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TWENTY-SIX THE The Bridgeport Post Established 1883 .0 State St. Bridgeport, Conn. 06602 Evening except Sunday one certain holidays on which subscribers wlii served copies of The Bridgeport Telegram, it published. Dial 33M161. Exchange connecting all departments.

Open every day and night. THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY Publishers of The Bridgeport Post, evening The Bridgeport Telegram, morning Bridgeport Sunday Post Member Audit Bureau of Circulations SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local By Mail Payable in Advance 1 Year Daily $30.00 with Sunday Post $43.60 6 Months 15.00 21 SO 3 Months 7.50 1090 Single Copy .10 40 Beyond 150 miles of Bridgeport 1 Vear Daily $40.00 with Sunday Post $60.00 6 Months 20.00 30.00 3 Months 10.00 15.00 Single Copy .15 .50 Foreign rates on request to circulation department OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches. Second-class postage paid at Bridgeport, Conn. Enough Enterprise? With the phrase "credibility gap" so much a part of our language these days it is hardly surprising that President John- Bon has been openly accused by a professional journalistic society of having a "penchant for secrecy." This charge has been made by Sigma Delta Chi's Freedom of Information Committee. The society claims that Mr.

John- Eon and members of his administration periodically interfered with the proper operations of the Freedom of Information Law on the federal level and also erected all sorts of barriers to prevent newsmen from having ready access to information from the White House and most of the important federal agencies. The blame, as expected, is placed solely on the shoulders of Mr. Johnson. Sigma Delta Chi describes Mr. Johnson as a man with "an obsession for secrecy" who did "his utmost to maintain a monopolistic control of the news until he was ready to announce it--and when he reached this point, he bent every effort to have the news reported exactly as he gave it." One Washington correspondent is said to have quipped that Mr.

Johnson regards himself not only as the commander-in- chief, but as the editor-in-chief of the nation's newspapers. Much of this is probably true, though when the same chastisement of Mr. John- carries some praise for the manner Presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through John F. Kennedy held news conferences we have some misgivings about it all.

With little difficulty we recall the reportorial slurs by the Washington writers against President Eisenhower for the infrequency of his press conferences and the attempt to stigmatize Mr. Kennedy's administration with the news." managing The news can be managed only to the extent that the reporters allow it to be. Journalistic enterprise and investigative reporting would have imclamped the lid of secrecy on the Johnson administration had these been employed by the White House corps instead of complaints over the absence of prepared releases. We do heartily agree that Mr. Johnson should have held more full scale televised press conferences.

The late John F. Kennedy seemed to bring the presidency much closer to the people through these sessions. Any look at the past and present handling of news provokes wonder as to how Richard M. Nixon will work with the press. Though his past record is not too good, only time will tell.

And we wonder too, if at some distant time some Washington correspondent, with a gripe against the occupant of the White House, will long in print for the good old days of Lyndon B. Johnson and his friendly, informal chats with the press. Peace, Food, Population A famous Englishman, statesman, scientist and philosopher, recently delivered an address at Westminster College, Ful- Mo. He warned of a great calamity that will strike the world unless action is taken now to prevent it. C.

P. Snow, the speaker, said: "Millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We will see them doing so on our television sets." Lord Snow's warning received little national attention. But it should have because the Westminster campus is the same place where in 1916 Sir Winston Churchill warned of the approaching cold war and thcj'iron curtain" of the Soviet Union. "The major catastrophe will happen before the end of the century," the visitor 1 1 i i i velopments give, little reason to hope that the nchcr countries will ever cooperate with each other sufficiently to head off collision between soaring population and a limited world food supply, with staeeer- mg famine the result.

"Most informed opinion," he declared, believe that the collision is going to take place with local families between 1975 and 1980." When asked what car, be done about the catastrophe, he said: "Most of iis are private citizens who can only do little things. But the whole world is made up of private citizens, and if they can see the situation, then the situation may be Housing a Governor The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is house hunting. The reason is that the state has a more or less homeless governor--at least as far as an executive mansion provided by the state is concerned. Less than a year ago, Gov. John A.

Volpe and most of the citizens of Massac thought he'd be trimming his Christmas tree this year in a lovely old mansion on what is known as the Endicott Estate in Dedham. But no such thing. It happened this About a year ago, Governor Volpe accepted the deed and keys to the estate as a i from the town of Dedham. Miss Katherme Endicott had willed it to the town with the provision that it he used for "educational or other public use." The Legislature appropriated $300,000 for the project and a Governor's Mansion Commission was established. From then on things got a little sticky.

Somehow, $20,000 got spent planning how to convert the mansion into quarters suitable for the Governor and the entertaining required by his job. In the course of the planning, it was discovered that the total cost of renovating the mansion would be at least $685,000. This was a bit of a sticky wicket, even for Massachusetts, and the Legislature turned down a request for an additional 5385,000 to finance the governor's mansion in Dedham. So the Endicott mansion is still empty and the governor of Massachusetts awaits without. BRIDGEPORT POST, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1968 Washington Notes The By NOEL GROVE ftEA Staff Cormpondtnt relationship he did have with college youth in this country, President Lyndon Johnson hopes to achieve after he leaves office in January.

RICHARD! HE DOESN'T TAKE STRANGERS! Rumors way es, was was Viewing With Alarm It has been brought to our attention that 1968 marks the 200th anniversary of the syndicated newspaper column. The prototype, whose descendants ha' proliferated greatly in two centuries, called "Journal of Occurrences" and edited by Boston patriots for distribution throughout the colonies and in England. Colonial papers that ran it included the Boston Evening Post, the New York Journal and the Pennsylvania Chronicle. Even back in 1768, columnists were viewing with alarm. The "Journal of Occurrences" dealt mainly with daily sufferings of the good people of Boston at the hands of the red-coated British.

disaster: Concerted said. "We shall, in the rich countries, be surrounded by a sea of famine, involving hundreds of millions of human beings." He listed three essential steps to avoid effort by rich countries, especially the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., to provide food, money and technical assistance for the poor. They may need to devote 20 per cent of total production for 10 years. Poor countries must revolutionize food with help from the rich, production.

The poor, must produce or stop their population increase, with a corresponding reduction in rich countries, also. Lord Snow said that recent world de- Life's Passing Annoyances This is a warning against those small and passing annoyances which are so often permitted to becloud an otherwise fair day. Don't be a host to them. Among these are the minor aches and pains of the body. How easy to a i these out of all proportion to their importance.

Or imagine them danger signals of some major trouble. They should be quietly ignored, for the time being at least. Another source of annoyance that can and should be ignored lies in the petty criticisms and unkind comments of people who either do not know what we are trying to do, or are out of sympathy with it. A sad mistake is made when these irritations arc taken too seriously, or are allowed to interfere with the good work we are trying to do. They should be absorbed on the theory that such pin-pricks are all a part of the day's work, just one of those things.

In times like these when almost everyone is living up to or beyond his or her income of physical or nervous capital, these molehills of everyday life loom like mountains. But they arc molehills, nevertheless. Regard them as such, and get on with your job. That job is to bring the best you have to the highest you know, and let the chips fall as they will! THE CHURCH DOORS ARE LOCKED (Richmond News leader) Everyone knows a the District of Columbia nas not been taken over by tliieres, rapists mtir- dcrres, arsonists, and other criminals. But Attorney-General Ramsey Clark said it isn't so.

So did District Commissioner Walter Washington. ti crime wave. circulated early last spring that the 36th president would immerse himself in the Johnson Jibrary a LBJ" School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Now the ident, who has barely set foot on campus green since student hostility and reaction to the war set in, is considering offers to conduct seminars for about -10 universities across the country. Few firm commitments have been made yet, according to assistant press secretary Tom Johnson, except to the University of Texas and Rice university in Houston.

"It won't be classroom teaching," said the press aide, "but a seminar situation, where he will be discussing matters with exchanging views with them." The program as outlined so far vould indicate President Johnson will become the only ex- iresident to turn educator afte holding office. College-speaking engagements have been common of course, but academic activity to the extent LBJ seems to be planning is unprecedented. Writing has been a much more common pastime for those who leave the burdens of the presidency. Eight past presidents have qualified later as "writers," including Truman and Eisenhower most recently. Five ex-presidents returned to aw practice.

Four simply retired no particular activity. Two became farmers (Washington, Jackson); two stayed active political- (Representative John Quincy Adams, Senator Andrew Johnson); two traveled (Grant, Van Bureii). Hayes became a philanthropist Taft became chief justice of the Supreme court. Teddy Roosevelt combined several pursuits, becoming a writer sportsman, explorer and politica leader. Victim of the "sorry-I-asked" syndrome the other day was doting mother Flo Burkctl staff member of the House Ways and Means committee, who called home to ask her 11-year-old daughter Mary Lou how she was coming along with her homework Mary Lou said she hadn't done yet.

Mrs. Burkett asked why Mary Lou replied that the as not. signment was (tie Victorian age, "and I thought I'd wait unti you got home to tell me about first-hand." Two observers to the refurbish- ng of the 39th floor of (he Pierre hotel New York-headquarters for Kicftard Nixon until January -were remarking about the ireakdoivn in the hotel switchboard required installation tra facility to handle the Residents of the nation's capital must be happy know that their city suffers from no serious But they have sufficient reaso sn skeptical. St. Peter's Catholic church, two blocks from the Capitol, once remained open from dawn to dusk for worshippers.

Now there is a sign posted on the church door: "Because of thcfls and vandalism in our church, St. Pelcr's will have to close and lock her doors at hours other than when services are being held." flood of calls. "What I can't understand," said one, "is how, considering that (hey have 700 rooms here, (lie increase in calls could be so great as to actually break down their phone system." Reminding i that half rooms arc permanently occupied wealthy New Yorkers who en- oy the downtown location and icw over Central park, his companion remarked, "Those people only make about one call a year, y'know to the bank." Staid and steady Washington has nothing rival the New Vork male migration to Wai -Street last summer to view the super-bosomy attractions of lunch To the Point: In Praise of El Cid --By Russell Kirk Like most other things in our time, entertainment steadily grows more standardized--and more expensive- also, it grows less entertaining. So, to let cheerfulness break in, I tell you of a most honorable exception to this tendency: El Cid, in Los Angeles. Named in honor of the eval Spanish hero, of course, El Cid is a cabaret dedicated to the art of flamenco.

On a hillside sloping down from a unfashioiv able stretch of boulevard, the picturesque a nocturnally romantic premises of El Cid occupy what once was concert hall. Rebuilt by the owner with his Live Letters From Post Readers STRATFORD TEENS SEEK PLACE FOR ACTIVITIE To the Editor: The teenagers of Stratford ar with the problem of laving any place to go for ente on weekends. During th holiday seasons we are bombarc ed by activities, but the lull activities between holidays is necessary. The available places are occ pied by the junior high schoo crowd or are too expensive. Thu ve would like a building for th activities ef high school students Ideally the activities in th wilding would be supervised he town but run by the teen Can we count on your guidanc and your help? D.W., G.G.

B.M., KM. break secretaries. aerie: Federal employes complain of increasing rob- ries, assaults, and beatings. Government secre- taries who work late row are furnish'ed'Eu'ards'to escort them to their cars. Other workers out cars who leave after dark now are permitted to draw expense money for cab fares Those who think that the nation's capital is a dangerous place must have been readme their lhey 5hm a listening a But many on Capitol Hill were puzzling over the sudden interest in ice cream cones by some male staff members, until word got around about the cute, mini-skirted ice cream dipper in Ihe Rayburn cafeteria.

One veteran staffer, marveled "Roll Call," (he Capitol Hilt publication, relumed beaming I 0 his office the other day laden with a dozen cones! Small wonder they accuse Congress of being the soft touch when it conies to expenditures. HOSPITAL HIGH SCHOOL EAST MEADOW, N. A mini high school has been opened at Meadowbrook Hospital, offering preparation for slate high school equivalency exams as part of its rehabilitation program for handicapped patients. The one-teacher school will have a capacity of 10 students. The program will enable those have been disabled and arc unable to continue doing manual SULLIVAN "UTOPIA" SEEN TAXPAYERS' To the Editor: We think the talk First Selec Sullivan gave at the Chan bcr of Commerce luncheon most enlightening for us harass ed taxpayers in this Sulliva Utopia.

Everyone heartily agrees Fair leld cannot stand motionless. I Wr. Sullivan would get the cop moving on the hoof instead getting fat riding around in th police cars it might be safer to our children and women on th streets of Fairfield. One thousand acres of mor and is to be bought at inllate; m'ces of course, 85 miles mproved roads, 6,000 new hous ng units, more sewers, mor sidewalks which no one uses, new town hall all wilt cost $20,000,000 or more. Already burdened with closi S17 million in debt, now, ou own fathers want to add $21 million more with interest ti lay of course, and bring OU otal indebtedness to million Our present $35.40 tax rate wil oon be $70.80 a thousand am add sewer assessments, curb as cssments, sidewalks and com ng garbage assessments in th ulure, and all of us will be pay np S100 per thousand into the offers of the Toim of Fairfield "his is what faces every home ivner in town and young mar ied couples should by no mean- think of buying a home in Fair field with these contemplated (axes for the future.

Teachers salaries are to be raised again. The cop's salary is to remain the same after risk ing life and limb in their arduous duties. A new million dollar course is to be laid out by out-of- town planners. Yes, these are the ideas of Selectman Sullivan. DONALD R.

KETCHUM ELECTION OF PRESIDENT BY POPULAR VOTE URGED To the Editor: It should be clear by now that we should change the method oi electing the President. The electoral college system is an anachronism. It is particularly dangerous because in some states the electors who win are not required by law to vole for the can didate they are snipposed to be supporting. The strongest reason for abolishing it is of course that the electoral college system makes it possible for a candidate with a minority of the votes to win the election, even if there is no significant third party candidate. We should elect the President by a majority of the popular vole.

If no candidate gets a ma- I open other positions to witTnoT moreen The UVE LETTERS Post welcomes from readers for publication. Correct names and addresses must be given, but not necessarily for publication. All letters should be addressed Live Letter Editor, The Post. Unduly long letters may be reduced or omitted at the editor's discretion. Typewritten letters should he double-spaced to permit typographical rections between lines, ers are responsible for stale- menu of fact or opinion, not this newspaper.

Please do not telephone or call in person in regard to letters. ANONYMOUS LETTERS GO INTO THE WASTEBASKET. two weeks, preferably one week, afler the first election wilh only (he two top candidates' on the printed ballot. We should also have elections for Congress a Senate where there are than two candidates gets a. clear majority.

Such runoff elections exist ir countries, notably France, Another advantage in Presidents elected by a popular vote is that it makes" it equally important to campaign in any state instead of concentrating the campaign and efforts in those states with the biggest electoral votes and likely to be close. ALFRED BAKER LEWIS SEES A FUTURE PROBLEM IN LARGE HOMES, SCHOOLS To the Editor: Those supposedly in the lave been looking into tl and projecting the ne lousing, schools, etc. present large families, arc finding it necessary to build with four, five and six bedrooms which of course runs the very high. The same is (rue with the schools. Since the birthrate in the liree years is at an all low, what will happen to arge homes, large schools, would seem that ten to fifteen 'ears from now.

this is going to be another problem. There never seems to be a per ect answer for this merry-go- round we live In. PUZZLED letters cation. neces- I I I in iei- Live t. lay be le rvritten spaced 1 Wril- slale- not 3nc ot- to let- RQ Ka UU KET.

week, ilh only names run-off nd the more id none ith other having straight lakes it laign in centrat- nditurcs es with les and EWIS LEM HOOLS 'know" future ds for ith the guilders build costs is true he last il time to the corned to do so. We were truly impressed with Ihe emphasis at discussions and hearings on coordinated planning for the future. It was obvious that the overall best interests of the town were being by Ihis commission. From this example we should certainly realize that the attribute really necessary to preserve from our traditions is this very governmental climate. We have the best possible thing goinp for us in such joint efforts.

When we nave citizens from all parties and groups giving time, energy, skills, and special knowledge for the benelit of the town and its residents, then we have citizen participation in government in its most meaningful sense MRS. STANLEY CRANE President LWV of Fairfield Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS dTM' 1 are'jjfi days left the year. Today's highlight in iry On this date in 1783, the Brit- sh evacuated New York, their rast military positions in the United Stales. They had held I (he city for seven years and two months i the Revolution- ary War. On Ihis date: In 1758, in the French and Indian War, the British captured 0 Ft.

Duquesne. The site is now Pittsburgh, Pa. In 1S61, Carson City was seeded as the capital of Nevada In 1863, federal troops cap- ureti Missionary Ridge in the mal day of the Civil War battle at Lookout Mountain, Tenn In 1920, station WTAW of Col- ege Station, Te.v., broadcast the irst play-by-play description of football game in radio history 1943, during the Pacific a var, allied planes raided the Tapanese-held island of Formo- own hands, the home of El Cid is adorned by curious busts an bric-a-brac in Aztec and Maya style. When ever 1 have any le sure in 'Los Angeles, 1 seek ou Ihis place. For El Cid is a citadel of 111 genuine flamenco dances an music, unsurpassed by few sue places in Spain.

About six year ago, Clark Allen, artist and mu sician, filled with a zeal for fla nenco almost religious, estab ished this taverna. There is small bar, and good, simple can-style meals are served; bu the purpose of El Cid is to carr on the tradition of Spanish an Mexican folk dances, whether not that enterprise makes a prol To the strains of Mr. Allen' guitar, some of the best flamen co artists perform. From Sevill came Pcpe Segundo and Raou ilartinez; from Mexico City cam he beautiful dancer Margarita roni East Los Angeles, the vig orous Juan Talaveras. Betwee he hippie discotheques of th ashionable west side and th.

u'gh art of El Cid, a great gul 1 fixed. Though this is one of the mos charming evening places in thes United States comparatively know of El Cid even in Lo Angeles. Virtually all the re ceipts go for paying the danc ers; El Cid cannot afford to ad vertise, and Ihe price of an eve ning there is much below th general level of 1SBS. Recently the proprietor thought of engaging an accountant but decided to obtain another dancer instead. Nor will Mr.

Allen and his friends make any compromise with (he vulgarity of the hour: they maintain the artistic standards of flamenco, rather than choosing to do a thriving trade by cheapening their tone. VORK OF COMJMTSSION ON CHARTER IS LAUDED 'o the Editor: This is to thank those 15 hard forking, dedicated and public- pirited Republicans and Demo- rals who served on the 196S Airfield Charier Revision commission. Though the issue was not car- led, the voters may well be lankful for the emphasis in Fair- eld on genuine bi-partisan par- cipation in vital studies such the charier. Commission mem. ers, the leadership of obert G.

Lee, Democratic chair- lan, and Homer C. M. Cudmore, epublican vice chairman, gave ountless hours to probe charter Tatters and recommend orkable modernizing revisions. The record of these discussions ill undoubtedly be useful later hen more and more voters real- why growing demands for wn services simply must he let by thoughtful changes in the airfield charter. In our own charier study, the of Women Voters follow-! commission deliberations as osely as possible--and were wcl- ago President In 1957, the American public was stunned by an announcement that President Dwight Kisenhoiver had suffered a mild stroke.

Ten years ago rt was announced that the United States planned to launch space probes at the rate of 5 to 12 each year starting in 1959. F've years ag John F. Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. One year ago More "than '5 persons, many of them children, died in the South American country of Colombia after eating bread contaminated by an insecticide. Today's birthdays: Baseball's Joe DiMaggio is 54 years old.

Composer Virgil Tho'mpson is Thought for today: Necessity makes even the i i brave-- CLIFFORD AIRS VIET OPTIMISM WASHINGTON (AP) Secre tary of Defense Clark M. Clif ford says he is convinced Hano wants peace and believes "we can convince Saigon that would be better for all if the war ended." Clifford said Sunday he is optimistic the South Vietnamese will join the Paris peace talks, possibly selecting Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky to head their delegation. "I would suspect they could take up the lead on some matters," Clifford said. "There arc other matters in which we might take the lead." He cited discussion of withdrawing both U.S. and North Vietnamese troops from South Vietnam as subject in which U.S.

negotiators 'likely would take the lead. Clifford said he believes Hanoi wants peace because its efforts for military victory--by guerrilla tactics until last January and open attacks on cities since then--have not succeeded. He also said he believes President-elect Richard M. Nixon will want to a i a i some consistency of U.S. negotiators at Paris but there may be a grad- lal "slipping in of the new and slipping out of the old" U.S.

representatives. Clifford was interviewed ABC's "Issues and Answers." The beauliful Margarita is now Mrs. Allen, and also the Cid's bookkeeper not that she has ceased to dance. Performers who could spend their time more lucratively elsewhere, prefer to entertain at this taverna, and to faithful aficionados of flamenco El Cid is the terrestrial disc. para- Long may El Cid survive urban "renewal," in inane competition of the Sunset Strip and the standardized fads and foibles, the cacophony, of our Jge! When one passes behind the walls of El Cid and descends those stairs, open to the night sky, one enters upon the old realm of formalized passion and the music of the heart.

Knowing something of flamenco in Madrid and Granada and Malaga and Palma and oilier Spanish cities, I assure these uninitiated to this art that El Cid is altogether authentic, besides having an artistic charm peculiar to itself. Strict taste and lofty standards rarely are profitable, in our century; but there remain some friends of music and the dance whose talents aren't sold at the devil's booth. (Copyright 1H8, ctnerul FMlure. Corp.) NO "20 YEARS AGO" COLUMN The editorial page feature 20 Years Ago in The Post" is missing today. Nov.

25, J948 was Thanksgiving day and holiday publication of The Post-Telegram was omitted because of a critical shortage of newsprint in publishing industry. Just By EDGAR A. GUEST MAN'S IDEAL An easy What is your ideal? goal, A thing attainable by toil and years? Or have you to perfection tuned your soul, A vision that through distance bright appears? A state to which no human yet has reached, Is that the something vou like to be? To reach a glory never unpreached, Is your ideal less than divinity? seen, NIXON MAY SOLVE WAR, MINORITY LEADER SAYS BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -f so, what then remains if vou should gain The a i height that you would stand what you crave, today you should attain, What then would urge you still to struggle on? Merely to strive to win an earthly prize, A thing a a i a a crown of bay not enough; for once the cheering dies, Your ideal gained, why live another day? lan's true ideal must not be near at hand, A something patient toil can e'er attain; fixed accomplishment, howe'cr so grand, No height a hurrian feet can ever gain, that which lures him ever on and on A ceaseless strife for that he knows it best; An ideal a his soul can lean upon. That keeps him ever striving to be blest.

(AP) R-Mich. Rep. Gerald R. Ford says Richard M. Nixon iallusi, 3.

C. Roman historian, S6-34 TEMPLE IN HAWAII NEW HONOLULU A million almost an exact duplicate of famed SOO-year-old Byo- do-in Temple in Kyoto, Japan, las been constructed on Oahu. louse, teahouse and garden-cover seven acres. The garden complex is believed the largest of its kind ever built outside Ja- provide fresh impetus to end the Vietnam conflict a he becomes president, "if it isn ended before then." "He'll be in a position to do much like Ike did at the lime of the Korean War," said the House minority leader, referring (o former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Despite the Democratic majority in both houses, Ford said Xixon will be able to get along better with the 91st Congress a Hubert Humphrey would have if his White House bid had succeeded. Ford, speaking Saturday at a convention of the Radio-television News Directors Association said the new Congress i be philosophically more aligned with Nixon than Humphrey regardless of party labels." Question -wu rass Whenever it ig While youVe -the It may di TJ.3X.