn their forget-me-nots. Elections used to be exciting Youd sit up all night, keeping track of the state returns as they trickled in. You'd never know for sure what was going to happen.

But now the computers figure it all out so early in the evening that you can even get a good nights sleep, and you go to bed vaguely dissatisfied with the whole process. So I suggested to CBS Bill Leonard and NBCs Frank McGee that it would be nice and in the public interest if the networks voluntarily gave up computerized election returns. They laughed at me. No way, said McGee. And Leonard even got a little annoyed at the suggestion, especially when I said that it would be more fun if the computers were honorably retired.

Were not in the business of giving viewers fun, be said. Our job is to give the news, calmly and clearly, without attempting to make it enter tainment. The faster we can give the results, the better weve done our job. So It looks like were stuck with the computers again for this years conventions and election. And once' more there will be about as nuch suspense on election night as there is in an episode of Heres Lucky.

Actually, to be fair about it, I think that Leonard, who is CBS News senior vice-president, has a good point when he says iy news shouldnt be In the entertainment business. The problem' Is that may of his colleagues dont seem to share his position. There are a lot of TV newscasters who appear to consider themselves comics first, journalists second. And, unfortunately, many TV news programs are designed so that the most photogenic items they have are put on first, regardless of their news value. Leonard says that the TV coverage of this years conventions the Democratic one in July, The Republicans late in August will be different from those In previous years, although the viewers may not notice that difference.

He says CBS has had to cut the size of its convention staff down about 15 or 20 per cent, Editorial 199 YEARS AGO J. Newton Hay left the city for Cheyenne where he was to remain for some time. Cole and Pilsbory had just received a large invoice of hardware, which Increased their already immense stock to tremendous proportions. 75 YEARS AGO A half-inch rain cooled the intense and appresive heat of the past week. William Lever returned from Philadelphia where he had taken a short course in a textile and art training school.

59 YEARS AGO was the date set by Chicago and North Western officials for the return of shop and carmen if they were, to protect their seniority rights, but there was no response among the striking workers. The project for building a municipal auditorium fqj Fremont swamped under an avalanche of votes in a recent election, was revived by the Fremont Retail Merchants Association with an offer to donate $6,000 of its surplus earnings toward a fund for the erection of such a building. 25 YEARS AGO About 159 motorists had been given parking tickets' in the 10 days since Fremont police began the crack down on overtime and improper parking. 1 Mr. and Mrs.

George Bahner were to be complimented at an open house observance of their 45th wedding anniversary. 19 YEARS AGO The total-balance oa hand in all funds was up .029 per cent as of June 30 compared to last Jan. 1, according to the semi annual report of County Treasurer Stanley C. Johnson. Louis Christiansen had accepted the position as senior high school English instructor for the next year.

A booster caravan from Hooper was to be in the Fremont business district to announce plans for a two-day Nebraska Trail Days Celebration. Court: leastpredictable Leonard Ait Ituchwald What a compromise thing the aggressive, individual rights-ori-ented Warren court had done. There have also been enough conservative decisions oriented toward protecting society from individuals to keep the strict constructionists among President Nixon's supporters from being too disappointed. The same decision day last October that produced the construction union ruling also found the court upholding a federal law that makes it illegal for U. S.

govern-ment employes to strike. And the last weeks of the session found the court refusing to take an active role in stopping Army intelligence agents from spying on civilians, declining to change the privileged monopoly status of professional baseball and deciding that the First Amendment's guarantee of freedom of the press did not protect reporters from being called upon to testify. in court on criminal information they have obtained on a confidential basis. For the time being, we appear to have gone from a Supreme that was liberal-tending-toward-radical to one that is moderate-tendingAoward-ctoservaettve. will please those who shuddered at file liberalizing impact nine men made on society during the years when Earl Warren was chief justice.

It will displease those who see the court as not only the last resort protector of our dvil liberties but the active force that maintains those liberties and rebuilds them where they have been eroded. And it wiU not at all surprise students of the court who long ago learned that it is the least predictable of Institutions. The Supreme Courts vaguely Indecisive decision to. ban the death penalty was a fitting climax for the first year of President Nixons strict constructionism. The recently ended session was the first in which ah four of President Nixons appointees sat on the court And while the session showed the court definitely headed in the general direction of caution and a passive role (strict constructionism boils down to sot reading anything into, the Constitutions list of duties of -the Supreme Court), it also Showed that the fears of civil libertarians who' worried about a massive loss of rights established by the Warren court were unfounded.

The death penalty decision was not one of the courts alltime classics of darity. With nine separate opinions written in a case, you can find a precedent for just about anything. The overall remit, though, did lean tow; ard banning the death penalty as cruel and unusual punishment," which is for-. bidden by the Constitution. And even that less than roaring victory was something more than a lot of people would have expected when the court session began last year.

From the time last October, when it Upheld a lower court decision requiring racial integration quotas for construction unions on federally financed jobs to the recent decision requiring court orders for government wiretaps on citizens suspected of domestic subversion," the Nixon court has shown that, strict construction or no, it was not about to vengefully undo every Joday 9n Jim My wife has started attending consciousness-raising sessions. I expect shell be leaving me any day now! Bruce Biossat in and out of the convention hall that a compromise candidate had to be found one who had not already been nominated. But who? The Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium. They argue and thrash it out for several hours. The only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene.

He has announced many times that be is not a candidate for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft. Yet, the leaders argue he is the one perron who can save the party. This young man, whose name had been associated with a very embarrassing incident, is a household word now. Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November. The compromise candidate is not at the convention.

He has purposely stayed away so people would believe he was not interested in the nomination. OBrien puts in a call to him. Everyone, in turn, gets bn the phone and tells him he has to be the candidate. The compromise candidate speaks to George McGovern Humphrey, Muskie and Wallace. They urge him to run.

WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this weeks Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This is the one that I have written and if it comes remember, you read it here. It is file fourth day of the convention and the Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention.

Almost every state delegation has two people sitting in every chair. No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his seat. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson and Muskie. There have been no demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if -he gets up and marches they wont let. bade in Ms section again.

On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, wen shy of the 1,509 he needed. The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. "The second and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth baFot of Wednesdays all-night session, the was hopelessly The state delegations caucused right on the Door, trying to get people to change their minds. But it was impossible.

It was obvious to everyone Vietnam honed as vote weapon Poling Pocketbook is real gut issue WASHINGTON (NEA) In a year when many public figures Insist the state of the economy is the big thing, President Nixon seems bent on trying to win reelection as a preeminent foreign policy president. We know now that his predicted fall bombshell will have Vietnam written on it, though we cant be sure of its size and shape. There are no By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On this date in 1850, Vice President Millard ffilmore succeeded to the presidency after the death of President Zachary Taylor. In 1501, the Protestant reformer, John Calvin, was born In Prance In 1553, Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed Queen of England. In 1871, one of the greatest French novelists, Marcel Proust, was born in Paris.

In 1899, Wyoming became the 44th state of the Unton. In 1113, a record high temperature of 134 degrees was recorded in California's Death Valley. in 1953, the Soviet chief of internal security, Pavrenti Beria, was purged from the Communist beirarchy in Russia. Ten years ago: The Telestar, the worlds first privately owned satellite, was launched from Cape Kennedy and transmitted Communications across the Atlantic. Five years ago: Doctors removed a malignant tumor from the abdomen of Gov.

Lurleen Wallace of Alabama. One year ago: A report prepared for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee estimated that the war in Vietnam had. cost $490 for every American, woman and child. The candidate finally agrees to more great capitals to visit, a draft and says he will take to top Peking and Moscow. the next plane to Miami.

And thats how Bobby Fischer, the U.S, chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1972. Copyright 1972, Los Angeles Times McGovern as 1972 Democratic nominee (presumed) with not much to talk about on the war. To be sure, we blight still be keeping substantial air and naval' forces handy outside Vietnam, but the Nixon people are betting this will not trouble too many Americans so long as Uwasualties are virtually eliminated and no draftees need go to Vietnam hereafter. Yet the Presidents greater desire is that the whole business be settled at the table this fall. He is pressing Moscow hard to lean oa Hanoi to undertake serious peace negotiations.

Moscow has the levers, since ft is the big supplier to North Vietnam. Nixon knows thd Russians want to get on to more important things, like a-Europewide conference, more trade, nuclear arms controls wMch could ease defense outlays and allow new focus on domestic development. He is simply suggesting that all this is possible if they will wily help get Vietnam out of the way. And the President is also trying to transmit to Hanoi, via Moscow, the idea this is the time to deal and "get a fair break, that if he wins reelection, the terms thereafter might be much tougher. Our air and naval power still; in-place is tiie reminder.

At this stage, no one knowtf hoW Hanoi may respond, or even if the Kremlin -will turn off the supply spigot But if Aarrar I frtriom hub In the Kitchen MIAMI, July 19 The gut issue is going to be the pocketbook issue." This inelegantly phrased judgment of AFL-CIO president George Meany toned out to be a spectacularly accurate forecast of the 1970 elections; it could turn out oven more so in, 1972 And by pocketbook, Meany wasnt referring to the fancy economics which will befuddle many of the raucous sessions of the Democrats here this week the ranking of national priorities, redistribution of our income tax reform, minimum income grants For to the vast majority of Americans, the pocket-book issue is your paycheck and your cost of living about as unfancy and as close to the reality of everyday living as you can get. How, then, does the pocketbook issue shape up after almost four years with a-Republican in the White House? This is how: If you are a typical U. S. worker, your gross weekly earnings are now up to an all-time average of $133.21 against $110.33 when Nixon became President in January 1969. Thats a hefty increase of $22.88 a week, or 20.7 per cent.

BUT in REAL dollars -meaning after 'adjustment for increases in consumer prices since the base period Well advertised is the Presidents wish to achieve some kind of settlement of the Vietnam war through negotiations. Obviously, however, unforseeable responses in Hanoi make this a much chancier prospect than was getting to China and the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, it probably would be a mistake for either the Democrats or anybody else to assume that if he is frustrated in his hope for preelection negotiations on Vietnam, Nixon will have no other way to deal with the issue in politically profitable fashion. For one thng, he could negotiate in the public forum of offering fresh peace pro posals going beyond those of May 8. when he suggested a cease-fire, new elections for South Vietnam, U.S.

total withdrawal, four months after -agreement Such proposals would, of course, have to bear at least the stamp of still broader con- to ACROSS 1 Kitchen basin 5 Faucet Cooking utensils 32 Arrow poison 33 Arrival (aj.) 14 Ins layer 15 Drama 16 Roman three 17 Fastidious 18 Sardinia (abO lOEucatkmal 19 Serene group (ab.) 21 Belgian river Took a seat 23 Cutting 19 Snoop implements 20 Present 27 Kind month (ab.) 30 Major 22 Greek letter appliance 24 Cast a ballot 31 Father (coll.) 25Ivel 3 Comes dose 4 Lock opener 5 Caudal appendage 6 Operatic solo 7 Small puncture 8 Authority on Hindu philoeophr 9 Hail! of 1917 your pay has risen from $193.49 at the start of the Nixon administration to $109.82 now. Thats an improvement of only $3.42, or a mere 33 per cent in nearly four years. That averages out to a picayune yearly-gain of leas than 1 per cent. If youre a typical married worker with dependents, your spendable weekly earnings average pay after deduction for Federal income and Social Security taxes is a record $118.77 against $96.74 at the beginning of 19, an increase of $22.93, or 223 per cent. BUT your BEAL spendable earnings the purchasing power of your aftertax dollars is up from $90.97 to $95.24.

Your teal gain in this en-ttee span has been only $4.57, a modest 5 per cent. If youre a typical worker with no dependents, your spendable weekly pay is up to $199.47, a full $21.29 over your spendable earnings in 69. BUT, once again, your BEAL spendable earnings have risen only $5.49 in almost four years to a total of $87.79, an increase, of 6.7 per cent This Is the sort of breakdown' which dramatizes' mare than thousands of words why so many millions of voter feej they have been in a never-ending squeeze despite Nixons assurances that if elected in. 1998, be would bring back economic stability in the U. S.

This is the reason, expressed in simple statistics, why -so many Americans are. deeply dissatisfied with the way our economy has been performing since the Vietnam escalation began in 1965 and helped to transform what had been a magnificently functioning economy into, a nightmare of Inflation. And by themselves, these few figures underline the extent to which inflation has under the GOP as under the Democrats continued to make a mockery out of the apparent rise in our incomes. No amount of rhetoric by anyone can hide this. But what about the record since Nixon adopted the Democrats potides and shifted to price wage controls in August 1971? In REAL pay, the worker with three dependents has gained 2.2 per cent in the past 11 months in comparison with a gain of 2.8 per cent in the 39 Nixon months preceding wage-price controls.

An improvement but hardly great In REAL pay, the single, worker has gained 2 per cent in these 11 months of wage-price freeze and then controls, against a rise of 4.1 per cent in the much longer pre-control period. Scarcely an improvement to shout about Of course, the pocketbook issue' is not cut-and-dried and it couldnt ever be in a nation so diverse as ours. But at this kickoff date for the 72 its shaping up on the side of those who can criticize and claim they could have and would have dime far better. In economic terms, the Nixon administration of 1969-73 divides into two distinct eras precontrols to August 1971 Snd postcontrols since then. Hoe is the rise, in both spans, of the real pay of the married head-winner and the single work-.

3r. (Plus) (phis) SPAN MARRIED SINGLE (Mas) (phs) per cent per cent 1-69-8-71 2.8 4.6 8-71-now 23 19 1-99 now 5.9 6.6 (Copyright 1972 Field' Enttoprises, Inc.) I 31 Seed containers 32 Upon 33 Horseback game 35 Large body of water 38 Soviet river 39 Military officers (ab.) 41 Expensive 43 Gibbon 45 Soft leather 47 Common piece of furniture 48 Aromatic seed 50 Tax (Irish) 51 Trees 58 Roman road 54 Mother (colL) 55 Feminine appellation 56 Swiss river 58 Oxford Eng-. lish Dictionary (ab.) 26 Withered 28 Green vegetable 29 Sea eagles cifiation. and most likely would -all Nixons pressures fail, he be underscored by troop with- still has that fallback prospect in his peace Quick. Who baptized Jesus A John the Baptist On what mountain was King Solomons Temple built? A ML Moriah in Jerusalem.

How much of the shell of a crab is shed at molting? A All of it down to the tips of the legs and the feelers, and including even the lining of the stomach. Where is the Hall' of Fame for Great, Americans? A It is located on the campus of New York University in New York City. What dtydaimsthe worlds oldest Stock Exchange? A Amsterdam in the -Netherlands. It was founded in 1902.. Which state donated the tract of land now known as Washington, D.

C. A Maryland, one nf-tie smallest of the original 13 states, donated it to the federal government and for use as Americas capital city. What does cum laude mean? A The Latin phrase means with a i of going public bid. 34 Formerly (archaic) 36 Three times (comb, form) 37 Stouan Indian 38 Narrow road 39 Unaspirated 40 Soft (music) 42 Seasoning 44 Table gadgets 46 Fictional dog 49 Used with a cup S2 Blackbird 54 Animal flesh 57 Conger 58 Death notice 59 Ellipsoidal 00 Distinguished Service Medal (ab.) 61 Otherwise. drawals cutting our residual forces in Vietnam to almost token proportions.

It was wholly predictable in the announcement of the withdrawal now of another 19.000 men, the President fixed the next deadline for action, at Sept. 1. He thus resenr pe opportunity to move Ally, on the very eve of w'fall election campaign. If he were then to announce a stash to around 20 000, men, a total less than the 23,000 advisers we had In Vietnam before major U.S. ground units entered that country In 133, It would leave Sen.

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