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Show i Behind the Day's News 11 k j L last week toward power to -- -of Casting a pall over this otherwise rosy loutlook are the great killers: coronary and other heart diseases arid cancer. The former account for more deaths than from all other causes combined. - Malig- , l-to- nancies rank second. Increases; have been noted in the incidence off both heart diseases 'and cancer Encouraging is the intensive research devoted to these diseases, to the probability that part of the increases may be due to the rise in the average age' of all " ' ; the Longshore- -' men's executive committee repu- - diated the agreement. mutual assistance . tions. What Hoffa is believed to have in mind is an alliance of his teamsters with all other U. S. transportation unions, land, sea and air. Such a concentration of union power would have - no prec- - 1 - i Based on I' j Mountain Goat i By the Herald Staff . t j Off the Beat BOY'S BASEBALL THEN AND NOW ex- ... Every time I see a group of youngsters at supervised baseball practice or see a group of fath ers, rakes, shovels, etc., repairing" or manicuring the diamond I think of the baseball of my own child- hood. Real nostalgia grips me as I contrast the well equipped, super- vised programs of today and the helter-skeltsystem used by my group. Usually the brothers, who were our neighbors and had a cracked d black bat and a but of conple ragged old gloves, would drop over to our place of a summer's morning looking for a ball game. We had a nearly-blacwell scuffed ball at our house most of the time and, if we could get the kid with the catcher's mitt to go along, we had a ball game. There were never more than six men on a side, that- - I can recall and, at that, there were just enough gloves to go around. Catcher's mask, chest protector and shin guards were unknown and one of the kids on the side which was batting made many a controversial decision as umpire. x We had fun, though, and the Little best result of today's other and supervised proLeague same as the result is the grams of our 'pickup' games.. The boys are engaged in healthy, wholesome, competitive activities and, while so engaged, it is impossible for them to think . about let alone get into any mischief or more serious trouble. Where our 'program had the present ones beat was that it was impossible for parents to get into battles, with each other, the umthey just pires r coaches weren't around. J.V.B. Typical women talk. amazement began las he watched refreshments hpiiWo sprv. . 'ed to .the ladies, and each accepted a luscious serving of strawberry pie with! a glob of whipped ' cream. "Look at all those women setting; there," he told his :fellow males, "and not one of them says a word about pie being fattening. or calories, or being on a diet, nor nothin!" 4-J. A. His , ,if drastically reduce tuberculosis (225 per 100,000 in 1911; 5 per 100,000 in 1960), pneumonia and tional campaign in the 1930s. Citizens should read this book for an estimate of Hoffa in particular and labor monopoly in general. ' Counsel, now attorney, general, Kennedy expressed in 1957 this f pectation of life at birth, persons born in 19JL1 could look forward to only 46 years of life. The baby born in 1960, by comparison, has a life expectancy of 70.6 years. That's a t of 24 years of life, fired in the crucibles of science and wrought onj the anvil of the public's greater health knowledge. . committee member, heard the tes timony and said that the Team- sters' power to interfere with trade was greater than that of lo-cal, state and federal govern ments. Petro's: judgment was that the president of the Teamsters Union commands the createst un restrained economic power in the United States. Citizens should do their home Work on this powerful man. n. , 24 years shice 1911. (D-N.C- .;, t - : opinion: "There is no organization, union or business, that has, a greater effect on the community life of this countryUa greater effect on our economy, than the Teamsters' Union," Sen. Sam Ervin a - ! . v J Far better still than the de- -. crease in mortality rates is lengthening of the life span a whapping cent. '.'-Of note are the means by which progress has been - achieved. It reflects advances in medicine, public health, and the general standard, of living. Medical science and an informed public have combined to Hoffa is the U.S. Attorney eral, Robert Kennedy. . This Kennedy was counsel for the McClellan Senate committee which investigated labor and management misdeeds. The record of Hoffa's union was a shocker.- Sylvester Petro summarized the McClellan committee testimony in a book, "The Corruption of Union Leadership,' published in 1959 by the Ronald Press; of New Yprk, at $5. Petro is not anti-unioHe was active in the CIO's organiza- bs j - 1-- ' ; persons, and to more accurate diagnosis and reporting of the afflic- . ' when Tuesday j. -74 - Hoffa's union ic the International Brotherhood of! Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America; the Teamsters' union for short. There are disturbing indication that Hoffa intends to create transportation monopoly in the United States. His combination in one union of teamsters, chauffeurs, warehouse men and their helpers provides a broad base for a jmonopoly of U.S. transportation. jHof fa moved ternal mortality. health report just' sued, Basis' of the findings, which reflect unprecedented reductions in mortality and lengthened life span, is a survey of what .happened to a large insurance company's policyholders over the last half century. Generally, the death rate in 1960 was only about half that prevailing in 1911. Specifically, mortality in the age bracket fell from 13.5 per thousand persons in 1911 to a mere 4.1 in 1960. It was only in such .devastating periods as the 1918 influenza epidemic that .was steady progress interrupted. beneficiaries of morSignificant are reduction in those "childtality hood and early adult life. In the 4 age group, for instance, deaths have been cut more than 90 per 50-years- sters' James R. Hoffa. edent' here. Hoffa is guiding the geographical divisions of his own union to a situation in which teamster contracts will expire in all parts of the country at the same time. That situation could invite a nationwide Teamsters' strike, a disastrous thing. If Hoffa's team-- i sters were supported by other transportation unions in such a strike it would not need to last long to measure up to some exin terms of hurt ploding to the people of the United States. The American people probably are not aware' cf Hoffa's position in the community nor of his potential power for harm. One Americ an who is fully aware of con- trol American transportation and to paralyze it at will. This weeki he suffered a modest setback. Last week's action was the signature of a mutual assistance pact by Hoffa with the chiefs of the International Longshoremen's Association and thoj National Mar- itime Union. The setback came b, Holding promise of even better years to come is an encouraging : - By LYLE C. WILSON influenza, communicable childhood diseases, poliomyelitis and. ma- ' is United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD Next to the most powerful the force in the United States prob-abl- y is controlled by the Team- Bright Health Picture ' off as Union Boc m m n o Powe . SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1961 ' ' - 0 t EJ er fBy George De Long c- A SPOT TO SEE FISHERMAN'S WHARF Few people who visit San! Fran well-tape- The Chopping Block . Damned - I If He Does, Or If He Don't By FRANK C. ROBERTSON below a certain level. The second night I volunteered to do the watching, so I Things are really getting rough in The Soviet Republics, and according to recent reports "they are exiling people from Siberia. Next thing we know they'll probably be sending them to the U.S.A. to live under Capitalism, which is the worst punishment they can conceive. went without sleep and trudged out in the. orchard every half hour or so. Paul Dibble came down to share my vigil, but what we didn't know was that his father was also checking. So was Dean Binks and Janet Marsh. None of them told us they were on duty for fear of of us waking us up. By a miracle-noncollided, but there might well have been four or five of us bumping together in the darkness. j' Janet was the only safe one since she wore a white jnight outfit (with red roses on it, she claims) and didn't venture far from her house. Next night I did as Kennedy should have done. I volunteered to stay in bed and let Dean do the thermometer Watch ing since he said he had to be up almost every night anyway with his new born baby. But so great is the force of habit that I was up three times anyway. And what - happened was that it. never got down to freezing at all so all our efforts were wasted, Probably Kennedy had too many bureaus watching Castro and" they bumped into each otherWhat he should have done, perhaps, was to light a fire under Castro without waiting to see if it was going to freeze. ' e Some of our own people are doing their best to encourage the idea that this is a land where in t making money is the thing we are most concerned about, ruth-lessne- ss We had scarcely ten over our sense of shock over the revelation that the fine "company men' of some of our largest corpora- tions were being sent to jail for illegal price Mr. Robertson fixing (of course the big officials of the corporations didn't know a thing about what was going on they say) when it comes out that the unions are making us, the. government, pay double for labor on some of our missile projects in spite of the urgency of that program. But if there Is an opportunity to get double time by slowdowns and feather bedding why should it be neglected, our union leaders seem to think. Isn't this the land of opportunity, so why shouldn't every opportunity to make an extra dollar be seized, they ask. Patriotism; both sides seem to think, is just fine when it comes to hanging out the flag and telling how much they hate communism over a glass of champagne or a mug of beer, as the case may be, but must never get in the way when it comes to making a buck. v It seems to jme to be something of an insult to treatj St.t George as little more than a splendid! myth. -JK. C. Hamilton, Angeli-ca- n Ught Rev. oJ dean Windsor,' as Vatican demoted the patron saint of Eqgland to third-clas- s sainthood. j Douglas W. Johnson, who found and returned $240,000 in Los Angeles, saying he and his family have been harassed by scoffers at his honesty. , ' Some communities are more interested in how mich it; costs to polish the floors in the school buildings than the quality of education their children are getting; Dr. William Root, assistant superintendent of Akron, Ohio, schools. ' ' r . I reach far out into space every time I say my prayers. Why should people be excited by neivs that a man has step' ped into space? v Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, - j X '- - We can begin by finding a better word than "accident." An "accident" implies the event is put of the hands of the driver. But drunk driving is entirely the personal responsibility of the' driver, and he should be held firmly accountable for his acts. I a when 'Dr. health specialist, urging "get tough" policy with drinking drivers. , presence. ' President statements ex columnists are not necessarily this newspaper. was in Johnson Canada, in Thailand, Secretary of State -- Dean Rusk in Geneva. And, for all practical purposes, Chester Bowles was the Washington stand-i- n for the President ofj the United ' States. - Bowles held this coveted position as Under Secretary of State. It is true that legal succession . to the Presidency goes down another road to Speaker from of the House Sam Rayburn to the presiding officer of the Senate, Sen. Carl Hayden of Arizona. But with our survival hinging on international affairsj these days, Bowles emerged as the most important man left in our deserted capital. He jmade the most of this glorious, though fleeting, occasion. He delivered himself unto the power- ful Senate Foreign Relations Committee to brief them on what!s going on ii the world.! Yes, there would be cameras waiting outside those closed doors. There! would be the drama of Us By FAYE HENLE Have you ever figured what it costs to run your car each year? The answer is particularly important if you are operating on Vice-Presiden- Kennedy when Chester Bowles finally stepped out through the doors into this repor-torireception, he jblinked, as though he were surprised. But not very. Soon he was basking in the glory of it all. But it" didn't say much. "Mi. Secretary," said a voice, "tell us about Korea; Laos, Cuba, What did you tell Geneva . . them in there?" Bowles had held many offices j .. , c a !r costs operating and ways o f - . 4. discover -- trimming expenses. ' 1 j troleum Institute7 can help you to figure t! reporters. And crowding xjLV! , of buying that I second car. A study by the PeAmerican -- . -- to 12 Cents A Mile to Run Yknjr Car a tight budget or are thinking i Faye nenle per cent depending upon how a car is driven, whether it travels in city traffic, flat or mountainous country, the loads carried, its condition. This is how the experts say you can determine car costs: Fill your gas tank and record mileage. Drive normally until the tank is nearly empty. Have it refilled. Divide the number of miles driven by the gallons required to fill the tank. This gives you an approximate miles per gallon you are getting. To achieve the closest possible figure you should repeat this three or four times and average your findings. r Add to your gas expense the complete cost for an oil change each time one is made. A formula that covers most driving condi- Divide your car expenses into fixed and variable fixed costs change little regard less how much" or how little dritions recommends changing oil ving you do. They include insur-every 30 days in winter, every ance, taxes, license land registra60 days in summer, never exceedtion fees and depreciation. ing 2,000 miles between changes. Under taxes l2clude only prop'I Say you drive 10,000 miles a erty and use taxes.) Federal and year getting 14.5 miles to the state, excise taxes should be congallon, you'll be using 689.7 galsidered part of the total purchase lons of gas.: At an average jcost price, x j of 35 cents per gallon, tax inGenerally the largest single cluded, you'd spend $241.40 for cost of owning a new or recent Add $21 for the recommend-ie- d gas. model car is depreciation. Depreseven changes of oil annual ciation is the difference f between and and oil total $202.40 your gas what you paid for the car and each year. what you can get .when you sell Maintenance costs vary widely. offered for deit. A A offered for a lower-priced car' I popular-price- d preciation of a our-dosedan f is up to $800 for the first year, an .79 is engine (with $600 for the second and about $100 j of a cent, mile. per less for each successive year 0 If you are going to exceed thereafter. Variable costs include gasoline, miles annually, add an extra $14.75 per 1,000 miles to depreoil, tires maintenance and reciation. These the pairs depend upon If you are an average motorist number of miles you drive and how you Use your car. doin.g an average 10,000 miles According, to the API the cost per year, your cost per mile of oil and gas for some model should vary between 8 and 12 cars may vary as much as 50 i cents. ; . k - " j rule-of-thu- rule-of-thu- or I 18,-00- - I' . - t . j .CONVERSATION PIECE Conversation, especially among women, has certain conventional replies to ordinary situations. It Costs 8 Vice-Preside- nt . The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views of went out. Bowles' crowning moment in court was over. He faded into the corridor. And the rest of the world went its way . . , (Copyright, 1961, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Your Pocketboolc 1 g' quests whenxtwo different Orem stakes held conference on the same day awhile back. In one conferences a prayer was ffiven for rain to germinate seed and give the crops a needed drink; while in the other stake a prayer was offered, we are told, to stay any rainstorm until the roof of a new chapel could be finished. , k buttons and ban- t - ,.,,-It:'' 'ill Koterba Ed ners lay crushed in the stampedes of the Biltmore lobby, it appeared that Bowles' boomlet had been the, mark in his route tcf the White House And, now suddenly in the wash of floodlights, bowles had become the man of the hour He stood confident and erect before eight microphones that reached from tangles of cord across the ground floor of the Capitol. . Chester Bowles stood thereas our country's executive kingpin the highest chieftain in our al Seward E. Miller, U. of Michigan nt j r CONFUSING THE LORD The Lord must have found himself tornXbetween two re- "In the right direction," he said. It wasn't much of an interview, but it was the best Washington had o offer under the circumstances. In eight minutes the TV lights , k but they don't need to if they can make Kennedy the scapegoat. We lost Laos, and now we have to decide wheather we will or will not fight in 1 ' ' j almost-Preside- cisco miss the Fisherman's Wharf, as it is so different from the inland scenes;. Fisherman's! Wharf, with its boiling crab pots, fish nets spread out to dry, colorful boats at anchor, gay decorations and jlaugh-te- r of visitors, is renowned the j world over, But the romance ol: Fisherman's Wharf is a little told story. The hardships of the fishermen braving storms and heavy!, seas, beaching on faraway lagoons to this is await calmer weather of Fisherman's the real story Wharf, from which hundreds of fishermen, on ' their amazingly sturdy small craft, dare to venture far out into the Pacific from Mexico to Alaska. Despite the. rough seas, each, fisherman faces the challenge, not 'alone but with his patron saint, Santa Maria! d'Luma (Mary of Light)," whoj watches oyer and returns both fisherman and craft 'j . safely. The admiration and faith of the fishermen in love of sea boat and patron saint is symbolized in the painting" of their boats blue and also by a! yearr and white ly festival of "The Blessing of the Fleet." In this tradition, the latej Mike Geraldi, for 26 years a fisherman, and his . family for generations fishermen, built the first seafood restaurant at Number 9 on the Wharf and named! it Fisherman's Grotto in honor of the fishermen themselves. This restaurant wai the beginning of Fisherman's Wharf as. it is) known today. From the Wharf! can be seen a panorama ,of the pity's hills and skyline, the Golden Gate Bridge, the fishermen mending their nets and the boats bobbing "as though to free themselves fromf their moorings." Many varieties of fish, available fresh or served in one of the Wharf's many eating houses, are caught by their own fishing fleet the same day. jG. II. J Nephi. . And fizzled.Bowles' vasion. . de- candidate for President of the United States, But, alas, it 6 I wish I'd never seen any of it. I wish we'd let that money sit in the street and rot. I wish we'd thrown it down a sewer or burned it. . are ye going, Mr. Secretary?" Ambassador to India, Price Ad ministrator, Connecticut Governor, but never was he Congressman in as loty a position as this, a sort of the United of States. And he rose t6 the occasion. He straightened his shoulders. "Well," he said, "it was. a sort of general discussion on a broad range of problems , . to tell us where we're going.' There was a chorus of: "Where veloped a hearty boomley for Chester Bowles as darkh o r s e Harry A. Doiansky, Canadian cigar manufacturer, in Cuba during the in- 4 South Viet Nam, and whichever decision Kennedy makes the Republicans will claim it was the wrong one. On the one hand they will charge cowardice if we let the Communists have it, and if we fight, Kennedy will be accused of taking us into war. Political advantage, like come ahead making money, must always ' of patriotism. President Kennedy seems to have the faculty of keeping his head in a crisis, and it may be the people may yet come to look behind the criticism for the motives. Kennedy may take a little comfort in remembering that Abraham Lincoln was the most misunderstood and abused of all our presidents. The Cuban fiasco appears to" have been the result of lack of proper Some advisers said it could be done, and some said it couldn't, and the government guessed wrong. The various agencies didn't get together. Sort of reminds me of the way things were here at our place last week when the temperature hovered around the freezing" point night after night and we didn't know whether to light the smudge pots or not. All we could do was keep watching for the thermometers to drop July, there The effect of the bombing (by bombers) on jthe Cuban people in Havana was so bad that those who weren't with Castro are with him now 100 per cent . i By ED KOTERBA WASHINGTON Midst the razzle-dazzl- e of the (Democratic convention in Los Angeles last So They Say B-2- Koteiba Chester Bowles Has His Moment of Glory j -- Republican leaders seem to have decided on the proper way to discredit the Kennedy administration. Simply by saying that things are in a mess; and ; that everything has been bungled they hope to make the people think the administration has bogged down. On the domestic front they claim Kennedy has failed because he hasn't stuck to the Republican platform.. Makes no difference that he didn't run on that platform; he should know that the Republicans, like father, always knows best. On the foreign field Kennedy pretty much carried out plans laid during the Eisenhower administration, but because we got our lumps in Cuba and Laos it is evidence of bad policies poorly carried out. No Republican has yet said how they could or would have done better, Ed ' k, j Men who have been' married any length of time are generally with a sad acable to predict the sort of remarks curacy will make. women the that j LITTLE I I You'll understand, then, the amazement of one young man at a gathering of high school friends planning a reunion of their class after 15 years. The girls had become young matrons, and' the talk included the usual remarks of "you haven't changed a bit!" "how many childrendo you have?" and talk of children, clothes, people and houses. It's beginning to look like the government would rather trim the taxpayer than the budget. Vkea Ruth Millett No Wonder There's Delinquency If Mbst Adults Hate Children An educator makes what at first blush sounds like a preposterous "this assertion that most of the public hates children. He protests that ' ' a is serious, hatred of children and anger at them " f adult symptqm." Letters I receive convince me the educator isn't exaggerating tqo badly at that! Never have I read such vicious attacks on children as are In these let- ' " ; ters. Most of them arc from women who say, "I've raised my own family, so ,why should I be annoyed by neighborhood children?" That's the usual theme song., "Why should I be bothered? They're not my children. Why don't their Li mothers keep them in their own yards, where they: ' . ' " Ruth Millett belong?" And in these letters children have done nothing more vicious than to pick a flower, cut across a neighbor's lawn, or climb a garden tree. These acts aroused so much anger in letter writers that the children are described to sound like hardened, criminals. No wonder we have a juvenile delinquency problem, if this resentd ment of children is as widespread and as these letters seem ' to indicate. The educator quoted' above also said, "I have never encountered a delinquent child who had what I would call a decent adult friend." Think that over, you good women who get enraged at the sight of a small child on your prized lawn. : ; . deep-roote- '.'' ' . J u , 1 |