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fl-I Friday, June 2, '67 DETROIT FREE PRESS Coast Guard School Properly Proud FWWn L' -4r ((( lr I 4 4 I ment until the recent formation of the Department of Transportation, under which it falls now. The first secretary of transportation, Alan S. Boyd, will address the commencement exercises at New London next week. DURING WAR, the a Guard automatically becomes a part of the United States Navy. At this point, the Coast Guard has 29 cutters attached to the 7th Fleet, patrolling the waters of the South China Sea to prevent infiltration of military supplies from North Vietnam to South Vietnam.

The Coast Guard is the smallest of the armed services (30,000 enlisted men), but it has carved its name deep in American history, in war and peace. The "revenue service" stamped out piracy in' the Gulf of Mexico in the days of Jean Lafitte. It helped stamp out the slave trade. It has hefped suppress smuggling. It took part in defending Florida against Seminole uprisings.

For members of a generation raised on prohibition booze, the Coast Guard is remembered for its harassment of rumrunners on the high seas. -JZ 'V Photo by THE TIMES LONDON chores that the boys have tackled on earlier trips. Capt. Gwyn Griffiths will -have his permanent crew of six along in case the girls aren't too good at handling the sails. Coast Guard Photos U.S.

The Sir Winston Churchill, an adventure schooner that sails out of Portsmouth, England, is going to have this crew aboard on its first girls' voyage. They will have to do all the sailors' An air view of the Coast Guard Academy at New London BY EDWIN A. LAHEY Chief Washington Correspondent NEW LONDON, Conn. The visitor expects to find a "poor relative" atmosphere at the United States Coast Guard Academy on the Thames River. It is, after all, the forgotten service school, the smallest of the four academies where we train officer material for the armed forces.

The academy does not get the glamorous publicity that goes to Annapolis, West Point and the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. But who needs it? There is a positively inspiring pride and spirit in this trim little school on the riverbank. It radiates in the face of everyone connected with the academy, from Rear Adm. Chester R. Bender, the superintendent, to the last of the 627 cadets, the 97 civilian and commissioned faculty members and the 400 or more en-enlisted men and civilian workers who maintain the place.

CAPT. AUSTIN C. WAGNER, commandant of cadets, and a 25-year veteran of the Coast Guard, makes no attempt to be modest. "Coast Guard Officers are smarte he says. "They have to be.

A Coast Guard officer may be in command of a ship nine or 10 months after his graduation. We handle them differently and require them to assume responsibility." This same self-confident pride in the service is in the manner and speech of your two companions at luncheon With the corps of cadets. WALTER MALIC, an upper classman from a Philadelphia has had the smell of the sea in his nostrils since babyhood. "We've been going to Cape May, N.J., since I was 3," he says. "In high school I was a Sea Scout.

I want my life in the Coast Guard and so does my fiance. We will be married next year." Young Malic has been in the Naval Academy and at West Point as an "exchange visitor" and he is not in the least impressed by the larger service schools. The Coast Guard Academy is his love and his life. The cadet on the other side of me in the mess hall was Edward Karnis, son of a steel LSiPlI ill In war, the Coast Guard New York's Hippies Happy With Their Lenient Mayor elected), 34 percent are from these states." IN THESE DAYS of challenges to authority, the sense of discipline in the Coast Guard Academy is something to behold. Fourth, classmen "swabs" or freshmen learn in their first year that the discipline of the environment does not break the will or destroy one's individuality, "but trains a man's will and teaches him to respond to authority." At luncheon, the "swabs" remind you of zombies in a late TV horror show.

As part of the discipline of sitting erect, they sit on the outside three inches of their mess hall chairs. It is difficult to maintain one's balance and eat in this position without looking slightly strange. But at the end of their "swab" year the fourth classmen have the correct posture of officers. Out of every 100 cadets admitted to the academy, 25 are washed out in this first year. Another nine will depart at the end of the second year, in many instances because they decide that their original purpose was wrong.

In the third year another five men will leave, for physical or "environmental" reasons. In the last year, only worker from Donora, Pa. Edward first learned about the Coast Guard Academy from an item in the local newspaper. He asked about the admissions system, about the horizons for a Coast Guard officer and decided that this was for him. The Coast Guard Academy is unique among service schools by virtue of the admissions system.

Cadets aret accepted strictly on their academic standing and on the excellence of their work in an entrance examination. There is no "appointment" system through congressmen and senators, as there is for the other service academies. This system has tended to contribute a lack of geographical balance to the cadet corps, since most boys attracted are from maritime states. Capt. Malcolm J.

Williams, director of admissions, says that the academy is gradually correcting the geographical imbalance. There is a newer emphasis on public relations in the under-represented states. "In the Class of 1970, only 22 percent of the cadets were from the under-represented states," Capt. Williams said. "But in the Class of 1971 (just has always distinguished it- self.

In modern times the! Coast Guard has done duty in submarine patrol and in convoy work. In World War II the Coast Guard accounted for at least 12 German sub-' marines. It was the Coast Guard "beach patrol" that snagged the German saboteurs who were landed on the New Jersey shore in 1942 by submarines. These German agents were quickly tried and executed in Washington. AT THE COAST Guard Academy dock in the Thames River, you see a hugh, four masted sailing ship, which soon will be on the high seas in a training cruise for cadets.

Young Cadet Malic from Philadelphia, who showed The Hippies, those Bohemian, bongo-banging upholders of love, have claimed New York Mayor John V. Lindsay as their champion in the struggle over Tompkins Square Park in Manhattan's East Greenwich Village area. Thirty-eight of the hippies were arrested Memorial Day in a frantic, sandal-flying, beer can-bouncing incident. The mayor said he thought the fracas could have been avoided if the police had been a bit more diplomatic. More than a thousand of the gyrating hippies returned to the park Wednesday night and resumed their exotic rituals.

Four guitarists, a harmonica player and a number of bongo- players led the swooning multitude and the din could be heard for blocks. No arrests were made. Five of the hippies who were arrested told reporters at the Sleeker St. police station they still loved the police. Parks Commissioner August Heck-scher announced that 10 "troubador areas" would be set aside throughout the city for singing and playing musical instruments.

"America's youth are involved in a musical explosion," he said "and New York City's Bohemian element shouldn't have to get a permit to take part." such a love for this life and this school, revealed the deep est spirit of the academy while he was explaining about one more man will be washed out, usually because of the nervous tension of his education and training. "The attrition in the academy is about 40 percent, much higher than the attrition in the other service schools," says Capt. Paul F. Foye, dean of academics. "On the other hand, the retention of officers in the Coast Guard is much better than it is in the other services.

A cadet here has an obligation to serve five years. And the attrition rate after five years runs between 10 and 12 percent." For a "forgotten" service school, the Coast Guard Academy gets plenty of applications for admission. There were 4,000 applicants for the 300 openings this year, the class that will be graduated in 1971. Although the academy is literally in the shade of the Army, Navy, and Air Force schools, officials do not see the day that they will have to lower their rigid admission standards to fill the vacancies each year in the. cadet corps.

"There is a great attraction to a career in the Coast Guard," said Lt. Mike Jacobs, who guided us for most of the day in Nev London. "We like to feel are an elite group. The Coa Guard saves lives and property and the humanitarian aspect of our work gives a personal reward to the job." It costs about $41,000 to educate an officer for the Coast Guard. "We like to feel that the taxpayer gets a lot for his money from the Coast Guard," says Lt.

Jacobs. THE SPIRIT you find among the cadets and officials at this academy comes from the history of the Coast Guard, whose mission is outlined on a bronze plaque in the entrance of Chase Hall. That mission, in part, is "to graduate young men with sound bodies, stout hearts and alert minds, with a liking for the sea and its lore and with that high sense of honor, loyalty, and obedience which goes with trained initiative and leadership." The Coast Guard was formed in 1790 as the "revenue marine," by Alexander Hamilton, the secretary of the treasury in George Washington's cabinet. The service has always been part of the Treasury Depart this four-master, the Eagle. Quotes On the training cruise, cadets have to scramble high up in the rigging.

It seemed a little silly to me and I asked Malic impatiently "What the hell is a modern seaman going to learn up in that rigging?" The young cadet smiled and replied "Courage, Sir." Miniskirted Judge Threatens Critics Municipal Judge Noel Cannon, of Los Angeles, censured by her colleagues for seeking "personal publicity," claimed Wednesday she has evidence of "sexual and financial" immorality among other judges. "You really want to get me in trouble," the 40-year-old blond jurist who wears miniskirts told newsmen who pressed for details of her charges. "I don't care to elaborate on it now. Maybe in the future. If they don't leave me alone then there is no reason I should leave them alone, but I'm not a fink." More than three-fourths of the city's municipal judges signed a resolution censuring Judge Cannon earlier this week.

Their action apparently was precipitated by a news i 1 1 a i i i Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, who said that recent comments he made in Venezuela on retiring from public office in 1970 may have been misinterpreted: "The conversation was in Spanish and what I said and what he (a Venezuelan reporter) took down and how it came out in English is anybody's guess." The late Capt. John Mas-term an of Bournemouth, England, in his will: "I make no gifts or bequests to my friends or to charity, as, in my view, charity begins at home." Comedian Dick Van Dyke, to a doorman at the London Playboy Club who had opened the door for him, believing he was about to enter: "Could you please tell me the way to the Pair of Shoes Club?" uomerence sne caiiea to demonstrate weapons women can use to thwart attackers, although they were believed to be displeased over television appearances she has made and the fact she painted her judicial chambers pink. Judge Cannon said the censure resolution, sent on to the California Judicial Qualifications Commission and to San Bernardino Superior Judge James E.

Cunningham, president of the Conference of California Judges, was a publicity stunt. She noted that the Judicial Qualifications Commission has no jurisdiction over a judge's personal life and added: "If it did, we would have lots fewer judges." rfj'- -y mill1 9 REAR ADM. C. R. Bender is superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy.

The Coast Guard's training ship, the Eagle, under full sail i- i mw iw DO Drink the -Water He's No Second Fiddler BY BILLY GRAHAM QUESTION Why do Christians, who are supposed to be peaceful and loving, have heated debates over theology to the point of anger? Surely, this is not the Christian ideal. W.S. blessed individuals who would have been a success at anything. Well, maybe not at farming. Legend has it that his father, Leonard, developed a system for finding the lad overseas a guide at a tenth the price that will give you all the information you need and won't tell you the food doesn't suit American tastes, and be sure not to try the resinated wine.

BY MARK BELTAIRE WHEN YOU GO TRAVELING, drink the water, eat the vegetables. I know this is completely opposite to the advice given in many guide (more on THAT subject later), and would be absolute heresy when there were chores to be done: He looked for the ball game and there suri enough would be Charley, an early and persistent fugitive from all phases of ANSWER It is so easy to see Christians at their worst rather than at their best. Tour observation reminds me of a picture of a respectable citizen I a charming naturalized Swiss I enco who feels so strongly on the subject that he Hills, which is where the swells belong. The fairways are so plush that you have to school yourself to strike into them with iron or persimmon, telling yourself that they hire people just special to go around repairing such lacerations as you may cause. But it still seems almost unholy to cut into a nine iron under such circumstances.

Oh, yes: Mr Gehringer is an eight handicapper and there are doubtless days when his total game is a thing of beauty and a joy to behold. He was, as baseball buffs will remember, the second baseman for the Tigers The Year They Won The Pennant. That would have been 1934. They were to win it later, of course, including 1935, but 1934 seems to have been The Year. seat in the last row.

The guide asked for suggestions for a community sing (you should hear "Home on the Range" and "Daisy" in a Turkish accent.) I wanted to plug for "Nearer My God to Thee." Nobody else seemed to share my fears, but nobody else had as good a view of the driver pressing down on the accelerator as we headed into the curves; of the gravel spurting out over a drop of several hundred feet; of the cold sweat oozing into my palms. And here a Tip of the Topper to the older tourists, the type that by statistical tables should be rocking placidly on a front porch back home. Nobody, but nobody, has more endurance, more determination than these people. It may take them a little longer to clamber up ruin, but they keep on, never missing a thing, active and young in heart. drinks only beer once saw, taken of him standing by a garbage can.

We are not to assume that this was his nor or wine when abroad, brus his teeth in Coca Cola and keeps his mouth tightly mal environment. One Point I've never seen made before is valid: DON'T sit in the. front of the bus! Unless you have the guts of a paratrooper, the soul of a seagull and sublime faith in the unknown man who made the brakes. This dictum was formed for me in Turkey as we proceeded from the port of Khudasi to the magnificent 'ruins of Ephesus (or Ephes-sos), still being excavated by Austrian archeologists and one of the most impressive sights in the world. I was last aboard, and the guide graciously motioned to her own seat smack against the front windshield while she draped herself atop an Oriental rug spread on the transmission hump.

The sun was' warm, flowers bloomed in two tiny vases inside the front windows, and the driver was more poet and nature lover than bus jockey." True, Christians at times get carried away just like other people. But, I dare say, that this group you have pictured BV JUDD ARNETT IN THE LINE of sweet and tender duty, to playing pasture pool the other afternoon with Monty Cox, a sales and engineering tycoon; with Harry Kolyer, a commercial photographer who once had a five handicap, for crying out loud; and with Charley Gehringer, the mere mention of whose name should set hearts to beating faster in the bosoms of all tried and true Detroit Tiger fans. Mr. Gehringer and your commentator were partners in this afternoon of toil and travail, and we did not do so well, un-thanks to the inept-ness of pore Ol Arn, whose game has deserted him and he can not find it. I have become what Jerry Rideout calls "a basket case," one of the world's great patsies, now being at the point where even gardening sounds like fun.

It Should be noted, however, that Mr Gehringer, who hits the golf ball as though he were being pitched tight on the inside of the plate, went down fighting, as usual. He is the type who hates to finish second in a game of scrabble, even, so to the last he was swatting towering woods and irons greenward, attempting to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat But, alas, Mr. Cox, who arranged this affair, had him overweighted for the distance. Charley Gehringer was born near Fowlerville in a town which no longer appears on the map Iosco and sufficent evidence has now been gathered to indicate that he is one of those infrequent star The City as belligerent and cantankerous, are not always quarreling and bickering. They doubtless have virtues as well as vices, and to display the one side is hardly fair.

held in the python-like grip of the Depression, didn't have much to cheer about until the Tigers caught fire under Mickey Cochrane. Then, through a long and hectic stretch drive, it was Detroit against the world and when it was all over the citizenry went mad, mad -There was no one moment whaa But on the other hand, it is But his other Charley accomplishments have been on the side of sensational. When you think of the great second basemen in all the history of baseball, you put down perhaps five names in all, and Gehringer has to be one, two or three. After all, this fellow, who played at 185 lean and rugged pounds, hit .321 over 19 seasons, including three World Series; was a .500 hitter in six All-Star contests; and was as steady and dependable in the field as Bobby Richardson was to become for the dratted Yankees. Beyond playing the game, Mr.

Gehringer later became general manager of the Tigers; he went to the rank of lieutenant-commander for the Navy during World War and he has been a highly successful businessman in the manufacturer's agency he founded in conjunction with Ray Forsyth. Charley Gehringer is now of such caliber in the assets department that he plays golf out of Bloomfield true that Christian people some times get into a rut. Paul spoke shut in the shower. Part of the charm of travel is to try something new, not to hustle from Hilton to Hilton hunting ham-. burger.

Let common sense be your guide. If you were in Deep Snow- -ditch, high in the hills of Kentucky, you'd be careful about what you put in your stomach, and so you should be off the beaten track in any part of the world. But the major cities and tourist stopovers have long since became civilized in sanitation matters. As for guidebooks, I hold to a simple rule of thumb: The more expensive, the less useful. Too many of them are written for a version of the old maid school teacher circa 1850 who has been re-placed by a mini-skirted lass zipping by on a motorbike.

You can generally find at any news stand of carnal Christians, "babes in Christ." These Christians, in the developmental stage, have not yet come into matureity, Another Tip Avoid hotel concierges. By the time a man reaches that kingly eminence he has lost interest in everything except watching over his empire, making sure that every bit of tribute and kickback he has built up over the years is coming in according to the system. If you want to line up anything from guides to gloves, get hold of a bellman. He'd like to be a concierge some day, but he hasn't made it yet, and usually has some humanity left. His price will be lower, and performance higher.

and just as people make al lowances for immature people it suddenly dawned on the Tigers that they were that year's Team of Destiny. "We just thought we had a good chance," Charley remembers, "and late in the season when we won a big game in New York well, the odds looked better than ever." Then came the World Series and he admits now that he was "plenty scared." As We Rounded curve after curve, hairpins mostly, he hummed happily to himself, gazing from side to side to drink in the countryside, waving to friends, missing a gas truck by a fraction of an inch, as he brushed a burro and rider off the road. On the return 'trip, I traded for a allowances should be made for them. Since you seem to be in this group, perhaps you can, by precept and example, help these growing, maturing ones to grow up..