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Page 4 Fremont Tribune Seattle stuck with selective recession That young jerk may be around for a long time I whom Russ used to work, one is now a tavern keeper, another sells plumbing, a third runs a bookstore and still another has tried his hand at piano tuning. The piano, tuner is Howard Kraft. He was the lead engineer of the 'group when Russ- Berg went to work at Boeing six years ago. Even before I was laid off, says Howard Kraft, I said to myself, I have a musical background, good pitch and Im an engineer. Whats, the matter piano tuning? We have a piano and an organ in our home, and Ive rung in the church chorus for 30 yean.

So I enrolled In a correspondence course. 1 also got involved with a local piano technicians group. I thought, When the bottom drops out at Boeing, I can Jump off and not sink. I started a small But I really believed at the time it was a maneuver setting me up for a downgrade in pay. I couldnt believe I would be let out But when the SST program went down the drain, I went right down with it.

Among those still working at Boeing is Russ Berg. He is in his early 30s, an engineer who rpecializes in hydraulic systems. He commutes 47 miles each way from his home in Renton to the 747 plant in Everett. He works in the worlds biggest building (in volume). Since the cut in the labor force, his mechanical systems staff has been trimmed from .350 to 50 engineers in all the Boeing divisions, and at the Everett plant, from 85 to 11.

Eight 747s used to roll off the assembly line each month. Now they average two. Among the engineers with (Second of two parts.) By MURRAY OLDERMAN SEATTLE (NEA) When the Boeing company was forced to cut back its operations and Its work force by 65,000 people, a rating system was devised for key employes. It was called a totem pole. It hit me right between the eys, says Howard Kraft.

Over all the years I had gotten favorable analyses. What the layoff totem really did was work to the disadvantage of the older and high paid employes. On performance, I was in the top 15 per cent of the totem. But in the botom 30 per cent of the layoff totem. After awhile they must have said to themselves, We can get two engineers for the price of one.

If they cut back 30 per cent, I knew I was out the door. Sylvia Porter Stock market key in president race Editorial business called Craft Services, Inc. In the first quarter of 1972, my gross was $200 in piano tuning and The real problem is making labor pay for itself. Its not a profitable business. Ive become good enough to realize Im not any good.

Im hesitant about wishing myself on my friends as a piano tuner. The key phrase for the ecnomy of Seattle is selective recession. Its effect lingers primarily for people like Howard Kraft It struck people never unemployed before, says Mrs. Opal Pierce of the State Unemployment Office, who had mnay obligations. The production worker Is pretty adaptable to other industry.

I dont think youll find too many of them unemployed. Its easy to convert a journeymans (RsuadkAk! UiswA, (Letters te Readers Views must be hand signed wtth the writers fun name, address and occupation. Names and occupations will be published. Letters must be exclusive to The Tribune; copies disqualify. Short letters written on one side of paper receive preference.

The editor reserves the right to edit and con-dence. Letters should be addressed to Readers Views, Fremont Tribune, P. O. Box 9, Fremont, 68125.) ARLINGTON in regard to the caihplng-situation at the Fremont State Lakes, Id like to give my view. Its not the fee for we object to, its the way theyve ruined the place.

Every paper or magazine I pick up says, and I quote, Take your son fishing and camping and walking in the great outdoors. Well, we tried, but we have exactly one and one half days off on the weekend. How far are we going to have to go to find the great outdoors? They have torn out by the roots a favorite tree we camped under, made the roads so good, we get dust for breakfast, lunch and dinner. If its roads, people and all the comforts of home we want on day off, well just stay at Let me repeat, its not the fee we object to, its the way they have ruined the place. If they used it to restock the lakes with fish or plant instead of tearing down, wed pay It gladly.

Anyone can see the money is going to have to go for paying more help and not to better the place. Anyway, we liked it the way it was. MRS. JAMES L. PETTIT Store Clerk Fischers move poor JtwJung, Sack 106 YEARS AGO Travel on the Union Pacific Railroad was very heavy, nearly every train being loaded with passengers both ways.

Dr. Van Boren had moved his office to the south side of Sixth Street where he could be found at all house when not professionally engaged. The doctors charges were to be as low as any respectable scientific physician could make them. 75 YEARS AGO A group of Fremont young people went to Arlington for a picnic. Among those going on the picnic party were Misses Lottie Brown, Georgie Franch, Nettle Gibson and Laura and Edith McDonald.

The Misses Fleming were at home to the following groups of friends: Mr. and Mrs. Ned Barrard, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Scurman and Mr.

and Mrs. Warren Vance. 50 YEARS AGO The Ladies Sokol Club met with Mrs. Delia Oberg. During the afternoon refreshments were served by Mrs.

Oberg, Mrs. William Voss, and Mrs. A. W. Vitamvas.

Mrs. Lily Ruegg Button was hostess to eight close friends of her mother, Mrs. Ruegg, at a party given in observance of her birthday anniversary. 25 YEARS AGO An attempt of Claude R. McClosky, 18, formerly of Fremont, to visit old friends here failed when a freight train he and a companion were riding went through town without slackening speed.

Three new fire trucks, one each for Cedar Bluffs, McCook and Wymore, were in Fremont to undergo tests of their pumps at the lake in Izaak Walton park' lt YEARS AGO Harry Miles caught a 28-inch walleye pike during a fishing vacation in Minnesota. Eighty-five friends and relatives honored Mrs. Mabel Carlson at a farewell party at Barnard Park. Mrs. Carlson was to make her home at Sierra Madre, Calif.

The new one-way street plan was to begin the following day in Fremont. MIAMI, July 14 If the stock market is lower at election time than at the start of 1972, the Democrats will most likely win the White House. But if the market, as measured by the Dow Jones industrial average, is higher than on New Years President Nixon will most likely be reelected. Since 1900 almost three-quarters of a century this remarkable indicator has usually foretold the Presidential winner, according to Yale Hirsch, president of the Hirsch Oragnization of Old Tappan, N. and author of the annual Stock Traders There have been only three exceptions: 1912, 1940 and in 1988 when, says Hirsch, The marvelous indicator never really had a chance due to Johnsons withdrawal as a candidate and the bombing halt.

With extradordinary frequency during this Democratic convention week, I have been asked questions about the stock market and where it might be heading. Here are some fascinating answers I obtained from Hirsch. which will be included in his 1973 Almanac, to be published in late September Q. What happens to the stock market between convention times and election day? A. In the first 40 years of the 20th century, the market rose 10 out of 11 times, usually spectacularly, between the end of the Republican convention in June and November.

There were fractional losses in 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960. Since then, the market has been a winner between the end of the GOP convention and election day (up 2.8 per cent from July 17, 1964, and up 8.8 per cent from Aug. -9. 1968). The market has become much less volatile in the last six election years, with the average change 7 per cent against an average 19 per cent in the previous 12 election years.

Q. Does the market react more favorably to Republican or Democratic victories? A. The Republicans win hands down on this category, reports Hirsch. Since 1909, the market as measured by the Dow Jones, has risen on eight of the nine occasions a Republican has won and on only four of the nine occasions a Democrat has won. Research by Investment firm of NiedeF" boffer, Cross Zeckhauser also found that the average change the week after a Republican victory was: up 1.08 per cent.

Following Democratic victories it was: down 0.23 per cent Q. Under which party has the stock market fared best? A. This will shock people, Hirsch cautioned me. I wasnt aware of it myself. The following- figures show that Investors have fared more than twice as well under Democrats as under Republicans.

REPUBLICAN ERAS IN THE STOCK MARKET ERAS TOTAL CHANGE Plus Per cent 1901-12: 12 yrs. 38.5 1921-32: 12 yrs. 0.0 1953-60 8 yrs. 118.1 1969-mid-72: 3 yrs. 2.2 Total: 35 years 156.8 DEMOCRATIC ERAS IN THE STOCK MARKET ERAS TOTAL CHANGE Plus Per cent 1913-20: 8 yrs 1933-52 20 yrds.

281.8 1961-68: 8 yrds. 87.5 Total: 36 Years 341.9 That works out to an average --gain per year of 4.4 per cent under the Republicans and 9.5 per cent under the Democrats. (P. S. The Dow Jones average was 890.2(1 at the start of the It has been hovering between 925-950 recently.) (Copyright 1972 Field Enterprises, Inc.) interesting spectator sport.

Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move by move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponents ego. Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. And no expliting capitalist is getting rich on Fischers talent. This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D.

Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For Fischers threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for Iceland whose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime. Now, though, we have the confrontation.

Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist. But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000. He was not so proud that he. would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he' was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely.

Go, Boris. We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and-or pick -up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed smudged real world. Fischers performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us.

He has, after all, never, said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, 'the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody elses it is super arrogant nonsense.

That we are foolish enough to sanction 'paying Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two wrongs dont make a right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an Bruce Biossat But what do you do with electronics and quality, control people for whom theres never been an outside market? It never occurred to them theyd have to look for a job. The greatest problem encountered is the need of moral support, that what has happened is no reflection on them and their abilities. To these people, this office is just like charity.

They feel embarrassed. The first four or five weeks off the job at Boeing, Howard Kraft drew unemployment insurance of $7 a week (its now up to $75). Then he stopped going. This Is a negative community, says Gil Stanford, white haired and sixtyish. The greediness in Seattle is the highest In-America.

"They wont bend down and create jobs. Stanford 'was an electrical engineer in production control and design of all electronics that went into the 747. He was laid off in January, 1970. He had never been out of work since 1931. A heart attack cost him half his life savings and left him with an imbedded pacer.

With seven other employed engineers, he started Talent Plus, an organization to find jobs for the highly skilled, and estimates theyve placed 1,000 people. We can rob any bank around here and you wont know lt, says Gil. Weve got that kind of talent. We can make an airplane or put a man on the moon. But we cant get a job.

Since the middle of -March he has been employed, with the Economic and Research Planning Division of King County, Youve got to teach people, he says, that the day of specialist talent is over. There are 3,000 people trained who wont do anything-for themselves. They go to the church finally and get food for their kids. The week of May 16 in Seattle there were still 11,764 people collecting unemployment insurance. Equally important, 21,381 people bad exhausted all their unemployment insurance.

Thats why there are organizations like Neighbors in Need, to whom the destitute can turn. It is an ecumenical group which fills 100,000 requests for food per month. It exists from community contributions. The director of the program is a housewife, Peggy Maze The warehouse supervisor is Ken Baxter, who has a masters degree in social anthropology and taught at Seattle University. The last nine years he was a writer at Boeing.

No one in Seattle is starving, says Mrs. Maze, but a lot of people go to bed hungry at night. Since November, 1970, Neighbors in Need has had three quarters of -a million requests for food. 56 per cent were for children under 16. One man came in and asked that a grocery receipt be put in his bag so his wife wouldnt know he had gone to Neighbors in Need.

I associate Neighbors in Need with the drag problem. says Mrs. Maze. It doesnt bother you (the unemployment and lack of food) until it hits you directly, the same way middleclass people ignored drugs as long as they stayed in the ghetto. This is the West, says Pete Bush, a public relations man at Boeing.

Were had gold rushes, yellow perils, strikes. People are more prepared for calamity. We (fan be a little more sanguine now. It bottomed out a year ago. Boeing has hired back more than 3,000 people it had laid off.

Its employment roster is up to 39,000. It expects to have by the end of the year. We need more jobs, says Arnie Weinmeister, but this is not a disaster area any longer. We think things have started to pick' up real good. Arnie, a former a'l-pro defensive tackle, is president of the Joint Council of Teamsters Union Nor 28, which has 55,000 members.

He says the union is down to 3-4 per cent unemployed in King County and the state of Washington. There are encouraging signs. If the Alaska pipeline goes through, Seattle will be a headquarters city. If the Orient opens up commerically, through the new dialogue with mainland Seattle will profit. Already the tonnage handled by the port of Seattle has increased dramatically.

It used to be a company town, says Lou Guzzo, a prominent editor, but its not any more. Boeing is almost a dirty word They left a lot of people Among them is Howard Kraft, 51, unemployed engineer who still must figure out what to do with his life. (Newspaper Enterprise Assn. 1 Old laws of behavior prove decisive Quick Quip Aiinrcr to Pmiotismle Pugilism Do trees drink rainwater that falls on their leaves? A No. Leaves are waterproof; trees get their water from the ground.

Who was the first member of. the theatrical profession whose name was placed in the Hall of Fame for Great Americans? A The actress Charlotte Cushman, in 1915. ACROSS S3 One who 1 Boxing arena 5 Short straight Thw (Sp.) blow 35 Southern 8 Boxing match sSIwLrtiiA 2 On the ocean 56 Being (Latin) DOWN 12 On the ocean Japanese herb 1 Reckoned 2 Disputed points 3 Almost 4 Elongated fish 5 Leap 6 Commotions "Jodaij 9n Jim By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS On this date in 1789, the citizens of Paris stormed and captured Bastille prison. It was the beginning of the French Revolution. In 1690, seven French privateers captured the New England Islands of Marthas Vineyard, Nantucket and Block Island.

In 1798, the U.S. Congress passed a sedition act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous and malicious reports about the government In U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry went ashore at Tokyo to present a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the Emperor of( Japan. In 1879, the U.S. Congress provided a yearly pension of $3,000 for President Abraham Lincolns widow, Mary Todd Lincoln.

In 1965, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson died on a London street of a heart attack. In 1966, eight student nurses were found murdered in an apartment on Chicagos South' Side. Ten years ago: President Kennedy named Cleveland Mayor Anthony Celebrezze as secretary of Welfare to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who resigned to run for-the Senate. Five years ago: Eleven deaths were counted in riots in Newark, N.J.; a curfew was imposed on the One year ago: Force officer, Capt Thomas Culver, was reprimanded and fined $1,000 for an antiwar demonstration in London. slipping in compounds ring (2 words) 37 Fur pieces 38 Withered old woman 40 Shop 43 Ellipsoidal 44 Mentally sound 45 Grafted (her.) 48 Confederate States of America (ab.) 50 Pastry 30 Pugilists coaches 7 Skeleton part 23 Fill with love 8 Rouletts 25 Clothing wager 28 Command 9 Place opposite iocat 10 Moneylender 28 Applaud 11 Temporary shelters 19 Prepare soles to prevent Tribune readers can reach their national and state representatives by addressing communications to: Sen.

Roman Hruska, Old Senate Office Building, Washington, D. 20510. "Sen. Carl Curtis, New Senate, Office Building, Washington, D. 20510.

Rep. Charles Thone, Long-worth House Office Building, Washington, D. C. 20515. MIAMI BEACH (NEA) In this Democratic convention bent toward Sen.

George McGovern, old laws of human behavior proved as decisive as the heralded new politics. One such law is that it is-dangerous to employ political tactics which outrage peoples sense of fairness. There may short range gains, but they tend to produce a counter-trend that may more than offset the advance. That is exactly what happened this time to yield McGovern his sweeping- victory' in the key credentials battle for 151 California delegates. After he won them in a June primary, they had been taken from him by a stop-McGovern power play which in effect changed the rules that had guided a campaign consigned, at that late stage, to' history.

McGoverns device, from the moment of that reversal, was to call for fair play. It worked better than he hoped. By my Updated delegate count on convention eve the senator had a strong grip on about 1,420 of the 1,509 delegate votes needed for nomination. Yet he won 1,618 votes to his side in the big California challenge. Most of that excess of roughly 200 votes added onto his committed strength was considered by his own strategists to he soft, meaning uncertain in prospect, hen I talked to those McGovern aides, they said the soft delegates indicated that they were, offended by what they deemed the Injustice of the m'ove depriving the senator of those 151 California delegates.

These extras 'were notcoQnted as hard' supporters because the delegates theiqselves said they were being subjected 1 pressures from skillful party regulars and labor operatives bitterly ppposed to McGoverns nomination. The smashing McGovern triumph demonstrated, however, that an outraged sense of fairness is- a powerful counter pressure, especially in the highly charged atmosphere of a national convention. It had been proved so in 1952 when Gen. Dwight Eisenhower won a test fair play vote over Robert A. Taft and thereby clinched that years Republican presidential nomination.

Even before the California vote here, it was plain that another old law was working for McGovern. Its essence is that a front runner who builds a commanding lead automatically becomes a strong magnet attracting, in a steady flow, the rest of the delegates he needs. My careful checks, using the most' conservative indicators, show that McGovern was on a slow but upward course in delegate totals from the moment he hit this convention scene. From Saturday to mid afternoon of the Monday opening of the convention, narly 100 delegates switched from formally uncommitted status to open support of candidates. Most of those went to I McGovern in" small clusters of two, three and four.

I have observed this pattern at work in every convention I have covered from 1952 on. Surface clamor and conflict may suggest that the outcome is in doubt. But, for the developing winner, the old delegate flow, chart tells a different story. Underneath all the noise, he climbs higher by the hour. So It was this time for George McGovern.

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