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mrngtamm Monday, August 1968 Editorials And Features McGovern's Entry Adds Confusion To The Race Sen. George McGovern's late, late entry into the presidential race scarcely stands out as yet another of the dramatic shifts in a surprise-packed campaign. With all due respect to the South Dakotan's commendable record as an intelligent legislator, his impact on the public consciousness has been such as to make Spiro T. Agnew's stature as a national figure monumental in comparison. McGovern has come forward as the torchbearer of Sen.

Robert F. Kennedy's support not yet recommitted to either Vice President Humphrey or Sen. Eu- geneMcCarthy, a recommitment McGovern's more obvious backers apparently have been too disgruntled for a variety of reasons to make themselves. McGovem himself appears to take his candidacy considerably less seriously as a genuine bid for the nomination than as pressure for a strongly peace- oriented plank on Vietnam in the Democratic platform. But his initial pronouncements on the issue a call for a bombing halt and broadening the base of the Saigon government have a me- too ring, echoing not only the late Senator Kennedy but McCarthy as well.

The question raised is exactly what pressure McGovern is capable of applying that McCarthy, still a very active candidate with a well-organized campaign and significant delegate support, cannot. Political parties perform most valuably in the American system for a president when they are presented the opportunity of choosing their standard bearer from among clearly defined alternatives, as was the case with the Republicans in convention assembled at Miami Beach. Copier Kaput An item on the wire informs us that a branch of the Ku Klux Klan, Imperial Wizard Robert M. Shelton's United Klans of America, has ordered Xerox to remove its copying machine from the Klan office in way of protesting the company's sponsorship of a network television series on the American Negro. It appears the company that vows its products can handle anything has come a cropper on a white sheet.

The Democrats would seem to be reasonably well-served already with Humphrey and McCarthy. If not, Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox's suggestion that he might present himself as an additional alternative makes more sense in this respect than does the McGovern candidacy. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to see what the McGovern effort can be expected to accomplish on the road to Chicago beyond a muddling of debate and the squeezing of a few sour grapes. Quiz Society Maybe it's just a surfeit of summer heat and humidity.

But whatever the reason, it suddenly seems to us that life has become just a bowl of queries. If future archeologists ever name this society, it will doubtless be the Age of the Great Quiz Game. You simply cannot turn around nowadays without getting caught between a question and answer- So, as a public service in aid of more fruitful social intercourse, we have set down below some of the more commonly asked questions and their answers. For the $75 jackpot, can you name this tune? For a two-week, all-expenses paid trip to Hackensack, can you tell the audience the name of the 21st president? For four wonderful years of college, what is the atomic weight of hydrogen? For a comfy seat on the Supreme Court, will you tell our listeners how you make your decisions? And while you're at it, what number are you calling? What's your social security number? Whom do you prefer among the nominees? Do you love me? where are Yonkers found? What would you do about traffic if elected? And whodunit? There was a time and not so long ago, when people got along with each other by discussing things. But what with the information explosion, if you don't have either a probing question or an informed answer, you don't get invited to the better cocktail parties and dinners these days.

Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today's Monday. Aug. 19, the 232nd day of 196S. There are 134 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1934, Germans voted for Adolf Hitler as a successor to President Paul von Hindenburg.

On tins date: In 1692, five women convicted of witchcraft and a clergyman WAY WITH RMN "I- it worked last time, but somehow it doesn't make it!" lagtnnm Fred Hartman Editor and Publisher Bill Hartman General Manager John Wadley Business Manager Beulah Mae Jackson Assistant To The Publisher Paul Putman Assistant To The Publisher Ann B. Pritchett Office Manager EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Preston Pendergrass Managing Editor Johnella Boynton Assistant Managing Editor ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Dwight Moody Retail Manager Corrie Laughlin National Manager Entered as second class matter at the Baytown, Texas, 77520 Post Office under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Published afternoons, Monday through Friday, ajid Sundays by The Baytown Sun, Inc. at 1301 Memorial Drive'in Baytown, Texas. P.O.

Box 90, Baytown 77520 Subscription Rates By Carrier $1.75 Month, $21.00 Per Year Single Copy Price lOc Mail rates on request Represented Nationally By Texas Newspaper Representatives, Inc. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Press entitled exclusively to the use for remiWIevUon to news dispatches credited to It or not ouwrwue credited tn thli paper other matter herein reserved. were executed in Salem, Mass. In 1812, the U.S. frigate Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," defeated a British frigate in a battle in the North Atlantic.

In 1940, in World War Italian forces conquered British Somaliland. In 1941, German troops were besieging the Russian city of Odessa. In 1942. Canadian commandos staged a costly raid on Nazi forces stationed in Dieppe, France- In 1955, the worst flood in the history of the northeastern United States took 200 lives in Connecticut and nine other slates. Ten years ago: The giant nuclear submarine Triton was launched at Groton, Conn.

Five years ago: Some 150,000 British construction workers struck for higher pay and a shorter work week. Guest Editorial THE SMOKING ISSUE? The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Public Health Service seem determined to end the smoking of cigarets, one way or another, and that would be all right with us if the two agencies were equally concerned with other consumer products which are, obviously, "dangerous to health." Cigarets presumably fall in that category, though some experts contend that the evidence produced thus far by the FTC and the USPHS has been less than conclusive. But, in asking Congress to ban TV and radio advertising of cigarets and to require a stronger scare-warning on the labels, the agencies seem more impelled by pique than by medical imulse. If smoking really shortens life and causes death "from cancer and other diseases," why not seek total prohibition? The partial advertising ban, being discriminatory, would undoubtedly be thrown out by the courts, and the scare-labels have proved to be ineffective.

Can it be that the Trade Commission and the Public Health Service can't really "prove" their case? (NC) Citizen Is The Game In Danger By PAUL HARVEY Baytown Sun Columnist Baseball is a big business threatened with bankruptcy. Baseball is supposed to be a sport, but because it is taxed as a sport it Is being run like a business. Baseball's front office Is increasingly with team spirit, but with "earnings per share." Tax advantages allowed the corporate or private owners of ball clubs include "depreciating" players at their own discretion. This can afford an instant tax writeoff if a player is sold or released. Thus, player turnover has become such a merry-go-round that there is little time in which ball fans identify with their home team before the next player shuffle puts their heroes on a visiting team.

Furthermore, what is a "home team" when it is owned by a brewery or by absentee stockholders? In the old days, home-grown ballplayers playing for a home- owned ball club fostered fierce home-team loyalties. That's gone: so far gone that one Chicago team is now playing some of its "home games" in Milwaukee. Another factor decreasing attendance is the desperate dearth of big hitters. Few pitchers pitch a ball game any more. With a whole stable of standbys warming up in the bull pen, the instant a pitcher begins to tire he's replaced.

There are no Kuths, DiMag- gios, Wiiyamses any more. Baseball is a lackluster pitchers' 100 shutouts this year! Public interest in baseball naturally increases around series time, but it has been a dismal season. TV's cameramen in most major-league ball parks have tried desperately to keep the acres of empty seats out of sight; they couldn't always. Bill Veek tried adding circus acts; that didn't work. Casey Stengel says baseball's owners should not panic, says it would be a mistake to change the game just because it has become boring.

He says the monotony of hitlessness is temporary. Stengel says, "Once every 10 years the National League will come up with an amazing pitching staff. This year it just happens to happen that the American League has similarly good pitching." Meanwhile, though baseball's declining following is largely due to having become a big business, the remedy both leagues are now considering is making it bigger. Expanding to other cities, increasing the number of players and the number of games per season can only further diffuse allegiances. Corporate ownership is to civic pride or player pride.

Little wonder the players are now beginning to look at themselves as "employes." They are demanding "rights," they are negotiating through "unions," and I fully expect within another season or so to see baseball's fading stars in picket lines. Periodically, baseball's corporate owners appear before Congress to defend themselves against charges of monopoly and categorization under interstate commerce. A Stitch in Time? Washington-Merry-Go-Round- 'Brooklyn Tyrant' Frets Over SB A Doughnut Uses By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON Rep. John Rooney, sometimes called the Brooklyn Tyrant, is worried over doughnuts being used by the Small Business Administration. This was the subject of a closed door grilling which he gave to Robert C.

Moot of the SBA regarding a $1,000 fund Moot had requested for "light refreshment" for officials of SCORE and the SBA advisory council. SCORE members are retired business executives who give free technical and management advice to small business firms, and Rooney wanted to know what was meant by "light refreshments." Moot replied: "I was thinking of doughnuts and that sort of thing." Rooney: "Do you mean to tell us that if you got this $1,000 you wouldn't buy any Scotch whisky?" Moot: "We do not plan to use this for buying any Scotch liquor." Rooney: "The question wasn't what you plan to do. The question was if you got the would you buy any Scotch with it?" Moot: "The answer is flatly no." Rooney: "Why shouldn't the people who borrow the money do the entertaining? Why should the taxpayers do the entertaining? Moot: "They (SCORE members) are people helping us by assisting small business. They provide their own time. They are civic leaders." Rep.

Frank Bow, R-Ohio: "What are you going to do for SCORE people who are on a diet like I am? My doctor says THE DOCTOR SAYS Research Debunks Old Beliefs About Epilepsy By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT, M.D. Much harm has been done in the past by an assumption that epilepsy is an inherited disease. Seventeen years ago, 19 states, had laws prohibiting the marriage of epileptics. This was based on the belief that any offspring of such a marriage would become a public charge.

Since then, the possibility that heredity is a factor in causing epilepsy has been carefully studied and authorities have concluded that laws restricting the right of epileptics to marry are entirely without justification. One by one, all the states except. West Virginia have dropped such laws and it is unlikely that that state will retain the prohibition much longer. Epilepsy is not inherited. The furthest our genetic experts will go now is to say that a predisposition to epilepsy may be carried as a recessive trait.

There now seems to be little solid evidence for even such an assumption, but old ideas die hard. The cause of this disease is still a mystery in many cases but there is growing evidence that head injuries or brain damage, the origin of which cannot always be pinpointed, are ttte causes in many cases. Anyone who would like more detailed information on the nature of this disease and on the employability of epileptics may write to The Epilepsy Foundation, 1419 N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005. have what rny doctor calls scalenus muscle spasms on the right side of my chest.

I get it whenever I get excited and the pain lasts about 15 minutes. How can I prevent these spells? you have the scalenus anticus syndrome, this is caused by the scalenus anti- cus muscle in your neck pressing on the nerves in your brachial plexus. This may cause pain, tingling or numbness in the shoulder and arm on the affected side rather than the chest, and the pain is more likely to be caused by raising your arm over your head than by nervous tension. In any case, the exact cause of the spasms should be determined. Chlormezanone (Tran- copal) and chlorphenesin (Maolate), both prescription drugs, are often effective in relieving muscle spasms.

do they sell LSD if it is harmful to one's brain? in this drug is illegal. BIBLE VERSE BUT YOUR iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. Isaiah 59:2 I can't eat a doughnut. You probably have some fat people in this SCORE outfit." Moot: "I really don't think the money is going to provide too much in terms of doughnuts, Mr. Congressman." Bow: "This is a temptation to those of us on a diet.

I would probably eat a doughnut and get on the scales the next morning and find my doctor's advice was not being very well taken. So take care of the dieters, too, will you?" Moot: "Yes, sir. I will get diet doughnuts if you give me the money." WHETHER UNCLE Sam should put people in the liquor business with loans from the Small Business Administration has touched off a backstage debate. In the past the Small Business Administration has followed strict policy of no loans to gambling establishments, racetracks, newspapers, radio- TV stations, book publishers, banks, hospitals and concerns selling alcoholic beverages. The latter were included on the forbidden list because it was held that bars, beer gardens and liquor dealers did not contribute to the welfare of the community.

However, the new Small Business Administrator, Howard J. Samuels, has dropped the ban and has extended loans to liquor dealers. He claims that the no loan policy was discriminatory against small businessmen, especially Negroes, who are trying to take over from white liquor dealers in the Negro ghettos. Samuels, an able administrator and former Under Secretary of Commerce, has just received a hot letter from Rep. Joe Evins, chairman of the House Small Business Committee, taking him to task.

"All of your predecessors have found valid reasons for continuing the policy against liquor loans," says Evins. "It is suggested that in handling matters of this import, which call for the exercise of discretion conferred upon you by Congress, it would be appreciated if some consultation is held with members of this committee." What this means is that if liquor loans are not cut off, there will be speeches when Congress returns next month and probably a ban on Uncle Sam financing the liquor business. A STRANGE thing has happened to an important section of the 1966 Auto Safety Act aimed at making cars and highways safer. The provision for an auto safety research and test facility has disappeared. Those who drive the highways and suffer from auto crashes costing over S12 billion a year don't know that -this important part of the Auto Safety Act has been quietly ditched.

Someplace along the way the Budget Bureau ruled it out, either because it cost too much or because Detroit doesn't want it possibly both. QUICK QUIZ is the official date for the beginning of broadcasting? is generally conceded to have been started by Station KDKA, Pittsburgh, on Nov. 2, 1920, when that station broadcast the Harding-Cox election returns. The motor moguls in Detroit have claimed this testing facility would put the government into the auto business. Some members of the Department of Transportation have been shaken by this argument.

Also Congress has decreed a crackdown on spending. As a result, this part of the Auto Safety Act is being sidetracked. Meanwhile, auto crashes kill 53,000 people annually and injure million. Meanwhile also, the government operates bureaus responsible for drug safety, bus and rail safety, radiation safety, -and health safety, but apparently is ditching the testing facility on auto safety. HARD HITTING young Rep.

James J. Howard, is among those urging a strong tax reform plank in the 1968 Democratic platform. In a recent statement Howard declared that any man who aspires to the White House whether Democrat or Republican "must represent all of the people, not just the oilmen and those who escape paying their fan- share of taxes through loopholes." He pointed out that, under the notorious "depletion allowance," 20 of the top U.S. oil companies have been making a total net profit of almost S5 billion a year, yet pay an average of only 8.5 per cent in taxes. Mighty Standard Oil of New Jersey, for example, is in the 6.3 per cei bracket.

Howard also -ants'to tighten loopholes that individuals to flimflam the government. In 1965," he said, "there were 35 American so-called taxpayers, with incomes exceeding 5500,000 a year, who paid no income tax at all including five with incomes of S5 million or more." Win At Bridge By Oswald and Jomes Jacoby NORTH 10 9 A 8 5 3 WEST VKQ1065 106 EAST VS43 QJ 972 4.6542 SOUTH A7 4. KJ 10 9 8 Both vulnerable West North East South 1 Pass 1 4 4, Pass 6 A Pass .7 4k Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass 5V 6 Pass Opening Oswald: "There are certain plays that a really fine player makes automatically because he knows they are correct, a careful player makes them after thinking things over, and a careless player usually plays wrong first and thinks afterwards." James: "Here's a most: expensive example. South bidding was very good. Instead of using Blackwood he decided to cue bid his ace of hearts after North jumped to four spades.

When North bid six clubs to show this ace, South bid six diamonds to show his second round control of the suit. North decided that his very good spades and queen of clubs were just what the doctor had and went to the grand slam." Oswald: "It took South just about five seconds to throw away game, grand slam and rubber. He spent one second counting 13 tricks. He could draw trumps, discard two of dummy's hearts and one diamond on his long clubs, ruff his losing heart and get ready for the next rubber. Then he played his ace and king of spades.

East showed out. Five minutes later South was down two." Jim: "He could not afford two more trump leads and he tried to make the hand by ruffing one of dummy's diamonds. West overruffed and cashed a heart for down two." Oswald: "An expert would have started with the automatic plays of winning one of the first two spade leads in dummy in order to leave a spade honor in his own hand. Should trumps break 3-2 it would make no difference. With trumps breaking 4-1 the expert would have been able to ruff the third diamond lead with the ace or king of trumps; lead a trump to dummy, discard his low heart on dummy's long trump and run clubs for the rest of the tricks." Jim: "Automatic for an expert.

A careful player would have to take a second or two to work it out." (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) bidding has been: West North East South I A Pass You, South, hold: 4kJ4 VKJ98 A2 What do you do? two clubs only. You will show strength later. TODAY'S QUESTION You bid two clubs and your partner rebids spades. What do you do now? Answer Tomorrow Enrich Your Vocabulary -NEA Weapons ACROSS 1 Weapons 5 Firearm 8 Come apart 9 Whey of milk 11 Form prayer 12 Court game 14 Sojourn 15 Twice (music) 16Sault Marie (ab.) 17 Ailments 18 Wearied 20 Half-em 21 State (ab.) DOWN 1 Mounted guns 2 Peruses 3 Lion's pride 4 Firmament 5 Graylags, for instance 6 Footed vase 7 Convent dwellers 8 The BooK 9 Ado 10 Episcopal insignia 11 Put down 13 Intelligence 22 Kind of crow 15 and 23 Corn arrow- features 25 Depraved 27 Bring charges- against 29 Illusive 18 Cannon missile 19 Ten (comb, form) 22 Across 35 Even number (comb, form) 36 Greek god 24 Kind of 39 European firearm blackbird 26 Garment (var.) 27 High cards 40 Employer 28 Farm animal 41 Cremona 29 Seize by violin maker force 43 Pry 30 Jellied 45 Fish sauce gasoline used 47 Indonesian in bombs of Mindanao 32 Angelo 48 Shade tree 31- of arms 32 States 33 Not many 34 Harem room 37 At bat (baseball) 38 City in France 41 Roman god love 42 Knock 44 Free nation (ab.) 45 Astound 46 Gratify 48 Raises the spirits 49 Measuring instrument 50 Admit (2 words) 51 Crony 521.199 (Roman).