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Star Editorials Smaller Airports May Be Obsolete WHEN PEOPLE 'discuss the possibility of a commercial airport for Otsego County they talk in terms of old C-47s, Convairs and smaller "conventional" aircraft that can land and take off in a few thousand feet. A wonder is how long such planes will be "conventional" and how long a few thousand feet of runway will suffice. Within the memory of most who would vote on a local airport a runway of little more than 1,000 feet was adequate for the single engine biplanes that were about all that went into the air. Recently major cities have built or rebuilt airports witji runways up to 10,000 feet to handle jet traffic. It's no tiny investment, even though Uncle Sam picks up about half the tab on airport construction.

The largest--and most controversial--airport in the U.S. opens this weekend. It's labeled Dulles Airport and is located 27 miles from Washington in Chantilly, Va. Dulles is on 10,000 acres, making it tw'ice the size of Idlewild. It will have two parallel runways 11,500 feet long.

It was supposed to cost $50 million, now seven years after the planning stage, the bill is over $100 million. Detractors npte that Washington already had Friendship Airport located toward Baltimore, just as close to the capital and that a few million more in expansion at Friendship would have filled the need. But despite that fact that the planes will fly to New York from Dulles faster than cars can travel from the, airport to Washington, there's something to be said for a huge airport in open country. If a 11,500 foot runway suffices for today, what will be needed for the space ships of 1980? Cities will expand and space travel will grow so that room will be at a premium around metropolitan centers. Such thoughts are one reason New York City is considering the area' around Middletown in Orange County as.

the site of, a jet port of. its own. Stamp Error Compounded At Collectors' Expense IT IS a lucky thing for the administration in Washington that this business of the error in some 400 of the Dag Hammarskjold stamps didn't come up before the elections. The Republicans might have swept the nation. Perhaps not too many of voting age are stamp collectors today but almost everyone at some time or other has had an interest in saving stamps.

Many memories must linger on the interest that came with each new stamp and the eager hope that some day the individual would discover a rare old one in the attic or a rare error an otherwise common variety. All of us have at least had a brief'get-rich-quick dream. Stamp collectors have had more than most. So then an error is made in the printing of 400 stamps by the U.S. Some collectors discover them Their eyes glow, their pulses pound a lifetime of interest and vigilance rewarded.

But no! Hold down the excitement. Don't invest the calculated riches just yet. 'The Post Office department is sore at its own imperfection. To "correct" its error it issue almost half a million error stamps on pur- pOSG. WerS the present rarity who had per stamp in hand, will have little but a week of excitement to remember.

This is nof playing the philatelic (stamp collecting) game. Its enough to make a collector sore enough elect a whole new slate of politicians who understand that stamp collectors have hearts, minds, problems- and votes--that shouldn't be ignored. It Slander or a Compliment? 9 Lightweight Entertainment Who Killed Theater? By George Sokohky Beautiful and Lonely Grounded Airport By'Drew Pear ton WASHINGTON The famed Dulles Airport opens today -named for a man who during, six important years held American foreign in his firm hand. His airport will be one of the most beautiful in the world. But will it remain empty, its ticket counters barren of business, its skycaps idle, its escalators without more than a trickle of suitcases? In Oakland 1 California, just across the bay from San Francisco, stands another beautiful airport, built through the enterprise of another Republican who, like Dulles, dominated Washington in Eisenhower's day William F.

Knowland, GOP leader of the Senate, and now publisher of the Oakland Tribune. THE OAKLAND airport cost the federal million and California taxpayers about 513 million more. A quarter of a million people turned out to open its palatial concourse, its long line of ticket counters, its newsstands, waiting, rooms, and baggage carousels one of the most modern and expensive airports on the West Coast. "That was Sept. 17, two months ago today.

Today, on Nov. 17, the Oakland airport is lovely but lonely. Pleasant hi-fi music is pumped through the $5,200,000 terminal It's $5 million jet strips bask undisturbed in the sun. A lone taxi stands- outside. Airlines have doubled up on ticket counters, in order to save money.

Sky-caps have no baggage to handle. The San Francisco 49ers could use the main 'lobby for scrimmage and not disturb anyone. ing. the Cuban crisis, is furious over the slight. She has sent word to the president that she has no intention of coming to Washington at a later date.

Also unhappy is Wiley Ike's envoy to Buchanan, a Republican, is critical privately of JFK but has been cozying up to the Kennedy in-laws at Newport, hoping to be invited to the White House Although the president often worked far into the night during the crisis, he was always dressed immaculately in tailored, two-button, dark suit. Unlike his brother Robert, JFK is not a shirtsleeve worker The president was quietly courteous throughout the crisis, showing no sign of tension. Once he was chatting with economic adviser Walter Heller when an urgent call came in from Secretary of Defense Robert MeNamara. Kennedy politely broke off the conversation, was unable to get back to finish it. Yet he took the trouble to ask his personal secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, to phone Heller and apologize The president, who normally watches at least two movies a week in the White House screening room, canceled all showings, during the Cuban crisis However, he took his daily, relaxing swim in the White House pool He also scanned the newspapers and watched the TV news reports closely.

He seldom missed Hunt- ley Brinkley. THE MAN who finally rescued the almost-defeated Democratic ticket in Alabama is a mild, slow-talking, fast-moving southerner who heads the Alabama League of Municipalities Ed E. Reid. His tactics are the type Kennedy will have to follow if he wants to keep the solid south from going solid Republican. What Kennedy faces is the fact that there has been no real'Dem- ocratic Party in Alabama.

It's a collection of cliques held together in the past by "white supremacy." Today, however; the Republicans have taken over the white supremacy so Reid adopted a new campaign theme by showing what the Democrats have done for all the people. And with almost no race-baiting, he won. The George Wallace, elected as a race-baiter, stayed-on the sidelines. So did the present governor, John Patterson, also a race- Jbaiter and one of the original backers of John So did Charles Meriwether, whom Kennedy the Export- Import Bank. Despite this, Reid pulled the entire ticket' through, with the Negro vote all going to the Democrats.

His tactics point to the type of southerner Kennedy needs in Washington to heal racial wounds and head off the violence, death, and disgrace of "Ole Miss." Lillian Hellman, writing in "Esquire," says that the Broadway theater is a bofe. Miss Hellman has written some remarkable plays herself. "The Little Foxes" might have-disgusted, but they did not bore. same could be said, in another decade, of 'Ibsen's "Doll's House." The theater is a bore because it has lost tone; it is cheap. It is vulgar.

Even when one enters the building, there is no no temple-like illusion. There is no orchestra to play before the curtain rises. No no hush. Just a hullabaloo like in a movie house, with hucksters shouting about cold drinks and hat-chicks looking for a hat and coat to check. ONE SITS down and waits.

It is difficult to look through the program in peace, particularly if it happens to be a benefit performance for which the charge, for the ticket is enormous, so that the peculiar and particular charity can get some money: As soon as the curtain goes up, in cpme the late ones. Of course, they would want their money back, and loudly too, if they were required to stand in back, until the act is over. I once thought it would be smart if a spotlight were focussed on the but that was a mistake; they would enjoy the spotlight. So it is a musical a loud, noisy musical with the music written like some art is painted if you understand it, you are a self-proclaimed dope. A musi- cal consists of two acts usually: the first act, is the beginning; the second act is the end.

It is true, that such, musicals as "Music Man," "My Fair Lady" and "Oklahoma" have substance and structure. But they are exceptions. The public wants swift, meaningless, and loud Oh! How loud! Give the public what it wants. We are still waiting for a "Merry Widow." do so, they put the orchestra on the stage as an extravaganza. After all, lhat is all, that Minsky tried, to do in his burlesque -to provide an evening's entertainment.

Audiences, in this country, need to be retrained. The theater is not a movie house. Maybe Roxy could do it better, but the theater is a temple and the opera is the Holy of Holies of art. In many opera houses, the doors are closed during the overture. Recently I witnessed the new mounting of "Die Meistersinger," a perfection of all the arts, music, dance, painting, sculpture, lighting, and folks walked in and out, using their feet like dragoons.

It is the audience that gets what it wants. Tiny Nation Disappears By Jim Bishop No one, it seems, ever 'asks what became of little Estonia. Indeed, few people know anything about it except that it is a Baltic Republic. Estonia today is a hungry face peering through Russia's front window. It is a cold place, sitting like the head of a -tomahawk on the Gulf of Finland.

Fstonia has no friends. The 1,500,000 persons who live there are not permitted to leave, and few aliens are allowed in. There are a few cities Tallin, Rak- vere, Tartu and Valga and 1,500 lakes. The rest of it is a land of hard farming, potatoes, flax, butter and wood. At best, these are dull facts.

The history of Estonia is the history of all small independent peoples. They were always fighting to get out from under some tyrant's heel. In 1219, Waldemar tl of Denmark tried to subdue the Estonians, won a part of the coast, only to- have his grandson sell it to the Germans for 19,000 marks. Strong and Faithful Role of the White Ash By HAYDN PEARSON The Olive family has many species of ash: White, Red. Green, Biltmore, Blue and Black; but the White is the recognized monarch of the widespread clan.

Men now living in too-crowded cities can remember when they took strips of white ash, soaked the, ends in hot water and bent the ends to form a pair of skiis. Pioneers quickly learned that the hard, close-grained wood was efficient for axe and hoc handles, butter firkins, wagon frames and canoe paddles. The tree is distinctive, tall and symmetrical; the limbs pour upward at evenly-spaced acute angles. The large compound leaves and the paddle-like key fruits are known to all country boys. It thrives over a vast region from Nova Scotia to Minnesota, and south to Florida and Texas.

Commonly 60 to 70 feet high, some of the trees reach the leight of 120 feet in the rich' soil of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys Botanically the White Ash is an individualist. In the spring before the leaves unfurl from the leaf buds, the colorful, reddish- purple staminate blossoms appear on some trees; the seed- bearing blossoms are in long panicles that grow larger as the seeds develop. Comparatively few mature trees are dioecious -that is, staminate and pistillate flowers borne by different individuals. The White Ash has never grown in vast stands. One sees them in small clusters in the woodlands surrounded, by other trees.

Individuals stand like faithful sentinels on hillsides and at edges of mowing fields. It Jiasn't the massiveness of the oak or the grace of the white pine, but the white ash has played an important role in furnishing fuel and lumber to help built a nation. The Oneonta Daily Star Otsego and Delaware's Independent Newspaper' 102 Chestnut Oneonta, N. Y. Dial GE 2-1000 Member OT.B Associated Press and The, Audit Bureau ol circulation.

Elton P. Hall, General Manager Alan Gould Editor Donald J. Clifford, Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 42c weekly by carrier delivered to your, home in Oneonta. By Mail In Otsego, Delaware Schoharie and Chenango Counties: Three months- $4 25- six months one year Outside Areas: Three months J4.7a; six months 59.75; one year J18.00 sassr ssssait Second-Class Postage Paid at Oneonta, N. Y.

Saturday, Nov. 17, 1962 ACROSS THE BAY in San Francisto, 400 flights are scheduled daily. From Oakland's new airport -there are only 25. In a two-hour period, one twin-engined United Air Lines Convair came in, dropped off two- passengers, and left. "We've had a very busy dfiy," remarked one clerk recently.

"A lot of people passed through to San Francisco to catch their flights." Ex-Senator Knowland is deeply disturbed. It's a reflection on his city. He heads a rooter, booster' group called the "Regional Committee for Betteo Air Service at the Oakland Airport" which has been attempting to persuade the CAB to order six trunk and feeder lines to improve the service at Oakland. Air traffic, however, can't be induced by civic 'pride. Nor will the name of a famous secretary of state attract passengers.

And some people are wondering whether Dulles Airport, with all its beauty and all its perfect aeronautical techniques, may become another white elephant. At the Oakland Airport, however, one ticket counter is busy that of the San Francisco- Oakland helicopter lines, which operate 70 scheduled flights a day across the bay. travel, with the impetus President Kennedy has given it, may be the salvation of Dulles Airport. When Oakland airport opened, two great fliers of the past came back to help celebrate--Lester Maitland and Albert Hegenbcrg- er, the army lieutenants who in 1327 made the first flight in a Fokker monoplane across the Pacific. Their return to Oakland emphasized how much progress the airplane has made since 1927 in, contrast to the helicopter until John F.

Kennedy started copter commuting. INSIDE the White House -The grand Duchess of Luxembourg, whose state visit to the White House was canceled dur- Hey Baldy! Get Your, Hair Tinted By Hal Boyle NEW YORK M) "Two per cent of men over 40 now color their hair," said Larry Matthews, who has made nearly a million dollars because he listened to his wife. 7 "But in 10 years 'one out of every five men who go regularly to barbers will have their hair colortoned." Matthew, at 41 still a youthful genius of the beauty industry, was like many another restless GI at the end of the World War II. He didn't want to go back to his old line of work -taking fashion photos. ONE EVENING he heard his wife complain, "Why is it even in New York City there's no place where a girl can get her hair set late at night?" Matthews didn't let the idea drop.

He took his savings, borrowed $800, and opened an all- night beauty salon. His place was immediately popular with late-working actresses, early rising fashion models, waitresses, hatcheck girls, and in- 1 somniacs. In 13 years he built a chain of beauty salons, and men's barber shops. LAST YEAR he sold out for nearly a million dollars to a con- slruction firm. The construction firm hired him to launch a network of 300 beauty and barber shops in this country, Europe and South America.

Although Larry's clienlclo ranged from chorus girls to royalty, he feels most indebted to the ordinary working girl. "Somehow it gives you more of a personal feeling of satisfac-' lion to help them with their beauty problems," ho said. Larry helped pioneer dramatic new hair tints and wigs for women, two-tone lipsticks, and iirmly the time is ripe form men to brighten up their top "A SURVEY showed four out of five wives wanted their husbands to tone up their hair," he said. "The men would like it too, but except, for those who' already dp-it for professional reasons many are still bashful." "Yet properly toned hair is as important, basically to men -as to women. And this fact has to be accepted," he said.

"It has to become public, not secret. That's the way it's going to be done or I'm not going to do it at all." Larry tints his own hair dark on top, leaving gray glints at the temple. He has a simple success formula. "Listen to your wife, and, when she has a good idea, do something about it," he advised. "It certainly paid off for One Minute Test THE ANSWER, QUICK! 1.

Where are the Comoro' Islands? 2. In what part of the world Js the kinkajou found? 3. Where is Mount Robson Park? 4. Was Plautus noted for h'is speeches, his plays or his sculptures? 5. When was Persia's name changed to Iran? HOW'D YOU MAKE OUT7 li Between Madagascar and Africa, 2.

In Central and South America. 3. In British Columbia, Canada. 4. Plays.

6. In 193i MISS HELLMAN makes the point that in the 1920's, the theater had great writers. Surely in the 1900's and 1910's, we had even greater writers. The American theater has degenerated. The writers are a response to public demand.

Watch the faces when a pretty girl ends the second act with a dirty word! You would imagine the audience would be tired of the theater sounding like a barroom, but apparently the women customers like it. I watch their faces; yes, it is the women who get the big -thrill. They would, in this generation, regard Maude Adams as a square. MISS HELLMAN says: I think our preoccupation with 'love' and comes straight out of ten-cent- store Freud. Love is a very large theme and unless writers can do it big.

they should leave if alone There is much wisdom in this, particularly in the current conception of love, which is really a misconception of the relationship of love, that can be loyalty, charity, adoration, with physical sex that can sometimes be an ugly expression of irresponsible responses to extravagant stimuli. Perhaps because Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw understood love, they cpme back year after year, and are always box-office. They grasped more than the onlooker can ever experience and therefore set up a yearning that cannot be assuaged. Ibsen, to a degree, possessed this gift but he was more emotional than intellectual. THE CURRENT exaggeration of sex, even in the most serious atmosphere, is an extravagance of a luxurious age which must lessen as we become aware of our more serious problems.

Time after time, one hears in the lobby: "So what did they prove?" The fact is that the composite authors of current plays usually do not seek to prove anything. They prefer to provide an evening's entertainment, even if to AFTER World War the Estonians earned their complete independence. They were flanked by the Soviet Union on the east, but Estonia seemed hardly worth grabbing. Her total production seldom exceeded million. The Gulf of Finland was heavy with drift ice, and.

sometimes- froze over in the winter. Anyone who took Estonia would have to support a poor relative. Thus 'it is a mark of the intensity of greed on the part of Russia that she kept a sharp eye on the tiny nation and, when the Molotov Ribbentrop pact was signed on August 23, 1939, -the Communists decided to grab. This pact, designed by Adolf Hitler as a means of placating Russia while he made war against France and England in the west, was an overnight marriage between murderers. Hitler intended to defeat the West, then turn east and subjugate the Soviet Union.

Therefore, when Russia asked, in a secret, protocol to the pact, for part of Poland, and all of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, the Reichsfuehrer agreed. ESTONIA had an army of 16,500 men. She was, overrun overnight. Thia was 1940. Later, the Germans overran Estonia on their way to military oblivion and, still later, the Russians took the tiny nation again.

After World War II, Mother Russia wanted the Estonians to have free -elections, so the, government Vas 'tossed out, thousands of able bodied men and women were loaded in cattle cars, and sent to Siberia. Most of these were never seen again. Purposely, the husbands were sent to labor camps apart from those where wives were sent. The Estonians suffered in silence because they were permitted no -voice to the outside world. Their cattle were taken; the one big wood pulp mill they had built was blasted to splinters.

The free election consisted of Estonian Communists forming a single slate of electors. Some Estonians decided to show disapproval by not voting. These were Strictly Richter C.Xini FMhirM SjjMolt, 1m, aii WocU iMto arrested and sentenced. The new Red government of Estonia begged to be allowed to become a "Soviet Republic." Permission was granted and it became the 16th On June 13, 1941, the Russian secret police (N.K.V.D.) arrived and, within 24 hours, thousands of entire Estonian families disappeared. By sundown on.

June 14th, the work of the secret police had been done. Estonia never lifted its head again. THE NATION has been, agricultural. The Russians decided to make it industrial. Today; food production is 20 percent below the 1939 level.

Industrial production for Russian military needs is up 500 percent. The average income is 764 rubles per month. This amounts to about $56. When the Estonians were independent, the wage earner brought, home $112 a month, and the people considered themselves to be poor. JTbe Soviet Union, in 1959, decided that a poor relation can be made poorer.

So they decided to "accept" $214 million per year from Estonia toward the budget of the mother country. The Communist presidium in Moscow was so pleased, that it voted to send back 10 percent of the gift to build a hydro-electric plant in Estonia to further assist Russian aspirations. NO ONE has heard an Estonian voice raised in protest at the United Nations. No one will. is no Estonia.

There is a freezing peninsula sticking north into the Gulf of Finland peopled by slaves who are permitted to work themselves to death to help the despots they despise. Few people know anything, at all about Estonia. Fewer still are aware of the aspirations of these people to be their own masters. The history of this little country is a blueprint of, what will happen all over the world if Soviet system prevails. Remember, even the 200 million people of Russia are prisoners of the Communist Party Lighter Side With Gene Brown No Post Mortem Martini There are several reasons for drinking, And one has just entered mv head, If a man doesn't drink when he's living, How.

the hell can he drink when he's dead? A reporter from a big city newspaper stopped to visit a friend who ran a little country weekly. He asked hi's friend, "How can you keep up your circulation in a town where everyone already knows what everyone else is doing?" The editor grinned: "Th'ey know what everyone's doing' all' right, but they read the paper- to see who's been caught at it i From This Funny Life in true' Magazine: My wife and I had made a trip to New York City to see the sights and to do some shopping. One day, as we prepared to leave the Empire State Building's observation tower we got caught up in the crowd somehow my wife got to the ele-'. vator without me. As the door was closing, she nervously tugged at the elevator- operator's sleeve.

"My husband, my she yourself, lady," the operator said soothingly. "This isn't; the Titanic!" Repeating for the groups just learning to read: "Why don't you play golf with' Peter any more?" Hepburn's 1 wife asked him. "Would you play golf with al follow who puts down the wrongi score and moves the ball you aren't watching?" "No, I certainly wouldn't." she? replied, shocked at the lack ot ethics. i "Neither will Peter." I WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE RETINUE (RET-e-new) nounj a group ot retainers itv- attendance upon an important personage. Origin; French i-elcnir, retain..

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