The Levelland Daily Sun News (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 178, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 25, 1961 Page: 4 of 6
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Levelland Daily Sun News
Editorial comment and opinion
Arm of destiny waiting
for thoughtful twisting
:Tm ^ Tuesday, Mf SI, 1961 '
“Does taking thought add to sta-
ture?”
L. D. Haskew, vice - chancellor
for development services for the
University of Texas, posed this
question concerning the Univer-
sity.
Then Dr. Haskew proved his
case in the affirmative by asking
20 persons who had enjoyed a
part in thought about the future
of the University of Texas during
the period from 1953 through 1961.
All twenty cited specific exam-
ples of accomplished facts con-
cerning the university which had
been achieved by “taking thought.”
Dr. Haskew’s point, "1 though a
certain amount of progress may
be accidental or promoted by cir-
cumstance beyond the control of
Individuals, seems to emphasize
the good to be derived by care-
ful planning.
Individual lives would probably
prove less chaotic if most of us
would set goals and deadlines for
accomplishing them, working on
a rigorous schedule to see that
the goals are met.
No institution, group or organi-
zation makes continued and steady
progress without a charted course.
To get anywhere, they have to be
going someplace.
A year and a half deep into the
shimmering Sixties would be an
excellent place for people of this
community to take a new look at
community destiny and see if
perhaps we can’t twist destiny’*
Demos at Littlefield make
switch to Republican party
LITTLEFIELD, Tex. (AP) —
Some 100 conservative Democrat*
of this West Texas farm and
ranch country have announced
they are switching to the Repub-
lican party.
They explained their action
Monday night In a resolution
blaming the Kennedy administra-
tion with “irresponsible spending
to buy votes and power by pre-
tending to give people something
for nothing.”
R. W. Manley, former county
commissioner, was elected chair-
man of the group, estimated at
about 120.
Manley said the philosophy of
Sen. Barry Goldwater, R.-Ariz.,
“has wide support in our area.”
He also praised Sen. John W.
Tower, R.-Tex„ adding:
"We feel we cannot help them
by continuing to call ourselves
Democrats when the Democratic
party is against everything these
two outstanding Americans stand
for.”
The group termed the adopted
resolution “a declaration of inde-
pendence” and charged the poli-
cies of the “new frontier are cer-
tain to result in new tax loads
and ruinous inflation.”
A meeting with Republican par-
ty organizers was set for Aug. 7.
Howard Home, former presi-
dent of the Littlefield Chamber of
Commerce, presided at Monday
night’s meeting. He said it was
a follow-up step taken at a meet-
ing in Littlefield June 29 to con-
sider what direction conservative
Democrats should take in “view
of the speeded-up trend to the left
the New Frontier has taken.”
Home called the meeting “a
grass root* movement.” He said
representatives were present from
OKDh, Spring Lake, Earth, Am-
herst, Pleasant VaBey, Spade, Su-
dan and other Lamb County com-
munities.
Another speaker was Gil Lamb,
operator of Radio Station KMUL
at nearby Muleshoe.
Littlefield is Ip Lamb County,
about 50 miles from the New
Mexico line. President Kennedy
carried the county in the Novem-
ber general election. .
COLLEGE DRAMA TOURS
NEW YORK (AP) — Dramatic
groups from nine U.S. colleges
have been chosen by United Ser-
vice Organizations to tour Ameri-
can oversea* military bases next
season.
Each company will present one
show, which Include “Three Men
on a Horse,” “Bells Are Ringing,”
“Where’s Charley?” “Guys and
Dolls,” “Tender Trap,” “Bom
Yesterday,” "Babes in Arms” and
“Light Up the Sky.”
To make seven-week tours of
the Far East and Korea are stu-
dent players from the University
of Colorado, Montana State Col-
lege, and theh University of Cali-
fornia.
On seven - week tours of
Europe will be Brockport, N.Y.,
State College and Wayne State Uni-
versity, Detroit.
Four-week tours of the North-
east Command will be played by
groups from Western Michigan
State University, Southern Illinois
University, Miilsaps College, Jack-
son, Miss., and Montclair, N. J.
State College.
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A POOR STAND-IN
mi WORLD TODAY)
arm and head him in a more fa*
vorable direction.
Levelland’* city planning com-
mission hasn’t met in more than
a year. We think it should meet
again soon for a careful reap*
praisal of where the dvic com-
munity is going.
South Plains College has com-
pleted its third academic year
and has started a new adminis-
tration under new leadership. Per-
haps a new regent - appointed
committee on goals could help the
college find new direction and:
purpose, welding together public
support for anqther surge which
could match the initial one.
Although the chamber of com-
merce has adopted an annual pro*
gram of»work, a broad cross-
section of the community hasn’t
been enlisted in a wide-scale plan-
ning program in a number of
years now.
All of these listed examples,
regardless of how achieved, could
profit by community concern and
thought. If there is no room for
such thought, then cancerous apa-
ethy has already eaten away com-
munity vitals, and the rut of un-
concern has already cut our path
into the future.
Levelland and the institutions
which make it what it is are go-
ing somewhere. But men, men
who take thought, not fate, de-
termine the destiny of communi-
ties.
ANEFncmrr*
PUBLIC
■Momt—
BUSINESS MIRROR
By SAM DAWSON
AP Business News Analyst
NEW YORK (AP) - America's
economic status in the world is
looking better all the time to at
least one group of U.S. business-
men. They are sharply upgrad-
ing America’s international bal-
ance sheet today.
And they are doing this in the
face of the first hints of a new
gold rush in London, the revival
of some austerity measures by
the British which could hurt
American exports, and the call
for increased defense buildup
with its implied threat of higher
taxes to come which many ex-
pect Presideilt Kfertnedy to make
tonight to the American people.
In spite of this troubled world
outlook, the Balance of Payments
Group of the National Foreign
Trade Council says we now look
healthier than at any time since
1957.
That was when a strong tide
set in against the United States,
international deficits built up, and
Europeans finally started a gold
rush that last fall aroused doubts
abouk the future value of the
dollar.
The group is made up of econ-
omists and other executives of
leading U.S. corporations with in-
ternational dealings. Earlier this
year it had estimated that 1961
would see a deficit of $1.9 mil-
lion in the U.S. balance of pay-
ments. Today it has cut that to
1500 million. The deficit ran at
)3 billion to $4 billion in earlier
years.
The continuing deficit since
1957 has arisen because U.S.
spending abroad for imports, for-
eign aid, investment, military
bases and services exceeds re-
ceipts from exports and services
and income on foreign invest-
ments.
Today’s sharp cut in the esti-
mated deficit comes when Ameri-
cans are uneasy over the situa-
tion in Western Europ« on several
counts.
England is having a trad*
deficit crisis of its own and the
pound has weakened. Today it is
spelling out the belt tightening it
must do.
The price of gold on the London
market has started creeping up
again and now stands 13 cents
above the official U.S. Treasury
price of $35 an ounce.
England may announce by the
end of tha month whether it will
join the Common Market. If
other European nations join the
parade this will turn Europe into
a aolid trading bloc bigger than
the United States.
But the National Foreign Trade
Council group sees this as our
HAL BOYLE SAYS
healthiest payment year in the
last four. It forecasts that ex-
ports of commercial goods will
recover from a recent sag to
equal the record level of $19.4
billion set in 1960. But it puts
1961 imports at 914.1 billion, the
lowest since 1958.
The outflow of private capital
for further investment abroad,
including short term funds, is put
at |3.8 billion this year. But tha
return of income on .existing
private investments overseas is
expected to be |3.9 billion.
So the dollar looks safer than
hum of the disturbing headlines
on the front page might indicate.
If you have high IQi .
you likely dream more
NEW YORK (AP)—Things a
columnist might never know if
be didn't open his mail:
You may think you never
dream—but you do. Everyone
spends up to 30 per cent or more
of his sleeping hours dreaming.
If you have a high intelligence
quotient, you dream more.
Some people mistakenly think a
stigma is attached to being
fingerprinted, but as a matter of
fact, only one in five of the 152
million fingerprints in the FBI
files belongs to a criminal or
crime suspect.
How helpful are you around
the house? A survey found 83 per
cent of husbands now assist their
wives with chores ranging from
shopping to bed-making and dish-
washing. But about one in six
men resolutely proclaimed they
refused to do “women’s work.”
Getting away from it all may
make your ulcer worse rather
than better. Doctors have found
many normally active men often
become more tens* when frus-
trated by enforced rest away
from their work.
Federal income taxes take
more than seven times as much
out of the average wage earner’s
dollar today than in 1941.
Gen. U.S. Grant was one of the
least musical of U.S. presidents.
“I know only two tunes,” he once
remarked dryly. “One of them is
‘Yankee Doodle,’ and the other
isn’t.”
Upcoming soon: A new print-
ing ink which promises to make
newspapers smudge-proof. That
could be one of the biggest boons
to reading since the invention of
the alphabet.
Wisecrack of the week. “Ah,
for the good old days,” sighs
Walter Slezak, “when th« only
kids who saved up to buy knives
were Boy Scouts!”
The first “credit cards” were
probably rings worn by 13th cen-
tury German knights and en-
crested with their family coat of
arms. Innkeepers, recognizing the
owners as men of worth, billed
them later for their charges so
Tough talk anticipated
from Kennedy tonight
US economic status looking better
to National Foreign Trade Council
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press New* Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP) - Preai-
dent Kennedy’s TV talk tonight,
on defense problems intensified
by Russian pressure on Berlin,
will be made against this back-
ground—
His talk should be tough. Long
sgo he expressed the belief it
would be a disaster if Russia got
tha notion tha United States would
not fight for Berlin.
He said it would be a great
mistake to think the Russians are
aiming only for Berlin, that their
real aim is New York and Paris.
Meaning: to split the allies, which
would leave Russia master of
Europe and isolate this country.
‘•It could happen if the allies—
who set up their NATO military
alliance to defend Western Eu-
rope — chickened on defending
Berlin, preferring to let it go
rather than face war for it.
Therefore, Kennedy tough talk
to Americans, to alert them to
the possibility of war and rally
them to his support in stepping
up defense, will be tough talk in
two other directions.
He’ll be talking to the Russians,
to warn them not to push their
luck; and to the allies in Europe
to stiffen their backbone by assur-
ing them of American determina-
tion to stand with them against
the Russian menace.
And if he talks about adding
more divisions to the American
armed forces, it will be a direct
needle to the allies to do more
in their own defense. Those
NATO allies were originally sup-
posed to produce 99 divisions.
But now in Europe—where Rus-
sia probably has more than 100
divisions to throw into a fight—
NATO has about only 12. Five of
tbenr are American. Even if they
increased their divisions, the al-
lies wouldn’t be in a good spot
for ground war.
The Russians know this. And,
unlesi Kennedy has changed his
mind, he thinks so, too. Asked in
Town and Country
HD club has meet
The Town end Country Home
Demonstration Club held its regu-
lar meeting July 18th In the home
of Mrs. Mac Teakell, 1710 9th St.
Members worked on Jhe ?lub pro-
ject —
Members attending were Mmes:
Nancy Carr, Birdell Pace, Kay
Jackson, Theresa Sweeney. Letha
Mitchell, Marie Pearson, Barbara
Teakell, and one visitor, Mrs. Mel-
vin Teakell of Lubbock.
The next regular meeting of the
Club will be in tiie home of Patsy
Jackson at 9:30 a m. Aug. 1st.
Editor of nawspopar dies
CAPE GIRARDEAU. Mo. (AP)
—Juel Mosley, 91, managing edi-
tor of the Southeast Missourian
at Cape Girardeau, died Monday
night. He had been ill for some
time with throat cancer. Surviv-
ors include a daughter, Mrs. How-
ard Robb, Orange. Tex.
they wouldn't have to carry mon-
ey on the robber-infested high-
ways. The penalty for counter-
feiting a family ring: Death.
Pony Express riders—like air-
line pilots now—were among the
elite of their day. They earned
from $100 to $150 a month, plus
rations of bacon, beans and buf-
falo steak.
H was Jonathan Swift who ob-
served, “May you live all the
days of your life.”
an interview 17 months ago if the
allies are in a position to fight
anything but a nuclear war, Ken-
nedy said no.
If ho (till feels that way then
anything he says tonight — about
building up ground forces—will be
more for the psychological effect
on the Russians, by showing
American determination, than for
any visible practical effect.
Nevertheless, Kennedy is not
likely to sound belligerent. Hn
will probably leave a door open
for negotiation with the Russians
about Berlin.
This is exactly what he did
seven days ago in the tough note
this country sent the Soviets on
Berlin, warning them not to try
force. But one part of that not*
was more propaganda than real-
ity.
It said that in any settlement
with Russia the United States in-
sists on “conformity with tha
principle of self-determination**
for the West Germans and tha
Germans living in Communist
East Germany.
HOLLYWOOD
storm past
By BOB THOMAS
AP Movie-TV Writer
ROME (AP) — “People are
amazed that we’re so happy.
They expect us to be fighting all
the time.”
Ernest Borgnine was talking '
about his marriage to Katy Jur-
ado. In a year and a half, the
union has weathered many a
storm, real and otherwise. I can
testify that as of this writing
they seem like a harmonious pair.
Though he is an Academy Award
winner and she is talented actres*
neither is skillful enough to fake
the felicity they now display.
“Everyone makes one big ml*
take in his life,” said Ernie of
the charges and counter-charges
they flung at each other in Cal*
ifornia last year.
Both denied the photos and
news stories that purported a
tight between them after they ar-
rived in Rome earlier this year.
They attributed the whole busi*
ness to the city’s packs of free-
lance photographers.
“They are monsters,” said the
fiery Mexican. “They follow you
around, waiting to catch you in
some embarrassing pose.”
“We were new in Rome and
they were out to get us,” Ernie
said. “Also we had gone through
that silly business back home,
and they were expecting ua to
have trouble.”
Now they spend most of their
evenings at their hotel, she paint-
ing, he writing or watching TV.
Yet they’re not soured on the
Roman life.
“The five months we’ve been in
Italy have been like a honey-
moon,” said Ernie. “We’vo
prowled through every museum,
every gallery, we’ve studied the
history of every important city,
we’ve visited every antique store.
We also visited the town where
my mother was born and met
cousins galore.”
Ernie came here originally to
do one film for producer Dino do
Laurentiis, “Black City.” He
stayed on for “The Last Judg-
ment” and “Barabbas” and may
do another. Katy also did “Baralh
bas” and starts another soon.
MODEST MAIDENS
Gregorian chant finds new fans
among summer tourists of Europe
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By HUGH A. MULLIGAN
AP Newsfeaturea Writer
For the music lover visiting
Europe this summer, the Benedic-
tine Abbey of Saint Pierre at Sole-
smes, France, is indeed worth a
visit.
Here in the high walled old ab-
bey on the banks of a placid
stream, the monks carry on a
musical form that is older
than Palestrina, older by far than
any other musical form surviving
in Western culture.
The monks are the world’s lead-
ing interpreters, collectors and
authorities on Gregorian Chant, an
exquisitely simple yet profoundly
subtle musical form dating back
to the Early Middle Ages.
Gregorian Chant ia purely vocal
and purely melodic, having neith-
er harmony nor polyphony. It still
flourishes today as the official ec-
clesiastical music of the Roman
Catholic Church, but had its great-
est vogue in the Fifth, Sixth and
Seventh Centuries.
The chant is named for Pope
Gregory the Great, who reigned
from 972 to 6D4 and was instru-
mental in collecting and annotat-
ing many of the earlier manu-
scripts, in addition to composing
several chants himself.
From the 11th Century on, the
chant fell into decline, giving way
to the rite of harmony and poly-
phony, but was rescued from obli-
vious in the latter part of the
19th Century when the monks of
Solesmes embarked on the im •
mense research project of collect-
ing and restoring the old manu-
scripts.
Today the monks are world re-
nowned not only for their schol-
arship in plain chant, as Gregor-
ian music is commonly called, but
for their superb singing of these
ancient melodics.
What La Seals is to opera and
Salzburg is to Mozart, Solesmes
is to Gregorian Chant, a place for
the musical pilgrim to savor the
beauties and subtleties of a musi-
cal form that underlies all mod-
ern composition.
For those who cannot visit Sole-
smes and hear this lovely, airey
music float like a soft cloud
through the high ceilinged abbey.
London Records offers the next
best laing, an impressive series
of albums recorded on the spot.
Three recent albums include the
Masses for the feats of the
blessed Virgin and the Assump-
tion on opposite sides of one long
playing record, the Masses of All v
Saints and Christ the King, also
in one album, and most memo-
rable of all, Sunday Vesperi and
Compline, the last two hours of
the Divine Office.
All three present the choir of
the Monks of the Abbey of Saint-
Pierre de Solesmes under the dir-
ection of Dom Joseph Gajard, the
world’s greatest authority on Gre-
gorian Chant. London’s engineers
have done a magnificent job ia
capturing the cathedral-like hush,
the feeling of depth and hollow-
ness that seems to lift the melodies
from the carved wooden benches
in the sanctuary, where the choir
is gathered, and carry them te
the high vaulted ceiling in end-
less soft echoes.
No hi-fi fat), regardless of his
religious persuasion, can resist
the charm and tranquility -of this
1.500-year-old music as lovingly
performed by the dedicated monks. i
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