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Founded in 1891
Manager-Editor ..........................................................
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Staff Writers: Gene Nowlin. Editorial Assistant:
Society Editor: Xada Wilson. Reporter.
Charles E. Gentry
..... Wayne Gentry
Mary H Gentry.
Pace 2
Monday, March 3, 1958
Absolution for Murder
"With ready made opinions one cannot
judge crime. Its philosophy is a little more
complicated than people think. It is ack-
nowledged that neither convict prisons, nor
the hulks, nor an> system of hard labor ever
cured a criminal."
—Feodor Dostoevsky, 1882.
Nathan Leopold Jr. was granted a parole
after 33 years in the Illinois State Prison and
thus ended his epic attempts to gain freedom,
from a life sentence for the senseless thrill slay-
ing of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in Chic-
ago in 1924 Leopold and his best pal Richard
Loeb probably would have commited the "per-
fect crime" except for the fact that Leopold lost
his eyeglasses near the spot when Franks' body
was hidden The two perverts were spared the
death penalty because of their age. but ironi-
cally Loeb was stabbed to death by a fellow
inmate in 1936.
I^eopold. regarded as a mental genius, first
gained hope for parole as a result of his volun-
teer work as a malaria ‘guinea pig" during
World War II Is parole warranted'.’ There are
those who feel that his crime was too horrible
for expiration even to be given Others feel that
every man of God through penitence should gain
a chance for redemption. Leopold stressed the
torment of his own conscience in asking for
mercy that he did not show others. Said he, "Give
me the chance to justify my existence." There
are those who ask what chance young Franks
had to justify his tenure on earth.
In contradistinction to this view. Carl Sand-
berg. the poet, who championed the parole said.
Those opposed to freeing Leopold are those who
believe in revenge, the human stuff of which
mobs are made.” To which we say. "Can murder
and the violation of our constitutional laws be
condoned ’" Yet we are not proponents of these
that the Christian doctrines do not apply to all
men. Our Christianity teaches that there is com-
passion and forgiveness for all sinners who seek
it.
Leopold has demonstrated his penitence and
said that he would seek some "quiet corner
where I can sink from sight and atone for my
crime through service to others." In the parole
board's judgement he deserves another chance.
Who is to dispute the sagacity of this decision-’
If ‘Taint One Thing, It’s Another
Americans live a very luxurious and comfort-
able life—a fact that is magnified when our
present living conditions are compared to those
cf our forefather^ We have so many con-
venience- which aid us in our everyday detail of
our life- in the home on the job and even social-
ly
We live a more serene and safer life, thanks
to remarkable advances in medicine. Many of
the killing diseases are being brought under con-
trol and there is encouragement that others,
such as cancer and cardiac conditions, will some-
day be conquered. Our average lifespan has been
increased to 66 years.
However, it is not all rosy. Although we are
removing some of the most vicious killers, others
are concurrently cropping up. One of these new
threats to health and well-being arises from the
radioactive by-products of atomic bombs—as
discussed in a recent editorial on radioactive
strontium 90 in these* columns. Even in com-
mercial • uses of radioactive materials there is
increased-danger being added to our everyday
h\mg. This is due to accidents and inadequate
handling precautions of radioactive materials.
Here are some of the accidents that add hazards
to hunaan life:
It was necessary to decontaminate and move
a chemical plant from the heart of Manhattan
which was found to be spewing radioactive gas
into the air. Canisters prepared for disposal of
atomic wastes at sea escaped, drifted for hours
and had to be sunk by gunfire Radioactive iodine
escaped from a plutonium pile at an atomic
station in Britain and got into the milk of near-
by dairy Heards. An air-to-air guided missile got
loose from a hanger in Long Island last week,
shot thousands of feet into the air and then
dropped into somebody’s back yard. Its highly
sensitive wathead fell off and could not be
found
FORGOTTEN facts
TEX TEAKS AGO
Mr. and Mrs. J. II Stevens of
Bryan were visitors in Ennis
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E R Williams
were visitors in Dallas for the
day.
Mrs. Fay Nutt and guest. Mrs
Sable of Galveston, have arrived
for a visit in the home of Mrs.
Nutt’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. O.
M. Davis.
Mrs. Needham Horner of
Uvalde, is a guest in the home
of her parents, Mr. and Mrs M
D. Glaspy.
A son. Stephen Everett was
born in Los Angeles. California,
to Mr. and Mrs. Chase Craig.
25 YEARS AGGO
Mrs. Houston Maupin and
daughter. Jean, have arrived for
a few days visit in the home of
Mrs. J. E. Gilcreest.
Mr. and Mrs. G W. Backus of
Vernon were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W W. McCall for a few
days Mr. Backus was a democra-
tic candidate for congress in the
Thirteenth District of Texas
last summer and was defeated
by only a few votes.'
Mr. and Mrs. J C. Brokan of
Denver. Colorado are guests in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. j, Ray.
The Willis-Knight sedan be-
longing to K R Kmg was badly
damaged by fire Tuesday after-
noon at tile home. 402 West
Tyler. The engine became ignit-
ed when Mrs. King started to
car to go to town.
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Therc was the vivid demonstration on the TV
show The Twentieth Century" depicting how
Houston was put into near hysteria as several
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON. D. C. March my picture taken with Republi-
, ... , 3.—Veteran GOP Reprosenta- can leaders and Democratic
families were contaminated with radioactive tive Clarence Brown of Ohio was leaders,
iridium through ineffective handling in labora-
tory there Nuclear energy with its potential
benefits for our use could at the same time be-
come an ominous killer if we are negligent in
obeying the safe rules of handling it. There can
be dire consequences if the slightest slip is made
in the application of nuclear energy for peace-
ful as well as war purposes We cannot fall asleep the rich oilmen down there,
at the wheel. hadn’t w-ritten that letter prais-
~V* ——- jng j-jjm ff,r his support of the
Opinions natural gas bill," said Brown
______________„ ■ - ■ ____ ~Sam. it wouldn't surprrsr'Vrr if
James and Annette Baxter, on Elvis Presley you yourself ghosted that letter
tin "Harper’s"): "Admonished that there were to embarrass us Republicans."
those who found his hipswiveling offensive. Rayburn—who has done
Elvis is said to have replied, T never made no much for all the people but has
dirty body movements.’ And this is believable; a weak spot for the gas bill.
Elvis moves as the spirit moves him; it all comes stared dubiously at Brown for
naturally. Hormones flow1 in him as serenely as a moment—then broke into a
the Mississippi past Memphis, and the offense grin:
lies in the eye of the beholder, not in Elvis’ in- "You know. Clarence." he
tentions." said, "it hurts my pride to think
This reminds us of the observation: “The best that the letter came from Tex-
way to hold liquor is in a bottle." —Ed. as."
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If that doesin’t ruin
joshing Speaker Sam Rayburn of them politically they're bomb-
Te.xas about the $100,000 Tex- proof!"
as oil dinner for Ex-Speaker Joe MERRY-GO-ROUND
Martin. Last week Senaotr Gore of
"Everything would have been Tennessee bet $50 that Senator
all right if Jack Porter, one of Harry Byrd of Virginia would
run for the Senate despite his
earlier refusal. Gore won. Reas-
on for his bet was Iremendous
big-business pressure on Bvrd to
keep him on (heiumate Fimuw^v
Committee which helps write
the tax laws of the nation. Busi-
ness didn’t want Bible-quoting
Senator Bob Kerr of Oklahoma
to head up this key committee.
Some of the Floridians who fi-
nanced handsome Senat o r
George Smut hers in his double-
cross race against his old friend.
Ex-Senator Claude Pepper—are
now ready to put money on
Pepper to run for the Senate
again. . . . Senator W a y n o
MUSICIAN Morse's resolution for a full
It took the Polish Embassy to Senate probe of the regulatory
let the Nation's Capital know agencies has been referred to
about one of America's budding the committee head by Sena-
young musician—-Sidney Harth. tor Manguson of Washington
Louisville. Ky , violinist of Woshington. who two years
At the Embassy ihe other eve- ago was given $250,000 to inves-
ning. Mrs. Aiben Barkley, wid- tigate the FCC. "Maggie" spent
ow of the late great Vice Presi- the money, but didn't find even
dent, joined a group of ambassa- one of the glaring scandals now
dors and distinguished guests to hitting the headlines. . . . For
listen to young Harth- a mem- years the big network execs
her of the Louisville Symphony have been bragging that Con-
who went to Poland last summer gross would never investigate
and managed to place second in them and the FCC. Magnuson. a
the annual Polish violin compe- fine Senator 99 per cent of tie
Young Republicans came up to
tell him:
"Isn't this bad for the coun-
try for you to talk about a re-
cession? Don't you Uiink y o u
are destroying faith in govern-
ment officials when you criti-
cize Secretary Benson?"
Someone came by at that
moment with a copy of the aft-
ernoon paper. It carried b i g
headlines quoting a group of
Republican Congressmen that
! roLiyjUiuh'Uvt'r muM-get -wd of-
Benson. Brannan a Democrat,
lianded 'he paper to the Repub-
lican chairman. He said no
more.
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George Timmons figures he an-
swers 91.000 questions a year.
Timmons works at Ihe U S.
Courthouse here and is the first
man people see when entering
the building.
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Members of the Louisville
Symphony Orchestra had
enough confidence in Harth’s
ability to raise the money to
send him to Poland. There he
had to compete against some of
time—has a weak spot re TV.
He owns part of a station in
Seattle and CBS was very quick
once it got a TV license. . . Dean
Acheson. introducing Truman at
the bi-partisan foreign aid din-
ner, said: "He annoys people
the most noted young musicians w hom we like to annoy ".. .
of England. France. Germany. Introducing his wife, the Ex-Sec-
Italy. Russia and the Iron Cur- retary of State said: "She h a s
tain countries. It was a people-
t-o-people gesture which should
be emulated in this country.
As Harth played in the Polish
late Igance Paderewski, first
borne more trouble than any-
one I know— mv wife. Mrs. Dean
Acheson" (Before Acheson
made Ins famous "I will not turn
my back on Alger Hiss" state-
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NO TYPE—One of the hot-
test personalities »m Holly-
wood's song horizon is 22-year-
old Johnny Mathis, unknown a
year and a half ago except to a
coterie of Mathis fans who
jammed a small San Francisco
night club to hear him. Colum-
bia issued a record of his j.r/z.
songs—and typed him as a jazz
singer. Johnny squawked that
he could "sing anything" and
proved it with a tender ballad
in the movie "Lizzie.” Now
they’re talking about Johnny in
terms of Nat King Cole and
Frank Sinatra.'
night discussing with his wife
wdiother he should defend an old
friend.)
president o ft he Polish Republic ment. he slaved up most of tin*
and one of the most noted pian-
ists of modern times, looked
down from over the piano.
Young Harth. finishing h i s
concert, caught a late plane for
Louisville to rehearse with his
orchestra. He was acclaimed in
DIPLOMATIC PIPELINE
Raymond Hare, the American
ambassador to Egypt - has
,, . . ... . ... . warned that the Egyptian-Syrian
Europe. Louisville, and Wash- union has the support of j h e
SWITCH — S h a p e I v movie
actress Barbara Nichols has
boon called Hollywood’s Cheese-
cake Queen, but in her now film
she’s deserting revealing cos-
tumes like that above. In "The
Naked and the Dead,” she plays
Aide Ray’s unfaithful wife,
garbed in cheap cotton dress
with messed-up hair and gen-
ii.illy frowsy look.
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won’t give him a chance on the
general concert stage.
FOES AND ENEMIES
At the big bi-partisan foreign corning Glass
aid luncheon. Republican lead- j)as brushed
the
Arab people, whereas the new
Iraqi-Jordan merger does not.
The latter was put across by
kings, not the people. . . . U. S.
Envoy Amory Houghton, the big
manufacturer,
up on his French
has
ers were jovial with the Ex- and has become an effective
President whom they used to ambassador It was mainlv be-
pillory and who had castigated cause „f Houghton's persuasive-
them politically onlv two days t»nss that the French agreed to
before It was a political scene let the t’SA mediate with Tu-
nisia. Meeting three separate
times, with Premier Gaillard -
Houghton finally convinced him
it was the only way to avert real
lighting at BizereU*
many
you don't witness
countries
After Senator Knowland of
California and Senator Alex
Wiley of Wisconsin. Republicans
posed with Harry Truman and
Ex-Secretary of Slat** Acheson.
Wiley remarked privately ' I’ve
just had niv picture taken with
Acheson and Truman I guess
we might all uist as well go to
hell together ’’
Mr Truman speaking pub
Rely later said I vu ju*t had
BENSON CRITIC ISM
Charlie Brannan Fx • Secre-
tary of Agriculture recently
spoke in Grc.it Falls Montana
before a Fanners t mori meet
mg lie was not laudatory ot Ins
aiicceaior. K/ra Taft Benson
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Gentry, Charles E. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1958, newspaper, March 3, 1958; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth786224/m1/2/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ennis Public Library.