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Page Four September 19,1968 A KETUMICAN NEWSPAKR YlfAKS PUBLISHED'EVERY BUSINESS DAY IY BECKLEY NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION 339-343 tokUy, W. Va. 25801 Ttlephonii All 253-3321 Second-Clem mall authorized at poll offlw at W. tmd Hinton, W. Va.

I. HOML Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aisoitand Pren It entitlid to for of oil the local news printed In thTi newlpoper, ai well all AP diipatAti. LONG-TIME MEMBER National Advertising Repretentative WARD GRIFFITH COMPANY, INC. New York, Chicago, Delroil, Atlanta, Boiton, PhilodalpMQ, Pimburgh, San Fronciico, los Angeln. "IT'S WELL to remember freedom ihrough the press is the thing lhat comes first.

"Most of os probably feel we conldn't be free Without newspapers, and that Is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free." -i-Edward K. Mnrrow In 1958, Reds Near Launch Lead With tiie exception of the planned Apollo three-man flight next month, J968 is likely to end as one of the least exciting years of space exploration. This does not mean advancements will not be made this year, but it does Show the pace has cooled considerably from a few years ago. The Apollo flight itself America's iirst flight for a three-man crew will be a milestone. If the October mission is successful, it will be a giant step toward the moon rendezvous NASA scientists still bope to complete by 1970.

But the total U. S. space effort has slowed considerably. So 'far this year the U. S.

has launched 22 rockets with 31 paylqads, During the same period last year 54 payloads 'were launched. The Soviet Union has increased its tempo this year with 40 launchings, each with one payload. This is five more than in 1967. IT APPEARS OBVIOUS that the Russians will complete more launchings 'this year than the United States. This will be the first year, since 1957, when the Soviets started the space race with two Sputniks, that the Soviet Union out- laiinched the United States.

Something else happened in Soviet rocketry in 1968 which may prove more significant than mere numbers of launchings. Russia has tested only one of its Fractional Orbital a System Cosmos 218 rockets. This was brought back to earth in less than one orbit. In 1S67, the reds engaged in nine FOBS tests. The small number in 1968 could indicate the Soviets have perfected at least the initial part of this potential nuclear weapon.

Partly responsible for the slowed- down U. S. space activity, of course, are budget reductions which have hit the National Aeronautics and Space Administration particularly hard. There are indications NASA budget limitations may be lifted somewhat jiext year, but uncertainties over space exploration funding have had an effect on both long-range military and civilian space planning. Filipinos Less Friendly It 'happens sooner or later everywhere the United States stays too long.

Now there is a growing tide of anti-Americanism in the Philippines. For nearly 50 years--from 1898 to J946--the United States administered the Philippines as a colony. It is an interesting development that today there are more Americans in the Philippines affiliated with various aid programs than there were American officials of all categories during the colonial years. In the Manila area alone there are pO.OOB Americans, uniformed and civilian, manning the huge military bases and other facilities. Some Filipinos complain the U.

S. still treats their land like a semi-colony. The younger generation of Filipinos is developing a strongly nationalistic trend, and a hardening of the anti-U. S. position.

When sorely frustrated by their problems, Filipinos are likely to ask what is to be expected of a country which spent 300 years under the Spanish yoke, 50 years in Hollywood and four'years in a Japanese concentration camp. THERE IS NO UNANIMITY of opinion about why more and more Filipinos are becoming tired ol Americans. The 22 years since forma: independence was granted have nol been particularly successful years for the. archipelago. The islands today are faced by heavy political, social and economic problems.

America is not the sole object of ill feeling among the people. The Japanese occupation during World War II is still recalled with horror. Charges of collaboration with the Japanese are still beard in election campaigns. But it is the American who. is stir there.

He serves as a corivenienl scapegoat for all that is wrong with the country. Certainly the a bureaucracy does nothing to help the U. S. image. Critics in other lands have said the (rouble with Americana is they are too well intentioned.

Perhaps that is the Case in the Philippines. But it is sad to a generation which witnessed first hand the struggle against aggression by two peoples united in a common cause to see that friendship undone by familiarity of too long standing. Top (yThe Morning Toy Fund Workers Step Forward By EMtLE HODEL As we mentioned here last Thursday morning, we are a bit late in jetting the early work on Mac's Memorial Toy Fund started. And we ilso appealed to those who may be interested to begin volunteering their services for all the many necessary which must be undertaken. One of the most important of these has been tentatively covered.

Ted England told us that the Beckley Citizens Band Radio Club members would be willing to repair and refurbish the used toys again, he felt certain. He added that if for any reason the club could not undertake the work, he would do so himself. When we hazarded the opinion that it would be too much work for one man, Ted remarked, "Oh, I'll have help! There are always other people who are willing to help out for the Toy Fund!" And, of course, tliat's much the spirit of the Toy Fund down through all the years since the late Ted G. McDowell started it. --0-A note also arrived in the mail from Mrs.

Mildred T. Pownell of 208 Ewart just over the hill from our offices. As usual in recent years, ilrs. Pownell was the early bird with her "widow's mite." She enclosed a $10 check for the Toy Fund, the first gift to arrive. The septuagenarian and her daughter, Alice, with whom she makes her home, have been strong Toy Fund supporters for many years.

We certainly thank Mrs. Powuell for her generous "kick-off" contribution. -O-Another development came when Jim Kessiuger t6ok lime.ofi from his duties at the Beckley Water Co. to join MS in our first shopping venture on the new toys. Jim has always held down the biggest part of that chore.

We now have about half of the new toys on order and will have to make another journey to finish the task. Jim will join us in this early next week, probably on Monday. And in the meantime, we would still welcome further volunteering for specific tasks that must be undertaken to have a successful Toy Fund Party just before next Christmas. Such things as the used toy collection work, doll repair and dressing, entertainment for the party, and all the other myriad tasks are still to be manned. If you have any specific desires, let us hear from you.

Man's We mentioned here Monday that we had made a round trip on the ferry now operating near Point Pleasant in lieu of the collapsed Silver Bridge to Ohio. On the trip we had another odd and somewhat unnerving experience. The highway, W. Va. 17, between St.

Albans and Point Pleasant is a good road except that it is a bit narrow for the behemoth tractor- trailers that used to whiz over it. They are now missing, for the most part, and it makes the trip much more enjoyable to drive. However, coming back from Columbus, in the wee hours after midnight Sunday morning, there were patches of fog both in Ohio and along the Kanawha River as we sped toward Winfield from Point Pleasant. As we were traveling the road between the tiny communities of McCausland's Run and Pliny, two red flares loomed out of the darkness. A ear was half off the road on the wrong side and broken glass was strewn over the highway.

-0-We stopped to see if we could be of any assistance. A man who had set out the flares, he said, indicated that the car had hit his cow "and killed it" and the two men in the car were badly hurt. When we asked if there was something we could do to help, he indicated that unless we had some flares to replace those which were about burned out, there was nothing we could do. He already had called an ambulance and the sheriff, he said, and both were on the way from Winfield. He implied that the sheriff had been called so that his mortally injured cow, which was bawling in the ditch, could be dispatched with a humane bullet.

-0- As we continued on, we could only think how fortunate we were that it had not been our car that the cow loomed in front of out of the dark and fog. We also could not escape the feeling that the man, who was apparently a farmer, was really a bit more concerned about the cow than he was the two men who laid injured in their car. He had identified them as Negroes. Somehow, we MUST overcome this Inhuman and be better human beings toward our fcllowmen! My Answer By GRAHAM We claim to have a Christian home, but like many Christian homes, so-called, I'm afraid we fall far short. My husband (and I am not just being critical) has developed a very harsh attitude toward everyone, Including his own family.

While he quotes Scripture, leads Bible classes, he generally points out everyone's shortcomings, using the Bible to back him up. He is, in fact, critical, sarcastic, cold, and vindictive. While 'l love him, I am very depressed by his "betfer-than-thou" attitude. What can I do? C. R.

Your husband needs to read and take to heart the words of Paul in I Cor. 13:1: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." All-Stars Drew Pearson-Russians Made Stupid Mistake BUDAPEST--The Russians, saving committed the most stupid mistake of their many years of diplomatic boners, now have decided to make West Germany the scapegoat. They have branded West German militarism as their reason for sending tanks rumbling into choslova- kia. I I Kremlin sticks I previous I precedent, it's I probable that heads will roll. In the a ushchev, 1 Malenkov, and! Molotov all paid for their mistakes by being retired or demoted.

This time the Soviet is being run by a committee-type government, so several heads may roll. Ever since the momentous decision of Aug. 20, skilled diplomats in the West have been trying to figure but who tipped the balance inside the Kremlin for the Czech invasion. Communist party in the Ukraine, who was brutal in his behavior; Premier A 1 i Kosygin; Defense Minister Andrei Grechko; a Secretary Andrei Kirflenko; and Alexander who had been in charge of security under Khrushchev and had been demoted to the much less important job of chief of trade unions. Presumably he wanted to win recognition again by being tough.

Kosygin was reported as having been very tough in Bratislava, but less so in Moscow after the decision had been taken. Leonid Brezhnev was reported as wavering. Whatever may have been their degree of responsibility, however, there Is no question but that Walter Ulbricht, the hard-boiled orthodox Communist boss of East Germany, helped tip the scales for military action. He is also the man who sold.Kremlin leaders on making West Germany the scapegoat. HAVE concluded in the first place that it was a close vote by a margin of only one or two.

Second, they have figured that it was a military-type decision. The Kremlin saw something in Czechoslovakia that was moving, and not knowing exactly what else to do, it fired. The a i of Czechoslovakia did not take much military planning, because the Red Army and its allied armies of the Warsaw a a i Czechoslovakia on i maneuvers two or three weeks earlier and this made it very simple to invade without advance preparation. The roll call of the tough guys inside the Kremlin who voted for the invasion comes chiefly from the Czechs who had a showdown with the Soviet leaders, first at Cierna and Bratislava, later in the Kremlin when President Ludwik Svoboda and four other a threatened to commit suicide unless they were released and permitted to participate in the talks. AT BRATISLAVA, where the Warsaw Pact leaders met Aug.

3 to formalize an agreement with Czech leaders, Czech party leader Alexander Dubcek proposed, that the final communi-. que contain a reference to new forces in West Germany which sincerely desired peace. Whereupon Ulbricht hit the ceiling. He delivered a harangue that if there were any forces in Germany desiring peace they were represented by the German Communist party. Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, Ulbricht said, did not represent a sincere German faction for peace.

Ulbricht discounted Brandt's efforts to discourage the who seek revenge by wanting to take back the Sudeten! and from Czechoslovakia and Silesia from Poland. Brandt's alleged peace efforts, Ulbricht said, were for the birds. Ulbricht ignored, of course, the fact that the German Communist party is infinittsimal and represents only a tiny faction of German electorate. Czechoslovakia, that West Germany is a grave menace. And this was one of the reasons which tipped the stales in the fatal decision.

It has been adopted as the chief propaganda line ever since. The Kremlin of course definitely had an obligation to Ulbricht. He has been the most orthodox of all Communist leaders and the most loyal to Moscow. Furthermore, he has performed a minor economic miracle in East Germany by pulling that country up to the position of one of the leading industrial nations of Europe and the eighth industrial nation in the world. The standard of living of the East German people is higher than in all of the Communist countries which have strayed away from the strict party line, such Yugoslavia, Finally, Ulbricht has made the Berlin Wall work.

It has stopped the flow of skilled workers out of East Germany to West Germany, which prior to the wall was sapping the economic life of the nation. GUYS in these talks were Pyor Shelest, head of the ULBRICHT HAS kept hammering on Russian leaders, both before and after the invasion of CZECHOSLOVAKIA presented a real menace. In the first place, Czechoslovakia was getting West German credits and increasing its trade with West Germans. Second, the flow of skilled workers out of East Germany was beginning to start again. Czechoslovakia had removed the barbed wire entanglements along her West German borders and was permitted a free flow of people into and out of West Germany by either train or plane.

All East Germans had to do was to visit Czechoslovakia, a Communist country, and then travel back to West Germany. Thus the Berlin Wall was in danger of becoming an empty monument to a frustrated Ulbricht, Now that the Russians have to justify their most stupid mistake since Stalin ordered the invasion of South Korea, they have fanned up all the "Revenchist" statements made in the past by West Germans, pointing to the danger that former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss may come back once again to lead the German military. Yesterday And Today-How Is Turkey Wing Bird Call Made? By SIHRLEY DONNELLY E. Paul Mesham, chairman of the board of the Logan- Kanawha Coal Corp. with head offices in Cincinnati, wants to know something.

Or, at least, that is what reader J. D. Ballew, Box 81, Mabscott, says. Mesham. an Englishman, has a big planta-j tiondownin the! a i Wal-f lace.

There are I a acres in the I layout, part of I which is a game It was once the' property of a Cleveland doctor, who sold it to the big coal operator. What Mesham wants to know is how to make a turkey call device from the bones of a turkey's wing. He has heard that such a device can be made and also made to work. Once such a contrivance was heard and to my untutored ear it was difficult to distinguish between the noise it made and that ot the call of a turkey that is trying to get up with the rest of the big game birds. Perhaps some one reading this today will be able to tell J.

Btillcw how it is done, so he can convey the intelligence to his boss in Alabama. I would like to know, too. If anyone in those parts can make such a turkey caller from the bones of a turkey wing, my guess is it would he Russell Lego, the old naturalist who lives in the Old Stons House on State Road 10 7 near Clifftop. AFTER THIS COLUMN told last week of the way to remove warts, a wealth of information has been volunteered on other subjects of like faith and order. Biddle Williams, who hails from over in the country, informs me that his employed the gizzard of a chicken to remove warts.

The way it was done was to rub the wart with the chicken gizzard and then bury the gizzard under a rock, taking great care not to tell anybody about When he was divulging this information to me, he took; the pains to call his wife for additional information on the subject. Mrs. Williams said that where she came from it was widely reputed that the seventh daughter in a family can accomplish the feat. However, the seventh daughter cannot do the job if she tells it to anybody but a man. Mrs.

Williams, nee Miss Martha Elizabeth Lafferty, went on to tell that the seventh daughter in a family can cure thresh that troublesome ulcerated condition that frequently breaks out in the mouth of a baby by blowing her breath in the mouth of an afflicted infant. written as to the verse in Scripture that can be quoted, or breated, to "charm blood." It is hoped that no powerful secret is given away when it Is witter. here that the passage is fount in Ezekiel 16:6. For the benefit of any of to day's readers who do not have a Bible, that verse reads! as fol lows: "And when I passed by thee, and saw the'e polluted in thine own I said unto thee. when Utbu wast' in thy blood, Live.

Yea, I said unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood, Live." SHE ALSO MENTIONED that a person who has never seen his father can also cure thresh by blowing in the mouth of the sick baby. Telling me this was like carrying coals to Newcastle, as they say over British Isles way, because this was something I henrrj all the days of my pilgrimage on earth. Inquiry is at hand as this IT HAS BEEN asked what is the. Bible verse which will draw the fire out of. a burn? According to those who'are learned in thi: matter, thaj verse is EzeWe 19:14.

It is avowed and declared that if this verse is quoted to one who has been subject to fire, it will draw the fire out the burn. The verse is: "And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devouret her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be sceptre to rule This is'a lamentation, and shal fie a lamentation." While Biddle Williams and I were on the subject of stanching the flow of blood in a bleedinj person, he recalled lhat it was said by them of olden times where he came from that nose bleed could be stopped in a very novel way. All one had to do was to take a piece of lead, punch seven holes in it, tic a siring to it and wear It around his neck According lo this Veterans A i i a i Hospita employe, this is a sure-sho for nose bleed, he has al ways'been told since he was child. Andrew Tully-New Book By Senator v- if' Explains Vietnam Web WASfflNGTON Son. Gale i used to be an Intellectual himself, has cn a daring book "The Responsibilities of Wo 1 In it, he has (laved to come to Ihe defense of: the Johnson a In 1 nistra- lion's policy in Vietnam, virtually liue-for- line.

I say McGoe usod.to be an intellectual because, alas, realize that in these days it is the doves 'among tha academic set who decide which politicians merit that title. In black-and-white terms, McGee is a hawk; if a little is permitted to creep into argument, he is, actually, a man who believes Vietnam is a touch more complicated in the context of America's future foreign policy. FOR WHAT ITS worth, iiowcver, McGee's qualifications as intellectual should be listed. He holds a Ph. IX He has taught speech at Nebraska Wcslcyan and hislory at Iowa State College and Notre Dame.

He is a former professor of American History and chairman of the Institute of International Affairs at the University of Wyoming. For those to whom such things matter, therefore, McGoe is not merely some precinct captain who struck it rich. McGee's book is the hawks' answer to Sen. Bill Fiilbright, an intellectual whose ambivalent position on civil rights is forgiven in some corners of the academic community because of his do'vlsh stance on Vietnam. a i a tolerance" of the dovish intellectuals was revealed in 19G6 when Fiilbright, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, arranged to have McGee dropped from the committee.

But I applaud McGee for doing a better and more intelligent and articulate job of presenting the administration's policy Than even Lyndon" Johnson or Dean Rusk haver managed. i Indeed, McGee books particularly good in contrast to former Qcfcnso Secretary Bob McNamara, whose recent book, "The Essence of leaves -the Impression that' McNamara was off fishing when everybody thought he was directing, the.enlargement of the Vietnam war! Unlike makes ho attempt to run away from unpopular policy. Hp may wrong, but this is a book' vjitli guls. TO BE BRIEF, McGee favors' a continued 1U.S. commitment to the containment of communism around the world.

And, in clean-cut, simple prose, he mounts a good argument for it. "Hanging In the balance in Vietnam," says McGee, "is the chance for a a equilibrium In Asia. Whether that is to be an Asia dominated against Us will by a militant new China or whether It Is to become an Asia in which Iho non-Chinese Asiatics strike their own balance with China remains undecided until the test of American will in Southeast" Asia has run its course." McGee argues that the U. S. should stay in Vietnam and "hold a firm line behind which these small countries are safe to develop and lo consolidate and to work together." AS A PROFESSIONAL gum- beater who favors a reassessment of the Vietnam policy aimed at relieving the United States of some of the responsibilities of policing the world, I can't go ail the way with McGee.

He wants to see it through in Vietnam along present lines, which is a harder approach than would seem practical. ONCE THERE is a "sort of working coexistence among the competing forces In the Orient," he says, there can be a "gradual retraction of American power to be replaced in turn by non-Chinese Asian power. In short McGcc wants America to stand fast until the nations of Asia are capable of taking care of themselves' through an alliance designed to protect them from the ad- venturist ambitions of Peking. It is an argument worth consideration, even though it demands more time and patience than the American people want lo devote to this unpopular war. After all, none of the speeches and full-page advertisements contrived by the doves will make Red China go away.

Lyndon Johnson should lie grateful to Gale McGco, who has given Johnson's Vietnam policy a new measure of respectability, if not infallibility. Our Readers Speak-Would Get Bibles Back 1 road an article in your paper where George Wallace was getting rich off the poor people in his campaign. Why didn't he get rich when he was governor of Alabama? That is the way they get rich in West Virginia. I don't think that Alabama had all of its cabinet members on trial for stealing the taxpayers' money. I wonder how he teachcd Sunday School in the Methodist Church for 20 years? When Wallace is president, we can get the Bible and prayers back in our schools.

1 wonder if Nixon or HHH ever read verses in the Bible? Where is Nixon going to get the five million he is going to spend in the campaign? Maybo he has got a flower fund like West Virginia has got to elect hoodlums. H. C. Snuffer Bradley Trying To Save Country In reply to your last two articles concerning the Independents, I would say that this country is about to go under. This the Democrats do not know and because the Independents do know, this editor is trying to insult them and their candidate for president (Wallace), who is the only one trying to save his country--our 1 country, in fact.

Then his trying to raise for his crusade are you objecting when the Demos are over the place doing the same; thing? What sort of a creature arc you? And about depositing.it in a bank in I admire his foresight, instead of putting the money into one of these banks to be robbed the next day. This is my point of view. Yours is a mean political one. Humphrey is leaving no stone unturned that will bring him a vote, that he may win the election, ill-starred Driest is called upon to do his bit, so he gathers his insurrectionists together and they find the hall where Wallace is to speak, there they make as much ill- mannered noise as they can to prevent his speaking. You, too, Mr.

Editor, were expected to lend a hand, so you write some columns of the ugliest sort of politics, and as truth was unnecessary, the pen flew on at great speed, making its points clear. But if Wallace be elected, he has my sympathy, although they say he's 3 brave man. He will need his bravery to face the damage the Democrats have done to our beautiful, free country (no country in the world was ever so free) in 30 years. It will take 100 years to clean, up this 'country. J)ut I iloubt very much if it could ever le the same place again in all its simple, noble beauty--the wounds have gone too deep.

Frances E. Argabrite Rt, 2 Alderson P.S. Wallace says he sees no difference between the Democratic and Republican parties in 19G8. Handyman Shortage? I disagree with anyone who says that fallen-down houses show poverty. Most of us can't find a man even to patch a roof.

My house and out-buildings are in need of repair, not because of poverty but for lack of men that will work. I don't have a garden this year for lack of plowing. My grass was not cut. There's a need for working men, machinery or horses. I bought a rocking chair 14 years ago, 'but I never used it so I gave it to'my daughter who boards elderly women.

A man who wants work could go from house to house and find a job if he knows how to work. 'We need more tractors, brushhogs and the like to clean off the brushy, weedy spots. Many people are able to pay for work-, but can't find the help that's needed. The people ot Ualeigh County used to be. rich so far as food was.

con ccrncd, but everybody worked and helped each other when needed. Now they need land prepared, some tools and garden seeds and start anew. Slate dumps have covered a lot of good land in Raleigh C6unty. i 1 'Mrs. D.

M. Toney True Few Facts Overlooked Reference is made to front' page publication of Sept. 12 edition entitled "Wallace Steps Up Attack on GOP." Further-reference to-statement of Rex "When Mr. (Dwlght) Eisenhower and Mr. Nixon for the.

first time since the War Between the States put the bayonet in the backs of the people of Arkansas." I presume Rex Thomas, in accordance with hli desire lo express to the a point, has overlooked facts. In the first place, the U. S. constitution that "no soldier will be quartered without the owner's consent." Furthermore, Governor Faubus undoubtedly requested federal assistance. If this be true, Rex Thomas should have some tall explaining to do.

Joseph A. Tennant Pence Springs 'I.