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THE EVENING REVIEW A Dependable Newspaper Serving the TrUState Districts Published Daily (Evening) Except Sunday Member Associated Press Joseph Dryden, Publisher Established Oct 25. 1878 Thursday, March 22, 1973 Page 4 More Than Red Faces The romance of the rails, the memory tugging sound of a passing train stir no happy thoughts in the minds of East Palestine residents so far as the Penn Central Railroad is concerned. The noise of a Diesel locomotive, the clatter of metal wheels over track joints only bring recollections of long delays at crossings, death and injury to innocent motorists and train passengers, unpaid damage to city and private property and the continuing threat of disaster, Tbe weekend derailment of five cars of the Amtrak killing one passenger and injuring 20 others, served as another reminder of the repeated railroad mishaps along the main Penn Central line. City officials are still boiling at the failure of the bankrupt railroad to replace the Brookdale Ave. bridge wrecked three years ago.

They are also bitterly critical of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission for its rather casual response to complaints lodged against the railroad by the municipality. While Penn Central may be in a financial pinch, it can not excuse shoddy maintenance, lowered operating standards or disregard of public pressure. It is ironic that the victim of this latest accident was a railroad employe traveling as a passenger. But it is also significant that among those aboard was Maurey Andreason, chief of operations, who no doubt gained a new impression of the efficiency and safety of the national rail link in the Penn Central. It is amazing that derailment did not claim more lives.

But East citizens, aware to the amazing good fortune which has safeguarded them time after time, want any more dependency on luck. They want Penn Central to keep its trains and loose parts and loads on the tracks where they belong, and they want the PUCO and the ICC to make darn well sure the railroad does just that. Another failure here, and the results will involve more than just some red faces. Private Flying Safer A $30,000 airplane, anyone? Or how about $1,500 worth of tuition toward a private pilot rating? There are among the inducements being offered by the General Aviation Manufacturers Assn. (GAMA) to encourage pilots and those who would like to be pilots to participate in the Federal Aviation Accident Prevention Program.

Between June 1, 1972, and Jan. 31, 1973, more than 115.000 pilots and nonpilots qualified for these and 102 other prizes in Safe Pilot Sweepstakes by attending an FAA safety seminar and aircraft clinic. Thousands more are expected to qualify before the sweepstakes ends on May 31 and the names are drawn. The FAA program began in 1971 after investigations of general aviation accidents and established that more than 80 per cent of them were attributable to pilot error. The program, which is entirely voluntary, consists of the safety education seminars and aircraft clinics as well as courtesy check rides to enable pilots to improve weaknesses and discussions with industry' representatives on aircraft and equipment.

Pilots are also en- couraged to file reports regarding unsafe airway or airport conditions. An FA AAccident Prevention Specialist handles the program at each of 84 general aviation district offices around the country. The emphasis on general aviation safety is hardly new, however. Safety has always been stressed by the manufacturers of aircraft, engines, radios ond other components; through testing and certification; through the training and licensing of pilots, mechancs, air traffic controllers and other specialists, jind by various pilot organizations. The rosult has been a steady improvement in the accident picture over the years.

In 1960, for example, there were 4,793 accidents recorded for 13.1 million hours and 1.7 billion miles flown by general (non airline) aviation. By 1970, the hours and miles flown had increased to 25.5 million and 3.9 billion respectively, but the number of accidents increased only to 4,927. The accident rate per 10,000 flying hours was cut almost in half. Private pilots and others who would like to participate in the program and enter the GAMA Sweepstakes can find out the times and locations of seminars and clinics by contacting their local FAA office. Letter To The Editor I would like to present a view in defense of the curriculum which has undergone what many feel to be an unjustified attack.

The fact is that this type of curriculum attempts to deal with underlying causes of surface behavior. This is done rather than simply administering punishment without determining the motivation behind that behavor. Only in seeking the true source of the problem can unfavorable behavior be dealt with properly. There can be a tremendous opportunity in this type of behavior modification to increase a ability to reason. If a child or adult is able to view his own behavior in the light of why he performed in a particular way and the results of that behavior, then he can become competent in controlling his own behavior without strong external conlrols.

This could be a fine step forward in education because it can equip a child to function well in society by enabling him to control his own behavior. This kind of curriculum can lead us from the unfavorable concept of programming children with facts and figures as though they were robots while ignoring their human needs. We know that many animals can be forced into particular behavior patterns by dealing with strong external controls for punishment and reward. The difference between behavior control in men and animals is ability to reason. Men can view their behavior in the light of the cause and the effect.

It is the hope of many that fear of reaching out to attempt a better and more humanistic means of behavior control and that the strong tones of religiosity (which often mask insecurity) will not frighten us away from what can be a better educational process. There is strong objection because some fear a change of values. We should keep in mind that if values are valid they will not be disturbed by making children aware of their own needs and of those around them. My name is being withheld because as an individual I do not care to be the recipient of the collective wrath of those so vehemently opposed to this curriculum. SCHOOL OBSERVER The Secret Senators By Ralph Novak The U.S.

Senate, as everyone knows, abhors hypersecrecy in government affairs. It does like bureaucrats who do things behind back or civil servants who make their own rules or presidents who make decisions that constantly have legislators locking barn doors after stolen horses. It turns out though, that the Senate is willing to make an occasional exception to the general rule that the people have a right to know who is doing what with their tax and why. That you stand the surprise? ie the good old progressive Senate itself. When the Senate voted the other day on a reform proposal all its committee meetings open to the public unless the committee involved voted to close it, the secrecy forces won Their margin of nine votes (47-38) included the leaders and whips of both parties, such staunch defenders of the public right to as Sen Mike Mansfield.

and Sen. Robert Griffin, Mich. But. softly. Could this be in fact what the Senate That the public will find out how their system really operates fand, in a fit righteous indignation, throw the rascals out? For the burning question remains what do they have to hide? Short of disclosing military secrets, is there anything Senate committees w-f uld do by opening their meetings that would harm the country? Can anyone be blamed for assuming that what the legislators are really worried disclosing is the less-than-civics book-pure system by compromise and clout by which the government is run? THE ASSISTANT DEMOCRATIC leader.

Rob ert C. Byrd of West Virginia, pompously opposing the reform, said that tamper with the rules of the Senate is to tamper with Senate This heinous possibility, he implied, would be to lo sky purple or conspiring to cut the wings off all the butterflies The only rational objection Byrd offered was that opening up all meetings would mspire our distinguished to That is they would tend to emit grand and gross sound and fury, legislating nothing. This might well happen at the outset (i! though those senators who attend the open meetings that do exist often seem to have trouble staying awake, let alone doing any worthwhile performing). But it ought to become rapidly clear, to a senator, that the grandstanding would have to end if anything were to be accomplished. And if nothing were accomplished with w'hole country, more or less, looking on, then perhaps these senators would not be senators for very long.

THE SAME DOGMATIC presumption of the need for secrecy keeps diplomatie meetings closed. It keeps labor-management collective bargaining sessions closed it helps kiiep things in generol in something less than Utopian The leaders who sav that they need secrecy to negotiate in all these areas are being arrogant. if not dishonest. The people whose lives are affecfed by decisions made behind clesed doors have a right to know exactly how those decisions are made and why. When the U.S.

House of Representatives, of all people can move to open all its meetings unless committee members vote against doing so, the Senate should be should be refusing to do so. As Sen E. Stevenson III 111, one dl the reform supporters, said. secrecy breeds disirust. It prevents accountability.

It does violence to the principle of government basf.d on rhe informed con of the Thoughts Unless a rebirth of religious spirit in the hearts of its leaders and in people throughout the world, our civilization, despite tremendous victories, will slide into an abyss perhaps for Thompson, Ameii- tari writer. the Name of the New Argentine Government We Thank ictor riesel And Labor Eyeball It Victor Rieser WASHLNGTON If I were making book. place 2 to 1 that some 40 to 10 million ers will be free of any wage controls, sticks in the closet, nr other featherweight inhlbitiona on May 1. That appears to be price of support for extension of the stabilization powers bevond April 30 The arithmetic is simple politics. Labor has passed that it wants no 2.5 per cent annual increase standard gossamer as it is It w.ants all earn $3.50 an hour or les.s meaning $140 a week to be freed of any controls, A head count in Congress shows strong odds that such an amendment will be pasted onto the renewal of presidential control powers.

President Nixon then would have to sigr. or veto a Phase Three Odds are sign. He needs powerful support There is no other bloc. The others have lest bv default, bv lack of imagination, by failure to organize pohticahv. by meekness in the face of his muscled foreign policy.

So the Nixon-labor coalition Not out of weakness on either side but out of strength, each cautiously maneuvering, each giving as little as possible, taking as much as possible, emphasizing positive for their own strategy And since what's positive for one may be negative to the other, each is attempting to neutralize the negative IN A MEMORANDUM dispatched March' 8 to top Dept, of Labor it is said that his White House role Mr. Rodgers will provide the administration with a voice on labor mattera relating to the implementation of policies in all agencies of the federal government and will act as an ombudsman for labor in their dealings with the bureaucracies cf many federal As ombudsman, Rodgers will keep his old office (which had for 10 months since he succeeded the late George Bell the yining millionaire who won so much of affection and respect) in White meaning, in fact, the Executive Office Building. But regularly Rodgers will amble over a few streets to the Labor Dept. There, in the office across from the he will be hack with his colleague and intimate, Pete Brennan. Rodgers will have the title of Counselor to the Secretary of Labor and the staff of an Assistant Secret.ary of Labor.

The old team will be together again. On those Rodgers shifts chairs to the Labor Dept he will handle arising between the Dept, of Labor and This will take some swift midseason switch- hitting. But how Brennan wanted it how the President let him have it. PRESIDENT NIXON KNOWS from the re ports of Secretary of the Treasury economic he needs a free-wheeling trade act him by Congress. He get that bill through without the labor-controlled liberal vote on the Hill.

The labor chiefs know thev get their Phase Three control amendment through over presidential opposition. So each is bartering. fascinating tc see some of hat labor has gotten. all profiled, for example, in the 46 year-old university educated war veteran, ex Operating Engineers Union official, a Rodgers, vear ago he was unknown in the capital and walked mostly in the shadow of Peter Brennan, now Secretary of Labor. Thus he was little known even in his native New York.

Now a most unusual official. elal adviser on labor to Pre.sident Nixon The White House calls him an In the parlance of the police, the In Scandinavia, where the word and practice originated, an ombudsman is a com missioner who hears and investigates comnlaints by private citizens against government offif or agencies. In case, be handling complaints of labor men across the nation. DURING PRESIDENT candid talk with high command last month, he said Brennan would not be an in-house Labor Secretary, The Labor Dept was to run. And run it he will though as consequential to industry as it is to labor.

This is far more than a vignette, far more than in politics deep in federal labyrinths, far more than just another appointment, dual though it is. It is an accommodation between two sovereign powers. The President and the inner White House staff yield, change philosophically a bit wh le they watch the dollar bounce like tlie little ball in a sing along movie. And in the words of Floyd Smi'h, Machinists Union chief, lowering its sights or modifying its goals the AFL-CIO is prepared to take everything and anything it can get from Richard Nixon in his next four years as President of the U.S Bible Digest will say of the Lord. He is my refuge ard my fortress: my God; in him will I Psalms 91:2 He will be what we say in faith that He is to us.

Ask big of your heavenly Father for He will do anything for the least of His children. has loved thee with an everlasting World you hear a whimpering 1973 by NEA, mm The Magic Spirit That Sustains Us By Bruce Biossat WASHfNGTON- In his new play celled the distinguished playwright Tennessee Williams brings down the final curtain with one of his two characters saying: is a habit. Magic is our Since it is a play lader with symbolism, mistily vague reference points, and a host of unanswered questions, a viewer can take from it varied meanings, whether or not that is the intent. Those particular closing lines had a definite significance for me. And as I took them.

I think they are univWsally applicable to life-in a way worth dwelling on in the contekt of the 1970s. MOST OF US UNDERSTAND the blended nature of mixture of joy and sorrow, beauty and ugliness, strength and weakness, pain and pleasure. We appreciate, too that the blend for many people is often weighted heavily one way or the other- for a comparative few toward almost miraculous good fortune, but for all too many in this imperfect society toward deprivation, ugliness or circumstance, ill health that is draining and -sometimes critically painful. To me. it means finding and consciously light- insr up constructive, inherently bright elements of it means finding ways of makin.e dominant mood a ceremony of the spirit, the snecial spirit crowns humanity and off from the rest of the animal world.

Ceremony? It can be small or large, regular or occasional. Like a loving regard for the changing wonder of the sky, or a swath of woods in summer green or black tracery: It can be warm attention to the milestones was pass as individuals, families and country. It can be thoughtful celebration of a high moments, like Christmas. It can mean plunging into the riches of the best thought and the finest printed word, thus throwing oneeself into the stream of history and takiog on a sense of belonging to humanity in the large. Or tuning oars to and poignant at its peaks, cheerful and uplifting at its lightest and least.

There is sustaining magic in all these things and more. But to gain their supporting worth, we have to work hard to seize and hold them. The magic is not in ceremony reduced to empty ritual It is found in the skeptical, scornful boredom that in some places masquerades as sophisticatioh. SUSTAINING MAGIC HAS AT its roots a holding to some innocence, an easy rectptive- ness to good things whether old or new, an unending curiosity about the delight in varietv and surprise. Someone once said (Was it Churchill?) that the bov in a man dies, the man is None of this signifies playing Pollyanna, blinding oneself to ugliness, misfortune, deprivation, eithei' in owm life or in the lives of the tno many -vhere these are unhappily dominant Conflict and struggle are inherent in living.

Being the thing is to search for ways to use them attack human difficulties in spirit that accepts theif reality but employs full imagination and visor in the fight. To cry doom, to sink into spirit'ess despair, is reallv to abandon the battle, and erase the magic that lies in constructive assault. is our savs the clos'ng Williams line. But the prior sentence may be the crucial one is a Those of us lucky enough to develop it owe an obligation to help the millions for whom its sustaining glow is buried in a mountain of trouble. Quotes When people begin to protect themselves as individuals and not as a community, the battle against crime is effectively lost, Newman, architect.

Through The Years THIRTY YEARS AGO Dr. Guy E. Byers of Salem was re-elected president of the Columbiana County Public Health League and Mrs. M. D.

McCutcheon of East Liverpool was re-named vice president. Miss Angelina Bonessi and Miss Ann Douglass of Chester, students at Bethany College, arrived home ta spend the spring vacation. TWENTY YEARS AGO The Senior Class of New Waterford School presented its annual class play, a three-act comedy entitled My under the direction of Richard Greenwalter, instructor of English. Marshall H. White retired as a city fireman after 1 years service.

Michael and Dick Williams played the part of gangsters in the operetta Me, presented by the department of East Liverpool High School. TEN YEARS AGO Miss Trudy Lawton of Lisbon a 1962 graduate of East Liverpool High School, accepted a positiwi with the government in Washington. J. M. Pinney of Neptune Ave.

was reappointed to the Chester Park CJommission for a aflx- year term. Mrs. James Walker, Mrs. Edward Massey Jr. and Mrs.

Howard Claypool were welcomed as members of the Lady Elks. The Evening Review 219 E. 4tta St. Eait Liverpool, Ohio Phone: 385-4545 zip Code 43920 Subscrlpiion rates; Single Copy 10 cents. Home Uvered 60 cente per week.

By mail, payable in a vance, within Columbiana County, Ohio; County, Beaver County, Pa.j and all poir within 25 miles of East Liverpool one year $17.0 six months, three months one mon $3 50. Outside rates given upon request. No ms subscriptions accepted localities served by et Tier delivery. AIJ carriers, dealers and distrlbuto are independent contractors, keeping their own i counts tree from control; therefore The Evenli Review is not responsible for advance paymer to them, their agents or representatives. The Associated Press is entiUed exclusively to use for lepublication of all the local news publish in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatchi Second class postage paid at East Liverpool, 01 Advertising representative, Thomson Newapapei Inc.

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