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Ine. 250 Park Aiennue. New York FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955. A BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY They had leiiure to much te Mark 1:31. We think nothing of missing spiritual food, but to miss a meal is something.

Man cannot live by bread alone unless he is satisfied with a purely animal existence. HAL Lots of stag conventions are held-mainly to aet the date tor the next one. Even folks without kith or kin can boast of their blood relations. Those with the Red Cross. If It weren't for gossiping It would be safe for most anybody to leave the bridge club meeting first.

Definition of a new driver: one who doesn't know where he's going but on his way. It doesn't mean much to think well of yourself unless your friends agree with you. f- NOTE TO LOCAL VOTERS As usual, there seems to be little Interests in the coming Gastonia school board election. Last Saturday, first registration day, only about 100 names were put on the books. Tomorrow is another registration day.

And there will be one more- Saturday, February 26. This is a NEW REGISTRATION. No matter what other elections you are registered for, you CAN'T VOTE in this one unless you get your name on this special book. Since there is opposition in two of the seven school districts, it seems there should be more interest in this election than in many in the past when there has been no contest. City hall is the only registration place, and the only voting place for the election, which comes on Tuesday, March 8.

Show some interest in the affairs of your community. Register at city hall tomorrow, or next Saturday. Or if you can't make it, the registrar, Mrs. Von Hollinger, will register you at any time during the week at her home at 505 South street. Show your interest by getting your name on the books.

IT'LL COST YOU If you haven't yet listed your city and county taxes, you'd better make plans to get it done before noon Saturday. Those who don't get their listings in by then will be subject to a penalty of 10 per cent, which will be added to their tax bill when it's mailed to them next fall. A lot of people put things like this off to the last minute, and frequently beyond the last minute. Since the court house closes at noon Saturday, that will be the deadline for listing taxes for Gastonia township. Listers are at work in the other townships.

Some may stay open after noon, but there is no definite word on that. So list your taxes before noon Saturday, or you'll have to shell out another 10 per cent. "HEART SUNDAY" Sunday, February 20, is "Heart Sunday" throughout the nation. On that day, throughout the afternoon, a house-to-house canvass for funds for the heart cause will be conducted throughout the county by hundreds of volunteer workers, each wearing a small red and blue tag. If for any reason the canvassers miss you there are small plastic containers in stores and public places throughout the county into which you can safely drop your contribution.

Time was when a medical verdict of "heart trouble" was accepted as a death sentence from which there could be no appeal. But no more. We now know that some forms ofjieart disease can be prevented, a few can be cured and that almost all cases can be helped by proper treatment. The heart diseases account for more than 794,000 fatalitiel annually, or roughly 52 per cent of all deaths; they affect some 10,000,000 Americans, and they constitute the nation's leading health problem. Yet despite all this, yesterday's attitude of despair and fatalism has been replaced with a new concept of confidence and optimism.

Little wonder it is, therefore, that hope is the underlying theme of the 1955 Heart Fund campaign, now under way here and in thousands of other communities. And why is hope warranted? Consider these facts: 1. Research. In the past few decades, astounding progress has been made in the development of new drugs, new therapy, new surgical procedures, new study and diagnostic tools and new knowledge about the human heart. But the surface has scarcely been scratched.

It follows that medical science, while it is tracking down the causes of heart disease, will make even greater advances in treatment and prevention. This will be done as our medical scientists receive increasing support through the Heart Fund. 2. Education. Fear is giving way to hope.

Myths and superstitions about the heart diseases, which create unnecessary anxieties and deter sufferers from the proper management of their heart conditions, are being replaced by truths and to educational programs also supported by your Heart Fund dollars. Furthermore, your Heart Fund dollars will help speed vital new information about the heart diseases to physicians throughout the country. 3. Community Heart Programs. In our community there is a continuing need to give heart sufferers the guidance they need to live happily with their hearts, and to continue as useful and productive members of society.

Here, again, your Heart Fund dollars perform a useful service. Here, again, the outlook is bright with hope. Our hope is that the 1955 Heart Fund will be crowned with success in abundant measure. As Others See It THAT EXPLAINS IT (The Florida Times-Union) British newspapers have confessed that they don't understand Americans. They had expected the critical development over Formosa to give the United States a case of war jitters.

But a British correspondent sent this dispatch to The London Dally Express: "No doubt Mr. Chou En-lai, premier of Communist China, will be annoyed if he ever sees American evening newspapers. His threats against the United States are rated no more important than the fact that Marilyn Monroe has been seen having dinner with ex-husband Joe DiMaggio, the baseball star." That explains a lot of things. All this build up of Miss Monroe has just been a secret American plot to annoy the sensitive Mr. Chou En-lai.

A girl threw eight consecutive ringers in a Georgia horseshoe contest. Such aim won't help her chances of Myers (Fla.) News-Press. Looking Backwards Guton ETenti 25 Tears Ago Taken from Files at The Gaittte of this Date in 1930. (From The Gazette of February 19, 1930) Dr. Solon Peterson was found dead in bed this morning at the home of Mack Bradley, where he roomed.

Dr. Peterson apparently suffered a heart attack. Mack Bradley died this morning at his home on West Franklin avenue, following an illness of a week. He was one of the city's oldest residents, and built the first brick store in Gastonia. A.

G. Myers has been appointed by Governor O. Max Gardner as one of 15 delegates U) represent North Carolina at the annual meeting of the Southern Industrial Confer- to be held in Little Rock, on March 11 and 12. step for the Woman's Club and for the city at large was tiie organization Tueaday of a Junior Club whose work will be modeled along the lines of Junior League work in larger cities. Second district of the North Carolina Association ot Jewish Women, of which Mrs.

Maurice Honlgman of this city is chairman, met Tuesday at the Hotel Charlotte with 65 members present. Mr. and Mrs. Ben S. Onion, Miss Emma Comwcll, Mrs.

Joe S. Wray, and Miss Carolyn Wray hove returned from a 10-day trip to Florida. MUs Carolyn Wray had been In Florida for some time with Mr. and Mrs, Rufus M. Joluulone and family.

"You'll Have To Give Up Your Car, Comrade" Drew Pearson On The Washington Merry-Go-Round Russia, China In Good Position To Raid Formosa; U. S. May Be Forced Into A Retaliatory Battle One unpublicized factor which makes the Ihinese Reds so bold and brash around Formosa is their heavy air superiority over the United States. It's no secret that the United States has around combat planes in Japan, Okinawa. and Formosa.

In contrast, Chinese and Russians to- jether have around 8,500 in the iame area, including those in Siberia. Furthermore, the Beds could bring in strong reinforcements in about 24 hours, while it would ake us two to three days to ferry ilanes across the Pacific. Finally, lussian fighter planes are generally more modem than ours, hough we are ahead in strategic Russia has been claiming that he has 20.000 combat planes. This figure is probably about ight. Furthermore.

Russia began building jets about two years be- ore we did, and her fighter fleet reported completely modern- zed. Our total combat air trength is estimated at around 2.000 planes. All this is why Alexander de Seversky, the famed aviator who id so much to prod American viation into action during and ust before the war, is now prod- ing the various senators regarding the appaling deficiencies of he. U. S.

Air Force. Simultaneously, Air Force com- nanders have been meeting in Colorado Springs to try to reme- iy these deficiencies. HOLOCAUST ON FORMOSA The only thing that is going to top Russia from attacking us, De Seversky has advised sena- ors. is a strong air defense. "Yet." he warns, "our own ef- ort has been woefully meager.

Wore alarming still, the provision or our continental air defense in the new budget is utter- inadequate." De Seversky also warned sena- ors that, while the Red Chinese night not be able to capture ''ormasa, nevertheless their su- lerior air power could pound it pieces. To stop such a bom- HFdment, the United States ould be forced to retaliatory started out with the Senate Elections subcommittee investigating McCarthy's finances, then bolted to Joe's side with a departing blast at the committee which had paid him. McCarthy has been taking care of Buckley ever since. However, Arkansas' stern Sen. John McClellan, the new investigating chairman, insists on letting Buckley go.

One reason is contained in a confidential memo on Buckley's background. This column has obtained copy from the memo from secret Senate files. Since it shows the type of men McCarthy has hired, at the taxpayers' expense, to investigate the loyalty of their fellow Americans, this column believes the public is entitled to know about it. Unfortunately, various witnesses and investigators have now turned out to be unstable, unreliable, or deliberate purveyors of untruths. Mr.

Buckley," reports the memo, "was discharged from the Army Air Force on May 6, 1944. Certificate of Disability Discharge (honorable) for psychoneurosis, mixed type. Since then le has received compensation jased upon a 30 per cent rating psychoneurosis. The last routine examination of the Veterans' Arniinistration was made on March 4, 1939, and, based upon the diagnosis, the compensation rating was continued. "While in the Army, from July 13, 1942, to May 6, 1944, Mr.

Buckley was hospitalized six times for periods ranging from seven to 27 days. and. in addition, reported sick 100 to 120 times. "Review of the Veterans Administration file," the memo adds, "indicates that Mr. Buckley may have made incorrect replies as to his term of employment in one case and as to his earnings in another case in the Form 51 application Which he filed with the subcommittee photostatic copies of reports of physical aminatlons and a memorandum to the chief psychologist are being obtained from the Veterans Administration.

The complete file is available upon subpoena." Under the administration's security standards, Buckley would be considered a "security risk." Vet McCarthy wants to keep him on the government payroll to investigate others, as he has been doing for the past two years. isn't the first McCarthy gumshoe to be classified as a "security risk." Two other McCarthy men, Don Surine and Tom Lavenia, were barred from classified information be- the Defense Department listed them as "security risks." On top of this, ex-communist Harvey Matusow, who worked for McCarthy, now states that his testimony was a fabrication of lies. (Copyright, 1955, By The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Jacoby On Bridge OSWALD (Written for NEA Service) When South won the firs trick in today's hand with' the king of he was tempted to tackle the trumps at once and then make up hut mind whethei to try a spade finesse or make some sort ot diamond play. This isn't, the safest line play for the game contract. One of the troubles is tha you don't know whether to tackle diamonds or spades.

And if you do go after the diamonds, you don't know whether to let th jack of diamonds ride for i finesse or go up with the king When the hand was actually played, South resisted the firsl temptation and found a far safei line of play. He began by laying down the king of diamonds. East won the ace of diamonds although even this wasn't done without a qualm. It. looked though South had K-Q-x of dia inonds and was trying to get ai entry to the dummy.

Eas thought of holding up his ace of diamonds to prevent declarer from getting a diamond entry to the dummy, he finally decided such an entry wouldn't do declarer any good. East shifted to a spade, tint South won with the ace of spades. South then led his re- VQ875 NORTH A 10 6 2 VK83 J10S J84 WEBT EAST VNone 48 SOUTH (D) 4AK4 AJ 10942 AK North-South vul. Stntk North 2V Pass 2N.T. Pass 3V Pass.

4V Paas Pass' Opening 6 maining diamond, and West took the queen. West naturally led another club, and East ruffed thus taking the third defensive trick. East led another spade, and South put up the king. How declarer could rely on getting to dummy with the king of hearts in order to discard his losinj spade on the established jack of diamonds. There was still one -pitfall to be avoided.

If South began the trumps by laying down the ace, East would eventually get a trump trick to defeat the contract. South knew, however, that West had started the hand with seven clubs. He had already followed suit twice to spades and i a and was therefore bound to be very short in hearts. There was an excellent chance East had started with all four of the missing trumps. 5outh therefore began the by leading to dummy's king.

He was then able to discard a spade on the jack of diamonds tract by finesse. and assure means of his con- a trump eomiGHT ar rum cnuiti oimiauTii IT HU me After XXIX Jess Carmichael left, Johnny looked down at the heap of dimes and pennies and quarters, then them up in his hand. He spread them out on the bed, turned them all up, "heads" upwards. He examined them carefully, then turned them wmbing of 'he Chinese all ovcr so tnat the tails were and, which might well lead to a eneral war. "The Red air force." De Sever- ky has told senators, "could.

going over the Seventh Fleet nd partially evading the fleet's ir cover, utterly destroy the ihysical and human assets of the Nationalist stronghold. The nenace to Formosa is not the up. He sighed wearily. The phone rang, startling Johnny. He scooped it up.

"Yes?" "Fletcher." a harsh voice said, "you want that gorilla friend of yours in one piece?" "You haven't got Cragg," Johnny retorted. "Oil, no? If he's with you, put him on the phone." Chinese army, but the Chinese force. "The island, therefore, can "All right." said Johnny. "Suppose he isn't here. What do you want from me?" "I'll call ynu hack.

I ain't havin' this call traced." The phone went dead. Johnny efended cniy by preventive ac- lon extending beyond its locale, mplicit the President's tatement: 'We must be alert to concentration or employ- iem of Chinese Communist orces obviously undertaken to hung up and. scowled at the phone. He scooped up the coins riate military "This means." concludes Dp ieversky, "that the President has power to attack any and all Chinese air force installations on Chinese mainland at any line that, in hi.s opinion, a con- ntration of that enemy air orce anywhere in China appears 0 constitute a threat to For- iosa. Such a preventive attack 1 Defe.sen of a re- aliatory 'post mortem' bom- ardment of China, should For- losa be destroyed by the Reds espite our warnings would last likely explode into full- cale atomic war between the Jnited States and and the 1.

S. S. STAFF walked to the bathroom and saw the washing Sam had done the before. On a sudden he took down from shower curtain rod one of the and poured the coins into it, them down into the foot. He tied a knot into the top half of the sock, then taking down the other socks, threw the entire pile into a corner of the bathroom.

The phone rang out in went back the and bedroom. He picked it up. "All right," said the harsh voice, "leave your hotel and walk down 45th to Seventh avenue. A Lucky Clover taxicab will come along "Oh, go back to Pcekskill." Tlie backstage details haven't Johnny, the caked out, but Sen. Joe Me- receiver back on the hook.

Earthy is putting up an angry to keep his pet investigators on the Senate Investigating Committee, particularly his favorite, Dan Buckley. Buckley is the gumshoe who The phone rang again instantly. Johnny jerked it off the hook. "Go to Buffalo, then." The voice of James Sutton exclaimed, "I say, Fletcher, that's no way to talk to a man." "Oh, you!" growled Johnny. "Somebody else just called and I thought he was calling back." "I'd like to talk to you," Sutton said.

"I wonder if you could come over to my digs at the Barbizon-Waldorf." "Can't right now. Busy." "I'll make it worth your while." "I'll try to make it in about an hour." "I didn't sell his old suit," Johnny said, accenting the word "sell." "But it's an idea. If he doesn't lay off me, I might do something like that one of these days. if Sam happens in while I'm gone, try to tell him I'll get him He can't stand jails." Johnny stepped up to the desk. He laid a $5 bill and a single on that if you can.

This may be "Have, you got a roll of dimes important. It's something about I Lester Smithson that I don't' think you got at the Harover Club." "Oh, you know I've been there?" Sutton chuckled. "You scared Whittlesey. An hour, then?" JOHNNY agreed and hung up. He left the room and rode down to the lobby.

Lieutenant Madigan sat in a far corner, reading a newspaper. Johnny looked around, saw Eddie Miller near the desk and walked up to him. "Gosh, Fletcher." Eddie said. "I tried to warn you, but Mr. Peabody it." "I know, the louse." "Mr.

Cragg phoned from Peekskill. He said he was in jail up there." "He isn't any more. That's why the cons are here. Sam broke out of jail." "Ouch!" said Eddie. "Then Mr.

Cragg is really in trouble." "He Is. an there isn't a thing I can do for him right now. He's somewhere between Peekskill and here." "If I see 'him first, I'll try to give him the high sign. If only Peabody which reminds me, I know the reason he's so sore. Some crook got into his room and swiped one of his suits, he claims." "Serves hir.i right." "He thinks you stole It." "Me?" Eddie hesitated before replying.

"I don't think you did, but Peabody's really burned. He even searched your room." and two rolls of pennies?" The clerk was somewhat surprised, but took the bills. "I think I can spare them." A short time later he got off the bus, walked to Fifth avenue and entered the Chateau Pelham. The switchboard operator recognized him instantly. "Miss Cummings? I'll see if she's She spoke into the phone, then nodded to Johnny.

"You may go up." JOHNNY headed for the elevator, then J. J. Kilkenny came into the lobby. He passed the switchboard operator and came up to Johnny just as the door of the automatic elevator opened. "Have you been announced? Johnny asked sarcastically.

The pride of the A.A.A. stepped into the elevator. "I got words to say to you." "Why don't you write me a letter?" asked Johnny. "Then I can read and appreciate your words at my leisure. Right now I'm pretty busy." Kilkenny punched the button for the fourth floor and the car went up.

Kilkenny sized up Johnny. He was obviously making a tremendous effort to contain himself. "I notice," Johnny pointed out, "you knew what floor." "I know," Kilkenny said tautly. "I know a lot of things." (To Be Continued) The cheerful songs of tree frogj are heard most often during damp weather and before a storm. GOINS TOTRYTO 6ET THEM FRIDAY, niMJARY II, IMS.

Along The Avenue IIU WIUIAMS- tell you one thing," he waa laying, never been man In that chair who could mike 'em tet up and lake notice like that man from Gastonia." He took the representative's coat and carefully placed it on a hanger just inside the lobby. "Nawsir," he went on, "they 1 come and go and they'll wear out gavels but they'll never a man who could handle these folks like The Iron Major. "You wanna chair?" he asked 'Hold on a minute. I got one right here 'specially for you." Robert E. Peace, Negro orderly at the capitol building here been tidying the floor of the House of Representatives more years than he cares to recall.

He has seen governors come and go has heard them say "hello" us freshmen and "gooobye" as experienced lawmakers. He returned with the chaii placing it beside the seats of the Gaston delegation, IT- went on: "I used to take Mi Cherry's coat he was sitting here, and I told him then that some day he'd be rapping de gavel for order. He always had some kind of joke to tell. Then when he did become speaker, told him that he'd might as wel git his clothes ready to move intc tbe gov-nor's mansion, 'cause knowd it wuz comln 1 By d'way you tell Mr. Cherry that ol( Robert E.

Peace said hello. He'l know who I am." Before Larry Moore, speaker of the House, rapped for order, up walked a strapnine siK- fooler who might have been a star football player at one time. In fact, he was a football player and. had been one of Pat Crawford's key men in the '25 Gastonia state champ i i i team. Now, he's a successfu farmer down in Maxton serving his first term in the state legislature.

His name is G. P. (Doc) Henderson. He asked about his sisters (Mrs. G.

W. Wilson and Mrs. of Union section; and said that he'd have to Re down that way soon. Today is the last day of the week tor the state's leeisla- tors. Shortly after the last meetings around noon, the senators and representatives will file out of their hotel rooms and apartments and head lor their 'respective localities.

There, over the weekend, they'll find out whether or not they have been voting right. One of the bills that has created a great deal of controversy during the past couple of days was the bill giving officers the power to make arrests for mis- iemeanors without a warrant. In the House, orators lined up on two sides, and for awhile the air was filled with legislative argument. Those who were opposed contended that the bil would tend to take away the Constitutional rights and Hber- of a man. On the other side it was pointed out that a law- enforcement officers were hogtied with the law as it now stands.

Finally, the speaker called for a vote. A resounding "yeah" went up as strong voices exploded Then, when the "nays" were called for, an equally resounding vote filled the room. This automatically, called for a standing count, and it was only by two votes that the bill passed. Ht tf A hill, introduced hy Senator Pat Cooke, has been passed hy both the House and Senate. The bill provides that all deeds and other legal documents recorded in either the register of deeds office or the office of the clerk of court shall not be approved without the signature of the one who has prepared il.

As pointed out by Cooke, in the future when xomeone is trying to track down a piece of property, this will make the whole process much simpler. A practice that is as old a. 1 the state itself continually hamstrings the efficiency of both the House and (he Senate. That the policy of extending the Here Comes the Bride courtesy of the lobby or the leriea to visiting Everyone abhors it, yet no one Is bold enough to atari a movement to do away with It. Dozens of times each day, the legislators take time out to make a sometimes long speech about visiting Joe Blow and his wile and family and preacher, tell, ing everything old Joe has been or done since entering the Boy Scouts to how many people arc in his Sunday school class back in Podunk.

Meanwhile, the rest of the lawmakers have to sit and listen while valuable time is consumed. It might not be so bad If there were a specific period for introduction of guests, but the Introductions are made at right in the middle of arguments for or against bills. Like I say, you'll find most legislators against it. But, try to change it and you lose your head. Solicitor Basil Whltener will appear before the Judiciary I committee next Tuesday morn- Ing at 9:30 to talk en the MI psychopath bill.

That's the bill, remember, introduced by Arthur Goodman of Mecklenburg, that, prompted the remarks from Special Investigator Neal Forney of Charlotte. (Though introduc-d by Goodman, this is the same bill that Solicitor Wbitener has been trying to get passed for several years. It's not original, he says, but is patterned after the Miller Act that governs sex offenders in the District of Columbia.) Whitener, no doubt, will reveal some nefarious doings that most Gaston folks will find difficult to believe. What is to become of this bill? Don't know. I was told by Representative Goodman, however, that he was called into the governor's office the other day.

He told Goodman not to be by those who would op- post the bill, that if it's hospitals that are needed, then, he said, the hospitals will be gotten. DROODLES ROGER STUCK IN DIKE" Contrary to the legend about the Dutch Boy and the Dike this is what really happened. If this boy had merely said "Hmm, there's a hole In that there dike" and gone about his member of the Netherlands Federation of Dike stopperup- pers would've come along and stuck a union thumb in the dike and everything would've been fine. A lot of old legends like this need debunking. Take the one about the Tortoise beating the Rabbit in a race.

Fid- dle-faddle! The fact is this rabbit wasn't named Peter like other bunnies but was called "Waxey" because of his tlvin black mustache. And right before the race he bet 4,000 carrots at 80 to 1 on the tortoise. MORAL: Don't believe everything you It's from me! SOBER PARTY RICHMOND, R. M. Orcutt hired a food caterer and invited all the folks in the neighborhood over to his home for an open house celebration.

"I want to show them what a former, drunk can do," he said. Fifteen years ago, said Orcutt, "I was about the biggest drunk In South Richmond," weighed about 91 pounds and drank the shoes off three children. Now he is a strapping 205- pounder and owner of a prospering roofing business. Aniwtr to ACROSS Malt beverage S7Seine Mmethinf DOWN Requite 4 "Something Italian cltj borrowed, 4 Necklace Narrow rnd The mm ncompait point 7 Cloth 26 Beneath 8 Produce S7 Resident ot i Grade 15 Greek letter lOMix It Unconscious- 11 Pre-wtdding ness of paia Ridicules I7 Porch seat 19 Motionless 2.1 At no time 24 Roiter 20 Ogles 21 Thoee in power 22 City in Oklahoma 24 Part in a play 26 Employed 27 Play on worda 30Titania'a huaband 31 Having a aofl palate 14 Tried 35 Wipet mil Affirmative 37Cloae Threw 40 Shallow river crowing 41Color 42Pa1e 45 attendanti chalk 51 Short Deep 2 learning Italian river MArtreea Gardner 38 Approve 25 "Love, honor 40 Festive and occasions 41 Severity 42 Boring todi California city 43 Fool: covering 28 Shoshoneaa 44 Employ Indians 29 Honeymoon cottage 31 Paris' wife 33 Fastened 48 English prince ii 47 Where wedding gueiu tit to church 41 Gaiter SO Snatch (eon.) 1 a. Hi si i A ft 1 A ipj JJ Ml Ik fc i it i MM Hi fl 5T A I I) 8 Mi.