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River Walk WaU Neglected A public safety ordinance, once proposed but withdrawn, should be reconsidered by City Council. It would insure safety along river-front parking lots and reduce the liklihood of dangerous cave-ins over the river walk. The June 12 cave-in near Crockett is still an unrepaired blight along the busiest part of the river be sufficient warning to take immediate and sufficient action to prevent a worse incident. At that cave-in, several persons narrowly escaped injury. There are other spots that appear weakened by cracks in the river-walk walls.

One city staff survey disclosed "a of places where retaining walls have been raised by inferior, jerry-built construction and dirt fills have been made to expand parking space. There has been no safety standard imposed. Previous nearly three weeks of the river walk at Crockett St. cleared of dirt so the walk was passable again. At that months the City legal department was trying to find out who was responsible for rebuilding the retaining wall.

The cave-in reposes as it was temporary retainers made of lumber and temporary wood markers to keep cars out of the river. A survey of the river this week discloses at least one spot that appears dangerous, others that appear risky. Because the river is one of the most- valuable assets San Antonio has, it should be kept as attractive and safe as it is possible to make it. DAVID LAWRENCE San Antonio has the most-acute nurse shortage in Texas, latest reports claim. As the role as a medical center grows the shortage is certain to increase unless a dramatic change takes place.

As of today, there approximately 100 vacancies for which funds are budgeted. When the proposed Veterans Administration is built, it will require 500 RNs to staff it. Texas needs 8,000 more nurses to bring it up to desired levels. The nurse shortage also means a shortage in other medical-staff workers. It is obvious that greater incentive is required.

A part of that incentive almost certainly has to be in money. Average pay in Texas is $3,960 a year (versus $4,250 In the Northeast). Another need is scholarships, student loans on workable terms, and a challenge to career-seeking young people. The job opportunity is as great as one could wish. RUSSELL BAKER Ban on Laid to Pique Over Chess Double-Jeopardy Law Must Go For the second time, Federal District Judge Adrian Spears has ruled against Texas law that has the effect of double jeopardy in a criminal case and is, therefore, unconstitutional Latest case was against Richard Sawyer, 21, who killed his parents nearly five and one-half years ago.

At that time, the boy was sent to juvenile prison at Gatesville as a delinquent. When he became a legal adult, he was sentenced to prison terms upon a guilty plea. Judge Spears held that the state had already punished him and once was all the Jaw allows. indefensible law should be changed. If a child is legally exempt from prosecution as an adult for crime, it is patently unfair, even sadistic, to imprison him until he gets enough years to the calendar responsible.

The Legislature has refused to face this problem. There can be effective prosecution of juvenile offenders. The present system Is woefully inadequate. It is only occasionally true that a newcomer to the Gatesville reform school finds a place that created by turning loose another inmate prematurely. Now that the courts are striking down these double-jeopardy convictions, the Legislature may get down to business on the matter.

Baker By RUSSELL BAKER (C) NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON abrupt decision to keep off the boards in Russia is bad news. The official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against United States war policy in Viet Nam is not taken seriously by people who understand relations between modem These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscow thinks It can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David rubles. (Merrick is the producer.) The crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happening in Asia. In the words of one war- room thinker, we are faced with is the danger of total cultural In striking against most successful musical, Moscow is over-reacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust. The crisis was quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the Capablanca chess tournament.

Scanning newspaper cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commissars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament. HERE, IT SEEMED, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States to strike a sneak blow against Communist culture. This suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United Fischer gambit in the American press. The State motives are obscure. The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a smaU probe by the CIA designed to test Communist cultural defenses.

Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response. Compared to Fischer is scarcely more than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal. At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dnieperpetrovsk. IN BANNING Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity. The men here who favor lobbing one into the room of the Kremlin are already urging a five-year prohibition against the Bolshoi Ballet, and Sol Hurok has been warned that eyeball to eyeball under the complexion The voice of sanity behind the scenes belongs to Dr.

Hugo Hans, whose seminal work, Can Turn the defines 93 brilliantly thought- out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful step 94, universal cultural war. (Banning pre-dawn Russian classes on educational TV, permitting unlimited export of movie magazines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Dr. Hans points out that in refusing to let Fischer go to Cuba to play chess, the United States, unwittingly perhaps, was escalating to step 22. the national A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism. THIS, HE NOTES, was Impossible for a number of rea- soiw.

For another, the Russians read his book and hence did not know the er response. Instead, they escalated immediately to step 67. the road Even at this level, Dr. Hans points out, effective cultural warfare can be waged without intense danger of wiping out all culture. To ban further tours by the Bolshoi, for example, would invite further escalation by the Russians.

The reasoned response would be to bed the troupe in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel rooms next to convention parties, and steer them (Tmi nmeettfm roeorni They nfti iMK aM enlf wll IN miff will rm MifelflNi- tn pvm IN mter itngiti. fMMf Termed Dear Sir: It was horrid of Sheilah Graham to write that article on banning the Beatles and equally awful for you to publish II. She is the most wrong I have ever heard. The policemen should be watching for criminals" are only trying to protect the lives and of the Beatles as well as the safety of the teen-agers. They do give to us.

It Is something that we always will remember. We go to them not to necessarily hear know the songs already. I hope you have too much of this kind of article. Diana Smith Beatles and Dear Sir: W'hy is it that everyone always has to say something against the Beaties (like Sheilah Graham in her column on Aug. 31)? The Beatles are great and their entertainment is good, clean and decent.

I saw the Beatles performances in Houston on Aug. 19 and, though it was noisy, it as bad as the police and the press made it out to be. There was screaming of course but no one was hurt. sure that everyone there had a wonderful time. Of course, not all of their performances are as calm as the two in Houston, but I do believe that Miss Graham is going a bit too far and is exaggerating somewhat.

If she thinks that the Beatles should be banned from performing well her opinion. I have a few opinions about her, too. The Beatles have as much right to perform as she has to write a column in the paper. P. B.

Library Parking Space Dear Sir: One very necessary and important thing is being overlooked in planning the new library: Free parking for library users! surprised no one has mentioned this. We replar library users need parking space very badly and hope we get some. Mrs. D. C.

S. Anglo-Latin Harmony Pleasing Dear Sir: After reading recent comments of Albert Fuentes, It seems to me I heard this song before, usuaUy sung by those preparing to run for political office. If this be true, I should hate to him do this by pitting one against another. It would be a sad day for San Antonio where Latins and Anglos have melted into such a harmonious community. Most Anglos, like myself, are proud of the Mexican culture so prominently displayed in our city.

I have lived in 12 cities across the nation and I have never seen anything like the good will and harmony that exists le- tween Anglos and Latins in San Antonio. James Cox Scout Headline Criticized Dear Sir: In the Sept. 1 paper an article was run titled Scout Charged With Crime Of course, this is very unusual and out of the ordinary, but for this fact alone such mentioning of the boy being an Eagle Scout was uncalled for. The article could have been just as newsworthy with a different title and not have slandered such a fine organization. G.

L. P. prop- Raw Savagery in Viet Nam Dear Sir: artioie on Labor Day sounded a tragic note. The war in Viet Nam has reached tiie stage of raw savagery. Its motto has become rule or ruin.

This is an old, old story; heard it in every war. Christ said: of false prophets, which come to you in clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. So men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of The point is, of course, that while armies are killing and destroying, they are killing and destroying; they are not making peace. What we are doing In Viet Nam is not the work of God.

Of our actions in Viet Nam, the words of the Jewish prophet seem to herald the crack of doom; have sown the wind, and they shall reap the M. M. PattlUo through a program of rigor- ousiy planned activity such as Ask JLhsarlu ameiit Director Day movies, visits to Dear Sir: recent heavily censored report by the Senate Armed Services subcommittee has shown deficiencies in supply and maintenance of equipment for army units stationed in the United States and Perhaps this committee should ask the director of the Disarmament Committee, whoever he is, about this serious problem. Andrea Nichols Doris the Senate and afternoon TV game shows. Dr.

critics have vilified him for daring to think about ways of making culture an effective weapon of the state. As the Russians have shown again, however, culture in the era of the state is as much Steel Price Boosts Inevitable atrtic IS as iiiucn an instru- tn i a i i ment of policy as the icBM Jc ormulatea Jby iStcvensoii and the secret agent. As Dr. Dear Sir: The basic pretense of the Johnson Administration with regard to the Communist threat was formulated by Adlai Steven- swi long ago: The surest way to from being is to commit suicide. Stan Swlnton Hans puts it, make an omelet without cracking a few Hello, Offer Is Going Lawrence By DAVID LAWRENCE WASHINGTON bargaining as the means of settling wage disputes in the major industries of the country has been superseded by presidential intervention and by what Herbert Spencer, the British 1 losopher, once called 0 mpulsory CO Without sanction of law but relying on the argument that the is paramount, President Johnson has, in effect, forced a settlement In the industry which gives the workers more than they have ever had they'ii be earning an average of to a year.

As for the steel companies, it has been emphasized in the press that prices were not n- tioned in the discussions with the negotiators. This is understandable inasmuch as competing steel companies cannot discuss prices in each presence, even during a labor negotiation, without subjecting themselves to threats of prosecution under the antitrust laws. Inevitably there will be price rises. The steel companies will not raise them the or engage in any dramatic announcements. be about it.

This means that, in those specialties in which certain companies excel, the latter will move the prices upward. In the usual category of products, the prices will go up gradually in due time. So the settlement does impair the image of which has )een painted. Other unions, moreover, will not be content to stay far below the wage rates earned by the steel workers. As for the off-used but little understood word which supposedly offset the cost of wage increases by gains in the of labor this is the kind of gobbledygook which confuses the public but disturb the labor leaders.

who know only one direction for wage rates to go, and upward. THE WHOLE DRAMA in Washington, Including free meals for the negotiators at the White House and the spectacular pleas to the boys in Viet fitted in with the tactics of the steel-union leaders. They wanted to make gains in wage rates but were afraid their own opposition inside the union would demand more if it appeared that the union sentatives were too willing to agree with management. As a matter of fact, the negotiators on both sides knew from the beginning the approximate point at which an agreement could be reached and were not too unhappy when the President stepped in. The effect was to help the labor-union leaders to accept a that was really a victory for them.

It helped the steel companies, too, to build up their own case for eventual price rises with a confident feeling that the administration will not clamp down on them and send FBI agents scurrying around at night to get evidence for antitrust suits against them, as happened during the Kennedy administration. BUT become of The New York Times editorially declares that bargainers had to be summoned to the House and held virtual prisoners until they signed a It adds: about the negotiations did credit to labor-management relations in steel or to the institution of collective bargaining. it is hard to escape the belief that much of the hippodrome atmosphere of the White House conferences was specifically designed to help the union leaders off the hook on which they had hung themselves by overexub- erant campaign pledges of militant The New York Herald Tribune, pointing out that the collective-bargaining process had not gained in prestige, says: intercession in wage disputes is hardly a desirable development; once begun. it is difficult to stop. An expectation of White House intervention can freeze a r- gainers on both sides, encouraging them to save their concessions for the trip to THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE sees a sinister development in the fact that the President that a settlement must be noninflationary and must preserve steel price It then asks: that price-fixing, what is? The President does it openly and in an unabashed manner, for government, of course, exempts itself from liability under the antitrust laws and its to decree )rices cannot readily be chal- More and more as the government intervenes in the the public will find that it is the which is paramount and that, in the face of rising wage scales, price rises to pay for them cannot be inhibited without forcing many a marginal company into bankruptcy or with the bijgger fellows.

The 3olitical alliance between the abor unions and the administration is paying off, and the free-enterprise system is losing its freedom. Meanwhile, the ideologists in far-off Moscow will rejoice that America may be beginning to travel the road to state socialism under a government- controlled economy a in keeping with of the To Viet Nam WASHINGTON (AP)-The Mary Martin company of is going to play before American troops in Viet Nam next month. The White House announced Wednesday that President Johnson asked producer David Merrick to take the show to Saigon and that Merrick very enthusiastically accept- Dear Sir: The war in Viet Nam is a difficult one for soldiers to fight. It is a type of warfare characteristic of Orientals. I understand why our government does not accept Chiang offer to send several divisions of his Free Chinese troops to help us fight in Viet Nam.

How can we logically refuse this offer when the war we are fighting is one they know so well how to handle? After all, it was our money that helped equip and train their modern army. And recently I read another discouraging report that radical leftists in this country are recruiting an American brigade to go to Viet Nam to fight on the side of the Communist Viet Cong. This movement is Communist-inspired and delegates to a on held at Yale University in May were told that several Americans had already left for such action. Recruiting Is being handled by members of the Progressive Labor Party. Perhaps we should have a declared war and these American traitors could be executed for treason! Eamestlne H.

Brunty ed the The cast is now in Tokyo LilVll eHS6 JrrOgram and will go from there to Sai- Dear Sir: On the first Friday of each month, at 10:30 a.m., right on the dot, our Civil Defense siren goes off. Every person within the city limits hears the loud, high-pitched alarm that runs full five minutes. Nobody can miss it. There is evidence that our Civil Defense fog horn is working. But how much else of the C.D.

program is working? Suppose the alarm were real: who would know where to go or gon with the Defense Department providing the transportation. It originally had been planned to take the show to Moscow, but the Soviet Union turned it down, making it available for the trip to Saigon. White House Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers said Johnson appreciation to Merrick and Mary Martin and the entire cast for their willingness to entertain our troops in Viet what to do? A. T.

Despising of USA Dear Sir: I surmise that if birth control had been the practice about 57 years and 10 months ago the USA might be less (tespised by other nations at this time. D. E. M..