Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 34

'll Worked for Mary Popp ins" Kuclicl to Gain Favor iiniSiliiSli fiiiitiMiili liMIMiMMiMWMMMIMMMiMiMMHIMMMnMilMMtMMMMMMMMiMMMtMMMMiM ftcportcv-ite IIITIIIIIH MiaiatttMMiliir III by Leslie Carpenter Reporter-News Washington Bureau MM lllh Al'-ILKNE IIH'OI'n UMiWS Ahilrnr Tex Mon Etrning Doc 1966 14-B WATCH FOR a politically sur prising announcement by Sen Thomas Kuchel R-Calif which could go a long way toward allaying the hostility felt for him by right-wing California Republicans Kuchel will soon disclose that in the hot contest for chairman of the Senate GOP Campaign Committee he will vote for conservative Sen George Murphv R-Calif instead of for liberal Sen Hugh Scott R-Pa Normally the liberal Kuchel would he expected to line up with a fellow liberal Texas' GOP Sen John Tower setting himself up as a one-man Mr Peacemaker to stop Senate Republican factions from fighting is the behind-the-scenes operator who won Kuchcl's void for Murphy with a for everybody" compromise Kuchel had infuriated California rightists by not supporting Murphy or Barry Goldwater in 1964 He made them more angry by not backing Ronald Reagan this year By giving his caucus vote to his fellow Californian for the chairmanship Kuchel can mend some important California fences before his 1968 rejection battle there He will also win the appreciation of Senate father is the former Panhandle congressman and now chief judge of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals His mother was Ann Spivy before her marriage and grew up in Ronham BRIEFLY: A sidelight on demands that the Warren Commission reopen the probe of President Kennedy's death is the expense No-body knows the exact cost of ths original investigation The stK mate of experts Ls $5 million Outright commission expenditures were about $125 million but that is a small part of the overall bill Most commission workers were on the payroll cf a variety of federal agencies Considerable travel was by Air Force planes Other charges were borne by various bureaus Whitney Young the well-known Negro leader was in Eastern Europe recently and someone poured him a large glass of vodka Young looked down at it and commented: power" Mrs Fred Hams wife of Sen Harris D-Oklat is among the loveliest of Senate ladies and has enough of a sense of humor to gel a loud laugh out of a remarkable incident of ancestry She is a direct descendant of the band of Comanchcs who made the last Indian raid on Johnson City Tex shooting it out with LBJ's forebears Christmas cards from Sen Edward Kennedy D-Mass and Sen Warren Magnuson D-Wash have reproductions of landscapes each painted last summer One witty foreign ambassador here who will be nameless says his wife had long wanted to see Mexico City He phoned her not long ago I am buying two round-trip plane tickets to Mexico City when shall we go?" She replied and I can hardly wait" Then he reported she paused finally adding: I ask who is GOP conservatives and they will abandon the thought of trying to throw nut Kuchel as the Senate Republican whip All this means Kuchel has rejected the thought of resigning from the Republican Party to become an SURPRISE: One of Mrs Lyndon Johnson's favorite birthday and Christmas gifts (she was born on Dec 22) was unexpected Several of her Washington friends sent donations to help finance the landscapting of the now postoffice in her East Texas hometown Karnack They had learned that Mrs Hugh Powell a lifelong close friend of Mrs Johnson's in Karnack was hoping to make the new past office building which will go under construction within a few months a thing of beauty in tribute to the First Lady RUBY Paramount Pictures is considering a feature film on the life of Jack Ruby and has asked Tony Zoppi formerly on the entertainment staff of the Dallas News to submit an outline for the story according to Variety the show biz newspaper The report came from Las Vegas where Zoppi is reported to be currently employed as a publicist for the Hotel Riviera Variety said that if Zoppi's story outline is acceptable to Paramount he will be commissioned to write the screen play Zoppi and Ruby had evidently been acquainted in Dallas while Zoppi was reporting doings at night clubs I DO! I Another generation of and Ann" was launched while scores of Texans in Washington watched last Wednesday when Gene Worley Jr formerly of Shamrock Tex took Ann Richardson as his bride in a Methodist church in suburban Arlington Ya The bride is from Arlington Young Worley's popular parents are Gene and Ann His JMtwtkl (taliul Oil Is Prize in Troubled Middle East laaaaaaaaaMi lataaaiaaaaaaaaaaaai aaaaMBaaaaaMaaMaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaaai laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa jaaaaaataaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaiaaaaaaaiaiaaaaaaaiaaaaaaa lNalaHalNMlalaHltNlNlHMlHlallallllllllllal 22222222222ei2t22t 22222221 NiaiitNmSIiUtti by Arthur Veysey Daylight Time New Texas Issue The Legislature meeting next month faces a vexing decision: Should Texas continue on Standard Time the year around or accept Daylight Saving Time from the last Sunday in April to the last Sunday in October? The new federal Uniform Time Act nullifies all state and local time laws All states will now go on uniform Daylight Saving Time in the summer months unless a state legislature passes a new act lor statewide Standard Time the year around Half the states and a number of municipalities independently have DST for all or part of their for varying periods The present situation is a mess snarling communications and transportation schedules Nationally uniform time certainly is desirable And it will be inconvenient if Texas is among only a few states insisting on Standard Time in summer we will be out of step with most of the nation Opposition to DST in Texas as elsewhere has been strongest in rural areas but this state is now largely urbanized and so is its redistricted Legislature So Texas may now well follow the national law Benjamin Franklin first whimsically suggested Daylight Saving Time in a 1784 essay Britain considered it seriously in 1907-08 But it was not until World War 1 that DST was adopted as a production-improving measure hv Germane in 1915 Britain in 1916 and the in 1918 The US repealed DST over Woodrow Wilson's veto in 1919 but readopted time" in 1942-45 Many countries abandoned DST after World War II but a number including Canada Britain France (the year around) Poland Norway Portugal and China kept it Until this year the US left the decision to its states and local governments with the result verging on chaos But now the Uniform Time Act will make it difficult for a state not to follow the trend toward continent-wide Daylight Saving Time Strike Prevention The President is still hunting for an effective way to deal with national emergency slrikes the hunt has been going on for a year with no visible results Avoiding compulsory arbitration which would mean the demise of meaningful collective bargaining is a worthy goal Some sort of labor court where a labor dispute could be presented in public and on the record might be effective Giving the President additional powers under the Taft-Hartley Act such as emergency powers to extend contracts indefinitely to avoid national crises might help Short of compulsory arbitration the most effective method still appears to be to establish a labor court of last resort When factfinding boards have worked with disputes where labor negotiators have met deadlock and where periods have not cooled off anything parties to the dispute could be brought into a court of record There testimony records and argument could be taken under oath and a three or five-man panel of qualified judges could write an opinion Instead of being legally binding if compulsory arbitration is not to be law if would serve to give to the American public the facts in dispute In America's urbanized society of today it is simply impossible to allow massive disruptions in transportation for example Frank Grimes Scrapbook I A 2J2! 22 2222a2M222222222i222222222222a22 Killian J)ciioituc? knows of enough oil within its own borders to meet present needs for 20 years The Soviet self sufficiency however does not reduce Ihe Soviet threat to Middle Eastern oil To the contrary it permits the Soviet Union to employ the tactics at which it the undermining of weak governments It docs not have to take over Middle Eastern oil fields to achieve success It need only stir up trouble For chaos-making it has a fertile field in the Middle East Powell Can Force Delay LONDON The prize in I he Middle East is oil more oil than has been found in all the rest of the world together This year for the first limp the 1500 Middle Eastern wells arc producing as much oil as flows from all of the 620000 wells in the United States --about 425 million tons Next year the Middle East almost certainly will become the world's biggest supplier American oil has increased by only about 10 per cpnl in a Eastern nil more than doubled and even so the flow was held bark sharply so as not to swamp world markets AMERICAN COMPANIES have discovered and control 60 per cent of the Middle Eastern oil British Dutch companies have another 15 per cent But Soviet eyes have long been on Middle Eastern oil In 1940 Stalin joined Hiller and Hir-ohito in a plot to rule the world on condition that the Soviet Union would get a free hand in the Persian Gulf Europe depends on Middle Eastern nil: its appetite is enormous Europe is using six limes as much oil as it did only 15 years ago some 400 million tons this year approaching consumption Europeans are paying the Middle East about 8 billion dollars this year lor oil NOT SO LONG ago Europe looked to the New World for its oil to the United Statns end iRltiffiml STtMMfi luiisSi by David Lawrence Venezuela But the United States and Canada both now use more oil than comes from their wells Venezuela's flow has been increased threefold in 20 years but the United States Canada and Latin America use all it The biggest Middle Ens'ein producers are Kuwait fran and Saudi Arabia each exceeding 100 million Ions a year Iraq adds about 70 million lrns Paul Getty's wells in the so-called neutral zone between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Yield about 20 million tons and almost that much is coming from the newest of the oil shekdonis little Abu Dhabi whose ruler Sheik Zaid aims to turn a wilderness into a welfare ntate through oil royalties Qatar sells 10 million tons and Bahrein pumps a steady 2 million THE AMOUNT of oil drawn from the wells varies according to the political climate in each capital In the Middle East oil came first from Iran the British found it there in 1908 and Iran was the main Middle Eastern oil country until the tempestuous Mohammed a-degh as prime minister tried to take over the wells and refinery at Abadan once the world's biggest Oil companies merely turned on wells in Saudi Arabia Kuwait and Iraq Iran needed a change of heart rnd eight years before it got back into the big league Wells i'i neighboring Iivq were slowed when in lfifi Arabs incensed by the British-French Israeli invasion of the Suez Canal blew up pipe lines that deliver Iraqi oil to Ihe Mediterranean The oil slowed again when Gen Abdel Karim Kassem's soldiers killed the young King Faisal of Iraq nnd most of his family in 1958 The murder of Kassem in 1953 opened the faucets but prothreats to take over the wells have hampered development ed by the House for something which he may have done during his previous term It is assumed that his constituents when they re elected him pasred judgment upon his conduct Jn the last 50 years or more no member elect of the House has been expelled Rep Powell himself has a few pieces of political strategy that lie may invoke He has hinted that he wants to have a complete study made of the use of funds by all committees of the House and by individual members This would consume a lot of time In the absence of a comprehensive investigation of all acts allegedly similar to those of Mr Powell the supporters of the Harlem congressman will undoubtedly raise a fuss and argue that he's being persecuted because a Negro Unfortunately there has been a good deal of carelessness in the supervision of expenditures on trips made by members of the House and in the spending of money for committee investigations But these matters have not been exposed Some members of the House now however are ready to push for an exhaust ire inquiry of the whole subject Unquestionably letters from people in all parts of the country to members of Congress in recent weeks have indicated clearly that public opinion is not on the side of any congressman who misuses committee funds A substantial sentiment is being expressed in favor of doing something about this either by establishing new rules or by punishing members who have been guilty of improper handling of congressional money The Constitution says that each house may its members for disorderly behavior and with the concurrence of two thirds expel a member" But it isn't clear whether this is confined to in' disobeying the rules of the House and interfering with its proceedings or whether it covers also ai individual's acts outside the halls of Congress There is littic likdihnood that any court would order that a member of Congress be reinstated once he has been expelled So it's entirely up to the members of the House of Representatives of the 90lh congress whether ary action will he taken on ihe charges being mads currently against the chairman of one of its most important committees (Copyright 1966 Publishers Newspaper Syndicate) but Egypt collects about 200 million dollars toll on 150 million tons of oil passing througn the Suez Canal to Europe -jaih year and the three others collect fees on 40 million tons of Iraqi oil and 25 million tons of Saudi oil pumped through pipe lines to the Mediterranean and then shipped to Europe Western Europeans don't lik their dependence upon Arab oil They have boon desperately hunting oil under their own lands but so iar have found only large quantities of gas under and around the North Sea Already they have made eight important strikes and are laying the first pipe line to the British coast But gas can only supplement oil North Sea wells will supply a fifth of Britain's gas requirements next year EUROPEANS ARE faring better in North Africa In 1959 the French began drawing oil from wells in the Sahara desert part of Algeria Too soon however President Charles de Gualle ended French rule there and the European companies lost interest Algeria today provides only about a third of the oil France uses Libya however is another matter Independent since 1951 Libya and its 76-year-old King Idris are firmly attached to Europe Twenty companies after spending 500 million dollars have found oceans of oil under the sand about 300 miles inland In four years Libya has become a major producer The government estimates output this year will reach 100 million tons putting Libya in the class of the top Middle Eastern coun-tryies LIBYA WITH only 15 million people is enjoying an oil-lubricated spending spree that makes Texas look like a candidate for relief Libyans look happily for guidance fom Kuwait where oil incomes since the war if divided equally among the 250000 original Kuwaitis would exceed $40000 for every man woman and child Luckily for the world the Soviet Union so far has no need of Moslem oil for itself Russia had the world's first great oil field Baku near the Caspian Sea The Bolshevik revolution stop pod Russian oil development and by 1938 the Soviet Union was producing only about 15 million tons compared with 175 million tons in the United States WORLD WAR II cut Russian output to 10 million tons A steep increase began only in the 1950s Soviet output passed 100 million Ions in 1958 Two years later the Soviet Union replaced Venezuela as the second producer in Ihe world Soviet wells yielded 240 million tons last year This was only a little more than half of the American yipld but it was sufficient to meet all Soviet needs and still leave 5 million tons for export mostly to the communist states of eastern and central Europe The Soviet Union has ol freed some oil at cut rates in western Kuroc THE KREMLIN is secretive almut new discoveries but it has announced the finding of enough new fields to increase published Soviet oil reserves Mai kliMMMtlll as if we wire in the kind of business upswing in which these deficiencies in production would be made up Adding those two facts we can look ahead confidently to a period In which the unemployment problem will be reduced to minor proportions if index'd it Is not wiped out EGYPT SYRIA Jordan and Lebanon have so far nol occii blessed with similar oil riches NOTE: This Is a syndicated column not an editorial The views are those of Ihe writer) WASHINGTON It is by no means certain that Adam Clayton Powell would be expelled from the House of Representatives even if the charges that he misused congressional funus were proved in the House investigation The Harlem congressman has plenty of moves thai he could make to delay such a proceeding indefinitely Some members of the House might regard this as a fortuitous circumstance because they do rol want to record themselves anyway for or against Mr Powell This is largely due to the racial controversy and its political implications If Mr Powell were not a Negro there would be less hesitancy to bring the matter to a vote but in these days of at the polls and power" members of Congress are reluctant to take positive action as this could become politically embarrassing to them in a subsequent election The Constitution gives each house of Congress the right to judge the of its own members but this a litllc-used power It comes to the surface only when some flagrant case of irregularity in the actual election of a member emerges in public Again and again according to past precedents the House of Representatives has decided to defer final action against members under criminal charges until a "court of last resort" bus finally disposed of ihe case one way nr the n'hcr The litigation in New York against Mr Powell involving contempt charges for failure to pay an indemnity ordered by the court is still pending So when Mr Powell endeavors to take his seat in thn 90th Congress in January a move could be made to require him to stand aside until Ihe whole case Is further investigated This could deprive him temporarily of his chairmanship of the House Committee on Education and Labor 'I lie House itself however would then become involved io a highly complex issue There are court divisions which have held that since the House of Representatives is not a continuing body as is the Senate a My Answer By Gcorqe Clark The Neighbors by Billy Graham Abilene Daily Rcinrtcr Dec 3 1936: The new constitution of the Soviet Union is a good democratic document It will give the Russians demorrary if the lino theories which it embodies are allowed to be translated into actual practice Whether that is to be the case is something that only time can tell The outside world having looked at nearly two decades of complete repression in Russia doubtless will be pardoned for adopting a wait-and-see attitude When some Russian has campaigned up and down and across thu land on a wipeout-communism program and has done it without being liquidated by Ihe OCPU it will be time to announce definitely that Russia has achieved a real democracy One thing these post-war years have taught all of us is something that flows naturally from thn spirit of governors and governed If the Russians have created such a spirit within the tight framework of an autocracy the western world will Ik greatly pleased and not a little surprised Ilf 11161 Abilene Daily Reporter Dec 3 1936: If we want to see a boom such as we have never seen before we have only to set our industrial plant to work to make up the production dcficitfldcs of the seven of depression This is the word of the canny Dr Harold Moulton president of the Brookings Institution Dr Moulton told the Executive Club in Chicago the oilier day that to make up for the deficiency in durable goods alone upwards of 8000 000 additional workers would be kepi busy for at least live years Nearly 4000000 more would lie required for a similar period to make up the defiency in nondurable goods Dr Moulton has a way of knowing what is talking about It begins to look too This year Christmas should have a special significance to every American Nearly 6000 of our men have been killed in Vietnam Many thousands of others lie on hospital beds as a result of the war Many have lost arms and legs or eyes and will be crippled for life The Vietnam war should cause every American to pray that ihe Prince of Peace will reign in the hrarts of men and that somehow in the providence of God this slaughter might stop As long as men are greedy and filled with lust and hate wars will continue However the Christmas message is that God can give us peace in our hearts even in the midst of war As you read this column I will he preaching to our troops in Vietnam and tomorrow on Christmas Day 1 will lie having lunch with our troops in tlie field My message to our men will be God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself" and He can bring pcare to the heart of any man who will put hLs confidence and trust in Him Should Christians observe Christmas and Easter as religious davs or are they Just pagan? SM Any day is what we make it To many Christmas is a time of making money imbibing alcohol and licentious parties and celebrations To others Christmas is a time of trie-brating Ihe greatest event of history when Word was made flesh and dwelt among us" Christmas should be a time of re-dedication of examining our lives and of catching the deeper meaning of that most holy day With Easter it is the same Pagans use it as a day of revelry and debauchery Beer cans litter our beaches and sex orgies are held in the moonlight by many college students on vacation who give no thought to the real meaning of Easter Yes we are to observe Christmas and Easter hut observe them in the Christian sense for they are Christian holy days I won't get a small nick just for his toy doctor fourfold The Kremlin says It member-elect cannot be punish.