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fffbanmt faila HENRY WILDER, Publisher, 1949-1962 Published Daily Except Sundays By LEBANON NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY South 8th Poplar Lebanon, 17042, Penna. Phone Lebanon 272-5611 JOSEPH SANSONE Co-FublUter ADAM S. WILDER Haiuiinc Editor, Co-Publisher ARBELYN WILDER SANSONE President Editor JACK SCHROPP Vice-President and General MARY JANE WILDER Secretary ROSEMARY L. SCHROPP Treasurer SAMUEL D. EVANS Advertising Director Second Postage Paid at Lebanon, Pa.

Lehiioi Dilly News delivered by carrier forty-tw. weekly I I21.M annually i by mall. tZIM anMiUy UNITED PRESS SERVICE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ainaclaled Is exclusively rnlltled to IH republleallaa all printed In this MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OP CIRCULATIONS, AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, BUREAU OF ADVERTISING Writhings Of Red Snake Rumania has joined the little league of the Communist world, heretofore peopled exclusively by tiny Albania, by daring to publicly criticize the Soviet Union on some of its ideological differences with Red China. To be explicit, Rumania really didn't offer any new criticisms of its own. All it did was reprint a letter from Peking listing areas of contention it wants the Kremlin to clear up.

Publicizing the Chinese demands was forbidden by the old table pounder, Khrushchev, and Rumania's refusal to listen was something of a new plateau in satellite journalism. Of course, in this latest exhibition of Iron Curtain power politics, westerners should never forget that the only real difference between Peking and Moscow is over how soon and by what methods the capitalist world should be annihilated. But this is not the first time Rumania has publicly shown dissatisfaction with its close Kremlin ties. The government of party chief and president, Gheorghe Gheorghiu- Dej, has complained at various times of carrying too large a load of economic contributions tinder Comecon, the Moscow- controlled Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. Only a few weeks ago, a Kremlin delegation headed by Presidium member Nikolai Podgorny met with the Rumanian president at Bucharest in an attempt to work out an amicable settlement.

Whatever interpretations westerners would like to give the distant rumblings from the habitat of the enslaved half of the world, would be a mistake to read too much into Communist world differences. Even Tito, who makes a grandstand play against Kremlin control of his country every once in a while, manages to collect hi's share of Moscow tributes to go with his bountiful American aid. Rumania has no more thought of striking out on its own than it does of returning to a freely elected government. It just doesn't quite believe all that Marx jazz about from each according to his ability, to each according "to his need. Rumania happens to be the most prosperous Iron Curtain country.

Supporting Cast Leaves What was expected to culminate in a Moscow version of a king-size Chinese firecracker wound up as little more than a pop from a vodka bottle, as the Russo-Sino ideological debate" ended. Spectators who chose front seats on the world stage in obvious anticipation of a long, drawn-out battle were disappointed. The West will be surprised to learn from the Red Chinese that Khrushchev has sold out to the imperialists, but don't believe it. The scenario resembles the opening scene for a new wave of let's-all-befriends air wafting from the Kremlin just in case the West might be in a compromising mood. Like the fare on summer TV, the plot is a rerun.

is It Hot Enough? The man with a flexible schedule will doubtless substitute one chore for another on those hot humid flays of summer through which we must stagger. For most of us, however, life will somehow have to on until a change in the weather hints that heat and the temperature-humidity index may be largely a state of mind. There are 'pursuits to be pursued, shirts to be starched, and 'burgers to be barbecued, but if we keep temper down, ice cube supply up, and everything else neither down nor up we'll get by. There are some things one can do to make the heat more bearable. He should dress comfortably, avoiding the garrote- style collar if boss, wife, and maitre-d'hotel will permit.

He should expose himself to the sun with discretion, eat with rigid regard for his wilted pipes, drink whatever he drinks in moderation, avoid arguments calculated to blow the top, and be humane to the kids. In other activities, including work, he should take it as easy as possible without jeopardizing seniority or pension. And if you should chance to meet a certain editorial writer some hot, sticky day, please refrain from this greeting: "Is it hot enough for you?" The Whole Story President Kennedy has announced that the government's red ink spending in the fiscal year just ended was a whopping $2.6 billion less than he figured six months ago that it was going to be. Mr. Kennedy smiled.

There was great joy in the land. For six months ago he had indeed forecast that the deficit was to be something over $8 billion. What President Kennedy did not say, however, is that a year earlier he had forecast a "modest surplus" of $463 million for the same period and missed the mark by $6 billion of the taxpayers' money. PUBLIC FORUM THE NEWS reserves the right to reject or condense. Contributions must be signed with, names and addresses of writers.

Names will not be used or revealed' if so requested. This paper assumes no responsibility for state- in tnts made in this column. Communications must be limited to 400 words. Use one side of paper only and double tpace. WONDERFUL TREATMENT Editor, Daily NEWS: On June 29 my family, a pas- lenger and I were victims of an accident on Route 22.

We were brought to the Good Samaritan Hospital treatment, as strangers In town and with very limited funds. We received excellent care at the emergency ward and sympathetic concern of the attending doctor and nurse about the overnight accommodation. The owner of the Lebanon Hotel has given us reduced rates, so as to, leave us enough money to get home lo Washington, D. C. Special thanks are due to the hospital switchboard operator who called many places to assure the least expensive accommodation.

But we are most grateful to your reporter, Mrs. Ada Plush, who has taken a personal interest in all of us, came late at night to the hotel to bring food and milk for the children and even offered to drive us to Lancaster where we could take a train home. We are sure you will' be glad to know that you have such a kind person as a member of your staff. We are most grateful to all those people (even if we don't know their names) and pray that God reward them for their kindness. Sincerely yours, Alexander Hoshovsky and Family HUMANE SLAUGHTER Editor, Daily NEWS: Please print this in your "Letters of your daily paper in time to be effective, before the State Legislature adjourns.

Please in the name of mercy, contact your district state senator and Sen. Albert E. Madigan, ask- irig them to bring Printer's Number 1468, The Humane Slaughter Bill to the floor for a vote and asking them to pass it without Section 3, during this session. Time is of the essence, please do it now. Address to: Senate Post Office, Harrisburg, Pa.

Sincerely, Charles Kattera Labor Hodges Has Plan To Boost Employment By VICTOR RIESEL So quiet spoken and self-effacing is Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges that few are aware that he has succeeded Arthur Goldberg as chairman of the President's Labor Management Advisory Committee. As such he has directed important studies of joblessness, 1 a peace, automation and the genera! economic health of the nation. "Does he have a solution for the growing unemployment?" I asked him. Here is his answer: By LUTHER H. HODGES Secretary of Commerce of the United States WASHINGTON, D.

C. Unemployment is an urgent social and economic problem in the United States today, and it should be- just as much a concern of business as of labor. Despite our relative national prosperity and our record total of 68 million workers productively employed, there is still much human privation, frustration, and even despair reflected in an unemployment rate that has persisted at 5 per cent or more for the last five years. This human cost of unemployment cannot be permitted to continue indefinitely in the richest country in the world. Together, business, labor and government must do whatever is necessary to provide gainful employment to every pair oC willing hands in America.

Business, particularly, cannot ignore either the human costs or the very substantial business costs of a high rale of unemployment. Businessmen lose profits every day because millions of unemployed workers and their families cannot buy the'things they need and want. They lose sales for their products and services, and their profit margins are squeezed by the high overhead costs of idle productive capacity. Business profits are further narrowed by the hundreds of millions of dollars which must be paid in taxes to provide unemployment benefits and welfare programs for the families of jobless workers who are willing and eager to work. A recent survey in Massachusetts illustrates one of the dollar and cents costs of unemployment.

At the same time, it emphasizes the possibilities of dealing with part of our unemployment problem through worker retraining. In this study, the Federal Re- Board of Boston and the Paqe 4 Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 24, 1963 Holmes Alexander STOP THE PRESSES! I Michigan's Gerry Ford Would Enhance GOP Ticket John Chamberlain Non-Aggression Pact With Russia Would Keep 63,000 Hungarian Patriots In Chains TJE is a short man, a native of Hungary, and he talks slowly and carefully in a precise, though oddly accented, English. His eyebrows are strong and heavy, giving an impression of hidden physical reserve. On his left arm there is a tattooed identification mark, the ineradicable reminder, of his compulsory "registration" in a Nazi concentration camp. During World War II he was shuttled about from camp to camp by his captors; just before he was scheduled for execution and an anonymous grave he escaped and managed to make his way to General "Lucky Forward" iPatton's lines.

It was his second escape from totalitarianism, for, as a captured officer of the Austro Hungarian Army during World War he had'been sent away to Northeastern Siberia. When the Bolsheviks grabbed him, he managed to buy his freedom by pretending he was a skilled veterinarian and hence exchangeable for a Russian veterinarian whom Lenin's government wanted back. The point of this introduction to the career and character of Dr. Bela Fabian, the head of the Federation of Hungarian Former Political Prisoners, is that he knows what it is like to be stuck away behind barbed wire or in a remote from which attempted escape is usually a form of suicide. As a survivor of the Nazi hell of Auschwitz, Dr.

Fabian considers that a duty has been laid upon him to spend the rest of his life working to save political prisoners who are still being held incommunicado. There are plenty of them today, in Soviet Russia and in China and they include among them some 63,000 Hungarian compatriots of Dr. Fabian who were carted away to Kazakstan in Soviet Asia after Khrushchev's armored divisions had finished the business of smashing the Hungarian Revolution. Originally the seized Hungarian "pols" were 75,000 in but, as a measure of his willingness to soften a bit, Khrushchev allowed 12,000 the captives to be repatriated. But that was long ago as a prisoner's life is reckoned, in 1958.

The remaining 63,000 prisoners have had five years of forced labor in the Soviet Union since the "token" repatriation of the 12,000. Now the talk is that some non- aggression agreement might be worked out between the NATO nations and: the Soviet satellite nations of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev, in suggesting a pact, has been showing his pleasant side. As the poet Robert Frost said, Khrushchev has the ability to seem a "genial ruffian." Such "ruffians" are in marked contrast to Stalin, who was generally dour and implacable and whose humor was heavily sarcastic. A "genial" Khrushchev intent on playing the role of Dr.

Jekyll may be better for the Western World than the shouting, shoe- banging Bolshevik version of Mr. Hyde. But Dr. Bela Fabian sees it somewhat differently. He is afraid that, in a period of amity between the West and Moscow, the 63,000 Hungarian prisoners will be forgotten.

Among the 63,000 there were, when the original seizure was made, some 7,000 girls, then aged 13 to 18. "The lucky ones among those girls," says Dr, Fabian broodingly, "were those who managed to find single lovers among the Russians to protect the Svetlana Tukashevsky, whose father, the famous Marshal was executed during the big purge of the Nineteen Thirties, befriended the 7,000 Hungarian girls and some of them have managed to get letters posted to the West, which is how Dr. Fabian has been able to keep track.of what goes on in Kazak- stan. The UN has not been able to do anything for the Hungarian prisoners in Kazakstan. There have been amnesties of a sort (in reality, suspended sentences) in Hungary, where Dictator Kadar is now aspiring to be called a liberal.

But there has been no amnesty, no Bay of Pigs type of ransom, for the deportees. Senator Hubert Humphrey tried t'o talk to the visiting Soviet envoy Mikoyan about the Kazakstan prisoners when he was in. Washington, but all the Senator got was a stony answer that the only prisoners in Russia were common criminals. So what should fae done if the prisoners are not to be sacrificed to "amity" between West and East? Are they doomed to be swept under the rug for the crime of having been Hungarian patriots? Dr. Fabian's Federation of Hungarian Former Political Prisoners has one last wild hope: let an exchange of Hungarians from Kazakstan be put high on the agenda as one price of any deal with Khrushchev on Eastern Europe.

There should be other prices, too, but that is another subject. Sen. Barry Gold water New Frontier Prescribes Same Old Medicine i EXAMINED at some length at the Young Republican convention in San Francisco a subject which I believe is becoming more and more important to (he American almost total bankruptcy of the liberal position. Basically, I believe it is important to understand that the liberal approach to the problems GOLDWATER which beset us both at home and abroad has been given every conceivable chance. It has been tried many times, and it has never For example, we saw the whole rigamarole during the 1930's when this nation was caught in a deep depression.

We were told then that (he answer to all our problems was the massive intervention of the federal government. We were told that trip answer rested in Massachusetts Division of Employment Security surveyed 204 people who took part in a retraining program and compared the results with another group without retraining. The study showed that the state was required to pay out $31,000 in unemployment benefits in 1962-to the group without retraining. But among those retrained, only $8,000 was paid out. This indicates a'saving of $23,000 as a result of the retraining program to give jobless workers new skills.

Since the retraining program cost $121,000, the savings it provided would enable the slate to pay off the investment in five years. And during those five years and thereafter these retrained 'ctl Nine) government spending. We were told that the pump needed priming, that leaves needed raking, that we were all children under the paternalistic fatherhood of the federal government. We were told many things during those dark and desperate days at a tome when this nation was prepared to try almost anything to overcome the ravages of unemployment and economic stagnation. And we took what we were told to heart.

The nation and the Congress went along with the whole bag of tricks. A great profusion of new laws was passed. Heavy new appropriations were provided. Taxes soared. But it still took World War II to get this country out of the depression.

And we were almost last among the nations of the world to emerge from that depression. Now today we find the American liberals offering the same old tricks in an effort to lower unemployment, accelerate business activity and "get the nation moving." Nothing being offered today differs, except in size, from what the New Deal gave us 30 years ago. We have public works projects on a grandiose scale, we have a new version of the old CCC camps, we have more unemployment compensation, a higher minimum wage and so on. The major difference, I suggest, is that today the liberal has progressed to the stage where he no longer makes any pretense of supporting the idea nf fiscal responsibility. Back in the 1930s and the 1940s, we were always told thai recurring emergencies were the only things which prevented the New Dealers and the Fair Dealers from striving toward goal of a balanced budget.

Never in craziest days of New Deal and WASHINGTON, D. C. Con' gressman Gerald Ford of Michigan, mid-continent in geography and mid-conservative in politics, gets frequent 1 mention for the national ticket of 1964. His national image is a little too dim at moment for presidential likeli-l hood, but he conceivably could run in second place for Goldwater, Nelson Rockefeller, VOID Tom Kuche! or Genera! Lucius Clay. would do credit to any ticket.

Just fifty, an All-American end from the University of Michigan and boxing coach, Gerry Ford, in the role of a national candidate, would represent a trend that began in 1960. Three years ago, both the old presidential supply sources, which for years had been the governorships and military shrines, and reached into the Senate. Kennedy was preferred to Stevenson, Nixon to Rockefeller. The Democrats did the incredible by fielding two Senators, Kennedy and Johnson, despite the fracture of precedent. Today, with the Senate gone heavily liberal, most of the close party battles are fought in House, where the Republicans keep gaining membership, and gaining quality, despite losing governorships, Senators and their only President since the Great Depression.

Ford came to Washington from Grand Rapids in 1948, when Harry Truman was scuttling Republican majorities in both chambers and in the Gallup polls. A Yale Law School graduate and a Navy veteran, Ford took the slow way upward by inconspicuous work on the Appropriations sub-committee for Defense spending, the opposite number of Democrat George Mahon whom he greatly admires. Ford was nearly always with the GOP leadership in votes, but not entirely in lock step with the plodding of the Old Guardsmen. Fair Deal innovation at the very peak of the drive for more and more social engineering and tampering with the lives of the American people did the liberals ever attempt to sell us the idea that deficits were desirable. In this respect, at least, they were hewirig to the line of intellectual honesty.

But what do we find today? We find that anyone who retains a belief in fundamentals, anyone who feels that there should be a relationship between government income and government spending, anyone who fears that we are mortgaging the lives of our children and grandchildren is suffering from a new disease called the "Puritan Ethic." Today, if we are to believe the liberals of the New Frontier, there is something dishonorable or stupid about being a "puritan" or retaining some "ethics" in the field of government finance. We are actually told that deficits are not only necessary, but imperative to the well being of the American society. We are led to believe that anything which calls for further government spending is a blessing in disguise, because it might spur business activity by increading purchasing power. These are bankrupt arguments that the New Frontier is putting forward. They are reactionary.

They would take us back to the New Deal, which has nothing in common with the problems of the 1960s: While claiming to be modern and up-to-date, the New Frontier is offering nothing but the lired old gimmicks calling for more and more government spending. How do yon sir? He WM part of the youth movement in 1959 which overthrew Joe Martin and instaHed Charli. Hal- leek the Republican leader. Then, year Ford himself rede the surge for a New Breed of party leadership. He unhorsed the elderly Hoeven of Iowa, a Halleek henchman, and became chairman of the hitherto moribund Republican Conference.

Since then the Conference has been a garrison post from which Ford appointed subcommittees have made daring raids on a number of rather complacent Democratic positions. The Hornier (Calif.) subcommittee has hit the Administration some telling blows on the matter of detecting 1 a blasts. Schwengel of Iowa leads a subcommittee which awakened slumbering attention to the scarcity of minority staff workers. A new subcommittee under Gubser of California is readying a study of Democratic assumptions on space spending. An Ad Hoc subcommittee, headed by Poff of Virginia, is reporting on ways to improve the work of the Conference itself.

By 'marshalling these and other youngish House members, Ford has become something very admired on both sides, and in both parties, of Capitol Hill a politician's politician. His rise is not dissimilar to the ascendency a few years ago of Senator Lyndon Johnson, although without LBJ'j flamboyant and publicity conscious style. Ford's economic conservatism would balance a Rockefeller ticket, and bolster a Goldwater ticket. His ideology, while activist and nationalist, is not doctrinaire. He can see some reason in bending a principle to make it historical opportunity such as invading Cuba at a ripe moment, aiding Yugoslavia to help split the Communist bloc, curbing civil rights (in which he deeply believes) at the point where they intrude upon property rights.

A go-slow, but go-forward product of the postwar House, Ford is one of many Republicans who are willing to march, but not to stampede, toward the betterment of his country and party. Politics In County, State and Nation TT EBANON County and sixth class counties would be' permitted to destroy certain records only after clearance.by a to- be created "County 'Records Committee" under terms'Of legislation in the House of Representatives following clearance last week by the Senate. The bill (SB 212) sponsored by Senator John T. Van Sant (R- Lehigh County) provides that the committee shall determine when and what papers and records in the offices of the Prothonotary or Clerk of Courts of sixth class counties such as Lebanon may be destroyed with or without microfilming. However if the papers and records are less than fifty years old microfilming must precede destruction under terms of the pending legislation.

It would be the duty of the "County Records Committee," according to the bill, to establish schedules designating times when the records may be destroyed by the Lebanon County Prothonotary or Clerk of Courts, who would be required to follow the schedule laid out by the committee. The "County Records Committee" would consist of six members appointed by the Governor for a term of four years, plus.one member representing the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; one a member of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; one an attorney one a pro- thonotary, and a clerk of. courts, and the other "a member of the general public." School reorganization law Monday, generally followed party lines. There were 102 Republicans and seven Democrats for the measure and 84 Democrats and five Repub- licans against with 14 absentees. The switches from party lines: Republicans against (5); Back, ens toe, M.

H. Goldstein, A. M. Lee and Purnell. Democrats for (7); Ourwobd, Farabaugh, Flynn, Fryer, Polaski Polen, Rudisill.

Not voting (14); Republican, Merry; Democrats, Bonner, Capano, Cioffi, Fenrich, Filo, Hankins McKeever, Monroe Murphy, J. A. Sullivan, Taylor, Trusio. Potomac Fever By Fletcher Knebel The U. Bntain and Russia prepare to sign an atom-test ban treaty.

If you hear a loud bang at night, don't worry. It's probably just some crazy Chinaman. Christine Keeler takes the witness stand in London and is unanimously voted Miss Name- Dropper of the year. The governors' conference convenes in Miami Beach and abolishes its resolutions committee. Well, so much for business.

Anybody for tennis? As far as Cuba is concerned, the Kennedy administration boasts that no other allied nation is able to maintain a naval base on Soviet territory. The vote by which the House passed the bill to repeal the 1961 Progress on the The governors of Mississippi and Alabama, have yet to refuse to drive to work because the highways are integrated. What's Right-What's Wrong A staid gentleman, honorary judge at a sports car rally, was upset by the dress of some of the "Just look at that young person with the poodle cut, the cigarette and the blue jeans," he- decried to a bystander. "Is it a boy or a girl?" "It's a girl. She's my daughter." "Oh, forgive me, -sir 1 apologized the old fellow.

VI never dreamed you were her father." "I'm not," snapped the other. "I'm her mother." When the woman filling out an application came to the square marked "age" she didn't hesitate. She simply wrote "Atomic." Turning Back The 20 YEARS AGO July 24, 1943 Robert Eugene Hower, 12, 1417 Elm was seriously injured in a fall in the garage of his William H. Lesher, Lebanon RD 2, died in the Good Samaritan Hospital from injuries received when he fell from the roof of hia while pointing a itone wall. 40 YEARS AGO July 24, 1923 The Union Fire Company en- Sine was housed' temporarily at the Perseverance Company due to traffic being closed on Ninth Street because of the street being "reconstructed.

Members of the Pennsylvania National Guard troops encamped at Mt. Gretna congregated around camp fires trying to keep warm after a severe rain and wind rtorm which sent temperatures -dropping..