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TIic First Kav of Sunsliine Eric-Lackmvaiina Problems Washington Mcrry-Godtound The Demos and Jack Wwwf in eoTftM Mt ha Ku The Erie-Lsckswsnna Railroad, long part of our region, ha filed for reorganization under the federal bankruptcy act and places some of the blame for its collapse on the devastating effect of Hurricane Afne and failure of recent freight-rate Increases to offset wage Increases approved by the Federal Fay Board earlier this year, The storm, bringing In Its wake a tremendou cleanup task, caused extensive flooding of the carriers main line and while this is given as a reason, the carrier ha operated In the red In three of the last five year and the first three months of operation in 1972 brought losses of $2.9 million. Erie-Lackawanna Is one of the top 20 railroads In the country and'is recognized as one of the busiest and biggest commuter lines in the nation The railroad operates nearly 3,000 miles of line extending from Jersey City to Chicago, with branches and leased lines. Sections of the road serve th soft-coal regions of Ohio and the anthracite regions of Northeastern The railroad was formed in 1970 when the Erie and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railways, two of the oldest carriers In the nation, merged. Both carrier had suffered a succession of reverses with Ella going through reorganization in 1393 and again in 1941, During the 1930s and 40s, the old Lackawanna was forced to recapitalize Jta debt on drastic terms. Railfoad executives say th reorganization, hopefully, will not only permit a recovery of the cash-generating powers of Erie-Lackawanna but permit an overall revision of un wieldly and overburdening debt structure that has handicapped the road for generations." The Erie-Lackawanna isnt the Only railroad having financial problems.

Th trustee of the bankrupt Penn Central Transportation Co. says the railroad is facing "financial disaster" if it is not allowed to reduce the size of Its work crews. The railroad has petitioned federal court for the right to phase out some 5.700 train crew Jobs and save almost $100 million a year. Unrestricted say on. the crew size is needed if Penn Centrals re- organization is to be successful, court is told.

Flood Insurance Cut WAS UNGTON Jt looks as it die Democrats how It cory with ATAT as the Republicans are with ITf. Tucked iwsy in the Democratic National Committee! files it evidence of pome strange dealings over the telephone service at the upcoming Miami convention. The scenario began last December when ATAT threatened to cut ofif the phone eervke at the Democratic convention unices the perty paid its back debts to the company. Seeing an opportunity, an independent phone company affiliated with ITT made a determined bid tor th Job. Th company, General Communication! A Electronic of Nashville, offered to provide communications tor tbs convention for 1.7 million, ATAT, meanwhile, moved to repair their relations with the Democrats.

Th company agreed to provide phone service, despite the bade dobts, if the Democrats would merely keep their 1972 phone Mils paid. Then, suddenly, ATAT came up with an astonishing offer to furnish the communication at the Democratic convention tor about $73,000. The independent company, which had based Its bid on an exhaustive appraisal, protested that $75,000 couldn't cower all the costs. HEATED EXCHANGE The national committee's tiles contain number of sharply worded letters, which were exchanged between th companys lawyers and party officials. Th lawyers suggested that ATAT offer could only bt considered an outright gift to th party, and, therefore, was forbidden by law.

1 When we started asking questions, the Democrats insisted It was the independent company, not ATAT, which was out 1 of line. The difference between $1.7 million and $73,000, how. ever, seem too far out of line. One suggestion was that th twe companies were bld-; ding an different Jobs. The independents $1.7 million bid covered the entire convention communications system, including service for the various candidates, news, aerv-.

Ices, television networks and security officials. ATAT, on the other band, was quoting a pries for only the share of the system that die Democratic National Committee would us. If this exuianatloo accounts for the vast discrepancy In bids, party officials failed to recognize it during weeks of detailed negotiations. Indeed, they professed to us that both companies were bidding on the same specifications. Were the party officials simply stupid? Or did they deliberately promote the confusion so they could deal with ATAT? Whatever the answers, ATAT will provide th phone service at bargain rates.

STRANGE EASTER CRUSADE Some Easter eggheads are trying to get the federal government te ease its ban on dangerously flammable Easter The ban waa ordered by the Food and Drug Admjnlstra then adopt measures to prevent flood risks through land use and control programs. Heretofore many communities have been unwilling to take such steps because of the big high cost or the need for new housing. The flood waters which caused unbelievable damage in neighboring Luzerne County, the Harrisburg ares and other sections of the state may bring about new thinking as far as flood insurance is concerned. Congress three years ago established the national flood insurance program in an i 9 -effort to subsidize cost of insurance, jx Qy JCC it xihhU nrpdflti1v which had not been available previously, Letters to the Editor In the wake of the most devastating flood in the history of Pennsylvania, the federal government has1 announced a reduction by 40 per cent the cost of subsidized flood insurance in an" effort to encourage wider purchases. The new rate structure was unveiled following helicopter inspection of the heavy flood damages caused by Hurricane Agnes In the Pennsylvania-Maryland area.

Under the new rates, $10,000 in flood insurance on a residential building will be available to a homeowner for $25 a year, a $15 reduction from the previous cost. Premiums would be prohibitively expensive if set at true actuarial levels, it is explained and the federal insurance administrator in the Department of Housing and Urban Development says the department is establishing a $10 minimum commission, regardless of the size of the premium, to encourage agents to sell the insurance. A homeowner may obtain up to $17,500 coverage in structure and $5,000 coverage on its contents but to qualify a community must ask the government to take part and for those living in flood-prone areas. Needless to say there will be agitation particularty in Luzerne County for a new look at the federal flood insurance program. Then again flood control work, to been able to fool die people of Scranton tor three elections.

I ask the people of Scranton to point to one good thing Doherty has done, outside of talking out of both sides of his mouth. This I city is moving councdlman is a disgrace to the cltv. I believe would be the understatement of the year. The characters he has maligned and assassinated during the almost nine years of nonservice to the community is too Councilman Dolierly Editor, The Tribune, I have Just finished reading the story about Councilman James Doherty's vicious attack on Commissioner Robert Petti- see that the area doesnt suffer another nat0s family and his defense king to list here, because space ahead not because of Dctiertys tion tor the season, because the green, crinkly cellophane would not permit It. This so called do-gooder has of Bemie Blier.

To say that Dohertys performance as a June, 1972, is certain. We In Lackawanna County did much since Diane in 1955 and It has paid dividends. Hopefully neighboring Luzerne County will now take the steps to insure there will never be another flood like the one that area is now getting out front under. Mary McGrory Stockholms Achievements In Easter baskets can catch fire and burn children. Most of the grassmakers went along with the ban.

But Erwin Weder, owner of Highland Manufacturing and Sales, heard about it too late. Te his horror, he found ho was stuck, with a $250,000 inventory, all packaged and ready to sell. Since the grass has absolutely no use except to cushioa Easter eggs, Weder faced a financial crisis. In desperation, he took his problem to Rep. Phil Crane, R-IIk The able and articulate Crane, demonstrating a certain callousness for the safety of little children, showed more concern about all, those, cplorfui cellophane shreds on Weders hands, Crane mobilized a save-the-cellophane lobby which, at one time or another, included such congressional' stalwarts as dashing Barry Goldwater, big bushy Tip ONeill, natty Ken Gray, Bob Michel, and two Oklahoma eggheads, Tom Steed and John Camp.

snsffisai service as a councilman, but rather in spite of his non-service for the good of the community. Remember, this man has collected over $50,000 of taxpayers money for a very limited amount of time spent on the job he was elected to do. His innuendo and accusations questioning the honesty and integrity of some of our finest citizens is his way of covering up bis own inadequacies: the more he performs, the more headlines he grabs. That is what is important to him. To tha people of Scranton I say, dont let this man fool you any longer.

FRANCIS HOWARD London Package Fare Mary McGrory Editor's Note: Msry MrGrory Is On fcw samisl vaesllo durinc which to shs will bo replaced hr Milto. Vioist. ooo ot the outstanding columnists la America. By MILTON VIORST using private cars and creating increasingly Impossible traffic jams. The new London system is adopted from a similar plan In Stockholm, Sweden, where people can take unlimited rides on public transportation in the metropolitan area for $8.40 per month.

Until the" new plan was unveiled, London Transport offered season tickets UNITED N.Y. When tne sound of discord be- pij capitalist, Jew and Arab, colonizer and xrdisez oar xuier Communist and Girl Rowan tween colonized, stills momentarily here, its possible to hear another Editor, The Trsbiuie, end. perhaps, more Important sound. aTwS The other is the sound of people of many races and stages ttoe cartel Bentie on busses only for tourists for limited pe- of me long-erm Btier as head of foe Scranton riods And season tickets on suhwavs In globePverty' PPulatl0n and Pllutl0n- Redevelopment Authority. Can nods.

And season tickets on subways In These people, divorced though you imagine -what shape we the past were only good for specific point they may be from the political one inhabitant in any affluent WOuId be in if the flood control Wiretap Menace if Growing Londons bus and subway system, like mosE city systems, are caught up in the endless circle of rising fares, declining passenger volume and degenerating service as more and more cars clog streets and the city, with the biggest urban public transport system in the world, is making effort to break the circle. The London Transport Co. has inaugurated a package fare with the selling of season tickets that can be used anytime on its red doubledeclc busses and on any route for six pounds (about $15) per month. 1 Tickets good the entire year are available for 30 pounds (about $150) and also for the first! time there are go-as-you-please season tickets which can be used anytime, anywhere on busses and subways interchangeable for 13.5 pounds (about $33.75) a month or 130 pounds (about $325) a year. Idea of the new package fare is to attract more1 riders to the busses and tube trains and to stem th loss of revenue re- -suiting from increasing number of people Jl to point trips, not for rides anywhere on disputes between nations, have country, at his level of living, is work end other projects were their clashing conceptions and equivalent to an increase of not carried out to successful their vested interests, too.

many Asians, Africans, or Latin conclusion? I think the city and the system. Carl T. Rowan region ewe so much to Blier but what is he getting? Heaps of abuse. Shame. SCRANTONIAN I Scranton in the Pa- 22 Years Ago, June 28, 195 Americans-at their, current material levels of living.

In effect, she was challenging our notion that, because we can support them, we pan "afford more people even if India cannot. She makes us see that, in the worlds terms, our ai people are really more But if, on the one hand, their encounters are, less than dramatic than, say, the strident debate over an incident on the Lebanese border, on the other degree of success probably will have more to do with the world that our grandchildren inherit. WASHINGTON This has long been the most paranoid town in the -'free world where electronic eavesdropping is concerned. In bis days ss Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson was certain that Atty.

Gen. Robert F. Kennedy was using bug and taps on him, spying for data he could use to convince John F. Kennedy to dump him as a running mate An 1964. Rep.

Hale Boggs lit up the town for a while with his celebrated claims that the FBI had subjected him tp elec- -London Transport is engaged in a selling campaign, pointing out that purchase of a years will at the end of the year show a nice saving on this travel expenses. London isnt the only city trying to get its transportation system out of the red. Here in our country various ways and means are being experimented with but at this stage there is nothing clear-cut to how the problem is to be resolved. The Communist invasion of tronic surveillance. Boggs never Proved it, but a lot of people still think he was right.

Sen. J. William Fulbrighti long a thorn in the side of the Championship Chess ex-For the moment, the best pensive than her people. example of their encounters is She also questions the dearly RVinent. the.

recent conference on the held American position Chat the Census Supervisor Richard environment sponsored by the costs of cleaning up the world tValsh discloses that the popula-Upited Nations in Stockholm. If can be absorbed by the' fat tion of, Lackawanna County there were no U.N., it is unlikely profits to be made from it. shows a drop of 44,702 to ever would have been such It would be ironic; she Said, 541. a conference. if the fight against pollution jo Years June 28, 1962 Harmonf is not a word one wer converted into Present Robert V.

Horger, would use to describe the Stock- another business out of which a Scranton National an-holm meetine But whv would few companies, corporations or oounces promotion of two vet-one exnect harmony? What nation3 made profits lat the cost eran employes, John Aebli and transpired, however, wbs far many- Clifford H. Powell, to assistant from the futile exercise in What statements like these, cashier. mutual recrinpination i indicate are the worries that The -Second Ward has two characterizes so many of the others find in programs like claimants for the RepuWwran tt 1. onri thp environment chairman post A Antnony and Stephen reputation as a chamber of to us. South KoreS Is spurring enlistments in the 109th Infantry whidi gives the organization its which seem so irreproachable Mmtaucd while Fischers morning cales- of his training program daily regimen including thenics in front of his TV set, followed by Swimming, or bowling.

Championship chess is a contest that calls for prodigious amounts of physical as The United States ranks about poorly in world chess circles as it does in international Ping Pong competition and it will be interesting Jo see how our Bobby Fisdher does against the champ, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. The two finalists are preparing for their world championship chess match in Reykjavik, Iceland, starting July 2. Both are keeping their bodies in fighting trim but the Russian declines to reveal details a (HfrSmmttm rihunr 'FomiM 1151 Published ver-y Weekday Mornlnt THE SCRANTON REPUBLICAN PUBLISHING CO. UK3 N. Wuhmstoa Aw, Scranton.

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(Vol. 436, No. 24) Member bf TTim A-MatMt Wren. The Amcitted Frees is entitled exclusively to tits sss lor repubhcMioo el 11 loom! non printed this sewspapst as weU as all AP dispatches. Is addition te the Aasodlted Press tervloee.

TBs Tribune receives complete newt reports Iron the wires ad Unite Pros lntcrutnosl Newt Serrtcs. Stockholm was a major achievement not because of what the delegates agreed on, which was mther but because they listened respectfully to one another and acknowledged that, despite their differences, they executive branch, has whispered a suspicion that his telephones were tapped. i One reason is that electronic eavesdropping has gotten completely out of control that no one can say tor sura who is spying on whom. Respect for the office of the Presidency requires us to accept President Nixons denial that the White House was involved' art the recent burlesque attempt to bug and burglarize the offices of the Democratic National Committee. But one must accept only with the little caveat.

As far as Mr. Nixon knows. I remember most vividly the, days when my columns finally provoked the late J- Edgar Hoover to assert that the FBI never eavesdropped electronically on members of Congress. The intervening months have revealed that the FBI used a wired-for-sound informer to get into the offices of Rep. John Dowdy Texas) and spy on him.

Court testimony revealed that the FBI bugged the offices of Sen. Hiram Fong Hawaii) to gather information leading to the conviction of Fong aide Robert T. Cadi son. So now even the most categorical denial about bugging Is greeted with a smirk in this town. The direct and circumstantial evidence linking that sordid wee-hours raid on Democratic headquarters to the Republicans is too great for anyone to wash away his suspi- dons on the basis of a Presidential olea of innocence, A leader of this mission ridiculous" was on the nav- roll of the Committee for Redaction of President, which Is headed by limner Atty.

Gen. John Mitchell, who got to be known around town as Mr. Wfetap because of the real with which he claimed eomf.sart of Cdnstltu- tional right to bug or wiretap on only his own authority anyone bo considered a threat to domestic security. This raid leader. James W.

McCord was also on the payroll of the Republican National Committee. Another man Imoiicsted in this farce, Howard Himt got work at the White House at the urging of Charles W. Colson, a touh Presidential assistant who is regarded as Mr. hfcxoni Mr. Fixit.

Two df the people linked to raid on the Democrats, Including Hunt, are or recently have been employes of the man who admits he set un dummy committees here to raise hundreds of thousands of secretly-given dollars for the re-, election of Mr. hftron. The dummy committees were wavH to circumventing the Corroot Practices Act and -sneaking I the money in ahead of the new campaign reporting law. That is whv people who love freedom, who cheris wh rights of privacy remain, ought to cheer lustily derision handed down by the Supreme Court right in the midst of the bugring-hurriarv furore. The hwh tribunal rejected rum-mariv toe Justice Department contention, first pushed bv 'chell that Preidnts have, and can, confer upon Attorneys (VnirsJ some inherent right to eavesdrop on anyone they dis trust.

Well as mental exertion. To determine how much energy is actually expended by a chess player in a tourney game, a bio-kinetic experiment was conducted at Temple University in 1970. "Pulse, heartbeat and other physiological measurements were taken on 12 volunteers during play. The surprising result: Chess is as physically taxing as a strenuous session of box- had to find ways to agree, ,7 Indeed, Stockholm was a ing or football. crash course in diverse env-iron- Professional football players find that mental perceptions which was chess sharpens their mental agility on the desperately needed and its field- The United States has about 25,000 SyvanSle JTwlds chess players as compared to about four consideration, million In the Soviet Union competiting in tournaments.

Since organized international competition began in 1948, the Russians have had a moriopoly on the title. Not only that, all challengers in. the -final rounds have been Russians, too. Now Fischer is given a slightly better than even chance of dethroning Spassky. But the skeptics point out that Spassky has beaten Fischer in all five of their previous meetings.

The entire match, consisting of a maximum of 24 games, will take place in the Islandic capital. challenger, Fischer must amass 12V4 points to win while meaningless vituperation. The feeling pervades the international community here that The Indian mission, for example, is circulating the text of the address by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in Stockholm. It gives those who were absent a chance to look at the environment from the -viewpoint of a great underdeveloped nation. What Mrs.

Gandhi argued was that the industrial nations must not delude themselves with the simple belief that the biggest threat to the globe lies in overpopulation in underdeveloped lands. When it comes to depletion of natural resources and environmental Ms! il5 17 II 2S Cl 5 UIM Subarrinrioa By By Mall Ran Carries Pesos. Ons- Week 7S, I Jl On Month la 25 These Mooflu 9 75 I 75 Sx Month, .55 5 S19 5 One Year Sue For Armed Services sananinl ami Mol S'jbKripUoiis Ar Paytbia tm Advance Member of Audit Barra of Orculatka Ontorde Telephones- Privaf feme krehtnss coocKriny Msitat ter. ope, from I Ail. hfl defs.

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