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WASHINGTON — Look for a lot of petty political wheel spinning in the election-year session of Congress that began this week.

But, election year or not, look also for enactment of a fair-sized SIUE of laws of high importance to businessmen, workers and consumers.

Congress this session is al most sure to vote higher payr roll taxes to finance Social Security increases, boost the minimum wage, soak water polluters and devise new breaks for black employes and for consumers.

In many cases, such legisla­tion won't provide the high-visibility issues with which President Nixon and the D e m o c r a t i c presidential candidates will entertain the voters.

Did hats likely The political debates are

more likely to gravitate to­ward such Washington famil­iars as end the war amend­

ments, scho^b^Sng/^eiense spending and the s p a c e shuttle, h e a l t h insurance, value-added taxes, revenue-sharing and government-cre­ated jobs for the unemployed.

These arguments may not be resolved in Congress this year and could continue long after election day.

In contrast, however, sev­eral business oriented matters are likely to be settled. Pro consumer ~ral antipollution proposals that have been lying around Congress for a long time are finally coming to the top of the heap, just coinei* dentally in an election year

Wage hike expected But the political calendar is

at least an indirect factor in the Democratic push for a minimum wage boost, and in the outlook for a big increase in Social Security taxes.

H o ^ can that be? Rep, Gerald Ford will now demon­strate:

Congress must pass Presi­dent Nixon's welfare-reform plan this year **for the good

6T theTMSrlcM^ the House Republican leader. If it isn't enacted, he warns, 'it will be a strong and affirmative campaign issue in im:f . >. • . :

Passed last year Iby Ahe House and pending now to'the Senate, the proposed welfare-reform rules themselves are controversial x, ^ c

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•: writer a^d boa*. ^ . -^ - -An $83 increase would Just

about wash opt the income-tax saving (for taxpayers in the

41M*Uo-$12,t0» bracket) that waa approved by Congress in

December to stimulate the ; economy.. ^. .v, , r • vv£v*:>.

^Oa the minimum ^ > g o ^ front the House Labor Com

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To help them along, soon- jnittee has approved a Ml sors have attached to the raising to $2 an hour from welfare bill an always-pepttlar- jt.<0 the federal pay floor for increase m Social Security most nonfirm workers.

mm wage totTftit thto ees^ *k» ii m GOPliader Fort*»

. mM "Jure bet*."' sfei&sfe Y<* years liberals l i both

house* Mve been trying, to jffo* the Federal E q u a j Employmem / ) p f » i ^ will give Commission power to enforce Tkhe 1*4 ban tm Ascxfeftnatjon in hiring and promotion, ^ ^ ^.^^ .Previous enforcement fcffis ^; President Nixon jtskedT A

J i t ^ peirta ago for a m-.*> fail in ti* otta. NuwMF ^ W I W ^ S T T T

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benefits for the elderly. Taxes foot W\ ' •/:

To pay for that, tbe House* passed bill calls for a boost in Social Security taxes.

At present, an employe pay* a Social Security tax rate of 5.2 per cent on annual earn­ings up to $9,000, or a maxi­mum tax of |468. The boss must make an identical pay­ment on each worker's behalf. . The House passed biH would boost the maximum annual tax to nearly 1551 for em­ployes making $W,»» a year or more. That would be an

The measure also would apply minimum-wage rules to

.an additional six million em­ployes in hotels, restaurants,

domestic work and all levels of government ;v^-*

For a full - time employe, a f2-an-hour jrtinimum w a g e works out to just,over $4,WO annually. _ - „ ^ > ' .^--W-^ .Though the administration

has recommended va more gradual rise in the pay floor, it has shown little sign of fighting an immediate in­crease to $2 an hour-

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name of ITdmuM Muskte Maine, even though it's fax

Irom kit proposals.

^ *Wt-oo-poliutos grtjto, especially during the primary xreatteo of a federal agency

tar product legislaiive rhythms J a v e %wmter pollution. Oofr now is IptaMwkta new amimsiitioB^^Ntyi aad on estabUsttmoot brought vthe effort jtkmg than ever. •\*i JEWerceitt€s)i •r^Urtog right o«, the Serttte wffl begin debate on J s bffl giving the EEOC authority to tell an employer, through a cease and desist order, to cor­rect a case of alleged race, sex or religious d i s c r i m ­ination. -V - >*-:v?'o.vv :>-:

The Rouse has passed a bffl authorizing tbe EEOC to take an accused discriminator to eottrt, where,a judge would issue any corrective orders.

Ittther #*»gress getiogdon td ap» ^Vorta of a plan,tMtfsfar

different from air., 4fixtti'f 'f im blueprint

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tar ourag not.one major

of consumer legdajfr»fc

bean eaactM fry Ooognsss. This year,

a 9auODvxie no»iapi rage*

all, White House .Qfelc Coogrea* wffl bave

jgedsctive icisaion Iaaqag five v months, before for the democratic

^ Xegisiatkwr passed - ously by 4be Senate ^approved in principle by the J^fila are good beU lo emerge S SHouae PaMfc *fcrts pm-Wbnm> Jhe long proc^es of ;§*After Ihat, Ntam men see /mittee would mk r target of preftattnent and compromise. . 4 Stile happening Resides a

h^en«ng .,4ndustriai.^«r>ier ^^CasWsser.fslJlMto -^S^'^'"'" "m —^"" -r contamination by J905, Alao ^ O ^ ' is >a ^Hottte-passed "provided are new mounds of vroeisore estaMshing a con­

federal CSJ* for treatment of , sumer jarotection agencry , ^municipal ?ewagfe -.^^^^iMdk. wcwfld go lo bat for ooo

The atiministratkm objects ^fumers in rate-setting or quat

appro-of routine gpriatioos and Jt vaiirty of ^Democratic fBoys to probcMe

Later 1 knew about the start

By JIM BISHOP

The old lady had a cold and deep affection for me. 1 was

.JUL and-1 .couloLisel I k Jjer. cheeks were chilled custard and the china blue eyes poached. The hair was white and raced up all sides of the

whether it was the mailman or the milkman, he had to

jtqpjn_the Jutchen for a spot of tea,

I never saw "her" clean the pot. Every few hours, she

head to relax in a small bun. M'hen she addressed me, the

i was Cork brogue anri_ laced with the word 44ye.M

That was Grandma Bishop. Her husband died of emphy­sema when she was 38, and she never looked at another man. Twice she studied me in my stocking hat and high-laced -shoes and said: "As long as ye'r alive, my Jim isn't dead.** That was the closest she got to softness.

She would rather die than lie. And yet I caught her in one. She was dusting her rooming house at 218th Fifth Street, a brick pile consisting of a basement floor, a parlor floor, and some rooms on top. The gloomy stairways had niches where she kept plaster statues of outraged saints.

I asked where she had been born. *Tm Irish," she said once. **We lived in Farren Ferris, a poor section of Cork." Another time: 4iOn the island of Malta." A third time: "On a sailing ship going through the Straits of Gi­braltar."

She told me more than she told her children because I was her favorite. I went shopping with her on Saturday nights when the wind howled down the hill from Dickinson High School and oscillated the lamps before the shops on Newark Avenue. W a l t e r Jewelers had a two - story clock on the sidewalk and it swung heavy with icicles.

Grandma bought me candy. Sometimes she called me her little man. Nor was she above arguing with Mr. Orick about the scandalous price of meat — 15 cents a pound for the best top round with a marrow bone tossed into the bag free. On the cold nights when I re­mained with her. she and I shivered on tbe floor as she said the rosary.

There wa? a puC bell in the basement. Whenever it ranz, she moved a srray enamel pot of tea frsm the back bd of the stove to the front, then Talked to the door. No matter

would add *ater from a kettle and toss another pinch of tea. She liked to talk about current

IhattersT^buf-Trse" pa* ^ s locked in the frail breast. She lost three children Christmas week, 1898. Instead of a tree, she had three caskets in the living room.

When her husband died, she took in washing from the neighbors. Later, when the re­maining 4 children grew and married, she refused susten­ance from them and got a job in the Colgate factory washing the residue of yellow-soap from trays. She put a down payment on the house and took on boarders.

She took me to Saint Mary's for Mass. It was a basement church on Third Street. A se vere crew cut of a man Father Ter Woert. was th' pastor. She knelt among tb old'crones, and I could hear their sticks of tongues whack ing the picket fence of their penance.

At home, when the gaslight dimmed, she took a quarter from, her apron and put it rn the meter. The flame bright ened. An old brown dog who was deaf and irritable dozed near the fire. His name was Dewey, When I petted him, -he growled.-4&e -had a 4uige gray Maltese cat which sat on the back of living room chairs staring malevolently at little boys.

Gandma had more charcter than anyone I ever met. And yet, I knew the lies when I "heard them. *'We lived in Farren Ferris." t4I was born at Malta.'* "I was born on a ship going through the Straits of Gibraltar " I said nothing, but I grieved be­cause, even at age 10, I knew that Man- Murphy Bishop was the perfect child of God. Ex cept for that little chip.

Years after she died I learned that her father had been an Insh "Colour Ser-grear.t" in the Crimean War. His wife died and he came home to marry a n o t h e r woman. Grandma was IT when she saved five pounds

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Mayor Boland S t , Pierre and the four new aldermen spent Saturday in Syracuse at

receive as coonty historian state historian know of any-thif y»*r ft >atf yhat he ^ ting of Matorieal vataa that

ft r"flT«nnu lrf ^ ^ » ' * ***** 1rmik! ***** T****™^ l m d te" ing session for municipal offi­cers hew in office and the -maynr ramp bartr with a

been appointed a year earlier. We no doubt see here a ten­

dency on the part of the revohitioiiary theory born of acute boredom: '1 sat through five speeches in eight hours and then there were question-answer periods. After so much of that kind of thing, you don't know what you're doing," he said. ' r . v - .:;'•

"Why don't they send the speeches to the participants before the session and let them read them and then spend all the time of the ac tual session on questions and \nswers?"

Why, indeed, not? Or, at ^ast, why not some variant on

.he theory? Each speaker might be permitted 10 or 15 mini***: to sttmmariae his

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^Forget it. You can't forgive a man for having been right?

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Rocky and Lindsay tangle Mayor John V. Lindsoy has occus- the governor's State of the State Mes-

ed Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of mak­ing a "false and unworthy attack" on the Lindsay administration of New York City. A candidate for the presi­dency of the United States, of course, has a right to respond when he feels another poiit>cion has taken a swipe at him.

The cand'date c!so has a right to make c counterattack Roc'«.e*e":er, Lindscv sod, is using me s^sre cen­tal in Albany to "launch the Y^txo^-

sage to the Legislature this week. Here is a passage:

"Today, New York City has neither on effective, citywide, o'd-iine political organization, eager to respond to the individual's needs, nor does it have

.true community or neighborhood elec­tive government with the power to be e'ther responsible to the people or ac­countable to them in meeting their needs

"While New York C t v is st ?l the

Rockefeller campaign o' rcn'r so. ct the mo^e^t

1972 " We *-he*he!- he'd

like to run OQCinst such c t;C<et, for

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speech, so as to get everybody in the same groove. And then the questions. _ .Most written speeches are written to be read, not heard, especially if they are an fairly technical matters. An audi­ence's intelligence quotient goes up if it knows the burden of success is on it rather than on the speaker. - I asked a veteran con­ference-goer of my acquain­tance what he thought of the St. Pierre Conference Theory. Well, lielundr^TIfces to hear speeches Also, he thought that if the Theory were adopt­ed, conferences would b e shorter, and my acquaintance wasn't sure he'd like that, be­cause of the cocktails and eat­ing that are woven into the texture of the present lei­surely format

I should have known better, I? I'd thought twice about the matter, than to say — as 1 did in a recent new story — that the salary of the Clinton County historian has always been m the $1,500 $1700 range. The fact of the matter is that while the 1972 salary is $1,700, the 1971 one was $3,400.

Thus, the salary that former

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appointing teffslalors tu trim the salary to fit what they consider the duties to be-but 1 bet few of them understand what the- duties are, either* the historian's job has tradi­tionally been mysterious, - .:

Mrs. Mary Fogarty, the Town of Pittsburgh historian, the other day brought my at­tention to Section 149 of the State Education Law, which defines the duties. It says that a historian shall: ; .

— Collect historical ma­terial and store it in a fire­proof vault or safe; report to his appointing authority on tbe classification, condition and safety of all public records, not just the "totcrical" ones,

ought to be acquired, . •—Make an annual feport

every January to his appoint­ing authority and the state hintimimj hand oyer hto gfr lectkra and records and orre-sooodence to his successor. ._ : That is what all historians' are supposed to do. Addi­tionally, county historians like Steltzer are supposed, to "su­pervise the activities of the 3o-.cal historians in the towns or Villages within the county*' and "present to the board of

; supervisors a report of the important occurrences within the county for each calendar year."- .• • :-'..- - -:

I suspect the office will re­main mysterious, t h o u g h , since in my opinion tfee lan­guage of this section of the law is about as loose as a wrthnr hnhhard •-••

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Arthritis unit notes thanks TO THE EDITOR: We wish to take this opportunity to

thank you lor helping us complete a successful year m fund

during the year 1971. We do believe the general public is much more aware of

the arthritis problem today than ever before, thanks to ybur generosity. ;

May we all look forward to an even better 1972. J. RICHARD JOHNSON

Vermont Chapter Tbe Arthritis Foundation, Inc.

Bus drivers seek help TO THE EDITOR: We the undersigned school bus drivers

would like to know Just what we can do to have our laws en­forced concerning the passing of a stopped school bus with the flashing lights on.

You, the public say to us school bus drivers, "Here is my child, it is up to you to protect ton or ier," yet jt is still you people who are passing our bus. with no regard to the safety of those children on our bus or the child, who may be croasag in from of our bus.

What do we have to do. have a serious accident to wake you up, or what do we have to do to get these laws enforced*

TYRONE MARTIN ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KAKb Ul-kKL*

HENRY WILSON ED LINCOLN

KENNETH STRONG NAOMI McNEIL R L. FACTEAt?

THOMAS PETRASHUNE WARREN BREYETTE JR.

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