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Pop 4 THi POKTSMQUTH HUAIO, fQRTSMCUTH, N. M. Tut.d.y, December Always fight (or progress and reform, never tolerate Injustice or corruption, fijht demagogues of all parties, never be long to any a always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory Pulitzer Editorial Opinion Readers or Handball Players? In the annual review of proposed appropriations for the oily budget, Portsmouth's City Council gives sharp-eyed scrutiny to any items bearing waste or fal which can be reduced or eliminated for the sake of the taxpayer. It's- a tedious and exacting process, whereby various department heads of the municipal government are called before the Council for questioning on what they ran or can't get along without in the way jt requested expenditures. Sometimes a department head may cling hopefully to somethig he feels would be of real benefit to his department, but Council prodding may force him to admit that the item isn't absolutely necessary.

This, then, becomes a savings for the taxpayer. It's a good system of budget examination. Not only because of the economies that often evolve, but because of the better insight into budget content that is provided both the Council and the public. At times, though, the system seems to engender a preoccupation with economy, to the exclusion of other values. Of course, the actual budget proposals taken under consideration by the Council already have had advance screening.

This is done by City Manager Violette after his own discussions with municipal officials subordinate to him. The budget, which comes to the Council, therefore, embodies the city manager's recommendations, although these are supplemented by a list of other requested expenditures which he may or may not support. Obviously, in matters of this kind, the city manager wants to make a good impression on the City Council, just as the Council seeks the good opinion of the taxpayers. So the manager, too, has some preoccupation with economy perhaps even at the expense of his better judgment of the city's welfare. At the risk of being repetitious, it's worth noting that this kind of thinking can have its advantages.

Also, there can be disadvantages. A case of the latter fact is represented by City Manager Violette's budget request for the city-owned Public Library. Friends and patrons of the library will recognize the familiarity of our complaint about inadequate financial support for that particular facility. As a result of such neglect, the local library has fallen far behind what it should be as a center for pleasurable reading and scholarly research. Looking at the amount of money which City Manager Violette has recom- mended for the library's operation in the year ahead, however, the conclusion is readily apparent that any thought of improvement has been lost for at least another year.

Instead of recommending funds for upgrading the library, the city manager's budget proposal actually calls for reduced spending. Against a present budget of S37.G79. the new figure of total expenditure for the coming year is $105 less. Whether the library trustees asked for more money and were refused, or whether they didn't argue the poirit at all, is beyond our knowledge of the situation. But ihe fact remains that unless the City Council does something to arrest this atrophying drift, the further retrogression of the Portsmouth Public Library is an ominous prospect.

To get some idea of the extent of Portsmouth's frugality where library support is concerned, figures included in the proposed new budget of the City of Concord offer a rather startling revelation. Concord already spends nearly $160.000 for the operation of its library. The amount recommended by the city's mayor in 1967 is $181.526. an increase of 820,621 over the present budget. It's interesting to note that the amount of increase in library spending proposed for Concord equals more than half of Portsmouth's total library budget uf The point is not made here, of course, that Portsmoutli should suddenly open the purse strings and start spending money for library services on a scale with Concord.

The Concord figures are presented only as a basis for comparing what one city does and another doesn't. Incidentally, Concord's superiority in size of population is scarely enough to account for the disparity. Neither is its- budget. The Concord budget is larger, but the total amount of non-school spending exceeds Portsmouth figures by only S400.000. Nor is it possible to rest Portsmouth's case on a claim of poverty especially not at a time when the majority of the City Council is pushing so hard to spend $40,000 for a couple of handball courts at the Kennedy Recreation Center.

Completion of the latter project is sure to raise the question of whether it is more important to develop the minds of our youth or to repair the sagging muscles of a relatively few would-be or has- been athletes in the throes of middle age. Frankly, we think the money earmarked for handball could be applied more profitably to library purposes. Dr. Joseph G. Molner Hardening of Arteries Vs.

Phlebitis Dear Dr. Molner: Please ex plain the difference between hardening of ihe arteries and phlebitis. I had phlebitis in my ic-g following an operation. Sometimes the two middle fingers of one hnnd lock closed and 1 have to open them with ihe other hand. I wonder if is from hardening of the arteries or phlebitis.

My legs fil-o burn. I am 72. J.F. Phlebitis and hardening of the aiteries are quite different. As we grow older, we all have some degree of hardening of I lie aiteries.

a thickening of otic type or another of the walls. This may retard circulation. The degree of hardening is what mutters. If sex ere. v.

i- have trouble If it is it is -AC tu pin up with. like a i ami Phlebitis dors nut involve iho a i It i i i i a i ui a vein wnli. -omelinies from injury It also retards fiixiibtioii ir. the a area impeding uir- blood Hardening interfere with the delivery of blood to the tissues. The burning sensation in your legs could, indeed, he a consequence of hardening of the arteries.

Some- limes medication can give relief, so discuss this with your doc-tor. As lo the locking fingers, thai be a problem involving the joints, or cramps, and would have nothing to do with either the condition of your arteries or veins. My principal thought is to note whether this lends to occur when you are tired or cold. Avoiding too much strain and keeping your hands from being chilled may help. Dear Dr.

Molner: How many ribs do men and women have? MRS. J.T.I!. Both have the same number 12 on each side. Dear Dr. Molner: I i like your opinion on the vitamin value of orange juice packaged and in cans, and juice as squeezed (nun i C.K.G.

This has been tested, which much tetter relying nr. an opinion, including mine. Thp The Portsmouth Herald "fd Secterr.oer 73. 1IU Continuing -E IsiW HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE ATSr.co Oct 7, I'M All Call AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS utilised Vonday f-ro-jsi Friday and Saturday mo'ning by tht HnIO -riing -T lit tcng'ess Code 038D1. Sccr.ntJ-c!«si oosMqs H.

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Advertising Director RoRv-r R. Thompson. Circulation Director David A. Tobcr, Business Manager Raymond A. Brighton, Managing Editor Azio Frrrini.

Mechanical Superintendent i'( As'oclatetf Is exclusivHy to of in ixal ofirlcd Ir this well all AP mi- Hf.rjia (i-'umf. 10 to' Qurt an In which tht Pfc'eseited nalionilly by ThH Juliui Mothew. 5pfciol Agency, Inc YKk, Difr.it, lyrlcm.nll«NIWU, chief vitamin is i a i C. and the amount is essentially the same whether in canned, frozen or fresh juice. Any difference is so slight as to be of no consequence i i a Hear Dr.

Molner: husband lakes baking soda and water every morning, and sometimes iwice a day. a He says but I sav ye J.W.S. Ixit's put it tins way: It can be harmful, and I consistently recommend against taking soda habitually unless prescribed by your physician. There arc certain conditions which alkalizing the system is important. The digestive tract is supposed lo be somewhat acid.

In fact, a small amount of dilute hydrochloric acid is one of the necessary digestive juices. AI kali (siida being one) neutralizes acid and can. in sufficient, a i ai- iially inlerlere i ditii'siinn. If loo miii-li acid is neutralized, tiie a body, in its logical way. will try in 'produce more.

Menu- you have an i i a i from Inn much alkali In Ion much acid Why docs your husband take baking soda anyway? It's no cure-all for whatever ails one's insidcs. By dosing himself wi soda, he may be ncfileciini; sunn 1 condition i r.i.-ons aiK-mion. i For a cnmpri-hniMii! discus- MUII of how lo cope with the change of life, including scores of pertinent qui-siidns and their answers, for my booklet, a -Menopause Kasicr," enclosing ii i-cnb in coin and a long, stamped, solf-addressed envelope to cover cnsl of printing and a i Dr. Molner welcomes ail reader mail, hut regrets thai, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to aiiMver i i i a Idlers. Readers' questions are incorporated in his column i pn- 'Welcome to the Great Society' Drew Pearson Safety Board Stacked William S.

White Shock of Pearl Harbor Recalled WASHINGTON To Ihe fast- thinking ranks of middle-aged men, to the living and for the long-dead lying now in a hundred forgotten battlefields, this is indeed The Week That Was. For this week brings the 25th anniversary of a catastrophe that was to begin in horror and to end in triumph; a convulsion of national humiliation that would send American fighting men all around the globe; a vast, irreparable turn in fate that at length would make this the most powerful, the most responsible and the burdened country in the world. For a quarter-century ago on Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese navy and air arm attacked and destroyed a mighty American fleet at a place called Pearl Harbor in the Far Pacific. To the American generation which was then young there came at that hour an, experience never given to any before.

For before their very eyes the World was turned upside- down and inside-out and history took a twilight and forever turning, and the past a past Public Forum Ex-Resident in Samoa To the Editor: Last June, I accepted a position as supervisor in the Public Works Department of American Samoa. In light of the fact that I am the first Negro to come to American Samoa as such, the public information officer here, on behalf of the government of American Samoa, has flown in a Mr. Alf Pratte of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, to do a "story" on me and my work here. He interviewed me today (N'ov. 23) and will be back to take some pictures.

Looking through my clippings, he noticed the attached picture taken at Pease AFB. He would like to get the negative from you to reproduce in the story. We are not sure as yet whether the story will appear in Life. Look. Post or Sepia.

The story includes quite a bit of information about Portsmouth. If you can possibly do so. would you please forward the negative to Mr. Pratte at the Honolulu Star- Bulletin? I am i'i charge nf Ihe electric shop, appliance shop and refrigeration and air conditioning. 1 will be here until my contract expires, June 19.

1968. It is indeed a beautiful place and will one day tie the world's 1 vacation spot. Ono of my duties is to train Hie Samoan men to become me- chanics and supervisors. It is a most rewarding experience. HARRY W.

JONES Box 1206, Pago Pago American Samoa 96920 (Formerly of 221 Circuit Rd.) (EDITOR'S NOTE: As 1 well-known Po-tsmouth citizen, Mr. has many who will be interested in reading about his present assignment. It should be noted, too that negative of Ihe picture he men- tfoned has been forwarded as requested, with me compliments of The Herald.) USO Dinner To the Editor: We are sending you this letter, because we find it impossible to thank everyone individually for the marvelous success of the Thanksgiving Day buffet- dinner at the Portsmouth USO Club there were so many people who donated anonymously. On Thanksgiving Day, we served a homemade dinner to approximately 100 servicemen who were not able to be home for the holiday. This huge undertaking would not have been possible 'vithoul the tremendous cooperation of your newspaper and the Seacoast residents.

Thank you is a small phrase, but it is meant sincerely. I HOSTESSES Portsmouth USO Club THE GIRLS "llcrlicrt. remember how (hut loud in the car always makti 3 oo jou like to drive It tato brick of a splendid A i a isolationism and of sure trust in the impenetrable barriers formed for us by the great oceans ended with an echoing thunderclap b'ke a parting of the rope of time. In the space of a bomb's fall we, who were then the young, were cast into a new life that nowhere and in no way had any point of reference to the life we had always known. A two-ocean war, a war of limitless scope, of unknowable duration and of ungucssable end sprang upon this nation like a flash of lightning across every horizon.

Any man who lived then as an adult has memories of his own perhaps of a troopship leaving the still and dripping harbor of New York in the blacked-out nighttime, of the assault across the English Channel, of the liberation of Paris, of the mud and darkness of the Siegfreid Line, of the gray Belgian cities one by one wrested from the Nazis, and finally of the entry at last into Hi-Ller's Reich. But perhaps the sharpest and most poignant memories of all are not those of a long war that was to unfold for so many, but rather of the first and un- forgottable shock thai came from Pearl Harbor itself. Here, unbelievably, lay in rubble an invincible American fleet, and all across this nation that day and that night men for the first time in their lives felt a paralyzing fear for the very physical life of their country. It is strange now how confused are all the other and later memories all the memories save for the recollections of the grief of Pearl Harbor itself. It is perhaps a vice of middle- age to dwell too much on the past But if that be so, perhaps it is permissible all the same to recall Pearl Harbor now lest the young never know and lest some who are far from young should now be able, in their eternal a "peace," fo rewrite wrongly the lessons of history.

Kor what brought a 1 Harbor was an oversimplified emotionalism that war could be avoided by palaver and endless talk of "civilized negotiation" i antagonists who were only emboldened by an American (light from pnwcr not loo dissimilar from the flight from power now so persistently urged loudly by so few. If these people really want lo know, for illustration, why we are in Viet'Mam, they should apply not to the Washington government but lo the Communist governments of Peking and Hanoi. For if Pearl Harbor a us nothing else, it should have taught us that general peace is not preserved by weakness but only by strength and determination; that if aggression once opened is resolutely fought at its local beginnings, it will at length be only desperately fought everywhere and at its frightful fullnesi. WASHINGTON It looks as if the automobile industry is going to stack the new Advisory Council on Auto Safety, to be established under the auto safety law recently passed by Congress. I hasn't reached the President's desk yet, but Secretary of Commerce John T.

Connor has prepared a tentative list of "advisers" which bears out advance predictions a 'Connor, a former a Motors director, would lean toward the motor moguls. Conspicuously absent from the proposed Advisory Council is the name of Ralph Nader, the young man who sparked the entire auto safety investigation and who has done more lo make highways safer than any other man in America. On the tentative list of advisers, in contrast, are the following: John Floberg, general counsel of Firestone Rubber, who during 1965 hearings before the Federal Trade Commission testified vigorously against any governmenl safety standards for tires. Despite FTC teslimony showing there were 914 different kinds of tires, leaving the tire- buyer completely in the dark regarding tire safety, Floberg testified: "I submit the best standards are the time-tested and proven standards and the applied free enterprise standards of quality discriminating taste of the American consumers." Christopher Landman Mercedes Benz, whose parent company, Daimler-Benz Stuttgart, is represented by Gen. Julius Klein, close pal of Sen.

Tom Dodd. The factory at Coronel Suarez, Argentina, was where Eichmann, the Nazi slave-labor camp boss, was employed when kidnaped. John Bugas, vice president of Ford, an able ex-FBI man who told the Senate Commerce Committee that safety judgment should be left to each of the SO individual states; should be no federal safety law. Later Bugas reversed himself, supported the federal Auto Safety Law. Everyone agrees that industry should be represented on the Advisory Council, but that it should not be stacked in favor of Detroit.

A unique conference has been taking place in Washington this week, organized by one lady. The lady is Mrs. Agnes Meyer, widow of the late chairman of the Washington Post, and the conference is to promote public schools. The meetings illustrate what one citizen can do to help the nation. Mrs.

Meyer, now almost 80. spent her early life as a teacher and welfare worker. She came to the conclusion that public schools were the backbone of America, that what bulk up a strong middle class in this country was the fact that every child was entitled to a free education. Most Americans don't realize it, but few other Western nations give their youth the same free piblic school education. Only the Kuropean Communist countries have copied our system of free education.

But recently, with Southern politicians trying to tear down public schools, and pressure increasing in the North to use some public school funds for parochial schools, Mrs. Meyer organized the National Committee for Support of the Public Schools. It has wielded important influence. Attending its sessions this week are educators and legislators from all over nation, plus, private citizens ranging from Gen. Omar Bradley to author John Mersey, to ex-Gov.

Terry Sanford of Carolina, lo George Gallup of the Gallup Poll, all contributing their time to helping make democracy live. Frederick Close, a man busy with the ramified problems of the Aluminum Corporation of America of which he is chairman, nevertheless takes time to head the Crippled Children's Fund in Pittsburgh, Pa. He was talking the other night, at the Washington Big Brothers dinner, to John Duncan, the first Negro ever to serve as commissioner of the District of Columbia. "Why have there been no racial disturbances in Pittsburgh?" Commissioner Duncan asked Close. "Because," the ALCOA executive replied, "a guy named Davy Lawrence got us all to working on this problem." He referred to the late David Lawrence, longtime mayor of Pittsburgh, later governor of Pennsylvania, who enlisted the support of ALCOA, U.S.

Steel, and other big businessmen to better the community. "The Negro male has got to have the right to work," continued Close. "He has to have an opportunity to get a decent job. He wants to work, and if he's given an opportunity along with others he's not going to engage in racial disturbances. That's why Pittsburgh has been a model city.

A guy named Davy Lawrence showed us the way." The late David Lawrence, a Democrat, was the son of humble, Irish-Catholic parents. Frederick Close is a Republican and a Protestant. Their teamwork for their community is another illustration of what makes democracy live. Ann Landers Embarrassed by Dad Dear Ann Landers: I am so mortified, I could die. I'm a senior in high school and I am also president of our "Tri hi Club.

Last night the meeting was at my house. My father came home about 9:30 roaring drunk. He sat himself down in the middle of our meeting and took over. When I tried to get him to leave the room, he went on a crying jag, said nobody wanted him around any more and that the whole world was against him. Then he became abusive to my friends, called them names and told them to get out of the house.

Everyone without even eating the refreshments I had worked so hard to prepare. Tomorrow this humiliating experience will be the talk of the school. Looking Back In The Herald 100 Years Ago--Dec. ri. 186B Detectives have been engaged in tracing Navy Yard and it is learned that the stolen property totals to a considerable amount.

7S Years Ago--Dee. 6, 1891 There is a great scarcity of corn throughout, the New England states. 5(1 Years Ago--Dec. S. 191(1 This paper is proposing campaign for the coming year to use every effort possible to secure the erection of a new bridge across the Piscataqua River.

25 Years Ago--Dec. 6. 1941 An uneasy peace hung over the Pacific today as the United States waited for Japan to make its choice between conciliation or further attempts at conquest in the Far East, in Years Ago--Dec. 6, 195fi Federal Veteran's Assn. at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard wants action at the Washington level on disclosure of the results of a wage survey conducted in this area in October.

5 Years Ago--Dec. 6. 1961 A U.S. B47 bomber, normally based at Pease At'B, with four airmen aboard made a wheels-up landing on a foam coaled runway at the Zaragoza Rase, Madrid, of Ihe Strategic Air Command. Damagn was minor, My father has been a heavy drinker for as long as I can remember, but this is the first time he has done anything like this.

Please tell me how I can stop hating him. And tell me how I can face the kids at school. JANET Dear Janet; You must stop hating him, not for his sake, but for your sake. Sometimes an alcoholic must hit bottom before he is ready to admit he has a problem and seek the help he needs. Maybe this incident will be the turning point in your father's life.

Let's hope so. In the meantime, go back to school and hold up your head. You are not responsible for your father's behavior. Look into Alateen, a group for teen-agers who must live with alcoholic parents. Alateen is a branch of Alcoholics Anonymous and you will find it listed in the phone book under A.A.

Good luck to you, honey, and chin up. Dear Ann Landers: I have an answer for "Getting Notions" the woman whose husband falls asleep in front of the TV and shows no sign of life after 8 p.m. She confessed that almost every man she sees is beginning to look good to her. I had the problem many years ago, and this is how 'it was resolved. I had seven children in 12 years.

I did all my own housework, took a part-time job, not by choice but because I had to help pay the bills. My husband found something wrong with every place he worked. Either the people were beneath him socially, or the work was too hard, or the hours were too long or the job was too lar from the house. He drifted from one thing to another and finally he went into "semi-retirement" at age 45 How do you like that for a healthy man with plenty of ability? Unfortunately, he had no interest in anything but sex. With the responsibilities of seven children, plus the house and the job.

I simply didn't have the time or the strength for "getting notions." So you see. Ann Landers, sometimes necessity forces a solution on us. MRS. B. Dear Mrs.

I can't see any solution in your letter, dear. II looks os if you have merely ore set of problem's for another. But thank you for writlnf..