The Leavenworth Times from Leavenworth, Kansas • Page 4

Four THE LEAV1NWORTH TIMES, Tuesday Evening, October 20,1953 Too Many Passes Bad Egg South of the Border" 1 The Worry Clinic All incompleted passes this season will not the gridiron. Many will result uf death on highways leading to the nation's football fields for motorists too eager to reach the stadium, or too excited to consider the perils of travel. While it is not possible to physically pick out these individuals who create major hazards on the highways, psychological surveys of motorist's behavior, have led to the creation of a composite personality type. This is the "showoff He ignores danger and knowingly takes risks to attract attention. He is competitive and boastful Often he suffers from a sense of inferiority he is driving to cover up by his actions.

In all, his traits dicate he is more dedicated to showmanship than sportsmanship. He enjoys passing cars at dangerous points on the high- way, and then boasting about his luck. His boasting of fast time on trips is rivaled only in loudness by the bright color of his car and the smart gadgets adorning it. Another type cited as equally dangerous is the driver who cannot control his emotions to a reasonable degree. These individuals are unable to remain calm under stress of emergency and lack presence of mind when required.

Upset by trifles, he easily loses his temper and his judgment along with it and expresses his feelings by driving recklessly. During his calmer moments he can be identified by irrational horn blowing. These traits are not confined to teen-agers or even the more sedate collegians. Many an old grad will find his pass intercepted by an approaching car. Lit Up Like a Christmas Tree The phrase "lit up like a Christmas more aptly describes the family car these days than the home.

The Automobile Manufacturers Association reveals present day cars contain m'ore light bulbs than the average five-room house. Current models contain about 20 bulbs for each car, but the total reaches as high as 38 for some makes. A quarter century ago cars aver-, aged five or six bulbs each. By 1940 the number had grown to 13 and had increased to 16 during the postwar year of 1946. Kansas Snapshots From Here and There It it reported the Lawrence Kiwanis dub made the whole town go nuts the other day.

Club members sold 8,000 bags of peanuts as a-money raising project Too many homecoming games are spoiled because the visiting team thinks it is the guest of honor and is entitled to the guest prize. Our calendar shows there are only 52 weeks in the year but we counted seven "weeks" during the last seven days and seven organizations were anxious to have their weeks "observed." If everybody did their Christmas shop. ping early, what would the stores do the rest of the year? The Kingman Leader-Courier notes that whereas we used to have old narrow frails where two cars could barely pass, we now have super-highways where six or eight cars can pile up at one time. Leavenworth had to abandon the Community Chest idea because there were more people ready to empty it man there were to fill it. Collected From Other Typewriters Topeka Potctcotc It would be regrettable, indeed, if the Kickapoo Indian powwow comes to an untimely end, as suggested the lack of interest at this year's conclave of the tribesmen at Horton.

The Kickapoos, lowas, Sac and Fox and Pdttawatomi tribes are the last remnants of what once was a sizable population of peaceful Indians in Kansas. Of the 28 emigrant tribes that were sent to "Indian Country" before Kansas was opened to settlement, all are gone except those mentioned above. And their numbers are diminishing rapidly, as more and more of the younger generation take on the way of the white man and become full-fledged citizens. The Pottawatomi tribe is objecting to a proposed federal law which would bestow upon them full citizenship, unless they are relieved of certain obligations accompanying such a status. This is understandable, 9 In the Swim For two years the swimming pool in Kansas City's principal park has been closed, despite the fact each of those years had a remarkably hot summer.

The reason for the denial of the use of. this municipal facility was that a federal court had ruled the pool could not be barred to racially segregated swimmers. The issue gradually has worked its way up through the courts until the Supreme Court now has confirmed the lowest bench's finding. Kansas City had as well accept both the legal ruling and the practical facts.by reopening its pool next summer to all. Whole Hog or Nothing "Kansas never does anything by halves," writes Milt Taber in the Topeka Capital.

"When it rains it the floods. When we have a a dry one We instituted the dust bowl. When the wind a tornado We trade-marked the Kansas cyclone. We for even their white neighbors object to taxation and controls from Washington. However, most of the original Prairie Band that was settled on the 11-square- mile reservation in Jackson County have gone to their happy hunting The youngsters no longer relish tribal life, and can be found in varoius jobs in cities and towns.

It is to be hoped that the Kickapoos do not abandon the rituals of 321 years. If Horton isn't able to attract sufficient attendance to finance the powwow, by all means bring it to Topeka next year as a part of the Centennial Celebration. The picturesque dances and ceremonies would fit in admirably at the Kansas Free Fair. We suggest that Manager Maurice E. Fager immediately contact the chieftains and arrange for the Indians to appear in costume, thus adding color to the big door Daily Capital.

While there still is a long way to go, new customs are fast breaking down old segregation practices. Even faster the courts are removing the legal protections those old practices long enjoyed. If Kansas City restores its pool to use next season, there will be a number of Whites who do not care to swim with Negroes and a number of Negroes who do not care to swim with Whites who will not use it. But there will be enough of those who-are indifferent to what other colored skins go into the same water to fill the pool to News-Herald. 'nationalized the grasshopper, the chinch- bug corn-borer.

We feed our hogs hot lunches which here-to-fore have been getting along on cold slop. Verily To the Stars Through Adversity." El Dorado Times. THE DAILY TIMES By D. B. Anthony Entered as second-class matter at post office a- Lesvenworth.

Kansas under the act of Congress, March 1.1179. THE TIMES TELLS THE TRUTH THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES published evening, (except Saturday) and Sunday moraine. Established In Consolidated with the Conservative established in 1160. The Bulletin cstab- lisfaed In MB. and The Commercial published in 1865.

Circulation of The Evening Standard and The Chronicle-Tribune consolidated with The Times in 1KB. Circulation of The Leavenworth Post absorbed in ISO. THE DAILY TIMES is delivered by earriei to any part Leavenworth or suburbs for lie month. The paper may be ordered by mail or telephone or through our authorized local agents, William A. Dresser and Floyd Brafcey BY MAU In Leavenworth and adjoining counties, per year- Beyond Leavenwortb and adjoining counties, per yeai Salvage a Future Career THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG New Jersey To Test Ike's Popularity By WILLIAM MC BRIDE Ray Tucker is on vacation, during which guest columns are being contributed by prominent newspaper editors.

Today's column is by William McBride, Editor of THE HERALD- NEWS, Passaic-Clifton, New Jersey. Only two states will elect governors next month but New Jersey's off-year election, like Virginia's, will give no clear indication of the Eisenhower Administration's popularity. There are many crosscurrents and whirlpools in the Garden State campaign but no strong tide in either direction. President Eisenhower carried New Jersey by 358,711 last November. The largest majority ever achieved by the Democratic Party' best vote-getter, the late A.

Harry Moore, three times Governor, was 230,053 in 1931. Supporters of Paul L. Troast, the 1953 Republican nominee, would be happy if their man won by 50,000. The Democratic candidate, Robert B. Meyner, recalls that New Jersey has had seven Democratic and six Republican Governors since Woodrow Wilson left Trenton for Washington in 1912.

Meyner hopes to win by picking up the anti-organization votes of independent Republicans who dislike their county political bosses. One straw in the wind is the informal poll of 11 veteran state house reporters, taken at Trenton two weeks ago. None picked Meyner to win. All expressed their off- the-record opinions of that date Troast would win. Four predicted an easy Republican victory.

Meyner, 45, is a rural lawyer who lost three elections for congressman and state senator, and served one four-year term in the state senate, 1947-51. He was nominated for Governor with the help of Mayor John V. Kenny, of Jersey City, who gave Meyner a 30,000 lead in Democratic Hudson County. Meyner's state majority was only 1,500. Followers of former Mayor Frank Hague, the old Democratic boss whom Kenny unseated, have formed a Fusion ticket with Hudson County Republicans.

Troast, in his late 50s, is a successful building contractor, specializing in-office building and industrial construction. In 1940, during the "phony" period of World War the French government called on him to build a huge addition to the Wright airplane engine plant in Paterson, N. within 90 days; his company completed the job in 89 days. As unsalaried chairman of the three-member New Jersey Turnpike Authority, in 1950-52, he built $255,000,000, 118-mile turnpike between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers in 22 months, on time and without a hint of scandal. Both Meyner and Troast have clean political records.

Troast is to some extent handicapped by an inheritance of Republican troubles. One is the bingo question. The state constitution forbids all forms of gambling except pari-mutuel betting at licensed race tracks. Bingo, a variant of lotto, is an important source of revenue for some' churches in populous Hudson and counties, to whose nightly games busloads of women are transported from other counties. Volunteer firemen also rely on bingo for money-raising.

When the Supreme Court upheld the validity of an indictment against the superseded prosecutor of Republican Bergen County, charged with failure to suppress the Adonis-Moretti syndicate's big gambling games, the state attorney general directed all 21 prosecutors to crack down on bingo. The Democrats blamed the Republicans for the crackdown. Legalization or continued suppression jaf bingo will be decided by referendum at the governorship election. The Bergen County gambling exposure of 1950 still haunts the publicans because a legislative investigating committee, which held lengthy hearings this year to determine why a Republican attorney general fired his free-wheeling deputy, will make its report Govemor Driscoll-and the legislature some time this month. Meyner hopes to derive advantage from the revelation that Troast, a past president of a state contractors' association, wrote to Governor Dewey in 1951, asking for a commutation of the sentence being served in Sing Sing by Joe Fay, AFL union official.

Troast released his 1951 letter for publication, explaining that Fay had been helpful to contractors whose jobs were tied up by wrangling unions. He insisted Fay never asked for a cent for settling disputes which concerned unions other than his own. Meyner is playing the Fay letter Newman Wright, who has been covering White House press conferences for his newspapers' Passaic-Clifton readers nine years, popped his first question to President Eisenhower two weeks ago. He wanted to know if the President would go to New Jersey to take part in the governorship campaign. Ike replied sharply that he was busy with national affairs.

But on October 6, he visited Atlantic City and shook hand swith Troast at Pomona Naval Air Base, after addressing the United Church Women. "Good luck!" was his greeting. THE POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Peg Lynch Makes Words Pay 9.00 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Preis la entitled exclusively to the UM for republication of all the loca? newa printec ic DewspapeTai SeinS newa dispatcher. National Advertising Arthur Hagg and Inc Nea York 3K Madison Avenue.

Cmcago office Nono alLkigaa Avenue. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK All women have a way with words, but Peg Lynch has a way of making them pay. One of the brightest girls in the Big Town, she has turned out so much prose her output makes the biggest dictionary look like a pocket magazine. "Some day I'd like to write a she said, and if she really put her mind to it, probably wouldn't take her more than a week. We sat down and figured out how many words she had authored in her career as a radio and writer.

The total was roughtly equivalent of 116 books of 100,000 words each. "But I still want to write a real book, or a good Broadway play," she said wistfully. "If I ever can find the time." Time is what Peg has the least of. She both writes and plays the leading role in "Ethel and Albert," a radio and TV marital comedy she has kept going for nine years. She spends Sunday and Monday writing it, and the rest of the week endlessly rehearsing and polishing it.

Her average day begins at 5 a. and may go until nearly midnight. She never has a full day off. "I have to wash my own hair I don't have, time to go to a beauty parlor," she said. "I even have' to have someone else buy my clothes for no woman likes I can't take the time off to go shopping." Peg is a slender, friendly brunette who looks just like the kind' of a wife the average guy would like to come home to, which explains her charm as an actress.

She also likes to write about typical married life situations she recalls from her' Midwest days. She and the late Thomas A. Edison have one thing in common. Edison is supposed to have said that "genius is two per cent inspiration and 98 per cent perspiration." Peg's success formula boils down to a simple four-letter word odious to most of us daydreamers. Any way you spell it it comes out Peg was born in Lincoln, Neb.

Her dad died when she was an infant. She was raised in Minnesota, went to the state university, wrote and acted in school plays. After working for the Mayo Clinic, she landed a job with a small Minnesota radio station. "I wrote 250 spot commercial announcements a week," she recalled. "And I also turned out a daily half-hour woman's show, a weekly little theater show, a 15- minute farm news program, three 10-minute plays and two 5-minute sketches a week." The pay was $70 a the problem was trying to find time to sleep.

She still has the same problem, but the pay is better. "I wouldn't trade that experience for a million dollars," she said. "Anyone who wants to do anything in radio or TV can't beat the training you get in a small town, where you have to learn to do everything." Peg has no feeling the cards are stacked against a woman in the television world. "Except on the business side," she added, smiling. "I've never managed to learn to add or subtract well." It rather dismays her that most people think of writing as easy, and acting as difficult.

"Writing is work to acting is fun," she said. "People look on writing as something they could do as well as you or better, if they just weren't so busy. Everybody feels he could have been a writer if life hadn't sidetracked him into doing something more important." She glanced down at the paper with figures totaling her output at 11,600,000 words. "It's appalling," she said, grinning ruefully. "Plain appalling.

Television is a monster. It's insatiable. It just eats your mind alive. But it shows no sign of wearing down' Peg Lynch. By DR.

GEORGE CRANE Case J-321: Peter 11, came home from school, crying. "Mother, I'm dumb," he wailed. "I can't get high grades like the other kids. "They call me 'dumb-head' and So can't you please help me? "I'd like to be smart like other kids and make high Cases like Peter torture parents. For every normal Dad or Mother yearns to relieve his child of unnecessary heartache.

Sometimes, unfortunately, children are born with such a low I.Q. that they need to be placed in special schools for retarded youngsters. But most children have enough I.Q. to make creditable grades. So the difficulty is not lack of brain power, but improper training and poor motivation.

First of an, be sure your child's eyesight and hearing are O.K. and also see that his general health is up to par. Then help him at home with some tactful tutoring, as with flash cards. Go through his reading book'and pick out various nouns, verbs and adjectives. Print each one on a strip of white cardboard.

Then start him two cards. Show him the differences between the two words. Then shuffle the cards and see if he can identify them. When he knows the two-words perfectly, add a third and repeat the process. For variation, you can have him act out the verbs, such as "run," "walk," "laugh," "cry," etc.

Invite his Daddy to compete with him, but be sure that Daddy doesn't win more than once out of every three cc four times, or the child's motivation is reduced. And don't drill with flash cards more than 5 to 15 minutes at time. You can also use such cards for teaching the multiplication tables, as well as addition, subtraction, etc. In fact, the same set of cards can bear printed reading words on one side and arithmetic combinations such as 5 9, on the reverse side. To stimulate reading further, let the child read comic books aloud to his Mother and Daddy while they do the dishes.

Offer him his choice of reading or washing the dishes. He'll usually select the task of reading. But be very lavish with praise and very careful bow you correct bis mispronunciation. Never "bark" at a child or "yen" at him as you try to show him his error. Lead him along gracefully by praise and compliments.

After a few nights of such deft home tutoring, your child's morale will be visibly improved when he comes home from school. For every bit of tutoring that you give him will pay quick dividends, since you are employing words taken right out of 'his future reading assignments. I have seen dejected youngsters do a right-about face within two weeks by such 15-minute periods of flashcard games each evening. A little tutoring at a critical time, can thus change your child's entire outlook. (Always write to Dr.

Crane hi care of the Hopkins Syndicate, Box 3210. MeHott. Ind. Enclose long, three cents stamped self-addressed envelope and a to cover typing and printing when you send for of psychological charts.) (Copyright by the Syndicate Inc.) From Files of The This Was the News TEN TEARS AGO N. Jay Leonard, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, called a meeting of businessmen in Leavenworth to clear up misunderstandings over rulings by the Office of Defense Transportation.

George West of the Kansas City'office of ODT was on hand to explain regulations to grocers, coal dealers, florists and taxicabs. The War Production Board announced another 16 per cent cut in newsprint. Ladies of the Lansing Baptist Church held their monthly meeting at the. church. The hostesses were 'Mrs.

Verna Van Meter, Mrs. Mary Brettenham, Mrs. Ollie Messmore and Mrs. Irene Kley. Two youths who had been turning in false alarms were traced by Fire Chief T.

L. Medill and were apprehended by the police. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO The Greenwood Golf and Country club was conducting a membership drive. There were 150 members and a goal was set to secure a list of 200. A Republican rally was held in the public school building at Lansing.

Mrs. Effie Van Tuyl presided at the meeting and J. B. Kelsey was the principal speaker. Hollywood Today An electric light bulb burst and exploded at the Horace Stevenson art gallery, Delaware and destroyed numerous old photographic plates and films.

The fire was confined to a store room and chemicals were used to put out the fire. Capt. Sam Fuller, professor of Leavenworth High School, sent out forms to an teachers to be filled out for information about ROTC cadets to aid in future selection of officers. FORTY YEARS AGO Walter Rauschenbusch of Rochester Theological Seminary told a' local church group the feminist movement was responsible for an increase in immorality. He said social conditions had changed and men were more modest than women.

Kansas Attorney General John S. Dawson spent a quiet day in Leavenworth. He was in the city to study the "joint" situation. He spent his time strolling about the streets and chating in cigar sores. He spent an hour punching the balls around in a local pool haU and remarked that it was a rather "dry" day in Leavenworth.

The Whittier Club met in fiw public library. Members discussed "The Merchant of Venice" with Ruth Hook as leader. were Mary Fitzwflliam Carney, Dorothy Knox and Helen Fritsche. Flynn To Stay in Europe By ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD Exclusively Yours: There were only four lines in the obit columns about it, but the Grace Goddard whose funeral was held recently was Marilyn Monroe's one-time legal guardian. She took over raising Marilyn when her real mother, Gladys Baker, went to a sanitarium.

She was also the stepmother of film actress Jody Laurence. The grapevine is all atwist with the rumors that Gig Young is the reason why Eleanor Parker won't listen to hubby Bert Friedlob's reconciliation pleas. Friedlob, it's said, will go to any lengths in the courts to win partial custody, of his kiddies. Errol Flynn, I hear, may never come back to the U. S.

and Patrice Wymore's mission to Hollywood recently was to cut all the ties that bind him to movietown. As a citizen of Europe, Errol can escape back taxes and alimony and child support payments to Lfli Damita and Nora Edding- Flynn Eddie Cantor is plunging into another' TV stream as the producer Of a new telefilm series "This Is Western Union." He won't appear in any of the episodes which concern the arrival of a telegram and recounts the drama, or comedy that follows. Wanda Hendrix is denying reports she will wed singer Jerry Lazar. She told me, 'Tm still strictly on the shelf romantically." There's a stack of John Wayne's money behind the forthcoming Broadway production of Alan Mowbray's self-authored play, "Flame Out." Noted on Warners' "The Phantoni Ape" set: Pat Medina reading a letter postmarked London from her ex-husband, Richard Greene. Phyllis Winger, outstanding as one of in iri the Sky," is now selling real estate in Beverly Hills.

Hollywood TV: A crew haircut and a dreamy look put Barry. Nelson in the matinee-idol class in a Broadway play "Rat Race." Now the same haircut and look have Barry heating up the TV tubes for feminine viewers in CBS-TV's new live show from Hollywood, "My Favorite Husband." Joan Caulfield is the co-star. Hollywood first saw Barry in a college play, but Broadway zoomed him to the stardom he failed to achieve as an MGM actor. "I was just out of college and I didn't find myself as an actor at MGM," he said. But he did find himself a wife at MGM.

He still blushes about it, though. Just back from New York and stardom in "Light Up the Star," he was asked to work opposite a studio newcomer, Teresa Celli, in a film test. blew my top," he reported, "and refused to do it. I was too important to be working in a film test. Another actor did the test with Celli, but I married her." Bobby Van, MOM'S great young dancing star, has a Broadway musical comedy offer that wilt make him as big as Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire.

Jeff Chandler has risen above sagebrushers and beef-cake Indian sagas at U-I. He's due to draw the cream of the studio's story properties. "Foxfire," a costarrer with June Allyson. win be the first. Yvonne de' Carlo, happier.

with British film roles than with the harem pants handed her in Hollywood, may take up permanent residence in England. Roy Rogers is claiming the best invitation of the mayor of Yellville, asked him to enter the National Wild Turkey Calling Contest there Oct 31..