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A Step In
Right Dii
Baytown City Council
yll^WeKtaMt^gto help
the problems of elderly
community during their productive years cannot be
minimized, and they are entitled to every considera-
tion in Dteir retirement years.
There is a tendency in the nation to forget the elder
omTc
contribution to society, they are put out to pasture, so
to speak, and forgotten-
fault of many individuals in particular. In many cases,
elderly parents are shoved off into rest homes and left
t years in loneliness and frustra-
tion.
It has only been in recent years that the federal gov-
ernment has become concerned with the plight of the
elderly. Much improvement in programs and benefits
for the elderly have been made, but more needs to be
made. * .
' Many of Baytown’s senior citizens are living on fixed
incomes. The money they have to live on remains the
same while prices keep climbing — especially food
prices.
— Growing old and retiring are facts of life, but they
need not be burdens of life. The concern of public offi-
cials and younger citizens can keep this from happen-
ing — and all of us certainly should be concerned.
Increasing taxation is one of the scourges of the
elderly. Most of them are now hard put to meet tax
bills. Ways must be found to relieve them of this bur-
den Productive citizens should bear the brunt of the
tax burden Some tax relief has been given the elderly,
but more is needed.
The city council soon will complete the appointment
of a seven-member committee to study problems of the
elderly. We hope this will not be just another coifimit-
tee. We hope instead that when its chairman makes a
report to the council that every effort will be made to
solve the problems.
* We should all be proud of our senior citizens. They
passed on to us what we will pass on to our children and
grandchildren. .
____ ..
Jack Anderson Says - - -
Military Communications
aw.-
To Attack
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tions system is sometimes no
more efficient than a hand-
Not only is it untrustworthy
for carrjing vital messages
telSI
reached her in1|jptfl|
Two were mlssent to
in general, but a
to sabotage in time of peace.
kv-#- v y.y-'L;; Pacific and when one of these
—The “Autodin” system for wasredirected.it went to Fort
caftying data is so complex it Meade, Md. Another was lost
is afton uselmDusLorhea! __ -by'-a relay station amia fourth
enter through cracks in walls was transmitted nine hours af- ■ •
and knock it out. Maintenance
is cosUy. A tiny voltage surge:,
can immobilize it for hours.
studying stacks of documents
and internal memos given us
by military communications
experts at a four-hour meeting
recently only a few miles from
the Pentagon itself.
So distressed were these offi-
cials by the state of our world-
wide military cable, radio,
microwave and satellite com-
plex, that they risked dis-
missal in order to reveal to us
facts like these:
wort used by hundreds of big-
wigs to talk to each other over
scrambles requires a page
andahalfof instructions and is
prohibitively slow and costly.
We have seen military plans
for a simpler system which
was rejected by Pentagon
bosses unwilling to admit they
wasted miUtons on the existing
system.
-The National Security
Agency, which handles top
secret communications,
became disgusted with the
ter the ship was destroyed by
Israel with the loss of 34 U.S.
lives.
Tir tffi, tW warning
' "We Didn't Get No Respect!" __________________
Moscow Is Perturbed - -
China Loads Nuclear Gun;
Russia .Is Within Range
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John Wadley ................................General Manager
Paul Putman ...... ..... ........... Assistant to Publisher
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By ERNEST CUNEO
' WASHINGTON - That the
Peking government has nu-
clear weapons is scarcely
news.
What is news is that the Chi-
nese are repeatedly reported
as having developed means of
delivery which would bring
Moscow within range. .
What is slightly mystifying is
. that this should cause any
great astonishment in the capi-
tals of major powers. Hie Rus-
sians, for example, were
deemed to be a full three years
away from a nuclear arsenal
when- they brought in then-
nuclear production in late
September 1949. When the
priority is based on life and
death, any major power can
mobilize prodigious effort.
If this explains the concern
in Moscow, it leaves unex-
plained the calm of Tokyo and
New Delhi. After all, for any
intermediate weapon with a
range across Siberia, a salvo
at Tokyo or New Delhi is an
easy lob.
There are some who regard
the mounting tension between
Moscow and , Peking as
reaching the area of critical
decision. In Technical terms,
this is called a preventive, at-
THIS, OF course, is not con-
fined to nuclear war. Prac-
tically all wars start with an
ultimatum that the adversary
stop mobilizing. Nor is it
necessarily confined to land
action. London was thrown into
a dither when the Kaiser an-
nounced he was building a high
seas fleet.
Preventive war, like all
wars,, is horrible. However,
• refusal to fight a preventive
warwhen Hitler waltzed unop-
posed into the Rhineland in
1936 proved to be a most ex-
. pensive policy of futile eva-
sion.
IT IS fatuous to suppose, for
example, that Japan, mighty
in all other respects, will for
long remain an unarmed blue
chip in a desperate power
game. lSrael has been reported
as less than defenseless for
. some Time . “
Think Domestic
, Fully 90 per cent of the
wine consumed in the United
States is domestic. Ameri-
cans drink an average of IF
Russian trawlers have
located our undersea cables by
electronic devices and have
cut them at least three times in
just practicing for the real
thing, and,' besides, “they
wanted us to know they could
do it,” one of our informants
said.
—The Soviet Union has pin-,
pointed virtually every major
American communications
center where military lines
intersect, sometimes simply
by obtaining telephone com-
pany maps. “Saboteurs know
every blankety-blank marihole
carrying our long lines,” an
expert told us. : -
—The basic “Autovon” voice
.system is centralized in cities
and its lines generally run
along roads and railways - all
prime targets in case of war.
Overseas, the “Autovon” lines
and microwave facilities are
tinder-protected. Natives freely
military security network. To
improve it, six or seven special
security switching systems
were ordered from ITT at a
cost of more than |20 million.
m.builLihem, but4htie-
m
messages were sent from the
MS. .Puebk-saying-itwa*
” under threat-by North Korea.
Although they were sent for
“immediate delivery,” it took
m and lYi hours respectively
for them to reach Washington
authorities. This was one rea- -
son U.S. forces failed to rush to
. 9»afcL«f'tfc»#fer
In 1969, the U.S. Command in
Korea sent three urgent
messages warning , that an
American EC-121 spy plane
was being tailed by North
Korean jets. The messages
took from a half hour to three
hours to reach Washington. By
that time, the plane was shot
down.
fenss Communications Agency
design was so faulty that the
project was junked. The
Pentagon never accounted,
fully to Congress for the
misspent funds.
THE RESULTS of these and
other Pentagon foul-ups in the
36 billion a year communica-
tions budget are anything but
theoretical. Among hundreds
of everyday delays, lost
messages, garbles and mis-
directed cables, here are a few
of the most disastrous.
In 1967, when the U.S.S.
Liberty wasin the Mediterran-
ean, five messages were sent
to it telling it to move away
from the coasts of Israel and
Egypt. All were sent between
THE MILITARY communica-
tions men who confided in us
say that in the late ’50s, far-
■ sighted systems engineers
within the administration
wanted to set up eight swit-
ching centers outside the
major cities. These would be
less vulnerable to bombing,
could handle peacetime
civilian loads, and would be
available for both civilian and
military emergences.
Interagency infighting and
high costs caused a drastic
modification of the program.
Now, there is much the same
sort of squabbling over the
promising satellite systems.
The satellites are harder to
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From 1945 to 1949, the United
States had a monopoly of nu-
clear weapons and their deliv-
ery. At this time, the American
By DAVID HENDIN
(Second m d Series.)
Daily in the United States
people Republic offered to
internationalize and even so-
5,000 persons die.
Some die easily; more do
p$>ach to death,
"If the fact of death were
once admitted to be a
reality even in the United
States, then it would also
cialize nuclear energy, for alf
time and for all nations. Those
great internationalists and so-
cialists, the Stalinists, refused.
When they unveiled their
atomic weapons in 1949, the old
balance of power had been
supplanted by the new balance
of terror.
The entrance of China as a
nuclear power cannot un-
balance the terror, on the
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tack to prevent attack. In
rough analogy, it is more or
less akin to the American fron-
tier- gun duel, where a man was ’
shot through his gun-hand to
prevent him from drawing,
and thus stopping a shoot-out.
ground that the horrors of
modern nuclear war have al-
ready reached infinity. But the
entrance of China can and does
unbalance the major power,
particularly those lacking nu-
clear deterrents. *
not. Some die suddenly of
trauma and others die lin-
gering deaths.
But of vital importance is
that many of them die with
a great deal of mental an-
guish because they or their
relatives did not know what
to expect or how tq.feact to
each other. Howonany in-
dividuals must suffer such
agony because there wettr"
no willing or available
family members, nurses or
physicians who would dis-
the real situation with ^ te * Emitted th,t th>
never realized'how wonder .' faced,
fui simply.bmjig allye could* 'Kastenbaums researchers
be. I (jont think, this new interviewed a group of
feeling will rrakeNny end
more difficult: At feast I
was really alive for
months."
Most people do not so
death or ob-
fear of it. Per-
readily accept
viate their fea
haps, however, it is the fear
of death and dying that is
exaggerated.
A 1970 study of 183 mid-
dle-aged to elderly persons
at the University of South-
ern California found that 63
interviewed a group of
housewives whose stated at-
titudes toward death ranged
from strong faith in personal
immortality to stoic accept-
nce The women were then
invited to visit a number of
hospital patients They were
told that some of the pa-
tients were terminal cases
and others wqre simply sick
Regardless of how the wo-
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WELL/ONFORTUUAT
WAT'S QO'TRCOMIt
men said they viewed death,
they all bad a tendency
per cent of the sample said
they were not afraid to die.
them?
Death, like birth, is natural.
It is a part of life that can-
not be escaped. Neverthe-
less. mote often than not,
United States is not the
earthly paradise that it is
deemed to be." Toynbee
says.
The men and women ranged
in age from *50 to 68 and
were generally found to be
well adjusted and not pre
to move close and talk, ani-
matedly with the merely
sick.’ while they inched
away from those they
thought were dying and
looked anywhere but at
These patients, '
we avoid going to the aid of
id friei
DR. LAWRENCE E. LAMB
Head Pain During Flight
Blocked Sinus May Be Problem
Dear Dr. Lamb—For sev-
eral years my wife and I
have vacationed by air to
Hawaii On the last flight
when the plane reached an
the sinus swells sufficiently
to block off the sinus, for any
reason, such as an allergic-
type reaction, then the air
that's trapped in it expands
tude and
Because of my long asso-
ciation with aviation medi-
cine 1 feet impelled to tell
you that you were not ex-
when you go to altitu
causes.pain As you return
posed to an altitude of 10.000
feet. Cabin
ISjSrsi rwMvr&s
• r~ ’ air is under the ordinary
a :
developed
my left eye and a burning
ground level atmospheric
pressure and no longer ex-
pressure is <ju>te
different from altitude pres-
sure Commercial aircraft
are pressurized to prevent
exposing passengers to ex-
cessive altitude. 1 believe
aga
thinks he needs it.
Dear Reader-A real cold
is caused by a virus and vi-
ruses are not affected by
antibiotics, hither penicillin
or streptomycin. Using peni-
sensation while breathing in
mv left nostril This Dain Der- pressure ana no longer ex- evasive amtuue. i ueiicvc
problems which cause pain-
ful earsk are common to avi-
ators, and are just part of
being exposed to altitude
cillin can result in a penicil-
lin sensitivity, then it can’t
On each leg of our flight the
pain recurred and stayed
until landing I am told this
problem was caused by a
blocked sinus. ,
I never had sinus trouble
and seldom ever had a head-
ache anu i did not havir a
cold during this trip Can a
blocked siaus cause this con
dition? Is there
> anything that
can be done before Right
time to prevent this? I am
becoming afraid to fly be-
cause of this pain
Dear Reader — Yes. a
Mocked smus can-causethis
ju’re
exposed to altitude If"
limngto the air passage of
As to what you can do in
the future for such flights,
this is one ofJhe few cir-
aasKigLrs
nose drop or pill that shrinks
and dries the lining of the
membranes in the nose just
before flight Overuse of
such preparations can lead
to chronic irritation of the
not exceed 7.000 feet and it’s
usually considerably below
that. Nevertheless, the cabin
altitude is enough to cause
discomfort of the type you
describe in some people
Even though it is uncomfort-
able. it is not serious or
dangerous
Dear Dr. L*mb - Would
you please comment on this
A young man goes to the ani-
mal hospital every time he
has what seems to be a com-
mon head cold and gets a
be used when it’s really
needed. Streptomycin, when
used too frequently or Ml too
large an amount, .can dam-
age the nerve to the ear lead-
ing to permanent hearing dif-
ficulties. In short, the treat-
ment is the wrong medicine
for a cold and can actually
be dangerous, not to mention
the fact that the purchase
and us# of such mtficatAnk
without a prescription is
illegal
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family and friends and help-,
ing them through life's final
experience in an under-
standing way. One reason
this is true, perhaps, is that
by doing so individuals are
forcefully reminded of the
inevitability of their own
death.
"Our embarrassment at
the individual face of death,”
says Dr Herman Feifel, pro-
fessor of psychiatry at the
University of Southern Cali-
fornia. “forces the seriously
ill -and dying person to live
alone on the brink of an
abyss with no one to under-
stand him.”
Indeed, while modern
medicine has done a great
-deal to help overcome physi-
cal pain, it has accomplished
precious little in the way of
But dying, natural process
that it is for mortal men.
need not be so difficult. 'If
you see anyone distressed at
the prospect of dying." re-
marked Socrates, “ it will be
proof enough that he is a
lover not of wisdom but of
the body. As a matter of
fact, 1 suppose he is also a
lover of wealth and reputa-
tion."
Socrates himself spent the
final day of his life in prison
discussing his philosophy of
life with his students and
friends. Even while he drank
the fatal cup of hemlock
the courageous philosopher
maintained tranquility of
body and mind. In his final
words Socrates asked that
thanks be given for him to
the God of Healing, for in
his death'this great man
saw the cure for life.
occupied with death or dy-
ing. Furthermore, in addi-
tion to the 63 per cent who
said they were not worried
at the prospect of death,
another 28 per cent de-
scribed themselves as "not
very fearful," while the rest,
only 9 per cent were "fairly
fearful"
In the late 1880s. re-
nowned clinician and teacher
Sir William Osier reported
on a series of 500 deathbed
cases in which. he studied
the modes of death and sen-
sations accompanying the
process Of the 500, only 18
per cent suffered bodily pain
and only 2 per cent suffered
mental apprehension as
death grew very near
Sir William concluded,
“We speak of death as the
king of terrors and yet
Such apparent confusion
among the living puts the
dying in quite a predica-
ment. They “no, longer know
what role to play Most of
them are already old ' and
therefore worthless by our
standards There's simply
no place for a human death
when the dying person is
regarded as a machine coin-
ing to a stop. Kastenbaum
says
Many professionals be-
lieve that one reason we
cannot easily cope with
Math, or the fear of it. is
that we rarely witness a
single death early in our
lives. Current longevity
coupled with increased
family mobility has severely
limited man's perception of
death.
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Most Americans, too. ex-
raP£k dr! ir!^jdnpic oonnV Wl11 die in hospitals Or in
” fi-1.* oW-igt hofhes,.called "hu-
m. the last hours. Strict, m man junkyards* ty some
sinuses For occasional bottle of penicillin and strep
Bible Verse
For if a man lives many
flights in selected casertlwy tomycin He inject*
would be all right Your fam- in the hip two or three times
HriHJt.'lui can get i«M*e -a-da> iocsevculjJi^Jben
lei him rejoice m
U; but let him remem-
ass&m^ss-r iirisis tjsrif c'.s SSSIsH.
individual can make vaiu- maturit-v *'HhoiK ever Wit-
able use of his remaining of natures law is for most ......
days “It is encouraging to °* .u® mercifully effected.
note." says psvchiatnst Fei- and de«th like birth, is but
fel, “that the threat of death a sle*P and a forgetting,
can function as an integra- Data to the contrary not-
2TM.T3 tffiS
nate atreas. but to grow and- guSniis something to be ii* P
change under it* spur.’’ feared. , i «»e generations ipart
After a 29-year-old mother Dr. Robert Kastenbaum fWflfT.- Telling the Dying.)
of two boy* learned of her hat died a study that sup-
fatal illness she satf. "I was port* the contention that
about the there to barely any retition-
he possibiliti
tional pain, grief and indig-
nity — and they must face
them alone. Today's society
has failed to provide a
model, an ideal to be striven
for in dying. • • ;'
"The stmg of death is soli-
tude,"-^ stra^heojogian Paul
Ramsey. “Desertion is more
choking than death and
more feared.”
nessing the death of a loved
one.
As philosopher Lewis
Mumford observed at age
71 “The. generations need
each other. When i
ber that the days of doik-
1 AU that
ness mil be many.
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affront to our inalienable
rights of "life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happm***-
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