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BILL OF RIGHTS--No law abridging the freedom of speecfc or the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. AMARILLO GLOBE-TIMES Red China a Cinch for U.N. Membership --INSIDE WASHINGTON 7 By Robert S. Allen, Paul Scott Louise Evans. Editor, Editorial Pages Page 38 Amarillo.

Texas. Thursday, September 1, Natural Gas in North Sea May Solve Some British Economic Problems Despite all its current economic troubles. Great Britain can look to the future with some optimism. Last September, the British Petroleum Co. struck a huge deposit of natural gas in the North Sea, about 42 miles from the mouth of the Humber River.

The day after B. P. announced the find. The Times of London said: "If (North Sea gas) comes up to hopes, it could transform Britain's balance of payments, permanently shifting her dependence on foreign fuel supplies." The Times's assessment of the discovery seems even more pertinent today than a year ago. At least four additional major gas discoveries have been made in the British sector of the North Sea in the past 12 months.

One of the strikes purportedly could, by itself, supply around 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas a day considerably more than the present level of gas consumption in Britain. Curiously enough, news of this potential bonanza produced more an- guish than joy in Labor Party circles. Coal miners represent one of the party's major sources of electoral support, and the nationalized coal industry was in enough trouble as it was. In time, the gas lode cannot but help enriching Britain and the four other countries Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, West Germany that control North Sea mineral rights. Drilling in me Danish sector is beginning now.

Walter J. Levy, an American oil consultant, feels that the impact of natural gas on the British economy will be profound. According 10 Fortune (August 1966), "Levy thinks it possible that, taken together, cheaper fuels, new industries, new employment, and capital investment by the oil companies and supporting industries might have a 'multiplier stimulating business activity in somewhat the same way that automobile industry growth has far-reaching effects on the total economy of the U.S." Reverse McCarthyism iii Capital WASHINGTON, A form of "McCartoyism" is rising on Capitol Hill. This time the "victims" are alleged anti-ComisuiH whose State rneni appointments being held up because their views fail to satisfy' Liberal witch-hunters. A shocking case in.

point! is that of Robert'Bowie, a LASKY distinguished Harvard professor who is alleged to feel bearish about the possibility of "building peaceful bridges to the Eest." Action on Bowie's nomination as State Department counselor has been postponed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee because Sen. Joseph Clark, Pennsylvania Democrat, wants to question him at length regarding his views. When Joseph R. McCarthy used to question diplomats about a decade ago. Liberals like Clark were prone to shout "McCarthyism" and accuse the late senator of instituting a "reign of terror" in the State Department.

Even Sen. George Aiken seems to have --VICTOR LASKY become afflicted with the witch-hunting virus. Also a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, the amiable Republican from Vermont told an interviewer that he was disturbed about the State Department "leaning" toward hardliners that is, people who don't want to appease the insatiable appetites of the Communist powers. "I would be very careful about approving people known to be pro-war, pro-expansionist" he was quoted. The truth is no one proposed by the President can thus be described.

True, it could hardly be expected that Johnson would nominate foreign policy aides who radically oppose his views oa. such subjects as Viet Nam. Yet, President Johnson now finds himself in the unenviable position of being forced to consult with Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, one of his more vociferous critics, oa i choices to fill top jobs at Foggy Bottom. Under this setup, it is hardly likely that a tough anti-Communist will stand a chance of being appointed.

How Your Conffressineii Voted WASHINGTON Here is how area congressmen voted in recent Capitol roll calls: Senate Rejected 14-72 an amendment to eliminate from Department of Defense bill, S153.5 million for procurement of long leadtime items relating to the Nike-X missile defense system. All area senators voted against this amendment except Yarborough of Texas who did not vote. Passed 86-0 Defense appropriation bill in the amount of 558.189,872,000 for fiscal 1967. All area senators voted for the bill. Rejected 27-53 Tower amendment to delete from the Demonstrations Cities' bill for S900 minion in grants.

For Tower of Texas. Against Anderson and Montoya of New Mexico. Passed 53-22 the bill authorizing demonstration city grants for community renewal, incentive planning grants for orderly metropolitan development and other programs relating to housing and turban development For Anderson, Montoya, and Against Tower. House Passed 317-3 Highway Safety Act of 1965. For All area congressmen except Morris and Walker of New Mexico and Purcell, Thompson and Wright of Texas who did not vote.

Adopted 198-81 amendments to the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 increasing authorizations to S200 million, raising the limit on federal aid to a single project from S5 million to S6.5 million and setting a new interest rate for program loans. For Beckworth, Brooks, Burleson, Cabell. Casey, Dowdy, Fisher. Gonzalez, Mahon. Patinan, Pool, Rogers, Thompson, White, Wright and Young of Against--De la Garza Roberts.

Noe voting --Pickle Poage, Purceil, Teague, Thomas, Thompson. Passed 326-27, agricultural appropriations for fiscal 1957 amounting to 56,994.590.150. All area representatives voted for the measure except aim an who did not vote. Potomac Talk Rep. John Dowdy of Texas' 7th Congressional District talks about the recent hearings held by the House Un-American Activities Committee: The unwashed, undipped and unshaven were out in force at the committee hearings; included among them were self-acknowledged Communists.

They conducted their usual disturbance, with rioting, shouting and general disorder in the hearing room. Many were removed and taken to jail, including at least one of their lawyers who participated in the disorder. Communist literature was distributed, along with a general contempt for law and order. These demonstrators came, with their lawyers, from New York. It has come to the point they have made it a habit to come to Washington to raise sand at least once a year.

They have become familiarly known in Washington from past demonstrations as the "New York and their appearance this time was typical of the past. Unless you can see it for yourself, it would be hard to believe that order had so far broken down in the United States that it is not possible to keep the peace from being broken even in the hearing room of a standing committee of the United Stales Congress. -i The Polk Street Professor I reckon outside of his dog Rusty that Cousin Glenn Sullivan at Glenrio. N.M. has the worst disposition In New Mexico.

Rusty generally meets you at the gate and bites you three times before you can get the gate closed. But Glenn chews on you all day. Wife and I were out there last week end. Glenn sleeps late. It was ten in the mornin' and Beth had fixed him a race breakfast.

He had to reach six inches for a spoon for his coffee and he waited for Beth to hand it to him. Then he up and said, "Beth. I'm going to get you a job cooking in the restaurant. The tourists can order breakfast on their way to California. Then two weeks later they can stop off and eat it.

It takes about two weeks for you to get a meal together." Beth didn't take that lyin' down you can bet. Usually I go out there and drink some coffee. Visit a while. Eat a big dinner. Then take a nap.

But that morain' Glenn hurried me through one cup of coffee. Then he says, "I have to fix a gate. It won't take long. Come go with me." I did. Well sir, first he had me bore three holes through a railroad tie to swing the gate on.

Those ties are oak. I bored 7 em with a hand brace and bit. I was worn out The gate weighed 300 pounds if it weighed an ounce. We went back to the house. It was now two in the afternoon.

Glenn picked up another bit and says. "Before dinner let's go swing the gate at the other end of that corral before dinner. Let's do it before dinner." Throe times he said "before dinner." But Beth saved me. She made us eat then. Cecil Westin from Amarillo showed up and the three of us swung the other gate.

It was near six in the afternoon, I was worn to a frazzle. Glenn says when I left, "You all come back." But I'm to think it over carefully before I return. He may be tryin' to break me from visitin' him. And he's just about done it. That's for before--dinner sure.

SCOTT WASHINGTON United Nations membership 15 in the, bag for Redi if Peking rulers! it. i a will definitely be admittance at General Assem-' bly meeting set for Sept. 20. What the Mao Tse- tuug coterie will do about it is 'conjectural. They have given no hint to backstage feelers put out by De Gaulle and others on friendly terms with.

them. The U.N. also will impose new and tougher economic sanctions on South Africa. The U.S. will oppose China's admission, but not as strenuously ss in the past.

La- stead, its efforts and influence will be concentrated on preserving Nationalist China's status in the U.N. The U.S. will back stronger sanctions against South Africa. It favored the original bars, ana will support the harsher ones demanded by the African bloc. At the last showdown on the Red Chinese issue, Nov.

17, 1965, the U.S. blocked membership by a 47 to 47 vole -with 23 abstentions. However, U.N. insiders predicted the hairline victory would be the last. "Ambassador Arthur Goldberg confirmed that in his strategy conference with President Joha- spn recently.

The former Supreme Court Justice reported that this time the entire African bloc will line up for Peking admission. Last year, 19 of the 26 voted with the Communists, and 7 abstained. Virtually all of these countries are beneficiaries of various forms of U.S. economic aid -totaling more than $1.5 billion since 1949. A ceiling on federal spending under Title XIX of the new Medicare Act will be voted by the potent House Ways and Means Committee.

Amount of the limitation is still undecided. It will largely depend on a report of estimated costs of Title XIX that is be. ing rushed by the Department of Health, Education. Welfare at the committee's request. Representative Wilbur Mills, Arkansas Democrat, influential chairman, has the votes in the 25-member (17 Democrats, 8 Republicans) committee to impose a ceiling.

But what happens after that is a toss-up. This is an election year and with all House members and more than one-third of the Senate running, Mills has his work cut out curbing Title XIX outlays. This provision is an expanded version of the Kerr-Miils Act providing medical care for indigent old people. Now it includes the blind, disabled, children in families with unemployed parents, and; others. The federal government reimburses the states for their expenditures on the basis of a formula ranging from 50 to 83 per cent.

When the medicare bill was before Congress, it was estimated Title XIX charges would run around $500 million hi the first year. It is now evident that calculation was wholly unrealistic. Of the 19 states that so far have put Title XIX programs into effect, their estimated cost to the federal government will be $830 million the first year. New York, the other state, has voted a far-reaching program sponsored by Governor Nelson Rockefeller which HEW estimates will cost the government around $700 million, and could go as high as S1.4 billion. In addition, a number of other states have served notice they will put Title XIX programs into operation by the Jan.

1 deadline. That means still more heavy fed" eral i which alarmed HEW authorities fear could total upwards of S2.5 billion in twelve months. Mills is determined to lock this barn door belated though it may be. He ig sure of Ways and Means Committee backing, but from there on the prospects are unpredictable. Note: President Johnson has no chance of inducing Congress to increase "user" taxes this year.

proposal has been stopped dead in its tracks by Mills. All he would agree to is a small hike in aviation-use taxes. U.S. ouster from numerous NATO bases ia France will necessitate moving between 750,000 and 1 million tons of equipment, materiel and other supplies to West German, Italian ane other allied installations. In addition, some 300,000 tons of so-caller surplus equipment will have to be disposed of, by selling it in France at give-away prices; transporting it to coun tries receiving military assistance, such as Iran; or turning it over to AID, the agency administering foreign economic aid.

Cost of this stupendous moving and disposal job will be borne by U.S. taxpayers. President De Gaulle, who ordered the ouster by next April flatly refuses to even discuss the matter. The Senate Subcommittee on i Aid Expenditures, headed by a Ernest Gruening, Alaska, wants the surplus supplies returned to the U.S. for distribution to states and communities.

The committee is probing the matter and will hold public hearings next moath. Pentagon officials will be summoned for questioning. The supplies range from electric light bulbs to heavy machinery, office furniture, refrigerators, household goods, motor equipment, post exchange etc. Following a recent first-hand survey of a number of U.S. bases in Europe, Joseph.

Lipp- inan, Committee state director, reported "there exists a widespread practice of cannibalization of major items before they are disposed of, which involves stripping vital parts and components. This is done to obtain needed parts to repair the items that are being retained by the services. The remaining shells have little value when offered for sale, and are entirely inadequate for acquisition by AID to meet the needs of countries receiving economic assistance." Callaway of Georgia: A GOP Governor? --HOLMES ALEXANDER WASHINGTON Fortune a favorites, a Congress- a a (Bo) Callaway Georgia Republican has been around most of the time when she i Right now Bo is 1 running forgov- 1 ernor of ALEXANDER gia and most of his a have been good ones. Even the Democrats say that only a dark horse or a boo-boo can beat him. We'll be coming back to the boo-boo risk, but first let's take a' look at the Democrats.

Until last May. former Governor Ernest Vandiver looked like Democratic nominee. They say in Georgia that if Vandiver had run, it would be all over except counting the votes. But Vandiver got bad news from a cardiograph test that took him out of the race. He flew into Dulles Airport at 4:45 a.m.

one morning where he was met by his friend. Sen. Herman Talmadge. Over a Talmadge-cooked breakfast, Vandiver urged Senator to save the Democrats at home by returning and running for the governorship. Contrary to loose reporting, it was messages from the Georgia grassroots and not from the Georgia that suaded Talmadge to protect his 10-year seniority in the Senate.

Lucky Bo! He wasn't apt to beat either Vandiver or Talmadge. Lucky still, the handsome young Korean combat officer is waiting for the September primary to sift out a Democratic nominee. If it is the present leader, former Governor Ellis Arnall. Callaway should beat him by simply reciting the lengthy list of grievances which Georgians have against the Johnson Administration. If the nominee is the current runner-up in the unfinished primary, Bo should wallop the furious segregationist.

Lester Maddox. who closed his restaurant rather than serve Negroes. The present third and fourth place runners, Albany (Ga.) publisher, James Gray, and State Senator James Carter, are tipped as Democrats would make the best run. But there is the hazard of a Callaway boo-boo. It could upset all the calculations.

Back in May, when Senator Talmadge considered the gubernatorial race. Bo made the shuddering mistake of jeering. "They're scared to death," he crowed in a UPI interview. "They're scared of losing control of the State Treasury by the Democratic party." In Georgia, where most voters are Democratic and where "they" are the good people who elected Senators Talmadge, Russell, Walter George. a Vinson and several generations of Conservatives, this wasn't the thing for Bo Callaway to say.

The best information is that he soon wished he hadn't, but it gave his opponents hope that he might blunder once too often. Otherwise, Bo's lifelong luck may well turn out to be Georgia's, too. He chose his forebears well. Both sides of his family are admired. The fortune earned in years past by Callaway Mills has built Callaway Gardens, a beautiful showplace, a.

resort and a private enterprise conservation project, of which Bo is manager. He also chose his party well. Like practically all Georgians, he was a Democrat at birth. The rise of Barry Goldwater Callaway and many others into the GOP. Republicans carried State in 1964 for the first time in history.

Southern governorships begin to look like the last line of defense against the march of the Great Society. -Must the states accept federal controls i every cent of federal money? In Texas. Democratic Governor SonnaJly has resisted. In Alabama. Governor a a is Georgia, Bo Callaway says he w-'il fire shots heard 'round the Union if he can plant the Republican party in the gubernatorial office.

He might, at that. To Curb Inflation, Cut Federal Spending FERTIG NEW YORK i total spending must be cut back in order to control inflation shouldn't the federal government cut a Society i instead of leaning entirely on the Federal Reserve to squeeze business and consumer spending? Since the Administration asks for e- straint on the part of labor and management how about e- straint on government spending? It isn't difficult for a government to create the flush of prosperity when there are plenty of unused resources available in the form of excess plant capacity and unemployed workers. Federal deficit-spending and ea- sv credit have done that since 1961. It's quite another matter, however, to increase production and real income when there is a shortage of skilled labor, bottlenecks in production, and industry is operating (at 92 per cent) near the limit of its efficient capacity. At such a time more doses of easy credit and more deficit-spending by government create little more real production.

They merely cause prices to rise sharply and contribute to the inevitable crisis. This truth is pointed up by what has happened this year. Sharp price increases place even though monetary authorities were pressing down on the monetary brake albeit lightly. In the second quarter of this year over two-thirds of the increase in Gross National Product was caused rising prices ot by increased production. This trend continued in the third quarter.

Last year rising prices accounted for little of the increase in the GNP, real lion accounted for practically all of it. Thus more government spending and expanding credit at commercial banks this year caused steep price increases but did not increase real production very much. For quite a time after hot monetary inflation has been dampened down its effects continue to be felt. Currently the effects of past inflation (over S30 billion federal deficits for six years plus a continuing easy- credit policy) are being felt in the form of sharply rising prices and higher wages. It looks as if prices wfll continue to rise even if industry activity does diminish.

Labor costs, which add up to the major cost of production, threaten to rise more steeply in the coming year than they have in the past. The reason is that by the end of 1967 over a hundred new labor contracts will have to be negotiated. These contracts will cover more than two million Our Yesterdays SO YEARS AGO Miss Mary Groggin, niece of Mrs. Jack Edwards, returned this weekend to her home in Denver. She ha been visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Edwards at their home here. --LAWRENCE FERTIG workers in key industries such as railroads, electrical products, machinery, clothing, etc. nature of these new contracts is easily predictable. After the airline mechanics union turned down two government-approved wage increases (each of which violated the government's own 3.2 per cent and then got a steep 5 per cent wage rise what union leader who wants to hold his job will now settle for much less? A period of labor turmoil is in prospect the like of which we have not seen in many years.

The net result will be more steeply rising wages, which will inevitably push prices up faster unless something is done about it. How can we establish a more stable economy in xvhieh wages and prices do not chase each other upward in an ever-widening spiral? Since there is no chance of an immediate change in the labor laws, a curb must be placed on over-spending. As things are, everybody wants to spend more. The federal government wants to spend more on Great Society projects, business wants to spend more on new plant and equipment, and consumers want to spend more to improve their standard of living. But our national resources are not adequate for all this new spending.

Unless some of it is curbed the net result would be more sharply rising prices. Since restraint in spending is necessary why shouldn't federal government cut down on Great Society spending instead of depending on the banking authorities to squeeze business and consumers alike? And now the big question, Mr. President. When is Lynda Bird going to tske the big step?" Red Giina No Longer Calls USA Taper Tiger 9 --EDWARD NEILAN of Copley News Service HONG KONG It's the morning after a storm in Asia, and the house has not collapsed, after all. The prophets of doom, pontificating in the dark days of early 1965 when the Viet Nam situation booked bleak indeed, had insisted that Communism was the inevitable victor in Southeast Asia.

I i a and Cambodia seemed already crypto-Cornmu- nist then. Laos was beyond repair. Red China was making menacing moves toward India and Free World economies in Asia were trembling. Viet Nam, of course, is not suddenly rosy nor have all the storms passed. But all along the rim Asia and inside Bed China itself there is a glimmer of light.

It is beginning to look as though American policies are starting to pay dividends. The critics have always talked of patience as if it were an exclusively oriental virtue. But U.S. persistence has had results. Ho Chi-Mirih's statements that North Viet Nam will win because the impatient Americans hate "long, inconclusive wars 7 has lost its ring.

Too often Asian patience, stripped bare, is merely resignation. Clearly, American resoh in South Viet Nam has affected the politics and economics of the whole area. From the 7th Fleet to some lonely American civilian working on a jungle road project in Laos, all of these Americans have played a part. Indonesia has become fed up who drifted" toward Communist China. There is new dedication in Indonesia today.

Had the United States shown less determination in Viet Nam, is to say whether anti- Communist Gen. Suharto a his colleagues would have found the courage to buck the Communists. Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk has shown some signs of changing his mind also. He has seen one of his United States i never fire a shot in defense of Southeast go wrong already. A side effect of the change of face in Indonesia has been the virtual end of the Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.

Now neither country will be obliged to sidetrack needed development funds into military channels. Inside Red China itself, there are signs of dissent among the leaders. The seeds of this trouble lie in the leadership's ad- vancing age. But it is reasonable to assume that America's strong response in Viet Nam has made these differences sharper. Red China no longer uses the term "paper tiger" in its propaganda descriptions of the United States in Asia.

The single event that dramatically showed U.S. determination has been the escalation in terms of troops and bombings of North Viet Nam. The recent strikes against Hanoi and Haiphong oil storage areas showed that Washington is prepared to step up the pressure, when it thinks necessary, no matter how unpopular such a move might be. India and Pakistan have put their rifles down, at least temporarily. Although suspicion still lingers, both countries seem prepared to tackle i monumental internal problems.

India has devalued the rupee in an attempt to improve the economy. "Pakistan has sent its pro-Peking foreign minister, Z. A. Bhutto, on a long "sick leave" and quietly accepted fresh American aid. Thailand feels more confident than ever that she has made the right choice in with the United States.

South Korea, Japan, Nationalist China and Singapore are all sharing in contracts for supply and construction in Viet Nam. Their own respective foreign polices show improved muscle tone as American determination in Asia is'no longer doubted. South Viet Nam still has a lot of problems. If some sort of talks were started tomorrow, with a cease-fire, it would leave much of the country under Viet Cong domination. But the glimmer of light is unmistakable, and it is encouraging.

Thoughts So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work. that is his lot; who can bring him to see what mil be after 3:22. The man who builds a factory builds a temple; the man who works there worships there; and to each is due not scorn and blame but reverence and CALVINT COOLIDGE, 3 0 U.S. PRESIDENT. Congressional Boxscore MAJOR LEGISLATION IN 89TH CONGRESS Second Session A SCHEDULED IN PROCESS COMPLETED tinc-up 539 2 line-up 67 33 0 HOUSE SENAH a l8llg.

77 if of AUG. 25. i Elementary School Aid i i Education "A': Poverty Amendments i Truth-in-Packaging JQ! Hospitc! Modernization i Health Manpower War Gl Sii! Rights Foreign Aid Authoriiotion i 1 rood For Freedom i i i 1 i Transportation Department i Legislative Reepportionment i -jk 1 1 1 rt Auto '-ir -4r Highway Safety Four- Year House Term Campaign Financing Reforms i i i i i i i i i i Electoral College Changes i -jfi i i Jax Program Repeal of 14(b) Anfistrike Law i i i Minimum Wage 'A'i'it rA" O' Unemployment Compensation City Developmtnt Congressional Reforms 1 Wafer Pollution Control t'A'iOf i i i i i i i 1 'S 0 -o 2 I.