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,\] ^ ^THE JOURNAL, OGDENSBURG, N,Y.—WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1977 On-The Police And r Their Equipment We're not ones to back down from agdod fight, but then again, we also know when we may have gone too far. In our editorial comments and cartoons We have repeatedly harped on the proposals for the purchase of several items of police equipment^357 handguns, a rescue boat,, and body armor. It has\ been our belief that possibly some of: this equipment is not needed for this department. We have never intended to ridicule the force or as one member has charged, \personally insult\ the officers. We have merely tried to raise some legitimate questions about the justification for this equipment. Do the officers need the magnum guns? Do they need an inboard-outboard motorboat that can travel at speeds up to 40 miles per hour? And do they also need body armor as protection while on patrol? We have never been anti-police. And we certainly don't want to alienate our long-time friends- in the department. We hope that they can understand that we have to ask tough .questions, even of our friends. - .._.-\ We will admit, however, that we may have gone too far in this case. We may have been too flippant with our Sunday cartoons. If we have offended our friends, we hope they will accept our apologies, But we hope tod that they will understand that we still question the need for some of this new equipment. The City Council has requested a meeting with representatives of the police to discuss the justification for the equipment before the council votes to appropriate the money for it. We hope that the police will be ready to answer sqnie of our questions at that time. Barrier Made In Japan In i960,25 companies in the United States made television sets. Today, the number is down to 12, and two of the 12 are owned by Japanese investors.. Japanese penetration of the U.S. television market has risen to -more than 40 per cent of all color sets sold and 90 per cent of black and white sets. The private brands of most large retail chains are now made in Japan. If the trend continues, the U.S. industry could be headed for extinction. Some 60,000 of its workers have lost their jobs in recent years. The Japanese clajun, and many people believe, that it is all due to superior Japanese.t^chhology and manufacturing efficiency. Not so, say domestic manufacturers. It iSj.the Japanese who are buying American arid European technical know-how, not the other way around. In the past 10 years, Japanese electronics manufacturers have paid over $200 million to \U.S. companies under the terms of: licensing and technical assistance agreements. Furthermore, if Japanese technology is so superior, the ind- ustry asKs, *>n why are American TY sets shut out of to Japanese home market by protectionist restrictions of various kinds? -•-\;--. '.'--• Evert more telling is the fact that the same Japanese set that sell for $300 or less in this country sells for $500 or more in Japan. This, says the industry, is. a dear case of \dumping which is against TJ.S, law, and it wants the government to do something about it. It has been trying to get the government to do something about itfor years, As far back as 1971, the U.S. Tariff Commission concluded that the American television industry; was being injured by the im- portation of television receivers from Japan at less than fair value. The situation became especially acute with the onset of worldwide recession^ in 1974, as the Japanese resorted to large- scjale dumping on the U.S. market to keep their workers busy). (An exception is Sony, which relies on the quality of its products and whose television sets sell at prices comparable to U,S makes.) * Despite the evidence, the State, Treasury and Justice Depart- ments continue to stonewall the issue, the industry charges. At hearings held in Washington last month by the International Trade commission, John Nevin president of Zenith Radio Corp., the nation'smostprofitable television manufacturer, warmed that \economic conditions in the American television industry are now so critical as to.make further delay intolerable:\ Reluctantly, Zenith has joined with other manufacturers in petitioning for import quotas on Japanese sets until such time as the government sees fit to enforce the antidumping law. No country has benefited more than Japan from the willingness of other countries to relax trade barriers and permit a free ex- change of goods. It has kept its unemployment rate down to, less than two per cent of its work-force, cohipared to more than eight per cent in the United States, Unfortunately) as the evidence\ presented by the U.S. television industry abundantly proves, a large part of that accomplishment ha£ been at the expense of American workers. BY JACK ANDERSON The nation's top manicured and moneyed mobsters have taken a quiet, deadly interest in the lowly cigarette It began with a few enterprising but petty crooks, who discovered that the difference in state taxes made it profitable to smuggle cigarettes across I ststc lines For example, a truckload of cigarettes • from North Carolina, where the tax i s 2 cents per pack, could be sold for big money in New York, where the tax is 15 cents. The bootlegger merely had to bypass the state tax collectors, Now the crime syndicate has moved in on the racket. Members of the Vito Genovese and Carlo Gambino mobs have been linked to the underground traffic in cigarettes. ft several Northeastern states, the syndicate has cornered the cigarette . blackmarket. Nearly half of, all cigarettes sold in New York, for example, are distributed by the mpb. Already, cigarette smuggling costs the taxpayers an estimated $400 million a year. . - - But investigators have now picked up dismaying evidence that the Mafia is expanding its cigarette operations into the Midwest and Southwest. la a recorded conversation with an un- dercover agent, one .syndicate bootlegger boasted that \it'll be easy to move into Tucson.\ Of course, the Mafia promotes and protects its new cigarette business by the blackjack, the knife and the gun. Investigators say more than a dozen cigarette bootleggers have been mur- dered. Some were executed, gangland- style, to eliminate the competition. One suspected informant, Richard DeMary, was found dead in a ditch in northern New Jersey a week after a oootlegging bust. DeMary had been . severely beaten and then riddled with ,22 caliber bullets. Finally, his executioners blew off his head with several blasts from a, i38-caliber han- dgun. The Mafia has also transformed cigarette smuggling into an efficient business, complete with machines that lurn out conterfeit tax stamps by the thousands, With the same efficiency, the businessmen-mobsters hijack cigarette cargoes, smuggle the contraband across state borders and corrupt the police who might get in the way. According to New York State Tax Commissioner James H. Tulley, cigarette smuggling, unhappily, is oh the rise. Yet it's an interstate crime that the Justice Dept. doesn't want to add to its jurisdiction. Cigarettes seem so small; but the illegal profits are huge. RENT-A-FARMER: Family farms still form the backbone of America's phenomenal agriculture production, They not only have made this the best- fed nation in history, but family farmers have been the traditional guardians of American values. Yet in the past two decades, millions have been \driven off their land by their inability to compete with the agriculture giants. Inflation has also driven many small farmers to the edge of bankrupt- cy Depression-born laws to protect the small farmers are hopelessly outdated and now serve to subsidize the giant landowners as they gobble up ever greater bites of the countryside. One of the nation's most formidable © 1977 by NEA, inc. t^fatfhti^ National Bank, has joined in the squeeze on the smalt farmers. The bank will set up a-$50-million, tax-exempt -trustfund, which will liuy up working farmers throughout the Midwest. v Fields that were worked by families will be turned over to professional managers. They'll be paid either a salary o'r a share of the harvest. The profits from the operation will go to the\ trust's investors. Land trusts are nothing new to big investors. But Continental Illinois has opened the way for them to capitalize on the misfortune of the harassed family farmers who can n o longer meet rising costs. lake a new plague of locusts, speculators are expected to gobble up the choicest farmland, drive up the prices and increase the relentless pressure on financially strapped family owners. Spokesmen for Continental Illinois. dispute this. They point out that the $50 ' million trust won't put a dent in the gigantic agricultural \real estate market, The farmland purchases would also be made \gradually\ and would. \help young farmers,\ said a spokesman-. \ Yet the appearance down on the farm of the giant Continental Illinois National Bank will encourage other banks to create similar tax-exempt trusts. The concerned congressmen^Richard Nolan, JD.-Minh., and FTed ftichmond,. D.-N.Y., have written a private letter to Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, urging him to study ''the long-range economic fend social im- plications sh oujd this type of investment vehicle be widely adopted.\ • Nolan told us that Continental Illinois' farni-pur chasing, crop-lea sing management plans amounted to a THE JOURNAL '393rl000-1001-N6WS Dept. 393-1002 for Business Office . 393-1003 for Want Ads Dept. Published by Park Newspapers of St. Lawrence Inc., 308-3T4 Isabella St., Ogdensburg, N.Y.Zip Code 13669. Roy H. Park, Chairman arjd President; Charles W r Kelly, Editor and General Manager; James M. Kennedy, Managing Editor and Anthony VeloccW, Advertising Director. . -. - Published Daily Evenings Except Saturday and Sunday ' Republican established in 1830 and The Dally Journal Established in 1858 Entered at the U.S. Post Office In Ogdensburg, N.Y., as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Carrier 85c per wk. Delivered by Tube \Here's to NBC. and to the 1980 Olympic Games without Howard Cose/I!\ Journal Single Copy 3mos. 6mos. lyear , 3rhos. imos. 1 year - Mail Zone A In St. Lawrence Co. ZoneB Outside St, Lawrence Co. . $3.25 mo. .20c $7,50 12.00 21.50 S 9.75 17.S0 30.50 \return to a feudal system of tenants and landlords.\ The two congressmen have scheduled hearings on the hew development. - Meanwhile, Continental Illinois has invited MerrUl-Lynch, the big brokerage' house, to help find investors. For legal, advice, thle bank has turned to Bakerj and McKenzie, the prestigious Chicago new.associate. He is President Ford's former agriculture secretary Jfbhn Knebel, who was contemplating^ me irhpjict of Continental illinois upon tjie law firm, which has just brought in a > nation's farms just a few weeks ago. and if we recall our newsmen, he'll allow ustwo mare atomic subs and three extra erliise mi BY MARTHA ANGLE AND ROBERT WALTERS With Democrats firmly in control of the White House and Capitol Hill, the Republican party is in danger of becoming invisible at the national level—a development which has GOP leaders'fretting and fussing. President Carter has skillfully commandeered the airwaves and headlines from the \bully pulpit\ of the White House while his Democratic supporters and antagonists in Congress are soaking up whatever time and space is leftover. The result has been a virtual freeze- out of the \loyal opposition\ at a time when Republican political fortunes are, already at their nadir. With some justification, GOP leaders feel they are being slighted by the press. Senate Minority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr., R-Teiin., House GOP Leader John J. Rhodes, R-Ariz., and former Sen. Bill Brock, B-Tentty the new Republican national xAairmari\ have joined forces \to cdnibat the'indifference of the media., '' 'z. Rhodes and his staff aides have privately complained to several reporters and at least one m^jor newspaper editor that important policy statements by House Republicans are being virtually ignored. Baker says he will \scream to high heaven\ if press coverage of GOP positions doesn't pick genng up soon. * And the congressional leaders plus Brock are scheduled to sit down within the .next few weeks with officials of the three major television Aetworks-HCBS, NBC and ABC-to plead for guarantees that the GOP will have a reasonable opportunity to respond to President Carter's fireside chats and mother televised reports to . the ' American people. When Carter's first fireside chat was announced, Brock fired off telegrams to all three networks requesting equal time. He didn't getit, but he was invited to appear on NBC's \Today Show\ and ABC's \A.M. America\ the morning after the President's address. \I think the,netwprks. are sensitive to the fairness question,\ Brock told us. \The fireside chat approach is sQ-sufr ject to abuse that I think they are going ,to bend oyer backwards to ^ avoid problems., ... ,\ . _ } ., Si - j • t.-- , \We're preparedJto .go jjo. the, FCC \{Federal Cpinrnunicaiion& Commission) if- nefeessary,.*b\ut\I .believe sbmetfiihg can be worked out amicably.\ A spokesman, for Rhodes said Republicans* have fared better on television than they have in daily news coverage by print journalists. \Because we are a'ininority and a badly reduced one a t ihat, it i s patently obvious to the press that whatever we want is not going to happen because we icans dqn'Chave the votes. :*','• \Therefore what we do or say ap- parently isn't news. To us, that's a potentially insidious type of bias even though IPs quite unintentional,\ the Rhodes aide said. Rhodes & Co. may be stewing prematurely. Because the' Gaiter ad- jmipistration: is. -still -in .its formative . phase and because the President himself remains an enigma to much of the public^ the press i&J:indeed.rfem- porarily mesmerized i>y . the; ruling majority. v ' ' .•..\ = >•-:\. The real test; as Baker told us, will come two of- three ihpnths jfijom now when the shine is off. the; apple and the adnUnistratipn gets down to -specific legisjatiye; proposals andiex^cutive decisions, . , > \We want,make sure the country gets ..a glimpse of what the alternatives to :- Iterriiacratic..-. programs /nnigBt bWiK we^-frozehiout pf-t^(».hewsywe*ife going jto^hejajjerj.bgd shape indeed^'': he said. . -The press, of course, has n o obigation './So\ provide, artificial respiration -to*\ a failing GOP. But the Republicans are entitled to something better than benign neglect. The founding lathery guaranteed freedofn of the press to insure that Americans would be exposed to the clash of competing ideas. People are entitled to b e informed; oj'the views of the minority party as well as the governing mai 1 . Car.ri.er Service is available at the -following | locations <withln Village limits) the same day -of •publication Hammond, HeuVelton, Madrid, Ogden- sburg, and Waddington, New YorX. The Journal is not available by mail on routes . serviced by tube delivery the same day of publication. Claims Arterial, Center Projects Linked To the Editor: According to recent Journal accounts, prospects for the .St\.' Lawrence Psychiatric Center are far from en- couraging. On Dec. 28, and again on Jan. 18, state officials—including State Budget Director Peter Goldmark.—were reported as saying that there are other state projects with higher priority for funding. That this is still the situation confirmed by the letter from Albany to Councilman Kennedy which appears in The Advance News (Feb, 13.) Such reports have led some people to wonder whether the proposed new ar- terial highway is i n fact being given- • priority Over the Psychiatric Center; and whether loss of the state hospital is the price Ogdensburg will have to pay for a $9 million superhighway and double span bridge. And, if so, Why? A year ago, I wrote to-Senator Douglas Barclay, questioning the wisdom Of the government's spending millions of • dollars on a new highway for the city of Ogdensburg at a time when the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center and its Nursing School were in danger of being closed for lack of government funding. In reply, Senator Barclay wrote: \As you may know, the Ogdensburg Arterial has been in the planning stage, since 1954...The studies that have-been made have indicated that there is a definite need to eliminate' congestion in the central business area.\ If the elimination of congestion hi downtown .'Ogdensburg is the only justification that\ can be given for a program which was planned over ,20 years ago arid, which is now jeopardizing the city's future, I think it high time our city of- ficials bring themselves up to date on the needs of Ogdensburg. I am sure I am' not alone in my inability to see \congestion in the central business area\ as one of -our more pressing problems, It has been suggested that a single span bridge, using existing thorough^ fa*res as approaches, would save over half the cost of the presently planned Arterial-Bridge project. Such a modified plan would certainly be more i n line with the actual needs of our city. Could\ not our Mayor and Common Council pfcevail upon the state officials to allocate the .monies thus saved from the Arterial to the. Psychiatric Center? I am convinced that this is the only type of appeal that is going to have any effect in Albany. As you, Mr. Editor, pointed oat in a recent editorial^UNDING is the all-important issue. I have it on good authority that the regional office of the State Department of Transportation '% less than en- thusiastic about the proposed hew su> terial, and there is\ good reason to believe that they; woulct welcome a . msdificatioH of theT present plan! if. inur city officials\ 'woiild? \apprbve\ such a\ change. In fact, bhfe of the DOT irien informs me hei feels that local politicians are letting the city down by continuing to insist'on a progratti which is no longer feasible. \-'' It should not be forgotten that the proposed Arterial has \never beeij en- dorsed by the citizens of Ogdensburg. In fact, thev voted against it on May 15, 1965, in the oiily referendum wfiicli has ever\ beeii held On this or related projects. By cohtihuihg to renew ap- proval Tjf all ItJrban Bfehew.al projects, \ our mayors and inemiiers of flie Com- mon Council have for over 11 years been acting with utter disregard for the ex- press, will of • 'the.-voters—?with what 9 distressing results we are aH coming to Project BUILD has asked for suggestions as to what can b e done in the present, crisis. This \is my suggestion. Urge the memibers of. bur Common- Council to agree to a modification of the present Arterial—Bridge project in favor of funding Tthe St. Lawrence. Psychiatric Center before it is too late: I agree with Councilman Kennedy .who pointed out in his letter to The Journal, Jan. 25, that loss of the Psychiatric Center would be' a disaster for Ogden-. Sburg. I only h6pe Mr. Kennedy aiid his' fellow councilftien realize that they jnay Well be facing a chpice betweehi saving the State Hospital or ending up withta. , multi-million dona* bridge and ex- . pressway in the center of a ghost town. Reverend Paul T.Joly: Ogdensburg when they get involved in a project in which all are deeply interestedV The successful completion of Project BUILD, as those in authority to speak \ have said, will mean a great deal to the city, the county and north country in the upcoming years. All will gain.-T?hose in ne#d of lengUily hospitalisation .in. \, facility treating mental illness;?:, those whose employment or business depends in any way oh me; status quo > of the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, arid the number is legion. : . . Letfshopethecommittee.has toputiip the S.B.O. (standing room only) sighs early on Saturday. See you at the RALLY. Fred;Erwin TotheiEditon ,\• According to ,aU reports,- that big c'pmmunity'raUy s^t for next Saturday\ at 1:30 p.m. in OFA's audiitoriuhi sure will be something—something to see and something to hear. Your readers, like myself, will enjoy being in the thick of i t again, \where the---action is\^—come Saturday afternoon. ' ' Aimed at getting supportive action toward the immediate- cOhstructiOh of the proposed new -building._at. the. St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center- iii\ Ogdensburg, this planned \Rally* reveals just how much enthusiasm the folks of our nor,th area^cah generate C&me To The MsM And EJave A Ball ' /\ \\ Tojffie JEditpf: .• ---.-:;> if there exists a person an this area who does not know about O^Burgr Expo '77, he of sheis just not paying^attention Ih; honor of my birthday (just tedding folks) this three-day extravaganza of excitement, exhibitions and expositions Will start, Thursday and continue through Saturday. Some 50 merchants, manufacturers service organizations, banks; etc., will be showing us everything from A to Zilch. Crafts of many kindSj foazaar activities, food sales, giveaways;. you hante it,-it'll be there. ' ? ? . ^ Entertainmentj headlined by Henny \Take my wife — please,\ ^oungman' wilf include niajiy bands., solq ibr strumentalists, dancers, aiictibhs 3 ahd more. O'fiurg Expo'77 could bidfak to jfival the summer Seaway Festival as.an annual attraction, while.^doubtless benefiting from the years of hard- earried experience gained by the older .organizatioji. Such rivalry can only be behefjeiai to the interests of all in tjie HorS, ;Cpuhtry.. Competition breeds eXcellehce. ^ -;•-./ •_- Mahy of lis .older-dudes at^;in<ained' to Cast a jaundiced eye at the young people and glamorize the good: old days forgetting that what was good in theism days was; Uiat WE were young then. Here's a chance, to -su^p^rt the BoW Club and |he dedicated siitff bf.voluh- teers;. Jbackang it. To accehtuate the positive andigive old O^BurgaLnew lease :On.lSe.v; '.- .,---„.- .•.'•\'•;• '.'-:.'.;,;,.V-\ :„-.,. qQME TO THE^WALI- jism HAVE A BAIJ-K* ' \-•; 4- .->- :• -;. : ••\-^fi-.'j.-v^T - 0gden% rP ' <£*' 111
