Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 22

They ipend thrlr tni tn trenlth and tn a moment to ifiwn to the rir Oh linw a small portion of earth Mill hold hi lien sre trail who ambitiously aerk aftrr I hr wliolo wmlil while we arr Philip KiiiK of Marnlon THE ABILENE RErORTFRNFWS A Ahllrne Trass Sunday Morning June IS I lit Ecology It's Called Scientists Seek to Learn What's 'Normal' in Nature Our Legislators Can't Duck Their Responsibility In the heat of political controversy especially at the legislative level ome odd things happen Thus after the House group at Austin failed to reach a compromise on the tax lull House Speaker Carr told newsmen it was that Governor Price Daniel's liberal forces and ail others had not been able to get together on where to levy the cost of government We assume that the term liberal came from the speak-er and was not a figment of the AP reporter's imagination (Later Speaker Carr said his statement was not intended to single out the governor in assigning hlame for the Legislature's failure to solve the state's fiscal crisis! In 1956 and again in 1958 Governor Daniel was denounced by the liberal elements in the Democratic Tarty as anything but liberal and as one who jumped the party label in 1952 to vote for Eisenhower die her straight Democratic" in 1956 howeverl He was then and he continues as arvthing but the darling of the so-called Democratic More than any single individual both as attorney general and senator Daniel symbolized the battle to keep the federal government from gobbling lip the tidclands of Texas and other states Yet in the heat of the current battle over the form the deficit-eliminating tax hill takes we hear the strange term liberal forces" used in connection with a man whose conservatism had been anathema to is" Our state Constitution requires the governor to give the Legislature a rundown on the general condition of the state including finances at the start of each session and to make recommendations But it is the responsibility of the Legislature to determine just what form the tax moneys shall take and how much shall he levied Yet after the full regular session followed by a first called session of thirtv days and now well into a second called session designed particularly to wipe out a state deficit that is harmful to the state's good name the Legislature has not yet met its obligations regarding fiscal matters Efforts to put the blame on the governor for this failure are merely begging the question and doing violence to the plain terms of the Constitution It isn't the responsibility of the governor whoever he mav be to pass a tax bill and wine out the deficit That responsibility lies sauare-lv on the shoulders of the legislators and their leaders The time for buck-nassing is long past Let's get on with the fob and raise the new taxes so the deficit can be wined out and Texans can hold up their heads again plants liecume a bit radioactive too Hie scientists tlius enn trace nature's food chain learning where radioactive atoms ultimate-ly go and whctlirr they might harm some link in Uie chain In still another phase bluebirds iq the Savannah River area are being irradiated with varying amounts of X-rays to learn how resistant they are 1710 aduit birds apprar to bo more resistant to this Irradiation than would tie expected from radiation of warm-iiluslfd animals such as mice Dr Odum reports But eggs and young birds are much mure sensitive nature one must consider effect on the most vulnerable stngo In the life cycle not Just the effect on mature stages" Dr Odum says Ecological studies also are showing that seemingly useless salt marshes along the Georgia roast are rich nursery grounds for many important types of man's seafoud Home for the Young Slirimp fish and oilier sea life use these waters during the critical young stages of life then move out to sea If the salt marsh balance is dunged catches of seafood can decline Dr Odum and associates sre pinuin" down this chain in studies centering at the Marine Institute at Sapelo Island south of Savannah Sunlight supplies the energy to produce the first algae and marsh grass Only a bit of the total sunlight energy is used by insects or by birds fording on insects living in the salt marshes A vital cog in the chain is bacteria which break down or decompose the dead grasses and algae pnsluring food and rich vitamins for shrimps crabs snails and mussels Some marine life feeds directly on algae and plants but a big source of their food and hence man's ultimate comes through the work of the decomposing bacteria which break down dead grass into suitable food production in the salt marshes is far higher and more efficient than most agricultural practices on land because it is continuous and self-fertilizing" ays IN' Odum such as nitrogen and phosphorus are used over and over again" a 'sick gland) develops In this natural situation ecologists now have a better chance of moving in diagnosing and perhaps correcting it once they understand how nature works as a whole" By ALTON BLAKESlFK Associated Press Science Writer ATHENS Ga (AP) Nut is starting to get a revealing new type uf total health checkup It's aimed at learning how links in the life cycle ran go wrong to give nature (he equivalent of sick glands or an oiling liver And also how la get rid of radioactive iioisotu of the atomic age without injuring natural life This checkup is coming through the science of the interrelations between living things and their as practiced by such scientists as Dr Eugene Odum professor of zoology at the University of Georgia The first step is learning what hapiwns naturally cannot know what is changing in nature and why without first knowing what is normal" Dr Odum points out a thermometer in your mouth tells nothing unless you first know what a normal temperature is" Radioactive poisons could spread in dangerously unexpected ways unless you know what nature does naturally A amount could prove lethal to some form of life because they concentrate particular chemicals Dr Odum explains Waters of the Columbia River in Washington state contain an Infinitesimal amount of phosphorus per gram of water for example But the eggs of birds hich drink this water contain two million times as much phosphorus per gram as docs the water Hie chemical becomes concentrated in the eggs Dr Odum and associates are tracing what could happen to radioactive wastes set free near the Savannah River plant of the Atomic Energy Commission llow might they affect animal human plant insect and bacterial life? One finding so far is that channel catfish regularly migrate 80 miles or more from small streams to the Savannah lliver and back again This means they could carry radioactive atoms to areas where catfish are caught and eaten as food In another technique a square yard of grasslands is sprayed with radioactive atoms and kept covered Leaves absorb the radioactive chemical Or it can be injected directly into the plant stems Either way the fate of the atoms can be traced Radioactive phosphorus siweads rapidly through the plants In a few days insects feeding on the All Roads Lead to Home Other Viewpoints Robert Allen Reports Counter Blockade Planned letter to Charles Fort head of Food Town Ethical Pharmacies Baton Houge La Nixon's significant statement has been inserted in the proceedings of the Senate Commerce Commutes on this story issue my opinion" wrote Nixon trade or price-fixing is inconsistent in a free enterprise economy Certainly at a time when we are aready greatly concerned with high prices the passage of fair trade legislation would contribute nothing to rea-sonble price stability or future economic In taking this position Nixon is joining with the Justice Department Commerce Department Federal Trade Commission and Budget Bureau which are vigorously opposing the fair trade bills siwnsored by Senators Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn William Proxmire (D-Wii) and Representative Oren Harris i D-Ark) The House is slated to vote on Harris' measure in July or early August The chances are against the acting on this issue at this session It will most likely be taken up there next year Syndicate Inc) Looking Backward Abilene 30 Taken from the files of The Abilene Daily Reporter June 21-28 1929: Succeeding Mrs Dallas Scarborough who has served as chairman of the nursing activities by the Big Three foreign ministers No final decision has been reached although certain preliminary steps are being taken Premier Khrushchev's recent visit to Albania is attributed to these moves Intelligence has ascertained that the Kremlin ruler who had never been to Albania hurriedly decided to go there a week after getting wind of a possible Western blockade of the strategic Strait of Otranto Hints of this counter measure were transmitted through Yugoslav sources Russia is known to be building a number of missile and rocket bases in Albania The Reds also have submarine bases on the Albanian coast Where the Money Goes Spain has received more than $11 billion in military and economic aid aince 1951 what Assistant Secretary of State Livingston Merchant told Sen Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) at a private Foreign Relations Committee meeting Humphrey also asked about reports that the regime is tottering" Merchant emphatically denied that saying information is the Franco government is as strong today as it has been at any time in recent yeara We have no evidence to indicate it is dose to collapsing" The recent Communist attack on a naval reconnaissance plane is not the first of such incidents in the few months While this was the first shooting affair there had been four non-firing incidents prior to that In each of them MIGs buzzed patrol planes but that was all Since April Admiral Harry Felt naval commander in the Pacific has been warning of a steady build-up of Red air forces in North Korea and China Where He Stands Vice President Nixon is against the federal fair trade legislation pending in Congress That's what he discloeee in a By ROBERT ALLEN WASHINGTON NATO military chiefs are proposing a daring counter blockade in the event Russia again bars access to West Berlin Under this tough NATO plan a naval blockade would be set up against Albania weakest of the satellites and with no common boundary with any of the Iron Curtain countries by closing the Strait of Otranto This 50-mile-wide waterway at the mouth of the Adriatic Sea between the heel of Italy and the southern coast of Albania is crucial to the Red Satellite as around 70 per cent of its food supplies come by sea a large part of them through the Strait Thus a naval blockade would hit directly at Albania hounded on the north and west by long-un-friendiy Yugoslavia and on the south by pro-Western Greece A Soviet airlift to succor Albania would have to cross their territory have been received that neither Yugoslavia nor Greece would permit such flights The Belgian general staff originated the bold plan of setting up a naval blockade against Albania as a counter measure to a new Berlin crisis It has been considered at length by top NATO planners It has also been fully discussed Chicago Teenagers Help Boost Morale CHICAGO uP Parting Is sweet not sorrowful when teenage volunteers sre in the Mount Sinai Hospital children's ward for the end of visiting hours The hospital has 75 high school students who do volunteer work in their spare time One helpful activity is reading to child patients so they won't feel lonely immediately after their parents depart for home Intensely Personal The Fourth of July falls on Saturday this year this coming Saturday and that means one of those long holiday weekends that spell disaster on our highways One of the big insurance companies handling car insurance (Travelers) made a study of the 15 million cars it insures to see what happened to them in the 1958 holiday weekends and projected the results of that sur-vey to cover the probable fate of the remaining 685 million cars in the country Here is what the prospects are for this coming July Fourth weekend: That approximately 25000 people will be killed or injured by automobiles over the holiday That nearly 50 percent of those killed or injured will be under 30 years of age That more than 40 percent of the highway crashes will come as a result of a speeding automobile crashing into the rear of another studies have shown us that the average accident that weekend will not be a spectacular crash on a super-highway the report goes on the contrary our figures show that more than 80 percent of the crashes will occur on good clear straight roads sumrisinglv enough not far from the victims' So fatal accidents aren't something that happens somewhere else or among foreigners or involving a lot of perfectly strange people but close to home on familiar roads to friends and neighbors and God forbid! involving you and vour loved ones Traffic danger and traffic safety an intensely personal and intimate thing Lay your plans now to survive the weekend Still Keys to Success Wavnesboro News-Virginian: Ibis is just as good a time as any to emphasize to young people that the vast majority of those in this world who have anything have worked hard for what they have acquired Commencements are over and ence again thousands of young people are eeking employment in a world that seems to worship aecurity and money more than all else In these young people I have the utmost confidence but they face pitfalls nevertheless A generation or so ago young people were spurred to start at the bottom and through bard work and intelligent anplication of their abilities anticipate a long climb up the ladder toward auccess Many young people were ambitious to start in their own businesses But large corporations have made great strides during these past few decades and small businesses have diminished in number Security fringe benefits and stability of the employing concern are the siren hires today The yen for independence has been supplanted to a great degree by a frank search for aecurity But nothing basic has changed It is still Impossible to get anything for nothing ft is still necessary to work to know and to be dependable and responsible If there are young people who seek a start in the industrial business or professional world at the top they face disillusionment and disappointment today quite as much as they ever did Too often the youthful mind is impressed with the easy accumulation of a fortune by gome exceptional figure who looms large in the public consciousness But such a meteoric career is tie great exception among a mass of hard workers It still remains that most people get to the top by the sweat of their brows rather than through some streak of lurk Individuals who do not earn what they have can scarcely claim title to their possessions There's little change in this basic thought from generation to generation There are limitless opportunities today just as there always have been in a system of free enterprise and individual initiative such as exists in our United States Classification regimentation and the search for more and more leisure time is in evidence but work and the willingness to accept responsibility remain the keystones to success If every young man or young woman who begins a business life now gets thoroughly imbued with the idea of giving full value for money or rewards received society will not be worried too much by the threat of another depression There's no magic in achieving success Nor is success simply accumulating money or fortune Eternal and genuine success is the realization of a worthy ideal Attainment of such success comes from wanting to succeed being willing to sacrifice and from dedicating our lives to the attainment of our goals If we hold fast to the unchangeable fact that lasting success must be earned by the individual the next generation will find life a much happier proposition Top Estimate Automobile Sales Bring Big Smiles to Detroit Years Ago committee of the Taylor County chapter of the American Red Cross since its organization 13 years ago Mrs Alexander was elected to that post at the monthly meeting of the chapter Friday A (Bob) Ayers 62 traveling salesman known throughout West Texas died at his homo at 1358 Jeanette St Saturday night after a long illness Robertson 93-year-old Confederate veteran went to Breck-enridge Saturday afternoon for a visit with hia son Robertson Abilene's flying bridegroom Derryberry and his wife formerly Evalyn Andrews returned yesterday from a week's honeymoon The daily water consumption of Abilene about 5 million gallons is greater than ever before Water Superintendent A Grimes said Saturday The per capita consumption Is about 166 gallons Campaign to raise 3400000 in the Cross Plains railroad project was put in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday No time will be lost Chat lei Barnes C-C president said in putting committees out to make good this city's understanding with Frank Kell of Wichita Falls Both parties are to go half-and-half on the construction on a 40 to 5a mile railroad to Cross Plains at an estimated cost of about a million dollars Dr Tandy was named president of the Abilene Exchange Club at the semi-annual election held at noon Tuesday General construction bids on the Wooten Hotel at 3rd and Cypress and the theater adjoining will be opened at 1:30 pm July 16 at the office of David Cattle Company architects and engineers on both buildings Copt and Mrs Wade Farrior stationed for the pest three years at Hattiesburg Miss arrived here Tuesday to take charge of Salvation Army work here Exhibit at NYC Quotable Quotes Soviets Use Soft Sale In Effort to Woo Trade At the beginning of the course (on public peaking1 each of us was given a mouthful of marbles through which we had to speak Every day we were allowed to reduce the number by one marble We became accredit-ed public speakers as soon as we lost all Mr marbles Sen Richard Nueberger D-Ore quoting former Rep Brooks Hays D-Ark By BEN PIILEGAR Associated Preas Automotive Writer DETROIT For a change more people are buying more cars this year than the auto industry figured on Unless sales nosedive in the next six months the total may well approach 6'A million domestic makes and full 500000 over the most optimistic estimates The sales would divide into about six million American care and a half-million foreign care The foreign total a record had been expected What is causing the smiles in Detroit and other auto-building centers are the domestic Figures Industry executives often view a forthcoming year through rose-col-ored glasses But the Poor sales of 1958 made them all look so bad that they were quiti cautious in their predictions last summer Harlow Curtice then president of General Motors led off last August with the Vk million domestic sales prediction Other executives held dose to the 5'i million line When a spring sain surge developed for the first time in four years the industry top bass kept their fingers crossed But with half the year gone this is the way the domestic situation looks: Just over 500000 cars were on hand when the calendar year started About the same number Boy Gets Stuck In Hollow Tree UNION Mo Uf) A lfi-year-old boy wanted a closer look at a squirrel nest in an old hollow tree so he had his younger brother rig up a rope and pulley device to lower him headfirst into the tree The older boy got stuck The brother wasn't strong enough to pull him out and firemen were called to the rescue will be carried over into 1960 This means sales should about equal 1999 production In the first six months production will total about 3300ono cars This pace will slacken during July August and September as the car-makers taper off 1950 models 8nd shut down for retooling But the fourth quarter should see the production lines rolling at top speed with 1960 core If this rate is about equal to the first or second quarter the overall production figures will be right at six million cars Unsold new car inventories are something over 900000 But dealers on the whole are not apprehensive They point to the general acceptance of the '59 styles plus the fact that very few potential buyers apiwar to lie hanging back to look at the '6ns The only exceptions are those who have decided they want to wait for the new small cars of the big three Corvair with its rear engine Ford's Falcon and Chrysler's Valiant So far most dealers admit to only a mild interest on the part of buyers in these new ones Daughter Gives Shock to Mother OLNEY 111 Mrs Rolwrt Murray answered a midnight knock and found a baby on th doorstep in a basket Such things happen she knew but this must be a joke It was Out of shrubs stepped her daughter and son-in-law home early from duty with the Armed Forces in Germany mother!" shouted Mrs Judy McKinney It was Mrs Murray's introduction to her month old granddaughter Less Food as We Age Waco (Tex) News Tribune: Doctors tell us that the way to lose weight Is to eat less They say one of the best exer-cbcs an overweight person can indulge in i to push himself away from the table be ore be has satisfied his hunger A symposium on the prevention of obesity made up of 500 physicians nutritionists dieticians and other students of eating habits described just how little the otherwise normal person must eat to remain in a condition ot good health One prescription was issued by Dr Herbert pollack chairman of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee He said that obesity develops ncX because people eat more but because they continue to eat the game amount of food year after year as they grow older Vet after the age of 25 man requires one per cent less food each year He cautioned gainst completely eliminating bread potatoes and fats from the diet Excluding any cne kind of food would throw the entire diet off balance he contended 111 prescription: Subtract 23 from your present age If over 25 and deduct the resulting percentage from your food intake For example a man or woman of 50 needs 25 per cent leu food or one fourth leu than he or abo consumed at 26 years of ago It is worth the price to give Americans a chance to tour Soviet Union without leaving their What reception do they expect from the American public? Manzhulo tosses up his hands He says he has no idea of how many people would be willing to spend the admission price of 51 for adults and 50 cents for children The suggestion that the Soviets may run into anti-Communist such as the picketing of Anastas Mikoyan seemed momentarily to ruffle Soviet representatives gathered at a pre-opening news conference If this happens Manzhulo aays is your business We can do nothing about it" Soviet spokesmen feel confident that the show will make a hit with Americans In setting up the exhibition they have generally avoided showing anything in such a way that it could be obviously compared with something American They fully expect their space with its Sputniks to draw most oohs and aahi from American visitors By BERNARD GAVZER AP Newsfeaturrs Writer NEW YORK (AP) Like a traveling salesman entering a new town the Soviet Union has come to America with a soft sales pitch designed to win friends and perhaps drum up a little trade Hoping for the best but not really sure of what to expect they bn next week the Soviet exhibition of science technology and culture in the New York Coliseum The show is aimed at telling Americans something about Soviet life It is the Soviet balancing half of a mutual exchange agreement in which the United States puts on a similar show in Moscow starting July 25 Alexei Manzhulo stocky 47-year-old director general of the June 29-Aug to exhibition readily admits the Soviets miscalculated what it would cost They had figured on about 10 million dollars when 1 became acquainted with your prices" Manzhulo aays "I saw the cost would be maybe two million dollars more" Speaking English as do many other Soviets on the exhibition Manzhulo quickly adds THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS PoblMM twtet Duly Except Or nd miHlo tv KWHIi PI SM-HIXO CO Marta at a Utrw Pk tilt M27I AMicac EHTiriro cnu-runoN-Thf Mm Mowx I ixnlpf of Audit Hutmu of tSiv-i Kkwk rrrWm IV Vm-JI ulhlwidlap ownokppru at tta Lilian Sutra jSjeokd nlM mal 'rU(aa antkortaad at a Aakarrlama auto kp Tamer to AkOraa im Teui Wur-Iia and SanHi Ceemai JmSoMm per na Murnni pad Fnln al tJwtV nm Meekly rptey aa raaue-l By mall In Bmp I e-t- Mornlaa its mhm Eaenira and Surnlay 1100 a imiatk a 117 St wi -ide at We leant 7J mnaU a 117 sp a ltherfafe na nueat Weaket at AtaartaMd' Preaa IrMi A Murrain) Pipii it mfiuro nbiiiMifft9 i td repuMtatH at all IV torn aeSa ana aeajpaoer a jaad aa tv AP new dawalrki rv paMiaVra art aa ravuaaiat kr asya'iysrv uK'-apST- 4b-s Aa armaenaa raflartma aana tv rvractet Favorite Milkman HAMILTON Ontario (AP) Claude Richardson who deliver ed milk on the same route for 37 years was honored by nearly 100 women customers who presented him with $175 In cash and gave roses to his wife.