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PAGE 4 The Danger KWlSfflr wwQtjSy? rAj 9HE ijiy3 Awf a BtoJr to jRv sojgfO Bw yw vc HHH IIBW'W SwO lPMMCTI Zr I "1 2J A L3xJfc UNEA Service Inc PMy RKWiWoujaMarfcM jcTl pOy 4f On Wheels Within Wheels JpW a 1 More and more the electronic brain is taking over In all kinds of research esta blishments and business doing the big calculating heavily involved in our most advanced defense effort in the roc ket and space satellite field Soon they say small versions will be guiding our aircraft to their destinations at every itager i Some people are getting worried that brainpower may before long join of the unemployed The gloom test foresee the day when his brain will shrink to the size of a dried pea But others say that the jobs the mech anical and electronic wizards do simply free man for types of thinking no device but the human brain can do And after all there ought to be some comfort in the fact that man's brain thought up the elec tronic brain urthermore man's creations like Na sometimes break down why it was heartening to learn that Interna tional Business Machines which makes these marvels has put the matter in de cent perspective Hard by one of its computers in a new IBM factory it has mounted an old fash ioned Chinese counter an abacus enclos ed in glass ready for emergency use Good brainwork men Tragic Apathy About Polie The other day one of the major drug Companies announced it was" halting the production of polio vaccine' The reason? The tremendous surplus of unused Salk shots that has piled up Remember how it was in the days be fore Dr Jonas Salk had developed his re markable vaccine? When epidemics of polio struck moth ers up and down the land were frantic in pleas for help from the community They marched on city halls They begged for gamma globulin the only thing then avail able and not a preventive but a treatment to case the ravaging effects of the disease The Salk discovery was hailed as one of the great milestones of the century in medicine At long last it was said this scourge of the young was to be routed And so evidently" it could be 'But the parents who were so terribly alarm ed over polio when protection could not be had are in many many cases not troubled today Some eight million children under the age of five have had no polio shots at all Another two million have had just one or two shots instead of the recommended three The eight million are just as vul nerable to this crippling ailment as if the' Salk vaccine did not exist Altogether some 40 per cent of the youngsters In the age brackets where they are most susceptible to polio have either inadequate or no protection at all against the disease On top of this there are countless mil lions of American adults subject to polio who have not availed themselves of the of the The sight of one afflicted man of 44 or so struggling his way aboard a bus with two canes to be a sobering thing for any of us It is really hard to find words to char acterize this glaring neglect To the tal ented conscientious medical researchers who toil endless hours in quest of cures and preventatives for the major diseases which plague us this must mean a sadden ing sense of futility even when they are successful And it makes almost a mockery of par handwringing concern for their chil health in the days before Salk Who in the future will listen to cries for if when it is at hand it is not used? Guest Editorial 4 to Oscars or Brains We have within the past several weeks with it in others Prof Louis Hacker of witnessed those annual 1 ceremonies at which lime the awards known as and are given to deserving per sons in the motion picture and television industries Later in the year American female pulchritude will be honored in Atlantic City Baseball and foolball fans will select outstanding players for recog nition In the field of commerce indivi Columbia University suggests that artists scientists and other intellectuals have gone too long without honor He proposes an nual prizes to deserving in those fields The level of glamor is frequently low in the fields of science literature and the arts The output of men and women working in those fields is often hard to duals will be feted throughout the country at a multitude of banquet It is well that we recognize the ex ceptional and give them honor but it could be that we have been lavish with ap preciation in some areas and niggardly understand Yet their contribution to our society through often obscure is tremen dous ormal public recognition of merit among those who work primarily with their minds might be not at all a bad idea Journal Statesville Record Landmark Published every afternoon except Sunday by Statesville Daily Record Inc The Landmark founded in 1874 the Daily Record in 1931 The two were merged May 6 1954 HUSKINS MRS MIDDLESWORTH President ana Genera) Manager Secretary Treasurer CARL ELTS JOHN KISER Circulation Manager Advertising Manager MELVIN YARNALL Mechanical Superintendent National Advertising Representative Inland Newspaper Representatives Inc Wrigley Bldg Chicago Ill 41 42nd St New Turk I Entered as Second Class Matter at post office in Statesville i SUBSCRIPTION RATES mail fin Iredell County area) one $750 six where) one $850 six $425 three ceuU one year $1300 six $656 8375 three $190 (else inoutlia $225 By carrier: one 25 STATESVILLE RECORD AND LANDMARK THURSDAY JUNE 12 1958 A Word About Drew Pearson on the our ashington Merry Go Round Lynn Nisbet then ac Gen Tadeuze Kosciuszko in Ra tions chairmen asked the State Board for instructions as to pro cedure There was no appeal in the formal legal meaning rf the term The State Board it had no power to a recount of all educated him at Trinity College (Duke University) and who was the father of Madame Kai Shck In the old cemetery also are two unusual graves Just how much is authentic of the first jail There is an inte resting little jail story One of the county commissioners back around 1740 sought a new jail house on the grounds that a better building would attract a high er class clientele The new jail was built and is still in but it wasn't built until 200 years af ter it was authorized and Paul says he sees very little improve ment in the class of clients Old cemeteries always attract the historians Beaufort has a clas sic Captain Otway Burns com mander of a ship in the War of topped by a cannon from his ship Interesting side note: The town of Burnsville courthouse seat of the mountain county of Yancey was named for Otway Burns and a statue of him is the courthouse square) In the Beaufort cemetery also is buried a Mrs Chadwick native of Beaufort who married in Wilming ton and whose family cared for being pro communist for support ing ap Irish Caholic But Bible refused to budge Senate Democratic leader Lyn don Johnson also surveyed the Senate floor trying to win a con vert for Kennedy He buttonholed New Senator Clint An derson but failed to find the lone vote necessary to reverse Know land After it was all over Kennedy whose amendment was written by the State Department remarked: is running our foreign pol President Eisenhower or Sen ator which would not arise if there were no specific law on the subject or example there is nb date set in the law books for the meet ing of the State Board of Elec tions to canvass returns from the primary The board very sensibly meets as soon as all the county re turns have been received Such a meeting was held in Raleigh Tues day the first time go again came had a of a long dead cedar leaning from direction of prevailing winds official for the tours points out the Two candidates for the House of white oak were cut to size in Eng Representatives came out even in the Cabarrus board of elections count Two candidates for judge of the Lumberton recorder's court also came up with tie votes when the Robeson board counted them in toto Reverses Himself His flm'pndnipnt wac cepiea oy tne senate committee behind closed doors without a peep from its most outspoken member Senator Knowland The first confidential print of this bill carried this State Depart official endorsement: Executive Branch favors the fore going Kennedy Then out of the political blue Knowland descended on the State Department with all his ponderous bulk He first pounced upon assist ant secretary William Macomber threatening to slash foreign aid appropriations unless the State De partment reversed its approval of the Kennedy amendment Secretary Dulles was then vaca tioning in his log cabin in Ontario so Knowland repeated his threat to acting secretary Christian Herter count will almost certainly discov tine for colds during his boyhood to get details on the ground A vis er some errors or discrepancies in He showed another residence it to Beaufort will pay dividends to the first report The tie may be that was an early court house at anybody interested in the early his broken If there is still a tie fur Beaufort and pointed out the site tory of North Carolina When I was boy my parents sometimes made me do things which I did not want to do On one occasion they sent me to drncing school I like it When the time to around I said 1 and couldn't go This did not fool my parents for long and back I went Later 1 was glad that I had been forced ipto it No doubt every parent at one time or another has to decide wiicther some their child is the result of real illness or just as an ex cuse Recollections of their own youth will often heln them crats who voted with Knowland to switch before the voting was fin ished Leaning over his fellow Cath olic New Senator Dennis Chavez on the Senate floor Ken nedy asked hoarsely: you feel strongly about this Chavez mumbled and incoherent reply so Kennedy moved over to Nevada's Senator Alan Bible have to worry about gested some language Health By EDWIN JORDAN Written for NEA Service interesting to a lot of people out side the community A guided tour of some of the old homes and his toric sites was scheduled for June 18 under sponsorship of the Worn technicalties in detailed statutes Club Advance notice of that tour stimulated interest ana re quests came from folks attending conventions in the area for tours before June 18 ive or six have already been held The most of whom are from up state discov 1812 is buried there His grave is er harmonious contrast between the old and the new Most striking in stance of this is the view one gets from the street of a century old There is no statutory provision house with a television antenna covering tie votes in a primary seen through the spectral figures There is no law authorizing a re count of ballots unless there isrea spn to believe that a recount would Graydon Paul the materially chance the result In 1 absence of anv law authorizine or Hammock House built around Rcv specifically prohibiting a recount olutionary War times and believ a Chinese stoway lad named Sung the State Board of Elections ap ed to be one of the first pre fabri Hertcr promptly panicked He re plied common sense to situations in cated homes in the state All the treated as fast as he retreated Cabarrus and Robeson counties timbers and the boards of study from Stassen's proposal that he run for vice president Deputy un dersecretary Doug Dillon He stood pat? As a compromise they agreed to favor the Kennedy amendment in principle but let Congress decide howto implement it This decision was reported to In both instances the county elec chairman Green of Rhode Island by Macomber over the telephone on May 29 Ignores History land shipped to America and erected on the site where the house history and how much is legend still stands in excellent condition perhaps cannot be proven in detail Another house was an old store It appears certain that one man back in sailing ship days Paul was buried at his request stand tells a story about one merchant ing the grave being four feet boxing up a cargo of sugar in un wide and eight feet deep instead of cured pine boxes only to find a the usual other way and one man few weeks later that the whole also at his own request was buried shipment had to be thrown into the in a cask of rum ocean because turpentine from the Sure this is a very sketchy ac new wood permeated the sugar He count of what can be seen in Beau said if his grandmother had been fort and of the old cemetery acts there she would not have tolerated about names and dates could be scuttlinc the carco because she ci ven Tt will be a Int more info mouth or oerkihg the head or overwhelming disapproval' of his Experience has proven that a re made him' take sugar and turpen resting for readers of this article Biivwueis nicy mien oegin ana policies walking to tne White are practically always in nervous House he passed the monument of or unstable enudren Emotionally produced disord fayette Park erected in honor of ers of children which are not the the Pole who helped George Wash WASHINGTON The inside story can now be told why Presi dent Eisenhower suddenly knuck led under to Senator Bill Know land last week on his request for authority to win friends for the USA behind the Iron Curtain Ike's puzzling flip flop cainc just after Knowland had been repudiated by the people of California yet he was able to make the President reverse his own State Department All Ike wanted was authority to offer the same kind of economic aid behind the Iron Curtain that Russia is now offering all over the particularly in South Amer ica Originally the Marshall plan was offered to the communist at ellitcs but vetoed by Moscow With of Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary ana Rumania now more: inenaiy to the USA Ike wanted to rein state the Marshall plan policy This was why Sometimes it takes a good deal farsighted Senator Jack Kennedy of ingenuity and patience not Rafted an amendment to permit only to find out what is really he President to assist any sate causing a youngster to complain Ude country The State Department but also what to do about it Children will pretend to notice a sniffle comina on a stomach ache or develop some other symptom when faced with something they want to avoid rarems snouia oe careiui un der such circumstances not to overlook the possibility that the youngster does really have a cold appendicitis or some physical cause which happens to develop at the strategic moment It is possible also that a com plaint is real enough even though it is the result of an emotional disturbance or resentment rather than a bodily disease It is not unusual for a child to vomit on school days and be per fectly well on Saturdays and Sun days When this occurs regular ly dislike of something about school is a clear possibility The problem is to find out what it is and to try to remedy the situation The child may not tell but a conference with the teach er may reveal the trouble Peculiar symptoms in children 'are sometimes the result of imi tation There is the story of a six year old girl in apparently good health who vomited every morning Attempts to find the cause failed until it ered that the mother was preg nant and had been yomiuig ui the morning! The tics or habit spasms are other imitative reactions These are involuntary movements usu However this did not satisfy ally around the neck and face Knowland who arranged a break and include such things as blink fast with Eisenhower one day af the ballots cast for all candidates ing the eyelids twitching the ter voters expressed for the offices involved welcomed the amendment but sug changes rnmni iin of Kennedy accepted them April 14 Vuzlipxalll VI land oreign Relations Committee whispered Kennedy On Capitol Hill meanwhile State switched his vote Indiana's GOP is oine to accuse jou of Department officials were still tel Senator Homer Capehart who had ling Senators that the administra announced his support of Kennedy tion wanted the Kennedy amend show ment passed aced with this state Kennedy made a last minute ment and Knowland's conflicting whispered appeal to two Demo announcement Vermont Senator George Aiken grumbled: we understand where the State Department stands how can we expect out allies te believe in Our oreign Policy On the final 43 to 42 roll call GOP Senator Bourke Hick enlooper who had voted for the Kennedy amendment inside the Around Capitol Square COMMON SENSE When there ther steps will be necessary a statute covering a particu The town of Beau lar situation the boards of elec fort has just discovered that its tions must resort to the use of ebriv more than 200 years of history is mon sense It happens more often than not that common sense solu tion of problems is fairer than le galistic solution could be Some of the major difficulties arise over result of a recognizable disease ingion fight the British at York are among the most difficult town and then returned to lead the rederick Othmen suit This saddened the Senator such a regimen was proper for Answer to Previous Puzzle World Rivers BTGoodrich 1 AS LOW AS 1 and your old tiro he he aid the litely He found such mail in en lightened 1958 hard to believe Me too lorida 56 Dry (comb form 57 Priority (prefix) 58 Night before an event actress for her a a NBC TV director 47 Bohemian river 43 Low haunt 49 Augments 51 Dry 52 ixed course Ignoring the fact that' the USA and is bound by years of history and thousands of immigrants to Poland Czechoslovakia and Hungary Knowland demanded that no aid money be spent to help them The ACROSS 1 Calabar River a mouth or tne Niger 4 Largest river in rance 9 English river 12 ish 13 Consumed 14 Edge 15 Diminutive of Lester 18 Mountain spur 17 Boundary (comb form) 18 Penetrate 20 Drive off 22 Social insect 24 Era 25 Scanty 28 Electrical machine 32 Is able 33 Lion 35 Ribbed fabric 36 Malt drink 37 Race course circuit 38 Burmese wood sprite 39 Withdraw 42 Claws 45 Possessive pronoun 48 Mineral spring 47 African antelope SO River in Mississippi J4 Youth 55 Banish 1 59 ish eggs 60 Offer 81 Tennis teurn 62 Oriental appellation 6'1 Hiitt sett ii 84 Large plants 65'Low haunt raawa EHI1EI Haas DOWN 1 African river 2 Scottish river 3 Direction 5 4 ixes in the mind 5 Rowing tool 6 ollower 7 Rot flax by exposure 8 Vigor 9 Ict fall 10 The Shannon River is told Ike would open flood gates of American aid to commu nist Eisenhower explained that wanted his hands untied so would be free to use economic where he thought it would do most good He then retreated said he wouldn't insist on including this authority in the foreign aid bill This meant the Kennedy amend ment was buried until next year On the White House steps fac ing the statue of General Kos ciuzko who had fought to free America Knowland triumphantly announced the in effect that America would not help Po ll Masculine appellation 19 Organ of hearing 21 Evening (poet) 23 Bank woner 24 Receives 25 Cicatrix 26 Stake 27 Dill 29 Italian river 30 Intend 3 1 Chooses 34 Babylonian 53 County in cteity 40 Electrified particle 41 Clumsiest 43 ruit (pl) 44 New Guinea port that should the wife be con were the Democrats a dcmned for doin the same back trying to raise Neuberger said (between letters) in 1954 when I was cam paigning for the he said "Maurine was running for her third term in the Oregon State Legislature She had her picture taken too (that girl loves the wa ter) in a bathing The com plaints rolled in Her sounded off I not being completely un fair to expect my wife to give up her swimming just because I have political he demanded then you want a Sena tor who is that He won handily at the polls So court for some time and nas did Mrs Neuberger further delayed by the current Portland she got more voles illness of Judge Don Gilliam than I he said Judge Edwin Stanley of Greens Came then to his office another boro has agreed to hear the case One of the most ident was widely criticized when mail delivery More complaints beautiful women hereabouts in a she spent some time at an Arizona about Mrs swimming Kennedy amendment Knowland bathing suit or otherwise is Mrs ranch specializing in reducing Richard Neuberger wife of the treatments It seemed to us that who had to answer each letter po Democratic Senator from Oregon this criticism was untair he said Even the bluenoses who take a dim view of feminine legs hundreds of other women why argue with So there few days some cash with a party that fes that fortunately the bathing suit tured' a fashion sho in which vote in Oregon was bigger than the their ladies models in Mother Hubbard vote trapezes sacks chemises or other baggy looking jobs All but Mrs Neuberger that is! She modeled a swimming suit which fitted like her own skin and she was the hit of the perform ance The trouble was she had her picture taken This was printed in newspapers across the land and ever since the Senator and his wife have been receiving mail from those who dislike the sight of legs said a lady from Montclair snort ed another in St Louis said a minister in Newberg Ore So the Senator and iis lovely Maurine now are in th midst of defending legs particularly hers As an admiring bystander thinje they need defense but as Mrs put it in a form letter to Oregonians: million wom en's swimming suits were sold in 1957 just because my husband is a Senator I refuse to believe I am different from or better than any other American When I caught up with Neuber ger he was dictating letters to critics of his wife He pointed out in a typical reply that neither he nor his Maurine drank or smoked He said he imag ined few married couples could say as much try our best to lead lives which are ethical and he added a teacher in our fine Orrgon schools Mrs Neuberger in forms me that many times she wore shorts in gymnasiums and playgrounds Never did she think there was anything wrong in this or was she censored" He said that his wife wm aphysical education teacher in years gone by and that wearing a bathing suit was nothing foreign to her He added that she was wear ing for the Democrats a suit manu factured by Mr Jantzen of Oregon her hoine state His clincher was the fact that Mrs Eisenhower wile of the Prea IRES OH IME School Case Set July 14 RALEIGH (UPI) ederal court officials in Raleigh have set July 14 as the dale for a hearing in a case which seeks to integrate Needham Broughton high school here The case a relic from last year's integration battle was husband brought in federal district court by Joseph Hiram Holt Jr He contended he was denied admis sion to the school because of his race The case will be heard without a jury It had been delayed in the irfr iriMaM EIGJ1H SBiiaUOilLaiUiJ hmm problems with which parents may Poles against Russia be faced They often have com plex and concealed origins cannot be solved overnight Japanese Actress To Wed Drector HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Miyoshl Umeki petite Japanese actress who won an academy award as best supporting performance in plans to marry Winifield Opie Opie 34 year old associate di rector of the Tennessee Ernie ord show announced Tuesday that he and the 26 year old ac tress were engaged and planned to be married in August The couple met two years ago when she arrived from Japan and appeared as a guest singer on the ord show She now a' aring in a Philadelphia night club JCAP IAE'Za isIe sl IPIE LIS1IU igArin tBI PSZ tIeIaI 5 1 i' 7 8 i ii lr 777'przi rjrir ft ii ro is rior ji a 1 3M.