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and it is unlikely that the segment of Chambers
County which is eligible would be interested in set-
ting it up.
That leaves the field open to Orange County and
in view of our need for the college, as well as our
ability to provide the local financing needed for the
institution, we have every reason to seize the op-
portunity and run with it.
Try and Stop Me
.By BENNETT CERF________
men are finding it a bit diffi-
cult to get the nation aroused
about its problems. A credibili-
ty gap separates them from
the public.
situation.
That isn't the only complaint
either. But with a recent rec-
The irascible Harold Ross. of
New Yorker fame, once couldn't
make up his mind what he
wanted to eat at a 52nd Street
bistro. “How about a nice vege-
table dinner?” suggested the
waiter. "That,” snarled Ross,
"is a contradiction in terms."
Finally he decided he's have a
stewed orange. “We don't have
stewed oranges,” declared the
waiter impatiently. “Then go
stew one,” ordered Ross.
THE BUSINESS MIRROR . . .
Steel Output High,
But Faces Are Long
By JOHN CUNNIFF
want to be anybody’s vice-pres-
ident. Ndr, presumably, does
Reagan. But if Reagan is will-
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The next Issue of paramount concern to be
brought before the people of Orange County is one
that is very dear to my heart: a community junior
college.
For the past several months, this project has
been under quiet, unpublicized investigation by a
group of interested community leaders headed by
Charles Holcomb of Orange, Judge of the county
court-at-law, and Buddy Davis of Vidor, banker and
president of the Vidor Chamber of Commerce.
This group hag done a great deal of very effec-
tive spadework aimed mostly at compiling basic,
information on which to predicate a campaign for
the establishment of a community junior college in
Orange County.
Its members wisely refrained from publicising
their activities until after last week’s election on
the proposed creation of a Junior college district in
South Jefferson County.
That proposition was defeated by a two-to-one
majority and it now appears that if a community
junior college is established anywhere in the Sa-
bine Area within the foreseeable future, it will have
to be in Orange County.
events can tell. •
One thing is certain: It is no longer nec-
essary to go back to the Roman Empire to
study a democratic society that shows symp-
toms of internal collapse.
Henry Luce III, son of the co-founder of
Time magazine, returned from a two-year
sojourn in Great Britain where he served as
the publication’s bureau chief in London.
Luce paints anything but a hopeful pic-
ture of the state of British society. He wrote
" . . when Prime Minister Harold Wilson an-
whistling in the wind if he thinks
a Rockefeller - Reagan ticket is
For many of us that would be a dream eome
true. And we are not only able to meet the state
government's criteria,.for such a college but also
have ample resources for establishing and sup-
porting it.
Furthermore, we have a great need for it al-
ready and this need will become greater as time
goes along.
The proposed community junior college would
serve two types of students—those doing their first
two years of work toward an academic degree and
those receiving terminal training In technical and
vocational fields.
It would be a commuter college with the stu-
dents living at home and traveling to and from
classes each day. If centrally located, as presum-
ably it would be, the college would be only a
few minutes drive from any point in Orange County.
Students taking academic courses would be able
to transfer to any four-year college with full credit
for work completed at the community junior college.
Course offerings in technical and vocational
fields would be oriented to business and industrial
activities of this area so that these students would
have a greater opportunity for securing employ-
ment nearby upon completion of their training.
This also would provide our business and in-
dustrial establishments with a new source of trained
workers on which to draw when they have a need
for skilled workers. • . •
At the same time, it would tend to reduce the
number of our unemployed by turning unskilled
people into skilled workers.
But a great deal of spadework remains to be
done before a definite proposal tor the establish-
ment of a community junior college in Orange
County can be taken to the voters for their approval.
We can be sure that this will be done as ex-
peditiously as possible and that the group involved
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ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK . . .
Drive for Community Junior College To Begin
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
LEWISVILLE. TEXAS, LEADER: "We Ameri-
cans have for so long felt smugly secure in our na-
tion's economic stability that many can't come to
grips with the fact that our national financial struc-
ture Ls on shaky ground indeed and- other nations
have the weapons'to pull the rug out'from under
us completely if they lose cohfidence in the stability
of the dollar."
THESE DAYS . . .
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Why Not a Reagan-Rockefeller Ticket?
By JOHN C HAMBERLAIN
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tive than Richard Nixon’s.
Onoe Reagan has released his
delegates, only a handful would
go to someone more liberal than
Nixon. If Reagan, by some still
unspecified magic, manages to
stop Nixon, it would mean that
he himself is the most potent
Republican medicine man on the
horizon. Indeed, if Nixon can’t
make it, a Reagan - Rockefeller
ticket is a far more plausible
Fate certainly divides the good
things of life in odd ways,
doesn’t it?” "It does that,",
agreed Mike. "My brother
couldn't carry his hod of bricks
up a ladder of his life depended
on it.”
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NEW YORK (AP) - It is nice
to know, when you’re with an-
other person, what sex that per-
son is.
Men, for example traditional-
ly feel more free to be them-
selves, are more at ease, even
speak in a different manner if
they are in the company of oth-
er men. They are also usually
more boisterous and less boyish.
Orange LEADER
EDITORIAL PAGE
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mainly in the eastern seaboard
states, who don't understand
that the power in the party is
centered in the West, the Middle
West and the South.
The shift has been so pro-
nounced that Dick Nixon can
pile up delegates for the nom-
ination even though he doesn't
have a big state power base.
He is winning because his ideas
are in harmony with those of
the Republican rank and file
where the party is at its strong-
est.
In this undertaking will be very thorough In their
further investigations as well as in the presentation
of their findings to the public.
Readers will recall that the state college co-
ordinating board has recommended that a college
of this type be built as quickly as possible some-
where in an area composed of Orange and Jefferson
counties and a part of Chambers County.
It has been learned that North Jefferson
County cannot be Included In a new community
junior college district because It Is still obligated
for payment of bonds issued to create the former
Lamar Junior College.
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YOUR HOROSCOPE . . .
The Stars Say
FOR TOMORROW
Some planetary restrictions will prevail on Wed-
nesday. Do not make any hasty decisions and don’t
go to extremes in any undertaking. Offbeat thinking
and acting could offset good endeavors.
FOR THE BIRTHDAY
If tomorrow is your birthday, your horoscope in-
dicates that while, presently, you may not be making
as much progress as you would like, it would be
foolhardy to let down in your efforts during the bal-
ance of 1968.
With the beginning of next January, you will
enter an excellent 3-month cycle which should give
you a big lift, as well as giving you a new start
along your road to cherished financial goals.
Even though you will have to be conservative be-
tween now and then, DO use the coming seven
months — but especially September and October —
to make long-range plans (covering at least two
years) to make new contacts and to lay the ground-
work for expansion of all of your interests, beginning
with the new year. Next good period for monetary
affairs during 1969: Between May 1 and Aug. 1.
A couple of admonitions, however: Do avoid ex-
travagance during the first week of the coming
August, and engage in no speculation at all during
September, November and December.
Make no long-term financial commitments dur-
ing those months, either, or you could preclude star-
promised gains in early 1969. Best periods for job in-
terests: July, the last week of September, late
October (exceptionally good!), late December, next
February and May.
You should find great happiness in the knowledge
that your personal affairs will be governed by ex-
cellent planetary influences for most of the 12 months
ahead, with emphasis on romance during the Cur-
rent month, in September, late December, next
February and May: on travel and stimulating so-
cial activities in August. September, late October,
December, January, February and April.
A child born on this day could excel in any one
of the communications media, but especially in
journalism; will also have a great love of travel
and music. :
was issued calling for such
South Jefferson County has turned down its op- things as a tougher draft on
portunity to establish a community junior college
ON THE UNE...
Lou Nova's Statement
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running mate, not Rocky’s.
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that the present record-high
shipments are due mainly to
customers hedging against a
strike, and that the high profits
merely reflect this temporary
The friendly foreman on a
building project stopped to pass
the time of day with one of his
hirelings. “Mike,” he said, "I
understand you have a brother
who's a Bishop in the Church.
One New Y o r k • restaurant
owner who’s always on the job
is pint-sized Danny Stradella.
whose "Danny's Hideaway”
does a landoffice business night
after night. Comedian Joey
Adams opines that Danny walks
around his establishment untir-
ingly just to make the portions
look bigger.
A /downtown bartender has
concocted what he claims to be
the purest cocktail in the city.
He calls it a Chaste Manhattan.
muddle through.
However, beyond any feeling of kinship
or sentiment, there is no denying the fact
that one of the world’s democratic societies
has fallen from a position of world eminence.
No longer need we look back into the
dust of centuries for weaknesses that can un-
dermine a republic. In the view of many,
those weaknesses "are sapping the life of
Great Britain.
As one American newspaper editorial
writer stated the proposition: “We may be
excused . . . for failure to heed the example
of ancient Rome; but the example of Britain
is . . . too obvious for a plea of ignorance."
The lessons to be learned from what has
transpired in Britain can be used to help
save our own nation from the fate which has
befallen it.
many cases profoundly less
feminine and fun-worthy.
One of the increasing prob-
lems of civilization is how to tell
one sex from the other. The pas-
sion for conformity appears to
be gradually destroying many
of the recognizable differences
between the sexes.
Here are a few guidemarks
that help the interested bystand-
er distinguish the hims from the
hers:
If it likes, while swigging
something straight from a pa-
per cup, to stand in the back-
yard and brag about the barbe-
cue sauce it has concocted, it is
a man. If it would rather go to
an indoor cocktail party and
gab what it doesn’t know about
baseball and politics, it is a
woman.
Does it punch you in the ribs
while it tells a merry story?
discontinuance of nuclear test-
ing.
It took Nixon eight years to
convince Republican conserva-
tives that there was, after all,
nothing nefarious about wanting
a platform that would be ac-
ceptable to Republicans of vari-
ous shades of opinion in I960.
A more positive type of con-
servatism has come into exist-
ence, one that seeks alleviation
of discontents through the ex-
tension of "neighborhood power”
and voluntary institutional de-
vices.
So when Rocky, at the prod-
ding of his advisers, sought to
drum up sentiment for a Rocke-
feller-Reagan "Stop Nixon” en-
tente cordiale, there was no
question of inviting Reagan to
Rockefeller headquarters. In-
stead, Rocky had to waylay
Reagan in a New Orleans hotel.-
He got no promises from Rea-
gan about anything. And his
statement after he came away
from the meeting, that there
’was "no ideological gulf" be-
tween him and Reagan, was an
almost pathetic admission that
everything had changed since
the brave days of 1960.
Since power is power, a sup-
men. Killing, murdering, wound-
ing, vicious, mad dog-like men
la the battlefields so that we
civilized people can dance, and
booze and live.
“Can a former prize fighter
become president of the United
States? Pray tell, what makes
a politician so worthy of that
office? I guarantee some of the
fighters I have met are smarter
than some of the politicians I
have met. So let us take the
politics of Lou Nova and skip
from the first to the second per-
son while writing the qualifica.
lions of the presidential candi-
date.
“Lou Nova is a Los Angeles
boy b r o u g h t up in California
schools who finished up by at-
tending the University of Cali-
fornia at Davis. He won the
United States amateur title in
Paris. His 10-year career as a
fighter took him to most of the
major cities in the United States
where he met and talked to
people from every walk of life.
Ie had the distinction of being
he only man besides Joe Louis
o knock out the great Max
Baer. He lost to Joe Louis in a
disputed sixth round TKO lie-
fore over 56,000 fans in New
York’s Polo Grounds.
"Lou Nova is also a Broad
way actor. He is also a business-
man. He has written for some
of the finest .magazines, and
newspapers in the world. He re-
cently served as his own attor-
ney and won an important jury
case. Above all, Lou has the
ability to analyze and think, and
create. If we have to have a
war to have prosperity, Lou
says why can’t we have a civil-
ized war? A war that we can
spend billions of dollars on to
keep our nation working, a war
in which no one is ever killed."
possibility than a ticket with
Rocky at the top and Reagan
in second position.
Rocky, of course, d o e s n ‘t
Rockefeller in 1960, but it was
Nelson Rockefeller who went to
see Ronald Reagan in 1968.
The lesson is, or should be,
obvious: Republican Leftism is
now in the position of being the
supplicant, begging for a re-
newal of influence that has long
since dwindled away.
It was the "old” Nixon who
sought Rocky out eight years
ago just a few days before the
Republican convention. Nixon
had the delegates, and he also
had the rather tepid support of
Ike Eisenhower.
To the consternation of Re-
publican conservatives, particu-
larly those from the Southern
states, Nixon visited Rockefel-
ler on July 22 and July 23.
When the so-called Treaty ofe
Fifth Avenue had been promul-
gated by the two men. Rocky
had a deal on the platform.
A fourteen • point statement
nounced the budgetary cutbacks which in-
cluded withdrawals by the end of 1071 from
Britain’s ‘east of Suez’ military positions in
the Persian Gulf, Singapore and Malaysia,
Britain had finally reached, staggering and
lurching, the effective end of her long proc-
ess of imperiailiquidation."
Luce gives a factual account of deterio-
ration in nearly every phase of British life-
industry, religion and education; even more
serious so far as the future of Great Britain
is concerned is the decline in a national sense
of purpose among the people. ,
On that score he wrote, “Indeed socialism
has seemed to rob the average Briton of his
self-reliance and, therefore, of his initiative
and sense of responsibility. “It’s nothing to
do with me,’ is the typical response to a
strange problem or a request for help.
“People’s ability to criticize the system
that has failed them seems also to have gone
by the boards. Most of them don’t realize
how bad their National Health Service is,
or how bad their educational system is."
The people of the United States have a
close kinship with Britain. They know that
inherent in the British character is a will to
NEW YORK (AP)-So far in
1968 the nation’s steel mills
have cast more than 59 million
tons of this most widely used of
all metals, a record, but you’d
never guess it from the long
faces of steelman.
Neither were steelmen con-
gratulating each other at their
recent annual meting here on
reports that first-quarter profits
rose 39 per cent over 1967.
The immediate concern is
with labor negotiations, which
sometimes heat up like a blast
furnace. Talks began this week
between 11 major stel compa-
nis and representatives of
400,000 workers.
With contracts due to expire
July 31, the steel managers fear
they will share with labor an un-
wanted August vacation. Cold
furnaces are a prospect. Labor
very likely will seek an Increase
of near 6 per ent. Ulis would
bring hourly labor costs up to
$5.20. enough to shrivel those
profits. A strike cannot be
ruled out.
Already some management
have expressed concern about
their ability to convince labor
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Gaulle’s statement, however
nutty, is conservative compared
to that of another heavyweight,
Lou Nova.
• Here is Lou's.
“I feel it is my duty to run
for the office of president of the
United States. I seem to be the
only man with enough imagina-
tion to realize that we do not
have to fight uncivilized wars
where people who are sup-
posedly civilized get killed and
wounded by the thousands and
millions.
"There are of course many
other reasons why our great na-
tion needs me in the White
House to steer our ship of state.
But let us take the uncivilized
system of fighting bloody wars
for the sake of prosperity. The
history of the world has been
war and prosperity, or peace
and depression. Pretty sad, isn't
it? We know that war goods
are eventually winding up in
the hands of enemy North Viet-
nam.
"We knew that Hitler was a
mad man, and yet we sent Ger-
many war materiel right up to
the day before war was
declared. We sent Japan scrap
metal and oil until the day Pearl
Harbor was bombed.
"War and prosperity! We al-
ways hear that more men are
working than ever in the. his-
tory- of our nation. The living
standard is better than we have
ever enjoyed . . . The reason
for our great prosperity is that
we are busy making bombs and
guns and ships and airplanes,
and, yes, coffins.
"War and prosperity," con-
tinues one of the top fighters of
the fabulous forties, “what a
hell of a civilization! Highly ci-
vilized people acting like mad
Has to be a buck. Does it place
a soft but infinitely restraining
hand upon your arm while it
tells you its troubles? Has to be
a doe.
The one that says, “Let's
have another one," can be safe-
ly described as male. The one
that inquires, "Oh, do you really
think I should?" is undoubtedly
female.
Out to the incinerator to deliv-
er the garbage with a grim air
of resignation trudges the hus-
band. Out to the Incinerator
with a burst of oratory, “This
isn’t the way it happens in the
apartment next door—after all.
SHE is married to a civilized
man," Walks a burdened wife
Does it accept love as a bond
and a mystery that must be tak-
en for granted? That’s the eter-
nal lad. Must it be assured of
love and does it demand that
love’s mystery be expressed in
words, however lame and un-
helpful, as well as in conduct,
however eloquently mutual?
That’s the eternal lass.
TERRE HAUTE, IND.. TRI-
BUNE: “There is no longer
available space for the storage
of waste . . Ours is a society
that casts .off much of what it
uses. Life for millions of Amer-
icans will be far less pleasant
than it might be a few years
hence if better means of waste
disposal are not found and ap=
plied." * ;
Doomsayers have always used the rise
and fall of the Roman Empire as a classic ex-
ample of the decay of a civilization. .
Nearly two centuries ago, an 18th Century
■ Scottish historian and judge, Alexander Fra-
ser Tyler, had in mind the fate of the Roman
Republic when he said:
“A democracy cannot exist as a perma-
nent form of government. It can only exist
until the voters discover that they can vote
themselves largess out of the public treasury.
“From that moment on the majority al-
ways votes for the candidates promising the
most benefits from the public treasury witn
the result that a democracy will always col-
lapse from a loose fiscal policy, always to be
followed by a dictatorship.”
Since these words were uttered, the great-
est republic in the history of mankind was
founded and has flourished. But even in the
midst of the phenomenal growth of the Re-
public of the United States; the historians,
- the scholars and less learned people have
feared the very weaknesses so bluntly ex-
pressed by the'18th Century Scottish judge. "
There are, however, a multitude of factors
that make a comparison between modern
democracy and democracy RusSian-type dif-
ficult, if not impossible.
The simple conclusion that all democ-
racies must suffer parallel fates is questioned
by those who believe that evolution has
produced stronger forms of democratic socie-
• ties. Whether this is right or wrong only
Moment of Meditation
Steel's problems are real,
however. Foreign imports are
taking a large share of the mar-
ket, a total that might reach 15
million tons by the end of the
year—more in the event of a
prolonged strike.
Shipping problems could de-
velop too, at a time when agri-
culture. and the automotive in-
dustries will be using the rails
heavily.
In addition, the No. 1 steel-
maker, U.S. Steel—the same
U.S. Steel'that got into a price
hike hassle with Presidnt John
F. Kennedy—is being accused
by competitors of price cutting.
In 4 fact. the entire pricing
structure is becoming mighty
confusing for some steelmen.
Traditionally, a one-price sys-
tem was adhered to by all pro-
ducers. Not so now. Although
prospects of price wars are
slim, these prospects are being
treated seriously by the indus-
try's press.
Upcoming also are some seri-
ous price shifts, mostly higher.
Steelmen approach price
changes with mixed feelings:
they want the extra money, but
they shrink from the hostility
with which their increases are
greeted by government and the
public.
They might be understood if
not excused, therefore, if they
groan at those big first-quarter
profits: U.S. Steel $50.8 million
versus $4L1 million a year ago;
Bethlehem $43.9 million against
832 2 million; Republic 823.1
million and 816.7 million.
Perhaps the most far reach-
ing moves now being made to
offset the up-down cycle of steel
profits is diversification. U.S.
Steel, for example, is now in
real estate, chemicals and plas-
tics as well as steel.
Mergers also offer promise of
more stability. Conglomerates,
those corporations assembled
with parts from many indus-
tries, are showing increasing in-
terest in acquiring steel produc-
ers.
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The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 4, 1968, newspaper, June 4, 1968; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1561054/m1/4/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.