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HENRY L. WILDER, Publisher, 1949-1062 Published Daily Except Sundays By UBANON MEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY South 8th and Poplar Lebanon. 17042, Penna. Phone Lebanon 272-5611 JOSEPH SANSONE ADAM S. WILDER Editor, Co-PabUthtr ARBELYN WILDER SANSONE President Editor JACK SCHROPP General XUnigar MARY JANE WILDER Secretary ROSEMARY L.

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MEMBER AUDIT BPBEAU OP CIRCULATIONS, AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, BUREAU OF ADVERTISING Khrushchev's Cracked Record When Nikita Khrushchev artfully tries to maintain an air of injured innocence while discussing one of his autobahn blockades with visiting American businessmen, he plays an old tune which has been heard many times. The fault lay with American convoy commanders who wanted to change "established procedures" on their own, he said, vodka glass in hand. It's a good thing they backed off or a war might have been started. When this cracked record is played, the facts get turned inside out. Provokers become the provoked.

And the rest of the world is supposed to end up grateful for Soviet forbearance and worried about doing anything wrong again. It's a device Moscow uses to turn defeat into victory or to strengthen its position prior to negotiation. This seems to be what Khrushchev had in mind when he went on to tell his American listeners the trouble in Germany could be eliminated by withdrawing foreign troops (mostly U. and letting the inevitable "socialization" of a unified Germany take place. Whatever Khrushchev's motives, regardless of his distortions, Allied firmness prevailed in the latest Berlin showdown, as it has in the past.

Bedrock unity was maintained, unaltered by a new West German government or by Gen, de Gaulle's independent ventures on other matters. The Allies are determined to maintain their right of access to West Berlin under rules of the road which they consider both reasonable and practical. In tampering with those rights, the Soviets succeeded in drawing the Allies closer together, something Washington, London and Paris haven't had much success in doing on their own lately. Salute To Schools The sense of gratitude and appreciation Americans feel for their schools and school teachers finds appropriate expression in National Education Week, observed at this time each year. There is no more valuable member of society than the dedicated, capable teacher.

The teacher helps to mold our community's and nation's future at the most responsible level the level of individual, impressionable young minds and bodies. For their immeasurable contribution, teachers are paid pitifully little. Their greatest reward conies in the satisfaction of a job well done and the knowledge that they have helped to chart the courses and develop the potentials of hundreds or thousands of young.men and women. But the need for higher teacher pay is being widely recognized, and much progress toward adequate salaries has been made in recent years. Progress has been the keynote in other areas of education, too.

The state and local school systems of America have had to advance rapidly to keep apace of the times and the growing population; they have, for the most part, met the challenge. American Education Week should be a meaningful observance for the entire nation. We are pleased to join in the salute to our schools, teachers and school administrators. Enough For Both A controversy which has raged as violently as a North Atlantic storm over who discovered America, Christopher Columbus or Leif Ericsson, appears to be resolved in favor of the Norseman. But the argument will go on and there is no immediate thought of calling off next year's Columbus Day observance.

What the Ericsson school hails as the clincher is the excavation of ruins of a Viking settlement in Newfoundland. They have been identified as definitely pre-Columbian and experts of the Smithsonian Institution American Museum of Natural History and National Geographic Society, their opinion bolstered by radiocarbon datings, have accepted the findings as incontrovertible proof the Norse crew beat Columbus here bv a good 500 years. The evidence from Newfoundland, however convincing to the experts, should not detract from the achievement of Columbus. Whoever got here first, nothing much was about settling the New World until he along. And besides, as the most violent partisans of Leif and Chris will agree, America is big enough for both of them Potomac Fever By Fletcher Knebel There's open proof that our government had nothing to do with the military coup in Viet Nam.

It was. successful. Fagt4 Lebanon Dally Lebanon, Tuesday, Novambar 12, 1963 NEAR MISS. Democrats are secretly proud of Bobby Baker, the ousted Senator operator. Nobody knows yet how much money he through influence, but you didn't catch him stuffing any of it into a vicuna coat.

One thing about Barry Goldwater. He doesn't just stand on the issues. He jumps up and down on them. The wheat deal with Russia is on again. It'll he fun seeing Khrushchev squalling on Berlin counting each grain as it passes through.

Pessimists who claim things are going down hill feel the trend started with automatic transmission. Even the cars got shiftless. Secretary of State Rusk raps Congress for cutting foreign aid. His job is tough enough, just trying to convince foreigners that they ought to take our money. The Penna.

Story No Action Mandated On State Aid By Mason Denison JJARRISBURG Grumbles and mumbles are being heard throughout the state as lawmakers convene in session today for the ostensible purpose of redistricting the State Senate and House of Representatives. The rumbles are not so much in opposition to the long overdue and in a sense mandated by the courts of the state- but rather that lawmakers in their special session had not been directed to act on the $72 million in stale aid to community hospitals and colleges the regular session failed to act on earlier in the year. Throughout the stale there are more than 180 local community hospitals alone that rely on this state aid in their already hard- pressed and ofttimes red ink-ridden budgets. The same applies to colleges and universities, as well as other state aided facilities falling within the orbit of. these so- called "non-preferred" appropriations.

At this point it's beginning to hurt. Many a facility has had no choice other than to borrow funds at an interest cost, of course. Penn State University for example, has had to go heavily into the borrowing field while, like other facilities, awaiting Ihe stale aid that has yet to be cleared even though the new fiscal year started July 1. With each week the stalemate continues, the problem becomes more pressing. Just who is to blame for this stalemate in the first place? Talk to Republican Scranton Administration people and they blame opposition Democratic lawmakers for failure to assure provision of the needed two-thirds vote in both House and Senate to clear the non-preferrcds.

(Republicans point oul that in neither House nor Senate do they have the required two-thirds voles in the Senate and 140 in the clear Ihe appropriation measures and Ihat they must have Democratic help.) Democrats on (he other hand insist it is up to GOP administration lawmakers to worry about it inasmuch as they are in the legislative control seat (from a majority standpoint, that and that it is up to I hem lo work out the problem with Democrats. The stalemate persists with Governor Scranton insisting he will not issue a special session call on the matter until he has assurance from opposition leaders that Ihey will provide the needed votes to make up Ihe two-thirds count. That is where the mailer has rested deadlocked in political ideologies. There is this much about (he- controversial subject well worth noting however: Scranton Administration leaders did bring up the legislation in Ihe House of Representatives during the regular 19(53 but it went down lo flat defeal when Democrats refused fo provide the needed voles to make up the required two-thirds. It never of course reached the Senate for a tesl there.

Bureaucracy Speaking of Holiday," a pamphlet pub- hshed by editors of Holiday magazine, reported an incident in one of its issues that could have happened only in Washington It seems that Dr. Bentley Glass, a scientist, submitted a report to the government, which later refused him permission to reexamine jt on the ground that he wasn't cleared for access to such top-secret material. The contention of the ariininis- tralinn at that time was one of: what else can we do we don't mechanically have the required number of votes on our side and it's pointless to keep running this thing forever? In a way their poinl is most justifiable the obvious fact being that if they didn't have the mechanical membership on their own side to provide the needed two- thirds, what other course could they follow? Seemingly though, the whole sorry fracas has backfired on Keystone State Democrats for their refusal to the needed BIG REPUBLICAN VOTE In County, State And Nation John Chamberlain U.S. Foreign Policy Committed To Relief Of Tensions Khrushchev's Tensions are publicly committed by our foreign policy to the relief of tensions. But whose tensions are being relieved? Yours? i Or Khrushchev's? The answer is -that Khrushchev, succeeds very well in relieving his own tensions those of such of his countrymen, who continue to think capitalism as the, big, bad wolf by skillfully playing on ours.

KHRUSH What a man he is, and what an actor! He turns all his defeats into victories by a long- practiced legerdemain which we should see but don't. Only a few months ago he was in dire trouble: his farm program was a shambles; he was faced with worries about guarding his long inner Asian border the longest unforti- fled land border in the against the possibility that Red China might violate it; he had left hostages in Castro's Cuba, and he needed a nuclear test ban for reasons best known to himself. In addition to this there were murmurs of trouble in the captive nations, where the peasants were engaging in a slowdown. So we proceeded to relieve Krushchev's tensions on all these items. The test ban was accepted.

Canada sold Moscow its surplus wheat. We sold corn lo Hungary. The grain sales meant that Russia wouldn't starve; they also meant that the eastern European satellites would be led. With his worries about controlling the satellites thus relieved, Khrushchev could now face Mao Tse-tung without fear of a possible two-front struggle. As for the Soviet hostages in Cuba, we guaranteed Khrushchev's "technicians" a safe stay' by rigidly suppressing any Cubans who might be in a position to make trouble for them.

You might think that such magnanimity toward a man threatened from a score of directions would evoke a little gratitude. But old Khrush is. not one to reciprocate a past favor. With Canada ready and willing to sell him even more wheat, he plays coy about taking ours. Maybe he'll maybe he won't.

He knows that when cap' italist wheat traders begin to bid for the privilege of selling to Russia, it is their tensions, not his, that are involved. Knowing, from the eagerness with which we welcomed test ban, that there is a big and wholly sincere peace party in the U. and that no war over Berlin would be lightly risked, Khrushchev once again realizes that he can play with our tensions at no risk to his own. So he stops a couple of our convoys in the Berlin corridor. When he finally consents to call off his police dogs, we boast in our headlines that we have stared him down.

But that ain't the way the Russians hear it in Khrushchev's own press. He tells his myrmidons that we have complied with his "established procedures." For the benefit of some visiting American business men, he hints that our "violations" of the corridor rules might have resulted in nuclear war. So it is the business men's tensions that are tightened. His own countrymen, reading in Izvestia that the West has backed down once again in Berlin, risk no ulcers. This Khrushchev ploysman- ship goes on and 'on and on.

A Soviet Ilyushin-18 transport lands in Tanganyika in Africa to pick up some Negroes from the Union of South Africa. Why? Well, it seems that they are to be trained in guerilla warfare in the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Khrushchev applies the Monroe Doctrine in reverse, telling us that he won't permit A us to interfere with-the unfold- of socialism under Castro. Whose tensions are relieved by this? What a man, and what an actor! We don't seem to realize that his training in the arts of dissembling took place under life and death circumstances. After all, Khrushchev rose to a high position under Stalin.

He feared and hated Stalin, yet he hid his real feelings in order to make his own way in the world. The time would come when he could safely degrade the memory of his -benefactor. When Stalin died, and the unbelieving inner circle of Communists went in to view the corpse, Khrushchev is supposed to have night the mice will have buried the cat." Well, a mouse that could fool the most suspicious of cats for thirty years is certainly an artist, when it comes to deceit. Tensions, anyone? Sen. Barry Goldwater Government Interference Hurts Farmers area of our economy has been treated with less respect or been more shockingly maligned and abused by political power enthusiasts than American agriculture.

Consider for a moment impact of politics upon the American farmer. The ridiculous imbalance of economic concepts has brought American agriculture lo a potentially disastrous revamping of its institutional structure. Fundamentally, the farm problem which we are functioning under was developed during a period of economic stress. Minor changes in this policy notwithstanding, government planners have managed to foist upon us an acceptance of the illusion that the federal government should either fix prices on certain commodities or e.vnrt a maximum influence upon them. During the economic upswing that followed World War II and Korea, the farmers proved a significant and disturbing ex- votes.

The resentment could build into a very heavy item of "political benefit" lo Republicans. The question now however is whether Republicans will try to slretch out this "political benefit" to the utmost and simply let the queslion lie on the table, or whether an effort will be made to work out something with opposition Democrats and provide the "benefit" sorely needed by Pennsylvania's State aided facilities 1 ceplion to the rule of general prosperity. The reason for this was that we followed too closely the policies of earlier years. We did not allow for readjustments in the agricultural economy as a result of generally-improved conditions. Consequently, despite the application of practically every conceivable government program for agriculture, the farmers have been more, hurt than helped by Washington-inspired directives.

Adftrd fo (his bureaucratic confusion, and perhaps aided and abetted by it, is the rapidly-decreasing farm population. How such a confused and deteriorating situation could occur at a time when technological revolution offers so much hope and inspiration is a challenge to us all. There may be a host of answers to this problem. Not being blessed with an intricate knowledge of farming, I don't pretend to offer any series of formulae which would satisfy the total agricultural needs of our country. This much I can say.

A man farms his land in order to provide crops to sell at the marketplace and to reap a maximum of profit for himself. He is, therefore, no different from the shopkeeper, the barber, the restaurant owner or any of the myriad of other types of people who derive their living from the provision of goods and services to the consuming public. The farmer and his small business counterpart in the urban areas depend for their livelihood upon the laws of supply and demand. Logically, the government's role in their affairs must be a minor one. Subsidy crutches remove them from the competitive pattern of the economy and make of them nothing less than pawns of government.

On the other hand, a minimum of restrictions on farm production and marketing will permit the farmer a maximum of dependence on free markets as the best guide to production and consumption. The truth is that politics and agriculture don't mix. Politics 'means government, and whenever government starts doing things for people in any walk of life, it automatically and unavoidably takes from them certain rights. At the present time, the gov- eminent is attempting to control the law of supply and demand through the use of detrimental legislation. Agriculture suffers, and the resultant expense is ruinous to both farmers and consumers.

This Is contrary to the bent of our farmers, just a.i it is contrary to the bent of all Americans. No one wants for nothing. To he paid for not producing, to have opportunity and incentive destroyed, is not giving the farmer the right of free choice. How do you stand, sir? A CCORDING to the official of last Tuesday's genera! election Republicans retained 148 out of 153 city and county minor offices. Democrats were erected to the following offices: Township Supervisor in Jackson Township; Township Supervisor in Millcreek (Newmanstown); one Justice of the Peace in East Hanover Township, one Justice of the Peace in North Cornwall Township and one School Director in South Lebanon Township, It was reported incorrectly Friday that a Democrat was elected Justice of the Peace in North Annville Township according to the unofficial report.

Officially two Republicans running on both tickets won the two seats for Justice of the Peace. Congressman John C. Kunkel has this to say on the College Facilities Bill passed by the House last Wednesday: "On Wednesday, by a vote of 258 to 92, the House gave final approval to the College Facilities Bill. $230 million is authorized annually for a three- year period for the construction and development of undergraduate facilities. In addition, $120 million annually in loans is available.

However, an institution will be eligible for grants only if such construction is limited to structures or portions thereof especially designed for instruction or research in natural or physical sciences, mathematics, modern foreign languages, engineering, or for use as a library. "Of. the funds authorized, per cent would be allotted among the states for use in providing academic facilities for communtiy colleges and public technical institutes. The remainder of the funds would be allotted among the states for use in providing academic facilities for institutions of higher education other than public community colleges and technical institutes. "There is a great deal of in.

terest in our area about public community colleges and public technical schools. When the House conferees agreed to adopt the limitation by categories, Senate and House conferees agreed that this limitation by categories does not apply to the public community colleges or the public technical schools because so many of the public community colleges are liberal arts colleges. The House did not want to restrict their construction of facilities to the natural or physical sciences, mathematics, modern foreign languages, engineering, and libraries. Community colleges and technical school funds can be used for construction of any academic facilities except those for sec-; tarian instruction or religious worship or stadiums, etc. "Let me again make it clear that the limitations by categories do apply to other institutions under Title One." Public Forum THE NEWS reserves the right to reject' or condense.

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Editor, Daily NEWS: I can't help but admire lady (it was presumably a lady and a mother) who had the courage to complain about church bells clang-clanging in the early morning hours, when most people would like to indulge in a few extra hours of sleep Sunday mornings. The writer is wrong on one point however, in classifying Myerstown as a quiet little town. The writer has every reason to complain on the early morning clang-clanging of church bells and barking, howling dogs, which rob people of an extra hour of sleep after along and hard work week, if not that, then what is there left to enjoy? This town is really a dogdom. Only For Justice LETTER FHOM A DOG Editor, Daily NEWS: Ever since I was a puppy, I felt' sorry for children, who were beaten or menially harmed in some way, or mistreated. But as I became a full grown dog, my heart grew too.

My kennelmates call me an old Yes, I was soft-hearted for any old human that needed pity. But when they started mistreating my animal pals, well, that was a dog of a different color. Human beings aren't worth tears or pity. They aren't even worth a musty ol' dog bone. Well, I guess, first I'd better explain why my dander's all "haired" up.

I'm an old "softie" like I said, and when it comes to human beings ruling the earth, why I'd rather vote, and let the animals take over. But we're too dumb. Nevertheless, a dog for instance, may bite or bark and make a lot of noise, but he doesn't steal or hurt people on purpose. Just like the article I a in the Lebanon Daily News about two weeks ago. Sure, I'm Ty sorry about the little girl, but I'm also sorry about the dog.

(She's a distant relative too.) She's responsible for the death of a child, but due to her master's mistreating. Why I've got cousins, now, that are tied to their pens, or rather chained that are starving, thirsting and undernourished. How many so called "humans" would rather shoot a pet, than feed it? Yet they go all out of their ways to get one. How about those so called "humans" who steal us, and then sell us for experiments, or sell our skins or hides, or furs you couldn't possibly have hearts and for sure not a brain. Yet there are those who call themselves humans, but run us over with cars or bicycles on purpose! Or use us for BB targets.

And they call us beasts and themselves people! I would love to bite the pants legs off of some of them murderers; I have a right. Sure, some of us animals are needed for tests and experiments, just so humans may live. But why go overboard? We animals are loo dumb to let you know you're breaking our hearts or when to tell you you're hurting us. How.can we truly let you know when we're starving? "Cat and dog gr-growl, would I love to pen them up, chain them and watch them starve, or watch distemper set in. But I'm not cruel to people, people are cruel to animals.

Don't you realize how much love and affection a pet wants to give you? A dog or bird or (Continued on Page Seventeen) What Right-What's Wrong Propaganda crops up in the most unusual and unlikely places! The latest anti religion propaganda drawn to our attention is being rubber stamped on dollar bills. Apparently a criticism of the "Pray For Peace" message used to cancel stamps in many post offices, the anti-religious propaganda drawn to our attention involves use of a rubber stamp on the rear of a dollar bill. Under the statement "In God We Trust," someone has stamped this message: "In God we trust and pray for peace "Is not for wise men but for fools "And U. S. stamps ought never be "Religious propagandists' tools!" A dollar bill bearing this stamp is now in the possession of Robert J.

Sarik, 930 Water St. Sarik, a Bell Telephone Company employe, received the bill when he cashed his pay check at a local bank. Turning Back The 20 YEARS AGO Nov. 1Z, 1943 Preparatory to entering the service of the American Red Cross as an overseas recreational field director, J. Joseph Beatlie, boys physical director and head football coach at Harding Junior High School, has requested a leave of absence from his local duties for the duration of the war.

One of two brothers serving in the U. S. Army, Charles Ovecka, has been promoted lo the rank of sergeant while serving in the nation's armed forces overseas. Word of his promotion was received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Francis Ovecka, 1315 Brandywine St. He took part in the Tunisian campaign, and is now believed in Italy. He is the brother of Staff Sergeant Edward Ovecka, Lebanon's first known war casualty who was badly wounded in Jap bombing at- tack on Hickman Field Dec 1941. 40 YEARS AGO Nov. 12, 1923 To solemnize Armistice Day and do honor to the soldiers of the World War the public paraded in one of the brilliant marching spectacles of the city's history.

Chief Marshal H. J. Ihe Cumberland Street merchant, was escorted by a staff of ex-soldiers in uniform, and civilians, including Howard I. James, Chief of Staff. The rifle carried by William Bollman up unlil he lost his life during the battle of Fismes, France on Aug.

9, 1918, was presented to his father, William H. Bollman, former proprietor of the William Ppnn Hotel, by Henry D. (Jess) Billman, then first sergeant of the 109th Machine Gun Battalion..