The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 6

Thursday, December 21, 1967 Piper's Expansion The year of 1968 begins with good economic news for this area, with the Piper Aircraft Corp. announcement of two important expansions. One will put a department of the aircraft manufacturer's growing operations into the CTA building at Renovo. The other place other phases of the expanding aircraft in the state's "white elephant" plant at Quehanna. This is one of those developments which has in it a Christmas present for everyone.

Let's start with Renovo! The advantages for Renovo from having a Piper plant in the community are incalculable. Since its erection the building put up by community effort and leased by the Community Trade Association has been occupied by various industries, but none of them has had the stability, potential for growth, and the interest in the area which can be anticipated from the Piper decision to buy the building, repair and renovate it, and make it a part of an expanding production complex. The move will keep Renovo on the transportation map, for the entrance of the aviation industry into the community coincides with the virtual disappearance of railroad employment. There is a strong hope that the Piper growth in a suitable location, with space for an airstrip and future enlargement of the plant, will mean a real return of prosperity to the western end of the county. Lock Haven and ths adjacent area will benefit, too, for this decision by the Piper interests is a definite indication that that the Piper management thinks of Lock Haven as the home base.

It shows that the Lock Haven plant will remain as the central operation, probably growing in proportion as an expanding market requires further development at Renovo and Quehanna, as well as Lock Haven. The advantages to the state of Pennsylvania are obvious. The Piper industry is the only major aircraft-manufacturing establishment in the state. In this aeronautical age, Pennsylvania should be a vital factor in this branch of production. The importance to the state is shown by Governor Shafer's trip here today to make the official announcement.

The leasing of the Quehanna plant, moreover, restores some of the lustre to the original dream of a great industrial installation in that rather remote area of the state. The original hope had been that the Curtiss-Wright in the manufacture of big bombers for warfare, would establish a plant drawing 5,000 employes from the adjacent area, still at a low ebb, economically, since the end of the lumber era, and then the brick and coal eras. The Piper plans may be less grandiose at the start, but the Commonwealth will benefit from having the Quehanna plant working in an industry keyed to civilian aviation, rather than defense. The completion of the Keystone Short- Way will enhance the advantages to the Piper company, providing improved highway as well as aerial communications between two large plants less than a hundred miles apart. The new landing field which the.

state will build will make the Quehanna plant comparable in facilities, if not size, to the Lock Haven plant. With those two plants, the Renovo factory, and the Florida factory in Vero Beach, the Piper company will be in a position to meet its competition efficiently, and develop its markets, not only domestically, but into Latin America, Canada, and across the Atlantic. The eastern seaboard is about as central a location as a diversified light-aircraft company could find, as it strives to meet the growing air needs of the world's greatest concentration of prosperous and busy people who want to travel far and fast. The Old Picture Washington Merry-Go-Round Governors of Florida and Agree on One Thing, Far Travels By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON Copyright, 1967 by the BeD Syndicate, Inc. WASHINGTON The two most traveled governors of the South have kicked up a storm over their travels.

They haven't equalled the junketing of Adam Clayton Powell, but they have started in that direction. The Governors are: 1. Claude Kirk, first Republican governor of Florida, who traveled on a honeymoon to Europe last fall at the taxpayers' expense. 2. The gubernatorial team of George and Lurleen Wallace of Alabama, who are trying to split the Democratic vote for President, and who have been away from Alabama for weeks.

On Nov. 27 Gov. Lurleen Wallace spent the first full day at her desk in the state capitol in Montgomery since her operation last July. She had recent' ly been in California helping her husband get his name on the ballot, where, incidentally, he's having hard sledding. Ala- bamans say they'd like to see their governor and-or her husband stay at home for a change.

Gov. Kirk's honeymoon airplane fare to Europe last September was charged to Florida's Development Commission and cost $1,627. The Republican governor had married a beautiful, buxom German-Brazilian Erika Mittfield shortly after he knocked Florida's politics into a cocked hat by being the first Republican to get elected governor. Republicans who elected him immediately began talking of running Kkk for Vice President. To this end, the crack Safire Public Relations firm of New York was retained, ostensibly to promote Florida development.

But the firm has also concocted all sorts of gimmicks to keep Gov. Kirk's name in the headlines, such as having him descend to the bottom of the ocean eight miles off the Florida coast to plant an American flag, thereby claiming the bottom of the sea for Florida; also having the governor sit os the players' bench in his shirtsleeves at football games. This, however, has backfired. Recent' ly boos have greeted the governor's arrival. Wedding Expenses Paid How much of this promotion of Kirk-for-Vic President has been paid for by the state is not definitely known.

However it has been established that the state paid $4,000 for photographs of the governor's wedding, made by the Davidoff Studios of Palm Bach. On top of this came the $1,627 travel tab for the governor's honeymoon, plus the fact that two officials of the Fbrida Development Commission accompanied the governor, presumably to make honeymoon arrangements for him. Gov. Kirk has been flying around the state in a fast jet paid for by the Republican State Committee, an organization which has been slow in filing a list of its campaign contributors and its expenditures. Some Florida legislators suggest an investigation of just who is contributing this money.

Partial identity of Kirk's benefactors was revealed the other day in Miami at a meeting the Dade County Chapter of the Florida Automobile Dealers Association when Dennis McNamara, president, appealed to auto dealers to contribute to the Wackenhut Detective Agency, entrusted by the governor with operating a private Florida police force. It ran up a bill of something over $300,000, for which Kirk has been passing the hat among Florida businessmen. At the auto dealers meeting President McNamara, not realizing the press was present, let drop the key to Kirk's money- raising success. He said, "The governor needs $1,000 from each of us. and rernember, he's been a friend of ours and promised to veto the sales tax." While the governor of Florida has been lavish in spending money for his own promotion and for photographs of his photogenic bride, he has been niggardly with funds for children and oldsters.

The University of Florida, because of Kirk's vetoes, faces a $2 million deficit; Florida teachers are in revolt over the curtailment of education funds; and 200,000 elderly, who would have been eligible for Medicaid, today are thrown on Florida counties for relief because the governor vetoed an appropriation for matching funds which would have brought in three times as much federal money as he vetoed. Kirk vs Wallace Gov. Kirk, who has a lot in common with ex-Gov. George Wallace of Alabama when it comes to traveling, nevertheless announced the other day that he was going to campaign against Wallace in Florida. Whereupon Kirk heard from home.

His mother, Myrtle Kirk, happens to be a clerk in the Alabama House of Representatives. She got on the telephone to deliver a shrill lecture to her son in Tallahassee. The governor's father, Claude Kirk has held a succession of Alabama state jobs and is presently in charge of federal-state liaison for Gov. Lurleen Wallace. Both of Kirk's parents were distressed over the waywardness of their Florida son when it came to Alabama poli- tics, and urged him to abandon his intention of barnstorming against the ex-governor of Alabama.

At present, the two governors of Alabama are much too busy to worry much about problems in their home state. They have been busy letting the taxpayers of Alabama support George's political ambitions. A total of 25 Alabama employees have been in California trying to help George get his name on the California ballot. They draw weekly salaries totaling $4,000, and at first alibied that they were working off accumulated annual leave. Gov.

Lurleen Wallace, however, finally admitted that none were on vacation or off the payroll. Nobody got mad at Lurleen when she took time off for a serious operation in Houston. But they haven't been happy over her trips to California now that she has recovered. Furthermore, the real fact is that George, not Lurleen, is the governor of Alabama, and George has been spending all his time out of state pushing his own ambitions to be President. PINNING HIS HOPES! PROTEST RALLIES 5 The World The Court and the War By BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) It came as no surprise this week when the Supreme Court refused to stand in the way of Capt.

Dale E. Noyd's court-martial. However active the court may be in- other areas, it is anything but eager to joust with the military or to give its views on the. Vietnam war. A hearing for Noyd, charged with refusing to help train pilots "HOW THE LADIES EARNED THEIR 1927 play produced by ladies of the Great Island Presbyterian church, had the participants pictured Frederick W.

Winkler, Miss Carrie Bridgens, unidentified, Mrs. H. C. TroxelJ, Mrs. W.

T. Grif- fith, Mrs. E. D. Parkbill, Mrs.

William Hollis, Mrs. I. T. Parsons, Mrs. Fenton H.

Fredericks, and, in front, Eva Whitmyer, Mrs. Carroll All, Helen Geary Gilson, and Elma Lucas. for Vietnam duty, almost inevitably would have involved the 34-year-old officer's claim that the country is engaged in a "war of aggression." And this, clearly, is a thicket the court does not want to get tangled in. From the earliest days the court either has turned aside those challenged war actions by the president and Congress or ruled against the challengers. It's been no different with the Vietnam war.

On four separate occasions this term and last, draft resisters and soldiers who regard the war as Megal failed in their quest tor hearings. And although the court will decide before June if the law authorizing the jailing of draft ca'rd burners is constitutional, the ruling need not pass on tiie legality of the war. This reluctance appears to disturb at least two justices, William 0. Douglas and Potter Stewart. Stewart, a highly pragmatic jurist, said in a dissenting opinion last month the war has raised "large and deeply troubling questions" and "the court should squarely face them." And Douglas, in a dissent last March, noted "there is a considerable 'body of opinion that our actions in Vietnam constitute the waging of an aggressive war." He said legal questions raised 'by the war should be answered.

But the (majority, without say- ins why, does not agree. The tradition that the courts should not interfere with the president's power to make military decisions goes back to 1827. That year the Supreme Court upheld conviction of a New York Staite militiaman who had refused called into federal service, Justice Joseph Story said the authority to determine whether a military emergency exists "belongs exclusively to the president." In 1865 Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase's high court upheld federal seizure of ships that had tried to break a blockade of Southern ports set up before war was declared. Even extreme exercises of wartime powers have been upheld.

For instance, in 1944 the court ruled constitutional an order excluding all persons of Japanese U.S. citi- the West Coast "military area." No less a defender of civil liberties than Justice Hugo L. Black delivered the decision. He said "when under conditions of modern warfare our shores are threatened by hostile forces, the power to protect must be commensurate with the threatened danger." Justice Felix Frankfurter, concurring in the decision, probably best expressed the court's traditional stance. "The validity of action under the war power must be judged wholly In the context of war," he wrote.

"That action is not to be stigmatized as lawless because like action in times of peace would be James Marlow is on vacation. Daffvnifions Convert: One who leaves his party and comes over to ours. Christmas: Something that when you get near to everybody wishes you a merry. Oil: A substance that's used to reduce in the Middle East. Here and There Ail in Fun Booklist for Celebrities By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Are you getting a bit frantic now about doing some last-minute Christmas shopping for presents for deserving acquaintances or suddenly remembered friends? There is no reason for blind panic.

The solution is simple. Just go to the nearest bookstore and buy a few books. A good book is always an appropriate present. If you send it to someone who can't read, it flatters his vanity; if he can read, it will help keep him informed and stir in him a lasting gratitude. He may even lend you the book back so that you can read it, too.

Books, of course are handy in many ways. They are great things to impress visitors with or to hide behind when your wife is trying to start an argument and you are feeling too weak to defend yourself. And a good stout dictionary is as good a platform as you can find to stand upon while reaching up to pull down a stuck window blind. Yes, there is no end to the uses books can be put to. But the selection of the right book for the right person is all-important.

For example, in fun is a suggested list of books suitable for certain celebrities: "Incredible Los Angeles Rams. "Last Reflections on a War" S. McNamara. "The Deserted Johnson. "The Nelson A.

Rockefeller, Gov. George Romney, Gov. Richard Reagan, and Richard M. Nixon. "No Laughting V.

Lindsay, mayor of Fun City. "At Ease: Stories I Tell Friends" Zsa Zsa Gabor. "The Eugene J. McCarthy. "Anyone Can Make a Million" friendly neighborhood Mafia leader.

"The Last Best Hope. "A Dictionary of Richard Cardinal Gushing. "Between Parent and Child" Dr. Benjamin Spock. Robert F.

Kennedy. "Foolish Diller. "The Revealing Edgar Hoover. "The Lost Revolutionary Any hippie. "Oops! Or, Life's Awful Baltimore Colts.

"Bigger Than a Jackie Gleason. "The House in My E. Stassen. "One More Victim" The Green Bay Packers. "The Limits of Chi Minn.

"With a Little Bit King Constantine of Greece. "The Age of Reason Timothy Leary. "On Top of the Poitier. Local Skies THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21 Sunset today 4:44 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:32 a.m.

The moon rises 9:30 p.m. tonight and forms a triangle with the planet Jupiter and the star Regulus. Jupiter is much brighter than Regulus and is now beginning to move slowly toward that star. Last Quarter Dec. 24 Tariff: One form of government interference business doesn't resent.

Shore Lines By Joseph Cox Claussville, without the Santa, is in Lehigh County, not too far from Friedens, a name that suggests peace on earth. A tale of the interurban trolleys comes fom the latter town. We have been on the track of these for some time, since reading of the attempts to start a line between Jersey Shore and Lock Haven. "When the trolley was still operating through the village, a local spinster, Miss Kitty decided she wanted to visit a relative living in the city." The city must have been Allentown, in the Morning Call of which the story was found. ft ft ft "She was not used to traveling very much by trolley.

Arrangements were made with the relatives to meet Kitty when she arrived' in the city. All this worked out very nicely. "After three days in the city she wanted to return home. Her relatives took her to the trolley stop and instructed her to tell the conductor when and where she wanted to get off. This confused her somewhat and when she got on the trolley she at once told the conductor that he was to let her off where she had got on three days before.

"This was a big problem for the conductor, for he had not been on duty that day. However, it was solved by Kitty herself. She recognized the village church and schoolhouse when they arrived in the village and called out to the conductor: 'Do will ich (Here I want to get off). "In her talks with her neighbors she was now an experienced traveler." Preston A. Barba carried the story in his colmun in the Morning Call "devoted to the literature, lore and history of the Pennsylvania Germans," with this note: ft ft ft Some time ago we acquainted our readers with Osville C.

Peter, eccentric story-teller in the little vilage of Friendens, but known far and wide as Flig- gel Peder (Winged Peter) some of whose stories anecdotes were gathered in and published in book form by Walter T. Handwerk, of Slatington R.D. 1. The following anecdotes appear here by courtesy of Mr. Handwerk and are not included in the bound volume." ft ft We owe many of our Christmas customs to the Pennsylvania Dutch, as Stevenson Whitcomb reminds us.

He says that the Scotch-Irish settlers did not observe Christmas to any extent, and many of the New England English who settled in the Wyoming Valley did not, at first, observe Christmas, New Year or Easter, since these were fetedays of the ecclesiastical organization that had persecuted them in England. ft ft if Another tale in Pennsyivaanisch Deitsch Eck, as the column is called, has to do with a present which may or may not have been given at Christmas. "In the days when the Fliggel Peder went to school, it was still the ruling that the parents ted to buy the necessary books and slate and slate pencil. "One such school was attended by two boys from the same family who were close enough in age to be in the same class. One of the textbooks used in the school was a catechism, and as usual in a Pennsylvania German community, the catechism was in German.

ft ft ft "The parents being of the thrifty Pennsylvania German type, decided they could save money by buying only one copy of the needed book, from which they could both study. "This arrangement worked nicely for some weeks, but the teacher began to notice that something was wrong. He noticed that the neck of one of the boys was leaning toward the right shoulder, and that of the other boy toward the left shoulder. ft ft ft "He did not wish to see them go through life with crippled necks for such a reason. One day he told the boys that he had an old, used catechism at home which he would give to them.

He was certain that both boys would be benefitted. This German gift book solved the problem and both boys grew up to be straight, upright men." ft ft ft When the weather is calm and tranquil during the fortnight before Christmas, as it has been so far. these days are known as Halcyon Days. Ratio's They'll Do It Every Time C'MON IN- MARSO'S A SWELL KID-GREAT HUWOR-WAITlL YOU AAEET HER- SHE'LL COOK US UP SOME BACON AMD EGGS SWEETEST DISPOSITION IN THE WORLD-LOVES TO COOK-C'MOM-.