Record-Journal from Meriden, Connecticut • 6

Regular Every Four Years I Vfnmpnf of sionrhis Tuticulationhls The Morning Record Meriden Conn WaA Mir 22 1972 Zoning Hearing IN A PLASTIC primary cara-paign filled with non-events and media slickness here was tomethfag reel happening A candidate wed expressing his beliefs live so to speak ex-pressing then on the most loaded end difficult'- of' without long strategy and calculation In feet he was bowing that he had beliefs Not too many people around the country will have heard about those moments in the University of Illinois auditorium It was one incident in a sprawling campaign- and it haturaUy was overwhelmed by reporta end comment on the speech Still the episode could say something about the bilitiee of George McGovern as a candidate for President McGovern is often called an unexciting candidate lacking vdved than a neighborhood quarrel as the Wallingford Taxpayers Association and the Chamber of Commerce have recognized in supporting thKupplicatkjn for a zoning change Times Wire St Cable has made dear that it must expand While it would prefer to remain in Wallingford it will be forced to locate in some other area if its application -for xezoning is denied Relocation would mean not only forfeiting the proposed expansion but also the dosing of present facilities Times Wire St Cable is prepared to build a $1 minion factory addi- tkn which win yield at least $115- 000 in tax revenue to the town and provide additional employment to the tune of a $500000 annual payroll These long range benefits are not to be dismissed lightly Taken In conjunction with assured proteo tion from flood pollution and otiw er environmental hazards the eco- nomic advantages of the proposed expansion should weigh heavily in aqy' consideration of the zoning change application i The Planning and Zoning Oom-mlssion of Wallingford will hold a hearing tonight on the application of die Times Wire St Cable Co an TnatWi affiliate to rezone an area along the Quiimipiac River to per fnlt for plant expansion Last year die Commission approved the rezoning but its ded- sion was nullified on appeal because of a technicality and a re-' hearing was ordered Of late too much brat and too little light have been generated what with picket lines in front of the' town hall and other forms of protest which offer emotional re- tease but contribute little else Pressure tactics are out of place in this situation A hard-nosed exam- inatkxi ct all die facts is called for Not only must the physical security' of adjoining and nearby proper- -ty be considered but also die economic welfare of the town and its citizens for years to crane -r This is not merely -a dispute between a corporation andLa group of small properly ownersMore Is in-: cause he wants about the reel issues in rhariama and it la certainty this country unemployment true that he tends to be a fist inflation the 1 speaker with a rather nxo--u jn states such as Wisconsin tonous Midwestern voIct end Michigan Massachusetts Cali-little in the wsy of rhetoric But fornil Democmtic voter may wants Americans to no heard him could doubt that he hat 'resources of emotion in him and the ability to convey it TOE7SUBSTANCE of hta reaction to the Nixon anti-bus- ing program wee even more in-: teresting than the manner Democratic professionals have -mostly considered McGovern too far left for a country seemingly moving to tiie right But a lot of Democratic voters are going to want a dekr al-tentative to Richard Nixon ail George Wallace And on the basing issue which the Presi-dent has now made certain win dominate politic! for 'months ahead an alternative Demo--scratic position ia getting harder end herder to find Hubert Humphrey outdid himself in hastening to climb on the anti-busing bandwagon be Mid that Nixon the rule of law had at' last come eround to make that well be reidy for that IF George "identify with issues -he mentioned Florida surveys people who voted in 'were more concerned -war and the about busing -V But the: otiier 1 McGovern iiw in busing message tentially even deeper That is the Constitution and Americans have angry at the Bupreme But again and again they have thdr own best safety the interpreter of the however temporarily in remaining of law Rowan Reports: Our National Symbol Is In Danger i ft-- s-'V Vri- -L 9 Hie' bald eagle that proud bird whose Rgal profile adorns the Great Seal of the United States continues to be an endangered wild- life species whose numbers di- minish annually Ely latest count there are only about 750 breeding pairs In the first 48 states They are gme entirely from many areas where even as recently as the they were found areas such as the Palisades of the Hudson River for ex- cumbing not to calculated but to tiie Insidious poisoning of insecticides DDT Ingested by the eagle through the food it eats Is rendering the eggs infertile and the species is dying -V Hie tragedy" ta madeTailTthe-' more ironical by the fact tiiat the bald eagle is tiie national bird Just as the eagle is a symbol of the power so its demise may be a symbol of our national dis- on ations more In whidi the poor tiie have-nots wind up without a remote -chancels' succeed in' that race we call thejursuit of happiness Mr' Nixon turned some neat phrases -'about integration and equality Of opportunity but they can never camouflage the truth: that he was retreating beforej the charge of tJeorge Wallace bending to the howl of the mob both of whom he unwittingly armed when he put the phrase into the lang- sane of the things that some of the rest of us have been trying to dOL in agreement with me" Henry Jackson followed hta Florida pattern by saying Looking Homeward 4 By CAKL ROWAN WASHINGTON For many reasona personal and prpfes-: sional I have strained to find something good to say 'about President latest: pro- nouncement on school bating ButTam driven-to the con- elusion that the pro-' posals mark one of the saddest -chapters in this history A periodically glorious cam- paign to make this one society of mutual admiration -and res-' pect which began full-force Jwckta the 30a has been dragged to an end For tiie first time in half a century the Presi-denf ofthe United States has ar rayed himself and the immense Even in such fcvofeditfe-Integration" that the President Him WtilaeB -had-not gone far enougBlJ should have proposed a con- ftitiiHnnal amendment against 'busing Edmund MusMs happened to -be st the University of minus the morning after McGovern He criticized the President for raising straw men -ex treme busing si tuitions that the Supreme Court baa never approved That was- a strong point but somehow Muskio did not make it seem deer or forceful he lost his way in testy ana defensive arguments with his student audience AS McGOVERN SAW the NIx- on program it raised two broad issues' One was tha President's fee of busing as a political distraction Nixon this elaborate charade McGovern Mid approach McGovern can the basic Even in hevq shown the primary about the economy than issue that the Presi- has po- significance integrity of the courts often been Court' in our history decided that lay in accepting Auction as Constitution uncomfortable faithful to Someone is fight against Richard Nixon and the -political lawyers advising him-end it is not necessarily gofog to be a loeing fight (C) NY Times Service By Herman Angel admtata-' vsL likely will revolt when or -thyifV: as tiie coast of Maine of Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes region their numbers are few little did members of tiie Colonial Congress foresee when they There is an old legend that Gibraltar will never be wrested from British hands as long as the Baiba-zy apes continue to inhabit tiie Rode Over tiie centuries the Brit- TT reeand chose the eagle as tiie national emish havetaken care to seethat the blem In 1782 tiiat tiie species might apes notonly survive but flourish" eagjkj highiirrthta on the ta that HZirn hS tha naked truth "ectei1to 5 ter-genei panoply of offictally-eanctinned tajusticea wv f-- Mr Nixon may believe that his So-preme Court wiligo along people but tiie naked truth bigotry is nmr riding '-even the Pretident is ter neglect) outlawing Mr elioceting the plight can that erest By ANTHONY LEWIS' -CHAMPAIGN HL -The- Bight of President speech on busing Sen George McGovern was hen at the University of Illinois speaking to nearly 3000 students jammed into the auditorium Jnst before 9 he said he thought eiyone should beer the Prest- doit A email televisioe Set was brought on stage and a-rni-crophone held up to it ao the aound esme over the loudspe her system When the President finished McGovprp switched off the set end went to the rostrum "Whet we have Just he said uis collapse of moral and political leader-the President A total to Wallaceiam end the demagoguery it represents Tie has talked for yean about law' and order Whet he has asked Congress to do now is -to defy the courts and defy the Constitution This course will doubtless be welcomed by many frightened people but it repre- sents a beck-door sneak attack on the Constitution of the United States1 For perhaps 5 or lOminutes' McGovern spoke about tire issues posed by the Nixon ad- dress The response in that hell -was electric Of course it was a sympathetic audience but even -the most' detached observers were impressed by whet George McGovern was his paa- hm S'i T-' spells out the guarantees that vast new money win actually be spent to benefit tiie poor past experience dictates tint we regard the new scheme as a pretty piece of woot to bedspread over guIMita eyes 2 EVEN IF the government does pour some money into neighborhoode occupied Harks Puerto Ricans it would still be a reversion to "separate but It would scarcely differ from IIS and 1853 when legislatures in South Carolina and other Southern states were pumping money into for blacka tat generations of abominable to try to head off the of Jim Crawrp-- Nixon has to know pumping money into that S3Jr billion to bemedy of schools for the poor: is like weeping in the Pacific Ocean-trying to Tun it over He know thatr however flamboyant the gesture toward the ghettos may now be-there is absolutely no ponibility of equal educational opportunity if you keep the poorMMk brown end red in equrate achooU while the rich and influential bask in the sanctuaries of the emporta of education: Money flowi toward af- fluence end influence OF THE NADON wants to Ud itself But eome of us have to live witii the reality feat Mr Nikon has asked Com greas to underwrite an educe- tional setup that guarantee this country remaining two nations quite divisible one white and one Hack with liberty end jua- tics for Mine 'r-'- Almost all of us wfli live to rue this sad interlude in the life of an already too troubled society (C) 1972 Field Enterprises Inc From The Bookshelf The politics of the last 18 years has been a politics of fits and atarts of careen launched then cut off of legialation pasted but not implemented of court decrees issued but not enforced of programs authorized but not financed of reforms begun hut not completed of ware started but not won of great ventures sketched end'then abandoned If history recalls any American -gchievement of this period I suppose ft would fUS fo fee moon But tint' wm remarkable just because ft was unique We actually aet our goal established a timetable for reaching it and hekl to it In almost every otiier instance we have left our targets unattained As result' very few problems have off the national agenda and a great many more have moved onto ft The reason we have suffered governmental stalemate ia that we have not -uaed the one instrument avail- able to us for disciplining government to meet our mh That instrument ta the wSMya Dsvid Broder The Peri Over: The Failure of Polit- ks ta America (1972) -V fi a I ignorance tiie extinct stu- centuries lateivYet tiiat UT tiie way tiie eagle is f'r'tag-'Hiis passenger pigeon- whose Lnumber- were otace-ao-great that' tiiey darkened the sky was wiped pidity may in otiier ways timai eagle on the otiier hand Is sue- I the life of the nation itselL 'v v' Ito such legend supports the yet the thought intrudes that if or indifference allows natkxial yemblemto become" the same indifference or equaL1 He is decreeing genei IirThc Public Int H- if TWO MOVES OF the incum- demonstrate the new Axmd poir--bent city administration in the er of the peopta who now porai- recent 'week-indicated rrdeariy11aU aiy halL that talk is Ioom and action Now tb stranga csm the financial irizaidiy which has lately come into tha compC- office-: As everyone knows eqieciaqy tiaiso who once taught in tiie public-schools and are recent arrivals -in the political arena tiw school budget with slight exception is tiie political le- over the location of proposed fin station on-the west side of the city and second the arithmetic regarding the budget for the pub-' lie school system "Another World Series IcaL radWogicil and otiier coo-taminants will be the first focus tay hfftripg too soon the quality of our drinking water ta finally seen Because meditating 'em pok drinking water ta thinking judicial branch MILLIONS OF BLACK Amer- leans find bitterly amusing Mr argument that jl Constitutional amendment would too long" end Ifcave thousands of youngsters to endure bfof pm! you-- Whert has Mr Nixon been the unthinkable a ftateSyrf hl silence-hss developed among water hygiene officials to keep the facte bom the public Nra itta no fototer suffident merely were teMming that it lAa tha former administration left office not Yquite three moothi ago it left behind an op tion on property for a Firehouse' alto on- Capitol' Ave near between Sep- servoir Ave as the mote A- tember and June that tin rable locatio within minutes of JSdl the Meriden Square- muM-mii-t the bulk of fly school budget fo lion dollar commercial devei- opment and aoout' equidistant M-PERHAPS cne ct the at-from a complex of public and at pNitical legerdemain of the new administration to' vide the appropriation by parochial schools in which several thousand local children spread over 10-month school yrar Teachers and treton who do not have any in July and August' are paldtwice to'tij- 1 Vta- crowded into a position when be appears to -be either- its prisoner or its Mr Nixon beseeches Congress to direct tiie courts not to order any more busing for rectal balance The President must know that he cannot setae the echoola 1 any more than Harry Truman could seizo the steel mills in the tacr ofatiittpprovinf7courtr Congress simply cannot forbid Federal courts to order relief that they believe to protect Constitutional rights nf this children' And let no one target that busing is sim- meeldy with whatever Congress orders but I rather fuspect that even- hie post conservative ap pointees will see the dangers of tills ueeteaver attadc on'the takes too to escape the discriminations and humilia-' tioos of- Jim Crow schools that our highest court had outlawed? Justice delayed wu Justice forever denied to millions of black kids who finished their entire public schooling without getting one iota of juActal relief SuddetBy when it comes to canceling their lets relief tiw White House finds'tiuft time ta of the essence! -'I THE TRUTH IS that from -Wild Goose Minnesota to Sloppy Gulch Florida' tiie school buses win roll on with more than IS million children aboard from now until Richard Nixon ta a name in the history Because basing -is the -passport of White --children' to equal education The record will howthat the -only buaea derailed were those carrying black diildrea toward a able -chance' to setiftra their American birthright I know Mr Nixon proposes to and poor chft- mollify minority dren witii hta Educatkai- Opportunities Act of and a 2Ji bfilion expenditnre Even if we give fee President credit for the most agaHtrhn intentions (which frankly find tt hard to doL there are aome dismaying flaws i to proposalsr 1 I HE IS OFFERING a warm-: ed-over "compensatory educa-J scheme with fcxtra finapo-' ing from unnamed sources I -have documented la prevkws columns how earlier outiays of bflHoiis for educating the de-! prfved and speeding desegregb- and fancy frills whites Until the Aw White luent Hpuse Time be any cheering from fee stands there be any hot dogs or beer sold but the interest of the spectators and followers around the wdrld will be na-less fervid when the warid aeries of chess opens later fills year -JThe'series of 24 games will be: -) played In two European cities Bek grade Yugoslavia and Reykjavik Iceland starting June 22 in Bek grade The contestants will be Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union tiie defending world champion 0 -There is $13800 in prize money involved Hie winner will take 72ft par cent file loser fee remainder If the maidi ends In a 12-12 tie Spassky will keep the title the money wfll be divided equally games played Three an urgent consumer tame': -Why the delay? For decades the piddic has known of the bur- geoning pollution of our takes rivers and streams from indust- risL agricuitnnl and municipal -i wastes- Recentiy reports have detailed such dangerous con-taminants as lead mercury pesticides hormones dOer- gents addes plastics viruses and bacteria in various bodies of water such as Lakes Michigan and Erie tiie Potomac and Mississippi Rivers and other waterways targe and smalL Yet the peopta have been fold little about the spillover of these deadly wastes into their drink- ing -water 'and the groM inadequacy of most municipal water purification systems ter ker a German Capablanca a Cuban and Alekhine a Russian Chess Is a popular sport in file Soviet Union played by young and jild ajikenot dyinbomes andaC chess chibs but in paries and Foil the most part Americans have not distinguished fiiemselves in chess There have been two ex-' ceptipns however: one la Bobby! Fischer the present challenger who lives eats breathes and steeps chess Hie other was anofe-er young man Paul Morphy (1837-1884) who was taught chess by bis father at fee age of 10 His brfeiance in international competk tkn has scarcely been equalled and whfle his career was short it wasmeteoric jThe fact that the United States: now has another player of worid championship calibre for the first to dump chlorine into the water Safe water euppltee cannot be established by thii old-tashiooed remedy WHAT IS ACTUALLY NEEDED ta rigoroos prevention and detection systeme and more medical' research Once citizens know the various and ahort term hazards of contaminants government action will be forced Corporate secrecy about whet and how much industrial poisons they era dumping into the waterway moat be stopped' Federal' cope wmi them 5 THE REASONS for this lck of awarenen rest on the goy- ernment at ail levela and on in-iv texaeaiea dustrtal polluters Local author to ites responsible for drinking' Wfflwlm water Quality have 'nBi encou-- and-W Conway raged mofidenceto avoid hgvo -to aay on thtajddfe: HHy-iMiiir- irt( confidence moat common knd often rests -really on -propaganda -prolonged- and therefore the gather daily during the school year i- BUT UNCONNECTED with tiie flrehouM problem which was apparently solved to satisfaction when the site was selected wu tiie incoming administration attitude toward further commercial' devei-- opment here' and the attempt to have highly prized commercial property on Kensington Ave- near fee Meriden Square reasoned to residenttaL as alnrans of helping the midtown area recapture their mar- kets frV-' -Incidentally two -ott- more members of the new adminis-eomptroBer and the mayQrf The tration are personally involved feti i about tiro-tenths more-ta this midtown situation and tae amount theconmdtjler might be accused of a conflict foe school system peeds of interest when tiiey begin to' DANGER OFtiw JMth- monkey with tiw zoning laws being used in the tSew and their influence on business administration is that when ft-- They were as keenly involved in nep the epd of the city affairs to hear teem talk 5 yfof the system may go for many years mey a nr comdete financial chaos cpreaent'- but aver before the rpost ardent sop- any mterest' in making I01 of lower tax rate or any part of the 1 frozen to last yrar's stead of 10 to make fee aver- agq need for fond that much less It is quite tricky all of us must admit because the quid: readers interested only in tha tax rate would never fetch on that the comptroller's office has indulged ta aome form of tricke- ty whether by design or from complete lack of experience- Now as -a simple example In arithmetic' when you take Si- i 200000 and divide it by 12 it comes out10Q000 a month but when tiw same 11200000 ta dj- -vided by 10 it comes out S120- -000 a month Somebody fepuld how this simple example to weekly scheduled goes file game "Chess profound exercise! ability ness in in defense are 'lost has in many plexity file last Belgrade match is for July 18 If the matdi fuU 24 games1 the last: win be played Aug-31 in Ice- -f is flie most complex and competitive intellectual calling for analytical memory imagination bold-: offeime resourcefulness The origins of -chess In obscurity The game devdoped over the centuries lands increasing fe com- television TV dinner So-called modem diess be- than vv iT-Ran about fee 15th Century first in -i 0 France and then in Sjpidn The Moht people get a lot done on j''Ettsflsh school of diess dates from some -of tiie V- flie 19fe Century Among tiie mod- tilings planned to get dcxiq -vv-'-ern cbess master have been Las-'ron fee previous Monday time in more than a' century is 'cause for national pride Bobby Fischer's performance at Belgrade and Reykjavik will be Watched 'wife: Intense interest by chess fahs7 ferousout file entire world' IJne-0Type8 most dangerous contact with carcinogenic pollutants of water occurs when water thus contaminated fo used for drinking purposes and ta the preparation of food It ia here important that most of the agents (arse-nlcals chromium radioactive substances pesticides) are retained in tiie body and may ao-' cumulate in certain organs suchjte the liver skin bones qr tat Dr HA Shroeder the mouth expert on trace minerals (such as cadmium mercury and lead)' hM repeatedly war- Bed About oorrdetidB of certain qualities of' mualcfoal water supplies and deatiis from congenital almofmalities ta the V-- IT IS TIME TO FACE tiie facta no matter how unsettling they may be' At least govern- ment end industry must am tiw prevmtive and corrective action fo already available Other- wise notes Harry Graeser Director of tiie Deltas Water Utilities Dnartmenti -are surely moving towards the time al of 1 Current Comment 1 -tv secrecy about test results waterborne disease outbreaks and a massive underinvestment in de- taction and control equipment' -already available Federal officials in the Public Health Service and the Environ- mental-Protection Agency! (EPA) are now displaying eon- cern and urging action The EPA has finaifo started work towards a revision of the federal water atandards the find incidentally since 1982 Nearly half of the population drinks water that does not meet 'the weak incomplete federal water etauderda At preaent them standards only cover traditionaUy known contaminants Thera fo no men- tion for example of mercury The happy assumption fo that rtlatively unpolluted'' water 4s the source of the raw water Both swordfish and lake trout know-better '-v THIS WEEK the Senate Sub- committee on the Envirooment will open hearings on drinking water legislation Senates 1 bill 147K introduced by Senators Philip Hart and Warren Magnu- son imposes modernization of established water tatting and treatment methods aioog with technical assistance and train tag grants A controversial amendment to empower -the federal govern- meat to establish and enforce drinking water standards' cov- ring dymical bkifogical phyn- i drinking wster standards coi during comical biofogicalpl society tyta area on Kensington 'Ave' ex-1 resi dusivdy dfwets THE ADMINISTRATION has backtracked from the reaoning proposal bat now interfering witii tiw plans for tiw firehouse probably to assuage its dlsap-over the failure to re- xone the Kensington Ave area although ft begins fo appear tiiat the maneuver is simply to by Brickmq TVolb 's '-V fs V' i' 'r s' -j grandiildren are robbed of an V-adequate education to profe 2 )eor? folstedonY-tite peopta cl tiw dty The 20 members in the Coart of Gnomon Council meeting1 tp-night can stop the -rhnm before ft starts by voting tiw flmds tiw school system It might be better for tiw chU- -dren of tiw comnmnity -ft the city overspends Uttie than deprive tiwm of the education they are entitled to receivB1 WHBLE WE ARE AT TTtea Court of Common y-Counefl mooting specially tentatoTto Power which he might abfee wdl as should put a time Omit on the resolution toilre and hire at -wffl closing an openwnd resolution what might be presented living tiw mayor the power to fire honeat and -teelimeaning members of tiw boards fed commissions It may be dang eroue itytrument ta the hands of a person proven to harbor an urge tolord it over his peers Ja person proven to harbor an toori tt ryh vfhe small QDQ -----gr- a naughty intentions tiie intelligence of people ta measured by the length rather than the shortneM of the words they use and the birds and tb bees are when it comes to having oat dirty picture and tide we thfadt befogs generation pau on to another the news 1 a wfaoie trend does to the exhaustion about the greateet mystery of life back- -1 r'v'ssd boredom point' to busfaeaa: i- i Around too comer there lies a-tre-? We confeM that we never had' until pHm qnHvwHy for fame and for- recently a very strong imputae to go -v '--r-K back to that degree of toaoccnce' can see It developing and unfolding But we have on reflection decided now a world ta which the sustained could go for a kind of worid ta which on thrill cf concealment his succeeded the dun dud of total revelation the movie which to supposed to be oB right for diO dren really ta ctoae (he book to aoso thing to be read from page to page in- J- when major waterborne prob- 'lem ta going to errata tional hysteria and a crisis in hygiene! -'r- The new hearings in tiie Sen- ate are an urgent matter1 Res- ponding belatedly to 'Obvious disasters not the marie of a rational society folly equipped to prevent them (C) Nor RcpuUld Fes Sya to prevent them (C) New Republic Fes Sya nf from act to art the only thing illicit special privilege for tiw elite libs I teat caa to seen through eattty wmddbe us g-gg 4 ML I tea v- l-fr i s- a i ij xi A 'i t-tii i -7- -'in i 'A 1 11 -r 'f -1 1 1 1 1 1.