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I
live President And Taxes
• "President John P. Kennedy, in asking Congress to
grant him stand-by power to lower taxes in time of a
recession, has made what is obviously a popular request
J vrtth the people of the United States.
She average American will be receptive to any pro-
posal which would provide for the possibility of lower
I -taxes. And it Is certainly true that a number of economic
' experts believe that a quick lowering of taxes, in the
• beginning of a slack period in the national economy,
would, greatly ease the strain of a recession, if not pre-
•venfl recession.
,Qp the other hand, Congress alone has the right to
impose taxes, to raise or lower taxes, under the Consti-
..tuition, and under the traditional concepts under which
so many past Presidents have served.
J , President Kennedy’s request is therefore a question-
able one. Because he asks now only for the right to low-
, „ er it sounds quite harmless. But, like all tax pro-
grams, it is almost certain to be followed, someday, by
a request from the White House for stand-by authority to
impose higher taxes, in case of an emergency.
We should move very cautiously in violating the ln-
-terit'of the Constitution. Once a tax. or any authority
"for changing taxes, is granted, it will never be regained.
There is, then, more to the dangerous Kennedy pro-
posal than at first meets the eye.
French & Nuclear Weapons
An announcement by the Frencn Government re-
cently revealed that the French hope to have nuclear
weapons in the hands of the French Army by 1963. The
French have been testing weapons for some time but, as
“yet," S5e announcement confirms, they have not produced
• "nucUgrr weapons for the armed services of France.
IT When the French have such weapons, as do the
"BiltSh.-the Russians and the United States, Germany—;
f&lone among the major allied powers in NATO—will be
without the most modern (and terrible) weapons known
to man.
• In 1963 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is expected to
step-down from power in West Germany. He has not at-
tempVsd to manufacture nuclear weapons in Germany.
- WhatTSie policy of his successor will be is not known.
^ie French acquisition of these terrible weapons
points up the danger facing the world as country after
- coSStTy acquires control of such weapons. Man has seem-
' in55*proven, through the long run of history, that he
ctmwt forever live in peace, and wars are the result.
• JJSJW only possible answer for the world, for humanity
hrthese modern times, is for the nuclear powers of the
uTtrgi *o band together now and agree not to use their
vVerpnns "fts each new nation joins the nuclear club,
stSUlcient pressure could be brought to bear by the older
n’gplear powers to force that nation, too, to join in the
_ ^ T ■’
Installed as officer* of the
Pythian Sister* were Miss Wan-
da Kueker, president; Mrs. J.
P. Bridges, vice-president;
Mrs. Laura Kueker, secretary;
Mrs. Harry Merritt, treasurer;
and Mrs. Lorena Wofford, fin-
ancial secretary — Mrs. Boyd
Holster won a dress at the J.
C. Penney Co. store — Mrs.
William Boal of Runge was a
medical patient in Yorktown
Memorial Hospital — Eddie L«e
Cadwallader underwent a ton-
sillectomy at Bums Hospital —
Mrs. F. P. Cobb was confined
to Bums Hospital.
SO Yrs. Ago
Feb. 1*, IMS *
Twin mules were bora on the
farm of Frank Eichhom on Rt.
2 — January U.S. Bond sales
in DeWitt County were $97,-
467.75 — British production of
munitions was doubled — Lt.
and Mrs. Shepler FitzGerald
Jr. were hosts to his mother
from Washington, D. C. -- Mrs.
Roy Bradley, Mrs. A. E. Hens-
ley and Miss Bertha Harris
were San Antonio visitors —
Sgt. Charles Barnes was stat-
ioned at Camp Bowie — E. L.
Hale was in Cuero on business.
CHUCKLES IN
THE NEWS
. Ruling
VSlT*
Z~5fhe Federal Trade Commission recently ordered a
tfiSision advertisement it judged to be misrepresenta-
USjaJtialted.
■■'fiTtfha order is expected to have wide repercussions in
tfi£3ield of television advertising, which is badly in need
nfTfcfqrrn — as is the television industry itself.
-"‘T’The television advertisers in the United States go in
fffppffiy- lor various tricks and gimmicks. They show,
sritte demonstrations and diagrams, how fine this or that
product is.
The FTC says these tests, these demonstrations,
shSthi be the real thing. When it is argued by those
thaTconduct the tests that the real thing often doesn’t
“look” right on television screens, the FTC is unimpress-
ed. The FTC says that things used in ads should be what
they are represented to be — and not something else.
The FTC Is right, of course. Too long advertisers
in the United States have taken too much license with
tUtrtruth on television. Newspapers generally screen
their advertising to protect the reader from misleading
claims or exaggerated statements intended to produce
sales.
Television being a newer industry, it has been ex-
ploited to a greater degree by high-pressure sales peo-
ple. The FTC action, designed to protect the public from
false claims and statements, is overdue.
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SETTLES OLD BILL
ST. LOUIS UPI - F. D. Gib-
son has received a check for $25
from Blanche Ellis, a Garden-
dale, Ala., schoolteacher, to set-
tle an old financial problem.
Tiie $25 was interest and prin-
cipal on a $3.75 bill submitted
in 1912 by Gibson’s late father,
a doctor, to Miss EUis’ mother.
Miss Eliis said she found the
bill while settling her mother’s
estate.
GETS FIT DUTY
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPI) —
Veteran Navy man Harold E.
Rummel was assigned to duty
in Adak, Alaska, Friday because
his past duty stations failed to
make use of his special talent.
Rurpmel, of Imperial Beach.
Calif., has served tours in Sidi
Yahia, Morocco; San Juan,
Puerto Rico, and Yokosuka, Ja-
pan, where he found little use
for his classification — “dog
sled operator.”
BEANS TO STAY
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) —
Beans are on the menu to stay-
in the Red Lion Area Senior j
High School despite a ’“ban on
the bean” demonstration by
students.
Nearly all of the school’s 1,000
students toted their own lunches
to school Friday to protest gov-
ernment surplus beans they
claim are too hard to eat.
But supervising Principal Fre-
derick P. Sample said beans
will continue on the menu. The
school still has 800 pounds in
storage.
GET REAL THING
HORBURY, England (UPI) —
The cast of "Saturday night at
the Crown,” a play set in a pub,
said today they really enjoy
their work.
"We couldn't put realism into
a booze-up on cold tea,” said
one of the amateur players, “so
we had the real stuff sent from
the, pub next door to the thea-
ter”
BEES SEGREGATED
WASHINGTON DPI - A
House agriculture subcommittee
Thursday approved a bill that
would empower the Agriculture
Department to prevent foreign
honeybees from associating with
American honeybees.
Agriculture Department ex-
perts testified that foreign hon-
eybees sometimes carry a mite
that could kill the American
honeybee.
IT'S THE COOLEST
ROCK ISLAND, 111. UPI—The
city of Rock Island has one of
the world’s largest ice cubes to-
day.
Water in a 100,000 gallon stor-
age tank froze solid during the
recent cold wave.
DOG DOESN’T HELP
DENVER UPI — Andrew N.
Condas, manager of a merchant
police service, stopped his car
early Thursday to check out a
client’s place of business, leav-
ing the engine running and his
dog on guard.
When Condas returned, the car
and the dog were gone.
Traffic Victim Dies
AMARILLO (UPI) - A. H.
Mullins, 67, was killed when
struck by a pickup truck in
downtown Amarillo.
Plea Refused
AUSTIN (UPI) — The State
Board of Pardons and Paroles
refused to commute the death
sentence of sex-slayer Joe Ed-
ward Smith of Houston.
HfiL
IAN FLEMING S Greatest Thriller
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CHAPTER 28
YV7HEN James Bond got on
W the phone to Domino Vi-
tall out at Palmyra, she said
anxiously, “Where have you
Decn all morning, James?”
It was the first rime she had
used his Christian name. “1
want you to come swimming
this afternoon. 1 nave been told
to pack and come on hoard this
evening. Emilio says they arc
going after the treasure tonight.
Isn’t it nice of him to take me?
But it’s a dead secret, so don’t
tel) anyone, will you. But ne is
vague about when we will be
back. He said something about
Miami. I thought —she hesi-
tated—“11 thought you might
have gone back to New York
by the time we get hack. I
have seen so little of you. You
left so juttoenly last night.
What was it?"
“1 suddenly trot a headache.
Touch of the sun, 1 suppose. It
had been quite a day. 1 didn't
want to go. And I’d love to
come for a swim. Where?”
She gave him careful direc-
tions. It was a beach a mile
farther along the coast from
Palmyra. There was a side road
and a thatched hut- He couldn't
miss it. The beach was sort of
better than Palmyra's. The skin-
diving was more fun. And of
course there weren’t so many
people. It belonged to some
Swedish millionaire who bad
gor away. When could he get
there? Half an nour would be
ail right. They would have more
time. On the reef, that is.
Bond’s sandwich came. He sat
and consumed it, looking at the
wail, feeling excited about the
girl, but knowing what he was
going to do to her life that af-
ternoon. It was going to be a
bad business — when It could
have been so good. He remem-
bered her as he had first seen
her, the ridiculous straw hat
tilted down over the nose, the
pale blue ribbons flying as she
sped up Bay Street. Oh, well...
Bond rolled his swimming
trunks into a towel, put on his
coat, and slung Leiter’a Geiger
counter oyer his shoulder. He
glanced at himself In the mir-
ror. He looked like any other
tourist with a camera. He felt
In his trousprs pocket to make
sure ne had the Identification
bracelet and went out of the
room and down In the lift.
The ripple-edged tarmac and
the pitted bends of Nassau's
coastal road were tough on the
springs of the Land Rover and
the quivering afternoon sun was
a killer. By the time Bond
found the sandy track leading
off into the casuarinaa and had
parked the car on the edge ’of
the beach, all he wanted to do
was get into the sea and stay
in it.
The beach hut was a Robin-
son Crusoe affair of plaited
bamboo and screwpln* with a
palm tn,atch whose wide eaves
threw black shadows. Inside hero! All right. But don t drop
were two changing rooms la-
beled HIS and HERS. HERS
contained a small pile of soft
clothes and white doeskin san-
dals. Bond changed and walked
out again into the sun.
The small beach was a dazz-
ling naif-moon ot white sand
enclosed on both sides by rocky
points. There was no sign of
the girl. The beach shelved
quickly through green to blue
under the water. Bond took a
few steps through the shallows
and dived through the blood-
warm upper water down Into
the cool depths.
He kepi down there as long
as possible, feeling the wonder-
ful cold caress on his sldr and
through his hair. Then he sur-
faced and crawled lazily out to
sea expecting to see the girl
skin-diving around one of the
headlands. But there was no
sign of her, and after ten min-
ute; Bond turned back to the
shore, chose a patch of firm
sand, and lay down oa hls stom-
ach, his face cradled In his
arms.
' • • •
l\/IINUTES later, something
I Vi made Bond open his eyes.
Coming toward him across the
middle of the quiet bay was a
thin trail ot bubbles. When lt
passed over the dark blue Into
the green Bond could see the
yellow single cylinder of the
aqualung tank and the glint of
a mask with a fan of dark hair
streaming out behind. The girl
beached herself In the shallows.
She raised herself on one elbow
and lifted the mask. She said
severely, “Don’t lie there dream-
ing. Come and rescue me."
Bond got to his feet and
walked the few steps to where
she lay. “You oughtn’t to aqua-
lung by yourself. What’s hap-
pened ? Has a shark been lunch-
ing off you?”
“Don’t make silly jokes. I’ve
got some sea-egg spines In my
foot You’ll have to get Ahem
out somehow. First of all get
th>« aqualung off me. It hurts
too much to stand on my foot
with all this weight” She
reached for the buckle at her
stomach and released the catch.
“Now Just lift lt off."
Bond did as he was told and
carried the cylinder up Into the
shade of the trees. Now she
was sitting In the shallow
water, inspecting the sole of her
right foot She said, "There are
only two of them. They're go-
ing to be difficult”
Bond came and knelt beside
her. The two black spots, close
curl of the middle toes. He ge*
up and held out a hand. “Come
on. Well get Into the ahade.
This is going to take time.
Don’t put your foot down or
you’ll push them in further. I'll
carry you.”
She laughed up at him. “My
me.” She held up both arms.
Bond reached down and put one
arm under her knees and an-
other under her armpits. Her
arms closed -ound his neck. Bond
picked her up easily. He stood
for a moment in the lapping
water and looked down into her
upturned face. The bright eyes
said yes. He bent his head and
kissed her hard on the mouth.
The soft Ups moved slowly
away. She said rather breath-
lessly, “You shouldn't take your
reward In advance.”
“That was only on account"
Bond walked out of the water
and up the beach into the shade
of the casuarinaa. He put her
down gently In the soft sand,
then knelt down and picked up
her -ight toot He wiped away
the specks of sand and uncurled
the toes. Holding them back,
he bent and put hls Ups to
where the broken ends of the
black spines showed. He sucked
hard for about a minute. A
small piece of grit from one of
the spines came into his mouth
and be spat it out
He said, “This is going to be
a long business unless I hurt
a bit Otherwise It’ll take all
day and 1 can’t waste too much
time over Just one foot
Ready?”
She said dreamily, “Yea."
Bond sunk his teeth Into the
flesh round the spines, bit aa
softly as he could, and sucked
hard. The foot struggled to get
away. Bond paused to spit out
some fragments. The marks of
hls teeth showed white and
there were pinpoints of blood
at the two tiny holes. There
was almost no black left under
the skin. He said, “This is the
first time I’ve eaten a woman.
They’re rather good."
She squirmed impatiently but
said nothing.
Bond knew how much tt
would be hurting. He said, “It’s
all right, Domino. You're doing
fine. Last mouthful." He gave
the sole ot her foot a reassur-
ing kiss and then, as tenderly
as he could, put his teeth and
Ups back tr work.
A minute or two later and
he spat out the last section ot
spine. He told her tt was over
and gently laid the foot down.
He said, “Now you mustn’t get
imuA Into lt Come on. I’ll give
you another lift into the hut and
you can put your sandals on.”
Her Hack eyelashes were wet
with the tears ot small pain.
She wiped a hand over them.
She said, looking serloualy up
at him, “Do you know, you’re
Kmle Kevocs
A great guy—
that's all!
her. me two dutch sputa, uuoc «•«. — - — -----■ -
together, were almost under the the tint man who’s ever made
me cry.”
ker teeth
out be-
ta a short
ril hate you. I
hate'yen. l'hate you.’" The
story
irnboo and screwpine with a carry you.
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Q 1961 by Glldroae Production*. Ltd. Distributed by Klag Feature* Synd ____
had wrapped hi* car around a pole in Call
fomla and that for him, was it
I knew him only
than I would have for some other* I ve knovrn
for^m^yyS". th® f^iooj Huniarimi
and hi* omnipresent cigar were auc* *
of the Manhattan scene that it waahMfl **
locals to understand that Ernie no longer wa.
a New Yorker. But *o It was, At the end,
"5 & h.s i-sJStfKS
TiSS*-»*«*£* “
decided there wasn’t any sense in doing tl $ y
went all the way and became a Movie SUrin spade*
Except, I’d like to bet a buck or two he did It with tongue in
cheek. ,
r tttrst HEARD OF ERNIE BY MISTAKE. Someone told
me ™ fn my TV »et in the morning and watch Garroway
and lafter five mtoutes of that, I yawned and wondered if any
other stations were on. Lo and behold—there was o\ ’
rjis-
you complete with jokes. Show people, generally, just don t do
that. They read the column and then say to their press agents,
“He spelled the name of my last movie wrong.
I saw Ernie and his charming Edie a couple of times after
that. Once, I remember, I was taken on the grand tour of the
whoop-te-do apartment they had on Central lark West. It was
all very elegant, with delighted, childish cries of Hey, looka
what we got here! The livin’ end, hey?” *
* • * *
AS FAR AS I CAN MAKE OUT, from experience and re-
search, Ernie was one of the big men, philosophically, spiritually
and materially. A movie starlet I knew, who later marr ed a
big-name actor, once needed an operatic#. The starlet, who knew
Kovacs only slightly, phoned him and said she needed $500.
“Sure,” he said, “I’ll have it to you in an hour. W hich he did.
Without asking what the 5 C’s were for.
Ernie was a nonsense comic. There have been a handful of
them over the seasons—Col. Stoopnagle and Budd, Bob and Ray,
the Marx brothers—and only a couple of them ever made it
large, as they say bi Lindy’s. Nonsense is a rarified commodity
and not too many persons understand it. Mine is a twisted mind
and so it fell right in accord with what Ernie was doing on TV
end elsewhere. , , < .
Everybody didn’t think he was so great When you find any-
one with no detractors, you usually find a lemon. A TV star I
know and whose opinion, I respect completely, says she audi-
tioned him for a program once and found him to be one of the
rudest, most arrogant miserable men she ever met. Maybe so.
I’ve always suspected that he was putting her on, playing a part
for her with his dead-pan, and she didn’t get it
Well, here I am at the end ... and it’s the same as always.
When you try to say about someone special, look this was a
great guy, the words are not on the typewriter keys and the
result isn’t what you wanted. Suppose I iust say Ernie Kovac*
great guy and let it go at that. ■
was a
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