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ar Hasn't Struck Out Yet By Morris The Herald-News JFK's Associates Cashing ln- Haity Msmoiri Ev.n lack Good To, I. FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, 1965 per cent per year on tbtij vested interests. There reason a generous federal M. erament cannot do the By EDWIN LAHEY Wrttte for The HeraM-New Aid Chlt Dttty News WASHINGTON -r 7 Arthur Schleanger Jr. and Ted Soren- thing for presidential assistant son very likely will become mil- who are waiting to cash in On lionaires peddling their mem- their White House experiences oriel of association with the late John F.

Kennedy. EVELYN Lincoln, the late It is generally accepted that presidents secretary has wnj- Life magazine and Look maga- ten a book called My Years tine paid three men In six-fig- With Kennedy. It is highly un-ure amounts for the material likely that there is anything that has already aimeared un- this memoir that will change der their names. And the prices the pattern of history. But ta asked by Sorensons agent for view of the dramatic and un- newspaper serialization rights timely death of President Ken to his merchandise suggest that nedy, Mrs.

Lincolns notes are this young man may soon be important enough to induce the in the market for a 100-foot Saturday Evening Post to pav yacht, a handsome stipend for thfc A Glimpse Into the Future A TEST of the commercial worth of one of the intriguing new developments in trans-portation, the vehicle that rides on a cushion of air over land and water, has begun on San Francisco Bay under government auspices. It could well be a glimpse into the future. The craft will make eight round trips a day carrying passengers for the next year, which should provide a fair test of its practicality. It can carry 15 passengers at a time. Much research has gone into the air cushion vehicle in recently years, particularly by the British, who have great expectations for it.

However, wonderful Inventions do not always live up to expectations. The monorail transit system, which has so many appealing features, has been less than successful where it has been put to everyday use. The same could happen to the air cushion vehicle. The air cushion vehicle would have one asset if it came into widespread use that would please many persons. When flown over land it would not require expensive, land-destroying highways of concrete and asphalt.

The fact that the air cushion vehicle is actually being put to commercial test is reason to give serious attention to a prediction by Isaac Asimov, a writer on science, in the current Science Digest. By 1990, he says, people will commute to work "by flying through the air with small rocket motors on their hacks." The machines already exist and are being tested for military use. Think of what that would do to our mass transportation problem. right to publish excerpts from the book. f- Most of us newspapermen do some name dropping when a great man dies.

We kid ourselves that this is history. But-at least we do it at the regular scale of pay. THERE is something a little sad about the haste with which the associates of a president try to go to press first with memoirs. This haste is so preri cipitate that the historians sometimes dont even take time' out to ponder problems of bad taste. The humiliation to whiph Schlesinger submitted Sec.

of, State Dean Rusk in his maga-1 zine writings may have arise from Arthurs eagerness to get', into print while the market wai still fresh. It may seem cruel to say so, but Jack Kennedy left his friends with more than he knpw when he slumped over from an assassins bullet Jhr Dallas. He left them a 'peak WHY should there not be 'a depletion allowance arranged for public payrollers who expect to cash in on their association with a president? Public servants who are close enough to the president to hear him mutter to himself at sundown, and -who can then rush home to dictate what they just heard, certainly have a vested interest in the president. If the president for whom these payrollers work dies spectacularly and prematurely, as did John F. Kennedy, the vested interest of his associates pays off at the peak of the market.

However, if the president lingers on into a venerable old age, the interest in him diminishes, and his associates find themselves stuck with diaries that are good only for a doctoral thesis or something equally unremunerative. The oil companies, the coal companies, or anybody who owns mineral wealth get a depletion allowance from 5 to 27 Social Security Locates Runaway Parents New Law Makes It Legal to Give Welfare Agencies U.S. Records ahd' their diaries for market notes. Student rips to Cuba Stop Eleven Await Trial for 1963-64 Visits A Shipping Calamity THE strike of the ship engineers which has idled 100 vessels which fly the United States flag now is in its ninth week with no settlement in sight The superliner United States, largest of American ships, was forced to cancel its fourth scheduled sailing for Europe this week. Losses incurred by this ship alone now have reached $3.9 million and a total of 9,000 passengers who have been booked for passage on the United States have had to find other means of transportation.

Meanwhile Americans continue to gcabroad, using ships of other nations which are not affected by the engineers strike, or going by air. It is imperative that the strike be settled as quickly as possible if the United States flag is to continue to fly over the seven seas. Sec. of Labor Wirtz has joined federal mediators in their efforts to bring the engineers and ship owners into agreement. On his shoulders rest the hope of rescuing the American merchant marine from its plunge into oblivion.

Discontent Th War in Viet Nam By DAVID LAWRENCE THE war in Viet Nam is getting more and more unpopular with fthe American people and peace seems to be farther and farther away. The enemy namely, the Communist block in Asia expects a long war, but is confident the United States will grow tired and find a way to wiggle out. The real crisis at the moment is not on the battlefield at all, in the realm of psychological warfare what is being said by officials of the United States government The impression being given by American spokesmen is that the government is impatient to end the war and that, while expressing repeatedly a determination to continue fighting indefinitely, it is nevertheless pleading in desperation for some kind of peace conference to negotiate a settlement. THUS far the United Nations has done nothihg to advance the cause of peace nor have the Peking or Moscow governments or the Hanoi regime in North Viet Nam. Doubtless they asume that, as the war grows more and more unpopular in the United States, the Washington government will find that for political reasons it will have to develop a graceful method of withdrawing from the combat.

President Johnson has tried hard to convince members of Congress that such dissenting views as have been expressed ii this country give an impression of disunity and should be soft-pedaled. But members of Congress are reflecting what they feel is the sentiment back home. Politicians know that again and again in American history the people have voted against the party that was in power when wars were fought. Even in the November elecion of 1918 just a few days before the Armistice and while the war was going on intensively President Wilsons appeal for a Democratic Congress was rejected. The country voted overwhelmingly for the Republican party in both houses.

AGAIN, in 1946, just after the close of World War II, President Truman lost both houses of Congress to the Republicans. In 1952, although the armistce in Korea was being negotiated, resentment over the fact that American troops had gone to Korea was widespread, and Dwight Eisenhower was elected by a substantial majority of electoral votes. Theoretically, of course, during a war the country is unified. But this does not mean that a spirit of discontent is not present. Its later on that the resentment is fully expressed.

The current change in American public opinion started two weeks ago when President Johnson announced that he would not call up the Reserves right away but would increase the draft. There are millions of young men of draft age. The draft call might be small at the present time, but in every home where there is a son aged 18 or older, there begins to be a feeling of apprehension as to whether he will be called. ON Wednesday, the Chicago Tribune published across its front page a banner headline which said: Married Men Draft The news story reported that John H. Hammack, Selective Service director of Illinois, had said that, while he had not received any such word yet from Washington, he believed that if heavy draft calls continue, married men without children would face being drafted late this year or early next year.

Just to mention in public statements that increases in the draft calls are to be made is to cause in millions of homes a feeling of uncertainty and uneasiness, and this is what is happening throughout the country today. In previous crises, the issues have been clear cut. The people have been able to see exactly what was at stake, and they have recognized as, for instance, when the attack came on Pearl Harbor that the United States had no choice. Also, before World War American passenger ships on the high seas were being sunk with the loss of American lives. People somehow felt that the war had touched in a vital spot and that they had to respond.

The war in Korea, on the other hand, was farther away, just as is the war in Viet Nam, and it is much harder to get across to the people that the issues are related directly to the future safety of this country. IK the Viet Nam war continues without any substantial change and drags out through the congressional campaign and the elections of November, 1966, it would not be at all surprising to find the party in power decisively defeated, and a Republican majority elected in both houses. Such landslides have occurred before, as the American people when they dont understand clearly the issues in a war or when they think it is not being effectively fought are likely to express at thp polls their resentment against the party in power. Weu York Herald Tribune- By PHILIP MEYER Written for The Herald-News And Chicago Dally News WASHINGTON The federal governments massive social security records, traditionally kept confidential, are being used to track down runaway parents for welfare agencies. A short amendment near the end' of the new medical care and social security law made it legal.

But the practice was already common. An estimated 8,000 persons accused bf child desertion are located every year by checking the computerized social security records to find the names and addresses of their most recent employers. A SOCIAL Security Administration spokesman said local welfare agencies now turn to the social security files routinely for help in locating missing parents. Every year, there are approximately 100,000 applications for public assistance for children whose fathers or mothers have deserted them. In the 12 months ended last June 30, the Social Security Administration received 91,559 requests for help in locating these missing parents.

But federal officials did produce employers addresses in the remaining 62,174 cases, and in nearly two-thirds of these 40,604 the addresses turned up in the social security files were more recent than the ones possessed by local authorities. NO records are kept to show how many runaway mothers or fathers or both are tracked down by this method. But a social security official said that a sampling of cases in which new addresses are found, or about 8,000 a year. The amendment to the social security law that authorizes this procedure originated in the Senate. However, it already was provided in regulation No.

1 of the Social Security Administration, which permits state agencies to be giver, information 'concerning the whereabouts of a deserting parent of a child of a family eligible for aid under a program receiving grants-in-aid for welfare from the federal government. The theory behind this rule is that the tracing of missing persons is done for internal social security purposes. Since the local welfare programs are supported in part by grants made under the Social Security Act locating the missing parents helps to conserve welfare funds. THE public assistance and social security programs are closely related and in fact, until very recently, were under the general administration of the same unit of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, says Commissioner Robert Ball. In these circumstances, it has seemed unreasonable for the Social Security Administration to fail to co-operate in conserving the funds' available for social welfare purposes.

This makes the missing person search more a sociological problem than a hunt for a criminal. But the distinction is lost on law enforcement officers who would like to have access to the social security records for tracing other fugitives, especially those accused of serious crimes. Occasionally, the FBI is given access to the But regulation No. 1 specifies that this may be done only in an investigation of major importance relating to an act of espionage or sabotage inimical to the national security. THE files are useful for tracing fugitives because a person normally has only one social security number throughout his life.

His employer files quarterly earning reports, which are stored on computer tape. The computers at social security headquarters can turn out a complete working history for every social security number. It is possible for a fugitive to escape detection in this manner by applying for a new social security number. Having more than one number is not illegal, although it complicates the matter of computing benefits. The tradition of keeping records confidential has existed from the beginning of the program for two principal reasons.

One is to quiet critics who say that giving every citizen a number is a police state procedure. The other is that public fears a that a persons records could be used against him might discourage people from giving complete and accurate information. The new amendment formalizing the search procedure restricts its use slightly more than the previous regulation did. BEFORE a missing parent may be traced through the files, a court order must be issued against him for the support of children who are destitute or necessitous. The children must also be applicants for or recipients of federally aided public assistance.

In addition, the local agency must have tried all other sources of information first. And it must certify that the information is only for its own use or the use of the court that issued the support order. This includes, of course, the use of law enforcement agencies to track the man down and bring him back. And these agencies find it hard to. see, why they cant use this convenient method to track murderers and thieves as well as irresponsible parents.

Prayer for Today most holy God, as I look back over the record of this day, I must cry with the psalmist, Have mercy upon me wash me cleanse me purge me create in me a clean heart. I have thought aiid said and done things that bring reproach on Thy holy name. I have left undone acts of love and mercy which Thou mightest reasonably expect of one bearing the name of Christian. Help me on the morrow to be more faithful, I ask in the all-prevailing name of Jesus. Amen.

James Ross McCain, Decatur, president-emeritus, Agnes Scott College. 50 Years Ago Th Classified Ads Classified advertisement in the Passaic Daily News: Wanted I buy, sell and exchange all kinds of trading stamps and coupons; Green 90 to 150, Brown 150, United 80, Mecca 25, Veteran 40, Zira 80, Star, Octagon, Kirkmans 20. High prices for. other kinds; trading stamps not pasted bring more money. By couple, five rooms, bath, thoroughly cleaned, rent not more than 613 to $15 per month.

Wanted Gardener, by the day, also care of cow, steady position, must have reference. For Sale Passaics biggest bargain, tax assessor assesses at $8,600, owner sells for $6,500, Passaic Avenue, west side, 242 feet front, 316 feet deep. Measures over 30 lots. Difference Radio Free Europe The scene was a class in Marxism-Leninism in an East European country. What is the difference between freedom of speech in the West and in the socialist countries? asked the teacher.

Only one student raised his hand. In the West, he replied, there is freedom after the speech, too." A Lot of Stars National Geographic Though the sky on a clear summer night seems to be filled with an infinite number of stars, no more than 3,200 can be seen with the unaided eye, By LEE WINFREY Written for The Herald-News And Chicago Dally News WASHINGTON-The U.S. government, in a little-noticed victory for its Cuban policy, appears to have halted travel by U.S. student groups to the Communist island. Fifty-eight students traveled to Cuba in defiance of State Department restrictions.

They gave a propaganda boost for Fidel Castro, freely issuing pro-Cuba statements while on the island and after their return to this country. THERE appear to be four possible reasons Why student to Cuba has stopped: Eleven persons have been indicted, two of them twice, in connection with the 1963 and-1964 trips. The Supreme Court handed down a decision this spring supporting U.S. restrictions on Cuban travel. Cuba is short of money and may have decided to cut costs by not paying the bills for the students this year.

The Progressive Labor Movement, a pro-Peking Communist organization, which spearheaded the two Cuba trips, seems to have turned most of its attention to other are two indictments pending in the travel cases, one naming four persons for conspiring to organize the 1963 trip, and another naming nine in connection with the 1964 visit. Lee Levi Laub and Phillip Abbott Luce, both of New York, and both associated with the Progressive Labor Movement (PLM), were named in both indictments. The cases are expected to come to trial in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn in October or November. The defendants face maximum penalties of five years in prison or $10,000 fines.

Legal observers think that the governments case lias been significantly strengthened by a decision handed down by the Supreme Court last May 3. In a lawsuit brought by Louis Zemmel of Middlefield, the court ruled 6 to 3 that the State Department could constitutionally refuse to issue a visa for travel to Cuba. ZEMMEL' was not associated with the student groups and never traveled to Cuba. He brought suit when the State De- An Unusual License Refund THE Passaic Board of Commissioners took a highly unusual action this week in refunding $1,500 to a couple who renewed a tavern license for three consecutive years although they did not conduct a business during that time. A tavern which the couple owned was destroyed by fire three years ago and on each subsequent July 1 the license was renewed upon payment of the annual $500 fee.

Whether the commissioners acted properly in granting the refund requested by the couples lawyer is properly a legal question, but this was the first time we can recall in which such an action was taken. Liquor licenses often have been sold at a profit. Their value in Passaic today is not what it once was because the city admittedly has too many taverns for its population. We do not believe liquor licenses should be used for speculation and we do not believe the city was justified in making the refund. There is no other type of license we know of which can be redeemed at full value if not used.

Beethoven in the Park THEY went to Central Parks Sheep Meadow by the tens of thousands, and left with the mixed feeling of awe and elation that comes to everyone who has heard the strings, brasses, percussions, winds and voices of Beethovens majestic Ninth Symphony. What they did also, in their exciting response to the New York Philharmonics invitation to music under the stars, was to dispel any notion that the shouters, groaners and bang-bang devotees of another school have things all to themselves in todays noisy competition for the public ear. "Intellectuals, snorted one observer who couldnt understand what 70,000 New Yorkers could see in the magnificent work of the giant whose figure still bestrides much of the world he dominated in his age. To which many a non-intellectual, heartened by the truth that Beethoven can still play New York and Win hands down, is constrained to reply with a soul-satisfying: Hah!" partment refused to give him visa to go. A U.S.

passport is not sufficient to travel to Cuba. visa is also required a special stamp which the State Department has issued to few people, other than newsmen. The de- partment recently, for example, refused to issue a visa for U.S, chess champion Bobby Fischer to play in a tournament in vana. The students flew to Cuba by' way of Eastern Europe, ori -tickets estimated to have cost; several hundred dollars each round trip. Perhaps, observers here suggest, Castro decided that the students werent worth the money this year.

The Question Box; Q. Provide information about the clipper ship Flying Clouds A. Flying Cloud, greatest erf the clipper ships, was designed and built by Donald McKay, an American master craftsman. Launched in 1851, the ship twice sailed from New York City, around Cape Horn, to San Fran, cisco in 89 days, a record never equaled by any other sailing sel In one days run, Flying, Cloud once made 374 nautical miles. She sailed for 24 hours at an average speed of 19 miles hour, land measure.

The fleet1 clipper was lost in an accident' in 1874. Q. Why did de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, abandon; his attempt to build a Panama A. Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894), French diplomat' who began both these canalfc but finished only the Suez, wps 74 years old when appointed by the French to supervise the4 construction of the Panama1 Canal. He was determined tb' build it without locks, and re-fused to be dissuaded by the trer-i mendous difficulties presented by Culebra and Chagres, thfc.

mountain and stream which barred the route. After tw6 years work, however, scarcely one-tenth of the planned excar vation has been done, and it be-, came evident that neither the time nor financial schedule! could possibly be carried ouL-At 82, de Lesseps gave up work and returned to Q. How old was Audie Murphy1 when he received the Medal jbf Honor? A. First Lt. Murphy earned, his citation when he was 29 years old.

He received it when he 21. On Jan. 6, 1945, near Holtzwihr, France, Murphy almost single-handedly repulsed' the advance of 250 attacking enemy infantrymen and six, tanks. Wounded during the action, he nevertheless continued, to expose himself to enemy fire after having climbed atop, knocked-out American tank destroyer to make use of its 50-! caliber guns. Lt.

Gen Alexaiv der Patch, commander of the! Seventh Army, presented Murphy with the medal in August 145, at an airstrip near Salz1 burg, Austria. a Q. Why wont cattle eat wild buttercup? A. The plants Juice is' sq acrid and caustic that horses' and cattle Intentionally avoid It. The plant loses Its objectionable taste when dried or cured, and animals will eat hay which Includes it.

The juice of the stems snd leaves of this plant is so caustic that It can raise blistea on human skin. Flying Saucer Skeptic Now Not Sure They're Not for Real a big dirigible like a bloated cigar. It looked bigger than youd expect a jet to look at that altitude. It seemed to be going faster than youd expect a jet to go. And it made absolutely no noise whatsoever, All of us saw it and watched it.

It gave you a really queer feeling. No, none of us bothered to report It. Just about this time another story came over the wire from Michigan, quoting the Air Force radar station commander as saying that as far as he knew, none of his personnel had sighted any UFOs, no matter what any wire service said. I then phoned the Air Force at the Pentagon theyre the official flying saucer experts and asked them about it. By CHARLES NICODEMUS Written for The nrrnM-Nrw And Chicago Dally New DEAR BOSS: Until now.

Ive been a bit skeptical, to say the least, about flying saucers and people who say theyve seen them. Now, Im not quite so sure. I was standing In our bureau's wire room reading the teletype, when I ran across this story out of Houghton, saying three Air Force radar stations had picked up blips from 7 UFOs (unidentified flying objects) high-tailing It at 9.000 miles an hour, in formation, out over Lake Superior. SEVEN other objects were spotted over nearby Duluth, but the Air Force jets gave chase, the story said, and the UFOs easily whisked away. I mentioned this story to our secretary, at which point Jim McCartney who had been at his desk in the next room-stuck his head in the wire room door and said casually; "You know what? I saw a flying saucer last week." McCartney is a trained, award-winning reporter and has given many UFO stories the arms-length treatment during his 13 years at the paper, so I said: "Oh?" Yes," he said, it was while I was on vacation last week at East Lansing, Mich.

"FOUR or five of us were ktanding out in the back yard, around dusk, and this thing goes past up in the sky. "It Was sort of shaped like THEY said the Air Defense Command denied that it had had any planes in the air anywhere chasing any formation of UFOs. I told this to McCartney and he said; You know, when I saw this thing, I just assumed that it must be a Jet that was reflecting the setting sun in a funny way. But It sure didn't look like TS" jet, it was going awful fast, and it made absolutely no sound. Then he added as an afterthought: "There was a 14-year-old kid In the group, and when he first spotted it, he said: "Hey, theres a flying saucer.

"I know, because Its just like the one I saw yesterday. THE HERALD-NEWS is published daily, except Sundays and major holidays, by The Passaic Daily News, 888 Main Passaic, N. 07056, Tel. 777-6000. Second Class Postage raid at Passaic, New Jersey 1872 DOW H.

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