The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 272, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 14, 1967 Page: 4 of 30
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If Britain were to devalue, the
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and it led to a "boom" that went on for several
years.
New oil discoveries are still being made In this
a county from time to time and are dutifully reported
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THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT ...
Here's Another Drill
In Double Talk
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feet long, flies at about 1,800
m.p.h. and homes In on anything
in the sky that is made of metal
that exhudes heat. Our dear
C-130 was prone in both re-
spects
From the air, the DMZ does
it was a favorite form of entertainment, watch-
ing the driller and the roughnecks as they per.
formed the various duties assoclated with an ef-
fort to find black gold.
And I speak from experience when I say It was
a more enjoyable form of diversion than watching
most of what appears on television nowadays.
Definitely more thrilling when a rich strike was
made and oil spouted up through the hole to the top
of the the derrick or higher.
career advancement and increased prestige before
another birthday has rolled around. You may have
to work a little harder than usual to gain all these
benefits, and shoulder a few more responsibilities,
but the extra effort should not prove too burden-
some and the results will be very much worthwhile.
For Instance, there's promise of both job progress
and financial gain between now and the end of
March; further monetary progress in late April,
the first three weeks of September and throughout
October and November. Further good cycles on the
occupational front: The first three weeks of March,
the last week of September, the first three weeks
of October and all of next November. Do be con-
servative in business matters during June, however.
Personal relationships should be exceptionally
harmonious during the next 13 months, with very
strong emphasis on sentimental interests. Best pe-
riods along these lines: The latter part of this
morith, June. late October and next November.
Don’t take May or September "romances" too se-
riously, however. Creative workers in all lines will
be star-blessed this year, with exceptionally profit-
able periods' indicated next May, June and Sep-
tember. Stars don't promise much in the way of
travel, except for short trips,'during the next 12
morths, but if you want .to take a longer journey,
the first three weeks of May. September and No-
vember will be highly auspicious for "taking off.”
A child born on this day will be endowed with
the qualities needed , to make a highly successful
journalist, musician or jurist.
the British pound sterling is dis-
cussed these days, the talk inev-
itably turns to the probability
that the government might de-
cide to lower its official value.
tries. ...
Even Orlando Cepeda did bet-
ter than that in the world series.
Nation's Currency Only
As Strong at Nation
By JOHN CUNNIFF
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pound is based more on pride
than reality.
Presently the British pound is
at a parity of $2.80 to the U.S.
highly propitious for getting "big" things done, so
make the most of them. During the P.M., there is a
theorists say, her pri
fall. This would make
Now, three years later, the
government’s program, despite
some successes, has failed to
achieve its goal of building up a
favorable trade balance. And
TELEPMONES:
Generet ome mna Clonatned —
cireuteten Depgrtment —-----—
tory wells have been drilled from one end of the
county to the other but so far without success.
As a result, folks in"Sabine County still get ex-
cited when a new wildcat starts making hole de-
spite the fact that the odds are about a million to
one that it will be bottomed in "suitcase sand.”
I was up there not long ago and heard about a
group of people who broke up a bridge game at
midnight so they could go out and see how a wild-
cat well then being drilled was coming along.
Here in Orange County and most of the rest of
East Texas oil drilling has become a ho-hum ac-
tivity as far as the average eitizen is concerned.
That wasn’t always the caae. There was great
excitement here In 1813 when this county's first pro-
ducing oil well was completed. That was in the
Terry area and the field It tapped never amounted
to much so the interest it generated was short-lived.
But In the early 1920s it was a . different story.
for devaluation is the very thing
, it has dedicated itself to avoid-
ing—but always finds itself fac-
friends about the Three Chan-
nel System of ' amily living.
Channel I was family and
home; Channel II was creative
work and the studio; Channel III
was friends, school and every-
thing else.
Everytihng was fun in the Mor-
gan household, but the point is
that it was active, not passive,
An amateur angler asked an
old pro along the bank. “Are
they sure this is a good river for
fish?" The old pro, without look-
ing up, drawled, “It must be,
stranger. Notice how hard it is
to persuade any of ’em to come
out?"
IN
rest of' Vietnam. It is decep-
tively beautiful, except to the
men who are fighting a sort of
World War I engagement along
much of it.
There was one hairy moment,
to be sure. Suddenly a great
Moment of Meditation
And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question
with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting
, him* • —Mark 8;1[
OVERHEARD:
In a men’s locker room: "I
time to the femie-velrigerator.
Neighbors soon got in on the
deal, too. But what was more to
the point insofar as developing
real skills was concerned, the
boys started a publication in
their print shop called the
"Fresh Egg.”
They studied the chicken busi-
ness and wrote about it, and
brought in the neighbor kids to
help them set linoleum block
type. To teach the boys the reali-
ndord « 0283"" 1 " "eond eo" mo""
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YOUR HOROSCOPE . . .
The Stars Say
FOR TOMORROW
Don't waste time on nonessentials during Wed-
nesday's early hours. The aspects then will be
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The Orange LEADER
EDITORIAL PAGE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1967
By Al
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plode into the mindlessness that
is expressed in the phrase,
"blowing your mind.”
Willard and Barbara Morgan
were living in New York City
with their two small boys,
Lloyd and Douglas, at the end
of the Thirties. When the war
came, they made a move to
what were then the open spaces
o' Westchester County. They
built a modem house with work
space for each member of the
family.
Willard bought an old Civil
War printing press, complete
with historic type fonts, and in-
stalled it in a basement work-
chance of winning a brand-new
automobile.”—Yes, sir, a real
completed.
Corusy comments in conclusion: "If we
believe the benefits of local government out-
weigh its burdens, we must protect and sus-
tain it by providing the necessary revenue
for it to operate effectively arid efficiently.
“The property tax will continue to be of
major importance as a source of local reve-
nue. We must be willing to accept changes
and to strive diligently for passage of any
and all measures which will improve its
administration."
our chance on the small arms
fire It's better than taking a
telephone pole."
A telephone pole is the Rus-
sian-built SAM missile. It is 21
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for several weeks.
“We like to, feel that nothin’s
too good for our customers."—
Except maybe a square shake.
“Well, If you've got something
on your mind that's bothering
you, sit right down now and get
it off your chest."—But don't
don’t think we ought to go up
there,” he said, meaning the
DMZ.
That seemed to be okay with
the flight crew. It had had a
hard tour of temporary duty on
this shuttle run from Saigon to
Phu Bai. It wanted mainly to get
. back to home and hearth-side
thing that required a disciplined
approach to life.
Willard Morgan felt that the
youthful rebellions of the future
.. ...... would be aimless and uncrea:
,.---------------- tive precisely because boys and
If tomorrow is your birthday, your chart shows girls were not being taught the
necessity of making things and
doing things.
It would be too much to say
It, the longer the British econo-
my remains weak in relation to
, some of its neighbors, the great-
er is the chance that the govern-
ment might consent to devalua-
tion.
A nation's currency is only as
strong as the nation. It is its
symbol. A nation cannot have a
weak economy and a strong cur-
me
dollar, a figure that has been
maintained since 1M9, although
with much difficulty.
.. .. ___________ When Harold Wilson’s govern
the British Labor government, ’ ment took office three years ago
..... " “ rumors of devaluation ran wild.
They sub@led, however, when
Wilson imposed an austerity
diet for Britains,
Wilson told his countrymen
they would have to work harder,
deny themselves'pay increases,
forgo luxuries, raise their prod
uctivity and export more goods.
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run up.
The big question now. howev-
er. is this: Can dedication win
out over the persistent economic
problems that are leading so
many analysts to the suspicion
that the stated value of the
fun. When the furnace failed,
Barbara Morgan would photo
graph the marvelous ice crys-
tals on her studio windows. And
temporary disaster was always
something that could be ex-
ploited in imaginative type fonts
in the boys’ basement print
shop.
Because Willard Morgan acted
as a creative father, his chil-
dren became creators them-
selves. Isn’t there a lesson here
for parents everywhere.
“I’m awfully tied up today,-
but if you could just come back
tomorrow—."—My receptionist
will tell you that I’ve left town
that Willard Morgan foresaw
the coming of the hippie, who
can only express himself or
herself, as a consumer, by swal-
lowing or smoking drugs that
change the world subjectively
without the necessity of acting
upon.it. But he did have a-pro-
phetic instinct about the coming
of a generation that would ex-
Efforts to improve administration of the
property tax are under way in many areas
of the country, including Orange County
where joint assessment and, possibly, joint
collection by local taxing units .is being
studied.
Too, there is a trend toward abandonment
of state property taxes. It was repealed in
Nebraska last year and Texas voters will bal-
lot in November 1968 on a constitutional
amendment to phase this state's property
The injury-plagued Yankee su-
perstar, Mickey Mantle, his
right leg swathed in bandages,
was tootling South from the sta- — ---------- _ ..
dium one night at about sixty look it it, it's in the back seat.
Try And Stop Me
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED rant
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republicotior w_«e new wwih » ia.it
01 well •• Ol Ar dispotehet
Nearly everyone professes to be an expert
on property taxation and a number of these
experts have written books anti articles sug-
gefing how it can be refmed.
It is significant to note that most of these
books and articles use the word “reform" and
not the word “abolish ” Twenty years ago
other experts were advocating the abolition
of the property tax by replacipg the lost
revenue from other sources.
These comments are made by Paul V.
Corusy.- executive director of the Interna-
Honal Association of Assessing Officers, in a
vopyrighted article published by the Tax
Foundation.
Corusy goes on to say that to support
abolition of the tax, the earlier movement
reasoned that revenue from properly taxes
could be replaced from other sources without
major disruption of the economy and that it
was almost impossible to administer.
Conditions have changed, he adds. Today,
revenue from property taxes is over $25 bil-
lion annually and is exceeded .only by the
federal income tax on corporate and individ-
ual income.
Such talk is like pouring salt
into an open sore in the hide of
ties of sex, the older Morgans
bought them a couple of rab-
bits. and to make them realize
that death is a part of life they
contracted to take a superan-
nuated chicken or two from
them for the family table.
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else.
Our air people insist that be-
tween this whammv and the
agile ducking tactics of our
fighters, the SAM is making a
hit only once in every 70
expect me to really listen.
"Frankly, the business pic-
ture is so uncertain at this time
that we wouldn't feel justified in
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NEW YORK - The patient
workhorse of the Vietnamese
war, Lockheed’s C-130, waddled
toward the starting line of the
strip at Phu Bai. The idea was
, to fly over a portion of the
worst-named place on earth —
the highly militarized demilita-
rized zone.
In most East Texas counties the completion of
a new al) well nowadays gets only brief mention
on an inside page(of the localdevApaEe- “ '
But a few days ago a "gusher’’ in Nacogdoches
County rated top play on page 1 of the Daily Senti-
nel, under a banner headline printed in red.
And ths feet is all the more interesting because
the first commercial oil production in the Vnited
States west of the Mississippi River was in Nacog-
doches County — 101 years ago.
The county has had oil production at intervals
ever since and in the aggregate has produced about
400,000 barrels of the black gold.
However, until the completion of the headliner
well there a few days ago all of its oil came up by
way of buckets or pumps. The new producer is the
first in the county to flow under its own pressure.
That fully justified Editor Victor Faln's de-
cision to give the 170-barrel-a-day producer the
sort ot news play which The Leader would give to
an announcement of a multimillion-dollar Indus-
trial plant.
And if the new oil well had been in Sabine
County its weekly newspaper, the Reporter, prob-__, ____________
ably would have gotten out an extra even if the possibility of receiving some good news from afar,
completion chad qocurved zon a.Sandax I r ‘ 5 FOR THE BIRTHDAY
That's the only county in all of Deep East Texas. X: .,
without any commercial oil produetlonr Explora HEtmer- , u mto, gine
- ...... ■ ■ - fine indications which should net monetary gains,
NEW YORK (AP) -Isn't it
about time we had another drill
in double talk?
Mustn't get rusty in this vital
art, you know, or we may lose
our social poise.
Double talk, of course. is the
saying of one thing while you’re
thinking another, usually
something exactly opposite. It
allows one to be socially ac-
ceptable—nay, even widely wel-
comed—while It also enables
one to retain his inner honesty
intact.
chancellor of the University of Hartford and
a recognized expert in property taxation,
"Despite the double-barreled handicap of
geographic dispersion and relatively un-
trained personnel, the property tax has
worked."
Dr. Woodniff concedes that it has not
worked as well as it could arid far less well
than it should, but nevertheless it has
worked. He also says the fact that it works
at all under these handicaps is "strong tes-
tiriiony that it is essentially a very simple
tax to administer."
- disapprove of women in bush.
Di ness, and I'll tell you why. If
44 you treat them like men, they
! {X begin bawling all over the place.
2 ( And if you treat them like
X women, your wife's bound to
EN find out about it.” ■
A? Eight-year-old to his teacher:
___ "There's no way to figure out
my ma. When I'm noisy, she —.....• _ ------------ _ ,
LL wallops me. And when I'm quiet, political party."—It’s too early
she takes my temperature." _ -yet to tell which party is likely
Suburbanite wife to her hus- to win.
band: “I'm afraid I scratched . "You know you're the one guy
the rear right fender a tiny bit I couldn't want to double talk,
this afternoon. If you want to Bob."—But if at first I don't
।—v u u W- i- th heak eat," succeed, Il try, try again.
rency.
The more politically aware
analysts, •however, are quick to
point out the damaging loss of
confidence in Britain that would more inclined to buy British
result from admitting weakness. goods, and thus the adverse bal-
from taking the easy way out of —“ - - “l-
paying off the big bills it has
THESE DAYS , ? .
Next Hippie Generation Can Be Avoided
By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN
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taxes down to 10 cents.
Corusy also'notes in his article that the
role of the taxpayer in god government
should not be underestimated. However, be-
fore a taxpayer can contribute much toward
the betterment of tax admihistration, he
must have a clear concept of the purpose
of taxes—to know and understand that only
through taxation can the function of govern- ‛
ment be accomplished.
Too often, he adds, the taxpayer has been
passive in preventing the organized creation
of overexaggerated "wants." And one of his
almost forgotten roles is the prerogative to
______ ask questions and demand answers about
Replacing propertv tax revenue from how and for what tax money is being spent,
other sources would ’indeed present many In the future he must make diligent in:
complex problems today, and it is doubtful* quiry into the value of any programs and
that such could be accomplished withrat services and determine which.shouid.be
disrupting the economy of most lccal curtailed and which should be totally
governments. discontinued.
In fact, no reasonable or palatable substi- However, such inquiries sometimes ais-
tute tax has been advocated which would . close that the taxing agency is receiving less
raise the current rate of $25 billion From rather than more revenue than it needs. That
the large amount of revenue obtained, it can was the case with_the investigation recently
only be assumed that the property taxlna.s
possible to administer, AM -aME
And in the words of Dr. A: M. Woodruff,
ance of payments problem
might begin to be corrected.
To counter this the British
PAYETTE, IDAHO, INDEPENDENTENTER-
PRISE: “We hear a lot about world 'population ex-
plosion' but to us here in the relatively wide open
spaces it doesn't mean so much Recently, how-
ever, we scanned a census report that does put an
exclamation point behind the phrase. World popu-
lation is currently 3.5 billion persons, it stated, and
is increasing at the rate of two percent per year.
That means that world population is increasing at
the rate of 70 million per year and that by the
year 2000, world population will be nearly double
that of today. That's only 33 years away!"
“*y
Some may quibble that double
talk is a form of hypocrisy, and
indeed it is. But it is often the
kind of necessary hypocrisy that
salvages our civilization and
keeps our sanity. Anyone who
never indulges In the protective
camouflage of double talk will
wind up a pariah or a hermit.
For those seeking to acquire
at least a rudimentary skill in
double talk here are a few con-
ventional examples of it in
quotes—followed by a literal
translation of what the sayer
was really thinking.
“I can hardly wail’tor Christ-
mas."—This year I’m going to
set a beartrap in my chimney to
welcome Santa Claus.
“We're having Thanksgiving
with our daughter and son-in-
law next week.”—After all,
by The Leader — on an Inside page.
And that isn't because we don't consider a new
"gusher" important ot our economy but because"
the county's people have come to look upon ther
as old hst.
Which is a far cry from the way It used to be
THE ORANGE LEADER
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er the
Orone Leder Pelishing Ce. (imey
m w. Fren A«.. e. o. Bex im. Orong, fexos nes
Jome e. swam, Presigent ond vltshar
completed in the City of Orange.
i l. We predict that it also will be the case
When the study of the Orange County gov-
ernment which is just beginning has been
government has been forced to
raise its basic interest rate
twice in the past three weeks,
first from 5.5 per cent to 6 on
October 19, and then to 6.5 per
cent last week.
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they've been married 10 years
miles an hour when he was ankoyshnanybeabhe«aforda
flagged down by a motorcycle "Remember, when you buy a
cop. "What s your name, de- ticket for our church raffle,
manded the cop. Im Mickey you’re not only helping out-A
Mantle," asserted the ball worthy cause. You have a real
player. "Oh, yeah?" jeered the • • -----
cop. “And I’m Whitey Ford.”
“No, you're not,” chirped Man-
tle, pointing to his seatmate.
"This is Whitey Ford.” The cop,
a fan, knew when he was licked.
He settled for two autographs.
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The Morgan boys have long
since given up chicken raising.
But their press has become a . -
thriving business for the Mor-
gan family.
Generalizing from their own
experience with their children,
the Morgans spoke to their
feeling that America had
crossed a divide at some period
in the Nineteen Thirties. The
local world had suddenly be-
come a supermarket in which
anything could be had for the
asking, and for the first time
in our history American children
were being brought up purely
Ip as consumers:
They could have what they
wanted merely by asking per-
mission from over - permissive
parents, with no pressure on
them to master skills or do any:
Willard Morgan, a great man
in the field of photography and
fine printing, died the other
day, and his loss has been
widely mourned in his own cir-
cles.
Known as "Hercules" to his
friends, he,had, in truth, car-
ried out a Herculean task of
editing the multivolume Ency-
clopedia of Photography for the
Greystone Press.
As a California resident he
brought the first Leica camera
to the West Coast; at a later
period in his life he published
------------:---------------------- exquisite books on photography.
ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK ... But it is not for his professional
. . , _ . rw 11. career that I feel like writing shop for the boys. When young
New OU Well Makes History in Red Headline' ganplumntobouitwttrdidom Tzdgardomnetthagindrrzang
. =• abo human relations, and profitable to do in war-
By J. CULLEN BROWNING Long before there *« •,hip- time, started to raise chickens
pie generation, WiUard Morgan for themselves, the older Mor-
here. In former days citizens with time on their felt it in his huge bones — he gans contracted to buy the eggs
hands spent countless hours sweating the crews at wu at-leastt.5%। feet tall,■ a .Provided theyawemeideliveredon
“ .. pepfofemmnricataoregoome..............
to a pretty sterile sort of future
unless something was done to
change our national attitudes.
He and his wife, Barbara, the
pioneer photographer of the
modern American dance, had a
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"THEN eMNas gAc
blob of yellow light appeared
on the ground below and ahead
Col. Karl Faser, USMC, came of us. I had sobering visions of
up t the flight-deck trom,. * SAM materializing off its
bucket-seated part of the air- launchinsg pad and heading
craft. He had some advice. “I straight for us.
■ • ■ - The flash turned out to be the
reflection of the sun on a new
tin roof.
In time we wheeled out. over
the salt deposits and golden
beach that accent the South
China Sea. There was a wheeze
of relief on the flight deck.
___.______. Capt. Burson felt it fitting and
at Clark Field. Philippines, proper to celebrate our deliver:
But suddenly there was a ance from all harm. He pried
counter - order from an unex- the top off a can and passed
pected source. around the oddest victory toast
Norman Sherman, vice-Presi- I've ever indulged in — his
dent Humprey’s bright and posi- wife’s chocolate chip cookies,
tive press secretary, said, "Col- P. S. — Delicious,
onel, we want to see as much as -----
we can while we're here, and Speaking of the SAM, the
we're going to see the DMZ!” most sophisticated weapon in
He was speaking for some cor- the enemy's arsenal, Hanoi an-
respondents who didn't exactly nounces periodically that one of
want to see the DMZ. But Col. them has brought down one of
■ Faser shrugged approval and our eight • engined, 88 million
Sherman went back to his B-52S.
bucket Not True. Five B-52S have
Col. Faser waited a bit and been lost in the war. four in two
then said to the navigator, Capt. separate mid-air collisions, and
Byron C. Burson, “You stay one in a forced landing at Da
down at 2,500 feet going in and Nang. All are equipped with
over it. Under no circumstances an electronic whammy system
go higher than 3,000 feet.-Take which can “stare" an approach-
- • •----"----- ing missile in the eye and cause
the little black box that is the
missile's brain to change ns
mind and go off somewhere
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