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12 THE TIMES RECORD, TROY, N. MONDAY EVENING, MAY II, 1964 THE TIMES RECOKD ALTON T. SLITEB Editor ird Ai Independent PublllhM Tht Troy Record Company 501 Broadway, Troy, N. Telephone AShley 1-200(1 TROV TIMES RECORD 1ST JOHN F. ROY FRANK L.

VORR ALTON T. SLITE1 Chilrntl WALTEK J. KANE JOSEPH J. LaCHAPELLE it tnd SiereUrr ind AitliUnt Dtwi crlnUM) SUBSCRIPTION TERMS--Tht TUnei Record (Evening) PoiUI Routu tod to Coiinthw. CIRCULATION--Daily Average, April, 1964, 48,887 or tnd Evenlnf Combined) number ot Audit Clrculllloni Dbn'f Lef If Happen Again The pictures of trash and litter and abandoned autos and discarded furniture cluttering.

Troy streets and published on this page last weekend aroused great interest. The most frequent reaction ran like this: "Why don't you take a picture in my neighborhood if you want a real horror picture." Many more pictures of dirty streets, littered vacant lots and assorted trash piles could indeed be taken and published. In fact, The Record Newspapers published only five of sixteen pictures on hand. And the photographer was under no strain in finding the sixteen bad examples. But parading Troy's shame is not our purpose.

The Record Newspaper sought to avoid flaunting the city's flaws in neighboring communities by withholding the "Keep Troy Clean?" pictures from many of the editions going outside the city limits. The disreputable appearance of their home town is primarily a matter for Trojans to recognize. Once recognized, the situation calls for something besides talking and wishing for more pictures of dumps where posted signs forbid dumping. Action is needed. Improvement in daily habits is required.

Determination to clean up one's own premises and keep them clean is necessary. By no means least important, willingness to pitch in and clean up suroundings as well as home base is necessary. Trojans stirred to action will find their city officials earger to cooperate. But City Hall cannot do it all. Trojans daunted by the enormity of the cleanup task confronting them might well turn to the groups with which they are affiliated and recruit a mass offensive against debris and litter.

Certainly the abundance of organizations in Troy suggests that new organizations need not be formed. Rather, organizations already existing are able to improve their city if only the-spirit moves them. Any citizens tempted to dismiss the urge for bettering Troy's appearance as trivial and unworthy of effort and worry should reflect on this true story: Not so long ago representatives of a manufacturing plant came to Troy in search of. a site for a new factory. They looked, then went away never to return.

They entered Troy by bridge over the Hudson River'and saw the same thing Trojans see every day and hardly notice. One look was enough to drive them out of town. Troy lost a new industry because the site hunters were shocked by conditions they saw in their few minutes here. It is time Trojans asked themselves: Who wants to move into a dirty town, a town that does not care enough for its own pride, health and safety to be neat and clean? Would you invest in such a city, much less make your home here? Be Happy-He Says A few days ago Cuba's Minister of Industry, Ernesto Guevara, delivered a lengthy tirade to the young people of Cuba. He told them they have begun to listen to the exhortations of communism so rigidly that they have lost their sense of humor.

He wants Ihcm to be happy and gay. Those young people didn't lose their sense of humor. They were robbed of it by men like Guevara and his boss, Fidel Castro. There is little to smile about in a country where food is scarce when it never was before; where secret police are at every elbow; where child betrays parent; where clothing is hard to get, and where walking is the best way to get from one place to another. People are happy and content when life has meaning and when it isn't a continuing struggle against starvation and tyranny.

Mr. Guevara should realize that. But as a dedicated Communist he must pretend communism brings happiness. Mr. Guevara's address would appear to have reached the depths of hypocrisy were it not for his concluding words.

He told the young Cubans that happy people are the best workers. A happy young person can cut 20 per cent more sugar cane than a grim, sour individual. Therefore, be happy. The slate will get more out of you. At Long Last A a a year's delay which points an accusing finger at seamen's unions, the world's first nuclear-powered merchant ship, the Savannah, has set sail on her maiden voyage.

She is en route from Galveston to New York and thence to European por's. For exactly a year a i a tests were completed, the a a a was i to a pier because enginper.s in the crew to of a I a a i 'o a off i i i i i i i i i i i nu-n dr. i i rnfw has pledged not to strike for the duration of the contract. The Savannah is an important ship. There are other nuclear-powered craft but not of the merchant variety.

In the main they are warships, submarines or government icebreakers. It rested with the United States to build the first nuclear merchant ship. A continuing schedule of cruises is necessary to determine the weak spots in nuclear operation and to set up a cost basis to determine whether more ships of this type are feasible. On its maiden voyage the Savannah has a full complement of sixty passengers, which is a gpod omen. It means that fears of possible danger by being close to a reactor are minor.

However, the freight holds are nearly empty, not to be filled until New York is reached. The Savannah could have been a fully proven ship by this time had it not been for the hardheadedness of the original crew. Their failure to play fair delayed testing under working conditions for the ship, and lost them a year's work at pay rates not to be sneezed at. A Bit Breathtaking The tendency to measure America's progress by numbers, production figures and dollars should be resisted but it still is a bit breathtaking to read the predictions for the United States in 1975. A report ori the future compiled by the Twentieth Century Fund predicts the average worker will be producing 53 per cent more service in 1975 than he was able to do in 1962.

For this he will receive an average pay of $9,525, compared to $7,011 at present. Naturally the individual progress will have its basis in a national advance in which gross national product will rise from last year's 584 billion dollars to an estimated trillion dollars by 1975. Those concerned about rising population will find no comfort in the Twentieth Century Fund's report. A population of 235,000,000 compared to the present estimated 190,000,000 is forecast. Of this figure more than half will be under 26 years old.

Marriages should occur at the rate of 2,000,000 a year in 1975 and births could be occurring at a rate of 5,000,000 a year, the report predicts. For all the advances the United States will still have its problems meeting the need for housing and solving the problem of too many unemployed because of a lack of training and education. Lest anyone be frightened by the growth ahead it might be well to consider the report's conclusion that: "The United States will, for the first time in its history, have the energy and resources to erase its shortcomings and create the kind of nation dreamed of by the men who originally created it." The Oregon Results Any of the candidates who received votes in the Oregon primary can find ways to make the results favorable to himself. Thus Governor Rockefeller may take new heart after past setbacks. Mr.

Lodge may point out that an absentee campaign still gave him second place. Senator Goldwater may point out that he did little active campaigning. The excuses, explanations and interpretations can be shaded into almost any meaning. Governor Rockefeller was the only one to campaign actively in Oregon. It was to be expected that he would attract votes by campaigning.

If there is anything surprising in the outcome it is the rating accorded Mr. Lodge, In fact, the one value in the Oregon primary is the suggestion that a combination of Rockefeller and Lodge forces in the California primary may be sufficient to stem the Goldwater tide. This eventuality already is being discussed and, should it transpire, it will give both Rockefeller and Lodge added stature at the Republican convention. There was nothing particularly amazing in the Oregon primary. The real upset was experienced by the pollsters.

POTOMAC FEVER By JACK WILSON Senate Republicans can't quite keep the Bobby Baker case alive. Remember Bobby, the weight lifter--used to hold 10 senators in the palm of his hand. Now he has them on his neck. The Mississippi legislature killed a bill that would have outlawed the GOP. Any ot you Yankees still want to talk about prejudice and bigotry? ft They're thinking of using police dogs on Capilol Hill.

Been a lot of crime up there--including some after Congress quit for the night. Barry Goldwater has been getting big votes in campus polls and mock conventions. This will be mighty helpful when he runs for president--of the Assn. of American Colleges. The Byrds IS UVTB PULSE OF THE PEOPLE HEALTH CAPSULES by A.

Pttli, M.P. Only letters bearing name and afldress of the writer win bt published in The Pulit of Tht People. Tht name will be withheld from publication on request however. Tht right, if referred to reject and to i wo'. for it, marrying a woman i rr.rl ot Sconce!" Fer The Blrdi Editor The Record: If there is any dirtier park in the City of Troy than Barker Park, I would like to see it.

The benches all iplotched with pigeondroppingi and now two of the benches are covered with fitth no one can use them. They are just for the birds. The lovely green trees just putting forth their spring foliage are a delight to the eye, but tht pigeons roosting up In the branches are a menace to those people sitting beneath. The flagstones are absolutely filthy. Many fine people who live in nearby apartments really need a place such as this to enjoy Hit out-of-doors.

My suggestions: Cage thest dirty disease-carrying pigeons and get them out of the city. Get the Fire Department over there with their lines of host and wash down this place, benches, flagstones, etc. Two of the benches will now have to be scraped. Make it a real pleasure to drop down on a bench for a rest after ibopping and not have to keep fending off these dirty birds who fly by close to your face. Let us be proud of Barker Park, not ashamed of it.

It is fast becoming known as "Pigeon Park" and it surely smells.like Pigeon Park. Is it for the birds, or is it for the people? LITTLE BIT DISGUSTED. Troy. Missing The Point Editor The Record: Recently I have written Rep. Frank Becker, who is working for the reversal of the Supreme Court decision against praying in public schools, encouraging his efforts.

May I now do the same to your editorial staff for its recent articles endorsing the proposed constitutional amendment which will negate this outrageous decision? A disturbing aspect in the current controversy concerning this amendment is the attitude of certain members of the clergy who have declared in opposition to all pending proposals advocating a Constitutional amendment, in your columns and in other media. They worry about the government establishing a nalionil religion (something that not happened in all the years children were praying in school); they worry about the abridging of the wall of separation ot church and slate; they worry about who will compose prayers to be said it there is an amendment. All the while they seem to be missing the whole point of what has brought about attempts lo correct the errors of the Supreme Court. It is simply that the people ot this country want the prayer in school privilege returned. The praclice of praying and Bible reading in schools had become part the culture of the various school districts, depending upon local custom.

The people, in agreement with our founding fathers, believed it proper to acknowledge the existence of God, at home, in church and in school. The federal government was not involved, the Constitution was not Ivin.g violated, it not i to establish a na- i a i i It a simply the i of the pr-ople being car- ried out until they were thwarted by the godless minority. One wonders if these men of the cloth are in further accord with these forces who, having achieved one goal in eliminating school prayer, are now attempting the elimination of other references to God, such as that which appears on our currency, in our Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, the opening of congressional sessions, chaplains In the services, etc. In your paper's edition ol May 11, IMt, J. Edgar Hoover was quoted ai saying, in regard to our rising crime rate: "The causes are 'parental neglect, a growing insensitivlty to right and wrong We seem to be witnessing a moral deterioration in our population.

1 I admit that praying in school will not, of itself, item the rising crime rate among our nation's but it ia a step in the right direction. We must encourage ways to bring God into the lives of the young, not ways to eliminate Him. IN GOD WE TRUST Watervllet Litter Editor The Record: I read about the clean Cohoes. I wish we could say the same for Watervliet. Maybe 1 should move to Cohoes and then I would not have lo clean the street every day after the men who work across the street after they fti through with their lunch.

They leave soda bottles which we must pick up before the children break them all over, lunch bags, sandwich papers, coffee cups and anything they don't want. We have asked them nicely not to throw lunch papers and litter wound and what do they do but give us a mouth full of gufT and swear. They are supposed to be men, not teen-age kids but I have my doubts. FED UP Watervliet. Privacy Invaded Editor The Record: I should like 'to comment on the many recent articles written about our former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy.

Browsing through our local magazine stand I could not help but notice some the "scoops" written in headlines on the various magazines. One that comes to my mind is "Jackie's new lite alone--her loves and her children." Another is "The picture Jackie hides." It is obviously the ignorance of men that possesses them to write such ridiculous and humiliating articles. Mrs. Kennedy was a shining example during the "tour dark days" a followed her husband's tragic death. She has also since the day she was put in the limelight as First Lady longed for privacy.

Now she has it --or docs she? is indeed inhuman and pitiless of us to keep taking away the thing she cherishes dearly by writing foolish and purely false stories, stories that are written so the magazines or persons responsible will get a little more money. These articles arc a definite sign of disrespect. Somehow, one might not mind if the stories were hut eisht times out of ten are not PAT MALON'KY Troy. IF VOU HAVE GOUT, WHICH -JOINTS CAN BE AFFECTEP ALTHOUGH THE BIG TOE MOST COMMONLY AFFECTEP, ANV JOINT YOUR BOOY CAN PEVELOP AH ACUTE ATTACK OF GOUT. TOUR EVES.

A Thought For Today Chess By DW1GHT MAEVtN I have always felt sorry for those who never have played the royal game of cheia. is not only the finest two-penon game ever invented but it is alto one of the most difficult. It is picturesque. It is also historical. Nobody knows how old it is but it was played in India more than a thousand yean ago.

The Arst important writer on chess, a Spaniard, issued a book on the subject in 1M1. Chess Is no game, like par- chesi or many of the card games, which one can pick up easily. It has such variety that only one who really studies it can hope to excel. But In spite of this it is popular and is played everywhere. Probably the Russians have produced most of the modern masters; but Germany has been a leader in many tournaments; and the Americans Paul Moiphy, Pillsbury and the young Fischer are on the roll of the immortals.

Perhaps the chief reason that I like it myself lies in its parabolic significance. There is no game with tuch an infinite variety. There are at least thirty different openings, each leading lo different defenses and setups. There are six different kinds of pieces, each with a different way of moving. Pieces can be captured in myriad ways.

A good game between experts may take as much as two or three months to finish. Now the very variety is like the human race. For men women range in a broad diversity. More, the way they start has a tremendous effect on the way they finish--although the strategics of both chess and human life afford ample opportunities to reverse trends turn a bad beginning into an honorable end. So when you set up your men, arranging the king and queen in their places, adding their bishops, knights and rooks am! protecting them with a line of pawns, think of them as people.

Often they are pictured as armies. However your imagination runs, you can add to the zest of the conflict by a i on a kind of dreamy allegory in secret, a a i a a i instead of pieces on a checkerboard. Ho Waiting Patiently By RICHARD STARNES Washington--Riddle: Who his Fu Manchu whiskers, the mind cf i fox, and a near-supernatu- ril genius for survival? Answer: Ho Chi-Minh, North Viet Nsm's 74-year-old "president," a consumptive wraith who is probably the most skillful revolutionary in the Communist world. Ho, or "Uncle Ho," as he is called among his reluctant admirers in the American intelligence community, has a name for taciturnity to match his frugal contacts with the Western world he hates. For that rea- lon, plus the fact he is running communism's current gun first with the United States, a fragmentary interview he gave recently is being weighed by Western intelligence agents.

Has Menage Ho's interview was with Wilfred S. Burchett, a windy curiosity who has been i leading apologist for Asian communism since the Korean War. Burchett is never going to take down any print for objective reporting, but in the instant case we mutt assume that he hai faithfully and accurately delivered the message that Ho wanted delivered. Briefly it was this: U.S. threats to carry the war to North Viet Nam are "them stupidity." French proposals for the neutralization of Southeast Alia merit consideration, but mint be conditional upon ending U.S.

aid to-South Viet Nam and withdrawal of all U.S. forces. "Powerful friends" will come to the assistance of the Hanoi government if the war is extended to North Viet Nam. Bo i uid to have added that the United States had no effective control of the countryside around Saigon, so how could it (peculate about an attack on the North? To begin with, of course, the most ill-informed huckster of doom in Washington has never any Urge-scale ground action against North Viet Nam. If we clobber then, we'll clobber them by sea and air--and no one on earth knowi any better than Ho Chi-Minh that he has no means of (topping us.

Indeed, Ho has not been able to prevent the steady accumulation of target information in the ready rooms of tht U.S. 7th Fleet. HU Infantry ll by professional! everywhere, but his air capability is a joke. The U-2, to lay nothing of A-ll, can cruise hit ikies at will. Gibberish Thus Ho's talk of "aheer stupidity" can be dismissed ai propaganda gibberish.

But what of tht "powerful friends" invokes? He means Red China, of course, but here again he that the 7th Fleet has made American lakes of the Gulf of Tonkin and the South China Sea. Red China has no protection to offer him, either against strikes launched by the 7th Fleet or against land-based from Formosa. What then is the real message Ho entrusted to the leftward-leaning Burchett to deliver to the West? The only thing in the interview that was not dialectic nonsense wai the bit supporting the French proposal for neutralization--with the important condition that American withdrawal must be the first step. This condition is one that the wily Ho must certainly deem an impossible one. Ho's message then is one of patient, unyielding intractability.

He has set down a formula for continued stalemate in Southeast Asia. A realist, he knows he has no shield against U.S. airpower-that could wipe him out in an afternoon. But plainly he feels that the United States has no real intention of embarking on any such adventure on the eve of a natioal election. So Ho will wait.

The war that is gall and wormwood to the United States Is hurting him very little and costing him even less. He has effectively smothered American initiative and blunted its overwhelming technical superiority. For him the waiting game has been an immediately successful one to date. The interview suggests that Ho's hands still hold no suggestion of an olive branch, and that impasse will continue UP be the rule. Where In The World? Can you name a national park that consists of an entire island in Lake Superior?.