The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 6

Fublitlird each afternoon and Sunday morning The Fresno Bee Founded 1922 CARLOS McCLATCHY editor 1322-1933 Saturday July 8 1972 Volume 100 No 17954 GEORGE GRUNER managing editor TOM KIRWAX associate editor JAMES II BORT JR city editor Editorials Latest Skyjacking Episodes Disclose Need For More Stringent Security The latest skyjackings in California one of which led to the death of an innocent passenger as well as two suspects prove air piracy has reached the stage of a public outrage The time for more stringent security to prevent or curb these violent events has passed The federal government the Congress and the public should brook no more delay in establishing drastic measures to prevent would-be air pirates from taking weapons bombs or other such instruments aboard airliners The two skyjackings disclose airport security procedures are woefully inadequate Airline officials protest they are not law enforcement agencies and therefore not equipped to handle the problem alone They cannot avoid all responsibillity however A1 Bonner first vice president of the Air Lines Pilots Association noted that although President Richard Nixon ordered an increase in airport security four months ago and the airlines were directed to step up passenger and baggage screening measures air crimes still are increasing In the Sacramento-to-San Francisco incident two passengers were injured in addition to the killing of three people and the endangering of nearly 80 other persons in the exchange of gunfire which resulted when Federal Bureau of Investigation agents rushed the plane While this means of stopping the hijack has been applauded putting helpless passengers into such desperate circumstance in not laudable On-board jetliner shootouts are a poor way to run an airline Following on the heels of this another hijacker was able to get on another jet flight with a weapon Fortunately this case did not end in a similar tragedy In the latest situations there were only spot checks of passengers and hand baggage employed and metal detection devices were placed at some but not all gates Three hijackers escaped the surveillance and were able to board planes with loaded weapons More diligent searches are possible and additional preventive measures' are available The safety should be the paramount consideration in deciding how tough to get In instituting these additional measures The public should not tolerate any more procrastination is adopting them But Mayor What About The Primary? Washington Merry-Go-Round Church Mills Seen In Second Spot sembly District which comprises Fresno City and part of the built-up metropolitan area McGovern got 23231 Democratic votes and his nearest rival US Sen Hubert Humphrey got 14864 In the Republican primary President Nixon got 16595 votes Now assuming McGovern is nominated' and granting there will be a better GOP turnout in November and granting there will be defections by disgruntled Democrats including for all we know the mayor himself granting -all this the numbers and electoral history argue strongly against theory So strongly in fact one suspects the mayor was contributing his bit to the preconvention scare tactics of the stop-McGovem movement The wish was definitely father to the thought when Fresno Mayor Ted Wills gave the magazine US News World Report his opinion about presidential politics in his home town Interviewed at the meeting of the US Conference of Mayors in New Orleans Wills said: "I think (Sen George) McGovern could carry Fresno or California and my city is 2-1 Democratic He has what other Democrats see as ultra-liberals in his state leadership I think many Demo- crats will go to Ah yes ultraliberals Well there was a chance to test what the Democratic voters thought of McGovern in the June 6 primary election was there not? In the 32nd As Sen Birch Bayh or consumer advocate Ralph Nader) 50 to 1 McGovern (with Humphrey Sen Harold Hughes Louisiana's Gov Edwin Edwards or congresswoman Shirley Chisholm) 100 to 1 Muskie (with Wallace Hughes Harris or Sen Mike Gravel) 100 to 1 Any other dark horse combination in book would be a 50-to-l shot Getting On With The Chess Match produces a Bobby Fischer If anything like this ever happened in the Soviet Union the pressure of public opinion would never stand for Of course any Russian who acted as Fischer did would be cutting logs in Siberia come winter There is no way the Russians could begin to understand the concept of charging what the traffic will bear an idea all too familiar to Americans MIAMI Jimmy the Greek the No 1 oddsmaker favors George McGovern to win the Democratic presidential nomination with either Sen Frank Church or Rep Wilbur Mills as his running mate The Las Vegas oddsmaker who prepares his political odds exclusively for us rates a McGovem-Church or McGovern-Mills ticket evenly as an 8-to-5 favorite Hubert Humphrey with McGovern as his running mate is given only an 8-to-l chance And Ted Kennedy with Mills in the second spot is a 10-to-l bet Like most other experts Jimmy the Greek in his first ratings for us 11 months ago made Sen Ed Muskie a l-to-2 favorite to win the nomination Jimmy rated chances as remote But over the months the amazing Greek has been far ahead of the pundits and pollsters in detecting the voting trends He called the key Florida Wisconsin Ohio and California primaries almost on the nose He was alone in forecasting correctly that Humphrey would come within 5 per cent of upsetting the far vored McGovern in California By Jack Anderson With party unity again in tattert McGovern spoke to Mankiewicz recently about following example The two men were driving home from a Washington TV filming The air conditioning in McGovern's car had broken down and they sweltered as their Secret Service chauffeur eased them through steamy streets Mankiewicz brought up the subject of an open convention McGovern musing a moment said: got to be a way to do something about Then the senator laughed and added: the other hand throwing it open might tear the party The two men drove on in silence for a moment but the vice presidency still pricked mind He turned to Mankiewicz and said: still thinking about a nonpolitical guy for vice president seems to me the vice presidency shouldn't be limited to politicians There are college presidents labor union leaders businessmen doctors We could go outside elected politics One of them might fit the bilL" Mankiewicz who is having a hard enough time keeping delegates in line much less his candidate smiled but gave McGovern no encouragement an interesting he said way things are now it might fit the 1 Copyright 197Z by United Future Now that Bobby Fischer has put chess on the front page along with the presidential contenders and the airline hijackings it would appear we can get on with the world championship contest in Reykjavik Iceland The match between the defending world champion Boris Spassky of Russia and Fischer will be most interesting in the light of the antics of both men almost pathological fear of the press and his insistence chess professionals be paid as well as other professional sportsmen and Spasskis churlish demand for an apology and his refusal to accept letter expressing abject regret delivered to hotel at 2 am The Soviet Press denounced Fischer as money-hungry A Soviet editor buttonholed an American at a reception in Moscow and said: is a money-grubbing society like yours that OPEN CONVENTION Sen McGovern is pondering whether to throw the vice presidential nomination wide open if he is nominated for president Most of his political managers such veteran professionals as Frank Mankiewicz Myer Feldman Fred Dutton and Ted Van Dyck are opposed But young idealists in the McGovern camp are urging him to let the Democratic convention choose the running mate for the first time since the stormy 1956 convention in Chicago- Then with the party in disarray Adlai Stevenson let the delegates choose They picked the late Sen Estes Kefauver over his dashing rival Sen John Kennedy The move helped unify the party but didn't keep Stevenson from being swamped by Dwight Eisenhower Berry's World In a perverse sense it was a good way to begin It was as they say in sports parlance real If the chess championship stories had been all about to or knight to bishop what newspaper reader would have gone beyond the first paragraph? Now the worldwide chess match is certain to attract worldwide interest Another Viewpoint Television Veto Editorial From The Los Angeles Times ODDS Now here are odds on the eve of the Democratic convention: McGovern (with Church or Mills) 8 to 5 McGovern (with Muskie or Sen Henry Jackson) 5 to 2 McGovern (with Gov Reubin Askew Sen Adlai Stevenson III South Sen Ernest Hollings or North ex-Gov Terry Sanford) 6 to 1 Humphrey-McGovem 8 to 1 Kennedy-Mills 10 to 1 Muskie-McGovem 20 to 1 Kennedy (with Hollings Sanford or Gov Jimmy Carter) 30 to 1 HumphreyJackson 30 to 1 Muskie (with Jackson or Minnesota's Sen Walter Mondale) 30 to 1 McGovern (with Kennedy Carter Gov George Wallace Indi- President Richard Nixon has vetoed legislation to provide greatly increased federal support on a two-year basis for educational broadcasting He wants a more modest increase and a one-year extension of federal support Mr Nixon said he is worried about the concentration of program control through the educational television network and neglect of what he calls an emphasis on local station production: It is significant however that the only two programs mentioned in the veto message to demonstrate the potential for quality in educational television were two programs distributed by the Public Broadcasting System the embryonic educational television network is independence In some measure that depends on the quality of the directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which allocates the federal money They are presidential appointees Independence also depends on a variety of sources of support and the President must know that in the last fiscal year federal support came to only 20 per cent of the total PBS already has proved a number of points about the value of national programming Public affairs programs produced by an independent arm of educational broadcasting offer a depth and maturity and detail rarely available on commercial television PBS is not a network in the commercial sense It currently produces only about 30 hours of programs a week one-third of those hours devoted to three superb children's programs Its entire programming is less than one-third the network time of CBS And less than half of the pro- gram time for a station like KCET (Channel 28) in Los Angeles comes from PBS But within that network portion is most of the quality The legislation which Mr Nixon chose to veto embraced provisions to assure strength for local stations as well as national programming It provided that at leak 30 per cent of the federal money go directly for local station program development But it also proposed a support level appropriate to the national priorities going to $65 million in this fiscal year $90 million next year It is true as Mr Nixon noted in the veto message that federal support has increased sevenfold in four years But that support has been too little and too late The record is full of extraordinary program opportunities that have been lost for lack of funds The record is also full of the benefits of educational television and radio despite the limitations imposed by short-term and inadequate financial support Congress recognized this urgency in the legislation Congressional support was overwhelming The legislation was approved by the House 254 to 69 in the Senate 82 to 1 We hope that same support can now be used to override the veto Past 25 Years 1947 Fresno city milk distributors asked for a two cent a quart increase on wholesale milk prices at a special hearing called by the state milk control bureau Distributors cited increased cost of labor use of paper containers and other factors as the reasons for the increase request which would boost retail milk prices from 1614 to 18 cents a quart The record suggests that all of Mr reasons for the veto were not included in the veto message Clay Whitehead director of the Office of Telecommunications Policy had already indicated misgivings about the use of federal funds for public affairs broadcasting on the national level So in requesting one-year and more limited financing until further evaluation is completed the President may have been seeking to exercise closer if indirect control over program content What educational television needs Leopold Stokowski conductor on his recent BOth birthday anniversary me there are two great things in life and they are friendship and 1972 ky NEA Inc "Sorry to have beaten you again dear Can I help it if I'm another Chris Evert?" music'.