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Governor Takes Firm Approach On Upgrading of Education in Texas Priority No. 1 in Governor John Connally's program seems to go, and correctly so. to the upgrading of higher education in Texas. In his message to the legislature Connally spoke plainly of the short-comings of our institutions of higher learning and the penalty Texas is paying for them. Connally expressed "a state of alarm concerning "higher education in Texas" and declared it "an imperative necessity to survey public and private higher education in its entirety in this state." Brainpower, the governor said, is the uncommon ingredient, "the coin of the realm of this new age" of space and the atom.

Industry follows this brainpower, and he cited as proof the industrial complexes surrounding such schools as M.I.T.. California Tech. Johns Hopkins and Michigan. He gave evidence that supports the belief that Texas higher education has not reached the top rank. Texas schools produced 297 Ph.

D's in 1959-60, while New York had 1.445, California 949, and Massachusetts 784. In the federal fiscal year 1961, California received 41.34 per cent of the Defense Department budget for experimental and developmental test and research work and 23.9 per cent or 5.277 billion dollars "of prime defense contract awards. Texas had 1.05 per cent for research and 5.1 per cent or 1.138 billion dollars in prime awards. Utah received three times as much as Texas in research contracts. Of 49 Texas high school students awarded National Merit Scholarships in 1962, 21.

or 43 per cent of the total, chose to attend institutions outside the state, no compliment to Texas. Our college faculty salaries are below par. Average salaries" at obscure schools as Moorhead State College in Wisconsin are higher than those paid at the University of Texas. Highway Crews Aid Motorists Perhaps you were able to stay off the highways during recent hazardous driving sleet, etc. or perhaps you had to brave the highway travel anyhow.

And if you did. you no doubt saw the Texas Highway Department's maintenance crews at work. They sanded icy bridges and critical spots on the highways, patrolled the roads to assist stranded motorists and otherwise made themselves useful. This is a little-known service of the Highway Department, but one that a lot of motorists appreciate. We commend them on this work at the time when motorists need them most.

The governor's approach to the problem is to create, as an emergency matter, a 25-member Committee on Education Beyond the High School. It would study the problem in all its aspects, in depth, and report to the governor by August, 1964, which would permit a program to be presented to the legislautre the following January. This is a logical, necessary way to proceed. A- fallacy of past legislative action in the field of higher education has been the adding of private colleges to the state system in single shot bills. Five other such proposals are now before the Without prejudice toward the merits of any of the five, we feel the better part of wisdom is to deter action on these pending the study Connally has proposed.

The overall problem of Texas higher education is so important and so complex that no solutions should be undertaken without the fullest, most authentic facts which can only be developed through exhaustive study as the governor has suggested. Signs Hopeful, But Questionable Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's offer to permit two or three on-site inspections a year to prevent cheating on a nuclear test ban agreement represents a hopeful sign on the long road to disarmament. The offer cannot be considered a break-through, however, since Russia had accepted on-site inspection "in principle" prior to September, 1961, before resuming nuclear testing, only to reverse itself when negotiations were resumed in November. 1961.

But even on-site inspection for a nuclear test ban is only a small beginning, although it would be a meaningful beginning. For disarmament is the goal, a goal that may not be achieved in this generation. The consensus of experts is that Khrushchev is eager to avoid a nuclear war, just as we are. He knows that the Soviet Union would lose everything it had gamed since 1917 in a nuclear war. The true meaning of an enforceable agreement to ban nuclear tests is this: It could provide the basis for mutual trust, something that is completely lacking at the present time.

We who survey the wreckage of broken agreements stretching from Yalta and Potsdam to Berlin and nuclear testing cannot be too optimistic over the prospect. Yet there is no acceptable alternative to continued negotiation, always in the hope that an agreement made, and fulfilled, will lead to other agreements on the larger issues that divide the Communist world and ours. The Paris News is an independent Democratic newspaper, supporting what it believes to be right and opposing what il believes to be wrong, publishing the news fairly and impartially at all times. REPORT FROM WASHINGTON Despite His Famous Goodbye, MacArfhur Hasn't Faded Away By WALTER TROHAN Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON Twelve years ago Douglas MacArt ur moved a staid congress to tears in recalling the words of an old ballad tihat oid soldiers ver die, they just fade away. He told a joint session of Congress after he was removed from his Korean command by Presi ent Truman: "And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty." His voice was thic emotion so that he was bare 1 able to get out his final words: "Good-by." There was scarcely a dry eye in the House chamber as he made his exit thru a doorway.

But the genera! has not faded away. He won a minor war in a matter of hours last week when he settled the dispute between the Amateur Athlet i union and the National Collegiate Athletic association, which threatened American participation in the 1964 Olympic games. President Kennedy m- moned him to undertake this campaign. When MacArt ur was successful, the Presid nt thanked him for "so effectively and mediating the differences between the A. A.

U. and the N.C.A.A. THE INCIDENT served to recall the last triumph of the duke of Wellington, the conqueror of Napoleon at Waterloo. In 1850 Britain was hold ing a great exposition in the Crystal palace which was construct in Hyde Park. Philip Gaudelia tells the story in "The "The watchful commons had insisted no trees be cut down.

A dreadful consequences ensued, for when the marvels of art and industry were exposed to view, the lively sparrows began to spoil them. The dilemma was agonizing, since it was impossible to shoot the sparrows without breaking half the glass in the great building. What was to WASHINGTON, C. A magazine expert says the Kennedy brothers are the decade's leading cover boys. The only one they missed was the Cuban air cover.

James Meredith may not return to the University of Mississippi. This saddens Army recruiters who had a new slogan: "Join the Army and give it the old college try." Ode to American fashions: Men in fur hats looks slightly ersatz. Republicans will hold a fund-raising dinner honoring Barry Goldwater. The theme: Fiscal responsibility. The slogan: Cash and Barry.

TV expert Sylvester Weaver says the future job of communications will be to tell everybody at once with the speed of light. The result will be known as instant chaos. Alterations in White House decor; The Blue Room is now white. The Sun Room is a kindergarten. The Press Room has become the image KNEBEL, be done? His country turned, as usual, to Wellington.

The duke sent for: and the queen herself explained the difficulty. 'Try- sparrow-hawks ma'am." he replied. It was Wellington's i a st victory." Americans can hope that the settlement of the A.A.U.-N.C.A.A. dispute will not be MacArthur's last victory. His choice as mediator was wise and appropriate because the field house of the United States military academy at West Point bears the trumpeting words of perhaps its mo distinguished graduate a former athlete and a former superinen- dents.

These words are: "Upon the fields of friendly strife are sown the seeds that, upon other fields, on other days will bring the fruits of This parallels the remark mac by Wellington while wach- ing a cricket game at a famous British school. "The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing Fields of Eton." PRESIDENT KENNEDY is to be commended for his employment of the old hero. One of his first acts on his elect i on was to call upon MacArthur. This, as well as his employment of the general in the athletic crisis, served to ease the sting of the firing of MacArthur because he would not accept a substitute for victory in Korea. It also served to point up the fact that Dwighl D.

Eisenhower, another old soldier, never consulted or employed MacArthur during his eight years in the White House. As far as Eisenhower was concerned MacArthur had faded away into history. No doubt some will say that it was good politics for Mr" Kennedy to call upon the old soldier. Mr. Kennedy has made a number of attempts to enlist the talents of Herbert Hoover to the benefit of the New Frontier, but age has forced the former President to decline further service.

It would seem, however, that the selection of MacArthur was more -of a mailer of wisdom THE PARIS, TEXAS, NEWS Russia's Idea of 'Inspection' -TO SEE IF ITS I'LL-LET VOU PEEK INTO THE BARREL! SYLVIA PORTER How Can We Make Our Economy Grow? ''We must move along the path to a higher rate of growth and full employment," a id the President in his State of the Union Message. "The sluggish rate of economic growth in recent years has not produced the revenues required to obtain budget surpluses under our present tax system." he emphasized in his budget core of my 1963 (program) is major tax reduction and revision, carefully timed and structured to speed our progress toward full employment and faster growth," he stressed again in his economic report. Obviously, the heart of the President's proposals for tax cuts in 1963-64 and his acceptance of huge budget deficits into 1967 is an all-out attempt to spur the growth of the American economy. Yesterday's column gave a simple definition of economic growth: it is an increase in the total amount of goods and sen-- ices available for each individual in our country. It also indicated that an economy grows in two basic ways: back to full capacity when it is "underweight" and to new heights of capacity to produce when the aim is long run expansion.

Today's co-lu concludes this primer on the key economic story of 1963. How can an underweight economy gain weight? A fundamental way it can gain weight is by increasing the demand for what its workers produce. Higher vernment spending can boost demand, for governments buy a considerable portion of the nation's output. Higher business spending can hike demand (more on this below r. Higher consumer spending is crucially important, for consumers spend twice as much as governments and business put together.

The key factor influencing the immensely important con- than politics. It needed someone of the stature of the 1 soldier to awe the warring masters of amateur athletics into surrender. sumer spending is the after- tax income of consumers, and therefore a key objective is increasing the disposable personal incomes of consumers. The federal government can help achieve this by paying out more than it takes in or by cutting personal income in each case more funds are left in the public's pockets. The Federal Reser System can help achieve this by making borrowing easier and cheaper, for this encourages consumers to borrow and sp nd more than they earn.

Businessmen can help by introducing new and improved products, new styles and status symbols, for stimulates consumers to spend a higher percentage of their paycheck. Monday, Jan. 30. 1950 Mrs. J.

A. Lewis of Hearon community was named "Woman of the Year" for service to rural progress in the state, by The Progressive Farmer magazine. Freezing mist thawed as the sun rose, to dull the edge of a raw, wet norther roaring in. with springlike thunder in the west at noon. Poll tax payments were ing in at the county tax offi e.

going over 6,000 at 10 a.m., and Billy Nelson said he looked for 10,000 before the Tuesday midnight deadline. Wrath is cruel. Proverbs 27:4. It is cruel to the one who yields to it and to the object of wrath as well. We should learn to control wrath and use i only to destroy evil and injustice.

A dominant goal of the tax cuts President Kennedy is urging is an increase in the aft r- fcax income of consumers so they'll spend more and thereby spur our economy's growth. How can our economy's long- term growth be accelerated? A fundamental answer here is by expanding the ability of all o- duce. Under today's circumstances the best way to do this is to make workers more efficient. American workers will become more efficient if (1) have greater skills. Giving our workers greater skills is becoming a major drive in our country.

They will become more efficient if (2) they want to wo rk harder. Lowering taxes to give them incentives to work harde-r is a way to this. They will become more.efficient if new products, processes and work ideas are developed. On this, business' ingenuity is vital and the federal government can help by spurring research. They will become more efficient if (4) they can use improved machinery.

Higher business investment in modern plants and equipment is the key to point 4. Businessmen will hike these essential investments if they expect to make profits on the investments, if they have confidence in the economy's stability and "climate," if they are given incentives via tax credits, tax cuts rules. They'll also boost this spending if consumer spending rises, and so, as the Reser Bank of Philadelphia points out, "Actions taken to inc a consumer demand may indirectly increase business investment and long run growth as well." A farmer by himself cannot make a plant grow and government action by itself cann make our economy grow-. In each case the growth must come from "some inner spark." But just as the fertilizer the farmer uses can stimulate the plant's growth, so the actions government takes can stimulate the economys growth. This is the story behind the story of the tax cuts and budget deficits.

They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo HE CAN'T HAMG PICTURE AROUND "THE HOUSE WITHOUT A JOB FOR THE PLASTERERS ME MAKES KEYS MORNIMG HE HAD 6ET THE COP TO LET, HIM IN A CHILD COULD DO fT-THE SCREWS GO IN COUNTER CLOCKWISE" THE VALANCE WIDGET IS BOTH CONCAVE AMD COWVEX-ALSO THE INSERTION! POD HAS A TENSILE STREN6TH OF 89 DEGREES VERY SIMPLE- COMPLICATED- ARE THEY HARD TO PUT UP? ARE THERE ANY INSTRUCTIONS WITH THEM? HIMSELF SIX TIMES JUST Pirrnsf 'EM ON THE SHELF WHEN TMEV CAME HE HARDWARE TYCOON WHO CAN TELL ANYBODY HOW TO DO ANYTHING- HXTLO HAT TO MI3S. 14OBMA YAPPE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30 7 1963 Backward lances (From the Screpbooks of the late A. W. Neville, Editor of The Paris News, 1936-1956) July 29, 1937 The killing of the Negro Jarrett Burns by John Ashley near Pattonville, in July, 1892, was followed by the lynching of three Negro men near there the following September. A newspaper story of that time said: "The killing of Burns caused great indignation among the Negroes in that vicinity, though he was an ex-convict and was regarded as a bad man generally.

Threats were made against Ashley and a few nights afterward an attempt was made to enter his house and he shot at an unknown person through a window. Later some of Ashley's horses were poisoned. It a supposed generally that this was the work of some of Burns' friends. It intensified the feeling and excitement increased. August 5 there appeared on the streets in Paris was a band of Negroes carrying guns and apparently guarding a wagon in which there was a Negro woman.

They went to the cou house and there to officers the woman told this story: "I am a niece of the wife of Jarrett Burns, the Negro was killed last week by Mr. Ashley, and I am now staying with Gilbert Daniels on Mr. Lane McCuistion's farm. Last i ht about 12 o'clock six white men rode up to the Daniels house and asked for me. They were told by Daniels that I was in the house sleeping.

They ordered him to wake me and tell me to come out. I got up and was forced to go outside the gate and a grass rope was thrown over my neck and 1 was led off down into the creek bottom. A ut 100 yards from the house they stopped under a tree and one of the men said. This is far Five of the men re standing a little way off and while one of them was fixing the rope over a tree limb I slipped the noose from over my head. I ran down the creek bank and fell and John Ashley shot at me, striking me here in the hip.

I managed to get away and after running about 200 yards I climbed a bois d'arc tree where I stayed until daylight. The men hunted all around for me until nearly daylight but did not find me and finally leit. A soon as day came I went back to Gilbert Daniels' house and began to fix to come to town and report the case. "Examination sho the woman had not been shot, was cot hurt in any way and the claiming to know that Ashl shot at her while she was running in the dark and that she climbed a thorny tree, led to the conclusion that she was telling a made up story. She was a sister of John Ransom, one of the Negroes who was hanged later by the mob." From that time until the lynching in September Ashley's neighbors had been guarding his horse at night, despite which some of his crops were destroyed by unknown persons.

(Continued Tomorrow) Editor's te THREE DAYS IN HOUSTON are enough to convince us that Big doesn't have the market cornered on Texas growth. Huge has no intention of settling for No. 2 rank in the state. Properly c-haperoned by the missus, we were given the Chamber of Commerce treatment along with other Texas editors by the Houston Chronicle and Houston Post. They rolled out the red carpet, and in Houston it's a large carpet.

The big talk was, of course, the Manned Space Center being built by NASA in Houston. Actually, the 1.500-acre site is halfway to Galveston. The astronauts and other NASA folks are now scattered about Houston in several different temporary sites, awaiting completion of the Manned Space Center. And on the subject of thines large, we now know our full capacity on seafood at the San Jacinto Inn. BUMPED INTO private citizen Will Wilson, who was in Houston on business.

And as of this month, the ex-Attornev General's business is his own. and not the state's. He seemed to be enjoying private life, and inquired as to how ex-associate Henry Braswell of Paris, was enjoying few. YOU CAN'T CLIMB the ladder to success with cold feet. TO THOSE WHO asked what action had been taken against the youngsters who "burned" the Culbertson Fourrtain on the Plaza last Halloween, it's apparently still pending.

The case was presented to the Grand Jury, the proceedings of which are secret until defendants are either billed or no-billed. Neither action has been reported by the Grand Jury. DISCRETION IS what you use when you're sure you're right but go ahead and ask your wife, anyhow. QUIETLY, AND WITHOUT a great deal of fanfare. Lamar Medical Center folks are making an effort to improve their facilities and service.

A new baby incubator has been ordered. Bids are being taken on a new X-ray machine, and one may be purchased if the Center can find it within its financial means to do so A BABYSITTER IS a teen-ager who behaves like a grownup while the grownups are out behaving like teen-agers. STILL NO WORD on the future of suspended Lf. Cleveland Skates with the Paris Police Department. The Supreme Court of Texas has reversed lower court decisions, and apparently has ordered the City of Paris to return Lt.

Skates to the force But the City of Paris is awaiting the arrival by mail of the mandate from the Supreme Court before taking any action (AND THE DINNER HORN) THE NORTH TEXAS PUBLISHING COMPANY PARIS Bassano Publisher Bill Thompson. Managing Editor Richard Stringfellow. Adv Robt. E. Cox Circulation By Ey 3 Months 3 SO By Mall-six Month, 6 50 Delivered by Carrier In Clty Zone 40c Week Week on Texas Subscriptions) to attention of the arls New ls not responsible tor the return of unsolicited manuscripts or Photographs The Paris News is not responsible for copy errors, typographical errors or any unintentional errors may occur in advertising other than to correct In next issue after it ts broucht to their attention.

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