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Public Relations The flap over the fouled-up gas bills might have been resolved without all the uproar if Peoples and Northern Natural had bothered to explain to its customers the reason for the sudden jump in charges. It finally all came out, but only after enough customers became agitated enough to complain to city officials and the news media. A simple letter of explanation enclosed with the higher bills might have diminished the cries of anguish that finally reached Topeka and the Kansas Corporation Commission. The simple fact is that some customers were undercharged due to human and computer error as far back as August, 1974. Estimated billing was also a factor.

But when you get a gas bill showing a 1,000 precent increase, an explanation is in the bill. It's just a simple matter of communicating problems to the paying public. It's called public relations. Public Pulse Kids Need Adult Help In regards to the letter last Wednesday from Mr. and Mrs.

Brush, I would like a chance to expound my views on the subject. (The letter deplored the lack of city facilities for Sure, most adults will admit that there is a need for more recreational facilities for the kids. But will there be any adults volunteering to help in about any capacity? Right now there are many organizations who work with children who are in real need of just an hour a week from an adult volunteer. Such as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Wheatlands Youth Services, any of the over 30 churches in town, the Russell Day Care Center and so many more. My understanding is that the roller skating rink was closed because it was being torn up so bad by the kids who had no parental supervision and that it was unfeasible as well as unprofitable to keep it open.

Sure we need more for the kids to do, but we need more adults to help them do it. How about it? Just an hour a TURNER, 1716 Pinecrest. The Distaff Side LOIS (Mrs. Ovid) Harman has an African violet that has been blooming without stop for almost a year. She got it last April when it was blooming and the blossoms just keep coming on, she says.

Last week, she counted 34 flowers and 12 buds. Mrs. Harman, admitting this is her first success with an African violet, said she keeps the plant near an east window on the breakfast table. She waters it on Wednesdays and Saturdays and gives it two "squirts" of violet food once a month. PAT (Mrs.

Ed) Clark, 1973 international winner of the Liberal, England, Pancake Race, returned last week from California where she taped a seven- minute segment for the Dinah Shore TV show. She "did her thing" flipping a flapjack while running and explained the annual Shrove Tuesday event. The program probably will be aired within the next couple of weeks. The California trip, which included her husband, was a vacation (paid) from school for the young Clarks. Ed is a student in Washburn Law School in Topeka, Pat attends Washburn University, and both have part-time jobs.

Earlier this winter, they flew to Pennsylvania to be on a Mike show but a snowstorm prevented them from keeping the appointment. They did manage to work in some sight-seeing, however, Johnny Carson has indicated an interest in having the former Ms. Flipper on his show, too. Sharing all of the excitement here in Garden City are Ed's parents, Mary and Ed Clark, and his brothers and sisters, 908 3rd. DAVE KRAUSER, principal of Lincoln Elementary School, will talk tomorrow (Tuesday) night at the Buffalo Jones School P-TA about the city's new Gertrude Walker Elementary School.

Krauser, who has been in on the planning of the Walker School for the past two years, will be its first principal. He will explain the building, the staff plans, and the educational philosophy and direction of the new school. Jones P-TA people thought many in the community would like to hear the expert on the Walker School, so they are extending an invitation to every interested person parent or not from all parts of the community. The time is 7:30 p.m. at the Jones School Auditorium.

Jack Anderson By Eugene A ttempts to Kill Castro WASHINGTON accounts have identified Cuba's Fidel Castro as the target of an unsucessful CIA assassination plot. The headlines couldn't have come at a worse time for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He is in the thick of "most delicate negotiations," according to our White House sources, to restore some kind of diplomatic relationship with Cuba. Actually, we reported as far back as Jan. 18, 1971, that the CIA had arranged six assassination attempts against Castro in the early 1960s.

Now that the story has been revived, it might be useful to recount the details. The plot began as part of the discredited Bay of Pigs operation. The strategy was to eliminate the Cuban leader before the CIA invasion force landed on the island. Without the charismatic Castro, it was thought, the defenders would become demoralized and disorganized. To carry out the assassination, the CIA selected an underworld figure who could be disowned.

He was hawk-faced John Roselli, identified in confidential FBI files as "a top Mafia figure" who watched over "the concealed interests in Las Vegas casinos of the Chicago underworld." Roselli's CIA contacts were William -Harvey and James O'Connell, who accompanied him on hush-hush trips to Miami to line up the assassination teams. No. one else was told, however, of the CIA's role in the murder mission. Roselli represented himself as an oil man seeking revenge against Castro for his seizure of oil holdings. The assassination weapons were also carefully selected from foreign makes.

mostly Belgian, to prevent any link to the United States. Each attempt to kill Castro was meticulously planned, like an episode from the TV drama, ''Mission: For the first try, the CIA furnished Roselli with special poison capsules to slip into Castro's food. The prison was supposed to take three days to act. By the time Castro died, his system would throw off all traces of the poison, so he would appear to be the victim of a natural if mysterious ailment. Roselli arranged with a Cuban, related to one of Castro's chefs, to plant the deadly pellets in the dictator's food.

On March 13, 1961, Roselli delivered the capsules to his contact at Miami Beach's glamorous Fontainebleau Hotel. A couple weeks later, just about the right time for the plot to have been carried out, a report out of Havana said Castro was ill. But he recovered in time to rout the Bay of Pigs invasion on April 17, 1961. Although both the murder plot and the invasion failed, the CIA continued trying to get rid of Castro. The Cuban who had sneaked the poison into Havana was never seen again.

Therefore, the CIA unsure whether the plotters had failed or the poison hadn't been strong enough, decided to try "Alas! poor Cambodia I save you! Jim Bishop: Reporter again with a more powerful dose. Roselli arranged for triple- strength capsules to be slipped into Castro's food several weeks after the Bay of Pigs. But once again, the plot failed and the conspirators disappeared. Four more attempts were made on Castro's life, thereafter using assassination teams equipped with high- powered rifles, explosives and two-way radios. Roselli personally midnight powerboat dashes to deliver the teams at secret landing spots on the Cuban coast.

Once Roselli's boat was shot out from under him, but the occupants were quickly fished out of the murky water by companions in an accompanying boat. The assissination teams never got a shot at Castro, although the CIA learned that the last group reached a rooftop within range. This occurred around the last of February or first of March 1963. Nine months later, President Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, fanatic who had been active in the pro- Castro movement and had paid a mysterious call upon the Cuban embassy in Mexico City a few weeks before the dreadful day in Dallas. Sources familiar with the CIA conspiracy can't shake a nagging by the Warren Commission's findings that Castro may have become aware of the U.S.

plot upon his life, and, therefore, may have recruited Oswald to retaliate against President Kennedy. Some sources believe this is why Robert Kennedy, tor-, mented by grief, went into semi-seclusion after his brother's assassination. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy had put Robert in charge of the CIA with instructions to shake it up. It is unlikely that the final attempts upon CaStro cbuld have been made without Robert's knowledge. Could he have been plagued by the terrible thought that the CIA plot, which he must at least have condoned, put into motion forces that brought about his own brother's murder? GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM Published daily except Sundays and Now dear's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day.

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Just A Little Lead Statue Mke Mulligan is gone, but we were friends for a time and sat in the rectory of St. Henry's in Bayonne, N. swapping stories. He was a white-haired monsignor built like a pious wrestler. If I was in a mood to arouse him, all I had to do was ask him about his mother and her little lead, statue of St.

Joseph. It cost two cents a hundred years ago and wasn't much bigger than the knuckle on Mike's thumb. In Ireland, she had been a devout communicant, but she needed a statue to pray to. The Catholic Church teaches that a statue is merely a statue and cannot help anyone. Statues are used to "remind" the petitioner of the real saint, who is in heaven sorting the prayers floating up.

Mike's mother brought the tiny statue to America and reminded it that if the ship sank in a storm, he'd drown with her. She met an Irishman named Mulligan and married him and moved to Clinton, N. J. Her husband worked in a stone quarry. Children came along and when they did well she opened a bureau drawer, took out the statue of St.

Joseph and said, "Ye'er a good man and I thank you." When bad times occurred at the quarry, it was usually in the dead of winter. Mr. Mulligan would be laid off. He would groom, water and feed his team of dray horses and walk home with his head down. Secretly, Mrs.

Mulligan took St. Joseph out of the warm bureau drawer, tied a piece of white string around his neck, and nailed him in a hanging position outside the bedroom window. "And they you'll stay," she would tell him, "until my man finds work again." St. Joseph took an awful beating. The night winds would swing away from the window and smash him back against the frame.

"What's that noise?" Mr. Mulligan would say. 'Tis nothing," she would answer. "The wind I would say. Go to sleep." When the quarry reopened, Mr.

Mulligan returned to work and St. Joseph got a suspended sentence. She was a tiny woman with a strong will. The string was off Joseph's neck and she placed him back in the drawer. "It took ye a dom long time, God forgive me," she would say.

The father and the children pointed out the fallacy of using a two-penny lead statue for heavenly petitions. Mrs. Mulligan would have none of it. "You don't believe in it. I do.

St. Joseph and I have a long-term agreement. Someday, with his help, we're going to own this house we live in, and one of our boys will be consecrated a priest." The Mulligans surrendered. And yet she of the enormous faith had the last smile. She scrimped and saved and hid money in jars.

The time came in 1896 when she bought the house. She thanked St. Joseph and wrapped him in white flannel. Mike was a good student and told his father that he would like to attend a seminary to see if he would make a proper priest. Mrs.

Mulligan, in the kitchen, dried her hands and went to the bedroom and kissed St. Joseph on top of his head. "You kept your word," she said. Mike attended seminary, got lucky, and went to the North American College in Rome. His degree was Doctor of Divinity.

He was ordained in 1904 and sent to Michael's Church in Jersey City. He asked everybody not to call him father; "Doctor will do." Later, he was assigned to St. Henry's in Bayonne and became pastor. It's a big, beautiful church surrounded by a kelly green lawn. He bought a pipe organ for $25,000 and sent a car to Clinton to bring his mother to his church.

She loved it. Mike told her he had no school. They walked down Avenue C. A short distance away there was a beautiful public school. "If only we had the money to have a school like this," he said wistfully.

Mrs. Mulligan stamped her little feet on the earth between the sidewalk anp! the curb. "You'll have it Michael," she said. "It won't be like this one. It'll be this very school." Mike patted her hand.

"Impossible," he said sadly. Years went by. About 18, in fact. Mike was a monsignor. His hair was as white as his mother's.

His father had died; his sister Mary lived with Mrs. Mulligan. The politicians of Bayonne had a problem. There had been a population shift and they had a school with very few students. Brazenly, Mike hurried to City Hall and made a minimum offer for the building.

He got it. He was in his age and his mother was far beyond him. But he brought her in from Clinton and helped her to totter to the school. "It is ours," he said humbly. "Mother it is our school." The old lady smiled and bent down and scuffed the dirt near the curb.

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