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MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER ALABAMA JOURNAL TH REE AUGUST 1956 a era 3 mm 8S2LW The WCC Viewpoint Ignored In Atlanta By Bob Ingram GIVING credit where credit is due, Gov. James E. Fol-som displayed commendable restraint in his actions at the Southern Democratic caucus in Atlanta By AZBELL The' Dog Vs. Society THE dog on the porch looked tame enough. The salesman approached the house but to make certain the dog didn't get any wrong ideas he spoke to the animal FolsomV invitation to the meeting had stirred up strong protests, many fearful that despite his May 1 rejection at the polls the governor might.

seek to throw his weight around in Atlanta. Such is not the case. The people had told him to ''stay away in droves" as he aptly had commented earlier, and Folsom did just that. Folsom had little to say to newsmen when he checked in at the Dinkier Plaza early Wednesda', but he made INGRAM in a friendly tone. But the dog didn't show any signs of being a friend.

Instead he attacked the salesman. And another person was forced to take those painful rabies shots. Or take the case of the man in the blue Ford. As he drove down South Hull Street, a dog spotted his automobile and began to chase it. As the, man stopped his car midway in the block and was about to enter a house, the dog pounced on him from the rear AZBELL -The Sionr City, Iowa, Journal.

The Columbus, Ohio, Sundav Dispatch. LOVE SONG ON THE NILE 'GEIGER COUNTER' Mobile Greets Alabama Editors And Wives By C. M. Stanley Editor-in-Chief, Th Alabama Journal and left huge gashes on his legs, arms and back. Only th assistance of a Negro yardman prevented more severe wounds.

Biting Cases Increase In every section of the city, dog biting incidents are reported. Fathers are called off their jobs to dash home after children have been bitten. Doctor's offices have had to treat a number of dog bif victims. For most it means shots to prevent rabies TTOR MANY of the victims, it means stitches cr bad scars. It -also leaves a psychological fear of animals that isn't easy to overcome.

Kirs. Rose Jarvis, humane officer and pound control officer, gaid, 'yesterday that more people have been bitten by dogs in Montgomery this year than ever before. ''The situation is getting worse and worse instead of better," she said. "We are fighting it but it is one of the worst problems' we have ever come up against." many people have been bitten by dogs in the last 30 days here? ''It would be hard to give the exact figures. So many people are bitten and don't report, but we are getting reports of two or three a day.

I would say a minimum of 50 or 60 cases have been reported to us and that doesn't include all of the people who escaped dog bites by a few inches or a fast run." the cause? "I can only answer that by saying we'have a tremendous dog population. We have a big problem in controlling this population. In 19g4, we had reports of 11,000 dogs in Montgomery but I would ayl there are 15,000 to 20,000 dogs here now. With that number of dogs, it is a problem of set up an effective control program thai would make certain that dogs don't get out of hand. We are our best," Mrs.

Jarvis said. THE membership of the Alabama Press Association embraces all of the state's newspapers but numerically the weekly papers swamp the dailies. But they work and play well together. For example, B. G.

George, editor of the Demopolis Times, is president of the association, and George M. Cox, executive editor of the Mobile Press-Register, is vice president with every prospect of becoming president next year. The state press association usually has two meetings a year. One of them is held in winter time and is devoted chiefly to business; the other is held in summer and devoted chiefly to fun and one promise. "I'm gonna let the delegates do the talking," Folsom said.

"After all, they are the ones who will do the voting at the convention." He kept his word throughout the long session. While the meeting was closed to the press, it was later learned that Folsom's role in the policy making was all but nonexistent. He stayed in his place, carrying out the negative mandate of the people. In the meantime. Sen.

John Sparkman of Alabama effectively went about his admitted course of action to choke off any proposals which might jeopardize the nomination of Adlai Stevenson. And his remarkable success in this undertaking was clearly evidenced in the statement of policy released by the delegation at the end of the meeting. Victory For Stevenson And The Faithful JT WAS a clear-cut victory for the national party loyalists In general and the Stevenson forces in particular. Lost in the shuffle were the proposals suggested by the outspoken segregationists which were backed by the Citizens' Council chapters throughout the South. (More than one delegate made note of the Arkansas guberna- -torial election of the previous day Gov.

Orval E. Faubus was renominated overwhelmingly bitter Citizens' Council opposition. The Council had backed State Sen. Jim Johnson, main speaker at a Montgomery Council meeting a number of months ago.) Completely ignored by the Democrats in Atlanta was the Coun- i cil-sponsored plan whereby each Southern state would nominate a favorite son candidate, then use the time allowed for the nomination speech to elaborate on the cause of the South. The cool reception given this strategy was first noted, and surprisingly so, in an interview with Gov.

Marvin Griffin. When asked to comment on the proposal he was both vague and evasive. "I haven't heard much about it over her in Georgia," Griffin said. "I guess we will go along with what our neighbors decide to do." While professing to have heard little about the favorite son plan, it's interesting to note it was originated and pushed by the Georgia States Rights Association, and particularly by one of its officials, Roy Harris of Augusta. Also ignored was Laurie Battle's publicized resolution which would have required a roll call vote of state delegations on controversial if such a poll was requested by a delegatp.

Battle presented this plan to the group in Atlanta, but no mention of it was made in the statement of policy. Thames Is Innocent JN INDICTMENT returned last Sunday in the Advertiser against Billy Thames charging him (a former Gordon Persons cabinet appointee) with doing business with the current state administration was in complete error. It merits both a correction and an apology. In a news story by this reporter it was noted that among th sizable expenditures made by the State Conservation Department was the purchase of a considerable amount of lumber from the West Coast Lumber owned by This Information 'was entirely false. Thames, owner and manager of the Thames Lumber purchased the entire stock and holdings of West Coast Lumber Co.

early this year. However, he did not assume the name of that firm, as had been erroneously reported. Thames, still doing business is Thames Lumber declared emphatically he had done no business yith the current administration. The record backs him up. Apparently the new West Coast Lumber Co is another of the many brokerage firms which have been created during the present administration, serving as middle-men in the purchase of property for the state.

STANLEY even some "midsummer madnoiss." Inadequate Dog Control employed to get it out which would be a high recommendation for any weekly paper. Jsmes E. (Jimmy) Mills, editor of the Birmingham Post-Herald was busily shaking hands, is as tapper as ever and continues to get out a rattling good newspaper in Birmingham. Steve McGrew of Athens who publishes both the Athens Courier and the Limestone Democrat told me thatjie had recently employed James C. Hutsell who will be remembered in Montgomery for the columns be frequently contributed to the editorial page of the Alabama Journal while employed here.

QLENN STANLEY of the Greenville Advocate who is widely recognized among his fellow craftsmen as a sparkling spar ring partner of George A. Carleton of the Clarke County Democrat at Grove Hill usually has something humorous in his system and lets it out with only a little encouragement. At dinner he told us of a noteworthy lynching many years ago in the Butler Springs neighborhood of Butler County. It seems that an ugly robbery was committed and three or four men were lynched as a result. The coroner's jury was called and its verdict concluded: "The lynchings were committed by parties unknown from a far piece off." Glenn Stanley, George Carleton of the Clarke County Democrat, and Earl Tucker of the Thomasville Times represent three distinct forms of Alabama humor and all three have fished much together at Hal's Lake in Clarke County.

Some day we hope to give an account of a trip to Hal's Lake. "yE MET Ralph Nicholson and Mrs. Nicholson in the Lafayette dining room at the Battle House. Mr. Nicholson has recently purchased the Dothan Eagle from Horace Hall and other members of the Hall family and has begun his proprietorship by promoting the chief executives of the paper, adding new features and indicating that he proposes to take up in earnest where Horace Hall left off and carry on as Dothan deserves.

I never greet Mrs. B. G. George, wife of the editor of the Demopolis Times, without recalling her brother, George Cornish, who used to be with us on the Birmingham Age-Herald and later became an executive editor of the New York Herald Tribune. She says George is still going strong in New York.

Jack Beisner, executive secretary of the state press association was everywhere and busy every minute. We met Mr. and Mrs. Buford Boone. Mr.

Boone is publisher of the Tuscaloosa News. THE FINE new building and press room of the Press-Register we had a chat with Ralph Chandler, the publisher, saw George Cox, executive editor, greeted such old friends as Caryle Ward and Tip Matthews who are editorial page editors of the Register and Press respectively. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hornady of the Talladega News were on hand.

So was Ed Dannelly of the Andalusia Star-News who is an old Advertiser reporter. Others we greeted included H. Cbarest of the Tallassee Tribune, and W. E. Brooks editor of the Brewton Standard and one of the few Republican editors in Alabama.

There was a non-conforming anomaly among a boatload of 25 deep sea fishermen out in the Gulf below Sand Island lighthouse. In competition with such renowed deep sea trolling fishermen as Steve McGrew of Athens, Bonnie Hand of Lafayette Graham Mc-Tear of Auburn, Buford Boone of Tuscaloosa and Mrs. Stanley I caught the first fish and the biggest fish of the day and carried off the $10 prize. It was a Spanish mackerel weighing (estimated by others) about two pounds. rpHE MID-SUMMER meeting this year was held in Mobile, an unexcelled spot in Alabama for having fun.

They had banquets, breakfasts, deep sea fishing, Dauphin Island outing, swimming parties, boat parties, happy rides to the country on some of Mobile's fine highways, in addition to the personal visits and tontacts among a most congenial group of fellow-workers and sympathetic craftsmen all, of course, including wives and sons and daughters. Such a meeting is a good place to see and greet old friends and meet the new ones. At the Battle House banquet Friday evening no speeches were permitted, but President George introduced Vice President Cox no less than half a dozen times because the entertainment which Mr. Cox had provided for the occasion was so well chosen. There was a Mobile male quartet that was tops as comedians, harmonizers and barber-shop melodians.

Director J. B. Counts of the University School of Journalism announced numerous prizes and awards to the papers for different kinds of meritorious achievement. "yE SAT at a table with Glenn Stanley, gifted editor of the Greenville Advocate and his lovely wife who used to be Mary Beeland of Greenville, and their charming daughter Marianne and her husband Gene Hardin. At the love feast preceding the banquet, which I believe nowadays is called a cocktail party, old friends appeared from everywhere.

Bonnie Hand of the LaFayette Sun is an editor who came up the hard way from his printer days in Clanton, and his thinking and writing are sound and dependable. James H. (Jimmy) Faulkner of1 Bay Minette and his beauteous wife were on hand. Jimmy was not satisfied with having three weekly papers and a radio station and a campaign for governor but has gone into the insurance business in a big way. He moves about, however, with customary ease, serenity, composure and self-confidence.

Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Birt, he of the state's publicity department, were on hand. Mrs. Birt, a gifted violinist, tells me that she not only keeps up her violin teaching at Huntingdon College, but also keeps up her violin practice.

QEORGE WATSON is an old Age Herald boy who used to work with me in Birmingham. He established his own paper, the Shades Valley Sun, one of the state's best weeklies, and later the East End News in Birmingham. He has recently sold the Sun to Arthur P. Cook, a Birmingham News advertising man, but will remain for a time as editor. The Sun has sixteen persons JS; THIS dog population has grown, the number of people to control the dog population hasn't been increased proportionately.

Montgomery has a dog control officer and assistant and a humane, officer. But controlling dogs is a bigger problem than controlling human beings. The dogs are everywhere roaming the streets or in packs. "I don't blame the dogs. I blame; the owners," Mrs.

Jarvis "It is a horrible condition this dog biting thing, and we are getting more phone calls than ever before." Dog poisoning is at a high point, but poisoners are hard to catch. Most poisoning cases are passed off by neighbors as accidental, resulting from DDT or some other chemical on plants or shrubs. And speaking of plants and shrubs, Mrs. Jarvis declared: "Dogs are tearing up yards. They are gnawing newspapers.

They are -tearing clothes off the lines. They are proving a menace in some sections. But it is because people arent Watching after their animals. Dogs are like small children. Unless a person looks after them they will get in mischief.

We have always had problems with dogs and we always will but the situation here with, the increase in the dog population is getting bad. We need more cooperation from dog owners in keeping up their dogs. Certainly thattcobperation would help us in a control program. What are the hardest hit sections? sections are being hit. In Perry Hill Homes and in the Cloverland sections, we have had a lot of reports.

In and West End and Capitol Heights and North Montgomery, we have hadlreports. There is dog biting in the worst slum sections and in the highest priced homes section. There is just as much or more in the white sections as in the Negro sections. The Owner Is To Blame JJ'RS. JARVIS said she was reluctant to discuss the situation but she praised the Humane Society's program.

"We are here to help, animals and to make certain that there is no situation like We want to encourage dog owners to cooperate by keeping up their animals and watching them. If a dog has bitten a person, the owner should take steps to correct the situation. We certainly believe that the fault lies with the owner and not the dog." Many prominent citizens in the last 10 days have become concerned with the dog biting episodes and have contacted The Advertiser for information on what can be done to correct the situation. But Mrs. Jarvis said the dog control officer, J.

L. Walker, has a "tremendous problem equal to her own." Since Mrs. Jarvis became dog control officer in 1932, her appearance has changed radiacally. Her weight has dropped from 189 pounds to 140 pounds. She hasn't had a single night of undisturbed sleep.

As she dozes off, she said, it is always with the feeling that her sleep will be interrupted shortly by a telephone call from some irate neighbor who wants to report a barking dog. "The people will call at all hours of the day and night to complain about a barking dog. Most won't give their names and none will swear out a warrant because they like the dogs owners but the barking disturbs their sleep or rest," she said. Meadows Protests gTATE SCHOOL Superintendent Austin R. Meadows has taken issue with remarks made in this column last Sunday in reference to his feelings toward the proposed "Freedom of Choice" constitutional amendment.

In a letter to this reporter Meadows has requested that the following be printed: "Te state superintendent has not officially declared and has not authorized anyone to quote him as declaring opposition to the public school amendment. "You stated that 'Meadows noted that when he was sworn into office he swore to abide by the Constitution of 1901, and not as it was "I have never made such a statement as you quote. When I took the oath-of office, I knew the Constitution of 1901 had been amended many times since 1901, including one amendment which I drafted, and that I was taking an oath to support the Constitution as amended since 1901 and as may be amended during my term of office. I could not have possibly said what you quoted." However, despite Dr. Meadows gyrations to the contrary, it seems fair to cite a news story which appeared on Pg.

1 of the July 25 Advertiser. The opening paragraph said as follows: "State Superintendent of Education A. R. Meadows declared yesterday that if the voters of Alabama vote for a 'freedom of choice' school amendment to the Constitution on Aug. 23 they will vote to abolish public schools, segregated schools and equal school terms." Washington Merry-Go-Round By Drew Pearson McLean industries One of the best new congressmen also represents Ike, also is a Demicrat.

He's John Quigley of Pennsylvania, who represents Gettysburg, Pa Another alert watch- Daug" McKay when neither newsmen nor the public could get an is popular enough to get re-elected regularly in a Democratic area. Seaton Sheds Light Vho Complained? Tacit Approval ND IN THE fourth paragraph of the same story it was fur-ther reported: "While not coming in open-voiced opposition to the 'choice' amendment. Dr. Meadows said he 'took an oath to uphold th Constitution of the State of Alabama, as adopted in 1901' and not as it might be amended." "Thus it appears that Dr. Meadows' July 25 interview does not jive with statements made in the letter printed above.

Possibly the news story of July 25 was in error, but as yet Dr. Meadows has not questioned its accuracy. And for a public official who will write a letter of protest on the slightest provocation, his failure to do so after the July 25 story indicates he found no fault with what was written: WASHINGTON Jsjear Eastern diplomats concede that the United States has the most potent weapon of all in dealing with Egypt and the Suez Canal. Though it was John Foster Dulles who pressured to get the British out of Suez in the first place, he has considerable power to help the British out of the pickle in which he helped put them. That power is cotton long the No.

1 cash export crop of the USA. Egypt's No. 1 export crop is also cotton, but she is selling or bartering more and more of it to the Soviet sphere of influence in order to get arms. However, if Secretary Dulles permitted Secretary Benson to dump his cotton surplus on the world market regardless of price, it would seriously affect the Egyptian economy, even though Egypt produces a long staple cotton. Or if Dulles cooperated with the British and French in an embargo on Egyptian it would not only put a serious crimp in the Egyptian economy, but would help a friendly Latin American neighbor, Peru, which produces some long staple cotton.

Because of our cotton price supports, U. S. exports have dropped drastically in recent years. From a post-war export peak of 6,400,000 bales in 1949-50, American sales abroad have been falling fast. They plunged by 40 per cent in 1955-56, so drastically that Benson finally overcame Dulles's objections and is selling some cotton on the world market.

He started doing this largely to win over the votes of the two Mississippi senators, Eastland and Stennis, for his flexible price support program. Note The Uinted States is still the? world's greatest cotton producer, with Russia second, then India, Red China, Mexico, Brazil, Egypt, Pakistan, Argentina, Turkey, Peru and the Sudan. Capital Chaff Christian Herter, the demure Governor of Massachusetts who Harold Stassen thinks should be less demure, is retiring even in his personal habits. He has a shack in the Maine woods, 17 miles from Bangor," without electricity and without telephone The large Herter family sleeps on six army cots, the children and Mrs. Herter do the cooking, and the Governor joins in the Maine Fire Watch for forest fires.

Herter is a great conservationist Herter's one concession to the march of progress is flush toilets One of the best watchdogs in the recent Congress was Herbert Zelenko, former champ wrestler at Columbia University and Congressman from Ike's former voting district in Manhattan. Though he represented Ike, Zelenko is a Democrat. He blocked two bills which would, have cost the taxpayers money one to give a ship to friends of Dictator Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, another to permit the sale of ships to Uncle Sam at an inflated value by Things have changed around the Interior Department. A new breath of fresh air has come in. There was a time under "Generous Doug" McKay when neither newsmen nor public could get an answer on what McKay was doing with oil reserves, Indian lands, or wildlife refuges.

The other day, however, his successor, Fred Seaton, was queried by this column regarding a hush-hush oil contract negotiated by Norman Littell, attorney for the Navajo Indian Tribe, with Clint Murchison's Delhi-Taylor Oil Company. Littell had refused requests to make the contract public though it involved a 50-year monopoly on one of the biggest untapped oil fields, (5,365,000 acres) in the nation. The Santa Fe New Mexican exposed the fact that the contract had been secretly negotiated, without competitive bidding. Murchison is a big contributer to the Eisenhower campaign and a personal friend of Ike's. He and Sid Ttichardson picked up the tab on some of Ike's heavy campaign expenses at the Commodore Hotel before the 1952 convention.

There was every political reason for Seaton to lean over in favor of Murchison. However, here are the cronological events that happened when this column queried Seaton's office regarding the still-secret Navajo oil lease: Seaton Acts Fast Said M. M. Tozier of the Indian Bureau: "This particuler matter is in the solicitor's office. Let me check and advise the Acting Commissioner that we have a request to see it." At 7:30 p.m.

he phoned to say there was no answer yet. Next morning he said: "I haven't gotten an answer yet. I'm expecting one almost any minute. I've submitted your question to the Acting Commissioner, and it's being iven consideration." That afternoon Tozier was queried again. He said: "The whole matter has been taken in hand by the Secretary.

He has the whole matter under advisement. I'm hoping to have an announcement on the whole contract before the afternoon is up." "How does that effect whether we can see the contract?" he. was asked. "The contract itself and everything connected with it has been pulled into the Secretary's office," Tozier replied. "Don't you have an extra copy?" "I don't know.

I hope to have an announcement by 5:30. At 5:30 Tozier called to say Seaton had disapproved the proposed contract between the Navajo Tribe and Delhi-Taylor. The contract "YyHEN MRS. Jarvis tells the dog's owner about the barking, there is always the reaction that the complaint is embarrassing which it is and that the dog can't be kept from barking. Ba king is one of the most difficult things in the world to con-trot: If a dog is in the yard, it is bound to do some barking.

It "is something that goes with owning a dog. But the neighbors think that the humane officer can speak to the owner and the owner can quiet the dog. The fact is there is only one way to quiet a barking dog get rid of the animal dog lovers are going i cio that. Even if a dog is left in the house at night, he is still going to do a certain amount of barking or baying. But Mrs.

Jarvis tries to help in the barking complaints. The first" question she is always asked is: "Who complained?" Of if she should give the name of the" complainant it would only make for a baJ situation in the beighborhood. "We get calls early in the morning from people who have not been able to locate their dogs. When a dog strays or is stolen, we get calls. But lately we have getting more dog biting calls than any other type," she said.

-Animals being picked up off the streets are often diseased or injured by maltreatment. Some of the dogs are blind or scarred from scaldings or covered with pests. "We try to help these animals by curing them if possible and placing them in homes where they will receive proper care," she v'At the present time, we need one thing more than any other," fhe said. "We need owner cooperation in keeping up their animals. If we can get that cooperation, we can solve a part of our problem.

"I can't emphasize too strongly that the dog is not at fault when he goes wrong it is the owner. If more people would look after their animals. would have a better community in which to live. And we would get fewer calls. It just has to be stopped some way." was available for public inspection.

Note Twelve oil companies are interested in bidding for the Navajo property. One official estimated the Indians would get $100,000,000 in bonuses through competitive bidding. Jive And Goodwill Ordinarily you would expect a night club band leader not to wax enthusiastic over things other than jazz, jive, and feminine pulchritude. But the other day when 194 Civil Air Patrol cadets from 22 countries filed into the Shoreham Hotel terrace, band-leader Barnee Breeskin looked proud and sentimental. Barnee, in addition to conducting the Shoreham Band, is a colonel in the Civil Air Patrol and a sort of godfather to Civil Air Cadets.

These are the unsung heroes ever on the alert for foreign invaders, or go to the rescue of air crash victims; and 194 of these cadets, are now visiting the United States from NATO and Latin American countries in an important exchange of pcople-to-people friendship. The trip is arranged by the International Cadet Exchange, and after entertainment in the nation's capital, the cadets fanned out all over the USA. Greek cadets have gone to Salt Lake City to be entertained by Chris Athas. Italian cadets have gone to Baltimore to be entertained by Mayor Tommy D'Alessandro. Swedish cadets have gone to Florida, and so on.

It's exchanges of this kind that can build the world towarJ permanent peace..