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MONDAY, DECEMBER 12,1960
EDITOKIAL
African Problems Place
U.N. In Tough Situation
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RELIGION
THE WORLD WE LIVE IN
St. Nick Born
In Pagan Era
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to (1) run you down, (2) force you
rocks from his wheels.
starts at Dawson Creek, B. C. The
From Dawson Creek north each
—until the next time a big truck
nothing in common except the
way in British Columbia, once a ।
Communist designs.
HAL BOYLE
FOR BURGLARIES
is
Critical Crises
Marijuana Possessor
Cancer
9EKEFELEE
IN URUGUAY
Apartments Boom
Along Shoreline
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With land and build-
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LAND PRICES
Montevideo
The building boom has boosted
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Yesteryear
Looking Back Through
Record-Chronicle Files
BRITAIN FEARS
NAZI INVASION
mile is marked by a small white
sign to the right of the road, the
liked the idea of a nocturnal vis-
itor coming to their homes, too.
LETTERS
WELCOMED
By JULES LOH
AP Staff Writer
The Record - Chronicle wel-
comes letters from readers on
any subject in good taste.
Letters must be signed and
the writer’s address given. We
reserve the right to edit let-
ters when necessary.
her expression says. "Will
ever do it again?”
It’s a bit sad to see a cat with
a hangdog look, but I’m sure it
won’t last long. A good cat, like
a good woman, never surrenders
to time or fate.
“criminal plans of the imperial-
ists in the Congo.”
Should they succeed, the Rus-
sians will have reached the point
where they can reduce the U. N.
A Good Cat Never
Really Surrenders
name.
This is how they came to be
joined in Christmas lore.
For years the feast of St. Nich-
olas, Dec. 6, was observed in Eu-
rope by giving gifts to children.
He is their patron saint, and the
custom still is practiced in some
European countries.
Few historical facts are known
about the saint. He was bishop
of Myra in Asia Minora nd died
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heritage of the all.
Does it come as a surprise that
the lighted tree is entirely Chris-
tian in origin while the jolly fig-
ure sometimes called St. Nick was
born of pagan parents?
NOTHING IN COMMON
True, the name Santa Claus is
Policeman Sniffs Out
The officer said he smelled burn-
ing marijuana and, on investiga-
tion. found the man had 19 mari-
juana cigarettes in his shirt poc-
ket.
Except For Me
A true story:
A young man lives with his parents in a public hous-
ing unit. He attended public schools and participated
in the free lunch program. He entered the Army and
upon discharge, retained his National Life Insurance.
He enrolled in the state university, working part time
at the state capitol to supplement his GI educational
check Upon graduation, he married a public health
nurse and bought a home with an FHA loan, then ob-
tained a small business loan to go into business.
A baby was born in the city hospital. He bought a
small ranch with the aid of the veteran’s land pro-
gram and obtained emergencv feed from the govern-
ment. Later he put part of his land in the Soil Bank
and payments soon paid off his ranch. His father and
mother lived on the ranch verv comfortably on their
Social Security checks. REA lines supplied the elec-
tricitv, the government helned him clear his land, the
county agent showed him how to terrace it and the
government built him a fish pond ... Then one day he
wrote his Congressman:
"I wish to protest these excessive governmental
expenditures and attendant high taxes, I believe in rug-
ged individualism. I think people should stand on
their own two feet without expecting a hand-out. I am
opposod to all Socialistic trends and I demand a re-
turn to the policies of States Rights.”
the first stage. Then with an irri-
tant, called croten oil, they make manors have been torn down
DEC. 12, 1940
A warning that Germany
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK < AP)—It is hard to
shake the self-confidence of a cat.
But Lady Dottie, the cat who
rules in our house, is not longer
quite so sure of herself. She near-
ly lost her empire.
She is like a veteran politican
who, after surviving a close elec-
tion, isn't certain whether he loves
the electorate for returning him
to office—or hates it for scaring
him to death.
Lady Dottie nipped our 7-year-
old-daughter, Tracy Ann, in the
“making preparations for the in-
vasion of England before spring-
time—by land and sea but princi-
pally by air” was voiced today by
Lord Beaverbrook, British minis-
ter of Aircraft production.
Mrs. J. T. Gossett, chairman of
the Christmas Seal campaign in
Denton, is seeking volunteers to
sell seals in booths in downtown
buildings.
FIREMEN RUSH
TO CATCH TRAIN
DEC. 12, 1950
One might have thought Denton
firemen were trying to catch a
ALASKA
ERPRESS
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about the year 350. He was an
orphan, and a generally accepted
legend is he often helped poor
children by slipping coins through
their windows at night.
Denton Record-Chronicle
. ALASKAN
Renewing The Battle
On Old Man Inflation
monsters with horns? terror, now is a cake walk.
While traveling, you're posi- [ A friend who drives the canyon
tive each truck is driven by a highway frequently used to tell
THE WORLD TODAY
SCIENCE
Most traditions are children of
strange ancestry, and the two
most popular Christmas customs
—Santa Claus and the Christmas
living unit is about 30 per cent
less than a house of the same
size
Virtually no one here builds for
rent, since housing laws make it
a Homeric feat to evict a tenant
or even get him to pay a little
more rent.
PHOENIX, Ariz. (AP) - Pol-
iceman Anthony Settle has a
strong sense of smell and he prov-
ed it while settling a disturbance ■
at a Phoenix tavern.
Settle broke up a fight at the
tavern and on the way out took a
deep sniff. He turned and walked
to the rear of the bar and arrest-
roars into view
It’s just bumpier, dustier and
iNgus Ms"ahnEfng that gets n"he rond blind* omunsnan
you. Each passing vehicle sets up1
highway mileposts. The farther
you travel, the more slowly they
seem to slip by.
At Mile 130 a big cow moose
stands motionless on a sideroad,
watching you go by with baleful
eyes.
Infrequently, small red signs
atop white, square posts memo-
rialize fatal traffic accidents:
“Two Killed Here
1957”
No names. No details. They're
not available. Everyone has for-
gotten, except those who cared—
or lived
INDIAN WOMEN
At Mile 241. two Indian women
sit on a log in the brush by the
side of the road, their features im-
passive through the dust.
One is old and white-haired,
dressed in a drab, long dress.
The other is young, dressed in
jeans and a light jacket. Her long,
black hair frames an intense face.
Their gaze follows your car out
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After traveling the highway
from Seattle to Juneau, these ob-1.
servations come back to mind: The Frazer River Canyon high-;
derived from St. Nicholas — or
Sinter Klaas, as the Dutch called!
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to a skeleton of what it is sup-
posd to b, a tattrd copy of
posed to be, a tattered copy of
its defunct predecessor, the
League of Nations.
videos present population— have
been built in this Capital on the
Atlantic seaboard The number of
apartment houses built in the
same period is estimated at 1,500.
you-ed a 32-year-old man for posses-
sion of narcotics.
The two stages which are rec- mansions built here at the turn aid house
ognizable are of the century into an ultramod-
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him. But the saint and the elf have disagreeable to the New Yorkers.
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A THOUGHT
Well, we did send her away to
stay with a friend, who has a cat
oawayh ersend didwe tWlll,e
named Bruce We thought he and
Lady Dottie would be friends,
A few days passed. The new
birds didn’t seem so new. They
came up with no fresh tunes.
“When you hear one bird, you've
heard them all,” said Frances,
“It's kind of lonesome around here
without Lady Dottie. I miss her.”
The chairman of the board
called another hurried family con-
ference. It was decided to give
the birds to our goddaughter, and
bring back the cat—on probation
NO CONFETTI
Well, Lady Dottie came back
to an acclaim as wild as greeted
Napoleon when he escaped from
Elba and marched to Paris. We
did everything except throw con-
i fetti at her.
But when the excitement of her
return died down a brooding look
came over her face.
“You sent me into exile once,”
CUSTOM PREVAILS
strangest1 Dutch immigrants to America
brought the traditional Dec. 5
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voth, Israel.
He is here as visiting lecturer
at the University of Texas medi-
cal branch.
TWO STAGES
“Our studies definitely prove
that that cancer evolves in two
fivefold. Under such pressures,
even the more stubborn old fam-
ilies could not resist selling their
ovoersized and dusty mansions and
moving into one of the new apart-
ments. Most Pocitos apartment
buildings now are upper-middle
class — with common gardens,
swimming pools and chic stores
and restaurants
The state bank grants low-inter-
est. long-range loans to Uruguay-
ans who want to buy apartments.
Such government programs are
The answer probably is that the
Kremlin promises something for
each of them. In return, the Krem-
lin makes sure there is something
to be gained from each of them.
OWN AMBITIONS
Luckily for the Russians, and
unfortunately for the West, some
African political leaders seem
ans. Also, they did not celebrate
feasts of saints.
In the withered pages of Ger-
manic folklore, familiar to these
Anglo-Saxons, was the pagan god
Thor.
GOD OF PEASANTS
He was the god of the neasants:
an elderly, jovial man with a long
white beard. His color was red,
his element was fire, and the
hearth was sacred to him On the
occasions when he left his home
among the icebergs of the North-
land. he frequently would come
down chimneys into his element.
He rode in a chariot pulled by
two white goats, Cracker and
Gnasher,
Exchanging gifts at Christmas
was traditional with the English.
Americans, and it was not sur-
prising the jolly old elf now fam-
iliar to all, should emerge as
the new delivery bov
Santa Claus is strictly an Amer-
ican citizen.
The source for this Christmas
lore is the Rev. Francis X Wei-
ser, S.J., of Weston College, Mass.
He is one of the nation's fore-
most authorities on the subject,
and also gives the derivation of
the Christmas tree.
PARADISE PLAY
In medieval days a favorite pre-
Christmas pageant was the “Par-
adise Play," depicting the fall of
Adam and Eve, the promise of
a Savior and the ensuing birth of
Christ.
A fir tree hung with apples rep-
resented the Garden of Eden, and
the symbol soon found its way into
homes on the feast day of Adam
and Eve, Dec. 24.
Germans also had the custom
of erecting in their homes during
Advent a candle-bedecked wooden
pyramid topped by a star, signi-
fying the “light of the world”
which shone from the stable at
Bethlehem.
COMBINED
During the 16th century they
began combining the two symbols,
usually adding beneath the tree
the Christmas crib which former-
send Lady Dottie away for a while
—and. the way I feel about her
right now, it may be forever."
"Oh, not forever,” cried Tracy.
“If you do she'll die—and I’ll die,
too."
tree—may have the
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THE ASKVILLE CITIZEN
It is an oddity of our society that all compliments
on a newspaver’s sufficiency are mailed or phoned to
the editor. All complaints are made direct to the Dub-
lisher. Customarily, this does not trouble the editor.
Customarily, this troubles the publisher, who troubles
easy. It is "a characteristic of publishers. Like gout.
Strangely enough, few of the critics wish to convert
the editor. They iust want to get him fired. They want
to get a new editor so they can get the new editor
fired. This nrovides newsnarer readers a certain mild
diversion that is undeniably interesting. It is also di-
verting to editors
A newspaper can proclaim in its promotional lit-
erature that it is read by 100,000 people. And that
can be true; relatively true. It is often, in truth, an
undercalculation. But such a newsvarer management
can get four letters a day from its 100,000 readers. If
the four are favorable, the management reaction is
negligible — what, after all, is one note from each
25,000? If the four are unfavorable, the roof threatens
to collapse.
Four critical letters constitute absolute proof that
the carriers are diliatory. the printers dissolute, the
editors corrupted and the librarian a bum. It doesn’t
actually matter if all four letters are written by the
same critic under four different names—the proof is
incontrovertible. This is reallv a healthy reaction. A
press unfeeling of public opinion is a press unattuned
to the civil interest. But what brought all of this active-
ly on is a note we got in the morning mail:
“Dear Sirs,” it reads, in an obviously feminine
scrawl. “I like vour paper. I guess.” — It is apt com-
mentary. We like it too We reckon. Since he opened
his own mail, the publisher hasn’t been talking.
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“Through experimental tech-
niques, scientists have been able
to take a normal cell and add a
chemical compound and produce
. _ ly stood at the foot of the pyra-
train the way they roared down mid.
In the last 10 years, the cool, land prices in the Pocitos area
little man with horns and a forked how his wife mixed a big batch
tail whose main object in life is of martinis for her thermos jug
KEEP UP WITH
YOUR FRIENDS
Friends visiting’ Have a
new grandchild? Death in the
family?. Going on a trip?
That event may not sound
important to anyone else but
your friends are interested in
what you do. And your friends
read the Record - Chronicle.
Why not call the Record-Chron-
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Topics. There’# never a charge
for an item in Town Topics,
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daily features of the newspap-
er.
to the T4P railroad station today. Trees began appearing in
They were. The firemen answered American homes after the first
a call to put out a fire in the big wave of German immigration
diner of a Katy passenger train, in about 1700.
cancer," he said.
“To know the beginnings is to
one day lead to the prevention of
cancer,"he sai.d
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press News Analyst
Soviet activities in Africa, cou-
pled with Moscow pressures and
blandishments among African
Truck drivers—nice guys or
Develops
Rapidly
GALVESTON (AP)—An expert
in the artificial production of can-
cer says the ailment can develop
very rapidly.
Dr. I. Berenblum said in an in-
terview that originally it was be-
lieved cancer evolved over a peri-
od of five to 40 years.
“Our studies show this is not
so," said Dr. Berenblum, head
of experimental biology at Wrez-
mann Institute of Science, Reho-
I and mouth. and invading every. .... e i
package or piece of luggage. ing you about the swell cafe up
Then it settles down to the road; the. road a hundred miles or 80 “milepost zero,
again, waiting to be stirred up all i with a Hungarian refugee cook V.1 nmleP. cute >
over again You revise your image of him
THE BUTTONS AND BALLOTS of 1960 out of the
way, Americans must renew their interest in that
perennial "camvaigner," inflation
Unlike a political candidate who begins and ends his
efforts with the campaign, inflation — which last year
robbed a $5,000-a-year family of $45—continues to
“stumo" for your dollar.
The most recent consumers price index climbed by
two-tenths of 1 per cent to another record high
Americans must be made aware of the role govern-
ment spending p’avs in inflation One wav of avoiding
inflation is to see that government, particularly the fed-
eral government, does not spend more than it takes
in over anv extended period.
In the first three months of fiscal 1961 (July-Septem-
berk abont $S50 million more was spent than in a com-
orable fiscal 1969 period: revenues increased $1.3
billion.
Spending for military activities, space programs and
for debt interest accounted for about one-half of this
increase. The remainder was largely accounted for by
stenned-un snending on domestic programs.
The new Conerers will have before it some of the
old — and many new — domestic-civilian snending
provosols. Even at this stage, there are some who
donbt fiscal 1961 spending can he held to the $80 4
hillion fimre forecast in Octnhe- Develomments in
both spending and revenues in the January-June veriod
will determine whother the revised. $1.1 billion budget
surnlus can he realized.
The alarminn effects of inflation and devreciated
currenev are shown in a table issued earlier this year
bv the First Nationpl Citv Bank. It illustrated how the
value of money in 35 countriec, the IInited States in-
cl’,aed. depreciated between 1949 and 1959
The currennies of eiht. covntrios depreciated less
rapidly than that of the U.S. in this period, despite
boasts of the dollar's integrity.
"visit from St. Nicholas” to their
colony of New Amsterdam. They
had clung to the custom even aft-
er the Reformation.
Later, when the English found-
ed the colony of New York in the
same territory, their children
signs that certain African leaders
suspect they are being used for
the aims of Soviet world policy.
Puzzled Westerners frequently
express wonder why leaders of
former colonial countries often
seem willing to accept Soviet
propaganda and seem deliberately J
to close their eyes to ultimate'
. . - Ing costs divided among the pros-
1 A rapid stage—where a nor- ern -complex of towering apart- pective owners, the price of each
mai cell is converted into a tumor ment buildings 1 " ■
and can remain dormant for The gray sprawling mansions
years. used to give the shoreline a look
2. A slow stage—where the of baronial loftiness
sleeping tumor is irritated in in the old days, parasolled wom-
some way and wakes up and be- en in long, white lace gowns rode
gins to grow. ' in horse-drawn streetcars for fash-
ionable summer afternoon promo-
enades at the Pocitos Beach sub-
urb, four miles from downtown
a dust storm of its own. It billows
up in dense clouds. It cuts your
vision to a few feet. It seeps into
’ the car, irritating your eyes, nose
le"e ga-
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the sleeping cancer cell active. DOZEN STORIES
I Brightly modern apartment
MYSTERY , buildings of a dozen stories have
"When we know what these two replaced them
stages in a cancer cell represent, I Momes for some 200,000 people
we may understand the origin of
cancer. It will help in cancer pre-
vention. not in diagnosis,” he said.
Scientists at the medical branch
explained that it is the opinion of
many in cancer research that
most people develop dormant can-
MONTEVIDEO. Uruguay (AP) separately. People lumped at the
—An unprecedented building boom i chance to ‘own their own home
is turning the shoreline of stately at a cheaper price than stand-
------ “This is making me nervous.”
face and, although Im not sure she announced “We’ll have to
DEC. 12, 1920
Denton County Sheriff James
Goode has instructed his deputies
and constables throughout the coun-
ty to arrest all tramps. Goode
said he believes the recent rash
of burglaries have been the work
of tramps passing through Den-
ton County,
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before each passage over the wind- ability there would be attempts
ing, twisting, narrow road. to bol-1 to fill the resulting void, and in
ster her nerve. such attempts could be the begin-
Now, for most of its length, the nng of catastrophe for the heart
Then, at night in a roadside res- canyon highway is good for 50 Africa.
taurant, you discover the big 60 miles per hour, a real breeze, j The Kremlin seems to tie play-
friendly guy eating next to you REenNIN i ing a cynical game with the Afri-
is a truck driver and he’s advis- The Alaska Highway ’actually can continent. And there are few
it was altogether her fault, was
punished and temporarily banned
from the living room.
About this time someone gave
us a pair of zebra finches. Their
cheerful chirping turned Lady
Dottie into a leering, stalking
tigress.
Once the finches escaped from
their cage and it was all we could
do to save them from being pawed
apart.
A family conference was called
to older by the chairman of the
board, my wife, Frances.
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more precoccupied with their own
ambitions than with attempting to
dissipate the shadow of calamity
over the continent.
How do the Russians line up
African leaders’ support?
Take Gamal Abdel Nasser, for
example. His Pan-Arab and Pan-
Islamic ambitions involve a huge TRAMDK nr awen
area of the continent. Nasser is * AAII P
anxious also to export Algeria
Nationalist revolution against
France. This places the Communist
Arab leaders on the same side in
that argument. By implication, it
places the Western powers in an
opposed camp. The arrangement
is convenient both for the Rus-
sians and the Arab leaders.
SPOKESMEN
Take the leaders of Ghana and
Guinea in West Africa. They ap-
parently are ambitious to be
spokesmen for all emerging black
Africa. The Russians have encour-
aged these ambitions and in re-
turn have won Guinean and
Ghanaian support for Red ma-
neuvers in the heart of the conti-
nent.
The Russians have done well in
wooing these leaders, but they
still are not satisfied. They are
demanding more and more of
what they call unity against
—more than a fifth of Monte-
The boom started shortly after
cer cells The reason these cells the adoption of a new "horiztonal
wake up in some people and not property" Jaw allowing apart- a hallmark of Uruguay’s welfare
in others is still a mystery. iments in each building to be sold I state.
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of sight. There are no houses
or other vehicles in sight. You
wonder where they came from,
what they are doing, where they
are going.
TRUCK
At Mile 275 an overturned
truck lies grotesquely on its cab
and its load of machinery. The
driver is gone. What happened?
When? Was anyone killed? Did
anyone get hurt? There is no one
around to answer.
At Mile 868, a car and house
trailer bearing Colorado license
plates passes you, kicking up gra-
vel. It leaves a momento of its
passing—a round hole in your wind
shield, with a crack running front
top to bottom.
And so it goes to Whitehorse,
to Haines Junction and down the
Haines cutoff. Juneau’s only link I
to the “outside.”
At the Alaska border, the gra-
vel and dust and bumps give
way to hardtov and driving be-
comes fun again.
• By WARD T. SIMS
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The
Alaska Highway actually is like
any gravel road in the South 49.
leaders, threaten the very exist-
ence of the United Nations in its
present form.
It is all too easy to imagine
some possible results over not too
g- M -I 1 . long a period. The U. N„ still in
Dust. My sterv 1 redominate ■“« talanswreoudineapmscgadodtec
-17 .. J — — ------ -- tive action. Worse than that .there
A . mi — - m ax > is even a possibility of a sort of
Along The Road To Alaska
• Some of the nations which sup-
plied troops for an effort to re-
store peace and order in the Con-
go now are withdrawing them.
What would happen if most with-
drew the troops they had assigned
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