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Man of year in Seattle The News-Herald TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1969 DICK GREGORY Sickness EDITORIAL Juggling college funds Yurkanin have been employing handicapped youngsters for on-the-job training. In the past three years Yurkanin has hired 10 or more youths from Pacilc School and each year sponsors an art show at Andy's Diner to display work of pupils in art classes at Pacific School. A Civitan member, Joe Marshall, said "Andy doesn't eren recognize that what he is doing is out of the ordinary. It takes much patience and compassion to deal with these emotionally or physically retarded youngsters. He gives them counseling and a father image, a security that they never knew." Another Civitan.

Bob Anderson, observed "If it weren't for men like Big and Little Andy, some of these youngsters would be in institutions today, instead of being working and useful citizens." A large food catering service affiliated with the Andy's Diner operation, Szabo Food Sen-ice was one of the first companies in the United States to employ totally deaf young people, the Seattle Times reported. As the uncle and nephew extend their business enterprises they will also be able to give opportunity to more of these young people. requested appropriations from the general fund, are prepared to increase tuition rates. Clarion State College has indicated it will have to add $100 per semester to make up for cuts in state appropriation. That is an increase of nearly 60 per cent.

By adding items to the college budgets which previously were carried under other headings, the Legislature made it appear that the state colleges were receiving considerably more money this year. Those costs which were previously segregated but which are now paid by the schools total $7.5 million a year. It may be that the Legislature feels that the state should no longer subsidize state college students so extensively. If that is the case, it should declare its intentions. It is grossly unfair to slap a 60 per cent increase on students and their families in one stroke.

The college education of thousands of Pennsylvania youth is being jeopardized by Harrisburg's procrastination and budget shennanigans. Wednesday is the day which normally the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency would have disbursed scholarship aid to schools on behalf of 82,000 students who qualified for state scholarships. PHEAA doesn't have the money, however, and won't have any until the Legislature finds a tax source and makes an appropriation. Meanwhile, colleges will have to decide separately whether to carry these scholarship commitments on credit or ask the students to pay. The large amounts involved will force some colleges to borrow funds at high interest State colleges which failed to receive National development banks By BOB DAVIS At Seattle's fabulous Andy's Dinor you have to specify which one you want when you ask for Andy.

There's Little Andy and Big Andy, a confusion of terms, since Little Andy is the bigger. Big Andy, the founder of the famous eating establishment, is Andy Nagy mentioned here yesterday. Little Andy is Andy Yurkanin, nephew of the founder. Both hail from Buttermilk Hill in Sug-arcreek Township and Andy Yurkanin's parents, Mr. and Mrs.

John Yurkanin, still live there. Little Andy is co-partner and business manager of both the Diner and the new Andy's Underground restaurant in Seattle. He has been associated with the business since 1955. concentrating on new business, future planning and financial projections for the food operations. Yurkanin graduated from Rocky Grove High School in 1950.

He was a star basketball performer for the Grove and continued basketball activity while in the armed forces. His Battery, 510th team won the U.S. Field Artillery cage title in Germany in 1954. Except for the time in service, Yurkanin has been in Seattle since high school graduation. He worked toward a degree in business administration at the University of Washington.

Yurkanin is an enthusiastic hunter and Is considered one of the best nonprofessional golfers in the Seattle area. His family consists of his wife. Carol; a son, 5, and daughter, Andrea, 4. Late last Spring Yurkanin was taken out to dinner but not to one of the places he and his uncle have operated. The occasion was the Seattle Civitan Club's annual Man of the Year banquet.

Yurkanin was honored as Man of the Year and a Seattle Times columnist called him "probably the best liked and most popular Hungarian in all of Seattle." Civitan (taken from the Latin civitas meaning citizenship) has a small but enthusiastic membership in Seattle which works mainly with physically or emotionally impaired teen-agers, finding jobs for deaf, blind or mentally retarded young people. The club's efforts give the youngsters self-respect and make them useful citizens instead of a burden on the community. The club's letter to Yurkanin informing him of the honor said: "This recognition is given annually to a citizen who has demonstrated unselfish concern for his fellow man and proven through his actions that he exemplifies all that is endowed in the Civitan motto, 'A Builder of Better Citizenship. "Your quiet and dedicated work with handicapped young men from Seattle schools has not escaped the Seattle Civi-tans' attention. As an employer you have proven to these young men that their success on the job is a major concern of yours.

"You have done well, 'Little Andy' Yurkanin." For more than six years Nagy and I ox Much confusion surrounds the increasingly popular "law and order" cry. Most people seem to think that law and order is white folks' issue. Nothing could be further from the truth. Black folks taught white folks to take up the law and order plea. For decades, as more than four thousand black people were being lynched in this country, black folks voiced the urgent "Law and Order!" When Medgar Evers was shot in the back black folks again screamed "Law and Order!" The cry fell on deaf ears.

Medgar Evers' murderer still walks free and this country refused to pass an anti-Iynching bill. When Malcolm was gunned down, black folks took up the "Law and Order!" cry once again. When Martin Luther King was felled, the "Law and Order!" cry rose up from the black community. For decades, black folks have urged the law and order issue in the interest of justice. But white America demonstrated no real enthusiasm for law and order while the killing of black people was going on.

White resistance to law and order produced the inevitable result of vio-lent eruption in the black ghettos. It was the avenue of last resort. White folks had demonstrated such an immunity to law and order that black folks had given up on their ever hearing the cry. All of a sudden, in response to ghetto violence, white America began to demand law and order. Though the words were the same, white America's posing of the issue was considerably different.

White folks did not raise the cry of law and order in the interest of justice as black folks had been doing for years. Rather, white America insisted upon law and order even in the absence of justice. When black America was threatened by the prevalence lawlessness, white America did not hear the law and order cry. Now that white America feels itself threatened by black lawlessness, white folks will not listen to any other issue. Law and order seems to be the symptomatic utterance of a sick society.

When black folks raised the cry, it was to warn of America's sickness. Violence is a sicial disease and killing is a testimony to the failure of human reason and compassion. Black folks begged America to recognize that lynchings and assassinations represent a terrible social sickness, even a sickness unto death. Now that white folks have finally taken up the law and order cry, it again points to America's sickness. It is the frightened, threatened, repressive response to the reality of social injustice in America.

To demand law and order, while refusing to attack the cancerous conditions in the national body, is an open admission that America cannot solve her social problems. The law and order campaign rhetoric of national and local elections (witness the 1968 Presidential election and recent elections i Minneapolis, Los Angeles and New York City) is a frightening symptom of the condition of the national body. Law and order advocates are now justifying their own use of violence and killing rather than trying to find a way to put an end to both. The Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York City wants to restore the death penalty. Retribution and retaliation are no substitutes for justice.

Law and order campaign rhetoric bears the mark of national death because its language is used to hide the real social conditions; just as treating a symptom rather than the disease can re-suit in the death of a patient. One exeample of such campaign rhetoric will suffice. A prominent national candidate had this to say during his campaign: "The streets of our country are in turmoil. The universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country.

Russia is threatening us with her might, and the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and from without. We need law and order! Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive "Elect us and we shall restore law and order. We shall by law and order be respected among the nations of the world. Without law and order our republic shall fall." The candidate was elected by the way.

His name was Adolph Hitler and his speech in Hamburg in 1932 proved successful. 22 years ago Money, the ancient wisdom to the contrary, is the root of much good, and in the world of free enterprise credit is the fertilizer that makes the root grow. Thousands of would be businessmen and entrepreneurs in the nation's ghettos would like to become cultivators of capital but the indispensible fertilizer of credit is hard to come by. A few programs to provide credit for ghetto businesses so-called "black capitalism" have been attempted, but progress has been extremely slow. The Small Business Administration reports that less than 3 per cent of the nation's five million business establishments are currently under nonwhite ownership.

The picture is equally bleak for many poverty area residents trying to obtain mortgage loans to move into better quality housing. Others, through ignorance or desperation, are frequently driven into the tender hands of loan sharks. Many believe that the solution to these problems must come from the private sector and that only by stimulating private investment can the credit gap in America's poverty areas be closed. One of them is Sen. William Proxmire, who has introduced a bill the Community Credit Expansion Act which goes a step beyond the Nixon administration's proposal to offer tax incentives to commercial banks that make "socially desirable" loans.

Proxmire's legislation would establish a new kind of financial institution, to be called "National Development Banks." These would be privately owned and wholly new banks or branches of existing banks. One-third of the directors of each bank would be required to live in the area served by the bank. Eighty per cent of its consumer, mortgage or business loans would have to be for the benefit of persons living in rural or urban poverty pockets of which there are about 800 throughout the country and in which 15 to 20 million Americans live. In return for concentrating their loans in poverty areas, the government wculd grant certain liberal concessions to the banks, such as lower reserve requirements and much greater flexibility in granting loans and making investments. The bill is viewed favorably by some of the nation's major banks.

For instance, Thomas R. Wilcox, vice chairman of First National City Bank of New York, terms it "the most sensible proposal for making modern financial services available to ghetto residents I've seen." The most novel feature of the program is that it would not involve a single dollar of federal money. It would all be done by private enterprise, backed up by certain federal guarantees and a loosening of some of the current restrictions on lending. STRICTLY PERSONAL THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Contaminated cosmetics Mozart's pattern Franklin Hospital. On Monday a son was born to Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Beatty. "Dont Take My Penny," a comedy in three acts, has been chosen as the play to be given by the Senior Class of Rocky Grove High School during the first week of November. By JACK ANDERSON Itr SYDNEY J. HARRIS Sept.

30, 1947 Uncle Tom's Cabin will appear at the Franklin High School auditorium, afternoon and evening Oct. 6. Adv. William R. Dickson, a student at Indiana State Teachers College, Indiana, in the school of business administration, spent the weekend with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. S. W. Dickson. Among the 16 attorneys admitted to practice in the State yesterday were Robert T.

Gran-nis of Franklin and Samuel E. Grant of Oil City. Ernest Daley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Daley of Franklin and a graduate of Cathedral Prep School, Erie, has enrolled in Gannon College, Erie.

Tuesday a daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Warner of Kennerdell RD 1 and a son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ell-wood Tarr of Cochranton in the 44 YEARS AGO, Sept.

30, 1925 If the tactics presented by the Red and Black gridiron warriors in practice yesterday are used against Corry High School, Franklin should at least be able to hold their own. A reception will be held on Oct. 2 by members of St. John's parish for the Rev. Dr.

and Mrs. Martin Aigner, in honor of his 25th anniversary as rector. Miss Julia Reagle has returned to Grove City to resume her studies at Grove City Col lege. Reading an essay on Mozart the other evening, I ran across the familiar plaint that "he died before his time." I wonder if this is true in Mozart's case, or in the case of other great creative geniuses whose lives have been cut short. I wonder if a personality which generates so much force does not have a pattern and a rhythm of its own.

Mo zart's whole life reminds us of a speeded-up camera he accomplished in a year what took decades for less talented men. His death at 35, Schubert's at 29, Keats' at 25, and scores of others there seems something inevitable in these truncated lives, as if these men worked feverishly to produce supreme work early, because somehow they knew that time was working against them. It is extremely doubtful whether Keats could have written any greater poetry, or Mozart any greater music, than they had already given the vorld. In a sense the most important part of their lives was finished: Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" and Mozart's Minor Quintet touched the ultimate of their powers. Einstein tells us that "time" is a relative matter in the universe; perhaps it is also a relative matter within the personality.

I suspect that more men have outlived their time than have been cut down before it. A genius, of course, can die by accident, like Shelley in a sailboat, or Marlowe in a tavern brawl but, even then, if one examines the tempestuous characters of these men, their dramatic deaths were almost by invitation. Byron caught a fever and died at 36 while fighting in the Greek war of independence; but his contemporary, Wordsworth, lived until 80 because he would not go to fight anywhere. It is possible even probable that Mozart and Schubert would have lived longer if they had not had to struggle so for subsistence; and society cannot escape a sense ot guilt for its harsh treatment of its finest talents. In mitigation of our callousness, however, it must be suggested that even under the most favorable circumstances, such men tend to burn themselves out at an early age.

It may not be true that an arist thrives under hardship (many have been crushed by it), but it is at least true that a youthful genius may be ready for death long before we dull plodders have begun to live. BERRY'S WORLD WASHINGTON Milady's vanity case, according to government inspectors, may contain contaminated cosmetics. Yet some manufacturers of lipsticks and lotions have refused to cooperate with the Food and Drug Administration in protecting the public. An analysis of 250 cosmetic products purchased in retail stores for instance, turned up 61 samples of bacterial contamination. The tests showed that 12 of 43 hand lotions, 12 of 36 liquid eyeliners and 12 of 28 eyeshadow products were ccntaminated.

The danger to ladies who use makeup is so serious that FDA may ask Congress for new legislation with teeth in it to regulate cosmetics. Food and Drug officials have refused to identify the uncooperative manufacturers or to reveal the brand names of the produce that have developed contamination. In answer to inquiries, officials merely call attention to a recent speech by Commissioner Herbert I-ey. In the speech, he stated guardedly: "Let me mention another recall we learned about recently, and mentioning is about all I can do. During a routine inspection of a large West Coast cosmetic manufac turer, we discovered that the firm had recalled a hair conditioner because of mold contamination.

"How many tubes and jars were recalled?" asked Dr. Ley. "The firm refused to answer. Lot numbers? The firm refused to give them. Area of distribution? Again, no answer." Naming Names From the FDA's confidential files, however, this column can report that the uncooperative company was Max Factor, which does a multi-million dollar business around the world.

Its products are international favorites, used by movie stars and glamor girls. The contaminated product that had to be withdrawn was Max Factor's "Tried and True," a protein hair conditioner, which turned out to be more tried than true. Elizabeth Arden was also obliged to recall 2,280 pints of contaminated "June Geranium" hand lotion. And Dell Labs h3lted the scale of "Lash-Brite" liquid eyeliner after an entire lot of 57,300 bottles was found to be contaminated. Not even baby lotions are always safe.

Charles Pfizer's Leeming-Pacquin division stopped distributing Desilin Topical baby lotion after two lots turned up with gram negative bac-eria. For children, Dunham Products put out 'Li'l Shaver" toy razor kits, which contained four-ounce bottles of contaminated "Play After Shave" lotion. Of 70 gross manufactured since January, 30 gross remain co the market. Contamination has been discovered, too, in men's toilet articles. Pearson Pharmacal Company, for example, had to recall 63,965 plastic bottles of "Sir Kostot After Shave Kondi-tion." All but 2,237 bottles have been returned.

Many other contaminated cosmetics have also been discovered a record, in Dr. Ley's words, that does not "engender complacency." Note: Commissioner Ley pointed out in his cautious speech that "many cosmetic products provide a hospitable environment for the growth of bacteria, since they contain water and various organic ingredients." If Shoe Fits A congressional delegation, led by Maine's pert, prim Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, called upon President Nixon the other day to plead the plight of the nation's shoemakers. The President watched their approach with a bemused expression. "Everyone has on nice shoes," he observed.

"I see a few brown ones." He listened intently as a spokesman for ths shoe industry, Robert Lockridge, president of Craddock Terry Shoe Company, described how shoe imports have shot up from 8 per cent to 28 per cent and shoe exports have dropped from five million to three million pairs since 1960. The President nodded gravely. "Txtiles are in serious condition potentially," he said. "Shoes are in serious condition now." He also noted that shoemak-ing was a "job-creating industry." "There are 140 separate operations in making shoes," chimed in Lockridge. Rep.

James Burke, the darkly handsome Massachusetts Democrat, raised the political implications. "Mr. President," he said. "There are shoe businesses in 253 Congressional districts. Of thp 25 members of the House Ways and Means Committee, 22 have shoe companies in their districts." "Congressman replied the President with a smile, "I get the message." message." THE NEWS-HERALD Consolidation of FRANKLIN EVENING NEWS EataMMMd rb.

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