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tXMIRA ADVERTISER I.lwrd.y, Miy 4, 1 Ml 4 Shepard's Life Marked By Desi re to Do More CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. UP) Navy Cm dr. Alan Bartlett Shepard 37, drew on a background as an athlete and an intellectual to become America's first spaceman. 14 1 I i I He combines a genius-level in- telligence quotient of between 135 and 147 with a fondness for keeping trim by water skiing and road running. Shepard is equally at home reading heavy technical manuals or driving a white sports car with racing tires.

Proposed Legislation To Hit 'Utile People' By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) Little people also will be hit by the new tax legislation which President Kennedy is asking Congress to enact this year, to take effect next Jan. 1. Most attention has been paid to what it would do to big taxpayers, where the government's most important money comes from. But small and medium-sized taxpayers won't like what happens to them, either, because they get no cut now. In the first place, every taxpayer will be given a number for his tax account, but it won't have to be tattooed on you or worn like an identification tag.

It will be the same as your social security number. People who don't have one will get one. What will hit most small income tax payers the hardest, if Congress approves it, will be the proposed 20 percent withholding tax on all corporate dividend payments and all taxable, investment type interest. There are over 100 million savings accounts in the U. S.

today some people owning more than one and over 15 million Reds Have No Claim As Liberty Champions AMONG THE advantages the Soviet Union Red China have enjoyed in the great struggle with the West, not the least is the fact that their imperialism and colonialism are not things with which the emerging peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America have had wide experience. These peoples' hatred of the traditional colonial powers is rooted in decades and centuries of actual experience with their rule. Most, however, have not been deeply troubled by accounts of a Communist tyranny others are suffering. their understanding has not been aided by the fact that Moscow and Peiping employ the slogans and trappings of the free societies as they try to spread their control over more and more of the earth's surface. This Communist practice of using the words and methods of freedom to destroy freedom is an old one.

But it has been intensified in the current contest over Cuba, the Congo and Laos. We hear much pious talk from the Reds about the right of self-determination of all peoples to have a government of their own choosing. It's a wonderful idea, all right. But on what acre of this globe did the Communists ever live up to it? SINCE 1939 Russia has gobbled up Latvia. Estonia, Lithuania, East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovak kia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Albania.

But for the independent stature of Tito it would also hold Yugoslavia. And onlv stout Western aid saved Greece from the Soviet orbit. In Asia, the Communist Chinese have clamped totalitarian control on North Korea and Tibet, are a principal factor in Red-held North Viet Nam. Threatened today are Laos and South Viet Nam. Not a single one of these lards ever voted freely to install a Communist government, nor would they if they got the chance.

Control was imposed by force or subversion. While they have been holding a tight clamp in 13 once-free nations and trying to widen their oppressive grip to hold still others, the traditional colonial powers have been giving independence to their territories. THE U.N. TODAY has more than twice the membership it had when founded. Virtually all the newcomers from Asia and Africa were once Western colonies.

Another 20 new nations will soon be added. Put the magnifying glass on this extensive list, scan even the tiniest new state, and you will not find one that has been set free by Russia'or Red China. They are the great imperialists of the late 20th century. Many of the emerging peoples do not understand the peril. The unhappy progress of.

events in today's trouble spots suggests that they do not have long to discover this truth so vital to their own security and independence. Realistic Attitudes Edsoa Tj. V.if;., His life has been marked by a determination to do more than enough. Unsatisfied with the speed of a Navy flight-training course he was taking, he spent his spare time taking lessons at civilian flight school. HE FOUND water-skiing with two skis too prosaic.

He learned to zip along on one ski and now is looking for a boat fast enough so he can "ski" barefoot with no skis at all. When fellow astronaut, Marine Lt. Col. John H. Glenn began running two miles every morning to keep his weight down, the slim Shepard, 5 feet 11, weighing 160 pounds, took up road work, too.

Shepard excelled in "school work" among astronauts. "He is always reading technical manuals and the big policy-type journals, the kind the admirals and generals say should be read," his wife, Louise, once commented. But his intense technical interest does not prevent him from having a sense of humor. Questioned on why he was chosen as an astronaut, he remarked: "Maybe I'm the link between Ham the space chimp and man." He had one wish he didn't get. Asked how much notice he would want before making a flight, he said he would want to be told just before sunrise on the day of the test.

Actually, he was named last Tuesday. Then the flight was postponed until Friday; SHEPARD, without any false modesty, frankly wanted to be the first man into space. Prior to the Soviet Union orbiting a man. Shepard had summed it up this way: "There are lots of answers why I want to be the first man into space, but a short answer would be this: "The flight obviously is a challenge and I feel that the more severe chal. lenge will occur on the first flight, and I signed up to accept this challenge." One reason he was able to accept the challenge, he said, was that his wife and two children, Laura, 13, and Juliana, 9.

took "a calm, rational approach" to it. Alan Shepard Before Epic Trip How Do You Define Courage? the memory does not accurately record such moments, any more than it does extreme pain, or the agony of watching a loved one approach the critical crisis of illness. Many men know, however, that time to think with life at stake is an agony all its own. It is time in which a man may fail to hold his course and cry out for release. When he does not, his name may go down in the history of science, or of war, or of many other, things.

It surely goes down in the most carefully preserved annals of mankind the history of courage. By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press Ncu-s Analyst Courage is a word for which every man provides his own definition, based on his own experience. What went on in the mind of Alan B.

Shepard during those three hours he sat alone on the nose of the rocket, waiting to go on his gamble with death, or. during the long days of waiting after he knew he had been selected? It is not likely that the earthbound will ever really know. Shepard will tell us something. But people own stocks in American corporations. Before any dividends or interest payments are made; 20 per cent will be deducted by the bank or corporation and turned over to the government as taxes.

To save paper work, Internal Revenue Service will try to set up a system whereby banks and corporations won't have to prepare or send out withholding statements to the recipients of dividends or interest. Some firms may send out such notices anyway. But for taxpayers who don't get them, there will be a space in 1962 income tax forms to figure out the tax due. THE TAXPAYER will know or be told that he got only 80 per cent of what is coming to him. He will then figure that he was entitled to-20 per cent more than he got.

Next he will figure the tax due on the full amount, at his income bracket tax rate. He will subtract from this amount the 20 per cent withheld by the bank or corporation for taxes. The difference will be the tax he owes or the refund due him from the government. If this won't be enough headache for income tax form filers, they can be made to feel still worse by knowing that the President is recommending repeal of the present exclusion on the first $50 of dividends received from domestic corporations and the 4 per cent tax credit on amounts in excess of the first S50. This was a Republican tax reform introduced in 1954.

It was intended to encourage Americans to invest in industry and so promote growth. But it principally benefited the rich. The substitute dividend and interest withholding tax now proposed is intended not only to increase revenues but also to check up on cheaters who never paid taxes on such income. Treasury experts say they'll work out provisions' for hardship cases, but those haven't been explained yet. They'll apply to widows and retired people who depend on interest and dividend income for daily living and who don't have enough income to pay taxes on anyway.

THE PRESIDENT is asking Congress for a lot more people and money 4,265 revenue agents and $34.4 million to check up on tax cheaters. But most of this money and effort will be directed against the big taxpayers, the racketeers and criminals who are the worst tax dodgers. People who get expense accounts will also be checked on more closely. Nobody can complain about that, either, except the taxpayers who have been charging off yachts, hunting lodges, second automobiles, champagne, caviar and chorus gals as business entertainment expenses, deductable for tax purposes. But this will hit quite a few small-time salesmen, too.

Also, there will be a crackdown on movie stars, writers, artists and other rich folks who have been living abroad or investing money abroad in order to avoid U. S. taxes. The President wants their tax havens eliminated. Stay-at-homes who pay their taxes like good citizens will applaud that 'Treated Us Like Dogs Says Red China Escapee Focus on Health Liver Barrier to Fever POISON YOUNG Associated Press Shepard was born Nov.

18, WilVlBi VS "BJ UVi II 1U A barrier to fever everv dav laoie sa'1 can oe at tast Dcrry, N. H. and is u.71CLtireLTiery,,:,r And it can cause brain damage to stay young at heart. a christian Scientist. His father Needed Toward World By GEORGE E.

SOKOLSKY This is in response to a letter from a lady in Louisiana, who writes: ''Without knowing much about the Russians, I am sure that their development and accomplishments are spotty and I think we should be told about it. "I know that their development has been remarkable but what about theirs in comparison to ours. vitamins in nonfatal doses, a Baltimore pe- Under the age of 25, only five is retired Army colonel, but and a common spring cleaning poison are subjects with a focus on health. diatrician reports. men in every 1.000 persons has the son chose the Navy.

Less than one tablespoon of salt heart trouble, a U.S. national ne Was graduated from the can poison an otherwise healthy health survey indicates. U.S. Naval Academy at Annap- infant, says Dr. Laurence Finberg.

But for the 45-34 age group, the 0ijs jn 1944. FEVER Your liver may stand between you and fever every day. Salt poisoning is generally rare, heart trouble rate jumps 10 per jje saw world War II action Eut the symptoms of such poison- 1,000 and continues to climb until scrving aboard the destroyer 1 turn wii.Y idLii aesiuiuv: sense. Their interests are limited in their 1 etnna Thtwr cf a onol anil flfhiot'A ii Htif mg can be confusing unless the it hits its peaK lor me ages oi r02swell in the Pacific. He began Ten by-products of the body's use of hormones have been shown doctor knows the child has swal- 65 to 74, when the rate is 140 per fHght training a(ter the war an(j there are more goals than are heard of in 1.000.

to produce fever in the human lowed 100 mucn sau. served aboard aircraft carriers "Do you realize how wonderful we are? TODAY- in the Mediterranean, then became a test pilot. Shepard flew high-altitude research missions, helped develop the Navy's inflight refueling system and contributed to research on carrier landing tech I would hate to turn a middle middle class Russian loose among the second hand stores and tell her to develop a home. The result would be horrid. An American woman can develop a charming home with soap boxes and a little paint.

Our working girls have the grooming and good taste of debutantes. Things SHA-FU VILLAGE, Quemoy their confidence and become an "They feed the pigs and chick- outstanding worker." he was on Quemoy better than they hv th i niques. By Milton F. Breese It Was on May 6 like that are not superficial. They require admirable Qualities." Sokolsky He naa some narrow escapes as do the people back on the Chi- "When we had self-criticism a test pilot, with engines flaming nese mainland." meetings.

I always spoke I aho learned VtLand "pping off at That was Yuan Kao-shu, 32. worked hard and received a cita- IN 1902, Harry Golden, Amer- my father would call a body, say University of Chicago scientists. However in the liver these hormone by-products are neutralized so far as their fever-making capabilities are concerned. TEETH The vitamin E6 appears to reduce tooth decay. The vitamin, called Puridoxine.

can be used practically by both children and adults, say researchers from the State University of New York. Pregnant women, who frequently are deficient in the vitamin, also show an increase in the bacteria which cause tooth decay. Perhaps this can be reversed by administration of the vitamin, doctors suggest. high speeds. telling a reporter why he.

hi tion ican editor and publisher, was man." Golden served a Federal Shepard has 3.700 hours of fly- pregnant wife and 2year-old wcnt t0 my wif ing time -none quite ike the daughtcr yCar ago slipped out V. id minutes ne spent aioit in- Cf Amoy. Communist China, and iu. TJ" clay. born on New York's Lower East prison term in the 1930's.

con-Side. Since 1941. Golden has victcd of using the mails to dc-published a monthly newspaper, fraud. Of this. Adlai E.

Steven-the Carolina Israelite. In 1958, son commented: he wrote a best-selling book, "The story of Harry Golden Only in America, and in 1959 re- reminds mc of the slory ot 0. peatcd his 08 success with a cnrv. wno 5Dcnt tnrcc vcar- 1 1. nielli aur iiau sailed their small boat to an islet nea-d othm wpre knIcd 1 ome Mull Rationalist official, said uan boa(s alona the sh 0ne I nd hit it near by Q's and A's volume titled For 2c Plain.

iiaitu uui iouut nu sic aniii work place. in priscn. 1 suspect that this ex- Before his books appeared, perience deepened Harry Col ifftU, is England's amvi Ul'li UIIUVl aiaiiuillg, Pffln College' "On March 29. 1960. 1 called for mv wife and child.

Yuan Meichen. We gagged the little girl so she wouldn't cry. We slipped awsv ILL1I1II.1U 1, itV, him nAtiicnanfti nmminnnt t.i nA Uim founded Ing resettlement In this coastal village. Nearby is a Nationalist "fisherman's station" the scene of a little-known drama in the cold war. A The school was in 1440 by Henry VI.

It's spring again, and while people in political and literary heart. His subsequent life and you're at your spring cleaning, circles, both Jews and Gentiles, work is best evidence of this." don't neglect the medicine cabi- wno enjoyed his flair for nostal- Carj Sandburg, writing the net. eia and irreverence. nu, a from Amoy in the small boat at 2 a. m.

and reached the island near Quemoy at 6 a. m. Some guides when going through lrt lihrrai fi. rir SHELTER, food and soap are "We were welcomed by the the year's accumulation of bottles awaiting the arrival of occasion- people here and a few days after newspaper in North Carolina." to him." b. 1,1..

and tins: 01 1. ju Ji lie aaiu, uui 1 nmo a a nu- rnn flan UTittan Uliar ai fisnermen mown oy siorms we landed, our second daughter, away from their Communist home Yuan Mri-li, was born," Yuan In South Africa who are the Afrikaners? A The native whites, especially those of Dutch or Huguenot ancestry. Do the hand and foot have the same number of bones? A No. the hand has 27 bones, one more bone than the foot. ports.

continued. drugs anc throw away the old eral. and a Northerner The odds describes as a million pamph. ones. Throw away medicines that TfL "JS 8nd articlcs for the Zionists have chanaed in color, consistency 1 tnc the New Deal, the Socialists and Carolina Israelite.

My Critics (ho Dfmnrrti Partv Hp Ip. or have become cloudy. Make rure all bottles are tightly could say, 'This is another Jew carcs als0 fed Nationalist officials say that after getting such soft-sell propaganda, the fishermen are allowed to return to the mainland to the families they have left behind. They are given supplies of Na "Thl are so very much better here, meat pork every day. Under the Communist, the pnrk ration Is about two pounds of pork a year.

Here, three meals day, with rice at each one." sealed. Put the hazardous sub- tw wee writing. 1 write. 1 put it in stances and drugs well out of chil- vr barrel, and when it comes time dren's reach. would Sct acquainted th it.

l0 bring out the I reach On what day do the swal. tionalist-labeled soar, cigarettes Restock on firt aid supplies. "I Just wanted to become what in the barrel lows return to San Juan Cipis- and anti-Communist leaflets, trano. The Yuans and one other cou YUAN IS bcini supported and THEY'LL DO IT EVERY TIME By Hath March ple have defected to this particu housed by the Free China Relief A St. Joseph's Day, 19.

lar station since 19G0, officials Association. Officials could not Perhaps the weakness in our position as regards Soviet Russia is that we have underestimated the Russians. The assumption in the above letter is that the Russians are barbarians, although there is a history of more than a thousand years of culture and civilization of a very hieh order. As long as we believe that even' Russian is a moujik, we shall continue to underestimate the peoples who live in the vast area which is marked Russian on the map. How can anyone say the Russians lack an aesthetic sense, ny which.

I assume that my correspondent means that the Russians have produced nothing in the various fields of art. One need only know Russian music. Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, to mention only a few pre-Bol-ahevik composers; or in literature, Tolstoy, Gorki, Chekhov, merely to scratch the surface of the subject. In science, the Russians and Poles have a long and Important history, Including Copernicus (a Pole), Mcntlc-lryev who worked out the table of valences, and among moderns many others. I AM NOT listing the wonders of Russia.

That is their Job. I am denouncing the ignorance, of those who believe that wisdom and knowledge can be the monopoly of any one people. After all, Aviccnna. (born in Bukhara in 980), one of the great philosophers of the Middle Ages, came from a country which is now become weak and backward. It is not lessening the structure of the.

United States to recognize that there have been about 8,000 years or more of written history, whereas we have been on this continent only three centuries. We have inherited from others because the culture of man is continuous. Greece and Rome and Palestine and the long ancestral history of England have played an enormous role in the development of the United States. The assumption of exclusivcncss is distorting. It leads to false conclusions.

We exaggerated the significance of Sputnik because we assumed that the Russians could never do what we could not yet do. Some folks, even yet, refuse to believe that there has been a Sputnik and a Lunik and it is this lack nf understanding which is partly responsible for our failures in Cuba, the Congo, Laos and elsewhere. Someone spread the notion that there is tome extraordinary gift called know-how which is exclusively American. We have been shocked to discover that know how is exclusive to no people; that what one people knows is soon known to all. IS THE 1920's we spoke of the United States as "God's own country." which was both unhisiorical and sacrilegious, for surely all the universe is God's.

The metaphor, however, meant that this was the best country on Earth to live in, which is true for Americans but not for Hindus. Chinese, Welshmen or Scandinavians. They like their own country as we like ours. Therefore, when the 1929 Depression appeared we morally dropped dead. When Roosevelt tried to convince us that a third of the nation were economically disabled, we forgot about ''God's own country," which became a corny expression.

We insisted that all American history prior to 1932 had been an error and that we need to try altogether new methods. Thus, producing the confusing New Deal. We need more realistic attitude toward ourselves and toward the rest of the world. We need to recognize that we are one fact in a vast geography and a long history and that we dare not exaggerate our own importance or underestimate the values of other nations. There is no greater peril than Ignorance overlaid by emotions particularly when we reject knowledge to prove an assumption.

The error of the past 40 years in our relations with Soviet Russia and Soviet satellites Is that we have been unwilling to believe the truth about them because the proof did not Ppd trug fid- say when he will be allowed to "I was a fisherman but during start a new job or leave Quemoy What is the largest north to south stretch of land in the u-nrlH ine ariuiery war 01 wm. me or rormosa, where he has rcl. Communists moved me to Amoy tlves, TMOSS KRUMBUNS A MV SO SODDV TOV Again auwavs 11 be late-but grawnd- AND THE DINNER 1 PAW LOST Hi PMI BETA DBiED OUT LIKE I KAPPA KEVwE TURNED LZZ ySL3wDEATM EVERYTHING UPSIDE y-I 'iX jjt oown before we lT jw $MO I fJCftTu fh XfouND rr in his A America, about 9,300 milci to work In a boat factory." Yuan Yi Shu-tao. 42, told a similar long. said through a Nationalist srmy story of leaving a Communist i Tie KRUMEUNG WAVE NEVES BEEN ON TIME POR ANYTHING SOVOU GET TO KNOW THAT 7 O'CLOCK MEANS 30 TO interpreter.

wire was sep. land with his wife in a small fish 0 What is meant by an aratea irom me ana pui a jng boat. He said through an cquatint? commune. army Interpreter he slipped away A It is an etching on copper He said he had wanted for a because of lack of freedom and or steel with nitric acid giving long time to escape because "they food "We were always hungry Hut iirfnri or a usIap r-nlnr (raatarl ill Iika hnricl nr fin" I anrl tint tnn tn tHnl.m India-ink drawing. decided the only way was to gain BIO JUMP The number of civilian work- rrs employed by the U.S.

federal government between 1939 and 1345 increased from one million PORTRAITS 6 John C. Metcalfe Recognition I HEARD a voice Inside my heart As soft end delicate as lace And though I tried my very best Its origin I could not trace It sounded tike some distant bells That to three and one-half million. jfe Il0 'JJC AND MEET SO NEXT TIME M. vou plan on WSSS Kv? DINNER AT IS iffeMVV Vl km VM if 1 tbiuht ms, Ptibllchud trf echo in the quiet field When onyx twilight shadows fall eu'trM Kimir-. Upon the yellow harvest yield I thought my mind Fmnit Tripp, prMit pub was playing tricks On hearing such a haunting sound WLYliSZr.

Especially the second time When I no person near me eity Hiior. found It seemed this time the mogie voice Though very faint was crystal cltor And dttp within my furtivt heart th inmi nwi prcnH tn this k. kA I Well AP nwt dl- hoired memory In shodows silently stood by your lovely face end then Beside my heart began to cry..