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EDITORIAL The Ostrich Syndrome At Work In York 21. to our community and the singular, most significant fact is that it is unconventional. Consequently when an unconventional solution is proposed we should not turn our backs and say we need one of the old standby approaches. And when we ask ourselves why it was rejected there are only two reasons: one the eyes of the Commissioners have been contracted by their own bigotry in that they reject out of hand any proposal by someone who is not conventional meaning like them, and two, they have allowed a meddler under the guise of 'being a member of the news media to ridicule and malign the program, and again, because he is more like them and thinks like them his influence is greater. It is truly a sad thing that this potentially successful program to combat the rising use of drugs here might be aborted because of the personal mistrust of another man's difference.

said, "A bigot is like the human eye, the more light it is exposed to the more it contracts." Now we are not speaking of racial bigotry, but human bigotry can we continue to function as a society when a primary consideration of our everyday decisions is based on a lack of trust of our fellow man? Isn't it time that we displayed some trust, bravery if you will, and went ahead and did the things we want to do so long as they do not violate someone else's rights without prejudicing our neighbor and deeming him unworthy of our trust. And this goes a long way beyond our mere fear of our neighbor it goes to basic mistrust if he is different than us. Take the decision of the County Commissioners last week in refusing to give the Tom Paine Society a chance to develop a drug program for York County. Here we are faced with a serious threat of examples of how we guide our daily lives based on the potential of harm from our fellow man. Yet when the statistics are known we bow to convenience and ignore the real dangers.

The people who live in the city who want to shop in the evening go outside of town without stopping to consider or without realizing that the possibility of suffering injury in a vehicle accident is far greater than any possible threat from robbers or muggers. If the paper reports one center city robbery no one stops to consider the time, place or circumstance of the crime. They merely react irrationally to the fact that it was in the city and therefore proceed to write off the city and its potential. We are in fact destroying the viability of our metropolitan area based solely on these attitudes and false impressions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, when speaking of bigotry hit the nail on the head when he Since running the York Daily Record Police and Fire report it has become apparent that the traditiorulized fears of people have very little basis in fact.

For example, how many times have you said or heard said, I wouldn't go down town shopping at night because it isn't safe. Or how many gun permits have been sought, or burglar alarms installed? The remarkable thing is that it is so disproportionate to the statistical amount of danger involved that we are becoming like ostriches with our heads in the sand. Almost everything we do involves some fear of our fellow man as a primary consideration before we act. A car broken down on the highway should we stop? Should we go down town to finish our Christmas shopping and choose from a wider selection or should we stick to a neighborhood store? And if we are going to town in the evening where should we park? There are hundreds and hundreds It Won't Blow Away LPN'S-I shift. p.m.

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He can continue to use lowlead gasoline. But he can do more, with the help of the oil companies. Most car owners use too high'octane a gas. The lower the octane, the less lead and smog-forming hydrocarbons released. Octane standards should be uniform within the industry, and octane numbers should be posted on gasoline pumps.

The blend pump which Sun Oil uses allows many octane grades of gas, instead of the two or three which other companies offer. Industry has bitterly opposed these re forms, just as it once opposed unleaded gas. Posted octane ratings would make the consumer aware of the arbitrariness of gasoline prices. From The JSetf Republic The scramble by the major oil com' panics to produce unleaded and low lead gasoline does not offer the assurance of clean air that the public expects. Produc ing low lead and unleaded gasoline may increase the amount of total lead pollution of our atmosphere, for almost every oil company marketing low lead and unleaded gas will at the same time increase the amount of lead that goes into its leaded gasoline.

Over 200,000 tons of lead enter the earth's atmosphere each year, 95 percent of it from automobile exhaust. Atmos' pheric lead can penetrate deeply into the respiratory system and be retained and absorbed. Some Americans now have one' half as much lead in their bodies as it takes to cause acute lead poisoning V5. -iJ Merry-Go-Round Nixon's National Health Insurance Plan and Carter Lake, Iowa. Footnote: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, presumably unaware of Hrus' ka's objections, has nut the obscene adver' By Jack Anderson WASHINGTON The White House is quietly at work on what will be President Nixon's most dramatic social reform: a nationwide system of health insurance.

Hruska has personally intervened to prevent the obscene advertising bill from reaching the Senate floor. He has taken care not to leave any record of his intervention. But this column has learned from other committee members that the bill has been held up at Hruskas private request. What makes this all the more ironical is that the bill was introduced by his old mentor, the late Senator Ev Dirksen, R-Ill. It would prohibit the use of the mails and other interstate facilities for the distribution of obsence advertising.

This would hit the Senator where it hurts him the most: in his bank account. He is half owner, secretary and director of Douglas Theater Company, which owns drive-ins and theaters in Omaha, Lincoln ne rresident about to talc a decided turn tothelc-He looks upon himself as a modern Disraeli, a progressive conservative who be-Jc-ves in social and political reforms. As now envisioned by White House advisors, the cost of na' tional health insurance will be shared ISfflLJ York Daily Record Footnote: Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott is pushing ahead with his own national health insurance plan." He will introduce the bill after the new Congress convenes in January-Senate's Mr. Smut Roman Hruska, has taken umbrage over our report that at the same time he was denouncing smut and violence, he was a partner in a chain of bawdy movie houses. We owe him an apology.

We have now learned that he was even more audacious than we had thought. While he delivered pious speeches against pornography, he used his influence in the backrooms of the Senate to block legislation which would outlaw "salacious advertising" that panders to the "prurient interest." Such a law on the books would prevent his movie chain from using the titillating advertisements and displays that draw customers to the box office. Here are some typical teasers that the Hruska houses have used to promote re-cent skin flics: "The Wild and the Willing" broke every speed limit in a parked "Adam and Eve" au natural. It is something to "The Love-Ins" a trip into the psychedelic world of the 'Two Weeks in September" Bardot in love as no woman ever loved "Shanty Tramp" because of the abnormal nature of this film, we cannot use any photos in Hruska sits on the Senate Judiciary Com' mittee, which has long been considering a number of pornography laws. The bills have been referred variously to the subcommittees on Constitutional Rights, Criminal laws and Juvenile Delinquency.

As a member of all three subcommittees, rising bill on his list of "must" legislation. It will be interesting to see whether the sanctimonious Senator from Nebraska will now support his leader. Pollution Solution While most communities only wail for tougher laws to solve their pollution prob' lem, the Wilkes-Barre area is making a $14 million commitment to treat polluted mine water. Ground has been broken for an "acid mine water demineraliution plant" which will turn the corrupted water into pure wa ter at a rate of five million gallons a day. If the process works well, it may be stepped up with more units to 20 million gallons a day.

Local businessmen through the Chamber of Commerce found and pro vided the 25-acre site. More Taxes States, counties and local governments are only now reacting with horror to a bill that reduces their taxing authority on rail' roads, buses and pipelines. The bill, if passed, will send these governments else where, probably to the already harassed middle'income taxpayer, for up to $500 million a year. Approved by the Senate and now in the House, the measure gives favored property tax treatment and low rates to "common carriers" no matter how many buildings, tracks and pipes are located on their trans' portation land. Vigorous lobbying by the.

railroads wan' gled this windfall out of the Senate. But a counterlobby has now ben quietly mounted on Capitol Hill by consumer advocate Ralph Nader. Tuesday, December 1970 by employers, employees and the federal government in much the same manner as social security. Welfare recipients, of course, will get their insurnace free. Tentatively called the "Family Health Assurance Plan," the Nixon proposal would make participation by both doctors and patients a matter of personal choice.

It would be administered by existing health insurance companies, such as the Blue Cross. The private firms would continue with their standard operating procedures. The Nixon plan undoubtedly will unnerve his conservative supporters. National health insurance, for example, is anathema to the American Medical Association which calls it "socialized medicine." But the President feels his conservative credentials are such that he can call upon congressional conservatives for support. He went all-out for them in the 1970 campaign.

Now he intends to collect on his political lOUs, Published at 31-35 E. King York, Pa. 17405 by YORK GAZETTE CO. Telphone 854-3831 Harold N. Fitzkee Jr Publisher Wentworth Darcv Vedder President Elmer M.

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