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MM i i I 1 1 i 1 I i I 1 i i i A i whoosh! ihose baucers Are Hack! AsMM Mtrd Prr en whit the to he: iVIiy Has Admiiiistraiioii Reversed llscli" To Ask Slevenson for A Hand? Br ROBERT L. RIGGS Courier-Journal Washington Bureau Ralloont, 16 4. Aircraft, It I. Attronomitnl, 14 4. Olhtr (hirdt, Koo), 4 4 Intufficitnt information, 13.

t. Unknown, 1 t. Still, there's always that unknown 19 per rent. It may be small, but it's plenty for a flying-saucer buff. Clult Spring I'p Since Arnold's report, people all over the world have been seeing saucers.

Clubs have sprung up, composed of seers and potential seers. Innumerable books and pamphlets have poured out, Theories have been tossed about like dry leaves in an autumn wind. lrnfortH(ifei, an enrtihoiitid I5y Rill I It 1 n-MlN, And Immediately put ft in swaddling clothes of snirkori and incredulity. Scientists scoffed at it. Fancy names hae been lived la explain the saurcn, ternn like muscae valitants or srmtil-laUnej jrnfoimi.

Which, rnuqhly translated, mean spots before your eyes. Only last week, Dr. Donald Menzel. director of the Harvard Observatory, said saucers are caused by a layer of heated air that acts as a lens and forms an image as far as 40 or 50 miles awav. "They are nothing more than a mirage," Menrcl said.

Both Presidents we have had In this flying-saucer age, Truman and Eisenhower, have taken a dim view of it. And the Air Force repeatedly has pooh-poohed the whole idea. Document Ready It even had a document made up, ready to go, for the next rash of flying saucers. So, last week, at the height of the current epidemic, the Air Force was ready with a conclusion it had announced many times before; "After 10 years of investigation and evaluation of V.F.O.'s (Air Force talk for the 5.700 unidentified flying objects it has tried to check on), no evidence has been discovered In confirm the existence of so-called 'flying The Air Force said the strange objects could be many things-weather balloons, planes of unusual shape, fireworks, or even a wild goose flying. The way the flyhoys fig-ure it, the odds are 50 to 1 that any flying aaucer von see will have a hum Nov.

lii Ah, but thee are exciting day and nights fur tho.w who believe there are such things as flying saucers In the last two wcek.t, the air has seemed to be filled with mystery, A round, glowing tliin? in the ky aliove Illinois a oiurthing that roared like thunder in Tcn, slinking one truck and Mailing another a dazzling, firry ohjert that flashed trrrtop-high across Georgia and Florida. A ISehrnska grain buyer vho said he stepped aboard a snare ship and chatted witlt its crew, in hrokrn English and high German a strange, red light over the nation's capital. And above all this, glowing with scientific respectability, are those Russian Sputnik moons, evidence that in these times anything seems possible. Decade Has Passed It has been 10 years since a Boise, Idaho, businessman, flying alone in his private plane, saw mysterious objects playing around Mt. Rainier.

After Kenneth Arnold came down to earth on that now-historic June 24, 1947, he made a report that was to reverberate around the world. He told investigators he had seen not one, but nine, of the things, and, in his report, he gave them a name that would stick. "I could see their outline quite plainly against the snow as they approached the mountain," Arnold said. "They flew very close to the mountain top like geese in a diamond chain-like line, as if they were linked together a chain of saucer-like things at least 5 miles long, swerving in and out of the high mountain peaks." So the flying saucer was born. STORI 1 918 BAXTER AT WASHINGTON', Nov.

16. The arms-length mood in which John Foster Dulles and Adlai E. Stevenson approach Monday's first test of their ability to cooperate on foreign policy is an inevitable result of the attitude taken by the Secretary of State for five years. It has been one of the odd facts of public life that Dulles has steadfastly held throughout the Eisenhower Administration that there was no point in placing a i non-Congressional Democratic spokesman in the State Department. What made it odd is that Dulles, beginning in 1944, pursued a nearly-eight-year career of being a representative of the titular leader of the Republican Tarty under Democratic Secretaries of State Cordcll Hull, Edward R.

Stettinius, James F. Byrnes, George C. Marshall and Dean G. Acheson. Part of Folklore It is part of Washington folklore that while Dulles was serving as Thomas E.

Dewey's official representative under Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, he came to the conclusion that that was a poor arrangement that when the Republican Party came to power and made him Secretary, he would not clutter up the department with a Democrat. This attitude was strengthened by ths circumstances surrounding Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1052 victory.

A large part of the burden Stevenson had to bear in that campaign was the charge that the Democratic Administration had blundered into war in Korea. A major portion of the great Eisenhower appeal, especially to mothers, was that, through his military knowledge and competence, he would bring the Korean fighting to a apeedy close. Dulles Convinced The election returns convinced Dulles i that the Democrats in the executive branch were badly discredited in the field of foreign affairs, and that there was no need to have a "Democratic Dulles" in his department. In Congress, It was different. Even before the Democrats won control in 1354.

Dulles found that, because so many of the Republican members did not accept the Eisenhower "modern" view of foreign policy, he had to depend upon Democrats to support him in Senate and House, As a consequence, Dulles made it a point (o court the Democratic leadership. He did so well that, for an extended time, the late Senator Walter F. George, even while serving as Democratic chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was virtually an Eisenhower-Dulles spokesman. Richards Given Joh When Herman Talmadge forced George to leave the Senate, Dulles made a place for him in the State Department. But that was in the declining days of George's health, and no pretense was made that he helped shape policy.

In order to win support for the Eisenhower Middle East Doctrine nearly a year ago, Dulles made a special ambassador out of South Carolina'! James P. Richards, solely because, as former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Richards could win House votes for the doctrine. But, again, Richards had nothing to do with policy. Why. then, this effort to get Stevenson identified with the Administration's foreign programt Why should a Democrat, twice badly beaten at the polls, be considered an asset to the Republicans? The answer lies in what Republicans and Democrats alike interpret as a changed public attitude toward Eisenhower, so far as it has to do with their previously unshakable belief in his ability, as a military man, to protect us from the Russians.

Wilson Protected Heretofore, if Democrats tore into Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson with the accusation he had cut our Air Force or Army or Navy too drastically, he was protected by the Eisenhower umbrella. The majority of the people felt that if Eisenhower permitted such reductions, there was no danger to the country. When Wilson sneered at "basic research" and refused to spend money for what he regarded as a lot of boondoggling by egg-headed scientists, the country was in the mood to agree with him. For egg heads were in bad standing.

But things are different now. All the military experience of President Eisenhower has not kept us from running a poor second in the contest to conquer outer space and make it a possible highway for guided missiles carrying nuclear warheads. Scientists are suddenly our favorite people; and pure research, rather than being something to sneer at, is regarded as essential to our survival. Egg heads no longer have to apologize. Teople are thinking that some of the things Stevenson said during the 1936 campaign don't sound so foolish now as they did then.

What was it he said ahout thrt draft? Didn't he say that the development reporter immediately runs into trouble. For flyingsaucery makes stronoe contert.t. It attracts those like the man who dropped by the Associated Press office here with the glad news he had just returned from Mars. He had been plucked from his Ozark Mountain home, he said, and whisked there by space ship. Did he have proof? Why, of course he had proof.

And he pulled out a hank of hair he said came from a Martian dog. Then there are those who obviously are sincere and enthusiastic, but who after a brief discussion show they were born to believe the unusual. In another age, they would have been 100 per cent for elves, or witches, or evil spirits, long before, or after, auch beliefs went out of style. Nor are the theories open to any of the ordinary tests. One popular belief: That saucers come from outer spare, and have been whirring in for years.

When Freklel saw a wheel In the middle of a wheel, this theory runs, of course he was describing a flying saucer. That recently the space peo Adlai E. Slevenson People are remembering of guided miseilps might make the draft unnecessary? Anyway, for the first time since Eisenhower took office, his people have felt the need to get help from Stevenson. There is a rertain political significance in this fact. No longer is it enough to negotiate with the leaders in Congress.

George is dead, of course. Lyndon Johnson, who on occasion has been accused of being overly willing to co-operate with Eisenhower, isn't what Dulles and the President need right now. Will Cost Money Both the Secretary of State and tho President have shown that they believe Stevenson can do them more good than can a senator in rallying the country nonpartisan support of the effort to catch up with Russia, an effort which is going to cost money and mean the abandonment of all hope for lower taxes. That this recognition of Stevenson's place in the public mind was made grudgingly and even ungraciously is evidenced by the fog of misunderstanding which surrounded his enlistment. James G.

Hagerty, the President's press secretary, took the blame for erroneously making it appear that Stevenson was shirking an obvious duty. But Hagerty isn't given to making bloopers like that; and the bad information he passed along to the public undoubtedly came to him from responsible officials in the White House or State Department. As a result, Stevenson goes into his conference with Dulles Monday with each side in a not-too-good frame of mind. Stevenson has made a point of the fact that his invitation to consult on the program for the forthcoming presidential trip to the N.A.T.O. conference in Paris came, not from the President, but from Dulles.

Dulles is going to have his own difficulties forgetting how unhappy he is that he and the President have to admit they need Stevenson's help. Apparently the first item on Monday's agenda will have to he a thawing of the atmosphere between Stevenson and Dulles. ritrr fit ple have hern mesTin; aroun liarlh because thry knew we li.nr the II bomb und irfj fretting because we may destroy ourselves. Or, the flying-saucer, isl may say, the spare people know we're shout to shove off the planet, and are rlierking on how we're coming along. Yet it would be a mistake to decide, as many do, that everyone who believes in flying saucers is a boob or a crackpot.

At least one private organiia-tinn has been working hard convince everyone that there indeed, a great deal to this. It't the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. Snyn Saucers Ileal I N.I.C.A.P.'s director is Donald K. Keyhoe, a graduate of the U. S.

Naval Academy, a onetime Marine pilot who retired as a major, and more recently the author of hooks and articles in which he says flying saucerj are real. At first, Keyhoe had the Idea that tho saucers were secret weapons. His present conclusion: "I think iiej'rn Interplanetary." Like many another saurerer, Keyhoe thinks the air force is holding out a lot of material that would help NI.C.A.P.'a case. He particularly thinks some of the interviews should be made public. But whatever this material may be, it obviously hasn't convinced a majority of the top Air Force officials.

For they say their studies have shown: 1. There's no evidence that there are interplanetary space ships. 2. There's nothing to show that any of these unknown objects operated on principles outside the range of present scientific knowledge. J.

"No physical or material evidence, not even a minute fragment, of a so-called 'flying saucer' was ever found." STORES TRAIL SHOPPING CENTER Waste U. 1 TESTING CO, MC, tat hi fttlftV 4 4R ltm A dated Um I and Moy 10, 1S7. wuin Willi fill MMI huHMmm vwMsmJ drum explanation, like a halloon or an aircraft. They even worked out a table to show the true parentage of the flying saucer. In the.

first six months of this year, 250 unidentified flying objects were spotted, and here's the percent- KIRCHDORFER'S 2 BIG President Doesn 't Want Centre To Be The Biggest-Just The Best CRATEtS) 4 Won for urncaovAL Li for'ORIEST'SPlN AGITATOR Clothes Up to 50 Cleaner than Leading Washers by Test DANVlLE, Nov. 16 Thomai A. Spragens, who took over here as Centre College president last Monday, peered at the high ceiling of his office in the 126-year-old Administration Building and thought ahead 15 years. don't expect Centre ever 1o have a tremendously large enrollment," he. said.

"In 15 years, my ambition is that we will have 700 to 750 students, or nearly double the present enrollment. "But my ambition for Centre is that it fce measured by the excellence of its scholastic program, rather than by the size cf its' student body. "In other words, 1 want to make Centre the quality college of the region it serves." The 40-year-old native of Lebanon, who came to Centre after serving as president of Stephens College in Columbia, for five years, paused a second or two. 'So New Her p. "I fold the board of trustees when I was asked to come here that I couldn't give any thought to Centre until I wound up my duties at Stephens," he continued.

"And since I am so new here, I couldn't possibly point right now to specific steps that we will take or outline a program we will follow, "However, from what I have seen in my short time here and have learned from the board of trustees, I believe the faculty is in better shape than it has been for SO years." As he talked on, Spragens indicated that in striving to make Centre a "quality college," it isn't his idea to attempt to establish an exclusive or snobbish school. Instead, his plan is to peg entrance requirements as well as scholastic standards high, Thomas A. 40, thinks it's as unfair to give a scholarship purely on scholastic ability as on athletic ability. Says need always should be a factor. By JOE CREASON Courier-Journal Staff Writer thus necessarily making the student body a select lot.

Centre already is the only college in Kentucky which requires that all prospective students pass tests drawn up by the College Entrance Examination Board. Graduate of U. K. Spragens, who was graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1933 and later did graduate work at Syracuse University, believes firmly that competitive athletics have a place on a college campus. However, he also believes that athletics should be given only healthy, not undue, emphasis.

That is, he feels that intercollegiate athletics should do nothing more than complement the general college program. To that end, he insists that scholarships should not be denied athletes, but that they should be made available to sports stars on the same basis they are offered to all other students a combination of scholastic ability and need. In hit opinion, a tcholnrihip it tome-thing that in every inttance thould he tare' fully beitowed. He contends it it no mora propv to award a tcholarthip for tcholaf CORNIR OP CHRISTY STORI 2 INDIAN BUILT-IN SUDSWATER-SAVER AT NO EXTRA COST Cuts Wothdoy Cottt Almost 14 Saw up to 3500 gallons et hot wator, 40 boxi of detorgsnt in year. NEWI EXCLUSIVEI AUTOMATIC TINTING 53 Eatinst, tafett way known.

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Rolow cop. et toe, fpedal rJltpemer that reteoMt detergent, bleach tint evenly, a4eV Mixed, ender water. lie Handing only than it is lo gra on tolely for athletic attainment, "The element of need should be a prims consideration in every case," he said. "A scholarship should be made avail-able to an athlete if he meets the same qualifications demanded of other students, a policy Centre adopted several years ago. There's Competition "But what isn't known by the general public is that there is competition between many folleges for A-plus high-school graduates that almost equals the competition for athletic stars.

"When only scholastic standing and not financial need is taken into consideration," Spragens added, "the awarding of scholarships can be abused just as when only athletic ability is considered." For that reason, Spragens is enthusiastic over the fact that Centre is a new member of the College Scholarship Service. This is an agency sustained by the member colleges and universities, and designed to set up a common basis for awarding scholarships and to make an evaluation of student needs. Lots of Experience Spragens has crammed a lot of experience into the 19 years since he finished at U. K. After studying a year of public administration on a fellowship at Syracuse, he was an administrative analyst with the U.

S. Bureau of the Budget, then administrative assistant to Clyde Reeves, Kentucky commissioner of revenue, for a year. In 1942, he was appointed senior analyst for the U. S. Budget Bureau, and in 194S he became assistant chief of food allocation of the wartime Foreign Economic Administration.

He continued in that post until he became assistant to the president of Stanford University, a position in which he remained six years. After that, he was named the first secretary and treasurer when the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education was formed in 1951. The period as president of Stephens followed that. Spragens's association with Centre goes back many years, to the days when he used to come from his home in Lebanon to see the famed Praying Colonels play football. In addition, he long has been a lay leader in the Presbyterian Church, the denomination with which the college is related.

Spragens, a tall, dark-haired, smiling man, is married and has three children, each born at a different stop along the trail of his career. Tom, the oldest at 13, was born in Kentucky; Barbara, the 12-year-old daughter, was born in Washington, D. while David, 8, was born in California. Mrs. Spragens is from Mississippi.

The Spragens name certainly is one well known in Kentucky, His mother was selected as "Kentucky Mother of the Year" in 1953, and his father, Circuit Judge William H. Spragens, recently was named Kentucky's outstanding jurist of 1957. clothes up to 61 drier Enamel Finith, Iniide ond out everything from "dellcatei" to denlmi one letting of the dlali of "Hot "Worm" or "Cool" wah-Warm," "Cool" or "Cold" Wnie or "Small" load Look Styling et tome price at white Wash.r, MocM WCI-58, $3' pr Wk With Trade FRIGIDAIRE WASHER Wifn 3-Ri'ng Agifato- BuffMn SudaWarer-tovtf WITI TRA0C Special Low Bodgtt Tarer NOW-2 BIO IUPW APPLIANCE STORES 918 BAXTER (Corntr et Chrltty) PHONI JU 3-6334 INDIAN HAIL Inelen Trn ene Preiten Hrw. HONI WO 9-96Mjn4 I DAY TIV t'MbJ ATM ITOlIt 0IM Tt4UIOAY AN MlOAY TIV Ui.ri WC1-S8 Wmkor OCI J8 Dry Th Folf, "Sovlngtit," "CWaningatt" laundry Known cert ttxio amy ohW laundry "paw" or 'combination" mad. 24 MONTHS FIRST PAYMENT DUE You Can't Match FRIGIDAIRE And you can't match KIRCHDORFER'S tuper appliance itoret far quality and dependable tervlce, It'l belt te know yeur dealer end meit fallti knew KIRCHDORPER fomeut for euallty end dependable Mrvlee llnce 1171.

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Spragens, new president of Centre College, has had lot of experience in his 40 years. He wants Centre to be a "quality" school, A i i i i im ieie m-m.