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Remember therefore fromichence thou art fallen, anil repent, anil ilo, the first
works; or el»e I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick
out of his place, except than repent.—Rev. 2:5.
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Monday Morning, February 11. 1957
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful
that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sick-
ness.—Hare.
It’s Up to U. S.
Allies Wash Hands as Reds
Build Middle East Stockpile
Controversy Is Knocking
At the State Senate Door
It appears from this distance that the
Texas Senate has been carefully avoid-
ing the headlines during the first days of
this new session of the Legislature.
They’ve been at work * but none of
the controversial matters have yet bub-
Even after the bill had passed the House,
cagy Senators were hesitant to say how
they felt about it. They gave as their
reason lack of information about the
By CONSTANTINE BROWN of all the forces in the Eastern
WASHINGTON — Soviet and (Mediterranean which would be will-
Czech arms and technicians are ing to be helpful whenever Mos-
cow is ready to set fire to the
fuse.
bled up to the surface.
The House of Representatives, on the
other hand, has already staged several
newsworthy skirmishes. It was the cen-
ter of attention this past week when it
wrestled with, and passed, the Pool Bill
. calling for a runoff election if none of
the candidates gets a majority in the
April special senatorial election.
All this doesn't mean that everything's
rowdy in the House and serene in the
Senate. It’s just a reflection of the basic
attitudes of the two lawmaking bodies.
There’s noise and “openness" in the
big House, while the 31 Senators prefer
to work out their problems among them-
selves as much as possible.
The Senate is working under a handi-
cap this session. Rumors of misdeeds on
the part of a few in the past have cast
a shadow over the whole. Many a Texan
has had his faith shaken, as was shown
in last summer’s election.
There are those in the Senate and in
the lobby group which is so free with
advice who mav think that this is a “busi-
ness as usual" session. They are, we feel,
misjudging the attitude of thinking Tex-
ans. Voters now are more than usually
interested in the activities, or lack of
activities, of this particular Legislature.
Several controversial matters are
hanging heavy over the Senate and soon-
er or later the members must begin tak-
ing some stands, popular or not.
The Pool Bill is now in their laps.
measure — even though it has been
making the biggest news in Austin for
10 days. -
Another matter on which the Senate
must act soon is the solution of the dif-
ferences between the Shivers and Daniel
administrations on appointments. On the
eve of his retirement, Shivers named, a
flock of appointees, filling vacancies on
administrative boards. Daniel has in-
dicated he isn’t happy with some of
these, that he wants to be sure he has
men who will be in harmony with his
administration. Particularly in question
is John Osorio, close associate of Shivers
who was named to one of the hot seats,
the insurance commission.
Such matters as these, as well as all
the bulk of “routine” legislation, await
the pleasure of the Senate.
continuing to arrive in Egypt and
Syria in far greater quantities than
the normal defense programs of
those two countries would require,
according to American intelligence
sources.
The naval base at Alexandria
has been completed and offers ex-
cellent facilities for Soviet subma-
rines which are reported arriving
in increasing numbers in the East-
The Kremlin is rejoicing In see-
ing the free world divided. The
British and French are now
primarily concerned with the Afri-
can continent. Their failure in the
Suez Canal operations is attributed
by their governments more to the
American attitude than to the per-
formances of the United Nations.
It is true that there have bee.1
some effort, to mend the Western
fences in the last few weeks. But
ern Mediterranean.
Russian transports in numbers
far exceeding those in previous
years are passing daily through the - -
Bosphorus to the Mediterranean, eration rather than a constructive
They are loaded with war mate-
rials of all sorts and carry in the
hold, while passing through Turk-
ish territorial waters, thousands
of men who are believed to be mile
itary technicians and specialists
for the armies of Syria and Egypt.
this was mostly a patching-up op-
effort to really consolidate the al-
liance with the United States.
Britain and France are aware of
Other Viewpoints
West Texas Week
It has rained, spring has put in a
pre-schedule appearance and this Valen-
tine week will be a busy one in West
Texas.
Abilene has a variety of events on its
calendar.
The exhibit of combat art which the
Navy and Abilene Museum of Fine Arts
are presenting at the old Citizens Bank
Building is on the list of things you
should see this week Norman Rockwell's
exhibit will be at the Museum, through
Thursday if you haven’t yet seen it. The
Red Cross begins its first aid course to-
night, Lincoln P-TA will “appreciate”
its junior high teachers tonight and again
Tuesday night and the Science Fair will
be staged at the Senior High this week
end.
Matter of Fact ..
X Service, lac.
The Turks know this well, but un-
der the Montreux convention reg-
ulating free navigation through the
straits they can do nothing about
t
The only permissible control is a
perfunctory health check of the
crew. This is being done by health
authorities from Istanbul boarding
the ship and signing a certificate
presented to the inspector by the
captain stating that the crew is
in good health. A more thorough
inspection, as the Turkish author-
ities would like o undertake,
would create an international in-
the great stake this country has
in the Middle East and are waiting
to see how we shall discharge
these self-assumed responsibilities
without their effective help. Their
politicians claim that some time
before the outbreak of the crisis in
the Middle East they urged this
country to soften its stand on what
Secretary o State Dulles describes
as the threat of international com-
munism and accept some sort of
co-existence. We justly said that
this would mean only a surrender
to that disrupting force. Egyptian
President Nasser's unilateral ac-
tion last summer at Suez shows
that we were right.
And when the British and
French decided to call the hand
of Moscow in Egypt last October
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Presidential Pension
New York Herald-Tribune:
It seems strange in this age of social security
that no permanent provision has ever been
made for former Presidents of the United
States. We may be far removed from the time
when an ex-President had to pawn his battle
trophies and face the humiliation of common
bankruptcy, as General Grant did. But it is
hardly fair or fitting that members of Congress
should have the promise of a comfortable old
age and Chief Executives should not.
The Senate has just passed a biU to remedy
this state of affairs. It would grant former
Presidents $25,000 a year, and $10 000 to their
widows. There is also a . ___
them with an office in whatever Federal build-
This is banquet week over the area.
Eastland Lions will serve pancakes
Thursday night. Winters Lions will have
their annual ladies night party Friday
night and the Albany and Haskell Cham-
bers of Commerce will banquet Friday.
Cisco mothers will go on the march
Monday night to collect polio funds,
Cross Plains civic leaders and their tele-
phone company will meet Tuesday to
talk over plans for expansion of rural
service and Saturday Scurry folk will
vote on three-quarters of a million dol-
lars worth of bonds to finance highway
rights-of-way.
Two county livestock shows, for Kent
___.______and Stonewall, will be staged next Sat-
provision to supply urday.
By STEWART ALSOP sharply on attempts to find other
WASHINGTON — The Eisenhow- ways to deliver nuclear weapons
er Administration is about to score to the Communist side of the
a great technical achievement At world, hoping to leap directly from
the same time, the Administration essentially the present means of
has accepted a great risk. The fu- delivery to the ICBM.
ture balance of power in the world There are two new means of de-
ls deeply involved in both the livery which have been already
achievement and the risk, and it is tested in prototype—a snark sub-
therefore worth trying to under- sonic missile, and the B-58 super-
stand both, sonic medium bomber. A small
The achievement is the near number of snarks have been or-
prospect of a prototype test of dered for delivery to the Air Force,
“the ultimate weapon,” the inter- — * " '
ing they choose. This is sensible, for an ex-
President can be a figure of great authority,
uniquely equipped to undertake many import-
ant tasks and to give advice on the highest
level. Mr. Hoover is an excellent example. Thus
a Presidential pension would recognize not only
past accomplishment, but continuing service.
It is no argument to say that ex-Presidents
nowadays can find ample ways of earning
money, by writing their memoirs if nothing
more. Yet, surprising as it may seem, there is
apparently some opposition to Presidential
pensions. A similar bill passed by the Senate
last year died in the House. Let us hope this
will not happen again.
About People
continental ballistic missile. The
prototype of the ICBM now actu-
ally exists — visitors to the Con-
vair ‘plant in Southern California
can hardly avoid seeing the high,
tower-like structure which houses
the monstrous missile.
The ICBM exists thanks to a de-
cision, taken when Harold Talbot
was Secretary of the Air Force,
to give development of the weapon
an absolute, over riding priority.
In time, the ICBM will transform
the nature, of warfare, simply be-
cause there is no known way to
but after that production will be
slowed down or abandoned. And
Part at the Hem
• St Louis Post Dispatch:
There has been plenty of talk — in fact, too
much — since Suez about a deterioration of
American relations with Britain and France.
But since London and Paris were partners in
that misadventure, it seemed a fair assumption
that friendship between those two had grown
warmer. London's kindly attitude toward the
European "common market” seemed proof of
this.
But now comes word that the London fashion
designers are not following those of Paris, Paris
says skirts shall be 16 inches from the floor.
But London takes a divergent line and makes
it 13 inches. It looks like a war of the de-
signers, a campaign fought through the salons
of the two capitals
On the other hand, it may only be an effort
to prove to a too supicious world that London
and Paris are innocent of anything as nasty
as secret collaboration.
By RUTH MILLETT
A recent column on what a world of dif-
ference a few years of marriage make in a
woman's attitude brought forth the cry from
readers. “Men change just as much." Sure,
they do. , ..
Before marriage the man was pleased that
she was always the best-dressed girl at a
party. After marriage he declares she spends
every cent he makes on clothes.
Before marriage — if they were in school to-
gether-be helped her with math. After mar-
riage he can't understand why she can't keep
a checkbook straight.
Before marriage he found her helplessness
amusing After marriage he is impatient be-
cause she can't seem to decide anything for
herself.
Before marriage her constant chatter put
him at ease. After marriage he wishes she
would be quiet long enough for him to read
the paper or would let him listen to his fa-
vorite TV programs without interruption
Before marriage he couldn't get enough dates
with her. After marriage the bright spot of
his week seems to be his evening out with
the boys.
Before marriage he jumped to light her
cigarets and open doors for her. After mar-
riage he doesn't move from his easy chair
when he sees her struggling into the house
with a big sack of groceries.
1 intercept the terrible weapon with
its hydrogen warhead.
The Administration unquestion-
ably deserves credit for the tech-
nical achievement housed in Con.
vair's tower. But the risk the Ad-
ministration is prepared to take
also deserves careful scrutiny. It
amounts essentially to a decision
to put all, or almost all, of thU
country's strategic eggs in the
ICBM basket.
Making the Leap
In other words, it has been de-
cided to abandon or cut back
the current budget envisages no
major effort to produce B Ms
Still untested means of delivery
include the Navaho intercontinent-
al ramjet missile, the nuclear-
powered bomber, and the “follow-
on chemical bomber." The Nava-
ho project has already cost the
taxpayers well over $600 million.
But now, perhaps after a proto-
type test, the Navaho project is
to be cut down to a point where
it is barely ticking over.
The same fate awaits the nu-
clear-powered bomber, and, to a
lesser degree, the follow-on chem-
ical bomber as well. In short, ex-
cept for the ICBM itself, a gen-
eral policy of "off with their
heads" has been adopted as re-
gards other potential means of de-
livering "massive retaliation "
The reason is simple. The new
weapons — the missiles especial-
ly-are appallingly expensive. The
total cost of missile programs in
the current Air Force Budget
comes to some $3 billion, and the
missile programs of the other serv-
Interpreting the News
U.S.-Poland Trade Talks
Will Give Gomulka Support
By THOMAS P. WHITNEY
AP Foreign News Analyst
The fact the U.S Government
will negotiate with Communist Po-
land on trade credits gives Wladys-
law Gomulka useful support in re-
sisting Kremlin efforts to return
Poland to satellite status. ,
The coming talks were an-
nounced in Washington Thursday.
Quotable Quotes
Her majesty the queen, by virtue of her
royal prerogative, makes war and peace, act-
ing on the advice of her minister! who are
responsible to Parliament — Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan informing critics that the
cabinet will continue to direct England's al-
fairs.
The victory is all the more important and val-
uable in that it was achieved in a bitter strug-
gle, following a stormy electoral campaign,
and in conditions assuring the voters complete
freedom in expressing their will. — Poland s
Communist party organ Trybuna Ludu. ac-
claiming victory of Wladyslaw Gomulka's pro-
gram of freedom—fz*4» Moscow —
Far from being a hindrance to the admin-
istration, in the present state of confusion,
such a recommendation should help fill the
void of policy. —Harry Truman suggesting that
Congress spell out guides for the exercise of
authority it will probably grant the President
under the Middle East Doctrine.
How much are you going to give King Saud?
He needs money like I need a hole in my head.
—Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn) ques-
tioning how much foreign aid the oil-rich ruler
of Arabia will get under the Eisenhower Doc-
trine. 1
Before marriage her interest in every detail nounced in Washington Thursday,
of his life was flattering. After marriage he The Warsaw government hopes to
wishes she would allow him a little privacy, get credits totalling about too mil-
Before marriage he thought she was won- lion dollars for purchase of Amer-
derfully understanding because she always ican goods.
seemed to sense when something was wrong. Poland needs this economic as-
After marriage he says impatiently, "Will you sistance urgently. But of greater
quit fussing over me?" importance in leading the U.S.
Before marriage her jealousy was a boost State Department to agree to the
to his ego After marriage he refers to it as talks is the fact Gomulka, boss of
“that crazy jealousy of yours." the Polish Communist, party
Before marriage he laughed and told her she needs moral backing to keep Po-
was cute when she was mad. After marriage land's independence
he yells right back at her.
Before marriage he was going to spend his
life trying to make her happy. After marriage
he assumes that it's up to her to make HIM
happy. —INEA Service, Inc.)
THE ABILENE
REPORTER-NEWS
Gomulka succeeded in the face
of Russian opposition in establish-
ing a type of regime known as
“national communism"—in other
words a Communist-type state like
that of President Tito in Yugosla-
via. ti
Indications are the Soviet lead-
ership. while maintaining an out-
ward display of friendliness to Po-
land as a military ally and fellow
member of the Warsaw Pact, has
not reconciled itself to the fact
Gomulka threw off the Kremlin s
control over Polish affairs.
The chances are the Kremlin
will do everything it can to under-
mine Gomulka by internal sub-
version and outside pressures, in-
cluding the old Polish fear of a
resurgent Germany
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management 5________________in internal affairs, Poland in chal-
dermines the Russian position in
East Germany because it lies
cident in which the Turks feel they
would come out only second best. —
----------------------------------Thus they prefer to look the other of Russia in the U. N. London
u: 11 1 / CI" ‘ way and inform the American in- and Paris have always been aware
N IS nal0 S clipping telligence of the continual military, of our historical antipathy to co-
_____________buildup which is taking- place in lonialism. But they insisted then
• the southern tier of the Middle as they’ insist now that their in-
East. vasion of the Suez Canal was not
What Could They Do? a ‘‘colonial" operation but an
The Ankara government feels eleventh hour effort to frustrate
that if it challenged the Russians the well-laid Soviet intrigues in
and disclosed that the huge con- that area on which the who e
signments do not contain "agricul- economic structure of Western Eu-
tural machinery” as described in rope depends. And since we refused
the manifests but tanks, heavy ar- to see their military operation in
tillery and planes they would be that light, it is henceforth up to
left holding the bag alone against us to handle the Russians the best
the Soviets, way we can.
War materials also are being Sand Won’t Help
sent from Czechoslovakia and to a The British who have followed
lesser extent from the USSR by closely the visit of King Saud to
way of Yugoslavia and Albania Washington do not believe that the
via the Adriatic Some of this- honors we have heaped on the
equipment has been detected by Saudi Arabian monarch will have
...______, .... .......„ .. ..... . the British authorities in Cyprus, more than a passing effect on the
expensive, as the three traditional Recent raids have discovered im- policies of the Middle East. King
portant caches of ight weapons Saud has unquestionably beer im-
bearing the mark of the Skoda fac- pressed by the American govern-
tories in Czechoslovakia, ment’s royal reception. But the
All this information, known to Arab specialists in London fear
the administration and presumably that the Muscovite gangrene is too
reported to Congress in executive deep-seated in Cairo and Damas-
sessions, adds up to the fact that cus to be cured by King Saud’s
the plotters in the Kremlin are goodwill toward Amenca. — (Bell
now engaged in a steady buildup Syndicate)_____
ices are also very costly The cost
is certain to mount sharply as
new missiles reach the stage of
actual production.
The Administration thus had a
stark choice. It could recognize
that the new weapons introduced
a new dimension into warfare, as
distinct; and ultimately at least as
services. Or it could try to squeeze
the new wine of the new weapons
into the old service bottles, with-
out any sharp increase in expendi-
tures.
The Administration has chosen
the latter course. The result has
been, not only a sharp cutback in
potential future means of delivery
other than the ICBM, but a sim-
ilar cutback in existing means of
delivery.
Our B.52 Force
The B-52 jet bomber is, or soon
will be, the main means of de-
livering atomic weapons to Soviet
targets. When the Intelligence con-
firmed that the Soviets were sched-
uling production of 28 interconti-
nental jet bombers per month, the
production target for B-52s was
raised to 20 a month. But it is
most unlikely that the 20-a-month
target will be reached under the
new budget, while the previous
over all production schedule for
Air Force planes has been cut
back about 40 per cent.
Add two more facts. First, most
On Prices, Profits
they found us voting on the side
Kefauver Gets Whole Lot
Of Oil Questions off Chest
By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN the oilmen would get together in
WASHINGTON—Having listened the emergency to ship fuel to
attentively for two days running Western Europe, our own govern-
to the experts tell about the inter- ment would not haul them up on
national oil mess. Sen. Everett M. anti-trust charges. They still
Dirksen (R-IID said he was re- haven t met the European demand,
minded of the humble, man who but they ve managed to make nu-
went one Sunday to church, merous customers and or Con-
"He attended services at a very gressmen sore by raising the
fashionable church," the Senator prices here of gasoline and furnace
__._________________ continued. "When asked later how oil.
Soviet air defense techniques will ' he liked it, he said it looked to Angriest of all is Sen. Estes Ke-
- him like God bad been lost in the fauver (D.Tenn), who shook more
machinery.” hands than anybody else, probably.
So we've been trying without in his efforts to become President.
much success to stoke European The gentleman from Tennessee
fires with American oil since the had in the warm seat Felix Worm-
Suez Canal has been closed, the ser. the Assistant Secretary of In.
price of oil and gasoline here has terior, under whom the oil agree-
been boosted, and now the petrol- ment was drawn up The dialogue
eum business is being investi- went like this:
gated from every derrick top. The Keefe: While you were get.
“And I'm beginning to think ting all those voluntary agree-
that Europe is being lost in the menu, why. didn't you get another
machinery,” said Senator Dirksen laying they wouldn’t boost oil
after hearing at length how the prices?
U. S. government made a volun- Wormser: I doubt if we could
tary deal with 15 big oil companies get such an agreement.
to rush oil across the Atlantic. The Keefe: But somebody’s be-
The deal was a simple one. If ing gouged and that’s the Amer-
ican public
experts believe that advances in
make the B-52s a sitting duck in
four or five years, as the older
B.36 is a sitting duck today. Sec-
" ond, air force estimates are that
we will not have an operational
ICBM system before 1963, per-
haps not before 1967. The nature ol
the risk the Administration has
lenging some of the long-estab-
lished tenets of the Soviet totali-
tarian system
To the Kremlin, this is a dan-
gerous example Satelite govern-
ments can blackmail Moscow in
some degree with the threat of
imitating the Polish example. Fi-
nally, the very existence of a na-
tional Communist Poland under- .
mines the Kremlin's claim to lead-
ership of the world Communist
movement.
Gomulka has permitted most
collective farms to dissolve them-
selves and returned Poland to a
basically individualist agriculture.
He has permitted the Roman
Catholic Church to give religious
instruction to school children
whose parents desire it. He has
permitted Poland to have a press
which is far more outspoken than
the [Soviet press. All these things
to the Kremlin bigwigs are rank
heresy. They know that they could
not permit such changes in the
USSR, and keep their power
over their country.
They would therefore like to be
rid of Gomulka and his national
communism. But they are afraid
so far to attack Poland directly
with superior military force— be-
cause they know It would arouse
the world. They are afraid to ex-
pel Communist Poland from So-
viet good favor as Stalin did with
Tito — because that experiment
failed.
This leaves them only the pos-
sibility of maintaining ' outward
friendliness while endeavoring to
destroy Gomulka's position by in-
ternal subversion and outside pres,
sure. The Kremlin has means for
such a campaign: agents and
friends inside the Polish Commu-
nist party, Soviet troops on Polish
territory, and economic weapons.
tacitly accepted then becomes ap-
parent. It is that at some point be-
fore a truly effective ICBM sys-
tem is created we shall lose the
means to inflict the overwhelming
retaliation of which we have
boasted so much, and which Is the
last shield of the free world —
(Copyright 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.)
GRIN AND BEAR IT
Wormser: Prices are not my re-
By Lichty sponsibility.
______________- The Keefe: We've got more gas-
“...And this policy was especially written for the
homemaker ... It not only pays vour hospital expenses
but also for the mess your husband makes at home
• while you’re hospitalized!...”
oline in storage now than in a.
long time. Why this price in-
crease?
Wormser: I don't know.
The Keefe: I don't think you're
doing your duty.
Wormser: I have no comment.
The Keefe: Do you plan to do
anything about these prices?
Wormser: No. Under the free
enterprise system, prices take
care of themselves.
The Keefe: It looks to me like
you're going out of your way not
to consider these soaring prices.
Wormser: I am frank to admit
it
The Keefe: You have any idea
how much additional profit these
15 companies made by this volun-
tary agreement?
Wormser We have nothing to
do with profits.
The Keefe: This is unbelievable.
It is inconceivable to me that you
do nothing about profits and
prices You seem to have forgot-
ten the American people Now,
doesn't each one-cent increase in
gasoline cost the American pub-
lic over $1,000,000,000 a year?
Wormser: I don't know.
This went on for a good many
more pages, or until Senator Dirk-
sen interrupted. He said it was no -
good for Congressmen to be pass-
ing the buck on oil prices to gov.
ernment officials. If The Keefe
wanted to regulate the cost of gas-
oline, he ought to write a price-
fixing law. (United Features) -
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