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Hazleton Standard-Speaker, Thursday, July 13, 1972 13 1 I Ity Ralph NovaK John Chamberlain Decrease in 1972 Wheat Crop Seen WASHINGTON (AP) The mm j1 1 Bobby Fisclicr Kind of Checkmates Self Wm Coalition Death Knell Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian Communist. But he was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had Just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely. Co, Boris. Agriculture Department esti mated Wednesday the 1972 wheat crop at 1,551,000,000 bushels, down per cent from last year's record harvest.

The wheat estimate was the first this year, by the department for all types grown by farmers, although winter-types planted last fall were estimated earlier, Winter wheat production this year was put at 1,195,189,000 bushels, up 3 per cent from 1971. Last month the forecast was 1.19 billion bushels. The estimates were based on field surveys as of July 1. Pennsylvania's winter wheat. crop was estimated at 10,225, 000 bushels, or 35 per acre Maryland's was 4,332,000 and 38 per acre, and Virginia's 8,004, 000 and 42 per acre.

MARKIN TIME Old Noah was so very wise. He knew more than the other folks. Today, all he would recognize wouigi dc some television jokes. Luther Markin Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. From his point of view this is reasonable, of course.

But from everybody else's it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no Justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shov-ing a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two-wrongs-don't-make a right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport. Such ylcarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in MEASLES RANKS NO.

1 NEW YORK More than 75.006 cases of measles were reported in the United States in 1971, compared with 47,000 a year earlier, making measles the nation's No. 1 infectious disease. Jujitsu, of which the sport oi Judo is a modified form, literally means "gentleness thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego. Maybe at some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not.

And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on Fischer's talent. This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D. Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For Fischer's threats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for Icelandwhose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage.

But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous graceless man. in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trival pastime. Now, though, we have the confrontation. one of these We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new In chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue andor pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way, A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed smudged real world.

Fischer's performance, the prelude to the world chess championship match in Iceland, should not have surprised us. He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and. presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right.

The next question is, so what? 1: Save $100 or Tomorrow, Friday is the last day for First Federal clock offer. 4 jr MIAMI BEACH (KFS) If there was ever any truth to tha suspicion that George McGovern, who inherited io many of Bobby Kennedy'! itafferi, his been conducting a holding operation for Teddy Kennedy, it la gurely undercut by the South Dakotan'a own demeanou If the Kennedy-Jtei really hoped to use George McGovern, a aupposltlon that certainly became debatable after Chappaqulddlck, they are now In the position of Dr. Franken-stein, who created a monster and found he couldn't keep it under control. What is at issue here is not the question of Camelot'a salva-geabillty. The issue is the remaking of a party.

This has been Senator McGovern's overriding passion for two years. The so-called McGovern Rulea were formulated to get the people who were on the Chicago streets in 1968 into the convention hall, and to throw the old Insiders out. A New Coalition With his success in bringing the blacks, the women, the students, the less influential ethnics (goodby, Mayor Daley's Irish Americans), and various assorted intellectuals who are to the Left of the New Deal, into the delegations, McGovern has blown the old Roosevelt coalition sky high. The Old Democrats of the South (Roosevelt got along with a lot of people who would row be called Wallaceites) must follow Texas's John Connally into the Nixon camp. The big Jewish populations of New York City and California, contemplating what McGovern might do to decimate America's air and sea power in the Mediterranean, must wonder whether a pacifist is deserving of the old-time Jewish liberal support.

The city bosses of the Roosevelt era are either gone, or they have changed into unrecognizable devils who might even counsel their followers to vote Republican. Frank Rizzo, the Democratic Mayor of Philadelphia, has already announced that he is in Nixon's corner. Boss Daley of Chicago hoped that the convention would overturn its own Credentials Committee and reseat his discarded delegates. With McGovern is the nominee Daley might presumably echo the sentiments of the anti-Bryanites of the Eighteen Nineties who said "We are Democrats still, very still." Even the ethnics, who were with Roosevelt practically 100 per cent, must find themselves with fractured loyalties. Mark R.

Levy and Michael S. Kramer, who have just published their sapient "The Ethnic Factor: How America's Minorities De cide Elections," note that the Irish have it last been and have ceased to regard themselves as ethnics of any kind. The Italians and the Poles, mainly Catholic, can't go with McGovern's quoted statements on abortion, even though McGovern has said he'll let the states make their own pro- or anti-abortion laws. This does not mean that McGovern would cot get majorities in many ethnic enclaves. But the percentages would shrink, particularly In Michigan (which fears busing), and in places where people of Slavic origin are deter-, mined to defend the hard-earned value of their homes against the combined assault of the Federal bulldozer the blockbuster trying to find new turf for the blacks.

As for labor, another mainstay of the old Rooseveltian coalition, if it officially goes for McGovern it will do so without the fervor needed to get the boys to the polls in the right frame of mind. The remnants of the Rooseveltian coalition won't die without a fight. And McGovern, a politician to the last bit of marrow in his wishbone, will do his best to conciliate the discordant elements provided he can be assured they have no chance of depriving him of what he considers his Just rights. With McGovern winning the nomination, the power iri the party will go to the New Breeds. 7 Remaking the Platform The platform, like every other1 platform in history, will be remade by the exigencies of the campaign.

McGovern will have to heed the New Breeds, which automatically means that he must displease whole segments of the Old Democratic Party, beginning with Mayor Rizzo's Philadelphia Democrats, and going on through Boss Daley's disgruntled ward captains to the California voters who supported Hubert Humphrey and lab-orites who catch the wink in George Meany's eye. By the end of this week will know whether a party can almost totally remake itself and remain worth a plugged nickel. The biggest unknown is George Wallace's muscle tone and its effect on the wounded Alabaman's emotional and intellectual resiliency. If McGovern is to win in the South. George Wallace must be mollified.

But how is that possible with the New Breeds breathing down George McGovern's neck? It will be a fascinating week, all right, and some of us will watch it with the frightened awe that would be induced by, the spectacle of a python shedding its old skin within striking distance of one's unprotected feet. your choice of clocks when you add to your present account or open a new account in one of these 3 groups. Group more Choos one: Here's A Bonus Offer After you have received the free clock of your choice from one of the three groups, you may if you wish, on making an additional deposit of $100 or more, purchase any clock shown at a special price for a limited time only. 9 3f Letters to the Editor TtM lundird Speak wtl-MiH letters from readers. Communications must be sign-4 although publication of narnt wUI In wlthhtU eo If UMt Dear Sir: Mayor Conahan's comment on the petition received at St.

Joseph Hospital (on allowing husbands in the delivery room) shocked me, It was a very strong statement and terrible accusation which he made, I gave birth to my first child six weeks ago and my husband was not only present in the delivery room he delivered our child. And he was with me during the eleven hours of labor prior to delivery. The entire experience was most rewarding. My husband was able to help me very much during labor he rubbed my back, helped me to change my position in order to be more comfortable, applied cool cloths to my forehead and' neck, timed my contractions (thereby aiding hospital personnel, not creating more problems for them), kept an eye on my I. and gave me the emotional support a woman needs while her body is preparing itself for childbirth.

And when the time came for our son to be bom, It was a very beautiful and ecstatic experience for both of us. Childbirth is a completely beautiful miracle God grants to us. This child was together" from the time it was microscopic in size and all through the nine months of pregnancy. Why, then, should it not be "our together" during the climax the delivery of our child provided the husband has the desire to take part in this miracle. (I say "provided the husband has the desire" because I realize that not all husbands would want to be present when their wives give birth, but, a man should have the right to make this decision for himself).

I feel very strongly that a public apology Is necessary and proper from Mayor Conahan to those petitioners in order to rescind his disgusting accusation. I now want to make It clear that I do not subscribe to the theory that all prospective fathers should be present during the delivery of their children It is a personal decision there is nothing that is good for everyone to each his own. Nor am I degrading in any way those who would not choose to be present, but I do take offense to the mayor's sickening and obviously ignorant charge regarding those who do wish to witness this wonderful miracle. Mrs. H.

H. Feissner, III Dear Sir: read about Mayor Conahan's blast about capital punishment. I'm for him on his statement which was in July 5 issue. I agree with him a hundred per cent and all the people in Hazleton should stand by him. Some months ago at a city hall meeting he saw a person who refused to salute the flag.

He stopped the meeting and told the man to leave. (My hat's off to the mayor.) The people of Hazleton should be proud to have a mayor that's a true American and is interested in the people and his country. I was born in Hazleton and am living In New York now. But as many times I've been to Hazleton I never had the honor of seeing or meeting him at any time. When he does something good for the people nothing is said.

But if he makes a mistake everyone has something to say. Respect, your mayor and you will be respecting the city you live in. He holds the highest office in Hazleton. This is my personal feeling and my own opinion. Neil Umbriac.

Dear Sir: What's this world coming to? Everyone is apologizing to each other! 1 Bobby Fischer apologized to Spassky, Hippies-Yippies, apologizing to senior citizens in Florida parks as per scenes on national television broadcast. Halls of Congress and Senate apologize. At meetings these days, officers apologizing; members apologizing to their elected officers; among members. Newspaper editors apologizing for errcrs and or omissions. Radio announcers and TV anchormen constantly apologizing for their subordinates' "Boo Boos." Out of Harrisburg tills morning, apologies for late passage of budget after six days.

Several weeks ago, colleague, brother worker, verbally apologizing in the middle of work floor. Every one was appalled and surprised at someone apologizing at last. The message is well understood. I wonder who's the cause of these recent apologies. Nixoo our Tope of Rome, the new liturgical mass, or the Ecumenical Council's teschings? Now, all we need is for neighbor to neighbor, family to family, children to parents to apologize and It will begin a beautiful world again.

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As soon as the damages in the Pocono area can be fairly reckoned, both the promoters and the owners of the raceway should be billed. They are entitled to a profit and the crowds to entertainment, but not at the expense of the public. The inconvenience of the traffic jam is enough. Failure to make reasonable restitution should be ample reason for banning these whingdings anywhere in Pennsylvania at least until there is some evidence that they can be staged without interfering with the rights of others to enjoy their property. (Allentown Call) today's FUNNY A PLACE WHERE THE PEEUW6 FUNNY till fay $1 00 for tk rif inat "fimiw" uui.

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