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Education notebook LAUGH A woman who doesn't play bridge is a fugitive from the chin gang Teachers dive into politics By KENNETH JRABBEN been raised One spokesman Copley Newsservice said the money would go into Congressmen who attended NEA general fund and not the the National Education Associa- coffers of the newly formed Wed July 12 1972 Page A4 Serving the harbor communities of San Pedro Wilmington Harbor City lomita Rolling Hills Rolling Hills Estates and the Palos Verdes Peninsula British serve selves Fiscal unity needed Yifn I simply is a lack of confidence which drives nations to take unilateral actions in their own interests This in turn invites the sharpshooters who hope to profit from the currency fluctuations and the rising price of gold It also encourages economic or trade restrictions that hurt all nations Once in motion the process feeds upon itself IT NOW IS is clear that the international monetary agreement among the Free World trading nations reached last December at a meeting in the Smithsonian Institution is on very weak underpinnings It is also evident that another conference to establish guidelines upon which all can agree is critically needed Finally it is also abundantly plain that the stresses created by fiscal disunity among the Atlantic allies should be resolved long before the All-European Security Conference proposed by the Communists is held of the alliance will enter the meeting under an unnecessary and heavy handicap Bible text To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them forty Act 1:3 The risen Christ appeared to His disomies on a number of occasions The result was that these apostles came out of hiding and proclaimed that which they had witnessed the ressureetion of Jesus Christ IT IS DOUBTFUL that even international economic experts of renown could a gree fully on the ultimate consequences of the British decision to let its pound seek its own value in relation to other currencies or to in economic jargon The immediate effect should be to make British goods cheaper in other countries and to make foreign goods more xpensive in Great Britain Barring retaliation and defenses by other nations this should improve balance of payments and strengthen its economy Also since devaluation of the pound reduced the value of American currency the United States of America also could gain some trade benefits from the floating British currency So far so good for Britain and the United States However it also is true that unilateral fiscal actions by the monetary leaders cannot be measured in economic terms alone THE BRITISH action was a high voltage jolt to the entire Free World particularly since London was not facing any particular crisis when it decided to let the pound float Its financial reserves are adequate and its balance of payments is reasonably favorable Therefore the only possible conclusion is that Britain decided to let its currency seek its own value only as an insurance policy London wanted to be sure that its econmic position did not deteriorate in the Common Market If so it was an unfortunate decision Not the least of the world's fiscal problems Convention 1972 Basic training required national political action committee The spokesman said this would not jeopardize the tax-exempt status because money will be used for political education not He explained the difference by saying for political education will be used to train teachers to hold meetings to ask for contributions for political purposes Involvement in politics is new and teachers are not too sophisticated about Spokesmen could not say how much in dues or recommended contributions would be asked of teachers or anyone else who wanted to make a donation to the national slush fund and could not give similar information for any of the 41 affiliates According to the national political action steering committee its purpose is to candidates for federal offices who are proven or potential friends of education in order to achieve political decisions consistent with the aims of the united teaching Meanwhile the NEA is faced with a $9 million deficit caused according to some sources by fiscal and administrative mismanagement Instead of improving practices and removing executives who cannot manage the NEA is trying to solve its problems either by demoting or firing nearly 90 middle-management and professional employes The NEA cannot cry poor-mouth More than a million teachers pay $25-a-year for an NEA membership plus another $25 to $100 to join state and local affiliates a lot of money to put into political education or action or whatever the NEA is calling it this week Asked how a politicized NEA will help pupils to a better education particularly in the basic skills one spokesman said political activity makes a more well-rounded teacher and that is a benefit which would trickle down to children What probably will trickle down is a sharp increase in federal education programs creating more jobs for schoolmen more federal money for education and higher federal taxes a federal teacher negotiating law and higher teacher salaries for less work and even greater federal control of the schools to party probably are unaware that the money raised may go toward their defeat this November ton affair in late June amounted to the kickoff of the 11 million teacher-member first national campaign of financial support for candidates for the White House and Capitol Hill It is coupled with similar efforts on the state and local levels by 41 NEA affiliates NEA spokesmen said the national organization will not support candidates verbally on the theory that if they lose the NEA must do business with the winner but will contribute money personnel and time to the campaigns of those are proven or potential friends of Spokesmen were unable to explain what a candidate has to do to be a friend of One spokesman said a complete report of income and contributors would be made as well as the names of candidates receiving bounties and the amounts But another spokesman said such disclosure would not be made unless required by law and that inquiries as to who contributed how much and which candidate got what would not be answered Contributors will not be able to earmark funds for candidates this spokesman claimed The NEA plans to issue a report listing the education voting records of congressmen seeking re-election and apparently will give grades to presidential and vice-presidential candidates Direct political action by such such nonprofit tax-exempt organizations as the NEA is illegal so to skirt the law the NEA and its 41 affiliates already have or are establishing separate action No doubt the names of committee workers officers and supporters also will be on the rolls Many political action committees have been actively helping an increasing number of schoolmen to seats on city councils state and federal legislatures It is unclear what will be done with the money raised at the June bash attended so the NEA says by more than 2000 people Two days afterward the NEA could not say how much had RAY McHUGH Copley News Service MIAMI BEACH Fla How does a reporter cover a national political convention? First he takes a couple of weekly grocery trips to the supermarket with his wife or whoever Call it basic training He doesn't need K-rations The Democrats and the Republicans always attract enough hotdog stands to keep body and soul together but he does need knowledge and logistics Once he watches mama survey the kitchen cabinets the refrigerator the upstairs and downstairs baths the linen closets the calendar and the family horoscopes got an idea of organization and anticipation Once he pushes her wire basket through the aisles from to and tries to figure out why eggs are stacked under "dairy and cheese is in the section ready for the chore of collecting news at a convention where delegates are scattered over the busiest 40-mile-long traffic jam Florida can produce And once got the groceries home watches the little lady put everything away and then sees junior inventory her purchases and announce: you buy anything to eat! Then ready to write his convention story and grapple with the editor a thousand miles away been shopping at three other supermarkets called NBC CBS and ABC television Walter Trohan retired Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune developed his own convention formula over 40 daily for newspapers magazines TV and radio stations that stretch from Anchorage to Key West from Bangor to Honolulu A majority of them came from Washington to cover the dramatic sun-drenched preliminaries of the Democratic National Convention and left the story behind Ever since they arrived most of them hung on teletype machines to find out what the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court back in Washington was going to do to the story they came to find in Miami Beach A few wandered off to interview the local chief of police who has the unlikely name of Rocky Pomerance Some trailed off to Flamingo Park to see how the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Jerry Yip-pies and the Gay Liberation Army got along with the Florida shuffleboard set Some retreated to the darkness of the Room to analyze the future course of the American sociaty But essentially everyone was waiting for Monday night when this Democratic National Convention came to a boil In the interim reporters interviewed delegates and state chairmen They compiled their own closely-guarded first ballot predictionsThey thumbed history books for the dusty stories of other conventions They rushed to meet the candidates as they arrived in careful sequence to prime time television Or they simply waited Waiting too bad They could always play bingo at the Eden Roc years First he found out where he slept and where the Western Union teletype operator slept that Walter used to reassure young reporters you have to do is decide who you want to talk to and The political convention has been described as peculiarly American Certainly no self-respecting European Asian Latin or African observer would recommend the procedure to his president or prime minister If he visited the three-ring Ringling Brothers Barn-urn and Bailey Circus at least once a year since age five thoroughly unqualified Just look at this Democrat convention: a McGovern hotel and a Muskie and a Humphrey hotel and there are hotels for Wallace and Jackson and Chisholm and Iindsay and Mills got a gaudy Miami Beach stucco and neon headquarters except Sen Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and half of the correspondents on hand think the one who just might win the nomination But politics There are probably more Xerox machines per square foot in Miami Beach than anywhere on earth and fewer messengers to get the press releases to the press The stark white Fountain-bleau Hotel with its neorenaissance wedding cake-Is-raeli architecture is dubbed the convention headuquarters mezzanine and basement are crowded with curtained cubicles in which men and women are writing thousands of words THREE CHEERS DEPARTMENT -Vince Thomas voted no on a bill in the Assembly hopper last week and he deserves a pat on the back for his efforts The bill AB 1778 reduced the offense of possession of marijuana for personal use from a felony to a misdemeanor Unfortunately the bill passed on a 41-30 vote and was sent on to the Senate Vince must have been one of the few Democrats who voted no on the bill In the area Yvonne Brathwaite Mike Cullen David Pierson and Iarry Townsend all voted yes All are Democrats Joining the Democrats was Republican Bob Beverly of Manhattan Beach Good vote Vince Foreign commentary Trade ventures hinge on peace I made a promise to Oliver Vickery that we would use a little vignette he had written about Phineas Banning and the Fourth of July but for technical reasons we couldn't get his tale in before the Fourth It may be a little late but we thought Oliver's story should have exposure despite the ku of timeliness According to Oliver: Harbor history has had many blendings in patriotic episodes One of the most un usual had to do with a chorus of braying burros On July 4 1876 San Pedro gave a Centennial Celebration of American Independence and invited Phineas Banning to deliver the oration on the Fourth" 1 le began ith a prayer asking heads be bowed giving grace of God and thanking Hun on high for the Union victory in the Civil War clear massive over-w helming eloquence aroused the audience to a high pitch in patriotic feelings which carried his listeners and audience with him but his superb personality gave his words weight and vigor Just as Banning was reminding his listeners to remember Paul famous ride down the New England Pike to arouse thepopulace that the Were Coming" a dozen recalcitrant burros driven through town by Edouard Aniar passed close to the platform at which tune all of them almost in umsion let out a braying chorus loud enough to be heard all the way to Rattlesnake Island Banning thought thus a good omen that should echo approval of his patriotic oration and he would put this episode to good use He then ended his speech by telling his audience that there as nothing lower than ja c-kasses" and th at as exactly what the rebel soldiers had bi'en in trying to divide our National Heritage and Consecrated" in the American Declaration of Independence on July 41776! day in history cy employment act designed to provide jobs for 150000 persons Today birthdays: Sen Mark Hatfield of Oregon is 50 Comedian Milton Berle is 64 Thought for today: The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself Winston Churchill Ten years ago: The threat of civil war loomed in Algeria Five years ago: Thirty-five Americans were killed and 26 wounded when North Vietnamese forces attacked US troops in South central highlands One year ago: President Nixon signed a 2-billion emergen I wonder how old Ben Franklin would say it if he were alive and kicking today what he had to say about things 200 years ago taxes are indeed very heavy and if those laid by the government were the only ones we had to pay we might more easily discharge them but we have many others and much more grievous to some of us We are taxed twice as much by our idleness three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our folly and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement more important than these thoughts is the right of every American citizen to have distributed for his regular consumption all the accounts done by our Congress as well as by our city officials which he in the long run is forced to pay At least he should be protected to that extent ANGIEGRAM Just returned from Ixindon and the rate of exchange there is terrible what we lost in pounds we gained in kilos Papadakis On with game IT IS HARD to decide whose behavior was more childish in the odd preliminaries to the world championship chess matches in Iceland Bobby last-minute demand for a bigger purse or the Russian demand that Fischer forfeit the first game because he showed up late In terms of sportsmanship it hardly seems fair that Boris Spassky shoud go into the match with a one-game advantage when he owes it to pre-opening gambit that the pot has been sweetened by 1130000 Chess fans around the world could care less about the size of the purse or who should be apologizing to whom What they are waiting for is the long-heralded confrontation of American and Russian masters at the preferably with an even break at the starting line STAR 0 By CLAY POLLAN conducted by US Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson The above does not take into consideration two other important elements One is the fact that Soviet agreement to buy $750 million worth of American grains in the next three years open up a market for American surpluses that did not exist before It is expected that most of the Soviet purchases will be in feed grains and most of that in corn It will be fed to livestock to help the Russians meet a growing consumer demand for meat A huge American corn crop in 1971 left the United States with a 600 million bushel surplus over what could be used An important percentage of this will now be sold to the Soviets at current market prices Not only do the Russian purchases eat into grain surpluses and help ease the US imba-lance world trade an important side effect is the new jobs to be created Peterson estimated that up to 37500 non-farm jobs could be created in the next three years A second consideration is the fact that the grain deal is only one facet of a vast over-all increase in two-way trade hoped for by both sides Important suggestions also have come from the Russians One is a large passenger car plant for which the United States would supply the equipment Repayment would be made in finished cars that the United States could sell in Europe And only the beginning iv ARIES 7 UAH 3 1 By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notable in US business dealings with both the Soviet Union and China is the expectation of a fairly early end to the war in Vietnam Obviously the United States could not issue to the Boeing company a license to sell to China $150 million in 707 jet transports if it believed they could be used to deliver war supplies to North Vietnam against US and allied forces there The same is true of negotiations soon to be resumed in Moscow looking toward new trade agreements with the Soviet Union Involved is favored nation treatment for the entry of Soviet goods into the United States and extension of credits to the Soviet Union Neither would be likely to win approval of Congress if the question of Soviet aid to North Vietnam still stood between the two governments It also could be expected that maritime unions quickly would cancel their agreement to load Soviet or third country flag ships A lesser but important issue is the settlement of the Soviet lend-lease debt to the United States left over from World War II From an original figure of $108 billion the total has been scaled down to $800 million asked by the United States and $300 million offered by the Soviet Union A settlement of this issue is another item expected to emerge from the Moscow negotiations to be LIMA Stn 22 OCT 22 1 9-1018 270 44-71-82 89b 22 23 39 46 4753 66 73 This By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday July 12 the 194th day of 1972 There are 172 days left in the year Today's highlight in history On this date in the year 100 BC Julius Caesar was born On this date: In 1804 the American statesman Alexander Hamilton died from a wound inflicted in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr In 1808 Joseph Bonaparte entered Madrid as King of Spain In 1817 the American naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord Mass In 1941 Britain and the Soviet Union signed a mutual assistance treaty In 1957 a 20-year-old student at Harvard Prince Karim became the Aga Kahn and leader of 20 million Ismaili Moslems after the death of his grandfather In 1960 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev said the US Monroe Doctrine against European interference in Latin America no 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