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TROY RECORD. TRCY, N. ONPAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 3, 1969 THE TROY RECORD ALTON T. SLITER, Editor and Publisher An Independent Newspaper Founded In 1896 Published Morningi Daily Except Sunday by The Troy Record 501 Broadway, Troy, N.Y. 12181.

Telephone 272-2000 JOHN F. ROY ALTON T. SLITER JOSEPH J. LaCHAPELLE WALTER J. BENEDETT tad SccreUry and AuMut SUBSCRIPTION Troy Record (Morning).

Delivered 1 a n- MnU: y. and Washington rt Dd County in On ll months, i wwk 6 0 mtll of countiei In CIRCULATION-- Daily Average Oct. 1969, 50,598 thre. monthi, ccnts Extr on Troy Press entitled exclusively to of Audit Bureau of and Evening Combined) Time To Change A week ago today The Record Newspapers recommended that their readers break with the past and vote for change on Election Day. Today is the day before Election Day and we repeat the recommendation.

No development during the last has removed, or even relieved, the urgency of installing in office fresh vigor, new ideas and attitudes responsive to the public will. In the last few days also, The Record Newspapers explained in detail the amendments and propositions at the top of the voting machines. Four proposed amendments to the state constitution appear first on Question Row, followed by two propositions for Troy voters. The recommendations previously stated are summarized below. You may take this editorial 'with you to the polling place on Election Day.

The amendments to the state constitution- Amendment No. 1 would enable hospitals to borrow or use the credit of governments of the 'state or localities to pay for new buildings and equipment. Additional hospital facilities are urgently needed. Vote "YES." Amendment No. 2 would increase the state- guaranteed borrowing power of the Job Devclop- Authority from 50 to 150 million dollars.

This authority, established in 1962, has made an excellent record by adding new jobs and by saving existing jobs from leaving the state. Vote "YES." Amendment No. 3 would insert in the state constitution a "Bill of Rights" for protection of scenic beauty and natural resources. No objections have been voiced "to this amendment. Vote "YES." Amendment No.

4 would include aliens in the population base when Senate and Assembly seats are being apportioned. This would eliminate the necessity of a separate second census. Vote "YES." Troy City Charter propositions-Troy Charter Proposition No. 1 would cause City Council candidates to run at-large instead of from districts as at present. Beginning in 1971 Troy would have seven councilman chosen by all the voters of the city, rather than seven councilmen selected by seven districts.

Vote "YES." Troy Charter Proposition No. 3, so numbered because the court ruled off the ballot Proposition No. 2 for a "strong mayor" form of government, would eliminate the Public. Safety Committee of the City Council. In such case, police and firemen facing dismissal or suspension, would have their fate decided by the commissioner of public safety.

The charter now provides for a hearing before the Public Safety Committee of three councilmen, with one being a member of the minority party. A jury of three elected officials rather than a'one-man decision should be retained. Vote "NO." Every Vote Count? Whatever you do NOT do tomorrow, DO vote! The right of suffrage is the right of a man or a woman to vote for whom he or she pleases. It is a privilege given us by a great nation. We are asked to exercise it with faithfulness, thought and Troy approaches this Election Day in a spirit great indignation over some political acts and some politicians.

Do not let that indignation keep any Trojan from voting. You are not showing spite for a political party or any politician by not showing up at polling place. We right political wrongs by means of the ballot box. The way to show how we feel is to go to our place tomorrow and vote for the best man "for the job. Not for a political party, not because our family has always voted that way, but after careful consideration and weighing of our consciences.

It is the primary duty of all citizens to go to the polls tomorrow. They will be open until 9 p.m. so that no matter what the working hours are, the -man or woman should be able to get there. It is the individual votes that count and no man or woman should ever get the idea that one vote will make little difference. The majority rules and the majority is created by single votes.

Another thing to remember is that when you enter the voting booth and pull a lever down you leave it down. Votes are lost every year because the voters think that once they down a lever the vote is recorded. Leave the levers down. The Inquest Senator Edward Kennedy's now granted request to keep secret details of the inquest into tjie death of Mary Jo Kopechne serves only to jeopardize his public standing to greater extent than already is the case. The public reaction to the obstructions that have been used to impede the inquest serve to heighten public interest and concern.

The natural reaction is that the full story has not been told and that there are damaging facts in the background. The ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court is most unusual. It is a document that constitutes a paradox. It has said the inquest must be barred to press and public to protect the integrity and investigative character of the inquest. To justify its position the court has ruled that all future inquests in Massachusetts also must be shrouded in secrecy.

Then, to heighten the misunderstanding, the court first rules that the transcript of the inquest must be impounded indefinately but adds eventually it must be published. No matter how interpreted it means that the transcript never should see the light of day. What Senator Kennedy and his attorneys obviously must understand is that secrecy cannot be maintained. There are too many persons involved in the proceeding. There will be talk which becomes a mixture of truth and conjecture.

For the Senator the ultimate result will be an increase in misunderstanding. Unless public acceptance of untoward public behavior changes, it would seem that the Kennedy political star has passed its zenith. The aspirations that were held with the White House in view can hardly be entertained at any time in the future. The Senator may not want all the facts in this tragedy to become public now. At the moment he has gained his point but advantage now may become a disadvantage later on.

The LitterbuQ After all our years of pleasant communion with nature it is hard to visualize an environment so hostile that we may not be able to exist in it. We have an ecological crisis. Nature is breaking off relations with us because we are polluters of air and water and also Jitterbugs on a grand scale. Out of the crisis has come two interesting developments. The United States has asked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to take over defense of the environment against destruction caused by technology.

NATO, formed to deal with military and political matters, now is asked to accept a new challenge. NATO, first given the task of defending Western Europe from Communist expansion and thus involved with technology for two decades, is asked to defend us against it. It is feared that the day is coming when all nations on the face of the earth must unite against a common enemy, our environment, our polluted environment. The second development also is astonishing but in a different way. From the television commercials we thought it was made perfectly clear that there are too many detergents on the market.

Now we are told that we need a new one, a detergent without phosphates and that we need it right away. Phosphates promote growth of plant life. They are good but plant life clogs sewer, lakes and streams. Detergents in the wash water eventually run into sewers, lakes and streams. The International Joint Commission, made up of United States and Canadian scientists and officials, estimates that about 70 per cent of the phosphorus in municipal sewage comes from detergents with phosphates.

If the phosphates are replaced with substitutes less harmful to the environment, the phosus- phorus load in sewers and lakes would be cut sharply. But let it be said again that phosphates are not harmful of themselves, it is just that they do make the algae grow. No one has yet accepted the IJC report but it certainly makes interesting reading. We're Ready to Talk Arms Control? A Thought For Today By Dtvight Marvin Beloiv Man is an animal but he cast, off, long ago, many of the trap-, pjngs of animal life. One of these, was primitive protection against weather changes.

Our ancestors were hairy as are so many of the creatures of field and forest. He learned, first, to use caves when temperatures went down. He. used added rudimentary coverings for protection from blasts, chiefly skins of the beasts he followed for food--or; for preservation. Then came fire.

That was one of the greatest of man's discoveries. He built rough stoves, fur-; naces, means to use and his heat and cold. Eventually he learned to cook; and the first elements of a home appeared. But when the air dropped below he was uncomfortable; and the very lack of comfort drove him to invention. Hearths and better stoves appeared; and the cave or cabin turned into a house.

Out of such beginnings came all our modern means to keep us comfortable when temperatures dropped below freezing. Now so much has been achieved that most of us do not fear the winds of winter and the tremes of cold. ex- Wash RICHMOND, Va. Here in Richmond they still like to say that Virginia is the only place in the world where God sits at the right hand of Robert E. Lee.

But in fact, this year's gubernatorial election demonstrates that the Civil War is over to the point where Virginia state politics is almost an exact rep- plica of national politics. There is a Republican candidate, Linwood Holton, strong enough to have brought forth President Nixon's first political visit since he entered the White House--the trip to Roanoke Tuesday. His opponent, William Battle, is a regular--not a Byrd, or local--Democrat who plays the same kind of coalition politics the national party plays. And the one sure result is that politics in Virginia, like politics around the country, is not swinging to the right, but staying fluid and in the middle. Not very long ago, to be sure, it was very different in Virginia.

The Old Dominion was a rural state dominated by tobacco. They key figure was the organization put together by the late Senator, Harry Byrd. THE BYRD MACHINE was built on control of the county courthouses. Control over the courthouses meant control over the Democratic party, because suffrage was narrowly restricted by a poll tax. Because of the Civil War and the race issue, control over the Democratic party meant control over the state.

As long as the system lasted there were inevitable conflicts between Virginia Democrats and national Democrats. The term Byrd Democrat began to be used in Presidential elections as early as 1948. In every Presidential year thereafter except 1964, Virginia, with Harry Byrd smiling benign approval, went Republican. But even the Byrd machine was not proof against the force of history. Phenomenal growth in the shipping and naval complex around Norfolk and in the bedroom comunities south of Washington has made Virginia a predominately urban state.

The campaign of "massive resistance" to school desegregation was beaten in the courts. The poll tax was abolished. THANKS TO THAT PROCESS, a lot of new players business, labor, blacks, and suburbanites have joined farmers in the Virginia political game. The Byrd machine has had increasingly going. Back in 1965, his first race for governor as a Republican, won more than a third of the vote.

Though Harry Byrd, succeeded his father in the Senate in 1966, he almost lost in the Democratic primary. An anti- Byrd Democrat, William Spong, won the other Virginia Senate seat. In this year's gubernatorial campaign both candidates have had to play coalition politics. "No one," as one Virginia editor put it in an allusion to a total absence of racism in the campaign, "has been riding the white horse. Mr, Holton, a vigorous, Harvard-trained lawyer of 46, emphasized his past opposition to the Byrd machine to win the endorsement of the stale AFL-CIO Council, and of the leading Negro organization the Crusade of Voters.

By emphasis on economy as President Nixon and Gov. Ronald Reagan of California, he appealed for the rural and suburban vote. MR. BATTLE, the easy-going of a former governor, was off to a slower start because he had to fight two bruising primaries to win the Demo- ington Insight By Joseph Kraft cratic nomination. But he has been using his father's old friends at the courthouse level to reach for the rural vote.

And in an appeal for labor and black support, he has emphasized his record as a national Democrat (a supported of Adlai Stevenson and friend of John Kennedy) and the young liberals who are running on his ticket for lieutenant-governor and attorney- general. ALL SIGNS point to a close vote. Though Battle has picked up strength among blacks and labor in the Norfolk area, he seems not to have patched up rifts within the party organization. The result is apt to turn on the percentage of the vote that turns out in the Norfolk area and the Washington su- burbs. And it may be that President Nixon's endorsement will put Holton over the top--particularly if there is a favorable political fall-out from the President's Vitenam speech Monday night.

But there is not really the point. The point is that in Virginia, as in not a few other parts of the South, state politics have tended to merge with national politics. In the state, as in ihe nation, large segments of the electorate are up for grabs. Both parlies have to appeal to very diverse groups of voters. And thus Virginia offers still another bit of evidence- Atlanta, and what is shaping up in New Jersey and New York City--that the country is not swinging sharply to the right.

Today we are in the early days of the chilly months. We have our systems of heating. We havt our fireplaces. We have clothing adapted to the season. And, whatever our tastes, we do not faar frosts and snow.

But we are normal a beings and take all this for granted. We rarely think of the centuries, the millenniums, in which all men suffered from an insuf- fiency of protection against the winter. We accept the benefits of the years and enjoy them. We cannot realize that "below freezing" once meant suffering, not for the occasional victim of poverty, but for very nearly everybody. There was an old hymn we used to sing in which the refrain was "count your many blessings, one by one." We might properly do this.

And, as the thermometer registers temperatures below freezing, we might properly include in our count all the protective devices of the years, culminating in reasonable comforts as the winter comes. Pulse Of The People Registered U.S. Patent Offict Only letters bearing name and address of the writer will be published in The Pulse of The People. The name will be withheld from publication on request however. The right is reserved to reject and to shorten letters.

Hail And Editor The Record: Hail and farewell, Mr. Gonyea! You have been a good and true friend to Troy. Our feeling of loss at your leaving is most profound and yet, we must keep in mind all that you have given us in your short tenure as city manager. There is a bright new spirit in Troy, brought on as a direct result of your personal courage and fortitude. People are, at long last, listening and talking and, without doubt, they will be doing on Election Day.

We, the "little," "forgotten" have heard your message and it is our intention to pass it along to those "small" people who think they own people and Rensselaer County. We won't forget you and all that you have done for us. We pray that you will come back when times are better after we have made our contribution to the betterment of our own city. You have been the right man for the right time and all the petty, cowardly excuses we will now hear will not begin to shake the resolve you have given us. WALTER MACK Troy.

Decided Editor The Record: The Troy City Council leaves me thoroughly disgusted. Mr. Gonyea has tried to get Troy on its feet and out of its rut by getting rid of the people and practices that have helped Troy reach its present condition, which is not good. The councilmen would not hesitate to give themselves a raise. Under past and present conditions, Mr.

Gonyea needs a contract and deserves a raise. If the Councilmen had the guts and determination that Mr. Gonyea has, this city would go places fast. I don't know one person who doesn't support our city manager. Councilmen are elected to represent the citizens of Troy.

It seems to me the great majority of people let them know not too long ago that they support Mr. Gonyea and want to keep him in office, but the council hasn't listened to our wishes. As far as I am concerned, the council and others in political office do not care what we, the people, want. They have 'decided my vote for me and it won't be for anyone who drives Mr. Gonyea to resign.

The councilmen will no doubt try to convince the people that politics in Troy are not corruptl do not and will not believe them. Mr. Gonyea has my sincere thanks and appreciation for trying to do a good job. I hope things change and Mr. Gonyea remains or Troy will get worse, if that is possible.

I also suggest our politicians read The Pulse of the People. ANGRY VOTER Troy Recovery Rood Editor The Record: For the last quarter of a century, while the rest of the country has been experiencing unparalleled economic growth, the city of Troy has been suffering from a lingering illness which has grown steadily worse and which has come to a head and, will come to an end. On Tuesday, the citizens of Troy have opportunity to help c.ure this Illness. Obviously, one election alone cannot provide a complete cure, but it can help the necessary process of evolution. The adoption of the current City Charter was certainly a step in the right direction, but it was only a step.

The experience of Troy has proven that the City Manager form of government depends on both the knowledge and the cooperation of the city manager and the council; without these two qualities, any hope of progress is fruitless. Complete recovery can only be accomplished when the proper medicine is accompanied by the patient's will. This will to recover has been manifested in the proposed renewal of Troy's downtown area. Do the people of Troy have this will? THOMAS L. ROURKE Troy How Many? Editor The Record; We imag.

ine that this letter will be only one of many that will be received on this subject. Our family was dismayed to read in Tuesday night's "paper that Adrian Gonyea had ire(Continued on Page 24) PULSE The Doctor Talks About: Nosebleedi By W. G. BRANDSTADT, M.D, Q-- My son, 25, has had severe nosebleeds all his life. Sonr? times they occur when he is asleep.

Is there any way he can be cured? A-rThe commonest cause of spontaneous nosebleeds those not caused by a blow or picking hard crusts from the nose--is high blood pressure. Excessive dryness of the indoor air, especially in winter, may be a contributing cause. Anyone who has frequent nosebleeds should be checked for signs of anemia. If applying a thin film of mineral oil to the nostrils st night and humidifying the air to keep hard crusts from forming lowering the blood if it is high, do not slop the nosebleeds your son should soe a nose-and-throat specialist who may be able to locate fi small ulcer or weak blood vessel and treat it. Q--I have chronic sinusitis and postnasal drip.

I have to use over 20 nasal tissues a day. Is there any cure for this? A--The usual cause is a low grade infection or an alergy. The first step in the treatment is to identify the cause. Then, if the condition is chronic, treatment can be expected to give some improvement but complete cure is difficult. Q--Is it a to use a mild nasal spray several times a day? A--Nasal decongestants should be used sparingly because they have a tendency to lose their effectiveness and to cause a rebound action when the temporary relief wears off the con- egstion is worse than ever.

Con stant use of nasal sprays is the cause of many cases of chronic rhinitis and sinusitis. It may al- so cause nervous tension, mors and palpitation. Q--Could taking too many cola drinks cause a kidney infection or worsen such a condition? Can one become addicted to these drinks? drinks will not cause a kidney or any other kind infection. Rather than aggravate it, large amounts of fluid help to flush out the infection but by themselves they would not cure it. Since cola drinks contain caffeine, they are about as habit forming as tea or coffee.

Cup for cup, however, they contain less of the drug. Please send your questions and comments to Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D., in care of this paper. While Dr. Brandstadt cannot answer individual let- tcrs, he will answer letters of general interest in future columns,.