ADVANCE-NEWS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31,-1971
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In the backrooms of government, people who ara
paid to serve the public are vigorously resisting reforms that would save the public billions by eliminating duplication, reducing waste and increasing
efficiency.
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- According to Meryle, the Blue Devil
Boosters will acknowledge scholastic
•..achievement and many other school ac- '
--.-tivities such as the debate and journalism
cclub. I think it is great that the Blue
Devil Boosters have organized because
~S6here is a place for such an organization
"in"any community. Meryle is a hard and
;^3fe<3icajted worker. When he takes on a
' job he does if well. I hope that parents
and friends of Ogdensburg Free Academy students will chip in and do their
share.
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V^e axe all enthused about our great
basketball team, but I think the parent
interest should be expanded for more
active support of students and teachers
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. . -:-At first glance, this would appear to
•ifee. a revolutionary change in the attitude
of the Catholic church or a typographical
'error.
The danger is that we let our interests
in sports overshadow everything else.
We become too sports minded and other
worthy programs don't get the parent
interest or participation that they should.
We have to find a balance and this is
why I was pleased to hear Meryle say
that sports would only be a part of the
Blue Devil Booster program.
Other officers of the Blue' Devil
Boosters are Eugene Lupia, vice president; Al Smith, secretary and Don
Cameron, treasurer. It is an excellent
slate of officers. We commend these men
and oifihers responsible for the formation
of the group. We. look forward to working with them in the best interest of all
our students.
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ment is due to the present financial
hardship of parochial schools, many of
which may be forced to shut down. If
they were to close, it would place a sudden near catastrophic physical and financial burden on many public school
systems.
Therefore, the intent is to relieve the
financial plight of the parochial schools
and keep them from closing.
..._ But, it is neither. Cardinal Cooike is
_ afraid that the effort to repeal the Blaine
'If financial help were given to' the
• amendment may fail, if it goes on tne
parents, they would have to use.it to pay
...ballot in November, as required for refor increased tuition, which would help
keep the parochial schools solvent.
peal.
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However, many other parents might
also be tempted to send their children to
Therefore.
the
cardinal
would
private schools, if fihey knew the state
raMer the governor pursued a plan to
were going to pay part of,the cost. This
5gJLVe financial aid to parents with children in private schools.
is certainly not the intention of the governor, and it would tend to weaken fur-This approach obviously would be
ther the public school system.
' "Sifhfsler on the face of it. And if would
avoid the question of sepairation of
The intention is to help financially
church and state, the main stumbling
pressed parochial schools, and that is
blo£k to repeal of 'the amendment.
what repeal of the amendment would
tXDn .the other hand, the cardinal's
do. If- the voters want to keep the
plan, could wind up being far. more comamendment intact, the governor should
plicated and far-reaching' than anyone • not attempt means of circumventing it,
waijts to go.
which is what Cardinal Cooke is sugThe pressure to repeal the amendgesting.
AST BUCHWALD:
Teddy, Meet Benedict Arnold
ART BUCHWALD
ate floor.
Byrd's problem. If Byrd got 31
Washington — The toughest In the cloak room, the Sen- votes and only 29 senators own
• thing Teddy Kennedy faces for ate dining room and even the up to having voted for him,
the next two years is trying to washroom lie will never know two senators are playing both
figure out who voted for him- if the senator who hands him sides of the street. And how
and who didn't when he was a towel had given him the can you be a Senate whip if
you can't get an honest count
defeated for Senate whip. The Byrd.
from your own party?
final count in a secret ballot
was 31 votes for Byrd and 24 When crucial votes come up
votes for Kennedy. Yet when on the floor and a colleague But at the moment this is
says, "Teddy, I voted 'for you small consolation to Teddy. Evreporters took a poll after the
for whip," how will Kennedy ery time he attends a fund
caucus, 26 senators said they
know he isn't talking to a Sen. raising dinner for a Senate
had voted for Teddy. It's obBenedict Arnold?
friend and watches him eat his
vious that out of the 26, two
chicken and peas, the only
senators were whistling Dixie. One solution would be to
thought that will run through
make all 26 senators who said his head is "Did he or didn't
The big question that will
haupt Kennedy is who • were they had voted for Kennedy he?" followed by "And if he
didn't, why did he say he did?"
the two senators who said they take a saliva test.
voted for him but didn't. While But the Senate is a club and' The worst part of Kennedy's
Teddy sits during the long Sen- the first rule is never to ques- defeat, after knowing that he
ate debates, his eyes will be tion another club member's Was betrayed,/ is that everyone
searching, ever searching, try- word. If Teddy asked the 26 to has said that this hurts his
Ing to find a Judas on the Sen-swear they had written -his chances for being a presidenname on the ballot, he would tial candidate in 1972. Since
be questioning their integrity Teddy has vowed time ana
and that's one thing no senator time again that he is not a
candidate, it's impossible for
wants to be questioned on.
him to deny that his loss has
Another solution would be for hurt his chances.
Kennedy to have a supper at All he can say is "Since I
his house for the 26 senators am not a candidate for Presiand wait to see which two sen-dent, my chances for getting
ators kiss him on the Cheek. the nomination have not been
A third solution would be for affected by Sen. Byrd's victory.
If I really wanted to be
Kenney to offer amnesty to
the two who secretly voted: for President, which I have reByrd, while professing to vote peatedly said I don't, then I
ior him. He could announce certainly would not have let a
that if they stepped forward junior senator from West Virand revealed themselves, he ginia beat me out of a position
would forgive them, and take that everyone agrees has nevboth of them along with him on :r really had any importance
to someone who aspires for the
his next trip to Paris.
highest office in the land."
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Friends of Kennedy have tri- But for the moment, all Sen.
ed to console him by telling Kennedy can do is • ask for a
Todqy's FUNNY wifl poy 51.00 for
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him that the gap in how sena- desk on the Senate floor which
to: Today's FUNNY, 1200 West Third
tors voted and how they\'said will guarantee that his back
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hey voted, was really Sen. will be against the wall.
today's F U N N Y
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Governor Should Stick To His Plan
>nRepeal Of The Blaine Amendment
Cardinal Cooke has asked Governor
-•Rockefeller to drop his efforts to have
the • Blaine amendment repealed, which
would allow state aid for parochial
-schools."
The presidential task force responsible for the
reorganization has encountered the most opposition
from the entrenched agencies that administer our
natural resources. Their functions "would be' consolidated in a new Department of Natural Resources,
thereby reducing the stature of the encrusted Corps
of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and Soil Conservation Service.
in other areas of school life that don't
fall in the realm of sports. Ogdensburg
is a very sports-minded community. The
people are sports minded, and I am no
exception. I find myself working my
schedule so that I can attend a football
or basketball game. This is natural beoause Americans are known for their
interest in sports,
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Washington
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power is threatened by President Nixon's'reorganization plan, have never worked for the public so. hard
as they are now lobbying to save their empires,^ ti
Blue Devil Boosters Organize
_•"• Meryle Seeley who was elected two
weeks ago to be the first president of
the newly organized
"Blue
Devil
.^Boosters" organization was in the office
"Thursday and we were discussing the
p
of such an organization. We
e very pleased to hear Meryle say
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boosting the Blue Devil sports
grogram would be one purpose, but it
will not be the only purpose.
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Astronauts: Men's Spirits Triumph
If you are bored with rockets and
Jim Lovell was washed out of the
space flight, if you are unimpressed by
space program for health reasons. He
Apollo 14 as a technological feat, then
came back to make more space flights
think of it as a triumph of the human
"and spend "more time in space than any
other man in history.
spirit — one man's spirit.
Alan Shepard was 35 when he join-
Frank Borman underwent major op-
ed the space program. He become the
erations before he reached the age of
first American in space on May 5, 1961
five. He was so sickly as a youth that his
when he made a 15-imnutd, suborbital
family changed its residence and way of
flight. Then he began suffering
life to nurse him back to health.
from
Meniere's syndrome, an excessive build-
Later, as a fighter pilot, he cracked
up of fluid pressure in tihe inner ear. He
an eardrum in a dive • and was ground-
was grounded from space missions and
ed. • He came back to fly combat mis-
barred from piloting a plane solo.
sions in Korea and. make two space
He came back, and at 46 is commander of Apollo "1 4 and- the only mem-
flights.
Buzz Aldrin was hospitalized for six
ber of the original Mercury team still in
months . with
space. But Shepard's case is hardly spe-
pursued
cial.
dfetronautics;
his
infectious
hepatitis. He
postgraduate
rrom
his
studies
hospital
in
bed,
Many people have come to believe
earned his doctorate and later joined
that the astronauts stand just this side of
with Neil Armstrong to become the first
Superman.
pair of men on the moon.
Nothing
could
be
further
from, the truth, writes William Barry
Furlong in Today's Health magazine.
Each of the astronauts has had very
human problems to overcome. For many
of them, like Shepard, the problems involved their health. Some, other examples:
John Glenn also suffered from innerear trouble caused by a bathroom fall.
He was barred from piloting altogether
and had to drop out of a race for the
U.S. Senate. Yet he came back; he
learned to walk and feed himself again
and requalified as a jet pilot.
Walter Cunningham broke his neck
while jumping on a trampoline in the
astronauts' gym. He came back to become crewmate on Apollo 7, the first
manned flight in the Apollo series.
Scott Carpenter was seriously injured
in an auto accident. He came back, but
decided to explore fehe depths of the sea
instead of space.
Deke Slayton, one of the • seven
Mercury astronauts, was once scheduled
to be the first American in space. But he
was • grounded because of a heart. ab'
normality and Tjecame instead an outStanding NASA administrator.
No, the astronauts aren't supermen,
says Furlong. They have all had common human failings and medical frailities. "But the significant^thing is the way
they faced their medical problems —
with resolution, not fear, with determination, not defeat."
Until some supermen come along,
these guys will do.
En Garde
DON OAKLEY
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The Army Engineers, for example, wouldc lose
their policymaking power over the pork barrel- projects that are so dear to the hearts of Congressmen.
This has been a source of great political power'•to the
.Corps of Engineers, which has been able to write it3
own ticket on Capitol Hill. To topple the Corps"from
this power base will take all the President's .hprses
and all the President's men.
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As far back as May 12, 1970, the task fordfe,forecast the opposition in a memo to President JC^ixon.
The memo is stamped "Administratively Confidential." But like all private communications tty the
* President, it is treated as top secret.
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"Many of the changes suggested in our memorandum," warned the task force, "seem certain to^mcur
heavy political opposition and are not likely to -generate offsetting support. It is "riot our role to advise
you in this regard, but our discussions with the ^members of the cabinet and others have impressed .u&with
the intensity of their objections to some of i3ie recommended changes."
— — DISAPPEARING RESOURCES ——-'.
The task force, headed by Litton Industries"1" Roy
Ash, warned that we are rapidly using up our rMtural
abundance. "Exclusive of air and water, we ndW use
25 tons per person of basic materials each yeaTj~ and
this usage is growing at the rate of almost a tltpn a
year," reported die memo. "If present trends^continue, energy use will double in 10 years; water in
18; and metals.in 22 years.
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"In the remaining years of this century, the" United States will use more energy and more l£ey resources than it has consumed since the founding of
our nation. Even if our population were static,- we
would consume far more water, timber, and minerals
•than our predecessors, yet we will demand therpreservation of forests,' lakes, beaches, and the like for
increased recreational use."
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The Ash Council pointed out that "federal-water
resources development programs are1 located irfthreedifferent' -departments:- Agriculture, Interior?'- and
Army . . . . InCeragency rivalry,. duplicative planning,
and conflicting policies persist . . . .
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"In Kansas, proposed watershed developments
(Agriculture) threaten to undermine the rationale
for a reclamation project (Interior) downstream.
"In Montana, the Corps of Engineers and the
Bureau of Reclamation are studying separate projects
for the same site. Who, if anyone, should build^whicb,
project'awaits an uncertain resolution . . . .
"In California, development of a ski and slimmer
mountain resort on Forest Service lands (Agriculture) in the Mineral King basin was stymied''by refusal to grant public access across National Park- land
by Interior . . . . ~
"In the southeastern states, widespread 'stream
- channel straightening and deepening (Agriculture)
has been protested vigorously by the Department of
Interior, supported by conservation interests.
."The process of balancing fish and wildlife and
scenic values against economic development iie&ds: .is
unnecessarily frustrated by fragmented planning and
evaluation responsibility . . i . In short, a coordinated
natural resource .management policy has been virtually impossible to achieve." /
• BROKERAGE iRAID —
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To prevent a stock market crisis, the New York
Stock Exchange recently persuaded the nation's biggest stock broker, Merrill Lynch, Pierce," Ferijier and
Smith, to take over the failing Goodbody.
pany.
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It was all accomplished with "sweet r-eassur^ges to
the million 61 more clients of the two ,kr^J||rage
giants. But behind the rosy public relations, fchiggtakeover resulted in .a dog-eat-dog fight for Gbd^fedy's
clients between Merrill Lynch and cbmpetihgMarms.
In Washington, Gordon Linke, stepson «©i| the
"Smith" in Merrill Lynch, matched into the«poodbody office, which -was headed by Jim GooS&ody,
great grandson; of the founder. The Linke-^iorces
ransacked desks,. rummaged through files-;
cated records,
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Thereafter, they began Hustling. cliefits of.^|
body brokers who had taken jobs with other'^rms.
Clients who called couldn't "even- find out frojSj^Mer.rill Lyrieh where their brokers had gone.
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In Palm Beach, Merrill Lynch changed dotggjqcks
for fear departing brokers would take records^ with
them. There were also "•problems,'-*" Merrill-^fcynch
conceded, in-Memphis arid Pompaiio Beach, Fla.
In New York, a Merrill Lynch spokesman.- said
the company moved in beeailse its Good-body subsidiary was being systematically "raided" byaScompetirig firm.
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MANPOWER MUDDLE - ^ ^ • S
Our recent column detailing how
y
manpower has brought In a flood of examplesSFrom
misassigned soldiers.
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One that we checked out involved more th^S. 140
GIs trained for 44- weeks' at the taxpayers*
in Nike track radar and computer repair.
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shipped to F t Blair, Tex., where it turned Bigg that
only eight of the specialists'were needed. • •'•'•"*
The rest have been assigned to. other jobs? Yet
•they continue to collect extra* specialists' pay for
technical work they don't do.
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