St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 16

TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1968 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 3B 'Madam' Begins Run i James Reston I i The Real Business of the Election NEW YORK THE BIG PROBLEM for the voteri and convention dele Mates in every American election is to separate the business from the monkey-business, anj, this election is no exception. The closer we "come to the nominating conventions, the further we seem to get from a clear vision of the purpose of this year's vote. One main reason for this confusion is i tj win van i if FmI that the news is dominated by the propaganda of the candidates and the parties. Each candidate naturally advertises himself.

Each party peddles its own propaganda, and all this is news. But the subjective news of candidates and parties is not necessarily the objective truth for the nation. In fact, it may very well be the opposite. Therefore, we must come back to the fundamentals. What is the national terest? Where do we stand at home War Victims9 Mass Burial Forty-one Vietnam war casualties, including two marines from the St.

Louis area, were buried today in a military ceremony at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. All were killed in a helicopter crash last January. Their unidentifiable bodies were in eight silver-grey coffins interred in a mass grave overlooking the Mississippi river. More than 200 friends and relatives of the victims attended the services. The two area victims were Pfc.

Jerry Patrick, son of Mrs. Pinky Patrick, 4141 North Euclid avenue, and Lance Cpl. Ronald L. Fox, son of Daskel Fox of Girard, III. Two of the 41 were civilians, the others marines, soldiers and sailors.

They came from throughout the United States. One was from the Phil-lipines. Forty-six persons were killed in the crash of the Marine CH-53A helicopter in the Dong Ngai mountains, narthwest of if 0 irm i and abroad? After all the shouting of Reston Mie campaign, what will be best for America next January what kind of President and equally important, what kind of i 4r pleasant voice enhanced such songs as the catchy, "It's a Lovely Day Today" and "Once Upon a Time Eastham, who replaced, Paul Lukas Inha Broadway production as Cosmo Constantine, whom Sally helps to become the prime minister of Lichtenburg, was forceful and charming in the role. score has some o( Berlin's best songs. The book by the late Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse is often quite funny.

The satire on the willingness of the American Government to press loans on foreign countries, even one whose prime minister does not wpnt one, is fairly obvious, but nonetheless sharply pointed and wi tty. In this connection, Ed Van Nuys, William Griffis and C. M. Gampel as two American Senators and a Representative were quite adroit in their caricatures. Even musical satires must have a romantic angle and this was fetchingly taken care of by Donna McKechnie, a spirited blonde who played Princess Maria, with whom Kenneth falls in love.

The dances, although not particularly imaginative, were zestfully staged. Paul McGuire's handsome sets contributed a lot to the over-all results. Bray Hammond Diesj Pulitzer 0 1 908, Nrw York Time. Nam 8rvte THETFORD, July 2W Bray Hammond, a 1 i zer prize-winning historian, i e.4 Saturday in Middlebury, VtJe was 82 years old. He won the Pulitzer prize for history in 1958 with his booki "Banks and Politics in AmerH-ca: From the Revolution to tit Civil War." By MYLES STANDISH Municipal Opera hit another peak in its golden anniversary season last night with a dazz-, Kng performance of Irving Berlin'! "Call Me Madam." It not only exploited to the full the bountiful talents of three of the stars of the Broadway production, Ethel Merman, Richard Eastham and Russell Nype, but Richard France's stage direction and Buff Shurr's choreography made the whole production click into a bright, breezy, tuneful and amusing entertainment.

Miss as Sally Adams, the "hostess with the mostes' on the ball" who is appointed ambassador to the mythical duchy of Lichtenburg as a reward for throwing some fabulous Washington parties, exuded all the magnetism that made her the queen of Broadway musicals over three decades. The only other time Miss Merman appeared in St. Louis, in "Gypsy," at the American Theater seven years ago, she did not show to advantage. It was the closing week of the tour and she was obviously tired end mechanical in her performance. Last night, however, she had tremendous vitality, exuberance and vivacity.

The famous calliope voice hit its clarion motes with a triumphant joyfulness. She exploded all over the huge Forest Park stage and the audience loved her. That intriguing contrapuntal duet with Nype, "You're Just in Love," so grabbed the audience of just under 10,000 persons that it rated three encores and a lot of playful clowning. Nype, in his original Broadway role of Kenneth, Mrs. Ad-imi'i assistant, has done it twice before in Municipal Opera productions, but never better than last night.

His solemn, bespectacled face and his reedy, By i Poat-Dlsptcil Photographer At Military Funeral Relatives of the 41 victims of a Vietnam helicopter crash looking at the large floral display today in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. Evans Group Granted TV Building Permit Phu Bai in South Vietnam. There were no survivors. The bodies of five victims were identified. They have been buried separately.

The 41 were given full military honors. Local Army, Navy and Marine reserve units provided an honor guard. An Army band played, and a three-volley salute was fired by 12 riflemen. The services were conducted by three reserve chaplains, the Rev. James R.

Martin, Catholic, and the Rev. Stephen B. Rybolt, Protestant, both of the Navy, and Rabbi Barton Shallat of the Army. Marine Brig. Gen.

Robert P. Keller, commander of the Marine Corps Air Reserve Training Center at Glenview, 111., spoke briefly. Transportation for the next of kin and two other relatives of each of the dead was provided by the Government. One widow came from Okinawa and another from West Germany. Each next of kin was presented a flag by white-uniformed officers.

The mass grave is to be marked with a special monument. The burial was held at Jefferson Barracks because of its central location. prompt action on the UHF outlet. A spokesman for the new holder of the construction permit told the FCC that Evans's interest was predicated on his ability to put the channel on the air "as quickly as possible, hopefully in 1968." Evans is president and director of the new group. The FCC said that consideration for the transfer was set at about $40,500 and that the Evans group does not currently have any other broadcast interests.

Special to the Post-Dispatch WASHINGTON, July 23 -Transfer of control of a construction permit for Greater St. Louis Television Corp. to Thomas Mellon Evans has been granted by the Federal Communications Commission. Stockholders of the corporation, which had planned to operate the city's first ultra high frequency station, channel 30, said that "unanticipated difficulties and unexpected changed circumstances" prevented Congress? Honest and sincere men will differ about the answers to these questions, but surely these are the questions that must, despite all the natural but selfish personal and party clatter, have first priority in the national interests THE ONE THING WE KNOW about next January, like last and most other Januarys, is that events and not political leaders, are likely to dominate the world scene. Johnson, Ko-sygin, Brezhnev, Mao Tse-tung, Wilson, De Gaulle, Kiesinger and all the other heads of government today have only one thing in common they are overwhelmed by the fertility of the ordinary people, and the movement of the people into cities, and the fertility of the human and particularly the scientific mind, which is changing the world faster than the politicians in any country can change their societies.

Look at Washington, or London, or Paris, or Moscow: all the so-called "great men" are overwhelmed by the convulsive events of the human mind and body. The personal and party propaganda in America today suggests that somehow these elemental movements of the human race are going to be changed by the election of Mr. Humphrey or Mr. Nixon or Mr. Rockefeller or Mr.

McCarthy, but this attributes far too much to individual genius, and the people know it, and the candidates when you get them quietly in a room confess that they know it better even than the people, and are actually more terrified by the claims of their own campaign propaganda than anybody else. NEVERTHELESS, THE NEXT PRESIDENT and the next Congress can influence, if they cannot direct, the forces in the modern world, and the fundamental question is what President and what combination of forces in Congress would serve the nation best The United States cannot defend its national interests or exercise its maximum influence on world affairs in its present state of disunity: therefore, it must seek a President and a Congress that will encourage as much national unity as possible. The United States cannot deal effectively with its internal problems poverty, the cities, the farms, and the races, and the conflict of the generations unless it can find the fantastic sums of money necessary to do the job. The Soviet Union has a similar problem of finding funds to meet the growing demands of its people for a better life, and Washington and Moscow also have the problem of getting the money to keep the underdeveloped nations from creating The one-ireseirvatDOui airline chaos in Asia, Africa and Latin America. IF THESE ARE THE REALITIES of the next four years, the questions are: is Mr.

Nixon or Mr. Rockefeller, or Mr. Reagan, on the Republican side, the best man to unify America and bring about an understanding and an arms agreement which will lower defense budgets in the world? And who on the Democratic side Vice President Humphrey or Senator McCarthy is most likely to unify the nation and divert the costs of the arms race to the menacing problems of poverty at home and abroad? The first test of these elemental considerations will come very soon now in the Republican convention in Miami Beach. And the questions uppermost in the Republican' party will be decisive. If the question is who has worked hardest for the party, or who is nearer to the philosophy of the Republican party in the past, obviously Mr.

Nixon is the man. your name, phone number-even handles car-rental reservations, and hotel rooms on tours. And if somebody in New York just took the last first-class seat on your flight, we'll know it in Los Angeles before his ticket is written out. In short, we want your next reservation to go so smoothly you'll come back to the one-reservation airline again. Without any reservations.

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Nixon, who is hated by the Russians more than any other candidate for the presidency, obviously has to be considered in a different light. The problem of the election, then, is to get the question Straight before the vote, to consult the future rather than the past, to decide for the nation rather than for the individual or the party. Maybe the above questions are not the right ones, but the nation and the future are obviously the first business of the voters and the delegates. And the difficulty is to strip away the monkey-business, the personal and the party propaganda before the nominees are picked in Miami Beach and Chicago. Dr.

Peugnet Funeral "IT ii 3.2 wife, Mrs. Grace Stephen Peugnet, 7346 Forsyth boulevard, University City; three Miss Winifred Dou -( 4 1 East Hampton, New York; Sis ter Jeanne Y. Peugnet, Holy Name Convent, Montreal, and Mrs. Maurice B. Roche, 4400 Lindell boulevard, and two brothers, William R.

and Amedee A. Peugnet, each of I 4605 Lindell blvd. Funeral services for Dr. Hubert B. Peugnet, member of a pioneer St.

Louis family, will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the St. Louis Cathedral. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. Dr.

Peugnet's family traces Its ancestry to Auguste Chouteau, one of the founders of St. Louis. Dr. Peugnet, who was 65 years old, died yesterday at Barnes Hospital of lung cancer after an extended illness. He was a graduate of St.

Louis University Medical School. After years in private practice, Dr. Peugnet conducted research and taught at Washington University. He worked for a number of years with Dr. Edward A.

Doisy, a Nobel Prize winner. In World War II, he was a major in the Army Medical Corps in the Aleutians. Upon his return to civilian life, he worked for the health service of the St. Louis public schools. Surviving is Dr.

Peugnet's The body will be at the Arthur J. Donnelly undertaking estab lishment, 3840 Lindell from 4 to 8 p.m. today, Arthur Cohen Dies LISBON, July 23 (UPI) Movie director Arthur Cohen, who won an academy award in 1958 for his documentaries, died yesterday. He was 54 years old. East Side Medical Center Planned The one reservation that matters is yours.

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