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THE SALEM NEWS Saving the Capitol for Awhile Published Daily Except Sunday By Thomson-Brush Moore Newspapers, Inc. Wednesday, July 12, 1972 Established Jan. 1.1839 Member Associated Press Page 4 Fischer Checkmates Self 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 and-or 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 i though many tm.es that he is the best chess player around, in Bro k.Iyn. the United States, the world and. presumably, the universe.

us assume that he is right. The next question is. so what? Fischer seems to 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 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 Overheard on the Village Green That tlie State Highway Department should receive the Best Timing of the Year" award for its feat in closing the Rt. 20-45 bridge at West Point, forcing traffic to detour since the first of May.

while the improvement of Rt. 154. east of Lisbon, was and is) still unfinished. shoving 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 vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move by move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an ego. Maybe at some future time there will be enough faas around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. Dog Silencer A patent granted the other day brings to mind the story of the persistent trombonist.

He was a fellow whose playing made up in decibels what it lacked in finesse and dulcet purity of tone He insisted on practicing early in the morning when his neighbor liked to sleep So the neighbor recorded the practice session and played it back to the trombonist at full volume in the middle of the night Thenceforth, no early morning concerts. John F. McClellan Sr. of Monkton. uses a variant of this approach in his newly patented dog silencer, but his device is much more subtle.

It operates on the principle dogs are subject to silencing by mimicry in much the same way that humans Finally, McClellan fashioned a gadget that plays back a barks, but at a frequency inaudible to the human ear. The dog falls silent; his master is not disturbed. Dandy! But what if burglars get hold of the idea? Rainbow Division The 42nd Division of the AEF in World War I was made up of National Guard troops from almost all the states of the Union hence its name of Rainbow Division. Munich Plays Numbers Game By Rosette Hargrove MUNICH (NEA) Two months before the opening of the 1972 Olympic Games there is not a room to be had in this city for love or money. All the 24,000 available in hotels, ranging from the four star Bayrischer Hof to simple side street pensions, have long since been reserved, plus 50,000 beds in private homes.

This represents something like 300,000 anticipated visitors, but no one is able to estimate how many sports fanatics and mere tourists will descend on this rococo metropolis. Local organizers are thinking in terms of 500,000. not counting the Germans themselves. THE INSTALLATION itself ls stupendous. The site is that of a former airfield covering three square kilometers.

Here the various stadiums have been built, plus the Olympic Village and the 24-story center which will provide facilities and accommodation for the reporters. Thousands of trees, bushes and shrubs have been planted, miles of streets and 32 bridges built all adding up to a fantastic Olympic city fiver which towers a 290- meter spire with a fantastic view over the entire complex. EVEN BEFORE the events, Olympic statistics are impressive: 3,800.000 seats 20,000 parking spaces 4.000 telephones 89.000 light bulbs Athletes must be fed. Food stocks will include more than a million eggs, 70.000 pounds of meat and 750,000 servings of yogurt, among other menu entries. With characteristic efficiency, the Germans proclaim that everything, but everything, will be in place and in working order on opening day.

They are also proud of the fact that the cost of this gigantic enterprise will be less than half what the Japanese spent four years ago. The principal stadium, where major athletic com- x-titions and horse shows will ye held, can hold 80,000 spectators 47,000 seated, 33,000 standing. It is estimated that throughout the world over a billion viewers will be able to follow the games in their homes. FOR WEEKS now, Munich has been undergoing a thorough cleaning. Houses have been repainted and everything is as bright as a new pfennig.

Several of the more important streets have been widened. A new subway line leading directly to the stadia was built in record time. Meanwhile, picturesque villages within a 30-mile radius of Munich are expecting to take care of the overflow of visitors. Creators of commemorative medals, sour- venirs, mascots and emblems have spent a busy winter preparing for the event. PROBABLY THE most popular of all souvenirs will be Waldi, the dachsund mascot.

He comes in every conceivable medium fabric, paper, cardboard, plastic, rubber, wood, cork, metal. Waldi appears on badges, adhesive stamps, key rings, coat hangers, puzzles. Already two million have been bought in 100 countries and the games even started yet! Finally, the very thorough Germans are assuring that every foreseeable problem lias been prepared for except the weather. An Act of GOD By ART BUCHWALD A SUING TON The that the United States been secretly seeding ids in Vietnam to increase control rainfall for i tar pur- has lussions beyond the in Indo- or one it opens an entire dimen- war- 1 and could se all sorts of difficulties covered by the Geneva vention. the SALT talks ny treaties now in went to the Pentagon to out what it all meant.

No was willing to talk about United rain- abilities except my id, Orlando. He was very nsive about it think there is any- wrong with dropping on the enemy. For years -e been raining bombs on and it work. So we've decided to bomb If we can get them in a jmire, we can win the WHAT about the international repercussions of bombing rain on people9 Surely the Soviets, and even the Chinese, have rainmaking machines hich they could use against We are not making rain agaiast the Soviets and the Chinese. We are only making rain against the North Vietnamese.

They know that in Moscow and it could rain on Russian ships and Chinese advisers in are using smart rain Orlando countered. are programmed to hit only military targets. We have a laser beam that zeros in on a target, and then the rain is released. It's possible that an occasional civilian can be hit by the rain, but we are doing everything to see that no civilian gets here is something wrong about this, I said. seems to me that making rain in a war is a very serious you have us drop rain on the enemy rather than he asked.

you've been dropping both bombs and I protested. Orlando said angrily. the Russians decide to seed clouds over the United States during the World Series? Would we sider this an act of Russians dare because we could seed clouds over Siberia We could flood everything from Vladivostok to the Black Sea. They know LET me ask you this. This has been the worst year for rain in the history of the United States.

It coincides with the discovery that we are making rain in Indochina. Is it possible that some Air Force planes have been practicing on Orlando said. training flights have never used anything but dummy rain seeds. I can say unequivocally that the Pentagon is not responsible for any of the rain experienced in the United States." someone else has been seeding the clouds around the United States- say the French or the Canadians. What can we do about have no intelligence that any foreign power is behind this rainfall.

Every story we checked out lias been an act of in Indochina an Act of Congress." Act of course, stupid. Read the Gulf of Tonkin By James J. Kilpatrick WASHINGTON It is not often in our town perhaps especially in our town that anybody beats City Hall. are ordinarily captives of custom and precedent, and one such tradition is that on Capitol Hill, what the Big Mules Want, the Big Mules get. But on June 28 a notable event occurred Under the urging of a little known congressman from upstate New York.

Samuel S. Stratton, former Mayor of Schenectady, the House rebelled against its leadership on the matter of a major extension of the Capitol building. For the time being, at least, this misguided project is suspended. Stratton, perhaps to his own amazement, has licked City Hall. THE UPSET victory would not have been possible, of course, if South able and underestimated Ernest F.

Bollings had not already won a key battle in the Senate. In an adroit maneuver, Bollings succeeded in nailing a blocking amendment to the legislative branch appropriations bill. His amendment provided that no funds could be spent either for final plans or for the initiation of construction specifically approved and appropriated therefor by the The question on the House side was whether the Hollings ban would survive Pulling the other way, against Hollings and Stratton. were all the top members of the Big Team. On the Senate side, the extension project had the support of Vice President Agnew, Majority Leader Mansfield, and Minority Leader Scott.

In the House, proponents included Speaker Albert, Majority Leader Boggs, Minority leader Ford, and such barely less impressive potentates as Mahon, Poage, Patman. Holifield, Hays, Staggers. Blatnick, Colmer, and Mills. These gentlemen hold the power to bind and loose, and 99 times out of a hundred their ishes prevail. BUT ON THE 28th.

when they called the roll up yonder, it was 197 for Stratton Hollings and only 181 for the Big Mules. The majestic west front of the U. S. Capitol will be preserved. It will not be destroyed, expanded and prettified with picture windows not for a while, anyhow.

At least $30 million, and more likely $50 million, will not be spent. Where Hollings comes from, such a triumph is known as a great day in the The leadership richly deserved the rebuke. Its conduct was arrogant as its case was weak. The controversy began some seven or eight years ago. when we first began to hear stories that the west front the side that looks down the Mall toward the White House was crumbling and danger of In the course of time the stories proved, if not tom WE.

Saga of CherokeeBill By Jenkin Lloyd Jones The other night I was in Ft. Smith, bogged down by heavy rains in all directions and, there being nothing else in sight, I went to a movie. It was calk'd Great Northfield. Minnesota, Raid starring Cliff Robertson and it sure was interesting. It had a lot of four letter words and a short shot of a guy in a privy to cause the kids to whistle, and it included a long scene in a bawdy house to turn on the teen-agers IT HAD A lot of history, too, like how Jesse and Frank James were wonderful people until the crooked railroads ran over their land and the Yankee bushwhackers drove them out.

The hero was Cole Younger and he befriended a poor widow woman who had been ground down by her landlord. The boys just about had to hold up trains and rob banks to get back at the Establishment. The railroads hired Alan Pinkerton, the famous detective, and was he ever cold and cruel! And the richest man of Northfield, ordered the lynching of a lot of innocent people, and the banker was dishonest, and, as Cole or was it Jesse said in the movie, the railroad moguls were all crooked and so was the IVesident of the United States, so what the heck! Well, it was real sad the way the bank robbery went bad and the boys got run down and shot up by that dirty posse, but the movie ended on a kind of happy note, too. Because in the last scene Cole, all bloody, is being hauled through town on the wav to the pen and the people all clap and cheer him, and so did the kids in the moviehouse. SO THE LIGHTS went on and the show let out and I stopped by the poster outside and saw where this was a movie which doesn't mean putrid generally, but only that parental guidance is suggested.

Back at the hotel I got to thinking that there ought to be a lot of dough in writing movie scripts like these which are socially conscious 1972 by Inc. Ooesn seem rather strange that you're tor Me Govern and I'm for Nixon?" and throw new light on American history and show- bare bottoms and pour gasoline on the teen-agers and use dirty words and cause the kids to whistle and so on. AND THERE'S no better place to write such a script about than Ft. Smith, hich in its palmy days made Northfield look like a Baptist summer camp. Ft.

Smith had Judge Isaac Charles Hanging Judge) Parker who ordered 79 men strung up, and famous marshals like Bud Ledbetter and Paden Tolbert, and a red- light district that went clear down to the bank of the Arkansas River, and all the celebrated outlaws like Ned Christie. Rufus Buck. Bill Cook, Belle Starr and Cherokee Bill. If that make a movie, eat your hat! So going to do my script on Cherokee Bill, who, according to historian C. H.

McKinnon, was Mexican, Indian and black, and therefore represents all the leading minorities. I LL HAVE TO do a little fiddling around with history because Judge Parker really cleaned up Indian Territory and probably saved hundreds of lives by hanging those 79. And Cherokee Bill was reputed to have killed 30 people, including several who didn't have time to turn around, and was sort of a mud cat. And Belle Starr shacked up with just about every six gun that came along and when someone shot her from ambush, the neighbors would have struck a medal only they never found out who to give it to. But the law is and outlaws are and minorities can do no wrong and got to have the proper social consciousness SO, the WAY writing it, Cherokee Bill is a handsome young brave who gets into a fight with a bunch of drunken soldiers been leaving tin cans around their campfires and ruining the ecology and stabbed in the back and in order to raise money for orphan Indians whose parents were shot for the fun of it U.S.

marshals he holds up the Missouri Pacific and is stabbed in the back and he crawls wounded to the home of Belle Starr which looks like Tara in with the and the place is surrounded by a dirty posse and stabbed in the back and carried to Ft. Smith where Judge Parker hangs him. having received a bribe from the president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad after the President of the United States gave him a wink. Belle is ruined and forced to go to work in the red light district where everybody talks real dirty because the way they did talk and you've got to have realism and honesty and. besides, it packs in the teen agers.

if i can get Universal Pictures, which did the Northfield thing, to give me a piece of the action I ought to make a million dollars. Then I can move to Switzerland where taxes are lower and you can walk the streets safely at night. America is going to hell and a lot of young people seem to know the difference between right and wrong. Day in History ONE YEAR AGO Dairy farming accounted for $7.012,000 of Columbiana County's agricultural income of $13.889,000 in 1970, according to Paul Gipp, extension agent for agriculture. 10 YEARS AGO The Telstar satellite linked the Old World with the New by relaying French and British television into American homes for the first time in history.

25 YEARS AGO Salem Dutch Band, composed of Fred Groner, Wade McGhee, Dale Wykoff, Bob Hostetler! Glen Jackson and Walter Krauss, entertained at a steak fry held by Kiwanis Club in Centennial Park. wholly false, at least vastly overblown. The old wall indeed has cracked, but competent engineers say it can be restored and made permanently secure for perhaps $15 to $20 million. THE JERICHO threats and warnings provided a brassv cover-up for elaborate plans then hatched by the leadership. In the name of serving the tourists, it was proposed to create whole acres of additional space an auditorium, a cafeteria, other restaurants, galleries of bathrooms, truck platforms, bus loading facilities, suites of hideaway offices and meeting rooms.

Preliminary plans went forward. The idea was to confront both chambers with a fait accompli. Hollings and Stratton had nothing on their side but right They made the point, reasonably, that the Capitol never was intended to serve as a convention and tourist center. It is a working, functional seat of our legislative branch. Visitors are welcome, but they cannot take the place over.

They argued, with telling effect, that a valid need for meeting rooms could be met simply by a reallocation of existing space. They contended, perhaps with some exaggeration, that usable new space under the plan would come to a staggering $368 a square foot. Finally, they urged considerations of history and aesthetics. It worked. Firmness, good tempers, and a reasoned case prevailed.

The Big Mules probably will haul up their project again they get to be Big Mules by giving up but for this much of a victory, the taxpayers owe Hollings and Stratton their thanks. 'Hollyhock King' By TERRY GANEY ROCK HILL, Mo. (AP) A hollyhock population explosion, designed to beautify Missouri and possibly the nation, was begun this year by John K. Morton of Rock Hill, a St. Louis suburb.

Morton, self proclaimed King of the United recently ran a notice in suburban newspapers saying he would give away upon request 500.000 hollyhock seeds. Within two weeks, Morton said, 1,500 requests eliminated his supply and some requests could not be filled. According to Morton they will have to wait until next spring when he expects to have 2 million seeds available. MORTON, 77, says it all began in 1968 when he purchased a pack of 12 seeds. The pods produced from the plants enabled him to supply seeds to his friends in Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee.

The said one stalk will produce about 5.000 seeds in two years. Morton estimates that by 1976 he can have the United States proclaimed the of the world in much the same way as Holland is known for its tulips. Morton said he included planting instructions and advice on to harvest the seed crop in the fall with each package of seeds he gave away. He said he plans to offer seeds to the Missouri Highway Commission if the agency promises to plant them along state highways. Hollyhocks grow from July untif the first snow.

Morton said the requests he received usually were accompanied by letters which he said renewed his faith in human nature. One man who requested seeds wTote, this dog-eat- dog world, it is refreshing to find a fellow who wants to give something Earliest Eclipse The earliest recorded eclipse took place in Asia Minor on May 28,585 B.C. The Greek philosopher Thales is said to have predicted the eclipse. THE SALEM NEWS Lincoln Ave Salem. Ohio Phone 332-4401 Subscription rates: Single copy 10 cents, home delivery rate 60 cents per week.

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