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E. J. MODEL Editor MEMBEt OF THE ASSOCIATED MESS The Associated Fresi is entitled to the ute for republkation of ail the (oca! news printed in thU newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. National Advertising Representative WARD-GR1FF1TH COMPANY, INC. New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles ONE BIG REASON other states have better roads and schools than West Virginia is that they pay for them.

For instance, EUnois's real estate taxes are about six times that of the Mountain State. Here nearly three-quarters of them are paid by out-of-state or absentee landowners. Symptom Of Society's Illness In Colorado Another scandal--the second in two years--has erupted at the U. S. Air Force Academy, involving the honor code.

Cadets are being fired for admitted cheating, or failure to inform on cheaters, and there are cries that the code is too strict. The academy and its honor code, in all likelihood, will emerge from this tempest stronger than ever. The firings and the investigations will prove to students that the Air Force means business when it puts students on their honor, and it, like the other military services, will strengthen the tradition that its cadets and future officers must be men whose word can be trusted. The institution whose future is in danger is not the Air Force Academy. It is society itself.

THIS IS AN INDICTMENT of society that the cream of its young men must readjust their thinking when they enter a school which observes the honor code. It is a warning that these young men grew up in homes and in communities where honor was regarded much more lightly than convenience, where grades and athletic scores were all-important gods, to which integrity could be sacrificed with impunity. A society like that is in trouble. It isn't the criminal the streets who most tears down a society. It is the trusted, well-rewarded member of the community who feels no obligations along with his privileges, who will cheat and lie to get along in the world or maintain his position.

A priest, speaking to the cadets after the news of the latest scandal, impressed upon them the need for honor. "Men's lives are on the line every day in Vietnam, or in any war," he said. "Can you imagine the frustration of a commander who knows that his officers are not men of integrity?" There is a much larger battle being fought every day--the battle of life. Here, too, men's lives are on the line. And each of us depends upon the honor and integrity of others.

Without those virtues, there is nothing. How About AllThe Club Gambling Now? When the Legislature opened its present session, there was a general expectation that it would surely do something about the state's present weak and ineffective laws against organized and commercialized gambling. But as the session nears its end, nothing along that line has been done and there seems little prospect that anything will be done. One reason it earlier appeared that new laws would be adopted was that a strong demand for action came from the Wheeling district, which has had more than its share of headaches from gambling syndicates, big and small. So it is significant to hear The Wheeling News-Register express its editorial regret at the present prospect.

"Particularly do we need this legislation now that West Virginia is about to embark on a new experiment in the handling of alcoholic beverages," says The News-Register. "Already we have heard rumors to the effect that certain tavern and club operators are figuring devious schemes to allow them to continue with their illegal slot machine operations despite the enactment of the bottle club bill. One suggestion being considered, we have been told, is that a separate room would be constructed adjoining the so-called clubs off the club premises." The trouble with our present laws relating to slot machines and other gambling devices is not that they fail to express a public policy against such gambling. It is rather that these laws are so loosely drawn and have been so strictly construed in court cases that their enforcement is difficult, if not actually impossible. If the Legislature wants to give the new liquor law a fair chance of succeeding, it should correct the numerous errors in the laws before it adjourns and goes home.

--The Morgantown Post A professor says if man is to be destroyed it will not be by the hydrogen bomb. Nothing as old-fashioned as that will be in style when the big blow off comes, apparently. Top (T The Morning Little Lump Of Coal Sensation In Miami By EMILE J. HODEL During the holidays we visited briefly in Florida on the Gulf Coast. A day or two after we returned we had a letter from an old friend and former Post-Herald staffer, Mrs.

Jo Hill Connelly of Miami Springs, Fla. Jo met and married her husband, Bob Connelly, while both were working here and both will be remembered by many Beckleyans. Connelly went from the Post-Herald staff to the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina and then to the Miami Herald. However, he discovered that the pace was just too hectic and left the Herald. He is now on the staff of the Catholic diocesan weekly paper in Miami.

They have two children, a son, Dan, and a daughter, Jane Ellen. The letter of last Jan. 4 was a sort of call for help. The aid was required for young Jane Ellen Connelly who is a sixth grader in parochial school. The appeal went this way: "I'm writing to ask favor.

Jane Ellen must do a science report by Jan. 20 and on her list is a shaft coal mine. "I can't think of anyone on better terms with a shaft mine than you so I thought I'd see if you have any information to help her. Also she could use a lump of coal. Jane has never seen a piece of coal and I'm sure most of her classmates are equally uneducated.

"It's like trying to explain snow to a child who has never seen it and most of these have not. They have no concept of Let's face it, 40 degrees is as cold as it gets here on the worst day of winter and you and I know that isn't cold. "Jane Ellen was fascinated by a pair of galoshes she saw in a closet in Massachusetts. We barely managed to get a little box in mail with less than a week to spare before Jan. 20.

In it we enclosed both a little lump of coal we had managed to scrounge and a so-so drawing and our own explanation about the differences between shaft, slope, and drift mines. We had no idea where to come by anything printed on the subject. So we just drew an illustration and did the best we could by it. We wondered several times if it reached the Connellys in time. We DID send it special delivery, as we recall We also had some fear that the soft lump of coal might have been pulverized by the time the postal service got it there.

Recently we had another letter, or rather two of them. Jane Ellen Connelly wrote: "Thank you for the lump of coal. It was not broken at all when it arrived. The children in the sixth grade with me had never seen any kind of coal before. We passed it around the room and they enjoyed looking at it.

"My teacher wants me to keep the lump of coal for her next year's science class when they study coaL" -0- Her mother's comments were similar. In part, she said: "Jane really did all right with your coal and explanation of mines. It may be hard for you to but that lump of coal created quite a sensation in the sixth grade. "If you ever need a coconut, let me know we have a tree full in the front yard. "Jane's teacher, Sister Mariam, asked her please to keep the coal so they could use it next A New Market? How about that? A sensation from a lump of coal- We should have sent a second lump so they could have burned it and seen what happens when it is used for heating purposes.

Come to think of it, do you suppose we have discovered a potential new market for coal? There are thousands of sixth grades all over the country and comparatively few coal states, of course. We will have to give this idea some thought And top of the morning to you! My Answer By BILLY GRAHAM Why is it that world religions like Mohammedanism and Buddhism continne to attract the loyalty of nn- told millions? Obviously, much of this is loyalty and tradition, but is this not true of Christianity too? Aren't most people Baptists or Methodists or Catholics because their parents are? L. Yes, tradition has a great deal to do with one's religious beliefs, and it is quite natural for a child to follow in its parent's footsteps in matters of faith and practice. But the Bible teaches that we are not to accept a religion, even from our fathers, unless it is subjected to the test of conscience and to the pattern of Jesus Christ. "Beware lest any man spoil you with vain philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in him." (Col' We are told in the Bible to "examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves." If we have an effective, satisfying, real faith, it must be of our own finding and choosing. Faith is one thing that can never be secondhand. This doesn't mean that we must necessarily turn from the faith of our fathers, but it does mean that we must subject that faith to the Scriptures, to the conscience, and to the heart. Saul of Tarsus, having come face to face with Christ, found his traditional faith unsatisfying and, following his convictions, turned to the Christian faith. Obviously some people follow Christianity in a traditional way, but it is of no value unless they make it their own.

Paging James Meredith? Yesterday And Today-Clay County Summerses Historical Clan By SHIRLEY DONNELLY G. Charles Summers, a Gauley Bridge reader, has sent an interesting memo on the Summers family of Clay County and adjoining areas. In it mention is made of David Crocket Summers, one of the early progenitors of Prof. Festus Summers, long the head of the Department of History of West Virginia University at Morgantown. One thing of interest concerning David Crocket Summers was the fact that his life and that of his father, Jehue Summers, spanned the entire history of Clay County from colonial times up to the day of the death of David Crocket Summers when he was in the last decade of a century of life.

David Crocket Summers lived at Wallback in Clay county. One of the customs of tie old gentleman, even after he was around 90, was to make an annual pilgrimage to the grave of his father at Camp Creek, a place that was in Kanawha County when Jehue Summers settled there. Later it was in Nicholas County when that political subdivision was formed in 1818. When Clay County was created in 1848 it was cut off from Nicholas to help make the county that was named for the "great "Peacemaker" as the senator from Kentucky was called. JEHUE SUMMERS was born in Germany in 1776 and was.

brought to this country at the age of seven. His family founded a home in Bath County, Va. When the War of 1812 broke out, Jehue Summers enlisted in the American army. He was in the Battle of New Orleans of Jan. 8, 1815.

when Gen. Andrew Jackson defeated the British force under the command of Gen. Edward Pakenham. Summers married Johanna Davis who bore him 13 children. After Mrs.

Johanna Davis Summers died, Jehue Summers married a second time. His second wife was Mariam Cazuald. Seven children were born to this second union of the old German. OUT OF DEFERENCE for Ms commander at the Battle of New Orleans, Jehue Summers named one of his sons Andrew Jackson Summers. Another was named Thomas Benton, who was General Jackson's aide-de-camp and who had raised a regiment of which he was appointed colonel.

He fought a duel with Andrew Jackson in which neither man was seriously injured. For 30 years he was United States senator from Missouri. When Richard F. Tyree operated the Old Stone House as a tavern over near Clifftop, Sen. Thomas Hart Benton was a frequent guest as he traveled to and from Washington via -the stagecoach lines which operated over the James River and Kanawha Turnpike through south central West Virginia as we know it today.

Another son of Jehue Summers by his second wife was George Clark Summers, named for Gen. George Rogers Clark, (1752-1815) of Cow Pasture River in Virginia, whose 178- man army won for us the mid- west in the Revolutionary War. Some of Clark's men later settled here in Raleigh County. One of them was Daniel Shumate, one of the charter members of Coal Marsh Baptist Church (organized 1836), oldest church of any faith or denomination in Raleigh County. Another, and a fourth, son of Jehue Summers's second marriage was David Crocket Summers.

He was named for David Crockett (1786-1836), famous frontiersman from Tennessee, who had served under Jackson in the war against the Creek Indians. This was one of the heroes of the Alamo in 1836, when Gen. Santa Anna and his Mexicans captured and killed Crockett along with the others taken. IT WAS FROM David Crocket Summers that Dr. Festus P.

Summers of the West Virginia University is descended. From the fondness of Jehue Summers, father of David Crocket Summers, for historical characters it is easy to see how one of his blood line descendants, Dr. Festus P. Summers, went in for history in a big way. Dr.

Summers was a Phi Beta Kappa student in his chosen field of study who went on to earn a doctorate in it. His books have been received in this column as a salute to the eminent scholar who is an old friend. Dr. Summers succeeded Dr. Charles H.

Ambler as head of the Department of History. It was Dr. Ambler who did his best to teach a little history and its methods to me. JEHUE SUMMERS lived at the mouth of Board Tree on Twenty Mile Creek for a time. He had a bear gun that was made at Hugheston, (W.Va.J in 1814.

He lived awhile at the mouth of Camp Creek where he died April 184, a vear to the day before Appomattox. His body was moved on a sled to his old home where he was laid to rest. Speaking of bis bear gun that was made at Hugheston, it is reported that wild life was then so plentiful in the neck of the woods where Jehue Summers spent his declining years that it was not considered noteworthy to bag a half dozen bears or a dozen deer on a single day. SPEAKING OF TWO lives -those of a father and son -spanning an era, I never knew of but one similar couple. They were J.

A. (Joshua) McKinney (Aug. 15, 1874-Aug. 4 1962) and his father. Josh's father was born when George Washington was serving his first term as President and Josh McKinney died when John F.

Kennedy was in the White House. Josh McKinney was born when his father was past 92 years of age. Martin E. Coleraan of Oak Hill is the daughter of Joshua McKinney. I married Josh McKinney and his second wife and officiated at Josh's funeral on Aug.

6,1962. I married him and Mrs. Mary E. Tread way, a widow, on May 7, 1938. Andrew Tully-Auto Cartel Appears Amenable On Pollution WASHINGTON- Apparently, Detroit's automaking cartel plans to go along with the federal government's plans which will make it a great deal safer to take a deep breath of outside air by the fall of 1968.

At least, they don't seem to be planning any serious jrom- plaints about the a curbs on gasoline pollution a need more than a month ago by the Department of Health Education, and Welfare. The new limit on the amount of hydrocarbons that may be discharged through the evaporation of gasoline in fuel tanks and retors, were announced Feb. 4. Interested citizens were given 60 days to critizise the standards, but there has been no sign that the automakers will object. Thus, HEW officials estimate that within two years government fiats will have reduced by more than two-thirds amount of hydrocarbons that emerge from cars and light trucks.

This figure probably is a little high, since existing vehicles will not be affected by the new rules unless the owners voluntarily convert, but it gives a good idea of what the standards eventually will do. THERE ARE TWO sets of standards. Those announced Feb. 4 affect the 20 per cent of hydrocarbon emissions from carburetors and gas tanks. Standards issued a year ago govern crankcase and tailpipe emissions which account for the remaining 80 per cent of the emissions.

Last March's standards will become effective on the 1968 models which will appear on the market next fall; the new regulations will apply to 1969 models appearing in the fall of 1968. At present, HEW figures show, about one billion gallons of gasoline annually pollute the atmosphere as a result of evaporation from just the gas tanks and carburetors. Thus an average driver loses about a gallon a month through evaporation cf harmful hydrocarbons. In addition, another four billion gallons are lost through the tailpipe and crankcase, covered by last March's regulations. CONTROL DEVICES ordered a year ago should prevent about 48 per cent of the emissions from crankcase and tailpipe.

Similar devices ordered by the new regulations will eliminate nearly all of the emissions from carburetor and gas tank. Thus, the total coverage is just under 68 per cent. Put in layman's terms, on an average trip of 20 miles an automobile without control devices will evaporate about 10 grams of hydrocarbons from the carburetor. Another 30 grams of hydrocarbons will be lost every 24 hours through the gas tank cap. The latest standards will limit total evaporative losses to two grams during an average 20- mile trip and a full day's expansion and contraction ot the gas tank.

EARLIER, SOME automakers had complained that the driver would find the control devices too expensive, but that doesn't seem to be the case. A typical evaporation device developed by Standard Oil costs only about $10, and it will pay for itself several times over in recovered gasoline over the lifetime of the car. This will be made possible by an activated charcoal filter which prevents evaporative loss and returns the fumes to the carburetor as fuel. Although automakers offered no serious objections to the new standards during an informal meeting before they were announced, the government has devised a system of random checks to make sure Detroit toes the line. Producers who sell cars that do not meet the standards are liable to a $1,000 fine for each vehicle sold, which is a stiff price to pay for cutting a S10 corner.

MelHeimer-- He Knew Them All When For This Particular Bit NEW YORK These nights a tall, dark-haired, talented young man named Richard Benjamin is setting curtain calls for his acting in "The Star-Spangled Girl" at the Plymouth, and this is pleasant to behold. The last time I saw young Mr. Benjamin, we were hoisting on the terrace of the Negresco Hotel in Nice on the French Riviera, and he was simply the guy who was a i to tkhonl Paula Prentiss a well-known movie performer. He listened evtry patiently and graciously while Paula and I talked about her past and present roles-- but it must have been annoying as the devil. Drew Pearson And Jack Anderson -CIA Also Got NSA Draft Deferments WASHINGTON It has now leaked out that the Central Intelligence Agency used not only cash under the table but draft deferments to subvert the National Student Association.

The threat of the draft hung heavily the heads of NSA officers, their own admissions behind doors, unless they followed the CIA line in i student activities. The CIA would send an NSA representative to Vietnam, for example, and expect him on his return to oppose the antiwar movement on the campuses. The draft deferments were obtained through CIA-White House channels until last year when Vice President Humphrey's office made the arrangements. All this is revealed in detailed, handwritten notes, made available to us, of the NSA's secret staff meetings. The notes were kept by educational director Larry Rubin, who is re- sig.ning in protest over NSA's failure to make a clean breast i of the CIA affair.

ED SCHWARTZ, the vice president in charge of national affairs, brought up the draft question at a staff meeting attended by 30 people on Feb. 9. This was five days before the NSA- CIA controversy hit the headlines. However, the officers knew Ramparts magazine was coming out with the story and were discussing what to do about it. "You must understand our bind," said Schwartz.

"It is clear now that the CIA has gotten or draft deferments for us in the past. If we blast the CIA in our statements, we will lose our deferments. We can't havt an organization without a staff, and we can't have a staff without deferments." "I thought you said the CIA did not get our deferments for us this year," interrupted Rubin. "Yes," a Schwartz. "Phil Sherburne (last year's NSA president) worked it out with Hubert Humphrey, but our information tells us that if we blast the CIA, we'll still lose our deferments." SCHWARTZ THEN produced a proposed press statement that admitted sext to noting about the CIA link.

Dammit, Ed," protested Al Milano, head of the Student Government Information Service, "every staff member said we should directly admit to the relationship." "We're lying," agreed Rubin. "We do know the relationship existed." Schwartz, noting that some of the deferred staff members were not present, argued: "How can we make decisions that will aftect their future?" At the same meeting, he also confided that the CIA had given up to $5,000, plus credit cards and free travel, to NSA's foreign representatives. "I used to wonder why the the international people lived so high," he said. "Now I know." He added ruefully that "the CIA doesn't exactly force the caviar down our people's throats." FOUR DAYS LATER Eugene Groves, NSA president, returned from a hurried European trip. "Don't worry, boys," he reassured the staff at a Feb.

13 meeting. 'We'll all save our draft exemptions. I'm working it out with some people." Groves disclosed that he had been "in communication" with Undersecretary of State Nicho- las Kateenbach. There was a "possibility." Groves said, the CIA might be persuaded to make a public admission that it had financed NSA. However, he warned this would mean they could not tell the "whole truth" to the press.

"The staff agreed that no matter what," broke in Rubin from the back of the room, "we want to tell the whole truth." DICK ISN'T THE ONLY one of Broadway's current attractions whose life has changed in the few years since I last saw him. Indeed, the temptation is to look at some of them these weeks and say "I knew them when." Jfll Haworth, for instance. Miss is starring in the musical "Cabaret" and she is a fine broth of a swinging young woman. But when I first caught up with her, she was a wispy ash blonde of 15 or so who just had don't know what to say. I won't apologize." THEN BE DEMANDED of Groves: "First, I want to say this to your face: Why did you lie to us about your own knowledge?" "We had to get Pulvers (NSA representative Roger Pulvers) out of Poland," replied Groves, "before any word was spread that he was CIA-tainted." "Ed (Schwartz) said we had to lie to protect our money," retorted Rubin.

"I want to know about our present complicity." "Wait, Gene!" broke in Milano. "You've lied to us. We don't want that kind of crap any more." Groves buried his head in his hands. "Look," he pleaded, "I really NSA'S TOP OFFICERS continued to huddle with the CIA throughout the controversy while they put out statements claiming only incidental ties to the CIA. Indeed, the statements were prepared at the secret meetings which were held at the Marriott Motel and the home of CIA agent Robert Kiley, both in Washington.

When Rubin learned of these meetings, he threatened to resign. Schwartz on Feb. 27 called Rubin into his CIA-carpeted, CIA-furnished office. "You're a moral puritan, which now makes you a moral pervert," snapped Schwartz. He warned thai Rubin's demand for full public disclosure could end up causing NSA staffmen to die in Vietnam.

"If keeping the CIA meetings secret means I'll save one person's deferment," he added, "I'll keep those meetings secret." acted in "Exodus," her first movie, and all she did was sit mousily by while her mother told me all about her. I SUPPOSE ONE of the queens of Broadway now is Lauren Bacall in "Cactus Miss B. is here, there, and everywhere in New York, going to benefit balls, appearing on television and so on. When I first came across her, however, she was a stringy, husky-voiced ex- model who had a St. Regis suite as did Humphry Bogart, a little man she was soon to marry.

She just had been lambasted by the critics for a movie she had made but she was, then, just as genially outspoken as is now. With Kim Stanley absent these months, I daresay the most talented actress in town is Geraldine Page. I was stunned by Miss Page's tour-de-force acting in "Mid-Summer" years ago and went down to Greenwich Village to meet her. We met, I remember, in the Stonewall, a pub known to both of us, and she was pure Village--no makeup, casual clothes, windswept hair, and a rather sardonic view toward the Establith- ment. Now she Is doing "Black Comedy" at the Barrymore and is almost a grande dame of the theater.

The years go by awift- iy. WHEN I FIRST MET Mary Martin, she already was established, having knocked over the customers with her singing of "That's Him" in "One Touch of Venus." I recall we met at Jim Moriarty's old Barberry Room and at one point Miss Martin laid her legs onto my lap to show me a birthmark. For one brief moment there in the Barberry Room, I was the envy of every man in the joint. Mimi Hines is something of a toast of the town in "Funny has as much talent as Barbara Streisand and is a number of steps handsomer--but I like to remember her and Phil Ford coming to my office when they were a nightclub act, and practically doing their whole routine for me, in sheer exuberance, including her imitation of a chipmunk. Ginger Rogers? Well, the years mean nothing to her; I must have encountered her first ten years ago, and she looked exactly then as she looks now and as she probably did 20 years ago.

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