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Page 4, Taylor Daily Press, Sunday, June 25, 1961
tPje tEapIor * The Washington Merry-Go-Round
By DREW PEARSON
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Bermuda
Answer to Previous Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Bermuda’s 360
small islands
are of--
formation
6 It has a —hi
governor
11 Relishes
13 Bullfighter \
14 It is the-*
self-governing
British colony
15 Vexed
16 New Guinea
port
17 Engages
19 American,\
writer
20 Absolute rulers
22 Perforation
25 Harden
26 Wicked
30 Baking chamber
31 Complication
32 Conduct
33 Greek portico
34 Shield bearing
35 Ventilate
38 Lampreys
39 Transmits
42 Wine vessel
45 Lariat
46 Green vegetable
.49 Enclosure
51 Inset
53 Enclose
54 Bear witness
55 Idaho
56 Bargain events
DOWN
1 Indifferent
2 Palm leaf
3 Be borne
4 Hail!
5 Slavic sylvan
spirit
6 Perch
7 Boundary
(comb, form)
8 Sharp cry
9 Martian
(comb, form) 35 Old-womanish
10 Mineral vein 36 Girl’s name
12 Mixes 37 Networks
13 English rivet 40 Expunge
18 Sailyard 41 Raves
20 Delicate 42 High cards
21 Mental faculties 43 Mountain (Ft.J
22 Philippine knife 44 Reliquary
23 Above 46 Fruit skin
24 Genuine 47 Gaelic
27 Ballot 48 Attorneys (ab.)
28 False god 50 Rodent ,
29 Meadows 52 Depot (ab.)
10 and 20
Years Ago
1® YEARS AGO
Seamen back to work on West
coast.
Haverlands hold family reunion.
League of Women Voters give
seated tea Wednesday.
Hutto Bible School closes.
Rat causes power trouble in
Killeen.
Thorndale Baptists open Bible
School.
Little League Majors to play
tonight.
Stock market falls back.
20 YEARS AGO
Henry Marek is promoted in
medical division.
Dan Moody will cast vote of
Gerald C. Mann.
Local draft board is examining
men for future calls.
Young people in charge of
Methodist program.
Raymond Knauth, Granger serv-
iceman, returns to Texas.
Germans push deeper into Rus-
sia.
Mayor Miller of Austin to speak
at Johnson rally.
Happy Birthday
Greetings of “Happy Birthday”
are being extended to the follow-
ing birthday celebrants:
Mrs. Louis W. Hartmann. A. F.
£ Priesmeyer, Mrs. Fred Owen Jr.
And to those who celebrated
their birthday Saturday: Deborah
Klaus, Myrtle Kaatz, Mrs. L. F
Wolf, Mrs. Ida Meiske, Linda
Lois Stoll, Mrs. Geo. A. Latham,
Frank Hejl.
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JOB LOSSES HIGH
MEXICO CITY (if) — Dele-
gates to the National Council for
Prevention of Accidents were told
that 1,647,016 workers lost time
from their jobs last year because
of injuries.
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Mr. Merchant: Your Taylor
Daily Press ad man has your
master plan for more results from
advertising.
Most Powerful
Station Opened
CUTLER, Maine (!) — The Na-
vy dedicated a new radio 'sta-
tion, the most powerful low fre-
quency station in the world, and
assigned it the call. letters
“NAA”—which for years was
known the world over as the iden-
tity of the Navy’s pioneer radio
Station at Arlington, Va.
The dedication speaker was
Rear Adim. Frank Virden, direc-
tor of naval communications.
Adm. Virden said it is only fit-
ting that the new $70 million fa-
cility is at Cutler, near where a
poorly armed lumber schooner 186
years ago engaged the British
cutter Margaretta, and scored the
first American naval victory of
the Revolutionary War.
The new station, which covers
a 3,000-acre site .will be able to
communicate with ships and air-
planes anywhere in the world,
and even with the deep diving
atomic powered new submarines
under the seas.
It is the basic home radio tie
for the fleet of Polaris missile
submarines.
WASHINGTON — Democratic
senators always close the door
on their party caucuses, and the
minutes are kept so secret that
senators themselves are some-
times refused permission to ex
amine them.
When battling Bill Proxmire of
Wisconsin sent for the secret
minutes recently, the messenger
delivering them was intercepted
and ordered to return them tc
the locked files.
Tire order was issued by no
less than Vice President Lyndon
Johnson, who first insisted that
Proxmire needed permission of
the Democratic caucus to see the
minutes, but finally agreed to let
him go to the files and thumb
through the minute's in the pres-
ence of Senate officials.
Despite all this secrecy, this
column has inspected the minutes
of the 20 Democratic caucuses
held during the past decade. The
record contains few statesman-
like debates, very little discuss-
ion befitting the world’s most de-
liberative body.
What Proxmire wanted to see
was the record of the Jan. 7, 1961,
caucus at which the Democratic
senators debated whether they
should meet together more often.
Here are highlights from the
minutes that Proxmire had so
much trouble getting to see:
“Senator Clark of Pennsylvan-
ia offered a resolution stating
that the Senate Democratic con-
ference shoult meet at least once
every two weeks or upon the re-
quest of 15 Democratic senators
... He offered the motion be-
cause he thought frequent con-
ferences would help to find ‘com-
mon ground’ for many of the
problems upon which the Demo
crats were divided . . .
“Chairman Johnson pointed out
that frequently it is difficult to
bring members to a meeting. ‘1
can't assure anybody that we
would be able to get a majority
of the majority to a conference
once the session gets under way
and we are hard-pressed for
time,’ Chairman Johnson said.
To Meet or Not to Meet?
“Senator Humphrey of Minne-
sota said he would like to see
Senator Clark’s resolution amend-
ed so that the two weeks’ per-
iod ‘would be just a guidline and
that the important thing be the
periodic meetings. If one senator
wants a conference, there is no
reason that every colleague1 should
jump to and attend it.’
“Senator Smathers of Florida
asked Senator Clark how many
senators would have to be pres-
ent for a conference to be offi-
cial . . . Senator Clark replied
that there was no proposal to
make conferences binding. ‘Then
it would be just a little Coke
meeting,’ Senator Smathers said.
“Senator Jackson of Washing-
ton said there is an existing pro-
cedure whereby the chairman of
the conference can entertain a
request for a conference. He
said that he thought ‘it would
look better if we didn’t have a
motion and if the chairman would
assure the members that we
meet once a month.’
“Senator Clark said that if the
chairman would agree to Senator
Jackson’s suggestion, he would
be glad to withdraw his motion.
Chairman Johnson replied that ‘I
would rather have you fellows
settle it.’
‘“I am of the opinion that the
resolution offered by the senator
from Pennsylvania is completely
impractical,’ said Senator Russell
of Georgia. ‘It would destroy the
conference system after the sec-
ond week. Unless senators arc
much more loyal to the Demo
cratic party organization than
they are to the organization of
the Senate, you wouldn’t have
any attendance at all.’
“Senator Pastore of Rhode Is-
land announced that he was op-
posed to Senator Clark’s motion
because he didn’t think it was
necessary. ‘The motion Itself, if
it comes to a vote, will prove di-
vision in our party,’ Senator Pas-
tore said. ‘Let’s do away with
this nonsense of taking a vote.’
Solidarity vs. Disunity
“Senator Clark protested that
‘there is no criticism of the lead
ership in my heart and mind.
Senator Pastore said he was not
saying that. Ha said that if cau-
cuses were to mean anything,
they would have to be binding.
And you can’t do that in the
Senate of the United States.’ He
said the motion ‘won’t prove soli-
darity; it would only prove dis-
unity.’
“Senator Holland of Florida
stated that he agreed with Sen-
ator Pastore. ‘Any action we take
would be interpreted in every
section of this country as a re-
buff to the majority leader,’ Sen-
ator Holland said. ‘I don’t want
to see a leadership disrupted
that has worked out more unity
than anybody ever dreamed of.’
He pointed out that when the
caucus question was discussed
last year on the Senate floor,
it got ‘more headlines than all
the work that we did.’
“Senator Douglas observed that
there are one or two subjects
‘where a conference would in-
crease divisiveness.’ But he said
there were others where he
thought a conference could re-
solve differences.
“Chairman Johnson said that he
was willing ‘to do anything that
this conference wants to do with
itself.’ He said ihat his policy
was now, always had been, that:
(1) He would call a conference
whenever he or any member cl
the leadership through! that any-
thing could be gained, cr (2) He
would call a conference ‘when any
senator wants his colleagues to
hear him on any subject. If a ma
jority wants to have periodic con
ferences, let them so indicate and
I will go along,’ Chairman John
son said.
Don’t Ape the GOP
“Senator Douglas replied that
‘a senator feels very presumptu
ous to have 65 members called
into conference at his sole re-
quest.’ Douglas said that ‘our
Republican friends have caucus-
es every week. I think it would
be helpful to haVe conferences
inside our party.’
“Senator Chavez of New Mex-
ico took the floor and said, ‘The
Republicans have a conference
once a week and look where they
are. We Democrats can disagree
If we agreed all the time, w£
would be Republicans. We can
lik^ the Republicans but not by
having a conference every other
day. I will vote as I damn please
no matter what you do here, and
that is what each one of you is
IT OCCURS TO ME
THE QUESTION IS
HOW DO WE FEEL?
By LIN MILLS
Taylor Press News Editor
HOW TAYLOR officials and
citizens in general really feel
about federal housing projects,
like the one we have in South
Taylor, has puzzled me for a
long time.
But the way I interpret the
new federal housing bill, which
has passed both houses and
which Kennedy is certain to
sign, the government has all
but asked Taylor (and a lot
of other places) to construct
another project.
The bill includes money for
100,000 additional public housing
units.
Apparently Taylor would
have little trouble getting an
additional housing project, if
an effort were made.
First let me quote a few
paragraphs from the report of
the August 1958 meeting of the
city commission:
“The Housing Authority will
investigate the possibility of a
second low-cost public housing
project for Taylor.
“City commissioners request-
ed the Authority to make the
investigation and to submit re-
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“Senator Gore of Tennessee said
he regretted tthe fact that the
majority leader had stated that
he would call a conference when-
ever any senator ‘wants his col-
leagues to hear him on any sub-
ject.’ He said he thought con-
ferences should be called in order
to try to get an over-all approach
to legislation. ‘Some of us not
in the inner circle feel left out,”
Senator Gore said.
“Senator Humphrey took the
floor and said he wanted it clear-
ly understood that ‘the leader has
had no criticism from me either
privately or publicly, but he has
had criticism on the subject of
conferences.’ He said he thought
it would be better to have confer-
ences than to have1 different
groups of senators holding cau-
cuses on their own.”
In the end, the caucus policy
was not changed. In the end,
the proposal of biweekly caucuses
was turned down. The Democratic
process of the Democratic party
continues to be directed by one
man—this year by Sen. Mike
Mansfield of Montana.
(Copyright, 1961, by The Bell
Syndicate)
quests to the Federal Housing
Authority.
“Taylor’s 70-unit South Tay-
lor project was built in 1951.
At the time two projects were
discussed. The second project,
if it materializes, would be in
a different area of the city.”
Later, in May of 1959, The
Press ran a survey, asking city
commissioners and housing
board officials what they thought
about the situation.
They stated they favor with
reservations an investigation in-
to the possibility of a second
federal housing project for Tay-
lor.
The five housing board mem-
bers signed the same letter ad-
dressed to The Press stating:
“We are neither for or against
a low rent housing project for
Taylor, as this board is only
concerned with the present hous-
ing facilities.-
“We favor an investigation of
a second low-rent housing pro-
ject if the City of Taylor is
willing to provide the funds
and personnel to make same,
and if it is the desire of the
citizens of Taylor.”
Four of the city commission-
ers, including Mayor R. E. Koll-
man, said they definitely fav-
ored an investigation. The fifth
commissioner, F. E. Holman,
said he had no pre-conceived
conclusions on the matter.
Mayor Kollman said he fav-
ored a second project if needed.
The basic philosophy of the
party in power seems to be to
spend lots of money for this
kind of work to keep the econ-
omy going in high gear.
The question is what is our
philosophy here in Taylor.
HAD AN OPPORTUNITY to
hear the new First Baptist
preacher, the Rev. Paul Powell,
at the Lions meeting Friday.
A most dynamic, a most pow-
erful and inspiring speaker...
THE THREE-YEAR-OLD boy
cried bitterly when a large
friendly dog. bounded up to him
and licked his hand and lace.
“What is it?” asked bis moth-
er. “Did he bite you?”
“No,” came the reply, “but
he tasted me.”
OUR ROAD BUILDERS might
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An irate chief engineer, in-
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The PRAYER
For Today From
The UPPER ROOM
Herein is my Father glori-
fied, that ye bear much fruit;
so shall ye be1 my disciples.
(John 15:8)
PRAYER: O God, grant us a
greater measure of Thy power
and Thy spirit that we may be
more Christlike in spirit and
act. Help us to proclaim Thy
blessed Son as the only solu-
tion for the world’s problems.
We ask in His name1. Amen.
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