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GETS NEW GRAVEL
A report last month in which
Venezuela linked Trujillo with the
plot was described In Washington
by Dominican Ambassador Ver-
have examined the case report
that it adds up to one of the most
“sophisticated" assassination at-
tempts in modern history. What
worries them is that the Venezue-
lan example may inspire electron-
ic gangsters around the world to
try their hand.
The Venezuelan explosion was
triggered off by a pocket-size ra-
dio-electronic device operated by
skilled, technically trained expe.ts
who planned the whole operation
with rare scientific exactitude.
Amid the 20th Century, scientif-
ic approach, however, one home-
made Latin-American touch ap-
parently was needed. The assas-
sins were tipped ott that Betan-
court’s car was approaching by an
accomplice who waved his som-
brero.
anti-corruption union controls into
the 1959 law.
And the Democratic nominee’s
Kennedy has been a fighter for
organised labor’s cause ever since
he entered Congress in 1947. That
was the year the Taft-Hartley law
was enacted, over bitter union op-
position. Nixon favored the law.
Kennedy, then just 30 years old,
was among those who kept the
T-H legislation from becoming
worse than It was from the labor
union standpoint.
This is a role Kennedy has
played effectively and consistent-
ly in Congress to date—Including
the maneuvering in enacting the
Landn<m-Griffin law last year.
Here again Kennedy led the forces
that helped modify new restric-
tions placed on unions.
But it’s a mistake to tag Ken-
Hew do the presidential candidates compare in their approach
to labor-management matters? A veteran reporter on the lab-
or boat looks at the record in this last of five artieles oa the
great campaign issues.
doubtedly proclaim that he was
operating for the beat interests of
the country as a whole, rather
than taking sides in the continu-
ing labor-management conflict. *
The newly adopted platforms of
both parties, moreover, pledge
they will cultivate labor-manage-
ment discussions toward improv-
ing the climate of industrial rela-
tions.
Sticking out in Nixon’s record is
his personal role in settling the
big steel strike early this year.
Nixon stepped quietly into the
deadlock, warning both sides they
faced an unwanted, directed set-
tlement by Congress unless they
got together on an agreement.
In secret meetings, many held
in his own home here, Nixon
chalked out the settlement terms.
Neither side got all it wanted but
both sides were happy that Nixon
got them off the hook and got steel
production rolling again.
YESTERYEAR
Looking Baek Through Record-Chronicle Files
SHIVERS GETS
PARTY RACKING
AUGUST s, 1950
Gov. Allan Shivers today
two men take surprisingly out-of-
character stands. Nixon in 1956
forecast an early adoption of a
four-day work week, a long-time
labor union goal.
Shortly before his nomination
Kennedy said: “I do not support
a shorter work week—I am not
for the four-day week."
Both industry and labor feel
Nixon is more Inclined toward
business than toward labor. But
they concede he has become far i
more liberal in recent years. In
this, Secretary of Labor James
P. Mitchell is credited with hav-
ing been a major influence. Ex-
ample: Nixon’s rejection of "right
to-work" laws.
The unions are expected to side
mostly with Kennedy in the elec-
tion campaign. But they are sus-
picious, it is plain, that with Sen.
Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas on
the Democratic ticket they may
be buying a lot more conserva-
tive combination than they would
like.
typographical errors
than to correct them in
party leaders there is room enough
In the Texas Democratic Party
for a lot of fights and for all
gressional careers it rates Ken-
nedy as voting 100 per cent right
on labor bills by AFL-CIO stand-
ards and Nixon only 9.7 per cent
right.
On a broader comparison of
general interest legislation the
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CAMPAIGN
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the problems of the farmers of the
nation.
Denton County’s first quota of
garments for war-relief, not due
at national American Red Cross
headquarters until Sept. 1, was
shipped to New Jersey Friday,
Mrs. H. L. Dugan, chairman of
the garment making in Denton
County, held a meeting of volun-
teers at her home Friday and
prepared the garments for mail-
ing.
ELEPHAN!
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AUGUST 1, 1949
Wendell L. Willkie said today
he did not favor changing the
present farm program unless a
better one is gradually envolved.
Willkie added in a statement
shortly before his scheduled plane
departure for his Colorado Springs,
Colo., vacation resort that he
would "not take away any of the
benefits gained in the last few
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of any old kind of labor union, per cent and Nixon 22 9 per cent.
Differences between the two
Sen. Lyndon Johnson held a pow-wow of his Texas
backers at Johnson City this week and reportedly laid
it on the line about what kind of organizational work
he expects while he’s away for the continuation of Con-
gress starting Monday.
As a Democratic nominee, the vice presidential as-
pirant is one-up on the recently formed Texans for
Nixon group. Johnson has an excellent organization
in almost all of the state’s 254 counties. The Texans
for Nixon group does not.
There's no reason to think the Nixon group can’t
get together a solid organization quickly—the Texans
for Ike group had little trouble eight years ago.
The only hitch the Johnson forces are likely to run
into is the smattering of counties—including Denton
—where the liberals have been powerful and have been
cool to Johnson for various reasons they consider
valid. But it was these same liberals who so strongly
proposed a loyalty oath in an attempt to guarantee
everyone would support the Democratic Party nom-
inees no matter who they would be.
Now it will be interesting to see how the Liberals
and the conservatives within the Democratic Party
work in behalf of a man one side so bitterly opposed
at the Austin convention just a few weeks ago.
As chairman of the Senate’s la-
bor law drafting subcommittee It nominees are likely to be pin-
was he who wrote much of the' pointed when Congress reconvenes
- ■ Monday.
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you’re asking for survivor's pay-
ments, you'll also need the death
certificate of the person on whose
record you’re asking for payments.
And in all cases, you’ll need
your Social Security number or
the number of the person whose
record is involved in the applica-
tion.
if you’re applying for payments
based on your own record, you’ll
probably also need to provide proof
of your earnings during the past
12 months
For all the proofs required, the
original of a document should be
submitted. Photocopies are gener-
ally not acceptable unless certified
by the custodian of a public record.
Since the evidence to back up
your application is required, you'll
save yourself time if you take it
along when you go to apply for
payments.
SECURITY FOR YOU
How To Get
Your Money
On Retiring
By RAY HENRY
More than 200,000 people apply
for Social Security every month,
many of them without advance pre-
paration which could save them
time and get their checks started
sooner.
This is an ABC explanation about
applying for payments, designed to
get you off on the right foot if
you’ll be asking for Social Securi-
ty soon.
The first important tip: You may
apply up to three months before
you reach retirement age, thus as-
suring yourself of getting your first
check near the first of the month
after you retire.
To apply, you may write or visit
the nearest Social Security office.
But, usually it’s better to file your
application in person.
To handle the claims for pay-
ments. there are nearly 600 per-
manent offices around the country,
located in all the larger cities. In
addition, these offices have roving
representatives who make regular-
ly scheduled visits to surrounding
communities. a
At the office, you'll be interview-
ed by a trained representative.
He’ll tell you what evidence you
need to support your application.
He'll give you advice on any prob-
lems you might have. And, he’ll
give you an application which you
must fill out.
The type of application you’ll get
will depend on whether you’re ap-
plying for payments based on your
own Social Security record or
whether you're applying for pay-
ments based on someone else’s rec-
ord—and on the type of payments
you are applying for.
Normally, if you're applying for
retirement pagments, you'll need
some proof of your age and, per-
haps, your marriage eertifieate. If
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EDITORAL-
Some Basic Questions
We Ought To Be Asking
A GEORGIA farmer wm sentenced In federal court
the other day to a year in iail on charges growing out
of his olanting tbacco without a federal allotment
A small number of others in the country have been
assessed similar jail terms on charges of not complying
with federal crop control regulations.
All of which brings ud some questions we ought to
ask today as both political parties are panting with
pat answers to the nation's farm problems.
Maybe we ought to ask ourselves these questions:
Is this the kind of nation we want? Do Americans
want a federal government which has the power to
jil men for not comolying with federal crop control
regulatiors? Was this nation established to permit
men to -aise and olant crops they believe can be sold
profitablv and used well? Or was it established to
reiment farmers to work under a federally controlled
farm proeram extremely doubtful in its long-estab-
lishod merits?
Was the United States established to allow maiori-
ties to tramole the rights of individuals or of a few?
Or was the USA established to protect and guard the
rights of all’ (Majority tyranny mav be avvlicable
here, for tobacco farmers vote on which set of federal
regrlations they wish to follow.) Was the U.S. found-
ed to subsidize the farmer at the expense of everv
taxpayer—includin of course the farmer-taxnayers?
(A favorite farm-politics defense of crop subsidies and
contro’s is- "Evervbodv else is getting something from
the federal government, why can’t the farmers?”)
Was the United States founded to guarantee a fixed
income to a certain group of people or was it founded
to enable those people to work freely to earn whatever
thev could? (The idea of a fixed income is inherent
in the parity price formula for subsidizing farm pro-
duction whil regulating the acreage planted and har-
vested.) Was America founded to jail men who wish
to exercise their Constitution-stated freedoms and
rights?
And one last question:
Doesn’t the simplest sort of statement of the facts
—a farmer was sentenced to jail on charges resulting
from planting tobacco in violation of federal govern-
ment regulations—sound much too much like the
methods by which rulers of another governmental
system force farmers to become members of a collec-
tive, state-owned farm?
By JOHN SCALI
WASHINGTON (AP- Old fash-
ioned bomb-throwing assassins
are becoming obsplete in an age
where computing machines and
electronic devices are essential
tools of day-to-day existence.
The push-button, remote control
killer has moved onto the inter-
national stage to pose the newest
and most deadly threat to govern-
ment leaders seeking to cope with
problems in a tense, troubled
world.
In the confidential world of
spies, plots and security, the near-
successful attempt June 24 to as-
sassinate Venezuela's President
Romulo Betancourt now is being
studied intensively as an astonish-
ing example of how killers have
refined their grisly work.
Betancourt escaped death while
riding in his official limousine
when 1% tons of dynamite, hidden
in a parked car alongside the
highway, were exploded by re-
mote control.
His would-be killers set off the
blast from a safe distance 300
yards away as Betancourt’s car
drew opposite the dynamite-rigged
vehicle.
Blood streaming from cuts on
his face, Betancourt staggered
out, saved only because he had
been sitting in the back seat.
Three aides sitting in the front
seat of his car were killed. Eight
passersby were injured. His auto-
mobile was turned into a smashed
fiery wmA. ■ . .
A painstaking, relentless inves-
tigation by Venezuelan authorities
since then has revealed the full
scientific, cold-blooded scope of
the assassination plot. The step-
by-step details are due to be laid
before the foreign ministers of the
21 American Republics when they
meet in Costa Rica in two weeks.
At that time, Venezuela will of-
fer a mass of evidence aimed at
backing up its charges that Do-
minican strong man Rafael Tru-
jillo, a bitter Betancourt foe,
helped mastermind the plot.
By NORMAN WALKER
WASHINGTON (AP) - Try to
chart the Nixon, Kennedy posi-
tions on big issues, and you'll find
the picture is not all black-and-
white. There are gray areas, too.
This is true of labor-manage-
ment problems, as well as many
others. .
Many a union official will tell
you that. if past records are a
guide, Richard M. Nixon can be
expected to side with employers
in any labor-management show-
down. and John F. Kennedy with
the employes.
Either, if elected, would un-
doubtedly work hard to disprove
this thesis
An examination of the gray
areas, however, turns up evidence
for an argument that the two pres-
idential rivals are closer together
on some labor issues than is gen-
erally imagined.
Either, if elected, would un-
it’s All Wrong
It’s pretty difficult these days to do anything with-
out having some research expert tell you it’s all wrong.
Take, for instance, that first cup of coffee you had
for breakfast this morning. If you followed it with
a second cup, you did wrong, my friend.
Researchers have concluded that the second cup of
coffee “kills off" the kick from the first if it is drunk
within three hours of the first.
This means, of course, that breakfast should last
at least 3% full hours if it takes more than one cup
to wake you up. This sort of practice could wreck
the economy, not to mention your nerves.
. . years.” Willkie voiced his appre-
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reconstruction major farm conference here yes-
Top U.S. security officials who) terday and added he recognized
Milton Leazenby _ ___________
to Weithall Advertising Director
George Avery Mechanical Superintendent
By TEX EASLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Should
the Democrats win the Novem-
ber election, Texas’ Sen. Lyndon
B. Johnson would become vice
president facing this strange - as-
fiction circumstance:
Since 1840, every president
On the controversial question of
health care for the aged. Nixon
prefers a federal-state subsidy fi-
nancing arrangement. But Ken-
nedy wants a broader program fi-
nanced by increased social secur-
ity taxes.
On the federal minimum wage,
also a hot issue for the resumed
session, Nixon favors a moderate
increase in the present dollar-an-
hour minimum. Kennedy is spon-
soring the Democratic bill for a
$1.25 level.
But on still another point, the
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Published every morning by
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Roy Appleton Jr, vice President and General Manage,
lorn Kirkland Managing Editor ---------------------— --
One of the privileges of being
president of the United States is
that you are traditionally immune
from being arrested—at least
while you are in office
Now that the whooping crane
appears to be slowly winning its
fight for survival, bird lovers hope
the trumpeter swan will start
blowing its own bugle again. It is
believed that fewer than 1,000
trumpeter swans are left in
America.
When coffee was first intro-
duced into the American colonies
in 1667, it was so expensive only
the rich could afford it.
Our quotable notables: "Griot
can take care of itself," said
Mark Twain, "but to get the full
value of Joy you must have some-
body to share it with "
Marry a blue-eyed girl if you
want a wife who won't be easily
E FOUR
marked, "is two mothers-in-law."
It you'collect odd words, here’s
an unusual one for you—"toxophi-
lite." It sounds like someone with
a disease, but it actually means
"a devotee of archery."
Apt definition: "A bachelor,”
says actor Walter Slezak, "is a
guy who has to fix only one break-
fast before going to work.”
It was Socrates who advised,
“The nearest way to glory is to
strive to be what you wish to be
thought to be.”
AUGUST 1, 1920
The work’ of graveling East
Hickory Street across from the
railway right-of-way was begun
today. The paving on the street
extends only to the railroad prop-
erty and the stretch from there
on beyond the station has been
very muddy during the rainy wea-
ther. A promise to ypave this
section was secured from the rail-
roads at the time the tracks were
moved to the east side of the de-
pot. but the work has been post-
poned until this time.
Watermelon growers of the Aub-
rey vicinity will began loading out
carload lets next Monday. Sec-
retary Browder of the Chamber
of Commerce announced this
morning. The cars are ready on
the tracks now. It is possible
that loading will begin here, also,
although many of the growers
here have been able to dispose
of most of their crop by retail.
WILLKIE SAYS
FARM PLAN OKAY
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the governor full support and co-
operation. The governor has fear-
ed a party seperation.
Police infestigated a disturb-
ance call at Chilton Hall, men's
dormitory at NTSC, late last night.
It seems a car-load of girls was
driving around the male dorm
keeping the boys awake. Police
blamed it on the war.
: : : : EDITORIALS AND FEATURES 1 t 2 t THE DENTON RECORD-CH RON ICLE s :
the spectacular 1840 campaign
which featured mass meetings
with log cabins and hard cider as
emblems and "Tippecanoe and
Tyler too” as the slogan. Soaked
during his horseback inaugural
parade in a driving cold rain,
Harrison caught cold and died a
month later from resulting com-
plications.
He was the first president to
die in office and served the short-
est time of any.
Abraham Lincoln was elected
20 years later, and was assassin-
ated soon after the start of his
second term. Then, in 1880, James
A. Garfield was elected and a
few months later was shot by a’
disappointed office seeker at the
Washington railway station. Elect-
ed in 1900 William McKinley was
shot Sept. 8, 1901, by an anarch-
ist. He was the third president to
be assassinated.
Twenty years later Warren G.
Harding became president. Re-
turning from a journey to Alas-
ka, he died in a San Francisco
hotel room from undetermined
causes.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was
elected in 1940. Although this was
a third term election, and he won
a fourth term in 1944, he did die
in office, in 1945.
The one Johnson who has serv-
ed as President — Andrew John-
son of Tennessee — assumed that
office upon the assassination of
Lincoln. Having previously serv-
ed in the U.S. House and then
the Senate, he was nominated as
a "War Democrat," selected to
give a better "balance” to the
Republican ticket headed by
Lincoln.
Andrew Johnson drew hitter at-
tacks from Congress because of
his veto of bills he considered too
harsh on the defeated South. The
House passed a resolution of
impreachment and at the conclu-
sion of a three - month trial
before the Senate he won acquit-
tal by a vote of 35 to 19 against,
the necessary two-thirds vote not
having been obtained. He later
was elected again to the Senate
from Tennessee.
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) - If Aris-
totle were suddenly transported
through time to a modern Ameri-
can beach, what would he think?
Glancing around at the sands
studded with sprawling mortals
slowly reddening under a hot sky,
he could reach only one
conclusion:
"What a strange heathen tribe
these Americans are! Obviously
they are sun worshipers. But what
an odd form their rites take I
"Instead of sacrificing animals,
they anoint themselves with oil,
lie prostrate and turn themselves
into burnt offerings under the ter-
rible eye of their God. What awful
guilt has driven them to this In-
human self-punishment?"
Wise old Aristotle would regard
this as a form of cult madness,
and even the most modem pres-
ent-day physician would sadly
have to agree with his diagnosis.
Comes June and millions of
Americans quit chasing the dol-
lar, and begin a new mass pur-
suit—a summer tan. They turn
the country into one vast human
barbecue pit.
Those who can afford to do so,
go to the nearest real beach. Oth-
ers take off as much clothing as
the law allows and spreadeagle
themselves on the grass of back
yard or public park. Still others
climb to their rooftops and slowly
stew in their own juices on "tar
beach.”
But wherever the sun shines, it
shines on grub-white limbs and
bald pates, on countless miles of
human epidermis seeking a cham-
eleon change. People too busy to
lie in the sun try to apply instant
tan from a bottle.
The theory behind this zany fad
is that a tan makes a man look
more virile, a woman more beau-
tiful—and both sexes more
healthy.
But, as any doctor knows, 15
minutes in the sun each day will
make the average person as
healthy as he needs to be for all
practical purposes. And, as any
cosmetician knows, too much ex-
posure to the sun will in time
make the skin beautiful only to
one who admires the patina of
old leather.
Two generations ago any re-
sponsible mother would spank a
daughter who went out in the sun
bare-headed and thereby risked
ruining her fair complexion.
If this mass madness for an
even deeper tan continues. the
verdict of a future anthropologist
on American civilization may be:
"They lay too long in the heat
of the sun, and all went crazy
at once.”
What this country needs is sun-
nier winters and cloudier sum-
mers—to save us from ourselves!
• • • •
Things a columnist might never
know if he didn’t open his mail:
It’s no wonder girls are more
in a hurry to marry than boys—
age counts against them more. At
30 she only has 55 chances out of
a hundred. At 30, a man still has
72 chances out of 100 of finding
a mate.
Despite the outcry against con-
formity, we aren't a people satis-
fied to live as in the pas' The
U.S. Patent Office gets about 90,- :
000 applications a year tor new
brother and current campaign
manager, Robert F. Kennedy, waa
counsel to the McClellan commit-
tee that turned up the union scan-
dals which led to the Landrum-
Griffin law.
A scorecard comparison of the
labor voting records of Nixon and
Kennedy has been prepared by
the AFL-CIO Committee in Pol-
itical Education. Going back to
the start of the two men’s con-
hurt. Blue - eyed people are least
sensitive to pain, brown-eyed peo-
ple most sensitive.
Another thing about eyes: Tests
confirm the old folk belief that
liars are generally more shifty-
eyed than honest men. On the
other hand, veteran cops say bold
criminals often develop an un-
flinching gaze—probably as a self-
defense.
A timeless wisecrack: “The ex-
treme penalty of bigamy," a
British lord chief justice once re-
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