The Opelika-Auburn News from Opelika, Alabama • 2

Page 2 Opelika Dally News Saturday November 19 I960 OPELIKA DAILY NEWS Editorial Page BLACKMON Editor Randolph Weathers Another Storm Walter Randolph has done it again which isn't much of a surprise to anyone we suspect The Alabama arm Bureau leader was re elect ed to his longtime post as president of the or ganization at the 39th annual convention held in Mobile this week or the past several years minority groups in side the AB have done a pretty good job of stirr ing up newspaper stories concerning opposition to Randolph within the Bureau and hinting that his ouster as president is imminent for that par ticular year All of which promptly fades when the vote is taken because Randolph has been able to weather all such opposition and win re elec tion by comfortable majorities We think it a safe assumption to observe that foes have the best publicity team but that Randolph always comes up with the most votes And votes pay off in arm Bureau elections just like points on the1 scoreboard do in football NOT THE WALL USED TO A I I XT I 1 K4 I I 1 i 5m JJ rid i JC V' Vl games He Knows Some Of Those olks rom Outer Space By EARL TUCKER In The Thomasville Times In Germany last week there was a meeting of an organization known as the World Congress Unidentified lying Saucers Speaking at the meeting Was a Californian Carl Anderson who told the arathering that 800000 persons now liv ing on the earth came from outer space He said that he had talked with a spaceman named as early as 1945 and this guy told him all about how nearly a million people from other worlds have landed on our soil Some of these peo ple said Anderson don't really know where they came from I think that I personally know a few of those 800000 people who know where they came from I know some who do not know where going I also know some who do not especially care one way or another but I say positively Drew Pearson On Washington Merry Go Round Drew Pearson says: BLAKELY ILLING OUT JOHN SON'S TERM IN SENATE UN LIKELY TO' BACK KENNEDY PROGRAM POLL TAX LAW WILL KEEP MANY TEXANS ROM VOTING IN SPECIAL ELECTION NIXON PARTLY RE SPONSIBLE OR GOP LOSS TEXAS Los Angeles Subtract one vote from the working Democratic mar gin President Kennedy is supposed to have in the Senate Reason: Gov Price Daniel of Texas has announced that he will appoint William Blakely to Vice Presi Presumably Gov Daniel's friend William Blakely will fill the In terim Senate spot But if John son sends his notice of resignation to Governor Daniels immediately the Governor is required by law to issue a call for a special elec tion within five days to take place 60 or 90 days hence And if he and Johnson want to they can hold the special election before the next poll tax has to be paid ELECTION GO ROUND Vice President Nixon didn't rea lize it but he was partly responsi ble for losing the State of Texas when he went to the Alamo and that they came from outer space although they do appear to be out of this world If this fellow Anderson really believes what he says and I suppose he does then he must be mighty suspicious of a lot of his close friends While I believe one word of what he says I have at times sort of wondered if some of my acquaintances sneak in on us from some other planet Later I found out most of them came from Brooklyn One fellow was from Padu cah Kentucky Back in their home towns probab ly nobody suspected them or maybe they all sus pected each other If Anderson is correct in his theory it might not be too long before we will be having trials for peo ple accused of being from out of this world which will be something like a revival of the witchcraft trials of early American history Back then peo ple would get it in for somebody and they would whisper around they believed' so and so wasawitch The first thing you know everybody 'got to believing it and pretty soon they would have a trial and the would wind up tied to a stake With a fire blazing all around probably wishing he did know something about witchcraft so he could put a jo mo on his tormenters Per sonally I hope we never go through another period in our history where people will be accused and convicted of being witches but if we do I have a few nominations to make Once accused of being a witch one must have found it powerfully difficult not to act like one If a person sort of goes out of his way to act nor mal the more he appears to be not normal I knew a pretty nice fellow once who ran for a state poli tical office and somebody got it out on him that he was a little cracked Well the fellow went about over the state and he leaned over back wards trying to act like he crazy but the more he tried the more people believed he actually was crazy and he got beat pretty bad which was one of the few times a crazy person did not get elected All of which gets us back to the 800000 people living around us who came from other planets Based on population my home town must have at least one person who slipped in on us from an other world and if you get to figuring out who it is find it mighty difficult to narrow it down to just one person Since reading that article already made up my mind on at least a dozen people which would give our town of 3000 more than its just quota mighty glad I have a birth certificate Another thing that troubles me a bit is why so many people left outer space to come to this earth It couldn't have been to escape taxes or get away from telephones magazine salesmen soapcommercials statements by Castro and Khrush chev and PTA meetings If they came here from outer space it is safe to assume that they will some day return to outer space and sure have lot to tell their fami lies I can see some of right now rushing in the door of their homes yelling Mom! No ROM OTHER PAPERS As Simple As That The Mississippi Supreme' Court has ruled that all right for citizens of the Magnolia State to drink liquor so long as they possess it The ruling is based on a state law which forbids possession but says nothing about drinking the Stuff vV' Now that the issue is settled all the conscien tious Jaw abiding tippler has to do is to figure out a way to do a bit of guzzling without coming into possession of ihe fire water in tjie first place Greenville SC) News dent elect Lyndon place in the Senate Blakely is the big oilman and miner of Braniff Air Lines who campaigned for the Senate against Ralph Yarborough in 1957 dress ed in chaps a id cowboy costume but with rench shirt cuffs show ing underneath He campaigned on a charge that Yarborough a liberal Texan who supports the Kennedy program would take the country down the road to social ism In the Senate next winter Blakely would vote consistently against most Kennedy proposals He could also vote against Sen ate confirmation of commission ers who favor regulation of insur ance companies When appointed to fill a Senate vacancy once be fore Blakely kept silent on most things but got vocal regarding the confirmation of a ederal Trade Commissioner Tait It so happened that ederal Trade Commission had brought ac tion against two of Blakely's in surance companies in Texas The Guardian Insurance Company and The Guardian Life Insurance for phony advertising examination of The Guar charged the Trade Commission con trasted with the actual terms of the policy can lead only to the conclusion that the advertising is false deceptive and And to make sure that the Inter im Senator from Texas could not escape responsibility the Trade Commission made him personally liable So when Commissioner Tait came before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee for confir mation Senator Blakely waded in with a barrage of criticism and questions claiming that the com mission should have no jurisdic tion over insurance companies However Blakely has been a big contributor to the Democratic par ty ip Texas and will get the In terim chance to fill shoes plus this helpful spring board to run for a full term later TEXAS VOTE GIMMICK Vice President Elect Johnson fought one of the hardest and most effective campaigns of the recent election and deserves some rest However there is a special gim mick in the Texas election setup which he should watch The Texas poll tax law requires new poll taxes to be paid after January 31 And if the election to fill his shoes for the full term is held after that date about half a million less people will vote in Texas do it in a presi dential yearTfout not for an off year Senate election Tnd families who spare the $350 will be lower bracket vo ters who will support a liberalSenator backing the Kennedy pro gram OPELIKA DAILY NEWS Published by OPELIKA DAILY NEWS Inc Opelika Ala Wear president IL ilson vice president Blackmon secretary Established as daily hi 1904 succeeding Opelika Weekly Indua trial News Entered as second class matter at the post office at Opelika endorsed the Republican candidate for the State Senate opposing' De mocrat Henry Gonzales of San Antonio Gonzales who once ran for Governor is the idol of Span ish Americans When Nixon lined up against him thousands of Spanish American voters lined up against Nixon And the Spanish American vote can be decisive in Texas Nixon of course merely took the advice of local Republi cans When Mrs Maurine Neuberger was elected Senator from Oregon it not only put two elected women in the Senate for the first time in history but also patched up an old Senate feud Sen Wayne Morse and Mrs' late husband were not on speaking terms when he died But Morse flew out to Oregon from the UN where a delegate and campaigned for Mrs Neuberger Mrs Mar garet Chase Smith of Maine the other lady Senator is an old timer She was elected easily with no help from Washington The Eisenhower administration even promoted to high position red Scribner who once worked with Sen Joe McCar thy to try to defeat Mrs Smith Scribner is now Under Secretary of the Treasury Kennedy pick ed a Washington artist William Walton to heal the wounds of New bitterly warring De mocrats and make them pull to gether during the campaign A lot of New York politicoes were skep tical about having a Washington artist in charge of the campaign but Walton produced the highest vote margin for Kennedy in the USA Generalissimo ranco of Spain Generalissimo Trujillo of the Domonican Republic and oth er dictators can take comfort from one phase of the election Con gressman Charlie Porter of Ore gon No 1 critic of the dictators was defeated Porter had waged a lone sometimes uphill battle against all dictators In many cases the Eisenhower administra tion came round to his viewpoint But the voters of Oregon didn't They sided with ranco and Tru jillo voted Porter out Close friend of old Joe Kennedy is New York Times elder' editor Arthur Krock Jack Kennedy also credits Krock with advice on his book In But when the editorial staff of the New York times voted to endorse Kennedy Krock held out He held out so stubbornly that the Times delayed its endorsement for more than a week HOLLYWOOD Hollywood Every night is New Eve and Election Night at the Roaring a wild saloon that is putting some much needed action into Los Angeles night life an amazing place That might be called the Dis neyland You walk into the massive Crys tal room and are greeted by the gold and plush of a more ornate era plus the of a Dixieland Near the ceiling amid the'massive chandeliers three daz Ala under act of Congress of March 3 1879 Member of Associated Press The Associated is entitled exclusively to use for publication of all the local news printed in ibis paper Information regarding subscription rates by mail or carrier be obtained by dialing bli 5 5761 nr writing Opelilca Dally Ntus Box 'J91 Opelika Ala beauties glide back and forth on red velvet swings Then you knock on a door and say sent You're admit terl to a low ceilinged speak easy bouncing to the beat of a going and corns to the shooting gallery peep COLUMN By JOHN KOLESAR or Hal Boyle a By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The screams that resident's of Dorothy NJ have hoard in the night and those big tracks earth they have seen are probably caused just the way the state troopers have by Halloween pranksters or the jersey Devil is a mon ster born and sustained by myth press agentry and reporters yen for a good ghost story The myth has it that the Jersey Devil was born' in 1887 in Estell ville a little community about 15 miles west of Atlantic City and5 miles east of the hamlet of Dorothy Supposedly a Mrs Leeds was expecting her seventh child like the prospect and wished tliat it would be a devil' When the time came it was a devil and immediately flew up thechimney and out into legend Since then it supposedly has been seen a number of times What did the devil look like? It was cloven hoofed long tailed with the head of a collie dog the face of a horse the body of a kangaroo the wings of a bat half human half animal Some times it had 11 feet and exhaled fire and smoke That may be a little difficult to visualize but you know how eye witnesses are about these things So much for the myth How about the truth? Prof Cur tis MacDougall of the journ alism" school at Northwestern Uni versity seems to have the most logical explanation He says the Jersey Devil is the concoction of Norman Jeffer ies a press agent for A Bran Museum in Philadelphia in 1906 MacDougall in his book on hoaxes says Jefferies ran across the story of Mrs Leeds in an old book and decided to use it in a publicity stunt Since past 'stunts put: him in low repute with Philadel phia newsmen ha' got a story' printed in a little' South Jersey paper The story said a farmer spotted the devil near 'his barn: Next thing reporters descended plaster casts were made of foot prints prominent South Jersey citizens began stumbling home after encounters with the beast and women were found in hyster ics on lonely roads Then Jefferies topped the whole thing by arranging capture of tha beast in Hunting Park Philadel phia and putting it on exhibition by1 coincidence the museum The museum's customers got only a fleeting glimpse of the beast They saw a green? and white kangaroo like animal with wings The curtain opened the beast leaped at them and the place cleared out for the next: batch of customers The beast was a kangaroo purchased in Buffalo NY painted green and white and har nessed with: bronzewingsl The? leap was prompted by a small boy with a stick? Jefferies himself confessed his part in the whole thing in 1929 But the devil' it seems is immor tab U'1 'I Residents recently reported hearing screams and seeing foot prints around Dorothy Police say it was only Halloween pranksters But local folk know it was? the Jersey Devil they say THE NATioNflODAY Marlow By WILLIAM RYAN James Marlow Associated Press News Analyst Underground sources report the Communists are just about ready for a try at driving the final nails into the coffin of what once was free Cuba As the Cubans begin to lose their enthusiasm for government by mass meeting the Commun ists are moving on two important fronts to consolidate their grip and substitute government by fear and suspicion irst the Communists are the inspiration for the organization by the idel Castro regime of what appears to be a secret police sys tem closely fashioned on the lines of the Soviet MVD of day This police setup is reported to go under the name of for reasons known best to its organi zers A Czechoslovak Communist who himself is a veteran of the Soviet MVD service is reported to be in complete charge of whip ping the network together so that control eventually will be complete over every aspect of Cu ban daily life When this organization is in fi nal shape the Communists can hope Cuba will be as much a sat ellite of the Soviet Union as Hun gary nd matter what label the Castro regime chooses to pin up on itself? Second the Communists are quickly enveloping the leadership of the labor unions and taking steps to insure domination in that field A new set of regulations either already adopted or about to be adopted for the control of labor has been drawn up by' the executive of the Cuban Labor Confederation which more and more is coming under Communist domination labor center will be come a garrison in which the working class will wage a battle show and silent movie screen All at once the bands march through the place playing the Saints Go Marching fol lowed bv a platoon of scantily clad lovelies The march contin ues to the balcony of the crystal room from which the entire pa rade slides down a brass fireman's Pole Some joint huh? The patrons go wild but the one who enjoys himself most is a dapper fellow named Paul Cummins and not only because he owns the place Cummins is a curious mixture of conservative businessman and way out showman Ho is a trustee of Northwestern University and a soy bean salesman but lie looks authentic as a George Raftian speakeasy operator His career as "a restaurateur began wtih a hot xlog stand while a junior hiuli student his na tive Cedar 'Rapids Towa He con tinued Ins enterpi ising wavs when football and basKctball scholar ships sent him to Northwestern 1929 While a student at Northwest ern Cummins started a restau rant near the campus and con tinued with it after graduation Later he went into the business of selling soy beans which he had researched in college He trans ferred west in 1946 branched out from soy beans to restaurants built a stymg of 23 Huddle Cates for says one of the new regulations foreshadowing a like existence for many a Cuban man every plant and firm vigi lance must be increased to reduce the danger of acts of sabotage by the enemies of the says another in an echo of the ever wary leaders of the Com munist world All these things have the omi nous sound which has been heard many times before as other Dem ocratic regimes in Europe and Asia were slowly suffocated 'Cuba today apparently swarms with agents of Communist na ticns Their first objective appears to be what Cuban Communist chief Blas Roca has just demand ed: the This means taking the revolution away from idel Castro making him a figurehead for as long' as his presence on the scene may be necessary and running thecoun try to suit the policies to Moscow' ri Once the Communists rivet their totalitarian controls into place the United States can ex pect a steady stream of trouble in many areas of Centra and South America BIBLE VERSE TODAY But thou Lord? art a shield for me Psalm 3:3 God is our greatest protection? As a hen shields her chicks from danger so God watches over His people TIGER Auburn TU 7 2491 Ends Tonitrht NOT OR LATE SHOW SAT Tickets Now On Sale Thelbp Jaa tfTte Jlii WB KI 'iMLfcSfl NEWS ABOUT SERVICEMEN The jbeh a unit of measure 11 equal to 1422 acres in Austria but only 1067 acres in' adjoining Hungary Hq 32d Air Division AB Ga Staff Sergeant rank Goodman of Auburn' has been assigned to Headquarters 32nd? Air Division (SAGE) Dobbins Air" orce Base Ga The sergeant whose parents' Mr and Mrs Ralph C' Goodman live at 222 DeBardeleben Ave Au burn is an accountant with 'the Accounting and inance Branch The 32nd is responsible for air defense of 13 southeastern states including Sergeant Goodman lias been stationed in Japan since 1958 and has also served in England from 1954 to 1956 He is a captain in the Air orce Reserve and is a rated pilot A 1943 graduate of Beulah High School Blanton Alabama he at tended Alabama Polytechnic In stitute and Georgia State College Atlanta The sergeant is a member of the Reserve Association and while in England held office as vice president and secretary of the Oxfordshire Chapter He holds a commercial civil license for both single and multi engined aircraft Sergeant Goodman lives with his wife Bessie and children Thomas 14 Michael 10 and Su sanne 9 at 1310 Atlanta Rr Ma rietta Ga' in Dial SH 5 2671 bKflRTiD SATURDAY ONLY Double eature A UNtVtRSAl INTER4ATiONAL REtEASE Monstrous IEND in Human orm! ir DONALD WOLIT BARBARA SHELLEY VINCENT BALL And Stndents Victims ot HORROR MONSTER! 1 ARTHUR ftANZ JOANNA MOORE A UNJVfPSAl INTERNATlONAt SUN MON TUES ONLY THE HOT SUN WAS WITNESS TO THEIR SHAMELESS ll SIN! so they fhnunhf kA ORDLR PUBLICATION Judge Rowell Annie Lou Rowell vs Edith Webb Rowell et al In Equity Circuit Court Lee County Ala No 4908 It is ordered that publication be made requiring Lucille Holmes Ernestine Holmes James Edward Holmes Jeneda Holmes Oliver Wendal Holmes inley Holmes Jr inley Holmes Ruby Rowell to answer or plead to the Petition for sale of Land Bill in this cause by November 26 1960 or thirty days thereafter a decree pro confesso will be taken against them This 26th day of October 1960 ED JOHNSTQN JR Register (Adv? 29 5 12 19) ORDER PUBLICATION Bonnie Walters Billings vs Alvin Glenn Billings? In Equity Circuit Court Lee County Ala No 4921 It is ordered that publication be made requiring Alvin Glenn Billings to answer or plead to the Bill in this cause by December 5 1960 or thirty days thereafter a decree pro confesso will be taken against him This 5th day of November 1960 ED JOHNSTON JR Register (Adv 5 12 19 26) AUBURN DMVE IHT OPBUKA Opens PM Show Starts 6:45 SATURDAY NOV 19 Double ea lure DANIEL ANGEL I presents WsiSk I I KENNETH I I MORE Mw jayne MANSIELD Ce And THE SPIDER starring HOWARD KEMMER JUNE KENNY GENE PERSSON AN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURE piTMUST AT YOU To UVlJ Plus COMEDY SERIAL 01 Canadian BINGO EVERY SAT NIGHT SUN MON TUES NOVEMBER 20 21 22 NEWMAN JOANNE WOODWARD IN THE JOHN HARA JjM BEST SELLER ROM THE Terrace I color oe Luxe I MYRNA LOY LEON AME3 WAR EAGLE THEATRE Auburn Alabama SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY MOST EXCITING TRUE LIE adventures technicolor ffledsed by BUENA VISTA distribution CO Inc WALT DISNEY PRODUCTIONS 5 DISNEY ILL TfecHl? 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