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Nov. 26, 1958 The St. Cloud Daily Times LIFTING ONE END WON'T MAKE A CHAMPION ON SECOND THOUGHT By Carl Conrad Guis When I heard the news reporter describing the escapades Editor's Notebook By Harold Schoelkopf Wrl 1 tAtcKff of a couple of "lady hold-up men" I was sure that I had heard every thing. And naturally I asked, "What will the ladies be up to next?" Ah, these ladies. Before they had suffrage an old bachelor, defended their right to it.

I then hooted the opposition that claimed they would invade every field properly reserved for men. Now I'll admit those pipe smokin, tobacco spittin' old rustics knew their women far better than I. Indeed, he called the guntolers "ladies." Well, 111 still argue about the use of that word. What to do with them? That I'll leave to some more heroic soul who thinks trat he knows, or who has a remedy that he is willing to try. We are fortunate tha we have little problems like sputnicks to take our minds off of these greater problems.

Sputnicks are only one of the things that can destroy America. James Marlow U.S. on Spot in Refusing To Recognize Red Regimes (AP)-Now WASHINGTON you don't. see it, now you The United States gets itself into As The Times Sees It SaferAutos Still Needed IT SEEMS rather pointless to debate which is the most responsible for auto accidentr-the driver, the vehicle or the road. Obviously, there should be efforts to reduce the number of poor drivers and crack down on law violations.

Obviously, too, roadsides need to be improved. But it also is obvious that if more safety engrineering went into auto design the damage caused by poor drirs and poor road conditions would be lessened. It is this that auto industry spokesmen tend to minimize. Naturally they are inclined to place heaviest blame on driver and road factors. When the talk comes around to vehicle safety, they often shift to the defensive.

They make all the well-established points that autos are safer than in the past; that millions are being spent on safety research; that though changes cannot be made overnight the car of the future will be safer than ever; that if optional safety devices now available were put on all ears, the prices would be too high. Though these points may be true, they beg the question. The manufacturers are improving auto safety; no one disputes that. But are they doing enough? Much more is known about car safety than is now built into' cars. Is is ridiculous to suggest that the auto makers spend less on style changes for a time and incorporate more safety engineering into their product? If they advertised safety factors as intensively as they now advertise styling and comfort, would the public boycott the new models? We think not.

It might turn out that the public would prefer greater safety to more chrome and a dazzling new rear end upsweep. Richard Spong It Says Here CHUCK RATHE East Germany Status Is New Challenge To West insist that the United States, Britain and France withdraw from West Berlin. The three Western Allies refuse to get out. But what happens if the Russians withdraw? Berlin is "110 miles inside East Germany. The Allies and West Germans there can be supplied overland 4rom West Germany but only on-rails and roads that go through East Germany.

If the East Germans decide to blockade all such overland supply traffic, the Allies can hardly hope to send trains through, armored or otherwise, since the East Germans could block the rails with freight cars. An Associated Press story from Berlin said the idea of pushing a tank-led supply convoy of trucks over the East German -highway is even more "nightmarish." The reason: Soviet military forces in East Germany, which overwhelmingly outnumber Atlantic Pact divisions in Europe, could cut the highway at any point. Instead of trying to supply West Berlin overland, the Allies might try an airlift. That worked in 1948-49 when the Russians used a land blockade. But it worked only because the Russians let the Western planes through.

If now the East Germans, backed by the Russians, decided to shoot down any planes flying supplies to West Berlin through East German airways, the result would be unpleasant, to say the least. The United States, Bri tain and France have been studying an al-ernative idea for accepting East German control of transportation to Berlin on a nonrecognition basis. There is a limit, however, on how long the West can continue to do business with Red regimes whose existence the West continues to refuse to recognize. a spot that looks like a game of magic with its persistence in refusing to recognize the existence of Communist regimes which exist. The latest example is with' the East German Communists.

Before that it was with the Chinese Communists. The Red Chinese drove Chiang Kai-shek off the China mainland and to Formosa in 1949. The United States, allied with Chiang, has refused for nine years to recognize the Chinese Communists as the rulers of China. There is no reason to think Chiang will ever get back to the mainland or that the Red Chinese regime will collapse or change, in the foreseeable future. But the United States refuses officially to recognize the Communist government in China.

Yet the United States has been forced to deal with the Red Chinese, first, starting in 1955, for the release of American prisoners they held. There were many meetings between American and Red Chinese representatives on this. More lately in Warsaw the United States and Red China, through their diplomatic representatives, have been talking, so far fruitlessly, of some way to bring peace to the Formosa Strait area. So, while we don't officially recognize the Red Chinese, we deal with them. The same thing happened with' the East German Communists.

There is no doubt they've been puppets for their Soviet Communist masters. The United States has refused to recognize the East German Communist government. But last summer this country had to negotiate with them for the release of nine U.S. Army men who accidentally landed their helicopter in East Germany. The men were released.

Now the Russians seem to be forcing this country into further dealings with the East German Reds, and on a far larger scale. The Russians announced they plan to withdraw from East Berlin, leaving it in the hands of the East German Communists, and Thanksgiving day Thursday with some doubts to the brand of weather tHat may be dished up with the turkey. This is the time of year when almost anything can happen, weather-wise, and usually does. The pattern the past few yean has been rain or sleet to form ice coating for the snows that follow, making the going a bit hazardous most of the inter season. Of course litis is still autumn, in case you forgot, because winter does not officially arrive until December 21-22.

We are getting close to our shortest days of the year, too, the briefest of which will come on the day winter arrives for keeps. So far November has conformed to the specifications laid down by the long-range almanac forecasters. The remainder of this" month, and there is not much left of it either, is for unsettled weather, colder, some pre-ciptation in the form of rain, sleet or snow, or all three. Most of us have received in the mails our allotment of Christmas Seals and it will be helpful if we get our checks in as quickly as possible. The Seals, as you know, finance the never-ending fight against tuberculosis, including the Mantoux tests for our children.

While we nave made some impressive strides against the disease, there is still much ground to be covered, and the Seals pay the way, a good thing to remember as you make your annual gift. The Red Stocking drive Is also in progress again, with colorful seals of its own, and you are no doubt aware that the Red Stocking fund is the one that underwrites the agencies that provide for homeless children in our state. This, too, is a most worthy endeavor deserving of your generous support, and we commend it to you. Littlt by Unit the demands of the times make inroads upon our places of beauty in the community, already all too few in number. The little plot of ground in front of the police station that used to provide a setting of well-kept grass and colorful flower beds for the flag pole is the latest to yield to the automobile.

The lawn will be replaced soon by blacktop, and the little tract will become an area for car parking. We are ready to debate the point of the need against the loss of a bright beauty spot. There is pressure to convert the square block of Barden park into a parking space which is about as silly an idea as we have heard for some time. That area, one of our oldest city parks, with its majestic old trees, is the site of most of our summer band concerts and also a summer playground for the recreation program. We recognize a critical parking problem in the area of the State college, but the way to solve it is not to destroy public parks.

It would be little short of foolhardy to send a bulldozer into Barden park, destroy some of the finest trees in the city, and turn it into a parking area. There are other tracts in the college vicinity that can be acquired for parking purposes by state condemnation, costly as that process may be. When a city begins to yield its few park and recreation areas for utilitarian purposes, it is taking a backward step. A far-sighted city not only retains every inch of its park land but also adds to it from time to time, a policy we have followed pretty well in the past and with pretty general approval as well. Fir louts in these United States continue to creep upward month after month.

During October they amounted to almost $73.4 million which wasn't such a bad record compared with the same month in 1957 and 1958. On the other hand the cumulative losses for the first 10 months of this year reached $884 million, which was greater than the same period in 1957 when they were $856 million, and also more than in 1956 when they were only $812 million. Last year our total fire losses went over the $1 billion mark for the first time and at the present rate, they will get well over that mark again this year. Food Htm in Lodi (Calif.) News-Sentinel: "Ground beef and Roquefort cheese combine to form nasty Former President Harry Truman is quoted as calling Vice President Nixon a "squirrel head." Maybe he really meant Rockefeller. He's the one who's put away the acorns.

One thing the election proves was the difference between the two parties. The Republicans are out and the Democrats in. Ike calls on all federal agencies to live within their budgets. What's he trying to do? Start a trend that will ruin everybody's standard of living? I'm still trying to figure out how Thanksgiving got so" much closer to Christmas than when I was growing up. You know the Christmas season is upon you when your wife announces that you have just missed again deciding on a picture for the Christmas cards.

What kind of accidents kept doctors busy weekends before the automobile? With men handling the outdoor cooking chores, you may hear brides in the future brag up their husbands: "just like daddy used to make." As the western Allies await the communications Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has promised on "measures" to! end the occupation of Berlin, Soviet intentions become clear. The Russians ever since World war II have been treating harassed Berlin as a pawn first between the divided Germanics and second between the east and west concentrations of power. So the first firm Russian diplomatic move engages directly the Federal republic. The Soviet ambassador in Bonn goes to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, Nov.

20, to outline the Russian plan to turn over to the East German government all Russia's functions at Berlin. That poses the problem of dealing with the East Germans. Embarrassing as this may be for the west, and for the United States in particular, it will not be novel. The East Germans will be seeking recognition of course, but the United States is firmly opposed to any such course. Th.

original East German price for the release of nine U.S. soldiers whose helicopter was forced down in the Democratic republic last June was recognition. They were, freed eventually by an agreement negotiated by the American and East German Red Cross. It did not involve U.S. recognition of the Democratic republic, but it did provide for payment to East Germany of $1,748 for support of the soldiers while in custody.

Recluctant as he was to sit down with the East Germans, Secretary of State Dulles remarked during the talks, "When you have people kidnaped, you deal with the kidnapers." By the same token, the United States and Red China have been confronting each other in diplomatic discussions since June 1954 without recognition. In this context the conservative British Daily Telegraph comments: It would be foolish to make too much ado about dealing with East German officials on the affairs of Berlin. Recognition of the government is one thing, doing daily business is another. The West Germans, for all their insistence on not doing the former, have made no bones about doing the latter generally to their profit and advantage." Khrushchev in his bid to the west to give up four-power control of Berlin, Nov. 10, referred to "commitments emanting from the Potsdam conference" of 1945 commitments he charged the west with breaking.

The western position has always been of course that Great Britain, France, and the United States share the control of Berlin with Russia not on the basis of any commitments or co io made at Potsdam but as wartime conquerors. The agreement of Russia, Britain, and the United States on occupation of Germany and Berlinwas negotiated in London by doplomatic representatives of the European advisory commission and signed in the autumn of 1944, almost a full year before Potsdam. All three governments had specifically confirmed it by February 1945. At Yalta that month France was included in the occupation. The right of access to Berlin was not spelled out in the agreement, at the insistence of the U.S.

war department. However, detailed arrangements were worked out.in June 1945, and the first troops of the western allies entered Berlin in July before Potsdam. Ater the Russians blockaded Berlin in 1945, the state department disclosed that President Truman had "carefully specified" the right of free access to Berlin in a message to Stalin June 14, 1945. Stalin's reply two days later gave a general assurance that "all necessary measures" would be taken for the plan agreed upon. Road Program When congress authorized a broad Interstate highway program in 1956, it also established a highway trust fund to pay the federal government's share of the cost.

At present there is about a billion-dollar reserve in this fund, but it looks as though a deficit will arise sometime in the first half of 1960. Basically, two courses of action are possible. Congress can either adopt a pay-as-you-go plan, thus limiting the road program to whatever is available under the present trust fund setup, or it can add to the fund and push the network to completion on schedule. Once one accepts the thesis that the highway system is not a luxury, but a thing essential to national growth, the problem becomes to decide how to fatten the trust fund. Several ways have been proposed issuing bonds, raising the federal gasoline tax, transferring money from the general fund.

It is by no means too soon to begin thinking about practical means toward this end. Hal Boyle Let TV Alone: You May Improve It to Death 25 Years Ago NOV. 26, 1933 Stearns county relief offices received a shipment of processed pork from the government Monday, Mrs. Emma Moynihan, administrator, said today. One more shipment of pork will be made this winter for distribution on the relief work program.

The practice of St. Cloud Apollo club has been moved forward to so members may attend a musical program at St. Cloud Teachers college. 40 Years Ago Nov- 26, 1918 A meeting to organize night classes in English, Civics and American History will be held at the Union school tonight. General March has announced from Washington that General Pershing will send all troops home that will not be needed in making up the army of occupation.

Part of the northern soldiers are now leased. American working girls are described as the country's best groomed young ladies. Maybe that qualifies them to become the best My wife likes a good drama, I like the children's programs, our daughter likes the gory Westerns, and our cat cries real tears over "Lassie." We no longer have to trudge through the winter snow to see' a second-rate movie. Those vital discussion programs that serious-minded people find so absorbing have a cultural impact in our home, too. All I have to do to cure my Sunday afternoon insomnia is to tune in on some such topic as, "Whither the Hydrogen Bomb," or "Fear Versus Freud," and stretch out on the couch.

Morpheus and peace arrive moments later, and I rise refreshed. What's wrong with television? As that fellow in the cereal commercial says, "When you've got a good thing, let it alone." Let's not improve it to death. Symptoms To Look Out For Scarlet Fever Lessened By Quick Medical Help Bobby Fischer, the chess whiz, is described as an "average teen-ager." It's about like picking the prettiest girl in town and naming her Miss Average Girl. Murder Charged MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Morris N. Keaton, 42, Minneapolis, was indicted by the Hennepin County Grand Jury Tuesday for first degree murder.

Keaton was accused of fatally shooting William L. Farrell, 28, Kansas City, during an altercation in a North Minneapolis eating place Friday. The prospective successor to Postmaster General Summerfield is expected to be a Republican leader directly concerned with the party's 1960 election problems. That seems to leave the field wide open. Those who at the outset trail don't always at the finish fail.

The Other Editor Says- 77ii it an inJeptnJent ntwtpaptr, printing the nefts impartially, support-ing what il Iclievtt la It right ani eppoi'mg what it believe! to ht Wrong. NEW YORK (AP)-Panning television is a popular indoor sport today among critics at the typewriter as well as critics on the hearth. There is no doubt that television has been a disappointment in several ways. It hasn't cured the common cold. It hasn't solved the problem of unemployment.

It is even questionable whether it has made most people drink more beer or brush their teeth oftener. These facts must be faced fairly in any honest assessment of television's role in creating the better way of life and a more cultured race. Alas, it is all too true. Perfection has not come out of that one-eyed Pandora's box in the living room. On the other hand, in its own imperfect way television has done considerable good.

And while in our house every member of the family has considered throwing out our set, at one time or another, we never have quite got around to doing it. Critics of television complain against it not so much for what it is, as for what they feel it could be. They feel it should take more positive stands on vital issues, and be a more powerful cultural force. Frankly, we can't go along with them on this. We feel that in our house there already are too many powerful cultural forces operating, and certainly all the powerful stands on vital issues we need.

We are not certain at all that we want to convert our living room either into a permanent lecture hall or a public forum. There are many evenings in which we prefer to be entertained, rather than be big-brothered by some pundit who is sure he knows the only true answer to the future. Nor do care too often to have our young daughter reply, when a neighbor kid knocks on the door while the TV set is- showing a brain operation, "Come back later, Joe. We're in surgery." As entertainment goes, however, we find TV's present bill-of-fare pretty satisfying. By and large, there's something for everybody.

Entered it Postofnoe, St. Cloud, Jsnuary 1st, 1941, as Second Cli Matter under the Act of March 3rd, 1(7. Published dally except Sundays and Chriitmaa day. Washington County Told to Redistrict STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) -District Judge Leonard Keyes Tuesday ered Washington County commissioners to redis trict the county.

His order came in the suit of Oscar Kern, who charged that population shifts had brought about an imbalance in the areas represented by the five county commissioners. Attorneys for the county argued that any redistricting be delayed until after the 1960 federal census. But Judge Keyes decreed that the districts by changed by Jan. 1, 1960. Kern, an unsuccessful candidate for county commissioner in the recent election, lives in the Stillwat-er-Bayport area, which has shown the largest population growth.

Owned and published by The Times Publishing Company, Times Bullduu, Nos. 16-18 Sixth Avenue North. 161 Fred Schllplia IM Frederick C. Schllplin President and Publisher Harold Schoelkopf Editor OH Rupd Business Manner of color in the regions of the mouth. Duration of the rash may vary from two to five days.

The tongue may be expected to do a tell-tale change of color which will vary from a grayish-white appearance the first day to a fiery-red on the tips and margins of the tongue in several days. Don't hesitate to consult your physician when any of the described symptoms appear, advises the Minnesota State Medical association. Early diagnosis of scarlet fever is essential in order to minimize the possible after effects which could include ear infection, inflammation of the neck glands, and more serious rheumatic fe-v r. Additional complications which could result from streptococcus passing from one vital organ of the body to another through the blood stream during the active stages of scarlet fever include osteomyelitis, endocarditis and possible kidney complications. Thanks tJ the scientific development of the modern wonder drugs of sulfonamides, penicillin, and other antibiotics during the past twenty years, the mortality rate of scarlet fever and its after effects has declined.

The use of. these drugs together with extensive bed rest can do a most effective job and complete recovery can be expected in nearly all instances. Scarlet fever, an acute infectious disease, is caused by the streptococcus germ. Primarily a childhood disease, the majority of cases have been found to occur between the ages of three and eight, with 75 percent in children under the age of ten. Scarlet fever occurs in all parts of the world.

However, the disease has been most commonly found in the cooler temperate zones during the winter and spring seasons. A sudden sore throat, followed by an abnormal redness and subsequent peeling of the skin are common symptoms of scarlet fever. Often this redness will resemble sunburn. The normal incubation period for scarlet fever is between two and seven days in length. During this time the body temperature may rise rapidly to 103 or 104 degrees Fahrenheit.

Headaches, nausea, and vomiting may be accompanying symptoms. Normally, the characteristic accompanying skin rash will follow the earlier symptoms within 12 to 36 hours. Frequently the symptoms of scarlet fever are mistaken for those of the less severe German measles or Scarlatina and the physician is not consulted before the disease reaches its advanced stages. The neck, trunk, and extremities of the body are most commonly affected by the rash. The face becomes flushed with a lack Official Paptt of Sttarta Courtly ani CiVj of Si Cloud OHl YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART HEADLINES AND DEADLINES long known as active fermenters of ulcers, grey hair and mismatched socks have been accredited with another misdeed to editors and dmen: the heart attack.

Results of a new study by two experts in the field, Drs. Meyer Friedman and Ray H. Rosenman, of San Francisco, were revealed at a recent meeting of the American Heart Assn. Men are most affected whose behavior pattern is characterized by intensive drive; profound inclination to compete; persistent desire for recognition and advancement; continued involvement in situations where work has to be produced by deadline; habitual compulsion to accelerate the rate of execution; and superior mental and physical alertness, the survey revealed. Highlighted, this means that keeping on one's toes in meeting deadlines and beating the paper across town to a big story or larger ad, can have a telling effect on the newsman.

It's quite true, any editor worth his salt will tell you. Newsman have known for years the toll of after-hour wrecks, misspelled names on the social page and the big advertiser's son who always gets Into trouble" With hand clasped over a pounding heart, many an editor has staggered through the last hour before press run, only to have matters made worse when he scans the finished sheet. "There are two 'RV in the name Gardener on page two" he may shriek to a placid lino operator and "Carrots in the ALT should be spelled with one But wait, everything is not all bad. All the trade mags are predicting a bigger-than-ever Yule business this year, and if that means more work it also means more money. Recent showings of new press equipment indicate that an easier day for grinding out the Thursday sheet may be coming up for the weekly editor who has not been able to keep up with his city brother because of economic reasons.

Newsprint can't get much higher and journalism schools are sending and influx of new potential heart victims into the field in increasing numbers. And last but not least, a note added to the bottom of the heart specialists' report noted that fat intake, cigarette or alcohol intake, has no effect whatever on whether or not Ye Ed will succumb to heart disease. At the same time, an announcement comes that a famous producer of gin will let loose a holiday ad campaign on the "ultimate on dry martinis" one completely devoid of vermouth. A new cigarette may be filtered through powdered cheese. So let us all take heart.

Publishers Auxiliary MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republlcstlon of all the local news printed la Oils newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. MAO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES $35,000 Loss Set In Mankato Fire MANKATO, Minn. (AP) Loss was estimated at $35,000 in a fire which swept a truck repair building of the Skelly Oil Co. at the Mankato outskirts Tuesday night.

The blaze started near an oil heater but was kept from spreading to a 6O0-gallon gasoline storage tank beneath the structure. All In Other Minn. States I month tl 0 II, 1 months I so j.jo I months 1 months 4 so jo months 7 OS 1 30 ONE YEAR too II 00 For Any Period Uas Than One -Full Year, the Rates Showa Above Apply..