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20 Siesta JEjack Zaiman Big City Elections: Real Action Looms Established 1764 The Oldest Newspaper of Continuous "Publication in America Published at 285 Broad Street, Hartford, Connecticut, 06101 Monday, June 23, 196? UKU SURTAX EXPIRES JUNE 30 epidemic had gotten out of hand and that the best way to cut the underworld out of the picture was to nip the profits. It decided that roulette played with a zero and at odds of 35 to 1 was illegal because all the players (including the croupier) must have equally favorable chances of winning. Roulette wheels played with a zero were prohibited. The home office now hopes to reduce the number of clubs to about 300. The Colony Sporting Club (formerly George Raft's Colony Sporting Club) closed its doors in February because the managing director said the new laws made jt "mathematically impossible to be profitable." In attempting to curb.

those forms of gambling which are particularly liable to abuse, the Home Office has established a Gaming Board. To teach detectives how to spot cheating at craps, misdealing of cards at blackjack, or loaded dice, the Gaming Board has set up a mock training casino. Here ex-croupiers demonstrate the best way to cheat-all in an effort to give gamblers an "even break." Starting next year, each casino will have to be properly licensed and its employes registered. The Gaming Board also will standardize the rules and procedures for all games and ultimately will regulate the margin of permissible profit. England may want to control its gambling establishments, but no one, of course, wants to reduce the number of tourists eager to try their luck.

New Tax Proposals e's Forum weak, and it does have factions. The Democrats thus win easily every time out. How about New Mayor Richard C. Lee has been elected as a Democrat for eight consecutive two-year terms. Why is New Haven different from Waterbury and New Britain? It has been different, up to recently, in that it had a strong Democrat ic organization and a weak GOP machine.

But are things changing in New Haven? Is New Haven soon to go the way, for the Democrats, of New Britain and Water-bury? For the past several years the New Haven Democratic organization seems to be slowly but steadily drifting into dissension. The drift began when Mayor Lee began following an independent course from that followed by Town Chairman Arthur T. Barbieri. The Mayor shut off Barbieri from local patronage. Barbieri sided with U.S.

Senator Thomas J. Dodd while Mayor Lee is anti-Dodd. Sooner or later, with such a basic conflict between the top Democratic leaders, the rank and file had to make a choice as to whom to follow. Other things came along to disrupt the Democrats. U.S.

Re-presentative Robert Giaimo is fighting with Vincent Sirabella, a top labor leader in New Haven. Senator Abraham A. Ribi-coff sides with Lee against Barbieri. Now, after sixteen years in office, Maybr Lee faces a fight for renomination not from one, but from two, opponents. Henry Parker, a Negro, and State Senator John DiRienzo, who also is an alderman, have announced their candidacies for Mayor and a big fight is looking at the August Democratic town convention.

Lee has not yet announced his candidacy for a ninth term. DiRienzo is close to Barbieri's party leadership. In addition to these mayoralty developments, there is the situation involving State Senator Edward L. Marcus of New Haven, the Democratic Senate majority leader who has declared his availability for Senator Dodd's seat fa 1970. Marcus has considerable strength of his own in New Haven.

Thus there will be a lot to look forward to in the big city municipal election cam-paips this summer and fall. Every big "community in the state, except Bridgeport, could be a major political battleground this fall. This includes Hartford, where the campaign could be close if Mayor Uccello decides to run again. But if she decides not to run the Democrats then would be heavily favored. The Peopl Municipal politics in Connecticut during the past few years has been a lot more interesting and entertaining than-state politics.

On the state level, the Democrats haven't lost a gubernatorial election since 1950, when Chester Bowles dropped a decision to John Lodge by some 17,000 votes. But, on the municipal level, things haven't been as predictable as state elections. Indeed, they have been downright puzzling at times. Why is it that in New Britain, where the Democrats have a margin of more than two to one, a Republican is elected Mayor? Why does the same thing happen in Wat-erbury, where the Democratic margin over the Republicans is even larger? And look at Hartford, where the Democrats have a 37,000 registration and the Republicans have 11,000 members, and yet a Republican is Mayor. How about Meriden, which has a big Democratic registration lead over the GOP? It has a Republican Mayor, too.

If Hartford, New Britain, Waterbury and Meriden can elect Republican mayors, then why don't New Haven and Bridgeport? It's a very legitimate question. And, then, why do all these large communities with Republican mayors turn around in state and national elections and vote solidly Democratic? Analyze the political situation in any of these cities with large Democratic majorities that have Republican mayors and you will find a pattern. The pattern is a fragmented Democratic Party on the local level of elections, but not a fragmented Democratic organization in state and national elections. In New Britain, the Democrats are split wide open into big factions'. In Waterbury, the Democrats are torn by dissension.

In Meriden, the same situation is visible. In Hartford, the Democratic Party is not broken into fragments, but the non-partisan type of election system fragmented the candidates and their supporters and caused the election in 1967 of Miss Ann Uccello, a Republican, by 165 votes. This year Hartford is going back to the partisan election system for the direct election of a Mayor and a City Council. Bridgeport has been electing Democratic mayors ever since the decline, fall and death of Mayor Jasper McLevy, the Socialist. Why is it different from Waterbury and New Britain? The difference is easily seen.

The Bridgeport Democratic Party is strong and it does not have major contending factions. The Republican Party is Police Department Performed Admirably For Airport Improvement James J. Kilpatrick The Supreme Court: how many years it takes to become a craftsman in one's trade? It takes more than four years by far and during one's training and learning, does he know these men are usually the last to be hired but the first to be laid off? Yes, I am a carpenter's wife and have been for 21 years, but we gave up the pie in the sky wages almost 10 years ago, because we couldn't live on the hourly rates and short hours. We wouldn't consider going back either. Mrs.

Phyllis T. Kepp Mystic U.S. Heading For Another Civil War To the Editor of The Courant: Where are the historians of the first Civil War? Why don't they warn the nation that we are following a pattern similar to the one that led to war in 1861? That was a war nobody really wanted but which became inevitable after positions hardened. At the present time we are headed towards two camps the "law and order" camp and the liberal-New Left Camp. The victories of "law and order" candidates in Los Angeles, Minneapolis and New York might demonstrate a swing to the right but they also represent victories for leftist extremists, both black and white.

They have been telling us liberals and moderates that we could get nothing by the present system, and the voters are proving them right. It says something about this country when millions of normally apathetic, bigoted, ignorant and selfish people can get aroused to vote for dem-ogogues over concerned progressive candidates. As one who has fought hard to prevent my peers from going to either extreme, I must say that I am disillusioned and angry. Unless the populace, especially the leaders, awaken to the present realities, instead of seeking the easy escape routes, we might become embroiled in another Civil War before anyone knows it. Xf No Basic Changes To the Editor of The Courant: I must respond to the misguided ideology that attempts to explain away the gangster behavior of youths who maliciously rampaged through the streets of Hartford recently.

Their reckless behavior is justified, according to the permissive theorists, on the grounds that the police overreacted to unlawfulness, which in turn motivated the vandals to respond more violently than before. Overreaction in terms of excessive force is not to be condoned. However, one can understand occasional reaction in terms of rising police tempers when confronted with abuse and physical assault. It is reported that in some cases the police exhibited indignant feelings toward the marauders. This is understandable.

To have felt otherwise when witnessing the destruction and looting of property, in my mind, would reflect a lack of sense of duty to Hartford and to its citizens black and white. The Hartford Police Department exhibited remarkable restraint and performed admirably. Their conduct did not precipitate the violence and disorder, nor should it be used as an excuse to justify its continuance. I am proud of the men in this Department, just as I am proud of my past membership in it. All responsible citizens and the courts now, more than ever before, must stand up openly in support of their thin blue line, a small group of servants of this community which is trying to maintain an orderly and just society in a very turbulent period of Hartford's history.

Speedy, firm and fair policies and actions must be taken and supported by the citizenry as opposed to attempting to place part of the responsibility for our recent disorder on that one element in our community the Hartford Police Departmentwhich, more than any other factor, was responsible for containing a situation of explosive and much more destructive potential. Benjamin U. Goldstein The President's Aides Explain His Words It now appears that President Nixon either apoke unclearly during his press conference last week, or that he was considerably misconstrued. Mr. Nixon was commenting on the plan that former Defense Secretary Clifford had urged in a magazine article that the United States should attempt to withdraw all American ground combat forces from Vietnam by 1970, and let the South Vietnamese carry on the war with the aid of American air and logistics personnel What the President replied was "I hope that we eould beat Mr.

Clifford's timetable." The words heard far and wide over the airwaves were translated in many quarters as a clear intention, the outline of an actual timetable. Senate doves immediately rushed to accept the statement as a commitment. The South Vietnamese people and other American allies were dismayed and irked. Hanoi cocked a sudden ear. Now, the President's aides are insisting, Mr.

Nixon was merely expressing a hope that such a thing might be. They point to the fact that this hope was expressed in the context of a sharp attack on Mr. Clifford. Had the comments represented anything more than a vague hope, they say, then Mr. Nixon would have been doing exactly what Mr.

Clifford intended him to do set a firm deadline while in fact he was brushing Mr. Clifford off. In any event, Mr. Nixon's words surprised listeners everywhere and made large headlines the morning after. It is a little disconcerting to find the President, owing to a touch of pique, did not express himself with his usual care and clarity.

It is more reassuring to find he did not mean what he was widely thought to mean that he is determined to withdraw all ground combat troops by the end of 1970 regardless of what happens at the bargaining table in Paris or on the battlefields. For it is plain that were Mr. Nixon committed to such a plan, he could expect no concessions at all from the Communists in the talks. Rather, world communism by and large would take such unilateral, unconditional withdrawal as complete indication of American military defeat in Vietnam, political defeat at home, and utter loss of morale. Thus it is well, both at home and abroad, that It be reaffirmed Mr.

Nixon is not abandoning the three criteria on which he has always said he will base withdrawals of troops mutual pullbacks by the enern, progress in Paris, and improvements in the capacity of the South Vietnamese to bear a larger share of the combat burden. It is true Mr. Nixon jdid mention those requirements also in his press conference. But he did not give them the emphasis he has formerly employed, and his purported "hopes" were so strongly stated or so it seemed that he has been widely misconstrued as a result. Let us now hope the "hopes" have been put in their correct perspective, and that Mr.

Nixon's long-expressed determination has regained control over his moment of pique. Proof Is Required Before Garnishment Garnishment of wages is a hardship for both worker and employer, even when it is managed with this in mind, as it is in most states including Connecticut. Its worst side has been displayed in the 17 states that, according to the Supreme Court's decision on the rights of debtors, have laws bearing too heavily on people who get into financial trouble. The injustice in the Wisconsin law that provided a test case was based on the fact that it permitted finance companies to force poor people to pay debts up to half of their pay without proof that a valid debt existed. This is in accord with the criticism often heard of legal processes in some states that put the full force of the law and its officers on the side of those -who are victimizing poor people by tricky or outright fraudulent sales practices.

In the Milwaukee case ruled on by the Supreme Court, a woman's wages were garnished without notice for $31.59 a week after a finance company had filed court papers charging she owed $420. The law permitted taking up to half of a person's pay Without proof that a valid debt existed, or that attachment of wages was necessary to collect the debt. The decision will make it more difficult for hady operators in the slums. Attachment is a powerful weapon because it can cause loss of a job. Where the law forbids such dismissals, other excuses can be found by employers who want to avoid the extra bookkeeping.

The Warren court is nearing the end of its ies of decisions aimed at giving the poor and friendless the same benefits of constitutional, economic, criminal code and educational protection enjoyed by those who had a better start in life. British Gamblers Must Mind Ps and Qs The English who have always been concerned with fair play, are now determined to bring it to the gambling table. Sir Stanley Raymond, England's first Director of the Gaming Board, an experienced Scotland Yard hand, is enforcing fair play in England's gambling houses this month. Last year there were some 1,200 swinging gambling clubs in England with a combined gross take of about 250 million. The unprecedented boom in English gambling started when Parliament liberalized the gaming laws in 1930.

Casinos sprang up everywhere. Bingo expanded to the point where every night of the week more than 500,000 women now play. Slot machines stand in the corner of every saloon bar. Even though statutory limits of $12 have been imposed as the top prize on these one-armed bandits and clubs may not install jnpre than two of them on the premises they have proliferated in the arcades. Parliament decided in 1967 that the gambling President Nixon has asked Congress to levy special taxes to help finance nationwide airport improvement program, and there can be no doubt that he is aware of what has happened to similar proposals during the previous administration.

The logic behind the several ways of forcing those who use the airways to pay for better services through increased taxes and some new ones has much to be said for it. A similar way of financing the interstate highway system has been successful and it ought to be workable if applied to air transport. This accounts for the reappearance of the tax proposal, despite the continued opposition or doubts in the aviation industry. Those who use air transport would pay higher taxes on airline tickets, a new tax on air freight waybills and a higher tax on fuel used by non-commercial aviation. The money would be used to improve facilities and equipment, and for the improvement and construction of airports.

The new taxes would only double the income from these tax sources, but all of it would be applied to aviation. -Under the present system the tax money goes for other purposes or into the general fund of the Treasury. Little time is saved on short trips when passengers travel long distances on crowded roads to reach an airport, then wait in line before a takeoff, then sit through the delay before landing. Mr'. Nixon went to the heart of many complaints when he said it takes some travelers longer to get to an airport than it does to fly to their destination.

He might have added that rapid rail transport may turn out to be the fastest method of traveling between cities a few hundred miles apart. But the problem of long distance and international travel will remain as long as airports and equipment fail to keep pace with the growth of passenger traffic. Hamden Women Raise $25,000 for S. S. Hope It is not a plushy store but it's got a lot of heart.

And the Hamden business boasts a ship's flag that flaps high up on one of its windows. What is the store? It is the S.S. Hope Barn Sale Shop which raises money for the hospital ship. By staging auctions and rummage sales, the 60 Hamden women who volunteer their time for this unusual charity work were able to raise $25,000 in the past year to support the ship's cruises to countries around the world. That's $9,000 more than the previous year.

When they turned their check over to Dr. William B. Walsh, medical director of the hospital ship, they richly deserved the praise he extended for their efforts. Since 1960, the Hope's staff of skilled nurses, dentists and physicians have taught medical skills to many nationalities. The ship's captain estimates that more than 100,000 patients were treated during the first eight years of operation.

More than 10,000 major operations have been performed and more than 4,000 medical personnel trained in South American lands, Indonesia and elsewhere. The ship's command estimates that more than two million people have benefited from its immunization and other services. The ship's initials stand for "Health Opportunities for People Everywhere," About $5 million is needed every year to" keep the vessel operating. Thus, the S.S. Hope Barn Sale Shop's contribution meets only a small part of its financial needs.

If anything, Dr. Walsh has indicated the tireless efforts of the Hamden women to help the ship's mission means as much to them as the money. The Hope is off to Tunisia next. "Good sailing" is the wish here as well as congratulations to the Hamden women for their fine effort. Hopeton Scott Hartford.

vie that amendment. By the same token, "one man, one vote," as a working principle, is approved. Even the police are com plaining less furiously about new rules on confessions and counsel. What changes reasonably can be expected with the end of the Warren era? They will be changes in the application of these principles to the facts of particular cases. The newly constituted Court will be less doctrinaire on questions of redisricting.

The States will be given more leeway in punishing the business of pornography. On close questions of criminal law, we can expect to see a reflection of Judge Burger's frequently stated view that the true object of justice is not perfect trial, but a fair trial. In brief, this "end of an era" is not likely to witness either an abrupt end or a sharp beginning. For the next several years, we can realistically expect more of the same only less so. California There I Go! It has been alleged that you can find any philosophy, any dogma, any platform, however zany, in California.

But one hardly expects to encounter the viewpoint espoused by the California Depopulates The goal of Caldepop, according to the Wall Street Journal, is: "Get out of California. Go back where you came from!" President' of this organization numbering several hundred is David Camp, and his whole crusade is a kind of "high camp," a lot of fun, but with a serious undertow. The whole idea is that California is filling up all too rapidly, and so why shouldn't a lot of would-be Californians stay in Des Moines or Sioux City or somewhere else in the Midwest or East? Anyway, every month Caldepop puts out a list of alleged Golden State perils: such as earthquakes, smog, freeways, concrete, drought, and floods. And it praises Florida (without Florida there would be still more Californians!) and such songs as "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny." We believe Mr. Camp is encamped.

On a doomed cause. Caldepop will probably just call extra attention to California. But he does point out that the influx of outsiders had dropped from 369,000 in 1963 to 160,000 in 1968, for some reason or other. Christian Science Monitor. The middle-aged tourist who prides himself on his youthful looks is afraid if he goes to Sweden this summer he'll be mistaken for a deserting GI.

The Army doesn't know what to -do with its store of "obsolete" lethal gas. Hold on a few years and the atmosphere will be so polluted it can just be released into the air without anybody noticing. An economist says the average household's income is up because the wife works. The ideal American family, at least from a financial point of view, is two jobs and no kids. Washington It has been widely remarked that when the U.S.

Supreme Court rises this afternoon, something more than a term of court will end. It is said that an era also will end the era of Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the United States. This is true enough, as far as it goes: Warren himself will step down, and his influence as persuader, activist and conciliator will be lost from the Friday conference room. On the basis of his record on the appellate bench, the new Chief, Warren Burger, presumably will be more of a traditionalist at the head of the table. If a like-minded nominee is confirmed for the Fortas seat, we may indeed expect certain cases to be decided in ways that Warren and Fortas would not have decided them.

But the liberal who is sadly tolling the bells for the end of an era and the conservative who is happily ringing them would be well advised to temper both the mourning and the whoopee. The great landmarks of the law that were raised by the Warren Court will not be toppled. Major currents of constitutional law will not be reversed. What we can expect, if I am not wholly mistaken, is a little lower skyline, a little softer flow. The first of these landmarks was the school desegregation case, Brown v.

Board of Education. It produced a series of 50 nearly all of them unanimous decisions that have wiped out the last vestiges of state-sanctioned discrimination. Not even the most dedicated Southerner imagines that Brown will be reversed and its progeny disowned. Seven years ago, the Warren Court plunged into the thickets of legislative districting in Baker v. Carr.

The ruling was not unanimous. It was 6-2, with Harlan and Frankfurter emphatically dissenting; yet that decision, followed by a dozen others, laid the gloss of "one man, one vote" solidly upon the Fourteenth Amendment. No paint remover will take it away. Neither can a reversal be expected in the bold new trends of criminal law put in motion by the Warren Court. There will be no turning back from the doctrine that indigent defendants were entitled to counsel.

New constructions of the Fourth Amendment, dealing with search and seizure, are not likely to be cast aside. The individual's right to be protected against self-incrimination, much broadened by the Warren Court, will not be greatly constricted. A number of reasons support these predictions. Precedent may not be a king to all men heaven knows the Warren activists treated that monarch rudely but King Precedent still wields a powerful scepter. The new Burger Court will find itself bound by the cords 'of stare decisis to precedents of the past 16 years.

These cannot lightly be untied. A second consideration is this: By and large, the landmarks and currents of the Warren Court have won acceptance by the people. I happen to agree with former Justice Byrnes in his blunt comment on the Brown decision: "The Court did not interpret the Constitution the Court amended it." Yet is is plain enough, after 15 years, that the people Implicitly have ratified I'm an Unlucky 'Lucky To the Editor of The Courant: Your paper has carried considerable advertising lineage hawking certain utility services for "luckies" who may be situated near a certain public utility line. The utility is of course, a monopoly and there is no competition except from other power sources. I am a most unlucky "lucky." I have a problem with my heating system but the responsibility of the utility ends with the line into the meter.

My numerous calls to the utility service number have been neatly parried with the response that I have a heating zone problem and that I should call my heating contractor. I wonder what success other "luckies" have had in luring a heating contractor or plumber to their home. I have had none. In my previous residence the heating system burned old fashioned dependable fuel oil and due to the many competing dealers, excellent service was part of the package. William C.

Fetherston Manchester ii coi nai uuiu An Answer to the $8.80 Hourly Rate To the Editor of The Courant: With regard to a letter in your June 17 edition, written by William J. Creane, I must reply. The more than $18,000 figure for a carpenter, due to an $8.80 hourly rate is a good news story but no more than a dream. If Mr. Creane knew anything about construction, be it light or heavy, he would know those men don't stand a ghost of a chance of earning that much.

Has he ever heard about bad weather holding up construction, especially before all four walls are up to support a roof, or solid ice on raw steel? Lost hours! No pay! Has he ever heard about late arriving supplies that lead to being sent home early? Lost hours! No pay! Has he ever heard about other trade strikes keeping carpenters home? Lost hours! No pay! Has he ever heard about architects' errors leading to some men not being able to work while corrections are made? I could go on but with the hope this reply doesn't become too long, I must ask further. Has he tried to hire a carpenter or plumber to work around his home lately? Qualified men are next to impossible to find. Does the gentleman have any idea 'hi' Fame is fleeting. There are probably those in France who are asking "Le Grand Charles Who?" The debate about whether tobacco is or isn't bad for the health is getting so exciting it's enough to make a man start smoking again. 'This Is the Military-Industrial.