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-ALTON EVENING TELEGRAPH SATUfcDAY, JUNE Editorial Side ttlancos unit Who Would Poltoe Implications of the Korean arms inspection fcreakdotvn will be argued intensively and lengthily on an international scale. It Is perhaps the first modern attempt to regulate arms importation and use by international organization, Ift View of the United States' insistence on inspection and policing before it will deal further with Russia on any question of establishing a permanent peace in the world, this is important. By some it could be viewed as proof that arms policing just isn't going to work. If, they may ask, it can't be done on a limited basis as represented by Korea, then how could it be effective on a world-wide scale? That IS a poser, We must remember, however, that the Korean setup was adopted by both the Western and munist nations as a means of officially ending a costly and bloody war in Korea: A war that had no business starting in the first place. It was adopted after lengthy and drawn-out negotiations carried on during an armistice that threatened to erupt into further fighting any moment, and whose enforcement kept large armies of men tied down for months.

With the Communists insisting on concessions, the machinery could not be the most effective possible. And the concessions made to the Reds have been the very crux of the breakdown. The Reds' representatives on the enforcement commission simply winked at North Korean arming and dragged their feet when efforts were made to act. This was forecast at the time of the negotiations, and it has been confirmed now. The Korean program was an initial adventure into international arms patrols.

It should provide for future such experiments in valuable data to fall back upon, both in planning what is most desirable, and in debating undesirable demands. We can be happy if any satisfaction is to be gained froni the breakdown) that the defective machinery was applied on a comparatively email scale, rather than worldwide. Certainly, though, it brings up the question of what kind of manpower should be used in policing such a program in the 'future. Very evidently no persons partisan to the Communist cause can be used. But by the same token, Communists can argue that the West should not be represented by its partisans, either.

we have to use our experimenting with space platforms and inter-planetary rockets to import men from Mars for the job? To Understand the Collector Some of our readers who evidently don't fully understand the have a different understanding than our own, at expressed criticism for our almost daily reports of prog- ms in Alton's tax collection. Evidently there is a feeling among a few that the city treasurer is seeking a bit of glory for himself for having done a good job of collecting taxes. In our estimation he is not seeking such glorification. He planned his program of procedure long before anyone who could pat him on the back knew anything about it. In our estimation he is just doing a good job in a position which sometimes becomes extremely difficult.

If taxes are higher, the treasurer is not to blame. In fact, by early collections he may be helping to make future taxes -a trifle lower. A number of taxing agencies receive benefit from his collections. More important, it is these agencies that set the taxes. The treasurer is doing a fine job of encouraging folks to pay their taxes promptly, and in accommodating them with evening hours and other special measures to make it easier for them to discharge an unpleasant responsibility.

By encouraging the more prompt payment of taxes, Treasurer Elliott, as we've pointed out before, is enabling the taxing bodies benefittcd to. repay borrowed money earlier and cut off the interest they must.pay for it. That actually is saving the taxpayer money in the long run, other things being equal. This is the Graduate's Time of High Glory We are nearing the end of graduation time. The public high school, junior high and grade schools have completed their work.

Graduation programs have been held, or will be held Sunday, by parochial grade schools. Monticello Sunday, Shurtleff Monday, will conduct graduation programs, and Monday night Marquette High exercises will close the commencement season. There's a kind of bounce to graduation time. The youngsters who complete the sixth grade think of themselves as soon-to-be junior high students; the eighth-grade graduates look forward to high school rank within a few all tee ahead the long, lazy months of vacation time. The high school graduate contemplates the College to come or, if unable to go higher in education, looks for that job so that he will earn his own money.

And'the college graduate looks confidently ahead to a career. He goes into the world, armed with knowledge and overflowing with confidence. That's what makes graduation time so buoyant. Everything is cheerful; the future is bright. The past has been happy preparation, and out there is a big world just waiting to be conquered; big salaries are to be made, new fields are to be pioneered.

Why cite percentages to show how few get into the "big" money? Why produce statistics to show the millions who will be just average? The failures? Take the graduate, today at least, at his own high estimate. Let his eyes sparkle, his shoulders square, his chest expand. This is his time. There's no other time quite like it. Wood River Business Men Solve Progress Problem Wood River business men who purchased the old Madison avenue building and are wrecking it to make room for a public parking lot are to be congratulated on their foresightedncss and public spirit.

In too many cases 1 citizens of a community assume the "let George do it" attitude. Too many of us stand by and wait for the city, or the state, or the federal government to undertake things that need to be done to prevent a community's rotting from the core out. In this case Wood River's group of business men took the initial step to clear the way for satisfaction of an immediate public need, and perhaps later further improvement. The City of Wood River will be better for the move, and others may be inspired to undertake the same procedure without waiting for Santa Glaus. Alton's West End business people undertook a similar move more than a year ago on Belle Street.

This community has the same trouble, as the Oil or uninterested, landlordism. The challenge of this problem must be met, somehow. St. Louis did it with its program of condemnation and purchase of certain blighted areas for resale to private developers. The "keeping up" process would be less painful if property owners would maintain, their holdings better and modernize them periodically.

Occasionally, however, even the best-maintained buildings, must be removed to make way for progress. Certainly those allowed to deteriorate should be eliminated and replaced. Robert Allen Reports Harmony in the Arctic WASHINGTON Amazing things are transpiring over the stormy Bering Sea that separates Alaska and Siberia. For a year, there have been no incidents between American and Russian planes on this exposed border where shooting encounters had occurred repeatedly at the height of the cold war. But since June 22, 1955, tha last of those aerial clashes, the Reds have been singularly peaceful and neighborly.

How long this unusual amity will continue is conjectural. There are no indications whether it is a temporary or permanent change of Kremlin policy. Meanwhile, the remarkable record of what has beer happening in this explosive area is graphically in the following highlights ol a back- Stage report: 1, S. and Russian air force planes have taken aerial photos covering hundreds of miles of each other's territory, without the slightest molestation. 2.

Red flights over unpopulated sections in the far nonh of Alaska and Canada have been carefully observed but not intercepted. 3. S. Air weather planes are flying regularly over several of the camps the Soviet maintains' on Arctic ice floes, as well as a strip of territory claimed by them. 4.

The air forces of the two countries are now exchanging weather reports from flights over the North Pole. Previously these weather messages were coded, hut: plane crews now transmit them "in the clear." 5. U.S. military and commerci- al planes are flying routinely in plain sight of Russian radar and interceptor installations and jet patrols. extraordinary harmony- has been a great help to the U.

S. and Canada in the construction of their far-flung DEW (distant early warning) communications system. The building and supplying of this tremendous defense project is almost entirely by air, much of it by the famous Flying Tigers freight line. This has meant extremely heavy air traffic; in one section upwards of 1,000 flights in a single month. A considerable amount of this air freight has been over areas where Russian shooting incidents occurred in the past.

But this crucial DEW haul- Alton Evening Telegraph PublUhed by Alton Telegraph Printing Company P. B. COUSLEV Publisher and Editor Published Daily, Subscription Price 80 weekly by carrier; by mall $10.00 year within 100 miles; J14.00 beyond 100 mllei. aubhcrlptioiu not accepted In where carrier delivery li available Entered ai lecona-clau matter it office at Alton, III Art pi Congress, tjarrh a. 1X78 MKMUBK THfc ASSOCIATED PKEbS The Awociated Prew exclusively entitled lo the UM for publication ol all newi dispatcher credited to it or hoi otherwise credited to thii paper arid to the local newi pub- Untied herein.

Local advertising Rates and Contract Information on application at the Telegraph bujlnetl of flee. Ill Broadway, Alton, III. National Ad- Weit- Bollkuor Now York, Chicago, 1 age has throughout flown smoothly, quietly and without a single Rod obstruction. Getting to Know You The increase in visiting between the East and West last year is astonishing. Much has been written and said about such exchanges, but few are aware of the extent to which they have grown.

For ample: Visits between the U.S. and Russia jumped four-fold in 1955. Most of these delegations comprised scientific and technical groups. The full story of this highly significant development is con' tained in a 'private report the State Department has made to the Senate Appropriations Committee. According to this study, JS70 free wdrld delegations went lo Russia last year, while 551 Soviet groups visited non-Conr munist lands, "This is nearly a 400 per cent increase over 1954," says the report, "and it is further signi Jicant that approximately two- of these exchanges were with Western JCuropean and As ian countries." The State Department express es belief that "tourism in and out of Russia has become an actuality." (Copyright, lUftU The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) Rivalry DALLAS, 4 pre- a solid front against the rest of the world, but at home, folks spur each other a bit, In Dallas, when the weather's sticky, warm and humid, the headlines say its "another day like Houston," the state's biggest city down on the Gulf Coast, t.M.

J. Off. fl ttftfcu. "Does Dad have to show all my friends those cute baby pictures of me, and say how much I've changed in twenty years?" Readers Forum Letter! to the editor should be of reasonable length tnd must be signed although names will be withheld from publication at request of writer. Letters should avoid personalltlei and unfounded charges.

Message To A Loved One Kdltor, The Telegraph: Recently I read with great interest the comments expressed by a foreign diplomat, speaking to an American audience. The speaker said, if the world ever hopes to stabilize itself and establish a permanent peace, it must begin anew to teach the art of human understanding, regardless of color, race or creed. He further stated, until we learn this great lesson, all the books and articles written on the subject will become just wishful thinking about a. lost cause. All through the ages there have been men of vision who knew of such a need and tried their best to bring about the miracle.

It's a difficult job. It's hard to penetrate human thought. There is selfishness, carelessness. They have to be co-ordinated if any good is to come out of it. None of this can be done, however, unless we get together and cooperate.

There are many ways in which this can be done. Especially if we can get the help of the "rich" people. Those who know the joy of the simple things," those who can say to you in your hour of trial or despair, "don't, worry, I'm your friend and will stand by you." Yes, the richest man in the world is not always one who has many worldly possessions, but one who follows the dictates of a fender heart, and accepts the guidance of his God. Mistakes we all make, many of them. But all of us have power for the good if we will but give ourselves a chance to really understand each other.

Our. friend, the foreign diplomat, must have meant just that. Life sometimes becomes a very hard taskmaster. At such times there is nothing as comforting or soothing, as is the knowledge that there are friends who understand. How well we know this, and become even more conscious of it at this time of the year, when we might be saying to someone we loved: "Happy birthday, dear," we must say instead, "Good night, Darling, Rest in Peace." MARY BLUM.

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes Editor, The Telegraph: The following is copied from the front page of the Alton Evening Telegraph, dated Tuesday, May 29, 1956: Items in quotation marks only. "Tax Collection Hits Total of 51,740,000." "Elliott said we must take in about $300,000 more, Thursday through Saturday of this week if last year's collection of 52,054,000 is surpassed." "The collector's rosy expectations for a bumper flow of tax payments today was bolstered by the receipt during the forenoon of substantial checks from Illinois Bell Telephone Co. and Alton Water Co." "Only three more days remain to make tax payments before the penalty date for delay on paying the first Installment of real estate taxes." "He (the collector) already is preparing to send final notices on personal property taxes unpaid by Saturday, and carry on a "mop up" of delinquent accounts while his books are being balanced for return to the county treasurer." Unquote. Taxes, taxes, taxes Always an increase in taxes. Each year brings an increase.

WHere does all the tax money go? Taxes on our home in Alton have increased about 150 per cent from 1945 to 1955. Taxes on our farm in Foster Township have increased about 250 per cent from 1945 to 1955. Is it necessary to have an increase in our tax burden every year? It doesn't seem to me that it is. Something must be wrong somewhere. I appeal to the people of Alton and Madison County.

Let's get together and see if something can be done to stop the constant increase in taxes. I think the Alton Evening Telegraph will help us wherever it can. R. H. DuCHEMIN, 3302 College Ave.

Thanhs From PTA Editor, the Telegraph: I wish to express the appre- (Continued on Page 9, Col. 8) President's Wife to Prtviom Puzzlt J8BBH ACROSS I Wife ol 28th U.S. president, 3 Shoshoneao Ax son Wilson 7 Her husband Woodrow Wilson 13 Horn 14 Dyestuff 15 Pilots 18 Closer 17 Signal of distress 18 Reply (ab.) 20 Female sheep 21 25 Adore 28 Lyric poem 32 Pertaining to node 33 Lamprey fisherman 3i Container, for trulU 35 Pertaining to a 3d Girl's 37 Skillful 39 Machinery parts 41 Sphere 44 Onager 45 Salary 48 Lodger 91 Patterns 54 Fruit 99 Form notion 56 Island In New York bay bids DOWN I Young woman Weight of India 6 Substitute 7 Taut 6 Garden implement 9 Mrs. Johnson 10 Mud Afresh 12 Withered 18 Born 21 Puffs up 23 Greeter 24 Races East Indian woody vine 29 Palm leaf 30 Transaction 31 Makes mistakes 37 Delirium 41 table scrapg 42 pj tn par 43 Kraal 45 Irish fuel 46 Singing voice 47 Belgian river tremens (ab.) 49 38 Odorless cushion ZSUnitof length 40 First Jewish 26 Golden in high priest color (Bib.) BOSurrmer (Ft.) 52 Harem room 58 Low haunt Brief Notes On New Books At Library The election of Lincoln to the presidency was not possible until Charles Ray entered the picture. "The Man Who Elected Lincoln," by Jay Monaghan, is the biography of Charles Ray 1 doctor and newspaperman.

Ray was editor-in-chief and co-owner of the Chicago Tribune. He was an abolitionist and crusader as well as a keen political analyst. Ray saw in Lincoln the vrnan to defeat Douglas in 1858 and to beat the Democrats in 1860. He threw all his resources into building Lincoln for the nomination. The author shows the way in which the stage was set by Charles Ray for the building up of Lincoln in the public's mind to make him the Republican candidate for the presidency.

Readers will find this biography a description of a man who, in the time of the nation's emergency, was able to push a man up until he became President of the United States. Journey In a Model-T "The Boy in the Model.T," by Stephen Longstreet, is a story filled with drama, and with love. The author was 12 years old when his grandfather and his mother took him on a trek across the United States and back in a Model-T Ford. By the time the trip finally ended, he had fallen in love a heartless young lass of 14; been present at an Irish wedding; fished in the bayous of the Cajun country; learned to handle and love a hunting hawk; and also absorbed a great deal about the meaning of life. Stephen's mother and grandfather showed the boy our country as it was in 1919.

It was a picture of courage, humor, thos, and wild hilarity. Those old enough to remember 1919 will find the pages will fill them with nostalgia. The author has done a number of pen-and-ink sketches to help describe the book and the scenes about which he writes. Cronln Kovcl A. J.

Cronin, author of "The Citadel," and "The Keys of the Kingdom," has written a new novel with the title, "A Thing of Beauty." The new novel is concerned with a great painter whose search for beauty led him to give up every thing for art. Stephen Desmonde knew his lather's wish that he should succeed him as rector of Stillwater. call of art was too much for Stephen. He felt that he must pursue his vision of the world's beauty. It was his feeling that he must put the truth on canvas, that led him into the mockery and scandal that he had to survive in a sensational trial that stirred all England.

Stephen would have had difficulty sur viving except for the tender and understanding love of Jenny Dill. She was able to restore his confidence and he was able to find the serenity and peace that marked his greatest creations. The author has written of Stephen's father with warmth and sympathy. The descriptions of the places in which the story takes place are vividly done. Readers who enjoy the writings of A.

J. Cronin will find novel a memorable one, with the characters and diverse moods skillfully woven together. For Baseball Fans On Nov. 8, 1954, the American League voted to allow Kansas City to become the replacement for Philadelphia. The full story of the move is told in "The Kansas City Athletics," by Ernest Mehl.

Arnold Johnson of Chicago purchased the stock of the 'Philadelphia Athletics and then set out to accomplish what everybody said couldn't be done. A long, hard battle ensued and was finally won. After months of arguments, approval was finally given for the transfer of the baseball club to Kansas City from Philadelphia, The City of Kansas City, soon after the decision was announced, started work on a new municipal stadium. The stadium was built in 90 days, using some of the miracles of modem-day construction. The welcome of the people for the ball club resulted in the fact that enthusiasm at the end of the 1955 season was thought to be greater than that at the start of the season.

Baseball fans will enjoy reading this account of how a baseball club was moved from one town to another. Prayer for Father of our spirits, lift our eyes above the near horizon of our owji Interests, that we ntay live in the world Thou hast made. Help to include within our concern this day the welfare of every needy person we can help. So will' vip be profitable servants of Him who is the Elder-Brother of us all; In His name. Amen.

LeRoy Anderson, Berkeley, president, Pacific School of Religion. (Copyright, 1839. by the DlvUion of EdUSatlPfl. National CouncJJ of the ChurehM ol ChrUt in 25 and SO Years Ago 2,1931 Because no ore could found who would take over the subrpostal station in North Alton, Postmaster P. B.

Cousley knnounced that after the last day of June the office would be closed. Leslie Yungck, who had operated the station for $150 per month, declined to continue the station in his place of business. No other location could be found. George Schillinger, who was elected in May as treasurer of Wood River, refused to take over the treasurer's books, although he was qualified by his own $50,000 bond, until the Wood River National Bank supplied its $50,000 depository bond. The problem originated when the City Council voted to increase the bond required of the treasurer from $25,000 to $50,000.

Since the vote at the first meeting of the City Council, former Treasurer William Johnson had been keeping the books and the city funds under an extension-of his $25,000 bond, while Sehillinger had been waiting for the bank to furnish its depository bond of $50,000 instead of the lesser amount which had been required in the past. Russell Sauvage resigned his position as assistant manager of the Grand theater to enter the office of his father, former Mayor William M. Sauvage, head of the Sauvage Advertising System. Alton Post of the American Legion took its first step in efforts to secure a permanent home for its post and auxiliary, and all bodies then or in the future connected with the Legion. William Carter, 14, son of Mr.

and Mrs. James Carter, died in St. Joseph's Hospital. He also was survived by four sisters, Lillian, Edna, Vivian and Betty Jane, and a brother, Harry. Members of committees appointed by the three service groups of the city to promote a summer recreation and playground program were scheduled to meet for organization, with a total of $400 on hand to start their work.

Louis city ambulance driver, who had wounded a St. Louis County bandit in a "shoot-it-out" chase in the West End business district four months earlier, gave a quart of blood for the wounded man, who remained a patient in St. Joseph's Hospital. The bandit's condition was reported mOre satisfactory. W.

L. Oliver of Alton was re-elected president of the Vaughn Cemetery Association and Miss Jane Henry was elected secretary-treasurer. Johnny Stoneham of Wood River, playing the outfield for Wichita, was the highest hitter on his team, and the third highest of the league, with a .374 average. Mrs. Mayme Hoppe was named president of the Kane High School alumni; Lorean Carr, vice president; Mrs.

Madalene Close, secretary, and Miss Alice Wooldridge, treasurer. June 2,1906 tVhen a miniature whirlwind swirled through City Hall square at noon, carrying a vortex of dust, were reminded that it was tha 46th 'rilversary of the cyclone of 1860 which caused heavy damage here, including partial destruction of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Agreement was reached between officials of the city and Illinois Glass Co. that no more sewage would be discharged into Shields Branch, to make.the agreement permanent, the Glass Co.

was to press a friendly suit so a court order would bind future administrations. fsaiah Logan, a farm hand living near Godfrey, suffered several broken ribs and a gash on his forehead when kicked by a fractious horse. Dr. E. C.

Lemen went to Piasa Chautauqua to inspect his just-completed cottage and complete plans to furnish it. A marriage license was issued at St. Charles, to Harry Kortkamp of North Alton and Miss Lucia Foster of Jerseyville. Mrs. G.

Taphorn, with her youngest daughter, was visiting in Carlyle with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Schaef- ei. Charles E. Wise, son of Charles F.

Wise, was named assistant counsel of the Vandalia Railroad, Patrick O'Leary of Yager Park was showing improvement after a grave illness of blood poisoning which was caused by a contusion to his shin. Mr. and Mrs, Thomas Evans left on a trip to Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs, R.

II. Levis left for Macon, to attend the graduation of theip son, Middleton, from Bleese Military Academy. Miss Julia Randall was home after leaching at a school in The Misses Hattie and Alma Kramer were making a 2-week visit in Chicago. Miss Grace Bozza was convalescent after surgical treatment in St. Joseph's Hospital.

A steamboat rate war, said to have cost each rival line 55,000. was ended when the Calhoun Packet Co. and the Ryman Line of J. B. Richard, son consolidated for handling thp Calhoun on the Mississippi side.

The Str. Richardson wai to be laid up until the wheat shipping season opened. i The Upper Alton firm of Streeper Wheeler I was being dissolved. George Penning was to acquire tbe interest of J. E.

Wheeler and the firm name was to become Streeper Penning. Wheeler planned an all-summer vacation, seeking restoration 'of his health. Upper Alton churches were to omit their Sunday services so that members might the Shurtleff College baccalaureate exercises and other special services in the Baptist Church. Alton Horticultural Society held annual strawberry festival at Mt. Lookout, home of H.

G. I McPike on Alby street. MIRROR OF YOUR MIND B.r JOSKPH WHITNEY contacts. While most of us art inclined to be suspicious of people who dwell within themselves, the fact is that extroversion it of! en a cover for some established, deep-seated neurotic conflict. Happily, both introverts and extroverts are normal personality patterns.

Do wives resent household routine? Answer: Probably not as much as they resent the attitude, of their families toward the job of i-unning a house. The woman who feels trapped by routine chores is usually one who gels no recognition for her achievements, Her family accepts a well run home as commonplace, and complain freely when things don't suit them. The average man's work is just as dull, but his need for recognition is met by occasional praise from i boss, and weekly paycheck which proves he is worth something. Are Introverts Answer: Not because they are introverted, although generally the sociable outgoing pei-son who makes friends easily is considered better adjusted than the introverted individual who tends to draw away from close personal Is It progress to form a society against something? Answer: "Usually not; forward- go'mg people tend to concentrate on the positive aspects of their objectives, the SPCA, for example, is against cruelty to animals, but their title stresses tht prevention of cruelty; not angry declaiming against. A recent California study indicated that people who are "anti" one thing often have violent prejudices against many things.

Organizations that are strongly "anti-minded" rarely go very far. once they have established their position. (Copyright 1956, King Feituret Syndicate. Inc.) Drew Pearson's Merry-Go-Round way s' Due for Reversal WASHINGTON Fred Seaton, the new secretary of the interior, is" one. of the best men Eisenhower could have picked for that key spot.

His appointment may mean a complete change in the so-called Eisenhower "giyeaway" policy. But tempers sizzled privately a bit among old guard Republicans when his appointment was sent to the Senate. The opposition was not personal. It went much deeper and embraces the 'entire Eisenhower policy on tidelands oil, publip power, ndtural gas, wildlife refuges, and even Hell's' Canyon. was opposed to giving tidelands oil to the states when he was in the Senate and might well reverse Eisenhower policies as secretary of the interior.

Inside fact is that Seaton first tried to appoint his friend Val Peterson, another leader of the liberal GOP, as secretary'of the interior. But when Republican leaders were confidentially sounded out 10 days ago, opposition erupted from, old-line Nebraska Republicans. This climaxed long series of attempt by Seaton to put his friend Peterson in position beginnng just before Ike took office when Seaton urged Peterson as secretary of agriculture or secretary of the interior. Ex-Gov. Peterson, however, had run against crotchety, conservative Sen.

Hugh Butler in the Nebraska Republican primary, and Butler would neither forget nor forgive. He blocked the appointment. He even blocked Peterson's appointment as U. S. ambassador to distant India.

Finally Peterson was apppint- ed to. Ike's White House staff, which doesn't require Senate confirmation; and later to the thankless job of civil defense administrator, where he has done an A-l job. Peterson, also a liberal Repub- I lican, also opposed the natural gas lobby and the tidelands oil lobby. So last week Nebraska Sens. Curtis and Hruska not only frowned on him as secretary of the interior, but sent word back to tlio White House that the man to appoint was another Nebraskan, Clarence Pavis, now undersecretary of the interior.

Davis, however, was frowned on by Seaton and other White House advisers just as much as Peterson was frowned on by Curtis and Hruska. For Davis had closely identified with the Al Sarena giveaway of the Rogue River National Forest, with (he en- croavhment of oil companies on wildlife refuges and with McKay's generous policy toward the private utilities. So Seaton, in turn, blocked Davis. In fact, he had been pull- ins wires bagkstage for a month to keep the reactionary pavis from becoming secretary of the interior- Seatpn's motive in this was npt to get job fpr self, He had no idea that lightning would strike him. But in the end that is exactly what happened.

When Seaton served In the Senate to fill out the unexpired. term of the late Kenneth Wherry, it became known that he was not going to vote with the Gulf states and various Republican senators tp give tidelands oil to Texas, Louisiana and California, This caused dismay and indig- nation among gas-oil lobbyists. It was in the closing of the Tinman administration, and Senate noses were being ed to override his expected ve- i to. So. Gov, Shivers of Texai i called on Gov.

Val Peterson of I Nebraska, who had appointed Seaton to the Senate, urged that Seaton be persuaded to vote for tidelands oil. "I have no control over senator's vote," Peterson replied, thereby winning the undying opposition of gas-oil senators to his own appointment to the Interior Department later. Seaton was in Germany where he and his wife were adopting two children when the tidelands oil debate started early in 1952. But he rushed back in time to be recorded against the bill. Seaton is a midwest, small- town newspaper publisher who understands people as well as politics.

Through his friends, Sen. Frank Carlson, he got to know candidate Eisenhower during the 1952 campaign and became one of his close advisers. He was also one of his liberal advisers; joined the group on the Eisenhower campaign train which wanted to throw Nixon off the Republican ticket when his $18,000 personrj expense fund was Seaton did his best to persuade Sen. Wayne Morse of Ore. gon not to bolt the Republican Party, helped persuade the sometimes nervous Eisenhower that the press would not bite him; after election was appointed assistant secretary of defense to hold ihe-wobbly public- relations hand of Charlie WU- son.

(Copyright, 1850, Bell SyocUcnte, Inc.).